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New Jersey, Philadelphia and now San Francisco are all banding together to stop retailers like Amazon operating cashierless stores.
While Amazon is in the midst of a nationwide expansion, with an extra 3,000 Amazon Go stores in the works, cities across the country are looking at adding the retailer to a list of outlawed store concepts.
According to a report on CNBC, San Francisco is looking at a proposal that could ban cashless stores such as Amazon Go. This makes the city the third location to enact a plan against retailers branching into a cash-free store experience.
Major US markets are rising up against the growing prevalence of cashless stores in their states/cities, with Philadelphia's Mayor signing a bill to ban the new retail format. New Jersey's Governor is following suit, with both locations looking to implement these bans by July 1. This decision seems to have started a new trend in the region, as New York City is also reportedly considering the ban, while a council member in Washington DC is currently calling for cashless restaurants to be outlawed.
Interestingly, these areas aren't the first to introduce restrictions of this nature. In 1978, Massachusetts introduced new laws, forcing retailers to accept cash as a valid payment method.
Officials arguing for the ban claim that cashless stores discriminate against low-income shoppers who might not have sufficient funds to maintain a debit account or are unable to attain a credit card. Retailers, on the other hand, say that cash-free is the way of the future as it reduces theft and prevents tax evasion.
Initially, Amazon Go, which is a cashierless store, wasn't part of the proposed ban since the company doesn't have staff members handling cash on the premises. The legislative proposal, however, has since been expanded to include the e-commerce giant, which could put a damper on the brand's plans to open as many as 3,000 new outlets across the country.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Amazon requested an exemption from the proposed laws in Philadelphia. While the city is reportedly looking at a workaround that would allow stores with membership models like Costco to be exempt from the ban, it seems unlikely Amazon Go will be looked on as favourably, as shoppers do not need to be Prime members to shop at the cashierless supermarket chain.
San Franciso, on the other hand, has explicitly named Amazon Go in its ban, which could impact the global behemoth's two stores in the area and proposed new store openings.


It's Friday and time to post my Celebrate the Small Things on this blog.
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My small things for this past week, some not so small, but all great!
First is a wonderful weekend with family in celebration of our granddaughter's graduation from high school. We drove to NY, stayed in a B&B reserved for family It was a longer drive than expected but worth it. Time to talk, laugh, cry, hug, and eat our way through the short time together.
Last but far from least, I finally got my middle-grade fantasy short story compilation, 7 Days of Seven, published at Amazon!! I haven't publicized it yet, still trying to get some reviews. But it's live.
When we are traveling, we always worry about how the house fares during a severe storm. There were several during the two months we were in Maryland. I got to the house first, Stu having stopped to get the RV/truck washed.
We opened up the house. Everything was fine until we looked on the porch. Devastating storm damage. FEMA needs to be called. We need help. We will rebuild. WARNING graphic images! Donna, please be strong. We can survive!
The comments were hilarious....here are some of the best ones.
Gail C: I think the cow did it.
Reply from Gail to Janice: I mean look at her. She's watching to see what their reactions going to be. She's smirking to herself.
Robert T: Nothing left to do now but burn it all down.
Rob H: The winds must have been horrific! Can you imagine what it took to toss that chair as though it was made of light aluminum and canvas??? I'm still picking up my jaw off the ground!!
William M: That's not storm damage..... That is clearly earthquake damage.... See it all the time here in California!
Kendall B: I've been there. You can rebuild!
Scarlet B: Oh no!!! not the folding chair!!!!! I'll come on the next flight!
Seriously, the house is fine. We've moved in all the food and other necessities. More to come into the house but we have time, no deadlines. Life is good!
We are so blessed to have our lifestyle, one where we can change plans pretty easily. And that is exactly what we did this past weekend. We had intended to leave Maryland on Sunday, arriving at our home in Tennessee on Tuesday. A last minute invitation changed that and we will now arrive at home on Thursday. Not a big change, but happy we could easily do it.
Here are a few photos...oh, all taken with my little iPhone because guess who forgot their camera!
As soon as we got on I-95, there was an accident requiring HazMat - turned out a semi-truck had lost a saddle tank (fuel).
When we got the the New Jersey turnpike - repeat.
On to New York state and a 54 minute backup! We opted to get off at the service plaza and wait it out.
The party is just getting started - five girls, their families and friends all celebrating their graduation from high school. The crowd grew as the evening wore on...everyone had a blast!
The graduate - Abbi. She is my late husband's youngest daughter's older daughter...phew!
I also got to see my youngest daughter and three grandkids...it had been too long and they are growing up so fast!
We left on Saturday, a day earlier than planned because I wasn't feeling all that great. A bunch of the kids all went hiking...it's such a beautiful area!
Sunday we laid back and just relaxed...in fact I took two long naps before finally crawling out of bed at 3pm. So today we are doing all the necessary de-oozing (putting away all the stuff that has oozed out over two months) as well as checking tire pressure, getting the garage ready to load the bike, cleaning the roof of tree debris, etc.
So tomorrow we are off and if all goes well, we should arrive home in Tennessee sometime on Thursday. WOOT!
I had a good one week check-up for my right eye. Looking forward to getting my final glasses next month in TN. Then the readers will be for early morning and late night reading.
I found great sunglasses at Sam's Club - they have readers built in. Perfect for the drive to Tennessee.
After my checkup, we stopped at Baskin-Robbins for ice cream. I had a scoop of Jamoca and a scoop of Baseball Nut. Hubby had two scoops of differing mixtures of chocolate and peanut butter.
Discovered a FUN iPhone/Ipad weather app, aptly named WTForecast. Shared it on Facebook and several friends just had to have it...LOL! It has three profanity settings - none, some and no holds barred (I'm using the latter). This is what it showed Monday afternoon as a storm ran through.
It's been five weeks since the surgery on my left eye and a week since the surgery on my right. Things continue to improve. I had the expected dryness and irritation in the right eye as well as things being fuzzier, first yellow tinted, then red tinted but that is all gone now.
Here is a little comparison of my post-op photos in case you missed them...left eye was taken in the truck, right eye in Denny's.
My left eye is 20/20 and at one week my right eye is between 20/30-35. That is actually better than I expected due to the severity of the nearsightedness in that eye. At 20/400, I was legally blind without correction. Needless to say, I'm thrilled!
The eye drops are minimal now, once a day for one kind and twice a day for another plus artificial tears in both eyes as needed for dryness. I still have to wear the patch at night for another week, as well as avoid exertion and lifting for another week.
I highly recommend Dr. Sachin, Kalyani and will see him again in another year. In the meantime, I will see an opthamologist in Cookeville, TN to get glasses which will correct my astigmatism in both eyes for distance vision and correct the farsightedness as well. Life is good!
First was attending & enjoying our granddaughter's 3rd birthday party. She had a blast as did everyone who attended.
Can you tell it was Troll themed? Her favorite...for right now.
A successful eye surgery for the cataract on my right eye. Thankful for a wonderful husband who takes care of me when I need it, whether I want it or not.
We seem to have won the battle of the ants - thank you, Terro! It has yet to fail us. We prefer the liquid we dispense, not a fan of the bait traps. We also got some powder to spread at the house.
Finally, I got an AMAZING bathing suit for $19.98. It fits, looks good and I would actually wear it in public. I haven't had a suit like that since 2010. I went back to the site to get a photo and saw it's down to $9.98 but only in small sizes. Oh well...I did snag a second one, I don't like it quite as well, but if I lose 10#, it will look better (too much belly-LOL).
A pretty darn good week!
For those who have been following along, I got my left eye cataract surgery done a month ago and got my right eye done this past Monday. While it was the same surgery (with a different strength lens implant), there were some differences.
First difference, the left eye was an afternoon surgery. This one had us at the medical center by 6:30 am and it's an hour drive! Way too early for me...yes, that's a sunrise. I don't see many of those...LOL!
With the first surgery, I was aware of going into the OR area, being prepped, having some discomfort, getting the drape pulled off (the anesthesiologist says everyone remembers that), eating/drinking my snack and walking out to the truck.
Not so this time around. In my discussion with the anesthesiologist (a different one, and my nurses were different as well - they seem to rotate), I mentioned the pain I had. He asked if I had said anything and I said no since I didn't want to move my face. He told me if I had any discomfort, speak up, it's okay! We had a nice chat while he mixed up my "cocktail". He injected it into my IV and BOOM! That's pretty much the last thing I remember clearly until I was eating at Denny's. Yes, I am definitely woozy.
You'll notice I've got a sweatshirt over my shoulders. I don't remember that. I don't remember going into the OR, the drape being ripped off, chatting with Stu while eating my snack. I don't even remember being unstable and getting taken to the truck in a wheelchair. LOL! The cocktail did the trick...I slept most of the way home after eating and I slept most of the rest of the day (off & on).
I had my one day checkup yesterday and everything looked good. My right eye was my extremely near-sighted eye, so I knew there would be differences. It's not clearing as quickly as the left and things have a yellow cast to them. I told the doctor and he wasn't concerned. I am still amazed at the crispness and sharpness of things with my left eye.
The biggest issue is now being very far-sighted, something I'm not used to. I can't see the kitchen counter clearly. I can't even see the toothbrush when applying toothpaste. LOL! Because my right eye was done last, I was wearing my old glasses with just the right lens. Now I have taken over every pair of reading glasses that Stu used before he got prescription glasses.
I have my one week checkup next Monday and will get my final instructions on the eye drops. I am still using the Prednisone drops in the left eye, but have stopped the other two. I continue to use Soothe artificial tear drops several times a day in both eyes. It really helps with the first week after surgery of irritated feeling in the eye, plus I suffer from very dry eyes under normal conditions.
So, I can see distance beautifully and will be able to drive to Florida. But I need to always keep reading glasses handy or I'm in trouble. I have one pair on an eyeglass cord...funny to be out wearing two pairs of glasses on cords - at the same time! One for my fitover sunglasses and one for my reading glasses. I look forward to getting my final prescription glasses next month. I have an appointment on July 12th with an opthamologist in Cookeville.
All in all, I'm very pleased with the entire procedure. Now to deal with two weeks of wearing my night patch, no exertion and no lifting. Ahhh, it's a tough life - NOT!
Saw a great movies, Wonder Woman. Wow!
Small in the grand scheme of things, but all in all, a good week.
Busy as the ants in our rig!
We had a nice weekend, well except for the ant invasion. Thank goodness we already had a bottle of Terro on hand. It works wonders...usually within 24-48 hours. We are down to a couple of stragglers but just to be sure, we got the spreadable version for outdoors.
We've used this for several years, always trying to perfect where we place it. This time I think we found the perfect way - on the back side of paper plates. I will be picking up some smaller ones just for this purpose.
We did refresh the dots a couple of times, they do eventually dry out. The good thing is the ants take the bait back to the nest and they all die.
Saturday we headed out on the motorcycle for a ride, it was a gorgeous day. I hadn't been out since my eye surgery and found I still had some issue with the wind getting under my helmet shield and Fitover sunglasses. I solved that by taking off my glasses and just wearing the Fitovers which put them closer to my face and kept the wind from coming in from underneath. We rode to Rock Hall where we enjoyed browsing a couple of shops and, oh yeah, having ICE CREAM!
We have another couple of busy weeks ahead. Today is a home day - laundry and chores. Tomorrow is an early morning doctor visit for us both (primary care). Don't expect anything out of the norm but always happy to get it out of the way. Since Stu has to be fasting for his blood work, we'll enjoy breakfast out - somewhere.
Wednesday Stu will get to go to a retiree luncheon with his firefighter buddies. He rarely gets to these monthly gatherings so I know he'll enjoy it. Thursday he has a dermatologist appointment, we'll catch a movie (maybe "Wonder Woman") and then dinner with our Thursday night friends (no, they aren't friends just on Thursday nights...LOL).
Friday I start my eye drops in my right eye in preparation for getting the cataract removed from my right eye. We have no idea what my vision will end up due to the extreme nearsightedness in that eye. The ophthalmologist has already tweaked the prescription for the lens twice, in hopes of a better result. Me? I'll be thrilled if it's 20/60 like my left eye was at one week post-surgery.
Saturday is Waverly's birthday party - she'll be three. (Eeek! We need to start making plans for Disney next year.) It's a troll themed party and Waverly can't make up her mind on what hat/hairband to wear. LOL!
Monday is my surgery, Tuesday is my first check-up. That means a quiet week since I now know from experience how tired I will be. No exertion or lifting restrictions back in place and after giving up the eye patch for the first time last night, it will be back in place. So glad I figured out the eye mask solution...it works much better and saved my face from the irritation from the tape.
Right now we plan to leave here on Sunday, June 25th which will be two weeks after my second surgery. I should be fine to drive without glasses but will definitely be using readers for the close things. But as always, plans are set in jello!
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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for costume parts from various characters in movies, media, comic books, and cartoons, whether or not they meet a strict definition of mermaids.
For instance, for awhile, Callisto (a character from the X-men) was given tentacles instead of arms (thanks to a mutant who had the power to transform others' shapes, but not her own). I think they'd look cooler if they were purple or blue instead of green, and if perhaps they were surrounding the arms instead of replacing them, maybe attaching the tentacles to a vest of some sort. It should be noted that Callisto (even with tentacles) has enhanced senses and combat skills, but no notable aquatic powers, and I'm uncertain if she could breathe underwater or project herself through the water at the time (it never came up in the comic, and she no longer has tentacles, so I can't find out). Here are some picture of Callisto with tentacles.
Callisto is from Marvel Comics, and the images were found on Google from the marvel database and the rpg.net forums.
One of the newer X-men characters, Transonic, is able to fly and naturally looks like a humanoid combination between a fish and a jet of some sort. However, when she flies in high winds or at incredible speed or into the upper parts of the atmosphere, her body becomes more aerodynamic and piscine... including taking on a mermaid-like form. I was thinking that several aspects of her appearance would make some cool costume parts for a creative mermaid.
Mermaid is a character from an alternate future world, also by Marvel. She is a member of a future version of X-men, and she has a fish tail instead of legs and is able to swim through the air (though we're uncertain whether or not she can breathe underwater, or has other watery powers, or how capable a flier she actually is). Her combination of the traditional mermaid image and X-men uniform is pretty cool, though.
Another character, Aspen Matthews, from the Aspen Comics series, Fathom, can breathe underwater, turn into living water, control water, etc. She was raised by a human, trained as an Olympic swimmer but became a marine biologist, only to discover that she was actually the child of one of the Blue (water-breathing people who live under the ocean in great high-tech coral cities, some of whom can merge with water) and one of the Black (abyss-dwelling people, considered mythical even to the Blue, with godlike powers over water). While the Blue wear armor that resembles bone or coral, the Black wear impressive outfits that draw on elements from a number of different marine creatures, including lionfish, manta rays, crustaceans, etc, giving them the appearance of inhuman merfolk (their costumes disguise their legs as tails). Aspen herself, though usually shown in human or "living water" form, has been dressed in The Black-style outfits on at least two occasions.
I'm also curious: has anyone made tails for a more classic triton costume, with two tails (one for each leg) instead of two legs bound together in one tail?


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27+ diversity & inclusion workplace influencers to know
Steven Huang
Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Culture Amp
On my first day as the Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Jo Cranford, our Director of Engineering, sent me a message: "What are we going to do about the t-shirts?" I had no idea what she was talking about - I thought our unisex t-shirts fit great! Jo let me know that was not the case and that many women at Culture Amp were uncomfortable wearing them.
I learned an important lesson - every person has blind spots. As a DEI practitioner, it is my job to cover as many of my blind spots as possible to ensure that I am creating a diverse workplace and equitable employee experience, particularly for people on the margins. Every DEI function should follow a diverse group of influencers to ensure their own blind spots are covered.
So, as the Culture Amp team worked to put together our Diversity, Inclusion, and Intersectionality report in 2018 and in 2019, we reflected upon the work of great people who have come before us. Whether it's running a thought-provoking workshop, leading the charge for inclusion internally, championing diversity in venture capital firms, or many other worthy initiatives, these diversity, and inclusion workplace influencers have inspired us.
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The group that we're highlighting is in no way an exhaustive list. In fact, we're looking forward to hearing who has inspired you. Thank you to those who have recommended influencers to be featured. We're proud to present our updated list for 2019, and we hope to continue to recognize more changemakers.
Lenora Billings-Harris
President and CEO, UbuntuGlobal
Lenora Billings-Harris is a diversity strategist, author, and Hall of Fame speaker. Through her company, UbuntuGlobal, she partners with clients to leverage diversity in order to increase inclusion and reduce the impact of unconscious bias - ultimately leading to improved bottom-line results.
What she teaches us: How to respect and value differences
"Diversity, inclusion, respect, and fairness are concepts that make some people reluctant to discuss them. I work hard to create a safe, nonjudgmental, and uplifting environment that makes exploring sensitive topics a positive journey for all. Most importantly our participants leave our sessions with the knowledge to activate easy-to-apply actions, and a deeper understanding of the concepts discussed. All programs, processes, and resources reflect my belief that we are all more effective, productive, and innovative when we honor and value our own uniqueness while at the same time valuing and respecting the differences of others."
Torin Perez
Keynote Speaker, Learning Designer & Facilitator, Author
Torin Perez is a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant on a mission to inspire authenticity and inclusive leadership in the workplace. He is also a sought-after speaker and the author of the book Who Am I to Lead? The World Is Waiting for You.
What he teaches us: The power of inclusive leadership
Torin weaves together stories, psychology, and actionable ideas to inspire people to become more inclusive leaders in the above talk. He also offers a fresh perspective on how to recognize bias and encourages individuals to lead from where they are, regardless of their rank, title, or role.
Carin Taylor
Chief Diversity Officer, Workday
Carin Taylor has global responsibility for the development and execution of Workday's inclusion and diversity strategy. She brings over two decades of experience from her time at Cisco Systems and Genentech, where she specialized in building and leading highly effective teams and created strategies to enable large organizations to leverage diversity and inclusion to drive innovation.
What she teaches us: How to have difficult conversations in the workplace
"Diversity and inclusion is less about a program, and more about helping people become comfortable enough to have a dialog about their experiences - including times when we have felt like an outsider."
Ryan Carson
CEO and Founder, Treehouse
Ryan Carson currently oversees Treehouse, an online technology school. Treehouse is currently in a partnership with AnitaB.org, The Boys & Girls Clubs of America, and Aminé for Project: Unlock the American Dream. The mission of the program is to place 100k Apprentices, raise incomes by $40k, cover 100% of families with healthcare, create $200b of generational wealth and $0 student debt.
What he teaches us: Why hiring a diverse team is critical
"[If] we only build products for white people, then we limit our market. And so there's no way that I as a white guy understand what a black woman needs and wants. And so if I don't have any black women on my development team and my engineering team, how are we going to build products to actually meet those needs? So diversity and equity and inclusion are really important from a business perspective."
Arlan Hamilton
Founder, Backstage Capital
Arlan Hamilton is the founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. She built the firm from the ground up while homeless. Backstage has now invested nearly $7 million into 125+ startup companies led by underestimated founders.
What she teaches us: The importance of bringing diversity to venture capital
"It was crazy to me that 90% of venture funding was going to white men when that is not how innovation, intelligence, and drive are dispersed in the real world. I had no background in finance, but I just saw it as a problem. Maybe it's because I was coming from such a different place that I could recognize it."
Oona King
Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Snap
Oona King is Snap's first Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion and was most recently Google's Director of Diversity Strategy. She's also a former member of the British Parliament with the Labour Party and a former Senior Policy Advisor and speechwriter to the Prime Minister.
What she teaches us: That one individual has the power to make a huge impact
In 2016, Oona introduced an amendment to Parliament that requires all companies in the United Kingdom with over 250 employees to publish their gender pay gap. As a result, the law that she helped pass has had far-reaching influences across the UK, Silicon Valley, and beyond.
Co-Founder and CEO, Awaken
Michelle has been a social justice activist and community organizer serving on organizations like the San Francisco LGBTQ Speakers Bureau, UC LGBTIQ Association Steering Committee, San Francisco Human Rights Commission's Advisory Committee, and LYRIC youth nonprofit's Board of Directors. Awaken offers interactive, thought-provoking workshops that enable today's workforce to address tough diversity and inclusion, leadership, and culture questions head-on. Their mission is to create a compassionate space for uncomfortable conversations to develop inclusive leaders and teams.
What she teaches us: The truth about unconscious bias training
The 'unconscious bias training works vs. doesn't work' debate is too reductive."
Michelle is a great person to go to for advice on thinking critically about the debate and deciding what's best for your workplace.
Bonus: Managing teams in times of political trauma — what to do, what to say to boost psychological safety.
Iris Bohnet
Professor and author, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Iris Bohnet, the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, is the Academic Dean of Harvard Kennedy School. As a behavioral economist, she combines insights from economics and psychology to improve decision-making in organizations and society, often with a gender or cross-cultural perspective.
What she teaches us: Gender equality as a moral and business imperative
Iris uses behavioral design as a solution to de-bias organizations instead of individuals, making changes that are impactful.
Candice Morgan
Head of Diversity and Inclusion, Pinterest
Candice Morgan leads strategy and programs at Pinterest to enhance a diverse and inclusive company. She has over a decade of experience in diversity strategy and practice from her time at Catalyst, the leading nonprofit for research, advisory, and practices on women in business, and is a frequent speaker and advisor at conferences and events worldwide.
What she teaches us: How to bring diversity to tech products
As part of her role, Candice thinks of initiatives to bring more diversity to the Pinterest product. One of the initiatives she's currently working on with the engineering, product, and design teams is developing features like skin tone ranges, making the Pinterest search more inclusive.
Minda Harts
Founder and CEO, The Memo
Minda Harts is a seasoned speaker and thought leader on the topics of advancing women of color, leadership, equity, and entrepreneurship. She's an assistant professor of public service at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the founder of The Memo LLC, a career development company for women of color.
What she teaches us: Closing the racial and gender pay gap
Her book The Memo: What Women Of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table shares the strategies and tactics women of color can use to succeed in the workplace. She also explains what people can do to actively create inclusive work environments.
Joelle Emerson
CEO, Paradigm
Before founding Paradigm, Joelle was a women's rights employment lawyer. As a Skadden Fellow at Equal Rights Advocates, she represented women in gender discrimination and sexual harassment litigation, and she advocated that local, state, and federal policies ensure equal pay and other workplace protections for women. Joelle's legal background highlighted the consequences that can result from companies failing to consider diversity and inclusion early and inspired her to found Paradigm.
What she teaches us: Why a diverse workplace can reduce cases of harassment and bullying
"Is this an organization where people feel like they can speak up and their ideas are going to be heard and valued? And you can imagine why in an organization where that's the case, harassment is less likely to happen because you're going to have a culture where people are speaking up when they see things that are potentially problematic."
Cynthia Owyoung
VP of D&I, Charles Schwab
Cynthia Owyoung is an integrated Talent Management and Diversity Leader who's been building great talent and the best places to work for more than twenty years. Throughout her accomplished career, she's had a passion for developing diverse leaders at all levels. She is an expert in applying qualitative and quantitative research to gain unique employee insights and create innovative employee engagement strategies.
What she teaches us: 3 strategies to help underrepresented talent thrive at your company.
"A lot of companies treat Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) as volunteer organizations with a focus on building a community of support around a particular affinity. This perspective needs to shift. ERGs should be seen as business-related resources aligned to strategic goals––one of which is to develop the next generation of leaders inside the company."
Sarah Saska
Co-Founder and CEO, Feminuity
Dr. Sarah Saska is an academic turned entrepreneur. Using an evidence-based research approach, Feminuity supports innovative companies to embed diversity and inclusion into the core of their business. While pursuing her Ph.D. at Western University, Sarah developed research on the importance of diversity in innovation. She then became a fellow at MaRS Discovery District to get the support needed to put her research into practice.
What she teaches us: Why it's time to take diversity debt seriously.
"Diversity debt begins with a few co-founders, bootstrapping in the early days, with a 'get shit done' mindset. Such a mindset doesn't typically include a focus on diversity, and when it does the focus is viewed as 'nice to have."
Katelin Holloway
VP of People & Culture, Reddit
Katelin is passionate about building scalable, inclusive institutional cultures. She started her career alongside the storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios, where she was first introduced to the idea of intentional cultural development. One thread binds everything together throughout her career: enabling people through belonging to create beautiful, innovative products.
What she teaches us: Cognitive diversity matters, and diversity goes hand in hand with inclusion
"Your demographic diversity informs your experiential diversity, but there is a third bucket that people don't talk about frequently, and that's cognitive diversity. The part that is critical to support the diversity that you're bringing in through your recruiting processes is actually the inclusion part. When people talk about diversity and inclusion initiatives, they go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other."
Aiko Bethea
Head of D&I, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
At the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Aiko introduced the first campus-wide conversations on racial equity. Her leadership and launch of ERG's catalyzed the organization's visible presence and engagement in racial equity and D&I matters. Now at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, she continues to lead the charge by creating and implementing the first organization-wide diversity & inclusion strategic plan, including the development of internal education, metrics, and dashboard.
What she teaches us: The traits to look for in a head of diversity and inclusion
"Learning is ongoing. The D&I field, taxonomy, approaches, and high stakes consequences of faux pas statements and actions are happening every moment and every day. The D&I leader should be all up in the mix with their finger on the pulse."
Melinda Briana Epler
CEO Change Catalyst, and Founder, Tech Inclusion
Melinda works in the tech industry, solving diversity and inclusion challenges. with a storytelling background and experience with large-scale culture evolution initiatives, she is a capable strategic advisor for global tech companies, tech hubs, and governments. For her, work includes the full tech ecosystem, from education to workplace, entrepreneurship, policy, and media.
What she teaches us: How to uproot systemic racism and sexism in venture capital
"Don't tolerate people and actions that keep other people from thriving. Don't allow anyone to make women, people of color, and people with disabilities feel unwelcome and inadequate. (The data says diversity and inclusion makes teams better, but your motivation should be to do the right - aka human - thing)."
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RADICAL CAUCASIAN TERRORISM
August 23, 2017 by info@vincarymedia.com in Articles, Politics | 1 Comment
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James Campion
& The President Who Defends It
From 2008 to 2016 violent White Nationalist incidents in U.S. totaled 115. In the same time frame there were 63 Islamic Radical Terrorists incidents.
– The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund and the Center for Investigative Reporting
Fight the real enemy.
– Sinéad O'Connor, October 3, 1992
Donald J. Trump is the gift that keeps on giving. Our game-show president has become this nation's ipecac. He extracts the poison from the body politic through our social esophagus inducing needed projectile vomiting. And an astonishing pile of puke was on display this past week during a white nationalist coming-out party in Charlottesville, Virginia, during which dozens were injured and a young woman was run down by a car, and then later in the lobby of Trump Tower when El Douche went off the rails to defend it in what will forever be known as the Tuesday Afternoon Meltdown. But without his gift for ignorant revelation, the poisons that flooded the streets of the otherwise sleepy southern town would have continued to sit undetected in our system and slowly rot it from the inside.
Thanks to a few hundred pasty bigots and our dung-brained president it has now bubbled to the surface where we can no longer ignore or explain it away. Trump's spectacular streak of stupidity mixed with the world's most effective promotional tool for abortion has revealed much about America.
Admittedly, up until the most unhinged press conference by a major politician since Richard Nixon's "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" diatribe against the press, the Eastern Liberal Establishment and Martians, I had planned to write that as usual the response to this president's "role" or "non-role" in the insane events in Charlottesville was a bit hyperbolic. Beyond his faux tough-guy approach and a preternatural inability to knock anyone who digs him (Vladimir Putin, David Duke, etc) the issue at hand should have been Neo-Nazis, the Klu Klux Klan, something called white nationalists, the city's day-late-dollar-short police force and the genius who issued a permit for these nuts to openly threaten everyone who was not in the WASP club.
But it was hard to ignore that for days afterwards, Trump repeatedly placed treasonous marauders on the same moral plain as those who admittedly fought back violently against them; symbolically ringing the opening bell for an all-out street fight for the soul of a nation.
Of course, to be fair, a bunch of privileged and lazy Duck Dynasty fans deciding to whip out the Swastika flags they ordered on alt-right.com so they can get on TV to shout "Jews will not replace us!" does not a war make. But it is refreshing to see the kind of monsters in broad daylight that usually hide behind the vagaries of "those people are tearing down our culture" and "those people are diluting our history" while usually lounging around dinner tables or hosting Fox News shows or skulking through the halls of congress or acting all tough masked in fake names on blogs and Facebook posts and spitting banal propaganda in Breitbart News or the Drudge Report.
This is why the First Amendment is first, bubba, and is the niftiest part of our Constitution; it provides those the blessed right to get it all out there, unfiltered, so we can take better aim at picking them off one by one.
As the ugly rise to the surface, we can now know their names and see their faces; the same cretins who attempted to halt marriage equality and deny women reproductive rights, blame their personal failures on outside forces and press voter suppression laws under the ambiguously self-righteous guise of God, tradition, national security, and all the other well-worn buzz words that have been used as oppressive weapons for decades.
We already knew icky things about Trump's dealings with race from his outlandishly pathetic public performance in the 1980s Central Park Five case to the really weird birther shit against our first African American president, and it is noteworthy that Trump's daddy, for whom he yearns to please even in death, was busted at a 1925 Klan rally in Queens. It was Fred Trump's real estate practices of keeping people of color and Jews from queering deals over the "lowering of property values" that trained his son to think that anything that aides Trump business is fine and anything that threatens is bad. Thus those he blithely calls the "alt-left" would be in the bad category and the white nationalists, well, his supporters.
To wit: I can confidently state that if a mob of hate mongers were running around the street in broad daylight evoking my name as inspiration, wearing hats with my name while carrying Confederate and Nazi flags and telling news organizations that they were fulfilling my promises, I would immediately run out onto the White House lawn to push out a statement that gets me as far away from that as possible. Trump did not.
But what Trump did accomplish was to inadvertently reveal the undercurrent of fear that leads to statements like "these people are trying to erode our way of life"; the same theory that convinced generations of politicians to decide that the African American uprising against oppression (more recently Black Lives Matter) and the campus marches against Viet Nam (more recently marches against asinine foreign wars) must be the product of communist intervention (more recently radical leftist political figures like George Soros) and not a deeper problem within American culture and our damaged institutions.
You see the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, for which the thugs in Charlottesville were (wink-wink) "protesting", represents to these people, and the people who defend them, which the president clearly did in both his original remarks and his wig-out at Trump Tower, is a classic American "save the culture" argument that is at the root of our tarnished history. It helped lead to the Watts Riots (more recently Ferguson), the violent horrors of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention (see Ferguson again), Kent State (recent militaristic police presence in black neighborhoods), the flaccid War on Drugs (Attorney General Jeff Sessions recent return to Draconian drug sentencing), the Religious Right (Trump pandering on LGBT military ban), and on and on and on and on and on.
Trump's spectacular streak of stupidity mixed with the world's most effective promotional tool for abortion has revealed much about America.
It is this kind of "thinking" at the core of this nation's original sin and what prompts the "nice people protesting a statue" commentary from a man who cannot tell the difference between Thomas Jefferson and an institutional insurrectionist that led an army to over-throw the United States to perpetuate the owning of human beings (which they masked – and still do – in a weak "states' rights" argument).
And as for Trump's specious defense of "peaceful protesters"; if I decided I loved statues and felt it unfair to take them down and joined a rally that eventually puts me in the middle of that putrid rabble, I might re-think things before continuing or risk guilt by association. You see, a "peaceful Nazi" exists in the same mystic Trumpian netherworld as the wall Mexico is paying for.
But this all pales in comparison to Trump's most telling and teachable-moment when he blurted; "They want to change our culture and alter our history."
This phrase is the tipping point for a new and more direct and far overdue street fight on the irrational resentment of progress, intellect and evolution that has permeated the first years of this twenty-first century; what this space has been writing about for twenty years now this month. (No kidding. It will be twenty years next week I started this lunacy! I have never done anything for this long. And for that I need to be committed.)
No one is altering history. Here's the history: The Confederacy was wiped out and so were the Nazi's. They lost. And you know who beat them? The United States of America. They had their shot, they were crushed. That's the history. The reconstruction of this history is erecting monuments to the vanquished that were strategically placed in public places like parks and in front of government buildings for intimidation during the birth of the Jim Crow South during the turn of the century. Look it up, history buffs. This kind of nonsense is the age-old loser's lament. If someone tried to erect a statue of the treasonous Robert E. Lee in 1864, instead of 1964 during the Civil Rights movement (another period where these abominations were erected) they would have been taken to a firing squad. Imagine a statue of Osama bin Laden put in your town square next week and you get the picture; except 600,000 people died during the Civil War, the equivalent of 200 9/11's.
Also culture is change. That is what cultures do; otherwise they go the way of the Confederacy or the Nazis. Trying to preserve an aborted, self-aggrandizing myth is not preserving culture. It is madness. Madness leads to things like Civil and World Wars. I get it, the movement of culture is scary, and for the uneducated it is threatening. Sorry. We have therapists and fancy drugs for that now. Put down the comic adaption of The Turner Diaries and go get laid.
Trump has done us all a big favor and taken this bile and poison, hidden under a cloak of innocuous posturing, and puked it everywhere this week. As it should be – out in the open, to get the best view, to see and smell and understand fully what we're dealing with, instead of dressing it up in the drag of patriotism and religion and statue fetishes.
Yet, there was one thing that puzzled me about the Tuesday Meltdown; Trump's ridiculous assertion that people fighting back against treasonous rhetoric makes them equally guilty; as if he would be affronted by this. It has long been obvious that this president advocates violence when he feels he or his followers are being provoked. Remember the most heinous outburst of his provocative campaign rallies in Chicago when he pointed out, quite rightly, that agitators had provoked his people to physically fight back and oft times openly asked his audience to beat on protesters?
Now he's all politically correct.
Screw that.
Everyone knows who reads this space that when it comes to bigots we openly advocate beatings. Last year I personally challenged my congressman (now ex-congressman thanks to the brave Americans of the fifth district of New Jersey), the ultra-bigot, Scott Garrett to a fist-fight. He refused. This is because bigots are wimps. But that still does not mean that Garrett did not need a beating, as Nazis and the KKK need beatings; several and varied. Why? Because they want it.
You don't get to be in a terrorist organization like the KKK and bitch about getting a beating. By their very nature, beatings are mandatory. I fully and confidently support dragging David Duke and Richard Spence from their homes to provide them a helping of the stuff they claim to openly support; a little of those fancy Gestapo tactics they're so fond of. Let's see if they're serious about their "radical agenda" and if they're more than chants and Hitler tee shirts and "Make America Great" hats. You want old-fashioned justice, sirs? Okay, let's see if you can handle it.
Time to call this what it is and face it and wipe it out; Radical Caucasian Terrorism, because like Radical Islamic Terrorism, which according to statistics has outperformed the former two-to-one, once you take up arms and rhetoric against the rule of law and mark your territory as a combatant, then you abdicate your rights and call for violent retribution.
My guess is these posers would beg for mercy once the hell-rain they want comes a-callin', like terrorists who want to destroy the system suddenly finding civil rights and asking for lawyers. Well, I say, they trade in all that and take the beatings they have coming.
And so I praise Donald Trump's idiocy, for it placed on the table what is really wrong with this country and where its real enemies lie; from within. They used to bloat the police force and run states and fill our churches, but it's getting more difficult to see them. Now we do, and they must be rooted out and dealt with.
Stick that in your jack-boot and kick it.
One Response to RADICAL CAUCASIAN TERRORISM
Jerry Aldini says:
Nice to see your stupidity radar is finally back on after its 8-year Obama hibernation. To that end, your selective outrage is laughable. And take it easy there Grandpa Simpson with your fist-fight challenges and calls to beatings. You crave relevancy, yet (to risk an anachronism) you don't realize that MTV doesn't care about your demographic anymore, not even VH1, and the Cultural Marxist Millennial assholes dominating the news cycle now would just as soon beat your white ass for your unchecked privilege than have you fight alongside them, so join AARP, collect your social security, and fade away with some dignity.
PS – Trump just took a shit and said it looked like Angela Merkel. That can be your next column
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Der 3000-Meter-Hindernislauf der Männer bei den Leichtathletik-Weltmeisterschaften 2009 wurde am 15. und 18. August 2009 im Olympiastadion der deutschen Hauptstadt Berlin ausgetragen.

Mit Gold und Silber durften die kenianischen Hindernisläufer einen Doppelsieg feiern. Seinen ersten Titel als Weltmeister nach drei zweiten WM-Plätzen (2003/2005/2007) errang der Olympiasieger von 2004 Ezekiel Kemboi.
Zweiter wurde der Olympiadritte von 2008 und WM-Dritte von 2007 Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong, der 2004 auch Vizeafrikameister war.
Bronze ging an den französischen EM-Dritten von 2006 Bouabdellah Tahri.

Rekorde

Bestehende Rekorde

Rekordverbesserung
Der kenianische Weltmeister Ezekiel Kemboi verbesserte den bestehenden WM-Rekord im Finale am 18. August um 3,73 Sekunden auf 8:00,43 min.

Außerdem gab es einen Kontinental- und einen Landesrekord.
 Kontinentalrekord: 8:01,18 min (Europarekord) – Bouabdellah Tahri (Frankreich), Finale am 18. August
 Landesrekord: 8:28,67 min – Mario Bazán (Peru), 1. Vorlauf am 15. August

Doping
In diesem Wettbewerb waren zwei Athleten gedopt:
 Der Marokkaner Jamel Chatbi hatte sich zunächst für das Finale qualifiziert, war jedoch am Tag zuvor als erster Athlet bei diesen Weltmeisterschaften positiv getestet worden und verzichtete auf einen Finalstart. Er erhielt eine Sperre zwischen 2009 und 2012 und wurde 2016, inzwischen für Italien startend noch einmal auffällig, als er drei Dopingtests verpasste und aus dem italienischen Olympiakader gestrichen wurde.
 Der im Vorlauf ausgeschiedene Russe ldar Minschin stellte sich bei einem Nachtest als gedopt heraus (Probe vom 15. August 2009). Sein Resultat des einen Tag nach Entnahme der Probe stattfindenden Vorlaufs bei diesen Weltmeisterschaften wurde annulliert. Außerdem erhielt der Athlet eine zweijährige Sperre bis zum 24. August 2018.

Leidtragender war Iwan Lukjanow (Republik Moldau), der sich als Vierter seines Vorlaufs über seine Platzierung eigentlich für das Finale qualifiziert hatte.

Vorrunde
Die Vorrunde wurde in drei Läufen durchgeführt. Die ersten vier Athleten pro Lauf – hellblau unterlegt – sowie die darüber hinaus drei zeitschnellsten Läufer – hellgrün unterlegt – qualifizierten sich für das Finale.

Anmerkung zum für die Vorläufe angegebenen Datum:
In zwei der unten genannten Quellen – (1) todor66.com / (2) Statistics Handbook der IAAF – ist der 15. August benannt, in der dritten hier verwendeten Quelle – Webseite der IAAF WM 2009 – wird in den ausführlichen Angaben zum 3000-mHindernislauf der 16. August aufgeführt. Allerdings weist der Zeitplan der dritten Quelle übereinstimmend mit den Angaben bei todor66.com und dem Statistics Handbook der IAAF den 15. August als Datum aus. Somit greift dieser Artikel hier auf die wahrscheinlichste Variante, den 15. August, zurück.

Vorlauf 1

15. August 2009, 11:00 Uhr

Vorlauf 2

15. August 2009, 11:14 Uhr

Vorlauf 3
15. August 2009, 11:28 Uhr

Im dritten Vorlauf ausgeschiedene Hindernisläufer:

Finale
18. August 2009, 19:50 Uhr

Eine Vierergruppe bestehend aus drei Kenianern und einem Franzosen machte die Medaillen am Ende unter sich aus. Ezekiel Kemboi bestimmte auf der letzten Runde das Tempo und zog sein Finish bis zum Ziel durch, ohne dass seine Kontrahenten an ihm vorbeikamen, obwohl es sehr eng wurde. Ihm folgte zunächst Paul Kipsiele Koech, der diesen Platz jedoch an Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong und Bouabdellah Tahri abgeben musste. In dieser Reihenfolge wurden die Medaillen verteilt. Tahri konnte in die Phalanx der Kenianer eindringen und gewann Bronze mit neuem Europarekord. Weltmeister Kemboi stellte einen neuen WM-Rekord auf, es fehlte nicht einmal eine halbe Sekunde, um unter acht Minuten zu bleiben.

Video
 Kemboi - 3000m Hindernis Steeplechase - Berlin WM 2009, youtube.com, abgerufen am 22. November 2020

Weblinks
 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (englisch), abgerufen am 22. November 2020
 Men 3000m Steeplechase Athletics XII World Championship 2009 Berlin (GER) auf todor66.com (englisch), abgerufen am 22. November 2020
 Ergebnisse im Statistics Handbook der IAAF zur WM 2019 in Doha, Men 3000 m Steeplechase, Berlin 2009, S. 145 (PDF; 10,3 MB), englisch, abgerufen am 22. November 2020

Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen

3000 m Hindernis der Manner
Leichtathletikwettbewerb in Berlin
Laufveranstaltung in Deutschland

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UPDATED: The husband of Colin Fry and his outrage at Psychics using Colin Fry's name after his death
There has been an updated to this article, please scroll to the bottom to read - Admin 01/08/17
It was recently brought to my attention that there are a number of self proclaimed psychic mediums around the world who are claiming that Colin Fry is their new spirit guide. Yes I know, it is ridiculous, but these "mediums" have seen an opportunity to promote themselves and their career by using the name of a more famous medium, who died a couple of years ago. And guess what, I have a problem with that.
I actually knew Colin Fry, and I spoke to him regularly, and although we clearly had huge differences, Colin did respect me, and even once told his own fans to stop abusing me, as they were sending me all sorts of threats etc, Colin publicly stated that I was the only skeptic in the world that he was happy to talk to.
Now before he died I spoke with him in depth, and I asked him many questions, one was if after he died he could haunt me. He told me no. I also asked him if he would ever speak through any mediums after he had crossed over. He said that if he did it would only be through someone he was very close with, and only if his husband Mikey was the person there, he also shared his fears that he knew that after his death that his name would be used by fraudulent mediums as a way to self promote, and that sadly there was nothing he could do to stop it.
Well here we are a few years later, and exactly what he predicted has come true! (Damn how did he know?)
So I am here to call out specifically two people, and also anyone else who has made this claim.
First is a medium called Christine Snowdon
She claimed in an issue of "Spirit & Destiny Magazine" that Colin's death was a turning point in her career and that he was now her spirit guide.
I decided to speak to the one person who knew Colin Fry better than anyone, that being his husband, Mikey Fry. I asked him straight how he felt when he heard of Colin's name being used in this way by Christine Snowdon, he told me...
"First of all shame on Spirit & Destiny Magazine for allowing this claim to be published without any proof, or even consulting me Christine Snowdon is just a wannabe,using a dead man as a way to self promote and get her name out there, she is a leech. I am incredibly offended and I am looking into the legalities of the claim, and I will take action if it is possible to do so"
I think that is pretty clear.
The next self proclaimed psychic medium that I have heard making the exact same claim, that Colin Fry is their spirit guide is a medium by the name of Tara Coyle
Tara Coyle for those who have never heard of her (and I expect that is most of you) is your classic "hanger on", in more recent times she has desperately stuck to Derek Acorah, and managed to get on tour with him. But one look at her facebook page, and you see lots of photos of her with Colin Fry. So if you believe in the idea of a spirit guide (however ridiculous that may be) perhaps she has a stronger claim. So I put it to Colin's husband Mikey, and asked him if he had heard of Tara Coyle making this claim.
He told me...
"I heard that Tara Coyle had made the claim that Colin Fry was her spirit guide during a seminar in Ireland, I do not believe her for a moment. I am disgusted by her claim, and my only interest now is to expose her. I want to make this very very clear Colin Fry is NOT a spirit guide of Tara Coyle, or any other medium for that matter.
Both Tara Coyle and Christine Snowdon are using my late partner to perpetuate their lie and fraud and I intend to expose these parasites fully to the public for this so that they will no longer profit from Colin's name.
I personally have no interest in financial gain from any of this, I just want them to stop using my Colin for their careers, it is not want I want as his husband, and it damn sure is not what he would want either.
I might end up losing some friends over this, but people claiming Colin is their spirit guide is just wrong, I have had enough of this, and am going to take action.
This feels like a desecration of Colin, a violation of his soul and my memories of him, I just want it to stop...."
That was the end of my conversation with Mikey, clearly his loss is still affecting him greatly.
So where does that leave us. Well I have to be fair to everyone. We have two separate people making claims, that Colin Fry is their spirit guide, so I challenge both Tara Coyle and Christine Snowdon to prove it. If Colin Fry is really their spirit guide, then it is really easy, during my conversations with Colin before his death, we spoke about a member of my family, someone who had been deceased. No one outside of myself and Colin know who this conversation was about. So I challenge Tara Coyle and Christine Snowdon to tell me who this family member was. If you are telling the truth, then it should be easy, if you are lying, well you will stay silent.
Mikey Fry is calling you both liars, and I am calling you both liars. Prove you are telling the truth and I will delete this article, and replace it with a full page article promoting you. I think that sounds fair.
Are you a fake? Are you a fraud? Lets find out the truth.
I look forward to hearing from you both, I am easy to find, just click on the Contact page on this site for details.
By Jon Donis
After reading this article Tara Coyle contacted Mikey Fry directly and offered a full apology. She has claimed that this was a misunderstanding and that she only referred to Colin "in a third party light" as a friend, and that she does not claim that he is her spirit guide and she is very sorry for any confusion that may have occured.
Since we have no footage of her making the claim that Colin was her spirit guide, I am prepared to take this apology at face value, and accept her explanation that this was a misunderstanding. Tara has agreed not to talk about Colin Fry in her shows, and not to use his name as part of her act.
If you have heard Tara make the claim that Colin was her spirit guide please let me know, and if you hear her using Colin as part of her act also please let me know.
A message from BadPsychics to Tara Coyle. It is our opinion that you do NOT communicate with the dead, and that you never have, what you do is an act, an act we can and will expose. And as long as you continue to make claims that you can communicate with the dead, and then take money from vulnerable, grieving people, then you will remain a person of interest for us.
After publishing the previous 22/07/17 update, we were contacted by numerous people who claimed that Tara Coyle had indeed claimed that Colin Fry was her spirit guide at a charity event in Keady and the TMAC centre in late June early July. So it seems that the original claims that were made against her have more weight now. With that said she has agree not to use Colin's name going forward and has already apologised to Mikey, however because she seemingly lied, I know that Mikey is very upset, and he is looking into his options.
It really does seem that these fake mediums really do have no depths they wont sink to try and convince a gullible and vulnerable audience that they are legit. Unluckily for them BadPsychics is always watching.
Labels: Christine Snowdon, Tara Coyle
UPDATED: The husband of Colin Fry and his outrage ...


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Palm Heroes (2010)
September 6, 2010 September 6, 2010 gebryan
No, it's not a porn review, just a short iPhone game review. It's late and I've being playing the stupid game for the past few hours, listening to podcasts. There's a bunch of things to review—a new board game we picked up today, Gemlock, the new expansion to Thunderstone or Louie (watch it, it's on FX, the last one about God was one of the best things on TV this month. While we're at it, tonight's Mad Men should net Elizabeth Moss and Jon Hamm Emmys. Best episode of the season. Rubicon was good as well.)
Enough rambling…
Palm Heroes is a complete clone of Heroes of Might and Magic 3, a PC game circa 1999.
That's really all I got, but it's completely true. The iPhone is a perfect platform for a decade old games. My only complaint is that it's some what hard to get my hero to go where I'd like because much of the treasures or enemies are close together.
That's it. I'd rate this review a two. Unless you were a huge fanatic of HOMM 3 and own an iPhone or iPad, then it's a five. And you're welcome.
Oh, the game has a multiplayer mode, a small community behind it (apparently, it was the number one RPG in Russia, as the Russian sister site proclaims), a ton of small to large maps, but no cohesive single player story. As a single player, it's hard to know where to start. And like HOMM 3, the maps vary from super easy to impossible even with an easy to hard difficulty setting per map.
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Faith Leaders condemn Nigerian legislation
on Thursday, 1 March 2007 at 8.06 am by Simon Sarmiento
categorised as News
No, not those faith leaders.
Matt Thompson reports here on this letter, Faith Leaders Condemn Repressive Nigerian Legislation and this HRW press release, Christian Leaders in US Condemn Nigeria's Anti-Gay Bill.
Andrew Sullivan writes The Anglicans Out-Sharia Muslims.
An open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury from LGCM about this is here.
This has been going on a while. I cannot imagine that the ABC will not have had words/sent letters in private expressing his concern to the Most Reverend of the universe.
Having just got back from a mission trip to Kenya, I can reassert that the church in Africa is on fire for Christ, not merely smouldering for various political causes.
Fr Joe O'Leary
I am relieved to see so many Episcopal names, ashamed to see no Roman Catholic ones, sad to see that it is only the "usual suspects" who speak up for gays, just as it was only lefties and liberals who spoke up for Jews back then.
Honour to the signatories; shame to the silent ones.
'…back from a mission trip to Kenya, I can reassert that the church in Africa is on fire for Christ …'
Posted by: Robert McLean on Thursday, 1 March 2007 at 10:29am GMT
I would know more,Friend.
There is one person, who is in synod at present, who needs to stand up and condemn the situation in Nigeria.
Robert McLean, it's very easy to say things which carry for ourselves lots of clear meaning but for everyone else can mean a lot of different things, or even appear to cover for a lack of meaning. Please tell me exactly what you mean by the following two phrases:
a) "on fire for Christ"
b) "merely smouldering for various political causes"
I hope you are not implying that the Kenyan Christians are indifferent to political causes such as the environment; the looting of African wealth by Western powers; Aids and disease; the oppression of women and gays.
And the Nigerian bill wasn't mentioned as a matter of urgent concern at the Primates because…?
Shame on us all for not holding our Primates accountable for this.
I have it on the best authority that the Nigerian law was not mentioned at all during the formal meetings of the Primates.
Haven't you heard? The Primates are loathe to interfere in the internal affairs of their members' bailiwicks. They don't believe in boundary crossing – unless it's interfering in and crossing the boundaries of TEC.
"I am afraid to say, and do so with a very heavy heart, that it is clear you have failed your own test and lost much moral authority in this thankless process. It is hardly surprising then that we and increasing numbers of faithful Anglicans find any attempt to give the Primates the "enhanced" authority they seek through the Covenant, risible." Richard Kirker Denial, betrayal, pretending, omissions? Standing in the Anglican Cathedral in Zanzibar that was built over the ruins of a SLAVE MARKET of gross injustice/deadly to fellowkind and greed… then, pontificating about UNITY with those who DISCRIMINATE before… Read more »
Richard Lyon
The leaders who are trying to sell us on preserving the unity of the AC in the name of remaining at the table are conspicuously and depressingly absent from this protest. If they are afraid to upset Akinola with criticism they have no business sitting at the table with him.
Fr Joseph O'Leary wrote: "… just as it was only lefties and liberals who spoke up for Jews back then."
If it is any comfort for your poor tormented soul, I can assure you that none of my Grandparents were "lefties" or "liberal".
You have been reading too many American blogs of the Venomonline kind.
The Masked Tortilla
And when will all these people actually go to Nigeria and live with the people and understand what it's like to live in Nigeria (especially up north)? Inquiring minds want to know. They now seem to be such experts on Nigerian democracy and obviously want to see it flourish – can we expect that they will be moving there soon, since obviously there is nothing to criticize about legislation before the US Congress. We know why these press releases are made – and they don't have to do with the legislation in Nigeria. It's all about flipping the bird at… Read more »
PamBG
Even those who think that homosexual acts are sinful should still defend the civil freedom of gay people. Promoting laws that will imprison an individual for being gay or looking the other way at these laws belies the claim of loving the sinner.
James Barringer
Let me get this straight. Leaning hard on the American church, the Anglican Communion seeks to accommodate morally repugnant policies of Nigeria that would make even the Bush junta blush?
And the Archbishop of Canterbury is making nice with the Nigerian Archbishop and his fellow global southerners in the interests of what … family harmony? Family values? The Church head count and treasury?
Goran There were Catholic priests who went to Auswitzch too. Sometimes souls will do the right thing even the establishment is butt kissing the power mongers. I quite like how Jesus understood that one needed to look beyond the letter of the law to the intent of the law e.g. Matthew 5:17-20 and Jesus calls on us to take on a righteousness that surpasses that of the puritans and teachers of the law. And I also love Luke 6:31-36. Particularly poignant for these morally bankrupt leaders. "…if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is… Read more »
So there were Cheryl, for instance a Polish Pater Maximilian Kolbe, who changed his own triangle to the Pink one of a fellow intern and died for it.
I believe he was sainted by Johannes Paulus II.
Masked Tortilla, you wrote: "We know why these press releases are made – and they don't have to do with the legislation in Nigeria. It's all about flipping the bird at Akinola. No one is fooled. Let's just get real." You are making huge assumptions here. Why have I been writing about this topic (for over a year now)? "Flipping the bird" at Akinola is not my motivation at all. I am not a member of the Anglican Communion (I don't think HRW's Scott Long is either), but members of my family are, and they're conservative. I speak out for… Read more »
"It's all about flipping the bird at Akinola" The Masked Tortilla Oh, the "bird" that Akinola flips at LGBT Christians/Muslims in Nigeria with anti-human rights legislation (endorsed/promoted by him) or is it the "bird" that he flips The Episcopal Church with his "diocese boundry crossing" and proganda spewing/ill spirited preaching against fellow human beings? Or, you must mean the bird he flips boldly when with his filthy badmouthing of "the holligan children" that LGBT people produce/raise in OUR families? I realize that even Akinola only has one two hands but one gets the impression he has dozens of middle fingers… Read more »
Malcolm French+
To be clear, the proposed legislation in Nigeria does not make homosexual acts illegal. Homosexual acts are already criminal offenses in Nigeria. However, the act would make it illegal to "advocate" on behalf of homosexuals. In other words, to say, in Nigeria "I don't think homosexual acts should be criminalized" would be a crime. Arguably, it might even make it illegal to say "I think murdering Davis Mac-Iyalla because he's gay would be a bad thing." I'm curious how His Grace of Nigeria is doing with that "listening process" thingee, with the requirement to create a "safe place" for homosexual… Read more »


(Photo: Ecumenical News / Peter Kenny)Lutheran World Federation general secretary, Rev. Martin Junge (L) and LWF president, Bishop Munib A. Younan during a governing body meeting in Geneva, Switzerland on June 13, 2013.
The Lutheran World Federation has expressed deep concern over a Court of Appeal ruling in Malaysia, forbidding a Roman Catholic publication from using the Malay-language word "Allah" for God.
The Lutheran leaders said the decision could lead to confusion, resentment and discord.
In January Christians in Malaysia had said they would not observe the ban on using the word "Allah", imposed by a decree of the Sultan of Selangor state.
In January 10 statement sent to Fides Agency, the Christian Federation of Malaysia reiterated its "constitutional right" to call its God with the term "Allah".
It noted that "Allah is the Arabic word used by all the Christian communities of Bahasa Malaysia language," citing the Christians of ethnic groups Orang Asli, Baba, Christians who live in the provinces of Saba and Sarawak, as well as all those who live in the Malaysia peninsular.
For their part the Lutheran leaders noted that the ruling, "Violates the freedom of religion and freedom of expression of Christians in Malaysia; and threatens to create unnecessary division and discord between Christians and Muslims in Malaysia."
Younan is a Palestinian based in Jerusalem who works closely with inter-faith bodies the region and Israel.
In an October 14 ruling, the Court of Appeal of Malaysia upheld that the Roman Catholic weekly Herald newspaper must refrain from using the word "Allah" in its publication and that a ministerial decree did not infringe on the newspaper's constitutional rights.
In their letter to the Malaysian churches, Younan and Junge noted that Christians have been using the word "Allah" for more than 2,000 years.
"If Malay-speaking Christians would be forbidden to address God as 'Allah,' then their teaching, practice, worship and observance would no longer be free," they noted in the letter.
It was sent to the leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Malaysia, Basel Christian Church of Malaysia, Protestant Church in Sabah and the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore.
Younan and Junge pointed out that the very fundamental rights of freedom of religion and expression that are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are also applicable in the Constitution and laws of Malaysia.
As the right to hold opinions without interference is integral to freedom of opinion and expression, the court's "ruling interferes with the opinions of the Malay-speaking Christians, and with their actual practice," the LWF leaders noted.
"While religious intolerance is a source of violence and suffering, religious freedom provides a source and basis for peaceful co-existence," the Lutheran leaders said, referring to observations by the LWF's main governing body, its council at its June meeting.
In a 2011 visit to Malaysia, Younan and Junge met with Malaysian government officials and discussed the need to promote interreligious and interethnic understanding and cooperation through dialogue in order to further unity in diversity in the country.


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Q: Is there a MarkLogic JavaScript API to Create Users and Add Roles? The XQuery Security Admin API info is posted here.
http://docs.marklogic.com/sec:create-user
I may be missing something but I don't see the equivalent JavaScript Security Admin APIs.
Is this the case? If so can we expect this in the next MarkLogic release?

A: The sec:* functions are implemented in the XQuery library module
/MarkLogic/security.xqy
as noted in
http://docs.marklogic.com/sec
Like any XQuery library module, the security module can be imported in server-side JavaScript, and the functions can be called:
http://docs.marklogic.com/guide/jsref/functions#id_67468
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How the Etihad-branded Alitalia air carrier failed
Court of Civitavecchia lodged the indictment decree for 15 former managers
The decree with which the Judge for preliminary investigations (Gip) of the Court of Civitavecchia, Francesco Filocamo, explaines the indictment of 15 former managers and former directors (2015-2017) of the then national airline Alitalia, was publicly lodged yesterday, due to the bankruptcy of the airline. The crimes alleged for various reasons are those of aggravated fraudulent bankruptcy, false corporate communications, obstacles to supervision.
These are the accusations put in black and white in the judicial decree: vote on the 2015 budget which is suspected to be "falsely certified"; alleged "false" appraisal to create a capital gain of 39 million euros; hidden losses of 60 million per month on average; expenses for dinners, galas and corporate events "unrelated to reasonable business needs".
Among those indicted are the ex-president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the members of the board of directors Roberto Colaninno and Giovanni Bisignani and another 11 among ex-directors and mayors of the Italian airline. The top men of the Emirati carrier, Etihad, which should have relaunched Alitalia, also go to trial: the then CEO Mark Cramer Ball and the then president James Hogan.
Among the disconcerting operations for Italian taxpayers, an agreement between Alitalia and Darwin-Etihad Regional stands out. The commercial agreement provided for AZ to pay 40 of the 50 seats available on the planes operating the Geneva-Florence and Geneva-Venice routes. However, it was "known that Darwin-Etihad Regional was only able to sell 2 or 3 seats per flight", the judges write. This led to the Italian company losses of 43.7-54.5 million Euros and another 44 for Etihad.
On the subject see also the article published by AVIONEWS.
Rome, Italy, 09/23/2022 10:00
AirlinesAlitalia: 14 indicted for bankruptcy
Preliminary hearing date set for May
The Judge for the preliminary hearing of the Italian Court of Civitavecchia identified the date of May 8 for the first appearance of the accused in the trial of the financial failure of the former national... more
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