The interview skills of both interviewee and interviewer influence not only the effectiveness, insight-fulness and outcome of the interview, but also the degree to which a lack of these skills by one participant will test those of the other.
Hence, preparation for an interview should include being ready for an inept, unskillful interview, e.g., by having contingency plans for coping with or guiding a clumsy, off-focus or awkward interview back on track.
In any case, it is of critical importance to have an integrated, balanced and consistent skill set, e.g., to be able to ask as well as answer questions impressively, to complement verbal responses with appropriate body language, and to be well prepared for the unexpected as well as the expected.
Prominent among the requisite interview skills are those that must be exercised before the interview, in addition to those applied during it, e.g., preliminary research skills used to develop and eventually display a good understanding of the employer organization or of the job candidate.
Landing an interview is only the first step in obtaining a job offer. Developing interviewing skills before the interview can make the difference between success and failure. Several of the most common skills to develop for a successful interview include research skills, self-descriptive skills, relaxation skills and etiquette.
A well-informed interviewee is a strong interviewee. Several bits of knowledge should be researched and memorized before the interview. These include organizational information such as the primary function of the company, the company's size, the state of its business, and the role of the vacant position within the organization. Understanding the goals and values of the company can help give context to how an applicant's qualifications can help benefit the company.
The skill of self-description is an important ability for any interview. Most interviewers will want to know how an applicant sees himself or herself as a professional and how that person would respond to varying situations. Understanding one's own motivations, strengths and weaknesses, goals, and skills and knowing how to present these attributes in a positive way give the interviewer confidence that the applicant can offer the company what it is looking for.
Learning to relax can be an important aspect of the interview because it allows for the projection of a friendly, capable and confident demeanor. Excessive nervousness damages confidence, which, in turn, affects body language and speech. Practicing breathing exercises and following a loose script may help ease any anxiety about the unknown.
As with candidates, employers must develop competency in developing and executing effective interviews. Use our resources related to corporate recruiting and hiring best practices to help develop your knowledge of effective interview techniques, modern psychological assessment, and employee recruitment and selection.


Oppo A3s with dual cameras, notch display launched at Rs 10,990: Should you buy?
Shortly after launching premium Find X smartphone in India for Rs 59,990, Oppo is now turning its attention to the budget-conscious shoppers in the country with A3s smartphone. Read all about the new phone here.
Oppo Find X launch in India on Thursday has put the company under the spotlight, but it's not settling for that. After making its presence strongly felt in the premium sector, it is now after the budget smartphone category with the launch of its all-new A3s smartphone.
Unlike previous budget-friendly smartphones by Oppo, the A3s makes an unwavering stand against its rivals in India. Oppo brings the latest features onboard its A3s without charging a lot.
Oppo A3s will be available on Flipkart, Amazon and Paytm and in offline stores starting July 15. It won't be hard to make a winning argument with the A3s as it is priced at Rs 10,990, and offers compelling features such as full-screen display, dual cameras, long-lasting battery and AI-powered selfie camera.
Oppo A3s features a 6.2-inch "Super Full Screen" display with 19:9 aspect ratio, 88.8 percent screen-to-body ratio and a notch. The next major USP of the A3s is the dual camera setup, which the company claims is the first for Oppo in the South Asian market. The dual cameras combine 13MP and 2MP sensors with LED flash and help create a shallow depth effect.
Oppo A3s is also categorised as a "selfie expert" and it is justified by an 8MP front-facing snapper with AI Beauty Technology to get natural selfies. In addition to that, Oppo A3s focuses mainly on the battery front, and packs a powerful 4,230mAh battery. While we can count on the A3s for long-lasting battery life, the lack of fast-charging makes it tedious to wait while the phone charges. But we cannot demand much from the phone that's already priced on the lower end.
Other features of the phone include an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 chipset, 2GB RAM, 16GB expandable storage, 4G VoLTE support, a 3.5mm headphone jack and dual SIM card slots. In case you are wondering, there is no fingerprint scanner on the phone, but it has a fast face unlocking feature to quickly unlock the device with a glance.
With all that, there's an interesting feature in the A3s that connects multiple smartphones running ColorOS 5.1 or higher via hotspot to play the same track. The feature is called "Music Party" and it can help you create a surround sound effect without any external speakers.
Finally, Oppo A3s comes in two colours, Red and Dark Purple. Both hues are different from what most OEMs offer in this price range, like the gold or black, and these new shades better appeal to the youth.
"With A3s, we aim to offer consumers, especially youth, who are looking for an advanced camera phone that offers a strong battery life. With advance features like dual camera, super full screen and extensive battery, this device has been designed to enable consumers to capture cherished moments all day long," Will Yang, Brand Director, OPPO India, said in a statement.


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"Nowhere Fast"
Extended version cover
Single by Eminem featuring Kehlani
from the album Revival
March 27, 2018 (2018-03-27)
Interscope
Marshall Mathers
Timothy Price
Mark Batson
Thomas Armato Sturges
Antonina Armato
Hit-Boy
Rock Mafia
Eminem singles chronology
(2017) "Nowhere Fast"
(2018) "Caterpillar"
Kehlani singles chronology
"Done for Me"
(2018) "Playinwitme"
"Nowhere Fast" is a song recorded by American rapper Eminem featuring guest vocals from American singer Kehlani. It was written by Eminem, Mark Batson, Thomas Armato Sturges, and Tim James & Antonina Armato of Rock Mafia, who produced it with Hit-Boy. The song was sent to radio on March 27, 2018, as the third single from Eminem's ninth studio album, Revival (2017). An extended version was released ten days earlier on March 17, 2018.[1][2]
On March 11, 2018, the artists performed the song's extended version live at the 2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards. The performance centers around the theme of gun violence, featuring a new verse by Eminem at the beginning, which was inspired by the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.[3][4] Alex Moscou, a survivor of the shooting, introduced the performance with a speech: "We're tired of hearing politicians send their thoughts and prayers to us, and doing nothing to make the necessary changes to prevent this tragedy from happening again. If those elected to represent won't do what's right to keep us safe, we're going to be too loud for them to ignore."[5][6]
Digital download – extended version[7]
"Nowhere Fast" (featuring Kehlani) (extended version) 4:38
CD single[8]
"Nowhere Fast" (featuring Kehlani) 4:26
Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.[9][10]
Eminem – vocals
Kehlani – vocals
Rock Mafia – production
Hit-Boy – production
Chart (2017–18)
Australia (ARIA)[11]
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[12]
Germany (Official German Charts)[13]
Ireland (IRMA)[14]
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[15]
US Bubbling Under Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[16]
March 17, 2018 Digital download Extended
March 27, 2018 Contemporary hit radio
Rhythmic contemporary radio [18]
July 6, 2018 CD single —
^ Kim, Michelle (March 17, 2018). "Eminem and Kehlani Share New NRA-Bashing Version of "Nowhere Fast": Listen". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ Goddard, Kevin (March 16, 2018). "Eminem Releases Extended Version Of "Nowhere Fast" Feat. Kehlani". HotNewHipHop. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ Kreps, Daniel (March 12, 2018). "Eminem Slams NRA With New 'Nowhere Fast' Verse at iHeartRadio Awards". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ Lee, Christina (March 12, 2018). "Eminem Slams The NRA With A New 'Nowhere Fast' Verse In A Fiery iHeartRadio Music Awards Performance". Uproxx. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ Welsh, Daniel (March 12, 2018). "Eminem Lampoons NRA With iHeartRadio Awards 'Nowhere Fast' Performance". HuffPost. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ Skelton, Eric (March 12, 2018). "Eminem Performs Gun Control-Inspired Version of "Nowhere Fast" With Kehlani at iHeartRadio Music Awards". Complex. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ a b "Nowhere Fast (feat. Kehlani) [Extended Version] - Single by Eminem on Apple Music". iTunes Store (CA). March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ a b "Eminem: Nowhere Fast Feat. Kehlani (2-Track) (Explicit) (Maxi-CD) — jpc" (in German). jpc. Retrieved November 21, 2018.
^ "Revival / Eminem TIDAL". Tidal. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
^ "Nowhere Fast (feat. Kehlani) [Extended Version] by Eminem on Spotify". Spotify. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
^ "ARIA Chart Watch #452". auspOp. December 23, 2017. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ "Eminem Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ "Eminem feat. Kehlani – Nowhere Fast" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ "Irish-charts.com – Discography Eminem". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ "Eminem feat. Kehlani – Nowhere Fast". Singles Top 100. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ "Kehlani Chart History: Bubbling Under Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Billboard. May 28, 2019. Archived from the original on May 26, 2018.
^ "Top 40/M Future Releases". All Access Media Group. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
^ "Top 40/R Future Releases". All Access Media Group. Archived from the original on March 17, 2018. Retrieved March 17, 2018.
Eminem songs
Singles discography
Production discography
D12 discography
Bad Meets Evil discography
"Infinite"
Slim Shady EP
"Just Don't Give a Fuck"
"Just the Two of Us"
The Slim Shady LP
"My Name Is"
"Guilty Conscience"
"'97 Bonnie & Clyde
"Role Model"
"Kill You
"Stan"
"The Way I Am"
"The Real Slim Shady"
"Bitch Please II"
"Kim"
The Eminem Show
"White America"
"Business"
"Cleanin' Out My Closet"
"Without Me"
"Sing for the Moment"
"Superman"
"'Till I Collapse"
8 Mile soundtrack
"Lose Yourself"
"Like Toy Soldiers"
"Mosh"
"Just Lose It"
"Ass Like That"
"Mockingbird"
"Encore"
Curtain Call: The Hits
"Fack"
"Shake That"
"When I'm Gone"
Eminem Presents: The Re-Up
"You Don't Know"
"Jimmy Crack Corn"
"3 a.m."
"We Made You"
"Old Time's Sake"
"Crack a Bottle"
"Forever"
"Hell Breaks Loose"
"Elevator"
"Music Box"
"Won't Back Down"
"Not Afraid"
"No Love"
"Space Bound"
"Love the Way You Lie"
The Marshall Mathers LP 2
"Bad Guy"
"Rhyme or Reason"
"Survival"
"Legacy"
"Berzerk"
"Rap God"
"The Monster"
"So Far..."
"Headlights"
"Beautiful Pain"
Shady XV
"Guts Over Fear"
"Detroit vs. Everybody"
Southpaw soundtrack
"Kings Never Die"
"Phenomenal"
"Walk on Water"
"Chloraseptic"
"Untouchable"
"Framed"
"The Ringer"
"Greatest"
"Lucky You"
"Normal"
"Stepping Stone"
"Not Alike"
"Kamikaze"
"Fall"
"Nice Guy"
"Good Guy"
"Venom"
Music to Be Murdered By
"Unaccommodating"
"Those Kinda Nights"
"Darkness"
"Godzilla"
"Black Magic"
"Alfred's Theme"
"Gnat"
"Higher"
"Killer"
"Dead Wrong"
"Forgot About Dre"
"What's the Difference"
"Renegade"
"Rock City"
"Hellbound"
"Rap Name"
"Shit Hits the Fan"
"One Day at a Time (Em's Version)"
"Welcome 2 Detroit"
"Smack That"
"Touchdown"
"Drop the World"
"Roman's Revenge"
"Love the Way You Lie (Part II)"
"That's All She Wrote"
"I Need a Doctor"
"Writer's Block"
"Throw That"
"My Life"
"C'mon Let Me Ride"
"Calm Down"
"Best Friend"
"Medicine Man"
"No Favors"
"Revenge"
"Caterpillar"
"Majesty"
"Homicide"
"Remember the Name"
"Bang"
"Lord Above"
"Coffin"
"The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady"
"Last One Standing"
"From the D 2 the LBC"
Other singles
"Killshot"
"The King and I"
"The Warning"
"Campaign Speech"
SweetSexySavage (2017)
It Was Good Until It Wasn't (2020)
Blue Water Road (2022)
Cloud 19 (2014)
You Should Be Here (2015)
While We Wait (2019)
"Crzy"
"Distraction"
"Gangsta"
"Good Life"
"Honey"
"Nights Like This"
"Good Thing"
"Morning"
"Can I"
"Birthday"
"I Like Dat"
Featured singles
"Wrong"
"Faking It"
"Playinwitme"
"What I Need"
"Ring"
Promotional singles
"Get Me"
"B.S." (Remix)
SweetSexySavage World Tour
Poplyfe
MusicBrainz (release group)
Kehlani songs
Male–female vocal duets
Songs written by Eminem
Songs written by Mark Batson
Songs written by Antonina Armato
Songs written by Tim James (musician)
Song recordings produced by Hit-Boy
Song recordings produced by Rock Mafia
Works about gun politics in the United States
Aftermath Entertainment singles
Interscope Records singles
Shady Records singles

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It's a bit after 2:30am, I recently arrived home from work and now I'm on Blogger. You know what that means right? If you guessed its Friday Mashup time then you guessed right!
Amanda is bringing us the challenge this week and she has a great sketch for us, plus she wants us to incorporate bunnies into our project. I wasn't able to mash it up this week....I don't celebrate Easter and own zero bunny stamps so I used a very cute elephant instead, from the set Henry Says, from the spring catalog. Isn't he just adorable?
Head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see the projects from the rest of the DT!
Make a project "using the Sketch".
Or Make a project with "Bunnies".
Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with the "Sketch featuring Bunnies".
I had the same bunny stamp problem! :) Henry is just as cute.
What a cute card, Lisa! Love that little elephant, so darling. This would make a great baby shower card.
Beautiful card Lisa! Great colors, and I love the embossed panels.
I think the Elephant works great in place of the Bunny for Easter! I love the way you gave him texture... and how you used the sketch.
Your patterned elephant is soooo cute! Such bright cheerful colors too! Thanks for sharing!


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Ottawa businesses prepare for the arrival of the 'freedom convoy'
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A graduate of Algonquin College's television broadcast program, Tyler later made the switch to news, as a videographer and editor, covering local and national stories across Ottawa and the Valley. He is part of a team that has received multiple Radio and Television Digital News Association awards, most notably, a Hugh Haugland award for Creative use of video.
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An edition of 85 with 20 artist's proofs. Printed, signed and numbered by the artist in 2003 at Blencarn, Cumbria on John Purcell 285gsm mould made 100% rag paper.
There are just two copies of Journey left for sale. These are available online only.


I can't find my passport. This is very bad for two reasons.
One: I'm leaving for the US, from Duesseldorf, extremely early next Friday morning.
Two: That was the best ID photo that I have ever taken and I do not expect to see its like again, two children and 6 years later (and thirty pounds to the worse) and many, many sleep deprived years later.
On the plus side, since we live here in Berlin I will be able to get an emergency passport with very little trauma. On the negative, that passport will be good for only one year and I will need to replace it almost immediately with a permanent replacement so that I can get my German visa replaced, which will lead to more standing in line and monetary penalties for my carelessness.
My Google Reader is acting up. I have deleted it, exported it, and re-imported it and still the darn thing doesn't give me preview (reads as "marked read") and when I actually mark it as read, doesn't update. I know this seems a small thing, but it is annoying me to no end. I may need to switch to a different Reader if this continues.
I want to switch to Wordpress, but I can't bear to give up Feedjit and my WeatherPixies.
We have a new TV (32"LCD, very nice). This is after Karstadt confirmed delivery, did not deliver, would not explain why it would not deliver, citing EU "privacy regulations", would not respond to e-mail questions after stating that it would only respond to e-mail questions, would not confirm that the order had been cancelled by them, and so on. So the German went out this weekend, picked up a great JVC floor model, negotiated a super price and we are watching the Lost season finale (yes, we are really that far behind on it) because he was able to get the correct cables to allow us to watch the computer through the TV. But, we still can't get the TV to recognize our code-free DVD/VHS player and it's making the kids really mad to not be able to watch the DVD of Happy Feet that we bought two weeks ago.
It's rained every day for the last 8 days and the average temperature has been in the high 50s- low 60s.
My refrigerator is a total piece of schlock, as it seems is standard in Germany. In college, I had a 40 year old fridge that was better than the standard German refrigerator, where water customarily runs down the back wall, freezes, and destroys delicate produce. I don't want to store it for the next several years in my basement and doubt that I can get the landlord to split the cost, so I will put up with it for as long as I can. One reason to put up with it is that it seems to be SOP in any case: my in-laws and our prior fridge and all the refrigerators I have seen here operate in this manner. Hard to believe that a 1st world country finds this acceptable.
I made chocolate chip cookies today and they came out very flat. I just can't adjust to all the extra fat in the butter: should I add baking powder to help it rise? There's already soda, of course, as I am using the Tollhouse recipe.
I took Thing1 to camp today and when I went to pick her up, discovered that she had been on a field trip, by bus. This would not be a problem, per se, except that I had been told that the youngest class wouldn't be going on field trips and I was concerned that there would not be car seats in use. Luckily, when the bus arrived I saw that it was a charter and that the seats were safe for the children, rather than the usual small shuttle bus.
And there are a whole lot of other, smaller annoyances. The plumbing problems, which will require another visit from the plumber after he gives warning to the whole building that the mains need to be shut off, the re-keying of the locks as the prior tenant absconded with the internal keys, the co-tenant in my building who has found it amusing to rip my name off the mailbox (we added it while waiting for the landlord to put in a new tag with both our names, and someone pulled it, with all its tape, off three times).... I need to stop and start thinking of more enjoyable things.
I will go watch Dr. Horrible and put myself in a better mood.
added: It was an interesting trip. The museum itself was put together not by the State (which was ashamed) but by a people's group that wanted to preserve the apparatus of the Stasi and eastern Communist regime before it was dismantled and hidden by the apparatchiks.The building itself was a bit grey and 1950's office style because the head of the Stasi was born in the first decade of the 1900's and distrusted modernity. I had an apfelschorle in the canteen and watched the Discovery channel documentary on the Stasi that was playing on loop there (narrated by Roger Moore:)) and that, rather than the museum, really brought home what life was like in that period. They had a listening device that could be attached to your pipes 7 floors down and follow your life upstairs. they really did have cameras in false rocks in woods, and if you count unpaid informers, the Stasi had 500-700,000 informers watching and reporting on 16,000,000 people. That's a number unequalled anywhere else. I need to see The Lives of Others. Also, I'm told that the Stasi prison is more meaningful and I will try to make it there.
600+ entries cleared out of my GoogleReader queue (I just marked off the food entries, no way was I going to catch up), a few phone calls later, and a look at local upstate NY news and I am starting to feel a bit more in control.
Put together 29 pieces of Ikea furniture.
Bought a couch and a washing machine from a discount outlet in NRW (the couch is a nice, angled black leater. The european style that allows pulling a hidden section out to form a bed).
Brought all our belongings (that could be fitted in the trailer) back from the in-laws. We are still missing the coffee table, end tables and bookcases, but at this point they may stay there (we got a 9.99 end table at Ikea and the ottoman would be in the way of a coffee table).
Brought all our belongings from the "furnished) apartment we had rented to our new apartment. Lucily, we had only bookcases (they seem to breed around me), printer stands, file cabinet, etc, there in addition to clothing, books and toys.
Put together "closet" shelving for the closet under the stairs- the only one in the apartment. We still have some commercial shelving to put together for the keller, at which point some of the things stacked up here will go downstairs. This is the first time in 10 months that I have seen my kitchen implements and had the foodstuffs that we brought all unpacked: I have been revelling in Trader Joe's Indian food and whining that Aldi (which owns TJ's) doesn't carry anything remotely spicey.
Had 6 lights installed and a curtain line put up, on which we have strung 6 curtains. I need to put 6 more up here in the wohnzimmer and then we need to put up lines in the dining area, the vorkuche and the children's room: right now, they are using our room because they couldn't sleep without room darkening curtains or blinds, as the sun is up here past 10. Our room (with slanted windows) came with rollshades.
We have installed the washing machine and the dryer (which we had brought with us from the US: it was a fortuitous gift from a German family that had brought it to the US only to discover that one cannot retrofit German dryers to work in the US). The washing machine has a distressing leakage problem that we can't seem to fix so we will need to call a plumber in. Perhaps at the same time we can find a way to run a water line to the terrace, which I had hoped to have planted by now, but which I am starting to think will not happen until next year.
We ordered a kitchen island from Bauhaus: the price was 40% of the analogous price at Ikea. I can't wait until it gets here. We are exploring kashrut right now and the tiny kitchen (that was what I gave up in order to have the area, the light, the windows, and the outdoor spaces) has no place to allow separation of milchig and fleishig. The first 6 months will be a trial and if all works out well, I think we will kasher the kitchen, dishes, et al.
I have unpacked all except for 6 boxes which are living in my cornfield (the vorkuche) right now.
We need: to get the lines up (I am going to use flannel sheets to darken the windows in the girls' room), get some more lights up,get a toaster, CD player/radio and a coffee machine. I think we have done pretty well for this short time, though.
We also need to get a TV. Although my sister-in-law generously gave us her older TV, it can't support our DVD/video player and I need to be able to let the kids see movies and to see the subtitles myself (I find it useful when watching German to read English, and even to read the German while listening to it). I'm also looking for a staning freezer on sale so that I can actually cut back on the 5 days a week that I go shopping with the ability to buy meat only once a week and to prepare meals ahead of time as well as to be able to actually store left-overs.
Enough of that..I hope to talk about at least a few of the non-boring things that we have done recently in the next few days. Tomorrow is my next to last day of German and the last day is an ausflug (field trip) so I hope to have some fun next week, during my week of freedom: it's the last week the kids are in school and yet I won't have class!


Antique emerald and diamond bracelet. Set to centre with an octagonal emerald-cut natural Colombian emerald with no colour enhancement in an open back rubover setting with a weight of 3.00 carats, encircled by a double row of round old cut diamonds and the bracelet bordered by further round old cut diamonds, one hundred and twenty diamonds in total in open back grain settings with an approximate combined weight of 4.00 carats, also set with seventy three square baguette cut natural emeralds with no colour enhancement in open back rubover channel settings with a combined weight of 2.50 carats. The total approximate emerald weight is 5.50 carats, to an elegant articulated bracelet with millegrain detailing, an ornate scrolling engraved pattern to the sides, intricate backholing and terminating to a secure push clasp fitting with additional safety clasp, approximately 7.2" in length. Tested yellow gold and silver, circa 1880, accompanied by fitted 'Collingwood' case and Gemmological Certification Services report #79178-06.


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Journal of International Women's Studies
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Submission Title
From Suffragist to Apologist: The Loss of Feminist Politics in a Politically Correct Patriarchy
Ashleigh Harris
This article discusses the ways in which feminist politics have been dissolved since the 1980s, most notably in the popular cultural sphere, so as to make feminism appear anachronistic. It considers how various discourses and texts have sought to efface the political impetus of feminism through claims to political correctness. Young women are thus interpolated into a more insidious patriarchy that re-inscribes female shame, guilt, passivity and silence in both professional and personal contexts, at the same as it espouses the discourse of equal rights. Many are not only apologizing for the equal rights that been "granted" to them, but have also become apologists for this "benevolent" patriarchy. This article opens the debate as to how feminist politics may be revived given the ubiquity of these de-politicising discourses.
Ashleigh Harris, Lecturer, School of Literature and Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Harris, Ashleigh (2003) "From Suffragist to Apologist: The Loss of Feminist Politics in a Politically Correct Patriarchy," Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 4: Iss. 2, Article 8.
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Bell's palsy is a condition that temporarily paralyzes the side of your face. It can affect all or part of the muscles in your face. In rare cases, both sides of your face may be affected. Bell's palsy occurs when your facial nerve (or 7th cranial nerve) is damaged. The facial nerve carries signals for movement, taste, and other information to and from your face. When this nerve is damaged, the signals between your face and brain do not work as well. While it may seem scary at the time, Bell's palsy usually doesn't last long.
If you have Bell's palsy, you may have some of the symptoms listed below.
Drooping that makes your face look uneven.
These symptoms usually affect one side of your face. They appear quickly, and reach their worst in a couple of days.
All of the causes of Bell's palsy are not known. It may occur when a virus, such as the common cold, makes your facial nerve swell. The swollen nerve presses against the bone around it. This pressure can stop the nerve from working correctly.
Bell's palsy affects about 1 in every 5,000 people. Once you have had Bell's palsy, you have a slight chance of getting it again.
There is no specific test to diagnose Bell's palsy. Your doctor will ask questions about your symptoms and medical history. A stroke, injury, or tumor also can cause facial paralysis. Your doctor will check to see what condition is causing your symptoms. They may do tests, such as an X-ray or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Can Bell's palsy be prevented or avoided?
You cannot prevent or avoid Bell's palsy. Contact your doctor when symptoms first begin to start treatment.
Bell's palsy often goes away on its own within 1 or 2 months. Your chances of full recovery are improved with a course of steroid medicine. The doctor can prescribe this. A full course usually is 10 days.
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Q: slow training with ReLU layer I tried to implement ReLU activation function to Matlab2014b but im not sure if i did it right. I copied pureline.m and +pureling (as a template) folder into working directory. And changed them as shown below:
function a = ReLU(n,varargin)
if ischar(n)
    a = nnet7.transfer_fcn(mfilename,n,varargin{:});
  return
end

    a = ReLU.apply(n);
end

function a = apply(n,param)
    a = max(n,0.01*n);
end

function d = da_dn(n,a,param)
    d=ones(size(n));
    d(n<0)=0.01;
    d(n==0)=0.5;
end

function da = forwardprop(dn,n,a,param)
    da = dn;
end
function dn = backprop(da,n,a,param)
    dn = da;
end

function s = isScalar
    s = true;
end

function flag = discontinuity(n,param)
    flag = false(1,size(n,2));
end

function or = outputRange
    or = [0 inf];
end

function ir = activeInputRange
    ir = [-inf inf];
end

function param = parameterInfo
    param = [];
end

function t = type
    t = 'transfer_fcn';
end

function name = name()
    name = 'ReLU';
end

And implemented it to NN with
net.layers{1}.transferFcn='ReLU'. It seems to work but training NN with ReLU took 3 times longer (on average) than with other activation functions like tansig hiperbolic tangent or pureline linear. I tested it with trainlm Levenber-Marquardt and trainscg scaled conjugate gradient. Time comparison results are the same.
Actualy it is Leaky ReLU. Derivate based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/32545990/6718612 , though looks like dn/da=0.5 for n=0 doesn't make a difference.
What did i missed?
Edit: i found that ReLU already exists in Matlab2014b and is called 'poslin'. It works as well as others built-in.

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My master's paper and an article-length derivation from it have been getting a lot of attention from folks in academe.
First, and most recently, the paper has won the AALL/LexisNexis Call For Papers Award in the Student Division. My new employers at the Katherine R. Everett Law Library released the news yesterday.
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I swim everyday (competitive swimming, not leisure.) I remember every practice for the past two weeks I have this pain right below my last rib on the right. Even minor walking can trigger this pain, and it's painful... enough to make me not want to practice, on a scale of 1-10 it's definitely a mid 7 or 8. I have dismissed it but I'm becoming increasingly skeptical about this.
At first I thought it was due to food being in my stomach, or liquids. I refrained from eating 2 hours before practice and the same time for drinking any type of fluids and the pain still came up.
Edit: It only occurs in increased physical activity.
Very much not a doctor but I have had that sort of pain as well, when walking as well as after swimming.
I have decided for me (it's maybe a 3 on a scale of 1-10) that it is a tight psoas muscle, so I've been doing psoas release exercises and trying to strengthen my back muscles, especially my hamstrings.
I think (not a doctor, again) that many muscles pass by the ribs, including the psoas, which goes from your hip through your pelvis up to the beginning of your thoracic spine (?) along with the quadratus lumborum, which connects at your 12th rib (I might be way off on these connections; I am trying to understand my anatomy book as I type this). Anyway a bunch of muscles connected to your hips go up and converge with your lower back and ribs.
For me, I decided I needed to stretch out my hips passively (and googled some stuff online that showed me how to do that) and strengthen my back, especially my hamstrings.
Hope you get better. Sounds like a real MD might be called for, however.
Same disclaimer... I'm not a doctor... but I occasionally have an issue in that area. I believe it is related to a tight psoas as well, but for me it is part of a whole right-side issue including the glutes, hamstrings and the ilio-tibial band. I see a massage therapist every four weeks, and together with stretching it becomes nothing but a minor nuisance at worst. Without stretching and the massage therapy it takes about 3-4 months before my muscle spasms leave me face-down and unable to get up. With the stretching and massage therapy I can train hard and don't have a problem with it.
One of the stretches I find important is to lie on your back, and move your body toward the shape of a "C" while keeping your back flat on the floor/mat. I hold it, feel the stretch, and visualize the right side lengthening in the stretch, then do a little self-massage of the tight areas.
As always though, check with a variety of professionals -- your doctor, physical therapist, and/or massage therapist to see if it is something worse than a muscular issue.


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A mandatory presumption arises when, upon proof of a basic fact, "`the presumed . . . fact must be found…
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Moody v. Able Outdoor, Inc., 169 N.C.App. 80, 83, 609 S.E.2d 259, 261 (2005) . "Summary judgment is properly…
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Full title:TAMMIE DOBSON v. HOLLY HARRIS and J.C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC
Court:Supreme Court of North Carolina
Date published: Jun 1, 2000
352 N.C. 77 (N.C. 2000)
530 S.E.2d 829
Supreme Court of North Carolina
providing that summary judgment is proper when "the opposing party cannot produce evidence to support an essential element of her claim"
Summary of this case from Ussery v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.
No. 435PA99
Filed 16 June 2000
Libel and Slander — Report of suspected child abuse — presumption of good faith — actual malice
Although plaintiff-customer contends defendant-salesperson reported plaintiff's behavior of suspected child abuse or neglect to the Department of Social Services based on retaliatory motives, the Court of Appeals erred in reversing summary judgment in favor of defendants on the slander per se claim because: (1) N.C.G.S. § 7A-543 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-301) imposes an affirmative duty for anyone with cause to suspect child abuse or neglect to report that conduct; (2) N.C.G.S. § 7A-550 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-309) provides immunity from liability to those who act in accordance with the reporting statute and presumes the reporter's good faith; and (3) plaintiff did not meet her burden under N.C.G.S. § 8C-1, Rule 301 to show defendant's bad faith or actual malice.
On discretionary review pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-31 of a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals, 134 N.C. App. 573, 521 S.E.2d 710 (1999), affirming in part and reversing and remanding in part an order for summary judgment entered 2 July 1998, by Spainhour, J., in Superior Court, Guilford County. Heard in the Supreme Court 18 April 2000.
James A. Dickens for plaintiff-appellee.
Smith Helms Mulliss Moore, L.L.P., by Jon Berkelhammer and Shannon R. Joseph, for defendant-appellant Holly Harris.
FREEMAN, Justice.
This case concerns provisions in the North Carolina General Statutes, N.C.G.S. § 7A-543 (1995) (repealed and recodified as N.C.G.S. § 7B-301 (1999)), that require anyone suspecting child abuse or neglect to report that behavior to the Department of Social Services. Further, this case examines the rigor of statutory immunity from civil or criminal liability for a person reporting such abuse or neglect, as well as that of a statutory presumption of good faith, codified in N.C.G.S. § 7A-550 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-309 (1999)). It is clear that the legislative intent of these statutes is that citizens are to be vigilant in assuring the safety and welfare of the children of North Carolina. We therefore conclude that such policy compels a significant evidentiary burden for those who challenge the presumption that people who report such abuse or neglect do so in good faith.
Effective 1 July 1999, for acts committed on or after that date, the General Assembly recodified the North Carolina Juvenile Code by repealing all existing statutory provisions, including those from chapter 7A cited in this opinion, and adding them into new chapter 7B. Act of Oct. 27, 1998, ch. 202, pt. III, secs. 5-6, pt. XIV, sec. 37(b), 1998 N.C. Sess. Laws 695, 742, 895. The acts in this case were committed in May 1997; thus, the pertinent statutes in this opinion reflect the codification in effect at that time. Where applicable, we have added a parenthetical indicating the new statute number.
The statute specifies a child "abused, neglected, or dependent, as defined by G.S. 7A-517 [now N.C.G.S. § 7B-101 (1999)]." N.C.G.S. § 7A-543. Our use of the phrase "child abuse or neglect" incorporates by reference the definitions of all three situations as stated in that statute.
The circumstances giving rise to this lawsuit arose in May 1997 in a J.C. Penney department store. Defendant Harris worked at the catalogue-layaway counter. Plaintiff, accompanied by her fifteen-month-old child, came to the store to pay for and pick up an item she had put on layaway. Defendant Harris retrieved the wrong item and mistakenly reported to plaintiff the balance due. Neither she nor defendant Harris realized the error until after plaintiff had written her check. When plaintiff did so, however, she berated Harris, who apologized and retrieved the proper item. As it was more expensive, plaintiff had to rewrite a check for the correct amount. Plaintiff alleged that defendant Harris' unprofessional attitude spurred her to ask for the name of Harris' supervisor; Harris obliged. Meanwhile, plaintiff's child had become restive, and plaintiff reportedly yelled at the child, picked her up off the counter where she had been sitting, and slammed her back down. Shortly thereafter, plaintiff and her child left the store.
The parties' accounts differ as to the actual danger threatened the child by her mother's treatment of her at the store, but it sufficiently alarmed defendant Harris that she subsequently notified a representative of the Guilford County Department of Social Services (DSS). The representative requested the name and address of plaintiff, which defendant Harris obtained from plaintiff's check.
Plaintiff was informed by DSS that a complaint had been made against her for abuse and neglect of her child, and an investigation was initiated that ultimately lasted some two months.
In her complaint and affidavit, plaintiff accused defendant Harris of reporting her to DSS in retaliation for her requesting the name of Harris' supervisor, and she sued Harris and J.C. Penney as respondeat superior for damages due to slander per se and the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In her answer and verified responses to interrogatories, defendant Harris asserted that she had honestly reported her perception of plaintiff's actions to the proper parties and that her report was "made in good faith, without malice, pursuant to a moral and social duty to make such statements." The qualified privilege afforded such statements, she averred, barred plaintiff's claim for slander per se.
The trial court granted defendants' motion for summary judgment. The Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant J.C. Penney and in favor of defendant Harris as to intentional infliction of emotional distress. It reversed summary judgment on plaintiff's claim against defendant Harris for slander per se and remanded for trial on that issue.
This Court granted defendant Harris' petition for discretionary review, which raised the single question whether the facts alleged in plaintiff's complaint and affidavit supporting her claim for slander per se were sufficient to overcome the statutory presumption of defendant's good faith in reporting child abuse or neglect.
False accusations of crime or offenses involving moral turpitude are actionable as slander per se. Penner v. Elliott, 225 N.C. 33, 34, 33 S.E.2d 124, 125 (1945). As a preliminary matter, we agree with the Court of Appeals in the case sub judice, 134 N.C. App. at 580, 521 S.E.2d at 716, that child abuse is one such crime or offense "`involv[ing] an act of inherent baseness in the private, social, or public duties which one owes to his fellowmen or to society, or to his country, her institutions and her government.'" Grievance Comm. v. Broder, 112 Conn. 269, 275, 152 A. 292, 294 (1930) (quoting Kurtz v. Farrington, 104 Conn. 257, 262, 132 A. 540, 541 (1926)), quoted in State v. Mann, 317 N.C. 164, 170, 345 S.E.2d 365, 369 (1986). It is this perception of child abuse or neglect as "inherently base" that not only underpins serious criminal classifications for those who commit it, see N.C.G.S. §§ 14-318.2 (1999) (Class 1 misdemeanor), 14-318.4 (1999) (felony), but also has prompted the promulgation of laws like those before us here, which recognize that, when a child's welfare is jeopardized, swiftly engaging the state's protective mechanisms is paramount.
Government has no nobler duty than that of protecting its country's lifeblood — the children. For this reason, all fifty states have codified mandatory reporting statutes that impose a duty to report suspected or observed child abuse upon specified persons or institutions, particularly those that work regularly with children. See Danny R. Veilleux, Annotation: Validity, Construction, and Application of State Statute Requiring Doctor or Other Person to Report Child Abuse, 73 A.L.R. 4th 782 (2000). North Carolina's reporting statutes, however, impose this duty universally — everyone, not just officers of the state, physicians, teachers, administrators, social workers or clergy, shares the state's role as parens patriae in this regard for all North Carolina children.
Affirming that distinguishing adults from children for purposes of definitions under the Juvenile Court Act, N.C.G.S. § 7A-278 (1969), passes muster under the Equal Protection Clause, Justice Huskins wrote in In re Walker, 282 N.C. 28, 39, 191 S.E.2d 702, 710 (1972), "it is our view that the desire of the State to exercise its authority as parens patrieae and provide for the care and protection of its children supplies a 'compellingly rational' justification for the classification." The doctrine of parens patriae in the context of parental autonomy versus the child's welfare was similarly noted by Justice Lake in In re Williams, 269 N.C. 68, 79, 152 S.E.2d 317, 326 (1967): "neither rights of religion nor rights of parenthood are beyond limitation. Acting to guard the general interest in youth's well being, the State as parens patriae may restrict the parent's control by requiring school attendance, regulating or prohibiting the child's labor and in many other ways."), quoting with approval Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158, 166, 64, S.Ct. 438, 442, 88 L.Ed. 645, 652 (1949). North Carolina's reporting statutes similarly give rein to this doctrine, providing procedures clearly intended to encourage the participation of all citizens in swiftly detecting and remedying child abuse or neglect.
N.C.G.S. § 7A-543 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-301) imposes an affirmative duty for anyone with "cause to suspect" child abuse or neglect to report that conduct to the department of social services. It provides, in pertinent part:
Any person or institution who has cause to suspect that any juvenile is abused, neglected, or dependent, as defined by G.S. 7A-517 [now 7B-101] . . . shall report the case of that juvenile to the Director of the Department of Social Services in the county where the juvenile resides or is found. . . . The report shall include information as is known to the person making it including . . . information which the person making the report believes might be helpful in establishing the need for protective services or court intervention.
N.C.G.S. § 7A-543, para. 1. In order to encourage people to report circumstances that prompt them to believe a child is in jeopardy, N.C.G.S. § 7A-550 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-309) provides immunity from liability to those who act in accordance with the reporting statute. Notably, in addition, this latter section presumes the reporter's good faith:
Anyone who makes a report pursuant to this Article, cooperates with the county department of social services in a protective services inquiry or investigation, . . . or otherwise participates in the program authorized by this Article, is immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed for such action provided that the person was acting in good faith. In any proceeding involving liability, good faith is presumed.
N.C.G.S. § 7A-550 (1995) (emphasis added).
Read without this last sentence, these two provisions together codify a "qualified or conditionally privileged communication" as recognized at common law, "'[t]he essential elements [of which] . . . are good faith, an interest to be upheld, a statement limited in its scope to this purpose, a proper occasion, and publication in a proper manner and to proper parties only.'" Stewart v. Nation-Wide Check Corp., 279 N.C. 278, 285, 182 S.E.2d 410, 415 (1971) (quoting 50 Am. Jur.2d Libel and Slander § 195 (1970)).
Just as public policy underpins the immunity provided under these statutes, so in the common law "[t]he great underlying principle of the doctrine of privileged communications rests in public policy." Alexander v. Vann, 180 N.C. 187, 189, 104 S.E. 360, 361 (1920), quoted in Ponder v. Cobb, 257 N.C. 281, 295, 126 S.E.2d 67, 77 (1962). When an otherwise defamatory communication is made "`in pursuance of a . . . political, judicial, social, or personal [duty], . . . an action for libel or slander will not lie though the statement be false unless actual malice be proved in addition.'" Ponder, 257 N.C. at 294-95, 126 S.E.2d at 77 (quoting Alexander, 180 N.C. at 189, 104 S.E. at 361). In the common law, this "'[q]ualified privilege extends to all communications made bona fide upon any subject-matter . . . in reference to which [the communicator] has some moral or legal duty to perform.'" Id. at 295, 126 S.E.2d at 77 (quoting Alexander, 180 N.C. at 189, 104 S.E. at 361). "If the court determines as a matter of law that the occasion is privileged, defendant has `a presumption that the statement was made in good faith and without malice.'" Clark v. Brown, 99 N.C. App. 255, 262, 393 S.E.2d 134, 138 (quoting Shreve v. Duke Power Co., 97 N.C. App. 648, 651, 389 S.E.2d 444, 446, disc. rev. denied, 326 N.C. 598, 393 S.E.2d 883 (1990)), disc. rev. denied, 327 N.C. 426, 395 S.E.2d 675 (1990). "To rebut this presumption, the plaintiff must show actual malice." Phillips v. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Bd. of Educ., 117 N.C. App. 274, 278, 450 S.E.2d 753, 756 (1994), disc. rev. denied, 340 N.C. 115, 456 S.E.2d 318 (1995); see also Davis v. Durham City Schs., 91 N.C. App. 520, 372 S.E.2d 318 (1988).
Similarly, under sections 7A-543 and -550, when the statutory steps are followed, the responsibility to report suspected child abuse is conjoined with immunity from civil or criminal liability. Equally important, this responsibility, when met by complying with those requisites, is conjoined with the statutory presumption that such reports are made in good faith. Thus, the state interest in protecting minors from abuse and neglect is supported by strong statutory incentives to report their occurrence. See Coleman v. Cooper, 89 N.C. App. 188, 197-98, 366 S.E.2d 2, 8 (N.C.G.S. § 7A-550 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-309) is intended to encourage citizens to report suspected instances of child abuse without fear of potential liability if report made in good faith), disc. rev. denied, 322 N.C. 834, 371 S.E.2d 275 (1988).
Significantly, the reporting statutes together provide immunity not merely conditional upon proof of good faith, but a "good faith" immunity, one which endows the reporter with the mandatory presumption that he or she acted in good faith. See Lehman v. Stephens, 148 Ill. App.3d 538, 551, 499 N.E.2d 103, 112, 101 Ill. Dec. 738, 745 (1986), appeal denied, 113 Ill.2d 576, 505 N.E.2d 354, 106 Ill. Dec. 48 (1987). ("good faith immunity" provided by statute allows a rebuttable presumption of good faith). Thus, the statute itself relieves the defendant of the burden of going forward with evidence of her good faith and imposes upon the plaintiff the burden to go forward with evidence of the defendant's bad faith or malice. See N.C.G.S. § 8C-1, Rule 301 (1999).
The difference between "permissive" and "mandatory" presumptions — both rebuttable — is that with the former, the basic fact underlying the presumption has been established, but the presumed fact may or may not be found to exist; in the latter, "[once] the basic fact has been established, the presumed . . . fact must be found unless sufficient evidence of its nonexistence is forthcoming." Kenneth S. Broun, Brandis Broun on North Carolina Evidence § 44, at 148 (5th ed. 1998). "[T]he only questions [as to their distinction are] . . . the quantum of rebutting evidence required and the effect on burdens of proof." Id. at 149, n. 200.
One purpose of summary judgment is to bring an action to an early decision on its merits, avoiding the delay and expense of trial when no material facts are at issue. E.g., Harris v. Walden, 314 N.C. 284, 333 S.E.2d 254 (1985); Kessing v. National Mortgage Corp., 278 N.C. 523, 180 S.E.2d 823 (1971). This purpose is well served when the movant, who has reported child abuse or neglect in accord with statutory mandate, is accused of defamation for having done so, for there can be no disincentive to report greater than the spectre of the length and expense of a lawsuit.
Briefly, our review of the propriety of summary judgment retraces these rules: Summary judgment is properly granted when the forecast of evidence "reveals no genuine issue as to any material fact, and when the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law." Koontz v. City of Winston-Salem, 280 N.C. 513, 518, 186 S.E.2d 897, 901 (1972). A "genuine issue" is one that can be maintained by substantial evidence. E.g., Kessing, 278 N.C. 523, 180 S.E.2d 823. The showing required for summary judgment may be accomplished by proving an essential element of the opposing party's claim does not exist, cannot be proven at trial, or would be barred by an affirmative defense, e.g., Goodman v. Wenco Foods, Inc., 333 N.C. 1, 423 S.E.2d 444 (1992), or by showing through discovery that the opposing party cannot produce evidence to support an essential element of her claim, e.g., Lowe v. Bradford, 305 N.C. 366, 289 S.E.2d 363(1982). The movant's papers are carefully scrutinized, e.g., Singleton v. Stewart, 280 N.C. 460, 186 S.E.2d 400 (1972); those of the adverse party are indulgently regarded, id. All facts asserted by the adverse party are taken as true, e.g., Norfolk W. Ry. Co. v. Werner Indus., 286 N.C. 89, 209 S.E.2d 734 (1974), and their inferences must be viewed in the light most favorable to that party, e.g., Caldwell v. Deese, 288 N.C. 375, 218 S.E.2d 379 (1975).
On her motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of slander per se, defendant was entitled to immunity and to the presumption of good faith once she showed she had complied with the reporting statutes by having "cause to suspect" child abuse or neglect and reporting to the DSS (and to none other) as much information known to her that might be helpful in establishing the need for the State to protect or to intervene. Thereafter, plaintiff had the burden of setting forth specific facts "by affidavits or otherwise" showing a genuine issue existed as to whether defendant had made the alleged statements with actual malice. N.C.G.S. § 1A-1, Rule 56(e) (1999). See, e.g., Towne v. Cope, 32 N.C. App. 660, 233 S.E.2d 624 (1977) (summary judgment appropriately entered against the plaintiff where the defendant supported motion by establishing affirmative defense of qualified privilege, and the plaintiff, who thereafter had burden of setting forth specific facts "by affidavits or otherwise" showing a genuine issue exists as to whether the defendant made the alleged statements with actual malice, relied simply on the allegations in his complaint).
Notably, this phrase gives wide margin to whatever prompts the reporter to notify DSS. By contrast with "reasonable cause to believe or suspect" in the statutes of many other states, see Danny R. Veilleux, Annotation: Validity, Construction, and Application of State Statute Requiring Doctor or Other Person to Report Child Abuse, 73 A.L.R. 4th 782, § 18 (2000), this phrase does not call for scrutiny, analysis, or judgment by a finder of fact.
On a motion for summary judgment, when the movant, charged with slander, is endowed with the presumption of good faith — whether, in this case, by a statutory presumption benefiting reporters of child abuse, e.g., Davis v. Durham City Schs., 91 N.C. App. 520, 372 S.E.2d 318, or by common law presumptions benefiting public officials, e.g., Leete v. County of Warren, 341 N.C. 116, 462 S.E.2d 476 (1995) — sufficient evidence must be introduced by the opposing party to allow reasonable minds to conclude that the privileged party acted in bad faith or, in the case of slander per se, with malice. "`Every reasonable intendment will be made in support of the presumption,'" Huntley v. Potter, 255 N.C. 619, 628, 122 S.E.2d 681, 687 (1961) (quoting 31 C.J.S. Evidence § 146), and "`the burden is upon the party asserting the contrary to overcome the presumption by competent and substantial evidence,'" Styers v. Phillips, 277 N.C. 460, 473, 178 S.E.2d 583, 591 (1971) (quoting 6 N.C. Index 2d Public Officers § 8 (1968)).
The burden of production and the quantum of evidence that must be shown to overcome a presumption is stated in Rule 301 of the North Carolina Rules of Evidence:
In all civil actions and proceedings when not otherwise provided for by statute, by judicial decision, or by these rules, a presumption imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of going forward with evidence to rebut or meet the presumption. . . . The burden of going forward is satisfied by the introduction of evidence sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude that the presumed fact does not exist. If the party against whom a presumption operates fails to meet the burden of producing evidence, the presumed fact shall be deemed proved. . . .
N.C.G.S. § 8C-1, Rule 301 (emphasis added); see also Kenneth S. Broun, Brandis Broun on North Carolina Evidence § 49, at 158 ("Where only the burden of going forward is placed upon the opponent, as in Rule 301, that burden is satisfied by the introduction of evidence `sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude that the presumed fact does not exist.'"). The official commentary to this rule of evidence states:
Proof of the basic fact [compliance with N.C.G.S. § 7A-543 (now N.C.G.S. § 7B-301)] not only discharges the proponent's burden of producing evidence of the presumed fact [good faith] but also places upon the opponent the burden of producing evidence that the presumed fact does not exist. If the opponent does not introduce any evidence, or the evidence is not sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude that the presumed fact does not exist, the proponent is entitled to a peremptory instruction that the presumed fact shall be deemed proved.
In the context of a summary judgment proceeding, entitlement to a "peremptory instruction" means simply that the fact is deemed proved for purposes of the burden of production.
N.C.G.S. § 8C-1, Rule 301 official commentary (emphasis added).
Evidence offered to meet or rebut the presumption of good faith must be sufficient by virtue of its reasonableness, not by mere supposition. It must be factual, not hypothetical; supported by fact, not by surmise. If plaintiff's forecast of evidence of malice is "not sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude" that the reporter's presumed good faith was nonexistent, then summary judgment for defendant is proper.
It was so in this case. In her answer defendant Harris asserted the affirmative defense of "qualified immunity," or, more precisely, a statutory, good-faith immunity based upon her compliance with N.C.G.S. §§ 7A-543 and -550. That she did so comply was supported by facts described in her responses to plaintiff's interrogatories, and those particular facts were uncontradicted in the materials before the trial court.
In order to overcome the presumption of good faith that by virtue of the statute inhered to defendant's properly reporting what she saw, it was incumbent on plaintiff to show defendant's actual malice. "If plaintiff cannot meet his burden of showing actual malice, . . . privilege . . . bars any recovery for the communication, even if the communication is false." Clark, 99 N.C. App. at 263, 393 S.E.2d at 138.
Actual malice may be proven by evidence of ill-will or personal hostility on the part of the declarant or by a showing that the declarant published the defamatory statement with knowledge that it was false, with reckless disregard for the truth or with a high degree of awareness of its probable falsity.
Kwan-Sa You v. Roe, 97 N.C. App. 1, 12, 387 S.E.2d 188, 193 (1990) (citation omitted). Plaintiff offered no evidence of this nature. In her affidavit, plaintiff stated that Harris reported plaintiff's behavior to DSS "because she was upset and angry that I stated to her that I was going to report her to her supervisor for her unprofessional attitude" "with the intent to cause me embarrassment and humiliation and harassment." At best, plaintiff described retaliatory motives for defendant's report. These conclusory averments rest, however, not on experienced or otherwise substantiated fact, but on plaintiff's subjective assessment of defendant's motivations. They are not in themselves "sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude that the presumed fact does not exist." N.C.G.S. 8C-1, Rule 301; see also Nasco Equip. Co. v. Mason, 291 N.C. 145, 229 S.E.2d 278 (1976) (Rule 56(e) clearly precludes any party from prevailing against a motion for summary judgment through reliance on conclusory allegations unsupported by facts); cf. Presnell v. Pell, 298 N.C. 715, 260 S.E.2d 611 (1979) (good faith not presumed; complaint specifically alleged principal had falsely accused the plaintiff of distributing alcoholic beverages on school premises, then maliciously and recklessly published the rumors to the plaintiff's fellow employees notwithstanding the plaintiff's vigorous denial of these accusations and of the rumors upon which they were based; such allegations at the pleading stage served to negate the good-faith element of qualified privilege).
Although summary judgment is rarely appropriate in actions like defamation in which the litigant's state of mind, motive, or subjective intent is an element of plaintiff's claim, e.g., Proffitt v. Greensboro News Record, Inc., 91 N.C. App. 218, 371 S.E.2d 292 (1988) (libel), it is most appropriate here where plaintiff, who, assuming the burden of production to negate defendant's presumption of good faith with evidence of actual malice, sets forth no specific fact showing an issue as to defendant's motive, but rests upon bare allegation and suspicion.
We hold that the trial court, in surveying the materials before it on defendant's motion for summary judgment, properly granted summary judgment to defendant Harris on the issue of slander per se. Viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, the evidence forecast in the parties' pleadings, affidavits, and answers to interrogatories shows no genuine issue of material fact. Because defendant's compliance with the reporting statutes entitled her to immunity from civil liability, plaintiff's claim against her for slander per se was barred. Further, the statutory presumption of defendant's good faith remained unrebutted where plaintiff failed to adduce facts sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude that defendant acted with actual malice.
For the foregoing reasons, we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.
stating that in a defamation action, "the [defendant]'s state of mind, motive, or subjective intent is an element of plaintiff's claim"
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No, not the show 24.
Cus I turn 24 today.
Not gonna lie, there really is nothing special about turning 24.
Every birthday before 18 is all about having fun with your friends and being a kid/teenager.
18 you are technically an "adult."
19 is your last teenage year.
20 is your first "twenties" year.
21 you are an actual adult.
There isn't anything you can suddenly do that you couldn't before. There are no songs about turning 24. Even 25 has more significance because you're a quarter of a century old and you can rent cars without an additional fee.
24 is like a filler year where you just kind of float in limbo about your age. Not depressed about turning 24. Not stoked about turning 24. Connor did however point out that Marshawn Lynch's number is 24 which I give him an A for effort, but still not quite special enough.
Now don't get me wrong, BIRTHDAYS are always freakin' awesome.
The age I'm turning though? Meh.
Now on to my yearly visit back to last year's 23rd birthday (since today's one is still rendering).
1) Last year I spent my birthday back home in Hawaii! My mom was getting hip surgery so I flew back to support and help out and my trip just so happened to overlap my special day. It was a bummer not being able to spend my actual birthday with Connor and Sammy, but I got to see all my friends and spend my first birthday in 5 years with my parents!
2) My OG, Flounder, giving me a bday kiss. Don't tell Samson, he'll get real jelly.
3) See that deceivingly cute little kitty creeping on my cake? Her name is Peewee and she was trying to steal my birthday thunder...and DELICIOUS chocolate cake my dad made.
4) Had a little sibling reunion thanks to technology.
5) Finally back in Utah the day after my birthday! Connor picked me up at the airport with a freshly cut and fluffed Samson to cuddle real hard.
6) I came home to a bundle of presents and flowers! These guys know how to spoil a girl.
7) Connor slaved over several days making me this AHMAZING red velvet cake. Possibly the best cake I've ever had.
Welp, I'm off to party hardy all day!
Here's to another awesome birthday for the books.
ps. If you haven't yet, watch me turn Connor into a Skull Tiger in my most recent YouTube video!
Happy Birthday! You forgot! Ken Griffey Jr. was number 24 too! Super special age!


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The second session of Royal Family Kids Camp was held in July with 131 children and 129 volunteers. There were over 50 new campers and thus a lot of first time memories were created. Our camp scribe captured these stories:
Counselor Jay said his camper, James (6 years old), arrived on Monday and the first thing they did when they got to their room was an inventory. He and Jacob pulled everything out of his luggage and made sure he had a swimsuit, towel, etc. Then they went to lunch and while sitting at their table, Jay noticed that Jacob seemed to be in deep thought as if he were still processing the inventory. In a very concerned whisper, he told Jay, "I can't go to sleep tonight!" Jay asked him what he was talking about and he repeated, "I can't go to sleep tonight!" Jay asked him why and his little eyes started to well up with tears as he said, "I don't have my teddy bear!"
Even though bedtime was still a long way off. A lot of teamwork took place behind the scenes to address this emergency. Later in the afternoon, a teddy bear was brought to Jay. Jay hid the bear in his backpack until bedtime. At bedtime, Jay found the boys in bed preparing to hear a story. He quietly slipped James the teddy bear and said, "Hey buddy, I'm sorry your teddy bear couldn't make it this week, but this is Ray and he can be your camp bear." Jay said the worry and sadness left his face and James produced the biggest smile you've ever seen! James didn't have any trouble going to sleep.
Sandra has a little 7-year-old camper named Maria. On Monday, Sandra realized that Maria was terrified of water. She would only sit at the pool entrance where she could get a little wet, but was still sitting on the pavement. Sandra patiently encouraged her into the water by standing on her knees so she was the same height as Maria. She managed to get her to the 2ft. mark, but she held onto Sandra very tightly out of fear. On Tuesday, Sandra learned that Maria had seen someone drown, which explained her terror. Sandra proceeded very patiently and slowly earned Maria's trust.
She introduced her to the pool noodles and Maria managed to get in the pool just a little without holding onto Sandra. Sandra then convinced Maria to ride on her back out to the 4ft. rope…Maria had a death grip the entire way and back. Wednesday, Sandra got a "pinky promise" from Maria that she would use the noodles to swim out to the 4ft. rope by herself. So Sandra went out to the rope and waited while Maria worked up her courage. She grabbed two noodles, held on for dear life and kicked her little legs until she reached Sandra. Maria was SO EXCITED to tell me this story!
Thanks for all of your prayers and support this summer!!
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Stories and characters populate your mind — you've been writing and making up stories since you can remember. You've already got a daily writing practice in place to jumpstart your creativity and ease in to your writing projects each day. You've got a lot of material, but the question is, what can you do to make your writing better?
Writers know that words don't often magically tumble out of their brain on to the page or the screen in Pulitzer Prize-winning order. Revision and re-writing are important to polishing what you write.
Eventually, Tiff would appear, his handwritten pages clutched in his hands, released only in exchange for his glass of wine. We then quickly settled down and I would do what I had been doing for decades: read aloud to the author from those pages…There was serious intent here, however: Tiff firmly believed that if my tongue tripped over any of his writing, then it was quite likely, as he would put it, that his reader's brains might also trip over the words. This was a hedge against those stumbles.
Next time you're ready to revise, take a few moments to read your work aloud. You'll hear the passages that need smoothing loud and clear and your ear will give you some guidance on what needs to happen to fix your work.
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A Musical Profile of the Celebrated Artist, the Late Lucky Dube
With an incredible 15 albums under his reggae belt, he has proved himself one of not only South Africa's, but also the world's greatest reggae superstars. A man not only of superb musical taste and genius, but an artist with a message, a reason and a rhyme behind everything he does. Following in the incredible success of his last album 'Soul Taker' Lucky has once again outdone himself with his latest release 'The Other Side' - a thought provoking musical journey bound to once again make enormous waves in the music industry.
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From One South African to Another
At the age of 18, Dube joined the Love Brothers, a band formed by his cousins which performed the traditional Zulu music known as Mbaqanga. While still a schoolboy, Dube and the band recorded their first album at Tear Records in Johannesburg (now the Gallo Recording Company). When the album was released, the group called itself "Lucky Dube and the Supersoul." In 1984 he released a mini-album called "Rastas Never Die" but it did not sell as well as expected. However, he continued to release commercially successful albums - in all, he recorded 21 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans and became South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist.
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Black Supermodels Fight Racism in the Fashion Industry
The event was organised by Bethann Hardison, a model from the 1970s who formed her own agency that helped launch the careers of Ms Campbell and Mr Beckford, one of the highest paid male supermodels. "In the past decade the black image has been reduced to a category - she is not even to be seen; she has become invisible," Ms Hardison said.
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Black Victims of Nazi Genocide
Bin Adam, who was born in Tanzania, joined the then colonial German East Africa services when he was 10 years old and served with the army. He emigrated to Berlin in 1929, where he immediately got into trouble with the authorities by walking into the Foreign Ministry and demanding his outstanding service pay. Although his request was refused, he decided to stay, working as a waiter in hotels and taking small parts in films. He had roles in more than 20 movies with stars such as Zarah Leander, Hans Albers and Willy Birgel, even after the war broke out. He also taught Swahili at the Oriental Workshop.
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The Father of Funk Dies
Born in utter poverty, James Brown became the ultimate self-made man, whose work ethic was topped only by his rhythmic innovations and musical genius. As an activist, James Brown never meant to overthrow the republic -- just find room in it. He sang his bootstrap manifesto: "I Don't Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I'll Get It Myself.)" He was a patriot who could chopper to 'Nam to succor the brothers marooned there, then embrace Richard Nixon. His musical calls to social justice were not as eloquent as Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches. But they were equally heartfelt. James Brown leaves a cultural wake as wide as his dear friend Elvis did. It took three services and as many wardrobe changes to send him to Jesus. The Augusta, Georgia, public funeral, broadcast live on CNN from the recently renamed James Brown Arena, took the form of a soul revue: tremulous thanks from Michael Jackson and dance moves by MC Hammer, along with a cape for the open casket. His singular life, begun in unspeakable Jim Crow-era poverty, careened through phases of great fame, wealth, disgrace and redemption. He saw it this way: "My story is a Horatio Alger story. It's an American story, it's the kind that America can be proud of, but yet if you tell it in detail, if you tell all the things I fought to make it, it's like the Satchel Paige story."
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Remembering the Godfather of Soul, James Brown
To be in the audience when James Brown commences the James Brown Show is to have felt oneself engulfed in a kind of feast of adoration and astonishment, a ritual invocation, one comparable, I'd imagine, to certain ceremonies known to the Mayan peoples, wherein a human person is radiantly costumed and then beheld in lieu of the appearance of a Sun God upon the Earth. For to see James Brown dance and sing, to see him lead his mighty band with the merest glances and tiny flickers of signal from his hands; to see him offer himself to his audience to be adored and enraptured and ravished; to watch him tremble and suffer as he tears his screams and moans of lust, glory and regret from his sweat-drenched body -- and is, thereupon, in an act of seeming mercy, draped in the cape of his infirmity; to then see him recover and thrive -- shrugging free of the cape -- as he basks in the healing regard of an audience now melded into a single passionate body by the stroking and thrumming of his ceaseless cavalcade of impossibly danceable smash Number One hits, is not to see: It is to behold.
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Why Set Up Business in Lithuania?
Why Set Up Your Business in Lithuania?
Lithuania is a country located on the continent of Europe. Spanning over 65,300 square kilometres (62,680 square kilometres of land and 2,620 square kilometres of water), Lithuania is the 124th largest nation in the world. It gained its independence in 1918. It is after gaining its sovereignty from Russia. Blessed with the unique nature with 22,000 rivers, about 3,000 lakes, a clean seaside and 4 UNESCO World Heritage masterpieces. Lithuania is sometimes called "the land of lakes".
Why Invest in Lithuania
Home to a population of 3.28 million, Lithuania has lots to offer as an investment destination. Lithuania's strategic location and its excellent infrastructure enable investors to gain easy access to surrounding markets. Lithuania is the EU's prime transport centre where the EU has recognized it. Lithuania is the prime transport centre in the region connecting the EU with the East.
As one of the European Union's economic recovery leaders in 2010, Lithuania managed to weather through the global economic recession. It is demonstrating steady economic growth over the years. Lithuania provides loads of investment opportunities to global investors. Its modern infrastructure, highly educated labour force and a strategic geographical location have made it an attractive destination to locate manufacturing and production hub. Among many others, sectors like the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Biotech, Metal Processing, Machinery and Electrical Equipment, Plastics, Furniture, Wood Processing, and paper industry, Textile and Clothing, are the key investment areas that foreign investors can tap into.
Know More About Investing in Lithuania
In terms of FDI/Investment policy, the Lithuanian government has put in loads of efforts to attract global investors with its liberal foreign investment policies. The Lithuanian government has set up an agency to help and assist foreign investors. Besides the pro-business investment climate, the tax policy of Lithuania is also a business-friendly tax policy. The corporate tax of Lithuania is only 15% and its overall tax burden is relatively smaller if compared with other EU nations. The government is granting many investment incentives to encourage more foreign investment in the country. The investment incentives include tax benefits, investment guarantees and Bank Loan support, support for Research and Development Projects and structural funds. The Lithuanian government also provides special incentives to investors who invest in high value-added products and high-technology sectors.
One thing worth mentioning about Lithuania is that it is a country with the capital city breathing Europe's cleanest air and it has been recognized greenest among the new EU-members. In addition to this, Lithuania is ranked as having one of the highest qualities of life out of 190 countries across the globe.
Advantages of Starting to Set Up Business in Lithuania:
A stable and democratic political system
Achieved growth among the highest in the European Union (3.5% in 2017)
A diversified economy
State-of-art transport infrastructure (with one of the most developed road networks in the region)
Sound international relations (Lithuania is the member of the European Union since 2004 and NATO)
Good access to international markets
Lithuania was ranked at 16th place in the World Bank's Doing Business 2018 report – strong evidence that Lithuania is an investor-friendly business environment that welcomes foreign investors. If you are tapping the EU markets, Lithuania is one of the investment hotspots that you can traipse into. 3E accounting can guide you to start a business in Lithuania, contact us now.
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Financing climate action in developing countries has been an important issue during the climate negotiations in Bonn. The Paris Agreement contains commitments that lead to a need to scale up support.
Sweden already provides considerable support to international climate action and is the largest per capita donor to several climate-related funds, including the Green Climate Fund, the Adaptation Fund and the Global Environment Facility. Funds are to go to concrete action to reduce emissions and adapt societies to a changing climate.
The Government has raised its level of ambition and, to strengthen efforts, is now providing additional funds of SEK 185 million each to the Adaptation Fund and the Least Developed Countries Fund.
"Climate change is having devastating effects around the world. The least developed countries, which do not have sufficient resources to adapt their societies, are the most vulnerable. Countries with high levels of greenhouse gas emissions must increase their support to live up to the Paris Agreement. Sweden's Government is taking responsibility and is now providing additional financing," says Minister for International Development Cooperation and Climate Isabella Lövin.


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The guidelines presented in this report propose an efficient architecture for structuring the huge volume of information flow necessary to manage and administer the several labor market programs operated by the SOLO (System of Labor Offices). The proposal includes a recommendation for the sequence of events in developing the many parts of the system which exploits the latest technical and methodological possibilities, but recognizes the practical constraints of time and money. At the heart of the proposed automated management information system (MIS) to support planning, evaluation, and budgeting for labor market programs in Poland is a set of performance indicators. These performance indicators are the main instrument for monitoring the effectiveness of the several programs. The use of performance indicators will allow a standardized assessment of program performance across voivods, local offices, and programs which is not provided by other methods of evaluation.
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INTERNATIONAL ISSUES; International labor comparisons; Program development and evaluation; UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Unemployment insurance
O'Leary, Christopher J. and Andrew S. Targowski. 1994. " MIS Guidelines for Employment Law Programs in Poland." Report prepared for National Labor Office and Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Poland.
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Which Detective Barbie game do toi think is better?
Which of my favori Fashionistas is your favorite?
Do toi collect Barbie doll from the movies?
They may be closer than we know,When we have l'amour to guide us as we go.
Through computer animation, Barbie has become the étoile, star of several feature films, including "Barbie in the Nutcracker," "Barbie as Rapunzel," "Barbie of cygne Lake" and "Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper." And she has staked her claim on the Web with the populaire Make Up Barbie Game, which allows girls to alter her hair, makeup and global, ensemble look.
Part of Barbie's power is the kind of projection she invites. "I designed Barbie with a blank face so that the child could project her own dreams of the future onto Barbie," Handler a dit in her book, "Dream Doll." "I never wanted to play up the glamorous life of Barbie. I wanted the owner to create a personality for the doll." Even the talking Barbies that appeared on the market never enjoyed the ascendancy that the mute, yet eloquent poupées did.
Eight months after Barbie's debut at the Toy Fair, Mrs. Handler was, according to the Los Angeles Times, driving a rose Thunderbird and running a half-million-dollar business.
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This is a versatile bundle of packages and classes for consistent formatting of control sequences, package options, source code examples, and writing a package manual (including an index containing the explained control sequences, options, ldots). The bundle also provides several other small ideas of mine such as a mechansim for providing abbreviations etc. Not at least it provides a number of programming tools. The intention behind this bundle mainly is a selfish one: documenting my own packages. The bundle contains an index style file cnltx.ist that should be placed in a directory in a TDS makeindex directory.


The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has announced that LCN researcher Professor Franco Cacialli has been awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
These awards, jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), aim to provide universities with additional support to enable them to retain respected UK scientists of outstanding achievement and potential.
Professor Cacialli receives his award for his work on the Fundamentals and applications of printable and nanostructured semiconductors.
Franco Cacialli is Professor of Physics in the LCN and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. His research interests focus on the physics and application of organic semiconductors to Photovoltaic/light-emitting diodes, and to field-effect transistors with particular attention to the electronic properties of the electrode-semiconductors interface, an issue of fundamental importance in virtually all device applications.
The role and importance of advanced materials throughout mankind's history and pre-history is clearly marked by usual denominations given to the various evolutionary ages. Modern age is no exception, and has the remarkable advantage afforded by the extraordinary diversity and abundance of specialised advanced functional materials for so many different purposes.
Whereas silicon has dominated information and communication technology (ICT) so far, a host of new materials is now available for tasks for which silicon is not best suited, either because of intrinsic properties (e.g. lack of luminescence), or of cost. Organic semiconductors (OS) figure prominently among these, owing to the combination of cheap fabrication over large areas, high luminescence efficiency (useful for displays and illumination), and strong absorption per unit thickness (useful for photovoltaic applications).