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Rodney Jordan, Professor of Jazz Studies joined the Florida State University faculty in 2001. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi where he studied with Dr. London Branch, Alvin Fielder, and Andy Hardwick. Jordan was also the Assistant Principal bassist with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and Principal Bassist with the Albany Symphony Orchestra (Albany, GA) and served as string instructor in the Dougherty and DeKalb County School Systems in Georgia. He has also served as the bass instructor at Darton College in Albany, GA and Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.
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[GRTV] Meet Financial Advice NZ CEO Katrina Shanks
Financial Advice NZ came to life this week. In this video new chief executive Katrina Shanks talks about the association's purpose, what members need to do for the Quality Service Mark and more.
Monday, July 2nd 2018
Financial Advice NZ launched on Sunday with 1500 members.
Shanks said she saw her new role as an opportunity to do something to make a difference in the lives of New Zealanders and financial advisers.
The best outcomes would come from working with the regulator, she said, but she would not be afraid to make a stand if something happened that the association did not agree with.
It was important to try to negotiate from a place at the table, she said. "Being at the right place at the right time is really important."
Advisers would have a louder voice if they were part of a collective, she said, with better ability to influence policy.
Financial Advice NZ has asked the Minister of Commerce for a seat on the Code Working Group to represent independent advisers. Currently the group is working through 2000 pages of submissions it has received on its first formal consultation round.
There has been criticism that the group does not include any working financial advisers and is dominated by the "big end of town".
Shanks said she had written to Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi to ask for a meeting to discuss the association becoming involved with the group.
She said he had not yet replied.
A spokesman for Faafoi confirmed the request. "We do not have any comment in regard to any possible meeting at this time and it would be inappropriate to speculate on matters that could potentially be discussed should a meeting take place."
Shanks said work was continuing on the quality service mark (QSM) that would eventually be compulsory for Financial Advice NZ members.
She said it would require advisers to have a certain amount of experience and undertake set professional development - but it would not be finalised until the code of conduct was confirmed and regulation signed odd.
The regulatory requirements would form the base for advisers and the QSM would sit above that, she said.
It would not compete with CFP. Financial Advice NZ will administer the CFP mark in New Zealand, taking over from the IFA.
"The more qualifications in that space the better, as far as I am concerned."
She said the association would have to recognise every discipline in the sector and provide a value proposition for all advisers to become members.
"It's my job to ensure there is a value proposition for every single member whether they are a mortgage adviser, insurance adviser, big or small. Overall we all have the same common goal, to reach out to the public and get them to understand what the value of advice is."
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by TripleA 2 July 2018 8:39 pm
I think, given the issues across the Tasman, and the widespread concern about the makeup of the Code Working party closer to home that the views of small, independent financial adviser firms is seen to have some influence on the development of new legislation / regulation. The first round of consultation documents out of the working party have done nothing to allay the overall concerns of financial advisers.
by Pragmatic 3 July 2018 8:17 pm
Great initiative. Best of luck in redirecting the Minister's myopic view of the industry
by Good Hamish 4 July 2018 7:07 am
We have to be careful not to assume that Australian problems exist here.
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[REVIEW] My Wedding and 7 Rings: Ren Shibasaki season 1 Sequel
After realizing her love for Ren, the MC has been in complete bliss in her everyday life with him. However, melancholy sets in when the anniversary date of her parents' deaths creeps up around the corner. While Ren comforts her with his quiet kindness, she's still plagued by insecurity and nightmares of losing him like her parents. Despite her worries, the program continues on to the second stage with a new challenge: Ren has to overcome his speechlessness in front of others to prove his love for her?!
I absolutely love Ren's support for the MC. He's always there for her, but doesn't make a big deal out of it; his quiet kindness and subtle acts of comfort lets her that she not alone and he's with her. This plays a huge role in this story, where the MC is haunted by the loss of her parents. While she did care for Ren and Yamato as close friends, her love for Ren has changed into something bigger, consequently intensifying the fear that she'll lose him and go through the same cycle of loss she did with her parents. This frightens her a lot, especially since Ren was one of the people who pulled her out of it the first time.
While Ren is the one who had to learn how to voice his feelings to the MC in his main story, the MC is the one who learns how to convey hers to him in this one. She doesn't want to worry him because of how busy he is with work; however, he encourages her to do so and she slowly learns how to share her worries and fears with him. I love how Ren doesn't deny the MC's grief. Although her parents passed away ten years ago, she's still struck with feelings of loss and he accepts that. He realizes before the MC how important her memories of them are to her and encourages her not to try and forget them; time heals wounds, and while the MC isn't quite there yet, she'll slowly come to view her memories with her parents fondly instead of with grief.
This story focuses more on the MC overcoming personal issues. I liked how the program's second stage didn't play as large of a part in this story compared to the previous sequels; it was a nice change of pace and was a good fit for the MC and Ren, who feel like a couple who like to do things at their own pace (especially Ren lol). While the writing was a bit iffy at a few scenes, the overall story was well written and paced. Despite only being eight chapters long, it didn't feel rushed.
If you liked Ren in his main story, then I highly recommend his sequel! He's just as sweet (if not sweeter) in this story and you'll get to see him act adorable when he's in bed sick with a cold >w< I can't wait to see what's in store for his season 2 stories, and until then, happy playing!
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Thanks for review.Have a good weekend.
Thank you for reading it! I hope you have a good one too! ^w^
Beverly Ezenta
Thank you for this review Yume,
I have been waiting when you will do this review because Ren is such a amazing guy :3 Sigh… For example, I love the scene when it was revealed that he has been sending flowers to her parents grave ever since the day they died. Because he wanted to put her parents spirits at ease, and want to say that he will be loving/taking care of the MC for now on. (HOW can you not love him? He is just a sweet a amazing guy!!) Anyway I can't wait for season 2 to come 😀
p.s. I just find out that TLSL is having a sale for season 2! (Just to help you save money) Anyway I can't wait until you do the review for Dr.Himuro because MANY people who are in love with him.
Thank you once again 😉
The sale for TLSL doesn't help me since I already have all the stories ; w ; Thank you for the information though!
Ren is amazing (/w\) I can't wait to play Himuro's story! A lot of people seem to like him and I find myself looking forward to it because of that 😀
AWWW REN IS SO ADORABLE!


After playing Staler-Shadow of Chernobyl, you ask yourself why did you have this ending and not some other.
It´s the most common ending of all because most of the players don´t find the laboratory and go ahead to the Wishmaster. It´s very easy to earn money in Stalker SOC - you find a lot of artifacts without using detector, everyone is paying you a lot of money for ammo and weapons and no player is poor in this game.
One of the coolest and scariest endings. "Humanity is corrupt, mankind must be controlled."
Strelok gets absorbed by Wishmaster in this ending.


And you thought the Nikon P900's 83x zoom lens was impressive. Nikon has just announced the Nikon COOLPIX P100, the "new undisputed powerhouse of superzooms." It packs a ridiculous 125x zoom lens that has the 35mm-equivalent focal range of 24-3000mm — the most powerful range available in a compact camera.
"The P1000 is the ideal companion camera for birding, sports, wildlife, and celestial-photographers seeking superior performance from extreme distances," Nikon says.
Inside the camera is a 16-megapixel back-side illuminated CMOS sensor that has an expanded ISO range of up to 6400.
The camera's lens uses ED and Super ED lens elements and features a variable aperture of f/2.8-f/8 through the zoom range. 250x Dynamic Fine Zoom gives the camera extra digital reach, allowing it to shoot up to 6000mm (in 35mm terms).
"This powerful zoom range gives the P1000 the versatility to chronicle an adventure-filled vacation, capture a favorite ballplayer from the top tier of a stadium or fill the frame with celestial objects like the moon, that normally only a telescope could reach," Nikon says.
Dual Detect Optical VR in the camera provides 5-stops of camera shake compensation — helpful for when you're trying to capture a scene or subject at the telephoto end of the camera's range.
On the back of the camera are a 2.3-million-dot OLED electronic viewfinder and a swiveling 3.2-inch 921K-dot LCD screen.
Other features and specs of the camera include 4K video recording, stereo audio recording, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity, quick start-up, RAW photos, a focus mode selector, a control ring (for adjusting things like white balance and manual focus), picture controls, creative modes (e.g. Bird Watching, Moon Mode, and 1cm Macro), filter effects, and time-lapse effect.
The Nikon COOLPIX P1000 will be available in September 2018 for $1,000.


This is a diagnostic test that uses electrodes placed over the scalp to record the electrical activity of the brain, especially the cerebral cortex. The recording of potential differences on the scalp caused by brain activity was first reported by Hans Berger in 1929. This gave rise to the EEG that is used widely today.
The EEG measures mass changes in synaptic activity in the nerves of the brain and is helpful in diagnosing, treating and evaluating diseases that change electrical activity in the brain, such as epilepsy. Around a couple of decades ago, multichannel EEG recording techniques came into use.
These use mathematically extensive modelling algorithms to help locate functional brain areas based on the scalp-potential distributions. This is termed high-resolution EEG.
The first recording of cerebral magnetic fields was performed with an induction coil by David Cohen in 1968. The first recording with a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) was also performed by Cohen in 1972. The pioneering research on MEG then began.
MEG can map brain activity by recording the electromagnetic fields that are produced by the naturally occurring electrical currents in the brain. This technique offers a better spatial resolution than EEG and helps to pinpoint problematic sites.
Regional cerebral blood flow imaging has been assessed using radioactive tracer substances since the early 1960s. Such techniques include computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans.
Both EEG and MEG have their disadvantages and have been replaced by more recent methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This technique can detect the smallest of changes and is useful in both diagnosis of disease and the development of treatments.
fMRI uses very powerful magnets and can localize brain activity changes to regions as small as one cubic millimeter. In addition, it is not an invasive procedure and can be used widely. However fMRI, does fail to provide real-time dynamics of blood flow within the brain.
Photon migration tomography (PMT; also called near-infrared spectroscopy or optical imaging) is another new method for measuring cortical activity and assesses the scattering of near-infrared light from the brain tissue.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a technique used to excite neurons using strong and time-varying magnetic fields. The procedure is non-invasive and painless.


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3 Ways NY Restaurants are Going Green
August 14, 2018 - 11:44 am
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By Lori Melton
New York is known for its vast array of delicious, critically-acclaimed, culturally-infused cuisine, which is served at some of the best restaurants in the country. Many eateries have joined in statewide sustainability initiatives and have made a strong effort to go green in multiple areas of their business, from composting food waste to cultivating their own vegetables. Here's a look at three ways eco-conscious restaurants in New York are going green.
Serving Locally-Sourced Organic Food from Farms and Rooftop Gardens
The popular farm-to-table push in New York's restaurant scene creates menus filled with dishes curated from locally-sourced farms or their own rooftop gardens. Using locally-grown ingredients helps reduce the carbon footprint involved with shipping and transporting food; plus, organic food is healthier to consume because it's chemical and pesticide-free.
Blue Hill in Greenwich Village is known for sourcing most of its menu from its world-renowned Blue Hill at Stone Barns farm and other locally-sourced farmers who supply the menu with sustainable items. Forest Harvest Farm in Petersham, Maryland, for instance, supplies Blue Hill with naturally-grown mushrooms. Roberta's Pizza in Bushwick also prepares mouth-watering pizza with ingredients grown on their roof. These are just two examples of scores of NY restaurants that are committed to serving sustainable, locally-grown food.
Reducing and Recycling Food Waste
Mayor Bill de Blasio issued a mandate through the New York City Department of Sanitation back in 2015 in which hotel restaurants at establishments with more than 150 rooms, sports arenas and food wholesalers are required to recycle their food waste. The businesses must separate food waste from trash and send it to a company to compost or reuse, or compost it themselves on site.
As of August 2018, the directive has expanded to include large restaurants (with 15,000 square feet of floor space or more) and chain restaurants operating under common ownership with more than 100 locations in the city. Because food scraps and other organic waste account for more than one-third of all commercial waste in New York City, the new rules are expected to prevent about 50,000 tons of food waste from being deposited at landfills annually.
Conserving Water by Installing Flow Restrictors on Faucets and Toilets
Water is a critical, life-sustaining natural resource. Restaurants can go green by installing flow restrictors on faucets at dish sinks, hand washing sinks, dish machines and toilets. B.R. Guest restaurants in New York saved 5 million gallons of water a year using flow restrictors.
Frequently checking for sink and toilet leaks and promptly repairing them also helps prevent large amounts of water usage (up to 4,000 gallons per day from leaky toilets alone) generated by leaks. And, high-efficiency toilets use about 1.28 gallons of water per flush, versus older toilets which use 3.5 to 5 gallons per flush.


Trax on Wax, is a vinyl record shop in Catonsville, Maryland. We pay cash for your unwanted LPs and vinyl records! We will burn your favorite albums to CD for only $5.00. Enjoy free Wi-Fi. We are a record store in MD where you can try out music albums from our wide selection of used vinyl on listening stations! We will track down hard-to-find LPs for you! We even offer music accessories like record players and turntables for sale!


Elly Neonball by Goblinsama Ltd.
A prototype we've built in early 2017.
We'll use it to create a full-fledged game eventually, but for now you can play this rough draft.
While technically there is a working first-person mode, keep in mind it's there for aesthetic purposes only: the game is supposed to be played in third-person view for now.
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Interesting concept looking forward to see further development. What will the main "colours" power be ?
Current are: red=jump, blue=push&dot, green=freeze.


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Governor Lamont Announces Connecticut Becomes First State in Nation To Require High Schools Provide Courses on Black and Latino Studies
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Connecticut has become the first state in the nation to require all high schools in the state offer courses on African-American, Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino studies.
The requirement is the result of a law Governor Lamont signed last year – Public Act 19-12 – that directs all regional and local boards of education to include an elective course of studies at the high school level that provides students with a better understanding of the African-American, Black, Puerto Rican, and Latino contributions to United States history, society, economy, and culture. Last week, the Connecticut State Board of Education unanimously approved the curriculum for the course, which was a final step needed to implement the requirement.
High schools may offer the course in 2021-2022 and will be required to offer it during the school year that begins in the fall of 2022.
"Increasing the diversity of what we teach is critical to providing students with a better understanding of who we are as a society and where we are going," Governor Lamont said. "Adding this course in our high schools will be an enormous benefit not only to our Black and Latino students, but to students of all backgrounds because everyone can benefit from these studies. This is a step that is long overdue, and I applaud the work of the General Assembly, State Board of Education, and everyone at the State Education Resource Center whose collaborative work helped get this done."
"Identities matter, especially when 27 percent of our students identify as Hispanic or Latino and 13 percent identify as Black or African-American," Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona said. "This curriculum acknowledges that by connecting the story of people of color in the U.S. to the larger story of American history. The fact is that more inclusive, culturally relevant content in classrooms leads to greater student engagement and better outcomes for all. This law passed due in large part to the strong advocacy of students from around the state and the legislative leadership of State Representative Bobby Gibson and State Senator Doug McCrory. I thank Ingrid Canady, the SERC team, and all of our partners who contributed to and drove us to this historic moment."
The adopted curriculum focuses on a two-pronged, inquiry-based approach, including both content knowledge and student identity development. It utilizes Connecticut's Social Studies Framework themes and inquiry-based approach already familiar to social studies teachers to deliver a content rich and personalized learning experience. The Connecticut State Department of Education partnered with the State Education Resource Center (SERC) to develop the curriculum.
The development process was guided by a 150-member advisory group comprised of educators, administrators, higher education professors and scholars, national researchers and historians, representatives from education and community organizations, and studies and families. The group organized into nine committees with specific tasks. The work of each committee was facilitated by a SERC liaison to ensure seamless communication and workflow between committees.
Additionally, an expert review panel was convened, consisting of ten national and state-level experts to review course deliverables as they were developed and provide critical feedback and resources. Other opportunities for stakeholder involvement included providing feedback through surveys and focus groups.
"I am extremely proud of the passage of this bill," State Senator Douglas McCrory (D-Hartford), co-chair of the Education Committee, said. "It was a humbling experience to hear students passionately call for the Black and Latino studies curriculum, and I thank them for it. Nelson Mandela once said, 'Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,' and I hope this new curriculum will facilitate a greater understanding and appreciation of the many contributions made by Black and Latino Americans."
"I am excited to see implementation of this bipartisan legislation that will give students a more realistic view of their heritage and the many accomplishments of their ancestors," State Representative Bobby Sanchez (D-New Britain) said. "This curriculum, which is a year-long study of Black and Latino history, will lead to better racial relations in our communities and a more inclusive state for our children and theirs. At public hearings, last year students explained how history classes didn't reflect their heritage. Now, high schoolers will have that opportunity."
"I am so proud of how the state came together to make this legislation I brought forth come to fruition," State Representative Bobby Gibson (D-Bloomfield, Windsor) said. "This history is for everyone. Our nation is at a point where we must change the one-sided narrative of how we view history. Racism stems from the lack of knowledge and respect for one another. Perhaps if our children grew up knowing more about the amazing accomplishments of our people, the actions of this past summer would not have had to happen. We would be doing an injustice to our children if we didn't do our part to help them to understand each other more."
"SERC's mission has always been about access and opportunity, and our team is proud to have been part of this moment affirming our students' racial identity and ensuring it is at the forefront," Ingrid Canady, executive director of SERC, said. "Our coordination of this endeavor involved an advisory group of racially diverse, passionate, and committed individuals from across Connecticut and we have made history together because we passionately believed it could be done. Even through challenges like the pandemic, the group never backed down because we knew that every single student in Connecticut needs to understand the history of people of color in the American story which has been denied by textbooks for too long."
To learn more about the curriculum and the next steps for district implementation, visit pa1912.serc.co.
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SNL debuts "abortion clown" in an attempt to make abortion funny (and other stories)
Posted on November 9, 2021 by Jonathon Van Maren
A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
While China's military tests extraordinary new weapons, America's descent into wokeness continues with the christening of a new Navy ship. The new naval ship has been dubbed the "Harvey Milk," after the San Francisco gay rights leader who had a sexual relationship with an underage boy. Milk was, by definition, a statutory rapist. But because he is part of the new American pantheon of historical figures who began the great transition, he has not been cancelled. Far from it—he is celebrated as an icon, with most news articles on his latest honor referring to his "assassination" as if it had something to do with his LGBT activism (it didn't.) New times call for new heroes.
Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, and several others have begun a new Substack titled The Postliberal Order to lend an intellectual and legal framework to their developing political theory on what must follow the collapse of liberalism. Whatever you think of these scholars, their work is essential to understanding whatever comes next. (For those interested, I interviewed Deneen on his book Why Liberalism Failed a couple of years ago.)
Young Canadians are losing faith in the institution of marriage, and Peter Jon Mitchell explains why over at The Hub.
When I first saw the video of the Microsoft employees not only stating their pronouns, but their racial identities and hairstyles, I thought it was fake—a Babylon Bee-type thing. But nope, it's actually real. If this actually becomes the new normal, we're all either going to live in some postmodern version of the Capital in The Hunger Games or the backlash is going to ensure that wokeness is the death of the Left:
"Where are your pronouns, Alison and Seth, you bigots?!"@MegynKelly's latest #SoundUp, on Microsoft unlocking new levels of corporate wokeness. Watch below, find the FULL video show here: https://t.co/0cyQcwz0Pt pic.twitter.com/Q9tmBbPcan
— The Megyn Kelly Show (@MegynKellyShow) November 6, 2021
Progressives are grasping at straws in their efforts to stymie the pro-life movement's ongoing political success, and Saturday Night Live's latest sketch is perfect evidence of that. In an unfunny skit that is more pathetic than grotesque, SNL has a clown tell her abortion story. The majority of Americans—including pro-choice Americans—find abortion to be a tragedy. That's why the so-called "abortion comedies" produced by Hollywood have flopped so badly. This won't work. Nobody thinks abortion is funny.
Goober the Clown
(who had an abortion when she was 23) pic.twitter.com/1rFv6UrPGu
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 7, 2021
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Chris Nielson says:
This SNL skit is worthy of a facepalm! What ever happened to Ed Grimly, Pat, Simon, The Church Lady, Wayne and Garth, The copy guy and the like? They were funny, this is stupid and downright sick!
Navi says:
Is that supposed to be a ripoff of Loonette the Clown?
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