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Anselmians near and far work in fields from accounting to marketing to sales. They're employed by companies like Twitter, Cigna, and Bloomberg.
Colleen Karpinsky, class of 2001
A degree in business and an award for her debating skills led Colleen Karpinsky '01 to pursue a career in law. She is now a senior leader at Dyn, a global Internet technology company with clients like Twitter, Pandora, Etsy, and Zappos.
She is vice president of talent and legal at Dyn in Manchester, N.H., where she uses her human resources and legal background to attract talent and manage customer relationships. Before joining Dyn, she worked as a corporate transactional and employment law attorney at New Hampshire's largest law firm, McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton.
Karpinsky is also active on the community level, as secretary of the Manchester Young Professionals Network and an investment volunteer with the Heritage United Way and a mentor with Team in Training, which raises funds for leukemia and lymphoma research. She also has served on committees for the New Hampshire Bar Association and the New Hampshire Workplace Initiative Against Domestic Violence.
Karpinsky graduated with a degree in business and a certificate in international relations and was a noted debater. During her senior year on the college's debate team, she earned a first place finish at the National Forensic Association's championship tournament. She regularly returns to Saint Anselm to help the debate team prepare for competition.
She earned her law degree at the Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law, where she was a member of the Woolsack Honor Society.
Lan Nguyen, class of 2012
Moving from Vietnam to the United States to attend college was an adventure for Lan Nguyen, but she has never been afraid to take risks. A double major in mathematics with economics and financial economics, Nguyen is working as an associate at New Markets Advisors, in Cambridge, Mass.
New Markets Advisors is a boutique management consulting firm with a special focus on innovation strategy. They work with companies in the healthcare, financial services, consumer products and education industries. The company helps clients create new sources of growth, bolster their innovation capabilities, and generate ideas for products, services, and business models. Nguyen's job is to do research on industries and new opportunities, conduct customer research, and synthesize findings.
Nguyen came to Saint Anselm because she wanted to go to a small school where she could get to know everyone and really get immersed into the American culture. "I couldn't have had a better experience being an international student. I didn't have the chance to visit the campus before I came, but somehow it felt right looking at the pictures on the website, and just reading about the school's focus and traditions," she says. There were times when she missed home, but Saint Anselm and her friends made it easier for her.
Double majoring was no breeze for Nguyen, but it gave her many skills that help her in her business career. She chose financial economics as her major freshman year. After taking calculus, she realized that math fascinated her and that she enjoyed understanding and solving problems. "I developed close relationships and got a lot of help from the professors here. They all shaped my ways of thinking, and helped me get to where I am today," she says.
Nguyen was a member of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), an international non-profit organization that allows college students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders. In her senior year she had an internship as an industry research analyst with News Patterns, a news intelligence company in Manchester, N.H., which gave her the research experience that helped her to get the job she has today.
Nguyen enjoys exploring the city of Boston in her free time. Her favorite thing to do is to visit the museums and art galleries, or try different cafes and bakeries in the North End.
Plans for the future? Nguyen wants to get her master's degree, but nothing is set in stone for this young alumna. "I still want to travel the world, and I am not sure where I would end up settling down yet. I guess I'm just ready for any new adventures that are coming my way."
Linh Nguyen, class of 2013
Linh Nguyen majored in accounting because she loves working with numbers and the accounting field has a hot market in the employer world.
Linh graduated from Saint Anselm in 2013 and earned her master's degree in accounting at the University of Rochester in New York.
While attending Saint Anselm, Linh interned at two different companies to get some real life experience. The first was at HSBC Bank in the personal financial service department. She then worked as an accounting intern at Phillips Electronics. Linh considers her studies and interning opportunities at Saint Anselm top of the line.
"My accounting education measures up with the best programs around and includes all the same courses you'll find at larger schools," Linh says. She believes the biggest difference between Saint Anselm and normal business schools is the variety of courses and subjects offered.
"Saint Anselm College blended liberal arts with accounting which I liked because I didn't want all my courses in one area." Not only is this multitude of learning interesting but it also has given her a background in communication, both oral and written.
"My liberal arts education has already paid off because the conversations I've had with employers have gone way beyond the accounting topic."
Now, Linh is an audit associate with Ernst and Young (EY) in North Carolina. She has big dreams and like the numbers she works with the possibilities are infinite.
Alexandra Puglisi, class of 2011
It's a dream come true in a coffee mug: hot mocha latte (or pumpkin spice, if you prefer).
At the age of 23, Alex Puglisi has fulfilled her dream. She is now the successful owner of Café La Reine in Manchester, N.H.
Alex entered Saint Anselm as a business major but wasn't truly inspired to follow down the path of entrepreneurship until she took the class "Paris and New York in the 1920's and 1930's," an exploration of a bygone era of dynamic conversation in cafés and bistros.
While an undergraduate, Alex got her first real look at the reality of business as an intern at Market Reach. There she got a good look at the specifics of marketing and learned the importance of brand. Since graduating from Saint Anselm in 2011, Alex has applied her teachings and skills in business to open her own coffee house in downtown Manchester, N.H.
Marketing and Branding and Making it Work
As for marketing her own business, Alex primarily uses social media to get the word out on Café La Reine. Along with this inexpensive tool she also has some alumni connections in the Manchester area who suggest her café to their coworkers via word of mouth and, like any good business person, the chosen location allows for plenty of foot traffic.
Beyond just marketing, being your own boss requires lots of work. Alex manages her staff, controls the payroll, and sorts out scheduling. She also keeps the shop and its materials organized and stocked, which means ordering products, keeping inventory and tracking the café's earnings to keep her business afloat.
Support and Success
She relates the importance of her peer's and professor's support at Saint Anselm to her success in running Café La Reine.
"People would doubt me because I was young, but the business program showed me that I could do whatever I want because I have the knowledge and the skill." says Alex.
And when she needed guidance her Saint Anselm professors including Professor John Romps provided valuable advice.
"Since there are professors who care about how well you're doing, they make it a point to care and meet you"
"I can't count the number of times that I went to professor Romps for advice. I even went when I needed help with another class"
She wants other students to follow their dreams of being future business owners saying, "Go for it! Business can seem like a lot of information but you have to be willing to apply it to real life and be creative with what you learn. I loved being a business major because I could see how I could apply what I learned everyday."
Christopher Tinsley, class of 2013
By the completion of three internships in finance, Christopher Tinsley '13 knew that after graduation Hegenbart Financial Advising was the right place for him to begin his career. The financial economics major is a client associate for the private banking and investment group that is associated with Merrill Lynch.
As a client associate, Chris supports all aspects of his clients' needs, which includes monitoring their portfolios, making trades for their accounts, and keeping their information up-to-date. The Hegenbart Group is a wealth management team that focuses on the financial needs of non-profit organizations and affluent individuals.
Chris had previously interned with Simmons-Doyle Group in Manchester as well as Fidelity Investments and New England Securities, which he says helped his transition from intern to full-time employee.
"I also credit the Saint A's business department; they helped me grasp pertinent financial concepts that are now part of my every day tasks," says Chris.
While at Saint Anselm, Chris studied abroad at the University of London, England and was a top debater on the debate team.
He was also the student speaker at his commencement in 2013. Read or listen to his speech on the commencement coverage website.
Michael Graver, class of 2006
Michael Graver got his first look at Wall Street during the fall of his senior year in his class "Money and Banking." Two years later, when his former professors brought a class to Manhattan's financial district, he was their host in his office at J.P. Morgan Securities.
Mike spent three years on the stock research marketing desk at the firm and is now a vice president in institutional equity sales, connecting JPM's global research and trading capabilities with N.Y.C. Hedge Fund investors.
Mike feels strongly that international experience is important. "It's a global economy. The more you can learn about government, culture and companies outside the U.S., the better," he says. He earned a German certificate and spent a semester at Richmond University in London. In 2009, he had the opportunity to work in the Mumbai, India, office for three months training new research associates.
He also values his undergraduate internship at Merrill Lynch. "Internships are mandatory," he says, "even more now than when I was a student."
Mike works long days that start early. He's often in the office at six looking at what's going on in Europe and Asia, because those markets open earlier. But he has plenty of interests to take his mind off the international economy: he runs and plays soccer, keeps a close eye on the real estate market, and goes out for "New York sushi: "It's the best!"


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Milwaukee College Shuts Down for Election Day
By Sean Lansing - November 2, 2012
Alverno, Election Day, Election2012, Elections, Voting
MacIver News Service | November 2, 2012
[Milwaukee, Wisc…] Milwaukee's Alverno College will be closed on Election Day so that students, faculty and staff can cast their ballots and work at the polls.
"They have no excuse not to vote," Kelly Fay, Public Relations Specialist told the MacIver News Service on October 19th.
Alverno posted a press release on November 1st announcing the decision.
"This is the third time Alverno has offered poll worker training sessions on campus; the first was for the 2008 presidential election. Alverno was also closed on presidential Election Day in November 2008 to encourage all members of the Alverno community to be more involved in the political process," the release reads.
The college recently received a grant to train 200 students as poll workers.
Alverno College is an all-women's Catholic school in Milwaukee with an enrollment of 2,600 students.
Sean Lansing

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Q: Detect role mention discord.js So, I have a command which locks out the @everyone role from sending messages to a channel. I would like to make so that the user could run the command and mention a specific role along with it and then the members of that role will be blocked from sending messages.
Here is my code so far which only locks the everyone role:
if (!message.guild.me.hasPermission(`MANAGE_CHANNELS`)) return message.reply('I lack the required permissions to run this command. (Required Permissions: ``MANAGE_CHANNELS``)');
        if(message.member.hasPermission("MANAGE_CHANNELS")){
            const channel = message.channel
            const Discord = require("discord.js")
            let replyMessage = message.reply("Are you sure you want to continue this command, it will remove send permissions from the everyone role. Type ``yes`` to continue.")
            let filter = msg => msg.author.id == message.author.id && msg.content.toLowerCase() == 'yes';
            message.channel.awaitMessages(filter, {max: 1, time: 20000}).then(collected => {

                message.reply('Confirmed!');

                message.channel.updateOverwrite(message.guild.everyone, {
                SEND_MESSAGES: false
                })
                .then(channel => channel.send("Channel Locked"))
                .catch(console.error);
            });

I couldn't find much on checking role mentioning but I have this and was wondering if you could just change the message.mentions.**members**.first() and replace it with message.mentions.**roles**.first():
let member = message.mentions.members.first() || message.guild.members.cache.get(args[0])

and was wondering if anyone could help me.
Thanks.

A: Yes you can replace
message.mentions.users.first()

with
message.mentions.roles.first()

This would look like this:
let role = message.mentions.roles.first() || message.guild.roles.cache.find(role => role.name === args.join(" ");

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Lawyer who earned fame defending Detroit police in Algiers Motel case recalls legacy
Norman Lippitt depicted in director Kathryn Bigelow's new film 'Detroit'
Joel Kurth
Bridge Magazine
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Norman Lippitt says he's peeved an upcoming movie about Detroit's civil unrest in 1967 won't give him proper credit for his legal skills in successfully representing Detroit officers tied to the killings of three black teens in what's become known as the Algiers Motel incident.
Norman Lippitt makes no apologies. He made big money winning acquittals for cops accused of brutalizing blacks in Detroit. It was a paycheck.
Lippitt leans back in his corner office in downtown Birmingham. He's discussing his most infamous case: successfully defending white cops accused of beatings and murder at the Algiers Motel as Detroit burned in the summer of 1967. The allegations were savage. The case exposed racial wounds that perhaps still haven't healed.
Lippitt pauses. He puts his feet on his desk to reveal soft leather driving shoes that he wears without socks.
"Let me ask you a question," he says with a smile. "What do you think of my new shoes?"
Lippitt, once one of Detroit's best-known and most flamboyant trial attorneys, is ready yet again for his star turn.
Now 81, he's edgy and annoyed — but loving the attention — in the days leading to the Aug. 4 release of "Detroit," Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's movie based on the Algiers Motel killings. Lippitt is one of the last surviving principals of the divisive case, and a character based largely on him is played by John Krasinski, of television's "The Office."
Lippitt hasn't seen the movie. And he's upset. Not that it may depict his clients, the cops, as racists. But that it might suggest it took something less than brilliant advocacy to persuade all-white juries to acquit the officers.
"I'm just pissed off that they're going to make me look irrelevant. I don't like being irrelevant," Lippitt says.
"I'd rather have them tell me that I'm an asshole or a racist than tell me that I'm irrelevant.
"Maybe I'm a narcissist."
Lippitt likes to talk. About himself. "I can't believe all the shit I've done in my life," says Lippitt, who spoke to Bridge Magazine for six hours about a career that's included a judgeship, celebrity clients and a thriving commercial law firm, Lippitt O'Keefe Gornbein PLLC.
But it's the words Lippitt won't speak that frustrate veterans of Detroit's civil rights movement.
For 17 years, until 1984, he was lead counsel for the Detroit Police Officers Association, where he defended numerous officers accused of brutality and murder. That made him the public face — and defender — of the city's white ruling class, says Heather Ann Thompson, a University of Michigan professor of African-American history who has studied the city's police force. There's a "direct line" between Lippitt's legal victories — and tactics that included eliminating blacks from juries — and outrage over recent police killings of civilians that spawned the Black Lives Matter movement, says Danielle McGuire, a Wayne State University history professor who is writing a new book about the Algiers Motel killings.
Lippitt refuses to give critics the satisfaction of rationalizing his work defending police accused of murder — or even mouthing platitudes about the justice system requiring a vigorous defense for all defendants.
To him, each case was a battle. Win. Move on.
"Norman Lippitt is soulless," says Sheila Cockrel, a former Detroit city councilwoman whose deceased husband, Ken Cockrel Sr., was an attorney who sued the city over police abuses in the 1970s.
"Norman got extremely wealthy protecting raging police brutality. It's a form of cynicism that is breathtaking."
Sheila Cockrel, a former Detroit city councilwoman, says she's troubled that Norman Lippitt has tried to rationalize the tactics he used in his defense of police officers accused of murder. Here, she reviews news clips she's saved about Detroit police brutality.
Told by Bridge that he was called "soulless" and "transactional," Lippitt seems taken aback. He takes a few moments to consider.
"I don't necessarily disagree."
Swashbuckler in Ralph Lauren
Lippitt says people can think what they want of him, as long as no one calls him a bad lawyer. And judges, colleagues, retired newspaper reporters who covered his career and even critics agree he's a hell of a lawyer.
Lippitt was a "swashbuckler," a "stick-your-chin-out and take-the-first-swing personality" who worked harder than most and had an easy rapport with jurors, says his former partner, Robert Harrison, a Bloomfield Hills attorney. Back then, Lippitt looked like "Godfather"-era Al Pacino, in his Ralph Lauren suits, perfect hair and sideburns.
"Norman Lippitt hasn't passed a lot of mirrors without stopping to say hi," says Al Grant of the Retired Detroit Police Officers Association, who started with the force in 1970.
Boxes of news clips saved by Lippitt's mother include fashion spreads for which he posed in The Detroit News Sunday Magazine. To Lippitt, his suits were the uniform of a "samurai" — a warrior sworn to his patron, right or wrong.
This description comes from his own 2011 memoir, "In the Trenches: Guerilla Warfare and Other Trial Tactics." It's on prominent display in his office alongside another favorite: "Warriors' Words," whose quotes — particularly those about self-confidence — are highlighted.
Lippitt has always had a chip on his shoulder. The son of a Highland Park jeweler says he grew up in a Jewish family of "tough guys" in northwest Detroit. Unlike some peers, Lippitt says he didn't experience anti-Semitism. Quite the contrary.
A former partner says Norman Lippitt was known as a "swashbuckler" during the 1970's. Never media-shy, Lippitt posed in fashion spreads for "The Detroit News Sunday Magazine."
"Nobody screwed around with me," he says.
Lippitt was a jock who excelled in sports. ("They used to call me the fastest white boy in Detroit.") Football took him to the University of Detroit. A desire to avoid being a jeweler led him to graduate from Detroit College of Law in 1961.
In those days, many prominent law firms were reluctant to hire Jews. Lippitt says he never dwelled on the slight and quickly joined the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, where he tried more than 100 felony cases before he turned 30.
"We could smell a tiger the moment Norm took his first case," an anonymous lawyer is quoted in a 1971 profile in The Detroit News. "He was a winner. You knew it the way he walked into court."
By the mid-1960s, Lippitt was married and had two children. He says he wasn't making enough money as an assistant prosecutor. It would become a theme for much of his life.
"It was always more and more money. And more and more fame to get more and more money. It was never enough for Norman," says Sanford Plotkin, a defense attorney who worked with Lippitt in the 1990s and admires his "brilliant legal mind."
Lippitt quit the prosecutor job in 1965 because it paid $10,500 per year, about $82,000 in today's dollars. Two years later, he got the police union contract. By 1969, Lippitt told a newspaper that he was earning $75,000 per year, about a half-million in today's money.
Lippitt did it by defending one cop after another accused of brutality.
There was plenty of work in Detroit.
When emerging evidence contradicted police's initial statements, police claimed Pollard and Temple were shot when they tried to grab their guns. Cooper's death has never been explained.
3 dead at the Algiers
Detroit was becoming a more diverse city in the 1960s, but its police department remained virtually all white.
By the late 1960s, the city was nearly 40 percent African-American, with most living south of Grand Boulevard. The police had 4,300 officers — fewer than 250 of them black, says Willie Bell, who joined the force in 1971 and is now chairman of the Board of Police Commissioners.
"There was nothing positive to say about the police department then," says Bell, who is African-American.
Police — and their politically powerful union — did more than fight crime in Detroit. They enforced a social order that separated blacks and whites, says Thompson, the UM professor.
"Rather than hearing what the community was saying — that the police were operating like a renegade army — they kept doubling down with brutality," says Thompson, who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for a book she wrote about the 1971 Attica Prison riot.
That was the atmosphere leading to the night of July 23, 1967, when police raided a black-owned, after-hours speakeasy on 12th Street and Clairmount. A crowd formed. A bottle was thrown. And then a window broke.
Five days later, 43 were dead, hundreds of stores were burned or looted and thousands were injured or arrested.
On the third night of the violence, police reported sniper fire at the Algiers Motel on Woodward Avenue, about a mile from the origin of the uprisings. The motel had a bad reputation. Police were on edge because, earlier in the day, a revered fellow officer, Jerome Olshove, had been shot and killed during a scuffle with looters.
City police, state troopers and National Guardsmen arrived at the motel. By morning, three black teens were dead. At least two, according to motel guests, were executed at close range by white Detroit police.
No sniper weapon was ever found. Friends of the murdered teens, who were themselves brutalized, later told investigators the gunshot police heard was a toy starter's pistol one teen had fired as a prank.
Courtesy of Walter P. Reuther Library of Wayne State University
Coroners remove the bodies of three black teens: Carl Cooper, 17, Aubrey Pollard, 19, and Fred Temple, 18. Police initially claimed the three died during a sniper gunfire in July 1967.
Murderous 'game'
To this day, there's much confusion about what happened in those early hours at the Algiers.
According to trial testimony, newspaper accounts and a book, The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey, the short version goes like this:
Amid the violence, several black teens, including a music group, the Dramatics, along with two white teenage girls, took refuge in the motel. Upon hearing what they thought was gunfire, law enforcement shot out the lights near the motel and stormed the building.
For about an hour, three young white Detroit cops — Ronald August, Robert Paille and David Senak — along with a black security guard, Melvin Dismuke, allegedly brutalized motel guests in an effort to learn who fired the gun that started the raid.
Eight black men and two white women were lined up against a wall. Some were beaten with the butts of guns while called racial epithets. The women had their clothes torn and were taunted as "n****r lovers."
Police played a gruesome "game" to find out who fired the gun. They led one black teen into a side room and fired a gun to make their friends in the hallway think the teen was murdered and become so scared they'd confess. Another teen, Aubrey Pollard, 19, was led into a second room, apparently as part of the game. He ended up dead, under circumstances that suggested the second cop didn't know he was supposed to fake Pollard's execution.
By sunrise, two other teens were also dead: Carl Cooper, 17, and Fred Temple, 18.
The Detroit cops did not report the shootings to superiors. After witness accounts began to emerge, the cops initially claimed the teens were already dead when they entered the Algiers. When that explanation collapsed, two officers confessed to shooting Pollard and Temple, but asserted self-defense, saying the men tried to grab their guns. To this day, it remains unclear how and when Cooper was shot.
Lippitt entered the case when he was called by the union. August, a former clarinet player for the police band, was at police headquarters, giving his statement about the deaths. Lippitt stopped the interrogation.
"All I did was my job," Lippitt says. "Someone has to defend them. Someone has to do the dirty work."
Three white Detroit police officers – Ronald August (from left), Robert Paille and David Senak – along with black security guard, Melvin Dismuke, allegedly brutalized Aligers Motel guests during the July 1967 unrest. None were convicted.
Playing to prejudice?
Thrust into an incendiary case at age 32, Lippitt says he did what he's always done: Work hard and win.
His strategy, which he'd employ in other brutality cases over the years, was to remove blacks from juries, poke holes in witness testimony and criticize police administration for failing to better train the officers.
It was an effective formula.
"He only had to do a couple of things: Discredit the witnesses and get the whitest jury you could get," says McGuire, the Wayne State professor who has interviewed Lippitt several times.
"Does it take a genius to play on people's racism? I don't think so."
Initially, two officers were charged with murder, but Lippitt persuaded a judge to drop charges against Paille. Lippitt got August's murder trial delayed several times, citing pretrial publicity and raw feelings about the incident in Detroit. Blacks were so outraged by the killings that prominent leaders, including Ken Cockrel and civil rights icon Rosa Parks, participated in a symbolic citizens tribunal that found the officers guilty.
August's trial was relocated to tiny Mason, a nearly all-white town near Lansing. The judge in the case, William Beer, approved several motions that ended up favoring Lippitt's client.
Prosecutors persuaded Beer to allow them to fire a starter's pistol in the courtroom. They'd hoped it would show police overreacted. Instead, the noise "sounded like a howitzer" in the cavernous building and scared jurors, Lippitt says.
The judge also allowed jurors to watch 20 minutes of television footage of the violence over objection of prosecutors, who accused Lippitt of playing "on every base emotion" in showing the footage.
"The film is a blatant appeal to bias and bigotry," assistant prosecutor Avery Weiswasser argued.
Lippitt closed the case by arguing that what happened in Detroit was neither a riot nor an uprising.
"It was a war! A war where every police officer, every Guardsmen and every soldier was working in a battleground," the attorney told the jury, according to an account in the book Unsolved Civil Rights Murder Cases that Lippitt confirmed.
"Ronald August is guilty of working under those conditions. Guilty of working days and nights with little or no rest. Guilty of standing idle while looting and firebombing and sniping was going on. Guilty of being shot (at) in the street. Guilty for not being allowed to shoot criminals. This is what happened in those first days of that war in Detroit — while the mayor and the governor and the president were indecisive."
As the trial closed, another victory for the defense: Beer told jurors they could only convict August of first-degree murder or acquit him, leaving them with no option for a "compromise" verdict of manslaughter.
The all-white jury returned with a not-guilty verdict in less than three hours.
U.S. attorneys also brought charges against all three police officers, and the guard Dismukes, accusing them of conspiring to deny civil rights to Algiers' motel guests.
Lippitt got the federal conspiracy case moved to Flint, claiming he couldn't get an impartial jury in Detroit because of the publication of The Algiers Motel Incident book.
This time, the not-guilty verdict was delivered in nine hours. Again, the jury was all white, an easier accomplishment at the time, before the U.S. Supreme Court made it harder to strike potential jurors on the basis of race.
"Yeah, it was an all-white jury," Lippitt says. "I would have had an all-white jury in (the Detroit) Recorder's Court as well."
"I don't apologize for that. As an attorney, you have an obligation to pursue everything on behalf of your client."
Even with an all-white jury, Lippitt says, he did a "hell of a job," was better prepared than prosecutors and "cut the witnesses to shreds."
Lippitt says he never spoke to his clients again. All the officers except Senak, who was represented by a different lawyer, are dead. So is the judge and the assistant prosecutor, Weiswasser.
The Algiers Motel was razed in 1979 and is now a park.
'I fight for the fuzz'
Lippitt was never shy about discussing money. He told The Detroit News in 1971 he wouldn't represent poor people because "to win costs money." By the late 1970s, he says he was billing $250,000 per year, the equivalent of $1 million, representing police.
"I do fight for the cop, the fuzz, the pig … I think he's trying to do a near impossible job," Lippitt told the newspaper.
He defended Detroit officers in the infamous STRESS (Stop The Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) unit, formed to crack down on street violence in 1971. The decoy unit consisted of officers posing as bums or drunks to lure muggers. In less than two years, police killed 22 men, all but one were black.
Among the officers Lippitt successfully defended was Patrolman Raymond "Mad Dog" Peterson. In two years, he shot 10 people, killing eight, including a black motorist who fell asleep at the wheel and rear-ended Peterson's car at a highway off-ramp.
Peterson initially claimed the man, Robert Hoyt, 24, pulled a knife. When a hair found on the weapon matched Peterson's cat, Lippitt opted for a different defense. He argued the Vietnam veteran police officer suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
In a move Lippitt admits he "would never get away with today," he picked jurors by presenting them with a scenario during jury selection. A man shoots a burglar in his kitchen. When he turns on the light, he realizes it's his teenage neighbor and plants a knife. Is he guilty of murder or filing a false police report?
Those who opted for the latter stayed on the jury.
"People don't remember, these were violent times," says Grant, the retired police union leader. "Lippitt was a guy who did a good job for us when we needed it."
A police unit known as STRESS (Stop the Robberies, Enjoy Safe Streets) killed 22 people, all but one of them black, in less than two years, sparking outrage and court actions. Coleman A. Young campaigned against the unit and abolished it when he took office as mayor in 1974.
Around that time, Lippitt says he was awakened several times a month by union calls when police shot civilians. A union driver would pick him up and take him to headquarters to help officers involved with the shootings write their reports.
Lippitt was a fast typist, so he typed the reports for the cops. Sometimes, he helped police with phrases, such as "Fearing for my life ...," Lippitt acknowledges.
Then-state Sen. Coleman A. Young, who was in the courtroom when August was acquitted in the Algiers case, campaigned against police tactics during the 1973 mayoral campaign. In his first order as Detroit's first black mayor, he disbanded the STRESS unit.
"Norman Lippitt and the police acquittals absolutely had a major impact on race relations both in the 1970s and today," says McGuire, the Wayne State professor.
"He helped lay a foundation for what is acceptable and what police can get away with, which helped drive the call for black power. … In a way, Norman Lippitt helped get Coleman Young elected."
It's an argument that Lippitt's former partner calls "ridiculous."
"Norman didn't cause the '67 riots. There was a social movement that was very complicated and far greater than Norman," Harrison says.
"Our directive as lawyers is to zealously represent clients and to consider nothing other than their defense. Is Norman supposed to take a fall? Would he be considered a nice guy now if he did a shitty job with those cases?"
Wrong side of history?
And then, like so many Detroiters, Lippitt moved on.
From 1970 to 1980, the city's white population fell by half, to 414,000. By 1980, 63 percent of the city's 1.2 million residents were black.
Lippitt moved his practice from downtown Detroit to Southfield in the mid '70s. A decade later, in 1985, he was appointed to a judgeship in Oakland County Circuit Court, the more affluent county north of Detroit, where he lasted 3½ years before transitioning to commercial law.
Over the years, he represented Ambassador Bridge mogul Manuel "Matty" Moroun in a lawsuit with his sisters over the family business (Lippitt loosened up one of the sisters in a deposition by asking if she thought he was handsome); prominent trial attorney Geoffrey Fieger over a breach of contract case (the two had a falling out when Fieger criticized Lippitt's opening statement); former Detroit Red Wings hockey great Sergei Fedorov (it didn't end well), and the wife of Oakland Mall owner Jay Kogan in their divorce (which included a brawl in his office and $5.6 million alimony judgment).
"Ask any lawyer 50 years of age or younger: Everyone knows me, everyone. But not one out of 10 will remember my criminal days anymore," Lippitt says.
As the 50th anniversary of the Algiers shootings nears, though, his criminal defense work is again in focus. Last year, he met for three hours with Bigelow, the director of the "Detroit" movie, which will have its premiere in Detroit on Tuesday.
"Detroit," a movie about police killings during the 1967 civil unrest, debuts Aug. 4, about a week after the 50th anniversary of what some call a riot and others a rebellion caused lasting damage to the city of Detroit.
Now, media from as far away as Japan are calling. Cockrel, the former city councilwoman, says Lippitt's legacy is sorrowful.
"He got off people who assassinated young men," she says. "And he did it with no ideology behind it other than 'winning.' To me, this is behavior of someone who stands for nothing other than self-aggrandizement."
Was he on the wrong side of history? Perhaps, Lippitt says.
Were some of his clients racist? Probably.
"I don't know why everybody wants to make me a do-gooder. I'm not a do-gooder. I'm not a do-badder, either," Lippitt says.
"I'm a trial lawyer. I pay my taxes. I give to charity. I love animals.
"I'm very good to women. ... When I was a judge, they used to say about me: I was a woman's judge. You give me a fat, ugly woman and a guy who's got a lot of money, who's got a girlfriend, a blonde 20 years younger than his wife. His wife's gonna get a lot of alimony because she's not marketable."
Friends have heard that sort of talk before. They sigh. "That's our Normy," one says.
Longtime friend Oliver Mitchell, a former federal prosecutor and one-time general counsel of Ford Motor Co., says Lippitt has "become a caricature of himself" over the years. Even if Lippitt is reluctant to say so, he helped defend the Constitution by providing vigorous defenses to unpopular defendants, Mitchell says.
"Norman had no reservations about representing police officers in matters that weren't always popular. That's what (defense attorneys) do," Mitchell says. "What bothers him is that so many people are reacting negatively."
If he is bothered, Lippitt isn't tipping his hand. After several hours of talking to Bridge ("I love this"), Lippitt has one more revelation about the Algiers.
"Are you ready for this? You're going to fall off that chair," he says.
"If I was the prosecutor, they would have been convicted.
"I was that good."


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Q: What is the regex needed for locating a sequence starting with [ and ending with ]? Just as a warning this post contains profanity (apologies in advance).
In R I am trying to do a webscraping project with rap song lyrics. I have scraped lyrics from Wu Tang songs from a site called AZlyrics.
Let's say I have a two string of lyrics like this:-
string1 = "Bring da fuckin ruckus...[Chorus]"
string2 = "I scream on ya ass like your dad, bring it on...[Chorus][Verse Four: The Genius/GZA]"

I would like to remove [....] from my strings such that the two strings should become:
""Bring da fuckin ruckus..."
"I scream on ya ass like your dad, bring it on..."

I have been trying to do this with
stringr::str_replace(string1, "\[.*?\]", "")

but I get this error:

Error: '\[' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting ""\["

I am quite unfamiliar with how regex works so I am not sure how to fix this.

A: You need double-backslashes to escape properly.
re <- "(\\[[^]]*\\])+"
stringr::str_replace_all(string2, re, "")

*

*( begin group

*\\[ literal open-bracket

*[^]]* zero or more instances of characters that are not ]

*\\] literal close-bracket

*+ one or more instances of group

A more challenging example:
str_replace_all('a [][adsfads] b [some]',re,"") ## "a  b "

str_remove_all() would be a slight improvement over "replace with blank"


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Manoj Bajpayee to Star in Thriller 'Despatch' for Kanu Behl and Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP
Indian actor Manoj Bajpayee will star in investigative thriller film "Despatch," directed by Kanu Behl and produced by Ronnie Screwvala's RSVP. "The film unfolds in the world of crime journalism and Bajpayee plays a character who finds himself sucked into the murky underbelly of business and crime.
Bajpayee, one of India's most respected actors, has won best actor at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards twice, for "Aligarh" and "Bhonsle." Behl's debut feature "Titli" bowed at Cannes in 2014, where it was nominated for the Camera d'Or and the Un Certain Regard award.
RSVP, headed by former Disney India head Screwvala, is the middle of a production boom. It is in the thick of several projects including "Ashwatthama," "Five Past Midnight, "Sitara," "Pippa," and has just wrapped "Rashmi Rocket."
"Despatch" is designed as a direct-to-digital project, but a streaming platform has not yet been announced.
"The scope for storytelling is incredible right now with new platforms and evolved audience tastes," Screwvala said. "At RSVP we are focused on developing our own scripts and screenplays and working with directors that share the common vision of storytelling. With its unique perspective and gripping storyline 'Despatch' is the kind of content we believe in."
" 'Despatch' is a story I've been itching to tell for a while now," Behl said. "It reflects our lives and times and could not be getting made at a more pertinent moment."
"As an actor I want to be part of stories that I want to tell and that deserve to be told. 'Despatch' is one such film," Bajpayee added. "With the digital age, our stories can now reach and be accessed by viewers across the globe and I'm confident this film will have many takers because it is relevant to our times. I am looking forward to collaborating with Kanu Behl who is well versed with the changing times and has total control on his craft of storytelling."
Bajpayee will next be seen in the second season of Amazon Prime Video India's "Family Man."
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Q: How can I trim whitespaces in Go from a slice after Split I have a string that is comma separated, so it could be
test1, test2, test3 or test1,test2,test3 or test1,     test2,  test3.
I split this in Go currently with strings.Split(s, ","), but now I have a []string that can contain elements with an arbitrary numbers of whitespaces.
How can I easily trim them off? What is best practice here?
This is my current code
var property= os.Getenv(env.templateDirectories)
if property != "" {
    var dirs = strings.Split(property, ",")
    for index,ele := range dirs {
        dirs[index] = strings.TrimSpace(ele)
    }
    return dirs
}

I come from Java and assumed that there is a map/reduce etc functionality in Go also, therefore the question.

A: Easy way without looping
test := "2   , 123,    1"
result := strings.Split(strings.ReplaceAll(test," ","") , ",")

A: You can use strings.TrimSpace in a loop. If you want to preserve order too, the indexes can be used rather than values as the loop parameters:
Go Playground Example
EDIT: To see the code without the click:
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
)

func main() {
    input := "test1,          test2,  test3"
    slc := strings.Split(input , ",")
    for i := range slc {
      slc[i] = strings.TrimSpace(slc[i])
    }
    fmt.Println(slc)
}

A: The encoding/csv package can handle this:
package main

import (
   "encoding/csv"
   "fmt"
   "strings"
)

func main() {
   for _, each := range []string{
      "test1,     test2,  test3", "test1, test2, test3", "test1,test2,test3",
   } {
      r := csv.NewReader(strings.NewReader(each))
      r.TrimLeadingSpace = true
      s, e := r.Read()
      if e != nil {
         panic(e)
      }
      fmt.Printf("%q\n", s)
   }
}

https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/csv#Reader.TrimLeadingSpace

A: If you already use regexp may be you can split using regular expressions:
regexp.MustCompile(`\s*,\s*`).Split(test, -1)

This solution is probably slower than the standard Split + TrimSpaces, but is more flexible. For example if you want to skip empty fields you can :
regexp.MustCompile(`(\s*,\s*)+`).Split(test, -1)

or to use multiple separators
regexp.MustCompile(`\s*[,;]\s*`).Split(test, -1)

You can test it in the go playground.


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Lil Keed's Younger Brother Lil Gotit Reveals New Details On Passing & Hospitalization
By Mahlik Campbell
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The hip-hop world was rocked this past weekend following the passing of Young Thug's YSL protégé Lil Keed, who's also the older brother of rapper Lil Gotit. He hopped on IG Live and reflected on Keed's final moments.
Gotit told his 1 million followers that he rushed Keed to the hospital to try and save him before he passed away at 24 years old.
Friends and other sources have suggested Keed died from kidney and liver failure, though the exact cause is still unknown. He was set to perform in North Carolina on Saturday, May 14th.
Keed's rise to prominence in his home city of Atlanta and beyond began in 2018 with catchy songs like "Nameless" and "Fetish" feat. Young Thug. Around this time, he signed a deal with Thug's Young Stoner Life (YSL) imprint – also home to Gunna – and became an heir to the throne.
'Long Live Mexico' from 2019 is often praised as his most compelling album thanks to his limitless vocal range and jumpy cadence heard on hits like "HBS" and "Snake." (The latter had a moment on TikTok, too.)
His last album 'Trapped on Cleveland 3' debuted at #41 on the Billboard 200 with features from Thug, Travis Scott, Lil Baby and more.
Keed was purposeful with his music, too. Back in 2020, he told Montreality why he never mentioned death in his raps, as he wanted to live a long time for his daughter.
"I don't say nothin' about death because I'm not ready to die," he said. "I'm ready to live my life and take care of my daughter and meet my daughter's children. ... I'm tryna live 100 years, man."
Adding to the eeriness of his passing is that Thug, Gunna and other YSL members are behind bars facing RICO charges.
Many people remembered Keed not only as a talented and proficient artist but as a good-hearted person. "Promise you he was such a good person aside from being a good artist," Kids Take Over wrote.
In the same Montreality interview above, he spoke about staying true to himself and his unwavering respect for his fans: "I just make sure I treat everybody how I want to be treated."
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Coming from Perugia: go out of the freeway at Sansepolcro and follow directions of "Arezzo". After about 30 minutes once you passed through "Palazzo del Pero" leave the freeway and take a state road. After about 3 Km on the left you will see directions of "Arezzo" and "Stadio Comunale", go downhill and at the end turn right following directions of "Bagnoro" and then "Gragnone". The farmhouse is on your right just after a small and narrow bridge.


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No engagement across the business: selling and customers were not seen as a responsibility for the whole business to support, leading to disengagement and poor customer outcomes including retention.
The good news is that businesses don't need to do anything too radical to improve. They need to lead their sales strategy and operations execution plan and tweak their sales systems and lead their teams with purpose.
Higher customer satisfaction, increased NPS (net promoter scores), more repeat business, etc.
Doing this leads to Clarity, effective Communication and Consistency across the board that builds Trust and Commitment and makes for far better sales outcomes.


The stove vent in my 2018 Black Rock 24KTS has no storm flap. I discovered this on a trip to southern Utah when a few days of high winds blew sand all over the stovetop and kitchen area. My older Black Rock trailer had a nylon flap behind the fan and I'm wondering if my new trailer had one and it fell out (I don't know how it could physically fall out) or if it doesn't come with a flap. Could a 24KTS owner check their stove fan and see if there is a storm flap?
There is none on mine.
There is one on our 2016, also little tabs that swivel to lock it shut while traveling.
This is a serious omission in my opinion. I wonder if there's a mod or upgrade available? I emailed Todd at ORV. I'll post his reply.
my 2016 Creekside is missing the same damper flap.
2015 Black Rock, I've got one.
I have one on mine, I hear it flapping when I open and close the door with all the windows and vents closed, shows you how good theses trailers are sealed up.
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Our 2016 Glacier Peak has one on the Heng vent system, they have replacement parts on their website. www.hengsindustries.com. Also available at Amazon and Etrailer.
Hopefully you all have the same system. ORV may have forgot to install it.
I heard back from Todd at ORV right away (great service as always!) and he said mine should have an outside flap that locks in place. Mine has either gone missing or they installed the wrong vent cap. I sent Todd this photo.
That's what mine looks like on the outside too.


Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of respiratory illness, including bronchiolitis and pneumonia, in the young, elderly, and immunocompromised. RSV poses a substantial public health threat due to its association with severe morbidity and mortality in infants and premature babies.
An RSV vaccine is needed but none has yet been licensed. The first RSV candidate vaccine, a formalin-inactivated virus developed in the 1960s, not only failed to protect against disease, but led to enhanced disease in vaccine recipients upon subsequent natural infection. Since this historic incident, many have attempted to understand the factors contributing to this enhanced pathogenesis and to develop alternative vaccine formulations. However, progress has been slow and frustrating, in part because natural RSV infection does not induce a durable immune response.
On a recent episode of TWiV, Vincent and Alan interviewed Kate O'Brien, Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In a discussion about pathogens that cause pneumonia and related respiratory infections, Kate provided an optimistic overview of current vaccine strategies for RSV. Because I studied this pathogen during my postdoctoral years, and I am somewhat familiar with the issues hampering progress in this field, this discussion piqued my interest.
Passive protection of infants through immunization of pregnant mothers in the third trimester. Maternal antibodies would cross the placenta and protect unborn babies through the first few months of life. This approach is currently effectively used to prevent neonatal tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap vaccine), as well as influenza.
Passive protection of infants through delivery of long-acting monoclonal antibodies immediately or soon after birth. This approach would protect infants up to four or five months of age.
Active protection of infants via a live-attenuated RSV vaccine. Because newborn infants have immature immune systems, this strategy is likely to be most effective in infants older than six months of age.
An ideal approach would involve combining two of these strategies. Such a passive-active combination would protect unborn and/or newborn infants via delivery of maternal or monoclonal antibodies (strategy 1 or 2, respectively). This protection would be extended by delivery of an infant vaccine after six months of age (strategy 3).
The RSV F (fusion) protein, which is the target of the monoclonal antibody palivizumab, is highly conserved and elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies. Recent studies have shown that the majority of neutralizing activity in human serum is directed against the pre-fusion form of protein F, inspiring the development of an RSV pre-fusion F vaccine. Using the Tdap vaccine as a control, a recent set of observer-blinded, Phase II Clinical Trials aimed to investigate the safety and efficacy of such a formulation as a potential maternal and older adult vaccine. The vaccine was well tolerated and boosted pre-existing RSV neutralizing antibody titers to a level that would provide protection to a potential infant until four months after delivery. Although the study was conducted in non-pregnant women, thirteen women became pregnant during the study, nine of whom gave birth to healthy, full term babies. The other four pregnancies resulted in two induced and two spontaneous abortions, none of which were assessed to be related to vaccination or any observed congenital anomaly.
Newborn infants are among the most susceptible to infection with RSV, yet there are no RSV vaccines that are both safe and effective for this population. Vaccination of pregnant women could provide passive antibody protection to infants during this stage of profound vulnerability.


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In the realm of the 3rd steering committee meeting of the tOSSad EU project, I had the chance to visit Istanbul. While being there, I also attended and presented at the FOSS Days 2006, the bigest FOSS event in Turkey.
Istanbul and the Bosporus at night.
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Countdown to 'Dawn' — What Will Happen in Iran on Feb. 11?
We are in the middle of the Dahe Fajr (the "Ten-Day Dawn") in Iran. On February 1, thirty-one years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini landed at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran. Ten days later, the Shah's government fell. For these ten days Iran strings its streets with lights and joyfully makes ready to celebrate the founding of the Islamic Republic on February 11, which is this Thursday.
On February 1, President Ahmadinejad announced that Iran will "deliver a telling blow" to the "arrogant global powers" on the 11th.
Two days later he announced that Iran had successfully launched a satellite-capable rocket into space, prompting concerns that such rockets could carry a nuclear payload. The rocket carried a rat, two turtles, and some worms.
The regime is once again making ambiguous noises about its willingness, or unwillingness, to ship nuclear fuel outside of Iran for processing, hoping to avoid or defer harsher sanctions. In the meantime, Iran's major European trading partner, Germany, is beginning to pull corporate operations and personnel out of the country, and price controls on basic commodities are about to rise dramatically.
And a major German newspaper, the Süddeutschen Zeitung, reported on Thursday that Iran has developed an atomic bomb with the help of a scientist from the former Soviet Union.
The regime, as a festive gesture, has sentenced another nine protesters to death.
quietly working with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to speed up arms sales and rapidly upgrade defenses for oil terminals and other key infrastructure in a bid to thwart future attacks by Iran, according to former and current U.S. and Middle Eastern government officials.
In Israel, Moshe Yaalon, Minister for Strategic Affairs, stated "The Iranian regime must be told to choose between the bomb and survival. When given the same choice in 2003 the regime chose survival." The joint U.S.-Israeli military exercises, "Juniper Cobra", held in late October, included extensive ballistic missile defense components and had a "near-deployment" feel to them.
Who knows? The situation has many moving parts and remains fluid. Many key players inside and outside Iran believe that they face an existential threat.
The Iranian government may try to provoke Israel or the U. S. or others into precipitous action, hoping to display, in response, Iran's peaceful and rational behavior. Perhaps it will graciously release the three American hikers, as it did the British sailors in 2007, as an anniversary present.
The U. S. and its allies need to remain well-prepared, on high alert, and very cool.
What should the media do? Offer visibility and support to Iranians engaged in non-violent protest. Expose the actions, and offshore bank accounts, of individual officials within the Iranian government.
Be careful in framing questions: "What approaches are under consideration for improving the situation with Iran?" opens out to constructive conversation and tactical possibilities. "Will you back down and appease the war-mongers in Iran?" ups the ante and narrows the options. The stakes are already high enough.


Based in Riga, Latvia, kim? Contemporary Art Centre is an art institution that has gained prominence thanks to its highly tailored curatorial program. From exhibitions to lectures, discussions, a library, publications and other events, kim? fosters emergent talent and collaborations across the board.
The commission to develop a concept and subsequent set of materials for a three-month program – integrating 3 separate solo shows and multiple parallel events –, posed a two-fold challenge: to communicate the program but also to signal the center's 3rd anniversary.
Opting for a type and language-based approach, the sentence "Novēlu jo kuplu nākotni!" (May you flourish and thrive!), picked from an old scan by Latvian turn-of-the-century artist Rūdolfs Pērle, became the key constructive element for the design. The combination of two sets of complementary typography in a dual structure is effective in creating rhythm as well as in solving the bilingual requirement for the materials.


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Extreme Home Makeover: A Massage Adventure
By Rainbough Phillips, LMT, Owner of Breath & Balance Bodyworks
Have you had any adventures in massage? My first adventure occurred about a year after I had started working in the field. I was a few months into my second semester of massage school, and was working full time at a small massage clinic.
I remember that the same week I was having to prepare for my sports massage exam at TLCschool, I was simultaneously getting ready to do an outdoor chair massage event that I would never forget.
I actually stumbled upon the opportunity unknowingly. There was a sign up sheet for an outdoor "event," at the clinic where I worked. The details were ambiguous, but it was apparently for outdoor chair massage. At the time, I had never done a chair massage event, but I was encouraged to sign up anyway.
A few hours after taking my sports massage exam, I arrived at a large parking lot in North Austin, was issued a bright blue t-shirt, signed a myriad of forms, and was then ushered into a waiting van. The event was Extreme Home Makeover when the show visited north Austin.
The van took me and half a dozen workers of various construction related fields over to the neighborhood where the show was being filmed. From there, we walked for what felt like about a mile before we discovered the house/work site.
I had never made it through a whole episode of Extreme Home Makeover as I am not generally a big fan of reality shows, so I was shocked to see a foundation and the beginnings of a frame being put up.
The site was covered with blue-shirted workers with hard hats, hundreds of onlookers, dozens of heavy machines, and several camera men walking around with massive cameras on their shoulders.
The site where the massage was set up was right across the street from the house. It was the worker waiting/rest area (a perfect place for massage). My first client was a very chatty cameraman who told me in detail what it was like to carry the heavy cameras and travel most of the year doing these shows. He also told me how great it was to have massage available as it was often a luxury they were without.
I found myself massaging plumbers, writers, tilers, onlookers, neighbors, and even the managing director of the whole show. The managing director's job was to serve as the liaison between the builder and the production crew and thereby make sure everything went smoothly.
He told me that the humidity of Austin had caused a delay in the foundation drying which had put them many hours behind schedule. He also told me that the house was not built in a "week" as suggested on the show but in four days.
One of his primary jobs was making sure that the needed inspectors were on site and confirming that each part of the job was done correctly, safely, and to code. They had inspectors on site 24 hours a day through out the build for this reason.
In fact, if the inspectors found a problem all progress had to halt until it was fixed. Now imagine being the person that makes sure all that flows smoothly while simultaneously making sure all the filming that needs to happen happens. I was in awe. After that, whenever I was asked if I had massaged any "celebrities" during the show, I would say "no, but I got to massage a cameraman and THE Managing Director."
I also received many compliments on my massage work and was continuously thanked for "being there." By my last shift it was hard to leave. It was only two nights later and the house was nearly complete. They were working on counters, sinks, tiling, and the outside facade.
The passion and excitement of everyone around me was palpable, and the work that was accomplished before our eyes was so amazing.
I watched an episode of the show a few months later and was profoundly disappointed. The excitement, and the amazing accomplishment of building a big, safe, beautiful house in only four days seems to get a little lost behind the faces of celebrities hugging kids and picking out bedroom furniture.
Nevertheless, it was an amazing adventure for me and everyone who was there. This was how I got introduced to chair massage, and I have loved it ever since.
Rainbough Phillips is a graduate of Lauterstein-Conway Massage School and has been practicing massage therapy for five years. She has worked in several physical therapy and chiropractic offices and now runs Breath & Balance Bodyworks, a small yoga and massage business in Cedar Park, Texas. Rainbough passionately believes that everyone should know how to give a good massage.
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Planes Mistaken For Stars
Deathwish inc.
Reviewer SeanDaily
Back in July of 2014 I was all too excited to head to Beat Kitchen on Belmont Ave in Chicago to see Planes Mistaken for Stars after they had been broken up for five years. After the show, I chatted with Gared O'Donnell and he had mentioned they were working on new tunes. Here I am, two years and fifty-nine days later holding the record of the songs the PMFS front man had been talking about.
October 21, 2016 saw the release of PMFS's fourth full-length record, Prey, on Deathwish Inc. (their second for the label if you count the re-release of Mercy). Prey is raw, emotionally distraught, beautifully recorded, exquisitely written, and so, so much more.
The album opens with "Dementia Americana", which takes me back to the PMFS era of Spearheading the Sin Movement. It's brutally raw; an assaulting percussion section mixed with scathing guitars and O'Donnell's signature glottal vocals that are tinged with despair and anger while being touched with more than a little bit of distortion on the production side. This track is barely over a minute and a half and the perfect way to start off the newest PMFS album in ten years. It's the audio equivalent to a kick in the throat. The energy in this track is nuts, I can't wait to see it live at The Fest this year.
After being assaulted by the first track, the hype drops way down and makes room for the slow intro of "Til' It Clicks". The song opens on a droning guitar riff drowned in reverb. O'Donnell's sullen singing guides us to the chorus where the guitar riff remains fairly unchanged, just layered with thick analog gain and several tracks of vocals setting the glum mood. Mike Rickett's drumming on this song is intense and as thought out as ever. He's definitely, in my opinion anyway, one of the most underrated drummers in music today. All Rickett's parts are carefully crafted and though at times he's busier behind the kit than a lot of people think drummers should be, it never detracts from anything in the song. If anything, his rhythms so perfectly compliment the guitars that it's part of what makes PMFS such a great band. This song drones on for five minutes, but don't mistake my words. Drone isn't a negative thing. I'm using drone in the sense of put this track on and smoke two joints and just get lost in the music.
If you were paying attention to this album before it came out, then you'll recognize the third and fourth tracks, "Riot Season"and "Fucking Tenderness", as the first two singles to be released. Both of these are stellar, "Fucking Tenderness"being one of my favorites off of Prey. "Riot Season" is just straight rock with a stunning climbing melody for a chorus with a somewhat atmospheric vibe. The harmonized lead in ""¦Tenderness"is absurdly catchy. The verses in it make me think of a lonely autumn night, sitting in front of a fireplace drowning my woes in whiskey. The song ends on an unusual note for PMFS: some chords ringing out (not uncommon) but with a synth sweep accompanying that. In fact, there's quite a bit of synth hidden throughout the album, but I'll get to that later.
"She Who Steps"is yet again, in my opinion, a throwback to a different era of PMFS. The whole album is building on the vibe they left us with after Mercy, but with that middle ground in their songwriting when they transitioned from Deep Elm to No Idea. The bridge in this song is killer, distant sounding textured vocals that sound like they're coming from a truly tortured artist. The outro builds up, eventually "woofing"out rhythmically with intentional over-compression and distortion and then dropping off and ending with depressing piano notes.
"Clean Up Mean"was the last single released before the album dropped. Neil Keener's bass is gnarly and thick with gain and the pings on the ride cymbal are deep yet crystal clear. Guitar work on this track can be minimal at times, but I think the band is striving for a more ethereal vibe on the verses. The guitar lead on the bridge sounds like something from a deranged Chris Isaac record and I tend to believe Gared when he wails, "I don't wanna love you".
Another cool track off this album is "Black Rabbit". As a huge fan of PMFS for many years, I was sad when they called it quits all those years ago, but found some solace in Gared O'Donnell's new project Hawks & Doves. "Black Rabbit"reminds me exactly of that (who's songs were initially meant for PMFS) mixed with "Penitence"from Mercy. It's an acoustic effort with a bit of classic Wurlitzer electric piano coming in towards the end before finally ending with the slam of a door.
The tone of the boomy mid-range heavy guitars on "Pan In Flames"makes me smile. I don't understand how something can be so crystal clear and at the same time so muddled and overdriven. Rickett's drumming on this track is exactly what I expect from him, not in the sense that I knew what he was going to play before he played it, but just stylistically perfect and accenting the instruments in a beautiful way.
"Enemy Blinds"is another sorrowful track that packs emotion and intensity in a way that only Planes Mistaken for Stars can pull off. The song builds up to a wall of noise (once again doing that awesome over-compression trick) before finally dropping off and segueing into "Alabaster Cello" another favorite of mine off the album. Spacey guitars and crunchy bass start this one off alongside some minimalistic drumming that has some cool delay effects worked into the snare. The chorus effect on the guitars adds to the beauty of the track. The whole ending of Prey builds up in this atmospheric way. I don't know if it was an intentional decision while writing this masterpiece (and it is most definitely a masterpiece) but I feel like the whole album is a movement designed to leave the listener emotionally drained yet somewhat relieved (like a burden being lifted off ones shoulders) by the ending. "Alabaster Cello"ends perfectly building up in a non-structured way and eventually falling off with analog delay.
I cannot stress enough how amazing this album is. The production alone spins my head. As a tracking/mixing engineer I have no clue how or why Rickett's drums sound like they do. The snare has this unearthly crack to it, the kick drum is larger than life, and the room tone on the kit is beautiful and perfect in every way. Gared and Chuck's guitar tones throughout the album are stunning "" thick and gritty, but being so much more than just that and having sparkle and clarity to them at the same time. Keener's bass is absurd at times; it doesn't take over the record at any point, but it's ever present and impossible to ignore (sometimes I think bass tends to get lost in the mix on rock records, especially rock records with such dark tones and nasty vibes). The vocals are wraithlike and complex and raise the hairs on my arms; with all the glottal singing O'Donnell does I don't know how the man even has a voice to speak with these days (unless he lubes his throat with some extremely pungent whiskey on a regular basis). Everything on this record, every instrument and every tone, sits apart from one another in perfect clarity, nothing being masked or muddied. The band used to be known for having classically amazing but beat up gear and low quality recordings (I literally have no problem with that at all, in fact I love it), but this is what it sounds like with all that same gear being put through incredible production for a record with a heavenly/hellish (depending on your outlook) quality.
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Q: array item assigning in sorting functions of c++ its not correctly assigning items in an array during the sorting function of selection sort in c++.what is the correct way?
int a[] = { 22, 91, 35, 78, 10, 8, 75, 99, 1, 67 };
int arr_len = sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]);

for(int index = 0; index < arr_len - 1; index++)
{
    for(int n = index + 1; n < arr_len; n++)
    {
        if(a[index] > a[n])
        {
            a[index] = a[n];
            a[n] = a[index];
        }
    }
}

the result of my program gave me like this:
Array in sorted order: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 67

A: Let's say that you want to swap a and b. Let's say that the values are:
a = x
b = y

The first step of your attempt was to assign a = b. After such operation, the situation would be:
a = y
b = y

How could you at this point assign x to b? Think about it.
You can't. The original value of a has been lost. So, clearly this first step leads to a dead end.
The solution: Introduce a new variable, assign a onto that variable, assign b onto a, and finally assign the new variable onto b.
temp = a
a = b
b = temp


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In the spirit of "Ideas worth Spreading", TED has created TEDx, a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED like experience.


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Q: Why are some Windows in ALT-TAB preview are empty white frames? In Windows 7, when alt + Tab ing between windows, some windows are previewed and show their contents. Others appear as an empty white frame with a blank title bar.
When rotating through the windows using windows + tab, the same windows that are blank white with alt-tab are shown as small empty windows with the folder icon in them.
Why are some windows blank white, and what can be done to cause all windows to display their content and title while selecting with alt-tab?

A: This normally occurs for background processes, which don't actually have a window but is being picked up.


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OntoUML is an ontologically well-founded language for Ontology-driven Conceptual Modeling. OntoUML is built as a UML extension based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). The foundations of UFO and OntoUML can be traced back to Giancarlo Guizzardi's Ph.D. thesis "Ontological foundations for structural conceptual models". In his work, he proposed a novel foundational ontology for conceptual modeling (UFO) and employed it to evaluate and re-design a fragment of the UML 2.0 metamodel for the purposes of conceptual modeling and domain ontology engineering.

OntoUML has been adopted by many academic, corporate and governmental institutions worldwide for the development of conceptual models in a variety of domains. Finally, some of the foundational theories underlying OntoUML have also influenced other popular conceptual modeling languages such as ORM 2.0.

Supporting tools

In 2006, Guizzardi co-founded the  Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) located at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Vitória city, state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Since then, NEMO has been responsible for most of the developments in OntoUML. These include tool support to the language both as extensions of UML production-grade tools to support OntoUML (e.g., the MDG for Enterprise Architect), as well as a standalone tool called the OntoUML Lightweight Editor (OLED) for the development, verification, validation, anti-pattern detection and rectification, verbalization and implementation of domain ontologies.

Several papers about ontologies and OntoUML have been authored by members of the NEMO group.

In 2016 a group of former students from NEMO founded Menthor, a startup aiming at providing ontology engineering-related products and services. Among these products, they offer the Menthor Editor, an open-source ontology engineering tool for dealing with OntoUML models. It also includes OntoUML syntax validation, Alloy simulation,[2][3] Anti-Pattern verification,[4] and MDA transformations from OntoUML to OWL,[5][6] SBVR and Natural Language (Brazilian Portuguese). Menthor Editor is derived from OLED.

In 2017, as an initiative championed by the Czech Technical University in Czech Republic, an OntoUML portal has been launched.

References

See also

 Domain model

UML tools
Knowledge representation
Ontology (information science)
Ontology editors


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Home » Blog » RIP: Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D.
RIP: Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D.
By John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Last updated: 8 Jul 2018
Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D. died in the early morning hours of November 21, 2014. He was a well-known media psychologist in America.
Dr. Fischoff was the founding President of the American Psychological Association's Media Psychology Division (now called The Society for Media Psychology and Technology) and was responsible for creating the first Media Psychology Lab, co-founding the first Media Psychology journal, starting the first graduate program in Media Psychology, and assisting in developing the first Media Psychology PhD program.
According to Rachel Gordon Fischoff, his wife:
Stuart was born in New York City: he often tussled with the neighborhood toughs who beat on him because he was born Jewish; they learned it was in their best interest to curb that behavior."
He loved his parents; his sister hated him, he merely disliked her. Stuart did not care for high school and was a lousy student, but he loved going to Penn State, loved getting his Masters and Doctorate at The New School for Social Research and became what he wanted to become: an intellectual who used really big words and pronounced them correctly — which is why I married him. I can't pronounce anything over two syllables.
Breaking ranks with tweedy, clean-fingernail intellectuals, Stuart liked woodworking and built furniture for our home, he also crafted bird homes, squirrel homes, dining room tables for mice and big, outdoor wood sculptures in the mode of "rustic impulsive," the name he made-up for his artistic style.
Dr. Fischoff was the Senior Editor of the Journal of Media Psychology (JMP). Founded in 1996, JMP was the first American journal devoted singularly to media psychology. He was an Emeritus Professor of Media Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught for 33 years. During that time he established the first graduate degree program in Media Psychology and the nation's first exclusive lab for the study of media psychology.
Fischoff's areas of research included age differences in favorite movie monsters, scariest films, all-time favorite movies, gender, age, and race differences in film preferences, gender biases in film casting, and films at which people took ethnic offense. He helped found the first doctoral program in media psychology, at the Fielding Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.
In addition to his teaching and research duties at the university, Dr. Fischoff was a member of the Writers Guild of America (WGAw), an award winning screenwriter and a consultant on psychological issues to both the film and television industries. He has written numerous articles and book chapters in the areas of social, clinical, and media psychology and is a Fellow in Division 46 (Media) of the American Psychological Association. He was the Media Psychology division's founding President.
Dr. Fischoff has appeared on numerous radio and televisions shows world wide and is frequently interviewed for major (and less major) news and entertainment print media.
Instead of flowers and fruit baskets, donations may be made to Stuart's favorites:
– SIU Department of Theater Undergraduate Scholarship Program
You can make your gift by phone by calling the department directly at 618-453-5741, or you can send your support to the department at the address below. Please make sure to designate the intended fund for your contribution, and make checks payable to the SIU Foundation.
Department of Theater
Mail Code 6608
Or to one of the following:
– Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra
– SIU University Museum
– SIU Global Media Research Center
John M. Grohol, Psy.D.
Dr. John Grohol is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Psych Central. He is a psychologist, author, researcher, and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues since 1995. Dr. Grohol has a Master's degree and doctorate in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Computers in Human Behavior and is a founding board member of the Society for Participatory Medicine. You can learn more about Dr. John Grohol here.
Grohol, J. (2018). RIP: Stuart Fischoff, Ph.D.. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 21, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/rip-stuart-fischoff-ph-d/
Last updated: 8 Jul 2018 (Originally: 23 Nov 2014)
Last reviewed: By a member of our scientific advisory board on 8 Jul 2018
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