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It's the sheer lack of grace of the reboot itself that is most annoying... Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson star in Men In Black: International
By Matthew Bond for Event Magazine
Men In Black: International Cert: 12A, 1hr 54mins
If you're trying to reboot a once hugely popular but now long inactive film franchise, then employing one former Avenger is probably a pretty good idea, especially if he is the charismatic, growly voiced Chris Hemsworth.
But employing two – that surely smacks of a lack of lateral thinking and creative imagination.
Yet that, unfortunately, is exactly what the makers of Men In Black: International have done, as they try to relaunch a franchise that first saw the light of day 22 years ago and hasn't been seen since the rather good Men In Black 3 seven years ago.
Alongside Chris Hemsworth – the hammer-wielding Thor – they bring in Tessa Thompson, who plays Valkyrie in the Avengers films, and the result is distinctly lacklustre
Alongside Hemsworth – also the hammer-wielding Thor – they bring in Tessa Thompson, who plays Valkyrie in the Avengers films, and the result is distinctly lacklustre.
Hemsworth and Thompson may be many things but Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones – the stars of the first three MIB movies – they most definitely ain't.
That makes it sound like the film's shortcomings are all Thompson's fault, but that wouldn't be fair. She is on the insipid side, with director F Gary Gray, who made the brilliant Straight Outta Compton, clearly having problems negotiating the tricky modern balancing act that means, on the one side, a female action hero is no longer required to be overtly sexy but, on the other, when she's cast opposite a handsome hunk like Hemsworth, still apparently has to be sexy enough to put a twinkle in his eye.
There's certainly not a lot of twinkle in evidence here.
It's the sheer lack of grace and finesse of the reboot itself that is most annoying. It's almost as if Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones never existed
There are other problems too. Hemsworth gives exactly the same performance as he does as Thor: lots of banter, a little bit naughty, mildly self- deprecating, quite funny – so much so that in one moment of cross-franchise inbreeding he even picks up a hammer and hurls it at a blue-headed alien baddie.
'Nice catch,' he growls in distinctly Thor-like tones.
Then there's Liam Neeson. He will have made this before being engulfed in the racism storm provoked by a newspaper interview a few months ago, but he looks distinctly uncomfortable here, phoning in a poor performance as the head of MIB's London office.
Molly (Thompson) encounters an alien as a child but unlike her parents didn't have the memory wiped by an MIB neuralyser so she tracks down the most secretive agency in the world
But it's the sheer lack of grace and finesse of the reboot itself that is most annoying. These days we're used to teams of writers agonising over the squaring of circles and joining of dots as the franchise baton is carefully passed from one generation to another.
But here it's almost as if Smith and Jones never existed. Frank the Pug might get a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo, but of Agents J and K there is no mention.
As a result of turning its back on its black-suited heritage, the new film is surprisingly hard to emotionally engage with, as we watch Molly (Thompson), who encountered a real-life alien as a child but unlike her parents didn't have the memory wiped by an MIB neuralyser, not just track down the most secretive agency in the world but join them too.
The new Agent M (Thompson) is dispatched to London, where she teams up with a reluctant H (Hemsworth) – still basking in the success of a mission in Paris
'I'm smart… I look good in black…' she implores at her interview. A sceptical O (Emma Thompson, underused) is just about convinced but points out that having another female employee on the payroll doesn't mean the agency's sexist title is about to change any time soon.
Anyway, the new Agent M is dispatched to London, where she teams up with a reluctant H (Hemsworth) – still basking in the success of a mission in Paris – and they soon find themselves entangled in a labyrinthine plot that sees one alien species trying to keep a super-powerful weapon away from another… possibly with the help of an MIB mole.
Oh, the suspense.
The action and endless visual effects may jump from Paris to London to Morocco to Naples, and Rafe Spall may actually be rather good as the short-tempered, conspiracy-sniffing Agent C, but Rebecca Ferguson is wasted as an alien arms-dealer, while, in the diminutive and hugely annoying Pawny, the franchise may have unearthed its very own Jar Jar Binks.
Which, like so much else here – including a hugely clumsy last lap – is not a good thing. After you with the neuralyser…
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Diego Maradona (12A)
It seems churlish to criticise a documentary about arguably the 'greatest footballer ever' for the amount of football in it, but my goodness there's a lot here. It leaves Asif Kapadia's latest offering feeling a good 20 minutes too long for all but the most hardened fans.
Unlike the subjects of his previous docs – Amy Winehouse, Ayrton Senna – the troubled Argentinian is still alive, and perhaps this deprives this comprehensive film of some emotional impact.
There are few surprises too – Maradona's battle with cocaine addiction is well known, while his links with the Camorra crime syndicate are hardly shocking for a Naples player.
The notorious 'hand of God' goal scored against England in the 1986 World Cup is well addressed and fits with the film's central thesis. That there are two Maradonas: Diego the brilliant footballer who just wanted to play, and Maradona, the cheating narcissist obsessed with his media image.
I think we all know which one we prefer.
The Hummingbird Project (15)
This has to go down as one of the nicest surprises of early summer – clever, ambitious and beautifully acted by Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård, who surely gives one of the best performances of his career.
They play cousins: fast-talking Vincent and tech-specialist Anton – two Wall Street traders who hatch a plan to outsmart the market by laying a high-speed fibre-optic cable from Kansas to New York, down which vital financial information will flow in just 16 milliseconds – the beat of a hummingbird's wing.
Kim Nguyen writes and directs, and delivers a convincing cautionary tale of American greed. An over-the-top Salma Hayek (above with Alexander Skarsgård) is part of the fun
Kim Nguyen writes and directs, and delivers a convincing cautionary tale of American greed that gets better and better. An over-the-top Salma Hayek is part of the fun.
Sometimes Always Never (12A)
What with Bill Nighy essaying a Liverpudlian accent, Jenny Agutter wrapped in a towel and its endless games of Scrabble, this odd, gentle family drama penned by Frank Cottrell Boyce will never set box-office records but is well worth tracking down all the same.
Laced through with Seventies nostalgia, it's a touching tale of loss, second-bests and triple-scoring words, as the immaculately dress Alan (Nighy) searches for a missing son, a search that causes tension with the son who stayed (Sam Riley) but leads to a surprising meeting of minds and computer gaming with grandson Jack (Louis Healy).
What with Jenny Agutter (above with Tim McInnerny) wrapped in a towel and its endless games of Scrabble, this odd, gentle family drama is well worth tracking down
It is all the better for the dodgy back-projections and other surreal flourishes by director Carl Hunter.
Men In Black: International starring Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson lacks grace and finesse


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NANCY P. GRACE
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Nancy P. Grace, 80, of rural Shellsburg, Iowa, died on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, at the Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha, Iowa. She was born on July 14, 1940, in Shenandoah, Iowa, to Charles E. Belgarde and Virginia Stong Belgarde.
Nancy attended grades first to 12th in the Independence, Iowa, school system, graduating in 1958. She graduated from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, in 1962.
Nancy married Don E. Grace at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Urbana, Iowa, in 1972.
She worked as a technical illustrator for 40 years at various companies in Cedar Rapids, retiring in 2003.
Nancy was preceded in death by her grandparents, all her aunts and uncles, her parents, and one daughter, Joan Elizabeth Grace on Feb. 7, 1998.
Nancy is survived by her husband, Don of Shellsburg; her daughter, Katie Grace of Denver, Colo.; her brother, Chuck (Jeanie) Belgarde of Fairfield, Iowa; her sister, Liz (Randy Svobada) Belgarde of Cedar Rapids; her two sisters-in-law, Ginny Meade and Judy Cochoran, both of Oxford, Iowa; her brother-in-law, Ted (Rose) Grace of Tiffin, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family is encouraging memorial donations to the Cedar Rapids Salvation Army, the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Club in Waterloo, Iowa or any no kill animal shelter. There will be no public services. White Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. On line condolences may be left at www.white-mthope.com.

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Jewelry idea inspirations from nature and birds. Where Birds and Blossoms series came from.
Can you tell I'm a bird lover? So, I guess it is fitting that my name is Robin. While staying home this past year due to Covid-19, my husband, John, and I have become acquainted with our wildlife in the backyard. Two precious little wrens took up residence in our Italian Cypress trees, so we named them Emma and Alistair.
Alistair has the most beautiful red crown and chest, and he sings his little heart out with the sweetest, lovely melody.
Most days for lunch, John and I would sit and watch this little couple fly in and out of these six towering trees as if they had some really important agenda going on, Alistair always following close behind Emma.
What were they doing in there? I began to imagine a cozy little home, and intrigued by this secluded mystery, I even tried to look through the tightly snug branches to see if there was a magical secret tucked away inside. I feel like John and I were forced to slow the pace of our pre-Covid lives, and learn to calm down and enjoy the little things in life, much like the life of my childhood when there really didn't seem to be anything so terribly important to do that my mother and I couldn't find the time to just sit and swing under the branches of our tall East Texas pine trees. It was a time in my life when we didn't eat out, we didn't go to the movies, we just enjoyed the comfort of home. John and I both had to relearn that skill of relaxing and focusing on family.
These wrens represent true love, I believe, because they never seem to be out of each other's sight. And it makes me question our belief as humans that other species cannot possibly show and experience love as much as humans do.
Second Acts
Why I started making jewelry
In November of 2019, my best friend since first grade, Laura, and I went to Washington D.C. for a girls' trip. Both of us at the time felt a little tired of the routine we had fallen into with our careers of almost thirty years. Laura is a successful audiologist and I am a former high school English teacher. Although we were proud of our accomplishments in these careers, we longed for something new, so she began to pursue a new career in court reporting, and I still didn't know what I wanted to do...
We spent the days in DC together talking about this possibility of re-inventing ourselves in our fifties to enjoy a completely new beginning in a new and thrilling career. This idea that we called our "Second Act" was the shot in the arm of hope for our future, a new beginning, but what did I want to do?
It wasn't until COVID happened that I realized maybe it was indeed time for me to leave the teaching profession since it now required teachers to be very adept at technology, but I still had no idea what I wanted my second act to be...
Where I learned to create jewelry
August 2020 arrived, and it was time for Texas teachers and students to return to school, so feeling a little bummed because I had retired and left that part of my life behind, I decided to revisit a love for jewelry making that I had started 7 years ago and abandoned to focus on teaching. I took a class with a wonderful old man named Renato. I lovingly now refer to him as "The Master" because I feel like I learned so much from him in the two weeks that I spent in his jewelry class.
When I began the class, I really was just taking it to relieve my depression over leaving teaching, but as I started to work on beginning skills and talk to this outstanding young man named Matthew who was the only other student in the class, my enthusiasm began to grow. Matthew had so much energy and dreams/goals for his future as a jewelry designer, that I had a small epiphany. Why can't I become a jewelry designer as well? I had just signed up for the class thinking it was a hobby, but Matthew kept talking about having his own brand someday, and Renato kept mentioning how most of his former students went on to become successful jewelry designers and metal smiths, so sitting there listening to this, my inner voice nervously said, "You need to up your game!"
Now I'm inspired and ready to try!
That is when I went home and dug out of a dust covered drawer in the garage my seven year old jeweler's torch that had not ever been used and said to my husband, John, "I need your help with this torch because I'm afraid to use it." I was really intimidated at that time to use a torch without help!
Thus began a new adventure for John and myself! He really became interested as well, and I taught him all of the skills that I was learning from Renato. We work so well together because my creative talents and design ideas combined with his engineering and mathematical skills work together to create the perfect combination. I like to think that we are the Andrew and Louise (from "At the Bench") of Texas, only on a much smaller scale!
As a team, John and I have come so far at this point, and I really look forward to a successful second act as a jewelry designer and metal smith. Maybe my husband has inadvertently found his second act as well!
A Tribute to Lucy Burly Ellis and Agnes Naomi Cole
The name of my business is a tribute to not only Lucy Burly Ellis and Agnes (Addie) Naomi Cole (pictured above), my great-grandmothers on my dad's side, but to all the women in our history who gave their lives due to childbirth so that we can all be here today.
After doing some research on Ancestry.com, I realized that many of our family stories have been lost to time, now nothing more than heresay. I had often heard bits and pieces of my Granny and Grandaddy Hill's story on my dad's side. Both of my grandparents had lost their mothers at age 8 due to childbirth, and I was always told how hard it hit Granddaddy Hill when he was a little boy. It wasn't until I did a bit of research that I realized the gravity of this. Both women died young, in their thirties, and before their own deaths, both women suffered the loss of at least one child due to the illnesses of the time period and the resilience that it took to survive. Because of this, neither of my grandparents really had the chance to know their mothers very well. My dad never met his grandmothers. So, I feel like we now take for granted what it took for our ancestors, especially the wives and mothers, to pave the way for us to thrive now. Thank you to all of the women who came before us and the sacrifices that they made for the success and longevity of our future generations.
So thanks Addie for giving me my chin, mouth, nose, and especially my dimple.
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KHORS' third album "Mysticism", which was originally released in 2008, already achieved a cult status in metal underground. This is proved by a number of already sold out re-issues of this album, including the last one in LP format by Osmose Productions. Now this great album is re-released by Svarga Music in noble 6-panel digipak with 3 bonus tracks and completely new artwork.
Also available T-Shirt and LP version of this release by Osmose Productions.
I've enjoyed an album that sounds melancholic, dark and reflexive without being uselessly gothic and boring as many other releases around. Nice surprise.
It's the type of release that ultimately props up black metal and keeps the subgenre fresh and varied.
Full of creativity, versatile songwriting, and the thundering punch of metal makes this record bound to gather some attention.
Album of the month! Deliver an album universally powerful and beautiful, nature-inspired and nature-glorifying.
"Mysticism" should cater to a fairly wide variety of listeners, as they cover a quite big spectrum, I could see fans of BORKNAGAR or MOONSORROW like this as well as those who enjoy Post Rock/Metal influences.
KHORS are something of a supergroup, featuring past and present members of Astrofaes and Hate Forest among others ... "Mysticism" then, offers plenty of meat to the veteran while also acting as a sound starting point for virgin of the ex-Soviet Bloc's grim delights.
Mysticism takes you on a frightening journey through the depressive state of man and nature share when in less than perfect sync with one another.
Pleasant, and addictive, opus of brilliant atmospheric Black Metal.
Khors is one talented unit that brings you through many layers and levels of emotions.


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The old town has an amazing array of restaurants, bars, and boutique shops, which are all set in the historic buildings with their vibrant colors and plants, there is something to see at every turn.
Down on the seafront in Marbella the white marble pathway which takes you round two kilometers of the coastline allows you to explore and enjoying the views and the fresh Mediterranean sea air. There are plenty of great restaurants, and bars to stop and have a coffee whilst looking out to sea, and watching the world go by.
You can also access the two main ports, here in Marbella, one in the middle of the town dedicated to fishing and sporting activities (Puerto Deportivo) and another, the world-famous one Puerto Banús, named after José Banús which is home to the famous Sinatra bar, Designer shops and spectacular superyachts, As well as some of the most luxurious cars in the world from Ferrari to Lamborghini, the port is a must see !.
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Andy Murray 'cautiously optimistic', brother Jamie tells The 2 Barrys Tennis Takeaway Podcast
"At least he's got rid of that [pain] now and hopefully he can get back on court, but to what level? We don't know yet"
By Raz Mirza
Jamie Murray joins Barry Cowan and Barry Millns on the latest edition of their podcast
Jamie Murray joins The 2 Barrys Tennis Takeaway Podcast where he discusses his brother Andy's rehabilitation from hip resurfacing surgery.
The three-time Grand Slam champion had a hip resurfacing operation in January as he attempts to overcome a problem that first started to trouble him in the summer of 2017.
He shared a short clip on his Instagram story of him hitting forehands and backhands against a wall, with the caption 'It's a start'.
Andy Murray has shared a video of himself training as he continues his recovery from a hip operation
Murray won't rule out Wimbledon return
His brother Jamie joined hosts Barry Cowan and Barry Millns on the latest episode of their ever-popular podcast where he revealed Andy travelled to the Miami Open to speak with Bob Bryan, who also underwent the same surgery, and has returned to competitive doubles action in winning style alongside his brother, Mike, after they claimed the title at Hard Rock Stadium last month.
"It's been very difficult for him since he stopped playing at Wimbledon in 2017, I think," said Jamie. "He's done absolutely anything and everything he can to get his body right to compete. In Australia he was like 'I just can't keep going like this' because there was just too much pain everyday and he said 'I need to go and get the surgery done but after that I don't know what will happen'. There was no sort of history of players doing that.
"The thing is nobody [playing singles] has had the surgery and on top of that nobody had had the surgery and then tried to go back and play tennis again. He didn't really have anything to go on to know what was possible form the surgery but he doing his rehab and he getting more active as the video showed.
"He saw Bob Bryan in Miami last week having had the same surgery and he's 41-year-old now, so I'm sure that gives him enough confidence to know he can get back out on court and play. Obviously, doubles is a lot different. You're getting out and running side-to-side on a singles court and movement plays a huge part in his game."
I guess when you've played at the top for so long and you've only every been about winning Grand Slams and Masters Series, I guess that's the level that you want to come back to.
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Murray says he is unlikely to be ready for singles action at Wimbledon as he continues his recovery from hip surgery
Jamie revealed the most important thing was for his brother to stop feeling the day-to-day pain in his hip, but now that he has started the slow process of hitting balls again, will we ever get to see him competing at the highest level again?
"I think he's probably cautiously optimistic now," he admitted. "He obviously didn't know what was going to be possible so first and foremost I think he's just happy not to have the pain everyday because that was so debilitating, so depressing each day to wake up and go through that pain all the time. At least he's got rid of that now and hopefully he can get back on court, but to what level? We don't know yet."
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Could we see Andy and Jamie Murray in doubles action at Grand Slams?
Barry Mills posed the question what would Andy settle for if he ever made a return to the game having already achieved so much in a trophy-laden career.
"I guess when you've played at the top for so long and you've only every been about winning Grand Slams and Masters Series, I guess that's the level that you want to come back to," Jamie, 33, said.
"If you told him that you can come back and you can play to 40 in the world, I don't think that's inspiring for him when you're used to playing semi-finals, finals, and all these big matches, but again, I don't know how much he misses it. I don't know how much he misses the competition and being back on court competing. I would imagine for him, having had so many incredible moments on a tennis court, if you don't feel like you can achieve them again then it would be difficult to stay quite motivated."
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Jamie also said it would be "cool" if Andy were to play more doubles if singles proves too difficult after surgery and he admitted they have discussed playing at Wimbledon together in the future. "We will have to see," he added.
The 2 Barrys Tennis Takeaway Podcast will be made widely available on different platforms and supported by a new website The2barrys.com where visitors can catch up with any feature interviews they might have missed or want to hear again. You can also follow them on Twitter @the2barrys
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Joe Jamros began competing with Special Olympics in 2005. While he is on the basketball team and enjoyed playing with his team in Seattle, his favorite sport is soccer. Joe also plays bocce, volleyball, and bowling. Special Olympics has helped Joe become more social and given him the chance to have new experiences. He is currently a student at the Assabet Valley Collaborative Evolution Program and works part time and volunteers at the libraries in Shrewsbury (his hometown), Worcester and Grafton, Massachusetts. He is a huge New England sports fan and has season tickets to the New England Revolution Soccer team. In 2016 and 2017 he had the honor of being a member of the New England Revolution Unified Team. No matter the sport, Joe gives 110% and feels comfortable with Special Olympics because no one is being judgmental and everyone wants you to improve and succeed.
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Hurll Nu-Way was involved in a soil remediation project for the clean-up of the former fire training area at RAAF Base, which was one of the most complex remediation projects in Victoria. Direct fired thermal desorption technology was implemented for the remediation process.
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Attorneys in the Tampa Bay region, like their colleagues across the country, are scrambling to go high-tech in the age of coronavirus. | Business Observer
From piles of yellow legal pads and towering bookcases lined with impressive, leather-bound tomes to high standards of dress and conduct required in the courtroom, law, historically, has been one of the more low-tech, old-school professions. Heck, one of the seminal films about training to be part of the legal industry is called "The Paper Chase."
So how are law firms adapting to the COVID-19 era, when legal proceedings have been moved onto virtual platforms like Zoom, and with most trials delayed indefinitely, there's no need to impress a judge and jury with a finely tailored suit? And how are they meeting the moment for their business clients, many of whom are struggling amid the economic downturn?
"There's some real upsides and real downsides to the technology piece of this equation," says Eric Adams, a partner at Shutts & Bowen LLP in Tampa who specializes in construction and real estate litigation. "It used to be, when you had a case in Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, Pensacola or any of the various compass points throughout our state, it would require travel and often phone attendance was the exception, as opposed to the rule, and video attendance was almost unheard of."
The coronavirus pandemic has changed all of that, says Adams, 50, who's been with Shutts & Bowen for 14 years.
"Physical travel for most hearings is not even an option," he says. "I've found it much easier to schedule hearings because you don't have to account for the expense nor the time associated with physical travel."
'The workplace itself is becoming largely a virtual universe, even in industries that traditionally didn't operate in that realm. And we have to be ready as a law firm, frankly, to walk in the shoes of our clients.' Steve Bernstein, Fisher & Phillips LLP partner
The downside — and it's a doozy — is that jury selection and trials are simply not possible to conduct virtually, meaning Florida's already backed-up judicial system is even more behind schedule and will be for the foreseeable future. Adams, looking back to the outset of the pandemic, says he had a three-week jury trial scheduled to start on March 16 — five days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
"The case got rescheduled for September," he says. "We had a pretrial conference not too long ago, and the judge informed us that it was going to get kicked over to the 2021 docket."
In an effort to alleviate the logjam, however, the Florida Supreme Court has created a virtual jury trial pilot program. It's being rolled out in five courts throughout the state: Jacksonville's Fourth Judicial Circuit Court, Daytona Beach's Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, Orlando's Ninth Judicial Circuit Court, Miami-Dade County's 11th Judicial Circuit Court and Fort Myers' 20th Judicial Circuit Court.
The 11th Judicial Circuit Court, Adams says, broke new ground when it conducted jury selection virtually, via Zoom, so it didn't have to gather dozens, potentially hundreds, of potential jurors inside the courthouse. Once the jury was empaneled, an in-person trial was conducted. The trial was about a relatively simple civil matter concerning insurance benefits, Adams says, but the die might be cast: He expects virtual jury selection to be more commonplace.
"The big problem with jury trials isn't so much trying a case while socially distancing," Adams says. "It's getting a panel of potential jurors from which the jury can be selected."
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Another prominent Tampa attorney, Steve Bernstein of Fisher & Phillips LLP, says an unintended positive effect of the pandemic is the way workplace law and governance has become more efficient. The 55-year-old Bernstein's primary area of practice is employment law, and one of his biggest clients, if not the biggest, is the National Labor Relations Board, a federal government agency that enforces U.S. labor laws that pertain to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.
"Until six months ago," Bernstein says, "we had 75 years of precedent that encouraged union elections by what they call manual balloting, i.e., employees show up in person to cast their ballot. That has all gone by the wayside and been replaced by mail balloting, which was always available, but generally only under limited circumstances. And lately there's been an increased push on the labor side to move the voting process into the virtual universe."
COVID-19, Bernstein said, has done nothing but accelerate the pace of change, and that means law firms, which are also business enterprises in their own right, have to keep up.
"The workplace itself is becoming largely a virtual universe, even in industries that traditionally didn't operate in that realm," he says. "And we have to be ready as a law firm, frankly, to walk in the shoes of our clients. And I think increasingly we're doing that every day."
Bernstein's wife and colleague, Fisher & Phillips attorney Christine Howard, 54, says another pandemic positive has been the opportunity for law firms to demonstrate the value of their services to clients, particularly those in the business world who have been struggling with myriad issues related to the shift to remote work and workplace health and safety.
"In March, we basically turned our website into a COVID-19 resource center," Howard says. "That allowed our clients to access various forms and templates for free."
Courtesy. Christine Howard of Fisher & Phillips LLP.
As a firm with a national presence, Fisher & Phillips also created an employment litigation tracker that detailed what states had the most workplace legal disputes and where filings were on the rise, as well as the most common types of disputes. The tracker also provided links to the attorneys who chair the firm's litigation of employment disputes practice, wage and hour litigation practice and workplace safety and OSHA litigation practice.
"The primary area where I have seen clients needing our guidance and counsel is in the area of how to handle remote work issues," says Howard, who like Bernstein, also specializes in labor and employment litigation defense and employment law compliance. "At first, the questions were all about, you know, 'What do we do if we get a positive COVID test?' or 'What if there's a suspicion that somebody has COVID'? But that quickly turned into, as companies started to reopen, 'What do we do with employees who refuse to come back to work, and what type of obligations do we have under the Americans with Disabilities Act to allow them to continue to work from home?'"
Courtesy. Steve Bernstein of Fisher Phillips LLP.
Questions and complaints around what constitutes an "essential" business or service have also become commonplace as states and municipalities, with little guidance from the federal government, come up with reopening plans on their own. Bernstein says jurisdictional vagaries can affect everything from the availability of unemployment benefits to whether a company has to conduct temperature checks for employees who want to return to the office. The uncertainty has resulted in a barrage of business for firms like Fisher & Phillips and Shutts & Bowen.
"Coaching clients through those aspects is increasingly becoming an important part of our practice," Bernstein says. "It makes you realize just how challenging the world of an HR practitioner has become. It was always a difficult job, no question, but you superimpose COVID-19 upon it, and what you end up with is a job description that is now six pages long. And that's our main point of interface with most of our clients: in-house counsel and HR practitioners. So, clearly their world has changed and that means our world has changed. We're paid to help them navigate through the challenges."
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Is the Handwriting on the Wall...for Cursive Writing?
Intro Copy
Modern technology has changed the way we view the importance of handwriting. While we used to communicate with handwritten notes and letters, emails and text messages are quicker and easier ways to keep in touch. If we want to make a grocery list, or jot down a reminder, there is no need to search for paper and pen—our smartphones are always nearby. We don't even need to learn to sign our names—and indeed many young people today can't sign their names in cursive handwriting. Our bills can be paid online (no need to write a check) and most documents can now be signed electronically. It was recently announced that the major credit card companies will no longer require customers to sign their names when making a purchase with a credit card. However, despite the trend away from handwriting, researchers and education professionals are cautioning that handwriting is an important skill that is still essential in this age of computers and keyboarding. Here are some highlights from A Brief History of Handwriting that show how the importance of handwriting has evolved over time.
600s: Quill pens and parchment paper take hold in Europe. Drippy ink discourages pen lifting, hence cursive.
1440s: Johannes Gutenberg's printing press forces scribes to pivot to teaching penmanship.
1776: John Hancock's "John Hancock" appears prominently on the Declaration of Independence.
1848: Educator Platt Rogers Spencer urges pupils to contemplate nature's curves while learning his ornate script, soon to be the hand of choice for merchants (including Ford and Coca-Cola) and schools in most states.
1880: Alonzo Cross' patented "stylographic pen" holds its own ink.
1894: With handwriting under threat by typewriters, Austin Palmer introduces a smaller, faster writing style, taught via militaristic "drills." His 1912 textbook on the Palmer Method sells more than 1 million copies. (Spencerian script is history.)
1913: Congress greenlights the use of handwriting as forensic evidence in court.
1958: The Bic ballpoint hits US stores, turning pens--once luxury goods--into a cheap commodity.
1961: The signature of US Treasurer Elizabeth Rudel Smith on paper currency invites public scorn: Her "t"s are "crossed belatedly, like a feminine afterthought," snarks a Chicago Tribune writer. The New York Times seizes on the occasion to bemoan the "lost art of handwriting."
1984: The National Council of Teachers of English condemns the practice of making naughty kids write lines, because it "causes students to dislike an activity necessary to their intellectual development and career success."
2010: Common Core standards, soon to be adopted by most states, emphasize early typing skills but make no mention of cursive. Parents and educators flip out. "They're not teaching cursive writing," conservative TV host Glenn Beck thunders, "because the easiest way to make somebody a slave is dumb them down."
2012: Scientists find that the brains of preliterate kids respond like a reader's brain when they write their ABCs, but not when they type or trace the letters; another research team reports that college students who transcribed lectures on their laptops recalled more information than those who took notes by hand.
What will come next in the history of handwriting? Direct your students to SIRS Issues Researcher's Cursive Writing Leading Issue, where they can learn more about the value of handwriting in today's society and weigh in on the debate over whether cursive writing should be part of the school curriculum.


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Enhancement of biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from Taihu blue algae by adding by-product acetic acid
Han Wang, Chaoyun Wang, Fang Guo, Jie Yu, Yi Zhang, Marie Harder, Ioanna Ntaikou, Georgia Antonopoulou, Gerasimos Lyberatos, Qun Yan
As an easily obtained organic waste, by-product acetic acid could be an appropriate co-substrate with blue algae wastes (increase C/N ratio of substrates) for co-fermentation of PHA production. However, there are still acrylic acid and other chemicals in by-product acetic acid, which could cause severe inhibition for fermenting microorganisms during PHA production process. The current study represented that alkali pretreatment (pH level of 12) is a more favorable method compared with thermal pretreatment (80 ℃ for 30min) for breaking cell walls of blue algae. It seemed that there was no synergistic effect of the combination of thermal and alkali pretreatment methods (temperature of 80 ℃ and pH level of 12). Optimal parameters during electro-fenton process for removal of inhibitors in by-product acetic acid were under current of 0.5A, pH level of 3 and reaction time of 120min. Both the highest dry weight of PHA and PHA concentration were achieved by applying blue algae and by-product acetic acid (after pretreatment) as co-substrates (mixed ratio of 3:1, stirring speed of 200r/min, 24h), indicating that using by-product acetic acid (after pretreatment) as co-substrate could increase C/N ratio and promote PHA production successfully. The current study could offer new insights for improving PHA production by co-fermentation. Data Availability Statement All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this article.
Journal of Biotechnology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2023.01.002
Blue algae
By-product acetic acid
Co-fermentation
Electro-fenton
PHA production
10.1016/j.jbiotec.2023.01.002
Wang, H., Wang, C., Guo, F., Yu, J., Zhang, Y., Harder, M., Ntaikou, I., Antonopoulou, G., Lyberatos, G., & Yan, Q. (2023). Enhancement of biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from Taihu blue algae by adding by-product acetic acid. Journal of Biotechnology, 363, 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2023.01.002
Wang, Han ; Wang, Chaoyun ; Guo, Fang et al. / Enhancement of biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from Taihu blue algae by adding by-product acetic acid. In: Journal of Biotechnology. 2023 ; Vol. 363. pp. 32-39.
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Q: Flutter responsiveness problem on various mobile devices I am a beginner to Flutter and I tried creating a dummy login page. When I tried to run the app it was flawless on Pixel 3 XL but it was not good in Pixel 2 XL. How would I manage the responsiveness? I came across the MediaQuery widget, but how could I create a completely responsive app for each device? There are many variations among today's mobile devices (like notched display, fullscreen, etc) and thereafter comes the tablets. How could I manage this? Should I write code for each and every resolution?
Here is my design on Pixel 3 XL and Pixel 2 XL

A: You can use SingleChildScrollView as parent,
SingleChildScrollView(
      child: Container(
        width: MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
        height: MediaQuery.of(context).size.height,
        child: Stack(
        ),
      ),
    );

Edit: Also remove fit: StackFit.expand, from Stack widget.

A: The reason behind this problem is the sizedbox widget with height 100px.
removing that and using mainaxisalignment as spaceevenly gives the required output.
Here is the modified code:
 @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      resizeToAvoidBottomPadding: false,
      body: Stack(
        fit: StackFit.expand,
        children: <Widget>[
          bgimage,
         Column(
           mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.spaceEvenly,
              children: <Widget>[
                logoimage,
                userName(),
                password(),
                forgotPassword(),
                loginButton(),
                googleSignIn(),
                signUp()
              ],
            ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }

This solves the problem.

A: Best easiest way to make responsive UI for different screen size is Sizer plugin.

Responsive UI in any screen size device also tablet.
Check it this plugin ⬇
https://pub.dev/packages/sizer
.h  - for widget height
.w  - for widget width
.sp - for font size

Use .h, .w, .sp after value like this ⬇
Example:
Container(
  height: 10.0.h,  //10% of screen height
  width: 80.0.w,   //80% of screen width
  child: Text('Sizer', style: TextStyle(fontSize: 12.0.sp)),
);

I have build many responsive UI with this plugin.

A: Use this package flutter_next using this you design responsive UI even for desktop web and everything and they have an demo also so you can check there

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Thank you for this report! I'm glad this is being addressed.
Just was jogging by today and thought … It would be a local disaster if that wall ever fell down.
I agree Dan, was crossing my fingers watching the waves pound at it last night.


Novelist and "Life of Pi" author Yann Martel has lived a life of travel and multilingual adventure. Nothing opens the mind like travel, he says, and nothing defines the self, or how we relate to one another, quite like language. Martel adroitly compares the linguistic practices of different nations, noting how the French are often hungry to adopt English words, but French Canadians resist such intrusion. And he dispels linguistic myths, such as the Inuit having more words for "snow" than other languages. Trilingual himself, Martel gives an insider's account of this fascinating topic. Martel's latest book is 'The High Mountains of Portugal' (http://goo.gl/0PXIxP). Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/yann-martel-breaking-down-language Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript - I think my travels and speaking sort of more than one language — French is my mother tongue and I speak Spanish quite well — it does shape you of course. I think mainly traveling especially opened up my mind. My parents — I had the luck of having parents who were peripatetic, first of all as students and then as diplomats. They worked for the equivalent of the secretary of state. They were diplomats working for Canada's Foreign Affairs Department. So we lived in Costa Rica when I was a child. I also lived in Paris, in Mexico as a young man. And then I got that bug and on my own I continued traveling. So traveling to me is like reading in a sense. You are in a foreign element encountering foreign characters and they mold you. Because when you travel you necessarily open yourself up. I mean I just arrived in New York this morning out of what's it called — Union Station? Or is it Penn Station? Whatever it's called here. I come out and suddenly I'm in the heart of New York and you can't ignore that. You cannot ignore what's happening to you when you travel. And so it opens you up. It was a lot colder this morning in New York than it was in Washington, so even just the weather. But then all the people. The way they walk, the way they talk. There's a buzz of activity of New York as opposed to sort of the quieter pace of Tempe, where I was earlier. That opens you up. And then when you encounter different people, you realize to what extent there are different ways of being on this Earth. Obvious ways of speaking, but ways of thinking, ways of dressing, ways of eating, ways of relating to each other. And then in a sense what that does is it gives you options. Each one of us can be slightly different than what we are, you know. Life is a matter of taking what you're given and then going with it somewhere. You can evolve. You can change. You can learn. You can relearn. And I think traveling teaches you that. And as for languages, language is an interesting one because I find languages can both be an open door and a closed door. So yes, growing up speaking more than one language, learning more than one language and speaking more than one language, it shows you comparative ways in which things can be explained. So there's all these differences between English and French. One thing, for example, that was lost in English that we still have in French is different levels of familiarity when you're talking to people. So in French, when you know someone well, you will say, "Tu." Comment vas-tu? How are you? But the "tu" is a familiar form of you. It implies that you know the person well. Either the person is younger or is an intimate.
Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-speaking-multiple-languages-benefits-the-brain-mia-nacamulli It's obvious that knowing more than one language can make certain things easier — like traveling or watching movies without subtitles. But are there other advantages to having a bilingual (or multilingual) brain? Mia Nacamulli details the three types of bilingual brains and shows how knowing more than one language keeps your brain healthy, complex and actively engaged. Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by TED-Ed.
Learn how to say/pronounce trilingual in American English. Subscribe for more videos!
At Pennsylvania's Upper Darby High School in suburban Philadelphia, more than 15 languages are spoken in a student body of nearly 4,000. To help support such a diverse array of English-language learners, the school created a peer tutoring program. Nearly 5 million children in U.S. public schools are learning the English language. With the number of ELLs projected to keep growing, educators face an urgent imperative to vastly improve achievement for English-learners. How will they do that? Learn more in our special report, "Teaching America's English-Language Learners," available here: https://www.edweek.org/go/ELL-report ____________________ Want more stories about schools across the nation, including the latest news and unique perspectives on education issues? Visit www.edweek.org. About Education Week: Education Week is America's most trusted source of independent K-12 education news, analysis, and opinion. Our work serves to raise the level of understanding and discourse about education among school and district leaders, policymakers, researchers, teachers, and the public. Published by the nonprofit organization Editorial Projects in Education, Education Week has been providing award-winning coverage of the field for over 35 years. Follow Education Week: - Subscribe to our Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=educationweek - On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/edweek/ - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/educationweek/ - On LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/education-week To license video footage from Editorial Projects in Education please contact the Education Week Library at library@epe.org.
In France Speaking French + A little Suprise!
A Conversation with a multilingual mouse!
When 2 secretary get bored. They act like a busy auditor's. Stewwwpid!
"Silent Night" (Franz Gruber, Composer) in French, English and German - original acoustic arrangement, as promised.


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Roses' future secured after new sponsorship deal
England Netball is to receive new investment to continue funding the elite programme, it was announced by Chief Executive Joanna Adams,
The fate of the Commonwealth champions' England programme had been in doubt after it was announced in January that a funding shortfall placed the Roses' future in jeopardy.
However, following their gold medal success at this year's Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, a new three-year sponsorship deal with existing partner Vitality ensures the Roses will now be funded beyond the 2019 World Cup in Liverpool.
Crediting their success in Australia as an important factor in being able to secure the new funding ahead of next year's home World Cup, Adams told BBC Sport: "When you have that one moment it's an international moment.
"It puts you in a completely different place and we would not have seen new investors without that, but we have now built a good commercial proposition.
"We are doing what male sports have done but we are just a few years behind."
The England Roses will now officially change their name to the Vitality Roses as part of the agreement, following the likes Australia who re-branded to the Samsung Diamonds.
The Roses will next compete in this weekend's Fast5 World Netball Series in Melbourne, before returning home to play a three match series versus Uganda next month.
Roses romp World Cup group with three wins out of three
Vitality Netball World Cup - What you need to know
Eight Commonwealth champions selected for Netball World Cup squad


the ordering process and delivery was all exactly as described and simple. The whiteboard was of very high quality, much better than we expected for the price, which was the best value we found on the web. I would definitely recommend the company and its products.


Photos from Critical Mass Ride of 9/29/00.
In a protest where the visuals speak for us all, on Sunday, October 1, 2000, the revolutionary democratic voices of Paine and Revere are echoed in Boston. In protest of the closed, non-debates, activists throw their TVs into Boston Harbor!
This is an excerpt from the speach by the Reverend Jeffrey at the Seattle Nader rally 9/23. Very righteous.
The Debates commision refuses to give Ralph Nader or Pat Buchanon a spot in the debates, and now they aren't even accepting complaints... unofficially.
A contingent of 20 anti-CPD demonstrators arrived near the proposed rally site early this morning, they were greeted by a stern Boston P.D. presence.
This recording copmprises just the three initial 12min statements, more from the discussion will be uploaded later.


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Scientific synthesis (3)
Atlas hydroclimatique du Québec méridional (in French only) (Opens in a new Window)
The Hydroclimatic Atlas presents a synthesis of the state of knowledge describing the current water regime and the expected impact of climate change on the water regime of southern Quebec. This document is intended primarily for professionals in the field of water resources and aims to support the planning and implementation of climate change adaptation. The information presented is based on hydrological projections produced according to modeling practices widely recognized by the scientific community. A new update will be available by the end of August 2018.
Government of Quebec
Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight against Climate Change
Data product Additional resources
Climate Data (Opens in a new Window)
Climate Data brings together a significant amount of climate data and tools that have been developed for Newfoundland and Labrador. This includes historical climate data, road weather information system data, Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves, temperature and precipitation projections, and flood alert system updates. Additional tools include flood risk mapping and coastal erosion monitoring. Future data are available as gridded data.
Department of Municipal Affairs and Environment, Climate Change Branch
LC MAP - Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis Portal (Opens in a new Window)
The Landscape Conservation Management and Analysis (LC MAP) Data Catalog tool includes resources for Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCC). LC MAP was originally developed by the U.S. Geological Survey in coordination with the Great Northern LCC and is broadly available for ScienceBase users to share, access, and analyze common datasets. LC MAP allows users to discover, assess, edit, analyze, and model common data themes and provides powerful geospatial analysis capabilities of ArcGIS 10 and its broad array of extensions.
Quarterly Climate Outlooks (Opens in a new Window)
Quarterly Climate Outlooks provide historical and future gridded precipitation and temperature data for various areas and locations in Alaska and Northwestern Canada. Reports are available quarterly between March of 2017 and 2018.
National Integrated Drought Information System
Renforcement des capacités et sensibilisation face aux changements climatiques pour la gestion publiques locales et la planification territoriales au Nunavik (in French only) (Opens in a new Window)
The Adaptation Capacity Building for Local Public Management and Land Use Planning in Nunavik publication provides information on impacts from permafrost thawing, knowledge and tools to improve land-use management and local adaptation capacity building in Nunavik.
Updated Sea Level Rise and Flooding Estimates for New Brunswick Coastal Sections (Opens in a new Window)
This document provides projections of sea-level rise for coastal locations in New Brunswick for use in adaptation planning.


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Impressions – 2022
About EBC
Programme – 2021
Emma Marcegaglia
Vice President and CEO Marcegaglia Steel S.p.A., Mantua
B20 Italy Chair
Emma Marcegaglia is Chairwoman and CEO of Marcegaglia Holding S.p.A. and Deputy Chairwoman and CEO of Marcegaglia Steel S.p.A and its subsidiaries companies operating in the processing of steel. She also holds the position as Chairwoman and CEO of Marcegaglia Investments Srl, the holding company of diversified activities of the group.
In the past, she has served as President of Confindustria, President of BUSINESSEUROPE, Chairwoman of ENI SpA and President of Luiss Guido Carli University.
Emma Marcegaglia holds a Degree in Business Administration, with first class honours, at the Bocconi University in Milan. She has later attended the postgraduate Master in Business Administration at the New York University.
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Dobrzejewice  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Obrowo, within Toruń County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately  east of Toruń.

References

Dobrzejewice
Pomeranian Voivodeship (1919–1939)

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class EncryptedArray;
class FHEPubKey;

class MPEncArray;
class MPPubKey;
class MPEncMatrix;
class MPEncVector;
namespace MDL
{
class EncVector;
class EncMatrix;
namespace PCA {
const long ITERATION = 3;
};

std::pair<EncVector, EncVector> runPCA(const EncMatrix &mat,
                                       const EncryptedArray &ea,
                                       const FHEPubKey &pk,
                                       const long dimension);

std::pair<MPEncVector, MPEncVector> runPCA(const MPEncMatrix &mat,
                                           const MPEncArray &ea,
                                           const MPPubKey &pk);
} // namespace MDL
#endif // PROTOCOL_PCA_HPP

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Q: Simplify the given boolean expression into the "Canonical Conjunctive Normal Form".
Simplify the boolean expression, into the "Canonical Conjunctive Normal Form":
$$x_0\overline{x_0} + x_1\overline{x_1} + \overline{x_2}+x_3$$

Here's my attempt:
$$\begin{align}
x_0\overline{x_0} + x_1\overline{x_1} + \overline{x_2}+x_3 &\equiv (x_0\overline{x_0} + x_1) \cdot (x_0\overline{x_0} + \overline{x_1}) + \overline{x_2} + x_3\\ &\equiv (x_0 + x_1) \cdot (\overline{x_0} + x_1) \cdot (x_0 + \overline{x_1}) \cdot (\overline{x_0}+ \overline{x_1})+\overline{x_2}+x_3 \\ &\equiv (\overline{x_2} + x_3+(x_0 +x_1) \cdot (\overline{x_0} + x_1)) \cdot (\overline{x_2} + x_3+(x_0 +x_1) \cdot (\overline{x_0} + \overline{x_1})) \\ &\equiv (\overline{x_2}+x_3+x_0+x_1) \cdot (\overline{x_2}+x_3+\overline{x_0}+x_1)\cdot (\overline{x_2}+x_3+x_0+x_1) \cdot (\overline{x_2}+x_3+ \overline{x_0} + \overline{x_1})
\end{align}$$
I know I can simplify the first and third terms, but let's assume that this is my final answer. Is my working out correct? I'm a little unsure because I've never really worked with terms with multiple conjugations and disjunctions at one time.

A: Note that $x_0\overline{x_0}$ is equal to either $1\cdot 0$ or $0\cdot 1$, both of which equal $0$.  Similarly, $x_1\overline{x_1}=0$.
So what remains is $\overline{x_2} + x_3$, which is indeed in conjunctive normal form (aka, a product of sums).  Here, we have just one factor in that product.


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Q: Data format for customer churn that has transactional data I have been looking at machine learning for customer churn and there are lots of examples of customer churn that are really helpful. My question is when I am training my model and I have all my customers and attributes how do I take into consideration normal transactional information.
Every example I have seen there is only one row for each customer with several columns of attributes. What do I do if I want to take transactional data in consideration i.e. normal spending habits? Do I need to make attributes that compare certain transactions for the current month vs the average of the last 12 months(an example) or is there a way to just include the transactional information?
Example:

Customer ID
Number of transactions
month
number of transaction type 1
number of transaction type 2

1
7
Jan-20
3
4

1
4
Feb-20
3
1

The transaction type 2 has reduced therefore the customer is likely to leave or
Customer ID, Number of transactions, Current number of transaction type 1 v average, Current number of transaction type 1 v average
1,11,1,0.25
I could have got it wrong completely both ways but any constructive input would be much appreciated.

A: In churn analysis, your goal is to score customers as will/will not churn (an even better approach would be risk of churn, but that is neither here nor there at the moment).
If you have multiple transactions per customer, you can summarize those transactions and use them as a feature (what you call an attribute) in your model.  RMF (Recency/Monetary/Frequency) analyses might be one approach you can take.  In the last year:

*

*When was the last time we saw this customer interact with us

*How much did this customer spend

*How often does this customer interact with us

Then, use these attributes to help build the model.


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Born on at 12:00 am. Friday 24 October 1930 at Istana Mangga Tunggal, Pekan, Pahang. he was the only son of Sultan Abu Bakar Ri'ayatuddin Al-Mu'adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah Al-Mu'tassim Billah Shah (reigned 1932–1974) by his official and royal consort, Tengku Ampuan Besar Raja Fatimah binti Almarhum Sultan Iskandar Shah Kaddasullah, a princess of Perak royal family.
A student of the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, he received diplomas in public administration from Worcester College, Oxford and the University of Exeter. He succeeded his father as sultan in 1974.
His election as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong in 1979 was marked with controversy as he was said to be at odds with the incoming prime minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. However, the rumours proved to be untrue and he proved to be a keen admirer of the prime minister. Twenty-two years earlier, his father Abu Bakar had failed five times to be elected as the first Agong.
A controversial, headstrong personality, he has often forced his chief ministers in Pahang to resign over minor differences.
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His official and royal consort, Tengku Ampuan Afzan binti Tengku Panglima Perang Muhammad, a member of the Terengganu royal family, served as his Raja Permaisuri Agong but died of cancer on her return to Pahang on 29 June 1988. Sultan Ahmad Shah's second wife Kalsom binti Abdullah (nee Anita), was designated as the Sultanah of Pahang in 1991.
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Plans are meant to be broken. Don't stress if everything does not get finished in one day. God willing there is tomorrow.
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Q: understanding of $2^{-i} \cdot 3^{-i}=\left(\frac16\right)^i$ I'm having trouble understanding how $2^{-i} \cdot 3^{-i}$ reduces to $\left(\frac16\right)^i$ ? Could anyone assist understanding the rules behind this reduction?

A: Assuming the $i$ in your question is a real number, here are the facts you need.

$x^0 = 1$ for any real $x > 0$.
$x^{a+b} = x^a \times x^b$ for any real $x > 0$ and reals $a,b$.
$(xy)^a = x^a \times y^a$ for any reals $x,y > 0$ and real $a$.

This are non-trivial facts. After all, exponentiation itself is non-trivial to define (see this post for a sketch of the intuition and explanation behind real exponentiation). Any good textbook will define and prove the above facts, but if it is beyond your current level then just make sure that you know the exact conditions under which the facts hold.
Using these facts, you can see the following:

$2^{-i} 3^{-i} = 6^{-i}$.
$6^{-i} 6^i = 6^0 = 1$ and hence $6^{-i} = \large\frac1{6^i}$.

Combining these deductions gives the desired conclusion.


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