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The story of how Thanksgiving began, moved into a national holiday, and exists today
Pictures are below, and at the very bottom is the transcript.
Google Earth Map showing how the Pilgrims progressed.
Sarah Josepha Hale
By painted by James Reid Lambdin (1807-1889) - Richard's Free Library, Newport, New Hampshire [1] item provenance: Sarah Josepha Hale Award [2] image:[3], Public Domain, Link
Map of the area around where they landed
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The Mayflower landing in America.
Hey everybody and welcome to this first of the holiday specials. I'd like to tell you this is purely because I'm in the holiday mood but truthfully I have had some delays on my interviews and so I don't have anything to post yet so we are doing a special Thanksgiving special! This will be a little different as we'll look at the 3 Thanksgivings. The original non-holiday holiday, the original official holiday, and then the modern version of the holiday. We'll talk about each of them and how they got to be. Now Thanksgiving is the most controversial of the big holidays in the USA nowadays. We'll get into why that is happening as part of this Holiday Episode.
Before we get started I'd like to give a big shout-out to my first Patreon Patron Sally! She signed up for the Assistant Vice-President to the Founder tier which costs $5 per nation. She chose Australia to get an extra episode and for Ecuador to go out of order so those will be coming along during the course of the A nations. Alright so having said that let's get on with it!
Most of the info here is being drawn from the primary source "Of Plymouth Plantation" which is a first hand account from the long-time governor of the Plymouth Colony" with help from Encyclopedia Britannica for more background info than that provides.
It's 1604 and a group, that we'll come to know as the Puritans, has brought petitions before the king to try to reform the Church of England. All of their petitions had been shot down except for getting an updated English Bible written. Who was that king? King James of course. So right off the bat these Puritans have helped rewrite history because this was the beginning of the King James Bible which is considered one of the major literary accomplishments of early modern English. At the time though they were focused on other issues and since all those were shut down they were quite upset.
By 1605 a group of Puritans in Nottinghamshire England decided that the Church of England was no longer a church they can put up with. They split off and officially became their own new church. Part of what lead them to split with the Church of England was their belief that the church was not so much meant to be a political entity run by and enforced by the government. The trouble with this was that there was a law in England that required all citizens to attend their local Church of England services or face increasingly strict punishments.
Well this all went along without too much hubbub until the next year, 1606, when a new Archbishop took over the area and began zealously enforcing the laws on church.
Slowly but surely the Puritans moved from their homes into Holland, which was a more open nation at the time. Well eventually it proved to be too much cultural shock to get over. Two of the Puritans wrote that the problems were three-fold: The language was different and so jobs were difficult, the people were less conservative, and there was already an established church in Holland and they were interested in reaching unreached peoples.
They then got some money together to hire two ships to take them to the New World, the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell, you say? I've never heard of that! Well let's see why. The Speedwell was to bring down the group from Holland to rendezvous with the Mayflower which was picking up passengers in London. After meeting up they had planned to leave in July in order to arrive in the New World before it got too close to Winter. They tried to leave 3x only to have the Speedwell spring leaks soon after leaving port. Each time they had to return to land to fix the problem and on the third time they decided maybe that ship wasn't a great option for crossing the Atlantic Ocean so they abandoned it and took on some of the passengers with the rest sailing back to Holland.
By this time they were over a month late and that presented two major problems:
The sea: They had hoped to be nearing their destination before storm season got too bad in the Atlantic but now they would be sailing into the teeth of it. It got so bad that the ship was in danger of breaking apart as the main beam that held the ship together had to have emergency repairs done to it. But alas it was not meant to be game over for the pilgrims on the high seas.
Supplies: Many of the passengers had fled England to go to Holland without their belongings and then had had trouble making a living in Holland; so they were in no shape to purchase extra supplies and so supplies were now a month less than planned.
Now we pick up a new primary source, which comes from the Plymouth Colony Archive Project, which has a free copy of a Mourt's Relation which is a first-hand account of the first few years in the new settlement written by one of the Pilgrim leaders. Pretty much all the details here are brought from that and the aforementioned Of Plymouth Plantation. While some help in analysis coming from the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Smithsonian Museum's interview with Dr. Silverman, a history professor who specializes in this time period.
When they finally arrived in the New World it was mid-November and both of the problems I just talked about, supplies and terrible weather, stopped them from going south to the relative safety of the infant colony of Virginia to at least last through the winter. So instead they were forced to hunker down and rely on the supplies, of which they had woefully little. Because of this, during that first winter over half of the colonists died.
Finally though, the survivors made it to the spring and were able to start working on becoming able to support themselves. Of course this was not easy either as they were in a land entirely foreign to them and so it likely would have ended with death for all if not for a local tribe of Native Americans who made an alliance with the fledgling colony. The Wampanoag tribe had been decimated by disease brought by europeans in the years before the Colonists arrived and were in fear of being overtaken by inland tribes that had not been hit nearly as hard by the outbreak. The pilgrims desperately needed help to learn how to live in this new land. With both groups in need and able to help the other, the Indians providing sustenance, and the English agreeing to use their cannons and firearms to help defend the Wampanoag if they were attacked. Of course this also meant they didn't have to worry about being attacked by each other.
Well they did much better with the Wampanoag help and a full year to plant and harvest crops. After their first harvest the pilgrims planned a feast to celebrate and apparently did not invite the Native Americans. This shouldn't be as too much of a surprise as they had just fled all the places they had lived because they couldn't get along with people who were relatively similar to them so it's hard to imagine, even though they should have been grateful, that they would have likely considered the Wampanoag probably worse than those they had just fled from. So anyways to prepare for the feast they sent out some men to go "fowling" catch some birds to eat at the harvest and while they were blasting away with their firearms the Wampanoag thought a battle had begun and 90 warriors came running, probably unsure if they were going to be helping their allies or if their allies were turning on them.
Having arrived at the Pilgrim village they saw that instead there was a feast being prepared and seeing them there they were invited to join the feast. Food was a bit lacking since there were only about 50 colonists at this time and the 90 warriors would have tripled the number of people coming. So the warriors went and killed 5 deer to contribute as a gift to the pilgrims and so they ate.
So there it is the first thanksgiving on what would later become US territory. Like many an American story it all started with our right to bear arms hah!
Now of course there is more to the story but it would be largely ignored until the modern version of Thanksgiving so we will get to that in a few minutes.
So it seems that "days of thanksgiving" were common place in English Christianity before and after the "first thanksgiving" so this was not an especially important day for a long while. There were little pushes here and there for a national day of thanksgiving, The Continental Congress proclaimed one when they signed the Constitution and George Washington proclaimed one as well. Then a bunch of New England states began pushing for it, as it was a holiday they saw as theirs. But if you know much about the US you know that the southern and northern states don't always get along and so the southerners thought this was a "yankee" idea. There's even a quote from the Governor of Virginia around the time who said Thanksgiving was a "theatrical national claptrap" (the irony here is that nowadays southerners consider themselves the kings of thanksgiving). And so this idea would not catch on outside the Northeast even though it had been proclaimed in the past.
This wouldn't change until Sarah Josepha Hale came along in the early 1800s. She is most known for writing the song Mary Had a Little Lamb. But what she really is, is the mother of Thanksgiving. Who was Ms. Hale? She was a famous writer and editor during her time who was the lead editor of a magazine called "Godey's Lady Book". During her time as editor she transformed the magazine into one of the most important of it's time. She was a convincing writer and advocated for many things such as women's right to be allowed into higher education as well as other things we think of as normal today like, Christmas trees, white wedding dresses, and Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving because she had grown up with it being a part of her family traditions as she was from New Hampshire, which is a state in New England.
She wrote a book in 1827 called "Northwood" which spent an entire chapter discussing Thanksgiving and what made it Thanksgiving. She then began to write poems, short stories, and recipes on the topic of thanksgiving(roast turkey and sweet potato pie to name a few) and stick them in this now very high circulation magazine. She also spearheaded a letter writing campaign where people were encouraged to write their representatives telling them they needed a national holiday.By the 1850s almost every state had a state-wide national day of thanksgiving but there still wasn't a national holiday.
In the fall of 1863, well into her 70s, she was still writing letters and one of them went to a certain tall, soon to be famous, man named Abraham Lincoln. You can actually find this letter online as it was transcribed by the Lincoln Studies Center. In it she laid out her arguments for how it would help to unify the nation that was currently engaged in a terrible Civil War. Well if you know much about Lincoln you know that unifying the states was his highest priority. And so on October 3, 1863, only 5 days after the letter was written(about 2 weeks after the terrible Battle of Chickamauga that saw over 34,000 men die) he issued the Proclamation of Thanksgiving which should be held the last Thursday of November.
Now of course running alongside all this happening was the Indian Wars which basically went from about 50 years after the Pilgrims arrived until the final battles of suppression took place in the 1920s. The 1920s! If you grew up in the states I'm sure you didn't think we were still fighting Native Americans in the 1900s, I sure didn't until I did my research on this episode. So there is definitely a counter-narrative going on here of the Native Americans not really being excited about Thanksgiving as it lead to them losing pretty much all their land. You can find loads of articles and podcasts today in America on that and I encourage you to study about it but for today we will not be going into that as, while it is a part of American history, it is too long of a story to go into in this 30 minute episode.
Now up to the modern Thanksgiving we go. We will talk about current Thanksgiving traditions and where they came from. I am not going to be using as many reference materials here as I am a local here to this so yeah.
One of the parts of modern Thanksgiving that is not a traditional part but is growing is the movement to de-romanticize Thanksgiving. To make sure to tell the whole story of what happened not just to the Pilgrims but to the Indians after that Thanksgiving. This is a hot topic today but overall I think a good one as it's always good to look at our history and see the whole story. America definitely did some terrible things to the Native Americans and it's not helpful to sweep those things under the rug. Does that mean we need to cancel Thanksgiving? Some people think so. I think that's probably a little too extreme but we should work to not be too bias in our presentation of the after-effects of Thanksgiving.
Now the main part of Thanksgiving, as far as my experiences and the experiences of others who I've talked to over the years is seemingly the re-enactment of hungry pilgrims that haven't eaten all winter and are getting their first harvest in. How do we re-enact that? Well we eat, and eat, and eat, until the majority of people are laying down half-asleep because of the feasting.
Before or after the big meal come some other big traditions. One of those is American Football on Thanksgiving. This is a fairly new sport having mutated from Rugby, it's official first college game was played in 1869 a few weeks before Thanksgiving and only a few weeks after that first game the first Thanksgiving football game was played. Because this holiday is kind of a unifying the country holiday so an American born game was just what people were looking for. This definitely sits at #2 on the priority list for people on Thanksgiving.
The final big tradition is the Macy's Day Parade. People will tune in from all over the US to watch the ginormous balloons that are paraded around New York's strees. It is the second oldest Thanksgiving parade with the 6abc Dunkin Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade beating it by 4 years, starting in 1920. Did you know that ABC and Dunkin were around back then? Well they weren't they are just the current sponsors. The original parade was done by a Department Store named Gimbels in Philadelphia. It eventually went out of business as most of the department stores did. but Macy's has persevered. Why were these started? Well they were wonderful opportunities for companies to advertise! And that takes us into another new tradition, which may be just as big as Thanksgiving nowadays, Black Friday.
Black Friday got it's start sometime in the 50s but the name "Black Friday" didn't really become widespread in usage until the early 80s according to the Philadelphia Inquirer which is an actual newspaper unlike the National Inquirer. It's the day in which the Christmas Shopping season is supposed to really begin, the day after Thanksgiving. It's a day of huge sales all around the US and it's widely regarded as the day of the year that pushes companies into the black, meaning where they start to make a profit for the year. It has become so successful that it has spawned versions of itself in many other countries as well as spin-offs on the weekend after Thanksgiving with "Small Business Saturday" and "Cyber Monday"
A few traditions that are not quite as popular but still well known are the Turkey Trot and the Turkey Pardon. The Turkey Trot is a standard 5k race/walk that most cities do on Thanksgiving. It is a cause for playful debate in many circles where you can find many a funny meme about people not wanting to be friends with those who choose to exercise on our national day of feasting.
The pardon of the Thanksgiving Turkey as a national thing really got it's start under George H.W. Bush, that's daddy Bush not the younger Bush(both of whom were president). According to the Whitehouse's official website; Turkeys had been sent to the president on Thanksgiving Day since the adoption of Thanksgiving as a holiday, so ever since the days of Abe Lincoln. And it seems he was the first one to give a Turkey a reprieve. The turkey was given to them but Abe's son apparently begged for the turkey to live and Abe granted the request. But this did not really catch on as a tradition until the elder Bush. The elder Bush made the ceremony official and also joked about a few of the controversies of his day. So this became the tradition. Pardon a turkey and then give a short funny speech on some controversies that are going on.
Of course there is a lot more you could look into for details on all these things and I encourage you to do that but that's all the time we have for today. I hope you enjoyed our diversion into the founding of this American holiday and I look forward to doing another one about another holiday when there's a break around another holiday.
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Home Business Mixed reaction to infill condo in Old Oakville
Mixed reaction to infill condo in Old Oakville
by Kim Arnott
condo Reynolds Street
A new three-storey condo proposed for 358 Reynolds Street is being greeted with mixed reaction.
The town has received an application to demolish the Medical Arts building across from the old hospital site and build a 14-unit condominium building on the property.
Enthusiasm for replacing the aging office building, which has sat vacant since 2015, is vying with concern about the proposed density.
Subject land shown on Liveable Oakville map
Carolyn McMinn, president of the Trafalgar-Chartwell Residents' Association, said residents are worried about the massing and shadowing impact of a three-storey building on nearby homes.
"Our members are also very concerned with density creep, especially as it might affect those properties south on Reynolds Street and east and west on Macdonald Road," she added.
"However, it would be great to see something attractive built on the site."
Heritage district site zoned for low-density
Located within the Trafalgar Road Heritage Conservation District, the property is zoned for low density residential use. The current 3.5 storey building is a legal non-conforming use.
The developer, Transmetro Properties Ltd., is seeking amendments to both the zoning bylaw and the official plan to allow the proposed building.
I see no reason, besides one of profit, to change the zoning.
The proposal also drew mixed reaction when presented to the Heritage Oakville Advisory Committee for comment at its August 18 meeting.
Several committee members spoke against allowing medium-density use on the property.
"The low-density zoning was very specifically chosen for this area for a very good reason," said Daniela Hampton-Davies. "I see no reason, besides one of profit, to change the zoning."
Artist rendering of proposed condo to replace Medical Arts building at Reynolds and Macdonald. Image Credit: Hicks
Others echoed that sentiment, noting that the permitted density of five detached or eight semi-detached houses would be more in keeping with the character of the neighbourhood.
But Geri Tino argued that the community is accustomed to the density of the existing building, which was built in 1954, so an updated and sensitive reconstruction would be "a gentle massaging of what's there."
"I think (the proposal) is a better alternative than what presently sits there as a mass, as a block on the site," she said.
Because the existing building is legal, the developer could simply convert it into apartments, agreed committee member and Ward 2 councillor Cathy Duddeck.
Committee member and nearby resident Sue Hobson added that higher density uses offer a responsible way to prevent urban sprawl.
"I think it's important that, as citizens of the world and citizens of our region, we're not too NIMBY about allowing some increase in density of housing within the city to prevent or reduce the amount of development spread that goes into the agricultural lands and the parklands and the green belt," she said.
Design to be sympathetic to neighbourhood
Project architect Bill Hicks told the committee that the Reynolds Street condo design would create the impression of multiple attached houses, to mimic the surrounding residential neighbourhood.
"We didn't want to have one large, continuous facade on the building because we are trying to be sympathetic, knowing we are on the edge of the (heritage) district," he said.
The building will face Macdonald Road, with access for one level of underground parking.
Hicks said the building would be similar to the nearby Sheddon Avenue condo, a development he said is receiving positive feedback from neighbours.
That 20-unit development, currently under construction, is advertised as 80 per cent sold. Units were priced at $2.5 to $6 million.
Reynolds Street condo likely to find market
Gillian Cockcroft, an Oakville real estate agent with Century 21 Miller, says there's a strong market for new developments in established neighborhoods.
While many younger buyers who grew up in the suburbs are seeking more mixed-use neighborhoods, they also tend to be comfortable with the amenities of newer homes, she said.
She added that the proposed design appears to mimic the nearby former Kerosene Castle – now the private school MacLachlan College – on Trafalgar Road.
As the former owner of the house on the south side of the property, she thinks the proposed development will be a good change for the neighborhood.
"I think it's unwise to be totally static, let's put it that way," said Cockcroft.
Town staff is expected to bring an initial report on the proposal to the town's planning and development council on Sept. 8. There will also be an opportunity for public input.
Town of Oakville
An artist's rendering of what the proposed condos might look like.
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Der Mark-Twain-Preis wird vom John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts alljährlich seit 1998 für amerikanischen Humor verliehen. Benannt nach dem Schriftsteller Mark Twain ist der Preis Amerikas wichtigste humoristische Auszeichnung.

Die Preisverleihung 2007, zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum des Preises, fand erstmals im Opernhaus des Kennedy Centers statt. Zu den Präsentatoren gehörten Bob Costas, Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, John Goodman, David Letterman, Jon Lovitz, Rob Reiner, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, Joe Torre, Barbara Walters und Robin Williams.

Bill Cosby nahm den Preis erst 2009 an, nachdem er seine Nominierung zuvor zweimal abgelehnt hatte. Im Mai 2018 widerrief das Kennedy Center die Auszeichnung für Cosby im Zuge der Vorwürfe von sexuellem Missbrauch gegen ihn.

Aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie fand die Preisverleihung 2020 und 2021 nicht statt.

Preisträger

 1998: Richard Pryor
 1999: Jonathan Winters
 2000: Carl Reiner
 2001: Whoopi Goldberg
 2002: Bob Newhart
 2003: Lily Tomlin
 2004: Lorne Michaels
 2005: Steve Martin
 2006: Neil Simon
 2007: Billy Crystal
 2008: George Carlin
 2009: Bill Cosby – 2018 widerrufen
 2010: Tina Fey
 2011: Will Ferrell
 2012: Ellen DeGeneres
 2013: Carol Burnett
 2014: Jay Leno
 2015: Eddie Murphy
 2016: Bill Murray
 2017: David Letterman
 2018: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
 2019: Dave Chappelle
 2022: Jon Stewart

Weblinks
 Mark-Twain-Preis auf der Website des Kennedy Centers
 Mark-Twain-Preis auf der PBS-Website

Einzelnachweise

Fernsehpreis (Vereinigte Staaten)
Mark Twain
Literaturpreis (Vereinigte Staaten)
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Moi, Daniel Arap (1924–)
By: Christopher Odhiambo
Daniel Toirtich Arap Moi was independent Kenya's third vice president after Jaramogi Ajuma Oginga Odinga and Joseph Murumbi. He later became the second president of the Republic after the death of Jomo Kenyatta in 1978. He adopted the slogan Nyayo, which is a Kiswahili word for "in his footsteps," obviously indicating that he would follow the development path and maintain the political system introduced by Kenyatta.
Arap Moi was born on September 2, 1924, in the small village of Kurieng'or in Tugen Hills. He was a [Page 469]song of a shepherd who died when Moi was only 2 years old. He spent 20 years in education as student, student teacher, and teacher before entering politics as an African member of Legislative Council in 1955. He has ...
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Odhiambo, C. (2008). Moi, daniel arap (1924–). In L. L. Kaid, & C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of political communication (Vol. 1, pp. 469-469). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412953993.n410
Odhiambo, Christopher. "Moi, Daniel Arap (1924–)." In Encyclopedia of Political Communication, edited by Kaid, Lynda Lee., and Christina Holtz-Bacha, 469-469. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412953993.n410.
Odhiambo, C. 2008. Moi, Daniel Arap (1924–). In: Lynda L. Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha Editors, 2008. Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 469 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412953993.n410> [Accessed 16 Jan 2021].
Odhiambo, Christopher. "Moi, Daniel Arap (1924–)." Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edited by Lynda L. Kaid and Christina Holtz-Bacha. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008, pp. 469-469. SAGE Knowledge. 16 Jan 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412953993.n410.


Are you where your customers want you to be?
Shep Hyken sits down with Murph Krajewski, discussing the importance of knowing what channels your customers want you to be on.
Omni-channels today are more of a mindset than a definable term. It's about being wherever a perspective customer is. Omni can be synonymous with multi, meaning there are multiple ways customers can connect with a company.
It is crucial for a company to be on as many channels as possible in order to be easily accessible by its customers.
The big difference between marketing and customer service is that marketing is looking to give messages, whereas customer service needs to be ready to receive messages. It's a company's responsibility to know how their customers want to reach them.
A practical thing that companies can do when it comes to channels, is to stop thinking about channels. Reject the assumption that omni-channel is a list of features. It is simply a concept.
Let the customer define what the perfect experience is. It doesn't matter how you think your customers want to reach you. It's what they want that matters.
Find technology that fits what you need rather than trying to mold your company to a certain technology.
Murph Krajewski is VP of Marketing at Sharpen, a cloud-based contact center platform. He has been in the contact center industry for nearly 20 years, in a variety of roles. These days, Murph is focused on creating better experiences for contact center agents.


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import pytest
from os import path
from statsnba.models import Game, Model

SAMPLEDATA_DIR = path.join(path.dirname(__file__), '../sample_data/')

def pytest_runtest_setup(item):
        # called for running each test in 'a' directory
    import requests_cache
    requests_cache.install_cache('test_cache')

def pytest_collect_file(parent, path):
    if path.ext == ".yml" and path.basename.startswith("event"):
        return EventFile(path, parent)

class EventFile(pytest.File):
    def collect(self):
        import yaml
        raw = yaml.safe_load(self.fspath.open())
        tests = []
        game_id = self.fspath.purebasename.split('_')[-1]
        game = Game(game_id)
        for cat, events in raw.items():
            if events:
                tests.append(EventTypeCollector(self, events, cat, game.PlayByPlay))
        return tests

class EventTypeCollector(pytest.Collector):
    """Collect all the specs in a particular EventType"""
    def __init__(self, parent, events, name, pbp):
        super(EventTypeCollector, self).__init__(name, parent=parent)
        self.events = events
        self.pbp = pbp

    def collect(self):
        tests = []
        for event in self.events:
            tests.append(Event(event['index'], self, event))
        return tests

class Event(pytest.Item):
    def __init__(self, index, parent, event):
        self.index= index
        self.event = event
        self._pbp = parent.pbp
        name = '%s, eventnum: %s' % (parent.name, self.index)
        super(Event, self).__init__(name, parent)

    @staticmethod
    def assert_model(actual, expected_dict):
        for k, v in expected_dict.items():
            assert getattr(actual, k) == v

    def _assert_event(self):
        actual = self._pbp[self.index]
        self.event.pop('index')
        for key, value in self.event.items():
            event_attr = getattr(actual, key)
            try:
                if isinstance(event_attr, Model):
                    Event.assert_model(event_attr, value)
                else:
                    assert event_attr == value
            except AssertionError as e:
                raise FieldMismatchError(str(e))

    def runtest(self):
        self._assert_event()

    def repr_failure(self, excinfo):
        if isinstance(excinfo.value, FieldMismatchError):
            return str(excinfo.value)

    def reportinfo(self):
        return self.fspath, None, self.name

class FieldMismatchError(Exception):
    pass

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FDA to Add Warning About Neurological Disorder Linked to Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine
July 12, 2021 Updated: July 12, 2021
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on July 12 said it will add a warning label to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine that it is linked to a rare neurological disorder known as Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), while J&J confirmed it is "in discussions" with federal agencies.
"The FDA is announcing revisions to the vaccine recipient and vaccination provider fact sheets for the Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) COVID-19 Vaccine to include information pertaining to an observed increased risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) following vaccination," an FDA spokesperson told The Epoch Times on July 12.
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ITV has sent The Sun a letter detailing new safeguards for Love Island stars after the suspected suicides of Mike Thalassitis and Sophie Gradon.
It says therapy will be offered to "all Islanders and not only those that reach out to us".
ITV is fighting to save the lucrative franchise after ex-stars complained of "zero aftercare".
There will also be social media training and financial management advice.
The new care strategy comes as ITV fights to save the £1billion Love Island franchise after criticism in the wake of two suspected suicides by ex-stars.
On Saturday Mike Thalassitis, 26, was found hanged. Nine months ago Sophie Gradon, 32, was also found dead.
After Mike's death other ex-contestants criticised the show, saying they got "zero aftercare".
The new strategy was outlined in a letter sent to The Sun by Love Island boss Richard Cowles.
Richard, creative director of ITV Studios, wrote: "When something so awful happens we naturally enter a period of soul searching and ask whether anything could have been done.
"This review has led us to extend our support processes to offer therapy to all Islanders and not only those that reach out to us.
Government mental health adviser Dr Paul Litchfield has been brought in to independently review the show's arrangements.
Richard said ITV does extensive checks before casting contestants.
ITV began making changes to its procedures six months ago following Sophie's death in Newcastle.
Love Island is a huge money- spinner for ITV and is shown in 35 countries.
Branding guru Marcil Knobil said: "In the short term it is worth many millions but in the long term it could certainly reach a billion-pound bonanza for ITV.
Record ratings on ITV2 helped the show strike a £5million sponsorship deal with Uber Eats.
The death of Mike, who was found in woods in Edmonton, North London, led to complaints about the lack of after-show care.
The Suicide Prevention Minister Jackie Doyle-Price said production companies needed to "look at what they do".
Reality star Chloe Goodman called on TV bosses to make contestants attend a year of after-show counselling or therapy.
OUR Let's Talk campaign encourages those with suicidal thoughts to contact loved ones and professionals. Get advice at Papyrus HopeLineUK on 0800 068 4141 or email pat@papyrus-uk.org.
Everyone at Love Island is so shocked and absolutely devastated with the tragic news of Mike Thalassitis.
The Mike we knew was a remarkable and charismatic young man who made a huge impression both on the Love Island team and on viewers of the show. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family and friends at this difficult time.
When something so awful happens we naturally enter a period of soul searching and ask whether anything could have been done to help avoid something so terrible happening. It is not for us to speculate on the reasons behind this tragedy and what is so heartbreaking is that we simply cannot know.
Our show put Mike in the spotlight with all the ups and downs that brings. Mike's TV career took off with Love Island and he went on to take part in other reality shows as his career grew.
Since the terrible news there have been a lot of people questioning Love Island's processes and aftercare. Many of the things that have been said about them bear no relation to the support we offer. I want to outline our care processes.
As the show has grown ever more popular and our Islanders get increased attention in an ever changing landscape, each series we evolve the support we give them.
Our duty of care is a continuous and ongoing process for each Islander. This follows three key stages; pre-filming, filming, and aftercare. We work with both an independent GP and a psychological consultant to provide an assessment of the physical and mental health of each of the shortlisted cast members and their suitability for inclusion on the programme.
The medical team also contacts each Islander's GP to check they feel that person is able to take part. We ask for full disclosure from potential cast members to these health professionals so that so that we can support them appropriately. As TV producers, we rely on medical experts to assess both mental and physical health to ensure that each candidate is suitable for inclusion.
Care continues whilst the Islanders are in the villa. We have a medical team on location which includes a psychological consultant. They not only look after Islanders' healthcare needs, but also monitor them to check that there are no emerging signs of any problems developing whilst they are in the villa. Additionally, several of our senior team, who monitor the cast around the clock, have been trained in mental health first aid.
When the time comes for each Islander to leave the show, our aftercare process kicks in. Every Islander has a series of debrief meetings on location with the executive team and the medical team, including the psychological consultant. After this, they are told how to access after care support as well as information on seeking professional representation. They also meet with the press team the day after leaving the villa and are briefed and advised on their press coverage whilst in the villa.
We have had requests for help from former Islanders, and have provided this.
We have always recognised that this should be an evolving process and six months ago we engaged Dr Paul Litchfield, an experienced physician and a Chief Medical Officer, to independently review our medical processes on Love Island. He has extensive experience of working with large companies and Government in the area of mental health.
This review has led us to extend our support processes to offer therapy to all Islanders and not only those that reach out to us. And we will be delivering bespoke training to all future Islanders to include social media and financial management.
The key focus will be for us to no longer be reliant on the islanders asking us for support but for us to proactively check in with them on a regular basis.
Having said all of this about Love Island we must not lose sight of the wider issue which is the importance of the conversation on mental health.
Across ITV we have worked with a number of charities including CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) on Project 84 and with Samaritans and CALM on Coronation Street, tackling the issue of male suicide. Conversations about mental health have never been more important.


This exciting European Festival dedicated to Spy Movies during the Cold War in Europe was organized at Riverside Studios by the Goethe Institute in collaboration with Eunic London. It presented 11 films, an exhibition, and a debate. You can read the Guardian's review of the festival 'Heroes of the KGB: the communist bloc's spy films' and an article on Electric Sheep magazine.
Films screened included Nyama nishto po-hubavo ot loshoto vreme (There's Nothing Finer than Bad Weather), a 1971 Bulgarian film, Skvorets i Lira (Skvorets and Lira, 1974) from the Soviet Union, Smyk (Skid, 1960) from Czechoslovakia, Streng geheim (For Eyes Only, 1961/2) from the GDR, Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (Rendezvous with a Spy, 1964) from Poland, Haber's Photo Shop, 1963 from Hungary, and the 1961 Romanian film S-a furat o bomba (A Bomb Was Stolen).
"When the film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold arrived in cinemas in 1965, the spy film was already one of the most popular genres in Europe. By then deep into the Cold War, the figure of the spy was a source of great fascination for people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The secret agent reflected the political ambitions of east and west as well as their contradictions. He was either seen as a golden hero or an evil mole; as representing either the superiority of a political system or of its detested enemies. The spy film therefore crossed over easily with the political propaganda film.
'Our Celluloid Curtain festival marked the fiftieth anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall. Curated jointly by Oliver Baumgarten and Nikolaj Nikitin, it has shown eleven spy films made between 1960 and 1974 on both sides of the Iron Curtain. These remarkable films shed light on the popular spy genre, aimed both at entertainment and at cementing the divisions of the Cold War. In London the films were screened from 6 to 9 May at the Riverside Studios; from 1 to 22 June 2011 the films were presented in Berlin at the Zeughauskino.


The bony spine is naturally positioned so that individual vertebrae provide a flexible support structure while also protecting the spinal cord.
The numerous discs have been created to be soft as well as be strong enough to provide necessary support. Also, they have a tendency to herniate backward through the outer disc segment and ligaments. This can cause irritation to the spinal cord and adjacent nerves.
The nerves happen to attached to the spinal cord and then exit the spine to innervate the person's skin, muscles, and other surrounding structures that make up the back and lower extremities. These muscles and ligaments also have a tendency to become strained or irritated during activities that involve strenuous lifting and even excessive exercise.
In spinal stenosis, the exhibited symptoms are due to the complications that arise from the narrowing of the spinal canal. This sort of constriction also produces symptoms that involve impingement on the spinal cord, even the spinal vasculature, and the surrounding peripheral nerves.
Also, disc bulging and herniation along with arthritic changes of the vertebrae can cause narrowing of the spinal canal. The accompanying pain and decreased mobility that is produced due to such a condition have a chance to cause disability that can lead to a significant impairment of a patient's lifestyle.
Another common complication of chronic pain that arises due to spinal stenosis happens to be central sensitization. This can be defined as a condition involving both the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and the central nervous system of a patient (CNS).
Also, local tissue injury and inflammation play a role in activating PNS. This then sends signals through the spinal cord directly to the brain. In simple words, central sensitization is the condition that occurs when there is an increase in the overall excitability of a person's neurons present within the CNS.
This can be at the level of their spinal cord and even higher. Eventually, the normal inputs from the PNS are able to produce abnormal responses in the person. Also, low-threshold sensory fibers activated by a light touch of the patient's skin tend to activate neurons in the spinal cord. Take note that low-threshold sensory fibers normally only respond to painful stimuli. As a result, an input that would normally produce a harmless sensation will now produce significant pain.
Coming to its diagnosis, a physician performs physical examinations analyzing the tenderness or sensitivity present in certain areas of the patient's spine as well as assessing the various limitations in movement of the lower extremities.
A physician will most likely order radiological imaging, such as a CT scan or even an MRI, to visualize the level of stenosis. Currently, MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) happen to be the standard of care to visualize chronic back pain.


Hi all!! I am with My Envy Box September Travel Edition. This time My Envy Box had curated a wonderful box which I loved. Do you know why girls? Let's find out, what are the products in this month's box.
It's a new brand that is being introduced in this month's My Envy Box. It is for 450 rupees in India. I loved the berry pink color which is very intense in color and wears off with a rosey tint on the lips.
This is also for 450 rupees. The gold packaging of this mascara makes it look luxe and classy. I like the wand and the formula is very good. For 450 bucks, it will be a good purchase.
This rose face scrub is in powder form hence we have to make a little paste with rose water etc and then use this on the face. I liked the texture and the quantity is good to use this product for at least 4-5 times.
I have liked the Kronokare products. This face wash has the plant extracts that leaves the skin smooth and silky. The full sized bottle is priced at 395 rupees. This is a travel sample size. I like such small sized packs since while travelling I can carry them without having to carry the bulky big tubes etc.
This is a supplement that contains 30 tablets. The tablets have biotin, collagen and other 25 essential nutrients that helps in great skin, nails, hair and overall heath. I am going to have them for sure.
Do I liked this September My Envy Box? Of course, a big yesss. I liked each and every product and there are in total of 5 products that can be tried. A supplement for 30 days, two makeup products which are awesome and two skin care products like the face wash and the scrub. This is a very thoughtfully curated Box which I loved. I will recommend you to subscribe and get this soon.
You have got awesome products.
The September box looks totally amazing. You've got some lovely products.


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Mississippi's Extra Table gets to tell its story to national audience as featured charity at D.C. gala
By Sherry Lucas, Freelance Contributor | April 5, 2019
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Extra Table is committed to fighting food insecurity with nutritious foods.
It all started with a phone call and a plea from a Hattiesburg mission pantry. They'd exhausted their food inventory and needed help. Ringing chef/restaurateur Robert St. John was the right call.
Edwards Street Fellowship Center's plea became the start of Extra Table, founded by St. John when he tapped decades of restaurant industry experience for a solution. The fastest and easiest way to get the food where it was needed: Call his Sysco rep, place an order and have the truck drop-ship it at the agency.
Once he realized the extent of food insecurity in the state, Extra Table reached out, expanding by as much as 50 percent annually early on. Now marking its 10th anniversary year, Extra Table tackles hunger and delivers to 39 local food pantries and soup kitchens from north Mississippi to the Gulf Coast, east to west, with nutritious, fresh food on a regular basis.
Robert St. John and friend Tommy Griffin stand beside a Sysco truck at an early delivery to Edwards Street Fellowship Center.
In addition to that milestone, Extra Table is the featured charity of Taste of the South (TOTS). The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit founded by Southern transplants shares flavors of their region while supporting home state causes. Representing 13 Southern states, TOTS annually raises more than half a million dollars for charities throughout the South (and one D.C.-based charity). Its annual black-tie gala (April 6 at the Washington Hilton this year) draws 2,300 guests and typically sells out.
"I'm so honored — and grateful," St. John says. "As someone who has served Southern food to restaurant customers for over 31 years, I'm happy to be feeding healthy food to our neighbors most in need. The organizers of this event will be happy to know that 100 percent of their donations will go to purchase healthy food for mission pantries and soup kitchens throughout Mississippi."
Extra Table had been on TOTS' radar for a number of years. With 2019's theme of Community Resilience, "Extra Table was on our short list" of possible selections, says Alex Monié, on TOTS' Mississippi committee. Fundraising, with the 13 states working together, has topped $600,000 in recent years, he says, with most coming from home state support.
Photo courtesy Taste of the South
The annual Taste of the South gala in Washington, D.C., draws thousands of guests to celebrate and support the region.
"Every state will receive a piece of the pie. Extra Table — because Mississippi is the featured state and they're the featured charity and we worked hard to make sure we hit our fundraising goals — will receive a pretty significant piece of the pie. … Those numbers, unfortunately aren't fully baked until after the gala, once all the checks come in. But we hope for it to be over $200,000."
The recognition also brings a chance to tell Extra Table's story on a national level, says Extra Table executive director Martha Allen. "To our knowledge, the way that we are set up to feed people isn't done anywhere else. It's such an easy template that can be dropped down on top of any state, no matter who the food distributor is, no matter what the demographics look like."
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Its ability to purchase healthy food in volume for consistent delivery, is a key driver, she says. "That food is delivered the last Wednesday of every month. Our pantries know what's coming and when they're going to get it, so they can have the confidence they're going to have the ability to feed the people that they serve. … It's just the most efficient and effective way to get food into the bellies of people that need it."
Extra Table's founding principles are that 100 percent of the money raised goes to food and that it will always be healthy, to help combat other Mississippi woes of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Planning is thoughtful, too, with tear-top tuna packages and pop-top cans, so recipients can access food even if they don't have a can opener. Breakfast foods and healthy snacks are boosted in the summer, when kids don't have access to school meals.
Extra Table founder Robert St. John stands with Martha Allen, executive director of the charity.
Partnerships are vital in the success, Allen says, such as with Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, the newly formed College and University Anti-Hunger Alliance, Mississippi Center for Justice and all Extra Table's feeding agency partners. "It wouldn't work if we didn't have partners, boots on the ground, all over the state, accepting our food and passing it out. … This is our specialty and that's their specialty and it works beautifully together."
"It's partnerships like Extra Table that have paved the way for successful corporate responsibility programs to have guidance and success," says Sysco marketing manager Katherine Capocelli. Sysco's Nourishing Neighbors program provides local dollars to assist in food insecurity and more. "We know the commitment to end hunger is a mutual mission with partners like Extra Table."
Extra Table's 10th anniversary year brings other recognition, too. Extra Table is the WellsFest charity this year (with a fundraising goal of at least $50,000), and it's also Lazy Magnolia Brewery's charity for 2019.
"The thing that's so important to us, that we value so much about Extra Table, is that it's not just food but it's nutritious food,' says Ann McCullen, executive director at Edwards Street Fellowship Center, which distributed 230 tons of food in 2018. It serves an average of 1,500 households each month — more than 4,500 individuals — in a seven-county area in the Pine Belt region.
"Being in Mississippi, the majority of the people we serve have the chronic conditions of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes," McCullen says. "So, when we hand them a can of food that's packed with preservatives and sodium and sugars … it's not ideal by any means. We would much rather give them healthy food, and that's something that Robert has been committed to since the beginning, with Extra Table — that it be as nutritious as possible."
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Sherry Lucas is a veteran feature writer in Jackson whose stories spread the word on Mississippi's food, arts, culture and communities. A lifelong Mississippian and University of Mississippi graduate, Lucas has decades of daily newspaper experience. She is now a freelance writer and contributes regularly to Mississippi Today.
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Mississippi's Extra Table gets to tell its story to national audience as featured charity at D.C. gala

by Sherry Lucas, Mississippi Today
April 5, 2019

It all started with a phone call and a plea from a Hattiesburg mission pantry. They'd exhausted their food inventory and needed help. Ringing chef/restaurateur Robert St. John was the right call.

Edwards Street Fellowship Center's plea became the start of Extra Table, founded by St. John when he tapped decades of restaurant industry experience for a solution. The fastest and easiest way to get the food where it was needed: Call his Sysco rep, place an order and have the truck drop-ship it at the agency.

Once he realized the extent of food insecurity in the state, Extra Table reached out, expanding by as much as 50 percent annually early on. Now marking its 10th anniversary year, Extra Table tackles hunger and delivers to 39 local food pantries and soup kitchens from north Mississippi to the Gulf Coast, east to west, with nutritious, fresh food on a regular basis.

In addition to that milestone, Extra Table is the featured charity of Taste of the South (TOTS). The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit founded by Southern transplants shares flavors of their region while supporting home state causes. Representing 13 Southern states, TOTS annually raises more than half a million dollars for charities throughout the South (and one D.C.-based charity). Its annual black-tie gala (April 6 at the Washington Hilton this year) draws 2,300 guests and typically sells out.

"I'm so honored — and grateful," St. John says. "As someone who has served Southern food to restaurant customers for over 31 years, I'm happy to be feeding healthy food to our neighbors most in need. The organizers of this event will be happy to know that 100 percent of their donations will go to purchase healthy food for mission pantries and soup kitchens throughout Mississippi."

Extra Table had been on TOTS' radar for a number of years. With 2019's theme of Community Resilience, "Extra Table was on our short list" of possible selections, says Alex Monié, on TOTS' Mississippi committee. Fundraising, with the 13 states working together, has topped $600,000 in recent years, he says, with most coming from home state support.

"Every state will receive a piece of the pie. Extra Table — because Mississippi is the featured state and they're the featured charity and we worked hard to make sure we hit our fundraising goals — will receive a pretty significant piece of the pie. … Those numbers, unfortunately aren't fully baked until after the gala, once all the checks come in. But we hope for it to be over $200,000."

The recognition also brings a chance to tell Extra Table's story on a national level, says Extra Table executive director Martha Allen. "To our knowledge, the way that we are set up to feed people isn't done anywhere else. It's such an easy template that can be dropped down on top of any state, no matter who the food distributor is, no matter what the demographics look like."

Its ability to purchase healthy food in volume for consistent delivery, is a key driver, she says. "That food is delivered the last Wednesday of every month. Our pantries know what's coming and when they're going to get it, so they can have the confidence they're going to have the ability to feed the people that they serve. … It's just the most efficient and effective way to get food into the bellies of people that need it."

Extra Table's founding principles are that 100 percent of the money raised goes to food and that it will always be healthy, to help combat other Mississippi woes of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Planning is thoughtful, too, with tear-top tuna packages and pop-top cans, so recipients can access food even if they don't have a can opener. Breakfast foods and healthy snacks are boosted in the summer, when kids don't have access to school meals.

Partnerships are vital in the success, Allen says, such as with Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, the newly formed College and University Anti-Hunger Alliance, Mississippi Center for Justice and all Extra Table's feeding agency partners. "It wouldn't work if we didn't have partners, boots on the ground, all over the state, accepting our food and passing it out. … This is our specialty and that's their specialty and it works beautifully together."

"It's partnerships like Extra Table that have paved the way for successful corporate responsibility programs to have guidance and success," says Sysco marketing manager Katherine Capocelli. Sysco's Nourishing Neighbors program provides local dollars to assist in food insecurity and more. "We know the commitment to end hunger is a mutual mission with partners like Extra Table."

Extra Table's 10th anniversary year brings other recognition, too. Extra Table is the WellsFest charity this year (with a fundraising goal of at least $50,000), and it's also Lazy Magnolia Brewery's charity for 2019.

"The thing that's so important to us, that we value so much about Extra Table, is that it's not just food but it's nutritious food,' says Ann McCullen, executive director at Edwards Street Fellowship Center, which distributed 230 tons of food in 2018. It serves an average of 1,500 households each month — more than 4,500 individuals — in a seven-county area in the Pine Belt region.

"Being in Mississippi, the majority of the people we serve have the chronic conditions of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes," McCullen says. "So, when we hand them a can of food that's packed with preservatives and sodium and sugars … it's not ideal by any means. We would much rather give them healthy food, and that's something that Robert has been committed to since the beginning, with Extra Table — that it be as nutritious as possible."

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban again struck down; supporters hope Supreme Court is 'ultimate arbiter'
A judge wrote for the majority that banning abortion at 15 weeks violates the Supreme Court precedent, which has consistently ruled that a woman's right to choose takes priority until the point of fetal viability, usually 23 weeks


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Флаг Астурии — официальный символ Астурии, автономоного общества в составе Испании. На синем полотнище изображён «Крус-де-ла-Виктория» () жёлтого цвета.

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Происхождение флага Астурии относится к 1808 году, во время Пиренейских войн. Поскольку официального испанского флага ещё не было, астурийцы создали нынешний флаг без каких-либо сепаратистских намерений в войне против империи Наполеона. В своей первой версии он включал девиз Asturias jamás vencida.

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 Закон 4/1990 от 19 декабря о флаге Княжества Астурия.
 Флаг Астурии на Vexilologia.org

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      stars: this.Stars,
      showScore: this.ShowScore,
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      click: (value, rating) => this.clicked(value, rating)
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    this.on("change:Score", this.update, this);
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If you run a solar company, chances are you're faced with a lot of competition — from large, well-financed national firms to smaller start-ups. So how do you prepare your sales team to meet this challenge when selling home solar installations?
A good place to start is by reading this article from Grid Freedom by way of CleanTechnica, one of our favorite websites on solar energy.
The article goes to the core of the most profound challenge facing solar providers: despite eco-friendly customers increasingly seeking out solar energy, the sales process remains tremendously difficult.
The reason is simple. It's a lack of knowledge by sales reps on how to sell solar array systems. Selling solar to a homeowner is both a high tech and high touch transaction. It's important to give your sales team the knowledge and tools they need to balance these elements and be successful.
1. Spelling out the cost savings of going solar.
2. The long-term expense of being at the mercy of fluctuating fuel costs.
3. Leveraging the power of the neighborhood community where your installs occur.
4. Although it's only a secondary motivator, digging a little deeper into how motivated your prospect is by being eco-friendly is important.
Get more helpful information from our recent blog post on content creation for the solar industry.
5. Know the solar industry thoroughly – the trends, technical developments, and the regulatory environment (state and federal).
6. Know the strengths and weaknesses of your competition, as well as those of your own company. If you're not sure how to go about this, check out one of our most popular blog posts on how to assess your brand.
7. Word-of-Mouth referrals, especially from customers.
8. Investing in popular lead-gen websites specializing in solar – like Grid Freedom and CleanTechnica. Be sure to assess the investment against the cost of customer acquisition. If you go this route, be sure to give it enough time to produce measurable results, 3 – 6 months minimum.
9. Consider co-marketing with complementary businesses, as well as sponsorships of community events, sports teams, schools, etc.
10. Humor and entertainment. Studies show that making someone laugh will capture their attention and improve memory (brand awareness in your case). It's okay to be funny and use appropriate humor in your marketing.
We thought this was a really good read and encourage you to look at it more thoroughly. Let us know what you think.


In October of 2016, OAF supported Dina Mousawi as she returned to Beirut to work with some of the participants from Antigone of Syria, as well as with some new women. Together with Bridgette Auger, co-director of OAF's We Are Not Princesses, and Sophia Ahmed, scenographer for Antigone of Syria, they created Terrestrial Journeys.
Dina's professional creative team led daily workshops with Syrian & Palestinian refugee women to poetically and theatrically explore their collective experiences of migration. Responding to stimuli such as poetry, visual art, film and stage design they collaborated to devise a theatrical installation that was performed by the women for a live audience in Beirut.
Dina "strongly believes in the power of art, not only as a cathartic instrument but one for social change." Having worked on such theatre projects before, she has seen the positive effects on refugee women who have not only lived through tragedies of war, crossed borders and left much behind, but who also bear a terribly misogynistic society. It was these factors that compelled her to produce Terrestrial Journeys.


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Q: hide other divs what doesnt contain select option data attribute How I can hide other divs what doesnt contain select option data attribute value?

        <select class="booked_calendar_chooser" id="change_service_booked">
            <option class="level-0" data-prefix="SP">Party</option>
            <option class="level-0" data-prefix="KO">School</option>
        </select>

            Exclusive studio - #KO
              14:45 – 16:45

            <button data-calendar-id="0" data-title="Exclusive studio - #KO" data-timeslot="1445-1645" data-date="2021-09-20" class="new-appt button">
                Exclusive studio - #KO
                14:45 – 16:45Book Appointment
            </button>

            Prime studio - #SP
              17:15 – 19:15

            <button data-calendar-id="0" data-title="Prime studio - #SP" data-timeslot="1715-1915" data-date="2021-09-20" class="new-appt button">
                Prime studio - #SP
                17:15 – 19:15
                Book Appointment
            </button>

So if I select Party and its prefix is SP then it should show only SP divs and hide others.
My jquery code what I've tried to achive this:
let title = $("#change_service_booked option").attr("data-prefix");
let textt = $(".booked-appt-list > .timeslot > .timeslot-time .timeslot-title").text();

if (title.indexOf(textt) >= 0) {
    $(".booked-appt-list > .timeslot > .timeslot-time .timeslot-title:contains(textt)").parent('.timeslot-time').hide();
}

A: here you have one solution. I added a new class to both divs named dataIdTarget that will help hide the divs that you dont want to show, and i added a data atribute with the ''id'' KO, and SP, you can see they are data-idTarget. I made a function showHide that is called when the page loads (document ready) and when someone chooses a new option it will too trigger the function.

$(document).ready(function(){
  hideShow();
});

$('#change_service_booked').change(function(){
  hideShow();
});

function hideShow()
{
  var selected = $('#change_service_booked').find(':selected').data('prefix');
  $('.dataIdTarget').hide();
  $('*[data-idTarget="'+selected+'"]').show();
}

    <select class="booked_calendar_chooser" id="change_service_booked">
      <option class="level-0" data-prefix="SP">Party</option>
      <option class="level-0" data-prefix="KO">School</option>
    </select>

            Exclusive studio - #KO
      14:45 – 16:45

            <button data-calendar-id="0" data-title="Exclusive studio - #KO" data-timeslot="1445-1645" data-date="2021-09-20" class="new-appt button">
                Exclusive studio - #KO
    14:45 – 16:45Book Appointment
    </button>

            Prime studio - #SP
      17:15 – 19:15

            <button data-calendar-id="0" data-title="Prime studio - #SP" data-timeslot="1715-1915" data-date="2021-09-20" class="new-appt button">
                Prime studio - #SP
    17:15 – 19:15
    Book Appointment
    </button>

A: Logic

*

*Trigger the change event.

*Get the data-prefix attribute of selected option.

*Hide the parent with selector.

In order to hide the whole element with that specific content, you have to target the parent having class timeslot. This is parent of parent. Or parent of index 1. This can be selected either one of the way below.
Option 1
$(`.booked-appt-list > .timeslot > .timeslot-time .timeslot-title:not(:contains(${selectedPrefix}))`).parent().parent()

Option 2
$(`.booked-appt-list > .timeslot > .timeslot-time .timeslot-title:contains(${selectedPrefix})`).parents().eq(1)

Here I'm going for the second option.
Im showing the divs that contain the text with data-prefix of selected option and hideing the divs that doesnot contain the data-prefix of selected option
Working Fiddle

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'What Matters Most': 3News at 6 p.m.
97-year-old veteran receives birthday surprise in Shaker Heights
Robert Madison has quite a story to tell with 97 chapters filled with highs and lows.
Author: Laura Caso
Published: 11:50 PM EDT July 28, 2020
Updated: 11:50 PM EDT July 28, 2020
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — A 97-year-old veteran with an incredible story received a major birthday surprise.
Friends, family and fraternity brothers of Robert Madison came together from near and far for a surprise drive-through parade Tuesday in Shaker Heights.
The parade was sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity with help from Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.
"I've been around a while so to have this happen on my 97 birthday, it is memorable," said Madison. "This is a surprise and I am very, very happy."
Madison has quite a story to tell with 97 chapters filled with highs and lows. He is a World War II veteran who was wounded in battle and given the Purple Heart Medal.
"I was wounded in action on December the 26th when a shell from a German 88 mm weapon hit my big jeep and threw me out almost killed me but I survived."
Madison was also the first African American architect in Ohio and tenth in the United States.
"Well, somebody had to be first. Someone wrote me a letter and said you are the Jackie Robinson of architecture," said Madison. "It was hard work."
His accomplishments are far-reaching in many ways, having been the architect for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland Browns First Energy Stadium, Concourse C of Cleveland Hopkins Airport and many institutions throughout Northeast Ohio. He was as also architect for the U.S. Embassy building in Dakar, Senegal.
At age 97, he is still active and involved with Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Museum of Art.
"I tried to be some kind of a role model for young people, because we need it at this point in time."
Happy Birthday, Robert Madison!
WWII veteran celebrates a low-key 103rd birthday
WWII veteran turns 100, continues 100 mile walk for charity
Local community celebrates woman's 100th birthday with a parade in Lake County


Is managing tasks within Scrum micro-management?
Firstly I do apologise for the long absence on the blogging scene. This was in part due to my shift from Brisbane to Sydney, lack of internet, lack of technology, but also due to illness. So for my first blog back for the year I would like to implore you – PLEASE if as an adult you haven't had any form of immunisation then go see a doctor and get some shots!
I was under the mistaken belief that I was fully immunised and didn't need anything further in my adulthood and have been surprised to find that I was not covered when I got hit with Whooping Cough. Having been out of the country when the big Australian hoopla happened about Whooping Cough I was terribly ignorant of it and didn't realise just how bad a bacterial infection it was. I am now six weeks into a three month problem and every day is very hard.
Thankfully I didn't share it with anyone (but sadly my kids did give it to me as carriers). Anyway, onto the blog at hand.
I like my stories to be no bigger than four days. Ideally they are around the 2-3 day mark to deliver end to end. If they are this small then individuals can still be held accountable for progress on the story.
I have rarely seen teams care about how a Story is being delivered whilst it is in progress. The fact that a team member is working on the unit tests now and then will be going onto the database changes has little consequence to the functioning of the other team members. The 'aha' and roadblock moments I see coming out of the Daily Standups very rarely arise from technical implementation at a task layer.
The time it takes to break the user story down could be considered waste. For me the value in estimation is not the number you get, but the conversation of assumptions, dependencies and constraints that you have on the way to get an estimate. You can still have these conversations when planning the iteration.
The extra time that it takes to generate a Burn Down chart. I would rather have a look at the where the stories sit within the flow against the current day of the iteration and see if the team is behind/ahead from that. It isn't a science like the Burn Down chart, but if you really think two to four hours is going to make a big difference you are probably looking at the wrong things. I find that teams that focus solely on hours being Burned Down only tend to have a lot of carry overs due to a lack of focus on getting the story wholly to done.
So recently I started working with a team that, when I joined them, were already using tasks and hours to track. I made a conscious decision to not change or influence their desire to use tasks and consequently through myself with gusto into ensuring that all stories within the current iteration were fully broken down into tasks, estimated and tracked via a Burn Up chart (at the time there was too much volatility in the iteration from a change perspective to use a Burn Down).
What I found didn't really change my dislike for tasks or burning down hours in the iteration but it occurred to me that when I focussed on work at an hour by hour basis rather than a day by day basis that I was becoming a scrum micro-manager. I instantly cringed at the realisation and wondered how empowered or autonomous the team felt from when they were being tracked at this layer.
So I asked them whether they felt that being tracked at a task layer, hour by hour felt like they were being micro-managed – the results? 71% of the team felt that it wasn't micro-management, leaving 29% to feel the opposite. It would be interesting to see how this co-relates to performance, but I don't think I will go into that on a personal blog.
Two of the team members did say they didn't feel it was micro-management but expressed concern at the sheer visual weight of the number of cards on the wall. To put this into context at the moment we are mid iteration and have fourteen stories (consequently rows) in scope and around one hundred task cards flooding through the wall. This is ignoring the cards that are being fleshed out an iteration in advance (let's ignore this slight scrumfall-ish behaviour), the product owner decision cards and the eighty story cards in the event horizon backlog. I do try to clean up the done work every day so that it looks a little less scary visually but at the start of Iterations I can definitely see it being a concern.
So what do you think – is it micro-management to track to the hour using tasks in Scrum?
Hi Renee, I hope you're on the mend and feeling better. I have just been on a Certified Scrum Master course, and struggled to understand the benefit of breaking story cards into tasks. I have had experiences where I felt micromanaged at a story card level, so can't imagine detailing what I'm doing on an hourly basis would be any better.
Thanks Ryan for popping in. I see you are at a new environment. I hope you enjoy the change!
I have similar experience. We broke down user stories into tasks in our first agile project but in the second project, team members decided that they were spending too much time updating these tasks. Eventually, we monitored in user story level but need to keep user stories small.
I believe doing a user story is like painting a picture which works well with tacit knowledge. We will do a bit of this and do a bit of that without following a definite plan. Breaking down a user story into tasks is effectively forcing people to produce explicit knowledge out of tacit knowledge. This will result in inefficiency and inaccuracy.
I believe managing in user stories level is fine provided that user stories are small enough (small WIP).
Thanks Michael – that is a great way to put it.
I like that analogy to explicit and implicit knowledge. In my experience, when a manager doesn't have trust in their team, or the team doesn't have trust in each other, they tend to add tasks, and the more explicit the tasks the better.
Its seems to be about trying to make sure that nothing gets missed, or trying to determine how a feature will be implemented during the breakdown session: essentially it becomes a little design meeting, with everybody contributing.
My current team has always done breakdowns of backlog items in tasks for each item selected into the sprint (but not before). Sometimes they would be fairly standard: db change, service change, ui change, maybe something extra to fill it out.
We're starting to make the backlog items smaller, and to leave the tasks to the individuals doing item. I believe because there is now more implicit knowledge spread among the team, so it doesn't need to made explicit.
I'm not sure whether having tasks is micro-managing. It may be just a way of transferring that knowledge, or maybe (pessimistically) for more strongly opinionated team members to impose their views on others. Either way, removing tasks goes back to trusting the team to do the best job they can, both for the manager, and between team members themselves. And if the work is not up to scratch, then providing education along the way.
On more explicit micro-management, we still in the phase that backlog items are "owned' by an individual, rather than the team. That team member is expected to do at least the bulk of the work. Backlog items are often assigned to team members by the development manager, based on their experience in that area of the code. I believe that this, again, is truly a trust issue, and in the end only degrades the quality of the code base.
Any management of the actual work (tasks) by the Scrum Master, other than at the requirements level when helping the product owner, I would deem inappropriate and contrary to self-organisation.
The SM ought to be helping the team stick to their own agreed processes, so if the team agrees to do task breakdowns and then don't it's something to be pointed out (in retro, perhaps). But I don't think the SM should be involving themselves with the tasks themselves.
It's very easy to slip into micro-manager mode when teams work at the task level. I've been guilty of that myself many times. My preference is for the SM to put an emphasis on coaching better practices (i.e. small stories, swarming, getting things "done", etc.) rather than enforcing Scrum, per se.
Hi Renee, some intersting observations and in particular I like Phil's take on explicit andf implicit knowledge. What I would add is to consider the context of the team and where they might be comng from.
If the team you are working with come from a low trust environment, where the business has been very task oriented with them and a variety of capabilities and experience exists, then may be what we would consider micro management doesn't feel the same to them. Given a different environmental context, then no doubt a different conlusion could be drawn.
Trust, capability and maturity are all important relationship factors that impact upon the approach best suited to any team. That's where the Scrum Master is invaluable.
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