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Does Anyone Really Hear Those Radio Preachers?
with Scott and Sherry Jennings | July 11, 2012
Scott Jennings had hit rock bottom. He'd left his wife, lost his job, and been dumped by his mistress. He was broke and broken until the day he heard a radio preacher sharing the Gospel, which led him to redemption, repentance, and the rebuilding of a marriage on the rock of Jesus Christ.
With Scott and Sherry Jennings
Bob: The Bible says, "He who has been forgiven much, loves much." Scott and Sherry Jennings both realize how much God has forgiven them, and they love telling people their story.
Scott: Folks are coming to us; and they're, really, a lot of times, on their last legs. We can sit down and pray with them. Of course, they look at us—we've got a lanyard around our neck—they think we're these spiritual giants or whatever. It's like we start sharing a little bit of our story to give them hope. They look at us and they go, "Wait a minute! You guys were divorced? Wait, you've been through an affair? You were an alcoholic? You were a control freak? Okay, pray with me. Show me how you came through that."
Sherry: How could we have gotten this hope and not tell other people that, no matter where you are in your marriage, there is hope. You can always stop whatever you are doing, and do it differently.
Bob: This is FamilyLife Today for Wednesday, July 11th. Our host is the President of FamilyLife®, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. If God brings your marriage from death to life, you just can't help telling other people; can you? Stay tuned.
And welcome to FamilyLife Today. Thanks for joining us. There's a passage in Scripture where the Bible says, "Behold, God is doing a new thing." I think I probably know that because of the DC Talk song more than because it came out of the Scripture. I mean, DC Talk's got a song like that; but anyway, I digress.
We're hearing a story about a new thing this week about how God—well, as Scott Jennings described it earlier this week—God didn't just restore a marriage. He gave a new marriage to a couple that had a badly-damaged marriage—at their own hands.
Dennis: That's right. Scott and Sherry Jennings join us again on FamilyLife Today. Welcome back, guys.
Scott: Thank you so much.
Sherry: Thanks.
Dennis: Scott and Sherry live in Goldsboro, North Carolina. They are the pastors of Marriage and Family Life. Really, it's a remarkable story of how—what you just said, Bob—God brought life out of a dead marriage. Now, you are bringing life, as we're going to hear today, to marriages that need it, as well.
Bob: Yes, the two of you met in college at a keg party. Scott was instantly drawn to Sherry. A relationship developed, and you moved in. Then, you got married and, really, didn't have a foundation for your marriage.
A dozen years later, Scott, you are with another woman. Sherry, you are wondering what the future is going to look like. Ultimately, you pressed toward separation and toward divorce but still had a hope that God might do something in your husband's life. God had started to do something in your own life.
Sherry: Absolutely.
Bob: It wasn't long after the divorce that God did start to stir in your heart, Scott. You came to faith in Christ and called Sherry and said, "Something new has happened." Now, you're at a place where you had to consider—okay, God's done a new thing in your life—"What does that mean for our marriage relationship?" because you're divorced at this point; right?
Scott: That's correct.
Bob: You're a single-parent mom, raising a son who was ten years old?
Sherry: Yes.
Bob: Scott, you're just off on your own, trying to figure out life.
Scott: Yes.
Bob: The two of you are trying to figure out what's next.
Dennis: Sherry, in the meantime, you are growing like a weed—a good weed, spiritually. You're listening to—
Bob: Growing like a garden, we'll say.
Bob: You're growing like—
Sherry: I'm blossoming.
Dennis: Yes—like a garden! There's a lot going on in your life spiritually; and you're listening to our broadcast, FamilyLife Today, in Connecticut.
Dennis: There was some hope brought to you during that time, after listening to a broadcast; right?
Sherry: Yes, absolutely. I'd heard about the Weekend to Remember®. I had been praying for awhile that God would create that opportunity for Scott and me to be able to go.
Dennis: This is while you're divorced?
Dennis: So, what did you do?
Sherry: Once we started reconciling and we realized where this reconciliation was headed, I said, "We're not going another step in this relationship until we go to a Weekend to Remember," because I did not want to start another marriage with Scott without knowing what we were doing.
Bob: You said, "Once you started reconciling," what did that starting-to-reconcile process look like? Did you initiate that, Scott?
Scott: I guess so. I mean, I think we both did. I tried to be very tender with Sherry and did not take a step forward without her permission. As a matter of fact, when we first started to communicate after reconciling, we didn't even talk on the phone because she didn't want to hear my voice, initially.
So, we had a very brief phone call. Then, after that, we really exchanged emails for about two or three weeks. Then, we started talking on the phone again once Sherry—I had enough consistent behavior that she could take that step of faith and see that I had been changed by the redeeming power of Christ—and be willing to talk to me again.
Dennis: It was just a couple of months after you'd entered into the process of reconciliation that you found yourselves at a Weekend to Remember.
Scott: Yes, I was in North Carolina; and Sherry was still up in Connecticut with our son. We found one in Philadelphia. I drove up to Delaware, and Sherry drove down—left our son with my sister in Delaware—and we went to—we took off together.
Bob: Divorced couple at the Weekend to Remember. Were you getting along pretty well at this point?
Sherry: Yes, we were rediscovering each other—not even rediscovering but discovering a new Scott—
Bob: Yes.
Sherry: —a new gentler Scott, a kinder Scott, a Scott who was loving God, who was seeking hard, following hard after God.
Scott: Really, I had something akin to a Damascus road experience where I was blind and then I could see. The scales had been removed from my eyes, and I saw Sherry as my perfect gift from God. Even before I understood, from the teaching at the Weekend to Remember, I had an understanding that she was not my enemy—that we were on the same team, and that I still loved her.
Bob: What stood out for you from that weekend—anything that you remember hearing from that experience, where you said, "We can do this. We can rebuild this marriage"?
Sherry: It was the first night, actually. It's hard to listen to how you've broken your marriage, but it was almost a relief to know that we drifted toward isolation because we weren't working toward oneness.
I think it was huge for Scott to see, because from the world's perspective, he was the one who broke our marriage because he had the affair, and he was the alcoholic. Most people don't see a controlling, nagging wife as contributing to a divorce. I think that was really affirming for Scott to see that the entire weight of the demise of our marriage was not on his shoulders; but I did my part, and I did it really well to wreck our marriage.
Scott: I didn't understand that at all until that Friday night. At that time, I just really wasn't aware of how we both have to be intentionally working toward oneness.
Dennis: On Friday night, we talk about—really, it's five reasons why marriages fail. We're not pointing any fingers at anybody. We just want folks to realize what takes place—
Scott: Sure.
Dennis: —in a relationship between two selfish, broken people—
Scott: That's right.
Dennis: —which we all are. What was your major take-away from the entire weekend? Was it the same, that Friday night experience?
Scott: Yes, I think so—just understanding that affairs come in many colors. It's not just—we think of love affairs, you know, of course. You know, work can be an affair. Really, an affair is more of a symptom than a cause. The majority of the time, an affair does not just happen out of the blue. There's usually an underlying lead up to that result.
Of course, that's not condoning the behavior. It's never okay to do that. It's never okay to make the decisions I made during that period of my life; but to have that understanding and have that sort of awakening to the brokenness that was in our marriage, it—it is so crucial to unpack what you've done wrong and understand the incorrect steps you've taken so that you won't take them again.
Bob: Right.
Sherry: And so that you can seek forgiveness and grant forgiveness.
Scott: Oh, yes; yes.
Sherry: That was a powerful part of the weekend. We stayed up all night Friday night. I was telling him because he was asking the ways that he had hurt me because he wanted to hear them so that he could ask for forgiveness and I could grant it.
Dennis: This had to be ointment to your soul—
Sherry: Yes. It was.
Dennis: —after he'd hurt you in so many ways.
Sherry: It was—to be heard.
Dennis: It was rebuilding trust, moment by moment, as he asked you those questions.
Sherry: Absolutely; and likewise, to be able to seek his forgiveness for the years that I had cut him with my words.
Scott: What's interesting, too—I think back about that night. I think about 5 o'clock in the morning we laid down for two hours before we got up for breakfast—just sitting there for all night long—as we talked. Sherry had reached a place where she had, through God's power, forgiven me.
As we started to discuss the ways that we had hurt each other and, primarily, the way that I had hurt her, she said, "Well, I've forgiven you for that. I gave you a blanket of forgiveness. God and I have had this conversation." I really felt at that moment—through the Holy Spirit, He just laid it on me—I have to take ownership of these things. I have to take responsibility. I need to step up and say, "I hurt you in that way." So, as these things would come up in conversation, I would say, "I am sorry that I did that to you. Will you forgive me?" Then, wait for her response.
Bob: What was the path from that weekend to where the two of you were standing, facing one another, again, and saying, "I do"?
Sherry: It was praying together and hearing that we could not live in Connecticut anymore—that we had to—he couldn't come back to the lion's den—that we had to move to North Carolina. It was a matter of putting the house on the market and moving to North Carolina.
Bob: You were ready to make some drastic changes and to demonstrate, "I'm serious about this. Life's going to be different."
Scott: Absolutely; I was really fostering sort of that intimate relationship with my Heavenly Father. He revealed to me, very quickly, that I needed to be out of there. I couldn't be around those people and those circumstances.
Bob: You had shared with us that, prior to all this, you'd really had a bitterness toward God about your father's death.
Scott: Oh, it was hatred—yes.
Bob: What happened with that?
Scott: It left the moment I surrendered. It was a carefully-crafted lie from the enemy. I heard somebody say that the enemy has a playbook, but it's really thin. Although his playbook is thin, he runs his plays extremely effectively. I believe that that's one of his plays—through circumstances of life—try to convince us that God is really our enemy.
Through that conversion experience that I had, it was revealed to me, through the redeeming power of Christ, that He's my daddy and He wants what's best for me.
Dennis: I don't want to give our listeners spiritual whiplash here—
Dennis: —but the rest of this story is so magnificent—we have to get to it.
Dennis: I mean, we just talked about a dead marriage, a divorce, two individuals who came to faith in Christ. You found the truth, got the biblical blueprints at a Weekend to Remember, you remarried. It wasn't long before you two found yourselves making an impact on other marriages.
Scott: Yes, as a matter of fact, at that Weekend to Remember in Philadelphia, we went to the staff opportunity meeting, even though we were still divorced, because I was excited.
Dennis: That would have been a problem about—
Dennis: —joining our staff at that point.
Scott: I think it was—
Dennis: But you know what? We'd welcome you to the meeting though, "Come on, man, come on; but let's get remarried first."
Scott: Yes, that's that Labrador retriever-kind of faith. I was just so excited about what God had done in our lives. I knew, especially after going through the Weekend to Remember—I think that was Saturday afternoon that we went to the staff opportunity meeting. I knew we were going to have a solid foundation this time.
Dennis: Well, not just a foundation—but you turned your home into a lighthouse.
Scott: That's right. That's right.
Sherry: How could we have gotten this hope and not tell other people that, no matter where you are in your marriage, there is hope. You can always stop whatever you're doing, and do it differently.
Dennis: There's a passage in the New Testament—Jesus talks about, "He who is forgiven much"—
Dennis: —"loves much."
Scott: Oh, yes.
Dennis: That's what really turned your marriage into that lighthouse for other marriages; right?
Sherry: Yes, absolutely.
Scott: Oh, yes. As soon as we remarried and joined the volunteer team in the Raleigh area for the Weekend to Remember—it is just a joyful experience to be on that volunteer team. We had divine appointments. We were in the prayer room with folks. Folks are coming to us; and they're, really, a lot of times, on their last legs. We can sit down and pray with them.
Of course, they look at us—we've got a lanyard around our neck—they think we're these spiritual giants or whatever. It's like we start sharing a little bit of our story to give them hope. They look at us and they go, "Wait a minute! You guys were divorced? Wait, you've been through an affair? You were an alcoholic? You were a control freak? Okay, pray with me. Pray with me and show me how you came through that."
As we decided to get more and more invested in helping married couples, we developed a marriage ministry for our home church, which, at the time—the only ministry that was available was a reactive ministry to those who had been through a divorce. We said, "Man, we've got to work with FamilyLife and start being proactive with these couples."
Sherry: Get the people before they get to the divorce, like we've gone through.
Scott: Exactly; exactly—before they get—not just in the ditch but off the cliff—
Scott: We just continued working with the Weekend to Remember and promoting it through our church. Then, The Art of Marriage® came on the scene.
Sherry: Well, we did HomeBuilders® group.
Scott: That's right. That's right. We started a HomeBuilders group and went through several of those.
Bob: HomeBuilders is our small group study. It's a curriculum that we have. You were with other couples going through the manuals and, probably, learning some stuff as you were leading these groups; right?
Scott: Oh, yes. Amen—absolutely, especially the one about communication.
Sherry: That was an awesome one.
Scott: That's one we've done a couple of times and, probably, need to do again. [Laughter]
Dennis: Well, you're also a part of a bigger movement that we're calling Homebuilders—and that is people helping people. It is people reaching out to their neighbors, their business associates, and people at church—whose marriages need encouragement—need, maybe, an offensive game plan—not waiting until they get into trouble—
Dennis: —to teach them what the Scripture teaches. You guys have been a part of helping to host a number of a six-hour video event, that we created, called The Art of Marriage.
Bob: In fact, the very first weekend we launched The Art of Marriage in February of 2011, you guys were hosting one of these in a local church in your area; right?
Scott: Yes, it was our home church. We had started promoting it, I think, the October before; and we were really excited about it. We had just about 330 people there in attendance.
Bob: Wow!
Scott: Yes. Serious life change took place there. We didn't understand the powerful way the Gospel was going to be presented. Of course, that is the core—
Dennis: Yes.
Scott: —of doing things differently in your marriage—
Scott: —okay? It's having that decision for salvation made in your life. I mean, we've done five events now and had just about 700 people in attendance, across those five events, and 60 people have come to Christ. We absolutely are in love with it. It's really the tool that we felt we were missing—
Scott: —in our sort of ministry toolbox.
Dennis: A part of your success, I know, has been that it has not just been your leadership and your initiative that has resulted in 700 people attending; but you're really calling other laymen and women, other couples, to grab hold of this tool and pull it into their church and make a difference where they live.
Scott: Absolutely, yes. I mean, Sherry and I can't be everywhere. What we do is—we partner with churches, we partner with organizations. We go to a church—there isn't a pastor of a church anywhere that is not going to tell you that he's got a heavy counseling load; okay? Unless he's got already counselors on staff that take that burden off of him, every pastor has a heavy counseling load.
So, when you go to a church and you say to them, "Look, we've got this event we'd like to bring to you"—or we speak to a couple that we know that attends that church, then, they go speak to the pastor—"This is going to lighten your load. This is going to give some fresh perspective on marriage—maybe, that folks have never heard before—even though they come to your church. It's going to lighten your counseling load for you."
We partner up with those couples. We call them—and I know FamilyLife does, too—the marriage champions. We find them and ask them to, "Think of the other people who are likeminded in your church or in your organization and put a team together. Then, we'll come and show you how to do it."
Then, during the event, we call them up on stage. We say, "Hey, look, when you think of marriage ministry here, think of these people. Don't think of us because we're going to be gone tomorrow. These people will be here. These people now have the tools they need to help you, through FamilyLife."
Dennis: What you're talking about is so key. I want our listeners to make sure they hear this. We actually tell pastors, "We don't want you to head this up."
Dennis: "You should get behind it. This is not something additional for you to do, and it's not going to result in more work for you. This is a tool designed to be put in the hands of a couple in the church or in the community who want to make a difference in the marriages and families where they live."
It's a plug-and-play tool. It really is simple to use; and it really is a biblically-based, Gospel-centered presentation, where people are going to be challenged spiritually to really make a commitment and start growing as a couple.
Bob: How many people live in North Carolina? Do you know?
Scott: I have no idea. [Laughter] Millions; millions.
Bob: So, you've still got a ways to go.
Scott: We've got some hills to climb yet. We've got some hills to climb.
Dennis: We're putting you in charge of the state of North Carolina. When you get it taken care of in the next couple of years, we'll put you in charge of the Southeast.
Scott: Alright, sounds good; sounds good. We'll just build a taller and taller lighthouse.
Sherry: We'll take that promise.
Dennis: I want you guys to know I really am so grateful that you both responded to God and the Scriptures, and you didn't toss the towel in—
Dennis: —ultimately. I know you got a divorce. I know that that did occur, but you ultimately came to a faith in Christ that resulted in forgiveness of your own sins—but then, that spilled over to each other. Now, you're taking that same forgiveness message to thousands of other couples where you live. I'm just so grateful for you guys. I pray that, in the state of North Carolina and all across the country, there'll be thousands like you.
Scott: Yes—
Sherry: That's our prayer.
Scott: —we have this same prayer. You know, the resurrected God that we serve—Christ rose from the dead—and if we believe that, how can we say that there is no hope for our marriage?
Bob: Yes, and everybody has got a story.
Bob: You take the power of a story and a tool like The Art of Marriage, you put them together, and it's a pretty powerful combination. As you share your story and this tool with friends, with family members, with neighbors, with folks in your church, in your community, our hope is that God will use this tool to transform lives, legacies, marriages—not just in North Carolina—but all around the world.
That's why our team has put together an Art of Marriage bundle. If you'd like to host one of these events in your community, we'll send you the DVD's, a couple of Art of Marriage manuals. With this bundle, you can also receive a Weekend to Remember marriage getaway gift certificate. You get all of that, together, at a significantly reduced price. A lot of folks are using the certificate as a door prize or an incentive to get folks to come out and attend The Art of Marriage weekend event that they are hosting, Friday night and Saturday in their church.
Find out more when you go online at FamilyLifeToday.com. That's our website—FamilyLifeToday.com—or call us, toll-free, 1-800-FL-TODAY is the number. Ask about The Art of Marriage bundle. This offer is good through a week from Sunday. If you want to take advantage of it, just call or go online at FamilyLifeToday.com and order your Art of Marriage Event Kit, with the Weekend to Remember marriage getaway certificate. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com.
While I'm talking about the website, there is also, now, a new Art of Marriage online edition. You can sign up to go through The Art of Marriage in your own home. You contact us. We'll send the manuals out to you and give you a code so you can access the videos online. Then, the two of you can watch these videos and go through the workbooks at your leisure—whatever's comfortable and convenient for you. If you want to do it all together over a weekend, that's fine. If you want to do it every night for six nights, you can do that, as well.
Find out more about The Art of Marriage online edition and a special offer we're making there, as well, when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com. The online edition is available on your laptop, on your Android®, or your iPhone®. It's available on your iPad®. Again, find out more at FamilyLifeToday.com.
Now, tomorrow, we're going to hear a message from Barbara Rainey, specifically for wives—for women—about God's priorities for your life. I hope our listeners can join us back tomorrow for that.
I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today.
EPISODES IN THIS SERIES
When a Controller Loves a Liar
If we love each other, why do we hurt each other?
with Scott and Sherry Jennings | July 9, 2012
Scott and Sherry Jennings
Scott and Sherry Jennings' marriage ended in divorce on the day of their 14th wedding anniversary. Through God's great redemption and grace, they are remarried and serving passionately as FamilyLife Homebuilder Catalysts. Their first encounter with FamilyLife was at its Weekend to Remember in 2005 in Philadelphia, two months after their divorce. At this getaway, they learned how they had broken their marriage with their control issues, alcoholism, adultery and drug abuse; the weekend equipped them to move intentionally toward healing and oneness; changing their lives, marriage and legacy.Scott currently serves as the Pastor of Marriage and Family Life at The Bridge in Princeton, NC, with Sherry alongside him part time. They have one son, Steven, and enjoy any time they can get walking the beach and playing with their dogs as a family. They remain grateful to God and FamilyLife for the journey they are on together and humbled that God chooses to use their brokenness for His glory. To learn more about Scott & Sherry, or to connect with them, please visit www.intentionallyyours.org.

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To his backers, the California-based operative is an influential pitbull. | Courtesy of Matt Hoskins
An unbending leader on the right
By MANU RAJU and MAGGIE HABERMAN
Updated 01/09/2014 01:44 PM EST
For Matt Hoskins, bashing Republicans is good for business.
The leader of the Senate Conservatives Fund has built his operation into a financial juggernaut by throwing bombs at sitting GOP senators, propping up obscure primary challengers and deeming virtually anything proposed by Republican leaders in Washington as insufficiently conservative.
Even in the era of super PACs and full-time campaigns, rarely before have GOP senators endured a barrage of attacks launched across the airwaves by members of their own party — something that could complicate the Republican drive to win back the Senate majority this year.
Hoskins's group posted huge fundraising totals in the months when it was most sharply critical of GOP senators — during the government shutdown — and a review of federal records shows the group has paid him and his company roughly $535,000 over the past three years.
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To his backers, the 38-year-old, California-based operative is an influential pit bull, seeking to purify the GOP by ousting establishment squishes. Those supporters see a man of principle, one who is, as an ally put it, "a true believer" in the cause.
But to most Senate Republicans, Hoskins is a craven political operator with limited experience winning elections. They see a man who's turned the SCF into a reflexive Republican opposition group with one goal: making the organization, and himself, richer. Recent targets of the group have included Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who long feuded with Hoskins's onetime boss, former Sen. Jim DeMint. The SCF is aggressively backing McConnell's tea party primary challenger in 2014, Matt Bevin.
"Matt is in it for whatever Matt can get out of it," Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said of Hoskins, who crossed paths with the senator during his time as a Senate aide. "It's not anything more than that."
Despite working as a senior aide to DeMint when he served in Congress, Hoskins is known to most Republicans more by reputation than by any personal connection. The DeMint acolyte moved to San Diego County years ago to be closer to family, generating enemies in the Senate GOP from afar. And several veteran Republicans said they've had to search for a picture of Hoskins on Google because they don't recall ever meeting him, despite being the target of his constant attacks.
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In an interview, Hoskins brushed off criticism over his tactics and redirected the fire at his GOP critics.
"They are always looking for someone else to blame," Hoskins said. "If they don't want to be criticized by conservatives, there is an easy solution: They can stop voting with Democrats."
Free rein to attack Republicans
Hoskins has an ideal situation — he runs a multimillion-dollar operation with no board of directors to which to report. He and his core team of five staffers essentially have free rein to spend donors' cash — to lambaste sitting senators, renovate the group's Washington office space or build the SCF's notoriety on the right. Since DeMint left the Senate, any fears of crossing the line against sitting senators have gone out the window.
Even though DeMint used the SCF to prop up right-wing primary challengers opposed by the establishment, he avoided taking on GOP incumbents — something that is now central to Hoskins's mission.
Since DeMint left last year, the group, and its affiliated super PAC, Senate Conservatives Action, will soon report raking in more than $9 million in 2013, the most it has ever raised in a nonelection year, burning through much of that cash slamming fellow Republicans.
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So far, the SCF has invested $2.1 million in five candidates across the country — none of whom are preferred by the GOP establishment and only one of whom is running for a seat held by a Democrat. The SCF is bankrolling conservative challengers to Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts and Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, and a range of other GOP senators — including Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Arizona — who have been the subjects of TV and radio attack ads from the group.
Hoskins made no apologies about his group's fundraising success off of its relentless attacks on Republicans.
"We're a fundraising organization, and we're proud of it," he said.
Still, some of Hoskins's tactics seem to have gone too far for even conservative stalwarts — including one of the longtime leaders of the conservative movement, Ed Feulner, a founder of The Heritage Foundation, where DeMint now is at the helm.
After receiving a Hoskins fundraising letter attacking McConnell, Feulner turned around and cut the senator a $1,000 check last month, according to a source familiar with the matter.
"I like him," Feulner said in an email, referring to McConnell. "I think he's done a good job holding people together."
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Hoskins is part of a small network of activists who've tapped into the intraparty wars that have dominated GOP politics since the 2010 midterms. Hoskins, along with activists from the anti-tax Club for Growth and Heritage Action, were instrumental in pressuring conservative lawmakers to take the hard-line strategy demanding a defunding of Obamacare, even though it led to the government shutdown last October. The SCF's two best months last year were in September and October — in the run-up and aftermath of the shutdown — when it pulled in $3.7 million. But the Club for Growth, these days, is seen by Senate GOP-ers as more reasonable and more streamlined in its targets.
"I want everybody in our coalition, whether they are the supporter of those groups, the leaders of the groups, to realize we're not just going to find totally pure people serving here," said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who won a 2010 election upset buoyed by tea party forces. "We need a broad coalition — we need to remain united."
Hoskins said the group doesn't just reflexively endorse any candidate, arguing there's a thorough vetting process to ensure a would-be senator is sufficiently conservative and has a chance of winning the election. Sometimes the group even polls its 200,000 donors, as it did in making the decision to endorse Bevin, Hoskins said.
The SCF spent more against McConnell in 2013 than the GOP leader's main Democratic foe, Alison Lundergan Grimes, who entered the race in July. The group poured $1 million into the race last year, with scathing six-figure TV ad buys slamming the GOP leader for being weak-kneed in fighting Obamacare.
Even in the Arkansas Senate race, where the GOP has united behind Rep. Tom Cotton, the SCF has so far declined to endorse him, even though it's spent money on TV, attacking Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor.
Republicans in Washington say following Hoskins's playbook is a recipe for a Democratic-controlled Senate.
"It's been by and large very destructive," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who faces a primary challenge and has been a frequent target of the group's attacks. "I wish they spent more time on our political opposition rather than creating internal divisions among Republicans. That does nothing but help our political opponents."
Hoskins's Rise
Hoskins's track record sowing intraparty warfare dates to 1997. After reading an article in The Weekly Standard about two Oklahoma congressmen — Steve Largent and Tom Coburn — trying to take down the House speaker, Newt Gingrich, he volunteered in Largent's uphill drive to take on Rep. Dick Armey, who was the establishment favorite, in the race for House majority leader. Largent lost, but Hoskins got a taste for politics and in 1998 turned that into a low-level staffing job with Rep. Linda Smith of Washington.
Hoskins joined DeMint's House office after he won his 1998 race, rising to become chief of staff, and, later, DeMint's legislative director after his election to the Senate in 2004. While DeMint had a paltry Senate legislative record, he was successful as a conservative message man.
After eschewing earmarks he once embraced, DeMint became a hard-line conservative, something that coincided with the growth of the Senate Conservatives Fund, which was founded in 2008 and which Hoskins was heavily involved with running.
Hoskins pushed the operation even further toward confrontation in 2010, the year of the tea party wave. When the late Arlen Specter was still a Republican, DeMint backed Pat Toomey in the Pennsylvania Senate primary that year. But ahead of 2012, DeMint vowed to stay away from GOP senators' primaries to make peace with his colleagues, something that seems like ancient history these days.
DeMint declined to be interviewed for this story, but he praised Hoskins in a statement.
"The Senate Conservatives Fund has been critical to helping elect new conservative leaders like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and others," DeMint said, although he downplayed Hoskins as a standout. "But it hasn't been successful because of any one person; it's thousands and thousands of concerned citizens from across the country uniting to help conservatives who are committed to stopping the spending and debt in Washington."
But the group's electoral record is decidedly mixed, with a number of its candidates petering out in primaries or falling flat in general elections, most notably Christine O'Donnell in Delaware and Ken Buck in Colorado in 2010. After deciding not to tangle with the group last cycle, McConnell and top Republican senators concluded this is the year to marginalize the SCF once and for all.
In recent months, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, buoyed by public anger against the government shutdown, have tried to force the group into a defensive crouch. They've cut off the SCF's ad buyer from receiving committee work and persuaded its treasurer and compliance firm to quit. After Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Utah Sen. Mike Lee were angrily confronted by Senate Republicans in October for helping the group, both promised to no longer raise money for it.
"We're focusing on the conservative reform agenda, and we're moving beyond that," Lee said in a recent interview when asked whether the SCF has been helpful to the party.
Hoskins says the GOP establishment's tactics aren't hurting his influence, since most of his vendors don't do business with the Washington establishment. And he insists publicity is not the end goal.
"The future of SCF is completely irrelevant," Hoskins said. "What is important is the direction of the country. We believe the 2014 primaries are critical to determining whether the Republican Party will stand for limited government or whether it's going to continue to help the Democrats to enact their liberal agenda."
Erick Erickson, founder of the conservative blog Red State, praised Hoskins's tactics and said GOP senators have been caught flat-footed.
"I just think the guys in Washington don't really understand that there's a new dynamic, and that's part of the problem here," he said. "The Republicans have always been very top down and now, because of the Internet and because of Citizens United, the grass roots are able to participate at the same level as the guys in Washington."
Much of the SCF is bankrolled by small donations, and Hoskins says his average donation in 2013 amounted to $37. But without a board of directors, Hoskins and his team can choose to spend with little accountability.
Such expenditures include purchasing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of conservative commentator Mark Levin's books to hand out to donors as a freebie for their contributions. His group also paid $143,360 over three years to a luxury design firm to renovate office space in Washington townhouses, according to campaign-finance filings.
Between May 2010 and October 2013, Hoskins and his company, Bold Colors, have been paid, in total, $463,750, with an additional $72,000 from the SCF's super PAC, records show.
Hoskins's rise in the political world is fairly typical among ambitious Hill aides. Raised in a middle-class family in the Central California Valley town of Visalia, he graduated from Westmont College, a small Christian liberal arts school in Santa Barbara, before finding his way to Washington.
But even conservative senators who knew him when he was in Washington aren't fond of what he's doing now.
"I don't have any comment on him," Coburn said.
Indeed, the days of keeping relative peace with the establishment, established during the DeMint era, are clearly over.
"I would say it doesn't create a lot of extra happiness around here when people are opposing people in a primary," said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who noted the group's tactics this cycle are "unusual."
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Statement by Mr. Marwan Jilani, Counsellor, Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the U.N., before the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), Agenda Item 87: Questions Relating to Information, 51st Session, 6 November 1996:
Mr. Chairman,
As this is the first time my delegation takes the floor before this committee, I would like to begin by congratulating you upon your election as Chairman of this important committee. We are confident that your diplomatic skills and experience will greatly facilitate the work of the committee during this session. Allow me, at this time, Mr. Chairman, to also congratulate your colleagues in the bureau.
We live today in a world characterized by vast technological advancement, at the heart of which is communication and information technology. The rapid growth of information technology has greatly increased the influence and impact of information, as well as the multi-dimensional role of information, upon all aspects of life for nations and peoples.
In this regard, it is therefore appropriate that this world organization should utilize this fact for the benefit of all nations, the advancement of international relations and the promotion of the principles of the United Nations through accessible and attractive channels of information.
It is in this context that we stress the importance of the role of information in raising the awareness of the international community with regard to the complexities of the question of Palestine and the situation in the Middle East. The availibility of accurate and current information in this regard can clearly contribute to the advancement of dialogue and understanding and support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the Middle East peace process.
The Department of Public Information (DPI) has an important role to play in furthering the Palestinian cause. The start of the peace process and the signing of the interim agreements should further enhance the role of DPI rather than diminish it. The current situation on the ground clearly requires that the public continue to be educated about all aspects of the situation.
The international community does agree on the importance of availability of information on the Palestinian situation. For years the General Assembly has approved an annual resolution on the special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information. During its 50th session, the General Assembly adopted resolution 50/84 C, with 142 votes in favor and only 2 against, thus reflecting the support of the overwhelming majority of member states in this regard.
In the above mentioned resolution, the General Assembly requested DPI, in full cooperation and coordination with the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, to continue, with the necessary flexibility as may be required by developments affecting the question of Palestine, its special information programme on the question of Palestine for the biennium 1996-1997. The resolution did specify the provisions of the programme to be implemented by DPI.
One provision of the programme related to assistance to the Palestinian people in the field of media development was implemented. We welcome that. However, the resolution as a whole remained largely unimplemented. Most of the provisions specified in the said resolution, which already have budgetary allocations, were not carried out. Mr. Chairman, we believe that the Secretariat should not exercise judgement on mandated programs or arbitrarily apply financial cuts to them. Further, we believe that if a member state, if any at all, has opposition to an approved program, that state should follow the proper course, namely to take up the matter with member states.
In the past, my delegation took the floor before this committee to express satisfaction with the work of DPI and the implementation of the resolution on the special information programme on the question of Palestinian. Last year, we unfortunately could not do the same because of what we viewed as a clear lack of implementation. This year we cannot but bring the situation to your attention, stressing the need for full implementation of the resolution in cooperation and coordination with the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP).
The work of DPI on the question of Palestine should continue until a final settlement is attained and a just and comprehensive peace is achieved in the Middle East. I thank you Mr. Chairman.


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New Report Looks at Social Platform Performance Benchmarks by Industry
When analyzing your social media performance metrics, you need a level of context to make sense of the numbers and ascertain where you can improve and what's already working. Comparing the data against your own past stats is the best way to do this, and ensure that you're aligning with your broader business goals, but it can also be helpful to benchmark your performance against others in your industry, providing further insight into where you're at, and what you should expect.
That's where this report comes in. This week, RivalIQ has released the latest version of its annual Social Media Industry Benchmark Report, for which they've gathered data on the social platform performance of more than 2,000 brands, incorporating some 5 million posts, tweets and updates.
The full report includes a heap of industry-specific insights, including popular hashtags and specific posting data, but in this post, we're going to take a look at the overall trends for Facebook, Instagram ad Twitter to get an idea of where "good performance" on each currently stands.
First off on Facebook – according to RivalIQ's data, the average Facebook Page engagement rate remained flat from its 2019 report at 0.09%
That's not exactly inspiring – brand engagement rates on Facebook have remained fairly low, overall, for some time, though RivalIQ does note that the "Higher Education", "Influencers", and "Sports Teams" categories did see relative increases over the last year.
Of course, most Facebook Page managers would be aware of this, and there are other benefits to Facebook activity beyond organic engagement. But it's worth noting the comparative benchmarks when analyzing your own Facebook Page performance.
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In terms of posing frequency, RivalIQ found that the average Facebook posts per day across all sectors decreased by about 14% in 2019.
It's difficult to say what would have lead to that decrease – brands seeing less response? Not wanting to flood News Feeds? It's worth noting that, in the past, Facebook has advised that brands should:
"Post frequently – Don't worry about over-posting. The goal of News Feed is to show each person the most relevant story so not all of your posts are guaranteed to show in their Feeds."
So if over-posting is a concern, that's likely outweighed by the algorithm anyway. But maybe brands are simply making other platforms a bigger focus, and that's lead to a slightly lower average posting frequency on The Social Network.
Which leads us onto Instagram. The trending platform of the moment, Instagram, and Instagram Stories in particular, seems to be where brands are increasingly turning.
So, what's the average engagement rate for brands on Insta?
Overall, the engagement rate for brands on Instagram has dropped – as per RivalIQ:
"Every industry in our study took a hit on Instagram this year, and the all-industry median decreased by 23% from 1.60% to 1.22%."
That's likely due to that increased focus – with more brands now competing for attention on the platform, everyone takes a bit of a hit. Still, 1.22% is a lot higher than Facebook, pointing to the ongoing opportunity of Instagram for engagement.
In terms of posting frequency, RivalIQ notes that the median posting frequency across all industries declined by 5% in 2019.
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Not a huge reduction, but brands are not ramping up their Instagram activity in response to increased usage. This also doesn't incorporate Stories data, where, as noted, more businesses are now looking.
On Twitter, the data suggests that average tweet engagement has also dipped just slightly, down from 0.48% in its last report.
As per RivalIQ:
"Twitter engagement remained consistent for the third year in a row, with Higher Ed and Alcohol staying ahead and Media pulling up the rear because of their high-frequency posting."
It's interesting to note the relative variance by sector, and to get some idea of what average tweet performance actually looks like. Maybe your business is doing better than you thought – and maybe, Twitter is a relatively good performer for you, based on the data.
Of course, as with all platforms, there are additional benefits to maintaining a consistent Twitter presence, but having some perspective on this element can be helpful in understanding your results.
In terms of tweets per day, tweeting frequency declined by about 10% this year.
This isn't a major surprise – with Twitter's algorithm now highlighting tweets of interest to each individual user, that's lessened the impetus to tweet so often, to a degree, while in some ways it also acts as a disincentive to such, as your tweets from the previous day can get clustered together in the listing, and potentially overwhelm followers.
Twitter's also not driving as much referral traffic as it once was, which is also somewhat reflected in the engagement stats. That's seen some brands re-asses the amount of time they're spending on the platform. Overall, tweet engagement is up year over year, according to the platform's official stats, but the re-focus on conversations has seemingly impacted brand tweet engagement, at least to some degree,
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There's a heap more insight in RivalIQ's full report, including industry-specific data and insights to help improve your strategy.
You can check out the full 2020 Social Benchmarks report here.
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If a developer designs a system for Big Data analysis or creates programs for processing and analyzing application data for mobile gadgets, in any case he cannot do without analytics tools and services. Big Data is understood as the basis of the business of insurance companies that depend on information, that is, probabilities, statistical data, customer information, and so on.
Today, for programmers whose responsibilities include insurance software development, many useful tools have been created that are suitable for their needs and corresponding to their skills.
TOP-12 tools for programmers of insurance companies
Every developer who works on coding for insurance products will need the following 12 "helpers":
BitDeli. It is a startup that has been operating since November 2021. With its help, programmers are able to analyze various data using a variety of metrics through Python scripts. An important plus of it is that the scripts can be of different levels of complexity, which will depend on the needs of the developers. They can even be self-taught. Suitable for analytics. The solution is easy to use.
Continuity. It is a platform that was created with the aim of pulling businesses to the same level as the companies of its creators – Yahoo and Facebook. The guys created a data structure to implement a new level of abstraction over complex connections in HBase and Hadoop. The main advantage of the platform is the facilitation of Big Data development processes for programs that are designed to work with external and internal audiences.
Flurry. This application is in the "store" format, which is intended for the creation of mobile programs, as well as for the analysis of their data. This allows the application to be improved.
Google Prediction API. Suitable for developers who have the necessary knowledge to work with the Prediction API. This interface will provide a wide range of diagrams and topics, and will also allow the application to give correct answers.
Infochimps. We are talking about a platform, despite the fact that the brand today is trying to become a company and become even more successful. As for the platform for the programmer, he gets the Wukong framework, which has a key task – to interact with Hadoop and its data, while using Ruby scripts.
Keen IO. In 2012, this tool was recognized as the best and most effective in its category, and it is used in analytics by mobile application developers. Its plus lies in its ease of use. You need to apply just one line, which is inserted into the source code to be able to track all the necessary information from the programs.
Kontagent. A tool for processing huge amounts of information.
Mortar Data. It is a cloud service that has managed to replace MapReduce with a combination of Python and Pig. It differs in simplicity and clarity in operation.
Placed Analytics. A tool that provides programmers with ready-made products. With its help, it is possible to obtain complete information about the use of the application by customers: where, when and how long it lasted. The data is especially useful for app owners and advertisers.
Precog. It is an interactive environment for developing insurance analytics products based on Quirrel, an open query language.
Spring for Apache Hadoop. A tool that greatly simplifies the creation of programs that use Hadoop, and also provides integration with other Spring applications.
StatsMix. It is a tool with which developers can collect and analyze data received from programs using only the languages they have learned.
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Take a look at the Fireart site for more interesting and useful information. The main thing to remember is that analytics not only assesses the quality of traffic, looks for ways to increase conversion and reduces the cost of attracting customers, but also determines the most effective advertising channels, compiles portraits of visitors and their behavior patterns on sites, identifies site shortcomings up to technical errors.
Reaching the right customers with your Google Ads campaigns is critical to increase conversions. While it's possible that scattershot advertisements could catch the interest of Internet users, it's far more likely that this general ad approach will result in a disconnect between dollars spent and sales made.
To help ensure your ads are reaching the people in the right place, it's worth leveraging a function in the Google Display Network (GDN) known as affinity audiences. Using these audiences helps pinpoint customer segments that may be more likely to purchase your products, in turn driving more effective and efficient ad spend.
But what exactly is an affinity audience? How do they work, how can you create your own — and what can you expect once you dial in the ideal customer segment? Let's find out.
What are Affinity Audiences?
Affinity audiences are used by the Google Display Network to deliver your ads to relevant locations online. Given that Google's network reaches more than 90 percent of Internet users worldwide, it's well worth the time and effort to understand and apply these audiences at scale.
But what is an affinity audience?
Let's break the term down into its component parts. Audience is easy — it's the group of people that will see your ad. Affinity, meanwhile, is defined as "a feeling of closeness and understanding that someone has for another person because of their similar qualities, ideas, or interests." The result? An affinity audience is a group of potential customers that share similar interests or qualities (similar to a buyer persona).
Using affinity audiences allows your brand to better align ad campaigns to buyers who are interested in what you have to sell. For example, if you're in the coffee-making business but also have a focus on reducing plastic waste, your affinity audience might contain both people who love coffee and those who love the environment. Groups with both of these qualities are far more likely to buy your product than either group individually.
Affinity Targeting
Affinity targeting, meanwhile, is the process of identifying the ideal affinities that align with your product or service. Consider the coffee example above. While targeting buyers who love coffee helps improve your brand placement, it also puts you in direct competition with a host of other brands all producing similar products. Additional affinity modifiers that narrow your focus — such as sustainable growth processes, fair labor practices, or environmental priorities — can help set your brand apart.
Do note that it is possible to get too specific with your audience targeting. For example, if your coffee brand targets audiences that prefer beans from a specific region that are collected, packed, and shipped in a specific way, you may end up with a handful of very loyal customers but almost no broader appeal. As a result, targeting needs to narrow the focus without preventing you from reaching the greater public.
What are Custom Audiences?
GDN and the Google Ads platform contain a host of pre-built Google affinity audiences — also called segments — that you can use to focus your marketing and advertisements. These include everything from pet lovers to do-it-yourselfers, TV comedy fans and users with an interest in news and politics.
But they can't cover everything. You may have a product or service that doesn't dovetail with existing segments — here, custom affinity audiences can help.
Understanding Custom Affinity Audiences
Custom affinity audiences are those you create yourself in your Google Ads platform to align with the interests of your target customer base. While Google will suggest different potential segment tags depending on what you input, it's worth taking the time to do some market research before diving into the custom affinity process. This lets you pinpoint the audience preferences that align best with your brand.
You can create custom affinity audiences related to four criteria: Interests, URLs, places, or applications. In general, places and applications are the least useful of the bunch. Here's why. In our coffee example above, there aren't a lot of coffee-related applications that would set your audience apart. And while geography has some impact on buying behavior, it's usually not enough to justify an entire segment.
Interests and URLs, meanwhile, can help you dig down and identify potential affinity options that may be shared by your target market at large.
How to Create Affinity Audiences
Ready to create your own affinity audience? Follow these steps:
Log into your Google Ads account.
Select "Tools and Settings", then "Audience manager."
Select "Custom Segments."
Enter segment name and interests.
Save your new segment.
Let's tackle each step in more detail.
1. Log Into Your Google Ads Account
First, log into your Google Ads account. Here, you can see any active campaigns along with the associated affinity audiences.
2. Select "Tools and Settings", then "Audience Manager"
Next, head to "tools and settings" in the upper-right-hand corner and then find "Audience manager" in the drop-down menu.
3. Select "Custom Segments"
Now you'll see a list of any data segments you're currently using to target prospective buyers. To create an audience or segment, click on "Custom Segments" and then the blue "+" icon.
4. Enter Segment Name and Interests
Now, give your segment a name and add a few potential interests. For example, if you enter "coffee", Google will return interests or purchase intention ideas such as "coffees to make with an espresso machine", "how to make coffee with coffee beans" and "coffee makers that make different coffees."
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5. Save Your New Segment
Finally, save your new segment with use for ad campaigns. You can create as many segments as you like until you've covered all relevant market bases.
The Impact of Effective Affinity Audiences
Ideally, affinity audiences lead to a definitive result: Increased ROI.
Here's why: When your ads are shown to audiences that are interested in what you're selling, they're more likely to click through and purchase your products. As a result, the money you spend on advertising is directly offset by the conversions driven by these ads, in turn creating positive ROI. More generic campaigns, meanwhile, may still increase overall sales but not enough to balance out the spend required to reach larger audiences.
The right audience makes all the difference. Targeted, customized affinity audiences help you reach the people that want to buy your products, in turn boosting conversions and making your overall ad spend more cost-effective. Custom affinity audiences further narrow your market targeting, increasing the likelihood of revenue and reducing the gap between what you spend on ads and what you get in return.
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'''
Creating a list with a one line for loop.
Remove non-base symbols from a sequence.

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(c) 2013 Allegra Via and Kristian Rother
    Licensed under the conditions of the Python License

    This code appears in section 4.3.3 of the book
    "Managing Biological Data with Python".
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'''

squares = [x**2 for x in range(5)]
print(squares)

bases = ['A', 'C', 'T', 'G']
print(bases)

seq = 'GGACXCAGXXGATT'
print(seq)

seqlist = [base for base in seq if base in bases]
# seqlist_1 = [base for base in seq]

print(seqlist)
# print(seqlist_1)


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export interface IMdcDialogClickEvent extends CustomEvent {
    detail: boolean;
}
export declare class MdcDialog {
    private element;
    private static id;
    header: string;
    accept: string;
    cancel: string;
    acceptAction: boolean;
    cancelAction: boolean;
    acceptDisabled: boolean;
    scrollable: boolean;
    focusAt: HTMLElement;
    private log;
    private diagElement;
    private titleElement;
    private acceptButtonElement;
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Osofo Films Production in collaboration with Countryman Films Production is bringing to movie enthusiasts another movie 'Under My Pillow' featuring Prince David Osei, Nadia Buari, Scot Robert as well as others.
I'm not giving out the story yet but if you want to know what is really under your pillow then just grab a copy when the movie is released.
This movie will not be premiered. It will be out on 21st February 2011. GhanaCelebrities.com readers will get the opportunity to answer few questions to win free copies of the movie ahead of its release.
Cool! I hope you could also post links to the movie and as well as reviews. I heard that the movie was cool so I am really curious about it. Thanks for posting the information regarding the movie, it's really helpful. You gave me an idea on what to watch this weekend.
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I've definitely felt stuck in tough life situations where I thought: I wish I could die. Not in a dramatic, exaggerating way. In a real way. This is too hard, and I wish I could end it, and/or make everyone feel as bad as I feel.
But I've never made an attempt. Or even a threat. I've thought about it, but never "seriously," (whatever that means when it comes to suicide). Plus, I always chalked myself up to too much of a weakling to ever be able to pull something off like that.
In short, I loved 13 Reasons Why and I have a limited view of suicide.
We were at the same yoga training in upstate New York almost two years ago. The first night--after a grueling, physical, sweaty yoga practice--we got into a group discussion, the 100-plus people and myself. The first night always has a lot of anticipation. Because this was an advanced yoga training--meaning, we'd at one of these at least a few times before--we almost had more anxiety about what was going to be unveiled the first night.
The leader of the training got up to the front and looked at us for a moment. Then, he asked us a question.
"What are you dealing with?"
A few confident hands shot up. Then, a delay. Then one hand a few rows ahead of me shot up. I noticed her tattooed arm and I knew she would be called on. You know how you can sense that sometimes? He's going to pick her, I thought. Sure enough, he did. And she walked up to the microphone.
She answered the question. Honestly. Brutally. Desperately. Bravely. Perfectly. She told us what happened to her just three months before. That her husband had killed himself, and--just three weeks after--she tried to do the same. I didn't feel ready for what she had to say. For that level of vulnerability and truth.
But what Jessica taught me on that first night--and taught me again (and again, because editing) in this episode--is not only the power we get when we stop shaming ourselves and hiding our darkest stories, but what others get when we honestly/brutally/desperately/bravely tell them, too.


Spain: Spain's Supreme Court has withdrawn an international arrest warrant for the former regional president of Catalonia.
Carles Puigdemont, who is currently in Belgium – is still facing charges of sedition in Spain.
Yemen: Houthi rebels in Yemen have held dozens of journalists captive for days at a television station in the capital and a media watchdog has demanded their immediate release.
Israel: Donald Trump will declare formal recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday, the White House has said, breaking with years of precedent and potentially leading to unpredictable consequences for the Middle East.
Paradise Paper: The EU has named and shamed 17 countries in its first ever tax haven blacklist and put a further 47 on notice, including British overseas territories and the crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The blacklist includes South Korea, Mongolia, Namibia, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
Guam, the US territory in the Pacific, also features on the blacklist, in a move that is unlikely to endear Brussels to Donald Trump's White House.
Russia: Russia's Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another term as president in next year's election.
Mr Putin has been in power since 2000, either as president or prime minister. If he wins the March election he will be eligible to serve until 2024.
Spain: A Spanish judge has lifted the extradition order on the former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, and four former cabinet members who fled to Belgium to avoid charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.
Israel: The US president said on Wednesday he had "judged this course of action to be in the best interests of the United States of America, and the pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians".
He said he was directing the US state department to begin preparations to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
UK: Theresa May is under increasing pressure from all sides to break the impasse in the Brexit talks.
Israel:Violence has flared between Israeli forces and Palestinians protesting at Donald Trump's contentious recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
UK – Brexit: PM Theresa May has struck a last-minute deal with the EU in a bid to move Brexit talks on to the next phase.
There will be no "hard border" with Ireland; and the rights of EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU will be protected.
The so-called "divorce bill" will amount to between £35bn and £39bn, Downing Street says.


rs to cigarette stubs, lipstick tubes, and stray pills—are rendered strange as they become surrogates for the body, evoking both comfort and disquiet. Belanger conjures associations rich in references from Pop Art to the Surrealist object to seventeenth-century Dutch vanitas paintings, yet her work's psychic impact remains acutely attuned to archetypes of the present. Belanger's elegantly smooth and supple forms often contrast with their darkly humorous insinuations relating to pertinent subjects such as mass production, chemical dependency, and the absurdity of patriarchy.
Belanger presents a new installation in the window of the New Museum's 231 Bowery building. Her project joins a new series of window installations that relaunches a program the New Museum originally mounted in the 1980s.


From the front of the choir: Choir leaders, are you doing too much for your singers?
Choir leaders, are you doing too much for your singers?
I'm not looking for sympathy, but leading a choir can be hard work!
But it doesn't have to be that way. Maybe you're working too hard. It's possible to do less and get the same results.
Never mind all the behind-the-scenes work that choir leaders do, just being in front of a choir can be exhausting.
I see many choir leaders waving their arms around frantically, mouthing words, sending tons of energy out to their singers, indicating every little nuance of each song, signalling madly with their eyes in order to get results, and more. I get tired just watching!
It's as if the choir leader is trying to do everything for the singers, and not allowing them to just get on with it.
Some of this can be fear ("I hope they get it right"), some of it is about control (having led rehearsals for so long, it's sometimes hard to let go in performance), and some of it can be ego ("I'm important, they can't do it without me").
The fact is that your singers are often far more accomplished than you think they are. You're just not giving them the chance to shine if you try to do everything for them.
Here are some things that you can try which will make your life easier and not use up so much energy.
conduct smarter – find the least you can get away with to get the effects you want. Remember you have two hands and arms. Don't just mirror what the other is doing. Use one arm and hand for the main work, and the other for subtleties. Yes, bigger gestures can mean more energy, but you'll end up being exhausted. There are other ways to get more from your choir without draining your own energy.
what's the least you can get away with? – in rehearsal try gradually minimising your input to see how little you can get away with whilst still getting the same results. A raised eyebrow from stillness can signal a great deal. You might just need to count the choir in, then watch and listen to them.
do the work in rehearsal – if you rehearse well then the choir will know what to do. There is no need to re-emphasise it in performance. Your job is basically done by that point. There is a wonderful video of Leonard Bernstein conducting a performance of a string quartet. Basically he stand with his eyes shut bathing in the beautiful music. He'd done all the work in rehearsal.
trust your singers – if you take control all the time, you'll never let your singers discover what they're capable of. Use plenty of listening exercises. Divide the choir into small groups. Get half the choir to sing to the other half. Rehearse in the dark. There are loads of things you can do to build your singers' confidence so they stop relying on you.
don't do the singers' job for them – when you're standing in front of your choir you can be seen as a solo performer with the singers as your audience. They can end up being too passive as you do all the work for them. The more you express what they're supposed to be expressing, the less they need to do it. They also end up performing for you rather than the audience. The singer's focus should be on communicating with the audience, not having their eyes glued on you.
Do let me know if you've found any of these ideas useful, or if you have any other useful tips to add. I'd love to hear from you.


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The Lovely Bones The Lovely Bones nonton film fantasy sub indonesia. After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family, and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.


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On Virginia farm, microbes turn organic waste into compost
By RACHAEL SMITHJuly 14, 2019
Several rows of compost spread across Royal Oak Farm, the largest multi-feedstock waste composting facility in Virginia on Wednesday, July 3, 2019 in Evington, Va. (Emily Elconin/The News & Advance via AP)
EVINGTON, Va. (AP) — More than 60% of organic waste goes into local landfills, according to Ken Newman, owner and operator of Royal Oak Farm.
That organic waste — everything from paper products to scraps and leftovers — could be recycled into compost that is healthy for the environment, he said.
Royal Oak Farm, located in Evington and in operation since 2008, is the largest multi- feedstock waste composting facility in Virginia and is authorized by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
On the 115-acre property, billions of microbes do most of the work creating compost from waste generated by municipalities, industries, businesses and universities, including James Madison University and Virginia Tech.
The week of July 8, Royal Oak began accepting waste from the University of Lynchburg's dining services.
Newman said this includes things such as paper towels, napkins, meat and leftovers, which will be shipped to the farm to be composted. Neal said the compost will not come back to be used at the school but instead it will be sold by Newman.
Michial Neal, co-director chef at University of Lynchburg Dining Services, said the university has been in contact with the farm for at least a month hoping to launch the partnership.
Neal said although the price to compost with Royal Oak is about the same price as taking the waste to the landfill, the partnership was the latest step toward completing the school's goal toward sustainability and supporting regional producers and farmers. Dining services sends its pre-consumer waste, things like leftovers from food prep to Lynchburg Grows, a nonprofit urban farm, where it is used for gardening purposes.
The university uses two bins for trash and recycling in each dining facility. It will begin using a third bin for collection of waste for compost, which will be sent to the farm about every two weeks, Neal said.
Most of the time the farm sends a truck to pick up the waste, but UL will send its waste to the farm by way of County Waste which will collect the waste in a dedicated container to avoid contamination.
Royal Oak makes compost from food processing plant discards, animal manures, sawdust, leaves, trimmings from local tree services, and agricultural byproducts such as straw, hay and silage.
Though many customers have confidentiality agreements, those who partner with the farm have come from solicitations from Newman after he raises awareness about food waste and how the compost can be used in beneficial ways such as for athletic field mixes, putting greens and compost for planting soil, Newman said.
On Royal Oak Farm, billions of microbes work in 15-foot-wide by 8-feet-tall windrows — a method used to produce compost by piling organic waste in long rows.
The rows have to get above 131 degrees for a minimum of 15 days and have to be turned a minimum of five days before the compost is sterilized and ready, Newman said.
Afterward, the compost is sent to a lab to be tested for pathogens like salmonella and E. coli as well as for heavy metals.
It then needs to be cured, which takes between six months and two years, Newman said.
Last year Royal Oak accepted and composted more waste than any other DEQ-permitted agency in Virginia — approximately 45,000 tons — and accounted for about 24% of total material composted in Virginia, according to Jenny Poland, solid waste permit writer for DEQ Blue Ridge Regional Office located in Salem.
Royal Oak Farm is permitted to handle 150,000 tons of waste per year and the charge for the customer can be anywhere from $45 to $60 per ton.
Poland said her office has 15 recorded active solid waste compost facilities in the state. Newman said the next closest facility is Black Bear Composting in Crimora, which is permitted to handle 4,000 tons of waste a year.
Newman said with the costs of permitting from DEQ — $350,000 initially and then $1,500 annually — and the cost to pay employees on a $4 million facility with $4 million worth in equipment, he said he barely breaks even on the front end.
"The only profits we make are on selling the product," he said.
Though composting has been around forever, Poland said, and Royal Oak is using a windrow method which is not considered "new technology," it does have state-of-the-art equipment like the windrow turner and a grinder.
Large scale composting is not widespread across the state and Poland thinks this is because of the costs. It is cheaper to go to the landfill, where there are no bans on organic waste, than it is to compost.
Blake Bensman, sustainability manager for Dining Services and Housing and Residence Life at Virginia Tech, said since Tech's partnership with Royal Oak Farm began in 2009, the university has composted more than 4,000 tons of organic waste and sends about 500 tons of organic waste to the farm annually.
Virginia Tech has 17 dining services on its campus in Blacksburg, which all collect organic waste to be sent to the farm.
Bensman said the school buys back a portion of the compost to be used for small grounds projects around the campus.
The partnership with Royal Oak is important to Virginia Tech, Bensman said, because it aligns with the school's commitment to local food and local sourcing for its dining services.
"It allows us to be a steward of the environment," he said. "It really promotes our message of sustainability."
Virginia Tech Dining Services banned Styrofoam in 2015. The school now uses compostable containers and allows students to take home a free reusable container that they return back to the dining halls.
Information from: The News & Advance, http://www.newsadvance.com/


The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has today (26 January 2017), published its first report on the 'State of Child Health in the UK' (PDF, 2,250KB). The report provides an insight into the state of child health in the UK. A separate document 'Recommendations for Wales' (PDF,162KB) has been published alongside the main report.
The RCPCH's Wales report is divided into 12 sections and makes 39 recommendations for improving children and young people's health and well-being in Wales.
Whilst the report welcomes some initiatives by the Welsh Government such as the Healthy Child Wales programme, ongoing action to reduce smoking rates and increases in funding for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), it delivers a stark warning to the UK Government and its devolved administrations – "that while many children and young people will lead happy and healthy lives, the future health and happiness of a significant and growing number is in jeopardy" (p.4).
The Wales report states that more action is needed to address the particular challenges in Wales, with worrying figures on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, concerns about the number of children who are overweight or obese and child poverty. The report delivers a strong message about the inequalities in child health and shows the impact of ongoing associations between socio-economic inequalities and poor health outcomes, most notably in terms of child deaths.
The bottom line is that the RCPCH believe that the UK Government, and its devolved administrations, could do far more to improve child health and wellbeing.
On Wednesday 1 February 2017, the Children, Young People and Education Committee will consider the report and the implications of its findings for Wales.
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Biz Bites is a conceptual restaurant and catering service that provides in-office delivery to working professionals. The design was partially inspired by popular 1950's advertisements, which impacted the restaurant's color pallet and typographic choices. An overarching corporate theme is ubiquitous throughout the project, however, the seamless interaction between detailed infographics and playful illustrations highlight the relaxed, yet productive atmosphere of many office settings.
The identity and character of this work is defined by its minimal pallet, vector illustrations, and infographics, which establish a concrete brand and style.


This story idea came from an obscure item on a Carpentersville board meeting agenda.
A Senate bill that called for more extensive testing of construction debris from municipal and private projects breezed through the General Assembly, but it is now suffering whiplash as municipalities across the state voice opposition to added costs and a lack of defined standards.
The bill, which originally set goals for recycling of TVs and computer equipment, was amended to require additional testing for each construction project to ensure that volatile organic compounds don't make it into fill sites that lack liners. Clean construction and demolition debris requirements were passed in 2005, but the new amendments are much stricter and apply to soil instead of just other debris like concrete and asphalt.
Now municipal engineers and public works departments are dealing with unexpected costs and unknown standards that will affect almost every construction project they start.
Tim Schmitz, a state representative from Batavia and one of the few to vote against the bill, said it was all the moving parts that turned him off — undefined terms and unspecified fees and the burden it would place on locals.
In Carpentersville, it's an extra $9,000 for the design phase of a street project. Officials aren't sure how much it will add to construction costs because everyone is still trying to figure out what the law means.
"The construction cost implications could potentially be much greater," said Scott Marquardt, Carpentersville's village engineer.


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Q: What to ask/do when attending a conference full of our target users We are building a web based solution right now and it is almost ready to roll out, but I felt we have not really verified our initial hypothesis about the problem domain we are trying to solve. So I decided to attend a conference where most attendees  are our target users. What I want to get out from the conference are
1) verify if our initial hypothesis is true
2) if the hypothesis is true, is our solution addresses the problem in a user friendly way.
3) will they use or eventually buy it.
I only have about half day.I am thinking a few options here:
a) walk around and show demo to people.
b) do more listening and ask questions.
c) collect as many business card as possible, and connect after the conference.
Any suggestion on how i can do these most effectively?  thanks

A: It's tough to ask people "given x would you buy it for $y" and draw a real conclusion unless they are actually buying it for $y.  People tend to answer "Yes" more easily when no real money is involved and no consequences are faced.  It could be a gauge but don't overemphasize it.
Networking is definitely a key...a few types of relationships we seek at tradeshows:

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*Potential customers who could provide honest and direct feedback

*Potential partners to integrate into system or exchange data with

*Industry insiders who are excited about your product who could potentially be a sales rep or pay-per-lead

*Industry organizations and associations to partner with (creating content for, discount programs, etc)

A: You might be interested in this advice that I found on a discussion board for marketing web apps.
Unlike sponsorship, conference registration is inexpensive and success can be ensured if you plan ahead. To maximize your success utilize tools like EventVue to prearrange meetings with attendees, schedule meetings with organizations in the region, and meet with your passionate users who are local. Executing these three items will make any conference a success.

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Was the man on the moon BC?
Was there a man on the moon In 2309 BC? Did representatives of other civilizations take people with them on space travel? Maybe it was after such cases that myths about gods and journeys to the other world appeared?
Did the Chinese lunar rover find a building with two lanterns? Photo Analysis
Most likely, this is a large boulder, a fragment from a meteorite impact, but scientists will know the exact answer only in two or three months.
Kongka La. An alien base?
The Himalayas, a country of mountains, is one of the most peaceful and attractive places in India. But sometimes, regardless of expectations, they witness such unusual things that many simply remain silent about it, fearing to be considered mentally unhealthy
The US Navy does not disclose details of what their nuclear submarine encountered in the South China Sea
The American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) collided with an "unknown object" while diving in the waters of the Asia-Pacific region, which led to the injury of several sailors, according to American media.
The base of an alien civilization is located on the territory of India
We have all managed to get used to the fact that all sorts of news about UFOs and alien civilizations come to us from the United States. Therefore, few people pay attention to similar news from other countries, for example, India, but in vain. Recently, rumors have spread around the world that it is the above-mentioned country that not only knows more about extraterrestrial civilizations than others but also cooperates with them. Some sources even say that there is a UFO base on the territory of India.
Chinese Army Monitors UFOs with Artificial Intelligence
As reported by the Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post, PLA is paying increasing attention to unidentified flying objects, using artificial intelligence.
CIA report - ufo sighted over Urumqi
This report about UFOs interested the agency of the CIA, as a source here is taken a media resource known in China
The Table of Solomon-the device of an ancient civilization
The treasures of King Solomon are an enduring legend in human memory. After so many centuries, there are still disputes about their real existence, because they were lost during the looting of Solomon's Temple and have not yet been found. But they are expensive not because they are covered with gold, but because they performed magical functions. Magical for that time. In the present, however, they are quite working devices that we are beginning to use successfully.