1. High school diploma or GED is preferred.
understand and know how to use supplies and equipment via safety data sheets.
nowledge of cleaning methods, equipment and supplies, including precautions for use.
4. Math skills sufficient to handle manufacturers' label instructions for dilution of chemicals used in cleaning.
5. Must be willing to use a backpack vacuum.


So here's a new one for ya.
I was working on a branch all day, closed the laptop, went home and fell asleep. Nothing out of the ordinary. The next day, I awoke, and upon returning to work, immediately began working on a new problem.
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/fix-from-yesterday-'.
git commit -m "Make sure your description is short and sweet"
Specifying -b causes a new branch to be created as if git-branch were called and then checked out. In this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be passed to git branch. As a convenience, --track without -b implies branch creation; see the description of --trackbelow.


text:
Intimacy a Strong Motivator for PrEP HIV Prevention
Men in steady same-sex relationships where both partners are HIV negative will often forgo condoms out of a desire to preserve intimacy, even if they also have sex outside the relationship. But the risk of HIV still lurks. In a new study of gay and bisexual men who reported at least one instance of condomless anal sex in the last 30 days, researchers found that the same desire for intimacy is also a strong predictor of whether men would be willing to take antiretroviral medications to prevent HIV, an emerging practice known as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP.
Earlier this year the U.S. Public Health Service recommended that people at high risk of getting HIV use PrEP, including gay or bisexual men who have condomless anal sex. But as the recommendation becomes clinical practice, many people are wondering whether men will make PrEP part of their daily lives and what will keep them motivated to adhere to it strictly, which is required if the medication is to have its protective effect.
The new study, published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, suggests that PrEP's appeal to many men who have sex with men (MSM) in romantic relationships with HIV-negative partners is the perception that it can allow them to remain intimate with their partners while still having some protection from HIV.
"In this sample of men who are in a relationship with a perceived HIV-negative man, we found that intimacy motivation was the strongest predictor [of adopting PrEP]," says Kristi Gamarel, a psychiatry and human behavior postdoctoral researcher in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She was at the City University of New York with senior author and principal investigator for the NIH-funded project, Sarit Golub, when she performed the research. "Sex doesn't happen in a vacuum - interpersonal and relationship context really matter. Many HIV infections are occurring between people who are in a primary relationship."
The study is based on extensive interviews with 164 HIV-negative MSMs who were in steady same-sex relationships and who had condomless anal sex at least once in the prior 30 days. The researchers found in a multivariate statistical analysis that those who rated intimacy highly as a reason why they sometimes engage in condomless sex also were 54 percent more likely to say they would adopt PrEP if it were available for free (likely a hypothetical condition for many, but not necessarily all, recipients).
In basic analyses reported in the paper, there were several other factors in the study that also predicted a greater likelihood of adopting PrEP: older age, higher perception of HIV risk, sex (either protected or not) with partners outside the main relationship, and having less than a bachelor's degree level of education. But upon controlling for possible overlap among factors, desire for intimacy, low education levels and to a lesser extent older age survived as the strongest predictors of using PrEP.
An important implication of the study's findings are that as physicians and counselors discuss PrEP with MSM in steady relationships, Gamarel says, they should consider that a desire for intimacy in the relationship appears to be a prime motivation.
"For people who are disseminating PrEP or talking to patients about PrEP, I think it's important to think about their relationships," Gamarel says. "Something that's being supported and endorsed right now by the World Health Organization is couples voluntary testing and counseling. That may be a way to disseminate PrEP and to allow couples to have a discussion about whether PrEP is good for their relationship and how they can support each other using PrEP."
Gamarel cautioned that the study results cannot be taken as evidence that PrEP will reduce condom use. The men in this study were already forgoing condoms at times without being on PrEP, Gamarel notes. The study simply sought to ascertain whether these men would adopt PrEP and to determine why. Condoms remain uniquely important to gay men's sexual health, she noted, both because they reduce the risk of HIV transmission and because they can block other sexually transmitted infections that PrEP does not.
The National Institute of Mental Health funded the study (grant: R01MH095565 to Golub).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


These multiscarf is a product that can performs several functions such as: Head scarf, scarf, headband, sandstorm mask, Eyeshades, No chapter round cap, Cap pocket, Pirates tied method, Wristbands, etc.
They are a excelent application for different activities like: Skiing, Running, Walking, Tennis, Motorcycle, Bicycle, Mountain climbing, or Daily Decoration.
This product can be made with polar fleece liner all inside surface.
They are printed by sublimation full color on ALL SURFACE on streachable polyester.
This product is printed full color on ALL SURFACE on streachable polyesterc + 18 cm polar fleece.


text:
The Braking Of The BRICs
For over a decade, conventional wisdom has held that the future of the world economy rests on the rise of the so-called BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China (and, in some cases, with the addition of an 'S' for South Africa). A concept coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill, the BRICs were widely touted as the building blocks of the "post-American world."
Such notions are particularly popular among intellectuals like India's Brankaj Mishra, who sees world power shifting inexorably to "ascendant nations and peoples" — i.e. the BRICs — while "America's retrenchment is inevitable." Yet in reality, it is increasingly clear that the BRICs upward trajectory is slowing and many long-term trends suggest that their growth rates will continue to fall in the coming decades. Like other former "America-killers" such as Europe (1960s), Japan (1970s and 1980s) and the Asian Tigers (1990s), the BRIC countries appear to be unable to sustain the steady, inevitable progress projected by enthusiasts both at home and abroad.
One sign can be seen in the equity markets. Between 2001 and 2007, BRIC stocks soared, more than doubling in China and rising 369% in Brazil and 499% in India. Faith in the destiny of the BRICs grew even more after the world financial crisis, which these economies seemed to shrug off.
Yet more recently the edifice appears to have begun to erode, and in some cases, could well crumble. After rising almost fourfold from 2000 until the financial crisis, the BRICs' stock-market value is at a three-year low.
This decline has impacted numerous key BRIC companies such as Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-controlled oil company. This year it fell to the world's 39th-largest company by market value from the 10th-biggest in July 2011. China Construction Bank Corp. dropped to 20th from 12th while Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer, sank to 106th from 70th. Shares of ICICI Bank Ltd., India's second-biggest lender, have lost 17% during the past year, compared with an average gain of 9% for global peers.
Mutual funds that invest in BRIC equities, which recorded about $70 billion of inflows in the past decade, also have posted 16 straight weeks of withdrawals, losing a net $5.3 billion, EPFR Global data show.
This reflects serious, deep-seated problems in these economies. Brazilian consumer defaults increased to a 30-month high in May, while prices for Russia's oil exports have dropped about 10% this year. In India, the central bank unexpectedly left interest rates unchanged last month after inflation accelerated. A gauge of Chinese manufacturing compiled by the government fell to a seven-month low in June.
The BRICS are learning — as the Japanese did before them — the meaning of gravity. With the dollar gaining value against the Brazilian real, Brazil could slip from the world's sixth largest economy to seventh, overtaken again by the United Kingdom.
BRIC countries are suffering, in part, because of the slowdown in the European Union and North America. Depressed levels of spending in these export markets devastates these economies, in part because their domestic markets are not yet wealthy enough to support strong growth on their own.
Brazil has experienced a rampant property boom in recent years, with house prices in Rio trebling since 2008, and mortgage borrowing soaring. Reduced consumer demand could help drive the country's economic growth rate to 2.2%, a pace more familiar in developed Western economies, and less than half the rate predicted by official government economists.
India seems to be drifting into a political crisis and remains handicapped by its deep-seated culture of corruption and favoritism. Malnutrition has increased — and is higher than in most African countries — while the political system creaks and blocks reform.
This is one reason why credit default swaps suggest India is already a bigger investment risk than emerging markets such as Vietnam and more than double the risk of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa. India may also lose its investment-grade credit rating as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's administration struggles to curb a record trade deficit, a budget shortfall that exceeded targets and fighting within the ruling coalition, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings said last month.
In the short run, things are likely to get worse in India; S&P recently cut its forecast for growth in 2012 to 5.5% from 6.5%. Inflation running at 10% is sending investors fleeing from the rupee in favor of the dollar's safety. Growth in industrial production fell from 9.7% in 2010 to 4.8% in 2011. The pace has slowed further in 2012.
BRIC member Russia, as Rodney Dangerfield would have put it, is no bargain either. The crippling problem Russia faces is an economy dependent on oil for 75% of its export income. In 2008 oil was 5% of Russia's GDP; now it's 12.5%.
As in India, corruption is pervasive, sparking political unrest against Vladimir Putin's neo-czarist regime. Investment and retail has slowed down. At the same time Russia faces one of the steepest demographic declines on the planet, spurred by unusually low lifespans among males, with excessive drinking a prime contributor. Russia has lost nearly 10 million people since the collapse of the former Soviet Union. By 2050, the population could fall to as low as 126 million from 142 million in 2010. President Vladimir Putin has identified the demographic crisis as Russia's "most urgent problem."
Due to its one-child policy, China, too, faces the prospect of demographic decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that China's population will peak in 2026, and will then age faster than any country in the world besides Japan. Its rapid urbanization, expansion of education, and rising housing costs all will contribute to this process. Most of the world's decline in children and young workers between 15 and 19 will take place in China during the balance of the century.
But China's most pressing problems are more immediate. With exports slowing, China's GDP growth has decelerated from 10.9% in 2010 to 9.5% in 2011. It is estimated by S&P to be 7.5% in 2012. China's economic growth is set to slow for the ninth consecutive quarter. Schisms within the Communist Party, and growing labor and other unrest, make the Middle Kingdom somewhat less the inevitable replacement power to the U.S. that many have assumed.
South Africa is also pressed by political and economic problems.The economy is slowing down to a very un-BRIC like 2.7% growth rate. This is well below the heady 4% plus of 2011. And, as in China and India, instability, as seen in the recent, violent work stoppage of 26,000 workers at platinum mines, could further hurt growth.
With unemployment roughly at 25%, South Africa will hard pressed to remain an investment star in the years ahead.
So what now? Well, we can expect financial speculators, like Goldman Sachs, to keep trolling for the next thing. Wall Street's most influential player recently coined a new term — MIST — to cover their new favorites: Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea and Turkey. One can only imagine how long this fixation will last, given the problems these countries face with either political violence and demographic decline, and in the case of Turkey both.
Of course, brokers hawking investments will continue to look for new places of opportunity. But as we are learning from the experience with the BRICS, not all emerging economies maintain their upward trajectory. Sometimes it might make more sense ,even given our inept political parties, to look at opportunities closer to home, where constitutional protections, a large domestic market and a diversified economy may provide better long-run prospects.
Joel Kotkin is executive editor of NewGeography.com and is a distinguished presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University, and contributing editor to the City Journal in New York. He is author of The City: A Global History. His newest book is The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, released in February, 2010.
This piece originally appeared in Forbes.
BRIC country map by Filipe Menegaz.
Mmm.. good to be here in
Submitted by VickiHuter on Wed, 05/20/2015 - 02:04.
Mmm.. good to be here in your article or post, whatever, I think I should also work hard for my own website like I see some good and updated working in your site.
Christian links
Economics tuition basically
Submitted by Vicki Doyle on Thu, 12/12/2013 - 00:56.
Economics tuition basically covers all aspects of the subject, from the basic concepts up to the more advanced ideas. payday loan cash advance.
http://www.personalcashadvance.com/
surfing internet
Submitted by babygames8 on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 05:06.
Internet is a tool developed to help learn cooking pizza games through online gaming. They are especially oriented to make children eat all those cuisines which they hate to even look at otherwise and for thoses children who like magic Games can surfing internet,too!
Economics evaluation essays
Submitted by adleyadler81 on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 12:44.
Economics evaluation essays are often regarded as one of the most difficult assessment components of the IB Economics program. Students often struggle with structuring their evaluations and applying their economic knowledge to the question.
logiciel de facturation
take care your baby
One of the most amazing things about the online food games is that they cost you nothing at all, also no matter how many times you wish to play a shopping games, you can simply get online and play it without worrying about money.Also if you don't know how to take care your baby as a young mother, you can play baby games online,too!
make her happy
Dora is so cutie and make you want to touch her head and make her happy,now you have the chance to play dora games to dress this lovely girl up and make her much pretty then.
Everybody likes entertainment ,some entertain themselves by listening or singing music
others like to playing game,and bubble trouble is very tricky, you have to use the directions key to go here and there and you can shoot with the help of space key.
Every one of us is busy fighting for a better life than they having, and more and more youngsters would prefer to play Car Games example to relax because they are not time restricted and you can play them easily using short breaks between your working hours.
In industrial projects
In industrial projects, there is hardly a more important component than the gate valve, they are used in most every industry in ever sector.
The electronic weighing scale machine is more commonly known as a checkweigher
, in the packaging industry. It is specifically used to improve and maintain the weight efficiency of packaged goods.
Submitted by blairblake58 on Sun, 12/16/2012 - 13:32.
Economics tuition basically covers all aspects of the subject, from the basic concepts up to the more advanced ideas. The great thing about hiring your tutors in a tuition agency is that you can be confident that the person who is guiding you in your Economics lessons is a qualified professional with expertise in the subject. plante carnivore
After rising almost fourfold
Submitted by samialafer on Sun, 12/09/2012 - 23:29.
After rising almost fourfold from 2000 until the financial crisis, the BRICs' stock-market value is at a three-year low. cell phone spy software


text:
A kiskörei Tisza-híd vegyes használatú híd a Tiszán, egyaránt biztosítja a közúti és a vasúti forgalom átkelését is a folyó felett.

Az egyvágányú, nem villamosított  Kisköre-Tiszahíd megállóhely és Abádszalók megállóhely között halad át a hídon, az átvezetett 3209-es út pedig Hevest köti össze, Hevesvezekény és Kisköre érintésével a Tiszaburához tartozó Pusztataskonnyal.

A hídon egy vágányt, illetve egy forgalmi sávot alakítottak ki közös pályatengelyben, emiatt a közúti forgalmat mindkét irányból jelzőlámpák szabályozzák, a vonatforgalom áthaladását a híd mindkét felhajtóján sorompók biztosítják.

A Tisza egykori hatalmas árterületét keresztező híd jelenlegi hosszát tekintve, a Nagyrákosi völgyhíd és az Újpesti vasúti híd után, Magyarország harmadik leghosszabb vasúti hídja.

Története

Kisköre mellett az első hidat a Mátrai HÉV társaság építette a Tisza felett, a Kisterenye és Kisújszállás közötti vasútvonal létesítésekor. A híd alátámasztó és áthidaló elemei egyaránt fából készültek, a folyómeder áthidalására három nyílású, 48 m-es támaszközű, Howe-rendszerben kialakított szerkezetet építettek. Az alsópályás szerkezet négyszeres rácsozású, 6,5 m magas főtartóit, 12 m hosszú, négyszögletes fenyőgerendákból ácsolták. Az ártér felett a folyó kiskörei oldalán 37 nyílású, a taskonyi (ma Pusztataskony, Tiszabura része) oldalán 28 nyílású hídszerkezetek szintén fából készültek. Az ártereket áthidaló 9,4–10,0 m támaszközű szerkezeteket ékelt, fagerendás tartókkal alakították ki. A vasútvonal megnyitásával egyidőben, 1887-ben átadott híd a 780 méteres teljes hosszúságával, a korszak leghosszabb hídja volt.

A víz feletti erős páraképződés hatására a faszerkezetű híd hamar korhadni kezdett, az egyes elszakadt övgerendákat csak költséges beállványozással lehetett kicserélni. A folyamatos és költséges fenntartási munkák elodázták a korszerűsítést, amire 1906-ban került sor, miután egy jégzajlás a meder szélén lévő cölöpjármokat kismértékben megdöntötte.
A híd részleges átépítésénél a mederhíd esetében végleges jellegű pilléreken álló, háromnyílású, 46,8 + 66,0 + 46,8 méteres fesztávolságú, alsópályás, parabolikus felső övű, rácsos vasszerkezetű hidat terveztek.
Az alépítményi munkákat 1906 februárjában kezdték meg, a vasúti forgalom fenntartása mellett. A mederpilléreket a faszerkezetű híd védelme alatt, keszonalapozással, a parti pilléreket cölöpalapozással építették.
A folytvasból készült hídszerkezetet a MÁV Gépgyárában gyártották le és 1906 áprilisától kezdték meg az összeszerelést a régi híddal párhuzamosan, majd a vágányzárban a régi helyébe oldalirányból tolták be.
A híd ártér feletti faszerkezetei változatlanok maradtak. Az új szerkezet próbaterhelését 1906. november 13-án tartották, amelyen Kossalka János, a műegyetem későbbi hidász professzora is jelen volt. A végleges forgalomba helyezésre 1907. december 19-én került sor.

Az első világháború után, 1919-ben a visszavonuló román csapatok a medernyílásokat felrobbantották, az ártéri áthidalások nagy részét pedig felégették. A híd tönkretételével a vasúti forgalom egészen 1923-ig szünetelt, az újjáépítés más fontosabb Tisza-hidak helyreállítása után következett. A meder feletti hídszerkezetek újjáépítésével egyidejűleg az ártéri hidak faszerkezetű alátámasztásait és áthidalásait is átépítették. Az új betonpillérek, a négy-négy meder közelében lévő cölöpalapozású kivételével, mind síkalapozással készültek.
A korábbi faszerkezetű hidak helyett, Kisköre felől 16, Pusztataskony felől 20 darab, egyenként 11,85 m támaszközű szerkezet épült az időközben Budapesten elbontott, régi Összekötő vasúti híd hegeszvas anyagú hossztartóinak felhasználásával. A híd teljes hossza ekkor 589 méterre rövidült.

A második világháborúban több támadást intéztek a híd ellen, 1944. szeptemberben bombatámadásban sérült meg az egyik meder feletti szerkezet alsó öve, emiatt a hídszerkezet mintegy egy méterrel megsüllyedt. A megrogyott áthidaló elemet máglyarakással emelték ki, a sérült részeket kivágták és ideiglenesen csavarozott kapcsolatokkal állították helyre. 1944-ben a hidat újra felrobbantották, ekkor mindhárom meder feletti szerkezet a folyóba zuhant, valamint megsemmisültek a mederpillérek, illetve nyolc ártéri pillér is.
A vízi közlekedést zavaró és árvízveszélyt okozó roncsok kiemelése a folyóból a világháború végétől, 1946-ban megkezdődtek, azonban a híd látványos újjáépítésére csak tíz év múlva került sor. A szerkezetek kiemelését követően megállapították, hogy a szélső nyílások szerkezetei nagyobb mértékű elempótlással helyreállíthatóak. Az ártéri nyílások szerkezetei is csak kisebb károkat szenvedtek. A mederpillérek közül kettő nagy mértékben megrongálódott, ezek pontos helyének megállapítását és a törmelék eltávolítását egy 3×4 méteres búvárharang védelme alatt végezték. A mederpillérek falazatait egy 14,25×10 m alapterületű, vasbetonból készített keszon segítségével építették újjá.
A vasszerkezetek helyreállítása és a középső mederáthidaló szerkezet újjáépítése 1956-ban kezdődött meg. A vasszerkezetet eleve úgy tervezték, hogy az új szerkezet vegyes használatú, közúti-vasúti híd lesz, ugyanis a közúti forgalom által korábban használt komp, főleg a jégzajlás miatt, nem volt kielégítő.
Az ártéri szerkezetek átépítése anyagi fedezet hiányában elmaradtak, habár az ártéri szerkezetek teherbírása a hosszabb távú vasúti igényeket már nem elégítette ki.
A hídon a vasúti felépítmény 48,3 kg/fm tömegű sínekkel épült, amelyek U alakú és szögvasból készült keresztaljakon fekszenek. Az egy sávos közúti pályát B300 minőségű vasbetonlemezekből alakították ki.
A vegyes forgalomra újjáépített hidat 1958. december 1–10. között helyezték forgalomba.

A kiskörei víztározó építését megelőzően a Minisztérium 1971-ben tanulmányterveket rendelt az Uvatervtől a közúti és vasúti átkelők új nyomvonalra helyezéséről, azonban azok a költségek miatt valósultak meg.
1972–1974 között a MÁV egyszerűsített felépítménycserét végzett a on, így lehetővé vált engedélyezett tengelyterhelés emelése, amit csak a Tisza-híd árterek feletti, bizonytalan minőségű szerkezeteinek állapota hátráltatott.
1975-ben cserélték ki az ártéri nyílásokat öszvértartós szerkezetekre. A régi pillérek felhasználásával a felsőpályás, gerinclemezes, hegesztett acéltartókra vasbetonból készült pályalemezeket helyeztek.

Napjainkban

A medernyílás feletti szerkezetek anyagának egy része 1906-ból származó hegeszvas, amely önmagában is indokolja a híd átépítését. A vegyes közlekedési mód kiváltására a gyér forgalom miatt kevés esély mutatkozott, jóllehet a lehetőség több évtizede napirenden van.
Az átkelő ma Magyarország egyetlen olyan hídja, ahol a vonatoknak 20 km/h-s sebességkorlátozást kell betartaniuk, 180 kN maximális tengelyterhelés mellett, emiatt nehezebb mozdonyok nem is haladhatnak át a hídon.

2017 decemberében bejelentették, hogy a híd állapota miatt elkerülhetetlen annak felújítása. 2018. június 16-án megkezdték a híd felújítását. Cserélték a híd szerkezeti elemeit, felújították a közúti és a vasúti pályát, új dilatációs szerkezeteket építettek be, a hídhoz vezető utat kijavították. A 2018. novemberig tervezett felújítás után a megengedett sebesség 40 km/h-ra nőtt. A 2018. novemberi vizsgálat során kiderültek előre nem látott hibák, így a felújítás 2019 májusáig tartott.

A 2018 nyarán kezdődött felújítás 3 évvel később, 2020 augusztusában sem ért véget, a mai napig nincs a híd teljes acél szerkezete lefestve, félbehagyott beruházás jellegét ölti.

Jegyzetek

Források

Magyarország Tisza-hídjai
Kisköre

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Clear Articles
Music Articles (Lyrics)
Framing 1966: Jon Savage on the Year the 1960s Exploded
Written by adminon January 1, 2018
Some of its references will be lost to readers who don't own all the Beatles albums on mono or read Mojo magazine. ¤
By the year's last days, it was snowing in Scotland and England's north. And some of the era's icons looked very different when viewed without a middle-class white lens. "Withholding information, using his voice to get into a rhythm and tempo of storytelling."
Overall, it was a strange time in which reality and fiction got in each other's way. What made it happen, and what made its boom stop happening? "There's been a right-wing/neo-conservative attack on the '60s here in the UK for 30 years," Savage says. "The UK and America have so overdrawn on that particular bank." And the Anglo-American world will not be saved by merely waxing nostalgic for the high '60s or the welfare state that's lasted for seven decades.
"We can't go back to 1966," Savage says by email, "but a proper understanding of that year tells us what was at stake and what people were fighting for. Hollywood took its sweet time catching up with the social and cultural transformations, longtime film critic and Criterion Collection programmer Michael Sragow points out. And American cities — New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles — had highly developed youth-culture and music scenes as well. A nation that loved black music and artistic experimentation saw a young Jimi Hendrix arrive in London, release "Hey Joe," his first single, and bring several of the day's tendencies together in blazing fashion. Savage is building a narrative, using each month and each new 33 RPM single as part of a larger story. It's flipped. Or had it? Welsh crooner Tom Jones's "Green, Green Grass of Home" was number one in the United Kingdom, the best-selling album was the soundtrack to The Sound of Music, and the highest-selling single in the States was Army Sergeant Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets." The Evening Standard described 1966 as "The Year Pop Went Flat."
Everything had changed. The Second World War reconstruction is over. Whether you agree with the Nobel committee or Columbia Records, which recently released 36 discs from the '66 tour, this was a consequential moment for the most visionary and accomplished solo artist in all of rock music. "If we do slip, so what?" he told the journalist Maureen Cleave. Even casual fans are familiar with the image of the deeper, more serious, pot-smoking band of Help!, Rubber Soul, and after. Savage calls it the apogee of a kind of capitalist-democratic hedonism based on creativity and pleasure. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, says Gene Seymour, a culture critic for Bookforum and The Nation who devoured the book as a kid, captured "the strange kind of forces being unleashed in that era."
For Seymour, an African-American teenager growing up in not-terribly-posh Hartford, Connecticut, the key cultural artifacts of 1966 were Star Trek, with its optimistic vision of a multiracial future, and Bill Cosby's comedy album Wonderfulness, with a title inspired by the comedian's pioneering television show I Spy. One of the startling things about Savage's tale is the role of the Beatles. Whatever the Yardbirds were doing or saying, they were in Rave, they were in Mirror — they were everywhere." Tens of thousands of people in the United Kingdom, he says, followed the musicians, film stars, and fashion models of Swinging London (or Manchester, or Liverpool). Confessional poetry was running out of steam — Anne Sexton would win a Pulitzer for her anguished Live or Die, one of the movement's last highlights. As the year began to tatter near the end, and with counterculture heroes like Dylan and Jagger out of the picture, some looked to the lads with a kind of "waiting for Godot" expectation. The director who most electrified English-language cinema, Sragow says, was Richard Lester, the Philadelphia-born director who moved to England and worked with oddballs Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan before directing A Hard Day's Night (1964). "Suddenly everything became really intense."
But the bitter irony and despair within the most popular and inventive group of the era — the one that inspired and intimidated bands from London (the Stones among them) to Los Angeles (the Beach Boys, the Byrds) and released, in August, what may be the greatest rock album of all time — is still breathtaking. Frank O'Hara was killed on Fire Island. At the very least: What did it really sound like, and why did it lilt and roar like it did? "As far as a lot of them were concerned," Seymour says of fellow working-class blacks, "Dylan was just this strange white boy with a lot of cultural capital."
And 1966 was a great year for jazz, with eerie recordings by vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and the last gasp of the acoustic Miles Davis Quintet before the trumpeter helped invent jazz fusion. But Russian poet Joseph Brodsky came out of Arctic exile, while Belfast-Irish poet Seamus Heaney published his first book, Death of a Naturalist; Major careers and Nobel laurels awaited both writers, though it was not immediately obvious where poetry was going. The book proceeds month by month, with January devoted primarily to anxiety over nuclear weapons, April to acid, May to the feminine mystique, July to Tamla/Motown, and so on. 1966 saw a controversial, celebrated spring tour by Dylan and the Hawks (famous for the taunt of "Judas!" at the show in Manchester, England), the May release of what may be the finest rock album by an American, and the July motorcycle crash that led to a period of withdrawal and silence and mystery. In the music press from 1966 […] almost all the ideas and attitudes that would define the remaining years of the decade are in place: the Love generations, opposition to the Vietnam war, critiques of youth consumerism, an alternative society, a new world as yet unmade. "People think that a critical and rebellious youth culture began with hippies and the underground press in 1967," Savage writes in the book's introduction. Its flowering led to more tolerance, more openness, and to a year — 1970 — that he considers perhaps the musical summit of all time. The novel was, likewise, at a turning point: 1966 would see the publication of both Jacqueline Susann's best-selling chronicle of drugs and ennui, Valley of the Dolls, and Thomas Pynchon's gnomic postmodern classic The Crying of Lot 49. "Not necessarily revolution yet, but creative unsteadiness."
It would take 1967's Bonnie and Clyde and 1969's Easy Rider to connect American filmmaking with the larger convulsions shaking the Anglo-American world. (Savage has built epic CD compilations of songs from various years and local scenes.)
So 1966, with its political, cultural, and social shifts, accomplished something lively and real. But Hollywood would wait until the '70s to mature. Harrison — "the quiet Beatle" — was the most sardonic of all. One of the year's most revolutionary books was not traditionally literary at all, but a (purportedly) journalistic chronicle of a brutal Kansas murder. It wasn't just a golden Austin Powers pop age. Being a Beatle isn't the living end."
Savage, who is gay, includes a chapter on the British "homophile" movement, which was much less about scenes, styles, subcultural magazines, and marches, and much more about legislation. Seymour reflects, as if offering a painful confession, "Everything I know about how to tell stories and write narrative I learned from Bill Cosby," whose style paralleled the jazz solos the writer loved. "'The sixties didn't really happen, it was just 200 people in London; it wasn't about Terry and Julie who lived in Wigan…' Fuck that! What was the geist of that particular zeit? Lennon was clearly tired of being in the band and said he was more interested in making films or painting. Certainly so, but it's a lost opportunity for a writer who can make even the Beatles or the Velvet Underground and Warhol sound fresh. "The Beatles give rocket fuel to the '60s youth culture, in terms of money, ambition, fashion, and prestige," Savage tells me. Savage writes eloquently about the Beach Boys's Pet Sounds, the Beatles's Revolver, the Rolling Stones's Aftermath, the first two albums of Arthur Lee's visionary group Love, and many singles — he loves the concision of 45s — but Dylan's epochal two-LP Blonde on Blonde almost gets lost. "The scientific breakthroughs and art and the political progress all seemed joined," Seymour says. "Everybody can go around in England with long hair a bit," John Lennon said, "and boys can wear flowered trousers and flowered shirts and things like that, but there's still the same old nonsense going on. "But it was a period of genuine freedom."
Every era marks both the opening of something new and the close of something else. The term "psychedelic" began to be used in the press, the club UFO had just opened and hosted a show by Pink Floyd, and a televised adaptation of Lewis Carroll transposed his animals into human beings and became known as Alice in Psycholand. These are also the question Jon Savage, the veteran British rock journalist, asks in his recent book 1966, about a year just beyond the half-century mark. But the author — who is flirting with Irish citizenship post-Brexit vote — is no longer so sanguine. By the end of 1966, Parliament was turning, and repressive laws against same-sex love were on their way out; the struggle would continue far longer in much of the United States. It works brilliantly, most of the time, but also leads to the book's one serious flaw, as it skids past what turned into a brilliant and horrible year for Bob Dylan. Yet '66 was the year that the Fabs stopped touring; McCartney — the band's diplomat and optimist — talked about the pointlessness of playing live. Germany is the good guy in 2017. We'll be just where we were, only richer. "Who cares? "They were part of the kind of dynamic energy."
For reasons likely connected to its publication by a British house and its emphasis on life in the United Kingdom, Savage's 1966 can be hard to find in the States. Pleasantly dense and beautifully textured, 1966 is like an album by a great band not often enough heard from, with all the filler removed. Time to look forward to the way society can be organised in future."
Scott Timberg is the editor of The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles and author of Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class. French, Swedish, Italian, and Japanese film, of course, was veering into all kinds of thematic and sexually and politically adventurous territory. Savage, who's as fed up with Boomer nostalgia as any Gen X-er, still thinks the era marked real progress, and that 1966 was both a peak and an inauguration of a half-century of freedom. 1966 wasn't just the sound of the Byrds's chiming 12-strings, the Beatles's tape-loops, Otis Redding's horns, Dusty Springfield's pleading, and what Bob Dylan would call his "thin, wild mercury music." It was a year of hundreds of odd little one-off singles — many of them turned out by deranged teenagers in their folks' California garages — and a year in which black/white relations, the war in Vietnam, the mentality of Baby Boom teenagers, the legal status of homosexuality in Britain, other sex and gender norms, and the terms of film and visual art would shift in consequential ways. Appropriately, French theorist Jacques Derrida would make his beachhead in the United States with a speech at Johns Hopkins — on a new way of looking at language and literature — that would transform the field for decades. (His book, released in 2016, comes out in paper on January 2, 2018.) And the answers tell us something — probably something unsettling — about where we in the Anglophone world are headed. (Lester would go on to make the classic Superman II and the less triumphant III.)
1966 also left a mark on literature. JANUARY 1, 2018
SO, WHAT was that all about? While 1966 engaged "the '60s" — an era not entirely contiguous with the actual decade — and prepared the ground for both the Summer of Love and the larger Age of Aquarius, it was also the end of a long-running epoch. It wasn't all peace and love — for all the liberty and lust there was also tangible anxiety about impending nuclear warfare, as well as a nasty backlash by the establishment. "I was super pissed," he recalls, "because it was on television all day so 'Top of the Pops' wasn't on!"
The '60s, and '66 in particular, are primarily remembered for their music, but it was a rich and transitional era for film, literature, and race as well. "That idea, which is American, and dates to the end of the Second World War, is now under threat," he says. Lester would push Anglo-American cinema out of its theater-based origins and into a witty, kinetic style that owed more to television, art photography, and the irreverent energy of rock bands like the Beatles. It belongs on the shelf not just with the rock chronicles of Greil Marcus but between David Kynaston's social history Austerity Britain and Eric Hobsbawm's peerless quartet on the 19th and 20th centuries. "There was a lot of ferment going on," Sragow says. One night a space probe nearly blew up, Seymour recalls, and its troubles pre-empted an episode of Lost in Space. Visibility and obscurity aside, the book is a marvel, easily the match of Savage's celebrated punk chronicle England's Dreaming. Savage told me that Blonde on Blonde didn't fit cleanly into his narrative, and that other scribes have written extensively about Dylan. And for all the great music it was also the year Mick Jagger collapsed from exhaustion, when the Beatles stopped touring after being physically assaulted in Manila, and when Dylan crashed his motorcycle and went into seclusion. But 1966 was also, as Savage says with his subtitle, "The Year the Decade Exploded."
"I started writing the book partly to combat historians who discounted it," Savage — born Jonathan Sage in 1953 — says from his home on the Welsh coast. One of the book's great strengths is the way it finds lively historical details, or fresh context, even on well-trod ground. "It wasn't a breakthrough time," he says, "but a time when you could see the fractures." Hollywood was still turning out road shows, big-budget adaptations of best sellers, and Biblical spectacles. "In Britain it was the end of the Victorian Age," says Savage, dating the pivot to Winston Churchill's 1965 funeral, which left the 12-year-old future author upset. These are the questions any '60s-obsessed soul should ask about 1966 — the decade's key turning point, the leading tone that brought on the more celebrated 1967 (whose anniversary we celebrating last year). In 1966, he made A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, based on a Sondheim musical and featuring Buster Keaton (!) in his last film role. It's just that we're all dressed up a bit different." So nothing had really changed.
Posted in Booking
Previous Previous post: Genre Be Damned
Next Next post: Literature Unchained: The Literary Scene in Tunisia Post-2011
https://lyrics.az/bryant-myers/allsongs.html
Harlem's Hero Revisited January 18, 2021
"MLK/FBI" and "Her Socialist Smile" Desanitize Two Radical Icons January 18, 2021
Beyond Bias: The Case for an Abolitionist Psychology January 18, 2021
Monday Poetry: Ghareeb Iskander's 'Great Perplexity' January 18, 2021
On Crying for Sports Heroes January 17, 2021
Entering the Hall of Mirrors January 17, 2021
Sunday Submissions: Words Without Borders Communications Internship January 17, 2021
Escaping the Cycle January 16, 2021
One Woman's Century January 16, 2021
Saturday Events: Emily Drumsta on 'Revolt Against the Sun' January 16, 2021
Grab Your Shovels as the Elephant Leaves the Tent January 15, 2021
Real Life Rock Top 10: January 2021 January 15, 2021
A Galaxy of Monuments January 15, 2021
Travelogue of the Exodus January 15, 2021
Friday Finds: Excerpt from Rula Jurdi's 'Camera Obscura' January 15, 2021
How to Read an Artichoke: On George Saunders's "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" January 14, 2021
Hong Kong Against the Odds January 14, 2021
Hybrid Authoritarianism January 14, 2021
Cultural Fronts January 14, 2021
Abdullah al-Sakhi on Writing His Multigenerational Iraqi Trilogy January 14, 2021
https://lyrics.az/bryce-vine/lazy-fair/sour-patch-kids.html
https://lyrics.az/bryson-tiller/
https://lyrics.az/bryson-tiller/-/dont.html
Theme by PremiumWP. Powered by WordPress


On December 12, 2010, San Francisco's the Stairwell Sisters will be celebrating their 10-year anniversary to the day with a performance at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA.
The Stairwell Sisters (Lisa Berman, Evie Ladin, Martha Hawthorne, Stephanie Prausnitz and Sue Sandlin) formed over the bond of "string band music" in a flat overlooking the hills of San Francisco in early 2000.
On December 12, 2000 the band played their first show at the legendary and now defunct Sweetwater Saloon in Mill Valley, opening for Kathy Kallick. Ten years later, the band has 3 critically praised albums under their belt, an impressive touring history, and an East Bay Express' "Best Stringband" award to boot, proving they've covered a lot of ground in that time.
The Stairwell Sisters are career women, organizers, activists and mamas. Their diverse experience is part of their 10-year plus success that has secured them appearances on stages from A Prairie Home Companion, Celtic Connections (UK), Lincoln Center (NY) Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (SF), Rockygrass (CO) and many other festivals; to the "V for Violins" spot on Elmo's World and Howard Zinn's Voices of a Peoples History concert.
In March 2009 the gals were asked to be musical guests on Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's Voices of a People's History live performance in San Francisco, with a host of actors and activists including Josh Brolin, Benjamin Bratt, Boots Riley and Kerry Washington.
The Sisters, who are steeped in traditional Appalachian music but also play originals that blend in with their style, often with a social activism bent, were asked to choose songs from a list of those Howard felt best represented the cause. They chose Woody Guthrie's Hard Travelin, and Bruce Springsteen's Youngstown, which Evie found to be a killer banjo tune.
Appropriately reinterpreted through an Appalachian lens, the Stairwell Sisters lend three-part harmony and depth to Bruce's poignant words. With Evie Ladin on clawhammer banjo, Stephanie Prausnitz on fiddle, Lisa Berman on Hawaiian slide, Sue Sandlin on guitar and Martha Hawthorne on bass, the Stairwell Sisters' unique version of Bruce Springsteen's "Youngstown" will be released as a single for this special concert.
The band has walked alongside some of their musical heroes, playing major festivals and concert halls, and they've also played a dermatologist's office, a rare bird farm, a five star hotel, in a corner under stairs, square dances, and street corners.
On December 12th they'll celebrate ten years to the date of their first show, with special musical guests from the gals' other projects. Joining the five Stairwell Sisters will be Keith Terry, Pom Frytz, Knuckle Knockers Karen Celia Heil and Bill Foss, and Crooked Jades Jeff Kazor and Erik Pearson. They'll be pulling material out of their back catalog.


text:
Former GOP Elected Official Sentenced in Baby-Selling Scheme
Alberto LuperonDec 2nd, 2020, 10:19 am
A former Arizona elected official was sentenced in Arkansas federal court on Tuesday in a baby-selling scheme. Paul Petersen, 44, is set to spend a total of 72 months in federal prison, and three years on supervised release, according to The Department of Justice.
He pleaded guilty on June 24 to "Conspiracy to Smuggle Illegal Aliens for Commercial Advantage and Private Financial Gain." Prosecutors say he paid pregnant women from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to travel to the United States and agree to putting up their children up for adoption. This country had a "Compact of Free Association" with the United States. The agreement allowed for its citizens to enter the U.S. for work, but not for adoptions.
Prosecutors said that Petersen offered the women $10,000 in the scheme.
"The defendant in this case violated the laws of three states and two countries during the course of his criminal scheme," said First Assistant United States Attorney David Clay Fowlkes of the Western District of Arkansas. "He exploited a legal loophole and used it to run an International adoption business outside the necessary oversight from the United States or the Republic of the Marshall Islands. During the scheme, the defendant lied to state court judges, falsified records, encouraged others to lie during court proceedings, and manipulated birth mothers into consenting to adoptions they did not fully understand. This unique case merited the strong sentence ordered by the Court today. It is our sincere hope that this sentence sends a message to those who would seek to conduct human trafficking operations in the Western District of Arkansas, and to those who would seek to manipulate and take advantage of people like the Marshallese citizens in this case."
Petersen must also pay a total of $105,100 between a fine and court costs, said the DOJ.
The defendant, a Republican who served as the Assessor for Maricopa County in Arizona, resigned from office in January. He has also pleaded guilty in that state and Utah in connection to the adoption scheme.
[Mugshot via Maricopa County Sheriff's Office]


text:
Iron Gold
Part of Red Rising Series
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
About Iron Gold
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the epic next chapter of the Red Rising Saga, the #1 bestselling author of Morning Star pushes the boundaries of one of the boldest series in fiction.
"Mature science fiction existing within the frame of blazing space opera . . . done in a style [that] borders on Shakespearean."—NPR (One of the Best Books of the Year)
They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life.
A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?
And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow's to change his fate forever:
A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp, and achieves for herself a new life she could never have imagined.
An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life.
And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the Sovereign, wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will rise from its ashes.
Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe. Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.
Don't miss any of Pierce Brown's Red Rising Saga:
RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE
Also in Red Rising Series
Also by Pierce Brown
See all books by Pierce Brown
About Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rising, Golden Son, and Morning Star. While trying to make it as a writer, Brown worked as a manager of social media at a startup tech company, toiled as a peon on the Disney lot… More about Pierce Brown
Oct 23, 2018 | 624 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780425285930
Jan 16, 2018 | 624 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780425285916
People Who Read Iron Gold Also Read
PRAISE FOR PIERCE BROWN AND THE RED RISING SAGA
"[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown's dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender's Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric."—Entertainment Weekly
"[A] top-notch debut novel . . . Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field."—USA Today
Golden Son
"Brown writes layered, flawed characters . . . but plot is his most breathtaking strength. . . . Every action seems to flow into the next."—NPR
"In a word, Golden Son is stunning. Among science fiction fans, it should be a shoo-in for book of the year."—Tordotcom
"A page-turning epic filled with twists and turns . . . The conclusion to [Pierce] Brown's saga is simply stellar."—Booklist (starred review)
"Brown's vivid, first-person prose puts the reader right at the forefront of impassioned speeches, broken families, and engaging battle scenes."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)


text:
Sustaining numeracy
Numeracy is an enabling skill for life and work. Innumeracy, like illiteracy, is a social burden. Poor numeracy means that everyday tasks pose difficulty (e.g., calculating change, determining the percentage discount). Poor numeracy reduces access to further study, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics; in turn impacting Australia's international competitive advantage and its workforce (DETYA, 2007). Educational standards on a global scale are measured predominantly in relation to literacy and numeracy scores. Recent national and international measures of numeracy (mathematical literacy) show that Australia cannot be complacent about students' numeracy at any year level of schooling, with Australia's mathematical literacy skills declining on the Program for International Schooling Assessment (PISA) (Masters, 2007).
Drawing on the rich model of numeracy previously developed by the research team (Geiger, Dole, & Goos, 2011; Geiger, Goos, & Dole, 2011; Goos, Dole, & Geiger, 2011; Goos, Geiger, & Dole, 2011), this project aims to develop numeracy leadership using a whole school approach to capacity building across all curriculum areas. By utilising and further developing the expertise already present within the school it is hoped that the project will embed numeracy leadership in all curriculum areas. "Whole school" approaches may differ in primary and secondary schools to acknowledge differences in school structures and teachers' areas of specialisation. In secondary schools it will be important to involve both mathematics teachers and teachers in other subject areas; in the latter case emphasizing that an understanding of the numeracy demands and opportunities in non-mathematics subjects can inform and enrich the teaching of those subjects.
Brisbane Catholic Education, $88,990
ACU, $28,050
Chief Investigator/s
Professor Vince Geiger
Prof Merrilyn Goos (UQ)
Dr Shelley Dole (UQ)


text:
Q: Fetching tweets from twitter using JSON in API v1.1 The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active.What modification I need to make to run this code in API v1.1.Here is my code for fetching tweets from twitter from particular uri which was used for API v1 -
public class TwitterFeedActivity extends ListActivity {
        private ArrayList<Tweet> tweets = new ArrayList<Tweet>();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        new MyTask().execute();

    }

      private class MyTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
              private ProgressDialog progressDialog;

              protected void onPreExecute() {
                      progressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(TwitterFeedActivity.this,
                                        "", "Loading. Please wait...", true);
              }

              @Override
              protected Void doInBackground(Void... arg0) {
                      try {

                              HttpClient hc = new DefaultHttpClient();
                              HttpGet get = new
                              HttpGet("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=android");

                              HttpResponse rp = hc.execute(get);

                              if(rp.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK)
                              {
                                      String result = EntityUtils.toString(rp.getEntity());
                                      JSONObject root = new JSONObject(result);
                                      JSONArray sessions = root.getJSONArray("results");
                                      for (int i = 0; i < sessions.length(); i++) {
                                              JSONObject session = sessions.getJSONObject(i);

                                      Tweet tweet = new Tweet();
                                               tweet.content = session.getString("text");
                                               tweet.author = session.getString("from_user");
                                               tweets.add(tweet);
                                      }
                             }
                     } catch (Exception e) {
                             Log.e("TwitterFeedActivity", "Error loading JSON", e);
                     }
                     return null;

        }
        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
                progressDialog.dismiss();
                setListAdapter(new TweetListAdaptor(
                                TwitterFeedActivity.this, R.layout.list_item, tweets));
         }

    }

    private class TweetListAdaptor extends ArrayAdapter<Tweet> {

            private ArrayList<Tweet> tweets;

            public TweetListAdaptor(Context context,

                                                                       int textViewResourceId,
                                                                       ArrayList<Tweet> items) {
                      super(context, textViewResourceId, items);
                      this.tweets = items;
            }

            @Override
            public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
                    View v = convertView;
                    if (v == null) {
                            LayoutInflater vi = (LayoutInflater)
getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
                            v = vi.inflate(R.layout.list_item, null);
                    }
                    Tweet o = tweets.get(position);

                    TextView tt = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.toptext);
                    TextView bt = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.bottomtext);
                    tt.setText(o.content);
                    bt.setText(o.author);
                    return v;
            }
       }
}

Tweet.java
public class Tweet {
    String author;
    String content;
}

Problem might be in this code
  HttpGet("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=android");

A: You are using wrong URL.....
"The Twitter REST API v1 is no longer active..."

You have to use REST API v1.1. for fetching twitter data...
for that you have to follow below URL...
"https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=android"

DOCUMENTATION
Note : You have to pass CONSUMER_KEY & CONSUMER_SECRET to get data to the URL...
Follow this "TWITTER CONSOLE"..it will help you to give you desired output with its console...if successful then implement it on your program..
I have fetched TWIITER TWEETS...This code could be useful to you..........
CODE :
private class DownloadTwitterTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
        final static String CONSUMER_KEY = "***************";
        final static String CONSUMER_SECRET = "******************";

        final static String TwitterTokenURL = "https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token";
        final static String TwitterStreamURL = "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=";
        ProgressDialog pDialog;

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            pDialog = new ProgressDialog(SearchList.this);
            pDialog.setMessage("Loading Tweets....");
            pDialog.show();
            super.onPreExecute();
        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... screenNames) {
            String result = null;

            if (screenNames.length > 0) {
                result = getTwitterStream(screenNames[0]);
            }
            return result;
        }

        // onPostExecute convert the JSON results into a Twitter object (which is an Array list of tweets
        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

        // converts a string of JSON data into a list objects
            listItems = new ArrayList<ListModel>();
            if (result != null && result.length() > 0) {
                try{
                    JSONArray sessions = new JSONArray(result);
                    Log.i("Result Array", "Result : "+result);
                    for (int i = 0; i < sessions.length(); i++) {
                            JSONObject session = sessions.getJSONObject(i);
                                ListModel lsm = new ListModel();
                                lsm.setTxt_content(session.getString("text"));

                                String dte = session.getString("created_at");
                                SimpleDateFormat dtformat = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzzzz yyyy");
                                Date d = dtformat.parse(dte);
                                SimpleDateFormat dtfm = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, MMM dd, hh:mm:ss a yyyy");
                                String date = dtfm.format(d);

                                lsm.setTxt_date(date);
                                listItems.add(lsm);

                    }
                        if (listItems.size() <= 0 ) {
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "No Tweets From User : "+ScreenName, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
                        }

                    }
                catch (Exception e){
                    Log.e("Tweet", "Error retrieving JSON stream" + e.getMessage());
                    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Couldn'f Found User :"+ScreenName, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

            // send the values to the adapter for rendering
            //ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getBaseContext(), R.layout.tweet_main, listItems);
            cust = new CustomAdapter(activity, listItems);
            list.setAdapter(cust);
            pDialog.dismiss();
        }

        // convert a JSON authentication object into an Authenticated object
        private Authenticated jsonToAuthenticated(String rawAuthorization) {
            Authenticated auth = new Authenticated();
            if (rawAuthorization != null && rawAuthorization.length() > 0) {

                try{
                            JSONObject session = new JSONObject(rawAuthorization);
                            auth.access_token= session.getString("access_token");
                            auth.token_type= session.getString("token_type");
                    }
                catch (Exception e){
                    Log.e("jsonToAuthenticated", "Error retrieving JSON Authenticated Values : " + e.getMessage());
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            return auth;
        }

        private String getResponseBody(HttpRequestBase request) {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            try {

                DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(new BasicHttpParams());
                HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
                int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
                String reason = response.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase();

                if (statusCode == 200) {

                    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
                    InputStream inputStream = entity.getContent();

                    BufferedReader bReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8"), 8);
                    String line = null;
                    while ((line = bReader.readLine()) != null) {
                        sb.append(line);
                    }
                } else {
                    sb.append(reason);
                }
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
            } catch (ClientProtocolException ex1) {
            } catch (IOException ex2) {
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }

        private String getTwitterStream(String username) {
            String results = null;

            // Step 1: Encode consumer key and secret
            try {
                // URL encode the consumer key and secret
                String urlApiKey = URLEncoder.encode(CONSUMER_KEY, "UTF-8");
                String urlApiSecret = URLEncoder.encode(CONSUMER_SECRET, "UTF-8");

                // Concatenate the encoded consumer key, a colon character, and the
                // encoded consumer secret
                String combined = urlApiKey + ":" + urlApiSecret;

                // Base64 encode the string
                String base64Encoded = Base64.encodeToString(combined.getBytes(), Base64.NO_WRAP);

                // Step 2: Obtain a bearer token
                HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(TwitterTokenURL);
                httpPost.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Encoded);
                httpPost.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8");
                httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity("grant_type=client_credentials"));
                String rawAuthorization = getResponseBody(httpPost);
                Log.i("getTwitterStream", "rawAuthoruzation : "+rawAuthorization);
                Authenticated auth = jsonToAuthenticated(rawAuthorization);

                // Applications should verify that the value associated with the
                // token_type key of the returned object is bearer
                if (auth != null && auth.token_type.equals("bearer")) {

                    // Step 3: Authenticate API requests with bearer token
                    HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(TwitterStreamURL + username);

                    // construct a normal HTTPS request and include an Authorization
                    // header with the value of Bearer <>
                    httpGet.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + auth.access_token);
                    httpGet.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
                    // update the results with the body of the response
                    results = getResponseBody(httpGet);
                }
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
                Log.i("UnsupportedEncodingException", ex.toString());
            } catch (IllegalStateException ex1) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Couldn't find specified user : ", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                Log.i("IllegalStateException", ex1.toString());
            }
            return results;
        }
    }

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


text:
English Stories from the Chinese Press September 24th - October 2nd
China's Zhejiang Province Wins UN's Highest Environmental Honor
Zhejiang's Green Rural Revival Program won the award for "Inspiration and Action" for its work cleaning up once-heavily polluted rivers and streams in the province. "This exceptionally successful eco-restoration program shows the transformative power of economic and environmental development together," according to the website of the UN Environment Program.
Measures to be undertaken include promoting green development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in a coordinated and balanced way and protecting its ecological environment. Joint prevention and control of pollution and comprehensive management of the environment will be strengthened, promoting water pollution treatment, repair of the aquatic ecology and protection of aquatic resources
Fishing for Success
The Zhili Government has worked hard to resolve other water-related issues. By 2014, the town had cleaned up all polluted rivers in the area. Two years later all poultry farms came under regulation for pollution control, and this year the town has begun environmental governance in the aquaculture industry.
Off to a Good Start
China's restructuring efforts are paying off, with the economic structure significantly improved. The service sector is taking the lead as the country makes headway in steering its economy toward high-quality growth and away from inefficient investment, low-end exports and polluting factories.
With fewer smoggy days and more blue skies, the winter of 2017-18 in Beijing and the neighboring areas of Tianjin and Hebei Province was regarded as heralding in the initial success of the battle against air pollution in China. Yet the government isn't prepared to slow down yet, as evidenced by its most recent action plan which encompasses a bigger vision.
Clean Heating
To tackle the problems of air pollution and global warming, China has vowed to increase the proportion of non-fossil fuels in its primary energy consumption to 20 percent by 2030, while ensuring that carbon emissions peak around the same time. Curbing coal consumption and increasing the use of non-fossil sources of energy are seen as two critical measures necessary for China to build a clean and low-carbon energy system in the coming years.
Green Waterway
Environmentally friendly regulation of the shipping industry boosts the prospects of the region along the Yangtze River. Environmental improvements and proposals include an emission-reducing shore power system, regulation of shipping activities to minimize wasted fuel during wait time, and retirement of ships that do not meet fuel efficiency and pollution standards.
The Man Who Loves a Lake
Today, the Yundang Lagoon's waters have been cleaned to meet one of the highest national standards, nearly 2 km of mangrove forests have been grown along its banks, and fishes have returned to the clean waters. Besides the egret, Xiamen's signature bird, there are nearly 70 other species in the forest, making it a birdwatcher's paradise. The ecological restoration has been acknowledged as a model restoration work by the United Nations Development Programme.


Fisherman Dave Roseman caught the incredible sight of a mama grizzly bear ferrying her young cubs on her back across the Agulowak River near Dillingham, Alaska. This determined mama was probably on her way to catch some salmon for those hungry little mouths.
During a fishing trip for king salmon that included Outdoors Sportsman Group's Steve Smith, the bears — with the cubs clinging to the back of the mother — were spotted by lodge General Manager Dave Roseman swimming toward shore in front of the GCI Agulowak Retreat lodge located near Dillingham, AK.


text:
Teacher of Maths, Colindale, Barnet
Closing date: 29 Jan 2020 Expiring tomorrow
Saracens High SchoolColindale, Barnet
Salary: MPS/UPS
Saracens High School is a new secondary school which opened in September 2018 for 156 Year 7 pupils, growing each year until the school is full in 2024. The school is located in the Colindale area of North London.
We are looking for an exceptional Maths teacher, experienced or newly qualified, to join our Maths team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an exciting and growing subject area, in the third year of the school's life. You will be helping to create an exciting and challenging curriculum, as part of a small team, to ensure that our pupils can attend the best Universities or successfully compete for sought-after apprenticeships. Our school values of discipline, hard work, honesty, and humility are embedded in our lessons and in every area of school life.
The successful applicant will have a record of outstanding teaching in their classroom, be committed to helping shape a growing team and be aligned with the values that underpin all we do at Saracens High School.
You will be helping to create a distinctive culture and philosophy so that from the moment someone enters the school, they will know this is where the learner is empowered to 'be the best that they can possibly be'. The individual abilities of each pupil are recognised and coaching for life skills, as well as academic excellence, is at the core of all we do.
Salary: Outer London MPS/UPS
Complete the application form on the TES website. Your supporting statement must include references to the job description and person specification. In addition, please explain why you are the right person for the role, specifically in relation to Saracens High School.
If you have any questions or would like a general conversation about the role with the Principal, please contact the Principal's PA (Mrs McAuliffe) on 020 8181 3180 or email the Principal directly (principal@saracenshigh.org)
The closing date is Wednesday 29 January at 4pm
Saracens Multi Academy Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The successful candidate will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS check.
Safeguarding statement SHS.pdf
More about Saracens High School
Funding status: State - Free School
Address: Lanacre Avenue, Colindale, Barnet, London, NW9 5FN, United Kingdom. View in Google Maps
Website: http://www.saracenshigh.org/
Contact Saracens High School


The delightful Danube sets the stage for an incredible cruise through the Main-Danube Canal between Budapest and Nuremberg. Enjoy guided sightseeing in Budapest, Regensburg, Passau, and in magical Vienna. Also take a guided city walk past the baroque Stiftskirche in Durnstein; participate in a wine tasting and guided visit of the Benedictine Abbey in Melk. Your journey concludes with three nights and plenty of free time in the "Golden City" of Prague.
CRUISE - Deluxe 7-night cruise in an outside stateroom (Category E) with Avalon's exclusive Comfort Collection Beds.
BUDAPEST - Guided sightseeing, see Fishermen's Bastion and Heroes' Square; Onboard welcome reception.
DURNSTEIN-MELK - Guided walk in Durnstein, see the Stiftskirche; Guided visit of the Benedictine Abbey and wine tasting.
REGENSBURG - Guided walk; Enjoy a snack at the Historische Wurstkuche; Beer tasting.
ROTH-NUREMBERG - Choice of guided sightseeing in Roth with a visit to the Industrial Museum or Nuremberg Rally Grounds tour.
PRAGUE - Guided sightseeing, see the Astronomical Clock and visit Hradcany Castle grounds; free time.
SIGHTSEEING - Your day-by-day itinerary indicates all inside visits, special features, and guided sightseeing in UPPERCASE. All included guided sightseeing is conducted by a Certified Local Guide.
Hungarian Dishes, Healing Waters, and Historic Wonders. CLASSIC - Take a Guided Sightseeing Tour to see majestic Heroes' Square and Budapest's classic sites. With plenty of free time this afternoon, experience the curative waters of Budapest's thermal baths, or set out for a hike to explore the countryside on either side of the Danube. Take time to shop for treasures, including handcrafted embroidery, Herend porcelain, or Budapest's best baked goods. This evening, secure your reservation for an Optional Dinner with a sumptuous Hungarian food-and-wine-pairing.


Please enter your User ID (if known) OR e-mail address on file. Your User ID and New Temporary Password will be e-mailed to you within a few seconds.
Copyright © 1997-2018, Professional Standards Institute. All rights reserved.


The Beckhams have already chosen their godparents for their unborn child, and it looks like family friend, Gordon Ramsay, is a shoe-in for the role.
Reports claim that the famously angry TV chef is the first godparent chosen by Victoria and David to watch over their daughter when she is born this summer. His wife Tana Ramsay is also thought to have been chosen.
A family friend said: "David and Victoria think Gordon and Tana would make great godparents."
Ramsay, who has four children of his own, is said to be "honoured" by the prospect.


You can perform a blind transfer to direct a call to another person without announcing the call to the call transfer recipient.
1. While on an active call, select Transfer.
2. Dial or select the number you want to transfer the call to.
4. The call has been transferred.


A collection of most of the songs recorded as "Mutex". They're mostly short, simple, improvised, and VERY lo-fi. Recorded at 32kbps - if you find any Mutex tracks at higher bitrates, they've been upconverted. These recordings were made in 2005 and 2006, and the id3 tags have remained unchanged since that time.


text:
The Centennial Asia Difference
The Centennial Group
Asian Insights
Publications & Books
The Asian Pulse
Data Snapshot
Regional Heatmap
Ask Manu
Malaysia to widen 1MDB probe to BN parties, politicians
Centennial Asia > The Asian Pulse > Daily News > Malaysia to widen 1MDB probe to BN parties, politicians
Posted by:	admin
Category:	Daily News
Malaysia's new government has widened its investigation into state-owned 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) to cover flows of funds to parties in former ruling coalition Barisan Nasional (BN), in a move that could have far-reaching ramifications for the country's political landscape.
Senior government officials and financial executives told The Straits Times that investigators are looking into money flowing from companies tied to 1MDB and fund transfers from former prime minister Najib Razak's private accounts to key BN partners and politicians.
The probe, which is being carried out by regulatory agencies under the sweeping Anti-Money Laundering Act, has also extended to law firms tied to the previous administration, the officials said.
The parties and legal firms in possession of funds that flowed out of 1MDB or its related entities could find their bank accounts frozen by the authorities pending a full investigation and trial. Elected representatives would not only have their bank accounts frozen but could also face being disqualified as MPs or state assemblymen if found guilty.
Government officials expect the Mahathir administration to level charges related to corruption, embezzlement of state resources and national economic sabotage against Najib early in Jul 18.
The ability to dispense patronage has long been the lifeblood of key BN members such as the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) and the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA).
Both parties have sizeable business interests. Umno has long used its unfettered authority over government to dispense lucrative licences, contracts and powerful positions at state-owned entities to reward political warlords and senior officials.
The party's business interests, grouped under a private company called Temasek Padu Sdn Bhd – estimated to be valued at roughly MYR800mn – features equity holdings in companies that operate the private Subang airport in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, a property project and a shipyard in East Malaysia.
The MCA's business assets, estimated to be in excess of MYR3bn, are grouped under a private entity called Huaren Holdings Sdn Bhd. Its investments include extensive property developments, control of Star Publications, which operates the country's largest English-language daily newspaper, and the running of higher learning institutions.
By-elections that may be called as a result of the disqualification of elected representatives being found guilty of receiving tainted 1MDB-related funds could further undermine BN's representation in Parliament.
It now holds 57 seats – Umno with 54, MCA with one and the Malaysian Indian Congress with two – in the 222-seat Parliament, a far cry from the 133 seats it won in the 2013 election.
External Link: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-widen-1mdb-probe-to-bn-parties-politicians
'Asian Insights' provides perspective and commentary based on developments around the region on a weekly basis. To continue reading, please procure a subscription.
Geopolitical turmoil – impact on Singapore and the SEA-region
A GLOBAL RECOVERY IS UNDERWAY BUT HOW MUCH WILL IT BENEFIT ASIA?
SHOULD INVESTORS FEAR A "LEFTWARD" TILT IN POLICIES?
What is going to be New Normal
https://t.co/B5xQHRnEDd Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has asked four agencies to speed up their investigations i… https://t.co/HbcxqIKhz2yesterday
https://t.co/TmzMstayAB Credit growth fell to 0.46% y/y in Nov 20, the slowest in more than 14 years, and could eve… https://t.co/jWhAUSWGfSyesterday
Thailand: Speed up lese majeste inquiries: PM
The Philippines: Credit growth slowest in over 14 years
Copyright © 2012-2020 Centennial Asia Advisors. All rights reserved.


text:
New digital platform for Mercia Technologies to support rapid growth
1 min read, 21 November 2017
The Onespacemedia team has launched an ambitious web design project for Mercia, as the company scales its operations and rebrands its fund management subsidiaries.
Based in the Midlands, Mercia is a national investment group focused on the funding and scaling of innovative businesses with high growth potential from UK regions. The company has recently rebranded its three fund management subsidiaries under one brand: Mercia Fund Managers. Onespacemedia worked with Mercia to create a new website to promote the company's direct investment activity and that of Mercia Fund Managers - supporting the strategic goals of the business and addressing a diverse range of audiences.
The new website is designed to be complex enough to manage a large volume of diverse content, but simple enough to keep visitors engaged. The underlying aesthetic is modern and open, including striking imagery and concise copy to build engagement and deliver key information, positioning Mercia as an established and innovative organisation. By integrating clear calls-to-action and related content into site pages, users are funnelled into specific actions to help drive the company's business goals.
George Hadfield, Onespacemedia's Lead Producer commented, "Working with the Mercia team on our latest project was very rewarding - we're fortunate to have a long relationship with the business which really helped us understand what they were trying to achieve. It was a complex digital project with lots of moving parts, but it's testament to the capability of both teams that we achieved a result that we're all thrilled with. We're really keen to make sure that we're serving the sector with on-brand, sector-appropriate design that works hard in a competitive space. A big thanks to the Onespacemedia and Mercia teams for a huge effort on an ambitious timeline."
Katy Horrocks, Marketing Director of Mercia Technologies PLC said, "We are delighted with the result, and with the support provided by the Onespacemedia team. Bringing three websites together was a complex project but we achieved this goal on time and with a highly functional and well-designed site which I know our project stakeholders have been pleased with."
Check out the case study.


Industrial Pallet is a large recycler of wood pallets located in Northeastern Connecticut, servicing all of Southern New England from Portland Maine to Southern Vermont, all of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. An experienced workforce of over 65 employees process more than 2 million pallets annually. Service and quality are the top priorities.
Share in our success. Grow your business with a leader in the pallet industry.
Offers a cost effective alternative to the purchase of new pallets.
Heat Treating that meet International ISPM 25 regulations.
Service as a one stop recycling solution.
Many manufacturing and distribution facilities accumulate various types of plastic.
Wood waste that is not used in the recycling or repair of used pallets is ground into bio-fuel.
Industrial Pallet provides recycled wood pallets in several grades and sizes.
"Industrial Pallet is a company I have been doing business with for over 20 years. They have always been responsive and delivered a good quality product with service I can plan my business around".
I have already heard back about the internship I applied through Starter, that's the fastest job reply I've ever gotten and it's so much better than waiting weeks to hear back.
"Industrial Pallet is positioned to take care of all you pallet and recycling needs."


Successful selling is all about building and nurturing relationships with new prospects. But the field is crowded with other sales people selling the same product as you. The competition seems to be at an all time high. How do you differentiate yourself from the rest of the pack?
In their 1981 book, Positioning: The Battle for your Mind, Jack Trout and Al Ries explain how positioning is used as communication tool to reach target customers in crowded market place. Every sales person, regardless of experience should read this book. If your copy has been gathering dust on your library shelf then it's time to dust it off and read it again.
According to Trout and Ries, being first in your product category is the easiest way into the prospect mind. We can all remember who was the first man to step on the moon, but who can remember who was the second man to step on the moon. But in today's crowded marketplace, being the first business in your product category is probably a difficult thing to be. So establishing your business as the first to claim a unique position in the mind of the prospect can help you effectively cut through all of the marketing clutter within your product category.
We live in the over communicated society. Our prospects are bombarded by thousands of marketing messages and sales calls every single day. When you study the physiology of the human brain, you soon learn that as a coping mechanism, the brain simply begins to tune out most of this information, especially that which is unfamiliar or not needed at the time. Unfortunately for most of us, the prospects are tuning out our marketing efforts.
If you can't be positioned as the first business within your product category, then perhaps positioning your business in relationship to the number one brand can be a successful strategy. Miller Light was not the first light beer but it was the first light beer to be positioned as a light beer. They even named it a light beer.
In order to be a better business person, you must become a student of the psychology of human behavior and the physiology of the human brain. Let's begin with physiology of the human brain.
The reticular activation system of the human brain acts like the information clearing house letting through only that information that is consistent with what we already know and feel. In other words, if the information is not important to us, or have some bearing on the quality of our lives, the reticular activator will discard that information very quickly no matter how many times it is repeated.
The reticular cortex is the part of the brain that stimulates attention and that can only happen if the messages being decoded somehow provide a solution or answer to a need or desire that is bubbling up from within the prospect themselves.
Repetition alone will not cause the reticular activation system to accept the information we are trying to communicate and commit it to the prospect's long term associative memory. In fact, if the irrelevant message is simply repeated over and over again, the reticular activation system may simply assign an irritation value to your message making it even harder to break through and gain a foothold in the prospects mind.
The brain develops perceptions and associations that it holds in long term memory. Irritating repetition will certainly doom your marketing message to the trash bin of the human brain. If and when you change your message to something more relevant to the prospects needs and desires, it may be too late because your message may have been permanently branded as nonessential.
The key to breaking through is to craft a simplified message. "Easy to swallow, easy to follow" is the brain's heuristic for influence. The message must be consistent with what the prospect already knows and believes. When you focus on the prospect instead of your product you will start to get past the reticular activation system roadblocks.
One way to appeal to the prospect's needs and desires is to frame your presentation in a way that emphasizes the positive outcome of a relationship with you and your company.
In a research project conducted by two psychologists at the Wharton School of Marketing, the customers of a car wash were divided into two different groups. Each group was given a loyalty card that promised after eight paid car washes, the customer would get one free car wash. Each time the customer would visit the car wash, the attendant would stamp the loyalty card.
The terms of the loyalty card were exactly the same, pay for eight car washes, get one free. But the layout of the loyalty cards was different. On the first card, there were eight spots on the card. When all eight were stamped, the customer earned a free car wash. On the other loyalty card, there were ten spots but the first two spots were already stamped out. Both offers were exactly the same. The only difference was the presentation style of the offer.
The number of customers with the ten spot loyalty cards that returned to the car wash to claim their free car wash was 78% higher than the number of customers that had the eight spot loyalty cards. It was exactly the same offer but the one loyalty card offered the powerful illusion that the business was giving that customer a head start to a free car wash. Having two car wash spots already stamped out also drew the customer into the promotion by creating a perception that they might as well keep coming back because they were already on their way to getting a free car wash. The customers with the ten spot loyalty cards were more likely to complete the offer than those that perceived they had to start from scratch.
This is a common practice. Many airlines have branded credit cards that promise you a bundle of bonus miles on your first purchase giving you a head start on your next free vacation.
Not all of us have a loyalty program that we can use to help us get our toe in the door with a new prospect so we have to come up with other ways to frame our proposition in a way to get past the prospect's reticular activation system.
In an over built market place, competing apartment complexes might offer the prospective tenant their first three months rent free, if you sign an annual lease. The apartment management doesn't really give the tenant three months without paying anything; they simply reduce the price of all twelve months accordingly.
Price isn't always the determining factor either. They key to unlocking the door to the prospect is going to be unique to the prospect. It's going to be all about appealing to their felt need, the one thing that dominates their thinking that all of the other vendors have been unable to satisfy.
In many cases the key is going to be framing yourself as the vendor with the knowledge, the preparation and the resources necessary to follow through on what you promise. Perhaps providing your prospect with a complimentary analysis of their needs could open the door for you to demonstrate you have the answers they seek.
Whenever you are in front of the prospect, just imagine they have WIIFM stamped on their forehead; What's In It For Me. When you listen to the prospect with empathy you will find the keys to unlock their reticular activation system and get a chance to become their vendor of choice for whatever you have to offer.


text:
Driving Lessons and Courses in Portsmouth
CALL 02392 809744 to Book your Driving Lessons
New Driving Test for Portsmouth and Lee on the Solent
Lee Patterson Joins the APass4U2 Team
Investigating Fraudulent Instruction – What Does the DVSA Do About It?
Passed Pupils Leena & Lucy in Lee on the Solent
Santa Arrives at A Pass 4 U 2 in Portsmouth
Passed Pupil
06 October 2017 By Tony at A Pass 4 u 2 Portsmouth – Blog in General
On the 4th of December the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is due to launch its new style tests and this includes the driving tests centre in Portsmouth and the driving test centre in Lee On The Solent. For many years now the DVSA have run the driving test and include the dreaded reverse around a corner and the turn in a road manoeuvres. These are set to be replaced in the new test with a reverse out of a bay and a pull up on the right, reverse back to car lengths then move off safely manoeuvres. I think many of us would agree that this is a good move for all as not only does it take away 2 of the more difficult manoeuvres but it also brings the test more up to date and in line with modern ways of driving.
The biggest change to the test is the introduction of a Sat Nav. At the moment a pupil is asked to either follower signs to a destination or a series of junctions or both for about 10 minutes but this is being replaced by following a Sat Nav for 20 minutes. This is the hot subject being discussed by driving instructors because Sat Nav's are notorious for giving directions either too early or too late at junctions. If you get an easy route to follow the Sat Nav will make it easier but if a tricky junction or one that isn't obvious is included in the route it will make it harder. In my opinion the Sat Nav is a poor decision as many people only ever use a Sat Nav when they are going on long journeys not when they are going to work, shopping or visiting family/friends which is probably 99% of our journeys. Neither you nor your A Pass 4 U 2 Portsmouth driving instructor will not need to provide a Sat Nav as the driving test as examiners will bring their own with preloaded routes on them and these will include stop off points for the manoeuvres.
At the moment each candidate of a driving test is asked to answer 2 questions about aspects of the car at the beginning of the test e.g. "How do you check the tyre pressure of this car" or "can you show me how to operate the windscreen wipers". They are not too hard but the new test will have 1 question before you move off and 1 on the move which again I think is more realistic because you would use your windscreen wipers whilst driving and would switch on your lights whilst driving.
The scoring system will remain the same with a combination of 16 minor driver faults or any serious or dangerous marks giving you a fail.
The driving test examiners from Lee on the Solent and the examiners at the Portsmouth driving test centres will have had specific training on the new test and the routes as well specific knowledge of what to do if the Sat Nav malfunctions. Don't worry your driving instructor will be fully up to speed with the changes and give you the best advice to help you get through your driving test.
You can more information on the new driving test at
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=lI08tzIfo4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=tGW73OWbX7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=zhPxvbcGH3s
https://despatch.blog.gov.uk/2017/08/07/driving-test-changes-the-new-instructions-examiners-will-give/
You can find the driving test centres –
Portsmouth Driving Test Centre
Opposite Fort Southwick
James Callaghan Drive
PO17 6AR
Lee on the Solent Driving Test Centre
The Richard Sainsbury Building
Daelalus Argus Gate
Daelalus Drive
PO13 9JY
© Copyright 2020 A Pass 4 u 2 Portsmouth - All Rights Reserved | Web Design by Silkstream


For what reason to choose Suhu togel Online Game?
In the present individuals do not have adequate vitality to play the clubhouse in the certifiable gambling club diversion centers. They need to keep the day by day routine with regards to the day and need to need to fulfill the due dates. Henceforth the minutes to plays the online clubhouse in the confirmed centers are ended up being one of the hardest things that should be spared. So also there is an issue in the bona fide gambling club clubs. You have to go the miles to locate an ideal one and moreover need to keep the time and the gauges of the gambling club focuses. Anyway the agen poker is one of the gaming focus focuses for the on-line club that has truly been made just for the all inclusive community. The basic things that have been gotten the overall public of various countries and diverse age individuals are that you could play the amusement inning concurrence with your very own chance. In the certified gambling club centers it has been discovered that you need to play the PC diversion as shown continuously that has been given by the authorities of the online clubhouse.
Anyway in the web online gambling clubs there is no such point. You will verifiably have the capacity to play the diversion according to the period of your own stand-out daftar poker. A champion among the most basic parts of the on-line clubhouse is that you will completely gain the choice to pick the enemy by your own. In the bona fide gambling club focus focuses it has truly been discovered that a gamer is picked by the experts of that club. You do not have the aptitude whether he or she is extra intense appeared differently in relation to you or something unique. This truly raises a hell and besides gets the amusement occupied. In any case, in the agen Suhu togel Online Game you will find the opportunity to pick the gamer according to your own. This decision has truly been left over to you and the association besides offers you the level outline of the player.
People used to contribute progressively and furthermore in case they shed the diversion they come to be wiped out. To help individuals in getting their wide range safe and besides protect the online club areas made with the centers not with the cash. An additional crucial portion of the on the web gambling club is that you can pick the amusement and besides the level according to your own. There is no such unbending bearing that you could not pick any kind of degree. The principal objective of making this point is that people ought to have the capacity to play the diversion according to their own. In case people do not play the PC diversion according to their own exceptional after that the amusement has no definition. To give the gamers the best of their profitability and moreover making the PC amusement more vital this PC diversion has been made.
Next PostNext Just how to abuse online Casino game?