La Marguerite offers a feminine perspective on sustainability and social media.
Back in April 2007, I started this blog on a whim. I was getting annoyed by all the self-righteousness in the green media. And I wanted to offer a counterpoint, my reality as a less than perfect Green Girl Wannabe, who just couldn't get her act together. One ulterior motive was to conduct a psychological experiment, using myself as a subject, to look for insights into the key attitudes and behaviors that shaped my interactions with the environment. Part of the experiment has been a careful examination of my daily actions, thoughts, family interactions, feelings, and urges, from an environmental perspective. The other part has been the validation and refinement of my insights, thanks to the comments from all the dedicated people who have followed this blog. La Marguerite is a work in progress, a living thing that keeps on surprising me. It is becoming a zen, activist, psychological, business, philosophical, practical, humble environmental blog.
a social media maven, and founding member of Green Moms, a group of moms, bloggers, and environmental activitists, winner of the 2008 Twitter Shorty Awards in Green category.
I cannot be put into a box, and I like it that way!
Comments are always good. Do not just respond to me. You may also want to comment on other readers' comments. This is what blogs are about, after all.
I enjoyed your rant about guilty pleasures etc. It's so true. You'll enjoy this on the hypocrisy of greenies written by George Meyer of the Simpson's, " Are you a hypocrite? Because I certainly am. I'm an animal lover who wears leather shoes; a vegetarian who can't resist smoked salmon. I badger my friends to see the Al Gore movie, but I also fly on fuel-gulping jets.
Thank you Franke, for your thougtful response and for connecting me with your universe of other green minded people. Lets keep the exchange flowing. I will visit your blog as well.
Your journey should be an enlighteing one, not a burden. If you have the time and money to explore green issues and ideas for your lifestyle then all the better. And of course, individuals are only a part of the equation. Business and government must do a lot more too!
Every little bit counts. I am glad you found my blog and happy to have been introduced to yours. If you haven't found it already, please check out my best friend's called greenasathistle.com. She is making one green change every day for a year and is on day around 130.
Healthycookie, I will be sure to pay a visit to your friend!
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It's just a waste of energy (that we can't offset) to worry about the sinning portion. We do what we can and if we remain present and conscious of our actions, even in hindsight, then we're on the right path.
My sin: I still smoke.
Just came across your blog — I was also just in Palo Alto at a conference for journalists being held at Stanford.
Anyways, cool blog. Wondering if you would like to swap blogroll links?
just left a comment on your latest blog, want to smear just a small dose of flattery upon your humbling, and earnest talents.
Your intro is sympa, and encouraging as well.
from the belly of the beast, Greenest Midwest.
Marguerite – as a former VP at JWT, you know that women dominate the consumer market and make the decisions. For that reason http://www.biggreenpurse.com has partnered with The Institute for the Market Transformation to Sustainability. Women are the will, corporations are the delivery mechanism and Sustainable Standards will keep everyone honest.
We have a special program put together for Certified Sustainable Products. I'll talk to you about it offline if you are interested in learning more.
Yes, we were at Wal Mart's Sustainability Summit on Oct. 10th.
I would love to learn more about your program. Let's talk further.
My name is Jon and I am co-founding a media company that is focused on positive impact. I'm interested in collaborating with you on some level. Can you please email me at your earliest convenience?
I will be happy to correspond with you. Nice work you are doing.
Was fun hearing about your path from Louis le Grand to Green Blogger.
Meeting somebody who was at this illustrious if gloomy institution as the same time as I confirmed how small the word is… all paths lead to Silicon Valley.
Bonjour Marguerite. Nice to meet you. I'd like your opinion on whether or not a new media product (concept and patent) has potential in the marketplace. It's a simple idea to help consumers while browsing, sharing, buying and working on the Internet; a product that incorporates recycled thinking and materials. If so, any thoughts on who might be interested in the concept and IP?
The salient reason I like your blog is the emphasis on psycology. I'm not a psychologist. I'm a lawyer, and have made a career representing injured individuals and classes of individuals. Having struggled on behalf of my clients in the securities litigation context, I've gravitated toward representing consumers…particularly those who have been duped by unfair business practices. Cosmetics. Manufacturers sell those products based, in part, on psychology. And yet. While transparency is required in financial statements and expected by investors, the same should be true for consumers of non-financial, every day products.
In October I read a New York Times piece titled "The Everyman Who Exposed Tainted Toothpaste." The article fascinated me. It discussed Eduardo Arias, a 51-year-old Kuna Indian, his reading the label on a 59 cent tube of toothpaste and discovery on the ingredient list of "diethylene glycol", a sweet tasting, poisonous ingredient in antifreeze. Diethylene glycol had previously been mixed into cold syrup in Panama, killing or disabling at least 138 Panamanians during 2006, according to the article.
Just for the hell of it, I entered "diethylene glycol" into the sustainable casa search engine that I've been building (http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=003963123612850644658%3Aegoct7gvmxi) and narrowed my search to include the EWG/Skin Deep database. Guess what? EWG/Skin Deep show that Johnson & Johnson makes or made several products (depending on current formulations) containing diethylene glycol: Neutrogena SkinClearing Oil-Free Compact Foundation, Blushing Ivory; Neutrogena SkinClearing Oil-Free Compact Foundation, Classic Porcelain; Neutrogena SkinClearing Oil-Free Compact Foundation, Natural Buff; Neutrogena SkinClearing Oil-Free Compact Foundation, Rose Cream; Neutrogena SkinClearing Oil-Free Compact Foundation, True Beige; Neutrogena SkinClearing Oil-Free Compact Foundation (Rose Cream, Natural Buff, Golden Bisque, Classic Porcelain, Blushing Ivory); and Neutrogena SkinClearing Trio Salicylic Acid Blemish Treatments (Medium 03, Light 02, Fair 01). Yikes!!
Cosmetics and body care products are not things whose safety we can possibly take for granted. It's up to consumers to stand up for transparency in cosmetic/body care products. If an ingredient in a product is harmful, the manufacturer should say so on the label. If an ingredient in a product has not been adequately determined to be safe, the manufacturer should say so on the label.
Let's now take a look at baby products.
Thanks for all the work you do, have done.
I evolved just as you did as a wannabe green reformer because it's such an easy and enlightening concept to grasp. I have found in what I do, home remodeling, going green is the most fascinating evolution. Hit me up to say hello.
There are a lot of dodgy products out there and unfortunately 'greenwashing' is entering the marketing game too with wild claims about 'green' products and services.
Thanks Bill. You probably have seen the series of article I wrote on the 'Synthetic Sea' video, and the plastic problem in general. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to broadcast this important message.
I haven't had a good chance to read through most of your site, but I wanted to say "hello" and offer appreciation for your concern for the environment and for your obviously energetic work regarding global warming.
I've seen many of your posts over at the other site, of course.
Also, I noticed that our backgrounds are very similar in many ways, i.e., engineering, business school, marketing and market research, and so forth. And, we seem to be both interested in Actively trying to move the needle on key environmental issues.
So, if you like, please consider sending me a message some time. Perhaps there are informal and productive ways to help accomplish common causes.
Thanks Jeff. I would love to connect and possibilities to join efforts on sustainability related projects. I just tried going on your website but could not access it for some reason.
Thanks for your post and thoughts. Yes, the server must have been down this AM, but the site is working now and usually works well, at least when the host server isn't crashed. Although the site is not nearly as artistic as yours, and it's mainly intended for a fairly specific audience (having mainly to do with an understanding of the science and philosophy of human morality, and the relation of all that to sustainability), it does have a deep blue homepage. In any case, until later, . . .
Great blog, with some refreshing and reasoned insights into green issues. This is what we need more of.
As me and my husband were working on our computers doing research we found ourselves mailing a link to your blog simultaneously. So I guess we both liked it !
We are Belgians living in the South of France. I love your article on social life in France. Although things have changed here as well there are still some of the "old-fashioned-folks" around. Your view and approach to environment and "green" issues is inspiring and realistic. Thanks for sharing your ideas !
Would love to learn more about your work.
Tiens moi au courant, Jacques!
We, too, have gone from being semi-green to now wanting many more sustainable options from manufacturers and suppliers and doing our best to live a truly sustainable lifestyle. We use red worms and compost nearly all of our wet waste using their appetites, in return we get some of nature's best plant food for our houseplants as well as our fruit trees and veggie garden. We have a few chickens, dogs and cats to clean up first though. For years we have been faithful supporters of Farmer's Markets, Co-ops, and have used our reusable, cloth bags religiously. We are now ready to become more active and progressive in an attempt to set an example for our friends and families to look to. We believe that America is ready to make a change, but just can't figure it out without being led by the hand. And if that's how it has to be done, then we should all grab a hand and start leading. It looks like that movement is beginning with all of us here…. Please know that we support your ideas and are doing our best to make our little corner of the world better in any way we are able. The selfish, "me-first" attitude that has prevailed for so long here in the good old U.S. of A. is out of character with the new needs of not only our country, but the whole planet and must be replaced with a belief that we must all work together to make it, or else, I fear we won't…. We are so fortunate to live on such a beautiful planet, taking care of it shouldn't be so difficult. It's just a no-brainer to want one's environment to be clean, at least common sense would seem to dictate… Thanks for letting me rant!
Thank you so much, for all you are doing.
Very interesting especially as you're an engineer. My recommendation would be to drop the word green. Get rid of it when applied to talking about sustainable planetary management.
In the early 80's there was a really good party in the UK called the Ecology Party I thought it was great.
Then as part of some pan-European standardisation it changed to the Green Party. I had spent from the age of a toddler completely fascinated about how this planet works, how it 'thinks', it's purpose. Whys, hows and whats. As an engineer it's cybernetic control function, homeostatsis and response to change.
After 20 years everything I knew was suddenly branded 'Green'. I found it a personal insult but most of all an insult to the Earth.
If the party was still called ecology, then people would ask what's that. This would draw them in to the wonder and mystery of 4.5 billion years of planetary evolution and it's place in another 10 billion years of cosmic evolution before that. The excitment and desire of the understanding and the love of being at one with the planet.
Green came long and destroyed it all. Green is a field of cabbages or a coat of paint. It is demeaning to the infinite and eternal process of creation and life. It is a barrier to the understanding of the intracacy and complex beauty of this Earth.
Green is like when children start to learn to define words. You have to stop them at first using the word they are defining in the definition. They can nolonger be lazy they have to think.
Green is an easy earned badge, that is a barrier to the understanding of the planet. That deep appreciation required to change human societies relationship with this planet for the better. Green does not require questioning. Without questioning there is not understanding. Without understanding there is not empathy.
Ban green from anything to do with the sustainable evolution of this Earth. Never ever use it. Never talk about it, never read anything about it. Ignore every single use of the word or concept of green.
You say you got interested in sustainable planetary evolution and the protection of the Earth's ecological life support systems after watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. You may have read my work over at Talkclimate change.
When Al Gore said the British Government say climate change is greater threat than terrorism. He should have said Roger Jardine Thomas said…..The UK Government didn't say it, reference the original source.
At present I am setting up the Celtic Lion project. So have to do the rounds of business advisors, consultants, lawyers, bank managers etc. I have take my portfolio of work. They are amazed and shocked at the things I have done. They know of them, but never knew who it was who did them, until they met me.
Many people in the world with an interest in the environment know the agenda for the 2005 G8 was climate change and Africa. Most do not know that was my recommendation to the UK Government.
Many people know the climate change/ terrorism risk assessment. Many world leaders and environmental organisations use it. It is now a 21st century cliche. Most do not know I wrote it.
Hardly anyone knows both were from the same submission. And the later was the justification for the former. One of the largest corporate law firms in the UK looked at my work. Their view was on just that one piece of work alone, if I was to be described as one of the most globally influential peope of the 21st century, it would be very difficult for anyone to challenge that.
If I hadn't done what would have been the agenda of the 2005 G8. War on insurgents in the Middle East? Global trade tariffs? What would have Al Gore have said when and even if he got a Nobel. There would have been no climate change agenda at the G8. No Live 8, no Stern Report.
I knocked it out between talking the dogs for a walk and having my tea. No spell check, no WP. Wham bam ratta tat tat straight off and hit the send.
It still may be one of the globally influential works of the 21st century. But I never ever used that awful word Green. Not using it made people think. Take notice and act. The rest was history or the future.
Beautiful image header- I love daisies.
Have you come across this guy?
Thanks Roger. No, I did not know about him. I will look into his work some more.
One of the most influencial books on modern Environmentalism was by Timothy O'Riodan, called that. Tuan was a oft quoted environmental psychologist. I have been learning my ecology since I was 18 months old and then worked as an engineer. So the psychology and perception was all new to me.
If you looking at the psychology side and your interest is generated from An Inconvenient Truth. Then Tuan might be very useful to you as a sort of a 30 year retrospective influence into environmentalism from psychology.
missed the r, he is so totally and globally influencial over the last 30 years I don't think Google would mind though.
You seem so fractured. Is it even possible for you to become one with everything? If your first duty is to attack those with an opposing point of view, how can you become whole?
Hi I found you from the GreenProfs Twitter page — I'm quite green but not a prof, instead an environmental photojournalist with a book out on global warming, which I hope you would take a look at sometime — the webstite for that is http://www.earthunderfire.com. My main global warming site is a fave of many teachers and NGOs. Although it is not a blog strictly speaking, I do post my own research and photos and reactions to environmental news — right now news of the polar bear listing and of the new important goal of 350 ppm (meaning much more than just a slow down in emissions but a very sharp reduction so that the concentration of CO2 in the air goes down from where it is today). Thanks and happy summer.
Thank You, foe everything you have done and will do in the future for Green.
All is NOT the way the Green Experts would have you think?
and They believed a lie……?
Not from corporate or educational elites whom are forced into the worlds oldest profession for Grant dollars.
It is everyone's choice to believe the illusions or collect the facts where ever they may lead.
Great concept. Wishing you continued success Marguerite!
Through a ciruitous route of clicking(based on corporate sustainability and responsibility) i came upon your site and the recommendation for the BlogTrend- i love this- it shows how shallow we really are that we only listen to the loudest voice in the media and it is not always the good that prevails.
I am so enjoying your blog, and agree that one step at a time is all anyone can do. But together our steps are more like huge heav-hos to dump out the bad, and step closer to the good. I wish you continued success!
I start from the view people are important, above all else. All people are alive right now (perhaps I might say ..or will be within about 9 months…). I take the end of the world to mean the end of human life.
Why should I care to save the world beyond about 100 years (i.e. until all people are dead)? Of course it is likely there will be more people born in the next 100 years and they will still be alive. So they will perish if the world ends in 100 years. Imagine now the world lasts 200 years. What difference will it make? There will be more people born, between 100 years and 200 years hence. Anyone alive at the end of the world (200 years time)will perish. So the only difference between the two scenarios is the people born between 100 and 200 years. If the world ends in 100 years there will not be such people and someone who worries only about people will not worry about "them" (imaginary people who will never be realised).
The world will end one day (to believe otherwise would be crazy), so there will be people who enter the endgame and do not come out on the other side. Why is it better if that is in (say) 11 billion years (I think the sun burns up by then but it doesn't matter if that is wrong; it will burn up one day) than in 100 years? If the world ends in 100 years there will be no people born in the following 10 billion etc. years. Perhaps religious people will disagree; they might even believe the world can last forever!
Congratulations for your website. I just discover it today.
I really enjoy reading your articles and feel we have quite a lot in common : same kind of background and green passions.
I did launch a small french blog on RE in 2007 too, and just make a link to your site as a favourite one.
Happy to have found your blog, so many great posts!
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WKRO (1490 kHz) is an AM radio station located in Cairo, Illinois. The frequency is currently home to the area's first alternative format, which is also broadcast on translator W277CH at 103.3.

WKRO (1490 AM) has not been on the air in almost 4 years.

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WKRO relays its signal to an FM translator: W277CH.

History
WKRO was assigned the AM frequency of 1490 by the Federal Communications Commission in late 1941 and began broadcasting with a power of 250 watts in February 1942. According to Broadcasting Yearbook, the station raised its daytime power to 1,000 watts around 1975. The original station owner was Oscar Hirsch. Hirsch had previously started KFVS Radio in Cape Girardeau in the 1920s and expanded his broadcast group in the 1940s to also include radio stations in Sparta, Illinois (WHCO), Flat River, Missouri (KFMO) and Sikeston, Missouri (KSIM). By the mid-1950s, Hirsch expanded into the fledgling television industry with the formation of KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The Hirsch family operated WKRO until 1984, when the station was sold to a local funeral director, William T. "Bill" Crain. Crain operated WKRO for close to ten years. During the 1990s, WKRO was owned and operated by a succession of short lived owners, including Roger Price, Sr. and Dan Moeller. Eventually, in an unusual arrangement for a commercial broadcast license, the station was briefly operated by Alexander County and overseen by the county commissioners before the final license holder, Stratemeyer Media, based in nearby Metropolis, Illinois, took over operations and programming of the station.

For much of its existence, WKRO broadcast a "block format" featuring different genres of music throughout the day and evening – such as country, adult contemporary and urban – interspersed with frequent news and information segments. The most notable were the longstanding "10 O'Clock Local News", broadcast every morning at 10:00 a.m.; "In Memoriam", a daily report of local obituaries; "Moments with the Master", a daily devotional with local pastor Dr. Larry Potts; and, "The Ilmoky Phone Quiz", a daily quiz show where listeners were called at random and asked to answer a trivia question for cash prizes. WKRO was a longtime affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals Radio Network and broadcast an extensive schedule of local high school football and basketball games each season. Memorable announcers on WKRO include Danny Mac, Bob Stout, Harry Stout, Charles Walker, Delores Kerricker, John Jones, Tyrone Coleman, I.J. Hudson III, Derrick Hill, Owen Evers, Merrill C. "Red" Currier, Walter "Wally" McCowen, and Oklahoma Radio Personality of the Year (OAB) RJ Price.

External links
103.3 The Bridge Facebook

Alternative rock radio stations in the United States
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Going into the final day of the 2014/15 Premier League season, a Stoke City team managed by Mark Hughes needed three points at home against Liverpool to secure their highest Premier League points total.
The visitors, then under head coach Brendan Rodgers, had struggled to match the form of the previous season's title challenge and were already out of contention for the Champions League places. Instead, the focus on the Reds lay squarely on captain Steven Gerrard, for whom the fixture represented his final game as a player on British shores.
Gerrard eventually managed to score a farewell goal in front of the travelling fans, but Liverpool were otherwise outplayed and outfought in a chastening 6-1 defeat. Here, in an exclusive Masterclass with the Coaches' Voice, Hughes reveals the key selection and tactical decisions that inspired a victory in which numerous players with a Liverpool connection – including Charlie Adam, Peter Crouch and Jon Walters – made significant contributions.

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Sophisticated casualwear – the international denim fashion label Closed was founded in Italy in 1978. Despite headquarters having moved to Hamburg, most of their products are still made in Italy. The fashion label represents a ... contemporary and casual upper middle class style. The label made its name in jeans fashion using innovative designs and new techniques. The introduction of stone-washing, for that trendy casual denim look, for example, can be ascribed to this trend label. The current directors Gordon Giers, Hand Redlefsen, and Til Nadler met in the 1980s, became friends as well as business partners, and see their fashion company as a "family business" in the broadest sense of the word. More Less
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Closed for men: Sophisticated casualwear
The label Closed has been synonymous with modern design and uncompromising quality since it was founded in 1978. Back then, two Frenchmen had the idea of starting a denim brand with Italian quality. Closed enjoyed its golden age in the 80s with the jeans model 'Pedal Pusher' and the iconic X pockets. At the start of the new millennium, university friends Gordon Giers, Til Nadler and Hans Redlefsen took over the business with the aim of moving Closed back into the foreground by creating genuine and sustainable jeans styles - and it was a success. Even Hollywood was wearing Closed again. All three owners brought the perfect specialist knowledge to the Closed brand from all over Europe – French creativity, Italian craftsmanship and German tradition – gained on their experiences abroad e.g. at Prada and Gucci. Gordon Giers is responsible for design and marketing and works on continually improving the products, Til Nadler takes care of sales, while Hans Redlefsen is responsible for the business' finances. Closed collections now include head-to-toe fashion, from jackets through Closed jumpers and T-shirts to shoes. All of the products are manufactured in production facilities in Europe that the label has worked with for years; the distribution channels are fair and short. The products are woven, dyed and washed to achieve the end result of contemporary high-end denim.
The Closed look is trendy, but not too loud; casual but high-quality. Hooded jumpers with cool print, striped T-shirts, casual long sleeves, modern denim shirts and, of course, jeans and trousers: Closed fashion for men always has its finger on the pulse, while being as fair, environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible. Chinos in a cropped cut, jeans in bleached light denim, authentic washes, modern distressed effects: There is no mistaking the innovative style of Closed. You can order the latest men's styles from Closed here in the BRAUN Hamburg online store.


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Two people were injured July 26 when the motorcycle they were riding was struck on Route 1 in front of Hank's Place in Chadds Ford Township. The severity of the injuries was not immediately known and troopers responding to the scene did not comment except to say that the information would be presented in a press release. According to people at the restaurant, both vehicles were in the southbound lane of Route 1 when the motorcycle began turning into the parking lot. The right front of the car hit the rear of the motorcycle. The accident happened around 10 a.m.
The parking lot at Hank's Place is scored where the motorcycle slid.


Lovely talk by @tekin about the benefits of investing time in keeping a clean and useful #git history, particularly the tips at the end.
@james I dig the talk, just can't get behind treating the history as mutable. Once code is shared, mucking about with commit IDs causes havoc to understanding what's going on with the code.
@travis once it's in master, complete agreed (and I think he says so in the talk).
For collaborative branches, a little work is required sure, but it's hard to avoid unless you want to save all your merge conflicts to the end and have a bunch of "fix build" commits in there.
@travis For me, the benefits of a super helpful git log and blame workflow vastly outweighs the challenges of coordinating rebasing feature branches.
And over time it encourages us to be more mindful of the commits we create in the first place, making them cleaning and more coherent from the outset.
@james @travis I'm kind of new to the use of rebase in the git flow process but I'm starting to like it now. For larger joint branches I've been saving the rebase for integration down into the main branch with the development happening on a feature or side branch using traditional merges that preserve history.
@hankg @james odd timing. I was just thinking of me Violating the Sanctity of the Commit talk that I need to finish up.
@james Thanks for sharing this. I just wrote my first commit message following @tekin's advice!


Human vibes are enough to give us the impression that the internet world belongs to people. It's a place where people talk, argue, share, and even sell stuff. We assume that all the internet traffic is generated by living individuals on the other side of the power button. In reality this assumption is totally misleading. In fact, statistically the human race is now a minority on the web.
The new report statistics clearly indicate that bots are generating more internet traffic than humans. It's the bots that are designed to major work on the internet from posting Pro-Trump messages on social media platforms to providing better results to users. Internet is not at all being used by fleshy humans that might purchase products. Most of the traffic is generated by invisible bots which proves that they are not always created for doing negative work.
Just like humans, bots can perform all the repetitive online processes. Also, like humans there are two kinds of bots i.e. good and bad bots. In 2016, the good bot use increased considerably but the traffic from bad bots remained the same. God bots are designed in order to enhance and monitor user's web browsing experience. But bad ones are responsible for snipping content, crushing web servers, and for stealing analytic information from insecure companions.
In today's internet world, traffic numbers apparently are only slightly inflated by human hits.


IS NUMBERS USA FOR EMPLOYERS HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS?
SEA is working to improve awareness of H-2B jobs to U.S. workers.
A robust labor market test eliminates the need for a cap on the H-2B program.
If H-2B is uncapped, every employer in an H-2B occupation should be required to participate in E-Verify.
"I joined SEA because I knew we needed to be proactive in fixing the H2B Program. The industry's advocacy efforts had stagnated. SEA was the loudest voice I heard trying to reach a long term solution, resulting in more progress in the past year than I've seen in the whole 20 years our company has been in the program. I believe SEA's approach of collaboration, effective communication, and thinking outside the box is the path forward for H-2B program advocacy and is the organization companies who depend on the H-2B program should belong to. "
"The Seasonal Employment Alliance has done more to shape the narrative for H-2B reform. This is largely due to the fact that they are proactive and not reactive. I am confident SEA will be instrumental in bringing positive change for those of us that rely on the H-2B guest worker program. Because of the efforts of SEA's team and members, we are closer to H-2B reform then we have been in years.
SEA is not just a Washington DC organization, when I requested their help in Georgia they came here to offer support on several occasions. I am proud to be part of SEA."
"Since the startup of SEA a little over a year ago, SEA has made unmatched strides towards H2B cap relief. We are closer than ever before to a permanent cap increase because of SEA's efforts and the relationships SEA has formed with H2B employers and legislators. As an agent, it is helpful to be a member of an organization with other agents and active employers. The information the members provide and the resources I have access to ensure I am on top of all aspects of the ever shifting H-2B program. This helps me provide the best possible service to my clients. "
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Let's Hang On has established itself as America's preeminent Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons tribute group by combining spot-on vocals and crisp choreography with a genuine ability to entertain an audience. Its performers respectfully pay tribute to all these classic "Seasons" details while also saluting to the Broadway show, The Jersey Boys. This powerhouse group will perform all of the Frankie Valli mega hits including: Sherry, Big Girls Don't Cry, Walk Like A Man, Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You, December of 1963 and Who Loves You!
America's # 1 Zac Brown Tribute Band, 20 RIDE, is American Country/Folk music at its finest. The first tribute of it's kind.
From traditional country, to Caribbean rhythm, to sultry bedroom ballads, 20 RIDE brings all the best Zac has to offer. Whether you love their mega hits like "Chicken Fried" , "Colder Weather" ,"Free" , "Toes" , "Highway 20 Ride" or many more, 20 RIDE will play all your favorites and some cool covers too.
Sail On: The Beach Boys Tribute focuses on performing songs by America's Band, The Beach Boys, to sheer perfection. Members of Sail On have performed with musicians from Brian Wilson's band, The Zombies, Earth Wind and Fire, Cheap Trick, Mark Lindsay and produced recordings for Micky Dolenz. In 2018 Sail on performed over 70 dates across the country, including 3 nights filling in for Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys, while accompanied by the famous Nashville Symphony.
The multi-Grammy Award winning artist is at the top of his game with his 19th studio album, Prick Of The Litter (Hot Shot Records/Thirty Tigers). The new offering captures the balance of soulful energy and restraint that the legendary performer has been delivering in his live performances for decades all over the world. On Prick of the Litter, Delbert incorporates a variety of styles, and as always, just enough to keep him comfortably outside the traditional marketing categories.
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Estonia sees double digit realized rates across the board.
Even the A and AA grades earn 11.68% and 12.53%.
There is lots of competition to fund Estonia loans at these rates so you need to invest wisely to be sure you are putting your money to work.
The highest realized rate is HR at 35.6%.
Estonia consistently exceeds its targeted rates at all credit grades.
Finland exceeded targets across all credit grades as well.
While HR exceeded its target, that is the only rate where defaults are meaningful in lowering returns for investors, while still earning 17.29%.
HR's 17.29% is equal to owning a mix of C and D credit grade loans from Finland.
After some previous quarters with realized rates that were positive but fell short of the targeted rates, this quarter every grade exceeded its target.
Spain has loans available in 3 credit grades: E, F and HR.
Targeted rates are in the teens from 13.83% up to 14.61%.
Actual realized rates are between 27% and 33%.
The loan book is growing and becoming more profitable in Spain.
As mentioned in our recovery post, we are starting to use the legal process more in Spain to help with recoveries and this is starting to help with returns for our lenders. We hope this continues.
Although the performance numbers decreased very slightly in the past month, the overall performance over the past 7 years and across all markets stayed basically the same, still beating the rest of the market.


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Already qualified for the World Cup, Denmark visited Scotland for the final round of Group F, of the UEFA World Cup Qualifiers. The encounter is scheduled for Monday, 15. The Scots secured their presence in the race for a place in the last round. The meeting will be of little importance to the standings. However, it is worth Denmark's continued perfect record and an excellent Scottish display for their fans.
Stadium and city where Scotland vs Denmark will play
The meeting between the top two teams in Group F will take place at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland, a venue owned by Glasgow Rangers. The venue is the country's main stadium and was used in the last Euro.
Last meeting between the teams
The last match between the two teams took place on September 1. On that occasion, Denmark did not make a bad showing for its fans. The team beat the Scots at home by the score of 2×0, with goals from Daniel Wass and Joakim Maehle. The triumph in question was the team's fourth in the competition. The meeting, on that occasion, took place in the city of Copenhagen, at the Parken Stadium.
Playing away from home, Scotland beat the team of Moldova by 2×0, with two goals from Nathan Patterson. The win confirmed the team in the World Cup Qualifiers passages. The goal was the most feasible since Denmark was always the big favorite in Group F. The Scots want to close their participation in this phase with a golden key in front of their fans and already thinking about the next stage. The Scots have 20 points, seven behind leaders Denmark and four ahead of third-placed Israel.
Scotland review
Scotland has achieved their fifth straight victory. The last time the club failed to triumph was on September 1, when they fell to Denmark themselves. Since then, the team has beaten Moldova twice, Austria, the Faroe Islands, and Israel. The team is yet to lose in the second qualifying wave. The team has the second-best defensive record with seven goals conceded, eight less than the third-placed team within the group. The team has gone without conceding goals in five of the nine encounters. On the other hand, the attack is the third-best since Israel has 19 balls in the nets against 15 of the Scots.
Absentees
The team's only absentee for the next match is, perhaps, Ryan Fraser. The player did not even go to the bench against Moldova and remained out of this subsequent encounter. However, one of the team's standouts is back. Lyndon Dykes, Scotland's top scorer in the Qualifiers, returns from suspension. The Queens Park Rangers player sat out against Moldova as he had picked up his third yellow against the Faroe Islands. The player has four goals in the competition, the same amount as Jonh McGinn, another highlight of the attacking system.
Denmark is one of the two European teams that arrived in this FIFA DATE with their place in the World Cup guaranteed. Besides the team, Germany also qualified previously in Europe. Outside the continent, host Qatar and Brazil clinched their place by the end of this past Thursday, 11. The Danes will enter the field to close the current round with their perfect and unbroken record. The team has won every one so far, their latest triumph being achieved this Friday, 12, against the Faroe Islands. The squad has led from end-to-end and has one of the best campaigns among all the teams in the Qualifiers.
Denmark analysis
Denmark owns the best record in Group F of the Qualifiers. The team averages more than three goals per encounter as they have scored 30 times in nine matches. Moreover, the club has gone through their entire campaign unbeaten. The Danish team is the only one in the competition that has conceded only one goal. Thus, they own the best finishing record.
🔒 Scotland locked in their spot in the #WCQ play-offs with victory in Moldova, while Denmark had already qualified for the #WorldCup 🎟 pic.twitter.com/5Q7vzXOhw4
Highlights and absentees
And speaking of defense, one of the team's great highlights is goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, son of the legendary goalkeeper of the same surname. The Leicester player is the face of the team's defensive system and the only goalkeeper to have been outplayed in just one encounter, passing names like Neuer, for example. The highlight goes to midfielder Olsen, who has four goals in the competition and is the team's top scorer when it comes to scoring goals. Denmark is still without any momentary absences for the clash against Scotland.
Top betting tips for Scotland vs Denmark
Goal Betting Tip
Facing such a solid defense and an efficient attack, like Denmark's, the most likely scenario in the encounter involves goals for only one side. The Danish team should unscathed and historically close the Qualifiers, conceding just one goal even away from home. Thus, betting on the 'both teams score' market, in the 'no' option, via Bet365, can bring profits. The quote is at 1.80.
The betting tip for the result
The group leader should finish the current qualifying round with a 100% record. The team, even away from home, is heavily favored to win. Thus, the Danes should win without much difficulty in a match with an almost friendly atmosphere. The odds for the team to beat the hosts are favorable in the market of the Bet365 results. The option is quoted at 2.25.
Check out other predictions for this FIFA Date, as well as news about the world of sports betting, on our home page!
When is Scotland vs Denmark match played?
The Scots host Denmark on Monday, November 15. The match will be valid for the last day of the Qualifiers.
In which stadium and city is the Scotland vs Denmark game played?
The meeting between the top two teams in Group F will take place at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland.
What was the result of the last time these teams met?
In the previous meeting between the teams, on September 1, Scotland lost to Denmark away 2-0.
What is the main goal betting tip for that match?
Given Denmark's excellent defense, bets on the market 'both teams score,' in the option 'no,' through Bet365, can bring profits.
Which bookmaker has the best odds for this match?
The bookmaker with the best odds for this match is Bet365!
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Next Adventure: After spending the last 12 years here at Georgia Tech, I am moving to Maryland to take a job with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. I will be the senior professional staff for a new team.
Over the course of my time at Georgia Tech and at ASDL [Aerospace Systems Design Lab] I worked on several projects that involved very different contractors. Support for my dissertation came from the NASA Graduate Student Research Project fellowship, out of Langley. I worked on the hybrid wing body aircraft, focusing on design optimization under control authority constraints.
I've lived in Atlanta since 2003, so I'm itching to try out a new city. And, while I've gotten to do some great things as a post-doc at ASDL, I'm ready to shed the poor graduate student life. Workwise, I'm getting to do something I haven't looked at for awhile - ballistic defense - which is also exciting.
My undergraduate and graduate years at Georgia Tech really taught me to work hard and to put in the hours to get work done. There were a lot of late nights. My doctoral program taught me how to think for myself, define my own problems, and design new solutions. It was particularly helpful to have Dr. Mavris as my advisor, because he was personally aware of NASA's interest in the hybrid wing and he helped me to make that connection.
Throughout my time at Tech, I had a strong social network -- people I knew through the marching and concert band and through Kappa Kappa Psi, the service organization associated with the band. It makes the whole experience easier when you have people to turn to, to complain to, to get support. Especially during the Ph.D. It's such a grind. The other thing is, you should learn to be humbled, especially at the Ph.D. level because there's a lot of knowledge out there. You can't know it all. Passing a test on it is not the same as knowing it.


Newspaper Rock: Negative reviews of Jimmy P.
By Brad BrevetThey all can't be winners, and Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P. would seem to have the material to make a good film, but my god, as we watch the film's title character go through two hours of therapy we begin to feel as if we are the ones locked in a mental ward, waiting for the credits to roll so we know when we can finally break out.
Set during the end of the second World War, the film is based on George Devereux's non-fiction book "Reality and Dream: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian" and we are introduced to Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Native American soldier who suffered a head trauma in the war who is now troubled by an inexplicable illness that's causing painful headaches and temporary blindness. Taken to a military hospital by his sister (Misty Upham), he eventually falls under the care of Georges Devereux (Mathieu Amalric), who is given one hour a day to treat him and we are "treated" to snippets of what feels like every single one of those hours.
Del Toro plays Jimmy as if he is slow-witted, but I never got the impression we were to think of him this way. He delivers his words in short, staccato bursts as if he is eight years old and it's a maddening exercise in patience considering so much of the film is dedicated to listening to Jimmy and Georges' conversations.
When the two aren't talking the scene typically shifts to Georges' quarters where Madeleine (Gina McKee), a married friend of his, arrives and spends a considerable amount of time with him. You'd think her character would have some major bearing on the story, but for all I could tell she was there as a distraction to break up the film so it wasn't one therapy session after another. Instead it becomes one therapy session after another, broken up only by moments between Georges and Madeleine either talking about the therapy sessions or random nonsense that doesn't seem to have anything to do with the film we're watching.
By Donald ClarkeThe film is based on the true story of a native American who, in the aftermath of the second World War, underwent analysis in Kansas to disentangle traumatic stress disorder. On the evidence of this film, the psychiatrist was an overdressed loon, prone to erratic hand gestures and at home to a French accent that would give Pepe le Pew pause to snigger. To this date we have thought Mathieu Amalric incapable of giving a bad performance. But Desplechin proves his impressive way with performers by extracting an total stinker from the gifted Frenchman. If the character is supposed to be funny, he is surely not supposed to be funny in quite this fashion.
French viewers can, at least, relax in the knowledge that one of their own is bouncing national stereotypes into the red. Benicio de Toro may have "some Indigenous American ancestry," but he still looks and sounds like a Puerto Rican. It's not quite like the old days when Yul Brynner or Anthony Quinn were asked to play any required nationality. It would, however, have been nice to cast a Native American actor in a Native American role.
By Sharon WaxmanIn minute and often crushingly slow detail (at times one wonders if the entire contents of Deveraux's notes were laid out in the screenplay), the story plumbs the depths of Picard's relationship to his native culture and his abandonment of personal responsibilities after his war service, through his friendship with Deveraux.
[T]he movie suffers from being too light and too heavy at the same time: the stakes are rather lightweight (especially given the history of native Americans) and the treatment of those stakes ponderous.Comment: Note that a couple of reviews singled out Del Toro's dubious performance. It sounds as though he were playing the Indian as slow and inarticulate. Like a classic stoic Indian--a Tonto type.
This is why you have Native actors play Native roles. They'll avoid stereotypes in their performance, or at least argue for avoiding stereotypes. They won't simply emulate what they've seen in other movies.
For more on the subject, see My Interview with Misty Upham and Del Toro to Play Native Veteran.


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from collections import OrderedDict

from plenum.common.constants import TXN_AUTHOR_AGREEMENT, GET_TXN_AUTHOR_AGREEMENT
from plenum.common.messages.fields import (
    LimitedLengthStringField, ConstantField, NonEmptyStringField, NonNegativeNumberField, BooleanField)
from plenum.common.messages.client_request import ClientTxnAuthorAgreementOperation, \
    ClientGetTxnAuthorAgreementOperation

TAA_EXPECTED_ORDERED_FIELDS = OrderedDict([
    ("type", ConstantField),
    ("text", LimitedLengthStringField),
    ("version", LimitedLengthStringField),
    ("ratification_ts", NonNegativeNumberField),
    ("retirement_ts", NonNegativeNumberField),
])

GET_TAA_EXPECTED_ORDERED_FIELDS = OrderedDict([
    ("type", ConstantField),
    ("version", NonEmptyStringField),
    ("digest", NonEmptyStringField),
    ("timestamp", NonNegativeNumberField)
])

def check_schema(actual, expected):
    assert list(actual.keys()) == list(expected.keys())
    for field, validator in expected.items():
        assert isinstance(actual[field], validator)

def test_taa_has_expected_schema():
    schema = OrderedDict(ClientTxnAuthorAgreementOperation.schema)
    check_schema(schema, TAA_EXPECTED_ORDERED_FIELDS)
    assert schema["type"].value == TXN_AUTHOR_AGREEMENT

def test_get_taa_has_expected_schema():
    schema = OrderedDict(ClientGetTxnAuthorAgreementOperation.schema)
    check_schema(schema, GET_TAA_EXPECTED_ORDERED_FIELDS)
    assert schema["type"].value == GET_TXN_AUTHOR_AGREEMENT


He's a Filipino historian, prolific writer and journalist. He's one of the best there is when it comes to short stories and novels made with the English language. He's also received the distinction as a National Artist of the Philippines for Literature and there's no contest to that fact that he's probably next to Rizal and Claro M. Recto. The current generation though barely knows him and this particular movie called Dahlin Nick will undoubtedly tell his story, together with his selected works, realism and his literary classics. This is also directed by famed Manila based Sari Lluch Dalena who's works Ka Oryang (2011) earned her a Best Director Award for the 7th Cinema One Originals Film Festival back in 2011. Cinema Originals 2015 will happen this November 9 - 11, 2015 at Trinoma, Glorietta, Resorts World Manila and SM Megamall.
Present during the unveiling of the movie's poster were National Artist F. Sionil Jose (who by the way told a very compelling story of his friend during the presscon). Other works and characters include Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera, award winning pen artists Gemino Abad, Greg C. Brilliantes, Erwin E. Castillo, Butch Dalisay, Jose Lacaba, Marra Pl. Lanot, Jose Maria Sison and Krip Yuson. It will also include archived images, works and blood tingling poetry. It will make you proud to know that you knew a person like Nick Juaquin existed and made the country proud.
You must be thinking why there are bottles of beer on the table. Nick Juaquin was known to carry around one during occasions, it was like a signature thing and on record, he was the only one allowed to carry one during stints in CCP and in other formal occasions. You'll understand that part while watching the film. Sionil F. Jose says Nick Juaquin was always seen having a bottle or two with or without occasions but he knew what he was thinking about, or every detail he's saying eve if he was drunk. People noticed it made him somewhat better with words in that state.
Raymond Bagatsing says he feels honored to have been able to do this portrayal of Nick Juaquin. The chance to work with Sari Dalena was already a dream and with this character, he had to study quite a lot so he could stay inside Dahling Nick's persona.
Coming back from a 15 year hiatus is beauty queen Dindi Gallardo. She'll play the role of Madame Imelda Marcos whilst good looking lad Lance Raymundo will play husband Ferdinand Marcos. Lance says "I could see this film be a medium of information, to be seen in schools, film showings, international screenings. It was hard to do because you're there for information since it's got historical facts and not to impose your personal views." Dindi added "I was surprised to have received a call telling me I'd work with the good people behind the film, plus it's not just any role because it is Ms. Imelda Marcos. I had to do research, go to libraries and read off specifics about the former first lady. Asking why me, they told me they needed someone who could do grace under pressure because it's hard to do a character like that."
Nick Juaquin's own family encourages people from the film industry and academe to work with them so they too would know more of his work. I've personally read some of it during high school and college specifically May Day Eve (1947), The Woman Who had Two Navels (1961) and A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (1966). You'll get to see bits of it on the movie Dahling Nick, his life and his work.
The film also stars Alessandra de Rossi, Nick Lisazo, Emmanuel Dela Cruz, Bernardo Bernardo, Ronah Adiel Rostata, Bong Cabrera, Rica D. Abad, Paul Cedric Juan, Banaue Miclat Janssen, Che Ramos Cosio, Ping Medina, Adrian Cabido, John Agustin, Christian Del Mundo, Nitey Hernandez, JM Bernandino, Roli Inocencio, Karla Pambid, Karl Medina, Thea Yrastorza, Ross Persigan, Opaline Santos, Darwin Gordon de Roxas, Aba Lluch Dalena, Kris Lacaba, Nico Bagsic, Rica Abad, Nina Torralba, Kiko Matos, Ma. Isabel Lopez, Gabby Padilla, Hazel Faith Dela Cruz, Faye Alhambra, Johnny Regana and a lot more. This is produced by Ronald Arguelles.
Dahling Nick will be screened in Trinoma on November 11 at 9:40PM (Gala), in Glorietta Cinema 2:30PM and Megamall 7:30PM on November 12, 5:20PM in Resorts World Manila and 7PM Glorietta on November 14, 9:40PM Megamall on November 15, 2:45PM Megamall and 4:40PM Glorietta on November 16, 12:30PM Trinoma and 4:10PM Resorts World Manila on November 17. This is part of Cinema One Originals Festival 2015.


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China Removed a Pandemic-Themed Game From Its iOS App Store
Kyle Orland, Ars Technica
Plague Inc. saw a spike in popularity around the world following initial reports of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Courtesy of Ndemic Creations
Plague Inc. maker Ndemic Creations says the game has been removed from sale on the iOS App Store in China because the relevant authorities say it "includes content that is illegal in China as determined by the Cyberspace Administration of China."
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast.
The popular game—in which players cope with a virus's deadly spread around the world—has been available on the Chinese App Store for years without issue. Ndemic says it's "not clear to us if this removal is linked to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak that China is facing," but it certainly seems like the most likely proximate cause.
"This situation is completely out of our control," Ndemic writes. "We are working very hard to try and find a way to get the game back in the hands of Chinese players—we don't want to give up on you—however, as a tiny independent games studio in the UK, the odds are stacked against us. Our immediate priority is to try and make contact with the Cyberspace Administration of China to understand their concerns and work with them to find a resolution."
Plague Inc. saw a spike in popularity in China and other countries following initial reports of the coronavirus outbreak. In the wake of that surge, Ndemic issued a statement last month urging players not to treat the game as a "scientific model" for the spread of any disease. Reports of new coronavirus cases are now larger outside of China than within the country, where the outbreak has been in decline since February 2.
World events aside, Plague Inc. also received an early December "Fake News" update that added "a radically different scenario which lets you create your very own Fake News story and deceive the world with it," according to the game's public patch notes. Industry analyst Daniel Ahmad notes on Twitter that China has in the past restricted games that "harm the public ethics, disrupt social order, or undermine social stability," including titles that contain "false information."
China has a long history of placing restrictions on mobile apps sold in the country, pulling everything from communication and news apps to gambling games and protest mapping tools.
Plague Inc. is still available on the App Store outside of China, where it remains a top seller, according to tracking firm App Annie. The game is also available for Android and in an Evolved version for PC and major consoles.
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica.
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With much delight, the Dunedin School of Art opens its doors to the public for their annual SITE exhibition.
Spanning the entire area of the School, SITE transforms the working environment of a contemporary art school into a gallery for five days. Art lovers engage and gain inspiration from a varied range of unique artworks in this celebrated end-of-year exhibition, with most works available for purchase.
Image credit: Annette Brown, Fished Out, 2019, video still.
Featured artist, Annette Brown lives and works in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland and is completing her Bachelor of Visual Arts at Dunedin School of Art by distance.
Annette is of Samoan and Pākehā descent, with family ties to Ngāti Whātua o Kaipara. Cultural complexities that arise at family and a societal level form the basis of her work, the idea of the colonised coloniser. Brown's work is video, sculpture and installation based. Annette is exhibiting at SITE 19 in Dunedin and currently also has a work in the exhibition Domestic #3: Ahimaru, Mokopōpaki, Auckland. With the Pākehā postcolonial gaze reversed, Annette's SITE project Fished Out (2019), is about both the breakdown of negotiation between cultures, as it is the strong anchoring threads of family history and shared humanity. The project invites an ongoing community conversation as Islanders of Pacific Aotearoa.
Whether you have a penchant for painting, print, photography, jewellery and metalsmithing, electronic arts, sculpture, drawing, ceramics or textiles – all disciplines are represented. The Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic has educated artists since 1870 and offers certificate to degree programmes, including postgraduate programmes. Prepare to be captivated by the creative talents of this next generation of artists.
SITE 19: 23 – 28 November 2019. Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, Riego Street.
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©2012 PBS/ITV
Shaun Evans in ENDEAVOUR
TV Review: ENDEAVOUR – MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
An exceptional prequel to the INSPECTOR MORSE series which gets everything right
Posted: July 2nd, 2012 / 01:05 AM
Stars: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, Danny Webb, Flora Montgomery
Writer: Russell Lewis based on the characters created by Colin Dexter
Director: Colm McCarthy
Network: PBS
Airdate: July 1, 2012
For those who were long time fans of the INSPECTOR MORSE series starring John Thaw, MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! Offers up a prequel with the British tele-film ENDEAVOUR.
Yes, prequels are getting really annoying and they're ruining very good franchises when done wrong, yet writer Russell Lewis has "devised" a great new universe for Endeavour Morse before he was an Inspector and when he was just starting out on his road to becoming a great detective. He's respectful of the source material, not only alluding to and foreshadowing the future Morse we all know, but also finding new corners to explore.
Shaun Evans is fabulous as the young new Morse – a rookie serving as Constable Detective but on the verge of quitting because he's unhappy with all the bureaucracy. The series is set in the 1960s, so it links up nice to the Thaw timeline quite well.
When a young red-headed girl shows up dead, Morse suddenly finds himself obsessed with the case and getting closer to the truth than the far more experienced detectives. He finds a kinship with Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) who takes a liking to Morse's persistence and knack for finding clues in seemingly insignificant things.
This camaraderie is the heart of ENDEAVOUR and hopefully if this continues as a series, we'll see more of this relationship develop
This being a film, versus a regular hour-long series, there's a feature film quality that director Colm McCarthy brings to the proceedings. Yes, we've seen every variation on the detective story, but ENDEAVOUR, particularly with its period setting, really stands out. This is fabulous storytelling – particularly in heart-wrenching irony when the killer is finally revealed.
Even Thaw's daughter Abigail Thaw has a nice little cameo role that is reverent to her father. Great stuff.
ENDEAVOUR is super smart and keeps your attention throughout. Here's hoping the success of this leads to many more adventures of the pre-Inspector Morse. They have the cast, the writing and the right feel. Now they just need to deliver more sooner than later, because frankly I can't wait.
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Excellent film, and dutifully intriguing for those of us who favored the Inspector Morse series.
I agree! I can hardly wait for future episodes.
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please continue this series, this was superb
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I'm surprised this was just a movie, it's needs to be a series. High quality, like everything on Masterpiece! Please make more episodes.
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There are over 7 billion people in this world.
Each one of these 7+ billion people comes with their own set of unique outlooks on the world that are independent of anything other than their own personal experiences.
We often, as humans, focus on differences and vehemently defend our own self-interests, but there are some universal common areas that must be acknowledged.
Faces suffering (sickness, not getting the things they want, eventual death).
Wants to love and be loved.
Strives toward fulfillment and happiness.
As far as I can tell, these 3 similarities trump all differences. The human condition is a unique glue that binds all of humanity. When this is accepted, peace will triumph.
Everyone has a set of distinctive circumstances that is dictating their behavior. Understand that you don't understand what anyone else has gone through or is currently going through.
Trust that this is a person who is trying their best with the situations they've been given.
All too often, we meet people and try to box them into our own ideas of how they should behave. This is a poisonous attitude. Come to expect differences and you'll come to realize the similarities.
They are living, breathing, humans – existing just as you are existing.
Their circumstances, opinions, beliefs, behaviors, outlooks, and cultural understandings will likely be different than yours. You don't have to agree with them, but you should strive to understand that they carry with them a set of circumstances you will never know.
This is the foundation for their personality.
All you have to do is respect this foundation.
As you may have noticed, I talk about mindfulness a lot.
This is because it's fundamental to so many things in life that its ultimate value is all-encompassing. In particular, when dealing with difficult situations, learning how to utilize mindfulness is of immense importance.
It's easy to build a relationship with people we like, but it's much more challenging when we encounter people who possess a lot of personality traits we don't like. This triggers our agitation and response for anger.
Learning how to stay mindful in difficult situations – with individuals we find difficult – will have powerful benefits that can only teach us more about ourselves, other people, our cultural outlooks, and our place in the world.
This goes back to respect, but it's a more specific level of respect.
Everyone is at some point in their lives. They're walking down a path and they're somewhere along that path.
Maybe they're a xenophobic bigot or maybe they're a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Either way, understand that they exist where they are right now, and there's nothing you can do to change that.
People go through changes, yes, but they go through them at their own pace. If they're ready for a change and they want you to help, they'll let you know.
Otherwise, meet them where they're at.
We can't force them to be like us or think like us or act like us. That will trigger their anger response and any hope of a relationship is effectively non-existent.
Playing on this theme, don't expect anything from anyone.
Don't expect the relationship to be good or bad.
Don't expect them to be mean or nice.
Don't expect anything. Reality rarely lines up with our expectations.
Our opinions are so often wrong, yet when we tightly hold onto them, they color an entire interaction, and to a larger degree, an entire relationship.
This is so detrimental to healthy interactions.
When we start to see traits we like, we can't expect them to be bigger. Also, we can't expect the other person to take in our unsolicited opinions about how they can "be better".
Again, this will cause their defenses to become triggered, and when this happens, the relationship is in trouble because they will see that we can't accept them for who they are, where they are, and how they are.
Even if you see potential, don't expect it to bloom right away. Even if you're the nicest person in the world, don't expect them to respect your selfless attitudes. Even if you love them, don't expect them to love you back.
They may love you, but they also may not.
Don't expect it, and if it happens, don't expect it to last.
Stop making everything so serious.
Life can be fun. Life can be easy. When everything becomes serious, expectations rise, the stakes are much higher, and levels of respect fall away because we're analyzing the benefits of such a relationship instead of just being in the moment.
Even though we get nervous because we want the interaction to go really well, people actually like us better if we can be relaxed. They'll feel comfortable and carefree.
It won't matter if you're on polar opposite sides of the political spectrum or if you can't speak each other's languages. When you relax, the moment opens up a world of possibilities for you to find common ground.
Showing that you can relax and keep an open mind when difficulties arise will show the other person that they can be at ease around you. This is when you really get to know a person for who they are.
Let them show you who they are, and respecting them will become easy.
We are here. On Earth. Right now. Together.
There is no need to fight or be angry or create discord. It's unnecessary. The more we do this, the more we suffer, and the more others around us suffer.
There is a way to behave where no one, including ourselves, has to suffer.
Following these five rules is a good place to start.
Do you have more suggestions on how to build a realistic relationship? Which one of these 5 points do you struggle with the most? Let me hear your thoughts in the comments below!


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As your kids enter elementary school, they will begin learning valuable skills that will help them build financial skills to apply in the future. They will be learning to add and subtract and learn to identify, count, and make change with money. In addition, they begin to develop better logical thinking skills and can understand cause and effect.
Parents can begin teaching basic money concepts such as earning money, spending money, paying for bills and purchases, etc. Many of these lessons can be taught in everyday situations at home. Begin by making sure they understand that you must work to earn money. Talk about what they want to be when they grow up and give them details about your job and why it's so important.
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One of the best ways to help school-age children understand money and budgeting is to let them help with shopping. Let them sit with you while you make your shopping list and talk about your food budget. While at the store, tell them why you choose certain brands (for example, do generic brands help you save?) and have them add up the total amount spent. Give them a small amount of money ($2-$5) to spend at the store for family purchases, so they can see how far their money goes.


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President Eddinger and Bunker Hill Community College were honored at the White House on September 30, when President Obama named Eddinger one of the nation's eleven "Champions of Change for College Opportunity."
She and Bunker Hill Community College are recognized for their work in developing pathways and learning communities to help under-represented populations achieve college success. Only one other community college was recognized with this honor.
Champions of Change for College Opportunity are chosen for their leadership and tireless work to expand opportunity for students from all backgrounds to advance to and through college. President Eddinger was nominated by White House staff following her previous visits to the White House for a Higher Education summit hosted by President Obama.
Eddinger also served on a panel at the White House with Dr. Eloy Ortiz Oakley of Long Beach City College; Dr. Dan Porterfield, President, Franklin and Marshall College; Julia Price, Director, Albany Promise; Michael Holmes, COO, Inroads. Roberto J. Rodríguez, who serves in the White House Domestic Policy Council as Deputy Assistant to the President for Education, moderated the panel. "Her work is really around scaling up the reforms and opportunities to really help, to make sure those students are able to move through the college system and move into credit bearing coursework, and focus on college completion. Thank you so much, Pam, for your great work," said Rodriguez.
Watch the video where President Eddinger takes part in a panel. Learn more about the Champions of Change for College Opportunity on the White House blog.


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RACHEL CUSK In Conversation with Steven Winn
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Rachel Cusk is a writer of considerable range and depth. She is the author of nine novels including David Agnes, The Lucky Ones, and The Bradshaw Variations, three nonfiction books including A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother and the memoir The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy, a play, and numerous essays. Her most recent trilogy — Outline, Transit, and Kudos — embodies a new, and distinctive style for Cusk. The books take the form of a succession of monologues delivered not by the protagonist, but by the people she encounters. Little is revealed about a central character who serves principally as a conduit for others' experiences and reflections, but the themes and questions that arise from those stories are weighty, as is Cusk's choice to subvert traditional positions and form. Cusk's new collection, Coventry, encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, and Elena Ferrante.
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The people's King James – democratising words of power
Posted on June 19, 2011 June 22, 2011 by clarkinholyorders
Remember the reason why the King James Version of the Bible is called the Authorised Version. The title page says this:
The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues: diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command: appointed to be read in Churches.
The KJV was to bring order to the variety of translations beginning to be available – some of which had a distinctly more Calvinist tone than King James felt comfortable with. It was to be a public version, which in its spoken recitation in church would bring coherence to the religious experience of the Church of England. So this is authoritative language – language that come from somewhere else, that isn't just like what you or I might say; it's not there to be contested or argued with. It is language of power. Or at least it was. I suspect that nowadays it's rather more likely to be the language of heritage. That would I think be the worst of all possible fates for the KJV. Heritage – it seems to me – calls on a sort of nostalgia, combined with a relief that this stuff isn't real any more. It's about enjoying royal history, because there's no real power there any more to worry about. It's about enjoying religious buildings because there's no real God any more to demand anything of you. It's about enjoying old language as it makes its appeal, its demand – while also being pleasantly immune to what it's really trying to do.
If the translators of the KJV found out that this was what their translation had come to, I doubt not that they would call out as one man for it to be burned. If a translation of the Bible – through the very beauty of its language – serves to insulate people from the call of God, then it is no longer God's book.
I feel uncomfortable with language of power: with language being used to impose authority. That was definitely part of the KJV's original intention, and not the part I resonate with. But I am even more uncomfortable with language becoming a self-enclosed aesthetic experience which is no longer expected to have any relationship to the rest of life. It's no longer language at all, in one sense – it's no longer meaningful, just a rush of nonsense, albeit beautiful syllables.
But I don't think it's necessary yet for the translators of 1611 to rise from their graves and call for the destruction of their work. What they produced was better than a work of power; it was a work of beauty. That is why it has become such a key text for Christians well beyond the realms of King James and his authority, who would disdain the idea that a king should tell them which Bible to read: but nevertheless are deeply committed to the translation put out in his name. That is also why it is strong enough (I hope) not to be captured by the heritage industry. The triumph of the translators, building on the work of Tyndale and others, was to produce a Bible which remains a true classic text. A classic text in the sense that it is still alive – that it still questions the reader.
So what we did in St Mary's to celebrate the King James Version, was designed to avoid it being experienced as a language of power (not likely, perhaps, but still to be avoided) – and more importantly, to avoid it being seen as just language of 'heritage'. We still sing Book of Common Prayer Mattins every Sunday at St Mary's, and it was the Mattins congregation who took the lead in our celebration. Several of its members volunteered to read a chosen passage, and talk about what it meant to them. You can hear us at http://stmaryn16.podbean.com/category/king-james-bible/. The contributions are as varied as you might expect from an inner urban congregation. In keeping with my desire to democratise the KJV, I didn't edit (still less censor!) anything anyone said. What comes out is the fact that this book still does the business. It's not about King James, or about being Authorised, or about being old. It's about God.
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resurrection and hope in Stoke Newington
Posted on April 24, 2011 April 24, 2011 by clarkinholyorders
The death of Christianity has (again) been announced a little prematurely. Here in Stoke Newington, I really enjoy being in a parish with an alternative patron saint (anti-S Richard Dawkins, or maybe the Unblessed A C Grayling). Uncritical devotion to atheism is a refreshing and different sort of fundamentalism to confront, and much less embarrassing (for me personally) than the religious variety. There is quite an amusing irony in being told that religion is the cause of closed minds, violence and world wars – in an aggressive manner, by someone who clearly has not the first idea of what they're attacking. Being true fundamentalists, questions about the religious affiliations of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot just bounce off.
Sometimes I feel like it's those of us who go to church (as least, in this parish), who are the real challengers to fundamentalism. St Mary's congregation are not inclined to lie supine under the teaching of their parish priest, then rise up and blindly follow his doctrinal instructions. M ostly that's a relief, though every now and again it would be nice … (no, not really). Stoke Newington has a long tradition of dissent (theological, political, every sort), and it's alive and well in the conformist old Church of England. Both my curate and myself got challenged about the sermons we preached during Holy Week, in the nicest possible way. The church includes people of almost every possible theological outlook, and personal background. We're black, white, old, young, QCs and cleaners.
Religion dying off? I don't think so. And it's not just the conservative varieties that can attract people, either. We're growing, slowly but surely, even here in the heartlands of the new atheism. This Easter the church was more full than I remember during my years here, and that's part of an upward trend. I was amazed, given the double bank holidays weekend, and the number of people I knew were away. Jut as well they were or we might have had trouble fitting everyone in (no, not really, not yet).
Resurrection and hope – if the church is true to its founder, then those two have to be around even when things are tough and there's not much sign of either. St Mary's (I'm told) was not in a great state a generation or two ago. But we're still here, and still hopeful. Christ is risen indeed.
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Letting God back into the city?
Posted on January 16, 2011 January 16, 2011 by clarkinholyorders
Just begun to read Discovering the Spirit in the City . Even though I've only read the first chapter, it's already started me thinking. Philip Sheldrake writes on 'Rebuilding the Human City' – looking at some of the dehumanising forces in modern cities and how we can counteract them. I'm sure he's right that the city needs humanising, but I think at the same time we're also divinising it: not making it divine, but recognising again the presence of god and the city's potential as a place for revealing God to us.
Sheldrake mentions the work of Michel de Certeau, and especially his essay 'Walking in the City'. Though I'd already read it, I'd done so in purely political terms – I'd never really connected it before with the spirituality of the city. But starting to think in that way, it made me realise what strange and potentially transformative spaces churches are in the life of a city. As environments become more and more controlled: either private, locked, alarmed, or if public, patrolled and photographed – what do you make of an anomalous space that refuses to be either?
A church, for instance, which is open to all comers. No CCTV, no guards, a space open for anyone to come into on their own terms. Somewhere you can wander into and commit small arson in the form of lighting a candle; somewhere you could steal the hymn books if you wanted. Somewhere you can pray in whichever way you feel comfortable, or just go to sleep.
After a long period of consideration, that's what we did here in Stoke Newington. We know that sometime someone's going to damage things, but eighteen months in it hasn't happened yet. What has happened is a constant trickle of people coming and finding to their surprise that they are trusted with our church. One lady has started cleaning the votive candle stand every week – she has no other connection with the congregation.
I hesitate to say it, but I think opening the church is as powerful a witness to the counter-cultural nature of Christian faith as is anything else we do here; and we do it just by failing to lock a couple of doors.
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Q: how to adjust text location in a pie chart / with polar coordinates I would like to adjust the text on the piechart.
I want to put the values in the middle of each side of the piechart.
I've tried using hjust,vjust, and tried to use other function etc. But it hasn't worked.
Here is my data and state. Thank you for you help.
k<-data.frame(group=c('alpha','bets'),value=c(0.512,0.488))

ggplot(k,aes(x="",y=value,fill=group))+

  geom_bar(width=1,stat="identity")+

  coord_polar("y")+

  geom_text_repel(aes(label=round(value,3)))

A: Polar coordinate plots are often easier to debug in cartesian coordinates. You probably want position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5) for the text geom.
library(ggplot2)
k <- data.frame(group = c("alpha", "bets"), value = c(0.512, 0.488))

ggplot(k, aes(x = "", y = value, fill = group)) +
  geom_col(width = 1) +
  coord_polar("y") +
  geom_text(aes(label = round(value, 3)), position = position_stack(vjust = 0.5))

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A: I'd create a separate data frame for the text labels and manually set the coordinates.
library(ggplot2)
library(ggrepel)
k <- data.frame(group = c("alpha", "bets"), value = c(0.512, 0.488))

data_text <- data.frame(x = 1, y = c(.75, .25), value = k$value)

ggplot(k, aes(x = "", y = value, )) +
  geom_bar(aes(fill = group), width = 1, stat = "identity") +
  coord_polar("y") +
  geom_text(data = data_text, aes(x = x, y = y, label = round(value, 3)))

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