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What's Hot in Films? Asian American Stories
What's Hot in Films?
Asian American Stories
October 2019 Issue
by Donne Paine
It took the successful release of the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians, a global phenomenon that raked in $238 million at the box office, to reinforce the idea that diversity could also mean good business. Now the door is opening a little wider for Asian Americans and their stories. Prior, most Asian American actor roles were delegated to parts that required accents and rarely reflected their actual experiences.
Awkwafina, (born Nora Lum) one of the actresses in Crazy Rich Asians, has joined several movie franchises (Angry Birds and Jumanji) and earned rave reviews for Lulu Wang's The Farewell since her role in the film.
The shift isn't just a matter of gatekeepers finally saying yes; it is changes in the gatekeepers themselves. Over the past decade, Asian Americans have become showrunners, studio executives, lead agents and producers. They have formed tight-knit groups to champion one another and their stories.
As a new wave of stories arrives from The Farewell to Netflix's Always Be My Maybe to the Japanese American horror series The Terror, Hollywood is shifting away from the mirage of diversity toward more specific and lasting forms of representation, and it is working. The new wave of Asian American films are refreshing, with strong messages full of traditions and heart.
A gradual shift is taking place. Movies starring and directed by African Americans, including Creed, Get Out and Black Panther, were critically acclaimed blockbusters, altering the idea of what a hit could look like. And a new class of diverse executives at major studios are starting to greenlight projects that may have been considered risky in a previous era.
Writer/director Lulu Wang was equally persistent when it came to The Farewell. In the semi-autobiographical drama, Awkwafina stars as a Chinese-American woman struggling to say goodbye to her grandmother, who doesn't know she has terminal cancer.
Wang insisted on preserving each detail, even if it meant the story would never be told. She eventually found producers willing to give her creative control, and in January 2019, The Farewell premiered at Sundance to rapturous acclaim and was picked up by A24, which has distributed films, including Moonlight and Lady Bird. Then Gold House—the Asian collective that helped propel Crazy Rich Asians—will launch a campaign to buy out theaters, host VIP screenings and spread awareness on social media. The improbable result of this concerted effort is that an Asian-American movie that nearly never saw the light of day has a chance to compete at the 2020 Oscars. My vote is …it is worthy.
Tzi Ma, Awkwafina, Diana Lin, Shuzhen Zhao (Nai Nai)
Directed by Lulu Wang
The film follows a Chinese family, when they discover their beloved Grandmother has only a short while to live, to decide to keep her in the dark and schedule an impromptu wedding to gather before she passes. Billi (Awkwafina), feeling like a fish out of water in her home country, struggles with the family's decision to hide the truth from her grandmother. There is something special about the traditions of Asian cultures. This film offers powerful messages about life, death, truth, respect and timing. The Farewell is one of those small-film gems that is worth searching for.
References: www.imbd.com, www.time.com, www.wikipedia.com, www.et.com
Donne Paine, film enthusiast, once lived around the corner from the Orson Wells Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts where her strong interest in films, especially independent ones, began. Supporter of the arts—especially films—she travels to local and national film festivals including Sundance, Toronto and Tribeca. There is nothing like seeing a film on the big screen. She encourages film goers to support Hilton Head local theaters—Coligny, Park Plaza and Northridge theaters. To support her habit of frequent movie going Donne is a retired executive recruiter and staff development consultant. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Claire Edington
Assistant Professor, History
cedington@ucsd.edu
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla , California 92093
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Claire Edington received her PhD in the History and Ethics of Public Health (Department of Sociomedical Sciences) from Columbia University in 2013. Before joining the faculty at UCSD, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University from 2013-2014 and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Boston from 2014-2015.
Professor Edington's research interests include the history of medicine and public health, the history of the French empire, and Southeast Asian Studies, especially the history of Vietnam. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the social history of psychiatry and mental illness in French colonial Vietnam. Her next project will examine the history of drug policy in Southeast Asia from the colonial period to the present, focusing on the collision of local approaches to drug users with international discourses around public health and human rights.
Her research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Mellon Foundation. In spring 2014, she was awarded the Jack D. Pressman-Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Development Award by the American Association for the History of Medicine for outstanding work in twentieth-century history of medicine or biomedical sciences, as demonstrated by the completion of the PhD and a proposal to turn the dissertation into a publishable monograph. Her work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of Global Public Health and Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law.
Professor Edington teaches introductory courses in the history of European imperialism and the history of global health, as well as specialized courses in the history of medicine and psychiatry, modern Southeast Asian history and the history of drugs and drug policy.

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A bright shade of a lipstick applied to chapped lips makes the problem look even worse. It makes you look like you're 15 years old and you've just been kissing in the cold. It can't qualify for a polished look.
Don't use bright lipstick until your lips are healthy. Switch to a moisturizing lip balm. If your lips are severely dry, use special treatments.
Apply ChapStick under your lipstick.
It looks like it's invisible but it's really not. People will surely notice the animal hair and this will ruin your beautiful look.
Don't wear your best clothes when you play with your pet. Always check if there's any fur on your clean clothes.
Carry a lint roller in your bag or car, or keep one at work.
Have you ever observed any seemingly unnoticeable details that ruined someone's look? What would you recommend to avoid looking messy? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.


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NFP Advisor Services Group Publishes Aite Study on the Key Factors in the Independent or Corporate RIA Decision for Advisors
Explores the Tipping Point When Selecting RIA Model
NEW YORK, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NFP Advisor Services Group, which provides technology, service and asset management platforms to financial advisors, including RIAs and hybrids, and is a business segment of National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE: NFP), a leading provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services, today published the results of a study exploring the unique structural challenges and opportunities faced by financial advisors considering whether the independent or corporate RIA structure is most profitable.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120515/NY06966LOGO)
James Poer, president of NFP Advisor Services Group, said, "As financial advisors seek the best path to position their practices for long-term, profitable success, a major consideration is whether to affiliate with a corporate RIA or to establish and run an independent RIA. Both choices offer meaningful benefits and associated challenges, but ultimately the best structure will vary by practice and can only be assessed by closely evaluating the economics and operational setup of the practice as well as the personal preferences of the firm principals."
The study, commissioned by NFP Advisor Services Group and produced by leading independent research firm Aite Group, reveals that the choice to be an independent or corporate RIA can have long-term effects on a practice, including the potential to influence the practice's valuation at the time of a sale or during a succession period. It is important for advisors to understand the differences between corporate and independent RIAs, and the many pros and cons, including costs and benefits, of each structure.
Profitable independent RIAs require scale: Independent RIAs can achieve profitable scale once they have more than $200 million in assets under management, assuming business operations and expenses are managed efficiently. The tipping point could be even higher for advisors who lack expertise in business process and technology.
Revenue generation at corporate RIAs is comparable to that of independent RIAs: Revenues for advisors with a corporate RIA averaged $1.2 million vs. $1.3 million with an independent RIA.
Advisor income favors corporate RIAs for the majority of practices: When comparing annual income, advisors with a corporate RIA earn more on their books of business, particularly those with a book over $100 million but less than $1 billion.
Nonfinancial costs of independence: Compared with corporate RIAs, independent RIAs spend more time – and more resources – on compliance, technology and other operational aspects of the business. Advisors who must also focus on these aspects sacrifice time they could spend on prospecting and sales.
Poer concluded, "NFP strongly believes that both the corporate and independent models can provide the right solution for an advisor, depending on the firm's size and business mix, which is why we are steadfastly committed to providing support for both models. However, it is critical for advisors to understand the distinctions between the structures, and consider their personal preferences and priorities so they can make the best decisions for long-term success."
View the complete results of the study at www.nfpasg.com/tippingpoint.com.
Aite Group's independent study "The RIA Tipping Point: Corporate or Independent" is based on a survey of 161 financial advisors and interviews with advisors, evenly split between those affiliated with a corporate or independent RIA. The survey was limited to advisors who currently have, or originally had, a broker/dealer affiliation.
About NFP Advisor Services Group
NFP Advisor Services Group, a business segment of NFP, serves independent financial advisors whose clients include high net worth individuals and companies by offering broker/dealer and asset management products and services through NFP Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, and NFP IndeSuite, Inc. NFP Advisor Services Group attracts financial advisors seeking to provide clients with sophisticated resources and an open choice of products.
About NFP
National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE: NFP) and its benefits, insurance and wealth management businesses provide diversified advisory and brokerage services to companies and high net worth individuals, partnering with them to preserve their assets and prosper over the long term. NFP advisors provide innovative and comprehensive solutions, backed by NFP's national scale and resources. NFP operates in three business segments. The Corporate Client Group provides corporate and executive benefits, retirement plans and property and casualty insurance. The Individual Client Group includes retail and wholesale life insurance brokerage and wealth management advisory services. The Advisor Services Group serves independent financial advisors by offering broker/dealer and asset management products and services. Most recently NFP was ranked eighth on Business Insurance's 100 Largest Brokers of U.S. Business; second on Business Insurance's Largest Agents and Brokers Headquartered in the U.S. Northeast; and as the ninth Top Global Insurance Broker by Best's Review. It operates the third largest executive benefits provider of nonqualified deferred compensation plans by total clients as ranked by PlanSponsor; operates a top 10 independent broker/dealer as ranked by Investment Advisor; and has three advisors ranked in Barron's Top 100 Independent Financial Advisors. NFP is also a leading independent life insurance distributor, according to many top-tier carriers. For more information, visit www.nfp.com.
About Aite
Aite Group is an independent research and advisory firm focused on business, technology, and regulatory issues and their impact on the financial services industry. With expertise in banking, payments, securities & investments, and insurance, Aite Group's analysts deliver comprehensive, actionable advice to key market participants in financial services. Headquartered in Boston with a presence in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London, and Milan, Aite Group works with its clients as a partner, advisor, and catalyst, challenging their basic assumptions and ensuring they remain at the forefront of industry trends. Aite Group is not affiliated with NFP or its subsidiaries.
SOURCE NFP


I think one of the most interesting and worthwhile subject matters to tackle as a storyteller is capturing what inspires and drives the great athletes, artists, musicians, writers and photographers of our time—really, anyone who is both inspired and inspiring. What's so fascinating to me is that, when you tap into that person's mind and get him to open up about his process and approach to doing those great things he does, no matter what his discipline may be, you will discover the same profoundly human qualities and traits, fears and anxieties, hopes and aspirations and near boundless imaginations that define and bind us all in common experience. You will discover that success isn't about being gifted or talented or even having good genes; rather, the most important ingredient to success is hard work and tireless dedication to your craft.
It is with this message that I'm so proud to present my latest film: DEDICATED, a story about three prolific photographers who are out there working their asses off, day after day, to capture the best, most creative still pictures possible. Those photographers are: Dave Black, Robert Beck and George Karbus.
In advance of the release of the new Nikon D4s, Nikon presented me with the opportunity to tell the story about these three photographers; to interview them and capture motion footage of them shooting stills out in the field, everything from ski racing to speed skating, rugby to motocross, super-bikes to coastal waves—with everyone using the Nikon D4s.
In just 21 action-packed days, my small-footprint production team and I traveled around the world to meet Dave Black, Robert Beck and George Karbus and capture their spirit and passion for photography.
Since returning home, we've been hunkered down in the edit suite, cranking non-stop on the post-production in order to finally deliver to you this short film, DEDICATED. Wow, I can't believe it's finished! I must say, I've watched this spot at least 100 times, and it still fires me up! Hearing Dave, George and Robert describe their unique dedications, their sacrifices, and their genuine spirit is infectious. It really makes me want to get out there with my camera and shoot pictures! Indeed, that's the point. I sincerely hope that DEDICATED inspires you as well.
Like any video edit, I wish we had another month to continue working on it, to continue striving to make it better and better. Alas, such is the nature of deadlines and perhaps every creative process—at some point, you just have to stop and hand it over to the powers that be.
In addition to DEDICATED, we produced a 15-minute short film on "The Making of DEDICATED," which provides a rather fascinating behind-the-scenes look into what went into creating this new film. I hope this piece gives everyone a feel for what it's like to travel as a small-footprint production with an incredibly talented group of guys and the camaraderie that happens when you're out on the road. "The Making of DEDICATED" shows the shared passion and excitement for telling these stories and striving to create the best content possible. This BTS piece is also particularly special to me in that it's the first record of my and Marina's life traveling with our daughter, Leila. How cool is that?
Very special thank you's must go to Corey Brosius, who edited DEDICATED, and Tom Kranzle, who edited "The Making of DEDICATED." Tom and Corey, thanks for burning the midnight oil with our team; that was a lot of work for a two-week deadline! Also thanks to Andy Mead for juggling a lot of post-production logistics.
Huge thanks to Nikon, not just for producing the D4s, which is hands down the best HD-SLR camera I've ever used, but also for providing me this incredible and memorable opportunity to tell the stories of three of my peers.
Also, thanks to the team at K&L—none of this would've been possible without you.
To all of our sponsors and partners, we could not have captured & produced this project without your support – THANK YOU!
Finally, a standing ovation for the photographers. Dave Black, Robert Beck and George Karbus: you three are truly inspiring, both as people and as photographers. You define what it means to be dedicated to your craft.
Please enjoy these videos. Please share them with your own audiences. And please, please, please send us your feedback. I hope you enjoy DEDICATED as much as I did shooting it.
Shusuke Nakano – K&L Inc.
Kazuaki Takai – K&L Inc.
Keiichi Natsume – K&L Inc.
Great stuff, and Leila is adorable!
That's just a FANTASTIC & PASSIONATELY ADDICTIVE WORK Corey, Robert, Dave, George and Team!!!
When you got your Dream Team set up and they work with you, there's bound to be fireworks everywhere.
And that's how it should be <3 Just amazing!!!
This video is a photographer's manifesto. It is brilliant, touching and conveys the very nature of a photographer in a way that is unparalleled. This video is a masterpiece. Thank you, Corey Rich.
Absolutely incredible film, all of the hard work put into it shines through brilliantly. Congratulations team!
This film makes me want to quit my job and pursue photography at this level. WOW!
corey, can i ask how the three were found/selected? thanks & all the best.
The photographers in the film were selected by the Ad agency and Nikon. Cheers!
At 9:10 mark in the film "Making of DEDICATED", I saw a rain coat for your camera. Which model/product was that? I'm not able to find that same sleeve on google. Thanks!
Wow. Those tears at the end described everything about passion for photography.
I am very impressed. The best I´ve ever seen.
Wow! Amazing production! Thank you for sharing!
great content and wonderful team effort.
Very, very nice movie… Makes me wanna drop everything else I am doing and get out there and photograph!


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Coming Soon: "Class Action" Film Essay
2013, October 15 rebecca
I'm honored to announce that one of my first projects as Multimedia Editor of Jacobin Magazine is a companion video to "Class Action," a critique of neoliberal education reform produced by Jacobin & the Chicago Teachers Union's CORE Caucus.
I'm a bit late in blogging this news and now there's only 10 hours left to back the project. Do it! Your money supports the printing of a full-color booklet documenting the destruction of America's public schools currently taking place under the guise of "reform." Copies will be given to unions & community groups to use for fundraising and organizing, but won't be for sale online. But a $10 Kickstarter pledge gets you a physical copy. (My video will be available for free.)
The propaganda machine of the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM) is sophisticated and insanely well-funded, and has nearly succeeded in masquerading the gutting of our public school system as a "progressive" movement. The actual fruits of GERM include undermining teachers unions and democratic school boards through privately run charter schools; a counterproductive obsession with standardized testing and unidimensional "accountability"; and the shuttering of dozens of schools in cities across the country. The research supporting GERM ranges from non-existent to fraudulent. Rarely do these reforms benefit students, quite often the reverse, though the billionaires who fund the movement do stand to profit both directly and indirectly.
My video will be an attempt at a counter-narrative exposing the pernicious role that billionaire philanthropists and their foundations play in the "education reform" debate. The video will be based on an essay in the booklet by Joanne Barkan, who has done excellent reporting on the subject, and will feature images from Katrina Ohstrom of abandoned Chicago schools. This project is my first foray into the film essay, a form I've long admired. I hope I can do the material justice. Stay tuned!
economic doom, mmt, nrrrd, politics, public relations, video
NYTimes notices Warren Mosler
Just noticed that the video I shot of the Modern Money Network's MMT v. Austrian School debate was linked to in the New York Times. Unfortunately, the article it accompanies, a profile of Warren Mosler, is a bit of a hatchet piece, though no worse than you'd expect from such an outlet. And they published it on July 4, not exactly a day folks are eager to watch a two hour debate on macroeconomics.
Unless you are sympathetic to Austrian economics, I recommend Warren Mosler's seminar with Stephanie Kelton over the debate for a (less painful) introduction to MMT:
Another good place to start is Mosler's 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds and Wray's MMT Primer. As for the supposedly non-existent academic literature on MMT, here is a incomplete but long list.
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Make Mine Freedom
"Make Mine Freedom" (1948) at the Internet Archive
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MASSIVE ATTACK v ADAM CURTIS
So excited for this:
STARTING IN TWO WEEKS TIME IN MANCHESTER, THEN GERMANY, NEW YORK
The show is a collaboration between myself and Robert del Naja of Massive Attack.
What links us is not just cutting stuff up – but an interest in trying to change the way people see power and politics in the modern world. To say to them – have you thought of looking at it like this?
We've used film, music, stories and ideas to try and do this – to build a new kind of experience. The best way we can describe it is "a Gilm" – a new way of integrating a gig with a film that has a powerful overall narrative and emotional individual stories.
The show will be a bit of a total experience. You will be surrounded by all kinds of images and sounds. But it is also about ideas. It tells a story about how a new system of power has risen up in the modern world to manage and control us. A rigid and static system that has found in those images and sounds a way of enveloping us in a thin two-dimensional version of the past.
A fake, but enchanting world which we all live in today – but which has also become a new kind of prison that prevents us moving forward into the future.
Along with Massive Attack the show will star two great singers.
The amazing Liz Fraser
And the wonderful Horace Andy
And some of the music will be surprising – from early Barbra Streisand to Siberian punk from the 1980s.
Here's a two-dimensional trailer that will give you an idea of what the show is about – and the stories it tells.
MAvAC: guest singers Elizabeth Fraser and Horace Andy announced, plus a trailer from Adam Curtis.
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Some thoughts on Ames on Snowden
It also made sure that unlike the leaks in the 1970s that I wrote about, this story would be about Snowden, because now both sides were loaded in, and in our degraded discourse, this has meant only two options: either you have to worship Snowden uncritically, like he's the Rev. Fucking Moon of intelligence leakers, or you denounced Snowden as an enemy, like you're one of those body-snatched Moonies in those prayer vigils they held for President Nixon back in the days of the Pentagon Papers and Hersh exposés. You had to take your place in one of the Stupid Camps and censor every brain cell in your skull: either you're an Obamabot, or an Emoprog. Bad times, bad times.
I've made clear my support for what Snowden. For journalism purposes, it wouldn't even be much of an issue if the Guardian hadn't forced it — as far as I'm concerned, the leaks remind me a lot of the late Yeltsin years, when Russia's oligarchy split into two violently opposed camps, each side leaking incredible and mostly factual stories to their friendly media sources on TV and in print. There was a time, from 1997 through 1999, when the public was bombarded with about five Pentagon Papers a week, ripping open the public facade of powerful politicians and oligarchs, and showing how they actually stole the national wealth, what they said to each other in phone calls, how they manipulated and plundered. The journalists who fashioned those high-level leaks into stories weren't heroes; whoever leaked those bank details and recorded phone calls and auction fixing schemes wasn't necessarily a hero; but the information they dumped was incredibly valuable.
So for me, the importance of what we've learned about the NSA spying programs doesn't hinge on whether or not I have a cult-like faith in Snowden's and Greenwald's "heroism" as "true patriots" unlike the other team's guys. But the problem has been, from the start, that Snowden's and Greenwald's network of supporters created this false consensus, and thought-policed anyone who dared deviate or think for themselves. I have a natural aversion to Stalinist self-censorship; if I'm going to keep my mouth shut or pretend, it better be over something really important, not hero-worshipping some confused, half-baked libertarian whistleblower who can't get his own story straight, just because his handler tells us we have to or else we're Obamabots or fascists.
Mark Ames, Edward Snowden's Half-Baked Revolution. [Unlocked Link (valid till 6/30/13)]
I've been anticipating Ames's take on Snowden since he has such long-standing beef with Greenwald, not to mention Russia. A bit frustrating that this essay is so much about Ames himself, but I suppose full disclosure (and narcissism) requires all the personal history be detailed. My response will be no different, base times and all that.
I agree that much of the discourse surrounding Snowden— traitor or hero? — is rotten and reductive. But the heroism of Snowden's act was also my first reaction to the story, in large part because of, as Ames notes, how blatantly Greenwald framed it that way from the start. It was the promise of a looming PR battle that inspired me to start blogging again, not the revelations of massive civil liberties violations. The latter is unfortunately something I take for granted at this point and feel utterly powerless to do anything about. I'm thrilled this information is now out there, but the new details are fairly mundane1 compared to the scandalous overall gist of the spying program we already had ample reason to suspect existed.
In contrast, the aggressive offensive position taken by Greenwald in breaking this story is pretty fascinating, in a nerdy, tactical, media-studies sort of way. If I was a data nerd or a policy wonk than maybe I'd be all over the nitty-gritty details of PRISM and the rest. But I'm a filmmaker— hell, my last film was in large part about the character assassination of someone who went public with an unpopular political sentiment— and an Adam Curtis fan. While the citizen in me wants to scream, "what matters is the leak, not the leaker," as a story teller (and person with eyes), I know that's naïve.
I'm torn. I suppose it would have been nice if Greenwald had been all classy about it and kept Snowden anonymous for as long as possible, focusing on the content of the leaks rather than the patriotism of the leaker. But I suspect if he did that, no one would have cared much. Ames should know this from personal experience. Just between Ames, his colleague Yasha Levine, and his former-colleague Matt Taibbi, are an overwhelming number of stories "ripping open the public facade of powerful politicians and oligarchs, and showing how they actually stole the national wealth … how they manipulated and plundered" the United States. No doubt lots of the criminal activities committed by our .01% are secret and we could benefit from more leaks. But from the prospective of outrage and even prosecution, more than enough criminality is hidden in plain sight. Our oligarchs don't need to bother hiding most of their shady dealings because our media is so massively worthless.
You want to get people to pay attention? Either indulge the fantasy that a boring white collar IT worker can wake up one morning and become a cyberpunk hero, or else show some tits. Otherwise you're going to be ignored. A soundbite-spewing, Dick Cheney-dissing nerdy white dude protagonist in a international espionage chase? Total gold. So while yes it was opportunistic of Greenwald to play that card, it also would have been pretty foolish not to. Ames himself has said that the problem with "the liberal establishment is [it's] still convinced it's competing in a middle-school civics class debate"; Greenwald skipped debate club to pen a screenplay for a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
I mostly agree with Ames's critique of Greenwald, along with his overall indictment of society. Our inability to distinguish between the public value of an act and the perceived motive behind it, and the possibility of supporting the former while criticizing or ignoring the latter, is pathetic. As many have already said, the real "debate" should not be Snowden: Hero or Traitor? but instead, Does the public in a constitutional republic have a right to know what sorts of data their government is collecting on them and what sort of resources are being expended on said collection? Does the fourth amendment trump the executive branch's interpretation of recent legislation & the decisions of secret courts? What sort of checks are in place to prevent abuse of this data? Are we just cool with the fact that our government tortured Bradley Manning before trying him? etc. etc. We ought to be seriously disturbed that neither our media nor our citizenry has much interest is such civic debates. But many critics of the "meta-narrative" (Ames excepted) treat the issue of heroism as if it's entirely superficial. It's not.
Our response to a story like this is ugly and dualistic: we crave either a hero to identify with, or a traitor to lynch. But maybe we're so childish in our judgements because we are so desperately lacking in actual heroes. The ability to reason is important and collectively, we suck at it. But we primarily interpret the world, and discover our values, through the stories we tell each other. Stories matter. Heroes matter. And being that there is such a dearth of heroes, and no shortage of corruption and criminality in nearly every realm of American society, I share the urge to prematurely heroize Snowden. Perhaps his example might inspire more whistleblowers to reveal the crimes their careers require them to ignore. Maybe giving America a real-life hero is as important as a debate on the fourth amendment. We might not be capable of even having that debate without first personifying the values of privacy, security, secrecy, efficiency, informed consent.
Tactically, we should be cautious when choosing living people as heroes. The media loves to build someone up only to then tear them down. See Cindy Sheehan, the inspiration for my film Ashley/Amber. A rigid Snowden = Hero line of reasoning is fragile. Prove unheroic intentions or actions and the whole thing cracks; Snowden no doubt lost many supporters just by taking refuge in Russia. Every action he makes going forward is likely to chip away at his hero image while simultaneously distracting from the actual issues.
On the other hand, people mostly believe what they want to believe. Those who don't want to contemplate our government's corruption and capacity to abuse its immense power will accept the flimsiest excuse to ignore the content of the leaks and judge Snowden a traitor. Those who see corruption in every crevice but are unwilling to relinquish hope that something can be done about it will cleave to their belief in Snowden's heroism regardless of how disappointing a fellow he is in reality.2 The pro-Snowden media is providing a myth of the whistle-blower to a segment of the public that is desperate for narratives of agency, hope, and the latent badassery of the white collar worker. I personally am hungry for a morality tale about the more-or-less regular person who changes the course of history by speaking out upon witnessing something they believe is wrong, and I don't think I'm alone.
In a functional society it would be the job of the screenwriters and novelists to make up such stories, taking artistic license with the facts, while journalists ought to be a bit more responsive when the reality of a narrative doesn't live up to it's mythological potential. But again this view of the world becomes naïve if you look at things through the lens of a public relations professional or propagandist. For the PR practitioner (or propagandist, thaumaturgist), the news cycle is the primary medium through which they wreak a narrative, supported of course by film, curriculum, academic literature, advertising, pop music, and anything and everything else over which they can influence. True journalism may be a genuine check against PR and propaganda (or so I want to believe), but the fourth estate crumbled long ago, if it ever existed at all. We can mourn its demise anytime. But it's refreshing and exciting to see such bold antiestablishment-PR as the Snowden story.
How depressing, that I find any sort of propaganda refreshing. Ultimately I am viscerally and strategically opposed to "noble lies" and ends-justifies-the-means reasoning. I don't think Greenwald is necessarily engaged in such behavior, but perhaps fell victim to it by taking an offensive-defense position. I do think people need heroes, real or imaginary, preferably ones physically & culturally closer to home than Vasya and Limonov from the Ames piece. And a movement too lax in designating heroism risks mediocrity and co-option. But rather than exert further effort glorifying or denigrating Snowden & Greenwald, I'd welcome a more internal reflection on our hero fantasies. What sorts of heroes do we want, and what values do they reflect? Can we find them in mythology, in history, in our neighborhoods? How do the contemporary heroes of film and television fall short and mislead us? What kind of shortcomings are we willing to tolerate in our heroes, and what actions genuinely undermine otherwise heroic deeds?3
These sorts of questions are important not because they'll encourage more passionate and incisive judgements of character, though that has a sort of Old Testament appeal. We need heroes to remind ourselves of the sorts of people we want to be. It's not about getting behind someone and supporting them blindly. It's about expanding the imagination to allow for the possibility of strength and dignity, and of having someone (ideally, conflicting someones) to learn from by example and judge our own deeds against.
Okay, there are some gems, like code-naming an internet traffic surveillance program "EvilOlive" [↩]
Which isn't to say I think he's disappointing, just that the odds are good he won't live up to our hopes. [↩]
And while we have it out on the mythological realm, back on earth let's remember that people— heroic or otherwise— are not to be tortured or unfairly spied on. Due process is for everyone, even the worst criminals. If we need to make someone out to be a hero before they're entitled to basic civil & human rights, we've already lost. Oh wait, we've already lost. [↩]


Since 2014 in Queensland, prohibited steroid drugs are classified as Schedule 1 Dangerous Drugs under the Drugs Misuse Act. This means that illegal steroid drugs are treated in the same way as other types of Schedule 1 Dangerous Drugs such as heroin, methylamphetamine, MDMA and cocaine.
People are often surprised to hear that steroid drugs offences have the same penalties as for more "traditional" dangerous drugs. It is not uncommon for penalties of imprisonment, including with actual custody, to be imposed for Schedule 1 drug offences, particularly if there is an allegation of commerciality.
There are some unique challenges associated with representing a person charged with a steroid offence. Unlike drugs such as methylamphetamine or cannabis, it is very difficult to obtain objective medical evidence that a person has ceased using steroids (such evidence may be very important on a plea of guilty). In addition, steroid drugs are not "addictive" in the traditional medical sense, although there is increasing scientific recognition of "steroid use disorder".
For these reasons, obtaining early and specialist legal advice may make a significant difference to your legal outcome.
Julia Jasper and Rebecca Fogerty are Queensland Law Society Accredited Specialists in Criminal Law and feature in the Doyle's Guide of Leading Lawyers. Julia and Rebecca have appeared in countless drugs trials and sentences in the Magistrates, District and Supreme Courts of Queensland. We have unrivalled experience representing clients charged with possessing, supplying or trafficking in steroid and non-steroid illegal drugs.
We will conduct a thorough analysis of your case to identify the best strategy for you. Where appropriate, we will work with experts such as doctors or barristers to make sure you have access to the best advice and clear options.
Avoiding a sentence of actual custody for a client who pleaded guilty to commercial involvement with illegal steroids.


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Letter of Support for Safe Consumption Facilities
By LPRC May 9, 2018
RE: Letter of Support for Safe Consumption Facilities
Dear City Councillors,
On behalf of the London Poverty Research Centre, I am writing to express our full support of two proposed Supervised Consumption Facilities (446 York St. and 241 Simcoe St.) in London, Ontario. Our board members are active community members, and some members also engage in direct-line support efforts with individuals who have problematic substance use behaviors. As discussed in our last board meeting this week, the evidence-informed cases of overdoses either witnessed or that have come to our attention have not only included individuals residing in shelters or couch surfing, it has also involved business owners and students. Recreational drugs (such as cocaine and MDMA) and street drugs (such as methamphetamine and heroin) are being laced with fentanyl and, even worse, carfentanyl. Recently, we have heard of individuals running from house-to-house or, more strikingly, business-to-house, knocking on doors looking for emergency help for a friend or someone they have witnessed who has presumably or fatally overdosed. Individuals with substance use issues have reported nothing but positive support for the opening of new facilities. We have heard stories from individuals who expressed the desire to help the community promote such facilities through public engagement efforts (e.g., outreaching and media promotion) and, more importantly, within their own social networks. We hope this letter can also provide a voice for those individuals and others who may currently be experiencing homelessness or living in poverty.
Aside from offering a safe place to use substances, it helps build community participation and social inclusion through anti-oppressive means. Evidence-based research suggests that integrating supervised consumption facilities within the community does not increase substance use and/or criminal activity, rather, it supports cleaner streets and a safer community. We are aware that London is currently in an overdose epidemic and that the spread of deadly infections (e.g., HIV and Hepatitis C) are at above average rates. Implementing community prevention strategies (e.g., the development of supervised consumption facilities) generates long-term cost savings for our local health care systems. Furthermore, supervised consumption facilities will contribute to the City's existing collaborative approach, which includes Housing First and harm reduction efforts, and offer greater results and support for at-risk individuals. It will build a stronger London that aims to protect the welfare of their residents and be remembered for providing a necessary intervention when it has been called upon. When CPR/First Aid and the administration of Naloxone is quickly becoming normalized by direct-line workers, family members, and bystanders within our community, there is a critical need to act fast in order to prevent this. Together, let us take this opportunity to increase our existing efforts, build a safer community with the best possible care, and further reduce harm and health inequities.
Colleen Van Loon
Board Member, London Poverty Research Centre
*Photo credit: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press


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Behavioral effects of pentobarbital, lorazepam, ethanol and chlorpromazine substitution in pentobarbital-dependent baboons
R. J. Lamb, R. R. Griffiths
Baboons were given continuous intragastric infusions of 100 mg/kg/day of pentobarbital before and during these experiments. The baboons responded under a fixed-ratio (FR) 30-response schedule of food presentation from 10:00 A.M. of one day to 8:00 A.M. of the next day. Terminating pentobarbital administration (i.e., substituting water for pentobarbital) from 8:00 A.M. of one day to 8:00 A.M. of the next day produced large decreases in the number of pellets earned. Repeated 24-h terminations of pentobarbital administration at 1-week intervals produced similar decreases in the pellets earned. In another experiment, the effects of terminating pentobarbital administration for several days were examined. The number of pellets earned decreased within 2 h of terminating pentobarbital administration was maximally suppressed during the first day, and recovered over 3 to 5 days. When different doses of pentobarbital were substituted for 24 h, the disruption of responding seen after pentobarbital termination was attenuated in a dose-dependent manner. In another experiment, the effects of substituting lorazepam, ethanol or chlorpromazine for pentobarbital for 24 h were examined. Lorazepam produced a dose-dependent attenuation of the effects of pentobarbital termination, whereas ethanol did not. Chlorpromazine did not attenuate the effects of pentobarbital termination in two of the three baboons tested, and produced erratic results in the third.
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Lamb, R. J., & Griffiths, R. R. (1993). Behavioral effects of pentobarbital, lorazepam, ethanol and chlorpromazine substitution in pentobarbital-dependent baboons. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 265(1), 47-52.
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In: Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Vol. 265, No. 1, 1993, p. 47-52.
Lamb, RJ & Griffiths, RR 1993, 'Behavioral effects of pentobarbital, lorazepam, ethanol and chlorpromazine substitution in pentobarbital-dependent baboons', Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, vol. 265, no. 1, pp. 47-52.
Lamb RJ, Griffiths RR. Behavioral effects of pentobarbital, lorazepam, ethanol and chlorpromazine substitution in pentobarbital-dependent baboons. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 1993;265(1):47-52.
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Q: Java regular expression for extracting the data between tags I am trying to a regular expression which extracs the data from a string like
Test<C>Test1</C>

The extracted output needs to be Test and Test1. This is what I have done till now:
public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String s = "Test";
        String reg = "<.*?>(.*)<\\/.*?>";
        Pattern p = Pattern.compile(reg);
        Matcher m = p.matcher(s);
        while(m.find())
        {
            String s1 = m.group();
            System.out.println(s1);
        }
    }
}

But this is producing the result Test. Can anybody point out what I am doing wrong?

A: Three problems:

*

*Your test string is incorrect.

*You need a non-greedy modifier in the group.

*You need to specify which group you want (group 1).

Try this:
String s = "Test<C>Test1</C>"; // <-- Fix 1
String reg = "<.*?>(.*?)</.*?>";                   // <-- Fix 2
// ...
String s1 = m.group(1);                            // <-- Fix 3

You also don't need to escape a forward slash, so I removed that.
See it running on ideone.
(Also, don't use regular expressions to parse HTML - use an HTML parser.)

A: If u are using eclipse there is nice plugin that will help you check your regular expression without writing any class to check it.
Here is link:
http://regex-util.sourceforge.net/update/
You will need to show view by choosing Window -> Show View -> Other, and than Regex Util
I hope it will help you fighting with regular expressions

A: It almost looks like you're trying to use regex on XML and/or HTML.  I'd suggest not using regex and instead creating a parser or lexer to handle this type of arrangement.

A: I think the bestway to handle and get value of XML nodes is just treating it as an XML.
If you really want to stick to regex try:
]*>(.+?)

understanding that you will get always the value of B tag.
Or if you want the value of any tag you will be using something like:
<.*?>(.*?)</.*?>

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This is my favourite, go to sweet treat, until now a closely guarded secret but the time has come to pass on this so easy, quick to make, rich treat.
I was given this recipe by a family at school some 12 years ago so do not know the original source to acknowledge.
Over the years, I have been asked to make this for parties, 21sts, wedding & engagements by many of the young people at church.
It is so easy to make, I only use one dish for the fudge base & one for the chocolate topping.
I melt the choc & butter in a microwave proof bowl, large enough that I can then add the other ingredients to same bowl. I use dark cooking choc for the base.
Melt choc & butter, then add in vanilla, eggs & castor sugar. Then add in plain four & stir well.
Pour into a lined lamington sized tin & bake for approx 20 mins - time can vary depending on oven, also if you prefer a soft, gooey fudge, only cook for the 20 minutes. If you like your fudge a bit more crunchy, cook a few minutes longer.
As soon as slice comes out of oven, melt the milk choc in a microwave proof bowl or jug then spread over slice. *Original recipe used 250g milk choc for topping - in those days Cadbury choc was that size. A 200g block of milk choc is sufficient for topping & cooking choc can be used.
Coll in tin, then allow to set in fridge. Remove from fridge and allow to sit for at least 1/2 hour before cutting into small pieces (trust me, it's very rich only cut small pieces). If you try to cut as soon as you take out of the fridge, the chocolate will crack & break.


The best way I can think of to explain what public relations is starts with an explanation of what it isn't.
If you open a newspaper or magazine (the same principles apply to broadcast and online media, but for the sake of simplicity I will use print as my example medium), you will find it contains two main types of content.
The advertisements are easy to spot. They are usually concise, their words are enthused and punctuated with exclamation marks, they contain appealing pictures or graphics, adorned with colourful logos and catchy messages, and include contact details, web addresses and compelling calls to action. You also probably won't have to look far to find the identical ad placed in similar newspapers or magazines.
An advert needs to be eye-catching because it only has a few seconds to grab your attention. It knows you haven't bought the paper because you're interested in ads, but it has done its research and it understands a little bit about you as a typical reader of this particular paper. So it has cunningly planted itself in your line of vision as it thinks you have a good chance of being interested in the product or service it has on display. This has been an expensive little exercise, requiring a project management team on retainer to come up with the concept for promoting the product, service or organisation, creatives to make it look good, and planners to negotiate with the publishers of your newspaper to secure that space on the page. Then there are the actual costs of that space in your magazine, which could easily go into the tens of thousands of pounds.
But on the plus side, once you've paid through the teeth for your patch of page, you have pretty much full control over what you put there (as long as you don't break the law). This includes the freedom to gush about your product's many benefits, showcase only the best results achieved by previous customers and avoid any mention of that time your product backfired, killing a puppy or causing a client to have to shut their whole business for a day. All that's required is that you stick to some sensible guidelines (such as no swearing and no blatant lying) that cannot be reversed by the size-two-font disclaimer.
As a reader, you are probably naturally a little sceptical of the claims made in advertisements. You're unlikely to spend much time reading them (unless an outstanding advertising agency has managed to create something truly appealing, entertaining or informative) and will probably only be influenced by them in a superficial way. You bought the paper to read the articles, and that's where PR comes into play.
You might think that the articles are written by diligent journalists who get to work in the morning, pour themselves a cup of coffee and then decide what they will write about that day. Once the appropriate subject has been selected, they start researching, using Google and the Encyclopaedia Britannica to gather information, find people to interview and get to work. Not to knock the journalistic profession, but this is not how it happens most of the time. Granted, there are still articles that come about in this way, but the vast majority will be influenced by the public relations profession.
If it's a piece, for example, about the government's plans to increase income tax, then that information would most likely have been conveyed to the journalist by a government minister or chancellor who had been prepped by a skilled PR team, in a press conference, with an accompanying press release, organised and written by that PR team. The slant the journalist takes on the story, though, is up to her and her editor, and so is out of the government's control (at least in theory if it's a democracy). For example, a newspaper that supports the current administration might focus its headlines on the benefits to the public of higher taxes (such as a larger budget for spending on the NHS), while a rival paper that supports the shadow cabinet would instead highlight the negative impact the loss of funds would have on hardworking individuals.
Perhaps in one of these articles, the journalist will include a comment by the founder of an accountancy firm specialising in personal tax. She would explain how an increase in income tax would affect a typical family of four on a practical level.
This woman might only be quoted in a single sentence in the article, but you will almost certainly read it, you will probably believe it (because you trust the integrity of your favourite paper), and you will likely remember it.
When you read this, you might (whether consciously or subconsciously) think something along the lines of "she must know her stuff, or why would this paper, that I buy because I trust, interview her?" and you are likely to associate that person and her business with authority or expertise on the subject. While that might be true, expertise alone would probably not have got her to the front page (it does happen, but not consistently). This has come about thanks to the hard work of a good PR team. They would have carefully planned it to look like the happy coincidence you have just witnessed (or even better, to make it look like the journalist selected our spokeswoman from a long list of experts because she is the best). How did they do it?
That started with meticulous planning way back when her organisation decided to engage in PR activity. The PR team (that could be an appointed agency, an in-house department or a single person within the organisation who has an understanding of how the media works) would have sat down with the managers to decide what they wanted to be known for, who would be their spokesperson, what messages they wanted to convey via the media, and how much risk they were prepared to take.
Thereafter, the PR function would have got straight to work, looking out for events that would get the media talking about these issues (in our example, the chancellor's announcement of an increase in income tax would have presented a prime opportunity), and contacting journalists to offer comment from their spokesperson, coming up with stories that get those messages across, so that by the time you read that single quote in the article about tax, you are blissfully unaware of this carefully planned coincidence.
The message conveyed by our expert will be more subtle than that conveyed in advertising. It has to be. If our spokesperson had read a promotional script, the journalist would simply not have used it (they have the right to use whatever they like - so remember there are no guarantees that just because you have been interviewed, your comments will be used in the article). So she needed to build trust and confidence by talking like an authority on the subject - this is known as building thought leadership and is generally one of an organisation's key PR goals, particularly if it is operating in a highly competitive environment.


A lot more and more individuals are making the choice to acquire these kinds of properties. I been to the outside of so several of them but had no idea whose houses were till I study your Hub nowadays. When the Board of Supervisors authorized a complete program amendment to enable the project in May possibly 2012, it lowered the size of the improvement from 10 to seven homes and agreed that Peace Valley Lane would remain disconnected. The couple have considering that got divorced and place the home up for sale for……..£175k!
For your comfort, I have posted a list of all the Counties in California with their website for their tax sale info. Sandbanks is only a mile extended, and at it really is narrowest just wide sufficient for a 2 lane road, with the harbour on one side, and a row of luxury houses on the other. I even had one particular istance where I sold a Property myself, since the Agent couldn't finalise (close) the Sale. The most renowned auction houses in the world are possibly Sothebys and Christies.
Dumfries, however, has a variety of spending budget-priced properties offered, and in June 2016 RightMove was listing several three-bedroom houses with guide prices (providing rates) from £70,000 to £75,000 for sale in this region. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Sale is a public auction exactly where properties are sold since of either unpaid home taxes or for mortgage foreclosure. The World wide web and social networking sites are also a well-liked way of marketing about your sale.
The two,092-square-foot house is assessed at $63,200 and listed for sale at $30,000, although Summers stated the household will think about any fair offers. Luxury and elegance are evident in every corner of this Larnaca home for sale and will fulfil all your desires. The more folks involved in listing the REO and the actual final sale leaves you breaking even to cover your time, expenditures and marketing efforts. The mellow stone blocks that type the walls of a lot of homes in the pleasant village of Eynsham, when graced an ancient abbey. We listed the condo to sell and I had 2 distinct contracts (at various times) on the condo for the sale.
I have heard of even boat homes on Dal Lake in Srinagar Jammu and Kashmir have been purchased in this way. Florida law now assumes that an agent is a transaction broker unless the agent offers a single agent notice to the client – even when dealing with yet another agency. I was just talking with a buddy these days about carrying out a sale at the flea marketplace (simply because I live in Timbuktu and no one will come to my home waaaay out in the mountains). If the value at that sale is a lot more than what is owed such as legal fees for the foreclosure then it is most likely the bank will have to pay you the balance. I did look into to a brief sale only to find out that that could be a nightmare in its self.


The Ninth Circuit recently weighed in on the limitations of prior express consent and revocation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the "TCPA"). In Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC, the consumer provided his cell number when meeting with a fitness gym about joining. Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC, 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 1591 (9th Cir. Jan. 30, 2017. The gym was owned by the defendant but was operated as a Gold's Gym franchise. Shortly after joining, the plaintiff canceled his membership and moved to California, but kept his cell number. After a brand change, the defendant worked with its marketing partner to announce the change of brand and invite former members to return. The plaintiff received two text members from the defendant as part of this marketing campaign and filed a putative class action asserting the text messages violated the TCPA.
The district court granted the defendants' motions for summary judgment and the plaintiff appealed. In reviewing the TCPA claims, the court first determined that the plaintiff had standing under Article III. In doing so, the court held that the plaintiff had established the concrete injury-in-fact necessary to pursue his TCPA claim. The court held that "[t]he TCPA establishes the substantive right to be free from certain types of phone calls and texts absent consumer consent. Congress identified unsolicited contact as a concrete harm, and gave consumers a means to redress this harm. We recognize that Congress has some permissible role in elevating concrete, de fact injuries previously inadequate in law "to the status of legally cognizable injuries." Id. at *10-11. The court distinguished Spokeo by noting that Spokeo dealt with a procedural requirement which might not actually case actual harm while the telemarketing messages at issue in this case, absent consent, presented the precise harm the statute was enacted to protect against.
Moving on to the merits of the TCPA claims, the court looked at two issues: prior express consent and revocation of consent. As most know, prior express consent is an affirmative defense to TCPA claims and is not defined in the statute. The court therefore turned to the FCC interpretation of prior express consent in its prior rulings and orders. Relying in part on the FCC's prior orders discussing the scope of prior express consent, the court concluded that "an effective consent is one that relates to the same subject matter as is covered by the challenged calls or text messages." Id. at *14. In doing so, the court did not read the 1992 FCC Order to mean that by providing a cell number, a consumer consented to be contacted for any purpose whatsoever. Instead, the court read it to be more restrictive, holding that transactional context matters in determining a consumer's consent to contact. Applying its conclusion to the facts of the case before it, the court concluded that the consumer had provided express consent to be contacted about reactivating his gym membership. In giving his phone number for the purpose of his gym membership agreement, the plaintiff "gave his consent to be contacted about some things, such as follow-up questions about his gym membership application, but not to all communications. The scope of his consent included the text messages' invitation to 'come back' and reactivate his gym membership." Id. at *19.
Having concluded that the plaintiff had provided his prior express consent to receive the text messages, the court turned its attention to the plaintiff's argument that by canceling his gym membership, he had effectively revoked his consent to be contacted. The court, while acknowledging consent can be revoked, concluded that revocation of consent "must be clearly made and express a desire not to be called or texted." Id. at *23-24. The court concluded that plaintiff, in canceling his gym membership, did not clearly express his desire not to receive further text messages. The court, therefore, affirmed the lower court's ruling.
The opinion should be welcomed by defense counsel defending TCPA actions in the Ninth Circuit as it provides a fairly expansive interpretation of prior express consent while setting a restrictive view on revocation of consent.


U Energy are a Yorkshire based Solar PV installation company which specialises in domestic and commercial markets.
Discussing The Imports Laws In Thailand.
This artical summarises what is not legal to import into the country Thailand.
Other stories about dragons are more about their toes the dragons themselves. How many toes a dragon has is significant that is quiet. Many different types of dragons are said to have 3 toes.
The retailer specializes in clothing for babies up to pre-teen. Curve may be found in four.5, 4.2, and half dozen.8 oz. sizes from $25 - $60. In case you clothes buy online make sure you pay close attention to the wording.


You laugh, but it's true. Almost everything I've learned about mountain biking has occurred while biking with my 6 year old son. Friends have offered helpful pieces of advice and have certainly given this newbie biker mom some valuable instruction, but nothing has taught me how to just "commit" like biking with a fearless child has!
Below are a few highlights from our biking season thus far for 2015. I can only imagine what I'll be sharing come September!!
A new year and a new bike!
Friends keep asking me what Noah is riding these days. Well, let me tell you, he's got the sweetest bike out there! He's riding the Spawn Savage 1.0 20" bike, complete with disc brakes and gears. Tell me, does your bike have disc brakes? Mine certainly doesn't! It's no shock that Noah makes it down hills that I am skidding out on. His brakes are awesome - and now I want disc brakes on my next bike.
The 1.0 version of the Spawn Savage does not have shocks but we figured shocks would just add extra weight and be overkill for the kind of riding Noah does. (I could be wrong soon.) However, Noah doesn't seem to miss or need them yet and he rides over plenty of roots and rocks without complaining.
And having gears on this bike has made a huge difference in our family rides! Noah makes it up hills he would have walked before, and has a lot more endurance for the longer rides.
He will be riding it hard for at least 6 months a year (hopefully 8 months.) At 7 months, it comes out to $53.50 per month.
Finally, you should be able to pass it down to a younger sibling (or sell it for a good price if you have one child) which means at least two kids get to ride it and the cost goes down to $26.75 per month when it's split between two children!! Really, too expensive??
How much does the bike weigh? 20lbs. That's it. And trust me it makes a big difference when it comes to hill climbing or helping your child push his/her bike up a steep hill. A couple of weeks ago I had to carry it down some big stairs on a hike-a-bike section of trail and I was certainly glad it was light then!!
Last year we did a lot of easier mountain bike riding and I believe I can be quoted as saying that I really didn't like single track, had no interest in downhill riding, and that I liked old gravel roads. Things have changed a bit and Noah and I now spend a lot of time biking the Paskapoo Slopes east of Canada Olympic Park.
A month ago I would have walked down this hill.
If you want to help us save these slopes from development, please sign the petition at the Save the Slopes website. I'm not normally a big political activist but I get pretty angry and upset every time I think about developers paving over my playground!!
We started tackling this intermediate mountain biking loop in Banff last summer and I remember very clearly my husband telling me that Noah would not be able to bike the narrow "exposed" part above the Cascade River until he was older. I took his word for it (especially since he told me it would be too tricky for me too) but I couldn't let it rest. I really wanted to finish the loop!
To see what kinds of trails Noah is riding these days, watch the video below and I will not be offended if you just watch the first minute or two. I know it's looooong.
And for more information on this bike trail (and others in Banff like it) read my story on the Best Family Bike Trails in Banff National Park.
This is the other big trail that we have biked as a family so far this season and it's kind of a big deal. We rode 19km from Canmore to Banff and the trail was not paved for a single minute. This was backcountry mountain biking and was not as easy as I had been lead to believe. At least not for a 6 year old.
There's more photos and information in my story on the Best Family Bike Trails in Kananaskis.
This is the kind of stuff we do in the evening before bed.
We went to the bike park near our house last week and Noah found the ramps, boardwalks, and jumps. He got a smile on his face and immediately tried to ride one of the biggest features . Below is a short video of one of the harder features he totally nailed while there. And never fell once I might add.
I suspect we'll be spending at lot of time at Canada Olympic Park this summer. Thank God we got an annual family pass!
It should come as no shock that we've figured perhaps Noah should take some mountain bike lessons this summer. After all, God forbid I'd catch up and become as good as him. Gotta keep him a level or two beyond me! He's signed up for mountain bike camp at Canada Olympic Park and we're pretty excited to see him learn a new trick or two.
More information on the great camps offered by WinSport at Canada Olympic Park can be found in my recent story: Where to Find the Most "Fun and Unique" Summer Camps in Calgary.
We do a lot of biking with #radkids - follow that hashtag on Instagram to see all of my photos.
Here are just a few of my favourite shots from this spring.
Spawn Cycles - for giving us the best bike a 6 year old could ever have.
WinSport and Canada Olympic Park - We are going to have a blast playing at the bike park this summer and riding the trails at the park. We also can't wait for summer bike camp!
The awesome folks fighting to save the Paskapoo Slopes in Calgary from development. Find out more and join us in supporting a great cause by visiting the website at Save the Slopes. Kids don't need more shopping malls. They need green space, trails, wild areas to play in, and free land.
Look so happy. I must wait at least 6 months to enjoy a mountain bike trip with my kid.
Hi there! We are going to have a blast playing at the bike park this summer and riding the trails at the park. We also can't wait for summer bike camp!
This blog post is really great, the quality information of this post is genuinely incredible.Super! Thanks especially for the video!
We are considering a spawn frame for our 5 year old, but she is pretty short (100cm), how tall is Noah?
My son had his first spawn bike when he was 4 and it was a 16" bike. I would start there. Most kids won't move on to a 20" bike with gears until they are 6.


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Esko Donations Support Education of Future Packaging Workforce
Jeff Wooten
Esko has underlined its commitment to future generations of packaging industry workers with a multi-million dollar in-kind donation to support college and university students in their packaging engineering and technology studies.
The global developer of integrated software and hardware solutions for the packaging, label, and wide format sectors has extended its no-charge donation of software licenses to leading educational institutions across the U.S. The investment comes ahead of the commencement of the new school year and includes its market leading structural design and production software platforms.
Esko Senior Director of Inside Sales and Marketing Melissa Plemen.
Esko Senior Director of Inside Sales and Marketing Melissa Plemen said the company was thrilled to continue supporting the education of the next generation of packaging employees with the donation. "We strongly believe in investing in the future of our industry and have supported schools across the country in this way for a number of years now," she said. "We're delighted to be able to continue that with this latest significant donation in kind."
Among the more-than-forty schools utilizing Esko software are Clemson University, Cal Poly University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Ryerson University, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Dunwoody College of Technology, Michigan State University, and Indiana State University.
"It's widely accepted that our sector has an aging workforce and a skills gap continues to become more and more apparent," explained Plemen. "As technological advances lead to changes within the sector, it's vitally important that the industry supports the education and training of young people as we drive to develop and inspire the packaging experts of the future.
"Our commitment ensures today's students are familiar with the latest Esko software utilized around the world to manage packaging and print processes, enabling them to be truly ready for work and have the skills required to enter the sector."
Through this donation, packaging course tutors can now use the same software that develops nine out of ten retail packages for major brands today and the breadth of software available enables them to teach a wide range of skillsets. Students will be able to design and create packaging systems from ideation through to virtual and physical prototypes, preparing them for future roles in what is a diverse and fast-paced packaging industry.
"The global pandemic has underlined the important role technology already plays in keeping the packaging supply chain moving," said Plemen. "As the future of the industry will inevitably involve further digitization, automation and connectivity, it is crucial that the workforce of tomorrow is as skilled and knowledgeable as possible before they embark on their career.
"We see this donation as part of our contribution to ensuring that vision becomes a reality, investing in not just the future of these young students, but also of our industry as a whole."
To find out more about Esko technology solutions, visit www.esko.com.
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Fancy doesn't usually fly in the East Village. Or maybe that's my 1995 brain talking. But, as it stands, Drexler's is certainly more on the fancy side than it is the dumpy and/or divey side. Granted, I don't think you'll find any dukes or duchesses squatting at the wood-laden bar, but the zinc accents, considered lighting and matching bar stools puts it a cut above your average East Village shitshow. Also its focus on cocktails makes it unique amongst the shot-and-a-beer or PBR joints that market to the local youngsters. Granted, this bar definitely had its share of young people in it, but they were like paycheck-earning types with disposable cash and something less transient than a Paypal or Venmo account.
I'm not really sure what you'd call the style/decor here. It's like a mashup of some of the classier New Orleans bars I went to and like a prohibition-era, bathtub gin joint? There is exposed brick and wood and octagonal tile floors. They could have gone the McNally route, but it's a little too dark and incorporates too much wood, both bleached and otherwise. It's honestly a little confusing, but I'm sure someone had a vision that wasn't quite as Ethan Allen as it comes off. Whatever the case, I sat at the ground-floor bar, which is comfortable, but cozy, watching a couple young ladies working on a PowerPoint presentation of some sort at one of the tables. It seemed an odd place to conduct any kind of business that involved a Microsoft product, but I suppose it's more charming than a Starbucks.
My interior decorating quibbles aside, the bartender was a cool guy who I believe had a waxed mustache or lots of tattoos. Or both. Or maybe I just assumed a mustache because that's what mixologists have these days — and everyone but me is covered with tattoos. Like a stupid amount of meaningless tattoos. But he did make a mean Manhattan and served it with aplomb, so he could have had "tramp" tattooed across his forehead and I would have been okay with it. Mostly because my ire for millennials is tempered by well-made booze concoctions. Anyhow, this joint makes for a decent pop-in for one of their $13 cocktails. Or, even better, come for happy hour, where the booze looks to be half price. Just watch out for the PowerPoint twins; they'll bore you to death with synergy and their agile approach.


A paper by computer scientist Dr. Yariv Levy and colleagues published in Frontiers in Psychiatry suggests that aggregating meditation to traditional therapies can significantly increase acquisition and maintenance of sobriety for those struggling with addiction.
What makes Levy's study different is his use of computer-simulation research, specifically what he calls a knowledge repository (KR) model. In using this computational model, Levy takes his statistics from other peoples' theories and studies before performing his own experiments on actual human or animal subjects.
"I am a theoretician, so I use other peoples' studies and try to see how they work together and how experiments fit in," Levy said.
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It'S Time To Break Up Facebook
By sahaskrit • On September 5, 2018 • In Technology	Technology Comments Off on It'S Time To Break Up Facebook
Tim Wu thinks it's time to break up Facebook.
Best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality" and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. In it, he argues compellingly for a return to aggressive antitrust enforcement in the style of Teddy Roosevelt, saying that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other huge tech companies are a threat to democracy as they get bigger and bigger.
"We live in America, which has a strong and proud tradition of breaking up companies that are too big for inefficient reasons," Wu told me on this week's Vergecast. "We need to reverse this idea that it's not an American tradition. We've broken up dozens of companies."
And breaking up Facebook isn't a new idea. Ever since Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram and WhatsApp, the idea of undoing those deals has been present at the periphery of the conversation about regulating tech companies. Both were serious burgeoning competitors to the social network, and both acquisitions sailed through without serious government oversight, which was a mistake. Instead of facing competition, Facebook was able to swallow its rivals and consolidate the market.
"I think if you took a hard look at the acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, the argument that the effects of those acquisitions have been anticompetitive would be easy to prove for a number of reasons," says Wu. And breaking up the company wouldn't be hard, he says.
"What would be the harm? You'll have three competitors. It's not 'Oh my god, if you get rid of WhatsApp and Instagram, well then the whole world's going to fall apart.' It would be like 'Okay, now you have some companies actually trying to offer you an alternative to Facebook.'"
Breaking up Facebook (and other huge tech companies like Google and Amazon) could be simple under the current law, suggests Wu. But it could also lead to a major rethinking of how antitrust law should work in a world where the giant platform companies give their products away for free, and the ability for the government to restrict corporate power seems to be diminishing by the day. And it demands that we all think seriously about the conditions that create innovation.
"I think everyone's steering way away from the monopolies, and I think it's hurting innovation in the tech sector," says Wu.
Antitrust law in America seems to be at an inflection point: after a proud history of aggressive enforcement that saw the breakups of everything from Standard Oil to the original AT&T, the past few decades have been incredibly lax as something called the "consumer welfare standard" has swept the courts. Basically, the consumer welfare standard says the government has to show that a merger will result in increasing prices for consumers before it can stop it.
"I think anyone will agree that [the consumer welfare standard] creates a very challenging screen where most antitrust cases die," says Wu. "And sometimes the prices will go up, but you can't prove it because it's hard to prove. That's what I'm trying to overthrow." Read More>>>>
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Most companies and organizations choose ID cards with photos. An ID card printer is necessary along with an ID photo camera. Below are things to take into considerations when selecting an ID camera. A list of products provided by ID Security Online is included. There is also a list of the best features of each of the photo ID cameras is also included.
For superior image quality, VALCam cameras are an excellent choice. The VALCam is specifically designed to create crisp, high-quality photos for ID applications. A camera having a flash such as the Credential Cam is recommended when lighting is not great.
The camera is high resolution, compact, and has a synchronized LED flash that is USB-powered. The manufacturer suggests having a photo ID backdrop and tripod to create professional and consistent photo IDs. The Credential Cam is tripod ready. No extra attachments are required.
Whether your organization or company has decided to implement a photo ID program, or your ID system is in need of an upgrade, ID Security Online is has a camera to fit your budget. They have other quality cameras to offer.
If photo IDs are produced from a standard workstation, you will want the photo ID camera to be TWAIN compliant. TWAIN compliant cameras link to existing ID card software and transfer data to it. You can view and edit images instantly.
Microsoft LifeCam is billed as the top ID photo camera in the Microsoft lines. It has an eye-catching, durable design, Skype certification, and 1080p video.
Videology USB Flash Megapixel Color Box has synchronized LED flash that provides images that are consistently high-quality in any environment. It has a convenient manual dial that allows customized flash intensity.
Credential Camera � CCam produces high-quality still image capture and VGA video. Features include Auto smart face tracking, USB digital mic, auto exposure and color compensation, and five-layer glass lens.
ValCam with Zoom 9000-628 has a photo capturing CCD image sensor and a lens that is capable of zooming in close to subjects without loss of image quality.
ValCam 8500-630 Pan, Tilt & Zoom camera is a flash designed, high-quality camera to use for photo ID applications. It features keyboard or mouse zoom, tilt, and pan.
Below are listed the ten best features of each camera. They are listed in order of price from the cheapest to the most expensive.
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