Producer Eva Price announced today at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, that Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, will become the first Broadway show to join the entertainment industry's Gun Neutral initiative. Gun Neutral is a new, collaborative effort to explore ways entertainment companies, individual productions and storytellers can help solve the gun violence that claims over 100 lives every day in America.
Gun Neutral launched in October of 2018 when Level Forward announced the initiative and their company-wide commitment to it. The non-partisan initiative and accompanying working group is focused on preserving the authenticity and artistic freedom of storytellers, while increasing awareness and promoting social responsibility – regardless of individual politics. Gun Neutral will also be providing the results of pre and post-exposure research to storytellers and is working with the Annenberg Public Policy Center so that writers, directors and producers can better understand the consequences of their creative choices.
Price officially made the announcement today at a Sundance event titled: "See Change: The Call for Gun Neutral Entertainment" which addressed ways to connect and leverage the power of entertainment, applying it more directly to gun safety and saving lives. The event included remarks by Abigail E. Disney, Chair of Level Forward, and Director of the film Armor of Light, and performances by Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Sawyer Garity & Andrea Pena singing "SHINE", the song they wrote in the wake of the Parkland shooting, as well as fellow MSD student and spoken word poet Samantha Fuentes.
"Gun Neutral is a collective acknowledgement the creative community can and will do more, that we need a shift on this issue, and that the movement must be unshackled from politics to succeed. As we increase our understanding of the consequences portrayals of gun violence promote on screens and stage, we may re-think them. We know we instigate cultural shifts in our work. Now we will start to account for that," said Level Forward in a statement.
For more information on how to get involved in Oklahoma!'s partnership with Gun Neutral, or for further information about the Gun Neutral Initiative, contact the Gun Neutral Program Manager Brent Zachery at info@gunneutral.org.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, which had a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at St. Ann's Warehouse last Fall (September 27 – November 11, 2018), will begin performances at Broadway's Circle in the Square Theatre (1633 Broadway). on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, with an official opening on Sunday, April 7, 2019. It will play a limited engagement through Sunday, September 1, 2019.
Tickets for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! are available on www.Telecharge.com or by calling 212 -239-6200 or 800-447-7400.
Directed by Daniel Fish, the production has been hailed as a Critic's Pick by The New York Times and the #1 Theatrical Event of the Year by TIME Magazine. The production has been cited on numerous Best of the Year lists including New York Times, Time Magazine, Time Out NY, New York Magazine's Vulture, New Yorker, Buzzfeed, Newsday, NY Daily News and Theatermania.
The creative team for Oklahoma! at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn included: Daniel Kluger (Orchestrations, Arrangements & Music Supervision), John Heginbotham (Choreography), Nathan Koci (Music Direction), Laura Jellinek (Scenic Design, based on an original concept by John Conklin), Terese Wadden (Costume Design), Scott Zielinski (Lighting Design), Drew Levy (Sound Design), and Joshua Thorson (Projection Design). Casting by Will Cantler and Adam Caldwell/Telsey & Co. Additional news, including complete casting, will be announced soon.


Up to this point, her films had occasionally used music as a fragment of the montage ensemble. The early I Cat, for example, includes bursts of a mediaeval French song and Inuit imitations of animal noises. Parker herself plays the cello in En Route, as one of that film's performative actions. Later, the composer Max Eastley contributed a subtle soundtrack to the aquarium section of The Pool, although the 'natural' sounds in that film - such as the sound of moving bodies in the dance scene and of water in the swimming pool - are also semi-musical counterpoints to the image.
More recently however, in short works from 2000 to the present day, Parker has focussed directly on this relationship of music and film. The cello makes up a second body within the films. In Foxfire Eins, by Helmut Oehring, the cello is plucked and struck by both hands to play the abrupt and percussive score. Another contemporary composer, Volker Heyn, requires the cellist to play with two bows - one on the underside of the strings - for Blues in B-Flat. "The film opens in a music repair shop and we see the interior of the cello - the space where music resonates" (JP).
In Projection 1, by Morton Feldman, the graphic lines of the cello and strings, crossed by the moving bow, "mirror the graphic score from which this piece is played" (JP). The piece is played twice, seemingly without a break. In an illuminating essay on music and Jayne Parker for the catalogue 'Filmworks 79-00' (Spacex 2000), the painter Joan Key wrote that "Parker's films use slight dislocations of angle and viewpoint, like a cubist painting, to open up performance's continuity to speculation." This is thematized by a sequence in which the close-up bow cuts a diagonal line across an empty screen, in a dialogue between vision, motion, flatness, space, sound and picture.
Repetition is differently treated in 59 1/2 Seconds, by John Cage. Parker shot and edited several versions of this one-minute composition, and in projection they can be cut together in different orders. Because they repeat the music, and compel repeated viewings, these two films are more easily shown in gallery installation, as they were for screenings in 2000/1 at Spacex (Exeter), John Hansard Gallery (Southampton) and the Aldeburgh Festival, as part of a comprehensive tour of Parker's exhibition Foxfire Eins.
The most recent film in this series returns to Stefan Wolpe, with Stationary Music (2005), featuring his Sonata 1 of 1925, again played by his daughter Katharina. This is a strong and spiky but intricate and 'formal' piano work, as the title indicates. A flat wall panel behind the pianist's concentrated face, and stark angles of construction throughout, seem to echo the bauhaus-cubist culture that stands behind the music, just as inserted shots of a magnolia bud and a flowering branch subtly insist on the organic element in abstract sound and imaging.
As with the earlier music films, the continuous flow of sound is shown in related visual fragments built around the gesture and movement of the performer. The film performance appears uninterrupted, but is in fact the product of many shots taken with a single camera, so that the rhythms and counterpoint of the editing also imply or point to the film's construction as a process in time. In their purity and intensity, these highly figurative films are both portraits and lyric abstractions.


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Alfred Williams Debut on KOA Is Finally Official
Michael Roberts | August 28, 2019 | 8:47am
Alfred Wiilliams's official KOA portrait.
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Today, August 28, iHeartRadio is finally making official something we initially revealed on July 15: Former CU Buffs and Denver Broncos star Alfred Williams, who announced that he was leaving his top-rated program at 104.3 The Fan in February, will be paired with veteran iHeart exec JoJo Turnbeaugh for an afternoon-drive program on KOA, at 94.1 FM and 850 AM. But now we know when his debut will take place: 3 p.m. Tuesday, September 3.
The timing of this revelation is hardly coincidental. As we noted way back in April, Williams's contract with the Fan included a non-compete clause that didn't expire until August 28 — which just happens to be today.
Greg Foster, KOA's vice president for programming, shrugs off questions about frustration over having to wait for six months before Williams could return to the airwaves.
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"It's not uncommon in media for a personality to sit-out a certain period of time — that's the business," Foster points out via email. "But it's been worth the wait. The timing of Big Al joining KOA couldn't be better. We're at the start of the Broncos and Buffs seasons, so there's a lot of great talk content, and Al's legion of fans can't wait to hear what he has to say."
Here's the complete KOA schedule, which goes into effect on the 3rd:
5 to 9 a.m.: Colorado Morning News with April Zesbaugh and Marty Lenz
9 a.m. to noon: Logan & Lewis with Dave Logan, Rick Lewis and Kathy Lee
Noon to 3 p.m.: Mandy Connell
3 to 7 p.m.: Big Al & JoJo with Alfred William and JoJo Turnbeaugh
7 to 11 p.m.: Broncos Country Tonight with Ryan Edwards and Benjamin Allbright
Dave Logan recently inked a ten-year contract.
Late-night and overnight programming, meanwhile, will spotlight the likes of Coast-to-Coast AM With
George Noory and This Morning With Gordon Deal.
One of the biggest questions after Williams signed up with KOA revolved around Logan, Lewis and Lee, who have been delivering the outlet's afternoon show since January 2017. Because Logan and Lewis, who also team up for Broncos radio broadcasts, are among the highest-paid iHeart staffers in Denver, plenty of local media observers found it hard to believe they'd be given a mid-morning slot, when listenership (and revenue) tends to be considerably lower than during the drive-time periods. But that's exactly what happened — and the move certainly makes life easier for the three stars.
How so? Lewis and Lee have been doing double duty, combining forces on the 103.5 The Fox morning show hours prior to the start of the KOA gig. Now they'll be able to work straight through, as opposed to needing to return after an extended daily break. Logan, meanwhile, has long had a conflict in the afternoons owing to his side hustle coaching football, currently at Cherry Creek High School. The new schedule presumably means he won't have to skip radio sessions during the prep pigskin season.
The executives at iHeart have gone out of their way to make sure Logan stays happy. Earlier this week, they announced that he had signed an extended ten-year agreement with the firm to continue doing play-by-play for the Broncos in addition to expanded on-air duties that will include weekly appearances on Broncos Country Tonight.
The ten-year pact is certainly unusual in a medium as volatile as radio and may be unprecedented in the Denver market. To Foster, though, the deal makes perfect sense.
"Few radio personalities in America have the stature of Dave Logan," he allows. "He's been part of the fabric of KOA and the Broncos for decades and is certainly the most recognizable voice in Colorado. Entering into a long-term agreement is simply a testament to Dave's tremendous skills and his importance to KOA."
As Williams prepares to make his KOA bow, more changes are in the offing for the Fan. As we reported this morning, the team assembled in the wake of Williams's departure — Darren "D-Mac" McKee, his ex-partner, and Broncos Ring of Famer Tom Nalen — will be breaking up in a matter of weeks because Nalen is moving back to his original home state of Massachusetts for family reasons. In October, the Fan will counter Big Al and JoJo by putting D-Mac together with not one, but two onetime Broncos, Tyler Polumbus and Nick Ferguson.
The head-to-head competition over the airwaves may be livelier than anything that happens on the field.
Michael Roberts has written for Westword since October 1990, serving stints as music editor and media columnist. He currently covers everything from breaking news and politics to sports and stories that defy categorization.
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EP14: Ellen Heed on STREAM School of Pelvic and Sexual Health, Sexological Bodywork, and True Health
Today you will meet Ellen Heed- my mentor, the person who helped me heal my own birth injury and who paved the way for the new model of health that is culminating in our work in the STREAM school. We have taught STREAM together in England and 2018 is the first year we will bring this new radical model of pelvic and sexual health care to the US. Ellen is a Visionary Craniosacral practitioner and teacher and has taught anatomy and physiology all over the world for the past twenty years.
You are in a for a treat. Get ready to get your mindbodysoul rocked.
"Our hegemony over our own sexuality is a private matter and we have the option of taking private responsibility for that in a community peer-based support environment, which is what my vision is for STREAM to provide."
In this episode, Ellen Heed shares:
The importance of a peer model in healing modalities and relationship
What contributes to healing, not management.
What is Sexological Bodywork?
What is STREAM- Scar Tissue Remediation Education & Management?
Who is qualified to do STREAM work and provide this kind of care?
You will hear:
Ellen's first experience with postpartum pain (1:40)
What contributed to radical healing in that first case study (3:50)
Psychoemotional release with scar tissue resolution from a "perfect birth" (5:20)
Can we still heal from birth years out? In my case, 2 ½ years post-birth (10:00)
Who is scar tissue remediation for, in addition to new mothers? (12:55)
Scar is a physical artifact of trauma. (15:30)
Peer support models of health care (20:00)
Mapping as a ritual of initiation (25:30)
Deep and broad overarching model of health (28:20)
Absence of connective tissue as a living contributor to health (32:25)
Stakeholdership is inherent in the healing process (39:30)
What is Sexological Bodywork? (43:00)
Who becomes a Sexological Bodyworker? (47:00)
What is STREAM- Scar Tissue Remediation Education and Management (49:20)
Who are good STREAM candidates? (54:45)
What is a Private Membership Agreement (PMA)? (55:20)
The Shame Matrix of the genitals (59:00)
Future vision: that people in transitions of all kinds have access to mapping, and to somatic sexual and pelvic health care.


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The Cultural Reset
ARTIST FEATURE: FOXFRD
The Cultural Reset shifts its sights to musical artist and digital animator, FOXFRD. Opening up about his creative process, FOXFRD discusses his unique approach to songwriting and storytelling through both a musical and animated medium. FOXFRD reflects on the barriers he has overcome, both in becoming a lead animator and as a music creator, and the full scope of his creative journey while providing his advice for creatives looking to succeed in the music space.
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Where/when did your individual creative journey begin?
I've been creative all my life. But the direction of my creativity has progressively changed. When I was young, I would channel that creativity into my love for video games; seeing that type of content expanded my creative mind from a very young age. My love for animation and music gradually developed from there and now, I can easily call them my two greatest passions.
Tell us the story of how you became a musician/artist?
My story started when I began playing the alto-saxophone in Memphis, TN. I had built a strong understanding of music in middle school and had experienced many different genres including Jazz, R&B, Classical and more. Eventually, I would dabble with a variety of different instruments and as I got older, I would start practicing on my friends' guitars. I started playing the drums, piano, bass, etc. Now, I use my knowledge of instruments for music production. And also being an animator, I think it's safe to say that I'm a jack of all trades. All of my creative interests started as a hobby and would soon become serious career pursuits.
Tell us about your artistry? What would you say is your mission with your art? And who are your influences (message/music style)?
My art is a true combination of all of my creative interests in one. Foxfrd combines my passion for video games, Hip Hop and alternative melodies and brings these things to life through a 3D character who tells my story through song. The unique combination of my interests provides fans with an all-encompassing experience. Through art, my mission is to inspire more artists like me who are thinking of taking on something grand and ambitious all by themselves. The task feels daunting, but the outcome is so rewarding. I want to inspire others to trust in their authenticity rather than feel like they have to create the next catchy trend in order to impress the people around them. As a multimedia artist, I can easily say that Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover is one of my biggest influences. As an actor, musician and director, he also wears many hats and I respect that he's been able to channel his creativity into a variety of interests.
Can you speak on your process when creating projects? When do you feel most inspired?
The creative process for Foxfrd always starts with a beat. I will typically sit in Ableton and will scan libraries of instrumentals until I feel inspired, in which case - I will bring in some instruments like piano or guitar to incorporate a melody that I can loop and write lyrics to.
For this upcoming EP, I collaborated with Yaron Fuchs and his team. Yaron's team deconstructs my beats and expands them to a greater level by adding intricacies and ear candy played by industry-pushing musicians. While this is happening, I switch gears to focus on the visual aesthetic + the story behind the music video. Listening to the music on repeat, I close my eyes and imagine what the setting for the video should be. Once I have an idea in place, I begin pre-production or research for the aesthetic I want to achieve. This means finding reference photos of environments, organizing where my 3D assets are coming from, making sketches of characters and scenes and then learning any basics I need for new skills and programs. Once the pre-production is complete, I start by building the environment or the set. After the environment is present, I switch to character and camera animation. Once animation is polished, I combine the environment and animation together and then I move to creating detailed lighting. After lighting is rendering and the final step of the process is to combine the audio master with the renders before making any final beautification tweaks. That is the complete process for making one music video. I feel the most inspired when I'm in the phase of listening to my music and imagining the visuals that should pair with the song. When I'm doing this, I'm essentially lucid dreaming which prompts me to start sketching so that I can take my song to the next level.
"...I have experienced limitations in every career pursuit due to being a person of color."
Tell us about your latest release Where Are All My Friends? What was your artistic process for creating this piece?
"Where Are All My Friends" is a true story about being lonely and vulnerable. I wrote the track when I first moved to LA and was struggling to make genuine connections with people. The song started with a very somber piano sample and it was the first time I had ever introduced a key change to one of my songs. I knew that I wanted to write a ballad that included three separate acts for visual inspiration. I reflected on why I felt alone in Los Angeles; was it me or the people around me? After playing around with different samples and moods, I started pouring my heart into the song's unique melody and "Where Are All My Friends" was born.
Is there anything about the industry you'd want to change as you progress in your career? Tell us about some experiences you overcame.
The music industry itself has always felt a little bureaucratic. Instead of celebrating originality, artists feel a pressure to fit into a sound that is currently 'cool' or 'trendy'. It takes a lot of effort for artists who produce unique, original music to be heard. At the end of the day, I think paving a unique path or being a leader will ultimately lead to a more fulfilling creative career.
Have you ever experienced limitations in your career (as a musician) due to being a POC?
For instance, in the gaming industry, the position of 'lead animator' is at the top of
the ladder for animation.
Yes and in fact, I have experienced limitations in every career pursuit due to being a person of color. For instance, in the gaming industry, the position of 'lead animator' is at the top of
the ladder for animation. I personally jumped to lead animator a lot more quickly than average (sometimes this can take someone multiple years). But I had to prove that I could lead with less experience. Eventually, I noticed that I was being paid severely less than my colleagues and I still, to this day, struggle to be compensated fairly. Because of this, I wanted to create a world where I could exist as my own entity. As Foxfrd, I call the shots; I don't blame anybody but myself for things going wrong and all I need to do in order to get to where I need to be is work harder and smarter so that I reach all of my creative goals. When I am Foxfrd, I am the one who is in control.
Are there any insufficiencies or injustices in the music industry that you'd like to see rectified?
I definitely think that independent artists should be supported more. Oftentimes, when artists get scooped up by labels, they end up having to conform to a sound that is 'trending' at the moment. But being independent allows creativity to truly shine because artists aren't being told what to do and instead, are celebrating for their originality. The frustrating thing is that independent artists don't get the proper push that artists under labels will get. It's rare that they'll even be considered for the Billboard charts without a machine behind them. There is a lot of great music out there that will inspire people to think differently, but unfortunately what's popular is all that people are exposed to.
What are some upcoming projects you are working on? When can we expect them? Where can we stream them?
I have so much in the works! But unfortunately, I have too many NDA's in circulation to give any hints at this time. The best way to stay up to date on new music is to follow me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/foxfrd/.
What advice would you give to aspiring creatives looking to break into the music industry?
Be original! Originality lasts and it's more likely to give someone with tired ears the inspiration to keep listening. Don't feel pressured to sound like what everybody else sounds like. Because why would they listen to your music when they can listen to a bigger, more highly produced version? Be yourself and be patient with your growth. It takes a long time to grow a following, especially if you want to remain independent. Just breathe and live your life because your life experience is ultimately what feeds your art.
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We explain what religious freedom is and why it is important in today's society. Also, its history and where it is threatened.
Freedom of worship implies that no one is discriminated against for their religious beliefs or practices.
What is freedom of worship?
Freedom of worship or freedom of religion is one of the fundamental rights of humanity, which allows everyone to freely choose and profess their religion, mystical beliefs or their atheism or agnosticism, without ever being a victim of oppression, discrimination or forced conversion.
Recognized in numerous international treaties and documents, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (art. 18), freedom of worship goes far beyond mere religious tolerance, since it is not simply a matter of supporting others to practice their beliefs. beliefs in a separate enclosure, but of guarantee through the laws and the State that such practices are free, peaceful and free from persecution.
The latter is, of course, possible to a greater extent in secular states (that is, without official religion), despite the fact that even in those cases there is a majority religion, transmitted generationally and strongly anchored in tradition. But this does not mean that the State should take positions to favor one Church over another, but quite the opposite: in the West religion and worship are private, personal, intimate matters.
Unfortunately, this reality it is not always fulfilled in all countries of the world, and there are still numerous cases of crimes committed against religious minorities, especially in theocracies and nations of fundamentalist culture. Freedom of worship is often considered equivalent to freedom of conscience, that is, the freedom to think what one wants and to have the opinion one wishes to have.
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Freedom of worship is common among modern liberal democracies, especially in the West. However, in earlier times the persecution of the Jews, for example, was common currency in Europe. Furthermore, in the Middle Ages the "holy" wars against Islam sent thousands of Muslims and Christians to their deaths.
That is not to mention the work of forced conversion and punishment and torture carried out by the Holy Catholic Inquisition in Europe and America, persecuting any form of unofficial worship, considered at that time heretical, sinful and contrary to divine law.
According to the report on religious freedom prepared by the United States Government (2007), today religious freedom is under threat in countries such as Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Uzbekistan and Saudi Arabia, and in to a lesser extent in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Laos, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Turkmenistan and Vietnam, despite relative progress made by their governments.
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Here's why Eagles are wrong for the way they are treating Zach Ertz
Delaware News Journal
You can only wonder what was going through Zach Ertz's mind when he saw the Patriots sign not one, but two, tight ends the past few days to contracts that average more than $12 million per season.
After all, even Jonnu Smith's best season in 2020 was only slightly better than the worst season of Ertz's eight NFL seasons. Yet the Patriots gave him a four-year deal worth as much as $50 million.
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Hunter Henry, who incidentally was drafted in 2016 in the exact same spot as Ertz was in 2013 – second round, 35th overall – is coming off his best season, with 60 receptions.
That total is almost half the amount of receptions as Ertz's total in his best season, when he set an NFL single-season record for tight ends with 116 receptions in 2018. Henry got a three-year deal worth as much as $37.5 million.
There should be a good number of teams willing to shell out that kind of money for a three-time Pro Bowl player like Ertz if he were officially available in free agency.
But alas, Ertz is in limbo, waiting for the Eagles to find a team willing to give up what appears to be a mid- to late-round draft pick in a trade. The NFL Network reported Tuesday that the Eagles have given Ertz's agent permission to seek a trade, which isn't exactly news.
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Still, Ertz deserves better as free agency officially started Wednesday afternoon without him having a chance to pick his next team – yet.
Instead, the Eagles were quiet, only making official the trade last month when they sent quarterback Carson Wentz to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for a third-round draft pick this year and a second-round pick in 2022 that can become a first-rounder if Wentz meets certain parameters.
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The Eagles restructured the contracts of other players to fit under the salary cap. That included giving defensive Brandon Graham, like Ertz a respected veteran, a one-year extension.
But there was nothing for Ertz. The Eagles had pretty much made it clear that he wouldn't be returning for the final season of his contract, with a base of $8.5 million and a salary cap hit of $12.7 million.
And it sure seems like Ertz doesn't want to return, either, after he expressed his frustration last summer upon not getting a new contract.
The best-case scenario for both sides would be to release Ertz.
That would enable Ertz to find his next team and work out a new contract. For the Eagles, it would be a classy move to honor a franchise icon who ranks second in team history in receptions, caught the game-winning pass in the Super Bowl, and has always been a pillar in the community.
There were reports last weekend that Ertz was getting "antsy" that nothing had been done yet. You can raise that to the nth degree after the Patriots shelled out $83.75 million for two tight ends who aren't as good as Ertz.
The Eagles appear to be dragging this out unnecessarily.
The Eagles could have released Ertz by the 4 p.m. deadline Wednesday. In that scenario, the Eagles would have had an extra $4.9 million to use in free agency.
That can still happen when they trade or release him in the future. But last we checked, the Eagles had a number of needs – and little money to address them. That's why you will likely see the Eagles waiting until the second wave of free agency to get low-cost veterans instead of making a big splash right away.
But what's the point of waiting for a trade if the Eagles are only getting pennies on the dollar in return?
Do the Eagles, who now have 11 picks in the 2021 NFL draft, really need another conditional fifth-round pick?
Sure, it's also possible that the Eagles could keep Ertz and have him play out the final season of his contract. The thinking is maybe he'll have a rebound season after a career-low of 36 catches for 355 yards in an injury-shortened season.
Then he could hit free agency heading into 2022 and cash in then.
But that seems unlikely. There's a new coaching staff in place, and Dallas Goedert will likely enter the season as the No. 1 tight end.
In addition, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman has already said that the Eagles have to get younger this offseason. And the Eagles have already restructured or extended contracts of veterans Brandon Graham (33 next month), Jason Kelce (32), Brandon Brooks (31), Darius Slay (30) and Rodney McLeod (30).
Why do that for Ertz when it's possible to draft his replacement in Florida tight end Kyle Pitts?
Besides, it's a sign of respect to release an iconic player rather than make a trade for a late-round draft pick.
The Houston Texans did this last month, releasing defensive end J.J. Watt, easily the best player in Texans history. Watt ended up signing a two-year, $31 million contract with the Arizona Cardinals.
The Eagles rarely go this route, which is a shame.
Last year, the Eagles wouldn't renegotiate with safety Malcolm Jenkins, another outstanding Eagles player who meant so much to the franchise. Then they tried finding a trade partner, to no avail.
The Eagles finally released Jenkins the day the new league year began.
Sure, Jenkins was fine, signing the very next day with the New Orleans Saints, getting two guaranteed seasons when the Eagles were only offering one. Ertz will be fine, too.
But there were bitter feelings on Jenkins' part, which he explained in his letter to the fans in The Players' Tribune last spring: "I wanted a deal that showed me that my sacrifices to the game have been recognized. I'm no idiot. I know money is tied to timing, market value, age, the draft, and so on.
"But legacy? That's tied to the player."
Ertz has that legacy, too. It's too bad the Eagles didn't recognize that.


On the Back: "1951 was the first year that Gerry didn't have a .500 pitching average since he came up with the Cards in 1948. In '48 he had a 4-4 record. In '49 his record was 10-10 and 13-13 in '50. Gerry started in organized ball in 1941 and in 2 years he won 42 games. After spending 3 years in Service, he won 13 at Sactramento in 1946. He got a trial with the Cards in 1947, but was sent down to Columbus. In 1951, he hurled 4 shutouts."


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package org.innovateuk.ifs.competition.transactional;

import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.security.NotSecured;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.security.SecuredBySpring;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.commons.service.ServiceResult;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.competition.resource.CompetitionOpenQueryResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.competition.resource.CompetitionResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.competition.resource.SpendProfileStatusResource;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.file.resource.FileAndContents;
import org.innovateuk.ifs.organisation.resource.OrganisationTypeResource;
import org.springframework.security.access.prepost.PostAuthorize;
import org.springframework.security.access.prepost.PostFilter;
import org.springframework.security.access.prepost.PreAuthorize;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * Service for operations around the usage and processing of Competitions
 */
public interface CompetitionService {
    @PostAuthorize("hasPermission(returnObject, 'READ')")
    ServiceResult<CompetitionResource> getCompetitionById(final long id);

    @PostAuthorize("hasPermission(returnObject, 'READ')")
    ServiceResult<CompetitionResource> getCompetitionByApplicationId(long applicationId);

    @PostAuthorize("hasPermission(returnObject, 'READ')")
    ServiceResult<CompetitionResource> getCompetitionByProjectId(long projectId);

    @PostFilter("hasPermission(filterObject, 'READ')")
    ServiceResult<List<CompetitionResource>> findAll();

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "CLOSE_ASSESSMENT", description = "Comp Admins can change the competition state to Assessment Closed")
    ServiceResult<Void> closeAssessment(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('super_admin_user')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "REOPEN_ASSESSMENT_PERIOD", description = "Super Admins can reopen the assessment period")
    ServiceResult<Void> reopenAssessmentPeriod(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "CLOSE_ASSESSMENT", description = "Comp Admins can close assessments")
    ServiceResult<Void> closeAssessmentByAssessmentPeriod(long assessmentPeriodId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "NOTIFY_ASSESSORS", description = "Comp Admins can change the competition state to Assessors Notified")
    ServiceResult<Void> notifyAssessors(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "NOTIFY_ASSESSORS", description = "Comp Admins can change the competition state to Assessors Notified")
    ServiceResult<Void> notifyAssessorsByAssessmentPeriodId(long id);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "RELEASE_FEEDBACK", description = "Comp Admins can change the competition state to Feedback Released")
    ServiceResult<Void> releaseFeedback(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "MANAGE_INFORM", description = "Comp Admins can manage the transition from Panel to Inform")
    ServiceResult<Void> manageInformState(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('system_registrar')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "GET_COMPETITION_ORGANISATION_TYPES", description = "Anyone should be able to see what organisation types are allowed in a competition")
    ServiceResult<List<OrganisationTypeResource>> getCompetitionOrganisationTypes(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('project_finance')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "GET_OPEN_QUERIES", description = "Project finance users can see all open queries for a competition")
    ServiceResult<List<CompetitionOpenQueryResource>> findAllOpenQueries(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('project_finance')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "GET_OPEN_QUERIES", description = "Project finance users can count open queries for a competition")
    ServiceResult<Long> countAllOpenQueries(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('project_finance')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "GET_PENDING_SPEND_PROFILES", description = "Project finance users can get projects for which Spend Profile generation is pending, for a given competition")
    ServiceResult<List<SpendProfileStatusResource>> getPendingSpendProfiles(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('project_finance')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "COUNT_PENDING_SPEND_PROFILES", description = "Project finance users can count projects for which Spend Profile generation is pending, for a given competition")
    ServiceResult<Long> countPendingSpendProfiles(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "UPDATE_TERMS_AND_CONDITIONS", securedType = CompetitionResource.class,
            description = "Only Comp Admins are able to update grant terms and conditions for the given competitions")
    ServiceResult<Void> updateTermsAndConditionsForCompetition(long competitionId, long termsAndConditionsId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('project_finance', 'comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "UPDATE_TERMS_AND_CONDITIONS", securedType = CompetitionResource.class,
            description = "Only Comp Admins are able to update grant terms and conditions for the given competitions")
    ServiceResult<Void> updateOtherFundingRulesTermsAndConditionsForCompetition(long competitionId, long termsAndConditionsId);

    @NotSecured(value = "Anyone can download competition terms", mustBeSecuredByOtherServices = false)
    ServiceResult<FileAndContents> downloadTerms(long competitionId);

    @NotSecured(value = "Anyone can check if competition has EDI questions", mustBeSecuredByOtherServices = false)
    ServiceResult<Boolean> hasEDIQuestion(long competitionId);

    @PreAuthorize("hasAnyAuthority('comp_admin')")
    @SecuredBySpring(value = "UPDATE_IMPACT_MANAGEMENT_STATE", securedType = CompetitionResource.class,
            description = "Only Comp Admins are able to update impact management for the given competitions")
    ServiceResult<Void> includeSupportingInformationSectionForCompetition(long competitionId, boolean projectImpactSurveyApplicable);
}

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We've been letting Bear watch Sid the Science Kid in the evenings. The timing of the show isn't great. I wish it were on in the afternoon, but I don't have a way to record it. One week, every episode dealt with the human body. The day of the digestive system, Sid and his friends did a fast experiment to show how your stomach digests food.
You need 1 lemon, a ziploc bag, and a cracker, a knife, and a hand held juicer or just strong hands for squeezing the lemon.
First, slice the lemon in half.
Put the juice in the ziploc bag.
Break the cracker up a bit (to simulate the chewing) and put it in the bag.
Squeeze the bag (I mean stomach) for a while and watch what happens to the cracker.
Then record what you saw.
I was quite impressed that Bear was able to draw so much of it. I was busy cleaning up and missed the whole process. But she dictated what I should write after she'd drawn.
If you click on the picture it may come up bigger.
I'm linking up to Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom.
Anna absolutely loves Sid the Science Kid, and I love their 5 minute experiments. She especially likes the ones about human body, of course. We did record them, and now she can choose any of 41 episodes. Well, right now she is on break from them – in fact, she didn't express any desire to watch TV in a while, she is too busy playing.
I love that experiment. And I'm totally impressed with her drawing the results of the experiment. I need to work on having my kids draw the results.
I can't decide if I like Sid the Science Kid, or not. But, that is a nice simple experiment. I like that you had her draw out her findings.
@An Almost Unschooling Mom:I didn't like it for a long time, but it has grown on me. They do a lot of singing and dancing and it gets my two moving (we all dance as a family to the songs and we look very silly but it is a lot of fun!) while they watch and I am grateful for that aspect of it.
Selena enjoys Sid The Science Kid. She also enjoyed doing this experiment! However, I love your extension of having Bear draw out her experiment.
Love this idea! We're learning about the human body right now, so I'm going to use it for one of our experiments this week. Thanks for the idea!


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Could the phony Nervous Records boss be recognised by his incredibly foul mouth? New York-based label has a story about a scam artist even Kent Brockman would be interested in…
Ears To The House Team 22 October 2021 in News Tagged Nervous Records, real means fake - 2 Minutes
An episode of The Simpsons, first broadcast in 1998, features a memorable scene where newscaster Kent Brockman says the words "Authorities say that the phony Pope can be recognised by his high-top speakers and incredibly foul mouth".
In which case, Nervous might want to get in touch with the infamous, if fictional, newsreader as they may have a story which would pique his interest – because it seems Nervous are having trouble at the moment from someone calling themselves "David Massey".
The scam artist has been emailing a number of people, pretending to represent the label, to tell them "Our A&R reviewed over all your music content and we definitely think you have potential reach the next level of your career… would like to offer you a marketing/distribution publishing deals". And before anyone asks, that's exactly what appears in the email.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CVQrpOSL8XN/?utm_medium=copy_link
The email later discloses that "There is a small fee of $300 for this to take place which will state the offer was unsolicited", and the email finishes with the words "Yours sincerely, David Massey. A&R of Nervous Records Label". Which might well be news to Andrew Salsano, who is… err, the person in charge of licensing, publishing and A&R at Nervous.
Yes, this blog might well take great pleasure in calling out Nervous for their advertising practices. But I also don't want to see people falling for this blatant, shameless scam – there are more than enough of these cons in the world of dance music without adding any more to the mix.
It remains unclear exactly why the scammer chose the "David Massey" name. More likely is the fact it's the name of the current president of Arista Records. Less likely is this one, who made the news for rather less scrupulous reasons…
Previous: Spotify teams up with Shopify to allow artists to sell merchandise through their profiles on the streaming site – so is any excuse to avoid paying better royalties good enough now, Mr Ek?
Next: Can you dance without a mask on when ordering a drink at the bar? Just some of the rules in place as Irish nightclubs reopen today – but those of you in Northern Ireland will have to wait another week!


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Metachroma nigrosignatum är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Blake 1970. Metachroma nigrosignatum ingår i släktet Metachroma och familjen bladbaggar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - Mar 18, 2014) - Hearing loss is about twice as common in people with diabetes, so the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is urging those with diabetes to get their hearing checked and to make it a routine part of the their diabetes care and management -- all in recognition of American Diabetes Association Alert Day® on March 25. BHI is offering a free, quick, and confidential online hearing check at www.BetterHearing.org. Anyone can take the confidential online survey to determine if they need a comprehensive hearing test by a hearing healthcare professional.
BHI also is encouraging all adults to find out if they're at risk for developing type 2 diabetes by taking the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Risk Test (ow.ly/uvLST). Although Alert Day is a one-day event, the Diabetes Risk Test and the BHI Hearing Check are available year-round.
What's the Diabetes-Hearing Health Connection?
According to Professor Hirohito Sone, Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan: "Our findings support routine hearing screenings for people with diabetes starting at an earlier age than for people without the disease. From a preventive healthcare perspective, this is very important because we know that when left untreated, hearing loss can exacerbate and perhaps even lead to other health problems, such as depression and dementia, making the diabetes burden even greater."
"A certain degree of hearing loss is common with aging, but it is often accelerated in patients with diabetes, especially if blood-glucose levels are not being controlled," said senior study author Kathleen L. Yaremchuk, M.D., Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"Our study really points to the importance of patients controlling their diabetes and paying attention to their hearing health."
Research shows that hearing loss is frequently associated with other physical, mental, and emotional health conditions, and that people who address their hearing loss often experience better quality of life. Eight out of 10 hearing aid users, in fact, say they're satisfied with the changes that have occurred in their lives specifically due to their hearing aids -- from how they feel about themselves to the positive changes they see in their relationships, social interactions, and work lives.
1. They're virtually invisible. Many of today's hearing aids sit discreetly and comfortably inside the ear canal, providing both natural sound quality, and discreet and easy use.
2. They automatically adjust to all kinds of soundscapes. Recent technological advances with directional microphones have made hearing aids far more versatile than ever before -- and in a broad range of sound environments.
4. They work with smartphones, home entertainment systems and other prized electronics. Wireless, digital hearing aids are now the norm. That means seamless connectivity -- directly into your hearing aid(s) at volumes that are just right for you -- from your smartphone, MP3 player, television and other high-tech gadgets.
5. They're always at the ready. A new rechargeable feature on some newly designed hearing aids allows you to recharge your hearing aids every night, so they're ready in the morning. It's super convenient -- and there's no more fumbling with small batteries.
Follow BHI on Twitter @better_hearing. Follow BHI on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/betterhearinginstitute.


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Q: aiohttp terminate web.app_run from aiohttp import web

async def handle(request):
    name = request.match_info.get('name', "Anonymous")
    text = "Hello, " + name
    return web.Response(text=text)

app = web.Application()
app.add_routes([web.get('/', handle),
                web.get('/{name}', handle)])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    web.run_app(app)

The above example is from oficial documentation.
The question is how can i terminate the web.run_app(app) operations with no KeyBoardInterrupt (Ctrl+C)?
I am looking something like:
await app.shutdown()
await app.cleanup()

but i don't know where can i put this code and how can i use it.

A: From the source, it looks response for KeyboardInterrupt and GracefulExit:
try:
    asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
    loop.run_until_complete(main_task)
except (GracefulExit, KeyboardInterrupt):  # pragma: no cover
    pass
finally:
    _cancel_tasks({main_task}, loop)
    _cancel_tasks(asyncio.all_tasks(loop), loop)
    loop.run_until_complete(loop.shutdown_asyncgens())
    loop.close()
    asyncio.set_event_loop(None)

As you don't want to stop in manual, you could raise GracefulExit in your own code, something like next:
test.py:
import signal
from aiohttp import web
from aiohttp.web_runner import GracefulExit

async def handle(request):
    name = request.match_info.get('name', "Anonymous")
    text = "Hello, " + name
    return web.Response(text=text)

async def shutdown(request):
    print("will shutdown now")
    raise GracefulExit()

app = web.Application()
app.add_routes([web.get('/shutdown', shutdown),
                web.get('/', handle),
                web.get('/{name}', handle)])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    web.run_app(app)

Once you want to close the server, you could send http://ip:8080/shutdown to server.
Additional, if you want to exit the server directly after receive a request, you may also use signal.alarm(3), then you no need to define a handler with /shutdown. This means send a alarm to program after 3 seconds after receive any request (aiohttp internal already register a signal handler with loop.add_signal_handler(signal.SIGINT, _raise_graceful_exit)):
async def handle(request):
    name = request.match_info.get('name', "Anonymous")
    text = "Hello, " + name
    signal.alarm(3)
    return web.Response(text=text)

Anyway, the way to close the server is either raise GracefulExit or send signal, but the timing to exit the server depends on your scenario.

A: Based on @atline answer i wrote this code:
import signal
from aiohttp import web
from aiohttp.web_runner import GracefulExit

from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, ThreadPoolExecutor
from multiprocessing import cpu_count
import requests
import time

async def handle(request):
    name = request.match_info.get('name', "Anonymous")
    text = "Hello, " + name
    return web.Response(text=text)

async def shutdown(request):
    print("will shutdown now")
    raise GracefulExit()

app = web.Application()
app.add_routes([web.get('/shutdown', shutdown),
                web.get('/', handle),
                web.get('/{name}', handle)])

def init_aiohttp():
    web.run_app(app, host="127.0.0.1", port="8080", ssl_context=None)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    executor = ProcessPoolExecutor()
    for i in range(0, 1):
        aiohttp = executor.submit(init_aiohttp)

    total_time = 0
    while(True):
        time.sleep(1)
        total_time += 1
        if total_time == 5:
            try:
                requests.get('http://127.0.0.1:8080/shutdown')
            except Exception as e:
                print(e)

        print(total_time)

The above code:

*

*Starts an aiohttp server.

*Close the server after 5 second (fetching the shutdown url: http://127.0.0.1:8080/shutdown)

Hope that will help someone in the future.


It is the custom at the church of S. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London NW5 for Votive Cards to be given by the priest to those who have their feet washed on Maundy Thursday.
Those who have their feet washed feel that it a wonderful privilege to be chosen and that they also receive a small card commemorating the event, makes it even more special.
I currently supply sets of 12 cards to a number of clergy for this occasion and they all comment how well this practice has been received.
The cards that are produced for this occasion depict either the Last Supper, or Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. The images are mainly taken from church stained glass or reredos.
I have about 50 examples to choose from. To cover my costs I make a small charge for each set of 12 cards: £6 for A6 (postcard size).
The date of Maundy Thursday and the name of the church where the card was given is printed on the reverse of the card.
The designs available are illustrated below.


This publication deals a definitive and wide-ranging evaluation of advancements in behavioral finance during the last ten years. In 1993, the 1st quantity supplied the normal connection with this new process in finance--an procedure that, as editor Richard Thaler positioned it, "entertains the prospect that the various brokers within the economic system behave under totally rationally a few of the time." a lot has replaced considering then. now not least, the bursting of the web bubble and the following marketplace decline additional established that monetary markets usually fail to act as they might if buying and selling have been really ruled by means of the absolutely rational traders who populate monetary theories. Behavioral finance has made an indelible mark on components from asset pricing to person investor habit to company finance, and keeps to work out intriguing empirical and theoretical advances.
Advances in Behavioral Finance, quantity II constitutes the fundamental new source within the box. It offers twenty contemporary papers by means of prime experts that illustrate the abiding strength of behavioral finance--of how particular departures from absolutely rational determination making by means of person marketplace brokers offers motives of another way difficult marketplace phenomena. As with the 1st quantity, it reaches past the realm of finance to signify, powerfully, the significance of pursuing behavioral techniques to different components of monetary life.
The individuals are Brad M. Barber, Nicholas Barberis, Shlomo Benartzi, John Y. Campbell, Emil M. Dabora, Daniel Kent, François Degeorge, Kenneth A. Froot, J. B. Heaton, David Hirshleifer, Harrison Hong, Ming Huang, Narasimhan Jegadeesh, Josef Lakonishok, Owen A. Lamont, Roni Michaely, Terrance Odean, Jayendu Patel, Tano Santos, Andrei Shleifer, Robert J. Shiller, Jeremy C. Stein, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Richard H. Thaler, Sheridan Titman, Robert W. Vishny, Kent L. Womack, and Richard Zeckhauser.
As but, unmarried inventory futures are nonetheless of their infancy, yet they now characterize the main intriguing new product release in the fairness derivatives enviornment. they've got a multiplicity of benefits for plenty of investors and traders, being reasonable, effortless to appreciate, and a hugely effective use of capital to augment investor possibilities.
Step by step guidance for making commodities a useful part in any portfolioAs inventory marketplace making an investment turns into more and more tough to squeeze earnings from, savvy traders are discovering commodities to be the best motor vehicle for conserving portfolio functionality. Commodities for each Portfolio exhibits commodities novices tips to ease into this simple marketplace, which thoughts are most sensible (and which to guide away from!
This publication exhibits humans how the assurance undefined, finance businesses and executive businesses calculate and reply to the dangers posed via failures.
A finished consultant to the always evolving global of securitizationThe moment version of The Securitization Markets instruction manual is a invaluable source for either skilled funds managers attempting to placed a securitization method into position in addition to novices trying to collect a vast and robust starting place during this self-discipline.
1989, The Effects of Management Buyouts on Operating Performance and Value, Journal of Financial Economics 24, 217–54. Kaplan, S. , and R. S. Ruback, 1995, The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis, Journal of Finance 50, 1059–93. Kaplan, S. , and L. Zingales, 1997, Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints, Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, 169–215. , 1997, Do Firms Knowingly Sell Overvalued Equity, Journal of Finance 52, 1439–65.
Any issue of risky debt is equivalent to a weighted average of risk-free debt and equity. The managers are indifferent between this weighted average (risky debt) and the individual components. Letting "w" denote the amount raised by risk-free debt, the cost of any combination of risk-free debt and equity is: w  K − w   K − w   EM (y2 ) − w  +    K  K   ET (y2 ) − w   K − w  w  K − w   EM (y2 ) − w  = +   >1 K  K   ET (y2 ) − w  for any w < K since EM(y2) > ET(y2). Now assume that By2 < K so that cash flow in the bad state is now insufficient to pay the required initial investment and the manager can no longer issue risk-free debt to finance the entire amount K.
And Z. Shapira, 1987, Managerial Perspectives on Risk and Risk Taking, Management Science 33, 1404–18. , 1989, Evidence of Informationational Asymmetries from Management Earning Forecasts and Stock Returns, Account Review 1, 1–27. Myers, S. , and N. S. Majluf, 1984, Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions When Firms Have Information That Investors Do Not Have, Journal of Financial Economics 13, 187–221. Pinegar, J. , and L. Wilbrecht, 1989, What Managers Think of Capital Structure Theory: A Survey, Financial Management 18, 82–91.


Dr. Sarah Waddell was raised in Stonewall, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor's degree from LSU and graduated from Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. Dr. Sarah Waddell worked for six years practicing emergency medicine and critical care in Shreveport and Lafayette. During that time she also worked in general practice for multiple hospitals in Shreveport/Bossier and Lafayette area as a locum doctor. From 2005-2014, Dr. Sarah and Dr. Clint owned the Banfield Veterinary Hospitals in Shreveport and Bossier City as charter franchise owners.. After selling the Banfield franchises to the parent corporation in January 2014, they began Provenance Veterinary Hospital that was opened in October 2014. She is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, and The Veterinary Endoscopy Society. Dr. Sarah enjoys running, swimming, travel, and spending time with her 3 children.
William Clint Waddell; M.S., D.V.M., C.T.C.V.M.P., C.C.R.P., C.T.P.E.P.
Dr. Clint Waddell was born and raised in New Roads, Louisiana. After completing his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Louisiana State University, he graduated from The Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2005. Dr. Waddell is the only certified integrative veterinary medical practitioner in the Shreveport, LA area. He has completed advanced veterinary training and certification in Rehabilitation Medicine and is the only veterinarian in North Louisiana trained and certified in all branches of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM). Dr. Waddell completed his Certification in Canine Rehabilitation Practice (C.C.R.P.) from the University of Tennessee. Additionally, he received his Certification as a Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medical Practitioner (C.T.C.V.M.P.) by earning certifications in Veterinary Acupuncture (C.V.A.), Veterinary Food Therapy (C.V.F.T), Veterinary Chinese Herbal Practice (C.V.C.H.) and Tui-Na (Chinese medical manipulation) (C.V.T.P.) from the Chi Institute in Reddick, Florida. Additionally, Dr. Waddell is certified as a Palliative and End-of-Life Care practitioner (C.T.P.E.P.) from the Chi Institute in Reddick, Florida. His medical interest is Integrative Medicine, combining options in traditional Western Medicine (including regenerative medicine) with those of Eastern Medicine to provide the best care and quality of life for your pet. Dr. Clint enjoys traveling and has been fortunate to volunteer as a veterinarian with the International Mission Board and the Christian Veterinary Mission on several mission trips to Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America. Dr. Clint is also interested in World War II history and has had the opportunity to tour many historical sites throughout Europe. Dr. Clint enjoys reading, travel, swimming and spending time with his children William, Hannah, and Whit. Dr. Waddell is a certified swim official for USA Swimming. He and his wife, Dr. Sarah, have 3 Bloodhounds, 1 Bassett Hound, 3 cats and a flock of chickens.


Two of a kind and of one mind these sisters are revolutionalizing the face of beauty and the business of beauty in Nigeria, thereby paving the way for aspiring women entrepreneurs everywhere. The Charisma twins as they are known took over their mother's business and transformed it into an enviable beauty brand.
In this issue, they talk about growing up and their childhood experiences as identical twins. Although it's hard to physically tell them apart, Muka and Nina live individually unique lives.


This project is made as a part of a special Moscow program for the conversion of industrial territories. This zone on the edge of Zelenograd is meant for small businesses that work in the sphere of technological and production innovations. Atrium designed 2-nd and 3-rd stages of the project with laboratories, production blocks, data centers and warehouses. Since the surroundings are pretty industrial: heating station, water-treatment plant, aeration fields and so on, the architects tried to protect the inner space of the new neighborhood, which they saw as a concentrated city environment, dynamic as contemporary science itself. According to this idea they placed all the necessary facilities into production modules. There is also a play of transparent and more solid facades, because of this the same module that is used for more than 12 buildings has a different identity. As Atrium does not believe in the architecture of similar shoe-boxes, they tried to invent a special rhythm by blocking different parts, and to accentuate some parts: like the entrance with an arch, and public facilities with an angular plan. The landscape design was made with the same goals in mind.


I know I have been dying to get a hold of these since Pop Models 4 dropped. It must be our lucky day.
So Jayceeoh... How exactly did it feel to get that fat McDonalds check?
And to the edits, get em while they're hot.
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The secret of the cloud: Remote collaboration, elasticity, and the e-discovery paradigm
E-discovery is a microcosm of data management's macrocosm. Winning in the cloud with the former illustrates how to do so with the latter.
How to Brand and Market Your KM Products (Video)
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Looking to the Future of Knowledge Management: 2020 Insight
Throughout all KM solutions and services, a wave of modern technologies, such as AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and others, are serving to enhance traditional capabilities. As we enter a new year—and a new decade—there is an opportunity to reflect on what is happening now and what may lie ahead in the world of knowledge management solutions and services to deliver more timely and targeted insights to users when and where they need it.
Research@KMWorld: KM survey examines today's contact center challenges
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More than 80% of business information is locked in unstructured content. Even in the age of "digital transformation," much of this information originates from analog formats where structure can vary greatly. AI and machine learning can monitor and analyze large amounts of data, freeing up knowledge workers to focus on value-added tasks.
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Analytics in the IoT public sector: Perfecting with computer vision
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Why the Digital Employee Experience Matters (Video)
Step Two principal consultant Rebecca Rodgers defines the digital employee experience (DEX) as a lesser-known and undervalued cousin to the user/customer experience model and explains why it matters in this clip from KMWorld 2018.
How to search Twitter
The search features available in the Twitter search box are quite extensive and include Boolean, special terms or "field" qualifiers such as hashtags, and even qualifiers reflecting the nature of the content or "sentiment"
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Instagram itself has the barest of search capabilities, but there is a solution
How to search Facebook
In-depth searching of Facebook isn't necessarily easy, but it can be well worth the effort.
How to search LinkedIn
In searching for whatever type of information you need, there are three reasons why LinkedIn searching is easier and, in some ways, more effective than on other social networking sites
Information governance: Managing complexity
The global market for information governance is expected to grow by more than 20% per year over the next 5 years, reaching $3.62 billion by 2023.
Three trends shaping the direction of KM in 2019
Agile—a project management approach that stresses iteration, collaboration, and customer centricity—tops the list of innovations shaping KM programs.


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Big events still on for 4th, with changes
Glen Rose Reporter
The annual fireworks display put on at the Wheeler Branch Reservoir Park is still scheduled for Saturday at about 9:30 p.m., but with a few major changes. The park itself will be closed all day on July 4, and the plan to have a live band performing there inside the park has been canceled.
Also, the city's annual downtown parade that normally kicks off the Fourth of July festivities has been reconfigured to a different format, an On the Map Drive-Through Parade, in which residents are encouraged to vote on their favorite. The winner of the best float award will earn $500, according to Kristen Gibson, director of the Glen Rose Convention and Vistors Bureau.
Instead of the normal moving parade downtown, those who wish to vote can find a map of the locations where they can view each float. To view the map, download the "ExploreGlenRose" app free on iTunes & Google Play.
Gibson stated, "We are so excited to share that there will 26 locations around Glen Rose/Somervell County that will be "On the Map" this year!
"Individuals and businesses have joined with the Glen Rose Convention & Visitors Bureau and Glen Rose Chamber to decorate their yards, businesses, cars, mailboxes, etc to create a drive-through parade route, and be put "On the Map." Maps will be distributed 4th of July morning to the public who would like to drive the route and see all of the decorated entries.
"The public will vote for their favorite "Entry" by liking the picture posted on the Glen Rose Convention & Visitors Bureau, and Chamber of Commerce Facebook Pages. "Voting will begin at 10 am on July 4th and be closed at 11:59 pm. The entry with the most reactions on their photo will receive a cash prize provided by the Glen Rose Chamber! We are excited to be able to provide this safer alternative to the parade this year, and look forward to seeing all of the great ways that people will celebrate with us!"
For more information on the floats and voting, call 254-897-3081
Also, despite a couple of inexplicable rumors to the contrary on social media, the Fourth of July street dance in downtown Glen Rose is still on — according to the person who should know.
"We're moving forward with it," said Chuck Tordiglione, owner of Bull Lion Ranch Wine Shop, which includes a wine tasting shop, at 202 NE Barnard St. "I've got all the applications needed, and we're OK."
He said that a local country and western band, the Hayburners, will be performing, from 7-10:30 p.m. Saturday.
In order to comply with the latest executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott, Tordiglione said that they will be allowing no more than 50 into the dance area that will be set aside for the street dance Saturday evening on Walnut Street, between NE Barnard and Grace Street.
But even if that is necessary, the dancing will organically expand.
"We could have 500 on the square," Tordiglione predicted, noting that the dancing could spread throughout the downtown area if enough people attend. "We really expect to have a great turnout. We're expecting it to be a wonderful Fourth of July dance. The shops on the square will be open, and some will be serving food and drink. Businesses are encouraged to stay open."
Tordiglione said that he obtained the necessary permit from the city to allow open container use downtown during the dance.
Tordiglione also noted that his Bull Lion Ranch shop is having the grand opening of its new Italian deli, which will be open until "11 or 12."
Tordiglione previously stated, "There might be some secret guests," adding that some members of the Dallas Cowboys and some members of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders could show up, along with some rodeo champions.
Also, patriots who are getting out this weekend will want to visit the Field of Flags displays, at two different locations, displaying hundreds of flags today (July 3) through Sunday. The locations will be Field 1 at Oakdale Park in memory of Rhett Butler, and Field 2 on U.S. Highway 67 next to the GRISD Administration Building honoring Kristopher Higdon.


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The Reverend John William Conrad, D.Min
by Janet Kawamoto | Jan 18, 2023 | Obituaries
February 27, 1952 – January 16, 2023
[The Episcopal News] The Rev. John William Conrad, D.Min, rector of All Saints' Church, Riverside, from 2008 to 2018, died Jan. 16 of pancreatic cancer. Though he and his wife, Shannon, had recently divided their time between homes in Michigan and Mexico, he passed away in Riverside during a holiday visit.
Bishop John Harvey Taylor will preach at a service celebrating his life, witness and vocation at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4 at All Saints Church, 3847 Terracina Dr, Riverside 92506. A mariachi and taco bar reception in Smith Hall will follow the service.
In addition to his wife, Shannon M. Murphy, to whom he was married in 2009, Conrad is survived by his sons, William and Robert (Krystle), and two grandchildren.
Prior to his tenure at All Saints, he was interim priest at Church of the Good Samaritan in San Diego (1999 – 2005) and rector of St. Alban's Church, El Cajon (1999 – 2005), both in the Diocese of San Diego. In the Diocese of Los Angeles, he served at St. Mark's Church in Glendale (1996 – 1999). He also was instrumental in starting St. Hilary's Church, Hesperia, in the late 1990s.
Before entering the ordained ministry, Conrad was a commercial pilot and flight instructor; he was said to have been the youngest person up to that time to earn his flight credentials. Born in Victorville, he earned a bachelor's degree at Thomas Edison State College, New Jersey, in 1993, and a master of divinity degree from Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1996. Bishop Robert Anderson ordained him as a deacon on June 8, 1996; Bishop Frederick H. Borsch ordained him as a priest on Jan. 18, 1997.
In addition to his congregational ministry, Conrad had a broad range of interests and activities: with characteristic humor he described himself on his Facebook page as "Priest, Pilot, Poet, Counselor, Confessor, Confidant and Spiritual Proctologist." An advocate for the poor, he wrote in his book To the Least of These: A Better Church Response to Homelessness that the issue of homelessness would not be solved until Christians saw the unhoused as their true siblings in Christ. He also wrote articles for church and aviation publications.
Another of Conrad's passions was justice for the people of Palestine. He lived in Bethlehem during a 2012 sabbatical in order to better understand the Palestinians people, and later led many pilgrimages to the Holy Land, even founding a small travel company focused on such journeys.
In 2005 he earned a doctor of ministry degree at CDSP, focusing on systems theory and faith communities.
On Jan. 11, Bishop Taylor posted on Facebook a photo of himself and Conrad, asking for prayers for the latter and writing that he was "grappling with serious health challenges." The following day, Conrad wrote the following on his own Facebook page:
"Ever since Bishop John Harvey Taylor uploaded a selfie with me looking like a whacked-out, wild-eyed junkie, I have been overwhelmed with prayer and emotional support from family and friends old and new. Everyone keeps asking about my condition. In his post, Bishop Taylor said I was "grappling with serious health challenges," which is a little like saying Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet was "grappling with serious knife challenges." As Mercutio quipped, "Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man." Indeed. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it won't be more than a few tomorrows before I find myself in the same situation. I have very terminal metastatic pancreatic cancer so I go into the next life chuckling at those of you who were betting on my liver. I have but a few days before I go off into the unknown to find the answer to many of the most important and perplexing theological questions, such as whether or not God cares if you are baptized before receiving communion, or whether we should keep the filioque clause in the Nicene Creed. I do accept Jesus as my savior and I do put my whole trust in his grace and love. It feels good. I go into the welcoming arms of my Lord Jesus feeling the warm embrace of an all-loving and all-forgiving God. I am truly at peace and greet the prospect of the next life with guarded anticipation."


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Enrique Jiménez Montellano (ur. 12 października 1944 w Oaxaca) – meksykański zapaśnik walczący w stylu klasycznym. Dwukrotny olimpijczyk. Odpadł w eliminacjach turnieju w Meksyku 1968 i Monachium 1972. Walczył w wadze muszej do 52 kg.

Srebrny medalista igrzysk panamerykańskich w 1975 i czwarty w 1971. Triumfator igrzysk Ameryki Środkowej i Karaibów w 1970 roku.

Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1968

Letnie Igrzyska Olimpijskie 1972

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Meksykańscy zapaśnicy
Meksykańscy olimpijczycy
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1968
Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1972
Medaliści Igrzysk Panamerykańskich 1975
Ludzie urodzeni w Oaxace (miasto)
Urodzeni w 1944


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"We will 'Totally Destroy' the Johnson Amendment"
Posted on February 6, 2017 by HistPhil	Leave a comment
Editors' Note: During a speech at the 64th annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington last week, Donald Trump reaffirmed his campaign promise to "get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment." Here, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan offers a history of the amendment and some analysis on its likely future.
President Trump announced at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday that he was planning to "totally destroy" the Johnson Amendment—in the name of religious freedom.
Wait. The Johnson Amendment? What's that?
Tellingly, that's pretty much the history of the Johnson Amendment. Few noticed it when it was enacted and few understand it today. It is one of the many important legal stories of interest principally to tax policy nerds. As with many other pronouncements being issued by this President, this one seems to come from left field. Religious freedom in the US today is threatened by a 1954 amendment to the tax code? Really?
Interestingly, the story of Trump's hostility to the Johnson Amendment closely parallels the story of then Senator Johnson's original motivation in introducing the amendment. Neither of them was interested in religion. Each was trying to get elected.
According to the NYT, Trump's interest in the Johnson Amendment apparently originated during the campaign when he asked a group of pastors who supported him why they weren't speaking out more. They told him they were not legally permitted to do so. He took up their cause. Trumpeting their free speech rights was directly linked, in other words, to his effort to maximize votes. The Johnson Amendment itself also originated in a campaign. While the historical record is notably sparse, Lyndon Johnson was reportedly concerned not with empowering supporters but with muzzling charitable groups associated with his political opponents. There was no opposition to the amendment at the time. (Roger Colinvaux, "The Political Speech of Charities in the Face of Citizens United: A Defense of Prohibition" 62 Case Western Reserve Law Review 685 (2012), 689 n. 25) The effect on churches was almost accidental, a feature of the tax code, not the result of a desire to suppress free speech or religious freedom.
One characteristic of Mr. Trump's political speech is his skilled use of compression and portmanteau concepts. He seems to be something of a genius at picking up and making use of anxieties and agendas that he can re-package to his own purpose. That his invocation of the Johnson Amendment is legible at all to the general public is the result of an interesting convergence of trends.
But first, a quick rehearsal of the provisions of the Johnson Amendment. Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that exemption from the income tax is available to
Corporations, and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting, to influence legislation (except as otherwise provided in subsection (h)), and which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.
The amendment that resulted in the strictures of the last part of the section was proposed by then Senator Johnson from the floor to what would become the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. It passed without opposition. There are approximately 1.5 million registered §501(c)(3) charities in the US.
As Roger Colinvaux reminds us in his article on the effect of the Court's decision in Citizens United on §501(c)(3) (cited above), while the Johnson Amendment story as usually retailed seems to suggest a sudden and unprecedented irruption of concern in 1954 about political activity by charitable organizations, skepticism about the political activities of charities was embedded in the common law of charities and continued to animate legal reformers in the early twentieth century when the Internal Revenue Code was adopted. Indeed, one might say that political activity had long been widely believed to defeat status as a charity. Thus, "[t]he Johnson Amendment," notwithstanding its opaque legislative history, ". . . marked a continuation or culmination—at a glacial pace—of the discussion about politics and charity." (p. 7) In contrast to the electioneering ban considered in Citizens United, Colinvaux argues, which was certainly intended to directly curtail and penalize political speech, the political activity provision of §501(c)(3) is definitional. Furthermore, charities can always organize a separate §501(c)(4) organization (which do not have such a prohibition) for political purposes. And some do.
So. What has changed to lend credibility to Trump's proposal? Particularly with respect to religious organizations?
First, it must be underlined that churches are not prohibited from political activity. It is that if they choose to register as §501(c)(3) organizations in order to gain a tax exemption, a status that is a matter of grace not entitlement, they are, like other §501(c)(3) charitable organizations, prohibited from lobbying on legislation and speaking on behalf of candidates for public office. Many, perhaps most, Americans are fine with this. The prohibition on political activity of certain kinds helps to preserve churches from being exploited for exactly the partisan political ends sought by Trump. In any event, the prohibition is little enforced and many churches and pastors skirt the border without consequence. The policy also coincides with a lingering faith in the separation of church and state, a separationist idealism, if you will, that continues to animate the religious politics of most across the religious and political spectrum even while, at least in the Supreme Court, it continues to be eroded as a legal doctrine.
But there have been real changes to the politics of religion in the US in the last twenty-five years or so, particularly since the Court's decision in Employment Division v Smith ending constitutionally mandated exemptions, and the shift among religious activists from judicial to legislative efforts, particularly with respect to various RFRA laws. (see this author's post "The World That Smith Made"). Like Bush's "faith-based initiative," Trump's call for a strengthening of laws protecting religious freedom depends on a very particular story of exclusion, one that is not entirely wrong, but which is also not entirely right, like his other stories of exclusion.
For my own part, I would argue that any plausibility there is to Trump's call to destroy the Johnson Amendment rests in the fact that the line between religion and politics, between church and state, is becoming more difficult to maintain for a number of reasons. Religious and political authority is shifting away from the leaders who embodied the unity of churches and states. People everywhere are increasingly making their own choices about their religious lives. The assumptions that underwrote mid-twentieth century separationism simply no longer have purchase. (see also this author's "The Impossibility of Religious Freedom") I would also argue, paradoxically perhaps, that there is simultaneously a new corporatism in US religious politics, reflected in the Court's decisions in EEOC v Hosanna-Tabor and Burwell v Hobby Lobby, a kind of rearguard action on behalf of the sovereignty of institutions, one which also blurs the line between religion and politics—business. (See my "The Church"). Trump's ability to mobilize both unchurched and churched Americans is one more illustration of his remarkable capacity to marry grassroots populism to top-down forms of authority across a number of sectors.
Repealing the Johnson Amendment is considered unlikely by experts, if for no other reason than a concern over a resulting negative effect on revenue. That doesn't mean that there is nothing to criticize about it. (I commend Roger Colinvaux's article for a full treatment of the issues.) But neither its continued existence nor its repeal is likely to have a significant dampening effect on the rights of Americans to practice their religion.
Thank you to Ben Berger, Stan Katz, Fred Konefsky, and Barry Sullivan for comments.
-Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies Indiana University Bloomington. She studies the intersection of religion and law in the modern period, particularly the phenomenology of modern religion as it is shaped in its encounter with law. She is the author of Paying the Words Extra: Religious Discourse in the Supreme Court of the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1994); The Impossibility of Religious Freedom (Princeton, 2005), Prison Religion: Faith-based Reform and the Constitution (Princeton, 2009), and A Ministry of Presence: Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care and the Law (2014). She is also co-editor of Politics of Religious Freedom (Chicago 2015).
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