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Bio for "East of Lincoln"
Over the course of his career, singer/songwriter and Americana artist Tom Freund has released more than a dozen records, collaborated with legends such as Elvis Costello and Jackson Browne, pulled a half-decade stint on bass for alt-country pioneers The Silos, and has shared bills with everyone from Matthew Sweet to Guided by Voices. Freund's intimate, heartfelt new solo album, East of Lincoln, chronicles a personal journey along the path from self doubt to enlightenment. "Time to take the wheel and turn this thing around / Time to make a deal and see what's going down," he affirms on "Runaround." Freund takes his time and lets these new songs simmer, and that—along with memorable guest spots from longtime friend and collaborator Ben Harper and an all-star cast of session players—is a big part of record's charm.
Quietly reveling in its unhurried pace, East of Lincoln sticks in the mind long after listening. Within the record's framework, Freund tackles progress, hope, and the corporatization of his beloved Venice Beach, which he captures as a bittersweet vortex of vanishing beauty and possibility. "I know I'm no saint, but I know when something is good and when it ain't," he sings on the title track, mourning Venice's fading allure while basking in its once-electric atmosphere. The album dances on the edge of a stark duality: the sun-drenched SoCal beach town's demise and Freund's own eventual growth arc. "Better start swimming toward the shore," he urges on "Abandoning the Ship."
Much of the record—co-produced by Freund and Sejo Navajas (Smoke Season's Gabrielle Wortman, Vintage Trouble)—is devastatingly raw. The primarily acoustic arrangements are livened up with some spectacular drumming from Matt Johnson (St. Vincent, Jeff Buckley) and Michael Jerome (Toadies, John Cale, Blind Boys of Alabama), pedal and lap steel from Ben Peeler (Dawes, Shelby Lynne, Father John Misty), keys from Rami Jaffe (Foo Fighters, Ryan Adams) and Chris Joyner (Sara Bareilles, Rickie Lee Jones) and violin from Jessy Greene (Wilco, The Jayhawks). But even with all these studio heavyweights on call, Freund is front and center on the record, singing and playing an eclectic mix of instruments including guitar, mandolin, ukulele, synth and his signature upright bass.
Ben Harper, who produced Freund's 2008 record Collapsible Plans, lends his vocals to "Abandoning the Ship" and supplies steel guitar to ethereal closing track, "Dream On (Believe in Yourself)." Grammy-winning mixer Jim Scott, known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Wilco, Ron Sexmsith, Alejandro Escovedo, Lucinda Williams and many more, steps in for several sterling moments as well, leaving his sonic stamp on title song "East of Lincoln," dreamy standout "Homer Simpson's Clouds (Day of the Locust)" and dusky saloon romper "Poached Eggs."
In many ways, Freund's entire life and career have been leading up to this moment. He's spent much of his time traversing genres, melding whatever sounds have happened to catch his whimsy with his unmistakable, earthbound songwriting. Back in high school, Freund played bass in the jazz ensemble and performed in productions such as Swing. A few years later, he enjoyed a brief stint in the off-Broadway scene and took classes at Columbia University in New York, later transferring to Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif., but when music came knocking again, Freund answered.
His very first album was 1992's Pleasure and Pain, a duo set with Ben Harper. For the next five years, he also toured and recorded with The Silos before releasing North American Long Weekend, his 1998 solo debut on Mercury Records. Moving ahead into the new millenium, Freund churned out several additional records while also assisting with projects from Mandy Moore, Rachael Yamagata, Graham Parker and other notable artists. From a handful of EPs to his 2007 kids record Hug Trees and 2011's The Edge of Venice to his appearance playing alongside Parker in 2012 Judd Apatow comedy This is 40, Freund's career has been a dynamic affair, and that includes plenty of work in film and TV.
His songs have been featured on series such as Better Things, Parenthood and One Tree Hill, and for his latest television project, forthcoming Amazon show Pete The Cat, Freund has co-written, sung and played songs with Elvis Costello, KT Tunstall, Dave Matthews and Diana Krall, and has also co-written the show's theme song with creator Swampy Marsh (Phineas and Ferb). Costello takes lead vocals on each episode's opening theme with Freund handling backing vocals and most of the instruments. Freund also co-wrote and sings the show's end-credits song, "Go Pete Go." All 14 episodes of the animated series are scheduled for release this September.
East of Lincoln builds on Freund's legacy while pushing beyond his comfort zone. "Angelus" is a groovy, organ-doused opener, and "Freezer Burn" a vulnerable mid-tempo affair reflecting on personal flaws in the wake of a breakup. "I was running on hope and fumes," he sings. And where "London Bound Lady" is feathery and sweet, "Broke Down Jubilee" is gutting and mournful, glimmering with tears and silver-lined strings.
Freund's new record is a potent reminder that life is measured not just by our successes, but by how we choose to grow from our failures.
"Tom Freund is indeed one of the great singer- songwriters. He constructs a unique world, defines it, and then burns it to the ground. Truly unique and absolutely brilliant." –All Music Guide
It's the ease with which he delivers conversational lyrics and honeyed melodies, a natural magic that is the soul of Tom Freund's music. Though he's widely-traveled in a variety of genres– from hearftelt folk to buoyant pop to boho jazz to straightforward rock 'n' roll, and beyond –Freund is, simply put, a singer-songwriter with a defined and captivating presence.
"Freund clearly delights in enigma. His vocals could go from laconic to impassioned without such obvious trickery as cranking up the volume. His lyrics are full of curveballs." –Washington Post
Freund's latest disc "Two Moons" on Surf Road Records draws roots sources for an urbane Americana sound, melding nostalgia with a raw and sharp-eyed views of life today. "If Two Moons, with its underlying message of hope in this messy world of ours, serves as an inspiring, encouraging soundtrack for listeners, then I can say to myself, 'ok, you're doing something right for the people out there", Freund says. He delivers this CD's main message in the standout track "Lemme Be Who I Wanna Be," in which he declares: "I'm basically hooked on this life/it's got a lot of problems/but it treats me real right/and you don't have to agree with me/but let me fly my freak flag." This oddly upbeat anthem of personal empowerment so impressed Canadian rock star Serena Ryder that she asked to sing on it. The opening track "Angel Eyes," featuring vocals by Ben Harper, serves as Freund's take on Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." motif, expresses his appreciation to his Southern California friends for always having his back. Notes of nostalgia play into Tom's self-declared favorite track "Mind of Your Own" which delves into a deeply personal memory of the New York native's childhood home.
"If you want to hear what California feels like, Tom Freund's new album is a good place to start…" – Acoustic Guitar
Freund spent the mid-'90s touring with the indie rock cult faves THE SILOS and has been releasing solo albums since 1998. Tom has alternated between recording and touring behind his own discs, playing upright bass, electric bass guitar, and mandolin with the likes of British pub-rock great Graham Parker (who hailed Freund as one of the best singer-songwriters operating today), pop star Mandy Moore, groove-soul sensation Brett Dennen, Rock 'n Roll Hall of Famer Jackson Browne, and three-time Grammy winner Ben Harper. "What really brought me to wanting to work with Tom in the studio is his songs," Harper concludes. "It doesn't have to even go any further than that. As far as I'm concerned, who wouldn't wanna work with him in the studio? Because the songs are there."
"Every year the mounting landfill of new releases that threatens to bury the working music journalists yields a few unexpected gems, and Tom Freund is one of them."
More recently, you can spot Freund playing with Parker in the Judd Apatow film, "This Is 40" and featured on the hit TV shows "Parenthood", "American Gothic" and the recently premiered Pamela Adlon show "Better Things". He continues to tour North America, Europe and Japan playing with his band or doing solo shows.
Bio for "Two Moons"
"Two Moons brilliantly reveals Tom Freund's many musical phases."
Brett Dennen, Serena Ryder, Arthur Fonzarelli and Barbarella
all make appearances on the L.A.-based troubadour's latest album
Over the course of his career, Tom Freund has created a wide variety of albums. His first was a collaboration with Ben Harper and his last was a double disc live album. In between, he's made full-lengths, EPs, a children's CD and a Christmas album — but he's never made an album like 2 Moons.
This self-produced disc, due out August 17th on Surf Road Records, finds the Los Angeles-based Freund in a contemplative yet confident mood, where swirls of nostalgia blend with sharp-eyed views of life today. He delivers this CD's main message in the standout track "Lemme Be Who I Wanna Be," in which he declares: "I'm basically hooked on this life/it's got a lot of problems/but it treats me real right/and you don't have to agree with me/but let me fly my freak flag." This oddly upbeat anthem of personal empowerment so impressed Canadian rock star Serena Ryder that she asked to sing on it. "Lemme Be Who I Wanna Be" represents a different type of song for Freund. "I'd rather just be honest and say 'take me as a I am'," he reveals, adding, "I felt that I didn't have to dress up songs with clever couplets all the time."
This more emotionally raw and vulnerable songwriting surfaces throughout the album. The opening track "Angel Eyes," which serves as Freund's take on Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." motif, expresses his appreciation to his Southern California friends for always having his back. Freund proudly notes that "Sugar Pie," the sweet-sounding album closer, "doesn't have one sarcastic line in the whole song." Played simply and sung sincerely, it's his most heartfelt love song, even though it concerns a relationship that has come to an end.
The idea of persevering through life's hard times is a reoccurring theme in 2 Moons. While "Heavy Balloon" holds the fear of impending doom, Freund still cherishes how "ordinary days are like miracles" and pledges not "to lay down my heart." The charmingly chilled-out anthem "Same Old Shit Different Day" offers snapshots of skater kids, bossy cops and Venice Boardwalk weirdness, extolling the virtues of everyday craziness.
Several 2 Moons tunes find the songwriter reflecting on his past. The wistful "Happy Days Lunch Box" name-drops the Fonz and the Cunninghams as Freund recalls his carefree youth, while generational conflicts flare up amidst memories of a long-ago summer in "Me and Bernice," a tune written some years back but a perfect fit for 2 Moons. "Mind of Your Own," Freund's own favorite track, also finds him looking back and considering the ending of eras. This was the last song the New York native wrote at his family's house before it was sold.
Nostalgia strikes a more playful note in "Grooves Out of My Heart," which contrasts an innocent youth spent spinning records and "getting stoned on the stoops" with an adulthood where "Barbarella has gone away" and "I guess I have to make something of my life today." This funky rocker reveals some musical touchstones with its "me and Julio" shout-out to one of Freund's songwriting idols, Paul Simon, and a fadeout guitar riff nod to AOR rock gods Led Zeppelin.
Freund, in producing and co-engineering this album, draws upon folk, rock, jazz and other roots sources for an urbane Americana sound. He blends in cool touches: woozy mariachi horns pop up in "Same Old Shit," mermaid-evoking backing vocals in "Next Time Around." He punctuates "Heavy Balloon" with a blast of electric guitar and guest Stan Behrens (of Canned Heat fame) lends an atmospheric harmonica solo to "Weekend Guy" (a co-write with singer/songwriter Brett Dennen, who contributes vocals too). Inspired by listening to a lot of old Squeeze music, Freund also mixed in some trippy keyboards and old-school synths to flesh out tracks like "Me and Bernice and "Lemme Be Who I Wanna Be."
The "Lemme Be" lyrical theme translated to the recording of 2 Moons as well. Freund brought a "this is the way we do it" approach to the sessions, which were done in studios across Los Angeles (from Echo Park to North Hollywood to his own setup in Venice). The recording went exceptionally well. "I knew what guys to grab and how to get it done," he confides. "There weren't wasted takes or wasted hours." He used a core of group of musicians he knew (drummers Michael Jerome and Michael Iveson, keyboardist Chris Joyner and bassist John Button) and, he says, "every time we got together, something good happened." Some talented old friends lent Freund support too. David Immergluck (Counting Crows/John Hiatt) weaves his pedal steel through 2 Moons, while "Angel Eyes" features vocals from Ben Harper, who also produced Freund's 2008 CD Collapsible Plans.
Freund himself plays guitars, ukulele, keyboards and bass on 2 Moons. An in-demand bass player, Freund got his first big break in the mid-'90s playing for the Austin-based roots-rock cult heroes the Silos. He settled in Venice, California around the time of his 1998 solo debut North American Long Weekend. Over the years, he alternated between making his own music and working with folks like Mandy Moore, Rachael Yamagata and Graham Parker, who has hailed Freund as one of "the best singer/songwriters operating today." You can even spot Freund playing with Parker in the recent Judd Apatow film, This Is 40.
Freund funded 2 Moons through a successful Pledge Music campaign. Although admitting to having some trepidations about going the crowd-sourcing route, Freund wound up a believer. "I'm very endeared by the Pledge experience," he confesses. "It showed me that people wanted to engage in it. That was moving for me and got me excited." Besides doing his traditional touring, including summer European festival appearances and shows in the States, he will be doing some special house concerts as part of this Pledge Music campaign.
Fans' reactions resonate strongly with Freund: he feels that a job of a songwriter to help others access what they are feeling. "A real joy is when people come and tell me that a song or an album got them through something," he says. If 2 Moons, with its underlying message of hope in this messy world of ours, serves as an inspiring, encouraging soundtrack for listeners, "then I can say to myself: 'okay, you're doing something right for some people out there."
"California-based troubadour Tom Freund sings of skate-boarding kids, impending doom and Happy Days lunch boxes on his new album, Two Moons." —NPR WEEKEND EDITION http://bit.ly/1N1vuBI


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Kiwis relieved after rain ruins day four
Day four of the second Test between New Zealand and England in Wellington saw only one session played, as rain ruined the final two sessions and play was abandoned for the day.
The Black Caps were still 49 runs behind England's first innings score, following on, but had eight wickets in hand as they reached 162 for two at the close. Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor were in the middle, battling hard.
Williamson was on 55, and Taylor on 41, and they watched the final two sessions from the dressing room as there was no play after lunch. Peter Fulton was the one wicket to fall in the morning, dismissed for 45 by James Anderson.
The umpires tried valiantly to get the game under way, and the covers were taken off and then put back on numerous times, with the ground staff working hard to make the field playable.
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using AdventureWorks.UILogic.Repositories;
using AdventureWorks.UILogic.Services;
using Prism.Windows.AppModel;
using Prism.Windows.Mvvm;
using Prism.Windows.Navigation;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;

namespace AdventureWorks.UILogic.ViewModels
{
    public class GroupDetailPageViewModel : ViewModelBase
    {
        private readonly IProductCatalogRepository _productCatalogRepository;
        private readonly IAlertMessageService _alertMessageService;
        private readonly IResourceLoader _resourceLoader;
        private string _title;
        private IReadOnlyCollection<ProductViewModel> _items;

        public GroupDetailPageViewModel(IProductCatalogRepository productCatalogRepository, IAlertMessageService alertMessageService, IResourceLoader resourceLoader)
        {
            _productCatalogRepository = productCatalogRepository;
            _alertMessageService = alertMessageService;
            _resourceLoader = resourceLoader;
        }

        public string Title
        {
            get { return _title; }
            private set { SetProperty(ref _title, value); }
        }

        public IReadOnlyCollection<ProductViewModel> Items
        {
            get { return _items; }
            private set { SetProperty(ref _items, value); }
        }

        public async override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigatedToEventArgs e, Dictionary<string, object> viewModelState)
        {
            var categoryId = Convert.ToInt32(e.Parameter);

            string errorMessage = string.Empty;
            try
            {
                var category = await _productCatalogRepository.GetCategoryAsync(categoryId);

                Title = category.Title;

                var products = await _productCatalogRepository.GetProductsAsync(categoryId);
                Items = new ReadOnlyCollection<ProductViewModel>(products
                                                                         .Select(product => new ProductViewModel(product))
                                                                         .ToList());
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
            errorMessage = string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, _resourceLoader.GetString("GeneralServiceErrorMessage"), Environment.NewLine, ex.Message);
            }

            if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(errorMessage))
            {
                await _alertMessageService.ShowAsync(errorMessage, _resourceLoader.GetString("ErrorServiceUnreachable"));
            }
        }
    }
}

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Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, who arrived here this morning from the White House for a victory tour of upstate New York, called for the abolition of the Electoral College. She pledged to be a co-sponsor of legislation that would provide for the direct election of the president and vice president.
Mrs. Clinton visited six cities upstate to thank supporters and to emphasize, if only symbolically, her plans to make the region's economic turnaround a cornerstone of her tenure in the Senate. But by weighing in immediately and forcefully on one of the country's most contentious issues, she also signaled that she does not intend to shrink from the prominent national role she has played in the past eight years as first lady.
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Q: How can I transform 3 objects to swap positions, but make sure they aren't moving to a position an object is already going to? I have applied a code to 3 objects. So far this code switches three cups around so that they swap places. The code gets the start position of the cup, and then the end position of each cup. All 3 end positions are actually the start positions of the other cups, since I want them to swap to the same exact positions as the other cups.  The update function makes it so that if the cup's end position (that is chosen at random) DOES NOT equal it's start position, it will move to one of the other 2 spots that were not it's start position, randomly.
I am having trouble with figuring out a couple of things and have tried a few things, but I don't think I'm getting the code right. I want to:
Make the cups randomly move to their new spot, but not move a cup to a spot that another cup is already moving to. (Currently when the animation plays, 2 cups potentially move to the same spot of the 3 spots).
I am just not sure what direction to go in. I also would like this animation to keep playing and for the cups to keep randomly swapping their spots. It would be helpful to get a point in the direction of figuring that out as well.
This is what I want the final outcome to resemble: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg240/OldNewby4507/shell-game-animated.gif
Thanks in advance.
 using UnityEngine;
    using System.Collections;
    using UnityEngine;
    using System.Collections;

    public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
    {
        private Vector3 startPos;
        private float lerp = 0, duration = 1;
        public Vector3[] endPos = new Vector3[3];
        int index;
        Vector3 theNewPos;

        void Start ()
        {
            startPos = transform.position;
            endPos [0] = GameObject.Find ("object1").transform.position;
            endPos [1] = GameObject.Find ("object2").transform.position;
            endPos [2] = GameObject.Find ("object3").transform.position;
            index = Random.Range (0, endPos.Length);
            theNewPos = endPos[index];

        }

        void Update() {

            if (theNewPos != startPos) {
                lerp += Time.deltaTime / duration;
                transform.position = Vector3.Lerp (startPos, theNewPos, lerp);

            }

        }
    }

A: I think you have to make code like this for your cups:
using UnityEngine;

public class Cup : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Vector3 startPos;
    private float lerp = 0, duration = 1;
    Vector3 theNewPos;

    void Awake()
    {
        startPos = transform.position;
        theNewPos = transform.position;
    }

    void Start()
    {

    }

    void Update()
    {
        float thresholdSqr = 0.01f;

        if ((theNewPos - transform.position).sqrMagnitude > thresholdSqr)
        {
            lerp += Time.deltaTime / duration;
            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPos, theNewPos, lerp);
        }
        else
        {
            transform.position = theNewPos;
            startPos = transform.position;
        }
    }

    public void MoveToSpot(Vector3 pos)
    {
        theNewPos = pos;
        lerp = 0f;
    }
}

And then global gameobject Shaker with code like this:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Linq;

public class Shaker : MonoBehaviour
{
    Cup[] cups;
    Vector3[] spots;

    void Start()
    {
        cups = GameObject.FindObjectsOfType<Cup>();
        spots = cups.Select(c => c.startPos).ToArray();
    }

    void Update()
    {

    }

    void Shake()
    {
        int[] newIndices = Enumerable.Repeat(-1, cups.Length).ToArray();

        for (int i = 0; i < cups.Length; i++) //there could be another random sort algorithm, for example to make that every cup would move to another spot.
        {
            int free = cups.Length - i;
            int j = Random.Range(0, free);

            for (int k = j; k < cups.Length; k++)
            {
                if (newIndices[k] == -1)
                {
                    newIndices[k] = i;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < cups.Length; i++)
        {
            cups[i].MoveToSpot(spots[newIndices[i]]);
        }
    }
}

A: If you are adding this script to each of the objects, do the following. This only requires one script, and it is added to each of the cup objects.
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

public class rotateCups : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float lerp = 0f, speed = 5f;
    static List<Vector3> listOfCupPositions, shuffleList;
    Vector3 theNewPos, startPos;
    readonly int shuffleSpeed = 100;
    int shuffle = 0;

    void Start()
    {
        if (null == listOfCupPositions)
        {
            // These lists are global to each cup
            listOfCupPositions = new List<Vector3>();
            shuffleList = new List<Vector3>();
        }
        theNewPos = startPos = transform.position;
        listOfCupPositions.Add(theNewPos); // Add this cup to the main list
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (startPos != theNewPos)
        {
            lerp += Time.deltaTime * speed;
            lerp = Mathf.Clamp(lerp, 0f, 1f); // keep lerp between the values 0..1
            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(startPos, theNewPos, lerp);
            if (lerp >= 1f)
            {
                startPos = theNewPos;
                lerp = 0f;
            }
        }
    }

    void LateUpdate()
    {
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The organisers of the pandal at Ramadheen Inter College have dug a pit at Agrasen Ghat in Daliganj to immerse their idol. Two other pandals, from Ganeshganj and Alambagh, will immerse their idols at the same place.
LUCKNOW: Several pandals of the city have planned for an environment-friendly end to the Ganesh festival.
The organisers of the pandal at Ramadheen Inter College have dug a pit at Agrasen Ghat in Daliganj to immerse their idol. Two other pandals, from Ganeshganj and Alambagh, will immerse their idols at the same place. While the pandal at the college has been doing so for three years, the other two would join in for the first time.
"If we have the biggest Ganpati, we make sure the immersion is done in a way that the city doesn't get polluted," said Bharat Bhushan, convenor of the pandal at Ramadheen college. The pandal will also immerse letters that devotees have written to the elephant God. "The letters collected over 10 days weigh over 40kg. They will all go into the pit with the idol," he said.
The Ganeshganj pandal is on the theme of water conservation. The 7-foot idol there would be immersed in a pit filled with water up to three feet.
The third pit at Agrasen Ghat would be for the 8-foot tall idol from the Alambagh pan dal. "We cannot pollute the river for the sake of tradition," said Anuj Mishra, convenor of the pandal.


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In the last four years suppression of Sri Lankan students has been at its highest since the 1990s Marxist insurgency which left many students dead, according to a report released this week by student and human rights groups.
The government has used various methods at its disposal such as using the law and law enforcement agencies to suppress students, attacking protests and threatening and targeting student leaders, according to the 69-page report State Suppression Against Students' Movement of Sri Lanka, released by the Inter University Students' Federation, or IUSF, and Students for Human Rights.
It includes details of suspension of student funding, banning student councils, suppressing classes and other action such as law suits, arrests, assaults, threats, assassinations and abductions involving students.
The report covers incidents at 13 state universities from 2010 until early 2014.
IUSF said its aim was to expose the "real nature of the current government" in violating the human rights of students.
According to statistics presented in the report, during the last four years suppression of the student movement has increased to reach brutal levels.
IUSF Convener Najith Indika said strong intervention from civil society organisations, activists and people who value human rights and respect democracy was needed to save the country's higher education system from repression.
According to the report, in the last four years alone there were 1,420 expulsions and suspensions of students from universities, 231 arrests and 426 lawsuits. Some 218 students, including student union leaders, faced death.
Three students activists – Susantha Bandara, Janaka Ekanayake and Sisitha Priyankara – were murdered during this time. In all three incidents the government "managed to suppress the truth by false propaganda and delaying the proceedings in the court", the report claims.
The report said there were 391 suspensions from Sri Jayewardene University in Colombo, and 223 students at Peradeniya University – an IUSF stronghold – also faced suspensions.
In early 2012 a bomb blast that damaged the symbolically significant Student Heroes Memorial at the university, dedicated to students killed in previous uprisings, unleashed a wave of protest during which more than 100 students were arrested.
During the past four years the Higher Education Ministry has banned 36 student unions and councils allegedly for 'ragging' – maltreatment of freshers – according to the report. The government wanted to ban the IUSF.
Tilvin Silva of the JVP, a Marxist party, called on the government to stop student repression. He claimed thugs "led by government politicians" had broken into universities to attack students. It "is a serious situation", he said.
A group of around 500 people armed with clubs forcibly entered Ruhuna University on 2 June and attacked students for not allowing an exhibition of the government's national development plan to be held on the university premises. Eight students were reportedly injured in the attack.
Local and international human rights organisations have expressed concern about violations.
Commenting on the report, Sri Lanka's Higher Education Minister SB Dissanayake disputed the report. "The figures issued by IUSF are wrong; there may be few class suspensions but not studentship [scholarship] suspensions as mentioned here.
Universities conducted investigations and punished students, Dissanayake stressed, and accused the IUSF – which has the backing of the Marxist party – for being behind campus unrest.
Last week around 300 students surrounded the office of the vice-chancellor of Rajarata University, demanding that the university lift its order to suspend several student leaders.
Students held the vice-vhancellor and several lecturers hostage, and police in riot gear were called in to free the university officials.
After a tense standoff as police beefed up security near the campus, students finally allowed the vice-chancellor and others to leave after holding them for almost 24 hours.
Police are still searching for 38 students believed to be involved in the hostage-taking.
Later, the vice-chancellor closed down the university. Student unions and councils have been banned from campus.
Commenting on the report, Brito Fernando, president of Families of the Disappeared, or Fod, said abducting, assaulting and illegally detaining students and 'forged suspensions' were a grave violation of the fundamental rights of students.
"There were human rights violations during the war. The war is over, now the pressure has moved to student movements. This is a very critical thing – the government has launched a campaign of repression against student activists fighting for education rights," he said.
"If we let the government destroy student unions and suppress their activities, it will be a disaster that will affect other parties also," Fernando said, adding because the student movement was strong in Sri Lanka, how the government treated students could have a knock-on effect on teachers, labourers, trade unions and other civil society groups.


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Film Censorship: The Big Picture for India
By IAR Desk December 23, 2020
Compared to many advanced countries, movie norms in India are way stricter. Filmmakers worry that the archaic nature of film censorship is curbing creative freedom.
With an annual production of 1,600 to 2,000 films, both in Hindi and other languages, India is one of the largest cinema hubs in the world. According to media reports, in 2019, Bollywood hit the Rs 4,000-crore mark in revenues, which was a milestone. Indeed, Indian cinema is growing.
But the growth in revenues, say movie industry watchers, does not mean much if it is not translated into the creative realm. And all signs point towards a bad scenario there. India's film censor board has been under fire for irrationally curbing creative freedom. There are many instances how the members heading the CBFC panel try to inject their conservative perspective into artistic freedom.
Here are 10 reasons censorship should change its avatar to save Indian cinema.
Colonial hangover
When cinema came to India during the British rule, Indians were already familiar with art as an expression of nationalism. Poetry and songs had always been essential tools during the struggle. Fearing that cinema might create a major stir in the freedom struggle, the British came up with the Cinematograph Act of 1918. With it, the film censorship began.
Over the years, the act underwent several changes which led to the formation of The Cinematograph Act and Cinematograph Rules. CBFC functions under these acts which date back to 1952 and 1983 respectively. The way the films are censored in India witnesses the continuity of the traditionally followed norms heavily based on Victorian morals.
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Leela Manimekalai got into a tug of war with the CBFC in 2019 for the unfair cuts in her film 'Maadathy-An Unfairy Tale'. She termed it a form of abuse of power which suppresses artistic freedom and creative expression.
Director Prakash Jha, among many other filmmakers, has long called for doing away with the censor body for films in India. His movies 'Aarakshan' and 'Lipstick Under My Burkha' ( of which he was the producer) irked CBFC for no particular reason. He came down heavily on the board saying that authority shouldn't be deciding what people should watch and how an authoritative mind can harm creative expression.
Jha isn't alone. Filmmaker Onir, director of 'Shab', once told the media about the urgent need to revise film censorship guidelines, given how 'illogical' those like the Cinematography Act are in the present context. Technology has advanced and it is beyond CBFC's ability to control. But censorship that hangs like a sword above their head limit artists and creators from exploring new boundaries of ideas and creativity.
No space for daring artists
The Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee report that came out in 2013 said that citizen's right to engage with content is personal and is not based on collective perspective. Lipstick Under my Burkha directed by Alankrita Shrivastava was grounded by the CBFC for its "too lady-oriented content". The body refused to grant approval to the feminist sex comedy. After a prolonged battle with CBFC, the movie was released with more than 16 cuts. Shrivastava told The Economic Times that such wrong precedence discourages women directors to grow and hinder artistic freedom.
It isn't just gender issues that irk the censor board. Several other films like Kamal Haasan's 'Vishwaroopam', Prakash Jha's 'Aarakshan', Anand Patwardhan's documentaries, Deepa Mehta's 'Fire', Abhishek Chaubey's 'Udta Punjab' and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmavat' among others, came under the scissor for exploring topics on politics, changing realities, dark underbellies of the society, government policies and Indian history.
Taking all these into consideration, it is important to ask if in a matured democracy, whose fundamental is not the opinion of the majority,\ but the right to dissent, whether censorship is required or not. Dissent and criticism form the core of every progressive artform including cinema and has an integral role in deciding the directions of a democracy.
The Shyam Benegal Committee formed in 2016 said that CBFC's role should be restricted to certifying films for age-appropriate viewing. Benegal noted that it is not the job of CBFC to function as the moral custodian of the public. Ace filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan, who was also a part of the committee, felt that Indian cinema should end censorship. He believed the end of censorship will help the cinema to thrive as an art form.
No more self-censorship
But clearly the government seems in no mood to end censorship and infact seems to be bringing in more laws around content regulation. Not just theatre releases, but even popular over the top (OTT) platforms such as Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hotstar which had so far been self-censoring their content, have now come under the radar of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The development came after the Supreme Court sought the centre's response on a Public Interest Litigation on the regulation of OTT platforms in October. The PIL filed by an autonomous body said that digital content came without any filtering or screening.
Censorship of films globally
The US: The United States has no federal agency that authorises permission or restriction of the exhibition of motion pictures. The rating system is overseen by an industry body called the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Filmmakers make decisions based on the potential box-office earnings of films rated for general and mature audiences.
The UK: The Video Recordings Act 1984 requires video sale in the UK to be certified by an authority called the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The infamous 'video nasty' list was born here. It was created in 1982 to protect against obscenity. After BBFC, the list eventually became irrelevant.
Australia: Compared to other advanced countries, Australia is considered to be the most conservative on films ratings. The country has the Australian Classification Board (ACB) that guides the censorship of films under the Commonwealth Classification Act 1995. ACB was formerly known as the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC).
Singapore: Rather than censoring films, Singapore focuses on the classification of films. The Board of Film Censors( BFC) now classifies content into age-appropriate ratings. The Film Act of 1981 stipulates importing, making, distributing or exhibiting films.
South Korea: According to the Internet Movie Database, there are no banned films in South Korea so far. The country has a Media Rating Board that gives film five different levels of rating system: G, PG-12, PG-15, R-18 and Restricted Rate. These are ruled by Presidential Decree.
France: Ministry of Culture grants visa to all films that are intended for theatrical release, only after the recommendation of Commission for film classification (Commission de classification cinematographique). The commission gives ratings for films.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and collaborators launch world's largest kelp map
By atoomajian | April 18, 2022
Woods Hole, MA – Kelp forests provide myriad benefits to nature and people in oceans around the world. They form the backbone of the ecosystems in which they are found, providing habitat and food for thousands of species. However, recent research suggests changing ocean conditions including marine heatwaves linked to climate change have led to the loss of kelp in many regions around the world, specifically the U.S. west coast off parts of California, with further declines anticipated in response to ocean warming.
To further investigate and track kelp growth and survival over time, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, The Nature Conservancy, University of California Los Angeles, and the University of California Santa Barbara have launched the world's largest map of kelp forest canopies extending from Baja California, Mexico to the Oregon-Washington border. Tom Bell, an assistant scientist at WHOI, originally partnered with UCLA to pioneer the technique to map kelp forest density using satellite imagery. This then developed into a cost-effective, innovative online visualization tool to improve kelp forest mapping and monitoring – now housed on Kelpwatch.org.
Kelpwatch.org is an open-source web tool that uses machine learning and remote sensing science to display the kelp forest canopies and analyze the changes it undergoes over time. This mapping tool has been launched amid major, unprecedented declines in many kelp forest ecosystems, which provide crucial services to both humans and nature.
"The large spatial coverage of Kelpwatch.org paired with decades of historical data allows ecosystem managers and the public to examine how changes to kelp forests in their locations of interest compare to the past four decades," said Bell. "Kelp forests are incredibly dynamic systems so having access to historical data gives anyone the power to determine if recent changes lie outside the range of natural variability."
Using the tool to conduct analyses on kelp dynamics along the west coast of the U.S. in response to the 2014 – 2016 record-breaking marine heatwave, the Kelpwatch.org team has discovered a worsening collapse of kelp forests around the Monterey Peninsula, a well-known kelp-dominated stretch of California's coast. While the loss around Monterey and elsewhere in the state is alarming, efforts to restore kelp forests are taking place in hardest hit areas like the North Coast. The team also found reasons for hope, with the rapid recovery of kelp canopy cover in Bahía Tortugas and Baja California Sur, that showed complete and sustained recovery from the marine heat wave since 2018.
Prior to Kelpwatch.org, there was a noticeable lack of historical data on trends and changes in kelp forest abundance across large areas, posing a challenge for researchers and state agencies. The web tool and its data have been used already to inform the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's (CDFW) Enhanced Status Report for kelp, as well as the Kelp Restoration Management Plan currently in development.
Funded by a multi-year grant from NASA's Ocean Biology and Biochemistry program, the team plans to expand the tool to new geographies around the world where kelp forests are found, including Washington State, British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, the Falkland Islands, Chile, Tasmania, and Australia.
"Kelp forests are home to thousands of species, locally mitigate the effects of ocean acidification, and provide valuable services for coastal communities," said Vienna Saccomanno, an ocean scientist with The Nature Conservancy. "Knowing where remaining healthy kelp forests are located and the long-term history of kelp forests is the first step in strategic restoration. Kelpwatch.org provides this information and is a game-changer for resetting the ecosystem."
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Royal visit confirmed: Harry and Meghan coming to NZ
AUCKLAND, 11 JUNE 2018 (RNZ) — Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will make their first official visit together to New Zealand in October, Kensington Palace has confirmed.
Prince Harry visited New Zealand for the first time in 2015, and the Duchess has also previously travelled in the country.
The Royal couple will also visit Fiji and Tonga.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed confirmation of the couple's visit, which will take place around the time of the Invictus Games in Sydney.
"It's wonderful news that the Duke and Duchess are coming to New Zealand as part of their first major tour outside the United Kingdom and I look forward to welcoming them here," Ardern said in a statement.
"I know Prince Harry really enjoyed his last visit here in 2015 and I'm sure New Zealanders will want the Duchess of Sussex to also experience our warm hospitality and manaakitanga on her first visit here as a member of the Royal family.
"This is the Duchess's second visit to our country and I know New Zealanders will be very much looking forward to welcoming her back."
The visit is still in the planning stage and further details regarding dates and the itinerary will be released closer to their arrival, the prime minister said…. PACNEWS
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HIPAA was enacted various years before social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram had been launched, so there are no particular HIPAA social media rules. Having said that, as with all healthcare-associated communications, the HIPAA Privacy Rule nevertheless applies anytime covered entities or organization associates – or staff of either – use social media networks. Their personnel use social media without the need of violating HIPAA Guidelines? However, there is also considerable possible for HIPAA guidelines and patient privacy to be violated on social media networks. Get them extra involved in their personal healthcare. Healthcare organizations can quickly and very easily communicate significant messages or offer information about new services. Healthcare providers can attract new sufferers by means of social media networks. Social media networks allow healthcare organizations to interact with patients. So how can healthcare organizations. Healthcare organizations must implement a HIPAA social media policy to reduce the danger of privacy violations. There are many positive aspects to be gained from using social media. The HIPAA Privacy Rule prohibits the disclosure of ePHI on social media networks without the express consent of patients.
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The use of social media as a recruitment tool for research with humans is rising, and most likely to continue to grow. Two checklists aimed at guiding investigators. In spite of this, to date there has been no particular regulatory guidance and there has been little in the bioethics literature to guide investigators and institutional evaluation boards (IRBs) faced with navigating the ethical difficulties such use raises. IRBs by means of the ethical troubles are integrated as appendices. We begin to fill this gap by first defending a nonexceptionalist methodology for assessing social media recruitment second, examining respect for privacy and investigator transparency as crucial norms governing social media recruitment and, finally, analyzing 3 comparatively novel elements of social media recruitment: (i) the ethical significance of compliance with web-site "terms of use" (ii) the ethics of recruiting from the on the net networks of research participants and (iii) the ethical implications of online communication from and amongst participants.
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Police from all over Ulster get special training to deal with emotionally trying situations
by Christina Coulter/ February 9, 2019 /Comments closed
From left, Saugerties police Capt. Steven Filak, Chief Joe Sinagra, Dispatcher Vera White and Officer David Stoutenburg. (Photo by Christina Coulter)
Twenty-seven area police personnel from nine departments graduated from a Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) session, conducted in 40 hours over a week-long period, on Friday, Feb. 1. The sessions took place at the Ulster County Law Enforcement Center and were taught entirely by local police officers and healthcare professionals trained in Albany last year to be CIT instructors. Previous CIT classes have been taught in Albany by ferried-in instructors from elsewhere in the state.
Graduates included members of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office; the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Police; the Schenectady County Sheriff's Office; officers from Saugerties, Shandaken, the Town of Ulster, Rosendale and New Paltz police departments; and members of the SUNY Ulster Office of Public Safety. The program's instructors were Kingston Detective Thierry Croizer, Saugerties Police Captain Steven Filak, New Paltz officer Phil Kraus, Patricia Tuber of New York City's Mobile Crisis Team Services and Chris Dennehy of Step One NY. The training was organized by People USA, a nonprofit organization based in Kingston that provides behavioral healthcare to those with mental illness.
"It's designed for officer safety and public safety, to make interactions safer for everyone involved," said Croizer of the training's core aims." We know as administrators that crisis intervention training works to lower arrest rates … but the biggest plus for us is liability prevention."
Graduating Saugerties officers include Police Chief Joe Sinagra, Officer David Stoutenburg and Dispatcher Vera White.
"A lot of it is taking information back to your agency," said White. "One of the biggest things is information-sharing, trying to fit [that information] where it's needs to be. [Mentally ill people interacting with law enforcement] talk to the dispatcher, they talk to the responding officer and they talk to hospital staff. It's about finding the right place and piece for that person, where they need to be — every cog in that wheel is trying to find it collectively together. It's a different piece in every puzzle we get."
Fourteen of 35 total Saugerties police personnel have now received CIT training; Sinagra is the first police chief in the county, he said, to graduate from the program.
"If law enforcement officers can understand and identify mental illness, we will drastically reduce the amount of physical force used," said Sinagra. "As opposed to assuming that someone is being defiant, we have insight to see whether or not there's an underlying mental illness or someone on drugs. Because our mental health system is broken in this country, it's imperative that law enforcement officers to receive this training."
Sinagra said that the department aims to certify all its officers in CIT — "I don't want us to just take [some members of the] department and certify them — we don't want to roll the dice."
Croizer said of all of the special training and certification programs offered to police in the county, CIT training is "the most underrepresented." He said that through the course of the training, officers are faced with hypothetical situations and instructed on how to properly navigate them — vignettes including suicidal subjects, people with schizophrenia or people with developmental disabilities.
Among subjects covered in the curriculum (which, according to Dutchess and Putnam program director Steve Miccio, hasn't changed much since the first training took place in 1987) are the difference between mental illness and intellectual disabilities, common myths about mental illness, a review of resources available to mentally ill and emotionally distraught subjects that officers can divert them to, non-abrasive body language, scripts to employ in trying situations and breathing exercises that cops can share with those they encounter.
According to the course literature, 61 percent of Americans think that "people with schizophrenia are a danger to others"; however, individuals with serious mental illness are only responsible for 3.5 percent of violent acts recorded nationally but make up 25 percent of those victimized. Seventy percent of youths in juvenile detention and 17 percent of inmates at booking nationally suffer from mental illnesses — staggering numbers as mental illness affects 4 percent of the total population.
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Russell Converse February 19, 2019 at 7:18 pm
Congratulations to Saugerties Township Chief of Police Joe Sinagra, the only Town Police Chief in Ulster County, for obtaining this certification, and to Officer David Stoutenburg & Dispatcher Vera White also……!
Chief Sinagras aim to see that the entire force be certified is commendable…….!
His efforts towards continuing education for himself and his department shows a man of vision.
The Town of Saugerties should be proud to have such a person leading it's Law Enforcement Department
suny student February 20, 2019 at 5:17 pm
BAD PR PHOTO
is the Yellow Taser shown on officer (4th right) part of the training????
When confronting mentally ill person we want to avoid escalation, showing person Taser is not productive negation technique.
We must think carefully especially, before public photo, wrong image can send wrong message/impression.
Bad PR photo.
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I have a nice stand of monkey grass along the drive, but other weeds have come into the mix. Can I spray a chemical to get rid of the weeds and keep the money grass? I need something that will not kill the monkey grass, but eliminate the trash.
If most of them are a broad leaf weed (like dandelions), you can use a broad leaf spectrum weed killer (it will be labeled as that).
If the weeds are grass like, they will need to be hand pulled as a grass specific weed killer will also kill the monkey grass.


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The Tourist filming locations: Where was the BBC drama filmed?
TONIGHT, a new BBC One mystery thriller starring Jamie Dornan is set to hit our TV screens.
Set in Australia, the BBC has promised to deliver another top quality drama.
Where was The Tourist filmed?
Filming for the new BBC drama predominantly took place in the regional areas of South Australia towns such as Port Augusta, Quorn, and Peterborough as well as in Adelaide.
The cast was spotted filming the new thriller series in 2021.
Australian Premier Steven Marshall said the 17-week shoot was the biggest television production ever to be made in South Australia
He said: "Securing The Tourist is a real coup for South Australia – not only will it create hundreds of local jobs, it will put South Australia's remarkable landscape on show right around the world..
"The Tourist will inject an estimated $12.1 million into our local economy and provide opportunities to showcase the skills of our local crew here in SA.
"I commend the extraordinary capability of South Australian Producer Lisa Scott in bringing this international BBC and Stan production to our State."
The petrol station featured in The Tourist was purpose-built in the outback in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
Jamie stars as The Man, who is driving across the outback, and is seen filling his car up at the gas station.
The location is the largest mountain range in the state, which starts about 200 km north of Adelaide.
Adelaide sits on the coast of South Australia.
Jamie and the cast were seen filming in locations around the city, which is the capital of the state.
What is The Tourist about?
The action-packed series follows Dornan as a British man who ends up Down Under and to which he gets chased by a truck which attempts to drive him off the road.
After an epic chase, he wakes up in hospital, but has no idea who he is.
People from his past return to haunt him which sees a race against time to find out the truth of who he is and who he once was.
Will he be able to find it out or will he be silenced by those around him?
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The series will start on BBC1 on Saturday, January 1, 2022, at 9pm.
After episodes have aired you'll be able to watch them on the iPlayer.
In the US the series is set to air on HBO Max, but there is yet to be a release date.
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Quick Bike Fits at This Weekend's 2016 Bend Bike Swap!
Folks from Focus Physical Therapy will be hanging out and helping with quick bicycle fits during this year's 2016 Bend Bike Swap!
We love cycling. It's in our company DNA. From avid racers to recreational riders and world travelers, our crew knows what it takes to make mile after mile a blissful joy (or lung-searingly painful pleasure if you prefer).
We do biomechanics for riders because it's easy to enjoy your ride when it fits you well.
From comfort to performance and anywhere along the spectrum, we'll get you dialed in right, from the beginning. We'll find your sweet spot, and you'll like it.
Made a new best friend at the Bend Bike Swap? Let us introduce you properly. We'll be at the swap for complimentary 20' quick-fits on Friday 4/8 and Saturday 4/9. Appointments are first come, first served and are available online starting Thursday 4/7 at the Focus PT website. Once you've selected your ride, hit us up at the event or online to schedule your fit. Visit our website or follow this link to our AlterG scheduling page.
Choose Bend Bike Swap 2016 from the available 'Catagories'.
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Have you ever thought about wearing boy's clothing, or do you already? I've been on the hunt for good basic plaid flannel shirts and it's really hard to find. Most of women's clothing are fitted or they just don't look as "classic" as I'd like them. I love just your basic men's shirt, but men's clothing tend to be slightly too large for me (oh, I still wear them anyway) and I thought I'd check out the boy's section over at LL Bean. I noticed in the comments section that someone else ordered a boy's shirt to wear herself. She says she normally wears an xs petite and ordered size medium. Obviously not everyone can wear boy's clothing, but it might work if you generally wear a size small. I'm considering ordering a shirt in size medium or large. I'll let you know if I do and how it looks.
That is the only way to find the perfect flannel! I do this a lot. I'm a womens sz medium and I wear a boys size large (the sleeves are usually short), works out well for me since my son is 11 and I can just borrow his.
Sometimes I like to wear my husband's shirts or sweat pants, much more comfy.
I just found you through Casey. I went through many of your older posts and really love your blog. I find it very inspiring. I am signing up as a follower and putting you on my blog roll of my sewing blog.
I forgot to mention that I am a homeschooling mom.
I love flannel shirts too.
Thank you for this post! It's like you read my mind. I have been so wanting a flannel shirt. My husband and I went to a ton of thrift stores, and they didn't have much to choose from. I love wearing kids clothing...the only thing is that I have long arms. But, I always roll my long sleeves up anyway.
Once in awhile I wear my husband's flannel shirts at home...but he knows once he give it to me I won't hand it back to him. I don't fit his clothing that much he is much much bigger than me.
Vans sells some great ones made especially for women, but they're not too feminine. I love 'em.
Believe it or not, K-mart (sears) has amazing flannel shirts.
I'm about 5'8 and 130 and I wear boy's large flannel shirts from LL Bean. I found one at a thrift store maybe 5 years ago and have since bought a couple new ones for myself. The sleeves are a little short for me but I just roll them up once and it looks fine.
I'm a big fan of crewcut's boys shirts. I usually get size 12 but I'm only 5'3" and the sleeves are a tad short on me, so size 14 would fit a taller person better.
I've been wearing a boy's blazer as my shrunken city blazer for the past two years and I adore it.
I have a good friend who always buys her shirts from the boys section. Land's End has some great shirts too.
I L-O-V-E flannel shirts!!! :D Men flannel shirt, please?!
P.S. Just found your blogs; looks like we have a lot in common! I have been reenacting since I was a little kid.
So far this fall, flannel shirts have definitely been a staple for me. They're perfect for the weather here.
I've tried them from the boys department, but have trouble even finding adult clothing that is long enough in the arms, and am thinking of putting together some arm warmers.
My favorites have all come from thrift stores, mainly the men's rack.
I love wearing boys' plaid shirts, but I find that in winter they just look too, well, *boyish* on me. Oversized with rolled-up sleeves I can pull off in the summer, though.
two pair boots, but which one?
coming soon: flannel work shirt.


I read this a long time ago but cannot remember where I read it or exactly who was involved.
My recollection is that John D Rockefeller (I don't know if it was senior or junior) was having his shoes polished, when the busboy gave him a 'hot' stock tip. The magnate sold all of his shares the next day, saying something like, "When the busboy buys, sell!". Shortly afterwards the share market crashed, followed by the Great Depression.
OK, I told the story badly, but the moral is a good one: don't follow the crowd. This is great advice that many agency owners are not heeding, to the detriment of their businesses.
Markets go up; markets go down. Good leaders know how to keep their offices prosperous no matter what the market is doing. But what are the 'masses' of agency leaders doing right now? They are 'hunkering down'. Cutting expenses.
This market affords a great opportunity to grow your business. Cut down on the sales team and you will lower your wages bill in the short term, but if you are not careful 'natural selection' will take your wages bill even lower, because weak and ineffective team members will leave.
You may be thinking that The Pareto Principle applies here. This principle states that 80 percent of your business will be achieved by 20 percent of your salespeople. This is correct if you have a team that is heavily laden with mediocrity. The fact is that if your sales headcount is so low, your business is at great risk should even one salesperson leave. When it comes to a sales team, there truly is security in COMPETENT numbers.
When the going gets tough, the WEAK GET GOING!
They quit. Leave your agency. Look for an easier job.
If you don't hire now, your sales team may shrink to such a low level that you won't make enough sales to reach your Break Even Point. If this happens, don't blame the market, blame your unwillingness to hire.
And I mean HIRE PROPERLY. Real estate agency leaders need to rethink how to attract winning salespeople.
Commission-only is dead. Even if you can legally get people to work in your office on commission-only, in markets like this you won't attract them. If you doubt this, ask any New Zealand agent. On this reward system they haven't been able to get good people for years.
Low retainers debited against commission doesn't work any better. How are you going to attract people when you offer around $40,000 retainer debited against commission?
Get over the fear of high salaries. If you want winners you have to attract them. Is your present system working? Then rethink offering low, or no salaries.
Understand that the salary is paid for completing winning actions competently. If your people won't train, prospect, and improve, fire them. You can't afford to pay high salaries to people who won't do the work. Don't pay for low levels of incompetent activity. Rethink performance.
Work with your team. Take them to training, examine their knowledge levels regularly (test them) and expect improvement. Cut training and you cut results. Rethink the importance of training.
Remove chronic underachievers and replace them with people who are grateful for the opportunity. If you want to cut your wages bill here is where you do it – remove incompetent people. Rethink keeping losers.
Understand that experienced people is not the best hiring pool. If you have an effective hiring program, you can train inexperienced people and get a much better result than you will with your typical experienced person who moves from office to office.
How far have you got by following the crowd, by shrinking your sales team when times are tough, then scrambling for winners when the market turns sunny?
It's time to step out of the crowd. Don't shrink your business into oblivion.


Outward circles are easiest for the two in one hand pattern, and double spins provide more time to get the third club round. Try this trick with balls first if you don't know the timing for the swing. Aim to pass through the pattern as one club peaks and the other is about to be thrown, this is the point at which there is the largest gap between the clubs. Try just one swing to start with, and aim eventually to make one revolution each time a club is thrown.
If you are confident with this trick then try swinging the club through at double speed. Warning - don't try this in a crowded room, collisions can be quite violent! It may take a few attempts to get the timing right, make the first pass as soon as there is room underneath the ascending club and you should be able to fit the second pass in before it comes back down again.


The Boy Who Cried Fabulous by Leslea Newman would be a great way to introduce the concept of retiring worn out words.
What would happen if an author and illustrator were at odds during the creation of a book? Chloe and the Lion elucidates that very predicament in a fun and amusing way.
If you are working hard to create a classroom community that treats each other with kindness and respect, this might be a book worth sharing. The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper.


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Patty Perillo
Virginia Tech Vice President for Student Affairs Patty Perillo has been selected 2014 recipient of the Esther Lloyd-Jones Professional Service Award given by the ACPA-College Student Educators International.
The award will be presented at the ACPA's annual meeting in Indianapolis next month.
"This is an enormous honor for Dr. Perillo and Virginia Tech," said Provost Mark McNamee in announcing the award. "I hope the university community will join me in congratulating Dr. Perillo on this momentous recognition and in celebrating her good work in the spirit of Ut Prosim (That I May Serve)."
The award honors the life and work of Esther Lloyd-Jones, one of the earliest pioneers in the field of student affairs. The award recipient exemplifies the profession's commitment to service through significant, continued, and unselfish service and leadership activities that have benefited the profession, ACPA, and the profession's practice on the national level.
As a transformative leader in higher education, Perillo is internationally known in the field of student affairs. Her career spans all aspects of student affairs at six institutions of higher learning. Before coming to Virginia Tech in 2012, Perillo was associate dean of students at Davidson College. Perillo has served the ACPA-College Student Educators International in several capacities, including as president, 2008-09. Additionally, she has served the ACPA as chair of the governance task force, on the consolidation steering committee, as convention chair, on the professional competencies task force, and as a foundation board member.
Perillo received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Delaware and a doctoral degree from the University of Maryland. Her research, publications, and presentations have focused on organizational change and transition management, leadership development, student health education, learning-centered organizations, diversity and inclusion, and values-centered leadership.
Since coming to Virginia Tech, Perillo has established the Leadership Education Collaborative, created the office of New Student and Family Programs, overseen the opening of three new living-learning communities and envisioning of a fourth, supported capacity-building and integration of the Aspirations for Student Learning throughout student affairs programs and services, and championed new sustainability initiatives in dining centers and residence halls.
ACPA-College Student Educators International, headquartered in Washington, D.C., at the National Center for Higher Education, is the leading comprehensive student affairs association that advances outreach, advocacy, research, and professional development to foster college student learning and engage students for a lifetime of learning and discovery. ACPA supports the generation and dissemination of knowledge, which informs policies, practices, and programs for student affairs professionals and the higher education community. Founded in 1924, ACPA has nearly 7,500 members representing 1,200 private and public institutions from across the U.S. and around the world. The organization will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2014.
Lloyd-Jones (1901-1991) was an authority in the field of guidance to college and university students. She was a key figure in building the guidance and student personnel field in the United States, and served as ACPA's seventh president, 1935-37.
Written by Sandy Broughton.
Entrepreneurship is the focus of university's latest living-learning community
Dining Services increases sustainability efforts
Campus community works together to create inclusive environment
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WhatsApp to go "free" Globally
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Popular messaging app WhatsApp today said it will stop charging USD 1 per year subscription fee to go completely free for its users across the world. The service, which claims to have over a billion users globally, also said it will not introduce any third-party ads for monetisation.
"Nearly a billion people around the world today rely on WhatsApp to stay in touch with their friends and family… WhatsApp will no longer charge subscription fees," WhatsApp said on its official blog.
It further said that while it has asked some of its users to pay a fee for using WhatsApp after their first year, but "as we've grown, we've found that this approach hasn't worked well". Interestingly, WhatsApp did not charge users for using the service in India, which is one of the biggest markets for the service.
The company, which was acquired by Facebook for USD 19 billion in 2014, said it was going to experiment with new models to stay ad-free. "…over the next several weeks, we'll remove fees from the different versions of our app and WhatsApp will no longer charge you for our service," it said.
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Today's post is going to differ slightly from my health and wellness articles, but it's a topic that could affect all of us who are worried about the food supply and availability of organic foods for our families.
How to get good food, and more of it, for less!
It's called the GRO Organic Check-off Program, and it's the next big thing in the organic food industry. In fact, this idea has been years in the making. This program means that organic food producers will work together to make organic food more widely available than ever before. It would mean lower prices for organic food while still ensuring that our organic farmers are being given the best tools to stay profitable, successful, and keep growing organic, while also driving down prices for consumers!
Sounds great, right? But organic farmers and the OTA (Organic Trade Association) need your support to make this plan a reality.
What's a Check-off Program, Anyway?
Check-off programs in general are not exactly new. Does the phrase "Beef. It's What's for Dinner" sound familiar? Or maybe you've heard of the "The Incredible Edible Egg"? Check-off programs brought us these now famous advertising campaigns and very popular slogans.
These programs don't promote one brand over another but the food commodity as a whole (eggs, beef, dairy, and now organics!).
An elected board puts the funds to work in a variety of ways. The check-off program handles education, marketing, advertising, strategic expansion into new markets, and so on. It's worked wonders for many sectors of the food industry.
And it's about to do the same for organic food, but only with our help!
While the demand is great, the supply is not. The same report tells us that as of 2014 only 1% of America's farmland produced organic food. If you've dabbled in economics, you know that high demand and low supply drives up prices … as we all know too well when we're trying to decide between conventional or organic at the grocery store.
In short, there's no time like the present to make organically grown food more available and cost effective than ever and to make sure the farmers that grow our organic foods have all the resources available to stay in business and to expand!
Reduce the supply crunch by transitioning farmland to organic production across the U.S.
And all of this means we get to feel better about our choices in the grocery store.
For the next two months, the USDA is asking for public comments in the Federal Register on the proposal for the GRO Organic Check-Off Program. Anyone—consumers, business owners, or organic food producers—can comment to show public support for this initiative that promises to make organic foods better understood, more accessible, and less costly.
The comment is already provided for you if you wish, so it's as simple as providing your name and address and clicking submit.
Still have questions about how the program would work? Check out these helpful FAQs with all you could ever want to know about the GRO initiative!
Ready to vote for a better food future? The USDA wants to hear your opinion! Between January 18, 2017, and March 20, 2017, you can influence this decision by entering your comment of support at www.groorganic.net. Use your power as a consumer and let your voice be heard!
Do you think an organic check-off program is a good idea? If you do, be sure to register your comment and ask others to do the same!