This month's Synchroblog is centered on Race, Violence, and Why We Need to Talk About It. There's a link list at the bottom of this post of some other bloggers also writing today. If I were going to recommend one post to read on this subject, read I Need to Say Something Entirely Different to White People on a Deeper Story. When I was thinking of what to write, this is what came to mind. I know the road ahead is long and hard and painful, but I hope we can be part of making some of these dreams come true.
"And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow…" (MLK) we still have a dream.
It is a dream deeply rooted in the dream of God for all his creation.
We have a dream that one day the children of God will rise up and live out the true meaning of our creed: "Love our neighbor as ourselves" and that there would be no us and them, but only us.
We have a dream that we'd trade our guns and knives and swords and stones and words-as-weapons for tools of peace and listening and presence and humility.
We have a dream that one day on the streets of every Midwestern town, we will not see a sea of white or a sea of black, but a rising powerful wave of every color mixed and weaved together, moving on behalf of hope.
We have a dream that tables in every cafe and restaurant and pub and university and library and church and school cafeteria would be filled with people of all colors side by side, eye to eye, face to face, eating together, laughing together, listening together, living together.
We have a dream that even on Sunday mornings, still one of the most segregated day of the week, that we'd bravely and intentionally leave the church of our comfort and walk through the doors of our brothers' and sisters' communities and join in learning and listening instead of teaching and talking.
We have a dream that hardened hearts would be softened and stiff necks would be loosened, and knees everywhere would be bowed in humility toward God, confessing the ways we have participated in injustice and oppression and in hate and division and racism.
We have a dream that voices that have been silenced for generations begin to rise up in a strong chorus that stirs our souls and moves our feet.
We have a dream that the false power of this world would be replaced with the true power of the Kingdom, where the last will be first and the first will be last, where the low will be lifted up and the high will be humbled, where there is no over or under but only alongside.
We have a dream that we would raise up an army of peacemakers across all generations and shapes and sizes and theologies and politics who are dedicated to creating spaces and places of healing and reconciliation and hope and collective action.
We have a dream that God would wake those who are sleeping, rousing us from their ignorance and indifference, and move our hearts to action.
We have a dream that what was meant for evil could be redeemed and that even the darkest ugliest pockets of injustice could be transformed into an "oasis of freedom" and hope.
We have a dream that we won't keep waiting for our dreams to drop out of the sky but that the wild and beautiful and creative spirit of God would move through us here, now, to bring heaven to earth.
A dream that we could live in a land where full equality wasn't a dream but a reality, a practice, a way of life, evidence of Jesus-at-work-here-and-now.
Yes, we "have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; 'and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together'" (MLK).
God, give us courage and wisdom and endurance and hope to participate in making this dream come true.
The first thing Grace needs to hear and take stock of from me before I would talk with her is I am Adam, you are Grace now let's stop thinking of this being about you being black and me being white, but sit down and talk about this without any victim mentality or abuse of privilege and work together on how we might go about achieving the dreams we share. It's not all one way traffic.
How else can there be any fruitful conversation?
Adam, if it is any help, as another white reader, but a woman, I experienced your comment as quite aggressive. As if you were insisting on denying that you are not just you, you are also a member of a group and you are experienced as such by others. We may get to know each other and come to a point where the openness of our souls speaks to the other in utter love but before that comes later.
I am sorry to read that you experienced my comment as aggressive. How do you think I perceive what you imply about me insisting on denying that I am not just me but a member of a group and am experienced as such by others when you set out to express your view "as a a woman".
I hope we can get to know each other and communicate in love. I hope you would agree that for this to work well it must be without being tribal, and with an absence of abuse of privilege or victim mentality with any conversation we have over dreams we share.
Thank you for replying Adam.
I don't know how you feel about my statement but it would be helpful if you let me know. I don't know if you have had a chance to read Wendy McCaig's fascinating contribution to this synchroblog. Reading that I got some sense of her shock when she recognised that a black man saw her firstly as a white person and therefore in some sense a threat. I felt this was very helpful in trying to understand how we can come across to other people. And I think that it is useful If we try to do that. To walk in their shoes. That means listening to what they think, how they feel, what they feel about us. And I think we need to do that in order to get to the point where we can truly love – aware of the differences, aware of each other's pain and or complicity in sinful structures.
Love is not really expressed by saying that I will not talk to you until you stop seeing me like that and see me in the way I want to be seen. It is listening to how we are seen, sharing our feelings about that and trying to understand the others framework.
Thank you for again replying with your views about the important issue over difference.
I hear what you say about Wendy Craig and the shock she felt that she was perceived as a threat. I suspect there might have been something not different in that with your experience of my original comment in perceiving it as threatening.
Of course you are right in asserting that love is not expressed by saying I will not talk to you until you stop seeing me like that but love and dreams cannot be shared when fear determines actions. Therefore it must be incumbent on the one feeling threatened not to falsely accuse but let love in in order to cast out fear as much as it is for the one who is perceived as threatening to be graceful, allowing for fear being someone else's reality. This cannot happen when someone is intent on holding onto a victim mentality or using their position of privilege to oppress. Yes listening to someone's feelings and understanding are important but of equal importance is that someone being challenged to treat others as they expect to be treated.
I agree with you that it is useful for us to understand how we are perceived by other to the extend that we can. For example part of my act in comedy is that I was insulted about my race however in context the person making a racist comment was to them paying me a compliment as if to say you are one of us not them and was a sign of acceptance and honour. Strange but true. Elsewhere that I joke about how I come across as a policeman or a priest to folks where I live because I am different. I was commenting at a gig last night tht the more I am part of the coedy circuit, the more I am convinced that people who do stand up comedy are all misfits who use comedy for therapy!
You mention walking in their shoes. Perhaps you have heard the saying "before you judge me walk a mile in my shoes, then you will be a mile away from me and you will have my shoes. (A little comedic variation on that) :).
It's always a pleasure to listen to someone who is primarily motivated by love. Thank you again for replying.
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Kathy this is beautiful but it is also challenging and uncomfortable as much of this discussion is. It is hard to accept that sometimes we are in the shoes of the oppressor whether we want to be or not. I linked to Grace's post when I read Adam's comment below and she is also challenging on this matter and clearly has upset some readers. Such a topic is bound to upset. Our very discomfort may be sign that we have a sense that something is wrong.
yes, i agree, it is so uncomfortable and hard! and so important, too.
It's been interesting following some of the comments on these synchroblog posts. There is a commendable desire for loving communication but I'm beginning to feel that this is at the expense of really examining our own place within power structures. I've thought about this a lot recently and I guess I've come to the realisation that although the aim is to create a world of justice and peace for all of us there is going to be challenge and pain along the way. I cannot collude with those who believe that their good intentions and desire for loving relationships negates their position within the power structure. I have to face my own complicity, listen, listen and listen again to the voices of those who are hurt, damaged, excluded and oppressed by groups which include me as a white woman. White men who want people to see them as uninvolved in power structures might perhaps be better off discussing this issue with other white men who can feel their pain at being put in this position and help them work through it. I don't think this is my work.
what you are saying is so important, juliet, and a true challenge to me. when i share about some of these things, i know i am coming from a place as a white, educated privileged person and that affects so many things. i think you are getting to the heart of it all–power. oh, how we need more conversations about the reality of power! thank you for sharing.


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I featured Shatta wale, other African artists because I wanted to send a message to Africa – Beyonce
Shatta Wale and I are planning on a big collaboration – Stonebwoy (Video)
Shatta Wale Bags Another International Album Feature With Sean Paul, Popcaan, Jah Vinci & Others
Video:I'm ready for a Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Samini feature – Shatta Wale
Stonebwoy is the Only Ghanaian Artiste I Would Have Loved To Also Be Part of the Beyoncé Collaboration – Shatta Wale
American singer, songwriter and actress Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter has explained why she featured Shatta Wale and other African artists on her new album.
According to the 'Halo' hitmaker, she was looking for the most interesting and talented African artists, hence her decision.
Beyonce added that authenticity played a vital role in the selection of African artists and producers to correspond with the theme of the album.
"This is a sonic cinema. This is a new experience of storytelling. I wanted to do more than find a collection of songs that were inspired by the film. It is a mixture of genres and collaboration that isn't one sound. It is influenced by everything from R&B, pop, hip hop and Afro Beat.
I wanted to put everyone on their own journey to link the storyline. Each song was written to reflect the film's storytelling that gives the listener a chance to imagine their own imagery while listening to a new contemporary interpretation.
It was important that the music was not only performed by the most interesting and talented artists but also produced by the best African producers. Authenticity and heart were important to me", Beyonce stated.
Shatta Wale is the only Ghanaian musician that was featured on Beyonce's "The Lion King: The Gift" album
Other African artists who were featured include Wizkid, Tiwa Savage, Burna Boy, Tekno, Yemi Alade and Mr Eazi.
Ghanaian and Nigerian producers, also produced some of the songs and on Beyonce's album
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Ti siña mumaigo' yu' på'go achokka' gof yafai yu'. Meggai na cho'cho' hu kekena'funhåyan på'go. Esta matutuhon un nuebu na såkkan gi UOG. Guaha deadline para un tinige'-hu academic agupa', ya inalulula para bei na'funhåyan este ya na'hånaogue. Gi chatmaigo'-hu på'go, lumailailai yu' gi komputå-hu, ya hu sodda' i lyrics para este na kånta "Papa' Sombran Mapagåhes." Ha na'hasso yu' put este na estoria.
I was going through my computer, looking through the digital equivalent of ancient, dusty files, seeing if I could bore myself to sleep. I came across a folder which I hadn't look at in quite a while, full of the lyrics to old Chamorro songs. These are songs that all older Chamorros know in some form or another, but which aren't as popular nowadays for obvious reasons as changes in taste and the decline of the language in general. When I was going through the lists of songs whose lyrics I've collected over the years, I remembered a story involving one of them.
Many years ago, when I first started a website on geocities called "Free Guahan," I received an email from a Chamorro in the states whose mother had passed away recently and was looking for the lyrics or information about a song which she had loved. This Chamorro had spent most of her life in the states and didn't speak Chamorro or know much about Guam or her culture beyond the parties she would sometimes attend or the relatives that she knew. There was a song which she would sing regularly, and so her daughter knew the tune, and could make out some of the lyrics, but like most Chamorros who hear Chamorro songs but don't speak it, they often confuse the lyrics and sort of cobble together phrases of their own. This daughter had done just that, she had a sense of the song, but was having trouble finding the lyrics or even just the title of it online. She emailed me, writing down some portions of it that seemed clearer in her mind than others.
She wrote down the disparate lyrics and one of them in particular caught my eye, the word "sabedos." This sounded a lot like the phrase "sabe dios" which means "god knows." I could only recall this phrase being used in one song in particular, "Pappa' Sombran Mapagåhes" which means "Beneath Somber Clouds." I had found the lyrics to the song in MARC and had also heard a version of it on Johnny Sablan's Dalai Nene album. I sent her the lyrics to see if that was the song, and indeed it was. The song itself is a love song, although like many Chamorro love songs, a tragic and na'puti one.
I wrote this post in an effort to get sleepy and it's working. I'm going to bed now, but not before I post below the lyrics to the song. Hopefully the next Chamorro who is googling these lyrics won't have such a hard time and can just find them right here on my blog.
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Q: Detailed Parsing in Python I wish to parse a dict for keyword apples, but the entry might not just be apples, but something like I like apples.
How can I parse a dict for this entry ?
Example dict:
[
    {
        'text': 'What fruit do you like ?',
        'start': 7.58,
        'duration': 6.13
    },
    {
        'text': 'I like apples',
# can be 'I hate apples', or 'No, not apples', or 'red apples are better than green', or any sentence that has the word apples
        'start': 14.08,
        'duration': 7.58
    },
    # ...
]

Code:
keyword = 'apples'
thisdict = function_that_returns_dict(some_id)

if thisdict["text"] = keyword:
    s = thisdict["start"]
    d = thisdict["duration"]
    print(s)
    print(d)

Expected Output:
14.08
7.58

A: You search keywords in a dictionary like so:
test = {
    'apples' : 1,
    'oranges' : 2,
    'I like apples' : 3,
    'I like oranges' : 4,
    'I like apples and oranges' : 5}

for key in test.keys():
    if 'apples' in key:
        print(key+' : '+str(test.get(key)))

Output:
apples : 1
I like apples : 3
I like apples and oranges : 5

Your data structure appears to be a list of dictionaries; just iterate over the list elements.
test2 = [{
    'text': 'apples',
    'start': 1,
    'duration': 2},
    {'text': 'oranges',
    'start': 3,
    'duration': 4},
    {'text': 'I love apples',
    'start': 5,
    'duration': 6}]

for item in test2:
    if 'apples' in item.get('text'):
        print('text : '+item.get('text'))
        print('start : '+str(item.get('start')))
        print('duration : '+str(item.get('duration')))

Output:
text : apples
start : 1
duration : 2
text : I love apples
start : 5
duration : 6

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1. What does a full service law firm offer?
At one point, I asked the Summer school students to devise a PR campaign for a full service law firm.
One of the teams came up with an image in which the central character, with a business allure, was lying in a hammock on an idyllic beach, with a semi-unbuttoned shirt and his pants rolled up above his ankles. The headline on the poster was: Don't forget the sun screen, we'll protect you from everything else.
That is pretty much the role of a full service law firm. To inform correctly and completely, to anticipate legal risks involved in the client's work and business and therefore to build a system of prevention and protection, to find effective legal solutions for the client's plans, no matter how challenging they might be.
A lawyer must be specialized, which is an indispensable condition of professionalism in the field. At the same time, however, good legal services involve a complex approach to problems, from all potentially relevant angles. Let me give you an example – a contract may be flawless in obligational-civil terms, but a devastating failure for the client in terms of taxes, if it draws for him substantial tax liabilities (which he is aware or, worse, not aware of when contracting because of deficient consultancy) which could have been avoided or significantly reduced by optimizing the fiscal operation. However, such legal services can be provided in a professional manner only if the specialists work as a team. It is exactly what a full service law firm offers – specialists in all legal areas essential for business.
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I think the future of the IT industry in Cluj is in the development of its own products and start-ups and its artisans should be encouraged, supported. From this point of view, the events that stimulate entrepreneurship have a very important role.
It is also why we support Techsylvania, which, by presenting role models, but also challenges that may arise along the way, inspires and enhances the motivation of the entrepreneurs, especially of those who are at the beginning of a project that may prove great. Great, because the IT industry in Cluj has the potential to put on a really nice show.
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'Avengers: Infinity War' fights the good fight
Ever since "Iron Man" hit screens back in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been building to something. Something big. For the past decade, we've watched as nearly a score of movies have been made in the service of telling a massive interconnected metanarrative. It is storytelling where the big picture is made up of other big pictures.
And we're coming to a crossroads.
That's what "Avengers: Infinity War" is – a crossroads. It's the beginning of, well … not THE end, but AN end. What we're seeing now is the start of a transition, where various batons are being handed off – both in terms of the heroes we've grown to love and the actors who play them. It is a tremendous balancing act of a film, an effort to somehow bring together literally dozens of characters and deploy them in the service of a single story, all while maintaining narrative coherence and remembering that every character is someone's favorite.
It is an effort that is successful to an almost surprising degree. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have already demonstrated their ability to keep a lot of superhero plates spinning, but they take their talent to a whole new level here, somehow finding a moment for every character to shine. You might think 156 minutes is a lot – and it is – but in a movie like this, time is still of the essence.
Here's a bare bones breakdown of the story. A godlike being named Thanos (Josh Brolin, "Only the Brave") is searching the universe on a quest to track down the powerful Infinity Stones that have been Macguffining their respective ways around the MCU for 10 years. His goal is to place them in his gauntlet and grant himself the power to instantly eliminate half the people in the universe in a sort of squint-and-you'll-see-it conservation effort.
Standing between him and his goal are almost every hero you've encountered in a Marvel movie, and so Thanos sends out his sinister and crazy powerful henchmen to take care of business. In the name of minimizing spoilers, I'm avoiding specifics, but it's probably safe to say that our heroes break up into assorted mix-and-match pairings.
Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr., "Spider-Man: Homecoming"), Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Current War") and Spider-Man (Tom Holland, "The Current War") wind up as a collective. Thor (Chris Hemsworth, "12 Strong") winds up palling around with Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo, "Thor: Ragnarok") for a while, and then the Guardians of the Galaxy – Star-Lord (Chris Pratt, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2"), Gamora (Zoe Saldana, "I Kill Giants"), Drax (Dave Bautista, "Blade Runner 2049"), Mantis (Pom Klementieff, "Ingrid Goes West"), Rocket (Bradley Cooper, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2") and a petulant teenaged Groot (Vin Diesel, "The Fate of the Furious").
Meanwhile, you've got Captain America (Chris Evans, "Gifted") and his team of fugitives – Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson, "Isle of Dogs"), Falcon (Anthony Mackie, "Detroit"), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen, "Kodachrome") and the Vision (Paul Bettany, TV's "Manhunt: Unabomber") – who are doing their thing as well. Cap and his crew need help, so they reconnect with War Machine (Don Cheadle, TV's "House of Lies") and reach out to Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman, "Black Panther") and his kingdom of Wakanda (where Cap's old pal Bucky (Sebastian Stan, "I, Tonya") happens to be hiding out).
It's up to Earth's Mightiest Heroes – first in their separate missions and ultimately as one singular fighting force - to do everything in their power to prevent the Mad Titan from procuring all of the stones and laying waste to half the population of the cosmos with a simple snap of his fingers.
If I'm honest with myself, I have to admit that I wasn't really sure it was going to work. Yes, we've seen again and again that Marvel knows what it's doing, but this latest adventure was something different. We've seen crossover events in the MCU in the past, but this was the crossover of all crossovers, the payoff (or at least the first half of the payoff) to a narrative arc that's been a decade in the making.
A huge problem with comic books in general and comic book movies in particular is the development of meaningful stakes. In a realm where people die and are resurrected on a regular basis, how can there be any real risk? How can we really be afraid to lose people if we're pretty sure they're going to make a triumphant return in the next installment?
Well – MILD SPOILER – we're going to find out.
Don't get me wrong: I was always going to like "Avengers: Infinity War." So were so many millions of other likeminded fans. We were always going to see it, and we did, to the tune of the largest unadjusted opening weekend in box office history - $250 million domestically and nearly $650 million globally. I just wasn't sure if it was going to be, you know, good – the MCU has raised the bar in significant ways over the past couple of movies.
It is, though. Good, I mean.
A climactic event such as this one has so many moving parts, so many different threads that need to be woven together if there's to be any hope of basic comprehensibility. Doing so in a visually interesting and viscerally exciting manner adds yet another layer of difficulty to an already-daunting task. But the action sequences are generally excellent (there's one particular battle - I won't tell you who's involved - that takes place on Thanos's home planet Titan and it is quite possibly the fight that is the truest to comic book sensibilities of any big dust-up we've seen in the MCU; you'll know it when you see it). The vast and varied scales of both the conflicts themselves and the landscapes in which they take place are engaging and impressive.
Again, the Russos do a phenomenal job giving everyone a piece of the action, but the sheer numbers mean that some degree of depth in terms of interpersonal dynamics has to be sacrificed. The fact that there's still real emotional resonance here is a tribute to the work of the filmmakers.
Don't worry – "Infinity War" has got jokes. The premise sounds dour – and it is – but the sense of humor that is the true foundation of the MCU is still present (your mileage may vary, but for my money, the best joke in the entire movie comes from Drax of all people). That quick-witted cleverness goes a long way toward keeping the story grounded even as it expands into cosmic complexity.
There are plenty of strong performances throughout. Making an impression in a film like this – one where overstuffed with bold colors and characters – isn't easy, but the ensemble makes it happen. There aren't any stumbles, but there are a handful of legitimate highlights that stand out a bit from the crowd. Hemsworth is steering Thor into a full-blown renaissance. The Downey/Cumberbatch dynamic is delightful. Evans is awesome in relatively limited duty. The Guardians are all strong, with Pratt leading a bunch that is sneaky-strong across the board. And Brolin somehow manages to endow Thanos, who kind of looks like a giant anthropomorphized purple thumb, with genuine emotion; finding believable motivations for the actions of an insane space god couldn't have been easy, yet here we are.
"Avengers: Infinity War" isn't the best we've seen from the MCU. It has its problems. And some of the storytelling choices don't really click. But considering what these folks set out to do, it's a remarkable achievement. Pulling something like this off at such an epic scale should have been close to impossible, but for the most part, it worked.
And lest we forget, the battle has only just begun.
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New York 2014 Review: THE BLUE ROOM Shows Off Mathieu Amalric's Directing Chops
Dustin Chang
Lead Critic; Brooklyn, New York (@floatingartist)
Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room is a hard film to like-- its tone is cold and distant. But it is precisely designed that way to accompany in showing the mind of its passive protagonist. Based on the book of the same name by popular French novelist Georges Simenon, the film tells a brief obsession that causes double murder and ensuing courtroom drama. It harkens back to the olden days of film noir with hidden motives, loose morals and an unlikely femme fatale. The film is a Hitchcockian intrigue coupled with Chabrol's breeziness. Even the film's score (beautifully composed by Grégoire Hetzel) reminds you of Bernard Herrmann.
It starts with Julien and Esther in the throes of sweaty, passionate lovemaking in a French door shuttered, stifling hotel room. In the heat of passion, she bites his lips and he bleeds. "Did it hurt?" "No, it's fine." "Would your wife notice it?" "I'll just tell her that I ran into a post." They tell each other sweet nothings. It's a thoughtless pillow talk for him, but for her, it's something more. "Could you spend the rest of your life with me?" "Sure."
Julien has a comfortable life, he manages a successful John Deere dealership, has an upbeat blonde wife and a daughter. It's his passivity that becomes his downfall. It's not that he is unhappy with life, but he finds the enigma of Esther too irresistible. Before we know it, Esther's ill husband is found dead and Julien's wife strangled. All the things Esther said, as Julien recalls in a series of police interrogations, have ominous significance for the crime(s). "If I am suddenly free, would you be free too?" After Esther's husband's death, he gets a cryptic message from her in two words, "Now You."
The Blue Room feels completely opposite of the much improvised, free wheeling, 8 1/2-esque, On Tour, a film which Amalric won the Best Director award for at Cannes a few years back. It is an extremely measured film with subtle performances.
The 1:33 aspect ratio comes across as not as an aesthetic choice but a psychological one, to show Julien's unwitting confinement in the situation. Stéphanie Cléau who co-adapted the book with Amalric, and not a trained actor, plays the role of Esther. There is not a hint of a dark side in her unassuming beauty. But that's why she is so perfect for this completely illegible role.
The film still works as a whodunit thriller, but we never get to find out who killed who. In a breezy 76 minute running time, Amalric rightly concentrates on Julien's distant passivity rather than making a psycho killer out of Esther. It's a hard one to enjoy, yes, but from the restrained performances to the noir plotting and technical craft, there is a lot to admire in this film. It definitely shows Amalric's ability as a director, easily proving himself that he's not only a mere actor.
The Blue Room plays part of NYFF 2014. It plays on 9/29 and 9/30. Please visit FSLC website for more info.
Dustin Chang is a freelance writer. His musings and opinions on the world can be found on www.dustinchang.com
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WTRI helps companies improve their performance among their competitors, or "fixes" failing companies with custom designed emulations of our clients' companies in the context of simulated economies. These allow companies to "rehearse" the probable future facing their companies. The idea is to win the war before it is fought. In general, rehearsing the strategy before going live with it reveals its flaws and allows the company to refine its real life approach for success.
For our clients, Rehearsals are two-day exercises in which members of an organization run their company in compressed time using a strategy for success they believe will work in the current market. In many cases we built actual physical models of the company, which emulated their actual enterprise technologies, worldwide distribution and economy. More recently, we are building rehearsals in virtual worlds that are proving to be just as powerful.
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In our Rehearsals, we found that compressing time and providing instant feedback could result in five to ten years' worth of expertise in a few short days. As long as the emulated company resembled the "real" company in a reality-analogous way, (from the point of the view of the participants and their experience), the transfer back to the real workplace was immediate and profound. All of our clients achieved the same benefits in real life as they did on the last round of Rehearsal.
In our early days as a company, all our Rehearsals were designed by a highly skilled team of specialists. This was very time consuming and is not scalable. Therefore, we have developed innovative enabling technologies – The FutureView™ Suite – that make it possible to design new rehearsals very quickly by professionals with less experience. The focus of our current work is refining and increasing the power of these innovations to support our scalable business goals.


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Millennial Workers Feel Guilt for Taking Vacation
March 15, 2016 • by Staff
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More employed millennials (59%) reported feeling a sense of shame for taking or planning a vacation compared to workers aged 35 or older (41%), according to Alamo Rent A Car's 2016 Alamo Family Vacation Survey.
Employed millennials are also more likely than older generations to say they shame their co-workers about taking vacation (42% versus 24%). Plus, millennials who have shamed their co-workers were significantly more likely than older generations to say they're at least somewhat serious (42% versus 22%).
While millennials were most likely to feel guilty about taking time off, Alamo's research indicates that vacation shaming is affecting all generations. Nearly half (47%) of all workers surveyed said they felt a sense of shame or guilt at their workplace for taking time off to go on a vacation. And two-fifths (42%) of those think their co-workers are seriously shaming them – not just joking.
Nearly half (47%) said they've felt the need to justify to their employer why they're using their vacation days, according to the report.
"This year's research indicates that vacation shaming is a real workplace issue that can, in some cases, discourage hard-working Americans from taking well-deserved time off with their families," said Rob Connors, Alamo Rent A Car's vice president of brand marketing. "In addition, our survey shows employees continue to leave a large percentage of paid vacation days on the table."
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Compared to the 2015 Alamo Family Vacation Survey, the 2016 survey showed a larger proportion of adults received paid vacation as part of their job benefits (56% versus 52%, respectively). However, 41% of respondents who received paid vacation are still leaving some of these days on the table:
• Of those who reported having unused paid vacation days, 40% said they left five or more vacation days unused in 2015.
• The top two reasons people gave for not using all of their paid vacation were a desire to roll over their days to take a longer vacation the following year and the fact that they are simply too busy at work to take time off.
The 2016 Alamo Family Vacation Survey was conducted from Jan. 5 to 15, with 1,500 adults from the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey was fielded using the Research Now online consumer panel.
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You'll miss that unconditional love that is established in parental relations. Perhaps the idea of proposing a plan to your father or your mother with the hope of making up for lost time comes to mind.
It's true that you aren't overly familiar, but from time to time it's good for all of us to feel protected by our relatives. In romantic relationships, any word can dynamite the established bond.
This is something that doesn't happen when you're with your family, you can feel free to express everything you think or feel without fear of leaving your side.
On this day when the family will be the most important for you, you will want to find a way to give them something that can show what you feel towards them. Maybe a family holiday or something simpler, such as a lunch or a picnic is considered the best option for it.
Giving gifts won't seem like a bad idea either, but it would mean a large outlay. In this sense, you must take care of your words and pronounce only those that are consistent with your pocket. Don't lose your strength by promising things that you can't fulfill later.
Having enough time to attend to your most basic needs will seem impossible to you today, Virgo. You can live really stressful moments and don't stop going from one place to another, fulfilling a thousand commitments and the plans that you had planned in your agenda.
It would help you to have a more structured mind and postpone for another time those tasks that aren't so urgent. When you're in continuous disorder it's impossible that you can dedicate to yourself and today, the best thing is to rest as much as possible. If you don't, your health will take longer to recover.


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B&C Member Spotlight - Albert Bierstadt
As one of the original members of the Boone and Crockett Club, Albert Bierstadt documented the disappearing landscape of the American West—people and wildlife included. For that reason, he was recruited to help save it.
In 1864, the United States had already endured three gruesome years of the Civil War. In July, Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early sat on his horse atop a small mound of earth where, six miles away, was Washington D.C. Early's lackluster attempts to attack Fort Stevens in northwest D.C. ultimately failed, and his men retreated toward Appomattox, Virginia, where a year later Lee would surrender.
Even in that time of war and chaos and death, art survived. Speaking before Congress in the same year Early set his sights on the capitol, Frederick Law Olmstead, the nation's leading landscape architect, said of Albert Bierstadt's paintings: "It was during one of the darkest hours [of the Civil War] when the paintings of Bierstadt…had given to the people of the Atlantic some idea of the sublimity of the Yosemite." In other words, his paintings served as a momentary distraction for a nation at war.
Those landscapes were inspired by Bierstadt's travels and experiences in the American West, which began in 1859. He fell in love with the animals, people, peaks, and waterfalls. As a member of the Boone and Crockett Club, he would use his talents to try and save those places and animals that inspired him.
Early Travels West
Bierstadt was only two years old when his family immigrated from Germany to the United States. Nineteen years later, he would return to Germany where he received less than a year of formal training at the Dusseldorf School of Painting. Instead of more formal training, he chose to travel Europe and sketch the landscapes there. After being in Europe nearly five years, his quest for travel and love of art would stay with him upon his return to the U.S. He became a second-generation painter of the Hudson River school, and he took his talents from the Hudson River west to the Rockies.
His first taste of the western U.S. came in 1859 when he joined a railroad survey that traveled through the Great Plains to the Rockies in Wyoming. After six months, he brought sketches back to a studio in New York City where he would paint massive (and sometimes embellished) paintings of the frontier. This gave many city-dwelling Easterners their first glimpse of what existed far away from the city. Over time, his popularity and his payouts began to grow.
Bierstadt's painting, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, was met with mixed reviews by art critics when it was unveiled in 1863.
In one of his earliest paintings, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, he painted a camp of Shoshone Native Americans in the foreground amongst a backdrop of a cascading waterfall and the jagged peaks of the Wyoming wilderness. This was Bierstadt's attempt at a western narrative, a chance to tell the story of the West as he saw it. "But his painting was criticized, saying that he shouldn't be incorporating Indian people in his landscapes," explained the late Peter Hassrick in a documentary about Bierstadt. Based on what he would paint later in his life, it didn't seem the critics held too much sway with the artist.
In 1863, Bierstadt and writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow set off again for artistic adventures. This time they met up with other bohemians in San Francisco where they explored and camped their way through the Yosemite Valley, Rocky Mountains and the Columbia River area. When he returned to New York City, Bierdtadt's fame had exploded, and he was commissioned to paint landscapes for wealthy railroad industrialists.
Of the numerous paintings that followed his 1863 trip, one in particular shook the art world. Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California was a physically large painting with a healthy helping of artistic interpretation thrown in. Measuring roughly five feet by eight feet, the painting is a depiction of heaven on earth with an explosion of unearthly light hidden behind Yosemite's towering granite cliffs. That same year, he gave the country its first glimpse of Mt. Hood in Oregon. It was simply titled, Mount Hood, Oregon. He unveiled these paintings at the end of the Civil War at a time when, as Olmstead put it, the U.S. needed a reminder of the sublime in their life.
Completed at the end of the Civil War, this work presents a calm and awe-inspiring view of the American West. The spectacular, natural panorama suggested the possibility of a new beginning for those living in war-ravaged states back east. The artist left the painting vacant of almost all animal or human life, suggesting that this pristine Eden—untouched by the bloodshed and suffering of Civil War—lay waiting to be "discovered."—Joanna Wilson, UAB-BMA Curatorial Fellow 2013-2014
Club Influencer
When Bierstadt first experienced the West, he likely saw waves of bison stretching to the horizon. In the decades following, there is little doubt that he watched as those waves nearly vanished altogether. In 1887, Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell began enlisting the influencers of the day to help turn the tide and restore those bison populations. In 1888, Roosevelt himself extended the invitation to Bierstadt to become a member, but there was a bit of a problem. Bierstadt was more of an artist than a hunter.
In a paper published in the New England Quarterly, two writers researched a moose hunt in which Bierstadt participated. Roosevelt wanted to use the hunt as credentials for Bierstadt's membership into the Club. Apparently, Roosevelt asked Bierstadt to recount the hunt. The only problem was that Bierstadt's guide shot the bull instead. "Did I feel like taking his life? No. This was a case of survival of the fittest and my love for seeing him enjoy his breakfast, unconscious of the presence of the enemy, made me respect him," wrote Bierstadt. He then handed the gun to his guide who shot it. Upon receiving the manuscript, Roosevelt took more than a few editorial liberties and muddied the literary waters to infer that Bierstadt shot the moose. This is certainly an aside regarding Bierstadt's contributions to conservation, but it does show that Roosevelt was willing to go to great lengths to get this influencer on board with the Club.
As a member of the Club, Bierstadt was called to use his talent for conservation. "When he joined the Boone and Crockett Club this was his way of making a monumental statement," said Hassrick. "He starts painting paintings that incorporate wildlife and the buffalo is the symbol of the West." The same year he became a member, Bierstadt unveiled one of his most influential paintings.
Bierstadt's Last of the Buffalo is his homage to the West—its landscape, wildlife, and people. This painting captured the attention of Easterners and helped members of the Boone and Crockett Club establish laws to turn back the destruction caused by market hunting.
That painting is called Last of the Buffalo, and it is both literally and figuratively massive. At six feet tall and 10 feet wide, the painting made waves in the nineteenth-century art world. A collector bought it for $50,000, which was the highest price paid for an American artist's work in the 1800s. The press went wild about the purchase price, and the notoriety helped in other ways. Most notably, Bierstadt's painting called attention to the downward spiral of bison populations across the country. "His images showing the extinction of the bison—the near extinction of the bison—helped prompt the United States government to act and to actually take deliberate steps to prevent the extinction of an entire species," said museum curator Karen McWhorter in the documentary.
Last of the Buffalo was Birestadt at his finest, but his fame and notoriety didn't last long. His wife died of tuberculosis in 1893, and the fervor surrounding landscape paintings gave way to American Impressionism and photography. In 1895 he declared bankruptcy and died in 1902.
Bierstadt's popularity reached a peak at a time when the Boone and Crockett Club and the West needed a visual narrative to speak to the people. The Club had Roosevelt's political clout and George Bird Grinnel's savvy pen with Forest and Stream. For those who would never see the western landscapes with their own eyes, Bierstadt's brush took them there.
There are some art historians who contend that Bierstadt's paintings were a marketing tool, which sent waves of settlers out of the city and onto the frontier. While he may have certainly influenced some to travel west to visit or to stay, his paintings served a higher purpose. He helped Americans visualize landscapes, people, and wildlife in a far away land. Bierstadt's paintings still are a testament to a land, a time, and a people of the past—some of which has been lost. And a fair amount that has been saved.
Boone and Crockett Club members have come from a cross-section of famous accomplished people whose lives and careers have written and recorded the history of this country since the late 19th Century. They have been naturalists, scientists, explorers and sportsmen, writers and academicians, artists, statesmen and politicians, generals, bankers, financiers, philanthropists, and industrialists. Their diversity of ideas and activities during their careers have made the Boone and Crockett Club rich in its fellowship and achievements. To read more member spotlights, just click here.
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Deze lijst van voetbalinterlands is een overzicht van alle officiële voetbalwedstrijden tussen de nationale teams van Armenië en IJsland. De landen speelden tot op heden vijf keer tegen elkaar. De eerste ontmoeting, een kwalificatiewedstrijd voor het Europees kampioenschap voetbal 2000, was op 10 oktober 1998 in Jerevan. Het laatste duel, een kwalificatiewedstrijd voor het Wereldkampioenschap voetbal 2022, vond plaats in Reykjavik op 8 oktober 2021.

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Former professional football star Ken Hutcherson, now the senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Washington, tells how Christians can stand up for traditional marriage by getting involved with MayDay for Marriage, an event held on Capitol Mall in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2004.
Pastor Ken Hutcherson urges Christian men and women to join him at the May Day for Marriage rally.
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Woosh! Vroom vroom! The event is over already and Junior is now in the car with aunt Angela and the secretaries, off to Breda. Because we decided that we're going to grandmacat, because we haven't been there for a long time and she hasn't been to us for a long time too.
A picture from MySims Kingdom!
But the event was reeeeeaaaally nice! Junior now gets what MySims Kingdom is like a lot better. It's much more a story than the first MySims. You also don't have to make furniture anymore, but you have to solve puzzels, and there are almost no loading screens anymore, and Buddy is a little silly, and princess Lyndsay is also in the game, and there are very many islands to visit, and you can still make homes, and much more news! Junior thinks it's a really nice game, but different than that first MySims. Because the first MySims is a lot like MySims for PC, but that has a new online part with a shared garden for every player, and then you can invite others to come to your garden and build there, or exchange items, or plant trees with essences, or play tag, or play zombie tag, and you can go and visit others too! But you have to know their MySims names, which is attached to everybody's EA.Com account. Well, the secretaries will probably tell a lot more on their sites, also about the DS version of MySims Kingdom that we saw for a really short time.
Wooooooosh, Junior is back again! Nu at EA, but the presentation hasn't started yet. The pers ran a little late, said aunt Nita, so the fansites presentation will start a little later. But now Junior is really on time, and aunt Angela has joined, and we're eating a nice bun or two. They are really tasty and Junior is always hungry! Junior is looking forward to the presentation of MySims PC and MySims Kingdom. Tim has also chatted with us for a bit but he is now somewhere else. It's very nice here with hippie music from the female secretary, so Junior is enjoying himself a lot! Well, Junior hasn't got anything else to say right now, so Junior will finish eating now and then Junior will be back after the presentation to blog again. Later!
Junior loves these bread rolls!
This is actually Superman wearing a King Roland outfit! Junior is not kidding!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey hello howdy everybody! Junior is moblogging again! That means Junior is on the road again, and this time it's to Amsterdam again. Because there, near Schiphol, Junior is going to drink frappuccino but first Junior is going to visit EA because uncle Tim will show MySims Kingdom there, and uncle Erik is going to present MySims for PC. Junior has been invited again and will report extensively, because Junior is cool and a super great reporter.
Now Junior is at the station of Eindhoven, waiting to change to the train to Schiphol. There aunt Angela will pick up Junior and the secretaries to go to EA. And then we'll be there at around 11.30, half an hour before the spectacle starts! So Junior is nicely on time, but it couldn't be different because Junior got up at 6.30 this morning already! Junior thinks that's way too early, but Junior does it because Junior is cool and because Junior will make the sacrifice for all Junior fans! Great, huh?
Anyway, Junior will now eat a sandwich and then onwards by train. Junior will moblog more later! Bye!


The original inspiration for the name COHO and our commitment to habitat preservation and restoration came from an ancient Celtic legend: the Salmon of Knowledge. Versions of this tale are as many as the Irish grandmothers that have passed them down through the generations. Below is a condensed re-telling compiled from various versions.
According to legend, Cumhall, the great leader of The Fianna, was killed in battle. Fearing that his young son, Fionn, would also be killed, his mother asked two wise women to hide him in a safe place and care for him. Eventually Fionn was brought to the ancient Druid, Finegas, to learn poetry and science.
Finegas lived on the banks of the River Boyne, where for many years he had tried in vain to catch the Salmon of Knowledge, Fintan, as anyone who ate it would instantly receive the wisdom of all ages. The salmon lived in a pool surrounded by the nine hazel trees of knowledge. From the nuts of the trees Fintan gained its wisdom.
One day Finegas finally caught Fintan and gave the fish to Fionn to cook, but asked him not to eat any of it. Fionn cooked the salmon with care, turning it over and over. When it was ready he served it to his master. Finegas could see that the boy's eyes shined with the light of wisdom. He asked Fionn if he had eaten any of the salmon. Answering no, the boy explained that he touched the fish to see if it was cooked, and burnt his finger. He then put the finger in his mouth to ease the pain. Finegas knew that Fionn had received the wisdom of the salmon, so gave him the fish to eat. Fionn ate the salmon and as he did so he became possessed of all the knowledge of the world. Fionn would return to his home to become the greatest leader The Fianna had ever known and famous throughout Ireland.


Enjoy a day of cooking and dining on mouth-watering Spanish delicacies. At this award-winning cookery school, learn to create classics such as chicken and prawn paella and special treats such as Pedro Ximenez sherry and raisin ice cream. Discover how to cook patatas bravas, magdalenas and garlic prawns, besides many other regional dishes. Provided on the day are all the sustainably sourced, high quality, organic ingredients needed. The day starts with a light welcome breakfast and ends with the students sitting down to their meal, which is accompanied by Spanish wines. Take home a pack of card recipes and continue to improve by practising these new-found skills.


One of two things gets you to head to an auto mechanic. One is routine tune-ups. The other is a problem that seemed small at first but has gotten much larger over time. Regardless of the situation, you need a feeling of security when you leave your four-door baby to the hands of an auto technician.
While there are some places that still try to squeeze every dollar out of you, most service shops are okay. There are two main reasons. One, technology is so advanced. Technicians need to know a great deal about the vehicles onboard computer and the diagnostic tools. Two, there's more scrutiny applied to shops. Locations like Mile Hi Auto and others in your area are regularly audited. Not only by state and local authorities but also by regional managers. These days, customer service is extremely high on everyone's radar.
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What Is Critical Frequency In Sky Wave Propagation?
What is the frequency range of sky wave propagation?
What do you mean by space wave propagation?
What are ground waves and sky waves?
What waves can pass through the ionosphere?
What is meant by cut off frequency?
How do you calculate cutoff frequency?
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What is meant by critical frequency for sky wave propagation?
What is meant by critical frequency?
Why sky wave propagation is better at night?
Which waves are used in sky wave propagation?
What are the types of wave propagation?
Frequencies above 10 MHz (wavelengths shorter than 30 meters) typically propagate most efficiently during the day.
Frequencies lower than 3 kHz have a wavelength longer than the distance between the Earth and the ionosphere.
The maximum usable frequency for skywave propagation is strongly influenced by sunspot number..
Space wave propagation is defined for the radio waves that occur within the 20km of the atmosphere ie; troposphere, comprising of a direct and reflected waves. These waves are also known as tropospheric propagation as they can travel directly from the earth's surface to the troposphere surface of the earth.
Ground Wave propagation is a method of radio wave propagation that uses the area between the surface of the earth and the ionosphere for transmission. … Sky-wave ionospheric propagation is not possible during the day because of the attenuation of the signals on these frequencies caused by the D region in the ionosphere.
Radio waves can be reflected from the ionosphere. Water is also able to reflect radio waves, but land masses are not such good reflectors. The propagation of radio signals from one place to another because of reflection from the ionosphere is known as sky wave propagation.
In physics and electrical engineering, a cutoff frequency, corner frequency, or break frequency is a boundary in a system's frequency response at which energy flowing through the system begins to be reduced (attenuated or reflected) rather than passing through.
So to summarize, the Low Pass Filter has a constant output voltage from D.C. (0Hz), up to a specified Cut-off frequency, ( ƒC ) point. This cut-off frequency point is 0.707 or -3dB ( dB = –20log*VOUT/IN ) of the voltage gain allowed to pass.
In radio transmission maximum usable frequency (MUF) is the highest radio frequency that can be used for transmission between two points via reflection from the ionosphere (skywave or "skip" propagation) at a specified time, independent of transmitter power. … Typically the MUF is a predicted number.
In sky wave propagation, critical frequency is. the highest frequency of radio waves which. when sent straight towards the layer of. ionosphere gets reflected from ionosphere and. returns to earth.
Critical frequency is the highest magnitude of frequency above which the waves penetrate the ionosphere and below which the waves are reflected back from the ionosphere. It is denoted by "fc". Its value is not fixed and it depends upon the electron density of the ionosphere.
Sky-wave propagation takes place between sunset and sunrise. It's the flip side to the ground wave propagation used to transmit during the day. … At night, however, once the sun begins to set, the electrons and ions in the D region recombine rapidly – leaving more room for the radio waves to travel a little farther up.
Sky Wave. Used for the propagation of EM waves with a frequency range of 3 – 30 MHz. Make use of the ionosphere so called due to the presence of charged ions in the region of about 60 to 300 km from the earth surface.
Types Of Wave PropagationGround Waves. … Ionospheric Layer. … Sky Waves (Ionospheric Wave) … Optimum Working Frequency. … Broadcast Fading Zone. … Radio Horizon. … Space Waves. … Troposphere Scatter Propagation.More items…
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What happens if I am late getting to a session?
Yes, they are all trained to a minimum of FETAC level 5.
You will find Småland in the store entrance area at the top of the escalator. However, if you've missed it for any reason please ask one of our co-workers and they'll be happy to show you.
They are 45 minutes long and your child is welcome to attend for one session per day.
We appreciate that sometimes people can run a bit late and to accommodate this your child's space will be held for 10 minutes and then your space will be offered to another child to enjoy the Småland experience.
Yes, we would be delighted to welcome your child. On their first visit we provide one to one care, then based on your advice and on their care plan we can assess if they're happy to join a future session or we feel one to one support is needed in these sessions. Please call us on 01-8930100 ext. 6232# to enquire about booking a one to one session.
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While in New Zealand, one of the things on our 'to-do' list was WWOOF. For those who are unfamiliar with the acronym, it is Willing Workers On Organic Farms. It is a work exchange scheme where travellers, or anyone really, volunteer on a farm in exchange for room and board. The WWOOF network spans the globe, and WWOOFing in New Zealand is especially popular. We decided to try our hand at farm work and organized a week-long stay on the lovely Puramahoi Fields in beautiful Takaka.
Puramahoi Fields is a thirty acre, organic vegetable farm and CSA run by a New Zealand-American couple; they grow everything - leafy greens, root vegetables galore, summer and winter squash, all kinds of herbs, peppers, tomatoes and more, and raise chickens and geese. And, summer's end in the Southern Hemisphere means bountiful harvests and lots to prepare for the weekly CSA pickups and farmer's markets.
Pupu springs, where 10 cubic meters of the world's cleanest water spring up from the ground every single second.
Ryan and I spent our mornings harvesting vegetables, digging potatoes out from their earthen beds, weeding, and harvesting some more... It was hard work! We knew it would be, but it was also exceptionally rewarding. Putting in early hours meant afternoons off and plenty of time to hike, wander, relax and indulge in the idyllic scenery and decadent fresh fruit ice cream that Takaka had to offer. Our hosts, Shane and Ben, were also knowledgeable resources and encouraging of said adventures!
We particularly enjoyed The Grove hike, which resembled the setting of Jurassic Park, visiting the Pupu Springs, home to the clearest water in the world, having drinks at the (in)famous Mussel Inn, wandering around town soaking up the free-spirited energy, and gazing up at the crystal clear glow of the Milky Way, before retreating to our 1960's era camp trailer! I think Takaka is one of my new, favorite places.
A fresh pasta primavera with veggies (kale, tomatoes, onions, zuchini, garlic) grown right here on the farm!
All in all it was a fun, rewarding and didactic experience that I am exceptionally grateful for. Shane and Ben were excellent hosts and we even got to meet their friend, Andy, who happened to be visiting. Next, we're off to the south of the South Island, where we'll continue our WWOOFing adventure on a vineyard. Stay tuned!
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Besides being full of proprietary pentalobe screws, the new MacBook Pro has a battery that's glued to the case, and its processor, RAM and SSD are soldered to the logic board.
Add to that the Touch Bar, which further complicates repairs, and you basically have no reason to ever open this MacBook Pro. The only thing you can hope to replace on your own is the trackpad, which appears to be the same as on the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro (also known as the Escape Edition, as it has a dedicated Escape key), and is removable without prying out the battery first.
Sorry, DIY folks, if this thing gets broken, you pretty much have to bring it back to Apple for repairs.
The teardown also revealed a few other interesting tidbits about the device. Although it has the same dimensions as the 13-inch Escape Edition, its design is quite different on the inside, with a visibly smaller battery, two fans instead of one and several non-removable flash memory chips instead of one, removable SSD.
The speakers are up there, but the speaker grills are down here. What gives, Apple?
Perhaps the weirdest design decision on the Touch Bar MacBook Pro are its speaker grills, which don't line up with the speakers at all.


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Q: How to add custom node module in expo/react-native apps? I am trying to create a custom plugin for android devices in react-native which can call user from app interface itself rather than using native android app and implementing the plugin in expo app by linking it in expo app.
But when I am importing the module in my JS code and using it the module is coming to be null.
This is my build.gradle file
buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        google()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.4.1'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'com.android.library'

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
    buildToolsVersion "28.0.1"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 28
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    lintOptions {
        abortOnError false
    }
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.facebook.react:react-native:+'
}

This is my package.json file
{
  "main": "node_modules/expo/AppEntry.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "expo start",
    "android": "expo start --android",
    "ios": "expo start --ios",
    "web": "expo start --web",
    "eject": "expo eject"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "expo": "^33.0.0",
    "react": "16.8.3",
    "react-dom": "^16.8.6",
    "react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-33.0.0.tar.gz",
    "react-native-react-native-call-app": "file:../react-native-call-app",
    "react-native-web": "^0.11.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-preset-expo": "^5.1.1"
  },
  "private": true
}

// Plugin code for call app module
https://github.com/NikhilOO7/react-native-call-app-module
// js code
import RNReactNativeCallApp from "react-native-react-native-call-app";
onPress = id => {
        console.log(id, RNReactNativeCallApp);
        RNReactNativeCallApp.callPerson(id);
    };

A: You can add custom native modules only after eject.
https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/expokit/eject/

A: If you don't want to let go of expo and still want a way to add custom native modules, here is an interesting way to do it.
You have to eject the expo kit but choose to use expo kit there, make some changes in your app.json file, and in babel.config.js add module-resolver plugin.
With just these changes, you can run expo and ejected-expo app together from the same codebase.
In the ejected version, you can add the native modules and in the unejected version, you can simply mock the native functionality.
Here is the complete blog which you can follow, it also provides a starter kit for you to start from. https://codersera.com/blog/running-expo-react-native-together/


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Design a logical and physical topographical layout of the planned network through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia.
This assignment consists of two (2) sections: an infrastructure document and a revised Gantt chart or project plan.
The section of the project plan will present the infrastructure in accordance with the parameters set forth at the outset of the project. The network solution that is chosen should support the conceived information system and allow for scalability. The network infrastructure will support organizational operations; therefore, a pictorial view of workstations, servers, routers, bridges, gateways, and access points should be used. In addition, access paths for Internet access should be depicted. A narrative should be included to explain all the nodes of the network and the rationale for the design. Lastly, using the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) Triangle, define the organizational security policy. CIA is a widely used benchmark for evaluation of information systems security.
Section 1: Infrastructure Document
1. Write a five to ten (5-10) page infrastructure document in which you:
a. Design a logical and physical topographical layout of the planned network through the use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
b. Illustrate the possible placement of servers including access paths to the Internet and firewalls. Note: Facility limitations, workstations, printers, routers, switches, bridges and access points should be considered in the illustration.
c. Explain the rationale for the logical and physical topographical layout of the planned network.
d. Create a comprehensive security policy for the company that will:
i. Protect the company infrastructure and assets by applying the principals of CIA. Note: CIA is a widely used benchmark for evaluation of information systems security, focusing on the three core goals of confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
ii. Address ethical aspects related to employee behavior, contractors, password usage, and access to networked resources and information.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the professor's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Include charts or diagrams created in MS Visio or Dia as an appendix of the infrastructure document. All references to these diagrams must be included in the body of the infrastructure document.
Section 2: Revised Gantt Chart / Project Plan
Use Microsoft Project or an open source alternative, such as Open Project, to:
Update the Gantt chart or project plan (summary and detail) template, from Project Deliverable 3: Database and Programming Design, with all the project tasks.
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