Josie Koontz singled, bunt, advanced to second; Jordyn Wieland advanced to third.
Kate Jolliff Rosado flied out to rf, 2 RBI; Josie Koontz advanced to third, scored on the throw; Jordyn Wieland scored.
Kendall Farr doubled down the lf line; Beth Mersinger advanced to third.
Amanda Atteberry singled to left field, RBI; Kendall Farr advanced to third; Beth Mersinger scored.
K. Han singled up the middle.
H. Stewar singled to left field; K. Han advanced to second.
Jordyn Wieland doubled to left center.
Jordyn Wieland advanced to third on a wild pitch.
L. Ander singled to center field.
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Amanda Atteberry walked; Beth Mersinger advanced to second; Kate Jolliff Rosado advanced to third.
Cayla Speaks singled through the right side, RBI; Amanda Atteberry advanced to second; Beth Mersinger advanced to third; Kate Jolliff Rosado scored.
Barrett reached on a fielder's choice, RBI; Cayla Speaks advanced to second; Amanda Atteberry out at third ss to 3b; Beth Mersinger scored.
Barrett advanced to second on a wild pitch; Cayla Speaks advanced to third on a wild pitch.
Jordyn Wieland reached on a fielder's choice; Barrett advanced to third; Cayla Speaks out at home p to c to ss.
K. Han singled to shortstop.
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Becca Oldham reached first on an error by ss; Josie Koontz advanced to third.
Mackenzie Jackson pinch ran for Becca Oldham.
Mackenzie Jackson stole second, advanced to third on the throw; Josie Koontz scored, unearned.
Kendall Farr reached first on an error by cf, RBI; Mackenzie Jackson scored, unearned.
Amanda Atteberry singled to pitcher; Kendall Farr advanced to second.
Amanda Atteberry advanced to second on a wild pitch; Kendall Farr advanced to third on a wild pitch.
R. Talash singled to center field.
Barrett singled to left field.
Jordyn Wieland singled, bunt; Barrett advanced to second.
Josie Koontz singled, bunt; Jordyn Wieland advanced to second; Barrett advanced to third.
Becca Oldham doubled to right field, 2 RBI; Josie Koontz advanced to third; Jordyn Wieland scored; Barrett scored.
Kate Jolliff Rosado doubled to left center, RBI; Becca Oldham advanced to third; Josie Koontz scored.
Emily Brandland to 1b for Beth Mersinger.
Emi Hug to rf for Kendall Farr.
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Elizabeth Hawkins pinch hit for Amanda Atteberry.
Elizabeth Hawkins hit by pitch.
Beth Mersinger to 1b for Emily Brandland.
Amanda Atteberry to c for Elizabeth Hawkins.
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The United Nations on Wednesday made it clear that it will not conduct any inquiry into accusations of sexual harassment against RK Pachauri, who resigned as the chairman of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as the case is being probed by national authorities.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters that the UN chief received a letter from Pachauri informing him of his decision to step down as the chairman of the panel with immediate effect.
Asked if the UN would initiate an inquiry into reports alleging Pacahuri of sexual harassment, Dujarric replied in the negative and said that "we have seen the press reports of the case and I understand the case is being investigated by national authorities and that is where it stands."
Dujarric said Ban has thanked Pachauri for his "dedicated leadership" of the IPCC over the last 13 years.
"Pachauri's leadership has been critical in increasing the world's understanding of the true nature of climate change. He has also played a leading role in mobilising international action to address one of the defining issues of our time," Dujarric said.
Ban has expressed confidence that the IPCC will "continue its important work at a time when climate change is affecting more and more people and threatening sustainable development for all," he said.
Pachauri resigned as the chair of the IPCC following accusations of sexual harassment by a women employee of TERI, the NGO he heads in India.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) also announced that 74-year old Pachauri has proceeded on leave "for the time being" but gave no further reasons.
In the letter to UN Secretary General Ban, Pachauri said he has decided to step down from his post "some months" before the completion of his term. "The IPCC needs strong leadership and dedication of time and full attention by the chair in the immediate future, which under the current circumstances I may be unable to provide, as shown by my inability to travel to Nairobi to chair the plenary session of the panel this week," he said.
IPCC under Pachauri had shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore for work on climate issues.


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Israel will hit the stage at around 3:00 in Boston, leading a large ensemble, including the always exciting Curtis Fuller (trombone), Howard Johnson (baritone saxophone), Bill Easley (flute, tenor, and alto saxophones), Dave Leonhardt (piano), and John Menegon (bass).
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eCommerce QA: Going Beyond Load and Performance Testing
Quality assurance is important in all software, but eCommerce, in particular, is a software industry that is driven by user experience.
Consumers are very quick to abandon a site that doesn't load quickly enough - research shows nearly half of all users will give up and go somewhere else in under 3 seconds. Those seconds spent loading mean crucial revenue to retailers, so your performance and load testing need to be on point.
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A fast and thorough QA process is very important for eCommerce software because of how vital a smooth retail experience is for consumers. Competition in eCommerce is fierce, with many companies under pressure to constantly push out new features to try to carve out a niche in the market. At the same time, software defects can directly lead to increased bounce rates and lost revenue.
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eCommerce systems are typically complex and feature many different sub-systems and third-party integrations that mean QA must cover a wide variety of testing types. These include the standard types of testing you'd find in almost any test suite, such as functional tests and integration tests, but there is additional emphasis on certain types of testing for eCommerce systems.
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Danae from 'Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant'(Screenshot courtesy of MTV)
A transgender teenager and his pregnant girlfriend are part of the cast of the new "Teen Mom" series "Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant."
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Out Broadway star and actor Michael James Scott prepares to sing the National Anthem at the opening of the NY Rangers Pride Night 2023. (Photo Credit: The New York Rangers/NHL)
New York LGBTQ Rangers fans were disappointed after the National Hockey League team forwent wearing the team's special warm-up jerseys and using Pride stick tape during the team's 7th annual Pride Night Friday.
The Rangers had promoted Friday night's Madison Square Garden home game against Vegas Golden Knights, saying players "will be showing their support by donning pride-themed warm-up jerseys and tape in solidarity with those who continue to advocate for inclusivity." But ultimately the team wore their "Liberty Head" jerseys in warmups instead.
The Rangers scrapped plans to wear rainbow-themed warmup jerseys for Friday's "Pride Night" at Madison Square Garden, prompting confusion and disappointment from the LGBTQ community. https://t.co/8vQEkz838f
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After the game, a 4-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights, the Rangers released a statement: "Our organization respects the LGBTQ+ community and we are proud to bring attention to important local community organizations as part of another great Pride Night. In keeping with our organization's core values, we support everyone's individual right to respectfully express their beliefs."
In an emailed statement to the Washington Blade Sunday Dan Dimant, media director for NYC Pride | Heritage of Pride, Inc. said:
"In recent years, numerous National Hockey League (NHL) franchises including the New York Rangers have introduced a series of 'Pride Nights' to engage the LGBTQ+ community. NYC Pride has been honored to take part in these celebrations, including as recently as last night at Madison Square Garden.
NYC Pride was not made aware in advance of our participation in last night's ceremonial puck drop that Pride jerseys and rainbow tape would not be worn as advertised. We understand and appreciate that this has been a major disappointment to the LGBTQ+ community in New York and beyond. We are communicating these concerns with NY Rangers and NHL leadership as we continue to discuss the ways these organizations can work toward inclusion.
NYC Pride has a duty to both support our partners and hold them accountable. We are committed to continuing our relationships with the NY Rangers and the NHL and maintaining substantive dialogue with them about meaningful allyship with the LGBTQ+ community."
ESPN reported that the team's annual Pride Night was celebrated throughout the game in other ways. Fans were given a pride-themed fanny pack as a giveaway. The exterior and interior lights at Madison Square Garden were illuminated in rainbow colors. The Rangers also made a charitable donation to the Ali Forney Center on Pride Night, the largest agency dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youths in the country.
ESPN noted that Andre Thomas, co-chair of NYC Pride and Heritage of Pride, participated in the ceremonial puck drop.
(Photo Credit: The New York Rangers/NHL)
The Rangers' Pride Night was held 10 days after Ivan Provorov, the alternate captain for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers, opted out of participating in the team's Pride Night charity event before the game Tuesday, claiming a religious exemption based on his Russian Orthodox faith.
Provorov, 26, was the only member of the Flyers to not take part in the pre-game exercise on the ice. A video tweeted by the team's official account shows the rest of the players wore special Pride Night-themed black jerseys with the traditional Flyers logo on the front and rainbow-colored names and numbers on the back; many of the players practiced using hockey sticks wrapped in rainbow-colored tape known as Pride tape. Both the sticks and the jerseys were auctioned off after the game with the Anaheim Ducks, to raise money for local LGBTQ charities.
The defenseman, who was born in Russia, told reporters after their victory, "I respect everybody and respect everybody's choices," adding that he declined to take part in the warmup "to stay true to myself and my religion."
After Provorov opted out of participating in the Flyer's Pride Night charity event the NHL put out a statement that said players can decide which team and league initiatives to support.
"Hockey is for Everyone is the umbrella initiative under which the league encourages Clubs to celebrate the diversity that exists in their respective markets, and to work to achieve more welcoming and inclusive environments for all fans," the league said. "Clubs decide whom to celebrate, when and how — with League counsel and support. Players are free to decide which initiatives to support, and we continue to encourage their voices and perspectives on social and cultural issues."
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Events this week include a birthday celebration for Desiree Dik, a Gay Men's Chorus production of 'Judy' and Howard University Basketball's first Pride Night. (Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Below are our picks for some of the most fun and creative things to do this week in the DMV that are of special interest to the LGBTQ community.
Howard University Basketball Pride Night
5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The Bison hold their first Pride Night game on Monday as they face off against South Carolina State University.
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Net Migration in Ireland
by Kieran Healy on July 28, 2007
Like "Henry":https://crookedtimber.org/2007/07/28/thousands-are-sailing/, I'm part of the last generation of Irish people to date for whom fleeing the country was a standard career path. I emigrated in 1995, coincidentally the year that the boom in immigration really began, and the era of significant net migration arrived. My usual impeccable timing, in other words. The scale of Irish emigration throughout the twentieth century is astonishing. From 1926 to 1961, the rate of emigration was sufficient to at least equal and usually significantly outweigh the natural rate of increase in the population, so that overall population numbers either stagnated or fell. Thus, despite the fact that the country's "Total Fertility Rate":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate was over _three_ until the early 1980s, there were fewer than 150,000 more people living in Ireland in 1979 than there had been in 1901. The government conducted 14 censuses between 1926 and 2006. Of these, only four have shown positive net migration from the previous census, and three of those periods are since 1990: 1971-79 (+14 thousand), 1991-96 (+2k), 1996-2002 (+26k) and 2002-2006 (+42k).
Matt 07.28.07 at 9:16 pm
Just out of curiosity, do you know what percentage of the people listed as "immigrants" in the above chart are immigrants in the somewhat technical sense of people coming to the country with the intention to (and right to) remain permanently? My impression (from quite casual looking, I must say) is that many of the people moving to Ireland are perhaps more properly classified as migrant workers of one sort or another in that they have come to work, at least claim that they intent to return to their home countries in at least the middle run, and officially have no right to remain if they are not employed (that is, if they were to become public charges they would officially be deportable, though my impression is that in practice it's even harder to deport someone on this ground in the EU than in the US, despite both EU and many member-state laws allowing for it.) My guess would be that many people who come with the intention of not staying for good will in fact stay for good (as has happened everywhere else) but I'd be quite curious to see what percentage of people entering and working in Ireland consider themselves to be immigrants and have a legal right to that status as it's used in immigration law. Any idea?
franck 07.29.07 at 1:19 am
How is this affecting the Irish language? One might think that this would mean more monolingual English speakers, but since most immigrants to Ireland don't have the poisonous relationship to Irish that many Irish people do, maybe it is even helping it. It seems to me the transition from being a poor, God-ridden, emigrant nation to a rich, secular, immigrant nation would make people value everything Irish more.
hallam 07.29.07 at 2:19 am
Surprise, surprise, the crossover point exactly coincides with the date that Ireland stopped obeying the dictates of the Catholic church on contraception.
Kieran Healy 07.29.07 at 2:22 am
I knew foreigners were to blame!
I saw Once this week, and it's an interesting how Irish cinema offers snapshots of a rapidly changing country. There was 'Celtic Tiger' film — e.g. the worth-seeing When Brendan Met Trudy in 2001 — but I'm sure that Once is the first film to hit American shores that portrays the post-EU-enlargement Dublin.
(I also remember seeing a big uptick in people returning home to NI over the past five years. Are there comparable stats for the Republic?)
DC 07.29.07 at 6:10 pm
According to "The Irish Times Book of the Century", by Fintan O'Toole, in the early 1920s "43% of Irish-born men and women were living abroad". Not dure where he got the stat but if true it's pretty impressive.
mollymooly 07.30.07 at 8:54 am
matt: what do you mean by "immigration status"? Ireland has no Green Card; but OTOH most foreign-born residents are from the EU and have the right of residence. Not sure what level of social welfare entitlement you get; but if you've been working you've been paying social insurance contributions so you should get something. An extended family of Roma were deported to Romania last week after living for several months intents on a roundabout above the M50 motorway.


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My Time as a Cat in College
Chapter 11: Red-Braised Pork
As the stuff in the refrigerator flew around, Qi Xiaohan meowed.
The spell's flaw was that the enchanted items were not intelligent and could only perform basic tasks. For example, items like the meatball couldn't be arranged and placed inside the refrigerator the way the kitten wanted it.
The two roommates glanced at the stuff in one of the compartments in the refrigerator, then to the dispirited little cat, and immediately comforted her:
"It's okay, Xiaohan, that was already powerful. Even we wouldn't be able to do that."
The lynx said while the snow leopard nodded vigorously.
However, the snow leopard glanced at the suitcase and said, "Most of the time, we only carry the suitcase."
The physical strength of the big cats were truly superior.
The little cat looked at her own body. "…Meow."
Qi Xiaohan's so-called spells could only maneuver things equal to her weight and not above.
It certainly made the cat lose face.
But there was still a benefit to her spells though the effect was relatively small.
When Qi Xiaohan was little, Qi Ning was only 13 to 14 years old. Qi Ning wanted to buy a certain star's album while Qi Xiaohan, the kitten, wanted the laser pointers that could display the shapes of various animals. However, both of them had insufficient money.
So the kitten stared at Ning Ning and softly meowed for her to become rich so that she could buy an album for herself and a laser pointer for the cat.
In the end, it worked. Qi Ning bought a lottery ticket and won 200 yuan. At that time, an album was 60 yuan and after buying it, the kitten pestered Qi Ning to go to the store to buy the magical laser pointer.
Then like that, the future had been altered a little. Every day, Qi Xiaohan would use the more convenient levitating spell instead of using the other spiritual spells.
When the three cats finally finished cleaning up the dormitory after a while, Qi Xiaohan put her cat bed on top of the mattress. After looking at it for a bit, she jumped off the bed.
"Senior brother is still waiting for me, I'm going down first. Let's have hot pot for dinner tonight!"
The two big cats nodded.
"The senior sister picking us up will take us out too. You have to take the key, we won't be able to let you in later."
The kitten quickly ran out, leaving a meow echoing in the corridor.
Qi Xiaohan rushed downstairs but didn't see her senior brother. When she was about to call him on her phone, her senior brother arrived, holding a cup of ice cream.
Yan Chong asked with a smile.
The little white cat meowed and nodded, then saw her senior brother hand her the ice cream.
"It's a little hot today. Let's eat at the cafeteria after you finish that."
Qi Xiaohan didn't expect her senior to be so considerate. She meowed in gratitude at her senior brother, then bowed her head, beginning to eat the ice cream in small licks.
Yan Chong looked at the little cat eating her ice cream and sighed.
The little cat's head was buried in the cup of ice cream so she looked even smaller.
Such a small kitten might be disregarded during military training.
Qi Xiaohan placed the ice cream in a convenient spot for her to eat and float with her while she walked.
Qi Xiaohan was oblivious as to what the demon in front of her was thinking as she unhurriedly ate her ice cream and occasionally looked at the scenery.
"Your dormitory and the areas around it belong to the Cat Clan. They're areas for the students of the same race so that it's convenient to create harmonious living arrangements and to avoid conflicts. Additionally, there's also the Wolf Clan, Bird Clan, and so on. Don't wander around on weekdays because some students are very territorial, and they're more likely to get into a dispute with someone that's not the same race as them."
Yan Chong pointed out the dorms in the distance for the little cat.
Qi Xiaohan thought of the black wolf before, who had been carrying her away in his mouth, and her cat ears trembled.
"The lecture building is a bit far from this direction. There are on-campus buses but it's recommended to get up early or else there'll be a very crowded morning bus." Yan Chong pointed out the bus stop in front of the dormitory building.
As Yan Chong said this, his gaze stayed on the little white cat following him, thinking in his heart that it wouldn't matter because such a little cat could be placed in any corner of the bus.
Qi Xiaohan glanced at the bus stop and nodded solemnly.
"You can't fly on the school grounds whenever you like. After mastering the flight skill, you need to go to the school to apply for a flight certificate. Otherwise, you'll receive a punishment."
Qi Xiaohan continued to nod.
Yan Chong took Qi Xiaohan all around to introduce the campus' features until they finally arrived at the canteen. "It's a bit late for dinner at this point but it's alright. The canteen is open 'til midnight and you can eat anytime. The food's taste is only average and if you don't like it, you can go to the various small restaurants open in the school."
At this point in time, Qi Xiaohan had finished her cup of ice cream, thrown it into the trash can, and followed her senior inside the canteen.
The canteen at this time still had a crowd of people. Freshman and sophomore students that had't transformed yet were sitting together with the senior students who already had. The canteen was divided into areas where most of the new students whose original forms were on the larger side were seated on the second floor.
Qi Xiaohan looked at the enormous canteen and let out a shocked meow.
Yan Chong asked.
Qi Xiaohan didn't even think and yelled, "Meat!"
Yan Chong laughed. "What kind of meat? How about ribs? I've eaten ribs before and they taste good." As he said that, he walked with the little white cat towards a particular window.
Qi Xiaohan followed him, flexibly moving through the crowd to avoid people stepping on her.
While lining up, Qi Xiaohan fetched the campus card from the bag on her back first and held it in her mouth.
Yan Chong went to the other side to buy drinks, leaving only Qi Xiaohan in the line.
When it was Qi Xiaohan's turn, she put down the card and shouted to the aunt in the window: "Auntie, I want braised pork ribs!"
Auntie: "Seven yuan for braised pork ribs."
After speaking, she placed a bowl of braised pork ribs in front of the window and began to greet the next student.
The little white cat looked at her bowl of braised pork ribs then to the card reader next to it. She meowed and her cat ears twitched back.
Qi Xiaohan gripped her campus card in her mouth, retreated a few steps, and jumped up. The campus card touched against the card reader and made a beep, scanning it successfully.
The little cat landed and looked at the bowl of braised pork ribs.


THROUGH most of her 28 years playing in the Loughborough Netball League Sue Jones always said her ambition was to play a competitive match alongside her daughter and granddaughter.
And on the day of her 60th birthday, on the first day of the new season, she did just that.
The members of the League, for whom Sue has been chairwoman for 14 years, decked out the court at Loughborough Leisure Centre in happy birthday banners.
The trio including her daughter Victoria Brand and granddaughter Jenna Hart played for Shepshed A, but lost to Shepshed B 30-35 in their opener.
It was still a dream come true for the secretary from Maplewell Hall School.
"It was amazing," she said. "I've said for years it was my ambition to play with Victoria and Jenna and when it happened I'd retire.
"I'm really not ready for that though. Netball keeps me fit and as I've been on the committee for so long I have a lot of friends at the league.
"I keep saying 'only one more season' but then I say that every season.


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Mario Mauro (born 24 July 1961) is an Italian politician and a university teacher of history.[1] He is the former Minister of Defense, having served in the Letta Cabinet from 2013 to 2014. From 1999 to 2013, he was a member of the European Parliament and he is a member of the Italian movement Communion and Liberation.[2][3]
Mauro was born in San Giovanni Rotondo on 24 July 1961. He studied literature and philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan and received a degree in 1985.[4]
Career[edit]
Mauro began his career as teacher in southern Italy after graduation and until 1999 he continued to serve as a teacher and established establish the Public Social Services University Research Centre.[4] He was first elected to the European Parliament in 1999 with the PPE-DE group. From 1999 to 2004 he was vice president for the education and culture commission. On 2 July 2004, he was elected one of the 14 vice presidents of the parliament.[5] His tenure as vice president lasted until 2009.[6] In June 2009, he was elected again to the parliament. He assumed the post of the leader of the Italian centre-right MEPs for the period of 2009–2013.[6]
In addition to his position as European Parliamentary, he held the following positions: representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) against racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with reference to discrimination against Christians from 2009 to 2011,[7] and adjunct professor at the European University of Rome from 2007 to 2009.[4]
In 2013, Mauro resigned from Il Popolo della Libertà and joined Civic Choice (SC). He was elected senator on With Monti for Italy's lists, a coalition between Civic Choice, Union of the Centre and Future and Freedom. He was elected the leader of SC parliamentary group in the Senate. He was replaced in the European Parliament by Susy De Martini.
On 28 April 2013, Mauro was sworn in as defense minister in the grand coalition cabinet of Enrico Letta.[8] After internal rifts inside the Civic Choice party, Mauro left it in November 2013 and launched the new Populars for Italy.[9]
Personal life[edit]
Mauro is married to Giovanna, they have two children, Francesca Romana and Angelo.
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Note: It looks from verse 8 that Rehoboam had decided to reject the advice of the old men even before he consulted the young men making verse 8 the centre and key point.
A.(1) And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
B. (2) And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) (3) That they sent and called him.
C. And Jeroboam and all the congregation of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying,(4) Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee. (5) And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.
D. (6) And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? (7) And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
D'. (9) And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? (10) And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. (11) And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
C'.(12) So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day. (13) And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him; (14) And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
B'. (15) Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
A'. 16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.
Richard B suggests a large chiasm for the chapter.
12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. (13) Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: 35But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes. 36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
A'.41-43 Summary of Solomon deeds.
C. for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
D. (3) And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
C'.(4) For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
B'.(5)For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. (6)And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father. (7)Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
A'.(8)And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
Note: I have edited this structure in the light of Walsh (Style and Structure in Biblical hebrew Narrative). His structure of verses 9-14 is given as an example of an "unmatched subunit" related to verse 12. He gives an ABCB'A'B"C'A" structure. Below the wider text is included in a ABCDEFE'D'B'C'D"A'. The bounds are Elijah being told and then going to meet Ahab. Moving in we have Obadiah's faithfulness, then the dismay at being asked to say to Ahab that Elijah is here.
A. (1) And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. (2) And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab.
B. And there was a sore famine in Samaria. (3) And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly: (4) For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)(5) And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.(6) So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
C. (7) And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? (8) And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
D. (9) And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
E. (10) As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
F. (11) And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
B'. but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. (13) Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD 's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
D".and he shall slay me.
A'. (15) And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.(16) So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
A.(1) And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
B.(2-3) And the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
D. (4b) and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
C'. (6b) and he drank of the brook.
A'. (7b) because there had been no rain in the land.


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Stevie Ray Vaughan – TUESDAY MUSEDAY
9 December 2019 3 May 2020 Music & Records, Tuesday Museday Marc Louis-Boyard
Almost thirty years after his death in a helicopter accident, Stevie Ray Vaughan's legacy seems untouched. SRV's music keeps on inspiring and motivating young and advanced guitar players on their journey to soulful music playing and mastery. But that's not all.
As John Mayer rightfully expressed while introducing the Dallas-born music prodigy at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stevie's music is "a rage without the anger, it's devotional". How could a blues player have such an impact in roughly eight years of fame?
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan working on the Family Style album.
"For a while there, I was pretty lost," he says. "It took me some time to gain the perspective to realize that I had to move on and live my life. It was hard, though. Still is. A big part of me was gone in an instant. Life isn't supposed to be like that."
– Jimmie Vaughan on life without his younger brother Stevie Ray.
Family was central in SRV's life. Did you know that among legal complications, Stevie's decision to not tour with David Bowie at the occasion of the 1983 Serious Moonlight Tour was partly motivated by Bowie's aversion for Lenny, his wife at the time?
From an early age, his brother Jimmie became an icon for him. An icon that he would follow without mimicking or upstaging. Their love and brotherhood reached its peak at the occasion of the recording of the 1990 Family Style album, produced by former recording companion and Chic guitarist Nile Rodgers.
Once trouble with drug and alcohol addiction, SRV instinctively turned to his mom. Not in a childish way, but in the way of someone knowing where home truly is when the world is just too much.
Pushing the edge, humbly
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
– Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Like the resounding majority of texas blues guitarists, Stevie Ray didn't know much about music theory. That didn't stop him from taking the world by storm (an other John Mayer quote!).
Practice wasn't SRV only way to mastery. Resilience mainly was. Heartbroken after his alleged Montreux '82 fiasco, he came back in 1985 on the same festival only to take all the votes he widely deserved. Even early on with Triple Threat Revue, Stevie Ray preferred a precarious life of artistic freedom to a comfortable opportunist attitude.
The gift of generosity
I hit rock bottom, but It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
Generosity epitomized SRV's life conduct.
After having managed to take blues music to a mainstream and worldwide audience, Stevie Ray didn't forget about his roots. His performance at Carnegie Hall included appearances from Angela Strehli, Jimmie Vaughan and Dr. John among many others.
Far from moralism, Stevie Ray took position against drugs publicly after his 1986 recovery, sharing his life experience with his public at his concerts. On a lighter note, did you know that he used to put glue on the tip of his fingers to keep on satisfying his audience after his former 3 hour long sets?
Openness is the key.
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Topic: Lingering Pi3 Wi-Fi issues?
I run Ubiquiti UAP-AC-Pro (I believe these are Atheros based).
I was seeing randomly high >1000ms ping times, dodgy iPerf tests, etc. running the built-in Wi-Fi.
Is there still something fishy with the Pi3's wifi?
Topic: Wi-Fi performance varies between two identical raspi3?
Re: Wi-Fi performance varies between two identical raspi3?
As have I, but what differences between these two identical Pi's (same hardware and same software) would cause such a sharp contrast in performance?
Wi-Fi performance varies between two identical raspi3?
Topic: RTSP Stream from Pi Video Output? Possible?
RTSP Stream from Pi Video Output? Possible?
I would like to roll in Raspberry Pi video output through Open Broadcast Software on my desktop. Is there any software I can install on it that will generate a standard RTSP stream of the display video output?


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Blog wars
Don't know about you, but I like to start my day catching up with what's going on in the world in general, the theater world specifically. I read the Miami Herald, of course, plus the New York Times, and many of the stories on the Broadway Stars, Playbill and American Theater Web sites. Sometimes I read Arts Journal, a highbrow site about all the arts (though it contains the work of a Philadelphia theater blogger who calls her blog Drama Queen -- and I'm sorry, but cyberspace isn't big enough for the two of us!). Just kidding, sort of.
Anyhow, I now also read two South Florida theater blogs. South Florida Theatre Scene is the work of Christopher Jahn, an actor/stage manager/theater pro, who most often uses it to review/recapitulate the work of South Florida's critics. There are fewer of us doing theater criticism full-time now -- the Sun Sentinel's Jack Zink has passed away, and the Palm Beach Post's Hap Erstein took a buyout -- and Jahn also uses his blog to agitate for more theater coverage. I'm down with that, but the perfect storm of a horrendous economy and the rapidly shrinking newsroom does not bode well for the return of one critical voice at either paper. Think freelance critics, because that's the way it's going at more and more newspapers. Some, like Bill Hirschman and Mary Damiano, write knowledgeable, stylish reviews. Others, not so much. And it's difficult -- for readers and those in the theater community -- to know whether you can trust a paper's reviews when the bylines keep changing.
The other South Florida blog, Theatre Row, is -- how to put it? -- more problematic. Theatre Row is the work of "senior editor" Gert Rodon (whom I don't know), Rene Rodriguez (not the Herald's movie critic) and others, including a "critic" who goes only by the initials DSP. The idea behind Theatre Row seems to be "fun" (that word gets used a lot) of the bitchy variety. There's a weekly Friday gossip item called Blind Spot, in which the scandalous behavior of one or two local theater practitioners is dissected, with the guilty given a pseudonym. The stories are pretty vile, and until a blog bitchfest broke out recently, people would comment on the items by posting what they thought were the real names of the subjects, thereby tarnishing the reps of both the guilty and the innocent. Blind Spot will still appear, but now without the guessing game.
Apparently, the besmirched have been asking about the cred of those behind Theatre Row. Rodon wrote recently, "As for who we ARE and ARE NOT [caps hers]. We have stated ALL that we are going to on the matter. You get nothing more."
Pretty touchy for someone who tied Blind Spot to the tradition of blind items written by greats like Edward R. Murrow, Louella Parsons and Hedda Harper(sic). Probably Hedda Hopper too (old school things like spelling and grammar aren't high on Theatre Row's list of priorities).
As arts journalism changes at what seems like warp speed, blogging has given journalists, theater pros, really anyone with an interest in the arts the chance to get in on the conversation. That's a good thing. But journalistic standards, training and experience do matter. The blogosphere is like the wild west. You just have to read enough to figure out whom you can trust. Or not.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 4:03 PM in General Theater, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
A heartbreaking tale of shattered innocence
Paula Vogel won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for drama for How I Learned To Drive, a play that was produced by both New Theatre in Coral Gables and the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton the following year.
Now students at Broward College are reviving the play, a harrowing and involving study of how a sexually abusive alcoholic steals his young niece's innocence. Li'l Bit, played by Connie Fernandez, goes out with her Uncle Peck (Jonathan Varillas) for "driving lessons," beginning when she's just 11. Their complicated, incestuous relationship goes on and on, like the miles stretching before Li'l Bit on her road to safety and maturity.
The play runs through Nov. 2 in the Fine Arts Theatre (on the second floor of Bldg. 6) at Broward College, 3501 SW Davie Rd. in Davie. Performances begin tonight, with shows at 8 p.m. Thurday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students and seniors). For information, call 954-201-6842.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 3:31 PM in College Theater, General Theater, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
Thieves hit the Women's Theatre Project
After everyone had gone home following Friday's performance of Silent Heroes, thieves broke into the Fort Lauderdale warehouse space used by the Women's Theatre Project (TWTP) and stole all of the company's technical equipment, its cash box and its cell phone. That would be a blow to any theater, but it's especially rough for a company as small as the 45-seat TWTP -- particularly in a tanking economy.
Board president Meredith Lasher and her colleagues sprang into action once they discovered the loss, cancelling Saturday-Sunday performances, moving ticket holders into the upcoming final weekend of shows, arranging to rent equipment and working with police. Lasher put out a press release about the theft and its impact on the small company, commenting: "The robbery is a critical hurdle for our small theater company...we will require additional funding to replace our entire technical setup -- you cannot do theater without it."
Even with the additional fundraising ahead, however, Lasher and company vow to finish out the run of Silent Heroes.
"As you can imagine, we are pretty pissed off,'' she writes. "But the show goes on."
The final performances of Silent Heroes, about wives of Marine fighter pilots anxiously awaiting word of their husbands' fate, will be at 8 p.m. Thursday,Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Tickets are $25 ($10 for students). Call 1-866-811-4111 or visit the theater's web site.
Yes, you can see theater for less
If you've been to a show on Broadway lately, you know that even a single ticket isn't cheap -- $100 is at the lower end of what it costs for a decent orchestra seat to most shows. If you're going with a spouse, partner, date or the kids, as the bridge-and-tunnel crowd might say, "Fugedaboudit.''
Actually, though, you really can see theater for less. Since 1973, the Theatre Development Fund (TDF) has been selling half-price, same-day theater tickets to Broadway plays and musicals in Duffy Square at Broadway and 47th Street. Those long lines you'd see snaking around the square before matinees and evening performances were tourists and New Yorkers hoping to get a deal (50 percent off, plus a service fee) on a show.
Those tickets used to be sold out of a trailer. But as of yesterday, the TKTS Discount Booth is an architect-designed thing of beauty. Australian architects John Choi and Tai Ropiha won a competition to create the booth, a fiberglass shell within an all-glass structure under a glowing red glass staircase, which sightseers can climb for an elevated gander at Times Square. The booth has a dozen windows, including one for plays only (where there's far less waiting time), and tickets to Broadway, Off-Broadway, music and dance events are available. TKTS operates from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday for evening performances; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday for matinees. For more details, check the TDF web site.
Closer to home, you can also see theater for less, and you don't have to stand in a long line to get the discounts. WLRN Radio and Television and the Theatre League of South Florida have partnered in Cultural Connection, an online program that sells half-price tickets (plus a $4.50 per ticket service fee) to shows at most South Florida theaters. Theaters offer unsold tickets up to 5 p.m. each day. You pay with a credit card, and the tickets are waiting for you at the box office that evening.
At both TKTS and Cultural Connection, you can't always get that hot show you want (a ticket to Wicked or Jersey Boys, for instance). But you can save some serious money.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 3:33 PM in Broadway, General Theater, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
Art imitates life in AAPACT's "Zooman"
Just two years and three months ago, not so far from the place where the African American Performing Arts Community Theatre (AAPACT) will open its production of Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign next week, a little girl died.
Sherdavia Jenkins was nine and sitting on her porch at the Liberty Square Housing Project when she was caught in the gunfire between suspected drug dealers. After her death, her grieving family was outraged that of the many potential witnesses outside on a hot July day, almost no one came forward.
Fuller's play, written in 1980, powerfully forshadows a tragedy like the one that took Sherdavia's life. A tough, remorseless Philadelphia kid who goes by the name of Zooman (Derrick Chiverton) accidentally shoots and kills a 12-year-old girl who was sitting on her porch. Her distraught family tries to get witnesses to tell the truth, eventually posting a sign accusing neighbors of allowing the killers to roam free because of their silence. The parallels are obvious and chilling.
The disturbing, resonant play is offering two very low-priced previews -- with tickets just $5 -- at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, 6161 NW 22nd Ave., Miami. The performance Oct. 24 will cost $5 for the first 50 people, $10 for everyone else, and it will be followed by a talk-back with director Andre Gainey and actors Carey Hart, Larry Robinson, Teddy Harrell Jr., Curtis Holland, Lamar Swan, Kevin Johnson, Catherine A. Williams, Rachel Finley and Chiverton.
Zooman runs through Nov. 16 with performances at 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, 3 p.m. Sunday. Opening night tickets Oct. 25 are $30, with subsequent shows priced at $25. For information, call 305-638-6771 or visit AAPACT's web site.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 12:15 PM in General Theater, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
Theater greats get an ultimate honor
Baseball has Cooperstown, football has Canton, rock and roll has Cleveland. American theater has its own Hall of Fame, names etched on the walls of Broadway's Gershwin Theatre at 222 W. 51st St., the place where hundreds of thousands of musical fans have flocked to see Wicked.
The latest group of inductees has just been announced, and Producers star Nathan Lane (who is expected to be on Broadway this season opposite Bill Irwin in a revival of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot) is among the stage greats being honored.
Also chosen this time around are playwright Alan Ayckbourn, actor Richard Easton, choreographer Patricia Birch, producer Emanuel Azenberg, composer Marvin Hamlisch, orchestrator Jonathan Tunick and the late actor Roscoe Lee Browne. Members of the American Theatre Critics Association (including me) are among those who vote on nominees.
Honorary chair is Palm Beach resident and former Broadway actress Dame Celia Lipton Farris; mistress of ceremonies is 2007 honoree Dana Ivey. The ceremony takes place in the Gershwin's North Rotunda at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26, with a celebratory supper at the Friars Club to follow. For a list of all Hall of Fame inductees, check out the Best Plays Yearbook online.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 12:10 PM in Awards, Broadway, General Theater, Playwrights, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
"Tortilla" reunites Ferra and Santeiro
Max Ferra, the founder of New York's INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center, liked Luis Santeiro's first play -- Our Lady of the Tortilla -- so much that he staged its world premiere at his Manhattan theater in 1987.
Fast forward to 2008. Santeiro, a writer of the vintage bilingual TV series Que Pasa, U.S.A.? from 1977 to 1979, is still doing Emmy Award-winning work as a longtime writer for Sesame Street, still turning out plays. And Ferra is now running the Actor's Arena, a bilingual theater training program at Miami Dade College's North Campus.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Ferra is staging the Miami premiere of Our Lady of the Tortilla, which Santeiro has altered so that the comic chaos takes place in Hialeah instead of the original New Jersey setting. During one crazy weekend, a Cuban-American college kid named Nelson (Bryant Del Toro) brings home his southern belle girlfriend Beverly (Monica Abreu) to meet the family, which prompts Nelson's sleazy brother Eddy (Logan Fernandez) to hit on her. Mama Dahlia (Alejandra Cossio) is determined to keep her straying hubby from seeing his new squeeze. Her sister Dolores (Lizaida Mansito) spies the image of the Virgin Mary in a tortilla, setting off a mad media frenzy.
The play opens at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 after a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.; an exhibition titled Celebrating 30 Years of Que Pasa U.S.A. (featuring photos, video clips, original scripts and other memorabilia) will be open before and after each performance in the North Campus Gallery. Additional performances of Our Lady are at 5 p.m. Oct. 26, 11 a.m. Oct. 31, 8 p.m. Nov. 1 and 5 p.m. Nov. 2. The play takes place in the Lehman Theatre, 11380 NW 27th Ave., Bldg. 5, Miami. Tickets are a budget-friendly $10 -- and just $5 for students and seniors.
For information, call 305-237-1450 or visit the college's web site.
(Photo of Max Ferra)
Posted by Christine Dolen at 12:44 PM in College Theater, General Theater, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
An undercover(s) political play
With just over three weeks to go until the presidential election, and with both campaigns now slinging mud, you could be forgiven for thinking that politics are a dirty business.
William Mastrosimone, the Emmy Award-winning playwright and screenwriter, apparently thinks so too. His newest play, Dirty Business, gets its world premiere at Manalapan's Florida Stage next week.
The script is both scorching and riveting. And if the characters' names -- Jack, Sam, Judy, Frank and Joe -- make you think of a young senator who ran for president in 1960, a mob boss, the beautiful woman who bedded them both, a famous singer and the senator's manipulative father, so be it. History, with its secrets and differing perspectives, clearly inspired Mastrosimone's play. But he takes us deeper, inside the minds of people obsessed with sex and power (not necessarily in that order).
Florida Stage's Louis Tyrrell is directing Dirty Business, which features James Reynolds as Jack, Elizabeth Davis as Judy and Gordon McConnell as Sam. Previews begin Oct.22 at 8 p.m. (additional previews at 2 and 8 p.m. Oct. 23). The play runs through Nov. 30, with performances at 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday-Sunday, 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $42 and $45 ($35 for previews). Florida Stage is at 262 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan (south of Lake Worth in Palm Beach County). For information, call 1-800-514-3837 or visit the theater's web site.
(Photo by Sigvision Photography)
Bringing back Baltimore
John Waters' Hairspray is the movie that became a Broadway musical that became a movie musical. The bubbly, tongue-in-cheek stage version is headed back to South Florida. Winner of the 2003 Tony Award as best musical, Hairspray has been here before, and it's not part of the official touring Broadway lineup at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
But its short run (Oct. 17-19) does usher in a season's worth of big Broadway musicals coming to the Broward Center, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami and the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Will star Brooklynn Pulver (pictured here with hairspray-wielding dancers) will be a memorable Tracy Turnblad? We'll see. But one thing is for sure: You can never hear Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman's homage-to-the-'60s score too often.
Performances are 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Tickets are $25-$65. The Broward Center is at 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale. For information, call the box office at 954-462-0222 or visit the center's web site.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 1:37 PM in Broadway, Broward Center, General Theater, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
Sarah Ruhl interprets a classic
Playwright and MacArthur "genius" fellowship winner Sarah Ruhl has a varied body of work, little of it (except for The Clean House, done by Boca Raton's Caldwell Theatre Company) seen in South Florida -- until now. Her most recent play, Dead Man's Cell Phone, will be produced by Plantation's Mosaic Theatre Feb. 26-March 22, 2009.
This weekend, though, Florida Atlantic University is offering a demonstration of Ruhl's gift for crafting a play rooted in mythic literature. Eurydice, Ruhl's retelling of the Orpheus myth from the perspective of his bride, finishes its run on the Boca Raton campus with performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. In Ruhl's version, after Eurydice's death on her wedding day, she travels to Hades and reunites with her father. When Orpheus risks all to fetch her, she must decide whether to return to life with her husband or remain in the land of the dead with her father.
Tickets to the FAU production are $16 ($10 for faculty and alumni, free to students), and the show is in the Studio One Theatre on the campus at 777 Glades Rd. For information, call 561-297-3810 or visit the university's online ticketing site.
Posted by Christine Dolen at 12:57 PM in College Theater, General Theater, Playwrights, Theater | Permalink | Comments | TrackBack (0)
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HomeCrypto40% of cryptocurrency investors spend 2 hours on due diligence
40% of cryptocurrency investors spend 2 hours on due diligence
In a new study on financial literacy, cryptocurrency exchange Bybit promotes the need to immerse themselves in the journey of retail investors in the wild west of the digital asset space.
While the level of investing awareness is slowly improving and there are signs that retail cryptocurrency investors are diversifying their portfolios, there is still a long way to go, the survey says.
In the process, Bybit introduces the industry's first investment literacy framework and highlights key findings to educate existing and prospective crypto investors.
As part of their survey, Bybit and Toluna polled 10,500 unique participants across 19 markets about their knowledge and attitude towards cryptocurrencies with 1,748 identified as "cryptocurrency investors".
The purpose of the joint study, launched in November 2022, was to provide an insight into how cryptocurrency investors perceive centralized exchanges, KYC. It also aims to explore whether there are significant differences across countries, markets and generations in terms of retail investment literacy.
For the purposes of this survey, the authors have identified three major milestones for the engagement of a typical cryptocurrency investor. First, their decision to invest in cryptocurrencies, second, their choice of a vendor or project, and finally, how they manage their portfolios.
While the KYC process is recognized as a useful tool for preventing cybercrimes and hacks, over 50% of participants have little or no preference when it comes to exchanges that use identity checks. However, 1 in 2 investors are calling for more centralized control for wider Web3 adoption.
CEX and DeFi are not mutually exclusive
When asked if they would prefer to trade to protect their cryptocurrency investments, 25% of correspondents said they are willing to accept CEX regulation for added security. As the survey pass rate shows, cryptocurrency investors score lower on NFTs and DeFi than most Web2 players, reflecting their security concerns in a decentralized environment.
Interestingly, however, the results indicate that DeFi advocates still attribute high trust scores to CEXs. About 90% of respondents gave at least 4 out of 5 trust scores, debunking the myth that centralization and decentralization cannot go hand in hand.
The report states that 40% of investors surveyed spend less than 2 hours due diligence on a project before investing. More worryingly, they prioritized reputational factors over other more fundamental factors.
Nearly one in three correspondents invest in cryptocurrencies due to its growth and wealth accumulation potential. However, 46% of cryptocurrency investors invest in it for the long term, with an investment horizon of 7 months to more than 2 years.
To sum up, the results represent brief cause for optimism with some promising upsides in an otherwise chaotic industry. Having gained deeper insight into the user journey of cryptocurrency investors, Bybit believes that the investment literacy of cryptocurrency investors is advancing with more room to mature. The study also highlights the need for accessible crypto education that everyone can grasp regardless of income, gender, race, or educational status.
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A: You just need a little bit of math
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