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Q: SQLite : requesting from a table filled via a trigger In SQLite, if I have have a table bar that is updated via a trigger when I do an INSERT on foo, will SELECT requests on bar wait until all triggers have executed? For example, if my trigger is:
CREATE TRIGGER foo_bar AFTER INSERT ON fo
  BEGIN
    UPDATE bar SET bar.val = new.val WHERE bar.id = new.id;
  END;

and I send a request:
INSERT foo.id, foo.val VALUES (0, 1);

And then I send the request:
SELECT bar.id, bar.val FROM bar;

will all triggers fired because of the trigger foo_bar be executed before the SELECT request is treated, or is the SELECT request treated asynchronously?

A: Triggers are always executed synchronously with the triggering statement.
(Otherwise, it would not be possible to use the RAISE() function to abort the statement.

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TAG Heuer and Nintendo Are Gearing Up to Drop a Mario-Themed Smartwatch
The limited-edition timepiece featuring Nintendo's most beloved character has just been unveiled
By John Munson
The coming together of animated figures and wristwatches has a storied history, arguably dating back to 1932 when marketing man Kay Kaymen secured the rights to allow the Waterbury Clock Company to produce watches under their Ingersoll brand that featured Mickey Mouse on the dial. Almost ninety years later, TAG Heuer has brought the world of cartoon watch collabs firmly into the present with the launch of the TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited edition.
A Mario inspired take on Tag's "orbital" dial
Touted as the first offering in what promises to be a long-term partnership between the two brands, the new watch takes the already popular TAG Heuer Connected smartwatch and gives it a uniquely Nintendo twist with a number of touches inspired by the Mushroom Kingdom's favorite plumber. From a physical standpoint, the 45mm smartwatch gets a number of accents in a red enamel reminiscent of Mario's famed cap on the bezel inserts, pusher, and "M" emblazoned crown. The fixed ceramic bezel features three of the most famous objects from Super Mario's world, the mushroom, the pipe, and the "super" star at the 3:00, 6:00, and 9:00 positions respectively, while the screw-down caseback is inscribed with "TAG Heuer x Super Mario Limited Edition." Two quick-change strap options are included, both with a nod to Mario's signature colors- a black leather strap backed in red non-slip rubber, and perforated rubber strap in solid red along with a steel clasp featuring Mario's "M" logo.
Digitally, the four new watch faces offer a variety of Marios from the original pixelated 1985 version to the present, including two chronograph versions perfect for timing your laps around Koopa Troopa Beach, and a Mario inspired take on TAG's "orbital" dial. The Mario collaboration takes the Connected's focus on fitness up a notch as well. The wearer is greeted with an animated Mario whose actions change along with the user's activity throughout the day, and the mushroom, pipe, and star are highlighted as the wearer hits 25%, 50%, and 75% of their daily fitness goal before reaching the famed Mario flagpole at 100%. All of this is offered alongside the 3rd-gen Connect's existing in-house TAG Heuer sports app and Google developed Wear OS, which provide a host of connected services for wellness and lifestyle. The TAG Heuer Connected x Super Mario Limited Edition will be offered in a run of just 2,000 pieces through select retailers and online at www.tagheuer.com. No word yet as to whether an evil Wario edition is in the works.
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Mother of teen battling leukemia reunited with daughter after getting temporary waiver to come to US
DURHAM, N.C. -- The mother of a young teenager who is battling leukemia alone at Duke University Hospital has been reunited with her daughter after a temporary waiver to come to the US.
ABC previously reported that Ixcell Sandoval Perez's mother was stuck in Mexico and could not get into the country.
Ixcell was living in Chiapas, Mexico when she was diagnosed.
Her mother traveled to the U.S. border at San Ysidro and was planning to take her to Raleigh, where Ixcell was born, so she could receive medical treatment.
But when they arrived at the border in Tijuana, Mexico, they were denied entry into the United States.
"They took everything away from us," said Ixcell's mother, Dalia, in a video produced by Solidarity Now, a group that advocates for the protection of human rights on the U.S. southern border. "They took us into a room. In the afternoon, they left us in a cold room, but it was so cold, and my daughter was feeling so sick. I pounded on the door and shouted for them to open it, but no. My child was so thirsty, but no one would listen to me."
According to advocates, a relative living in the United States eventually came to bring Ixcell across the border. Dalia was not allowed entry, and despite several tries has not been able to visit her sick daughter.
"It's not easy to be here without her," Ixcell said in a video produced from Duke University Hospital where she's being treated. "It's not easy to have her so far away."
On Wednesday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that Dalia Perez was previously denied a U.S. non-immigrant Visa due to past immigration violations resulting in a 10-year ban on re-entering the United States.
The CBP said those violations were related to her being in the country illegally on more than one occasion.
According to the CBP, Dalia reapplied for admission at the San Ysidro port of entry on August 27 and was granted a temporary humanitarian waiver.
Humanitarian parole is used to bring people who would otherwise not be allowed in the country to the U.S. because of an emergency.
It's unclear how long she will be in the United States.
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A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
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Fletcher Reede is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday he has just one wish – that his dad…
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It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle…
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After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception)…
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Red Dwarf: The Promised Land (2020)
The posse meet three cat clerics who worship Lister as their God. Lister vows to help them as they're being hunted by Rodon, the ruthless feral cat leader who has…
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Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and…
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Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie…
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Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.
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A Christmas Karen (2022)
A reworking of Scrooge where the protaganist is an overbearing suburban Karen.
Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck and about to lose the roofs over their heads—and…
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Since it began in 2015, the Fireball Tour has rapidly become a staple on any punk fan's calendar: not only due to the bargain-basement £15 per ticket price, but down to the incredible line-up the tour delivers year on year. For us, 2018's is arguably the best yet. Folk-punk heroes Flogging Molly would be a big enough treat by themselves, but with the added delight of Face To Face, you really can't argue. Lost In Stereo complete the initial line-up, but there's the promise of a 'Very Special' guest to be announced. The annual 'Hottest Band Competition' will also be returning this year, with the chance to play the whole of 2019's tour up for grabs. Tickets go on sale on 1st June: for dates see above.
Arguably the best pop-punk line-up 2018 could possibly see, State Champs will be coming back to the UK in October in support of the release of new album Living Proof. Joining them will be genuine pop-punk gems in Seaway, fast-rising Aussie pop-punk upstarts Stand Atlantic and the exuberant Scots Woes. This promises to be one of the tours of the year; tickets also go on sale on 1st June.
Following triumphant sets at last weekend's Slam Dunk Festivals, Knuckle Puck have also announced a rescheduled UK run, with the incredible Tiny Moving Parts and Movements in support. Again they'll be coming to these shores in October. Tickets are on sale now.


Small businesses keep the music industry running. If you own a management company, record label, event company, or anything else, you are important! We want to help you make 2018 your best year ever, so we put together a list of five tips to keep in mind as you grow your business, and create a larger impact.
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Anyone associated with your company should leave a positive impression on any clients or customers they come across. Make sure to hire employees you can rely on, surround yourself with people you can trust and, as always, research any potential opportunities as much as possible to make sure you don't end up in a sticky situation.
It can be scary starting a new company or small business venture, but if it wasn't scary, it wouldn't be rewarding. Remember to believe in yourself and give it everything you've got, whether you are a new or existing business owner. You got this!


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Go ahead and just put him in bubble wrap, please.
I like watching football. I like studying what teams are doing. I like seeing how players are progressing.
Those are some of the major pluses of spring games.
On the other hand, big-picture conclusions that aren't warranted invariably get drawn from them. Cody Thomas looked like OU's best quarterback in last year's Red-White Game. A year earlier, Trey Franks made waves as a potential contributor at safety. And on and on.
When it comes to talking about football, few things get my eyes rolling faster than hearing the qualifier "well, in the spring game" at the start of a sentence. Naturally, therefore, I decided to write up a two-part preview of what's going to amount to a glorified game of two-hand touch.
In part one, we'll tackle what to watch on offense. I reckon there are three key themes.
Honestly, the only benefit of Mayfield playing on Saturday would be to see how the receiving corps functions in something approximating standard playing conditions. We all know what No. 6 brings to the table. The guys behind the The Guy are the big question marks.
With Thomas auditioning for a pro baseball career and Trevor Knight off to Texas A&M, true freshman Austin Kendall has locked up the backup spot by default. (That might come into question in the fall on the off chance that Thomas decides to resume playing football.) Whiz kid offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley handpicked the Rivals 100 recruit out of North Carolina, so that counts for something. Even so, the prospect of tossing a rookie to the wolves if Mayfield misses significant time doesn't sound ideal.
In his high school film, Kendall looks like a classic Air Raid QB. Namely, he gets the ball out quick with nice touch and accuracy. Hopefully, the coaching staff opens up the playbook for him this weekend, which would give everyone a chance to see what he can really do. I doubt we'll see much more than a stripped-down version of the O if Kendall is pressed into meaningful action this season.
Tantalizing transfer Kyler Murray is equally intriguing, even though he won't see the field in the fall. Murray didn't set the world on fire as a freshman at Texas A&M as a passer, completing fewer than 60 percent of his throws. He did show potential as a runner, though, averaging more than 6 yards per carry.
As things currently stand, Kendall and Murray will compete for the starting job in 2017. Consider this a sneak preview of the future QB derby.
Center Ty Darlington served as something akin to the nerve center of Bill Bedenbaugh's offensive line for the last two seasons. He also took on a fairly clear leadership role in 2015. His loss to graduation, consequently, leaves a big hole in the line that goes beyond just blocking.
Jonathan Alvarez is sliding into the vacated spot after impressing last season as a full-time starter at left guard. He showed massive potential as a brawler, but center requires a somewhat more cerebral presence.
Does Alvarez have it? Unfortunately, we won't get many hints on Saturday against what will surely be a fairly vanilla defensive scheme. We will get a chance to gauge his level of comfort in his new role, so I guess that's something.
Meanwhile, word is that Bedenbaugh has experimented with last year's starting right tackle Dru Samia at guard. I don't fancy myself an expert in the art of offensive line play, but I've heard tell the feeling is that the sophomore's skill set works better inside.
Keep an eye on where No. 75 lines up on Saturday. Also, pay attention to how whomever rotates in at tackle handles their business.
We can safely say two pass catchers have secured a spot among OU's core four wideouts: Dede Westbrook and Mark Andrews. Plenty of contenders are vying for the other two spots.
Presumably, Dennis Simmons recruited graduate transfer Geno Lewis from Penn State with the intention of getting him on the field right away. From what I saw of Lewis in Happy Valley, he has the ability to make a Justin Brown-like impact in just one year after slogging through four seasons in the Nittany Lions' stodgy offense. Here's hoping he gets a few looks in the passing game.
Another name that keeps coming up in spring practice reports: A.D. Miller. A 6-3 target would make for a nice option on the outside. (Assuming he can actually, ya know, catch the ball and whatnot.) Spring buzz doesn't mean that Miller will necessarily pass somewhat proven commodities such as Jeffrey Mead on the depth chart, but it would be nice to see what all the fuss is about.
Do the Sooners have a dependable slot receiver? Senior Jarvis Baxter made his mark quickly last season with 20 receptions, but he didn't exactly lock up a spot in the rotation. Likewise, everyone keeps waiting for Michiah Quick to break out. And John Humphrey made some noise this time last year.
Maybe two clear frontrunners have already emerged. We might find out Saturday. Keep a particularly close eye on personnel combinations and who is lining up where.


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Hello Friends and Supporters of the Crisis Center,
We find ourselves in unprecedented times, where our health, relationships, and our safety are being challenged by elements from both nature and our own making.
Yet, despite the tragedies we face and the questions that arise from our interactions with those we feel just don't understand, examples of heroism and compassion can be seen all around us.
Please join me in seeking out those moments and people that are working everyday to ease the suffering of others. Continue to express your appreciation for their efforts and be sure to take a moment to thank yourself.
Together we are stronger, and I am grateful for your continued support.
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Lidiar con el estrés causado por el COVID de manera saludable lo fortalecerá a usted y fortalecerá a sus seres queridos y su comunidad. Regístrese hoy en nuestros grupos de apoyo-gratis y confidenciales. Llame hoy al 211 ó 800-833-2900.
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Memorializing Your Loved Ones
With the absence of public or family gatherings due to COVID-19, there are challenges to memorial services. Our Grief Program Director, Clarisa Anguiano, writes about the importance of memorials and shares some different ways to remember your loved one - while considering health and safety of participants.
READ FULL ARTICLE and more ways to remember loved ones HERE
Stay safe, save lives, and stay connected. Find out more about our grief support here.
Portraits of Hope is a free program open to all of our current and past grief program participants and a beautiful way to memorialize a loved one.
Artist William Small will create a portrait of a loved one from a favorite photo. Learn more
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Leftovers Thrift Shop welcomes shoppers back with sale!
Leftovers has reopened and is having a storewide half-off sale Oct. 27. Women's and men's apparel, housewares and linens, jewelry, books and a wide assortment of sundry items will be waiting for discerning customers. The shop's former hours are back: Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. COVID-19 precautions are in place, and masks are required.
Leftovers, a nonprofit shop, has been around for almost 45 years. Proceeds go primarily to the Contra Costa Crisis Center and to other community programs. The shop is at 2281 Olympic Blvd. in Walnut Creek (next to Il Pavone), its website is leftoversthriftshop.org and its phone number is 925-938-9393. Donations cannot be accepted on sale day. Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer can pick up an application at the shop.
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These two days of deals and promotions is a great opportunity to support the important services here.
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Today is Giving Tuesday, and you're probably getting countless emails from organizations this December season -- and it's true, we are emailing you as well.
But as the Crisis Center''s Executive Director, I''m going to make a slightly different request: to join our end-of-year campaign not just as a donor, but to also consider some additional ways to participate, by volunteering in our call center, or making some area informational sidewalk chalk posts, or to host a fundraiser on social media.
At the Contra Costa Crisis Center, we need many people to tell their own powerful story - about how you or someone you care about were helped by contacting 211 Contra Costa for Information and Referral or by calling the Crisis/Suicide hotlines, or how we connect the community - and ask others to boost that message.
Some of us give time by volunteering, some of us give money, and some give both -- but regardless, if you can, please help spread the word about volunteering, about our 24-hour critical services, and donating.
Can you help us in 2020 by asking your friends and family to support the Crisis Center?
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month and
National Suicide Prevention Week is September 6 - 12, 2020.
While we need to focus on suicide prevention every day of every year, this month can help bring attention to the efforts. And we can do this by continuously spreading awareness, advocating for research funding, developing innovative and effective treatment tools, being kind, and helping to educate others on things like resources and warning signs. It''s time to get involved. Please join our events and help share messages of help and hope in the community.
If you or anyone you know are having thoughts of suicide or need to speak with someone ready to listen, please call 211 or 800.833.2900, or text HOPE to 20121.
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Sign up for: Suicide Prevention
Tuesday, 09/08/20. 7pm-8pm
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Learn about the language of suicide awareness, current suicide statistics, risk factors and how to help.
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Tuesday, 09/15/20 7pm-8pm
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Hear from a panel of volunteers what it's like to be a Crisis Counselor on our 24-hour crisis hotlines.
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Join online this Saturday, November 21st!
El Día de los Sobrevivientes es un acontecimiento anual en el que miles de sobrevivientes se reúnen en todo el mundo para encontrar alivio y lograr entender lo sucedido. Con cada muerte por suicidio, los familiares, amigos y colegas sobreviven para asimilar la pérdida. El Contra Costa Crisis Center y American Foundation for Suicide Prevention brindan apoyo a los sobrevivientes a una pérdida por suicidio a través de programas y recursos para recuperarse y establecer vínculos.
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Each year the AFSP supports hundreds of large and small Survivor Day events around the world, in which survivors of suicide loss come together to find connection, understanding, and hope through their shared experience. Each event is unique and offers different programming while featuring an AFSP- produced documentary that offers a message of growth, resilience, and connection.
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In these troubling times it can be hard to find the words to describe how we feel or what can or should be done.
The Contra Costa Crisis Center has always provided a place for everyone to find comfort and support regardless of their race, gender, religious or political beliefs, or lifestyle choices.
We remain committed to serving our entire community with compassion and respect.
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A caller from Pinole was exposed to a family member with coronavirus and quarantined, along with other family members exposed. With two children at home, and no grocery delivery options for EBT, she called 211 for help. We connected her to emergency food delivery, and it "restored (her) faith in community."
Our follow up system helped a suicidal homeless caller stay connected. When she first called, she was in great distress and at high risk for ending her life. We advocated for her with local shelter provider, helped her become calmer, and connected her to services. Through a series of calls to check back with her and connection to the right help, she reclaimed a more hopeful outlook.
MEET OUR NEWEST TEAM MEMBER!
Wendy Diaz is now our Help Me Grow Care Coordinator.
Wendy previously worked with Aspiranet in Antioch where she served as a Therapeutic Behavioral Support Counselor for the last five years for children under the age of 18 needing mental health support.
She was also there as an Intervention Specialist for children who were special needs and on the Autism Spectrum, and she also did some work as an administrative assistant at the same time.
Her favorite thing about the Crisis Center so far? "I really like how friendly and welcoming everyone is. I know that if I have a question, I can find someone to help me."
Wendy is an alumni of Liberty High School in Brentwood, is bilingual (English and Spanish) with a Masters in Human Services, a Bachelors and Associates in Psychology, and currently lives in Brentwood. She enjoys baking, reviewing food places, traveling, and watching anime when she has some spare time.
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Help the Contra Costa Transportation Authority make transportation more convenient for older adults and people with disabilities!
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If you're an older adult, have a disability, or are a veteran, transportation in Contra Costa County can be challenging. CCTA wants your input to identify ways to make it easier for you to get around the county—whether you're going to an appointment, getting groceries, visiting family, or anything else.
Due to the shelter-in-place they are asking individuals to complete the survey online or participate in a short phone interview.
Participants will be entered in a drawing for a $25 gift card!
Take the survey on-line at www.surveymonkey.com/r/CCTA_Survey2
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Staying up to date with current factual information can help ease any anxiety or stress about the situation.
Contra Costa Health Services is updating a webpage daily with information here.
The CDC is updating their site with information and answers to commonly asked questions here.
Call 211 (or text HOPE to 20121) if this situation is creating emotional distress in you or someone you love, or to get connected to services.
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"Patricia''s story is one of many…."
Dear Friends and Supporters of the Crisis Center,
These times are challenging for so many. Earlier this year, we received a call from Patricia, a 69-year-old undergoing chemotherapy and the widow of a veteran. She was staying in a motel and was on the verge of becoming homeless. With multiple risk factors for the corona virus, she was particularly vulnerable.
The Crisis Center was well prepared to help her. In this instance, Sharon, one of our caring crisis counselors, acted quickly, utilizing her extensive knowledge of 211 resources to make calls on Patricia's behalf. In a matter of days, Patricia received an in-person case management assessment and qualified for a housing program.
With one call to 211 - Patricia received the help that she needed. Patricia called us to leave this message:
"Good afternoon, Mr. Tamura. My name is Patricia. The reason for my call is that I just wanted to say to you personally that THE WORK that your agency is doing in the community, I can't say anything but you're the bomb! You are a blessing. Your Sharon has been an angel in consistency and I never thought in life I would be here. I'm not ashamed. I've been an advocate in the community before. I'm just saying to you for so many people - in this time we're in with the pandemic and everything that is happening - how there is an agency in Contra Costa County that is trustworthy, persistent, professional, and most of all caring. Bless you all. I'm not ashamed to say it. Bless you, bless you, bless you! And may God increase your blessings over your lives and over the community. Have a blessed day. Bye."
This is just ONE example of how the Crisis Center is helping to connect our friends and neighbors to critical services in our community. Now multiply that by 70,000 and more - the number of calls and texts that the Crisis Center received last year!
And with so many in our community under even more stress due to COVID19 and the economy, the need for the Crisis Center is greater than ever.
The Crisis Center is built for this response - and we understand that the services we provide begin with you, because none of this would be possible without your generous support. And because of donors like you, we will continue to work with our partners to meet the needs of our community.
Your donation to the Contra Costa Crisis Center will help us continue to answer our crisis and suicide prevention hotlines around the clock, connect families in need to 211 information and resources, and serve grieving children and adults during their most difficult times.
All gifts help the Crisis Center support the people in our community. Please visit our secure website or send a gift by mail to:
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Thank you for all that you are doing to support those around you and for allowing us to share our stories.
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P.S. By the way, Patricia now lives close to her appointments and her room has a microwave and refrigerator.
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in January and a Year End Message from our Executive Director
The current and long-term consequences due to the Covid19 pandemic will be experienced by all of us and will especially impact those who are and have been considered the most vulnerable in our community.
The Contra Costa Crisis Center, with the support of many of you, is proud to have played a key role in identifying and securing services for our community by building new partnerships and collaborations with the county and other private and not for profit organizations.
With your help, we counseled thousands of our neighbors through difficult times, assisted in the creation of an internet mapping tool to help people navigate the everchanging food resource landscape (including being an intake for the Great Plates Program), procured and distributed donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to multiple organizations, worked closely with Public Health and the Office of Emergency Services to manage calls about the virus, and many other projects, large and small.
The pandemic response has been referred to by many as a marathon and not a sprint, and our agency will continue our mission to help those in need 24/7/365.
If you have any questions about the work we are doing, please do not hesitate to reach out to me or anyone on our team. Also, if you are interested in volunteering your energy and time with us, please visit us at our website - Contra Costa Crisis Center Volunteer Page (crisis-center.org).
Until next time, here's wishing you and yours a safe and joyous end to 2020.
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Our next volunteer training session starts mid-January. Do you want to know more about it? Has a friend or family member said they are looking for a way to help the community during the pandemic?
If you or someone you know is interested in becoming a volunteer on our crisis and 211 lines, please sign up for our next orientation.Training covers everything you need to know to be an effective call specialist.
Our January (1/7/2021) orientation takes place in time to learn a bit more about the role and still get signed up to begin the training session.
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Every year, Diablo Magazine selects local heroes to honor with their Threads of Hope Award.
These Threads of Hope honorees have worked tirelessly during challenging times to help and they truly embody the spirit of the holiday season.
We are so thrilled that our own Urooj Kazmi has been selected as a winner this year! Of course, we are proud of her, but not surprised because we know what an amazing and caring person she is.
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Last month saw the observance of Small Business Week, celebrating the role that small businesses play by employing almost 60 percent of the country's workforce and writing 44 percent of the country's paychecks. And that's all very well and good.
But even as entrepreneurs and small businesses provide innovative products and services to keep our country moving forward, their most important contribution may arguably be one of their most difficult tasks: jobs.
In fact, small businesses compete with much larger companies for talent and for the sourcing and hiring of the best candidates. And that can be a major challenge.
Yet entrepreneurs who succeed at landing top hires don't just contribute much-needed jobs to the economy; they build stronger, more successful businesses and are themselves often more critical to those companies' overall success than they would be at larger companies.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media networks are completely democratic: Any company of any size can have a professional presence there. So, even if your company is small, you should have an active social media presence.
A social media strategy can be simple, based on a certain number of posts per week, with basic goals such as communicating your employer brand, offering an inside look at what it's like to work at your company and sharing employment needs. While social media can be a great avenue to advertise job postings, your presence there should be more about building relationships with potential employees over a long period of time.
Don't feel like you have to be everywhere all at once; in general, you should be active on the networks where your target audience will be. Hourly workers may be more active on Facebook and Twitter, while professional types are more likely to have a presence on LinkedIn. Join groups on Facebook and LinkedIn for workers in your industry or people in your community, and build relationships by asking and responding to questions and posting relevant links.
Candidates are hungry for information: They want to know where the jobs are and what it is like to work at the companies hiring. They're turning to whatever sources they can, to find out if the company hiring is the right fit for them. One of the most well-known sites championing workplace transparency is Glassdoor, which offers a platform for current and past employees to post their own unedited reviews of companies and their work experiences, along with salary reports and other information.
There's no other place where they can find the latest jobs alongside such detailed information about the companies they're considering.
But hiring companies are not excluded from the conversation; in fact, being active on such sites can help you build your employer brand and make it easier to recruit. For example, WeddingWire, an online wedding-vendor search site, has 260 employees and often has to compete with notable tech companies for talent. Recently, the company made six new engineering hires within six months.
Recruiter Kelsey McCleary says its Enhanced Profile on Glassdoor drove the firm's hiring success; Kelsey McCleary was able to help job seekers better understand the company's culture and discover open and relevant WeddingWire jobs.
On your own site, you should provide all the information a candidate might want to know about your company and what it's like to work there. Remember, it's one of many destinations a job seeker will visit during a job search process. So, beyond current job postings, provide a regularly updated blog about employees and your workplace; incorporate videos featuring current employees and interesting projects or perks; and add detailed information about benefits, work locations and working conditions.
Also, if your site is not mobile-ready, make that a priority. Last year, 75 percent of job candidates said they planned to search for jobs via mobile devices, according to a recent survey. That's why making your application process mobile can get your company ahead of the curve: According to the iMomentous Mobile Readiness Report, only 17 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer mobile applications.
As a small business, you don't have the time or resources to waste on job boards that generate stacks and stacks of unusable resumes. You need quality, not quantity, and you need it fast. Consider services that offer single job postings on strategic sites where you know candidates are researching you.
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The CEO that PE Funds look to place in a company in which they invest do not have the traditional features normally defined for a good manager.
The profile that defines a good director general for an investment fund, is having the ability to build a high-performance team, authenticity in identifying and communicating risks to the board and resilience.
This is what DHR International - the world's sixth largest company in executive search- concluded after conducting a study focused on PE funds in the United States.
Typically someone with experience in the same industry as the company is chosen, someone who knows the business and that is also empathetic said Marco Muñoz, director of DHR International.
"These elements are not predictors of success, there are as many cases of success as of failure and therefore, are not the key elements."
"A candidate has to prove that in their career they have faced adverse situations and still have succeeded, regardless if he is coming from another industry sector," he said.
This type of leadership profile is required to make the necessary changes that will trigger the growth of the business, will add value and allow the fund to sell its stake within five to eight years.
"The fund invests with the intention to strengthen the position of the company, institutionalize some aspects," said Eduardo Meouchi, a partner at DHR International.
"One of those aspects is the choice of the leader has to be a formal process such as financial or business management aspects," he said.
For the growing private equity industry in Mexico, DHR International has the opportunity to learn from the mistakes made in other more developed markets and thus increase the number of successful cases.


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Written By Allen Best January 8, 2019
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United Power's Jerry Marizza stands among the 16 Tesla batteries that make up the co-op's energy storage project — currently Colorado's largest.
United Power's project has stoked tensions with its power wholesaler, which capped members' storage capacity.
Jerry Marizza likes to think the Colorado electric cooperative he works at learned a lesson with solar power.
"We had the attitude that it was too expensive — nobody would do it except the rich greenies," said Marizza, coordinator for United Power Cooperative's new energy program. "Well, we were dead wrong."
And so Marizza spoke with a sense of humility but also determination as he led visitors on a tour of the co-op's new battery storage project about 30 miles north of downtown Denver. The 16 lithium-ion batteries total 4 megawatts and 16 hours of storage, making the project the largest in the state. It will likely remain so until Xcel Energy completes installation of 275 megawatts of battery storage by late 2022.
"If we don't do this stuff, our members will, and we will need to learn after the fact about all this," Marizza went on.
United Power sees the Tesla PowerPack ESS batteries as the sort of low-risk gamble that it is well-positioned to take and should take. The co-op has 87,000 metered members, from homes in the foothills to fast-growing towns and cities north and east of Denver. The oil and gas industry is responsible for a third of the co-op's load and most of the growth, a 50 percent increase in eight years.
The electrical distribution cooperative's embrace of batteries, though, has been stoking tensions with its power supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which adopted a policy last summer capping the amount of battery storage members are allowed to have on their systems.
A sign inside the chain-link fence surrounding United's project contains an inside joke directed at the wholesale provider: "Battery Storage Project Serial #0001." Tri-State, the joke goes, would never have a new technology project with serial No. 0001. Its chief executive, Mike McInnes, didn't disagree when confronted with that statement at the Colorado Rural Electric Association conference in October.
"I hate to be a trendsetter. It's just not in my DNA," he said. Tri-State's strategy, he added, was to "enjoy the benefits, but not the bruises" by waiting until the industry has "worked out the wiggles" of batteries. "If we go slow, we can provide a much better product and much less volatility as far as the rates go, and much less risk for our members."
A sign at United Power's new battery storage project jokingly targets the electrical distribution cooperative's power supplier.
United, despite its early skepticism, wasn't caught entirely flat-footed on solar. In 2009, the cooperative launched the first community solar project in the nation, allowing customers to buy solar capacity in lieu of rooftop solar. The co-op plans a similar "community battery" storage, allowing users to purchase a share of the battery system's output to directly reduce demand charges.
The serial number sign is also a subtle declaration of United's philosophy and intent. The role of battery storage isn't entirely clear yet, but the cooperative is determined to stay engaged with the technology long enough to find out.
"We are trying to become a cliché: 'the utility of the future,'" Marizza said on the tour. "This kind of revolution doesn't happen at the biggest companies or at the smallest companies. We're big enough to do something and small enough to do something. That's where the revolution is."
Marizza and United Power began investigating battery storage three years ago, got board approval two years ago, and signed a contract with Tesla in late 2017. Crucial was Tesla's warranty that the batteries will remain at 100 percent capacity for 10 years. Marizza expects they will decline to 70 percent capacity after 20 years. With savings of $100,000 a month, United expects full payback within eight years on the cost of $7 million to $8 million.
United intends to initially use the batteries solely for peak shaving, four or five times a month, a maximum of 60 times a year, draining them completely during the co-op's peak demand between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. The co-op has 500 megawatts of peak demand in summer, 300 megawatts in winter. The warranty allows up to 150 "events" per year. Recharging will occur at night, when the wholesale rate charged by Tri-State is 4 cents per kilowatt-hour; the co-op's retail rate is around 10 cents.
'We are trying to become a cliché: 'the utility of the future.''
In time, United Power expects to learn new uses for the battery. "We really consider this project to be a laboratory," said CEO John Parker. He points to work in Hawaii by the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative. "They are using them in ways they didn't even consider," he said moments before the ribbon was symbolically snipped.
United believes battery installations could be used in more remote locations, such as to provide voltage regulation for its customers in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains or perhaps even for spinning reserves, as generation capacity that can respond within 10 minutes to compensate for outrages is called.
This first battery outlay sits near a substation, on a concrete pad about the size of a tennis court. Storage is most useful in the middle of a load center, Mazria said.
The location also reflects United's vision of the future in which electricity production is more decentralized. Most storage will also occur at the distribution level, Marizza predicted, as cooperatives and other utilities become more like middlemen between buyers and sellers, kind of like Amazon.
But again, the co-op and Tri-State disagree. Tri-State members are limited under their contracts to generating no more than 5 percent of their own loads. Directors representing the 43 member co-ops in June 2018 adopted a policy that expanded the limit to include "energy devices, such as batteries." The policy urged by Tri-State officials was a direct response to United's storage plans.
Batteries do not displace the need for transmission, says Tri-State. "Batteries may be discharged to serve load at certain times, but the transmission system must always be available to serve the full load requirement," said spokesman Lee Boughey. "Consistent with [Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] regulations, the use of batteries does not reduce transmission demand charges."
United spokesman Troy Whitmore said the co-ops believe that only the distribution co-op has control over local distribution of Tri-State's power, and batteries are part of that local distribution.
Storage, if still largely unproven, also remains critical to 100 percent renewable goals. In Colorado, directors of Platte River Power Authority approved that goal for 2030 for the four member cities of Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Estes Park. It is planning a 1- or 2-megawatt storage project near a solar field. Xcel Energy in December announced a goal of 80 percent by 2030 and 100 percent "carbon-free" energy by 2050. The later goal allows burning coal but without emissions.
"We think that this battery and others like it will be one of the things that has to happen to have that carbon-free future happen," said Parker, the United chief executive.
United Power's first battery storage project, located about 30 miles north of downtown Denver. The 16 lithium-ion batteries total 4 megawatts and 16 hours of storage.
Dan Borneo, engineering project manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, said batteries have become a much bigger thing. "To go back 12 years ago, there really wasn't much going on," he said. Now, with battery storage costs dropping by half in the last three to four years, it's being shown that battery storage can replace peaker plants and cost-effectively.
In California, Anaza Electric has been looking to battery storage as a way of improving its resilience. It depends entirely upon outside generation to serve 10,000 co-op members in the high desert east of San Diego and Los Angeles. A study 10 years ago found a second transmission line would cost $35 million to $50 million, more than the co-op's total value. A wildfire this summer severed power for 10 days in the hottest week of summer. That searing experience sent Anza, with aid of Sandia Laboratory, studying the possibility of a microgrid built around battery storage.
Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute has been helping smaller electrical providers in procuring lower-cost solar projects through bundling of demand. In 2018, it began doing the same with solar-plus-storage. One such call for proposals described up to 13.25 megawatts of distribution-scale and storage in Texas for a co-op and other electrical providers in northern Texas.
Because of its size, Xcel Energy can get super big projects, "but small co-ops can get good prices too if they are smart about it," RMI principal Mark Dyson said.
Guzman Energy's Jeff Heit said every utility has unique demands. A co-op or small town in New Mexico will have different needs than Xcel Energy. What would make batteries more valuable would be an organized electrical market, unlike the bilateral markets that characterize the West. "In bilateral markets, when you put in battery storage, it has to be for a specific use," said the Denver-based Heit, managing director of the full-service energy company.
The United States now has about 760 megawatts of battery storage, the vast majority of it in California, said Kevin Phelan, chief marketing officer for Engie Distributed Solar. The firm oversaw engineering, procurement and construction of United Power's battery project. Phelan said 600 to 700 megawatts of new battery installations will be completed in the next couple of years, among them a 300-megawatt project in Monterrey, California. That will be the largest in the world. "This just shows you how the market is looking to advance over the next couple of years," he said.
Phelan said Colorado should be seen as being "toward the front end of that pack" in the nation's interior.
At United Power, Marizza confesses he's not entirely sure of what his new batteries will do. He doesn't see them as the end-all, be-all answer. They represent just one piece of the puzzle. But he's eager to figure out where they fit in.
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Marlborough – The City Council approved a petition March 28 that would allow Richard Lombardi, owner of the Vin Bin, to have a full liquor license established at a new location, 91 Main St. (the site of the city's former fire/police station).
Lombardi currently operates his business at 27 South Bolton St. where he has a beer and wine license. In order to get a full alcoholic license at his new location as he requested, the council first needed to approve the measure via the so-called home-rule petition. As such, that license will only be for his use at the new business site and may not be transferred to any other site, including the 27 South Bolton St. location.
The vote was 9-2 in favor of the request. Ward 2 Councilor Paul Ferro and At-Large Councilor Steven Levy voted against the petition.
Ferro said he failed to see the added value of moving from one location to another that is less than 200 yards away.
Levy said he was opposed to the license being tied to one particular site, as required by state legislative attorneys who insisted that the petition be worded in that manner.
"What economic value does this create for Marlborough?" Levy asked. "It only gives the property owner of that building an economic advantage."
Despite the license restriction, Lombardi said he was willing to go ahead and renovate the site as the new home of the Vin Bin.
"It will increase our square footage from 1,800 to 4,000 square feet," he said.
He also acknowledged that he and the owner of the property, WRT Management of Whitinsville, are in negotiations to determine the rental cost.
Ward 1 Councilor Joseph F. Delano Jr. said, "We all want to see this business succeed, and to see them expand is a good thing."
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Cultism has evolved throughout history in the bacterial space between symbiosis and parasitism. It is not an extraterrestrial phenomena, but always contingent on the boundaries of the cultural present. Whatever the dominant culture deems to be heretical or subversive, in any given age, is the place where cultism congeals.
The location of the fringe constantly mutates under the humid politics of power respired by the dominant culture. Decorum looks different from one generation to the next, but culture always has a place for dissent. Orthodoxy needs heterodoxy, and heterodoxy needs orthodoxy.
In this way, cultism forms in the cimmerian spaces of culture, like a fungus. This is why cults are treated with such apprehension, derision, or outright castigation, such as the early Christian church – a cult of Judaism – under the foot of the Roman Empire; or later, the heathens and pantheistic cults dismembered by the swords of the Christian crusaders. Or today: Mormons, Rajneeshees, Scientologists, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Pentecostals, and so forth – all carry a certain suspicious reputation.
While these and other moral and religious cults persist today, we're no longer living in an age where organized religion is at the heart of dominant culture. Religious cults are now considered novelties at best, and oddities at worst. Their historically subversive power – and the political power of organized religion in general – has been rendered incontinent by the new, decentralized religion of commerce, capital, and entertainment, or what we call mainstream culture. This is the universal organization of power that holds an invisible, omnipresent deity at its center – the triune god of information, algorithm, and technique – that tells us what to buy, who to vote for, how to look, and why to exist.
Even in its apparent totality, the religion of mainstream culture still leaves a converse space for subcultural schism, or what we can refer to, shorthand, as "counterculture." While the term of course was first popularized in the 1960s, I use it here, following Timothy Leary in Counterculture Through the Ages, to refer to a contemporary ideology not concerned with overriding mainstream culture through "the acquisition of personal and political power," but rather, as a categorization of cultural sects focused on "the power of images, ideas, and artistic expression."
Counterculture operates according to an alternate value system, though these values are always contingent on the values of mainstream culture (the boundaries of the cultural present). This is especially true in the world of media and film cultism. Though not constrained by a single academic definition or agreed-upon set of aesthetic criteria, cult films are unified by a shared strain of transgression—sometimes inherent in the text itself, sometimes merely in its given reputation, but always present.
Within the transitive value system of counterculture and cultism, the virtues of mainstream culture are turned inside out. For example, success is a symbol of sainthood in mainstream culture. A-list celebrities are apotheosized based not on talent, but on their inculcations of success. The same goes for platinum records and blockbuster films; the more money the make, the more power they're granted, and the more deified the become.
The opposite is often true within a cult value system. What is often elevated in mainstream culture is spurned in counterculture: Beauty is ugliness, and ugliness is beauty; civility is crass, and crassness is civility; success is failure, and failure is success; and so forth—like all heterodoxy—into semantic infinity. As it pertains to how we think about cult cinema, film scholar Jeffrey Sconce has popularized the idea of paracinema, which he defines "less a distinct group of films than a particular reading protocol, a counter-aesthetic turned subcultural sensibility devoted to all manner of cultural detritus." Other scholars, such as Jancovich, Reboll, Stringer, and Willis in Defining Cult Movies, add to this idea, seeing cult film as "an essentially eclectic category […] not defined according to some single, unifying feature shared by all cult movies, but rather through a 'subcultural ideology' in filmmakers, films or audiences are seen as existing in opposition to the 'mainstream.'" For every Platoon, there's a Pink Flamingos; and for every Star Wars, there's a Turkish Star Wars.
Within this paracinematic economy, there are two main streams of cult films: the accidental and the intentional. The former includes well-intentioned films, such as Casablanca (well explored by semiotician Umberto Eco in one of the more foundational essays on cult cinema) or Showgirls (also written of extensively within cult film studies). The latter includes those films which never had mainstream aspirations; so-called cult classics, such as Eraserhead, El Topo, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the thousands of other films—in reference to Leary—focused more on their own imagery, ideology, and artistic expression than any semblance of culturally acquisitive power.
The sect of intentional cult cinema contains a multitude of definitions, aesthetic philosophies, and audiences, but for the sake of considering the contingencies of counterculture, this essay focuses on those cinematic artifacts made according to what film scholar Barry Keith Grant calls "fast food" cult production, or those films "consciously calculated from the time of their production (or even before) to become instant cult films."
Compared to those cult films with more artistic intent, which often happen to find their audiences based on aesthetic pretenses, fast food cult films are made specifically to appeal to (and capitalized on) the values of a particular subculture. Though this subculture may broadly reject mainstream cultural values—and may even vilify standard representations of success—its symbiosis means that it's still subservient to the systems of dominant culture that ultimately shapes of boundaries of cult contingencies. This is why there's a cult film industry, rather than a night market.
On the other hand, now that we're even deeper into the 21st century and the age of hyper-individualized media and entertainment, it's difficult to imagine any kind of media artifact not made to appeal, fast food-style, to a specific segment of culture. But this media individuation, especially of cinema, is a recent phenomenon we can trace back to the dawn of video technology in the 1980s. This was when cult cinema transferred from art houses and midnight movie theaters into the now familiar settings of our living rooms and basements, with the mechanics of fast-food cult production advancing in kind.
For example, we can look at two similar, intentional cult films from this era—Mark Lester's Class of 1984 (1982) and Alex Cox's Repo Man (1984)—to observe how these fast food mechanics work in practice. Together they represent how the contingencies of countercultural value systems shift over time, particularly through their varied cult evolution over the past three decades.
For many cult film aficionados, both Class of 1984 and Repo Man fall into the larger set of punk rock films that blossomed in the late 1970s and early 1980s as an extension of the cultural punk movement itself. Though made with sundry degrees of sincerity and subversive intent, these and other contemporaneous punk films, such as Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Times Square (1980), Rude Boy (1980), Smithereens (1982), and Suburbia (1983) represent varied pronouncements, representations, and ritualizations of punk culture, reflecting the heterodoxy of counterculture, and ultimately, the challenges of translating these cult principles in mass media. For example, as suggested by Steven Blush in American Hardcore, while there were strains of punk and hardcore cultures motivated by self-serious political and moral issues, collectively the maturing canon of punk films propagated the mainstream image of punk as a shallow, reactionary, and nihilistic youth movement.
This mainstream castigation of punk is at the heart of Class of 1984. The plot centers around the a naive and idealistic music, Andrew Norris (played by Perry King), who joins a troubled urban school. Security guards and metal detectors flank the entrances, the walls are covered in graffiti and filth, and teachers and students alike prowl the halls with guns, knives, and outbursts of violence. Much of the violence is led by a gang of five punks, led by the very un-punk-like Peter Stegman (played by Timothy Van Patten). They sell drugs, run underground strip clubs, and eventually focus their anarchy on Norris. After they rape his wife, in the form of a generic revenge slasher film, he goes on a violent rampage, killing each of the gang members one-by-one – and he gets away with it, too, as one of the many yuppie heroes of the 1980s.
Punks hated Class of 1984: The theme song is by Alice Cooper (who then represented a different strain of counterculture, which itself often vilified or abused punk culture). Stegman looks too much like a football quarterback, and the gang of punks were too brash to be bona fide. It was pure exploitation – a cinematic formula already predisposed to fast food film production – and, as such, was received seen as a mainstream affront on the countercultural sanctity of punk.
Class of 1984 had all the right ingredients, but lacked the secret (occluded) knowledge of what makes punk punk. Like most countercultures, punk is either something you get or you don't. As a media artifact, the film appropriates an ersatz cult knowledge, ultimately standing in stark contrast to Alex Cox's Repo Man, hailed by many as not only one of the best punk movies of all time, but also one of the greatest cult films of all time.
At 92 minutes, Repo Man was the first feature-length film by 30-year-old, LA-based, British director Alex Cox (who later went on to make other cult hits, such as Sid and Nancy and Walker). It stars Emilio Estevez, as Otto, a young punk who gets wrapped up in the repossession business by the wizened and cynical Bud (played by Harry Dean Stanton). With a piecemeal plot nearly impossible to summarize in a few sentences, the trajectory of the film involves a government conspiracy, an irradiated 1964 Chevy Malibu, an alien secret, and bouts of punk rock violence, all underscored by a sentiment of satire and irony explicitly drawn from the attitudes and worldviews of early 1980's punk culture.
Like many cult films, Repo Man defies genre conventions, borrowing freely from science fiction, Western, cold war conspiracy, and score-driven films. Similarly, despite its independent approach, Repo Man, like Class of 1984, was made on the fast food manufacturing line. Both films were made to appeal to a specific countercultural sect, and neither entertained illusions of mainstream grandiosity, but what it takes for a film to become a revered cult artifact is an essentially occluded process. That Repo Man is so cherished – well-preserved in books, special features, ritual viewings, and Criterion Collection editions – and Class of 1984 so derided – loosely remembered in YouTube videos, footnotes, and viewing parties – reflects the intrinsic occlusion cult heterodoxy, which can be approached by approximation at best.
Perhaps this is why Repo Man is so illustrative of cult genetics; its countercultural trajectory itself a manifestation of the "the lattice of coincidence" that forms the philosophical center of the film as well as an homage to the spiritual essence of cultism. One of the key scenes of the film involves an exchange between Otto and the trash yard sage, Miller, who stand poking at a garbage barrel fire while Miller waxes poetic about the nature of reality:
"A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. Suppose you're thinkin' about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp' out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either."
In one way, this is a comment on the film itself, which is riddled with perceived coincidences. But more broadly, it's a comment on the nature of cultism. Repeated viewings of the film unveil a more expansive physics, discernible only to the devout. As Matt Hills writes in his work on the paradoxes of media cultism, it's precisely this sense of cult meaning that "is both 'found' and 'created' by the viewer." There is no need for centralization or logical coherence in the formation of the countercultural worldview, only the embrace of what Mathijs and Sexton call cultism's option for the embrace of a "new purity," rather than the return to past, ultimately making cultism "a type of belief open to esotericism and prone to mysticism." The Repo Man today persists at the core of film cultism because of its mysticism, while Class of 1984 is merely a sideshow – partly because its worldview so transparently reflects a mainstream viewpoint, rather than an esoteric idea.
But the location of esotericism, and the power of mysticism, changes based on its relation to the cultural present. Whatever discursive or subversive power either Repo Man or Class of 1984 were originally perceived to have – it has been disinfected by the passage of time and the movement of culture. For younger audiences, there's no real distinguishing between authentic punk and poseur culture, and to that end, there's no longer massive countercultural movements, only tribal moments of cult elation – the reclamation of a mainstream failure as a symbol of cult success, or an instant of cult failure as a moment of mainstream triumph – all of which reflect the broad pantheism of our new cultural religion.
Cult mechanics evolve along a route charted by a logic of their own occluded invention. The hermeneutics of success and failure inhibit any truly academic study of cult media and media cults. Cult ceremonies – these ritual and repeat viewings, or excessive interpretations and theorizations – vaporize in the dusk of the end credits. To understand the failures of success, and the success of failures, we must be of the cult that returns to dark spaces of the earth, or of the cosmos, where culture dissipates and creation blossoms.
[This essay was originally presented at the 20th Annual Cinema Studies Graduate Conference, "Failed Cinema," at San Francisco State University on October 18, 2018, in San Francisco, CA.]
Author:	Ben van Loon
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Apple vs Samsung – Which Users Are Australia's Best Shoppers?
Exclusive research completed by Nunn Media that analysed eight of Australia's largest retailers has found that Apple users are superior to Samsung for spending habits. Their research found that Apple users (eg iPhone owners) were 13% more likely to purchase online and their average basket size was 4% more.
The analysis had one surprise though with Microsoft users (eg Windows Phones) converting at twice the rate of Apple. Their average basket size was also 20% larger than Apple devices.
Why Do Microsoft Users Spend So Much?
Owner of Nunn Media, Matt Nunn, explained that Microsoft users spending the most was no surprise considering the cost of their devices. "It's easy to forget that a Windows surface pro can cost up to $4,000 compared to an iPad which can be as low as $500" attracting a more premium market.
Head of digital at Nunn Media "Justine Scott" explained that Windows users were also more likely to be early adopters. She explains that "10 years ago, targeting iPhone users was always the most lucrative as they were the innovators in Australia with the highest likelihood to spend. With Apple now mainstream, this has shifted to Windows and their Surface Pro products".
How Can Marketers Target Microsoft Users?
Google paid search advertising (AdWords) allows retargeting by device when correctly configured to the website Google Analytics. This means that bids on existing campaigns can be increased to target these users or alternately, new keyword can be targeted just for Microsoft users.
Similarly, the Facebook network makes it easy to not only target people by operating system, but also by device. For example, if you wanted to target Microsoft OS tablet users with one creative and Microsoft OS desktop users with a different creative, it's a simple step at the Ad Set level.
Like Paid Search and Facebook advertising, through display and video advertising marketers have the ability to target by device such as targeting Lumia, Surface Tablet or Xbox 370's. In addition to this, marketers have the ability to target specific operating systems, for example, Windows 10 and Windows XP.


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Hanns Peter Nehl
European Court of Justice (Luxembourg)
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Hanns Peter Nehl has been working as a legal secretary in the cabinet of the Austrian Judge Josef Azizi at the General Court of the EU since 1 September 2004. Previously, he worked in the Directorate-General for competition of the European Commission (Media unit), where he gained substantial experience in the field of antitrust investigations, as well as in the Brussels office of former German law firm Gaedertz Rechtsanwälte. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2001 at the University of Hamburg following research at the Graduiertenkolleg Integrationsforschung of the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg. He is also an alumnus of the European University Institute in Florence (LL.M., academic year 1996/97) as well as of the Université d'Aix-Marseille III (D.E.A. de droit communautaire, academic year 1991/92). His main fields of interest are European competition law and European constitutional and administrative law in general. Main publications: Principles of Administrative Procedure in EC Law, Oxford (Hart Publishing), 1999; Europäisches Verwaltungsverfahren und Gemeinschaftsverfassung, Berlin (Duncker & Humblot), 2002.
Kay Parplies
DG Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN) (Brussels)
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DG COMP (Brussels)
Belgium 2 contributions 1473 visits
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Luxembourg 1 contribution 1131 visits
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European Commission (Brussels)
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E.CA Economics (Brussels)
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Baker Botts (Brussels)
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CRA International (Brussels)
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Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters confirms the legality of the publication of a merger decision (Ediktsdatei II)
21 January 2015 41
By judgment of 21 January 2015 in Case 16 Ok 6/14i, the Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) rendered an important follow-up decision to its judgment of 27 January 2014 in Case 16 Ok 14/13 (annotated by Florian Neumayr in (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters holds that Article 39(2) of the Austrian Competition Act requiring the main parties' consent to third parties' request for access to file does not apply in proceedings related to infringements of national competition rules (Europay Austria II)
28 November 2014 73
1. Introduction and background By two judgments of 28 November 2014 in Cases 16 Ok 9/14f and 16 Ok 10/14b, the Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) rejected the appeals brought by Europay Austria GmbH against two (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court implements the Court of justice's preliminary ruling according to which liability for infringing Article 101 TFEU is independent of the existence of an error regarding the lawfulness of the conduct (Schenker)
2 December 2013 81
Background The present case concerns the so-called Spediteurs-Sammelladungs-Konferenz (Freight Forwarding Agents Consolidated Consignment Conference), a multilateral price-fixing agreement between transport companies covering tariffs for domestic consolidated transport throughout Austria. In (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court rejects a request to seal electronic data collected during an inspection on the grounds that they were not covered by the scope of a search warrant (Polystyrolkartell II)
6 June 2012 45
1. Introduction By order of 6 June 2012 in Case 16 Ok 2/12, the Austrian Supreme Court (acting as the highest appellate court in competition matters; Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) confirmed the first instance decision of the Vienna Cartel Court (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court questions the possibility of imposing fines for a breach of the merger notification obligation or for participation in a nation-wide price-fixing cartel in case of an unobjectionable error regarding the lawfulness of the conduct (Schenker)
1. Introduction By two orders of 5 December 2011 in Cases 16 Ok 2/11 and 16 Ok 4/11, the Austrian Supreme Court acting as the highest appellate court in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) questioned whether undertakings can be held liable for (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court confirms the legality of a request for a warrant to search the premises of breweries suspected to have participated in a cartel (Brauereikartell)
9 November 2011 87
1. Introduction By order of 9 November 2011 in Case 16 Ok 5/11, the Austrian Supreme Court (acting as the highest appellate court in competition matters; Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) confirmed the first instance decision of the Vienna Cartel Court (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court confirms the legality of a request for a search warrant regarding the premises of a law firm suspected of having provided support to a cartel on the market of fire service equipment (Hausdurchsuchung Feuerwehrausrüster Rosenbauer)
19 April 2010 80
1. Introduction By order of 19 April 2010 in Case 16 Ok 2/10, the Austrian Supreme Court (acting as the highest appellate court in competition matters; Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) annulled the first instance decision of the Vienna Cartel Court (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters confirms € 1.9 million fine imposed on industrial chemicals wholesale cartel (Donau Chemie and Donauchem)
25 March 2009 1589
1. Introduction and background By judgment of 25 March 2009 in Case 16 Ok 4/09, the Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) confirmed a judgment of 24 October 2008 (Case 29 Kt 132, 133/07-54) of the Vienna High Court in (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl An Austrian Court declares behavioural commitments concerning broadcasting rights of the skiing world cup binding upon the public TV/radio provider and the Austrian skiing association (ÖRF / ÖSV)
18 February 2008 4908
At the request of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (Bundeswettbewerbs-ehörde ; "BWB"), the Vienna High Court in competition matters (Oberlandesgericht Wien als Kartellgericht), by (unpublished) order of 18 January 2008, in Case 26 Kt 42/06, adopted on the basis of Sec 27(1) of the (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court raises up to € 120.000 a fine for breach of obligation to reply fully and in time to the NCA's sector inquiry information request (Branchenuntersuchung Lebensmittelhandel)
21 January 2008 2466
By order of 21 January 2008 in Case 16 Ok 8/07, the Austrian Supreme Court in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) largely confirmed the order of 9 May 2007, Case 29 Kt 106, 107/06-23, of the Vienna High Court in competition matters (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court confirms upon appeal the Cartel Court's findings regarding concerted and abusive practices in the debit card and payment system sector and raises the fine imposed (Europay Austria)
12 September 2007 3259
1. Introduction By its judgment of 12 September 2007 in Case 16 Ok 4/07 ("Europay Austria"), the Austrian Supreme Court (acting as the highest appellate court in competition matters ; Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) essentially confirmed the first instance judgment (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian competition authority concludes general inquiry in the highly concentrated food distribution sector while highlighting indications of strong buyer power (Branchenuntersuchung Lebensmittelhandel)
18 June 2007 2732
In June 2007, the Austrian competition authority (Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde; "BWB") published its final report on a general inquiry conducted in respect of the Austrian food wholesale and retail distribution sector with special regard to the phenomenon of buying power ("Nachfragemacht") exerted by (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Supreme Court rejects appeal against finding of a merger in the Austrian savings bank sector regarding the creation of a "liability pool" joint venture (Haftungsverbund)
1. Introduction In a second judgment of 21 March 2007, parallel to the one given on the same day (Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof), 21 March 2007, Erste Bank, Decision BWB/K-50, Case 16 OK 12/06 ; See Stefan Polster, The Austrian Supreme Court holds that certain aspects of a co-operation (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Highest Court of Appeal confirms obligation to reply fully to the NCA sector inquiries' requests for information (Austrian cash & carry)
11 October 2006 2498
By judgment of 11 October 2006 in Case 16 Ok 8/06, the Austrian Highest Court of Appeal in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) confirmed the judgment of 10 April 2006, Case 29 Kt 80/05-33, of the Vienna High Court in competition matters (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The Austrian Highest Court of Appeal in competition matters confirms imposition of fines on Austrian film distributor for abuse of dominant position (Constantin)
In its judgment of 26 June 2006 in Case 16 Ok 3/06, the Austrian Highest Court of Appeal in competition matters (Oberster Gerichtshof als Rekursgericht in Kartellrechtssachen) confirmed the judgment of 21 December 2005, Case 26 Kt 95/03-50, of the Vienna High Court in competition matters (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl The European Commission exempts vertical restraints in the Nordic pay-TV Sector (Telenor/Canal+/Canal Digital)
29 December 2003 276
"Commission exempts vertical restraints in the Nordic pay-TV Sector: Telenor/Canal+/Canal Digital"* Introduction After a fundamental restructuring of the Spanish and Italian pay-TV markets, also the Nordic pay-TV sector has undergone major changes in recent times, albeit in a different (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl, Jan Nuijten The EU Commission ends proceedings regarding German book price fixing agreements following acceptance of commitment on cross-border sales (Sammelrevers)
22 March 2002 887
"Commission ends competition proceedings regarding German book price fixing agreements following acceptance of an undertaking on cross-border sales"* Introduction The Commission has been dealing with the system of fixed book prices in Germany and Austria since its first notification in 1993 (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl, Kay Parplies The German Competition Authority clears a merger in the online travel agency industry (T-Online / Bild.de)
7 March 2002 406
"Internet Joint Ventures and the Quest for Exclusive Content: The T-Online Cases"* Introduction EC and national competition law issues arising from the marketing of 'premium' content, such as travel services and sports news, via the Internet were at the centre of several recent competition (...)
Hanns Peter Nehl, Kay Parplies The EU Commission starts an in-depth investigation into a planned online travel agency leading the parties to change the structure of their venture and to withdraw the merger (T-Online, TUI and C&N)
13 June 2001 305
Hanns Peter Nehl, Kay Parplies The EU Commission investigates the amended agreements underlying the creation of an online travel agency on the basis of Articles 81 and 82 in order to uncover any possible restrictions of competition, in particular in the (online) travel agency services market and the ISP/portal markets (T-Online international, TUI, Thomas Cook)


Looking for serious relationship, family. I interested in man, who ready to do next step, meet in real and deside about future. It's not so easy, as looks. It's required a lot of time, emotions, money etc. I'm here not for chatting, I don't have time for that. So, if you just boring, please, don't waste my time. Family is always on a first plan for me. It means support and understanding at all. And I will prefer my family in any situation. I never been married and no have kids. I'm from Russia originally, but last two years lived and worked in Phuket island, Thailand. I change my destinations sometime, and now prepare documents for new country in Mediterranean area. I work in tour industry on a big touroperator company as office staff. So, if we decide to meet, you should come to some paradise place (at least you will have great vacation)) Oh, and if you are here still, I don't check who send like to me. I check messages only.
Looking for serious relationship and family. I interested in man, who is ready to do next step, meet in real and deside about future. It's not so easy, as looks. It's required a lot of time, emotions, money etc. I'm here not for chatting, I don't have time for that. So, if you just boring, please, don't waste my time. Family is always on a first plan for me. It means support and understanding at all. And I will prefer my family in any situation. I never been married and have no kids. I'm from Russia originally, but last two years lived and worked in Phuket Island, Thailand. I change my destinations sometime, and now prepare documents for new country in Mediterranean area. I work in the industry tour on a big touroperator company as office staff. So, if we decide to meet, you should come to some paradise place (at least you will have great vacation)) Oh, and if you are still here, I don't check the send who like to me. I check messages only.
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Understanding it's the first thing we need.


Often see Harry Rickard,Colin Inkster,Ronny Tatum & Howard Campbell around Jarrow & Hebburn.Also see Laurence Kapke,Ted Kapkes brother in Jarrow.All were very good footballers.
Posted by Thomas Buglass on April 9, 2019, 4:40 pm, in reply to "Todays Header."
Does anyone know if the J Haynes on the picture is the same J Haynes that sometimes posts now and again on the board?
Posted by Michael Lynch on April 9, 2019, 5:15 pm, in reply to "Todays Header."
Posted by N44 on April 9, 2019, 5:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Todays Header."
YES that is Johnny Haynes who posts under the name 'John from Doncaster'. He doesnt post much nowadays but does take a look now and again. He is also on that 1949 St Oswalds pic that was yesterdays header, showing the children sitting outside.
Posted by Thomas Buglass on April 9, 2019, 8:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Todays Header."
Posted by Allan Campbell on April 10, 2019, 9:44 am, in reply to "Re: Todays Header."
Michael. I have just shown the photo to Ann. She knew 3 of the lads in the photo.
She said that Ronnie Tatum was as good a footballer as George Armstrong but didn't get the break.
Ronnie had loads of siblings which she knew.
They all lived near each other, Ann lived in Byron Ave.
Ann just mentioned that Clegga used to have Xmas Parties where the girls and boys mixed.
Don't think I ever went to one,but I lived at the other end of Hebburn so that's maybe why.
Posted by Lilian on April 10, 2019, 10:56 am, in reply to "Re: Todays Header. For Michael"