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Comments: Joanne Lee was an amazing mentor and truly prepared me to be a leader in my field. I can't say enough wonderful things about her. She cared deeply about my development as a scientist and an innovator and I simply would not be where I am now were it not for her guidance.
Comments: I've worked as a researcher for three universities and now am a research Fellow as well as a clinical intern at my department's community Psychology clinic where we work with underserved populations. I'm currently a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at the University of Louisville. My research in cognitive theory of depression and related health has been heavily influenced by my work as an undergraduate in UT's Psychology department with Caryn Carlson, Josh Holahan, and Lauretta Reeves with additional influences from Chris McCarthy and Stephanie Rude in the College of Education at UT. I frequently think about my past mentors with great gratitude and admiration. I would not be here today without them. UT Psychology is a WORLD CLASS department, with no doubt. I hear about it frequently from peers and colleagues who don't even know I'm an alumnus.
Comments: Thankful for the education at UT Psych.
Comments: Larry Cormack's DIY Stats class was great, even 11-something years later.
Comments: Forever grateful for the training I was able to get from my professors at UT.
Read about Erin Burgoon and how she uses her psychology training in APA's January 2016 Monitor on Psychology feature, "How did you get that job?"
Comments: I currently live in Tel Aviv, but I am planning to apply for PhD programs in Clinical Psychology in the U.S. this year.
Comments: I'm learning to help people who have trouble with activities of daily living, such as eating, dressing, sleeping, etc. Occupational therapists work with people who have physical and/or mental disabilities, and my education in psychology has really given me good background to become a successful and well-rounded therapist.
Current work (in collaboration with an interdisciplinary group) focuses on the antecedents, nature, and consequences of group bonding, prosociality, and conflict. He is specifically interested in elaborating upon empirical work on the newly introduced "identity fusion" construct. He is also interested in online methods of data collection in psychology.
Comments: I have been a full-time writer for the past decade and the lead author of "Death on Base: The Fort Hood Massacre," University of North Texas Press, 2015. Currently I am the book editor for the Boerne Star and a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Author's Guild.
Comments: The Institute for Spirituality and Health, where I'm currently serving as the research coordinator, is a very unique academic institution worth highlighting. It is now celebrating its 60th year as an official member of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the largest medical complex in the world. The Institute's purpose is to increase awareness of the role that spirituality plays in health and healing, in coping with chronic illness and in maintaining optimal health. Founded in 1955 by its former name, The Institute of Religion, it has a long history of innovation in healthcare and medicine. Among its achievements are developing one of the nation's first hospital chaplaincy training programs, as well as being "the first major institution devoted to medical ethics in the United States," according to The Encyclopedia of Bioethics. It is a non-sectarian, interdisciplinary institution with faculty from UH, Rice, Baylor College of Medicine, MD Anderson, etc.
While a psychology undergraduate at UT, I completed two theses on the psychology of religion. For the psychology honors program, I completed an experimental study on the interaction between religiosity and terror management under advisement of Raymond Hawkins. For the Polymathic Scholars program, I completed a paper on the contributions of Freud, Jung and William James to the psychology of religion under advisement of Wendy Domjan. Largely because of these 2 projects, and my research experience as a RA in Michael Telch's Anxiety Disorders Lab, I was given my current position as research and congregational coordinator at ISH. My job is to develop new research projects for the institute. Among other things, I've continued to expand my honors thesis work on terror management, which resulted in a poster presentation at The 4th Annual Conference on Medicine and Religion hosted by Harvard University. Additionally, I've been developing an fNIRS study on the neural correlates of meditation in conjunction with a Zen Monk and a professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Syracuse University. The other component of my job is to serve as a liason between The Institute and the various religious and spiritual communities of Houston whom we seek to understand and address their concerns regarding healthcare. I've visited churches, mosques, synagogues, Hindu and Buddhist temples, etc. to dialogue with their leaders about the Institute's work and increase the Texas Medical Center's cultural competence on the role of faith in patients' lives.
First position after graduating from UT Psychology: After my BA, I continued working as a sales and logistics manager for a local export company while volunteering in the Amsel lab on weekends and evenings. Post PhD, I was a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Chapel Hill.
Comments: Despite working in a chemistry heavy department, I have taken a number of Psych degrees into the lab because they are typically such excellent scientists. I can teach bench techniques, I can't teach good science sense!
Comments: The BA in psychology worked well for me as a preparation for graduate work in English, philosophy, and the humanities. It provided a background of appreciation and understanding of human development, I believe, and was elementary preparation for a critical understanding of the humanities. I often advised and recommended psychology as a liberal arts undergraduate major for students preparing for a wide range of occupational or professional specialties: law, medicine, the clergy, education, personnel (human resources), advertising.


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package org.saiku.helper;

import org.hsqldb.jdbc.jdbcDataSource;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.ResultSetMetaData;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.Properties;

/**
 * HSQL Foodmart Database Initialiser
 */
public class DatabaseHelper {

  private static final Properties testProps = new Properties();

  private static void dump(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {

    // the order of the rows in a cursor
    // are implementation dependent unless you use the SQL ORDER statement
    ResultSetMetaData meta = rs.getMetaData();
    int colmax = meta.getColumnCount();
    int i;
    Object o;

    // the result set is a cursor into the data. You can only
    // point to one row at a time
    // assume we are pointing to BEFORE the first row
    // rs.next() points to next row and returns true
    // or false if there is no next row, which breaks the loop
    for (; rs.next(); ) {
      for ( i = 0; i < colmax; ++i ) {
        o = rs.getObject( i + 1 ); // Is SQL the first column is indexed

        // with 1 not 0
        System.out.print( o.toString() + " " );
      }

      System.out.println( " " );
    }
  }

  private String getTestProperty(String key) {
    return testProps.getProperty( key );
  }

  private void slurp( Statement stm, InputStream stream ) throws Exception {
    if ( stream == null ) {
      throw new FileNotFoundException( "Load data: File " + "foodmart_hsql.script"
        + " does not exist" );
    }

    DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream( stream );
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( in ) );

    String strLine;

    while ( ( strLine = br.readLine() ) != null ) {
      // stm.addBatch(strLine);
      stm.execute( strLine );
    }

    in.close();
  }

  public void setup() throws Exception {
    InputStream inputStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream( "../connection.properties" );
    testProps.load( inputStream ); //$NON-NLS-1$

    jdbcDataSource ds = new jdbcDataSource();
    ds.setDatabase( getTestProperty( "name" ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$
    ds.setUser( getTestProperty( "username" ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$
    ds.setPassword( getTestProperty( "password" ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$

    try {
      Class.forName( "org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" );

      Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:hsqldb:file:target/test/myunittests", "SA", "" );

      // Create the mondrian schema
      //Connection c = ds.getConnection();
      Statement stm = c.createStatement();

      try {
        ResultSet rs = stm.executeQuery( "SELECT count(*) FROM \"account\"" );

        dump( rs );
        stm.clearBatch();
        stm.close();
        c.commit();
        c.close();
      } catch ( Exception e ) {
        stm.clearBatch();
        stm.close();
        stm = c.createStatement();

        slurp( stm, DatabaseHelper.class
          .getResourceAsStream( "../foodmart_hsql.script" ) ); //$NON-NLS-1$
        stm.executeBatch();
        stm.clearBatch();
        stm.close();
        c.commit();
        c.close();

      }
    } catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

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I use a remote desktop connection to connect to the company server. We currently are in-between IT service groups (last guy retired, he will be missed!) Anyway, I need to save my desktop folders locally and have 4 or 5 of these local desktop folders saved as a backup on the server. I just want to get my desktop folders back upped on the server easily. And I don't know how/what to ask for to do this.
1. I don't know how to set up a backup system so it saves the contents of desktop folders on and across a protected server from a desktop file.
2. There are two types of folders that I am trying to backup from my desktop. Some folders are easy to copy and some are difficult - details on both are below. The difficulty comes in the form to types of files in each folder.
2a.Folder type 1- These files are simple customer data files, PDFs, word files, excel files. so some folders are full of updated forms and these folders continually increase in file size and number. An Easy example of this type would be a invoice. The folder grows in both size and file number each week because new files are always being added.
2b. I can't accurately describe the second file type. We use a program called AMTS - when you open this program you load the specific customer file from a drop down box. Each time you open the specific customer file the AMTS program saves all the changes you made to that file and updates that customer file with a new date and then transfers the old customer file to an archive file in the C: drive. Basically I want to back up this folder onto the company server.
3. Can we make it safe so that data only gets shared one way? I don't want people on the server changing my desktop files.
The main issue is to backup the some folders to the server, right?
The folders will be saved to the server once the group policy is deployed successfully.
It will save the changes to the servers instead of saving all the contents.


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Among our customers creating post-click landing pages, many of you are designers (even if your title doesn't specify that — you play the role of a designer).
Getting to understand you, the designer's needs, has been an enlightening process. From the many insights gleaned from our countless conversations with designers, it became clear that a few of your needs weren't being fully addressed. Among them, you need the ability to place and align elements with pixel-perfect precision and a platform that enables you to quickly design and iterate projects to meet the business goals.
Today's announcement is another step to making our post-click landing page platform the most sophisticated and designer-friendly in the world.
What are the new design features?
We have released a set of design features that allow Instapage users to create pixel-perfect, on-brand post-click landing pages more efficiently, that speed up design and review processes, and ultimately drive more conversions.
Edge Measurement: Measure the pixel distance of an element or group of elements from another element, group of elements, or the boundaries of your post-click landing page.
Axis Lock: Using a keyboard shortcut, you can lock an element or group of elements to only move within the horizontal or vertical axis.
All-in-one software doesn't specialize in any specific marketing discipline, so it's not likely they offer any of these features. That's why you need a best-of-breed post-click landing page solution like Instapage.
Instapage is the only post-click landing page platform that includes the Edge Measurement and Axis Lock design features.
Edge Measurement will replace the X & Y coordinates display and allows users an easier way to precisely align elements and groups of elements to other elements or the boundaries of your post-click landing page. With Edge Measurement, you can maintain consistent padding, balance, and symmetry across your entire page.
Ever get annoyed dragging elements to line them up with the green guiders? Those guiders still exist, but the Instapage Axis Lock feature makes the alignment process much easier. Now you can maintain consistent padding, balance, and symmetry across elements and sections.
Axis Lock also functions along the vertical axis, just move the mouse up and down to your desired position.
It's difficult to measure pixel distance between elements and elements between sections.
Instapage is the only post-click landing page platform that now includes the Edge Measurement and Axis Lock features. Both features allow you to measure pixel distance between elements, groups of elements, and sections to ensure horizontal and vertical alignment with other elements.
It's difficult to eyeball horizontal and/or vertical distance to other elements and requires a workaround to precisely measure pixel distance.
Just using the mouse and clicking on the functionality I need slows down my design process and isn't efficient.
Instapage now offers Edge Measurement, Axis Lock, and Keyboard Shortcuts, which allow you to perform common design actions in the Instapage builder faster and makes your post-click landing page creation process more efficient.
The time it takes to learn how to access certain functionalities in a new solution makes me hesitant to try a new design product.
Create great brand experiences across all your post-click landing pages knowing they are perfect down to the last pixel. All three design features are available for all Instapage customer plans. Build your 100% customizable post-click landing page today and publish faster than ever with our new pixel precision and keyboard shortcut design features.


You are probably thinking – duh, of course! However, most of us have intentionally or unintentionally lied to our doctor. Tell the truth, have you gone for your physical and not told them the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Or have you forgotten about something that's been bothering you, but like a car with a mechanic "that noise isn't there now" syndrome, you remember it 5 miles away from the office? I bet you have! I have and guess what they already know you lie to them sometimes.
We lie sometimes because it's an embarrassing subject, which is somewhat understandable. But other times it's out of fear of the answer or prognosis. It's almost impossible to know what's what with all the drug ad for diseases we didn't even know existed, drugs with twice the potential side effects than benefits. In today's internet age, many of us have the tendency to self-diagnose. Most of us have gone online, searched a particular symptom and potential accompanying illness, and get scared enough to either lose a night's sleep or call for a doctor's appointment expecting a certain diagnosis before the doctor has his say. If you haven't then you are probably in the minority.
I have found that I am a poor diagnostician and I have learned over time not go online until after I have seen the doctor. These professionals went to medical school for a long time and most of them really know their stuff. So I urge you to tell them everything, even if you think it may be related to nothing. It may be the clue that unlocks the riddle of your particular malady. The best thing to do when seeing your physician is to write down all those things that are bothering you and hand them the list, so each item is there in black and white and can be checked off. It may also be easier for your doctor to get a better grasp of what's going on and make a quicker diagnosis.
Believe me, if you do this one simple step, you will be much happier knowing that all your concerns were looked at, discussed and remedied.


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import org.immutables.value.Value;

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 * The request payload for the Delete Service Binding operation.
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    /**
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    abstract String getServiceBindingId();

}


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Capella Space said it raised $19 million of Series B capital in a round led by Spark Capital and Data Collective.
SAN FRANCISCO – September 26, 2018 – Capella Space, an aerospace and information services company providing on-demand Earth observation data via advanced space radar, announces $19 million Series B funding led by Spark Capital and DCVC (Data Collective). This will finance the first operational launches of the company's cloud-penetrating, radar-powered small satellites, designed to deliver high-quality imaging anywhere and under any condition, day or night. In an unprecedented engineering feat, Capella's satellite, the size of a backpack on launch, combines an origami-like antenna that unfolds to almost 100 square feet with radically efficient electronics that together deliver effectively the same image quality as radar satellites the size of a school bus. The first Capella test satellite launch is scheduled for November 2018 ahead of next year's first operational launches of a planned 36-satellite constellation that will deliver reliable images from anywhere on the planet in under an hour.
Capella Space is the first private U.S. company to develop small synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites for the commercial market. Capella's satellites are less than half the size of other SAR small satellites, and thirty times smaller and hundreds of times less expensive than traditional SAR satellites that can cost upward of $500M and can take days to deliver images. Thanks to the small size of Capella's satellites, the company can launch faster, with far fewer rockets and significantly less capital than any other company. Capella's breakthrough design lies at the heart of the company's long-term strategy to rapidly establish a symmetrical 12-plane, high-revisit constellation that will produce more SAR images than the entire industry combined, at greater speed and lower cost than any satellite in orbit.
Traditional electro-optical satellites can only monitor 25 percent of the planet at any time. By bouncing microwave pulses off targets and measuring reflected energy, Capella's radar technology sees through all weather conditions and at night to capture high-resolution images, quadrupling access to the visible world. Capella can uniquely detect and track changes in the position of metal objects, from small North Korean smuggling freighters to bridges that an insurer is being asked to underwrite. Capella's technology can also penetrate the ground to see hidden assets, such as water for irrigation, and otherwise undetectable problems, such as leaky underground pipes in chemical plants.


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One of the most legendary jazz drummers of all time, born in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City. One of his later funk-oriented albums, closing with 14:24 minutes long "Good News".


On my iPhone, the button to call voicemail is no longer working. What is happening?
Until we've been officially certified by Apple, this button will indeed not work. At this moment, we have specific timing for this certification. Until then you can obviously just call your voicemail on 1933 or 0456 19 19 33.


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Khaled Sabsabi, Syria, 2012, created between Australia and Syria, dual-channel video installation exhibited as part of 9th Shanghai Biennale, Reactivation, Sydney Pavilion, China
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Khaled Sabsabi, Guerrilla, 2007, 3-channel video installation created between Australia and Lebanon. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
On his return to Lebanon in 2003 for the first time since escaping the civil war with his family in 1978, Khaled Sabsabi was struck by déjà vu. Along the route from Beirut airport to Tripoli he saw the familiar roadside murals of the Maronite Phalangists competing against propaganda from Islamist parties. "It was like I never left", he recalls, "I actually remembered that mural that was on the wall. It was still there, the same thing as we escaped out of the place. Nothing was changed".[1] But while his own childhood memory had been rekindled, in Lebanon he found "a country and a region that was living in amnesia. Its senses and its ability had been bashed to numbness".
Sabsabi's return to Lebanon was also a form of escape – a reprieve from a Western Sydney Muslim community deeply scarred by virulent anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. These journeys (he has since returned five times) from one landscape of trauma to another bring into focus the porousness of national borders and cultural identities in the 21st century.[2] The discovery of a propaganda magazine in Tripoli, written in French but produced in China, led him to explore the complex geopolitics of contemporary war. He has continued to pursue these ideas in his art practice that interweaves documentary with his own deeply personal responses.
In Guerrilla (2007), for example, Sabsabi adopts a documentary-style approach, giving three former guerrilla fighters a chance to voice their experiences of the civil war. He revisited the work in 2014, subtitling it in English and exhibiting it alongside a collection of 33 photos – some of which were cut into the original video – that had been over-painted and partially destroyed. He took these photos in 2006, documenting the destruction of Beirut during the 33-day war against Israel. They were not originally conceived as works of art, but were the result of a personal process of reconciliation. "I had this idea that if you destroy the image, the image will die", he recalls, "the essence of the image, the core of the image, what the image represents, not the physical picture, but that image of violence and hate, then it will die".
Khaled Sabsabi, Syria, 2012, created between Australia and Syria, dual-channel video installation exhibited as part of the 9th Shanghai Biennale, Reactivation, Sydney Pavilion, China
Sabsabi does not aestheticise war, nor does he take sides, but at the core of his diverse artistic practice (which encompasses hip hop, theatre, new media installations and community projects) lies a commitment to social justice. His art reflects both his background as an immigrant Australian as well as his professional work with youth communities in Western Sydney, in which he often deals with issues of violence, racism and discrimination.
It is difficult not to read Sabsabi's deeply-empathetic artistic practice as a manifestation of his community work; indeed the power of his art often comes through a disquieting confrontation with the communal. In Oversite (2007) for example (produced in collaboration with Salah Saouli), visitors walk over a room full of discarded shoes, symbolic of the social trauma of war in general but perhaps in particular the deaths of Lebanese civilians during the 2006 war.[3] It is through this form of empathetic suggestion that Sabsabi challenges Australian audiences to reconsider the social responsibilities of a country whose national mythology has been constructed around a century of wartime conflict in the Middle East.
Khaled Sabsabi, Wonderland, 2014, video still, dual-channel HD video. Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane
^ All quotes from the artist are from an interview with the author, 17 November 2014.
^ This was a theme that Sabsabi and co-curators David McNeill and Phillip George addressed in a 2008 exhibition by Lebanese–Australian artists, The Resilient Landscape, for the Ivan Dougherty Gallery, UNSW College of Fine Arts
^ See Uros Cvoro, 'Oversite: Walk with me', Oversite: Khaled Sasabi and Salah Saouli, Sydney: Casula Powerhouse, 2007, pp. 10–21.
Andrew Yip is iGLAM Research Fellow at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Institute for Experimental Arts. His research focuses on the politics of contemporary art and war.
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Slaves in the supply chain: New laws branded 'toothless'
By Farrah Tomazin
June 27, 2018 — 5.49pm
The Turnbull government is heading for a showdown with Labor over a "toothless" attempt to crack down on modern slavery without penalising big business.
Legislation to be introduced on Thursday will create Australia's first ever federal Modern Slavery Act to require companies with annual turnovers of $100 million or more to report annually on the slavery risks in their supply chains.
Sophea Touch was abandoned by her parents at the age of 4; put to work selling cakes in a Cambodian village and abused and starved by the families who traded her. Years later she managed to escape with the help of Australian charity Hagar. She told her story before an Australian parliamentary inquiry. Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui
Almost 4500 people are said to be trapped in some form of slavery in Australia, while millions more are around the world are victims of practices, from debt bondage and human trafficking to forced labour and child exploitation.
But the bill has already hit a hurdle after its fine print revealed there would be no penalties for businesses that do not comply with the rules. There will also be no independent slavery commissioner to help enforce the new regulations and assist victims.
Home Affairs Assistant Minister Alex Hawke said the Coalition's plan would transform the way businesses respond to modern slavery. In a "world first", he said the government would also publish annual statements on the possible slavery risks in Commonwealth procurement.
However, Labor is vowing to fight the legislation, branding the proposal as "toothless" and signalling that it would seek to amend the bill in the Senate.
"An optional scheme with no oversight is an enormous disappointment," said Opposition justice shadow minister Clare O'Neil."We shouldn't be leaving it to business to police themselves on slavery. That's been a part of the problem up until now. Victims of slavery deserve better that the Government's weak proposal."
While slavery was effectively banned decades ago under the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 2016 Global Slavery Index estimates that 45.8 million people are victims of the slave trade around the world.
In Australia, seafood retailers have been linked to modern slavery in the Vietnamese and Thai fishing industries; iconic surf brands have been caught making clothes in offshore factories with "slave like" conditions; and there have also been several cases of serious worker exploitation in fruit farms around the country.
Under the government's reforms, more than 3000 large companies and entities would be required to publish annual public statements on how they are tackling slavery in their supply chains.
But while Labor and the ACTU fear business will still be able to shirk its responsibilities unless there are sanctions for non-compliance, business lobby groups had warned the Coalition against setting "overly prescriptive" laws that place an undue burden on them.
Fruit farms in Victoria's north have sub-contracted workers, many Malaysian, working illegally under shocking conditions. These nervous workers hid their faces from view. Credit:Penny Stephens
Mr Hawke agreed, saying imposing penalties would send the wrong message and deter companies from identifying problems. According to the government, the "primary driver for compliance will be investor pressure and reputational costs and benefits."
"Over time, we believe this bill will foster a 'race to the top' culture that will ensure Australia is a regional and world leader in tackling modern slavery," Mr Hawke said.
The idea of a Modern Slavery Act is loosely based on the UK version, with victims, humanitarian agencies, academics and industry last year giving the idea in-principle support as part a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry.
But instead of an anti-slavery commissioner, the Coalition's bill will establish Modern Slavery Business Engagement Unit within Peter Dutton's Home Affairs department. The legislation will be reviewed in in three years to see if it needs to be strengthened.
A Business Council of Australia spokesman said the new reporting requirements "should encourage companies to continuously assess their supply chains and operations for evidence of modern slavery, not penalise businesses for exposing problems".
However, unions argue the bill sent a message that companies could get away with not taking the issue seriously.
"Companies that fail to report or submit false claims should be excluded from government procurement contracts," said ACTU secretary Sally McManus.
Farrah Tomazin
Farrah Tomazin is a senior journalist and investigative reporter for The Age, with interests in politics, social justice, and legal affairs.
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Death to Wacky
An assault on the idea of wackiness. And then, an appreciation of wackiness, and an analysis of wackiness in American culture. Thirteen ways to describe wackiness.
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Ira and the movie Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. Advertised as wacky, it is anything but. (6 minutes)
David Sedaris tells true stories of photographers who try to take pictures of him which will make him seem more "wacky" than in fact he is, interlaced with a fictional depiction of what one of these photographers is like. (14 minutes)
The Good, The Bad, And The Wacky
Ira talks with Josh Glenn, editor of Hermenaut, who explains the difference between Good Wacky and Bad Wacky. (5 minutes)
The Politics Of Wackiness
Ira with Michael Lewis, author of Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House and many other books, who says that in the '96 Presidential Election all the candidates with new ideas, all the candidates capable of talking the way real people act in their real lives, were shunned by the media as "wacky." (10 minutes)
Act Eleven
Self-Made Wacky
Ira talks with Maria, who took out a personals ad in the Chicago Reader advertising herself as "wacky and warm." (5 minutes)
Act Twelve
Evading Wacky And Serious
Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich's stories, on NPR, CBS and ABC, are neither wacky nor pompously serious. He explains, though, that if you try to occupy the territory between wacky and serious, there are dangers. (6 minutes)
Act Thirteen
Dr. Jeckyl And Mr. Wacky
Sarah Vowell with Jim Nayder, host of Magnificent Obsession and The Annoying Music Show, who personifies our culture's split between seriousness and wackiness as well as anyone. (11 minutes)
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This has been a year of transition and change for most people. Each family that has a new baby coming into their life begins a new journey. This new life bring hope, joy and adventure. Remember as you go into the first 3 months of life that a baby is in a 4th Trimester. The baby spends 3 trimesters in your tummy and another in your pouch. When you take and own the 4th trimester and know that you baby's whole world is to nurse or feed and be carried and rocked. At three months there is a magical change and they come up out of the pouch eager to begin to see the world. It is at this time that they begin to reach out to touch the world and see more and stay away longer. They are not ready to be away from you just ready to see the world with you. Be patient with this time as it will pass all to quickly. Rest as much as possible. Eat well, drink well and make your to do list small.
We have reminded mothers that have other children. If everyone is fed and safe it has been a good day. Anything else is extra. Dads, know that your work is appreciated. All the extra meals you prepare, the laundry that you will do, the grocery shopping with the other kids and the rest that you will miss too.
Be grateful to each other everyday. When you are extra tired, be more grateful for each other and all the work you are both doing to keep up with the tasks at hand.
May you take every moment and cherish it for tomorrow those moments are only memory.


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Mercenaries in Angola () are foreigners who participated in the Angolan Civil War on the side of the MPLA or the rebels, but were not personnel military of the interventionist states. Initially, the hired specialists were dominated by immigrants from western countries and "first world" states, such as the United States, UK, Ireland, France, Portugal and South Africa. In the 1990s, they were displaced by natives of the former Soviet Republics, mainly Russians and Ukrainians.

Western
In 1975, John Banks, an Englishman, recruited mercenaries to fight for the National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in the civil war that broke out when Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975. In the United States, David Bufkin, a self-proclaimed mercenary hero started a recruiting campaign in Soldier of Fortune magazine calling for anti-Communist volunteers, especially Vietnam veterans, to fight in Angola as mercenaries, claiming to be funded to the tune of $80,000 by the Central Intelligence Agency. Bufkin was in fact a former U.S. Army soldier "who has gone AWOL several times, has been tried for rape, and been in and out of jail several times", did not have $80,000, was not supported by the CIA, instead being a con-man who had stolen most of the money paid to him. Bufkin managed to get a dozen or so American mercenaries to Angola, where several of them were killed in action with the rest being captured.

One of the leaders of the mercenaries was Costas Georgiou (the self-styled "Colonel Callan"), who was described by the British journalist Patrick Brogan as a psychopathic killer who personally executed fourteen of his fellow mercenaries for cowardice, and who was extremely brutal to black people. Within 48 hours of his arrival in Angola, Georgiou had already led his men in disarming and massacring a group of FNLA fighters (his supposed allies), who he killed just for the "fun" of it all. At his trial, it was established that Georgiou had personally murdered at least 170 Angolans. Inept as a military leader as he was brutal, Georgiou notably failed as a commander. It was believed in 1975–76 that recruiting white mercenaries to fight in Angola would have a similar impact that the mercenaries had in the Congo in the 1960s, but in Angola the mercenaries failed completely as Brogan described their efforts as a "debacle". If anything, the white mercanaries with their disdain for blacks, or in the case of Georgiou murderous hatred seemed to have depressed morale on the FNLA side.

Many of the mercenaries in Angola were not former professional soldiers as they claimed to have been, but instead merely fantasists who had invented heroic war records for themselves. The fantasist mercenaries did not know how to use their weapons properly, and often injured themselves and others when they attempted to use weaponry that they did not fully understand, leading to some of them being executed by the psychopathic killer Georgiou who did not tolerate failure. On 27 January 1976, a group of 96 British mercenaries arrived in Angola and within a week about dozen had accidentally maimed themselves by trying to use weapons that they falsely claimed to be proficient with. The MLPA forces were better organized and led, and the dispatch of 35, 000 Cuban Army troops in November 1975 decided the war for the MLPA. Cuban accounts of the Angolan war speak of the efforts of the mercenaries in a tone of contempt as Cuban veterans contend that the mercenaries were poor soldiers who they had no trouble defeating.

When captured, John Derek Barker's role as a leader of mercenaries in Northern Angola led the judges to send him to face the firing squad. Nine others were imprisoned. Three more were executed: American Daniel Gearhart was sentenced to death for advertising himself as a mercenary in an American newspaper; Andrew McKenzie and Costas Georgiou, who had both served in the British army, were sentenced to death for murder. Georgiou was shot by firing squad in 1976. Costas' cousin Charlie Christodoulou was killed in an ambush.

Executive Outcomes employees, Captains Daniele Zanata and Raif St Clair (who was also involved in the aborted Seychelles Coup of 1981), fought on behalf of the MPLA against the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in the 1990s in violation of the Lusaka Protocol.

PMC
Executive Outcomes initially trained and later fought on behalf of the Angolan government against UNITA after UNITA refused to accept the election results in 1992. This contract was awarded to the company after EO had assisted Ranger Oil with an equipment recovery operation in the harbour town of Soyo. Dubbed by the South African media as an attempt to assassinate the rebel leader Dr. Jonas Savimbi, EO found itself under constant UNITA attacks where it lost three of its men. This action saw EO as being recognised by the FAA and a contract to train its forces was awarded. In a short space of time, UNITA was defeated on the battlefield and sued for peace. The Angolan government, under pressure from the UN and the US, were forced to terminate EO's contract. EO was replaced by the UN's peacekeeping force known as UNAVEM. Angola returned to war shortly thereafter.

Former Soviet Union
Mercenaries from the former soviet republics fought for both the MPLA and the rebels

The influx of mercenaries from the former soviet republics was caused by mass unemployment of the military after the fall of the Eastern Bloc. Due to the cheapness of services and the demand for specialists in the operation of soviet equipment, they displaced western mercenaries.

Pilots dominated among them, mainly from Russia and Ukraine. There were also specialists in the use of MANPADS. According to the Security Service of Ukraine for 2000, during the year, natives of the former USSR participated at least 150 times in clashes and battles (including in the air) against each other. In total, at least 400 hired pilots on the side of the government forces and almost the same number on the side of the rebels were registered in the conflict, according to the publication «Version». At least a hundred of them died.

See also
 Luanda Trial

References

Publications
 Вальдес, Виво Рауль. Ангола: крах мифа о наемниках [Текст] : [Пер. с исп.] / [Предисл. О. Игнатьева]. - Москва : Прогресс, 1978. - 93 с., 8 л. ил. : ил.; 16 см.
 Роберт К. Браун. Хочешь жить — выкручивайся сам: воспоминания наёмника в Анголе // Солдат Удачи : журнал — №11. — 1994.

External links
 Сергей Будылин. «Псы войны с кровавыми мордами». Луандийский процесс над наёмниками // Закон.ру : социальная сеть для юристов и студентов юридических вузов. — 27 августа 2022.

Mercenaries
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The I.R.S. can now enter into tax collection contracts with third parties for the collection of certain outstanding inactive tax receivables. The Journal of Accountancy states that the passport revocation section of the law (H.R. 22), defines inactive tax receivables as any tax receivable that has been removed from the I.R.S.'s active inventory due to lack of resources or inability to find the taxpayer; for which more than one-third of the applicable limitation period has passed and no I.R.S. employee has been assigned to collect the receivable; or that has been assigned for collection, but more than 365 days have passed without interaction with the taxpayer for purposes of furthering collection of the receivable.
Not eligible for collection under qualified tax collection contracts are: tax receivables relating to pending or active offers in compromise or installment agreements, the ones related to innocent spouse cases, deceased taxpayers, minors, taxpayers in designated combat zones, victims of tax-related identity theft, receivables that are currently under examination, litigation, criminal investigation, or levy or currently subject to a right of appeal.
The provision applies to tax receivables identified by the I.R.S. after the date of enactment which was 12/4/15. The act also requires the I.R.S. to use its collection enforcement budget to fund a newly created special compliance personnel program and to establish an account for the hiring, training, and employment of special compliance personnel.
The private collector usually will contact the taxpayer by letter.
If the taxpayer's last known address is incorrect, the private collector searches for the correct address. Next, the private collector will telephone the taxpayer to request full payment.
If the taxpayer cannot pay in full right away, the private collector offers an installment deal for up to five years.
If the taxpayer is unable to pay even over five years, the collector asks for taxpayer financial information to see what sort of deal the taxpayer should get. There are controls on financial data, but there is considerable worry about having taxpayer data in private hands.
Private collectors cannot accept payments. Do not pay them directly!
The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act applies to private collectors. This is the same law that applies to collectors in other circumstances.
There are many reports required under the law. Congress and the Treasury Department are trying to determine if private collection is efficient and how well it works.
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package edu.berkeley.compbio.ncbitaxonomy;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;

import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * @author David Soergel
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class Exporter
	{
	static String[] ranks = {"phylum", "class", "order", "family", "genus", "species"};

	public static void main(String[] argv)
		{
		try
			{
			ApplicationContext ctx = NcbiTaxonomyDbContextFactory.makeNcbiTaxonomyDbContext();
			NcbiTaxonomyPhylogeny ncbi = (NcbiTaxonomyPhylogeny) ctx.getBean("ncbiTaxonomyPhylogeny");

			FileWriter treeWriter = new FileWriter("tree.newick");
			ncbi.toNewick(treeWriter, "", "", 0, 0);
			treeWriter.close();

			FileWriter synonymWriter = new FileWriter("synonyms");
			ncbi.writeSynonyms(synonymWriter);
			synonymWriter.close();

			for (String rank : ranks)
				{
				FileWriter rankWriter = new FileWriter(rank);
				Set<Integer> ids = ncbi.getTaxIdsWithRank(rank);
				for (Integer id : ids)
					{
					rankWriter.append(id.toString()).append("\n");
					}
				rankWriter.close();
				}
			}
		catch (Throwable e)
			{
			e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}


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Home/Our Blog/22 Email Platforms for Web Developers To Simplify Email Delivery 2018
22 Email Platforms for Web Developers To Simplify Email Delivery 2018
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Email marketing experts will tell you a lot of things about email platforms, but not nearly as much as developers could, because developers also need to focus on external integrations of APIs for clients, and generally have a broader back-end understanding with the projects that they are working with. Nevertheless, developers are also active bloggers, and content producers, and they too build their email lists to attract clients, and create unique community followings. Email platforms are for anyone who wishes to build an audience of listeners, but also for anyone who is building something unique and need the integration of an email platform to complement the full set of functions.
Finding the email service for you is fairly straightforward, as long as you know your own requirements, and perhaps the requirements that you are going to have in the future. This means that not all email platforms are 100% friendly to custom developer requests, but many more have risen from the depths in the last few years, trying to be more friendly to developers, engineers and their demands. What we found during our research was quite amazing, a lot of email platforms have switched on the developer functionality fully, and you could say that they support it in native order already. Great news!
For whatever the reason that you need an email platform for, we have the kind of platforms that you will want to learn more about uniquely. We handpicked the best email marketing services out there, that you and your team will be able to use and grow your email lists without hesitation, or perhaps the email lists of your clients.
01. Mailgun
Mailgun is a definitive email platform that's built purely for developers. You'll come across Mailgun many times during your developer journey, and you are looking at the best possible solution to manage your email requirements for the projects that you're working with. The free plan that lets you send 10k emails for free is another major attraction for this email platform. Stripe, Slack, and GitHub are amongst the best customers of Mailgun, and if you type Mailgun into the code syntax search over at Github, you'll be looking at millions of records that show the use of Mailgun in open-source projects. Provided by Rackspace, Mailgun is known to be reliable, secure and performance optimized. Whether you need to send a single email or 20 million emails, Mailgun has everything in the feature list to support your ideas. Other notable features include validation of email, a simple form that can help to weed out any bad subscribers from your email lists by verifying their email addresses.
02. Postmark
Losing out on sent emails can be difficult to deal with. Email in the modern times is a tough market to crack, because of so many spammers using email services and platforms to deliver spam, it's hard to decide on an email provider that can guarantee that each and every email that goes out of your platform is delivered directly to the user inbox. That's the vision that Postmark is trying to live by, the same vision that has kept hundreds of thousands of customers coming back to Postmark and its remarkable algorithm for a smooth email delivery experience. Many developers and in fact email marketers don't realize that even a single lost email can have huge effects on your bottom line, so why risk it in the first place? Emails that involve financial resolutions are particularly fragile in this topic, and Postmark totally understands that, and delivers on the promise to deliver your emails safely to the inbox.
03. MailChimp
It's crucial that developers can find affordable email platforms that are capable of providing a modern email delivery service, at a cost that doesn't make holes in your bank account. MailChimp has lived up to these standards since the day the company was launched. Millions of developers, including webmasters are using MailChimp to deliver extraordinary amounts of emails within a single day. MailChimp as an email platform is much more than just a way to send emails to the number of people who are on your email list, nah.. MailChimp is an enterprise level platform that acts like a complete email management entity on its own. The platform gives you the tools to sort your lists, to organize them, to analyze their performance and even reorganize for better targeting. Though that list of features just barely touches the surface of MailChimp's potential. Free accounts can enjoy up to 2k subscribers in their list and send them an email at any given time of the day. Sending email should be fun, and these guys know how to make it so.
04. Sendloop
Sendloop although an email marketing platform, does provide a set of other unique features that has managed to attract to itself big businesses with deep pockets to spend on lead generation, marketing automation, onboarding processes, and even transactional email services. Sendloop acts as a central email platform from within which you can fully manage your email list and really squeeze out the maximum potential out of it, without ever having to compromise the quality of emails, or the quality of service that your business provides. Sendloop will happily integrate with leading business platforms across the globe; Zapier, Shopify, Google and Slack to name just a few of the prominent players. You can combine your use of those great platforms and amplify your email marketing to a level that hasn't been seen before.
05. SendGrid
SendGrid deals with billions of emails on monthly basis, to be able to deliver all those billions of emails to users inbox folders.. that's a huge task to undertake, but SendGrid is up for the task, and it shows through their business practices that they truly do know what the hell they are doing. Focusing on two main aspects of email: transactional and marketing. The real-time analytics platform is a real treat for developers who wish to do A/B testing in real-time and understand how different segments of their email lists are functioning under different uses of context. Security is also a top priority for SendGrid, all your data is carefully encrypted and stored in such a way that no hacker will ever be able to grant unauthorized access to your valuable information.
06. SendinBlue
Transactional email has risen in popularity. This is very information sensitive email category where absolute accuracy is required. When someone has a 100 customers on their platform.. you kind of look at it and think to yourself, well, good luck in the future, but when your platform has almost 20k customers (such as SendinBlue), you realize that these guys must be doing something right, and right they are. The email designing platform is what has attracted many of the professional clients towards SendinBlue, using latest technology they publish an email builder that will be tough to replicate even for companies that have been in the business for over a decade. The campaign reports is where you learn about your subscribers in-depth; the algorithm learns about users locations and similar data, allowing you to segment more concise lists and send out emails at much more convenient times. Words won't do justice for the kind of service that SendinBlue is providing, give these guys a try.
07. SparkPost
SparkPost's reputation hides in the ability to provide an amazing deliverability rate, giving you the much needed space to focus on crafting great emails, rather than trying to avoid popular email server filters. SparkPost lets developers send their email using SMTPs or REST API servers — depending on what fits your current project. Developers can also create their own API access keys to extend the functionality towards a team environment. Much of what SparkPost does happens in real-time, meaning that you can implement the platform into your own management dashboard and get a real-time feed of how your emails are performing. They also provide libraries for popular frameworks and programming languages, Node.js is one of the examples we can mention. SparkPost's algorithm is capable of tracking dozens of important email metrics that later on help with creating highly focused and targeted email lists to get the most out of what your customers are willing to give you.
08. phpList
Now for something more simple, and more open-source! phpList is an open-source platform built with the purpose of helping developers to manage their email campaigns within a personal development environment. Because the project is open-source, contributors from all over the world are sharing their insights and techniques of how to make phpList better, more secure, and more reliable. And given the requirements, phpList can also be a much more price friendly alternative for those who're running on tight budgets. phpList supports Google Analytics, you an also setup email open tracking and see how many people are opening your emails, how many subscribers are clicking on your links, or the volume of emails that get forwarded. You also get intelligent insight into each of your subscribers, and their history based on the amount of emails you've sent them using the phpList platform.
09. TinyLetter
Surprising or not, but developers actually make pretty good email newsletters! TinyLetter was sort of built with that purpose in mind, to help create engaging email newsletters for those who have important information to share with their readers. In recent few months, a high number of weekly newsletter have switched over to TinyLetter because of how easy it is to use, but also because MailChimp is behind the back-end development, so you're getting two great valuable assets here at the cost of none! World renowned journalists have commented on the TinyLetter's platform, MailChimp has once again proved they're the leading email platform on the web, because even though TinyLetter is so sophisticated and complex, it's also completely free, forever.
10. Mailtrap
Have you ever wanted to have your own fake SMTP server? Now you can! Mailtrap is the definition of this list, it's the true example of how many of these email platforms are suitable only for developers, the Mailtrap's selling point is giving developers a fake SMTP server that can be used within the development process of an application. With the fake SMTP — you can internally test your email performance, and the way emails are being sent to your users. It is the perfect platform to use if you're about to scale an application that's going to be sending millions of emails on frequent basis. You can analyze the emails to see their performance score and whether you risk of running into a blacklist, or risk of being labeled as a spammer — such testing before going live is essential, so that you don't have to repeat all the same steps during your apps production launch. GitHub, SendGrid, and Yelp are amongst the customers of Mailtrap — large scale companies that need this valuable insight into their email performance and deliverability, because their own platform is dealing with billions of email requests on monthly basis.
11. Mailjet
Mailjet combines all the essentials of an email platform into a single solution. No longer will you have to signup for dozens of email platforms just to get the tailored features that you need, Mailjet's vision was to solve that problem for everyone, and they've kept it up and done a great job at it. It doesn't matter if you're a developer, or a developer within a team, or an email marketing expert.. Mailjet has the tools to transform your email experience forever. A sophisticated email list manager will drop insanely useful tools in your toolbox that you'll have a hard time leaving behind. Inexperienced developers or those marketers who're just starting out with email marketing can immerse themselves in the many email newsletter templates that Mailjet provides. All of them are mobile responsive, and crafted using the latest technology in email marketing. The success of your email program goes beyond individual campaigns. Campaign Comparison helps you build the bigger picture by grouping like email campaigns and averaging results to create benchmarks. Compare multiple benchmarks to find trends across customer demographics, send time and more.
12. Zoho Mail
Zoho is the email hosting platform that developer teams have been waiting for years! Forget about Gmail and give yourself and your team some space to use a unique email management platform that aims to provide an experience that resembles a long-term goal oriented strategy. The clean interface provides rapid web performance so you can always enjoy being on top of all the latest emails that are coming in, because you pay a fixed monthly price for the business account — you won't have to worry about clunky ads either. They simply aren't there. The setup is wonderfully simple to get going with, and if security is your concern — Zoho promises to protect your data like it is their own, though in a way it is. Near 100% uptime rate guaranteed, right out of the box.
13. Pawnmail
Pawnmail is for developers who need their own email client that runs underneath their own custom domain. Pawnmail is free, but limited to a 2GB storage. With those statistics in mind, we feel that Pawnmail will be best suited for personal website projects where you are not expecting large files to be reaching your server. The platform's financial module is donations, while it's dirt cheap to host email accounts on the server, the owner of the platform would still like to ask its users for some donations to keep it sustained, and of course free.
14. Debug Mail
Debug Mail is trying to solve several problems that developers encounter when working with mail servers, firstly they let you analyze your emails without having you spam your own inbox, you can also share the analysis results with your fellow team members, emails can also be publicized and shown publicly to anyone who has the shared link at their disposal, and you can also use Debug Mail to cross-test app features that would fall under the category of an autoresponder. Debug Mail helps you run a mail server that can be used to test apps and platforms without the requirement of setting up your own SMTP server.
15. Mailstache
Mailstache provides a simple email hosting and management for your own domains names. At the time of publishing this, it seems that Mailstaches is still working hard on figuring out the pricing modules, but security and all that is in place.
16. Yandex.Mail
Yandex is Russia's leading search engine, and also email platform. With Yandex you can signup your own domain name to use through the Yandex email service. They also provide DNS hosting for serious developers. A lot of features support businesses and what a business would need when it comes to email management on a business scale.
17. Moosend
Moosend's an affordable email campaign management platform for both developers and marketing experts. With Moosend you can quickly prototype your email lists and populate them with subscribers from various sources, internal and external. Moosend also provides its very own personal widget for attracting new subscribers to your list. The campaign management is where Moosend really stands out. The easy to use interface lets anyone create personalized email campaigns and test them through various configurations, then — the real-time analytics platform gives the much needed understanding of how your campaigns are doing in front of a live audience, at which point you can start to structure smarter campaigns. Moosend tries to be there every step of the way, guiding you from the process of crafting an email newsletter, to acquiring customers through your buy-in forms in the email itself.
18. Inumbo
Chances are that you as a developer already have a solid email infrastructure up and running. It makes sense. But, do you have the necessary spam protection features set in place to protect your customers and your email server from spammers, fraudsters, and those who love to cause harm for others? That's what Inumbo is all about, an email protection service that connects you with the latest developer APIs and features to allow you to maximize the security protection of your email server.
19. MailCatcher
MailCatcher catches any incoming and outgoing email that passses through your email server and gives you the ability to preview it directly in the browser through a specific page.
20. Mailboxlayer API
Mailboxlayer is an affordable (includes a free plan) and powerful API (JSON) that offers real-time email validation services. It can verify syntax, typos, spelling errors, it can also verify SMTPs and filter any third-party email providers. Based on REST, the system packs a great punch when it comes to security. If there was ever an API to use for verifying emails, this could very well be the one.
21. Kickbox
With more than one billion verified email addresses, Kickbox has some experience in delivering high quality email to your customers. Kickbox will automatically filter your email lists to get rid of any low-quality leads and instead focus on users that provide value to your business. Email lists can be verified through the algorithm separately, so you can preview how big of an impact your list is going to experience after it has been filtered down to only the best quality email addresses.
22. YOPmail
Want a little extra layer of security when signing up for new services? YOPmail can help! With YOPmail's disposable email addresses, you can try out any service or application out there without revealing your true identity, and you can always change to your original email address if you've found yourself liking the service. There are quite a number of uses for disposable email services, but what makes YOPmail stand out is the fact that the email address lasts for a couple of days, so you really have the capacity to explore something before deciding if you like it enough to give it your own email address.
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In about 2 months [update: 11 days] you will get the greatest gift that I could ever hope to give you: a sibling. He will be like you in many ways. His parents will be your parents. You will always have that in common. He will probably looks like you too, but different. And he will pick up many of the quirks and neuroses that we are no doubt passing along to our children.
I have always taken comfort in the fact that I have my sisters to talk to about issues related to family (mostly our weird mom and dad) (sorry, Mom and Dad). There will be times when you feel so alone, like no one else could possibly know what it feels like to be you. And that will be somewhat true. But you will have your brother. And he will have you. And my hope is that you two will keep that in mind and turn to each other when you need love and support.
Your dad and I love our siblings. But we did not always like them 100%. Like when Aunt Meggie was stubborn and wouldn't listen when it was time to clean up . Or when Aunt Amy Lou wanted to copy every little thing I did. Or when Aunt Maren would get out of doing chores because she was "too little." Bah! These were tough times on a big sibling. We knew we needed to love them, but man....it was hard sometimes.
We know that can happen. I'm not saying it won't make me a little sad. I want our house to be filled with love all day every day. But I will try to remember and understand.
Because we know that the gift of another sibling means the end of this very short era in your life. The era of the only child. Your dad and I got to experience this once upon a time, and we clearly grew wise and strong for it. But honestly we can't remember those years, and someday, neither will you probably. I'm not sure. Science can do some amazing things nowadays.
It is my hope that *I* remember these few short years, though, when you were my only little one. Mostly because I want to remember all my children's infancy and toddler years. But partly because this time has been special and unique. You made me become a mom. My own mom tells me that from time to time as well. I get it now. It is a special bond, and you happen to be my lucky first child who walked these firsts along with me. Your life changed mine forever.
... rocking you in the living room for hours.
...watching you fall asleep on my chest after we had returned home from the hospital, hardly able to believe you were mine. And I was your mom.
...taking you to Baby swim time at Tamarack to do some of the first activity-based baby things we could think of. And watching every change on your face and little toes as you discovered the water.
...sitting with your dad at Bounce gymnastics, watching everything you did, and being so super attentive. Maybe too attentive. They wouldn't let us both hold your hands when we did the "mommy-and-me" activities, so we had to take turns.
...sneaking into your room at night after you'd fallen asleep, and coming back to the living room to report how cute you looked, and could we even believe we had made something so precious?
...taking turns trying to get you to eat baby food. Taking video of the whole messy adventure and sharing photos of your gooey face with everyone we knew.
...agonizing over our daycare choices. Sometimes convinced that the daycare was doing irreparable damage to you by withholding your pacifier. And other times convinced that we had nailed it by finding an affordable option that also taught you all the ABCs by the age of 2 and some sign language too!
When your brother arrives, we will be so prepared. What a fun family we have created so far. What a house full of love we've got. That is so directly tied to you, Olivia, and the joy you've brought just by being yourself.
I don't really like the idea that parents are more laid back for their second child. Nor is it fair to say that we "better" parents to our second child, or "worse." But we are different. We are more relaxed about some things that we can and should be relaxed about. We are more alert to other things. And we are all taking this leap together -- the adding of another family member.
You, Olivia, you seem like the one who is most prepared of all. You grab my belly and kiss your brother and tell him things. You think he is funny and silly. You felt him kick last night, and you told me that he was kicking just like *THIS* [ninja kick!]. Do you two already know each other? How did you get so wise about this little guy? I have no idea what he will be like and here you are, 10 steps ahead of me!
So here we go. He will be here any day now, and our family will be forever changed again. I am so glad I've got you with me for the adventure, Little O.


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The 2000 United States election in Nebraska was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey retired after two terms in office, and Democrat Ben Nelson, a former two-term governor, won the open seat. As of 2021, this is the most recent statewide election in Nebraska won by a Democrat who was not the incumbent.

Democratic primary

Candidates
 Ben Nelson, former Governor of Nebraska and 1996 Democratic nominee for the United States Senate
 Al Hamburg, perennial candidate

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
 Don Stenberg, Attorney General of Nebraska
 Scott Moore, Secretary of State of Nebraska
 David Hergert
 George Grogan
 John DeCamp, former State Senator
 Elliott Rustad

Results

General election

Candidates
 Ben Nelson (D), former Governor of Nebraska and 1996 Democratic nominee for the United States Senate
 Don Stenberg (R), Attorney General of Nebraska

Debates
Complete video of debate, September 21, 2000

Results

See also
 2000 United States Senate elections

References

Nebraska
2000
2000 Nebraska elections


LEWISTON, Maine — The Bates baseball team hosted the Plymouth State Panthers on Sunday for a Senior Day doubleheader at Leahey Field, with the Bobcats dropping game one 7-1 and prevailing 1-0 in game two.
The Bobcats (14-12) continue their preparation for the NESCAC Championships with a visit to Maine-Farmington on Tuesdayfor a 6:00 p.m. first pitch.
The Panthers scored six runs in the top of the seventh to pull away late for a 7-1 victory over the Bobcats in game one of Sunday's doubleheader.
Until the seventh, game one was a classic pitchers' duel between Bates first-year Nolan Collins (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Plymouth State's Connor MacRae.
Collins (0-3) surrendered a run in the first but settled down after that. Josh Goulet got the Panther offense going with a double to left center leading off the game. He advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on a Ryan Richard ground out to give the Panthers a 1-0 lead.
On Senior Day, senior John Dinucci (West Hartford, Conn.) showed off his arm when James Garnett singled down the left field line. Garnett tried to advance to second and Dinucci threw him out.
Senior captain Brendan Fox (West Hartford, Conn.) singled with two outs in the first but got left stranded.
Nate Frederick singled to start the second for the Panthers. Two outs later, Collins picked him off to end the inning. Collins continued his strong outing by striking out the side in the third.
In the top of the fourth, the Panthers put runners at first and third with nobody out on a walk and a single. They attempted to pull off a double steal but junior catcher Reed Mszar (Manassas, Va.) made a perfect throw toward second that Fox cut off. He fired home to get the runner trying to score for the first out of the inning. Collins picked off the other running try to steal third and struck out Jarek Krajewski to end the inning.
The Bobcats' best opportunity to tie the game came in the bottom of the sixth. First-year Pat Beaton (West Newbury, Mass.) delivered a pinch hit single to start the inning. Junior Connor DiVincenzo (Westwood, Mass.) pinch ran and the Bobcats bunted him to second. Senior captain Ryan McCarthy (Plaistow, N.H.) got hit by a pitch but MacRae (1-1) struck out Fox for the second out of the inning.
Alex Larson entered the game and got the next batter to ground out, ending the inning.
In the top of the seventh, Richard and Garnett got the Plymouth State offense going with a single and a walk respectively. Krajewski singled in Richard, chasing Collins from the game.
A walk loaded the bases and Ryan Boldwin singled in two runs to make the score 4-0 in favor of the Panthers. Another walk reloaded the bases and one out later pinch hitter Mitch Sytulek singled in another run. A pair of bases loaded walks made the score 7-0.
The Bobcats got on the board in the bottom half of the frame. Sophomore Dan Trulli (Melrose, Mass.) reached on a dropped third strike. He advanced to second a ground ball and moved to third when first-year Kyle Carter (Plantation, Fla.) singled to center.
First-year Jack Arend (Newfields, N.H.) pinch hit for Mszar and blooped a ball into shallow center that got misplayed by Plymouth State's shortstop. The Panthers were able to force out Carter at second on the play but Trulli scored to make the score 7-1.
Arend stole second but Larson struck out the next batter to end the game.
The Panthers tallied eight hits in game one while the Bobcats recorded only three hits.


Are you thinking to organize a company team building in Tuscany but have you not chosen the right location yet? The Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte, on the seafront of Viareggio, offers indoor rooms and outdoor areas to create activities of great impact. But what makes the hotel even more unique is its location, which allows it to give life to events of all kinds.
The proximity to the Cinque Terre, and then to the villages of Vernazza, Manarola, Corniglia, Riomaggiore and Monterosso al Mare, allows to organize excursions to discover the National Park, the vineyards and olive groves, the locations and traditions of small large towns overlooking the sea.
Another way to observe closely the Cinque Terre is to do it through real sailing crossings on board of boats with skippers. A perfect program for any kind of team building, able to involve all the members of the team, improving their harmony.
Alternatively, you can also rent a vintage motor boat that will lead you and your group along the Cinque Terre coast.
Viareggio and the Versilia then have all the features to make some of the best team building activities in all Tuscany.
For example, let's think about the possibilities of playing beach activities, rafting regattas, olive harvesting, grape harvesting or searching for truffles in the most inland areas.
Then, internal locations as well as the coastal strip become the protagonists of a series of excursions and bike rides in groups, for fun refining the team mechanisms.
Finally, an activity behind the stoves to be made in the kitchens of the Grand Hotel Principe di Piemonte: a real full immersion, a cooking lesson led by the 2 Michelin star chef Giuseppe Mancino who will give you all the useful tips to prepare even at your home a starry lunch!


Drill BitsWhen most people think of drill bits they think of drill bits they think of the simple tool that can be found in any house or machine shop. The drill bits are relatively simple in design and are typically used for drilling through wood and metals. Most people don't realize that when companies drill in the earth for oil they also use drill bits. However, the drill bits used in this process are very complicated in nature, not to mention costly. These drill bitts cost on average between $30,000 and $50,000 dollars, but can cost as in the 150,000+ range. Due to the high cost of these bits, it is important for any supply manager working in this industry to have an understanding of how they work and their intended uses. To completely understand the engineering that goes into these bits would probably require someone to have a degree in mechanical or petroleum engineering. However, with some basic understanding of the different kinds of bits and the manufacturing process behind them, it is possible for a supply manager to properly identify and purchase the proper bit for the project he/she is working on.The intended use of the drill bits is quite easy to understand. Like the drill bits in found in a simple hand drill, all drill bits are intended to make a hole. The major difference being that you are drilling in rock formations and the hole is 5-30 inches in diameter. These are the two main factors in determining which type of drill bit that should be selected. There are many categories and sub categories of drill bits that drill into rock formations. However, in the modern oilfield the most commonly used type of bit is the rotary drill bit. There are two main types or rotary drill bits, drag bits, and rolling cutter bits.Drag bits are a type of drill bit that uses a fixed cutter blade to drill into a rock formation. Drag bits physically plow or machine cuttings from the bottom of the hole. Unlike rolling cutter bits, drag bits have no moving parts, which decreases the likelihood that unwanted material could be left in the hole. Drag bits can be further broken down into three categories base on the design and the material they are comprised of.


The Main Street Duncan merchants line the sidewalks to pass out candy and treats, no cost to participate in either passing out candy or participating in the event- free for all!
Candy, treats, and fun -oh my! Enter the costume contest (registration below) at Noon in the parking lot by the Palace Theater or have fun with the bounce houses and more in the 800 block of Walnut Avenue thanks to our friends at the Freedom Biker Church!
This event goes fast so lineup by the Palace Theater (926 W. Main St.) and move eastbound till the turn is made on 7th to continue westbound on Main Street -follow the fun crowd ! Costume contest at Noon in the parking lot by the Palace Theater.
Where: Downtown Duncan on Main and Walnut Ave.
Join us on Main Street from 7th Street to 10th Street as well as on 8th and Walnut for more fun, treats and games! Costume contest at 10th and Main.
Come in costume, bring a bag for candy collecting and get ready to have some fun!
Main Street Duncan, Inc. hosts quality of life events in downtown Duncan for the betterment of our community -we are dedicated to preserving the historic heritage of downtown Duncan.


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The past, present, and future of brand research
Travis Tae Oh ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1712-65961,
Kevin Lane Keller2,
Scott A. Neslin2,
David J. Reibstein3 &
Donald R. Lehmann4
Marketing Letters volume 31, pages151–162(2020)Cite this article
This article discusses the past, present, and future of brand research. We begin by reviewing three historical eras of branding development in the past: the information, attribute, and brand equity eras. Each era is marked by an emphasis on a particular concept of brands and a dominant research methodology during that period. We characterize the present of brand research as the branding era, in which brands have become part of the everyday vocabulary, and the concept of "branding" has been embraced by all types of organizations and people. Finally, we share our perspective on the future of brand research by discussing three major shifts in the brand landscape, mostly influenced by technological advancements such as IoT and their capacity to collect granular data at the individual level. We anticipate that new, exciting opportunities in brand research will continue to open up at the intersection of brands, technologies, and people.
For a detailed review, see Keller and Lehmann (2006) or Avery and Keinan's (2015) chapter on "Consuming Brands"
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Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
Travis Tae Oh
Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA
Kevin Lane Keller & Scott A. Neslin
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
David J. Reibstein
Donald R. Lehmann
Kevin Lane Keller
Scott A. Neslin
Correspondence to Travis Tae Oh.
Oh, T.T., Keller, K.L., Neslin, S.A. et al. The past, present, and future of brand research. Mark Lett 31, 151–162 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-020-09524-w
Issue Date: September 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11002-020-09524-w
Brand research history
Brands and technology


Liverpool forward Danny Ings hopes he can still prove his worth to new boss Jurgen Klopp, despite having been ruled out for the season with a knee injury.
The England international, 23, suffered cruciate ligament damage in his first training session with the German.
"The only way I can get in Klopp's thoughts is the way I am in the gym or by being positive around the lads," he told the Daily Telegraph.
"Negativity can rub off on players. I don't want to affect their displays."
Ings, who was signed by former manager Brendan Rodgers from Burnley in the summer, had scored three goals in eight games for the Reds.
He also made his England debut against Lithuania last week.
"I am experienced enough in my career to know it is not the end," he added. "It is a setback and, yes, I was playing and starting for Liverpool sooner than I expected, which was great. Making my England debut was a massive achievement.
"These things do happen and it can be cruel but for me it is part of the game. This is when footballers really, really earn their money.
"To go in earlier than everyone else and come home later than everyone else, to work as hard as you can and come back better, I have always done that.
"Any injury I have had, I have come back stronger - especially mentally strong. It makes me appreciate the job I do when things like this happen."


Ethelbert White lived through the Great Depression in the United Kingdom, during the first year of which Eva Gore-Booth wrote her poem, The Vagrant's Romance. Both pieces, along with Frederick Delius's "A Song of Summer" focus blissfully on the simple wonders and beauties of the world, rather than the grief that the UK experienced in that time.
And the secret of all things shall be mine.


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