In this first lesson, we'll discuss what "entrepreneurship" actually means. We'll take a look at the process of innovation and identify common traits that all successful innovators have. We'll also discuss commonalities between musicians and entrepreneurs and why musicians are excellent entrepreneurs. Finally, we'll end the lesson by learning how to observe the world around you with an entrepreneurial mindset.
or not successful innovators shared any common traits.
five common skills that all these innovative firms and individuals share.
whether it's through songwriting or in the recording studio.
and new voicings through this constant process of experimentation.
been about congratulating success based on getting it right or getting it wrong.
And that happens at childhood.
can be encouraged as much as the product.
have learned all these things along the way that are so priceless.
I have all these sort of development processes that I do.
instruments, and playing whatever happens.
And then I go, "Oh, that's cool." And then I record it.
"I'm writing a song now," and to have it be a little bit more playful.
It's like, I'm sure you've watched a little kid.
if they can't, they just throw them down and pick up two more things?
That's kind of what I do in a very a little bit more adult way.
Another skill that successful innovators share is the process of networking.
They're really good at developing communities and friendships.
come up with something absolutely unique and different.
people a concept but getting people to want to be part of something.
are like, "Yeah, I'm trying to make a band so I'm going to pay my musician."
Like, they really have to believe in your mission and your vision.
The third skill is questioning.
and wanting to put an imprint on the world through the act of your own expression?
When I very first started in the kitchen, I was extremely young.
And I remember this one chef.
They all used to tell me certain things.
"You can't do it like that.
You have to do it like this."
And I would always say, "Well, what happens if I do it like this?"
And they'd say, "No, no, no, no, no. You have to do it like that."
There was one chef that said something to me.
He said, "You can't set pineapple juice into jelly."
I said, "Come on, guys. Of course, you can."
I said, "But listen, it has to be possible."
and I said, "Pineapple jelly."
And they're like, "How did you do that?"
And I said, "No, no, no. That's not the question."
me that can't be done that can actually be done?"
doesn't mean it has to be done that way.
successful groundbreaking musicians share is what we call association.
associating the two, and creating something entirely unique and entirely different.
I mean, you think about Mark Ronson in that Amy Winehouse record.
but it also sounds so unique.
It's probably because of her voice and her vocal style and her lyrics.
it turned into something else.
The last skill set that successful innovators have is observation.
Now think of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On.
the changes that were happening in American society during the Vietnam War.
the creative process and yet another commonality that we see between the two.


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Welcome to another LoveCats DownUnder Sunday Smooch!
Today we have a smooch from Amy Andrews but first ... the winner of last week's Sunday Smooch Giveaway is Pammie!
Pammie, can you please contact Fiona on fiona (at) fionalowe (dot) come to receive your prize!
And now for today's Sunday Smooch from Hanky Spanky Christmas....
Amy says - this is a Xmas novella that came out a couple of years ago now but, it is the festive season, right? Click on the cover and it'll take you to the Amazon page!
T'was the night before Christmas....
With a sudden hankering to be spanked, Darcy Henderson figures Mitch Callaghan is the man for the job. But is she woman enough to take it?
Scene set-up
Darcy has just discovered which bar her sexy neighour (they're the only 2 young people living in a Melrose Place-esque retirement complex for seniors) Mitch Callaghan, works at when he goes off to work every night. And it's a kink club! Her and her friends have gone for a little voyueristic fun and games but Darcy has liked what she's seen - she's liked it a lot. So much so that she stayed on after the others have left accepting Mitch's offer of a drive home. Which is just as well becasue she's imbibed one too many Callaghans (his families secret cocktail recipe)....The scene picks up after they've arrived home and they're both just out of the car.
Smooch -
Tonight was the first night he'd seen Darcy in anything other than baggy clothes or her black one-piece and she hadn't disappointed. She was wearing some kind of leopard-print wrap dress that clung to her hips, thighs and ass, crisscrossed her cleavage and seemed to only be held together by a bow tied at the side.
It made him want to pull it to find out.
Her normally straight hair was a mass of long, loose curls that fell down her back and swung in time with her hips. And then there were those heels, lifting her somewhere closer to his own height, although he still had her by a couple of inches.
"You know what?" She was walking again, although not quite in a straight line. "We should go out dancing somewhere." She performed a sudden pirouette which would have landed her on her ass had he not been there to catch her.
"Okay." He laughed and tucked her into his side as he walked with her. 'You've got to be at work in four hours, remember?"
"Ugh." She shuddered. "Should never have agreed to take Stacy's shift."
"Too late now," Mitch said as they walked under the arch.
The aroma of hibiscus from the multiple planters situated around the pool and between apartments, tickled his nostrils. The twelve foot Christmas tree Mrs T had insisted he secure right in the centre of the courtyard, rose like a giant bloody phallus. It was as out of place in the December heat as Darcy had been drinking Callaghan's at a fetish club.
"I'm going to come back to Fine Lines." She poked him in the chest as they turned towards their apartments.
"You liked it, huh?"
"Oh my God." She looked at him with huge eyes. "I had no idea."
He chuckled. "Most people don't."
They passed his apartment as he walked her another ten paces to her door, festooned with a lush green wreath. "Here we are." He dropped his hand from her waist lest he be tempted to crowd her back and do the kissing this time. Darcy may be cute as hell when she was tipsy but there was no way he was taking advantage of her liquored-up state.
Although, hell, if she wanted to lay one of those messy-hot, liquored-up kisses on him then he wasn't going to stop her.
"Where's your key?"
She leaned back against the white stucco wall beside her door, her breasts thrust out nicely. "In my bag."
When she made no attempt to retrieve it, he took her bag out of her fingers, zipped it open, found her keys and shoved them in the lock. Then he reached for her phone. "What's your code?"
"I'm going to set your alarm in case you forget to."
"Good idea." She nodded and prodded him in the chest again.
"The code?" he prompted as her finger took to stroking instead of poking, brushing against his nipple.
She shot him a grin. "Six nine, six nine."
He shot her a sceptical look. "Bullshit."
"Nope. I swear. Sixty-nine, sixty-nine. The year both my parents were born. Easy to remember."
For more reasons than one. After all, what was more memorable than one sixty-nine but two?
Mitch keyed the code in and tried not to put Darcy and sixty-nine together in his head, a feat that was near impossible while she was drawing maddening circles around his nipple. He shook his head when it worked then quickly navigated to her alarm and set it for quarter past seven.
Rather her than him. He planned to be tucked up in bed dreaming about sixty-niners at that time.
"Okay - " He handed the phone back to her. "You're all set."
She dropped her hand from his chest and slid it onto the phone but didn't take it off him. "I want to do that."
"Be spanked."
Her words slammed into his groin with all the heat and intensity of a fireball. He'd seen plenty of people getting spanked (amongst other things) at Fine Lines. Clearly it worked for some, and Mitch was all for a bit of choose your own adventure when it came to sex, but he preferred it where everyone involved got off and no one was hurt in the process.
"Right." He slid his hand on her hip and urged her off the wall. "I think you had one too many Callaghan's. They kinda sneak up on you."
She draped one arm around his neck and fisted her other hand in the front of his t-shirt as she settled against his body. Her breasts smooshed nicely against his chest as the sugary sweet smell of butterscotch took over from the heavy perfume of hibiscus.
His cock appreciated her move, even if it wasn't what he'd been going for.
"I want you to spank me."
His cock appreciated that even more. "Oh you do, huh?" It was hard to keep the amusement out of his voice with a serious frown crinkling her brow.
"Because I work at Fine Lines?"
"Yup." She gave an exaggerated nod. "And because of this."
She yanked on his shirt and rose on her tiptoes, pulling his head down, going straight for the kill, sucking him in to a kiss that was hot, deep and wet right from the first touch of their lips. Her tongue boldly sought his and Mitch groaned.
She tasted like booze and maraschino cherries.
His hands slid from her hips to her ass, tucking her in closer, her corresponding moan shooting like wildfire through his veins, setting fire to everything in its path.
She moved restlessly, hungrily, tantalisingly, against him and blood from every vital organ rerouted to his cock. If he didn't pull away he was going to ruck her skirt up and fuck her against the stucco and that'd really give their neighbours something to talk about at the monthly unusual disturbances meeting.
There was a damn committee and meeting for everything around here.
Mitch gathered every skerrick of his rapidly diminishing self-control and wrenched his mouth away,
taking a step back.Neither of them said anything as they stared at each other, chests heaving. It was all he could do to breathe and remain upright.
"You need to get to bed," he said eventually.
She nodded, her tongue running over her lips as if she was still trying to taste him, and he nearly reached for her hip again. "What about the...spanking?" Her voice was still breathy, her interest clearly still piqued.
Mitch doubted she was really serious. A lot of things that seemed like a good idea at booze o'clock soon lost their shine when all that was left was the hangover and a huge dose of what the hell was I thinking. A little light BDSM was one thing, but wanting her ass tanned red like the sub on all fours at the club was another.
And, frankly, he didn't think she was the type. Not that there was a type— his work at the club had taught him members of the BDSM community came from all walks of life—but he'd developed a bit of a sixth sense since working there, and nothing about Darcy said tie me up and spank me with a riding crop.
He doubted she'd even remember this conversation in the morning.
"Ask me when you're sober some time."
He turned away then before her leopard-print dress brought out the animal in him.
For a chance to win a digital copy of Hanky Spanky Christmas, tell me what's something a little bit thrilling and different you'd like to indulge in one day?
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Helen December 2, 2018 at 7:33 AM
Oh I did love this story such fun and steamy hot :)
I don't know whether I am an adventurous person so not sure if there is something really thrilling or very different that I would like to do, I would like to try a long haul flight one day and get over to England and Scotland the longest plane trip I have been on is 3 hours :)
Amy Andrews December 2, 2018 at 10:32 AM
Thanks Helen!
My advice? Go business class if you can - still working on that dream but a 27 hour journey looks way better from the pointy end! :-)
Michelle Douglas December 2, 2018 at 12:59 PM
Fab excerpt, Amy! This story was such a lot of fun -- I chortled all the way through it. :-)
I certainly consider travel "thrilling" (though perhaps not particularly "different" as lots of other people have it on the dream wish list too). But, yes, I'd love to indulge in a bit more of that. Also, I will be VERY thrilled when I finally graduate. :-)
Amy Andrews December 2, 2018 at 6:04 PM
lol - we'll ALL be thrilled for you as well, Michelle!
Bronwyn Jameson December 3, 2018 at 2:08 PM
*One-Click*
Like Michelle, I'm all about the travel. Different and thrilling would be private jet travel or how about a luxury train trip a la Belmond? The Orient Express would totally thrill me and it sure would be different to my usual mode of travel!
Orient Express is on my bucket list!
Kandy Shepherd December 3, 2018 at 5:49 PM
Amy, your smooches never disappoint! Sexy and funny and leaves me wanting to read more. Like our other comments, my bucket list for different and thrilling includes travel too!
Annie West December 4, 2018 at 6:31 AM
Amy, as usual, your snippet makes me want to read on! I'd love to do more travelling (gee, is there a theme here?) including maybe the Orient Express. Maybe one day. And there are a couple of places a little more off the usual routes I'd love to go to including Tashkent and Samarkand. Maybe one day...
Hmm, not heard of either of these, Annie. Off to Google.....
mod2011 December 5, 2018 at 11:51 AM
I pity the dude who would try to spank me, but this sounds fun! Oooooh! Did I read the Orient Express! That's been on my bucket list for ages!
lol Mod! Darcy is in for a bit of a rude shock ;-)
Enisa December 5, 2018 at 7:51 PM
Twas the night before Christmas and, oh my, what a surprise the heroine will get. And travel, hmmm...Cultures and landscapes intrigue but the trill is experiencing the snowy slopes, the balloon rides giving you 360 degree views all around, the black sky adorned with a million brilliant stars. Travel...nourishes my muse.
Amy Andrews December 5, 2018 at 11:46 PM
Mine too, Enisa!
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Home Scene Drama PLAYFUL HEALING – Too much drama in your life? Act it out...
PLAYFUL HEALING – Too much drama in your life? Act it out with dramatherapy!
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The first fully qualified dramatherapist in Gibraltar, Nyree Turnock Robinson is introducing the local community to a novel mental hygiene method applied in schools, day centres, hospitals and prisons worldwide. In her open evening to be held this month, Nyree will promote its benefits as a tool of relaxation and positive interaction, with a distinct fun edge.
Increasingly popular in the United States, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Israel and Malaysia, this therapy is mainly based on role playing and acting to confront one's phobias, grievances, short and long-term conditions like personality disorders, autism, depression, stress and social anxiety. But it is much more than acting a part you are assigned: you can choose; write or even improvise your script, and the action can also involve puppets, marionettes, toys and games, drawing or crafting when projection and transfer is in order, which is most common, but not exclusive to, children's therapy.
In dramatherapy, a group session may perform ad lib or follow a script with assigned or self-appointed characters, fixed or interchangeable roles; what counts isn't working towards the staged perfection of a premiere for the audience, but to build on the progress achieved each time in acting out own issues or sometimes solving conflict. It is irrelevant whether the script is followed to the letter or if there is one at all, as long as the characters and their interrelating actions are therapeutic to the patient or the group involved.
"The word 'drama' in the job description doesn't make justice to the variety of activities we can explore during any given session: as part of my job, I can be whomever and whatever the client wants me to be," says Nyree, who has a diploma in performing arts and is an accomplished amateur actor and singer. "I behave as playfully, as interactively or as quietly as necessary, should they need an antagonist in their performance, or an audience instead. So I may be asked to participate, direct and inspire the action, or simply just watch, and perhaps offer feedback. I may be leading the group with sprightly attitude, for example working with children or youngsters, or in a calm and soothing manner with excitable or easily confusable patients like dementia sufferers or persons with learning disabilities. A lot of my work focuses on building self-esteem, self-confidence, self-expression and creativity, conflict resolution or counteracting the damage caused by bullying or abusive relationships. Externalising one's fears or trauma by acting it out directly or with the help of disguise and props can indeed help to feel it more tangible and manageable."
The mood is set after a short assessment of the new client, or clients for group therapy, to figure out what treatment could work best for their issues, as well as their personal response to verbal and non-verbal communication. Stimuli can be varied, using props, pictures, dolls, scents, shapes and sounds similar to sensory rooms, and own initiative is welcome when it can be channelled towards constructively venting and possibly cleansing one's system from subconscious ballast like anger or guilt, or at least coming to terms with issues like disability or loss, and even dealing with depression or body image disorders.
"When I first meet someone set to undergo dramatherapy, I look past their issue, disorder, illness and find the healthy side of the person, in order to help them bring that health to the fore and thus identify and rationalise the problem," Nyree explains. Sessions can be long and intense or short and casual: "In America, for instance, dramatherapists go around schools and remove the most active children from the classroom and deliver ten-fifteen-minute sessions of 'rough-and-tumble play', to blow off some steam in a safe controlled environment." This system works wonders with autistic and ADHD children, she assures, but it can also be a welcome perk to sedentary classes as an outlet to bottled physical energy. In fact, Nyree hopes to start collective sessions for the autism spectrum as soon as this September, to top up her current individual ones with the added bonus of peer interaction. If you just got your kid's ADHD diagnosis results, you may want to consider adding dramatherapy to their treatment. Visit https://www.northraleighpediatrics.com/adhd-add/ to know more about ADHD.
Nyree says that intuitivism is an advantage in her job, but she is extensively and continuously trained to professionally facilitate any sessions and she is supervised by a senior dramatherapist in UK, especially with sessions that may see her doubling up as a 'psychological punching ball', which could in its turn take its toll on her own sanity: "I am indeed a therapist, but I am first and foremost a performer who encourages others to perform. I am like a blank canvas on which the clients can freely express their feelings in an active and pro-active manner, and this may have an impact on me as a human being, whether with empathy or negative emotions. I am constantly supervised and counselled, and when I get too involved in issues that resonate with my private life, I do attend therapy to untangle my own from the others. Also, I hold video conferences with colleagues from all over the world and we exchange ideas and experiences for what is still a developing practice. It is a profession that entails continuous education and research; in fact, I am soon travelling to Belgium for further training about trauma work."
When she was a little girl, Nyree wanted to become an actress and she pursued that career with a B Tech in performing arts, the usual triad of singing, dancing and drama, as well as light and sound, but she realised she wanted to apply her talent and expertise to helping others: "My younger brother has cerebral palsy and the discovery of dramatherapy at the age of 19 allowed me to marry my passion with my vocation. I obtained a degree in Dramatherapy at Derby University and returned to Gibraltar to work in a nursery and gain experience in child development before returning to the UK for my Master and being registered with the Health & Care Professions Council and the local Medical Board." She worked in Plymouth until a few weeks ago updating her skills after maternity, when she returned to Gibraltar; there she worked with Syrian children and as part of the training in a mental health hospital attending to paranoia, depression and personality disorders.
An experiential interactive introduction to Dramatherapy will take place on 10th and 11th July at 7:30pm at the John Mackintosh Hall. The event is free of charge and everyone is welcome. For further information, like NyreeDramatherapy on Fb.
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The Harappan Civilization
The Harappan script has still to be fully deciphered. The number of signs is between 400 and 600 of which 40 or 60 are basic and the rest are their variants. The script was mostly written from right to left. In a few long seals the boustrophedon method – writing in the reverse direction in alternative lines - was adopted.
Harappan Script
Parpola and his Scandinavian colleagues came to the conclusion that the language of the Harappans was Dravidian. A group of Soviet scholars accepts this view. Other scholars provide different view connecting the Harappan script with that of Brahmi.
The mystery of the Harappan script still exists and there is no doubt that the decipherment of Harappan script will throw much light on this culture.
Deity Pasupati
From the seals, terracotta figurines and copper tablets we get an idea on the religious life of the Harappans. The chief male deity was Pasupati, (proto-Siva) represented in seals as sitting in a yogic posture with three faces and two horns. He is surrounded by four animals (elephant, tiger, rhino, and buffalo each facing a different direction). Two deer appear on his feet. The chief female deity was the Mother Goddess represented in terracotta figurines.
In latter times, Linga worship was prevalent. Trees and animals were also worshipped by the Harappans. They believed in ghosts and evil forces and used amulets as protection against them.
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Posted: June 20th, 2013 | Author: Chris Jaensch | Filed under: Immigration Reform, National News, Sarasota Immigrants | Tags: CBO, Gang of Eight, Immigration Reform | No Comments »
CBO: Senate immigration bill would cut deficits by $200 billion over decade. "The immigration bill under consideration in the Senate would reduce federal deficits by nearly $200 billion over the next decade, and continue generating savings in the years beyond, even after millions of new citizens became eligible for health-care and welfare benefits, congressional budget analysts said Tuesday. The long-awaited report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office marked a major victory for the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" senators who have spent months negotiating the details of the measure." Lori Montgomery in The Washington Post.
Read: The CBO report.
…Here are the key numbers. "While the bill increases spending by $262 billion over 10 years, it increases revenue by $459 billion, for a deficit reduction of $197 billion in total. Additionally, it projects $690 billion in deficit reduction in the second decade of implementation, from 2024 to 2033. The reports predicts that the bill will add 10.4 million permanent U.S. residents and 1.6 million new temporary visa-holders, and reduce the undocumented immigrant population by 1.6 million." Dylan Matthews in The Washington Post.
@petersuderman: CBO estimates that the immigration bill will cut deficits by $197b over 10 years. Basically: More legal labor=more revenue=lower deficits.
…It's a free lunch, the CBO is saying. "This isn't just a good CBO report. It's a wildly good CBO report. They're basically saying immigration reform is a free lunch: It cuts the deficit by growing the economy. It makes Americans better off and it makes immigrants better off. At a time when the U.S. economy desperately needs a bit of help, this bill, according to the CBO, helps. And politically, it forces opponents of the bill onto the ground they're least comfortable occupying: They have to argue that immigration reform is bad for cultural or ethical reasons rather than economic ones." Ezra Klein in The Washington Post.
@reihan: CBO analysis accounts for population increase, but not potential productivity gains. It also doesn't account for technological risk.
2 amendments to immigration bill passed, 2 defeated. "Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.): The senator has several proposals regarding non-native children adopted by American parents, a longtime interest of hers. Under a 2000 law, children lawfully adopted by American parents are automatically granted citizenship. Landrieu's amendment would extend those rights to children who turned 18 before the law was passed." Ed O'Keefe in The Washington Post.
House panel approves enforcement-based immigration bill. "The House Judiciary Committee late Tuesday approved its first immigration bill, advancing on a party-line vote a proposal to boost interior enforcement and border security. After a day-long mark-up, the Republican-led panel cleared the SAFE Act on a 20-15 vote shortly before 11 p.m. It is one of several bills that Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) says the committee plans to send to the House floor in the coming weeks." Russell Berman in The Hill.
@dylanmatt: The CBO report is a good reminder that the case against expanded immigration isn't economic, it's sociological.
Reid: Bill could pass Senate right now. "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Gang of Eight's immigration bill can pass the Senate in its current form, although he's open to border security changes that don't destroy the bill's pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants…As Reid spoke to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Republican senators like John Hoeven (N.D.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.) were working with some members of the Gang of Eight to craft a way to strengthen the bill's border security measures while also not turning off Democrats." Burgess Everett in Politico.
…And Reid is threatening to file cloture on immigration reform. "The Senate must speed ahead on its attempt to remake U.S. immigration policy, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday morning, threatening to file to cut off debate by Monday. Reid said the workload for the Senate will be heavier than usual and that if the Senate doesn't get to work on agreement on tranches of amendment votes, it will find itself working on the weekend — a familiar threat from the Nevada Democrat. Reid hopes to finish the legislation before the July 4 recess." Burgess Everett in Politico.
Boehner assures colleagues: No immigration bill without majority GOP support. "The fate of the sprawling immigration reform proposal winding its way through Congress may now be in the hands of some of the most conservative members of the Republican Party. House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that he will not advance any bill that did not have the support of a majority of the House GOP, which will mean engaging some of the proposal's biggest detractors and harshest critics." Ed O'Keefe in The Washington Post.
…And he says he's not in favor of a comprehensive approach to immigration reform. "Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that he will adhere to the "Hastert Rule" on immigration reform and denied claims that he is for a "comprehensive" solution. Boehner's remarks seek to appease conservatives who have grown increasingly restless about where House Republicans are headed on the thorny matter." Molly K. Hooper in The Hill.
Keeping undocumented immigrants off the dole is easier said than done. "[T]he conflicts over eligibility for Obamacare subsidies and Social Security/Medicare could be more intractable. The question of whether unauthorized immigrants should be able to get public money for health care, or get retirement money based on work they did while in the country illegally, isn't a technical one. It's a moral and ethical one on which those concerned primarily with the welfare of poor immigrants and those concerned primarily with ensuring that legal processes are fair and don't reward certain behavior, are bound to disagree." Dylan Matthews in The Washington Post.
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Тимофей Тимофеевич Лобода (1922—1994) — полковник Советской Армии, участник Великой Отечественной войны, Герой Советского Союза (1943).

Биография
Тимофей Лобода родился 10 июля 1922 года в деревне Оксанина (ныне — Уманский район Черкасской области Украины). Окончил среднюю школу. В 1940 году Лобода был призван на службу в Рабоче-крестьянскую Красную Армию. В 1941 году он окончил Краснодарское стрелково-пулемётное училище. С августа того же года — на фронтах Великой Отечественной войны. В боях семь раз был ранен. К сентябрю 1943 года капитан Тимофей Лобода был помощником по разведке начальника штаба 705-го стрелкового полка 121-й стрелковой дивизии 60-й армии Центрального фронта. Отличился во время битвы за Днепр.

27 сентября 1943 года Лобода во главе разведвзвода скрытно переправился через Днепр в районе села Ясногородка Вышгородского района Киевской области Украинской ССР и пробрался во вражеский тыл. Атаковав немецкие войска, взвод Лободы сумел посеять панику в их рядах, что способствовало успешному захвату плацдарма основными силами. Вскоре Лобода вновь участвовал в переправе через Днепр, на сей раз в районе села Казаровичи того же района. Под его руководством разведвзвод проник в немецкий тыл и захватил важную высоту, после чего два дня удерживал её. В критический момент Лобода поднял взвод в атаку, отбросив противника, лично уничтожив несколько солдат противника, ещё 6 — взяв в плен.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 17 октября 1943 года за «образцовое выполнение заданий командования и проявленные при этом мужество и героизм» капитан Тимофей Лобода был удостоен высокого звания Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» за номером 2777.

После окончания войны Лобода продолжил службу в Советской Армии. В 1947 и 1952 годах он оканчивал Военную академию имени Фрунзе. В декабре 1968 года в звании полковника Лобода был уволен в запас. Проживал в Москве. Скончался 10 февраля 1994 года, похоронен в Твери.

Был также награждён орденами Отечественной войны 1-й и 2-й степени, двумя орденами Красной Звезды, рядом медалей.

Примечания

Литература

 Они отстояли мир. — Днепропетровск: Промінь, 1985.

Пехотинцы Великой Отечественной войны
Разведчики Великой Отечественной войны
Участники битвы за Днепр
Похороненные на Дмитрово-Черкасском кладбище

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Q: Retrieving value from select list with knockout.js I'm using Knockout.js 2.3.0 and I'm trying to retrieve a value set in a select list, but I can't get it to work. When I try to alert the value, I either see javascript, undefined or [object object] (depending on what I've tried).
The list is populated fine and I can set the default value, but I can't retrieve it. What am I doing wrong?
Here's the HTML for the list
<select data-bind='value: selectedMonth, options: $root.months, optionsText: "month"'></select>

And here's the JS
self.months = [{month: '-'},{month: '01'},{month: '02'},{month: '03'},{month: '04'},{month: '05'},{month: '06'},{month: '07'},{month: '08'},{month: '09'},{month: '10'},{month: '11'},{month: '12'}];

self.selectedMonth = ko.observable(self.months[0]);

self.submitButton = function(){

   alert(self.selectedMonth); //a bunch of JavaScript

    alert(self.selectedMonth()); //object, Object

    alert(self.months[self.selectedMonth]); //undefined

}

Here is a fiddle with the code

A: Your second call is the one you want:
self.selectedMonth()

This unwraps the observable to the value. It's an Object, being for example:
{ month: "03" }

This is easier to spot if you console.log instead of alert.
In any case, to get the month value just ask for that property:
alert(self.selectedMonth().month);

See this fiddle.

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Used A 'Surprise Attack' To Release Antonio Brown On Doctor's Appointment Dispute
By Marc Moss
Attorney of Antonio Brown said that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had closed the contract of wide receiver that week. Due to failing to show up for a doctor's appointment. He called the move by Tampa Bay Buccaneers is a surprise attack on a series of tweets.
Attorney Sean Burstyn said they were scheduling an appointment with the Bucs' chosen surgeon. They learned via Twitter that he fired AB for not seeing the same surgeon.
The Bucs preferred an arbitrary appointment time outside of normal business hours. Also, they looked for an afternoon date at the last minute. The Bucs' newfound interest in the health of AB was a surprise. Wasn't it AB? 'Not a Buc' Sunday night?
Burstyn wrote that they attempted to reschedule and said the Buccaneers claim Brown was as justification for his release.
Burstyn said the Bucs had done that because they knew that Coach Arians' firing of AB on the field had been degrading. Also, it was inhuman, abusive, and illegal. Therefore they tried to hide it using Tampa Bay Buccaneers tardily dirty trick of 'surprise attack' medical care that was never reasonably planned for AB to receive.
It was a sheer cunning activity to create a pretextual ending. All Antonio did was ask a doctor for up-to-date medical records to see him at a reasonable time. When AB spoke about his health this week, they fired him. In the field, then on Twitter.
Antonio Brown said in a statement that he was unable to play during the game time against the New York Jets (NYJ) because of an injury to the ankle. He said that an MRI had revealed that it would need broken bone fragments, a torn bone ligament, cartilage loss, and surgery.
Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said that he and Brown discussed the ankle injury during the week. And that the wide receiver did not participate in practice before the game, he did participate. On tour and received clearance to play, Arians said he didn't realize the severity of Brown's injury during the game. The frustration on the part of Brown had to do with his lack of object.
After Brown refused to participate in the game, Arians told him, You are finished. Get the F out of here. Later, Brown stripped off his jersey and tossed the gloves jersey into the stands. Finally, he ran off the field.
Coach Arians stated that he would never ask a player to play injured.
Burstyn said that he had believed the Buccaneers were using the story of Brown. As to the story, he lost 11 games due to a suspension in the past two seasons, one arrest for assaulting a moving truck driver, besides two public sexual assault charges against him. Brown also acknowledged in a statement had about his committed mistakes the previous week. Brown and Burstyn argued in contrast that it should not stop him from feeling pain and talking when he felt too hurt to play.
Burstyn said that the Bucs had used AB's past to get out of the predicament they got.
It was the kind of manipulation that made Antonio write as follows. He wrote that he did not understand how people who publicly claim their concern about his mental health could do those things to him in private.
The comments of Brown on the 'Full Send Podcast' also imply that he had grown increasingly frustrated with his salary. Buccaneer's general manager Jason Licht told ESPN's Adam Schefter that an agent of Brown recently approached the team to obtain a guarantee of $ 2 million of his incentives. However, that Tampa Bay declined.
Licht also informed Schefter that the Buccaneers had made two appointments in New York. Brown was still there after leaving Sunday's game. Therefore, they could put him on injured reserve and pay him the rest of his season salary.
Licht said that Brown neither returned his text messages or phone calls nor sent his medical records, including the MRI that Brown had on Monday, which they requested.
Burstyn stated that they had never received a request for medical records.
Burstyn told ESPN, please show me a request for medical records. We never got one. They called and asked us to call back at night. They had not told them what the call was. They said to call back ASAP. We had an internal team discussion to review options before calling back. They went ahead at noon and took the most drastic action.
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Los incidentes de la Casa de Juntas de Guernica de 1981, tuvieron lugar el 4 de febrero. Durante el primer viaje oficial al País Vasco que llevaban a cabo los reyes Juan Carlos y Sofía desde su proclamación, se celebró un acto solemne en la Casa de Juntas de Guernica, presidido por el Rey, al que asistían diputados y senadores elegidos en el País Vasco, diputados del Parlamento Vasco y de las Juntas Generales de Álava, Guipúzcoa y Vizcaya y Diputaciones Forales.

Tras las intervenciones del diputado general de Vizcaya, José María Makua, el presidente del Parlamento Vasco, Juan José Pujana y el lehendakari, Carlos Garaikoetxea, cuando el rey se disponía a pronunciar su discurso, un grupo de representantes electos de Herri Batasuna y LAIA le interrumpieron cantando, con el puño en alto, el «Eusko gudariak». El resto de diputados intentó acallarlos con aplausos hacia el monarca. Ante la prolongación de los incidentes, los electos de HB fueron desalojados por miembros de los servicios de orden del Gobierno Vasco. Por este hecho fueron procesados, acusados de delitos de injurias contra el Jefe de Estado y desórdenes públicos, las siguientes personas: Francisco Letamendia (que no participó en los incidentes), Antonio Ibarguren, Miguel Castells, Juan Bautista Izaguirre, Iñaki Ruiz de Pinedo, Jokin Gorostidi, Jon Idigoras, Jose Ramon Etxebarria, José María Alix, Bernardo Javier Onaindía, Santiago Brouard, Javier Pérez de Heredia, Xabier Amuriza, Txomin Ziluaga, José Luis Cereceda, Guillermo Pérez López de Letona y Severino Rodríguez de Yurre, de Herri Batasuna, y José Andrés Elósegui y Martín Jáuregui, de LAIA. Tanto Letamendia como Onaindía fueron juzgados en rebeldía.

Las imágenes de los sucedido emitidas por TVE causaron una enorme conmoción, especialmente entre la extrema derecha y entre los sectores involucionistas del Ejército, vinculados directa o indirectamente con ella. Un ejemplo lo podría constituir el artículo que el general Fernando de Santiago, antiguo vicepresidente del Gobierno, publicó en el diario ultraderechista El Alcázar titulado «Situación límite» en el que decía:

El Tribunal Supremo condenó en noviembre de 1983 a los procesados por desórdenes públicos, absolviéndoles del de injurias. Sin embargo, en 1986, el Tribunal Constitucional anuló la sentencia ordenando la repetición del juicio.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Sentencia del Tribunal Constitucional 30/1986, de 20 de febrero (Caso "Casas Juntas de Guernica"). 20 de febrero de 1986.
«King Juan Carlos' visit to the Basque country is marred by separatist demonstrations» (AP)

España en 1981
Izquierda abertzale
Historia contemporánea del País Vasco
Historia de Vizcaya
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Sfântul Kilian () a fost un episcop misionar irlandez care a fost omorât ca martir împreună cu însoțitorii în Würzburg.

Asupra împrejurărilor decesului diferă relatările. Conform cronicarului Rabanus Maurus ordinul execuției lui Kilian a fost dat de ducele Gozbert, conform altor relatări, de Gailana, fiica lui Gozbert.

Patronaje
 Biserica Sfântul Kilian din Chilieni, județul Covasna (după reforma protestantă biserică reformată, apoi unitariană)

Legături externe

  Missionari in Franconia: Willibrord, Bonifatius, Burkard, Lullus, Megingaud

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The chairman of the House Higher Education Committee is sick of pretty PowerPoint presentations. This session, Rep. Gene Pelowski has promised, the state's higher education systems are going to delve into the details.
He's requested a long list of data. Funding measured by campus, program, student. Breakdowns of administrative costs. A dive into student fees.
But at the committee's first hearing Monday, lawmakers weren't afraid to ask the big questions, either.
Why has tuition risen -- not just at the University of Minnesota, but everywhere?
Richard Pfutzenreuter, the U's chief financial officer, listed stagnant state money, growing costs, "society's view that it's a private good." Pushed again, he added: "I think, to be honest, it's been there because higher ed could increase tuition. It was there to raise. It was money that universities needed, and they raised it."
Pelowski then asked: Did the U "ever raise tuition higher than it needed?"
Pfutzenreuter reviewed the budget process, in which officials find a "solution" to the year's budget "challenge" of rising costs and falling state funding. Over the past three years, tuition increases have made up about a third of the "solution."
"The next question probably is, 'Well, did you goose the challenge to raise more tuition?'" Pfutzenreuter said. Yes, the U raised tuition to help provide a wage increase or boost programs. "We raised it to spend it to meet a budget priority of the president of the university."
The U's 74-slide presentation notes $228 million in cost-cutting since 2006. Examples include laying off staff, cutting graduate programs and leaving faculty spots open.
Pelowski wanted more specifics, focused on one campus.
The U has "no problem ... showing us how successful it's been in any given area," he said. "Where it appears to have great difficulty is showing us where it's had to make tough choices.
"I'm going to forgo the rah-rah for awhile. I'd like to look at the 'Oh my, this hurts.'"
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The tsunami threat around the Pacific from a huge undersea volcanic eruption began to recede Sunday, but the massive ash cloud covering the tiny island nation of Tonga prevented surveillance flights from New Zealand to assess the extent of damage.
The World Health Organization said Sunday that a U.N.-backed program shipping coronavirus vaccines to many poor countries has now delivered 1 billion doses, but that milestone "is only a reminder of the work that remains" after hoarding and stockpiling in rich countries.
The official two-week campaigning period for Portugal's Jan. 30 general election kicked off Sunday, but there will be none of the large flag-waving rallies usually associated with the buildup to the ballot because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Aug. 23, 2011: Cass Lake's fake soldier pleads guilty • State + Local
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Dayton signs bill legalizing medical marijuana in Minnesota • State + Local
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The Top 10 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Episodes (by Popular Choice)
In anticipation of Star Wars Rebels' third season premiere on September 24th, we countdown the top 10 episodes of its proceeding series, The Clone Wars…
However, what makes this countdown different is that this is based on 12 other top 10 (or more) lists from youtube and other blogs. This will help give a general consensus of the most popular episodes in the series. If you want to look at these lists individually, check out the links on Page 3. Now onto the countdown (which will be as spoiler free as possible).
10. Ghosts of Mortis (Season 3 Episode 7)
This was a close call because, while it was mentioned three times, it tied with "Witches of the Mist" when I added their rankings together. The reason why "Ghosts of Mortis" won was because two out of the three times it was ranked within the top five, while "Witches of the Mist" ranked in the top five only once. The finale episode of the Mortis Trilogy Arc, it's the one where Anakin is shown his fate. A great ending for one of the greatest arcs in the series.
9. Overlords (Season 3 Episode 15)
It is seems the Force is strong with the Mortis Trilogy for "Overlords", the arc's first episode, has also made the list. Like "Ghosts" it was mentioned three times, but unlike it "Overlords" ranked within the top four every time. I guess people enjoyed the introduction more and I don't blame them for it shows us how Anakin, Obi-Wan and Ahsoka are drawn to Mortis and introduces us to the Father, the Daughter and the Son all of whom are living embodiments of the Force. A great beginning for one of the greatest arcs in Clone Wars (hmmm…deja vu?).
8. The Box (Season 4 Episode 17)
This episode is the third of a four-part story arc in which Obi-Wan goes uncover as a bounty hunter. What makes this one stand out is the way it maintains suspense as undercover Obi-Wan and the bounty hunters are forced to fight their way through the shifting mazes and lethal traps of a combat simulator known as the Box. However, despite being mentioned on four lists, it made into the top five only once. Still being number eight out of the 10 most popular episodes is not bad at all.
7. Massacre (Season 4 Episode 19)
Under Count Dooku's order, General Grievous coordinates an assault against Nightsisters on their homeworld of Dathomir and, as the title suggests, bring about the eradication of the clan. Having survived the onslaught this event marks a new shift in Asajj Ventress's ever-evolving story. People really seem to like villains fighting villains and this episode is no exception. Out of the four lists that mentioned "Massacre," it ranked in the top five a total of three times.
6. Revenge (Season 4 Episode 22)
With Darth Maul being a fan favorite of many within the Star Wars community, a lot of people were happy to see him come back from the dead and make his return to the Star Wars universe. What makes it even better is that he also has the chance to get revenge on the man who sliced him in half, the former Jedi Padawan now Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. It has everything a fan could ask for, so no wonder it was mentioned in five lists and and achieved a ranking within the top five for three of them.
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Quit Your Jingle-Jangle: The Smiths' Strangeways Here We Come Revisited
Ben Hewitt , August 15th, 2017 08:16
The Smiths' last studio album was their most ambitious, adventurous and experimental, too. Thirty years on, Ben Hewitt looks back on the forward-thinking record that could have been the start of a new chapter, rather than a full-stop
The first night that The Smiths descended upon The Wool Hall, the quiet recording studio near Bath where they'd record Strangeways, Here We Come, Johnny Marr got drunk. Sitting down at the keyboard, he turned to producer Stephen Street and, as recounted by Simon Goddard in his book Mozipedia, felt sufficiently emboldened by booze to unload some frustration. "You don't like it when we do this," he said as he played the eerie riff of 'A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours'. "You like us to be all jingly-jangly, don't you?"
'Jingly-jangly' had become something of an albatross around The Smiths' necks by 1987, and one that's still prone to squawking loudly over them today. When a recent Guardian piece questioned the wisdom behind the new Morrissey biopic England Is Mine, it argued the film was ill-judged not only because of the singer's risible, ever-shriller dog whistles, but because his old group were a sort of Band Zero when it came to the virus of pale, stale males with guitars. "In the early 80s," it claimed, "The Smiths kickstarted a genre that would help ensure the white male would be lording it over the industry for decades to come."
It's easy to see why the perception lingers because, as David Stubbs has previously pointed out for tQ, there is an undeniable whiff of Keep Calm And Carry On about The Smiths. The old-fashioned name, the bygone stars on their record sleeves and the wistful references to Keats, Yeats and Wilde all played to the idea that they were a band uncomfortable not just in their own skins but in their own timeline, too, preferring a romanticised past to the present. It's compounded further by the way that Morrissey, despite his love for classic pop, early 60s girl groups and the rest, has often treated new, alien sounds with deep suspicion; it's certainly not too difficult to imagine the more blinkered believers in Real Music and the divine right of guitars guffawing at his dismissal of reggae as "vile", or dance music as a "refuge for the mentally deficient".
But on Strangeways, The Smiths looked forwards, not back, determined to prove their sound was far more nuanced and varied than just Stratocasters and Rickenbackers. That's why I've come to cherish it most of all: it's my favourite Smiths studio album because it's the least traditionally Smiths-like, and if the appeal of this band has always partly lain in their obstinacy, then it's the sound of them blowing a big fat raspberry at their former selves. Whenever history tries to recast them as a bunch of tutting Miss Havishams, it's the more experimental and ambitious Strangeways that shows their refusal to stay in the past. As Marr later told Goddard: "I wanted us to shed that [old] skin and find a different direction."
Given that they split before it was even released, it'd be easy to assume the making of Strangeways was plagued by bickering and backstabbing. In truth, their common adversaries at the time were Rough Trade, who they believed had held them back with their lacklustre promotional skills ("Rough Trade cannot quite produce enough testosterone in matters of big business, and they will hold The Smiths back," was one of Morrissey's withering assessments of their prowess in his memoir Autobiography). They'd tried, and failed, to finagle themselves out of their deal while working on The Queen Is Dead, leaving them locked in a standoff that delayed its release; by 1986, they'd agreed to jump to EMI, on the proviso they delivered one last album for their old label.
It would be reasonable, too, to think their split was the result of dwindling creativity, but they were making some of their most inventive music yet. Their willingness to try new things on Strangeways, consequences be damned, can even be tracked back to the non-album single 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite'. Released nine months earlier, it took a typical Smiths motif – an anthem for the downtrodden, a call-to-arms for the oppressed – and gave it an unexpectedly histrionic twist, with Marr's heavy metal-inspired guitar solo splitting the song in two. By that point, he was unfussed about any potential backlash. "I just went 'fuck it', to be honest," he told tQ ed John Doran in an interview for Noisey in 2013.
There are similar 'fuck it' surprises lurking everywhere on Strangeways, just waiting to confuse anyone blithely expecting business as usual. Just listen to the opening songs from their previous albums: the gentle swoon of 'Reel Around The Fountain', the familiar jangle of 'The Headmaster Ritual', the giddy rush of 'The Queen Is Dead'. And then listen to the mystical, otherworldly 'A Rush And A Push', a track that doesn't ease you in gently but rattles your defences instead: Marr's piano is eerie and unsettling, and Morrissey's voice a faint, ghostly wail that echoes like he's singing through a seance. "Oh hello, I am the ghost of Troubled Joe/ Hung by his pretty white neck some 18 months ago," he moans. A couple of lines later, he undercuts the spell by jumping from the unnerving to the humdrum: "There's too much caffeine in your bloodstream/ And a lack of real spice in your life." There are Smiths-like tells to be found within its odd, chamber music-like notes: its title, for one, pays homage to Morrissey's hero Oscar Wilde by lifting a phrase from a pro-Irish editorial published by his mother Lady Jane under her pen name Speranza. And for all its spookiness, it's the familiar dread of unrequited desire that's plaguing Morrissey – "Oh don't mention love/ I'd hate the strain of the pain again," he sings, only to accept it's too late by the outro, when he glumly repeats "Oh, I think I'm in love." But its outright strangeness – the obscure references, the allusions to time travel, the jarring clash between the uncanny and the banal – make it feel like nothing else in their canon. It comes on like a hazy dream or an out-of-body experience; a weird vision that's already blurry around the edges before it starts slipping out of reach.
Its more experimental tendencies are outdone, though, by the stealthy, slithering electronics of 'Death Of A Disco Dancer', a song more magnificently creepy and menacing than anything they'd done before. So many of The Smiths' most beloved tracks, the ones people typically first fall for, have blistering starts: one of the common threads linking 'What Difference Does It Make?', 'Still Ill', 'Never Had No One Ever', 'Panic', 'This Charming Man' and 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' is how quickly they grab you by the gilded beams. But 'Death' takes its sinister time, with a slow, dangerous build that imbues Morrissey's cynicism ("Love, peace and harmony?/ Very nice… but maybe in the next world") with foreboding. "I don't talk to my neighbour, I'd rather not get involved," he sings, and the threat of violence and fear hangs so heavy he doesn't even need to finish his warning: and if you've got any sense, neither will you. Eventually, all its terrible elements – the menacing guitar, the whirring, haunted house-like synth, the crashing drums and Morrissey's rudimentary, rinky-dink piano (his only instrumental contribution to a Smiths album) – come together in one giant churn of droning, overwhelming noise.
Even some of the album's more traditional-sounding singles have strange kinks to them: familiar ideas and noises presented in new ways, as if The Smiths have been replaced by doppelgangers who know the old notes but don't play them in quite the same manner. Marr produced the big "doings" that start 'Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before', for example, by dropping a metal-handled knife on his Telecaster, getting a strange new sound from a trusty old instrument. Its frantic rhythm and Andy Rourke's rubbery bass barrel along at the same breathless pace as Morrissey's gabbered tales, with the singer only occasionally stopping to suck wind before resuming his messy anecdote of sunken pints, broken spleens and shattered promises. By design, its narrator is so slippery it's hard to pin down exactly why he's in hospital, but there's still a perverse thrill in hearing Morrissey, who'd sworn to NME a year previously he'd never do anything as vulgar as have fun, make his voice wobble and waver like he's half-cut as he unsteadily recalls: "And so I drank one/ It became four/ And when I fell on the floor, I drank more."
'I Started Something I Couldn't Finish', meanwhile, makes its case not only with Marr's serrated guitar, but with glammy handclaps and the blaring of a synthesised saxophone. It's a peculiar stomping beast, full of tight coils of tension and sudden blasts of noise, and made even odder by Morrissey's performance. In so many Smiths songs, he's unloved and uncertain, too tongue-tied and limb-locked to take a chance. Here, he's the clumsy, sweaty pursuer, growling his way into the chorus and forced into repentant retreat when he senses he's made a mistake. "And now 18 months' hard labour/ Seems… fair enough," he shrugs, as if he should have known better, that of course this was bound to happen once he dared to be bold (his punishment is also another nod to Wilde, who received a similar two-year sentence for 'gross indecency' in 1895).
It's the unexpected flourishes that make Strangeways so strong, elevating those songs which might not otherwise have stood out – the bitter barbs and understated semi-acoustic strum of 'Unhappy Birthday', for example, are given poignancy by the deep, gorgeous swoon of Marr's harmonium. There is, in fact, only one track truly beyond redemption, and that's 'Girlfriend In A Coma': the whimsical, unfunny elephant in the room, the one you heartily wish would stop trumpeting its inane jokes. One of the reasons it's so disappointing is that such a one-note gag feels beneath a band so cunning; the played-for-laughs contrast between the jaunty melody, froggy bass and Morrissey's wink-wink melodrama as he whispers his last goodbyes is so obvious, it's like being tricked into sitting on a whoopee cushion by Noel Coward. But it also rankles because whenever people are desperate to prove The Smiths weren't depressing, it's songs like these they cling to; the ones so frivolous and farcical you can practically picture Morrissey mugging at you after each line, like he's in an episode of Miranda. As Simon Reynolds wrote in Melody Maker after their split, The Smiths' humour worked best when it was "black, scornful, scathing". Without the piss and vinegar, the biting misery and sourness, it falls flat.
And yet call me a hypocrite, but I'll always have time for 'Paint Me A Vulgar Picture', the oft-maligned broadside against records industry sharks circling the carcass of a dead star when they smell profit ("Reissue! Repackage! Repackage!"). Songs about the fecklessness of the music industry are undoubtedly tiresome, but there are glimmers of other, deeper ideas hidden behind its snark: Morrissey's belief in the power of pop, the way fandom allows you to escape the grimness of your existence, how the glitter and glamour of larger-than-life stars can rub off on your own life. Perhaps it's not too far-fetched to make a link between the sublime B-side 'Rubber Ring', an ode to those special songs "that made you smile/ And the songs that made you cry", and the starstruck fan hiding in the bedroom of his "ugly new house" with nothing but his idol's records for comfort, happily dancing his "legs down to the knees". And, just maybe, there's even some meta self-reproach, too, in the way Morrissey – by this point a star himself, rather than the trembling worshipper – cattily deals with the singer exhausted by the spotlight: "You could have said no/ If you'd wanted to."
But nothing on Strangeways is quite as special as 'Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me', which takes the essence of everything that made The Smiths so magical and vital, and distills it into just one song. Even its first 115 seconds of slow, stately build, before anything is truly yet to happen, feel electric: those stark piano chords and the distant din of a boisterous crowd are enough to make you feel nervous, a sixth sense that you're on the precipice of something huge. When it finally explodes into life, it's a desperate, dramatic swirl of orchestral noise that fills all the air around you, so full of sadness and longing that it's hard to even breathe. Morrissey's vocal – recorded in just one take – becomes increasingly despairing as he goes on, too, as if he's uncorked all his miserable frustrations at once, and can't stem the tide any longer. When he sings "No hope, no harm/ Just another false alarm," he's tired, melancholy, wounded; when he demands "Tell me how long/ Before the last one," he's resentful, bitter, angry; and then finally, when he finishes with "This story is old, I know/ But it goes on," he's resigned, defeated, hopeless. Lesser songs have tried to describe loneliness, but only 'Last Night' actually seems to buckle underneath is weight, and while 'There Is A Light' might be regarded as their quintessential torch song, it's not as crushingly perfect as this.
It's hard to imagine a more fitting end for The Smiths' last ever album, then, than 'I Won't Share You' – and not only because if Morrissey's lyrics were inspired in any way by his possessiveness of Marr, he soon wouldn't be his to share at all. Its tender, sweet, poignant chords were plucked on the centuries-old strings of a lyre; another example of the band looking past their usual tools for inspiration, and the alchemy they still had access to. As Morrissey recalls in Autobiography:
"A window-ledge in a forgotten corner of the Wool Hall studios showcases a peculiar stringed instrument from 1777, which Johnny instantly grabs – 'Oh, let's see how this sounds' – and, by second run-through, he can play the oddly stringed lyre that has no sound hole. The strings are possibly horsehair, and there is a barely usable tuning bar, but the sound Johnny finds is mesmerising, and the song 'I Won't Share You' is alive. It is a fascinating moment when Johnny's inner ear leads the way to somewhere unknown – somewhere mistrusted by all until the final depth of thought strikes."
Like so much of Strangeways, it's almost as cruel as it is brilliant: a moment of inspiration sullied only by the fact the exciting future it promised was never explored. Its emphasis on new sounds and new ideas couldn't stop old arguments resurfacing, with Marr still frazzled by his involved in the management side of the group, and unconvinced they shared a common creative vision (a worry not eased by he and Morrissey butting heads over the latter's desire to cover Cilla Black's 'Work Is A Four-Letter Word' for a B-side). Morrissey, too, writes in Autobiography how they were both "drained beyond belief", that taking time off (and time apart) could have saved them. Instead, Marr finally quit after a news story in NME prematurely announced his departure from the group; he initially believed it had been planted by Morrissey, something the singer denied. After a brief dalliance with Easterhouse guitarist Ivor Perry, the Marr-less Smiths decided it was pointless carrying on, confirming their split before Strangeways was released; a year later, Morrissey launched his solo career with the single 'Suedehead', a jangly pop song that sounded more recognisably like The Smiths than anything from their final album. It's difficult to listen to it now without a twinge of regret, a yearning for what might have been and what could have followed. And yet there's also something typically, maddeningly Smiths-like about the way their most forward-thinking album came to represent not the start of a new chapter, but a final full-stop. However frustrating it might still feel, they stopped, at least, with something we hadn't heard before.
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Data Privacy and Compliance at Nonprofit Organizations
A UK expert gives us the latest GDPR news
Giles Watkins
I was lucky enough to be in the room at the European Parliament in October 2018 when Apple CEO Tim Cook made an impassioned plea for a federal privacy law in the USA. It was something I thought I would not hear from a Silicon Valley CEO in my lifetime.
If that wasn't amazing enough, Mr. Cook left no room for misunderstanding when he declared that tech giants put profit over privacy and that their most dubious actions result in nothing short of surveillance.
He was, however, not all doom and gloom. He also made it clear that those who believe in "the potential of technology for good" should not give up hope, as "technology doesn't want anything." Rather, we must ensure that it is designed and developed to serve humanity, not the other way around.
The U.S. has yet to pass federal regulations as stringent as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), though some states have passed their own. Nevertheless, data privacy remains top of mind for any organization — for-profit or nonprofit — that deals with the collection, storage, and use of an individual's data.
Complying with the rapidly increasing number of laws and regulations related to data privacy is much harder for nonprofits with limited budgets and staff than it is for large organizations with more funding, personnel, and resources. That said, it is typically easier to install or modify a "culture" in a small organization than it is in a large one.
Let's take a look at what creating a culture of data privacy might look like and how EU organizations are looking at data privacy.
Creating a Culture of Data Privacy at Your Nonprofit
Where employees and volunteers understand that the organization has a commitment to honesty and ethical corporate decision-making, including a responsibility to protect data, they are far more likely to treat data with care and respect. This, in combination with good processes and policies, means you are less likely to fall foul of the various laws and regulations that may affect data privacy. However, it never hurts to regularly challenge yourself and your organization to ensure that "thinking the right thing" translates into "doing the right thing." For starters, ensure that your organization is constantly asking itself basic questions like
Do we have the right to collect, use, transfer (if applicable), and store this information? And have we informed the individual of our processes and intent?
How long should we continue to keep this information, and are we using it for anything we didn't originally communicate or intend to?
Do we let citizens access the data we hold on them, change it if it is inaccurate, and have it deleted if they wish?
Are we keeping this sensitive personal information securely and limiting who has access to it?
In most cases, committing to this line of thinking will make your organization less likely to violate the most severe penalties that are enabled in these new regulations. The answers to these questions will also inform updates to your related policies and procedures.
Speaking of policies and procedures, I suspect many of you already have a good sense of your organization's ethics and compliance programs (formal or otherwise). Either way, it is advisable to review your policies and procedures specific to data ethics and privacy — especially before your staff, the public, or donors start to ask!
How EU Organizations Are Thinking About and Investing in Privacy
Since my last piece on GDPR for TechSoup, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, which I represent as the U.K. country leader, has released a couple of key documents that will provide you with some valuable benchmarks and insights into what others are doing to address privacy compliance.
One such tool is the IAPP-EY Annual Privacy Governance Report 2018. This provides results and commentary from a survey of many IAPP members and contains many useful insights. Below, I've listed some key takeaways that stood out to me.
Some 78 percent of organizations now have some form of reporting on privacy matters to the board or the highest level of governing body.
Only 32 percent of organizations think their privacy management program is "mature."
Some 56 percent of organizations say that they are not yet fully compliant, and 19 percent say that they will never be "fully compliant" due to continual changes in processes, technology, personnel, and so on.
The top areas of "activity" that organizations are undertaking in order to become compliant are
Incident response — both implementing procedures and actually responding to privacy-related incidents
Ensuring that there is a personal information inventory and that there are adequate data flow maps in place to understand where the risks to personal information exist
Privacy by design — building procedures and controls into products, processes, and procedures when they are first designed and implemented
Ethical decision-making — stepping back and asking, "Are we doing the right thing?"
The areas that organizations are finding most difficult to address are
Implementing the "right to be forgotten"
Responding to "subject access requests"
Breach notification to regulators and citizens
Gaining and managing "consent" from citizens
Conducting data privacy impact assessments
The areas where most investment is being made are
Finding and hiring a data protection officer
Identifying and implementing supporting privacy technology
Speaking of investing in data privacy, another report recently released by the IAPP is the 2018 Privacy Tech Vendor Report. There has been an explosion of privacy-related technology as a result of GDPR. This report analyzes much of the technology available today within different categories, including data mapping, incident response, website scanning, activity monitoring, and more. I recommend taking a moment to at least scan this report. It will give you an idea of recent developments in this field and perhaps point to some improvements you could make at your own organization.
What Issues Are You Facing?
Hopefully I provided you with some high-level "food for thought" as well some more specific resources in helping you think about your own privacy needs and how you might address them. In future posts, I would very much like to address common implementation issues that many of you are facing. In order to make this as valuable as possible, please do send in any questions, concerns, or challenges you have solved to legalteam [at] techsoup [dot] org. I'd love to use these as jumping-off points for the benefit of the rest of the nonprofit community.
Next time, I will also take a quick look at some common struggles that organizations are facing (maybe even where we are getting it wrong), and how regulators are approaching them. Stay tuned!
Additional Resources: Privacy and Data Management
Get answers to 4 Questions US Nonprofits Need to Ask About GDPR.
Find out the background: GDPR Takes Effect in May 2018 — Is Your Nonprofit Ready?
Learn How TechSoup Keeps Your Information Safe — and How You Can Do the Same on Your Nonprofit Website.
Go In Search of HIPAA-Compliant Software.
Hear about Tools of the Trade: Privacy in the Digital Age.
Get TechSoup Courses' All Access Pass to Successful Tech Planning.
Important Updates to the Symantec Donation Program at TechSoup
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All of Kim Petras' singles ranked from best to… best
Harrison Brocklehurst February 14, 2018, 2:30 pm
It's Valentine's Day, and if you're spending it miserable and single then your strife is over, because German-born pop starlet Kim Petras has ensured she's the one in all our hearts after dropping her sixth single "Heart To Break". Her debut single "I Don't Want It At All" topped international Spotify charts when it was released in August 2017, and Kim has continued with the same success following it – managing to be named one of four Spotify RISE Artists (designed to "identify and break the next wave of pop superstars) in October.
Petras has an immaculate discography so far, her sound being an exciting blend of 90's, 80's and early 00's pop nostalgia. To honour Kim's new single release date, CelebMix have ranked all of the trans singer's bops from best to best, because when you don't have a bad song in your catalogue that's the only ranking possible!
6th Best: Slow It Down
Kim's fourth single is this slinky slice of pop with a side of 90's R&B. Lyrically, the song is all about taking your time when making love to your paramour, and it's as sensual as it sounds. The song builds to a gorgeous final minute filled with horn interludes and Petras's impressive vocal adlibs.
5th Best: Hills (feat. Baby E)
Petras wrote this chilled out bop with featured artist Baby E, who she calls her "icon of songwriting." Kim disses a bad ex lover in the almost rapped verses, musing about how she's taking drugs to forget about the problems. Hills is full of all the visual cues you expect from a Kim Petras song: Summer, Los Angeles, fast convertibles, partying and boys. Sounds like heaven to us!
4th Best: Faded (feat. lil aaron)
Kim's latest music video was for fifth single "Faded", featuring a rapped verse by Lil Aaron. It's a simply written but infectious bop that bounces along its eighties throwback beat with joy. Its repetitive nature ensures that it instantly sticks with you, and the video is full of Petras just having a great time in some rad outfits.
3rd Best: Heart To Break
It's here! The freshly released bop that Kim herself has called her favourite single out of them all. And the fact that a song this good isn't her overall best says so much about the calibre of pop star Petras really is. On "Heart To Break", Kim goes all-out 80's, with its stirring synths making it a song you fall in love with on the first listen. It wouldn't be out of place on Carly Rae Jepsen's magnum opus Emotion, and that is obviously never a bad thing.
2nd Best: I Don't Want It At All
"I Don't Want It At All" is a perfect debut single. Described as ""Material Girl" for the millennial generation", it's a bratty, sassy and charming synth-laden bop that is the perfect introduction to Petras' brand and the kind of pop star she's setting out to be. It feels like a song leftover from the early 00's in the best way possible. When the video dropped in October 2017, "I Don't Want It At All" became certifiably iconic. The Paris Hilton shrine, the way she walks down the street with all the shopping bags and of course, that cameo. It's just magical.
THE Best: Hillside Boys
She did it, kids. Kim Petras really did it. What did she do? Oh, she only made pop PERFECTION! "Hillside Boys" is a masterpiece. It's a timeless song that would have been critically acclaimed no matter when it was released. From the very first lyrics (My silhouette is in the frame of your shades again/And your cigarette's facing its final breath) you instantly know you're in for something special and the song just builds and builds. The first chorus is breathtaking, the second verse jazzes up the vocals (And it's over, in your, in your Range Rover), the bridge is lyrically excellent and then the guitar riff break is practically euphoric. When that final chorus lands with the adlibs, you're dead and in pop heaven. And being dead in pop heaven with Queen Kim making bops like this sounds more than okay to us.
Listen to all the Kim Petras songs in the playlist below:
Disagree with our ranking? Let us know on Twitter at @CelebMix, and keep up to date with Kim on Twitter and Instagram @kimpetras
Written by Harrison Brocklehurst
21 year old Drama graduate, playwright, critic and freelance writer. Born and raised in Stockport but now based in Liverpool. Horror, dark comedy, fashion, drag, pop music and Buffy the Vampire Slayer keep me alive.
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(THE CONVERSATION) It's tempting to give up on data security altogether, with all the billions of pieces of personal data – Social Security numbers, credit cards, home addresses, phone numbers, passwords and much more – breached and stolen in recent years. But that's not realistic – nor is the idea of going offline entirely. In any case, huge data-collection corporations vacuum up data about almost every American without their knowledge.
As cybersecurityresearchers, we offer good news to brighten this bleak picture. There are some simple ways to protect your personal data that can still be effective, though they involve changing how you think about your own information security.
It can be daunting to think about remembering all these different usernames and passwords. Password management software can help – though choose carefully as more than one of them have beenbreached. It can be even safer – despite conventional wisdom and decades of security advice – to write them down, so long as you trust everyone who has access to your home.
To add another layer of protection – including against troublesome housemates – many sites (Google, for example) let you turn on what's called multi-factor authentication. This can be an app on your smartphone that generates a numeric code every 30 seconds or so, or a physical item you plug into your computer's USB port. While they can afford at least some protection, be wary of sites that send you a text with a code; that methodis vulnerableto interception.
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