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Uyghur Flamenco and "World Citizenship"
written by Darren Byler
On any given weekend in China you can find a Uyghur band playing flamenco. It has not always been this way. It wasn't until the late 1990s that a young man from Qarghiliq in Kashgar prefecture discovered Turkish variations of Spanish flamenco. Over the next decade that man, Arken Abdulla, along other early flamenco guitarists such as Qehirman and Tursun (see the above video), introduced flamenco to the Uyghur world.
Today it seems to be everywhere. Young Uyghur men with long flowing hair clap out the music of Andalusia from Ürümchi to Beijing. Many times this music is fused with the sounds of Sufi music and dance from the deserts of Southern Xinjiang; often it reflects the phrasing and compositional styles of the Muqam – a form of classical Islamic music and dance performance which is a source of immense pride for many Uyghurs. Arken, perhaps more than any other contemporary artist, is seen as embodying an "interlocking" (kirishmaq) of Uyghur forms of performance into the romance of the flamenco guitar. When one asks about cosmopolitan Uyghur artists, the universal answer is Arken. They will tell you about how he studied in Spain and the Beijing Music Conservatory, how his wife is of Manchu descent, how much he knows about jazz and bossa nova.
Many of them will be quick to tell you that most flamenco songs are "just love songs, they're not serious songs about Uyghur identity like Abdurehim Heyt's, Abdulla's or Esker's songs." Yet, despite this distancing, cosmopolitan artists like Arken and Tursun are still widely respected – even if they aren't widely understood. The fusion they promote is seen by many as admirable. Often even people who have become a bit guarded when it comes to identity politics have grudging respect for people like Arken and Tursun. They might not love everything about them, but they still admire their accomplishments on the world stage.
Perhaps more importantly though is the way Arken and Tursun act as a models for other artists. Many urban Uyghur cultural producers are motivated by them and their aesthetic experimentation. I've met architects, film makers, painters, photographers, doctors and lawyers who cite Arken as a major source of inspiration. Songs like City Night present a cosmopolitan affect and seriousness that resonates with many aspiring urbanites. Yet if we just zero in on flamenco itself we can see that Arken and other guitarists who followed his path have become catalysts to a cascade of dozens of musicians.
Uyghur Fusion
As the video above demonstrates, Arken's and Tursun's model has provided a pathway out of poverty and rural life toward a cosmopolitan life in the city where young men cobble together a life in pursuit of their passions. Like Arken and Tursun, many aspiring Uyghur flamenco players were educated on the margins of Mandarin language education system; their education came instead through the oral traditions (the poetry and music, the dancing and bargaining, the mentoring in craftsmanship) that are so strong in rural Uyghur society.
Tursun begins the video above by talking about how ethnicity is not that important for an artist. Identifying with a group is only one of the tools an artist carries. Instead, for him and his younger apprentice Yasen, guitarists in particular are improvisers adept at solving the problems that confront them. They are "wanderers" who always find ways to follow their passions and move their music forward.
Tursun argues that artists "should always be lonely." In order to be in tune with to their instrument and what it can do, they have to leave their people and their tradition to find their art. Others will always see artists as strange. But Uyghur artists, despite their distance from their people, have an important role to play in society. Artists can make it clear that Uyghurs have an important contribution to make in the world; they do this by making Uyghur traditions relevant to the contemporary world.
In the video above we can see this happening. The intro to their song resembles the long free rhythm and phrasing of the first section of a Muqam – the täzä. At around the 4:00 mark, Yasen sings that "life is desolate" in the absence of his lover; his voice hangs in the air waiting for the march of time to return. This is precisely the feeling that precedes the arrival of the first major melody theme or nuskha in a Muqam.
By the 4:58 mark, when he is answering the call of the previous tension-building section of free rhythm and improvisation, the rhythm of vital love returns. He tells his lover that he will return and never leave. He sings about growing old together; he tells his lover that "If you are the pomegranate's flower I am the nectar" and then in a variation of the old Sufi trope he ends the song by singing "your love is like a flame, don't burn the haystack!"
Throughout this song we find the Sufi imagery of the lover and his beloved. What on the surface sounds like a recasting of the novo flamenco of the Gypsy Kings, Ottmar Liebert, Carlos Montoya and Paco de Lucía is more than that; it is an entwining of Uyghur sentiment with radically new media. Although it isn't present in all of the new Uyghur flamenco, in much of it, particularly Uyghur language songs, the compositional forms and lyrics related to Muqam and older traditional folk music is a recurring theme.
In the video Tursun mentions briefly the meaning of his name: "the one who stays." During the decades of immense hardship in Xinjiang (the 1960s-70s), this was a tremendously popular name among Uyghurs. On one level it refers to the extremely high infant mortality rate during those years, but on another level it refers to the hope that someone will come to bring forward the traditions of the past. What Arken and Tursun begun has brought a new genre to Uyghur art world.
Uyghur Flamenco as World Citizenship
Guitar, or gitter as it is referred to in Uyghur, first came to Xinjiang in the Elvis-esque stylings of Exmetjan. It had a role in the rise of Esker's rock-n-roll as well (Arken was an early guitarist for his band), but it has found its most mature and seemingly lasting form in the flamenco mode. Uyghur flamenco produces more than songs of love meant to appeal to a non-Uyghur audience, they also bring Ugyhur forms of performance to a new environment.
The scholar Joanne Smith-Finley ends her recent book, The Art of Symbolic Resistance, by discussing Arken's rise and its importance as new performance genre. She writes that he and his supporters have presaged "a new generation as part of a confident, unfettered global youth. By aligning themselves with Mediterranean and North African Sufi cultures, flamenco guitarist Arken Abdulla's fans shift the boundaries and 're-map their lifeworld', positioning themselves as confident, passionate, outward-looking 'world citizens'" and, following the geographer Vinay Gidwani, "subaltern cosmopolitans" (406).
When Tursun tells us about his travels in Mexico and the United States and how Uyghurs deserve a place at the table, he is referring precisely to what Smith-Finley identifies as "world citizenship" and, one might infer, the distinct "world-class" status of Uyghur flamenco. Even more than that, as I have tried to point out above, he is using the mode of the flamenco guitar to amplify Uyghur ways of feeling that might otherwise not be recognized. As Smith-Finley puts it, "they do not simply maintain Uyghur traditions; they enable the ongoing development and transformation of a modern Uyghur culture" (407). Uyghur flamenco is more than blithe love songs played in a new style; it is a way of repointing the Uyghur art world in a way that builds transnational connections to Mediterranean and Turkish worlds while at the same time building on the songs of the deep Xinjiang south.
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by Darren Byler
Dr. Darren Byler is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University where he teaches and writes about social theory, urban ethnography and the technopolitics of life in Chinese Central Asia. He also writes a regular column on state violence and Uyghur decolonization for SupChina.
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Francisco Xabier Azkargorta Uriarte (born 26 September 1953) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward, and a current manager.
Born in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Azkargorta spent five years under contract to Athletic Bilbao after arriving in 1971 from neighbouring Real Sociedad and complete his formation at the former, but failed to appear in any official games with the first team due to injury. He retired at only 23 years of age.
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Still in the decade, Azkargorta worked with the national teams of Bolivia and Chile. He led the former to the 1994 FIFA World Cup, this marking the first time the country reached the tournament through the qualification process. In 1997 he returned to club duties after signing with Yokohama F. Marinos and, eight years later, took charge of Mexico's C.D. Guadalajara; in between, he spent two years with Real Madrid as head of its academies in Central and South America.
In March 2006, Azkargorta was appointed director of football at Beijing Guoan F.C. in the Chinese Super League. In the 2008 summer he returned to his homeland, joining Valencia CF in the same capacity.
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Huawei Unveils the Ascend Mate with 6.1" HD display
Huawei today unveiled a brand new smartphone, featuring the biggest display ever to be featured in such a device. With a 6.1″ 1280×720 HD display, the phone has a 'screen-to-body' ratio of 73 percent, and is powered by a 1.5 GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor. In addition to this, the phone will run Android 4.1, with a 4050 mAh battery, 8 MP HDR-capable rear camera, and a 1 MP HD front facing camera, all while remaining 'slim and stylish', maintaining a mere 6.5 mm thickness at its narrowed point.
The Ascend Mate features several proprietary Huawei technologies' including Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) which claims to help battery efficiency, something rather lacking in today's smartphones. The phone, with its dual-antenna design, claims to be able to boost network reception by up to 2.5dB, which translates to a 20-30% increase in overall network coverage. Available is crystal black and pure white, the Ascend Mate will go on sale in China in Feb 2013, so time will tell whether us Aussies can get our hands on this.
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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today launched the smartphone with the largest screen in the world, the HUAWEI Ascend Mate, at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The HUAWEI Ascend Mate features a huge 6.1-inch HD display, a 1.5 GHz Hi-Silicon quad-core processor and a 4050 mAh battery. Together with Huawei's proprietary Quick Power Control (QPC) and Automated Discontinuous Reception (ADRX) battery efficiency technology and fast sharing technology, the HUAWEI Ascend Mate is proof that bigger is better.
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"The HUAWEI Ascend Mate breaks barriers to deliver a supercharged entertainment, communication and creative experience for all your personal and professional needs," said Richard Yu, CEO, Huawei Consumer Business Group. "The HUAWEI Ascend Mate is an industry-leading smartphone and showcases our innovation as we continue to make great technology available to more people globally."
HUAWEI Ascend Mate has a screen-to-body ratio of 73 percent – the highest in the industry – which maximizes your viewing pleasure for emails, documents, video or games. The 6.1-inch HD IPS+ LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 720 for unsurpassed clarity and color accuracy, and 'Magic Touch' which provides enhanced screen responsiveness even with gloves. The Ascend Mate is slim and stylish, designed to fit comfortably in a single hand at just 6.5mm thin at its narrowest part.
HUAWEI Ascend Mate features a 4050 mAh battery and Huawei's Hi-Silicon 1.5 GHz quad-core processor. With Huawei's QPC and ADRX smart power-saving technology, the smartphone provides up to two days of ordinary usage on a single charge. It has the fastest battery charging capability of smartphones in its range, which saves over 30 percent of battery charging time.
Together with global roaming functionality, the HUAWEI Ascend Mate supports five frequency bands making this smartphone perfect for international travelers. Its dual-antenna design supports high power data transmission and is optimized with maximum ratio combining method, to increase network reception by up to 2.5dB and providing an increase of 20 to 30 percent of overall network coverage.
Operating on Android 4.1 and featuring an 8.0-megapixel AF rear-facing camera with HDR and 1.0-megapixel HD front-facing camera, HUAWEI Ascend Mate also provides dual MIC noise reduction technology, Dolby® sound system and stereo recording. HUAWEI Ascend Mate features an Augmented Reality navigation application to help reach your destination, 'smart reading' functionality allowing quick reference to dictionaries, Wikipedia and Google Search pages, and 'swift sharing' to upload pictures, videos and other files two- to three-times faster than other smartphone users in a Wi-Fi environment.
Available in crystal black and pure white, the HUAWEI Ascend Mate will be on sale in China in February 2013.
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A Diva Is...
True Diva Form
The idea for this began with a man. Yes ladies, a man. But not the "baby I support you", "woman you can do it", "lean on me babe, I got your back" type of man. He was more the "you're not all that", "she is so better and smarter than you" and the "I WISH you were more like HER" type of man.
"Ohhhh YES!" many of you are nodding, "I know HIM!" Running through relationships like a self-obsessed star of a reality TV dating show, trampling self-esteems and leaving a messy trail of hurt and disappointment in his wake. Crediting himself with your achievements, even successes that came long before his arrival, whispering loudly that without him you are helpless and worthless. A real insecurity builder. He may have a different voice, some other name, a different look, but you know the type. And his type always leads to the same kind of story.
At least, that's how these stories begin.
Not everyone's story begins with a man, of course, but everyone HAS a story. Whether it involves a lover or a friend, family or neighbors, critical teachers or strangers in a coffee shop, we all have experiences that wound us, shame us, break us down and diminish our very life force. Then, out of pride or embarrassment or fear we hide them away out of sight and sound.
It's understandable. Most of us have stood before others, fresh wounds gaping, hearing words that sting like salt. "I would NEVER let that happen!"..."NO ONE could ever make ME feel that way!"... Dismissive comments and judgments like the forces that keep women from reaching out, that make us feel isolated and rejected enough to hide from the world in an empty corner, depressed and alone. And such self-righteous declarations are fruitless claims because really they are sometimes true and sometimes false for each and EVERY one of us.
Truth is, the worst of things happen even to the best of us, because we can't always be on our game. More than once or twice every woman on the planet has found herself at the wrong end of a bad decision. We've all stood in front of the mirror, sometimes looking as torn up as we feel, berating ourselves for not being smarter, tougher, wondering how we didn't see it coming. Whether we feel blindsided, or are responsible for blindly ignoring the red flags popping up like dandelions in spring, we rarely admit the truth to ourselves let alone to anyone else.
If we were more honest in what we reveal to others, we may lessen someone else's grief by exposing some of our own. "Yes, I love my husband and my children. However, my husband has not always been the most faithful and my children are a struggle..." is less sparkly but a lot more realistic than saying "You are going to love every minute of marriage!" while pushing forward smiling family photos as proof that the story you tell is the reality you're living live, and what others can expect to find. We spend so much time saying we value our friends, talking about how much we love each other and need to look out for each other, but we don't help one another the way we could because we don't share the stories we don't want anyone to hear. We don't share our DISH.
The beginnings of everyone's stories are set in stone...
but the endings have yet to be written.
DISHING WITH THE DIVA was created as a refuge and an outlet for women to share, to dish HONESTLY about tough experiences from which they are trying to heal, and to work through those experiences by turning them into something tangible. Food is life giving. We need it to live. We use it to heal. In our kitchen we share our DISH through stories, and creating wonderful recipes that help transform a horrible tasting experience into something that feels good. When you spend two years as a living target for a partner who delights in slinging mud at every turn, it is tempting to sweep the dirt under the rug, to stay vigilant in washing off the residue before anyone sees it and thinks of you as foolish and weak. But what better way to finally digest the whole experience than to talk, cry and laugh with supportive friends while feasting on a delectable mud pie?!
The most important meals and the richest life experiences both come from sharing and comparing, tasting, learning, and making some deletions, substitutions, and revisions. Just like when we find ourselves staring at a flat soufflé, or excitedly opening the oven only to fill the room with smoke and the smell of burnt cookie dough, we can figure out what happened, learn from it, maybe even laugh about it, and move on to create better tasting things.
"DISHING" is about more than sharing a story. It's about taking an experience that has damaged us and transforming it into something that restores us. And it's the process of discovering...or creating...endings that have yet to be written. We'll learn more together as we serve up stories in the Diva kitchen, but here are the ingredients that build a DISH:
D Define your DILEMMA
I Identify your INSPIRATIONS
S Share your Story
H Heal your Heart
DISHING WITH THE DIVA is a gathering place. No matter where you eat in the world you find that the best, most memorable food is created by more than one person. In any restaurant or any village in the world, it is about many hands, or even one chef drawing from the ideas of many. We realize that a community of women working together is stronger, more creative, more inventive than any one person working alone can possibly be. DISHING WITH THE DIVA is the place where this community gathers.
Everyone lives.
Everyone eats.
And everyone is invited to our kitchen.
Thank you for joining us on this journey.
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Numerous strategies and tactics are implemented by pharmaceutical manufacturer brand teams to drive awareness.
According to Kantar Media, pharmaceutical advertising exceeded $6 billion in 2016. However, value for pharma organizations isn't driven by awareness alone. The value in awareness is limited as it is commonly cited that 20 percent to 30 percent of medication prescriptions are never filled, and that approximately 50 percent of medications for chronic disease are not taken as prescribed. Shared understanding of both risks and benefits to all parties in the healthcare continuum is essential in order to deliver more value in a pharma environment where every step must be carefully calibrated.
Insurance companies thrive on minimizing risk; health insurers are no exception. Legacy tactics include prior authorization, step edits and formulary restrictions. The latest strategy has arrived with the advent of the outcomes-based contract, where reimbursement for a drug is based in part on observed outcomes of the drug's use in a specific patient population. These contracts give insurers a new tool to minimize their financial risk if a therapy fails to generate the expected patient outcome. These contracts also provide the pharma manufacturer the opportunity to deliver on the brand's promise.
Traditionally, risk minimization for pharmaceutical manufacturers has been predominantly placed upon the MLR (medical-legal-regulatory review) team. The MLR process is a critically important one that ensures that all pharmaceutical product promotions are medically accurate and comply with FDA regulations and other applicable laws. Without exception, this process leaves its mark on all educational, clinical and promotional materials produced by pharma manufacturers. Ultimately the path to the brand commercialization goes through the MLR gate. More recently, however, leadership at both the Business Unit and Brand levels are also being expected to embrace risk as a proactive commercial opportunity and not merely a reactive function of MLR.
We know that improving medication adherence improves outcomes and reduces costs. Frequently, however, the MLR approval gate closes when it comes to the brand team's encouraging patient adherence or "persistence." This is the result of MLR taking measures to limit the company's risk. According to a Public Citizen report cataloging all major financial settlements and court judgments between pharmaceutical companies and federal and state governments from 1991-2015, the unlawful promotion of drugs was the single violation that resulted in the largest financial penalties. While federal financial penalties attributed to the use of unlawful promotion have declined significantly since 2013, total penalties assessed in 2014-2015 still amounted to $263 million.
The new axiom of pharmaceutical marketing centers around patient education and engagement.
What's needed are commercialization activities that encourage medication adherence and impact a measurable health outcome. This approach will align with MLR's goals and charges. Successful incorporation of this model provides answers to questions like where is the greatest opportunity to positively impact value and manage risk in each step in the patient journey from adoption to compliance to persistence? What can the brand team do? What can't they do? And how can the brand team create short term gain balanced with long-term sustainability?
Every year brings a new record high in numbers of prescriptions dispensed. In 2016, 4.45 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States, a 13% increase over the number dispensed just seven years earlier and a clear indication that, broadly speaking, brand awareness strategies are highly effective. But what happens after brand awareness? In part two of this four-part series, we will dive into brand adoption and improving prescription conversion rates: getting prescriptions from patients to the pharmacy and getting the product from the pharmacy to patients. In parts three and four, we will explore answers to and mitigation strategies for questions like why do patients not take prescriptions to the pharmacy? Why do patients not get prescriptions filled after they've taken them to the pharmacy? Why don't patients persist in their efforts to take the medication as prescribed?
Brand teams can do things that provide value for the patient, the payer, their own company and the future of healthcare, and we're going to tell you how. Stay tuned.
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The year has definitely turned, this morning there was frost on the garden which was covered with fallen leaves – the end of the year seems to be creeping ever closer.
Today was also an important day for us as it has been the day that my husband's time as Commodore of the sailing club came to an end. Following the AGM he stepped down and handed over to the new incumbent.
Having held the position for two years, it is obviously the end of a period in which we have both been heavily involved in all aspects of the management of the sailing club – from the glad handing and prize giving, to the politics and procrastination that goes with any volunteer role.
I don't really think either of us had any real idea of what it was all about in the beginning, it was the job nobody wanted (and were a little nervous of, given previous events) and it was only with commitments of support from many others that the Mr felt able to step up. We felt very strongly that the future of the club was uncertain without leadership, and the club was important enough to us both that I encouraged him to take the role – but really, I was unsure as to how he would cope and what it would mean.
Over his time he has brought his own stamp to the role – accessible, approachable and down to earth, he has shown a completely different side of himself than that I knew, and his time has seen the Club continue to stand firm in a difficult time for sailing in the North East. He has encouraged new blood onto the committee and ensured the inclusive nature of the club is maintained as well as juggling relations with the water authority and the legal entity we operate via.
celebrating 30 years sailing at Kielder along with the Yacht club – bonus points that we remembered!
getting approval for the new bar – and financially supporting it by drinking the stock!
actually doing some sailing! Although obviously this threatened his title of the None Sailing Commodore!
The lows? Well let's not dwell on those – but I bet he would say that it was that only a couple of weeks ago a long established member still identified him as 'Vicky's Husband' – he threatened to get a badge made at one point.
His action, hard work and commitment have meant that we still have a thriving club to be a part of, that we are coming through the recession strongly and with some new revenue streams open to us and some great people to take us on into the future. So it's an ending of sorts – but also a new beginning too.
So from the bottom of my heart – thank you for wearing the big hat Mr.
Saturday is my last session of teaching childers and I am feeling a little sad already. None of them have drown, they can all sail better than when we started and I feel like I have been at least a little responsible for that. I wonder if they will remember any of this when they get older and become Olympic Sailors, Sailing Instructors themselves, or even just Sales Managers that sail on a weekend.
When I was little I remember learning lots of skills and they have all played some role in who I am today.
My first experience of the water was learning to Windsurf. Unsurprisingly I wasn't much cop, but my Dad used to take myself and my brother to the Lake District for a week every summer, during which it rained torrentially and I spent more time paddling the board round than Windsurfing. I loved those holidays and remember even now the life skills I learnt from them. These included valuable things like 'don't touch the wall of the tent when it's raining as the water will come through' (nope – three summers on I would still do it and just get wet for the rest of the night), 'fishing's great as long as you don't catch anything' (how scary is something wriggly on the end of your line – I stopped even using bait after a while) and 'don't wee in the lake – it's your dinner' (Pot Noodle, lake water and a primus stove being key to our diet at the time – I later discovered my brother had never heeded this advice).
I also remember learning to knit – actually with my Nana – although my Mum used to knit too. This was on weekends spent at their bungalow and I remember having worked through a mound of brightly coloured acrylic finally producing a small stuffed clown. It had taken what seemed like forever, and I was really proud of it, but I can't even remember what happened to it once I finished it – did I keep it? Give it away? No idea – I just remember the sense of achievement I had on finally completing it. But I don't remember ever knitting again following this until I was a lot older and started a new job and made a knitting friend who got me hooked.
At this point I guess I should round up by saying 'and I remember when I started selling stuff' – no such luck – and no doubt why it is a more hard-won skill – as it has its roots in nothing I learnt when I was young.
So whatever they go on to do I guess I can take some small pride in the hope that one day they will fondly remember sailing round and round a patrol boat trying to come up with a sailing term beginning with 'z'…..
And I still have this Saturday…..


The holidays are a wonderful time for some enjoy time with family and friends. To others it is an extremely lonely time fraught with stress, depression, and anxiety. According to the Mayo Clinic, many people find themselves turning to alcohol when life gets stressful. This is even frequent during the holidays because alcohol use is more accepted during the holidays. Unfortunately, to some alcohol is extremely addictive and a single drink to manage stress quickly spirals out of control.
Everyone has at least one story of a friend or family member ruining a holiday party, dinner, or occasion by drinking to excess. This is usually the same friend or family member that is abusive, obnoxious, insulting, or any number of other adjectives when they are intoxicated. You might even have several stories of arrests or being asked to leave and event because of this person, or you yourself might be that person.
You might not be welcomed at family gatherings or holidays because of your drinking. Your friends or family might even have suggested rehab or some other form of treatment for your drinking. If you are an alcoholic, chances are you been asked or been forced to spend the holidays alone because of your drinking.
AA meetings remind you that you're not alone.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12 step community based program that helps alcoholics worldwide onto the path to recovery. If any of the above incidents above about heavy drinking and the holidays applies to you, you might benefit from alcoholics anonymous if you plan on attending any of holiday events with friends and family.
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When you enter alcoholics anonymous, you will find others with similar stories, from all different backgrounds. This helps you understand that you are not alone in either holiday stress or your problems with alcohol. Most people in Alcoholics Anonymous understand the mistakes you've made with family and at family gatherings. They understand the cycle of getting drunk, staying drunk, and getting more alcohol with the singular goal of escaping the stress and pressure of life.
By getting sober for the holidays using alcoholics anonymous, you are stopping the cycle of embarrassing moments, ruined parties, and abusive behavior. You will also find a community of people who understand you, your issues, and what the alcohol does to you.
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Q: Get the metrics printed on a file instead of sending to the graphite server I am using dropwizard codahale metrics library to send the metrics data to the graphite server. However, now i have a requirement that these metrics data are to be written to a file instead of being pushed to the graphite server. The data in these files can be later pushed to the graphite server when required.
Is there any way to achieve this?
Especially the part where the metrics are to be written to an intermediate file instead of being sent to the server, in such a format, that it can be pushed to the graphite server when necessary?

A: yes - there is. Codhale comes out of the box with a class called CsvReporter. This one will collect your metrics and write them to disk in a csv format.
Have a look here: https://dropwizard.github.io/metrics/3.1.0/apidocs/com/codahale/metrics/CsvReporter.html
You can initialise it like that:
        File file = new File(expandPath(conf.getMetricCsvLocation()));
        if(!file.exists()) {
            log.warn("CSV Metrics location does not exist. Metrics will not be written. Change the file location to an existing location.");
            return;
        }
        reporter = CsvReporter.forRegistry(env.metrics()).build(file);


As the leading voice for Ohio airports, OAA regularly monitors our members' needs, concerns, and opinions. The OAA Advocacy Committee monitors and takes action on legislative and regulatory issues that can affect our airports and aviation community. For a one-page Public Policy Agenda summary, click here.
We develop our public priorities through a consistent and ongoing process that begins with member input and policy analysis. The committee is comprised of OAA board directors, members, and volunteers with public policy experience and aviation interests. The Advocacy Committee studies public policy options from differing viewpoints and weighs the opinions of members, staff, and policy experts and then submits advocacy recommendations to the board. Once approved, the committee works to implement those policies in conjunction with grassroots efforts that rely on OAA members contacting and educating local legislators and officials.
At the state level, OAA works to affect legislation that reflects these policies by lobbying the state executive and legislative branches while working in conjunction with regulatory agencies. Directors of the OAA Board, along with members and volunteers, regularly testify during committee hearings and attend meetings to advance our strategic priorities.
There is no denying that the aviation industry is a vital part of Ohio's economy and is an essential part of everyday life of Ohioans. Our airports play a critical role in ensuring the state's ability to attract, generate, and maintain business and employment. Airports are global gateways that allow companies the ability to establish operations, move people and cargo seamlessly between locations, and connect business with tourism. It's our job to make sure that Ohio's multifaceted airport system across the state remains competitive in an increasingly global economy.
As a result of a 2015 opinion from the Ohio Attorney General's office, airports operated by a port or airport authority were not able to obtain legal assistance from a county prosecutor in their territory. Prior to that opinion, several airports across the state did obtain legal assistance from their county prosecutor. Once word reached OAA, we began working on a fix that would grant airports access to legal services through their county prosecutor. House Bill 34 does not place any restrictions on the types of issues that a county prosecutor can assist on—it will be up to the prosecutor to decide whether or not he or she is comfortable providing assistance. HB 34 does not limit assistance to only aviation-related matters; it can be any issue that a port or airport authority is dealing with. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact OAA leadership.
As a result of recent hard work and coordination with the State of Ohio, OAA was able to increase the funding for the Ohio Airport Grant Program to $6,000,000 per year in the 2016-2017 state budget. As you know, the program had not seen an increase in quite some time and the funding allocated was stretched to cover both Ohio Department of Transportation Office of Aviation operating costs and the grant program. With these increased funds, the state was able to grant funding for an additional 26 projects at 24 airports throughout the state. This increased funding represents a 900% increase over the last few years allowing communities and areas in meeting their infrastructure facility needs.
In monitoring legislation, we were able to quickly identify HB 237 which sought to regulate transportation network companies and the services they provide. As the bill stood, the original language prohibited airports from regulating or assessing fees on the transportation network companies that operate at airports. Since we are required to be self-sustaining by the Federal Aviation Administration and we rely on fees for the bulk of our revenue, the inability to establish fees would have harmed airports. OAA members, staff, and our legislative consultants worked with the bill's sponsors and representatives of the transportation network companies to create a friendly amendment before it passed which grants airports the ability to collect fees similar to those assessed on taxi cabs and livery companies. It also allows airports to adopt sensible regulations and standards for those transportation networks operating on their property. Had we not been paying close attention, it is likely that a new law would have gone into effect and that would have resulted in a loss of revenue to airports and the aviation industry.
To improve the ability of an airport and port authority to conduct their public business, OAA worked with the 131st General Assembly to grant members of an airport authority board of trustees or port authority board of directors the ability to attend meetings via teleconference or interactive video conference beginning in 2017. To utilize this flexible business operation, an airport authority or port authority would first need to adopt rules specifying the minimum number of members that must physically attend a meeting, geographic restrictions for members seeking to attend meetings remotely, and the process for distributing meeting materials in advance of a meeting. The Bill, most importantly, maintains that all meetings continue to be open to the public and that a physical location is identified for members of the public and media who wish to attend the meeting in person. The recent passage of this Bill protects the ability of everyday citizens, members of the press, and other stakeholders to observe the action of the government while improving the flexibility of how public airport business is conducted.
OAA works hard to represent you and ensure the economic vibrancy of our airports. Reach out to us for assistance if you are finding a situation in current or proposed government policy is making aviation business in Ohio challenging. We want to ensure that the State's airport system remains competitive in an increasingly global economy.


If you look at the headlines around the country you can see that South Dakota is not alone when it comes to a school bus driver shortage.
An inspiring story from KSFY TV leads us to one woman's quest to rally others like her.
Danae Ketterling is a stay-at-home mom. She has children of her own that are now going to school. And she has free time.
First of all what mother has free time?
According to KSFY Ketterling was recruited to become a school bus driver. And to her credit Ketterling has found other mothers leaving their kids off to school and going back to an empty house and encouraged them to get behind the bus steering wheel.
With a split driving schedule which is the biggest problem and a huge reason for the driver shortage Ketterling gets to drive her child to school every day and be there to pick them up after school.
Imaging this - as a mom Ketterling goes from being a mom of one to a mom of about 70 other kids during their ride to school.


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How Love Island's Approaching Consent This Year
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Hold Your Horny Heart — Here's How Love Island Australia's Approaching Consent This Year
Alicia Vrajlal
Image courtesy of Channel 9
While reality TV may not need intimacy coordinators for scripted sex scenes like a Hollywood movie, many reality shows are still taking measures to ensure contestants feel safe and consent to sex when they get frisky between the sheets.
Love Island Australia has introduced a special sex button this year, which contestants can push to alert the villa's control room that they consent to the sexual activity they're engaging in at that very moment.
Dubbed the 'button of love' or 'horny heart', this button replaces the Channel Nine show's previous method of confirming consent, which involved cast members pausing their hot and heavy action to yell out 'I consent' to the camera.
There have also been some awkward situations in the past where producers have had to interrupt contestants in order to obtain proof that all parties involved consent to the sexual activity.
"Once they go under the covers they are out of our view," Love Island Australia's executive producer Alex Mavroidakis told Herald Sun.
"We have (in previous seasons) had producers creeping into the bedroom at night time tapping them (islanders) on the shoulder and saying 'you have to say I consent', which is incredibly embarrassing for the producer and certainly for the islander. To alleviate that we designed the consent button or the horny heart."
Audiences are not made aware when the sex button is pushed, and Mavroidakis says the show doesn't actually film contestants having sex. Once producers are aware that the contestants involved are "both mutually consenting", they leave them to it.
Jessie Wynter, who starred in Season 2 of Love Island Australia back in 2019, previously opened up about how consent was made explicit when she was on the show.
"If you were, like, doing it, you have to look at the camera and say 'I give consent'," she told reality TV podcast, So Dramatic!.
"If you were starting to do something and you have not said to the camera that you consent, it would be (via the villa's PA system), 'Jessie, do you consent?'."
The reality TV star also explained that alcohol wasn't as free flowing as some viewers may expect, with her season's cast given only two glasses of wine per night with a producer present at all times.
Sex and consent are things reality TV producers across the genre have to deal with, especially when it comes to dating shows. The US version of Bachelor In Paradise made headlines in 2017 when production was paused after a 'sex scandal' between cast members Corinne Olympios and DeMario Jackson. At the time, it was reported that a producer allegedly witnessed a drunken sexual encounter between the two contestants.
"The show absolutely values the primacy of consent, and this instance it appears as though conduct allegedly occurred without the proper consent having been given," an alleged source close to the show claimed to People magazine at the time.
Almost 10 days later, the show's production company Warner Bros announced that the investigation was complete, and that filming would resume as no evidence of misconduct was found.
Circling back to Love Island, this year marks the fourth season of the reality TV show's Aussie version. Hosted by Sophie in a beachside villa in Mallorca, Spain, there's a group of singles who must couple up and try to stay together while resisting the temptations of new cast members called 'bombshells'.
The cast includes Claudia, Stella, Holly, Jessica, Layla, Phoebe, Phoebe H, Maddy, Vakoo, Tak, Austen, Mitchell, Jordan, Conor, Andre, Callum and Married At First Sight's Al Perkins.
Love Island Australia airs Monday to Thursday, with new episodes dropping at 6pm on 9Now.
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Q: It keeps duplicating textboxes when using jquery .on() function I have 2 problem that needs to be addressed.
Problem 1:
In my jsfiddle I have a feature where the user opens a grid and selects an option, after the user selects an option then if they click on the "Add question" button, then this will be displayed in the new table row.
The only thing though is that I want the user to be able to open the grid and select an option from the table row (working exactly the way as select an option from above) just in case the user changes their mind and wants to select a different option within a row. I am using the .on() functions.
Does anyone know why it is not opening the grid?
Problem 2:
If the user adds a row by clicking on the "Add Question", it shows the option textbox once for the first row, if the user adds another row then it shows 2 options textboxes, then it shows 4 textboxes if 3rd row is added and etc.
Why is it doing this?
my code is in jsfiddle, click here
If anybody wants to look at the code then access the jsfiddle, if anybody knows the solution or wants to try the solution, they can use the jsfiddle.
Thank You

A: I don't exactly follow for your first question, could you explain a bit more?
Problem 2:
Every time you click the button, you call 'insertQuestion', however this functions looks up all elements with class gridTxt, and creates an input for each one, but that new one ALSO has gridTxt. I can't figure out why it does that, but that is the problem.
The first time you press add, it creates one because there is one gridTxt. The second time you press it there are now two gridTxt inputs, so it will create two. The third time you press it, it will loop 4 times and create 4 new boxes making a total of 8.


The direct sequel to the series' reboot from 2013 pits Lara against soldiers of a secret society in a deadly race across the frozen landscapes and decommissionned Soviet-era facilities of Siberia.
Native "Vert+" support (up to 5:4). Select your resolution from the launcher app.
Erratic aspect ratio issues: some users report stretched/squished/off-centered picture at certain resolutions. Cause and solution unknown.
Real-time rendered cut-scenes are Vert+ in 16:10, letterboxed in standard resolutions.
HUD is constrained to 16:9.
Real-time rendered cut-scenes are both pillarboxed and slightly Hor+ !
Native Hor+ support with a sneaky flaw: in fullscreen mode, bezel compensation stretches the picture.
Fullscreen screen change is perfect from 1x1 to 3x1 e.g 5760x1200 is strictly Hor+ compared to 1920x1200.
Fullscreen bezel compensation only adds stretching e.g 6060x1200 looks like 5760x1200 stretched.
Windowed mode wokrs differently: screen change of the resizable window is always Hor+ (up to 8.9:1). Use Borderless Gaming to fix the aspect ratio of bezel-compensated resolutions.
15:4 behaves similarly to UWS and windowed mode: strictly Hor+ compared to 16:9 (not 5:4).


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Planning an estate is one of those tasks that we all know we should do, but keep pushing it to a later date. The delay in planning an estate makes sense because, after all, no one wants to think of their demise or plan what will happen after they die. The thought is a bit morbid honestly. However, regardless of the depressing and looming thoughts, death is a sad yet inescapable reality of life.
Plan your estate ahead of time for the people you care about so that they don't have to worry about finances when they are faced with hard times and grieving. Even the minimum can relieve you from guilt and responsibility.
Do you think planning an estate is a daunting task? Here is a list of tips for making the challenging tasks a bit easier for you.
Funeral and burial services cost a lot of money in Australia. This makes getting funeral insurance extremely important. A funeral can cost up to $15,000 or more and plan for the hefty amount when you are already grieving is a challenging task. So plan ahead and get yourself and your family members funeral insurance.
Unlike applying for other forms of insurance, an application for funeral insurance is almost always likely to get approved.
Prepare a will for a smooth transfer of inheritance. People assume that preparing a will is a lengthy legal process that requires a lot of documentation when in actuality, all it requires is a reliable source of information.
Calculate real estate valuation and know the worth of your assets that you plan on dividing. Prepare a draft, sign it in the presence of witnesses and keep it safe.
So you have a bit of saving lying around in your bank accounts and you are looking for stable investment options such as gold bullion. There are a lot of investment options that guarantee you a healthy return with minimal risk involved. However, these are usually long-term investments.
Understand your own preferences: Whether you want to make a long-term investment that guarantees significant returns with minimal risk or instant returns with a high risk – high return policy. If you choose the former, you can invest in capital markets while investing in the financial market is the best option if you prefer instant returns.
Most assets cannot be transferred through a will. Such assets include your retirement accounts, the real estate having multiple owners, life insurance documents, and other valuable items. Make sure to legally cover all these items and identify who is going to inherit what.
A lot of people forget about the most obvious thing. None of your preparation and inheritance documents are going to matter if your family is not able to find them. So keep your will safe, but at least confide the location to your lawyer.