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October 13, 2014 Television ReviewA Country Practice, Dermot O'Leary, George Osborne, Jedward, Jeremy Kyle, Prisoner Cell Block H, Punch & Judy, Simon Cowell, The Code, The Jeremy Kyle Show, The Young Doctors, X FactorAnthony Murphy
The Jeremy Kyle Show (ITV1 every weekday morning…forever) was in 2007 described by a district Judge in Manchester as a "human form of bear baiting". The continuing success of the programme is as extraordinary as it is depressing. In this execrable show, we have the messed up lives of real people put on a stage for a pantomime.
Superficially, the raison d'etre of our hero (let's call him Jezza) and his show, is to help people put their houses in order (so to speak), perhaps advise people who would be going through similar crises in how to deal with them in a dignified manner.
If that is the case then the fact the show has been running for seven years Continue reading TV Review: Jeremy Kyle, X Factor & The Code →
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Sophie Cruz's Mom Wiping Her Tears As She Watched Her 6 Year Old Speak At The Women's March Is All Of Us
BY Araceli Cruz | January 23, 2017 AT 3:13 pm
By Araceli Cruz January 23, 2017 at 3:13 pm
Sophie Cruz, the fearless immigration activist with the larger-than-life personality, made an appearance at the Women's March on Washington on Saturday, and delivered a passionate speech in English and Spanish.
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The pint-sized leader appeared onstage with her parents and little sister in front of half a million people, and it was clear that this young woman has no fear of public speaking.
The six-year-old, who's been on our radar since she rushed to deliver a letter the Pope back in 2015, continues to empower us with her words of hope and inspiration while her life is in limbo due to her parents undocumented status.
She began by introducing herself, then got down to business.
"Let us fight with love, faith and courage so that our families will not be destroyed. I also want to tell the children not to be afraid, because we are not alone. There are still many people that have their hearts filled with love and tenderness to snuggle in this path of life. Let's keep together and fight for the rights. God is with us," Cruz said to cheers and applause.
Cruz then went on to say her entire speech in Spanish!
That moment when a young child gives an infinitely better speech, IN 2 LANGUAGES, than the President #sophiecruz #WomensMarchOnWashington pic.twitter.com/jRSLWg4DZU
— weasal (@Weasal) January 21, 2017
She ended her speech by chanting: Si se puede! And just like her mother, we also couldn't hold back the tears.
People in the crowd begin to cry as #sophiecruz speaks in Spanish about welcoming immigrants to America #sisepuede chant begins in reply
— M.J. Tidwell (@mjtidwell781) January 21, 2017
Watch her full speech below:
Thank you, Sophie, for representing our community!
READ: Here's How Three Women, Including A Mexican-American, Came Together To Organize One Of The Biggest Marches Of Our Time
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Google Is Pledging $250K To Help With DACA Applications And Renewals
By Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez January 14, 2021 at 7:33 pm
BY Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez | January 14, 2021 AT 7:33 pm
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is not a contentious topic among Americans. The program offers young adults who entered the U.S. as children relief from deportation and a chance to live out of the shadows. Now that it has been reinstated, Google wants to help some people achieve the dream of being a DACA recipient.
Google is pledging a quarter of a million dollars to help people apply for DACA.
Google announces a $250,000 grant to United We Dream to cover the DACA application fees of over 500 Dreamers: https://t.co/vtdzWFIPAA
— Priscilla Alvarez (@priscialva) January 13, 2021
The Trump administration did everything in their power to end DACA. The constant uncertainty has left hundreds of thousands of young people in limbo. The war waged against Dreamers by the Trump administration came to a temporary end when a federal judge ruled that Chad Wolf was illegally installed as the head of the Department of Homeland Security. It invalidated a member from Wolf stating that no new DACA applications would be approved.
Kent Walker, the SVP of Global Affairs, laid out the case for DACA in an essay.
Dreamers are critical to the US & it's urgent that Congress work to protect their status. Many face significant economic hardships due to the pandemic. @googleorg is working with @UNITEDWEDREAM to cover the DACA application fees of over 500 Dreamers. https://t.co/lXqOpGRhRq
— Kent Walker (@Kent_Walker) January 13, 2021
Walker discusses the uncertainty the hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients currently face after the tumultuous time for the program. He also touches on the economic hardships that has befallen so many because of the pandemic. With so many people out of work, some Dreamers do not have the money to apply or renew their DACA due to a lack of financial resources. For that reason, Google is getting involved.
"We want to do our part, so Google.org is making a $250,000 grant to United We Dream to cover the DACA application fees of over 500 Dreamers," writes Walker. "This grant builds on over $35 million in support that Google.org and Google employees have contributed over the years to support immigrants and refugees worldwide, including more than $1 million from Googlers and Google.org specifically supporting DACA and domestic immigration efforts through employee giving campaigns led by HOLA (Google's Latino Employee Resource Group)."
People are celebrating Google for their decision but are calling on Congress to do more.
Very proud of #Google's decision to cover the DACA application fees of 500+ Dreamers. Time for Congress to act too. https://t.co/FyjERoDRuy
— Karan Bhatia (@Karan_K_Bhatia) January 13, 2021
Congress will ultimately have to decide on what to do for the Dreamers. There has been growing pressure from both sides of the aisle calling on Congress to work towards granting them citizenship. DACA is a risk of being dismantled at any moment. It is up to Congress to come through and deliver a bill to fix the issue once and for all.
"We know this is only a temporary solution. We need legislation that not only protects Dreamers, but also delivers other much-needed reforms," writes Walker. "We will support efforts by the new Congress and incoming Administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform that improves employment-based visa programs that enhance American competitiveness, gives greater assurance to immigrant workers and employers, and promotes better and more humane immigration processing and border security practices."
READ: New DACA Applications Were Processed At The End Of 2020 For The First Time In Years
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Biden Says He Will Introduce An Immigration Bill "Immediately" But What Will Be In It?
By Justin Lessner January 12, 2021 at 3:09 pm
BY Justin Lessner | January 12, 2021 AT 3:09 pm
During the 2020 election, Latinos were a massive electoral voting bloc. In fact, for the first time ever, the Latino vote outnumbered the Black vote. According to the Pew Research Center, there are now 32 million eligible Latino voters and that accounts for 13 percent of all eligible voters.
And, Latinos helped deliver the presidency to Joe Biden. So it can be expected that the community has high expectations for Joe Biden to deliver on his campaign promises of immigration reform.
During a recent speech about his first 100 days in office, Joe Biden outlined his priorities once he's sworn in on January 20th, and said he would "immediately" send an immigration bill to congress.
Joe Biden promises swift action on immigration reform as soon as he takes office.
Biden says he'll introduce immigration legislation "immediately" and that his DOJ will investigate migrant family separation https://t.co/laMwbEBrmx
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) January 8, 2021
Over the weekend, President-Elect Joe Biden promised he would take swift action when it comes to immigration reform and rolling back many of the cruel and dangerous policies put into place by the Trump administration.
"I will introduce an immigration bill immediately," he said in a news conference on Friday.
Although he didn't go into detail regarding the proposed legislation, he's previously committed to ending Trump's ban on immigration from predominantly Muslim nations, and that he wants a path to citizenship for Dreamers, and an increase in guest worker permits to help bring undocumented agricultural workers – many of whom are now considered "essential workers" – out of the shadows.
Biden had already promised an immigration overhaul within the first 100 days of his presidency but this commitment definitely increases the pressure on him and congress to get things done.
Biden also said his justice department will investigate the policy of child separation.
During the same press conference, Biden said that his Justice Department will determine responsibility for the family separation program, which led to more than 2,600 children being taken from caregivers after crossing the U.S. southern border, and whether it was criminal.
"There will be a thorough, thorough investigation of who is responsible, and whether or not the responsibility is criminal," Biden said. That determination will be made by his attorney general-designate, Merrick Garland, he added.
During the campaign, Biden finally took responsibility for many of his administration's immigration failures.
Immigration has always made us stronger—it's essential to who we are. But Donald Trump has waged an assault on our values as a nation of immigrants.
As president, I'll undo Trump's damage and put our values back at the heart of our immigration system: https://t.co/29QNatX4Wg
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 11, 2019
Nicknamed the "Deporter in Chief," Obama deported more immigrants than any other president in U.S. history with over 3 million deportations during his time in office.
But as part of that administration, Joe Biden is also complicit. That's why during the campaign he seemed to acknowledge at least some of the pain the duo caused.
"Joe Biden understands the pain felt by every family across the U.S. that has had a loved one removed from the country, including under the Obama-Biden Administration, and he believes we must do better to uphold our laws humanely and preserve the dignity of immigrant families, refugees, and asylum-seekers," Biden's immigration plan reads.
While Obama's methods pale in comparison to the cruel tactics like family separation, inhumane conditions, and targeted raids, the impact the deportations have had on families is cannot be quantified.
Biden, like any Vice President, is put in the position of having to defend his president, but also himself as the future president. This isn't a bad thing, Biden must distinguish himself from his predecessor but if the shadow of Obama's legacy is buying him goodwill, it might be difficult to undermine that administration's stances.
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Desperately Seeking Equality and Justice
AuthorMedia DiversifiedPosted on March 18, 2015 May 22, 2016 Categories#OtherPolitics, Campaigns, Feminism, Pragna Patel, Southall Black SistersTagselections 2015, neo-liberalism, Southall Black Sisters
by Pragna Patel Follow @SBSisters
What would a set of key asks from Southall Black Sisters (SBS) look like? We can start by looking at a snapshot of the issues that SBS has faced in just the first two months of 2015; we find new and recurring themes and concerns which, taken together, encapsulate the enormity of the task ahead of us and others who work and campaign on multiple fronts to achieve in our lifetime some semblance of gender and social justice in our communities.
Key parts of the welfare and legal state – including the social services, police and legal system – are undergoing the process of marketisation. Public bodies that should be driven by the protection principle are driven by more authoritarian imperatives of state indifference, control and surveillance that consign those who cannot help themselves into the neo-liberal dustbin of 'superfluous people'. In consequence, the very vulnerable and marginalised women with whom we work are forced into greater depths of marginalisation.
Earlier this year, on our way out of Ealing Town Hall after lobbying the local authority politicians responsible for the continuation of our grant – a sizeable amount without which we would be forced to scale down our much needed front line services drastically – we were met by a small group of protesters who were holding a candle lit vigil and protesting against the closure of the few remaining charities for the disabled and mentally ill in the area. As a direct consequence of those closures, a user of a mental health day centre had committed suicide. It was a painful reminder of the reality of a fast contracting state and voluntary sector that can no longer provide the safety net for those on the margins: a reality that gives lie to the government's rhetoric of 'localism,' which paradoxically has taken power and resources away from local authorities and placed them firmly in the hands of deregulated and unaccountable private bodies.
The dismantling of the welfare state is nowhere more evident than in the engagement of abused women with the legal system which has now a reached a crisis point as a result of savage 'slash and burn' cuts in legal aid. Far from being offered meaningful protection and redress in the face of domestic violence, abused women find themselves face to face with their abusers in court, without advice and representation, having to navigate complex laws and procedures. We simply do not have the capacity to assist all the women that arrive at our door in various stages of homelessness, destitution, trauma and distress. More and more are contacting us from all over the UK, hoping that we will throw them a life line. Our fear is that, in the absence of proper or any support, women will simply give up their struggles for protection and freedom or refer to profoundly patriarchal and second rate systems of religious arbitration and mediation which reinforce their structured inequality in the family and community. Either way, we fear that many will be forced to internalise their abuse to the detriment of their health and lives.
The growing power and appeasement of religion can be seen in instances where bodies like the Law Society considered it appropriate to issue guidance on the drafting of 'Sharia' compliant wills that, amongst other things, served to institutionalise misogyny. In response to our protests that the task of the Law Society was to promote a human rights compliant culture rather than a 'Sharia' compliant culture, the guidance was withdrawn and a welcome public apology was offered. But we are clear that behind this sorry episode is a new settlement between neo-liberal and religious right forces, with a very specific impact on women, sexual minorities and other marginalised groups in our communities. Violence and especially sexual violence is a resource drawn upon by fundamentalist and patriarchal religion, often deploying the language of freedom, choice and agency to subvert these very principles. As the distinction between religion and politics is blurred, the gender equality paradigm is defeated not only by neo-liberalism but also by fundamentalists and religionists who are gaining in power in order to re-invigorate patriarchal rule.
So, what do we ask of the state as we hurtle towards the general elections? A good starting point would be a renewal of the commitment that was made as part of the post war settlement following a previous collapse of morality and civilised values: to guarantee liberty, education, health care and welfare support from the cradle to the grave. This, in turn, requires nothing less than a commitment to the fifth pillar of the welfare state: legal aid to safeguard human rights, equality, the rule of law, and democracy itself.
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Pragna Patel is a founding member of Southall Black Sisters (@SBSisters), a landmark organisation in the history of black and Asian feminism. Southall Black Sisters was founded in 1979 in the aftermath of the race riots in west London. The charity campaigns for and offers practical support to women escaping domestic violence and forced marriages. Chaired by Patel, the small group has long punched above its weight. In supporting Kiranjit Ahluwalia, imprisoned for murdering her violent husband, SBS successfully challenged the legal definition of provocation, and changed an immigration ruling which trapped non-British women in abusive marriages.
The group has often spoken out about the government's community cohesion programmes, which maintains the power of male religious leaders. A secularist campaigner, Patel also co-founded Women Against Fundamentalism.
'The Other Political Series' curated by journalist Kiri Kankhwende is your go to alternative to the colourless mainstream commentary ahead of the General Election in May 2015. #OtherPolitics highlights issues and perspectives that are being overlooked in the election debate and presents different angles on some well-trodden issues.
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Clearly, it makes sense that an Italian restaurant would be in the Italy pavilion at World Showcase at Epcot. It even makes sense that the Italian-themed Tony's Town Square Restaurant would be on Main Street at the Magic Kingdom, since it is based on the Italian character who owned a restaurant in the animated feature Lady and the Tramp, which took place at the turn of the century.
When I worked at the Disney Institute in the late 1990s, and was an instructor for the eight-hour "Backstage Magic" tour for guests, the group would always stop at the restaurant for lunch. Everyone enjoyed the meal and the atmosphere of the restaurant was welcoming.
However, the one question that always kept coming up from the guests, for which I did not have a sufficient answer, was "Who is Mama Melrose?" She was obviously the original owner of this family-run restaurant, but even six years after its opening in September 1991, no one working at the restaurant was able to tell me the backstory of the place. Once again, this was a case that when people stop telling the story, the story dies.
Actually, Mama Melrose's story began even before the park opened and, just like in a Hollywood movie from the 1940s, she was called in at the last minute to fill in for a superstar who was unable to appear for the big premiere.
In 1989, Disney Legend and iconic puppeteer Jim Henson was in final negotiations with the Disney Company to sell the rights to his famous Muppets characters, as well as become a creative consultant, especially on a Muppet Studios area at the new Disney-MGM Studios.
Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3-D attraction was just the beginning of a massive Muppet Studios area that would have included a Great Muppet Movie Ride, live shows, parades and more. Everything would have been themed to the Muppets who inhabited that backlot section. Everything would have subtly parodied the concept of classic Hollywood in the rest of the park.
In particular, there would have been a restaurant that was inspired by the famous memorabilia-filled eateries like Planet Hollywood and Hard Rock Cafe. Called The Great Gonzo's Pizza Pandemonium Parlor, the restaurant would have been operated by Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat. Things would constantly be going horribly (and amusingly) wrong both offstage and in the dining area itself.
Gonzo and Camilla the chicken would get temporarily lost and stuck in the ducts over the guests' tables where the guests could hear their conversation as they frantically tried to find their way out. Gonzo and Rizzo had hired the Swedish Chef to run the kitchen and guests could watch him making the meals for the diners on little television monitors overhead that would also show clips of the Muppets from their television shows and movies. Guests would have seen the food fighting back unexpectedly on the monitor, including armed bandit lobsters refusing to be boiled.
The walls would have been decorated with Muppet memorabilia (both real and created) just like a famous Hollywood restaurant. The place would also be interactive where at any moment the kitchen doors might explode open in a cloud of chicken feathers and rants from the chef. Rizzo and his friends (with the help of the serving staff) would deliver meals to the tables on a small model railroad train with flat cars that ran throughout the restaurant.
With the passing of Henson in early 1990, and the unsigned contract causing on-going disagreements between the Henson family and the Disney Company, the sit-down restaurant was never built.
In place of the Muppet restaurant, but utilizing some elements that had already been designed, Disney Imagineers conceived of a different Italian restaurant in the same location.
One of the suggestions was to name the restaurant Funicello's (or Annette's) to honor Disney Legend Annette Funicello. The restaurant would have been decorated with record albums and movie posters from her performing career. It was felt that this was a good choice because it would "theme" in with the park's concept of movie celebrities and since Annette was of Italian heritage it would be a good fit.
In addition, Annette had maintained a very good relationship with the Disney Company and several members of the Funicello family still work for the Disney Company today.
Unfortunately, one of the things that killed that proposal was that a top executive at the park, who no longer works for the Disney Company, had never heard of the popular singer-actress and felt that other Disney guests would be equally clueless.
In Disneyland Paris' Disney Village is Annette's Diner, a table service restaurant that is a tribute to Annette Funicello. It is modeled after a traditional 1950s-style diner with a menu including hamburgers and hot dogs, but no Italian offerings like pizza or spaghetti. Since it is themed to rock 'n' roll with waitresses on roller skates, like the classic drive-in diners of that time period, it has nothing in common with the previous proposal for the Disney-MGM Studios of an Italian restaurant in a warehouse.
It was decided to continue to pursue the idea of an Italian restaurant with Hollywood memorabilia, and so was born Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano. To aid in the illusion that Mama Melrose was an actual person, a Disney entertainer was pulled out of her regular role to dress up as Mama and pose with the restaurant's chef. That publicity photo was used to promote the restaurant during its first year of operation.
At the time, Disney CEO Michael Eisner was enamoured with the idea that everything at a Disney theme park would have a backstory, so the restaurant had to have a story to explain why it was there.
While she waited with the other extras between scenes, she cooked up Italian dishes with a little California flavor. She was so big-hearted that she shared some of these meals with her starving actor friends who were more than grateful.
Realizing that her dreams of stardom were not coming true, she opened her own Italian restaurant with the encouragement of her many friends on the backlot. The restaurant provided meals for a variety of Hollywood types from performers to the film crew to even producers and directors. Her flamboyant approach to life reminded the Hollywood studio moguls of the town's eccentric Melrose Avenue, so they nicknamed her "Mama Melrose."
It was a name that was so descriptive of her that it stuck and even today, no one can recall what her actual name might have been.
The restaurant became the location "where Italy meets California in the heart of the Backlot." It was housed in a warehouse that was used for storing film equipment, with an exterior façade that was used by motion pictures studios for shooting films based in New York City's Little Italy.
Mama and her friends converted the massive interior with what little funds they had into a family restaurant, but that is why the interior still has industrial-looking light fixtures, high ceilings with clearly visible air ducts, brick walls covered with graffiti, and worn floor boards in places from the moving of heavy equipment.
To make the huge space appear more inviting, Mama decorated with whatever she had available: Hollywood memorabilia that she gathered during her years in the film business and numerous items from Italy to remember and honor her family back home. Over the years, those items multiplied as friends in the film business and relatives from home continued to send her things to display.
That is the reason that the interior is such a mishmash of everything from Italian paintings to Hollywood film posters to records of famous Italian singers to pennants of California sports teams to license plates to cooking utensils. It suggests the home of a mother who accumulated many knick knacks as physical reminders of so many memories. Mama wanted to commemorate both her Italian heritage and her love of her new home of Hollywood.
It became a popular hangout for Hollywood celebrities,especially because of its nearness to where films were being made, and many of their photos dotted the lobby's walls.
The concept behind the "Star Today" program was to reinforce the idea that theme park guests had come to Hollywood and were in the midst of a real working film studio. Almost every day, a celebrity would make an appearance at the theme park. That appearance often included a motorcade parade down Hollywood Boulevard with the star in the back seat of a vintage automobile waving to the crowd gathered on the sidewalks.
I clearly remember standing with several others on the sidewalk outside of the Celebrity 5 & 10 building loudly yelling "Beam me up, Scotty!" to a much too gracious James Doohan who played the role of Scotty in the original Star Trek series. He must have heard people yell that phrase to him constantly for decades but he still smiled and waved.
Sometimes a handprint ceremony might be included for an addition to the forecourt of the Chinese Theater. More often was a "Star Conversation" at the Theater of the Stars (located where the entrance to Sunset Boulevard is today) where the star of the day would talk and then answer questions from the audience. The autograph portrait cards were printed so that some lucky guests had the opportunity for the celebrity to sign the big white blank beneath their black and white headshot.
While some of these stars were only there for one day, some were booked for several days in a row. The very first "Star Today" on May 1, 1989, was the always delightfully charming original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello.
In order to fill so many slots, the celebrities ranged from A-list to D-list and covered areas from movies to television to music. The program was officially discontinued after about a year and a half because it became more and more difficult (and expensive) to get recognizable celebrities to participate.
However, a mini-museum to some of those who received the honor still exists at Mama Melrose's Ristorante Italiano and sometimes confuses current guests as to why such an eclectic mix of personalities (some of whom are almost completely forgotten by today's audiences) was chosen to be displayed. Someone (according to the Imagineering storyline) has even stolen the old "Melrose Avenue" street sign as a gift for Mama to display as a reference to her famous nickname.
Perhaps knowing this story will help enhance the experience for some Disney fans dining at this restaurant. Obviously, this information isn't vital for understanding or appreciating the meal. In fact, it is doubtful if any of the cast members currently working at this location have even ever heard of this story.
However, it was just another little touch of story by Disney Imagineering to bring some of the glamour and the allure of old Hollywood to what was then Disney's newest theme park.
Thanks for sharing the back story, Jim. I am glad Eisner wanted all these back stories since for me it adds to the magic. Can't wait for the next blog!


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D-LOB (the alias of Boldoo) is one of UB's more underground musicians. He's the older brother of well-known conscious rapper Quiza and the two have worked closely together over the years. While D-LOB has written lyrics for his younger brother and been featured as a rapper on several projects, his current passion is lyric-less. He's been DJ-ing weekly parties featuring jazz, soul, funk, and beats from around the globe, a project he calls DUNDGOL, after the river in UB he grew up next to. He says the goal of these parties is to bring people together to share ideas and opinions, and experience music most of them have never been exposed to.
With over 1500 albums, D-LOB also has one of the largest personal vinyl collections in Mongolia. He collected many of them when the College of Music and Dance was cleaning out its warehouse. They had been given various records during the communist era by similarly minded countries. Which means D-LOB now has a unique collection of early rock and traditional music spanning decades from places like Poland, Cambodia, Cuba, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, and a whole host of other places. He adamantly believes that we should expose ourselves to music from all places to better appreciate our own cultural heritage.
D-LOB now mixes with the music from his eclectic library. He's been taking soviet-era songs and giving them a modern twist with new beats and effects, while paying respect to the original musicians who he earnestly admires. One of my favorite examples of this is a song called 'Welcome 2 UB'. He features a song from one of his favorite bands, Soyol Erdene, Mongolia's first rock band (1971). In fact, he's such a fan that he created their Myspace page several years ago to help circulate their music.
You can listen to more of D-LOB's tracks here.
Watch some of D-LOB's videso below:
D-LOB'S introductory music video was shot by a European filmmaker traveling through UB back in 2008. 'Boldoo Baina' which translates to 'I am Boldoo' features D-LOB rapping in front of a statute of one of his favorite Mongolian poets, Natsagdorj, and then wandering through UB's main black market.
'Erkh Chuluu' or 'xxx' is one of D-LOB and Quiza's joint efforts. The song is about the aftermath of the 2008 legislative election that turned violent after people protested election fraud. The clashes between police and protesters led to the death of 5 civilians and injury of 220 civilians and 108 service members. It was a major black spot on Mongolia's still young democracy, and has many wondering how this year's upcoming elections will turn out. D-LOB and Quiza 'Erkh Chuluu' which translates to 'Freedom'. But they had a hard time finding anyone willing to record the song or help them produce a music video. Eventually Ragu, a well-known music producer living in UB but originally from Singapore and thus safe from governmental retaliation, helped them out. They convinced a young filmmaker to produce a video, which despite its 23,000 views on YouTube, has never aired on television here (a rarity).
This last song is another D-LOB/Quiza joint effort. It was their tribute to 2 decades of democracy. The title 'Dund Gol-Huh Tenger Medne' means 'Only the Sky Knows'. It's a reference to a letter written by one of Ghengis Khan's scribes to the Pope in response to a request to come visit. It basically means, 'Only God Knows'.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, that's not our best play, because a thousand words is a LOT of words. More words than could ever be necessary.
Let's look at the value of a picture from two different angles, at least when it comes to persuasion.
First, what is a picture?
Physically, it can be a photograph. It can be a graphic. It can be a cartoon, a drawing or a scribble on a whiteboard. If we choose this route, we ought to be aware that the viewer of the picture may see something different than we intend (remember the Rorshach Test?), which leads us to the second, affiliated definition.
A picture can be a story. A "word-picture," if you will. The physical definition requires little skill (after all, the word "scribble" is included, right?), but if we're going to use stories at pictures, it requires practice, preparation and commitment. For the sake of simplicity, simply consider the way one reads "The Night Before Christmas" to a three-year-old, compared to how one reads it to an older child. The willingness to seek the three-year-old sense of wonderment in any audience is what makes us qualified to use stories as pictures.
Even if we use actual images, we had better have a story to tell that narrows down the interpretations of the audience.
Second, what good is a picture in persuading?
A picture is better than our "shoulds," as we covered last Thursday. No one wants to know why we think they should or shouldn't do or not do something. A picture though, helps it become their idea! And when we show / tell them a picture that makes it their idea, that's where the magic happens.


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Basil Herbert Dean (27 de setembro de 1888 – 22 de abril de 1978) foi um diretor de cinema, produtor cinematográfico, escritor, ator e roteirista inglês. Foi pai do destacado musicólogo Winton Dean.

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Mortes por infarto agudo do miocárdio
Comendadores da Ordem do Império Britânico
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Escritores da Inglaterra
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Who doesn't love a bit of decorating? Prepping your blank canvas and preparing to fill a room with personal touches that will make it the perfect haven. So when it comes to decorating baby rooms, things just get even more exciting. Not only are you getting to prepare a special room for your bundle of joy, this might be the first major thing you've done to make baby's mark on your home – it's real!
An abundance of teddy bears and blankets aside, how to decorate a baby room is about far more than a cot and a changing table, it's about little touches of love to make your baby feel happy, safe and comfortable in his or her new home. Here are our top tips for how to make baba's little haven perfectly heavenly.
For parents who don't know the gender of their baby, yellow is often the go-to colour when it comes to decorating. It's bright, cheerful and actually a lot more interesting than stereotypical pinks and blues. But why stick with yellow? If you're a creative spirit, then your little one can share in your love of colour. Greens, purples and oranges, the whole rainbow spectrum, in fact, can look fantastic in a baby room, and there's no reason to stick to just one either, paint each wall a different colour, or get creative with some masking tape.
You don't even need to be bright to be a creative wiz, even grey baby rooms can look fantastic when teamed with light furnishings and accessories. Not in the mood for painting while being six months pregnant? No worries, a baby room poster or two can definitely spruce up any space to be perfect for a new arrival.
Once your colour is up, although they look just as fantastic on plain white walls, try a decal. These little pieces of wall decorating magic are easy to put up, just as easy to remove when baby is no longer so little (or if you are renting and can't paint your walls), and make even the smallest or most hurriedly decorated nursery room look like they've been given the 5-star design treatment. Decals don't have to be the huge images of forests, flowers or typography, even something as simple as a few scattered stars can give the room some real design spark.
Adorable as baby rooms can be, it's easy to end up with a room that can seem a touch generic. It may seem like there isn't much you can do to personalise the room for the special little person who hasn't even been born yet – but mummy and daddy can still leave their mark. Photo prints of the proud parents can make up a gallery wall, just be sure to add a baby photo when your bundle of joy does arrive. If your own parents have sentimentally kept hold of your baby things, they can be a great way of decorating the room, just frame them up and voila, multi-generational interior design magic.
Cute touches, bright colours and cartoon characters may seem like baby room essentials, but it's your house at the end of the day! Maybe you've just done up your house in a refreshing nautical theme and see no reason to exclude the nursery from that, so don't. If you want a stylish and elegant nursery, free of stereotypical colours and motifs, don't hold back. While the nursery is, in many expectant parents' minds, the place where you baby will rest and play all day, your little one is going to be wherever you are for the first few years of his or her life.
So if it is more beneficial for your nursery to also double up as a workspace, office or guest room (provided you can wheel the cot out at night!), then go for it. So long as there is nothing likely to cause trouble for curious little ones (sharp corners or overhanging ornaments, for example) decorating your baby room can be just as much for you as for your bump.
Ready to get started on baby's own room? Whatever your style, make it a place that you know your little one will love!


An employer issued crypto asset can motivate the salespeople to work harder, to have high sense of ownership and to become more loyal to the company during and after the employment. At the same time such distributed ledger technology based system can provide cheap credit for the company.
This document is for VCs, angels, board members and CEOs who are facing challenges in sales motivation and/or short-term company finances. The involvement of blockchain technology can provide new solutions to some old issues specifically in IT related and startup environment.
Most salespeople are motivated by tangible motivators such as base salary, commissions, target related bonuses etc. For them the best money is the quickest money even at the price of later disappointed clients. Most salespeople would close a deal as big as possible without considering the long term interest of a client since there are no long term considerations in his motivation system. In high-added value services it often takes a longer period of time for a client to realize that the service sold to him was overpriced or oversized. But when such realisation happens the client relationship suffers an irreversible damage or ceases to exist.
Depending on the industry it is safe to say that usually the highest staff turnover is in the sales department. Without a deep analysis let's just say that the average sales job requires less qualification and more depressing workload than other positions at a company. And these circumstances (among others) lead to high HR fluctuation among salespeople.
If an internal employee doesn't have some sense of ownership that can have a short-term impact on team spirit, reliability, careless usage of tools etc. Such internal attitude is damaging but easy and quick to detect, isolate and solve. But if a salesperson does not have the necessary sense of ownership that can have a long-term impact on client relationships, customer loyalty, brand recognition and revenue. There are many sales communications that are hard, illegal or impossible to quality control. Such as personal meetings, phone calls, instant messages etc. Hence it is hard and long to detect, isolate and solve damages done by demotivated salespeople who does not have regards of the company's future.
MLM systems are infamous of creating motivation systems made of hypnotizing intangibles. MLM systems make you believe that you can make it if you work hard enough. (Presenting wealthy role-models who made it, celebrating the top achievers in sports arenas, exhibiting your future bonus Ferrari, promising double payouts over sales targets etc.) There are special prerequisites (sales team size, company size, etc.) to create such motivation systems that are unavailable for most companies.
Money is not always a good cure and often it is contra-productive offering huge compensation packages for salespeople. If the compensation is significantly beyond the average needs of a sales colleague the abundance of money statistically takes away the drive. On the other hand the ever-shrinking margins limit the management's ability to overcompensate its sales team. (Not to mention that it is not proven that short-term money alone could create the necessary sense of ownership and loyalty towards the company).
Since ancient times the best motivator of the workforce is ownership or at least the promise of it.
If a salesperson is shareholder of a company he cares about the future of the company and his investment in it. He wants the best things for this company: long-term relationship with its clients, good team spirit and the best use of its market opportunities. Today many companies offer stock options for their salespeople as a compensation of achieving targets. In this case stock option means that the sales invests their work today and the result of the work could qualify them to become future shareholders. This requires partly compensated hard work today, long term thinking and patience (which means trust in the future of the firm). For publicly traded companies this is a way to go.
But for small companies and startups before an IPO stock options or even upfront shares are shaky promises. There is no or limited market for their shares and definitely no secondary markets for the stock options of such company. (Not to mention the fact that administration of ownership changes of a private company's shares or stock options require expensive and extensive legal and notary services.) So from the salesperson's point of view what could be the benefit of holding a microscopic fraction of a company's stock options or even shares if there is no feasible way of trading? Moreover IPOs are few and far between and it is impossible to predict when they could happen or would happen at all. Anyway most sales people could not care less of a could be IPO 5 years from now. If we want our sales to work hard today we must give them the sense of ownership today. If there is no feasible financial way out (quick exit), then our promise of ownership, the motivator, weakens and fails.
Many companies use point systems to measure and motivate their sales team. Such points can be achieved by closed deals or the sales of preferred portfolio items, etc. and can be lost by time or not meeting certain quotas… etc. These points can be regarded as IOU tokens of those companies where the point-system administration depends on the company. Hence trading and secondary markets are limited or restricted.
With blockchain technologies a company can issue a crypto asset based point system that represents certain quasi-share like promises of the company. Since all related characteristics of a crypto asset can be made transparent a trustless environment can be created. (quantity of issued tokens, number of holders, market price, trading history etc.).
At each period of payouts salespeople can be offered the choice of receiving their due commission in cash or in a quasi-share like company IOU. In the days of negative interests and unpredictable bluechips many salespeople would take the opportunity to invest (leave their money) in a company where they can actively influence and benefit from the success of that enterprise. Beyond having the most means to increase revenue salespeople have the most information and the most accurate estimation of any possible revenue growth of their own company.
Beyond creating the sense of ownership among our sales staff the crypto asset issuing company can get cheap financing for its operations.
Acme Inc (fictitious entity) had 1 million USD revenue last year. Acme Inc has 10 salespeople and quarterly 5% of its revenue is paid to the sales team as sales compensation (commissions, bonuses etc.).
Acme Inc issues (1 million) Acmecoin, a token of IOU, that represents certain promises of Acme Inc toward any holder of the coin (crypto asset).
Quarterly Acme Inc offers to purchase back Acmecoins at face value.
Sales people can freely decide if they want their due quarterly commissions paid in Acmecoins or in cash.
Salespeople can earn Acmecoins by regular sales activity as the quarterly commission payouts can be partly or fully in Acmecoins.
Salespeople can freely trade their Acmecoins among each other or with any third party at any given price.
Anybody can buy Acmecoins from any Acmecoin holder who is willing to sell on crypto-markets or OTC.
Acme Inc purchases Acmecoins at each quarter by offering face value price, this would offer the minimum of 90-day free credit for Acme Inc.
Crypto assets are blockchain based unforgeable, tamper-proof digital tokens that can represent any promise of an entity. (Such as a bond or a share or any type of IOU.) Easy, fast hence cheap to trade or exchange. Easy and fast hence cheap to check their quantity and velocity (number of issued tokens, number of holders, trade history etc.) Basically a crypto token based company IOU can offer all the benefits of an IPO without all the expenses and fuss.


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Allison Compton
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
Paralympic Volleyball Bronze Medalist
Allison Compton is a Paralympic Medalist and Motivational Speaker. She has turned what one would consider a disability into a platform to share her story and give hope to others that anything is possible with determination and believing in yourself.
Compton was born with a underdeveloped femur, causing her right leg to be half the size of her left. Her parents, heartbroken, had to make the decision to amputate her leg from the hip down, or have the doctors perform a very difficult procedure that would leave Compton with the greater use and control of her leg. After watching Compton use her little foot as a baby to stabilize herself, they knew they couldn't amputate. The procedure was a medical success.
In high school, one of Compton's coaches told her about a standing volleyball team for disabled athletes. She learned that the sport was currently only offered for men. She earned her spot among the men exhibiting skill and strength and proving her value on their roster. The team competed both internationally and nationally.
While she was able to compete in the United States, Compton ran into opposition among the global community. Leading up to the 2000 Summer Paralympics, her team jumped through hoops to get Compton cemented as a recognized athlete on the USA Paralympic Standing Volleyball team. They found out two days before going to the Paralympics in Sydney that she would not be allowed to play.
Four years of hard work by her and others in her corner resulted in the first Paralympic games to include a Women's Sitting Volleyball contention. Not only that, but she also led her team to the Bronze Medal match that year in Athens. They won their medal on a final point by Compton.
After her stellar Paralympic run, Compton retired in 2004 and committed her life to building her career, starting a family of her own and to raising awareness for people with disabilities. She now travels the country to tell her story and counsels parents of children with disabilities.
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Mary Molloy (left) pictured with her mother Toni (nee Hickman) Molloy in front of a 1897 photo of her grandmother, Mabel Bourke, a St Mary's College student. The Bourke family have a long association with the Catholic Church from early Wellington days and Bourke St in Kilbirnie (where St Catherine's College is situated) is named after them.
Laughter, joy, and delightful cries of 'Great to see you again!' and 'Do you remember…?' filled two days of reunion over Labour Weekend as Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sacred Heart Primary School, St Mary's College, and the Marist Brothers' school, celebrated 165 years of Catholic presence.
Faith was the winner, as young and not so young met to celebrate and give thanks for a formation in eternal values that prepared them for life in the world.
Even Wellington's fickle spring weather sparkled for the occasion and the parish and school communities rallied to provide an ideal setting for the present to meet the past.
An exhibition of photographs and memorabilia, carefully prepared by St Mary's archivist, Margaret Deere, filled the college library. With similar care and expertise, Sr Marcellin Wilson rsm presented a fascinating and extremely colourful display of liturgical garments, vestments and sacred vessels in the cathedral. Here, photographs and articles also remembered the Thorndon Marist Brothers' School which closed in the 1970s to enable the urban motorway construction.
People enjoyed two evenings of meeting and reminiscing over celebratory meals. Three guest dinner speakers provided a highlight. Two Mercy Sisters (Sr de Porres and Sr Marcellin) spoke of the Mercy charism evolving over the 165 years from being primarily concerned with teaching to embracing a range of ministries including nursing to social justice concerns and the care of women victims of violence and abuse.
The third speaker, Aysser Aljanabi, was St Mary's Head Girl in 2006. Aysser is Muslim and gave a glowing account of her time at St Mary's. She witnessed the extent to which understanding and acceptance of differences have advanced over the last 165 years.
The jubilee climaxed with a Mass of thanksgiving. Held in St Paul's Anglican Cathedral, just a few doors away from Sacred Heart Cathedral, this also showed the remarkable growth in ecumenical relations. Its larger capacity enabled a greater than normal congregation to gather.


The Garnet Valley School District received the distinction of being named Pennsylvania School Librarians Association's Outstanding School Library Media Program for 2000. This award is given to a district in which all schools provide an exemplary program that upholds the highest degree of professionalism and the greatest service to the students. This award is given to only one school district each year.
In 2006, the Garnet Valley High School Library received the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association's Inpidual Library Information Center Award in recognition of being the best Pennsylvania school library that is an integral part of the educational program of all students. The award is given to only one school each year.
The mission of the Garnet Valley School District libraries is to provide the framework for students to develop lifelong reading skills and lifelong learning skills, including the effective use of information technologies. The libraries will provide free and equal access to materials and information technologies that meet the intellectual, curricular, and recreational needs of students. To accomplish this mission, the professionally certified librarians at each building will instruct students on inpidual, small group, and classroom levels. In collaboration with classroom teachers, the librarians will enrich and supplement classroom activities and projects with library resources.
The libraries teach a curriculum based upon national standards from the American Association of School Librarians Information Literacy Standards and the Pennsylvania Assessment Standards.
Each of the five buildings in Garnet Valley School District has a library staffed by a full-time professionally certified librarian and a full-time paraprofessional. The libraries have an outstanding collection of periodicals, books, online databases, and audio-visual resources. Each library has computers that connect to the GVSD network and Internet as well as a computer lab located in or adjacent to each library. The librarians collaborate with the reading teachers as well as the study skills teachers at their schools to provide information and literacy skill instruction.
Each library has been renovated or has been newly constructed in recent years to incorporate newer technology and provide for the current needs of GVSD students. All libraries are members of Access Pennsylvania, a statewide interlibrary loan program and Power Library that provides fee-based online databases such as EBSCO magazine and newspaper database, encyclopedias, AP Photo Archives, SIRS, Facts on File and Gale literature databases. The elementary and middle school libraries have strong parent volunteer groups that help with paraprofessional duties in the library as well as provide fund-raising activities for library materials.
GVSD has a strong community commitment to libraries. Monetary donations are received from the community during the year. These donations provide library resources in addition to budgeted money from the school board.


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Q: Why don't I manage to enable connection on port 80 and 443? My OS is Debian 8, the ports 443 and 80 are not opened as shown by the following command:
nc -zv 127.0.0.1 80
localhost [127.0.0.1] 80 (http) : Connection refused

I'm trying to open them with the following commands:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 --syn -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -j ACCEPT

but without success.
Please note that I don't have any firewall activated (sudo ufw status verbose gives Status: inactive).
What am I doing wrong?

A: You aren't running any software that listens on that port.
"Connection refused" is the standard response of a system when you try to connect to a port that has no service attached to it. It's basically the networking layer saying "Nothing here, go away."
If you want to run a webserver, you'll have to install one; debian has several available -- you can use apt-get to install whichever one you prefer.

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describe('Controller: MainCtrl', function () {

  // load the controller's module
  beforeEach(module('demoApp'));

  var MainCtrl,
    scope;

  // Initialize the controller and a mock scope
  beforeEach(inject(function ($controller, $rootScope) {
    scope = $rootScope.$new();
    MainCtrl = $controller('MainCtrl', {
      $scope: scope
    });
  }));

  it('should attach a list of awesomeThings to the scope', function () {
    expect(scope.awesomeThings.length).toBe(40);
  });

  it('should attach a current values equal to 0 to the scope', function () {
    expect(scope.currX).toBe(0);
    expect(scope.currY).toBe(0);
    expect(scope.currPageX).toBe(0);
    expect(scope.currPageY).toBe(0);
    expect(scope.isMaxY).toBe(false);
    expect(scope.isMinY).toBe(false);
    expect(scope.iScrollParameters).toEqual(jasmine.any(Object));
  });

  it('should append an item to the of awesomeThings on the scope', function () {
    var _len = scope.awesomeThings.length;
    scope.append('appended item');
    expect(scope.awesomeThings.length).toBe(_len + 1);
    expect(scope.awesomeThings[_len]).toEqual('appended item');
  });

  it('should prepend an item to the of awesomeThings on the scope', function () {
    var _len = scope.awesomeThings.length;
    scope.prepend('prepended item');
    expect(scope.awesomeThings.length).toBe(_len + 1);
    expect(scope.awesomeThings[0]).toEqual('prepended item');
  });
});


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But in Botswana stylishly dressed bridesmaids and groomsmen, twisting and turning to music behind the groom and bride, are what light up weddings.
Otherwise the nuptial festivities do not leave lasting memories.
This is where Thapelo Mbali comes in. He has decided to get into the business of providing wedding dance services.
Mbali told BusinessMonitor that 'Baetsana for Hire' was started in 2010 as a group that would be booked for weddings to be bridesmaids and groomsmen.
He says it is a group of six, made up of three women and three men who are based in Francistown and Sowa Town.
The group started out with 14 members, a number that was trimmed over the years as Mbali says he had to cut ties with some of the members due to their lack of commitment to the group.
He says he had to reinvent the group two years ago while ensuring that he maintained his commitment to deliver the best services along with his team.
Mbali says the group does not only offer performances at weddings but also provides wedding dance coaching for the wedding entourage.
According to Mbali,
the group started in response to the lack of bridesmaids and groomsmen along with some people having their wedding entourage walking out on them at the last minute.
"The aim of the group is to be a go-to service provider that will not disappoint or pull out during the last minute. Batswana have been welcoming to the idea of my services even though there are still some complications," he said.
However, this year they have been getting a lot of gigs. He says the competition is very high, but sometimes he manages to beat them through his marketing strategy using social media platforms as a way to get their services exposed. He provides updates for followers on the group's Facebook page.
Moving forward, Mbali wants to have a car and house all the group members in one place in the interest of the group's convenience.
He says the biggest lesson he has learnt from being in the service industry is that one has to exercise patience as customers need a person who can be calm and collected even when the client is unreasonable.
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GRAND BLANC, Mich. — Retief Goosen still isn't a recognizable face on the PGA Tour, despite his memorable playoff win in the U.S. Open just two months ago.
He was turned away from the clubhouse at Warwick Hills on both Monda Tuesday this week while preparing for the Buick Open.
The South African didn't yet have the PGA Tour money clip players usually have on their belts as a means of identification because this will be his first start as a member of the tour.
That all changed yesterday as Goosen finally had the gold "2001 PGA Tour Member" money clip and no longer needed an escort to get in the clubhouse.
"It was nice to be able to walk in the clubhouse to get a drink," Goosen joked.
Goosen went from being the subject of jokes to U.S. Open champion at Southern Hills in June.
Buick endorser Tiger Woods chose not to play in the Buick Open after tournament officials, expecting him to appear, decided to put his face on billboards.
Seventeen of the top 30 players on the money list, including second-ranked Phil Mickelson, and 24 of the top 50 in the world golf rankings will compete for a $3.1 million purse this week.
Some players will use the Buick Open as a tuneup for the PGA Championship. Others will hope to get in a better position to make the U.S. Ryder Cup team, which will be named after the PGA Championship.
The top 10 finishers on the Ryder Cup points list automatically make it while captain Curtis Strange selects two players to make up the 12-man team.
MAHER MAKES SENIOR AMATEUR: John Maher of Marstons Mills qualified for the United States Senior Amateur Tournament by winning the local qualifier yesterday.
Maher shot a 1-over 73 at the par 72 Duxbury Yacht Club course, beating four players by one shot, including Paul Evans of Duxbury.
Evans, Alan Bouchard of Falmouth, Maine, Edward Carens of Natick and Leonard Ladd of Methuen also qualified for the tournament that will be held Sept. 8-13 at Norwood Hills CC in St. Louis, Mo.


An unnamed minor was fatally injured after falling out of the bed of a truck on Saturday at 1:10 a.m. (July 21). An unidentified minor driver was headed north on Manson Road near Lawrence County Road 406 in Randolph County in a 2012 Dodge Ram. The passenger fell from the bed of the truck and was pronounced dead at the scene by the county coroner.


PARADISE, Calif. — Nearly four weeks after the devastating blaze levelled her town, Jennifer Christensen was allowed back to return to her home in Paradise, where the first thing she saw was her son's charred tricycle in the front yard.
Christensen was among hundreds of residents who were allowed back into neighbourhoods on the east side of town for the first time since the Nov. 8 blaze, which killed at least 85 people and destroyed about 14,000 homes.
More than 50,000 people in Paradise and the neighbouring communities of Magalia and Concow were forced to quickly flee the towering, wind-driven flames that charred an area about the size of Chicago — 240 square miles (622 square kilometres) — and became the deadliest U.S. wildfire in at least a century. Authorities said 10 people were still unaccounted for.


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(665) CHALLENGING UK RESERVATIONS: BROADCASTING IN SCOTLAND
SNP First Minister Alex Salmond opened up his government's first challenge to the reservations of legislative competence laid down for the Scottish Parliament in the Scotland Act 1998 when on 8 August 2007 he announced the establishment of a commission to investigate Scottish broadcasting. The reservation of broadcasting to Westminster was a matter of some controversy during the parliamentary passage of the Scotland Bill in 1997-98. Mr Salmond as usual produced some neat soundbites, e.g. It was a previous BBC director general
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Merkle NL's full-funnel campaign fuels highly successful US recruitment drive for ASML
Search Engine Marketing (PPC)
ASML is an innovation leader and a growing global force in the semiconductor industry. Originally a Dutch high-tech company, founded in 1984, ASML has grown into an innovative world leader in the semiconductor industry, developing machines that can be used to produce microchips.
During the initial outbreak of Covid-19, a wave of redundancies led to an enormous increase in the number of job-seekers in the USA. Nonetheless, there was still an urgent need for ASML to recruit qualified staff, as the technical industry has a worldwide shortage of good personnel. But how could they find the right people to fill their roles when thousands of people were job-hunting?
Low candidate awareness of ASML was a key concern; although ASML established a foothold in the United States as early as 1999 and has expanded its operations to San Jose and Wilton, ASML's reputation and brand recognition in the US was still lagging behind that of the Netherlands.
ASML asked us to help respond to the recruitment challenge for their factory in Wilton, Connecticut, just across the border from the COVID-19 ravaged state of New York. Our first challenge was to attract the right calibre of applicants from a sizeable pool of available talent; our second was to develop a campaign in the Netherlands which had to include video material captured in the US, all whilst negotiating strict coronavirus control measures.
ASML partnered with Merkle Nederland to develop a 360-degree campaign to effectively promote the relatively unknown ASML in the US. As the lead agency, we were responsible for the entire creative concept and design.
Our campaign was built around the campaign message "We're Hiring": a clear and hopeful message for many people in the region who were made redundant or threatened by job loss due to COVID-19.
Within the campaign, the primary goal was to create as much awareness as possible to put ASML on the map as an employer, after which relevant jobseekers were triggered across different channels to pull them through the funnel to consider ASML and then apply for a job. Not only were target groups with an interest in and knowledge of the various areas of expertise within ASML approached, ASML website and Facebook page interaction retargeting was also used for target groups in Wilton and the surrounding areas (Connecticut, New York and New Jersey).
Although offices closed their doors, work in the factories continued as usual. Strict hygiene measures were taken which made it possible to film on location. Using the script and storyline that we provided, a videographer produced COVID-secure footage on location in America.
The video images were not only converted into social assets, but also used for audio and video streaming, on billboard posters along motorways, as display banners and as images for the landing page. And with the pandemic-fueled growth of home delivery services, the campaign was also deployed on pizza boxes in the Wilton region.
To generate the necessary awareness in the first layer of the campaign, videos of different lengths were used on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit. The awareness campaign was also shared via traditional channels, display ads and YouTube.
In the consideration and conversion layer, also known as the application layer, link previews, stories and carousels on social media were then used. Search advertising, display ads, YouTube and regional geofencing targeting were also used. Messages were personalised based on the characteristics of the audiences used. In the consideration phase, for example, specific link previews and stories were used with various messages that made the ASML campaign more relevant to specific candidates.
We drove the campaign strategy and implementation for social media, as well as the layout of the campaign page on the website for a smoother customer journey and the set-up of a real-time dashboard. In the dashboard, the performances of all channels came together as input to drive further optimisations.
Our collaborator, Valtech, was responsible for the media buying on the Google channels, and a US-based agency, A-squared, was responsible for the local purchase of media and geofencing within this project.
Results were highly impressive, delighting our client.
Social, display and video, focusing on awareness, yielded the following results:
9 million impressions
2,200 so-called job views, in which one of the vacancies was actually viewed on the landing page after landing.
Benchmarks on many of these channels were surpassed by far
32 concrete applications
Search was used to get people to consider ASML as a potential employer and eventually apply for a job. This lower funnel approach resulted in:
Over 3,000 job views
Traditional media also contributed to the objectives:
1.8 million people reached via television
4 million people saw the billboard
75,000 people came into contact with the flyers in pizza boxes.
Location analysis of the applications received, showed that:
51 applications were sent in from the area around the billboard
327 applications were submitted from the environment in which the flyers were distributed.
Finally, more than 1100 visits to the landing page were driven through targeted display, streaming video and streaming audio on local pages and platforms.
Our work put ASML on the map for the eastern United States and our full funnel approach drove a highly satisfactory number of applications for the skilled vacancies: a result of which both ASML and Merkle Nederland are very proud.
"Working with a creative partner like Merkle offered exceptional value. They hit the ground running, combining their knowledge of ASML - a complex business - with their social/digital expertise, to apply a cohesive messaging strategy across all channels. The end results speak for themselves."
Susan Hibbard
US Employer Branding & Recruitment Marketing Manager
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Neverland Bakery Lab is founded by Chiao Thai Hsing Flour Mill. It always invents surprising and tasty recipes based on natural flour. Bread-making skills like pressing, kneading, rolling, cutting, pinching and pulling are transformed into dynamic lines contained in the brand's inspiring visual identity and packaging.


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About Jessie J
Jessie J is a British singer. Born in 1988, she first came to fame when her single, "Do It Like A Dude" hit #2 in the UK. Singles "LaserLight", "Nobody's Perfect", "Who You Are", "Domino", and "Price Tag" all hit the Top 10 in the UK, making her the first British female artist to achieve 6 Top 10 singles in the UK. The latter two became Top 25 hits in the US, with "Domino" peaking at #6 and "Price Tag" hitting #23.
Jessie J's second album, Alive, became a UK-only release. The three singles, "Wild", "It's My Party", and "Thunder" all hit the Top 20 in the UK, with the first two making Top 5. On the album charts, it hit #3 and went gold.
Her third album, Sweet Talker, was released internationally and preceded by the smash single "Bang Bang" featuring Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj. In the UK, it went straight to the top of the charts, while in the US, it debuted at #6, tying her highest peak. Eventually, it hit #3, becoming Jessie's highest peak, Grande's second-highest, and Minaj's tied-for-highest. (Minaj later surpassed her peak with her number two single, "Anaconda".) "Bang Bang" also hit the Top 10 in Australia, Canada, Denmark, and New Zealand and went Platinum X6 according to RIIA. The next single, "Burnin' Up" was less successful, although it cracked the Top 100 in both the US and UK. Third single "Sweet Talker" was released in only the UK/Ireland, and fourth single "Masterpiece" hit the US Hot 100, but only managed a 159 peak in the UK.
After 3 years away from the music scene, Jessie came back with a fourth LP, R.O.S.E. (2018). The official single from the album is "Queen" along with two promo singles "Think About That" and "Not My Ex".
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Q: How to clear EOFill/Fill? I understand there is CGContextClearRect though that makes you clear everything inside the drawRect class.
How do i select one CGContextRef and clear that instead?
for my case my code goes:
//Put clearing syntax here
if(dp.gPoints == nil || dp.gPoints->size() < 1)
    return;
CGContextBeginPath(g);
vector<CGPoint>::iterator k = dp.gPoints->begin();
CGContextMoveToPoint(g, (*k).x, (*k).y);
++k;
while(k != dp.gPoints->end()){
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(g, (*k).x, (*k).y);
    ++k;
}
vector<CGPoint>::reverse_iterator L = dp.dPoints->rbegin();
while(L != dp.doodlePoints->rend()){
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(g, (*L).x, (*L).y);
    ++L;
}
//CGContextAddLineToPoint(g, (*k).x, (*k).y);
CGContextSetFillColor(g, CGColorGetComponents([[UIColor greenColor] CGColor]));
CGContextEOFillPath(g);

A: Replace these two lines:
CGContextSetFillColor(g, CGColorGetComponents([[UIColor greenColor] CGColor]));
CGContextEOFillPath(g);

with these lines:
CGContextSaveGState(g);
CGContextEOClip(g);
CGContextClearRect(g, rect);
CGContextRestoreGState(g);

assuming rect was the argument passed to your drawRect: method.


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Oleg Tinkov will announce Tinkoff Tour line up on Tuesday - News Shorts
Oss extends contract with BMC, Oliveira wins fourth Portuguese time trial title, Chernetckii takes first Russian time trial win
Team boss Oleg Tinkov with the team in its new La Datcha training kit (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
Daniel Oss was the Traguardi Volanti and Premio Fuga awards (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) (Image credit: Courtesy of Polartec-Kometa)
Sergei Chernetckii grabs his musette (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Oleg Tinkov to announce Tinkoff Team's Tour line up on Tuesday
Oliveira uses time trial skills to take breakthrough stage win in Vuelta a Espana
Oss has up and down day - Giro d'Italia Shorts
Tinkov: It's time to put the toy back in the box
The Tinkoff Team announced on Friday that Oleg Tinkov will personally reveal the names of the Tinkoff riders who will compete at the 2016 Tour de France, which starts in Mont-Saint-Michel on Saturday, July 2.
Broadcasting live from the Moscow headquarters of Tinkoff Bank on Tuesday, June 28, Tinkov will unveil his team's roster in an event that will start at 17 CET and will be streamed live on the team's Facebook page.
The team will head to the Tour de France leading the UCI WorldTour team rankings and with Peter Sagan and Alberto Contador sitting on the two top spots of the individual rankings.
Oss extends with BMC
Daniel Oss has extended his contract with BMC Racing Team beyond the 2016 season, the team announced on Friday. The 29-year-old Italian has been with the US WorldTour team since coming over from Liquigas-Cannondale in 2013.
Oss said BMC was the ideal team for him.
"I really love BMC Racing Team," he said. "The atmosphere, the people, and the BMC Switzerland bikes, these are the reasons why I want to stay. I feel that I have more to give the team, which the team also deserves, so I'm looking forward to making that happen this season and beyond."
BMC does not comment on the length of rider contracts.
Oliveira wins fourth Portuguese time trial title
Movistar's Nelson Oliveira claimed his fourth career Portuguese TT title on Friday, his third consecutive win in the country's time trial test. The 33-year-old also won the crown in 2011, 2014, and 2015.
Oliveira covered the 36km course in 43:30, 1:13 faster than runner-up José Mendes (Bora-Argon 18) and third-placed Rafael Reis (W52-FC Porto-Porto Canal).
"I'm super happy to have won again in my country against the clock. It makes me just as happy as it did when I grabbed this jersey for the first time," he said. "It was a good day, considering I was looking for some strong legs, considering the point of the season we're in. I knew this course really well from last year's Nationals and I knew what I had to do and what I'd tackle during the race. I tried to keep the same speed and following the references I put on myself in 2015 while saving some energy for the final part of the race, where I really wanted to test my legs at maximum effort.
Oliveira will seek for a second road race title on Sunday at the Sameiro circuit (177km), his last appearance before a decision is made on his Tour de France official selection.
"Now we're setting our sights on Sunday's road race and, then, the Tour," he said. "I'm raring to go there; I just can wait and see if the team wants me in. Let's hope I can make it in."
Sergei Chernetckii wins Russian time trial title
Katusha's Sergei Chernetckii took his first Russian time trial title Friday in Sebastopol, edging Tinkoff's Pavel Brutt by less than a second over the 49km course. Katusha teammates Maxim Belkov, Anton Vorobyev and Vladimir Isaychev finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively.
Chernetckii began his race in the middle of the start list and marked the best times both at the intermediate points and at the finish line.
"I am really happy, and honestly, I did not expect to win the gold medal today," Chernetckii said. "I can't say the time trial is my strongest point, but as you know in the WorldTour this kind of race has a great impact when you are fighting for the GC. So I have worked a lot on this matter.
"Today, it was a question to give your best on this hard course. I did not think about any concrete place, just working hard on the distance from the start until the finish. Of course before the start I thought about my possible result, and I thought maybe I could reach the podium. But to win this race – this is something special for me. I came here to the championships in a good form after Tour de Suisse, so I was pretty happy I could transfer it to such a nice result."


We have the summer of fun list; have chosen the activity for the day; collected whatever supplies we may need and… it rains… again.
What do we do when the activity we've chosen for a day is an outdoor activity and mother nature decides to take her shower?
Over all it's been a fairly rainy summer so far. We've been lucky to this point though as most of our outdoor activities have been blessed with sun, or at least cloudy, days with little or no rain. We could care less if it rains when it's an indoor activity.
Thankfully, I have pretty laid back kiddos who don't let a lot of things rattle them.
Anyway, one of the things we did today was read some more off of our list of top 100 inspiring children's books.
I don't know if it was intentional or whether it was pure coincidence, but all four of the books we read today seemed to carry the same theme or main idea.
The idea that YOU are enough just as you are.
First up, Spoon: Spoon is personification at its finest. Spoon thinks everyone has it better than he. He rattles off all of the great things fork, knife, and chop sticks can do. His mother listens intently, politely commenting on all Spoon says. Boy can I relate to Spoon! There are plenty of times when I think others are doing such great things while my life seems so unimpressive. It feels as if what I do just is simply ho-hum; While others are greatness in all they do! Spoon doesn't know his friends are saying the same thing about him. Does Spoon finally see his own worth and how lucky he is? Click on the book and listen to the story to find out!
Next, So Few of Me: I related to this book probably more than anyone else in the fam. Why? Well, Leo, a busy lad, has a list of things to do. Yet it seems the more he does, the more the list grows. How will he ever get everything done? Wish for two of himself of course. I'm always saying there isn't enough of me to go around; I have too much to do; I need more hands. Well, Leo is much like that. He doesn't know how he will get everything done. He doesn't have enough hands…. he will have! Click on the book and check it out. Find out what happens when Leo gets his wish.
These two books, sparked some really good conversation about how we can feel less than valuable or like we aren't enough. I'm sure you're going to enjoy both of these inspiring stories.
Every one of these books really is an inspiration! You're not going to regret reading any of these to your children or even to yourself!
What is one of your favorite children's books?
I love Dr Seuss books. My son's 13 now and into Zombie's and such like so we rarely read together these days. In recent years we've really enjoyed various Michael Morpurgo books, especially born to run about a greyhound. The David Walliams books have been funny, and we loved a series by Suzanne Collins called The Underland chronicles (she's better known for The Hunger Games).
I will have to check out Michael Morpurgo books. Haven't heard of him. Have you and your son ever read the Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy? We are currently in the 6th book of the series. It's really quite good.
New to you blog and such a refreshing read! Love the choice of books as well.


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Former DIA CIO Joins MetroStar as Vice President of Customer Solutions
09/14/2021 | Career Growth | Feature
Written By: Rachel Teter
Reston, VA—On Sept. 7, the former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Chief Information Officer (CIO), Jack Gumtow, joined MetroStar as the Vice President of Customer Solutions.
MetroStar is pleased to have Mr. Gumtow join the organization, as his 34-years of federal experience and military service align with our ongoing investments and recent wins in support of the Intelligence Community (IC) and their unique needs.
"I am looking forward to applying my knowledge of the IC and Department of Defense (DoD) to MetroStar's portfolio of capabilities and teams to ensure our federal customers meet their mission demands," Gumtow said.
MetroStar's cross-functional teams emphasize the importance of customer-centric and secure solutions to protect and advance the mission demands of the highest levels of government. Our capabilities not only enforce the day-to-day information technology (IT) functions of digital security, data management, and communication but also simultaneously modernize data analysis for better decision-making in the future.
"We are excited for Jack to join MetroStar's leadership team during a time of immense growth," said Vy Truong, Chief Innovation Officer at MetroStar. "His years of leadership and experience within the IC will bridge our technical capabilities with the mission requirements of our warfighters."
Mr. Gumtow joined MetroStar following a successful career solving complex technical, cultural, risk, and policy issues for the DoD and IC. His career spanned technical leadership roles with DIA, Naval Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence.
About MetroStar
MetroStar, located in Northern Virginia, is a leading IT and digital services provider for the public sector. For over two decades, our people have powered innovation by maintaining an unwavering commitment to putting people at the center of every solution. Our focus on people and technology supports federal missions like protecting our nation's classified and open-source information to alleviate the burden of new and ever-changing cybersecurity threats.
Visit our website to learn how our technology solutions dramatically transform the way our government serves warfighters in the digital age.
Read Jack's full People of the Move feature on the Washington Business Journal.
Rachel Teter
press@metrostar.com
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