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These days, African-American viewers are getting more choices. The number of television networks targeting blacks is growing. One of the newest networks is Bounce TV, which according to its creators, is the fastest growing African American network in television.
Launched just over a year ago by Martin Luther King III and Ambassador Andrew Young, among others, Bounce TV is available in 80 percent of African American households and 65 million homes nationally. The network airs 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the digital signals of local television stations. The network targets African Americans primarily between the ages of 25-54.
The network recently announced new programming?an original series called Off The Chain, a half-hour stand-up comedy series, will feature performances by some of the country?s top African American comics.?? Rodney Perry (Tyler Perry?s Madea?s Big Happy Family, Mo?Nique Show) is the host of the new show. Here, we interview Perry about Bounce TV and his new show.?????
TNJ: ?Why did you feel this was a good project to work on? ???
Rodney Perry: First of all, it's a new network and it?s great being on the ground floor of something so special. Secondly, there isn't any comedy on television showcasing urban comedy.???
TNJ: You have worked with TV One, BET and now Bounce. Do you feel TV is getting more diverse???
RP: I believe that the grown-up (25-40) African American audience has been underserved up until now. ?It's great to see so much original programming.???
TNJ: Why do you feel Bounce is growing so rapidly? ??
RP: It's free. In a down economy, I think people appreciate a good thing when it's quality and fairly priced.???
TNJ: ?Do you feel the show will attract a broad audience since it is humor, or do you feel that because it is on Bounce, Bounce?s main target audience will be those tuning in? ?
RP: Comedy is the great equalizer. Regardless of your background, the fact is, we all love and need to laugh. I know we will hit the Bounce core demo, and if you are channel surfing and come across "Off The Chain" you, too, will become a BOUNCER.


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Samsung is Partnering India to Fulfill its Promise of 'Make in India' and 'Make for India': DJ Koh
DJ Koh, President and CEO of IT & Mobile Communications Division, Samsung Electronics, today launched the Next Generation flagship Galaxy S10 at a grand event in New Delhi.
Mr. Koh, who is visiting India for his second successive flagship launch after the Galaxy Note9 in August, said he was really excited to be back in India, among millions of Samsung fans. He was addressing a packed audience comprising media, partners and Samsung fans, at the event which was also live-streamed around the world.
"Nowhere is this more apparent than right here in India, where we have invested heavily. We are the only device maker that is truly 'Made in India'. We have been making phones here locally since 2007 at the World's Largest Mobile Factory in Noida. And India is home to our Largest Experience Store, which we opened in September 2018 – in Bengaluru," he said.
Samsung is partnering India to fulfill its promise of 'Make in India' and 'Make for India', Mr. Koh said. With the inauguration of the Noida factory, the World's Largest Mobile Factory, Samsung has set its eyes to 'Make for the World'.
"In India, we are excited by the opportunities, as more and more consumers are embracing the age of digital transformation," he said.
Samsung is focused on consumers, and is the only global company in India that caters to smartphone needs of consumers across the spectrum. In India, Samsung manufactures basic feature phones, as well as next generation smartphones such as the Galaxy S10.
"We know that a one-size-fits-all approach is no longer enough. Millennial and Gen Z consumers want choice," said Mr Koh.
In the premium category, Samsung has seen tremendous success in the country, with the Galaxy. Galaxy Note9, launched last year, is doing extremely well. "We have captured more than half of the market share in the premium segment! So, thank you!" he said.
Last year, Mr. Koh had promised that Samsung will bring its latest innovations across its range. True to his promise, Samsung has dazzled Indian consumers with great devices in the last six months.
"Indian consumers have quickly adopted Samsung Galaxy A7 and Galaxy A9. They love the world-first innovations in the A Series. Like an impressive triple and quad cameras and captivating display that lets them explore, snap and share experiences on their terms," he said, at the launch of Galaxy S10.
Indian consumers are not only the first to embrace new technologies, they are also the first to receive them. In January, India was the first market to get the powerful new Galaxy M series.
"Designed specifically for tech savvy millennials, our India-first Galaxy M series has had a great positive response from consumers. By listening and responding to your feedback we are creating meaningful innovation that meets the needs of the market," Mr Koh said.
This is the tenth year of the Galaxy S series, which has stood for premium innovation – offering consumers an incredible experience, and the ability to find the device that's right for them.
Mr Koh said Samsung's vision is to be the innovator of new mobile experiences that flow with us seamlessly and continuously. "By harnessing the power of 5G and AI we will pioneer a new generation of immersive, personal and intelligent experiences. Experiences that reach across every device, platform and brand."
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ACLJ urging United Nations to help save abducted Christian children
140 taken in raid by armed terrorists on Baptist school
Bob Unruh
Fri Aug 6, 2021 - 2:25 pm EDT
(WND News Center) – The American Center for Law and Justice says it's been urging the United Nations for some years already to intervene in Nigeria where armed terrorists routinely attack Christians, and most recently abducted about 140 children from a Baptist school. But there haven't been many results.
"Nigeria is experiencing a humanitarian crisis and a rapidly deteriorating situation for Christians who are increasingly the targets of religiously motivated violence," the organization said, referencing the most recent violence.
"Most of us have the luxury of feeling that our children and grandchildren are safe going to school each day. But parents in Nigeria – particularly Christian families – find themselves locked in a constant state of terror as school children are being murdered or kidnapped by Islamic radicals," the organization reported. "In fact, the day after we Americans celebrated our Independence, armed terrorists stripped away the freedom of 140 Nigerian students from a Christian school."
CBS had documented that the attackers were part of a "wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren and students."
The attack was carried out by "heavily armed criminal gangs," the network said.
"One hundred forty defenseless children abducted at gunpoint from a Christian school. Let that chilling statement sink in, especially if you have children in school yourself," the ACLJ reported.
CBS called the attackers "gunmen" but "we know in many of these instances who is perpetrating the barbaric acts. When Christian teen Leah Sharibu and 109 other schoolgirls were violently abducted from their school in broad daylight, it was by the Islamic militia Boko Haram," the report said.
"The fact is Islamic radicals are targeting Christians in Nigeria and across Africa for slavery and even slaughter just because of their faith. Christian pastors have been horrifically killed. Innocent children have been abducted and forced into slavery in Nigeria. Just last year, two teen girls were murdered by Islamic jihadists in the same area as the Baptist school where these 140 students were just kidnapped. According to one recent report, roughly 1,000 students have been kidnapped in Nigeria since December."
The Nigerian government has done, essentially, nothing, and an official for one aid organization working in the region warned, "We risk the loss of a generation if these attacks on schools and attacks on education continue. . . . It is so shameful that on one hand, bandits and Boko Haram are attacking children and their right to education, on the other hand, the government's only response is to shut down schools."
The ACLJ's Mike Pompeo, the former U.S. secretary of state, previously put Nigeria on the government's list of "Countries of Particular Concern," and explained recently, "The Nigerian government was tolerating the systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of the religious freedom of its people, allowing them to suffer at the hands of radical Islamic terror. This designation signaled to the Nigerian government that swift action on their part was needed to put an end to this persecution, or there would be further consequences in the form of sanctions and increased diplomatic pressure."
The ACLJ said it also continues to demand action at the U.N. Human Rights Council over the abduction of Leah Sharibu, who now has been in Boko Haram captivity for three years.
"Leah recently turned 18 and has reportedly been forced to give birth to two babies while in the clutches of these monsters," the ACLJ reported.
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Q: How to mock in-place arithmetic operators I'm trying to mock the in-place operators' magic methods like __iadd__ with MagicMock from unittest.mock, but the call assertion unexpectedly fails:
>>> from unittest.mock import MagicMock
>>> m = MagicMock()
>>> m += 1
>>> m.__iadd__.assert_called_once()  # This expected NOT to fail
Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
AssertionError: Expected '__iadd__' to have been called once. Called 0 times.

Mocking other magic methods works fine:
>>> m = MagicMock()
>>> m + 1
>>> m.__add__.assert_called_once()
>>> # No error

After doing m += 1 sets m to a new MagicMock instance since all mock methods return new mocks. We override __iadd__ in regular classes like this:
class A:
    def __iadd__(self, other):
        ...
        return self  # <-- We must return self

But all mock's methods including __iadd__ looks like:
def __iadd__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    ...
    return MagicMock()

In my opinion that's the reason why it fails.

So, how do I properly mock in-place arithmetic magic methods?

A: Change the return value of __iadd__ like this:
>>> m = MagicMock()
>>> m.__iadd__.return_value = m
>>> m += 1
>>> m.__iadd__.assert_called_once()
>>> m.__iadd__.call_count
1

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Here Are The Detailed And Risky Steps NASA Needs to Take to Land on The Moon by 2024
SUSIE NEILSON & DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER
NASA has released its first full plan for its Artemis missions, which aim to put the first woman on the moon and the first man since 1972.
The plan calls for a lunar landing in 2024, but before that, NASA intends to launch two other missions to the moon to test its new Orion spacecraft.
"Our plan to land the first woman and next man on the moon in 2024 is on track!" Kathy Lueders, chief of NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, tweeted on Monday.
The plan is ambitious, however a reality NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine knows well.
"2024 is an aggressive timeline," he told reporters during a briefing on Monday. "Is it possible? Yes. Does everything have to go right? Yes."
So far, the agency isn't even sure that it will get enough money to pull off the plan. NASA is asking Congress for nearly US$28 billion.
And even if funding does come through and NASA does land astronauts on the moon within four years, the agency's goals get even more challenging after that. NASA hopes to subsequently put people on the lunar surface at least once a year from 2024 on and build a permanent lunar outpost by the early 2030s. The agency also hopes to construct and install the Gateway, a space station that would orbit the moon and support frequent trips to the surface.
That infrastructure might in turn enable trips to Mars after 2030.
Here are the latest details on the planned Artemis missions.
Artist's depiction of NASA's Space Launch System. (NASA/MSFC)
2 missions must succeed before people can walk on the moon again
The first mission in the Artemis program, Artemis 1, calls for the launch of an Orion space capsule atop NASA's forthcoming mega-rocket, the Space Launch System. The spacecraft wouldn't carry any passengers, but would stay in the moon's orbit for three days as a test of its ability to fly to the moon and back.
NASA's timeline suggests that mission would launch in November 2021.
After that, Artemis 2 would be the first crewed test of Orion and the SLS rocket. In a lunar flyby, the Orion capsule would carry four astronauts around the moon's far side, which is almost a quarter of a million miles from Earth. That crew would go farther into deep space than any humans before them.
Once Orion gets that far away, gravity from the moon and Earth would slingshot the spacecraft back home. The entire mission is expected take about 10 days, serving as a test of Orion's capacity to ferry humans safely to and from the moon.
The mission is currently slated to launch in August 2023.
Prototype Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit. (Joel Kowsky/NASA)
Artemis 3 would land astronauts on the moon's South Pole
For the Artemis 3 mission in 2024, NASA would launch an Orion spacecraft, fly it into lunar orbit, land astronauts on the lunar surface, then safely return everyone to Earth.
The mission is expected to send people to the moon's South Pole (despite recent rumours suggesting the missions might land at a site previously visited by Apollo astronauts). Landing at the South Pole is more technically difficult than landing at other sites; no human or robotic mission has ever pulled off the feat.
To accomplish this goal, NASA needs a human landing system: a spacecraft to take astronauts from orbit to the moon's surface. The Artemis plan calls for the system to provide life support for about a week once the astronauts have landed, then get them back to lunar orbit.
The agency is already working with three commercial space companies â€" Blue Origin, Dynetics, and SpaceX â€" to develop prototypes for this system.
New spacesuits are in in the works, too. While they look fairly similar to the ones the Apollo astronauts wore (and they still contain diapers), the suits are more flexible, which should make it easier for astronauts to do complex tasks on spacewalks. The designs also include better in-helmet communications systems and other technological upgrades.
NASA is betting that the moon's South Pole will offer the most value to human travellers, since it likely contains lots of frozen water hidden in the bottoms of craters never touched by sunlight. Astronauts (or robots) could ostensibly mine that ice, melt it, store it, and use electricity to split the water into liquid oxygen and hydrogen a key oxidizer and fuel, respectively, for many types of rockets.
NASA scientists hope that fuel mined and produced on the moon could then be used for trips back home or deeper into space.
Harvesting such resources on the moon, Bridenstine said, would allow space explorers to start "living off the land."
Artist's concept of the Artemis Base Camp. (NASA)
After its first mission, NASA hopes to put humans on the moon every year
Artemis 3 is only the beginning of NASA's ambitions. After that, the agency hopes to install the Gateway, an orbiting station similar to the International Space Station, in the moon's orbit.
Like the ISS, the Gateway is expected to be an international effort: Many other space agencies have agreed to help build it, including the Russia's Roscomos, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency.
These agencies are also on board to collaborate on a lunar base camp at the moon's South Pole that could house four people. The base would be equipped with two lunar-terrain vehicles, one of which could enable long, exploratory drives away from the camp.
Artist's rendering of a Human Landing System. (NASA)
But the budget still hasn't been worked out
Most immediately, NASA says it needs US$3.2 billion in funding to develop a human landing system. So far, the agency has spent about US$1 billion on that effort.
The rest of the funds are far from a sure bet, however. NASA is pinning its hopes on an omnibus appropriations bill at the end of the year, but the House of Representatives has so far only approved about US$630 million in additional funds.
Bridenstine said on Monday that he hopes to get a new budget in place to fund Artemis after the November election.
"If we can have that done before Christmas, we're still on track for a 2024 moon landing," he said.
Bridenstine is expected to appear before a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday to explain NASA's budget request, which has come about six months earlier than usual, Space News reported.
Without full funding from Congress, Bridenstine said, the agency would not get to the moon in 2024, though it may still try to get there "at the earliest possible opportunity."
Commercial enterprises like SpaceX could also potentially travel to the moon on their own dime, he added.
"The companies themselves could step up to the plate in a bigger way," Bridenstine said. "If the money doesn't materialise, could they do it with their own resources? I'll leave it to them to make their own determination."
This article was originally published by Business Insider.
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American Airlines Investors Just Got More Bad News
American Airlines recently cut its Q2 unit revenue growth forecast to a new range of 1% to 3% and increased its second quarter fuel cost forecast by $0.06 per gallon. Profitability has been decreasing at American Airlines Group since early 2016. The airline disclosed that last quarter's unit revenue shortfall was driven by lower domestic airfares. The revenue slow down coincides with an uptick in capacity growth at United Continental, which competes in many of the same markets as American.
These are the 9 biggest stories people will be talking about at the 2018 Farnborough Airshow
A close look at the some of the biggest commercial aviation stories expected at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow:
Brexit and Trade
Boeing vs Airbus and the annual race to sell the most airplanes
New airplane orders
Boeing-Embraer joint venture
Airbus A220 formerly known as the Bombardier C-Series
Boeing new mid-market aircraft
Will there be an even longer range Airbus A321NEO
Second-hand Airbus A380s
Mitsubishi MRJ
Ryanair pilots in Ireland start first strike
Ryanair Pilots in Ireland held a strike for on Thursday as they demanded better conditions from Europe's largest low-cost carrier. 100 of Ryanair's 350 Irish pilots participated in the strike for 24 hours to demand a more transparent system of pay, promotions and transfers. IALPA union says it wishes to limit excessive discretion management have over pilots' careers. A union representative said more strikes were possible.
Why Spirit Airlines Stock Soared 10% on Thursday
Shares of Spirit Airlines ended the day, June 12, with a 10.2% gain. Spirit updated its second-quarter guidance saying that revenue per available seat mile (RASM) decreased 6.8% year over year but that non-fuel unit costs decreased 11% in that same period. The costs decreases reflect strong cost control measures. Fuel efficiency has also improved significantly for the Spirit as the airline has been adding more fuel efficient airplanes to the fleet.
The fallacy of single pilot airliners
A Congressional Committee has proposed creating a program within the Federal Aviation Administration to study technologies to remove a pilot from airliners in favor of a robot arm, operated by a human on the ground via datalink. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has previously studied the concept of single pilot airliners with the conclusion that the safety implications and risk do not justify the cost savings of eliminating a pilot.
The Air Line Pilot Profession: Value beyond the Paycheck
"We know the price of everything and the value of nothing." By operating by a dollar metric we cheapen the airline pilot profession. Definitions of professional includes; a self-policing group, putting the public's interest above one's own (or earning the public's trust), negotiating the terms of the our careers and requiring a Code of Ethics.
Airbus renames the Bombardier C Series the A220, sees strong demand
Airbus has said it is rebranding the Bombardier C Series as the A220, putting it just under its long-standing A300 portfolio which stretches from the 124-seat A319 to the 544-seat A380. Airbus expects to sell a "double-digit" number of the jets and sees demand for at least 3,000 of them over 20 years. The deal for Airbus to take control of the Montreal-based aircraft program with Bombardier and Quebec as minority partners closed on July 1.
JetBlue Places Order For 60 Airbus A220 Jets
JetBlue Airways announced Tuesday that it has placed an order for 60 Airbus A220-300 airplanes with an option to purchase up to 60 more. JetBlue has said it doesn't yet know how many seats the airplane will be configured with. The Airbus A220-300 can hold up to 160 passengers. The new airplane orders are intended to replace Embraer E190 in JetBlue's fleet.
Allegiant pilots vote to strike if dispute over scheduling system isn't resolved
Allegiant Airlines has been meeting with its pilots union to resolve a dispute over a scheduling system that the union says disregards the seniority and preferences of the airline's pilots. In a recent vote 93.5% of Allegiant pilots said they are willing to strike to push management to resolve the problem. The union said the airline agreed in 2016 to fix the system but continues to "stonewall" negotiations over the system. Allegiant pilots are represented by Airline Pilots Assn., Teamsters Local 1224.
NASA Tests New Alloy to Fold Wings in Flight
In a recent flight test series, which took place at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in California, NASA has successfully tested a new technolog in flight that allows aircraft to fold their wings to different angles while in the air. The project intends to obtain aerodynamic benefits in flight by folding wings through the use of a lightweight material called shape memory alloy.
Boeing Teams Up With Brazil's Embraer In New Joint Venture
Boeing and jet maker Embraer will attempt to form a joint venture that would push the U.S. airplane manufacturer into the market for smaller airliners. The two companies have said the details still need to be worked out and they expect negotiations over terms "to continue in the coming months." The new company would be valued at $4.75 billion with Boeing holding 80 percent while Embraer owns the remaining 20 percent. The Brazilian government has veto power over the pending deal.
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I'll do the calculations for all you non-mathematicians out there: I was in high school for our first Valentine's Day celebration. What the what?!
Nine years ago, neither of us could have fathomed getting married to each other.
So, take a trip with me down memory lane, if you will. Let's go back to 2005, the year Tom Cruise was jumping on Oprah's couch, declaring his undying love for Katie Holmes.
Slightly neurotic girls like me remember what they were wearing during life's greatest moments. On February 14, 2005, I was a junior in high school with an affinity for Hollister and American Eagle. I was devoted to The O.C. and Dashboard Confessional, and was gearing up for another summer of working on my tan lifeguarding. No one without an approved college and .edu email address was allowed on Facebook. I had a Xanga. It was another world, people. Another world.
I also had a pretty cute (and new!) boyfriend. His name was Jonny Craig and we were frenemies, but somehow I couldn't resist his boyish good looks and ridiculous charm. I met his family over Christmas and we were officially, like, going out. Call it Cupid's arrow, call it fate, call it being an overly emotional 17-year-old girl, but I was feeling pretty smitten.
Jonny was actually beginning to rival my affections for SETH COHEN. That's saying something.
Jonny picked me up for our Valentine's Day date in his rusty red Ford truck that my dad wouldn't let park in the drive way because it leaked oil. Since I was a teenage girl, and this was my first time having a real boyfriend on Valentine's Day, my expectations were pretty much unattainable. I dreamed of everything being perfect. I wore a pink sweater I bought in Kansas City with my Christmas money and felt pretty good about my brown pants with pink pinstripes. (Brown pants were cool, I swear.) 1,500 squirts of Sweet Pea body spray left me smelling like Bath & Body Works on crack, and I loved it.
I felt like the Romantic Comedy heavens were opening up and I was finally playing the leading lady. Move over, Kate Hudson. This was my time.
Our date? Catching a movie (on a school night!). Our pick? Hitch.
At the end of the night, Jonny's decrepit F150 clunked and chugged into my parent's driveway. (Sorry, Dad!) It was time for the exchange of gifts! Jonny sheepishly handed me a folded piece of notebook paper, along with a burned CD. (Emo!) And I proudly presented him with my over-the-top card and equally over-the-top candy. I unfolded his letter, which looked like it had first been written in pencil and then traced over in pen. (Aw.) Paraphrase of the valetine: I was amazing, beautiful, funny, smart, kind, and pretty much all-around-perfect. Music to my teenage ears. At at the end of the note, it said that I had to listen to the CD. There was just one song on it, but it said everything that he felt, everything he wished he could write.
It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside. I'm not one of those who can easily hide. I don't have much money, but boy if I did, I'd buy a big house where we both could live.
If I was a sculptor, but then again, no. Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show. I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do. My gift is my song, and this one's for you.
And you can tell everybody this is your song. It may be quite simple, but now that it's done I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words…How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss. Well, a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross. But the sun's been quite kind, while I wrote this song. It's for people like you that keep it turned on.
So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do. You see I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue. Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean… Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen.
And you can tell everybody this is your song. It may be quite simple, but now that it's done, I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words…How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind that I put down in words…How wonderful life is while you're in the world.
My initial thought: Um, how do you not know that I have green eyes?!
But seriously, it was perfect. I listened to that CD on repeat in my '94 Dodge Shadow for longer than I care to admit. I imagined Jonny writing those lyrics. I analyzed and over-analyzed every verse, every word. I couldn't get enough. He had listened the song and thought of me, and now I listened to it and thought of him thinking of me. (Yes, it was a pretty big blow when I discovered the world didn't revolve around me.) Anyway, he didn't get me a fancy necklace or dozens of roses or giant teddy bears, but the gift was perfect.
And you know what? He specifically didn't write love anywhere in his letter, either. I think we both new we had something that was in the very early stages of being something very special. We didn't want to ruin it.
And this morning, as I stumbled into the kitchen to make oatmeal for our two-year-old, my hair crazy and my glasses crooked, I found myself remembering our first Valentine's Day. I remembered all of my primping and pampering for our date, and I felt sad. I was literally barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, and looking and feeling like a hot mess express. In my preggo-emo state, I almost got myself worked into tears. I used to be cute! Now Jonny has to deal with a wife who looks like a Troll doll in the morning.
Seriously — my baby bump + hair that our toddler rubbed Vaseline in the night before= Troll doll Kayla.
And then, Jonny came home from his morning meeting, with heart-shaped pudding donuts, just for me. Be still, my pregnant heart.
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12 finalists receive grants to spur economic development in the region
ANCHORAGE— GCI, in partnership with Bethel Community Services Foundation, announced today that 12 businesses were awarded more than $30,000 following an Alaska event modeled after the ABC television show "Shark Tank."
The Best in the West small business competition aims to help new or potential small-business owners in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region gain knowledge about starting and operating small businesses and potentially earn funding to develop their small business idea. Applicants must attend small business development workshops through the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center as well as develop business plans, market analysis and a budget. Awards range from $250 to $8,000.
"Participating in this program takes dedication and it has successfully created thriving businesses in the YK Delta," said Reyne Athanas, program director from Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center and UAF, Kuskokwim Campus. "Eighty percent of the businesses we've funded are still in business today."
GCI has sponsored the Best in the West competition since 2013. Since the program's inception in 2009, more than $200,000 has been awarded to small businesses in Alaska.
"It is critical to support sustainable business development in the region and GCI is proud to sponsor the Best in the West competition to spur economic growth," said Bob Walsh, GCI's director of rural broadband and a judge of the competition. "It was exciting to see how the applicants are using technology to grow and expand their business."
This year's winners included a consignment store, meat processing plant, repair shop and those leveraging technology to sell and track goods. A panel of judges selected winners based on their initial idea, business plan, budget and presentation.
Josh Howell, Howell Mobile Truck and Equipment Repair, $6,400
Zhi Hastie, Made With Love, $5,400
Bill Howell, Bill's Meats, $4,400
Michelle DeWitt, Eric Whitney, Christina Desnoyers; Salmon Cycles, $3,400
David Beans, Matty's Truck Rental, $3,400
Gail Alstrom, Eagles Nest Lodge, $2,900
Marlena Dhaemers, Sandpiper Stitching, $2,500
Leslie Boelens, Aniak Community Market, $2,500
Kate McWilliams, Artic Belle Boutique, $2,425
Laura Karr, Bethel Bookkeeping, $1,400
Caroline Hessler, Caroline's Creations, $250
Hannah Howell, Sew Cool, $250
GCI is the largest communications provider in Alaska, providing data, wireless, video, voice and managed services to consumer and business customers throughout Alaska and nationwide. Headquartered in Alaska, GCI has delivered services for nearly 40 years to some of the most remote communities and in some of the most challenging conditions in North America. Learn more about GCI at www.gci.com.
About Best in the West
Bethel Community Services Foundation is the Best in the West project fiscal sponsor and provides the back-end services for the project (receipts for donors, fund administration, etc.). Reyne Athanas at YPCC/UAF Kuskokwim Campus is the project director. Sponsors include UAF Kuskokwim Campus, Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center, Donlin Gold, Coastal Village Regional Fund, Orustsararmuit Native Council, Bethel Community Services Foundation, Bethel Native Council, Calista, First National Bank, GCI, Kuskoskwim Art Guild, ConocoPhillips, Wells Fargo, Bethel Chamber of Commerce.
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The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is a globally active provider of international cooperation for sustainable development. It has more than 50 years of experience in a wide range of fields: from business and employment promotion, through energy and environmental issues, to the promotion of peace and security. GIZ is a company owned by the Federal Republic of Germany. Its diverse expertise is in demand around the globe: from the German government, from institutions of the European Union, from the United Nations and from the governments of other countries. Its main client is the Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) [Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development]. The GIZ cooperates with the private sector and thus contributes to the successful interplay between development policy and external economic activity. GIZ is based in Bonn and Eschborn. Of the more than 17,000 employees in more than 130 countries, 70 percent are recruited locally. As a recognized sponsor of the Development Service, the GIZ currently deploys a total of 730 development workers and development workers. The GIZ also runs the "Center for International Migration and Development" (CIM) together with the Federal Agency for Labor. In 2015, CIM mediated nearly 1000 skilled workers to employers in the GIZ employment countries, supported them financially and through consultancy and services.
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Forests make an important contribution to food security and income generation of local populations. Around 30 percent of the world's forests have already been cleared and another 20 percent are showing signs of degradation (WRI). The Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit supports partner countries in the restoration of forest landscapes and good governance in the forest sector.
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IMPROVED LAND GOVERNANCE
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STRONG TUBERS: SUPPORTING POTATOE FARMERS
Potatoes are staple foods in Kenza. Raising their profit is an important contribution to prevent malnutrition.
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SECURING THE FOOD SUPPLY IN MALAWI
Securing the food supply requires a holistic approach. That's why mango and papaya will be on the menu in Malawi.
DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SWEET POTATOES
For Kenyan small farmers, the harvest yields little more than they need for themselves. How the orange sweet potato can change the life of an entire region.
FROM RANCHERS TO MANUFACTURERS
How to: In Benin, farmers are opening factories now that they have learned what an entrepreneur needs to know.
THE FOOD ON THE TABLE DETERMINES OUR HEALTH
Cambodians eat too much rice. GIZ is joining with farmers to form multi-purpose farms, as well as advising health care centers on nutritional questions.
TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE COCOA SECTOR
About 60 percent of the cocoa processed in Germany comes from the Ivory Coast. It is grown by 800,000 cocoa farmers, who typically only own up to five hectares of land.
A project in cooperation with the GIZ
SUNFLOWERS OVER TOBACCO
The farmers in Malawi have long been holding on to the cultivation of tobacco - which led to a dangerous dependency.
FERTILE SOIL THROUGH THE RIGHT COMBINATION OF METHODS
In the Ethiopian highlands, much of the soil is exhausted. New fertilizers and improved seed are making it fertile again.
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Ideas on the ground: Local solutions for global challenges
Interview with Sebastian Lesch (BMZ)
A world without hunger and with sufficient healthy food as well as climate-friendly agriculture can only be achieved if ideas are transformed into innovations and ultimately also applied - a conversation with BMZ Head of Division Sebastian Lesch on the Innovation Challenge programme of the new Agricultural Innovation Fund.
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The Cashew Council is the first international organisation for a raw material stemming from Africa. The industry promises to make progress in processing and refining cashew nuts - and answers to climate change
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Sebastian Lesch
Since mid 2018 Sebastian Lesch has been head of the Agriculture Department of the BMZ, which is responsible for a wide range of topics from agricultural trade and global agricultural supply chains such as soya, palm oil, cocoa or coffee, for the Common European Agricultural Policy to concrete innovation in our project work with a wide range of partners worldwide. The unit includes the flagship project of the "Green Innovation Centres" as well as international agricultural research and agrobiodiversity. Prior to this, Mr Lesch was Head of German-Egyptian Development Cooperation in Cairo for four years, from 2010 to 2014 he was Press Officer of the BMZ and before that Country Director for Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus. He studied contemporary history, international politics and international law, is married and has three sons.
Maria Schmidt studied Political Science, focussing on development cooperation and policy analysis in sub-Saharan Africa early in her Franco-German studies at the Sciences Po Bordeaux Institute and University of Stuttgart. This led her first to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation, then to the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Benin and, most recently, to the GIZ in Ghana. She has been working there for the ComCashew project since December 2015, and, within her advisory duties, is primarily involved with public partners in promoting the cashew value chain.
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Don't call it a comeback. The outspoken, flamboyant Phoebe Legere hasn't performed in the Hamptons since a Guild Hall show 10 years ago, but the self-described melody machine's love of music and the East End never changed. She's spent years touring the globe and became a hit with the Canadian college crowd for her tune about electronic dating, "OK Cupid." Last year, HBO licensed her song "Hip Hop Frog" for the Lena Dunham-produced documentary It's Me, Hilary, which celebrated East Hampton and local artist Hilary Knight. Legere is set to make a triumphant return to the Hamptons when she brings her "Locals Only" show and recently-formed Cajun band Tit for Tat to Stephen Talkhouse May 14. I spoke with Legere about her music, the show and what makes the Hamptons the ultimate muse.
Long Island Pulse: How did you get into music?
Phoebe Legere: My parents were both artists and my grandparents were both musicians, so all my life I've been immersed in the arts. I started playing the piano at age three. My older sister was already playing. As soon as I could reach the keys I wanted it.
Pulse: How would you describe your sound to someone you've never met?
Legere: We play what I call roots alternative, which is fun Cajun party music with contemporary themes.
Pulse: Who are your influences?
Legere: The Meters, my family. My cousin Ray Legere is a Cajun fiddler in Canada and he was on my record that did so well on college radio. I'm also part Native American so I use a lot of spirituality and strength, and respect for the environment is also a big part of my music.
Pulse: You've called the Hamptons your muse. What about the East End inspires you?
Legere: My work is always rooted in environmental respect. When I'm really in touch with the things I love, like a beautiful landscape, an unspoiled natural view or even just sitting on the beach with my friends having a beer and looking at the ocean, I hear melodies.
Pulse: What brought you back to the Hamptons?
Legere: Now that there's very little to be made making music, there's a place for someone like me who is really all about making music. I put a band around me that just grew around me. These people were just there and attracted and here we are.
Pulse: Speaking of money, what do you think of streaming services, because there are artists like Taylor Swift who have spoken out against it?
Legere: I've been a big believer in giving it away from the very beginning. Don't get me wrong, I love it when people buy my album. I would never say anything bad about Taylor Swift or any artist trying to make a living in the arts but anyone who is really, truly, purely an artist, not a corporate figurehead for a team that's writing the music, creating the styles and pumping it out into our brains and souls as aggressively as possible, I think will agree that all art should be available to all people at all times.
Pulse: What can we expect at your May 14 show at Locals Only?
Legere: Expect dancing. I teach people how to Cajun dance before the show. Upbeat, hysterically funny, really colorful, mad, crazy, wonderful fun.
Pulse: What's next for you?
Legere: May 17 I'm opening for the fabulous Thunderbirds on the main stage of BB Kings in New York City. My next album is going to be a combination of an album, one CD in French, one in English and an art-working in the middle so people can collect my paintings at the same time. It's going to be a lot of tasty Cajun music and funky, always funky.
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Take this short example (And excuse its crude nature, as its a quick example)
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Then you could make statements like
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I am fully understanding of the fact that this isn't really a problem in javascript. Its easy to accomplish in numerous ways, but in general what are the downside of prototyping on native objects? You could even prototype short hand alias' for querySelector and querySelectorAll I suppose.
I understand naming collisions could and eventually would become a problem. Any elegant way around that?


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According to the latest weekly analysis by NPD Solarbuzz on UK PV market deployment, the UK's cumulative capacity has now reached 5GW. This makes the UK only the sixth country to have more than 5GW capacity. Germany remains the undisputed leader with more than 36GW. China, Japan, Italy and the US each have more than 10GW installed. So how did this happen:
1) The coalition government inherited a Labour conceived feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme that was expected to be strong on green-propaganda messaging, but somewhat thin on deployment. The FiT rate turned out to be among the most lucrative offered to any PV industry.
2) The timescale over which global PV pricing plummeted in 2012 was an order of magnitude quicker than the government could react with meaningful policy adjustments.
3) Almost nothing happened in the solar PV industry before 2010 in the UK.
4) No-one had imagined that ROCs would, or could, or should be used for solar.
5) Lightsource Renewable Energy came into existence and enacted a business model that had not been seen before in the UK.
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South Korean cable TV operator D'Live is hoping to sell Cube Entertainment, the agency behind K-pop signers BTOB and (G)I-dle, according to industry sources Nov. 11.
The company has picked EY Han Young to organize its sale.
According to sources, Korean cosmetics company VT GMP, a Chinese entertainment company and Kakao M, a subsidiary of Korea's top mobile messenger operator Kakao, have shown interest in acquiring Cube Entertainment.
Currently, iHQ owns a 30.61 percent stake in the firm while the local cable TV operator is the major shareholder of iHQ with more than 45.48 percent stake.
Some industry insiders say that D'Live is seeking to sell the company as it has around 389.9 billion won ($335.63 million) debt, while Cube Entertainment has been improving its earnings over the past two years.
Cube Entertainment's sales increased from 24.4 billion won in 2017 to 34.5 billion won last year, while posting around 1.9 billion won operating profit.
Meanwhile, D'Live is currently trying to find a new owner and has been in talks with Korean telecom giant KT. However, the talks are not proceeding smoothly due to a regulatory hurdle that restricts any TV operator from having more than 33 percent market share. KT currently has a market share of 31 percent while D'Live has around 6 percent.
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Fresh Meat Monday - Secret Motorbikes
Would you care to introduce yourself?
Tino: Hi Lloyd, it's great to be here. My name is Tino and I sing and play guitar, and this is our bass player Paul.
Paul: Hi.
How would you describe the music you make?
Tino: That's a great question Lloyd. We try to combine parts of 60's garage rock and 80's indie punk rock to make short, catchy songs about girls and not being from California.
Paul: But everyone just says we sound like The Strokes.
How did you start out making music?
Tino: There seemed to be very few bands in Glasgow that were writing the kind of songs we wanted to hear, so we decided to make stuff we'd want to listen to.
Paul: We had Iain (Stewart, drummer) at our disposal cause he's been our best friend for years and we thought it would be a sin not to use him in a band.
What process goes into the way you write songs?
Tino: We used to meet up before we went out on Friday and Saturday nights and agree not to leave the flat until we'd written a song. So we just wrote loads of quick songs while we were in PARTY MODE
Paul: I found it really frustrating cause I was always desperate to go to the ABC.
What can people expect from your live shows?
Tino: Nice outfits.
Paul: Little technical ability, with the exception of drums.
Tino: A warm and positive, inclusive atmosphere.
Paul: Tino forgetting to tell people who we are or say thanks for watching us. Or that "we've got merch for sale up the back".
Tino: Aye, sorry.
What are you all listening to at the moment?
Tino: FIDLAR, Smith Westerns, Iggy Pop, Nobunny, Clams Casino...
Paul: The Replacements, Big Star, the new PAWS tape, Weather Balloons...
Tino: SKATERS, Happy Birthday, The Velvet Underground, Roy Ayers, The Jesus and Mary Chain...
Paul: Mrs Magician, Roy Orbison, The Tough Shits, and I really love the song Let The Music Play by Shannon.
What can we expect to see/hear from you in the future?
Tino: We are going to record a song and make a video for it to please our youtube fanbase, and then make an album in a few months time.
Paul: We see this as more of an art project than a band so if anyone wants to collaborate and get involved, send us a message on ze facebooks.
Tino: Aye we're always looking for gigs and weird things to do. We are keen to like, totally, like, get involved in art installations and shit.
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Ready your eyes and ears for a mix of musicians, circus performers, vaudeville acts, magicians, comedians, and mind-blowing provocateurs. Costumes are highly encouraged (and a mindset to party is mandatory). Tour de Fat Minneapolis benefits Midtown Greenway Coalition, so be sure to grab your tix today.
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"Cats & Dogs" is a 2001 film made by Warner Brothers that follows the story of a beagle who becomes a secret agent for the canine army. Long story short, it is the age old cats versus dogs tale, with the added elements of spy agencies that were popular in the late 90's and early 2000's (Totally Spies, Spy Kids, Agent Cody Banks, Inspector Gadget, etc.) The film has mediocre reviews, including a whopping 5.1/10 according to IMDb.
Neither Lucy nor I were really excited for this one. Neither of us are big fans of dogs, and I had unpleasant memories about watching the trailer for this film over and over as a child because my VCR was messed up and would rewind and repeat on its own. But alas, this movie was on Netflix so we decided to give it a shot.
A young beagle named Lou is adopted into the Brody family, of which the father is a scientist trying to find a cure for his dog allergies. Lou and the other neighborhood dogs are charged with protecting this secret formula from their enemies, the cats. The cats are lead by a white Persian named Mr. Tinkles (played by two cat actors named Foster and Fritz), and their goal is to steal the formula and tweak it to make all humans allergic to dogs, allowing cats to take over the world.
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As expected, in the end the dogs win and the cats are defeated.
The film did, admittedly, have some pretty funny moments. Mostly in the dialogue. For an example, skip to 1:23 in the Mr. Tinkles introduction scene on Youtube, linked below.
For 2001, the CGI wasn't too bad. Cartoonish and hokey? Very much so, but it wasn't unbearable to watch. There was a semi-racist segment where some "ninja" cats were given stereotypical Japanese accents. I don't know how to feel about that :/
The writing, apart from the jokes, was pretty bland and the human acting was not great (sorry, Jeff Goldblum.) There were also multiple story points that felt forced; a hinted past romance between two dogs, a tragic white-male-hero-dog backstory, etc. Sure, this was a kids movie, but that is no excuse. The animal acting (in the scenes without CGI) was great however, all of the animals were very well trained.
From the very beginning, this film codes cats as evil and pompous; dogs on the other hand are portrayed as brave, noble, and righteous. I have always had a big problem with this. This issue is rampant in media and in real life. Everyone says that cats aren't loving or loyal. Not only is it an overdone trope, it's false. I believe that this attitude reveals something important and concerning about some people.
Cats are, in general, stereotyped as evil little selfish assholes. Why? From the moment humans adopt dogs as puppies, dogs are taught to not bite or nip or bark or growl at their humans, even if the human is hurting or annoying them, so dogs learn that they shouldn't nip or bark, i.e. have boundaries. This is very much part of a little something called 'learned helplessness.' Humans teach their dogs to put up with things that may be causing them stress. Essentially, it's the human-to-dog version of 'toughen up' and 'deal with it'. On the other hand, humans who share homes with cats have learned that cats, like humans, have their boundaries and are very passionate about them. If a cat doesn't want to be stroked, they will let you know. It doesn't mean that the cat hates you, it means they need their space.
If you don't want to be hugged and someone hugs you anyways, you have every right to shove them away. And yet, I have seen so many 'dog people' dismiss cats as unloving creatures. What this tells me, dear reader, is that cats are so hated because they cannot be controlled by a human. Cats have boundaries. Cats won't roll over to entertain you, cats won't play fetch when you want them to. They don't always come when whistled for. They don't dance for you like an organ-grinder monkey. I have been scratched by my cats. And bitten, and swatted. But not once have I ever blamed them or punished them. Why? Because it was always my fault. I ignored or missed the warning signs.
Even though these girls don't constantly give or demand attention, I love them and I believe that they love me. We can sit in companionable silence and be content. I don't need them to wag their tails, I can tell they love me in the way they blink.
Lucy cries when I leave home. She runs to greet me when I return.
Lucy brings me gifts of toys and corks and bottle caps and walnuts.
Kringle brings me mice and bugs, it's gross yes, but she wants to make sure I'm fed.
Lucy sleeps in the crook of my arm at night, she'll lick my face when I'm sad.
Kringle goes on walks with me. Mojo sits in the sun with me.
When I brush or pet my cats, they always lick my hand in return.
These are little things, quirks one might say, but in the feline language these behaviors are signs of affection.
Do not expect cats to behave like dogs, because they aren't dogs. If you go through life basing the value of an animal off of how much active affection it gives you, you might be a narcissist. Treat your cats and your dogs how they deserve to be treated; with kindness and respect. Learn their warning signs, respect them just as you would respect a fellow human's triggers or limits.
Final Impressions of the movie, which was the original topic:
The story was… cute, we suppose.
Lucy was actually awake for most of this film. The loud noises startled her a bit and she did hate the dogs though, so her scoring will bring down the overall grade.
I on the other hand, surprised myself and did not hate it as much as I thought I would. Would I watch it again? Maybe. Probably the next time I'm home sick.
Cat Screentime Ratio: Cats take up about 16 minutes out of the total 1 hour and 27 minutes, approximately 18% of the film. A low percentage, but considering that the main character was a beagle, I suppose the number isn't too shabby.
Final Score: C+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAd0QlUaIBY
https://www.britannica.com/science/learned-helplessness
http://www.humanehollywood.org/index.php/movie-archive/item/cats-and-dogs
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Even if you haven't witnessed the storybook ballet of Swan Lake live in the theatre, you've probably seen some reincarnation of this classic love story elsewhere. My favorite movie as a seven-year-old was The Swan Princess, an animated children's version of the story, complete with a talking French frog named Jean-Bob and a happy ending. And I'll bet you've experienced the hype about Black Swan, the twisted thriller with star Natalie Portman dancing the role of Odette. Why is this story such an enduring tale? What is it that enchants generation after generation?
1.) Love. Love is often the ultimate theme for dance, movies, and lyrics alike. This is the love story of Princess Odette, who is turned into a swan by the evil sorcerer von Rothbart, and must fight for her love of Prince Siegfried.
2.) Heartbreak. You can't have an enthralling love story without a little heartbreak. In Swan Lake, there's plenty of that. Von Rothbart's trickery eludes the lovers and brings tragedy into the equation.
3.) Bad guys. Every good plot needs a bad guy. Von Rothbart is the ultimate bad guy, tearing apart these two lovers and driving them to pain.
4.) Russian choreography. No one does it better than the Russians. They're trained in classic choreography, with precision, grace, discipline, and effortless athleticism, making them irresistible to watch.
5.) Beautiful sets and music. Master Tchaikovsky's gorgeous music to accompany such a tumultuous tale, and the set comes to life and brings the story off the stage and into our hearts.
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The CW's first female-fronted superhero drama, Supergirl, is coming to an end. Melissa Benoist stars in the series as the titular superhero, the cousin of Superman (who is receiving his own CW show, Superman & Lois, next season). This comes one season after the end of Arrow, the original show in CW's Arrowverse, of which Supergirl was one of the first shows. Supergirl debuted on CBS in 2015 before being moved to The CW after a single season, which also moved the show's production from Los Angeles to Vancouver, Canada (leading to the departure of star Calista Flockhart). Originally a very strong performer for CW, it's been a more average player in later seasons, with its latest season taking a 37% drop to a 0.22 average, making it The CW's #7 show. Season five was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, and with filming delayed to to the ongoing outbreak, its return is slated for much later than usual. The CW, which rolled out a pandemic-proof fall schedule consisting of mainly acquired shows, already announced a January schedule that will see the returns of most of their regular programming. Supergirl's now-final sixth season was not included on it, meaning the show could see up to a one-year gap between seasons. In addition to Benoist, Supergirl stars Chyler Leigh, David Harewood, Katie McGrath and Nicole Maines.
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