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Michael Byrne Podcasts
15 of The Best Podcast Episodes for Michael Byrne. A collection of podcasts episodes with or about Michael Byrne, often where they are interviewed.
Scope Forward
Dr. Michael Byrne: "There's a tidal wave of AI coming"
Praveen Suthrum, President, NextServices interviews Dr. Michael Byrne, CEO & Founder of Satisfai Health, Founder of ai4gi. Learn about the progress of artificial intelligence in gastroenterology.
From this video you will understand where exactly AI is in gastroenterology. What must private practice gastroenterologists do now? What does the world of GI look like post-COVID? Stay on top of GI trends by watching this thought provoking interview in full.
485: What Effective Delegation Looks Like, with Michael Byrne
Michael Byrne: Silverman Shin & Byrne
Michael is an attorney and partner at Silverman Shin & Byrne in New York, one of the largest minority owned law firms in the State of New York. Michael's primary areas of focus include tort and commercial litigation defense. He serves clients in a broad range of matters, including attorney malpractice, personal injury torts, insurance, business formation, securities and cyber liability claims.
He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and of several committees. Michael is also a member of the Puerto Rican Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute. He provides legal advice to various civic associations and youth ice hockey organizations in Long Island. He's also a member of the Coaching for Leaders Academy.
Trying to do everything yourself in leadership is like mowing a lawn with a pair of scissors.
A critical shift for leaders to make is "time of possession" in the conversation. Work to have the other party speaking more.
The answers people give to my questions are the answers to their own questions.
Delegating well means that more time emerges to support others with skill development.
Making time to be present for people also allows you more time for deep work.
Resources Mentioned
Michael Byrne on LinkedIn
Silverman Shin & Byrne
These Coaching Questions Get Results, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 237)
Effective Delegation of Authority, with Hassan Osman (episode 413)
How to Ask Better Questions, with David Marquet (episode 454)
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Travis Preston
Randy Lawrence
Andrew Short
Jeff Emig
Ivan Tedesco
Johnny O
Jeff Stanton
Donn Maeda
Ryan Sipes
David Pingree
Micky Dymond
Jimmy Button
Beetle in a Box
Michael Byrne is a distinguished industry leader talks of his personal journey
Michael Byrne is an industry leader and has had a distinguished 30-year career in executive positions both in Australia and internationally in the logistics, supply chain, retail and property sectors. Previous roles include Chief Executive Officer of Toll Holdings, Coates Hire, Linfox and Westgate Holdings. Most recently he has been appointed by the Federal Government during this COVID crisis as International Freight Assistance Mechanism (IFAM) freight coordinator general.
Michael takes us on his personal journey and some of the events that have influenced him along the way. We discuss the current COVID crisis and its human and economic effects on Australia. Michael has a very pragmatic view of leadership and we explore his deep connection to people. In particular, his stand and leadership for safety and well being of all people at work.
Please note;
Michael speaks of the total number of deaths recorded for Covid-19. The number mentioned was correct on the date of recording. Sadly, this number has since increased.
Due to current restrictions, we are not able to reach the sound and production quality we aim for on this recording. We hope this does not detract from your enjoyment of this episode.
Reboot Republic
Empowering Renters with Dr Michael Byrne S.2 Ep.2
This Reboot Republic podcast talks to Dr Michael Byrne, from UCD School of Social Work, Policy & Social Justice about his new report 'Security and agency in the Private Rented Sector'. We discuss the issues facing renters, the role of cuckoo funds making housing unaffordable, the ineffectiveness of subsidising homeownership, the power landlords have over tenants, the legislation that needs to change to make renting a secure home in Ireland and the importance of tenants taking action, such as the new tenants union CATU. We also delve into the challenges of affordability and security of tenure and how they continue to have devastating impacts for renters.
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The Echo Chamber Podcast
The Mindshift Experience Podcast
Clutha Survivor Michael Byrne
Paul speaks to Clutha Vaults survivor Michael Byrne about his battle with mental trauma and how he managed to turn his life around.... This podcast is not to be missed!
May 24 2020 · 2hr 2mins
Iriss.fm, Scotland's social services podcast
Michael Byrne: Lived Experience Trauma Support (LETS)
Michael McEwan interviews Michael Byrne, the founder of LETS (Lived Experience Trauma Support) and author of Poems From A Mod: My Journey Through Trauma, Recovery And Survival.
Michael was diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder based on many traumatic events in his life, including abuse as a child, the murder of his father and surviving the Clutha disaster. In April 2017 he had a devastating breakdown which was complete in late January 2018. Since then he has been in recovery.
Health warning: This episode describes scenes of traumatic events that listeners may find disturbing.
Transcript of episode
Music Credit: Make your dream a reality by Scott Holmes.
Dec 10 2019 · 25mins
Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics
#55: Michael Byrne Managing Director of Toll Group
Michael has a 30-year career in executive positions both in Australia and internationally in the logistics, supply chain, retail and property sectors. Previous roles include Chief Executive Officer of Coates Hire, Linfox and Westgate Holdings, as well as Non-Executive Director of Australia Post.
Discover more details here.
Some of the highlights of the episode:
Toll reorganization, impact on their financial situation and future outlook
The $265 million investment in Toll City – one of Toll's biggest projects
Toll for sale – a rumor or a fact?
How is Toll changing its tech infrastructure layer
How have clients changed their expectations of their 3PL
Environment and instant gratification
"I think we need to employ and engage people through different avenues and we need younger people in our business."
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Sep 24 2019 · 1hr
The Friel Thing with Greg Friel
Interview with Michael Byrne from L.E.T.S. (Lived Experience Trauma Support)
Michael Byrne has had an extraordinary life. It was fascinating to talk to him about it and how it has brought about the creation of L.E.T.S.-Lived Experience Trauma Support.
No Limitations
You Can't Survive Unless You're Disciplined | Michael Byrne
In Episode 15, "You Can't Survive Unless You're Disciplined", Blenheim Partners' Gregory Robinson is delighted to talk to Michael Byrne, Managing Director of Toll Group.
Michael brings to light an honest appraisal of not only himself but the business environment in which he is in. Michael speaks frankly about his role and the necessities and tough decisions that come with it and how as a leader you must be able to do two things, "think extremely long term and be in the absolute minutiae of the detail".
Beginning his career in logistics, Michael supported his mother's transportation company which has led to a distinguished career working for well-known companies such as Mayne Nickless, Westgate, Linfox and now Toll. He explains how his near "monastic" life has helped him navigate his career in which he states that "he always wanted the job no one wanted". Like most leaders, Michael is never happy with what he has achieved. He believes that it is the role of the Managing Director to continue to encourage others to break the barrier and continue to push boundaries and stay ahead of the continuously unpredictable world.
Michael declares that he understands that "not everyone is going to agree with you" and wanting to please the 44,000 people who he leads at toll is counterproductive, instead it is his responsibility to pick those few around him who he deems fit to act as "acolytes" to help him move forward. Looking back at his time at Linfox he drives home the importance of "investing in people", reinforcing this with his experiences with the Fox family who invested heavily in him leading to "enormous opportunities" and due to their well-placed confidence in him, has led him to the position he is in today.
Lastly, Michael speaks frankly on how strategy is regarded in the mind of today's businesses. He emphasises that strategy takes years to execute, two years at minimum, so to change strategy every year only hurts a business and consequently blurs any real long term objective and subverts strategy to tactics.
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Q: Why Do I Need a NodePort in My Local Kubernetes Cluster? Excuse my relative networking ignorance, but I've read a lot of docs and still have trouble understanding this (perhaps due to lack of background in networks).
Given this Dockerfile:
from node:lts-slim
RUN mkdir /code
COPY package.json /code/
WORKDIR /code
RUN npm install
COPY server.js /code/
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["node", "server.js"]

...this deployment:
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: web-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 2
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: web-pod
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: web-pod
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: web
        image: kahunacohen/hello-k8s
        ports:
        - containerPort: 3000
          protocol: TCP

and this service:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: web-service
spec:
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    app: web-pod
  ports:
    - port: 80
      targetPort: 3000
      protocol: TCP
      name: http

My understanding is that:

*

*The app in my container is exposing itself to the outside world on 3000

*my deployment yaml is saying, "the container is listening on 3000"

*my service is saying map 3000 internally to port 80, which is the default port, so you don't have to add the port to the host.

*I'm using the NodePort type because on local clusters like Docker Desktop it works out of the box instead of LoadBalancer. It opens up a random port on every node (pod?) to the outside in the cluster between 30000–32767. That node port is how I access my app from outside. E.g. localhost:30543.

Are my assumptions correct? I am unclear why I can't access my app at localhost:80, or just localhost, if the service makes the mapping between the container port and the outside world? What's the point of the mapping between 3000 and 80 in the service?
In short, why do I need NodePort?

A: There are two networking layers, which we could call "inside the cluster" and "outside the cluster".  The Pod and the Service each have their own IP address, but these are only inside the cluster.  You need the NodePort to forward a request from outside the cluster to inside the cluster.
In a "real" Kubernetes cluster, you'd make a request...

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*...to http://any-kubernetes-node.example.com:31245/, with a "normal" IP address in the way you'd expect a physical system to have, connecting to the NodePort port, which forwards...

*...to http://web-service.default.svc.cluster.local:80/, with a cluster-internal IP address and the service port, which looks at the pods it selects and forwards...

*...to http://10.20.30.40:3000/, using the cluster-internal IP address of any of the matching pods and the target port from the service.

The containerPort: in the pod spec isn't strictly required (but if you give it name: http then you can have the service specify targetPort: http without knowing the specific port number).  EXPOSE in the Dockerfile means pretty much nothing in this sequence.
This sequence also gives you some flexibility in not needing to know where things are running.  Say you have 100 nodes and 3 replicas of your pod; the initial connection can be to any node, and the service will forward to all of the target pods, without you needing to know any of these details from the caller.
(For completeness, a LoadBalancer type service requests that a load balancer be created outside the cluster; for example, an AWS ELB.  This forwards to any of the cluster nodes as in step 1 above.  If you're not in a cloud environment and the cluster doesn't know how to create the external load balancer automatically, it's the same as NodePort.)
If we reduce this to a local Kubernetes installation (Docker Desktop, minikube, kind) the only real difference is that there's only one node; the underlying infrastructure is still built as though it were a multi-node distributed cluster.  How exactly you access a service differs across these installations.  In Docker Desktop, from the host system, you can use localhost as the "normal" "external" node IP address in the first step.

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CIO vs the CDO – Chief Digital Officer
Posted by Marketing | 9 Jan 2015 | IT News | 0 |
The implications for CIOs are huge, whether you happen to be a CIO who decides to own that chief data officer role, or whether you will find yourself working alongside a new chief data officer. As most CIOs know, the talent out there to spin big data into gold is scarce. According to Gartner Inc. on the topic of big data, that scarcity is poised to become a worldwide famine. In two years' time, Gartner calculates, 4.4 million IT jobs globally will be created to support big data, generating 1.9 million IT jobs in the United States alone. On top of that, every big-data-related role in the U.S. will create employment for three people outside of IT, for a total of 6 million IT-related jobs. Measured by the current talent shortage, however, only a third of those IT jobs will be filled.
"IT leaders will need immediate focus on how their organisation develops and attracts the skills required. These jobs will be needed to grow your business. These jobs are the future of the new information economy," according to Gartner's global head of research.
The call to arms for CIOs is just the latest evolution of a job that continues to mutate at mind-boggling rates. Just a decade ago, the best-in-class CIO was someone who could successfully implement a big enterprise software application — and then, the mandate was often for a person with a particular skill in a particular product — Oracle or PeopleSoft or SAP. The marksman CIO was quickly replaced by the "operational CIO," the enterprise engineer who could build a functional utility, a crackerjack IT infrastructure that made the business run on time: Networks stayed up, email worked, financial reports did not run afoul of regulations. Operational CIOs broadened their reach into shared services, rationalising, automating and centralising administrative functions across the enterprise to free up their executive peers in finance, HR and legal to focus on the big stuff.
"In the new paradigm, the CIO is very much expected to do all the things just mentioned exceedingly well, but also be accountable for driving innovation — and in many cases interacting directly with customers in the market. That is a very different profile than three years ago, let alone seven or 10 years ago," said Craig Ashmole, Founding Director of London based CCServe Limited. "The new CIO is likely to be less technical but have a strong commercial business head, and comfortable with the ability to manage the board level stakeholders, while also being a politician."
It is likely that in many enterprises, the burden of the CIO will be lifted by splitting the job into two: CIO and chief data officer. But as these changes are put into the works, CIOs will want to be among those deciding whether the CIO takes on subordinates to fulfill this data management need, or whether an equal-level colleague is put in place to handle these data decisions. Of course, in the information age, there is always a "next big thing," and another CDO — the chief digital officer — is waiting in the wings.
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The Cardinals on Wednesday completed a surprise trade with the Mariners that, most notably, sends veteran right-hander Mike to Seattle in year two of the five-year, $80 million contract he signed with St. Louis.
In the deal, the Cardinals also sent $750,000 in worldwide cap space for the current global signing period to the Mariners.
Ascanio, 21, was signed by the Mariners as an global free agent in 2012 at age 16, and the slick-fielding infielder has compiled a career batting mark of.240 with 15 home runs and 158s RBI in 425 games at the minor-league level.
Ascanio, 21, hit.217 (85 for 392) with 25 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 44 RBI in 111 games combined between Low A Clinton and High A Modesto. He is expected to be assigned to the high-Class A Palm Beach Cardinals of the Florida State League.
For the Cardinals, this was a way to cut some payroll, while moving in a new direction with an additional prospect to add to the system.
Google announced that it's dramatically expanding the number of places its virtual assistant is available. There are two 20mm soft-dome tweeters placed at 45 degrees, which gives a full 180-degree sound field.
Things got even worse last week, as the Citizens were forced to settle for a draw at home against Everton . In the chaos that ensued at the end of Bournemouth vs.
Granderson, at 36 years old, also brings another veteran presence to the team seeking it's first World Series win in 29 years. Granderson batted just.228 in 111 games with NY this season but has hit 19 home runs and driven in 52 runs.
Leake on the season has an ERA of 4.21 in 2017. Leake is still owed $55 million over the next three seasons according to Spotrac, and getting rid of his salary could help the Cardinals in free agency.
Leake, 29, is 7-12 with a 4.21 ERA this season. They previously traded for Marco Gonzales in July for minor leaguer Tyler O'Neill. You may or may not hear about it on the radio or see it online.
The deal comes before Thursday's deadline for major league teams to acquire a player and have him be eligible for the postseason.
The trade was initially reported by Bob Nightengale of USA Today and Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
The Cardinals have an afternoon game in Milwaukee on Wednesday at 1:10 p.m., the pregame show begins on KMOX at 12:15 p.m. He's 2-9 with a 5.78 ERA in his last 16 starts, including a 6.90 ERA in nine starts since the All-Star break. The Cardinals (66-65) are 5½ games out in the NL wild-card race. Starting 2018 with a 1-2-3 of Paxton, Hernandez, and Leake isn't half bad.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she can't keep quiet "for the sake of peace" on concerns about the rule of law in Poland. The sheer scare of refugees accepted by Ms Merkel's government led to a large backlog of asylum applications.
He is survived by his adult son and daughter and his wife, Cheryl, who told him not to go into work in the heavy rains. At the news conference, Acevedo became choked up describing Perez as "one of the sweetest people I've ever met".
Kushner was charged with helping to broker a deal between Israelis and Palestinians after Trump took office. No mention was made of the row between Riyadh and Doha.
Rain stopped, but Mumbai is yet to get back on track!
In light of the past experiences, three NDRF teams had been prepositioned in Mumbai at strategic locations, the DG informed. Dozens of flights and local train services were also cancelled as rains lashed the coastal city.
Trump has also threatened a government shutdown if Congress does not fund his proposed wall along the U.S. -Mexico border. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief fund had a balance of about $3.8 billion at the end of July.
On the front, the Mi 5X features a 5-megapixel front-facing shooter with real-time beautification for capturing better selfies . The camera app has a portrait mode very similar to the one on the iPhone 7 Plus, which allows blurring out of the background.
Well, not sure about you, but collecting data for a feature which is not even available yet, can not be justified for most people. The app, one of the top three downloaded apps on iPhone, allows "honest feedback" and has become a major hit among younger users.
In addition to Monday's trip, CREW requested all other records of Mnuchin's use of a government plane as Treasury secretary. Fittingly, the millionaire Mnuchin viewed it in a gilded location - atop Fort Knox, which holds almost $2 billion in gold.
The Massachusetts State Lottery announced Thursday that 53-year-old resident Mavis Wanczyk is the jackpot victor . State lottery officials say they sold $13m in tickets for the drawing, with $8.4m of that coming in on Wednesday.
For starters, the Gear Sport looks a whole lot better than the other options on the market, including the ugly new Fitbit Ionic . The Samsung Gear Sport is powered by a dual-core chipset clocked at 1GHz, paired with 768MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage.
Navy ships, SM-6 delivers a proven over-the-horizon offensive and defensive capability by leveraging the time-tested Standard Missile airframe and propulsion system.
Part of Kushner's trip was meant to reach out to key nations that he sees as part of the process of bringing peace between Israel and Palestine.
Hubert's staff will pick up the dogs and move them to the Madison shelter location to be checked out and fed, the statement said. Katelyn Scales, who claimed to be the dogs' owner, later took to Instagram to say that the dogs had been rescued.
Meridian Superintendent Dan Brue said he accepts that some compromise is necessary, although he doesn't support the tax credit. This compromise also provides much-needed mandate relief for school districts and presents avenues for property tax relief.
Open is in the midst of an 11-year contract with ESPN, the two-week tennis major will be on ESPN for its entirety. In the Women's side of the tournament it looks even more wide open with the absence of Serena Williams .
Here is a compilation of some of the best tweets to come out of the trending #facebookdown on Twitter this morning. Facebook crashed for many users on Saturday morning, who reported trouble logging in or a "total blackout".
The greatest risk for isolated tornadoes will be across upstate NY and northern Pennsylvania into early Tuesday evening. Severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings will be issued for individual severe storms as they happen.
Judwaa 2 new song 'Chalti Hai Kya 9 Se 12' released!


Kuching, 28 June 2011 – From Scandinavia, Frigg will be heating up the Rainforest World Music Festival stage this coming July 8th, 2011, with their stunning performance. Featuring the premier talents of the young generation, classically trained folk musicians in Finland and Norway, Frigg has developed a musical blend of their own. It has been called Nordgrass, which can be read as a word combination of their main influences Nordic folk and American bluegrass, or as a reminder of their straight grassroots attitude for making music.
Energy, fun, humor, and interaction are Frigg's most important virtues on any gig. And still, having finished five successful albums with several nominations for the best folk music albums of the year and 'Top of the World' appearances on Songlines magazine, the joy of performing live and giving the audience an energizing experience is what Frigg enjoy the most. They have five extensive tours in the US and Canada under their belt and keep going there every year. In Europe, they have toured both in shady clubs and bright concert halls as well as appeared at numerous prestigious festivals worldwide.
Frigg will be on stage on Friday night and also at the Musical Workshops in the afternoons during the 3 days of the festival. Band members from Frigg will join the musical workshop with few other bands at Iban Longhouse namely "Femme Fiddles" featuring fantastic female fiddlers fiddling as well as "Mountain Music" at the Dewan Lagenda on the festival site. This will be happening on the first day of the festival only.
Rainforest World Music Festival has been voted for the second consecutive year as one of the Top 25 Best International Festivals by renowned world music magazine, Songlines, elevating its status in the international music scene as a festival which has well and truly put Sarawak on the world tourism map and extending its appeal to shores further from neighboring countries.
For purchase/booking/enquiries please visit www.ticketcharge.com.my or call ticketCharge Hotline: +6 03-9222 8811 or at TicketCharge @ No 42A-1, Jalan Metro Pudu, Fraser Business Park, Off Jalan Yew, 55100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You may also purchase tickets from TicketCharge outlets namely Chambers Music, Telventure Sdn Bhd, Rock Corner all in the Klang Valley or at Speedy Outlets throughout the country.


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Press Statement: Nasarawa State will immortalize Buhari - Gov Sule
NASARAWA STATE WILL IMMORTALIZE PRESIDENT BUHARI UNDER THE STEWARDSHIP OF GOVERNOR ABULLAHI A.SULE:
Governor Abdullahi A. Sule has reiterated that the people of Nasarawa State will continue to give overwhelming support, commitment and total loyalty to President Muhammadu Buhari in his quest to build an inclusive, secure and prosperous Nigeria.
His Excellency, Governor Sule gave this assurance when a high powered delegation of the highest echelon of political leaders, traditional rulers and stakeholders from Nasarawa State paid a special courtesy call on Mr. President at the Aso Villa in Abuja on Tuesday 25th June 2019.
Governor Abdullahi A. Sule affirmed that for the people of Nasarawa State, the name Muhammadu Buhari is associated with integrity, discipline and compassion for the common man. His Excellency, Engineer Sule therefore asserted that Nasarawa State will continue to be the political laboratory of President Muhammadu Buhari especially as it is the President who spurred the people of Nasarawa to elect the first and only CPC governor in Nigeria in 2011.
The Governor then affirmed that it is because of President Buhari's integrity and his exemplary penchant for the pursuit of good for all citizens; as well as his compassion for those who are poor, voiceless and downtrodden that has inspired the current administration in Nasarawa State to embark on a massive plan to immortalize President Muhammadu Buhari in no distant future.
Governor Abdullahi A. Sule thereafter extended the heartfelt gratitude of the entire people of Nasarawa State to President Muhammadu Buhari for the dualisation of Keffi-Akwanga Road, Stepping down of the 330 Power Line and concession of Farin Ruwa Hydropower project among many other landmark projects being undertaken by the Federal Government.
His Excellency, Governor Abdullahi A. Sule also applauded the honor done to Nasarawa State by President Muhammadu Buhari in appointing two sons of the state; in person of Mohammed Abubakar Adamu as IGP of the Police and Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim as Director General of the National Youth Service corps NYSC.
Yakubu Lamai,
Director General,
Strategic Communication and Press Affairs, to Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State


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Illinois First Among States In Boosting Research Output
To determine and compare scientific performance of nations, states, institutions, and individuals, researchers can reach for a variety of measures. One can measure number of articles or total citations or citations per paper—the latter adding a qualitative component to the analysis. There are other methods, too, such as calculating changes in percentage share of articles in a journal set. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has just completed such an analysis focusing on scien
To determine and compare scientific performance of nations, states, institutions, and individuals, researchers can reach for a variety of measures. One can measure number of articles or total citations or citations per paper—the latter adding a qualitative component to the analysis. There are other methods, too, such as calculating changes in percentage share of articles in a journal set.
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) has just completed such an analysis focusing on scientific output of U.S. states and the District of Columbia for 1979, 1983, and 1987. The results are presented in the accompanying table and map.
For each year, the total number of indexed items for each state (articles, reviews, notes, and letters) was recorded from ISI's online database SciSearch, which now covers more than 4,000 significant journals of science.
If a paper listed an author from a particular state, the item was counted for that state. Because...


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Exam answers. No one could invent these, they must be genuine!
Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients.
Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandos. He died before he ever reached Canada but his commandos made it.
Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths.
Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is poisonous
In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled and threw the java. The games were messier then than they show on TV now.
Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus."
Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French still have problems.
Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.
It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood.
Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper which was very dangerous to all his men.
The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies, comedies,and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.
Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backward and also declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure. Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's Mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got Shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insa! ne actor. This ruined Booth's career.
Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. He was very large.
Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up.
Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits but I don't know why.
Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species. It was very long and people got upset about it and had trials to see if it was really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24 hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.
Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what she did. Other women have become scientists since her but they didn't get to find radios because they were already taken.
Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the family had to have a real job, I guess.
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Rep. Rusty Black, a Republican, represents Grundy, Livingston Counties and a majority of Linn County (District 7) in the Missouri House of Representatives. He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2016.
In addition to his legislative duties, Rep. Black worked as an Agriculture Educator for thirty-two years before retiring in 2016. During his time as a teacher, Rep. Black worked at Nodaway-Holt R-7 for five years and Chillicothe R-2 Schools for twenty-seven years.
A graduate of the University of Missouri - Columbia, Rep. Black earned his Bachelors of Science in Agriculture in 1983, and went on to graduate with a Masters in Agriculture Education by 1993.
Rep. Black was born in St. Joseph, MO, living in Amazonia then moving and graduating High School from King City MO. He currently resides in Chillicothe with his wife. Together they have four children and four grandchildren. Rusty and his wife attend the United Methodist Church and both are active with various community organizations.
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Q: For conjoint attribute importance calculation, should insignificant attribute levels be included in the calculation? In the output for Choice-based conjoint, there are some significant and some insignificant output utilities. When calculating attribute importance (using the difference formula), should I exclude insignificant variables? Or should the calculation include all variables regardless of statistical significance?

A: The difference formula gives a point estimate snapshot and as such is not a statistical tool. Therefore you should use all variables, even the ones with insignificant coefficients.
See example here, where there are some attributes with very low scores (and likely insignificant coefficients): http://conjoint.online/reports/


Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and percussionist. He has recorded with a wide range of artists and has been a first call[a] player since moving to New York in the late 1980s.
Known for his great feel, deep soulful pocket and a high level of musicianship across a broad range of styles, Shawn has recorded with artists such as Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, Natalie Merchant, Ingrid Michaelson, Billy Joel, Van Morrison, Elton John, Rod Stewart, Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Pink, Shakira, Kelly Clarkson, Five For Fighting, Michelle Branch, Regina Spektor, Tears for Fears, Citizen Cope, Matisyahu, Jonatha Brooke, David Byrne, Edie Brickell, Marc Cohn, Richie Havens, Joan Osborne, Hall and Oates, Odetta, Pavarotti, Phillip Phillips, George Michael, Carly Simon, Dixie Chicks, Chris Botti and Buddy Guy, and has played on several Grammy winning albums for artists including Ray Charles, The Brecker Brothers, Shakira, Shawn Colvin, Les Paul and the Hank Williams tribute album with Bob Dylan.
Such a broad discography shows a rare ability to be at home playing on a top ten track by Pink, recording with Jazz legend Abbey Lincoln or an icon like Bob Dylan. Shawn is also the longtime drummer in the house band for the NBC TV network's sketch comedy and music program Saturday Night Live.
Pelton was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
In 1985, Pelton earned a bachelor's degree and a Performer's Certificate after his studies at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, according to Drummerworld. While there, Pelton studied with Kenny Aronoff, who at the time was drummer for John Mellencamp, Drummerworld reported. Mellencamp lives just a short distance away from Bloomington. During summer break, Pelton sought out experts elsewhere. "I also had the privilege of hanging with Alan Dawson for a couple of summers," he told Edge. The Massachusetts-based Dawson, legendary in the jazz world, may best be known as an early teacher of Tony Williams—drummer for Miles Davis.
During his time as a student, Pelton taught for a brief period as well as conducted private drum lessons. One of his students was Pete Wilhoit, who would later become a member of Fiction Plane, the opening act for The Police on their 2007 reunion global tour.
He joined the Saturday Night Live band in 1992, saying "It's a pretty mellow gig...It's really only 20 days out of the year."
Since 2007, Pelton has been regularly appearing as the drummer on Daryl Hall's internet concert series Live from Daryl's House.
Nicknamed "Cat Daddy" by drum tech, Tim Soya.
Pelton also served periodically as the substitute drummer in the CBS Orchestra on Late Show with David Letterman during regular drummer Anton Fig's absences.
Pelton is also a founding member of the NYC-based band The Cringe.
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^ a b c d "Shawn Pelton Artist Page". Zildjian. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
^ a b "New York State of Mind: Shawn Pelton", DW Edge Magazine. Archived 2009-02-08 at the Wayback Machine 2004. Retrieved on 2009-04-23.
^ Graham, Andy (15 July 2007). "Stranger than Fiction". Herald Times. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
^ Hichak, Paul G. of rhythmtech.com, "Live from New York, It's Shawn Pelton", Drummerworld, Retrieved on 2009-04-23.


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I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Uncommon YA founder, author Beth Fehlbaum, on her YA Writer Wednesday feature. Check it out!
What's your book about?
The Namesake is about a lot of things: faith, friendship, betrayal, forgiveness. The story centers on Evan Galloway, a fifteen-year-old grappling in the aftermath of his father's suicide. It's part mystery, part coming-of-age story. As Evan digs into his dad's past, uncovering details of sexual abuse and death, the story gets pretty dark, but there's plenty of humor as well. Evan's Catholic high school, Saint Sebastian's, his extended family, and a job at Alberti's, an Italian restaurant, figure prominently, so there are lots of colorful characters.
I started writing it in my first graduate class, and I was inspired by my cousin's suicide– and the idea of what it would be like for a kid to deal with that reality at the age of fifteen, a time of upheaval in every life. As the story unfolded, the darker elements of abuse just sort of surfaced. It's a very personal topic for me, and the writing–while at times pretty difficult–was a way to process some of my own emotional baggage. For anyone who's lived through similar circumstances, Evan's journey should ring true. And for those who haven't been touched by abuse or suicide (if there are such people), reading The Namesake will hopefully inspire compassion for those struggling with life's challenges.
Do you write from an outline or are you a "pantser"?
I'm definitely not an outline person. I tend to write in a fairly organic way, letting my characters lead. With The Namesake, there were definitely scenes I knew I wanted to include, and I sometimes wrote those scenes way out of sequence or context. For example, if a scene that takes place toward the end of the novel felt really vivid, I'd write it, and then figure out how to get to that point.
I also tend to be a bit of a perfectionist; I have a hard time writing a sloppy first draft and then editing. This sometimes leads to a plodding process, but it seems to be my best mode of working.
Are you a full-time writer or do you have a "day job"? What do you do in your "day job"?
Ah, to be a full-time writer! Nope. I have a super-demanding "day job"; I teach writing and literature at a community college. This means my own writing takes back-burner status during the semester, while I focus on the writing of approximately 125 students. I love teaching. Though it is totally exhausting, frustrating and sometimes even maddening, it is also beyond rewarding.
My teaching also informs my writing, and the fact that I'm a published writer seems to be meaningful to my students. In a way, I guess I'm modeling for them the fact that writing and literature can be central to someone's life.
Why YA as opposed to some other genre?
Good question! I don't know that I really have a definitive answer, because I don't quite know whether my writing, especially The Namesake, is definitively YA. While my main characters are squarely in the YA age bracket, I'm dealing with some pretty adult content. I think two things that really appeal to me about writing YA are how important everything is during adolescence, and the honesty factor.
Feelings run so deep for teenagers, and there's so much growth, experimentation and struggle during that period, that adolescence lends itself naturally to dramatic narrative. Young adults in general also have no problem telling—or making adults acknowledge—difficult truths (trust me, I have a sixteen-year-old), so again, it's sort of empowering to write in their distinct voices.
And of course, there's the perk of having the word "young" in the job title. As I rocket toward the half-century mark, that's sort of comforting.
Who's your agent? Take this opportunity to brag on him/her if you'd like!
My agent is the phenomenal Victoria Marini of Gelfman Schneider Literary Agency. She has been an absolute champion of my work, and has a wonderful editorial eye. Victoria is brave, persistent, incredibly smart and really, really funny. Her input definitely made The Namesake a better book, and she helped me to understand some of my characters in ways that hadn't fully occurred to me. I can't sing her praises loudly enough!
Thanks, Beth & Uncommon YA, for hosting me for YAWW; it's always a pleasure to be here!
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It seems it has taken the death of Osama Bin Laden to finally get politicians and journalists talking about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Before this week, if you wanted to read about the wars, you went to the back pages of the newspapers. The budget, and the politicians arguing about it, has taken the spotlight off of our brave soldiers. It's time we start another conversation. It's time to bring them home.
Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind) said, when asked about the size of a draw-down he would find acceptable in Afghanistan that "Perhaps 10,000-to-20,000 troops would satisfy our ability to fight terror -- that is, with intelligence backing." In the same article, Sen Carl Levin (D-Mich) said, Bin Laden's death only contributes to "the sense that the Afghans now are in an even better positive to take responsibility ... for their country." Then you have people like Rep. Steve Southerland (r-Fla) who said "I believe this is the time, right now, to double down." It seems everyone now has an opinion on Afghanistan.
But opinions are like elbows, everybody's got one. The only one that counts at this moment in time is President Obamas, and he has a decision coming up soon on how many soldiers to pull out of Afghanistan. It has taken the death of Osama Bin Laden to finally even get the conversation started. Recently I've noticed something missing in the newspapers and news shows on television. There were no articles or even pictures of the two wars we are now involved in the Middle East. With the 2012 elections coming up; with all the insults and slurs being tossed around at a sickening pace, no one is talking about the wars we are currently involved in. We have men and women being maimed and killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and no one seems concerned.
The United States is now in its 10th year of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, the longest wars in American history. With almost 5,000 men and women killed and more than 30,000 wounded, I fail to see why these wars are being ignored by the American media. Some of these troops are now home, missing limbs along with dozens of other ailments such as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS) that makes them unable to function effectively in society. These soldiers will be supported by our tax dollars for the rest of their lives, yet the budget for the Veterans Hospitals and Rehabilitation Centers are on the chopping block in future budget talks. This is a disgrace!
In these 10 years, the United States has spent more than $1 trillion on combat operations, including foreign aid, reconstruction projects, embassy costs and veterans' health care, and there is no end in sight. Just leaving out the loss of life, billions are being spent every week, yet the media and the politicians are not even mentioning it. There are no politicians standing up in the wells of congress demanding to bring our soldiers home. No journalists writing stories on how we have been there 10 years and if we haven't accomplished our objectives by now, then it's time to re-adjust our thinking. It's time we brought our brave soldiers home.
No matter who is elected in 2012, the process of negotiating a budget will come into play. How do you make a budget to pay down the debt that everyone is so "concerned" about, when you can't even figure in the wars and the costs that come with them? Billions are spent on wars and billions more are going to be spent on the veterans coming home from these wars. Many have injuries that cannot be seen -- families are living with these men and women who have PTSS. Broken marriages and suicides are at an all-time high .
There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers with PTSS. It is real and coming to a town near you. The veterans of Vietnam were sent home with a bottle full of pain pills and told to "man up" and get over it! Seeing your buddy killed. Seeing fellow soldiers blown up. Seeing women and kids bodies after an air strike has to be one of the most horrific things a person can witness. What kind of person would not be affected by this?
Now we have the men from Iraq and Afghanistan coming home. Many have done two, four, six or more combat deployments. Each time they go back, it gets that much worse. We sent these men and women over there time and time again. Many lost their families for being away for so long. Many lost everything and have nothing to come back to when they do come home. It is estimated that more than 250,000 Veterans are homeless.
This is our problem, and I don't hear anyone addressing it. Do we need jobs? Sure. Do we need to balance the budget? Sure. There are a hundred things that we need to do to fix this country. But forgetting a United States Soldier in his time of need is sure not one of them!
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Q: How to do refactoring to eliminate type-code if it is used in validation rules? Let's say we have to check some set of rules before adding a new element in a collection. Elements are objects of a few similar types. All type specific features are encapsulated in subclasses of an abstract class. Collection contains objects of this abstract class. The rules apply conditions for types along with other constraints. For that reason the abstract superclass of items has additional type code. New element can be added to collection but due to additional rules other elements in collection can be removed or replaced.
In the code that needs to be refactored, validation of the rules is implemented as one long block of code with nested control flow statements. Validation of the type code breaks encapsulation. Separate branches of the control flow statements cannot be defined as method of corresponding subclasses of collection elements because them need to check type and make changes to collection.
additional facts regarding type code in my case:

*

*type code does not affect the behaviour of class

*type code is immutable

*type code is used by ItemsManager to resolve some rules before to add
new element to collection.

How to eliminate type code and separate rules from types?
Here is example of such problem:
Type specific features of Items are encpsulated in AbstractItem subclasses.add method of ItemManager class breaks encapsulation.Rule: item of Type2 must be removed if new item of Type1 with the same value of SomeUsefull property is adding to collection.
For simplicity implementation of ICloneable and IComparable interfaces is omitted. In real world items in collection are immutable and cloneable and the system of rules is quite tangled.
abstract class AbstractItem {

    private int Type; // this would like to eliminate
    private int SomeUseful;

    protected AbstractItem(int Type, int Value) {
        this.Type = Type;
        this.SomeUseful = Value;
    }

    public int getType() { return this.Type; }
    public int getSomeUseful() { return this.SomeUseful; }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return String.format("Item{Type=%d, Value=%d}", Type, SomeUseful);
    }
}

class ItemType1 extends AbstractItem {
    ItemType1(int Value) { super(1, Value); }
}

class ItemType2 extends AbstractItem {
    ItemType2(int Value) { super(2, Value); }
}

class ItemManager {

    private java.util.ArrayList<AbstractItem> ListOfItems;

    public ItemManager(){
        this.ListOfItems = new java.util.ArrayList<AbstractItem>();
    }

    public void add(final AbstractItem newItem) {
        // this code breaks encapsulation
        switch (newItem.getType()) {
            case 1:
                // do some type dependent operations
                for(AbstractItem i: this.ListOfItems) {
                    if (i.getType()==2 && i.getSomeUseful()==newItem.getSomeUseful()) {
                        this.ListOfItems.remove(i);
                        break;
                    }
                }
                break;
            case 2:
                // do some other type dependent operations
                break;
            default:
                // throw error
        }
        this.ListOfItems.add(newItem);
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        String str = String.format("ItemsManager content");
        for(AbstractItem i: this.ListOfItems) {
            str += String.format("\n\tType = %d, Value = %d", i.getType(), i.getSomeUseful());
        }
        return str;
    }
}

public class Example1 {
    public static void main(String[] arg) {
        System.out.println("Example 1");
        ItemManager im = new ItemManager();
        im.add(new ItemType1(1));
        im.add(new ItemType2(2));
        im.add(new ItemType2(3));
        im.add(new ItemType1(3));
        System.out.println(im.toString());
    }
}

/*
Example 1
ItemsManager content
    Type = 1, Value = 1
    Type = 2, Value = 2
    Type = 1, Value = 3
*/

A: It's not ideal, but it's a step towards getting some encapsulation and killing the switch statement...
add an onAdd method to the base class that takes the list as a parameter.
 public java.util.ArrayList<AbstractItem> onAdd(java.util.ArrayList<AbstractItem> list) { return list; }

then override it in the sub classes, for example...
@Override
     public java.util.ArrayList<AbstractItem> onAdd(java.util.ArrayList<AbstractItem> list) {
         for(AbstractItem i: this.ListOfItems) {
                    if (i.getType()==2 && i.getSomeUseful()==this.getSomeUseful()) {
                        list.remove(i);
                        break;
                    }
                }
        return list;
    }

then rewrite the ItemManager add method to just call the sub classes' onAdd methods...
public void add(final AbstractItem newItem) {
        this.ListOfItems = newItem.onAdd(this.ListOfItems);
        this.ListOfItems.add(newItem);
    }

A: Starting from @dbugger's answer you can push it further.
You can use Double Dispatch to hide the type code. Still not a perfect solution because the parent knows too much about its children, but the type code is gone now.
It is hard to tell what a better solution might be with the example code you have given, because when you simplified, you removed all the information about the items involved. There might be something there that could be used for discrimination in some other way, allowing you to get rid of the double dispatch with shoudBeRemovedBecauseType1.
Here is the altered onAdd method from type 1
@Override
public List<AbstractItem> onAdd(List<AbstractItem> list)    {
    for (AbstractItem item : list)      {
        if (item.shoudBeRemovedBecauseType1(this))          {
            list.remove(item);
            break;
        }
    }
    return list;
}

A new method in the base class
    public boolean shoudBeRemovedBecauseType1(ItemType1 itemType1)
    {
        return false;
    }

overridden in the type 2 subclass
    @Override
    public boolean shoudBeRemovedBecauseType1(ItemType1 itemType1)
    {
        return getSomeUseful() == itemType1.getSomeUseful();
    }


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import Vue from 'vue'
import App from './App'
import store from './store'
require('semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css')

/* eslint-disable no-new */
new Vue({
  store,
  el: '#app',
  template: '<App/>',
  components: { App }
})


Nail technicians (along with just about every other profession on the planet) have become more computerliterate and web-savvy than ever. Each year, we see dramatic increases in Internet use for business functions, including product ordering, peer networking, technical trouble-shooting, and, of course, e-mailing. Just six years ago a puny 3.1% of nail professionals said that ordering products online was one of their two primary ways of getting product. This year, that figured jumps to 12%. Last year, we said that online was a key trend to watch and we've certainly seen the prediction borne out.
How tech-savvy are nail salons?
73% use a computer to handle some business functions.
92% access the Internet to do research on the nail business.
94% access the Internet to learn more about new products.
93% access the Internet to look at different product manufacturer websites.
82% access the Internet to look at the sites of trade magazines.
24% go online to chat with other nail technicians.
71% go online to order products.
13% of nail techs have their own websites.
26% of salons have their own websites.
32% of nail techs have a fax machine at the salon.
42% of nail techs have a fax machine at home.
We asked respondents to our reader survey what they felt were their biggest challenges this year. We did not offer a list of challenges, rather allowed them to write in their own words what they were concerned about. Here are their top 12 challenges. In 2007, NAILS will devote a feature each month to one of these challenges, helping you develop solutions.
Finding good staff is a top priority for salon owners (of both nails-only salons as well as full-service salons). We asked salon owners and managers whether the following statements were true for them regarding finding and retaining nail care staff.


Today, on October 6, Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev has accepted the delegation headed by Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Andreyev. During the meeting, the Head of the Azerbaijani State highly appreciated the successful cooperation between the Azerbaijani and Russian Academy of Sciences, Trend reports.
Azerbaijan`s President Ilham Aliyev brought to the attention of the Russian guests that it is necessary to expand and strengthen these ties. Here he emphasized the initiative of the representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences to visit Azerbaijan.
Mr. Andreyev pointed out that scientific ties of the two countries successfully develop experience exchanges are carried out regularly. The Russian Scientist particularly marked that the Russian language has not been consigned to oblivion in Azerbaijan and that Azerbaijan`s youth can speak it fluently.


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What It's Like To Be A Woman 'In-Between'
by Lee Abrahams
Lee Abrahams
The sunlight pouring between the bedroom curtains isn't what wakes her each morning. It's her kids, shouting at each other and throwing blocks in the living room that does it. "I swear to God," she mumbles to the cat. She pulls the covers over herself and spends the next three minutes summoning the strength to get out of bed. Some days, it's because she's depressed. Some days, it's because she pulled back her son's hair while he threw up on his T-Rex pillow at two AM. Some days, it's simply that she was up late having sex. Whatever the reason, she just isn't a morning person.
As she falls asleep each night, she tells herself she will go to bed early tomorrow and drink more water. It is in these final moments, before her eyes close, that her to-do list runs through her mind, accomplished by the person she keeps saying she will be. And all this time she spends trying to catch up to her dream-board version of who she is, she doesn't value the actual her.
Sometimes she doesn't care about her body, and sometimes she's too aware of it. Sometimes she loves it and feels empowered, sometimes she examines it in the mirror and struggles to find something she likes. She browses photos of when she was out of high school and feels guilty that she can't summon the willpower to turn a 30-year-old body, one that has birthed children, into an 18-year-old one that hasn't yet left childhood itself.
When she goes shopping, she feels bitter and frustrated because nothing fits. She believes this is because she bakes cheesecake for the holidays and enjoys Doritos on a Wednesday night; she vows to stop, thinking that doing those things is wrong. She's a woman who falls in the grey zone of body types. She finds no representation in either the plus-size or thin modeling world; she's an unconventional shape, or simply medium. She sees every fold and dimple underneath fluorescent fitting room lights and doesn't understand why H&M size 8 won't go past her thighs, but Gap size 6 is too big.
She believes her body is the problem and she reads articles that keep telling her no, it's the clothing companies being inconsistent. And somewhere in her heart she knows it's true, but it's all white noise when she's flooded with shame after asking the 19-year-old salesclerk for the next size up. "Two sizes, I think," she quietly says.
This woman is an in-betweener.
She's part of fitness groups and she has weeks when she churns out four days of exercise and manages to get in ten glasses of water. Then there are weeks when she forgets it's been four days since she's had a workout. She doesn't realize that she has more stamina than she knows; it comes from running after her kids and taking them on walks to the park or around a zoo. It comes from running to different meetings, hauling boxes into her new apartment because she has no one to help her, or racing down a flight of steps to catch the train on time.
She might be really crafty, or her skills might be dreadful. She might be the kind of woman who's good at projects when she gets enough materials beforehand, but is exhausted after just one afternoon of trying. Most of her style comes from Target, and she feels bad it isn't West Elm, but Target has seriously upped their game. She tries to decorate her house the way Pinterest taught her, but she doesn't have the budget for it. Rooms come together slowly over the years, and her bedroom still needs covers put on the light-switches, having been removed during a paint job she did in a last-minute need for change.
She constantly aims to be "crunchy," but Costco has amazing deals on granola bars and try as she might, the kids go to school with Goldfish crackers. She's managed to get most of the things she needs by thrifting, and she tries to buy ethical clothes because she knows kids work in factories somewhere far from her world, but she still gets emails from the Gap and Old Navy that are hard to ignore. She can't pass up the ability to get her two kids' back-to-school clothes for less than $150, because these days it takes two incomes and they don't have that.
She knows deodorant is full of chemicals, but none of the natural stuff works. She knows her dish soap is far from clean, but it cleans her dishes the best.
This is a woman who loves her family, who works tirelessly and yet she feels like she isn't doing enough because her contributions are not monetary. It's because when she scrolls through Instagram and sees a woman's beaming face with her manicured hands hugging her well-dressed kids, she feels a pang of loss. She starts to mourn all the time she's wasted not working harder to be like the women she follows. When she sees an Insta-story with kids exploring the outdoors, she vows to take her kids tomorrow. Sometimes she does and it's great. When she's lying on the grass and the sun is slowly tanning her arms, she asks why she doesn't do this more often; when bedtime becomes a huge ordeal because her kids are overtired, she remembers why.
Or maybe she's a single mom, or not a mom at all, but a woman who works too much and can't afford meal prepping. Not necessarily the cost of the food, but the time it takes to make the food when she's finally home and can sleep in on weekends. Maybe she's tired because she's bisexual and fights to be acknowledged as real, or she dresses masculine and has a picture of Janelle Monáe on her bathroom mirror as the only person reminding her that it's fine to be that way. Whoever she is, be it single or gay or transgender or married, she comes up empty-handed when looking for representation, because she isn't really hardcore one way or another about a topic or lifestyle. She doesn't fall into any category, because she does a little bit of everything. She enjoys different things in life because maybe committing to two or three things would deprive her of more experiences. Or maybe she's just too tired.
This is not about a woman who can't live up to her potential. This is a woman who doesn't see that "potential" is a very subjective construct, and it's almost impossible for anyone to ever fully meet theirs. If they did, growth would cease, and that's the exact opposite of success. This is a woman who sets goals and sometimes meets them, sometimes doesn't.
This woman is all of us.
Her passions don't necessarily make her any money, and sometimes they do. Sometimes she's an artist who makes incredible cross-stitch portraits, or she works at a bank, or she coaches other women, or she sells essential oils, or she's really great at ice skating. She might have a phenomenal singing voice, but is crippled by stage fright.
She is complex, and she has bought into the idea that she should do more, be more, because other people try hard to look like they are. She is every woman who has holed up in the bathroom or taken a smoke break at work even though she quit five years ago, and it probably isn't because she was mad just then. It was because she has reached a point where the pressure to meet goals and deadlines and ideal versions of herself has finally ruptured. She has ruptured because she feels that every action that falls short of the dream-board is a failure. She confuses human nature for wrongdoing, and if she actually does fail, or make a mistake, she doesn't give herself grace or forgiveness. It takes awhile to get there, and usually doesn't happen until someone else has given her permission to.
She is Jocelyn, who openly says, "I love the idea of clean living. I'm that old lady who likes farm life, fresh air and small towns. But I'm also a mom. And own a business. And have a chronic illness. So I buy chemically laden products as time savers because unfortunately, life doesn't buy us any more time than we have, and things just have to get done."
She is Claire. She loves "surprising someone with a 'just because' gift." She is Jessica, who "mostly" has her shit together. She is Ashley, who is "gluten-conscious" because she isn't quite there yet, but is pushing hard because it helps her son. She is Leah, who has overcome the impossible to be where she is today.
Maybe she's Chantelle, who is a plus-sized queer woman who enjoys her sweatpants but feels pressure to dress up the way many plus-sized women are expected to, as if their fatness is allowed so long as it's styled right.
She's Dana, who confidently admits to being a "100% not crunchy, unhealthy eating couch potato." She's Jennifer, who is a great problem solver, yet struggles with food. And Pam is an "overweight triathlete – not the back of the pack-er, but certainly not on the podium."
She is proof that weight does not measure health. This woman is Melissa, who calls herself a "squishy hourglass" and has a successful coaching business. She is Cassandre – a mom of "very busy boys" and kicks ass at it.
She is almost every woman you know, and someone you might try to measure yourself against, but can't. Because for all of these in-between habits, these attributes and ways of living that aren't extreme, I am not talking about a woman who is average, or ordinary. I don't believe such a woman exists. These women are phenomenal and unique, yet admit to struggles that are painfully similar to one another.
These women are alienated from the mainstream, yet they are the ones who give us sustenance. This woman is the one filling our lives with joy, not the Pinterest version. She is the best friend baking a pie, the barista who remembers your name, the mom drinking too much wine so she can keep the incredible conversation going. This woman has no official representative, and yet she herself represents so many others. She is the sum of all the components of humanity. She is life personified.
She is a woman who chases her dreams, but deserves to be at peace with who she is today. She is a woman in need of grace and acceptance. She is you, and she is me. She is a woman in-between.
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In this article you will discover all Elite and Champion creatures of the Necropolis line-up. This time, we used their non-upgraded version as illustration. The first article, dedicated to the Core unit, has also been updated for better quality screenshots.
"Neon" Green: this colour is associated with Necromancy and the Namtaru Venom, and is therefore still present in the eyes of Vampires and Liches.
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Turkish PM Erdogan threatened/challenged by Fethullah Gulen?
Very, very curious. I have long felt there is something, can't quite put my finger on it, going on in Turkey.
Turkey is an interesting nation. Lots of coups. A military largely externally controlled.
Similar, very similar to Egypt.
Did Erdogan get too comfy? Is Erdogan not wanting to see Turkey balkanized for a Kurdish state?
Are we witnessing a narrative change? One I have mentioned in numerous previous posts? From Arab Spring to 'terrorism' fighting or otherwise?
Fethullah Gulen. What about Fethullah Gulen? Someone who reeks of ties to western intelligence
Remember this interview? I had it posted previously. It's time to give it a relisten if you did then or catch it now for the first time. Fethullah Gulen gets some good coverage
Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (born 27 April 1941) is a Turkish writer,[3] former imam [4] and preacher [4] and Islamic opinion leader. He is the founder of the Gülen movement. He currently lives in a self-imposed exile in Saylorsburg,[5][6][7] Pennsylvania, USA.
Gulen who is in a 'self-imposed exile' in Pennsylvania, USA????
Now onto the news that the future of Turkish PM Erdogan may be in question
Two of Turkey's most influential figures are in the middle of a power struggle that could pose a serious challenge to the rule of its Prime Minister.
The country is gripped by its biggest corruption scandal in recent history. But many see the investigation as the first punch in the "ugly divorce" between the two leaders of Turkey's Muslim electorate: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the exiled Turkish preacher Fethullah Gulen, who heads a powerful religious movement in Turkey and is seen as holding sway over the police force.
A religious movement in Turkey? From his home in Pennsylvania?
It began with a series of dawn arrests on Tuesday. The sons of three cabinet ministers were detained by police. A little while later, Turkey's state-run Halkbank was raided and its chief executive detained. By Wednesday evening, 52 people connected in some way to Mr Erdogan were also held. The raids and detentions are reportedly being led by Zekeriya Oz, a police commissioner said to be sympathetic to the Gulen movement. The suspects are accused of accepting and facilitating bribes to secure building permits for protected areas, the Turkish media reported. Mr Erdogan's government hit back at the corruption investigation by dismissing 43 senior police officers for "abusing their power" – among them Huseyin Capkin, Istanbul's police chief.
Those arrested are casualties in an acrimonious feud between Mr Erdogan and Mr Gulen that erupted when Mr Erdogan's party announced plans to transform Turkey's prep schools – many of which are administered by the Gulen movement. The changes would deprive the movement of revenue and influence.
Mr Gulen, a charismatic Muslim preacher who has lived in exile since 1999, has widespread support in the Turkish judiciary and police force. He allied with Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s and was instrumental in helping him win three elections. Over the past decade, they have worked together to reduce the influence of the Turkish military.
Gulenists hold considerable sway and insight in the workings of the party. Ahmet Sik, a journalist who was imprisoned for writing a book about Mr Gulen, describes his movement as "ghosts: they are everywhere and nowhere". His influence in the Turkish police and legal system is seen by many as a threat to Mr Erdogan's power. The recent feud between Mr Erdogan and Mr Gulen has raised the question of who has the support of Turkey's Muslim majority – a potent question months before Turks are set to go to the polls.
Speaking on Tuesday after the first round of arrests, Mr Erdogan blamed "dark circles" for the investigation and hinted at an anti-government conspiracy. "They can use whatever ugly methods they like or turn to dirty alliances," he said. "Neither the nation nor we will give permission to those who seek to settle their scores outside the ballot box."
Though he claims support of about 50 per cent of the electorate, analysts have suggested the scandal may damage Mr Erdogan's chances in elections next year. "AKP's election campaigns are all based on mega-construction projects and relentless development. The same government is now being accused of having established a system of corruption in these very sectors," said Yasar Adanali, a sociologist.
Labels: Iran, Israel, middle east, NATO, perception management, russia, state sponsored terrorism, Strategy of tension, Turkey, US
Erdogan will fall because he was close to the Muslim Bros in Egypt and forced Nethanyahoo to apologize for the killing of Turks on that boat. Likudniks want their revenge and they'll get it.
nice article, Mr Erdogan knows all about "dark circles"
I caught this out of the gate also. Turkey's centuries old history willl never be washed clean. Erdogan and Gulen ? Gulen will win and with US backing all the way.
Just recently ran across info of his part in the dispersal of all that Afghan Heroin. He unloads the bulk of it. Have to remember to look that info up. He has his hands in plenty of dirt and for an old man, he keeps on giving it seems.
More on Turkey later.
Came by quickly to drop off aang's pedaphilia article today. Certain areas this person excels occassionally and today is one.
Negroponte ( our friend Robert Ford is back in the Syria picture, btw ) is right in the pedophilia nest of bottom feeders in Gov and beyond.
Down in the article where Schwartz and Krishner are discussed
sorry about a second drive throuogh, but Sharmine Narwani has a new article today and with the ME just getting more of a powder keg, thought I should drop it by also.
"Security Arc" forms amidst Mideast terror
Assad evidently recently stated Saudi KSA is enemy #1, but of course we know that vaulted place is reserved to isreal deep in the hearts of MENA.
All this Saudis did this and saudis did that stuff coming out leads me to think they are set for a big fall to shield growing dislike for isreal's dirty deeds. Growing daily are the claims that these inbred idiots are indeed masterminds of all skullduggery practically and even 9/11 !!
Who would have thunk it ;^)
The Chinese missile buy may have been the ultimate tell. Or the Q4 crash in Florida that shut down the highway in the wake of their own F4 loss.
The common thread through the Brazil article and the recent purge - recall Erdogan swapped out his security detail last year - is the very overt reference to an outside organization looking to ignite tensions. The Energy tensions visavis US policy in Iraq are palpable. Now with Hayden coming out and all but saying that an ongoing Assad tenure is probably the best scenario Ergodan has got to see the writing on the wall - especially if the Kissinger Syria breakup plan is pursued with any vigor. Recent statement coming from Kurd factions inside Syria appear to be following the path carved in Iraq.
It would seem that the Israeli/Saudi axis is turning their sights to Lebanon where important energy auctions are slated to occur in early 2014 (insofar as they bring into focus the Tamar fields and Israeli first mover take) . Israel is building up its offshore assets with patrol boats (German?) and more diesel submarines (German). They just got expedited Ospreys from the US in return for? Iran payoff?
The Hariri faction just got hit with an article quoting a former UN official on the investigative team highlighting that the recently assassinated security Chief (Oct-12) had bowed out of the convoy and explicitly requested that the convoy take one of three routes. Hariri called the accusations preposterous, from his home in Saudi Arabia/France.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Dec-14/241051-stl-denies-slain-isf-chief-linked-to-hariri-killing.ashx#axzz2o8VmUDuR
The investigator worked for the original prosecutor (who also presided over the Berlin disco bombings) Detlev Mehlis. At the time of the bombing in Lebanon Jeff Feltman was the ambassador. He is now undersecretary for political affairs at the UN but spent time in Iraq circa 2004 and State. The trials of the Hez operative indicted are set to begin in Jan, which will surely have uniting effect iside Lebanon as they push for a coalition gov't
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2012/05/cia-death-squads-did-houla-massacre.html
Hezbollah just said this past week that Israel will pay for its (Saudi?) recent assassination.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2013/Dec-20/241802-nasrallah-retaliation-for-hezbollah-commanders-killing-forthcoming.ashx#axzz2o8VmUDuR
Lebanon looks to be on the brink as a united gov't pursuing a uniform energy policy raises to many questions.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2013/12/19/Report-Israel-gets-ready-for-short-sharp-war-against-Hezbollah/UPI-80381387484056/
Arevordi December 22, 2013 at 12:19 PM
Greetings Penny,
I refer to the CIA backed Gulen movement in my following blog commentary about the Tsarnayev brothers and Islamic terrorism: http://theriseofrussia.blogspot.com/2013/04/tsarnaev-brothers-secret-services-and.html
And here is an article about Gulen from the Canada Free Press: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/34651
Penny December 22, 2013 at 5:46 PM
thanks Arevordi and karin and everyone else
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All of a Sudden, Voting Rights Are Expanding Across the Country
Washington state is leading the pushback against national moves to curtail ballot access.
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Gus Clark deposits his vote-by-mail ballot in a collection box in Seattle in the 2016 election. Ted S. Warren/AP
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a sweeping election reform package on Monday that will make his state one of the leaders in the country in expanding voting rights. The "Access to Democracy" bills passed by Washington's Legislature include automatic voter registration, Election Day registration, pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds, and a state version of the national Voting Rights Act.
Washington becomes the second state after California to have all four of these policies in place. "We want to have the highest participation rate of anywhere in the country," says Spencer Olson, communications director for the WA Voting Justice Coalition, a network of groups that lobbied for the bills.
Our government is healthier when more participate. Looking forward to signing these bills to expand access to our democracy. https://t.co/K2l3aORKiR
— Jay Inslee (@JayInslee) March 3, 2018
Washington is the 11th state to pass or implement automatic voter registration since 2015. It works like this: When voters obtain or renew a driver's license or sign up for the state's health insurance exchange, they will automatically be registered to vote once the state confirms their US citizenship, unless they opt out. The program will also be expanded to other social service agencies.
Oregon became the first state to implement automatic voter registration in 2016, with impressive results. More than 270,000 new voters were registered that way in 2016, and Oregon had the highest turnout increase of any state in the last presidential election. Registration among voters of color increased by 26 points. Currently, 1.3 million eligible voters in Washington—23 percent of the electorate—are not registered to vote. Voting rights advocates project that 90 percent of eligible voters will be registered under the state's new system. These new registrants will then receive ballots in the mail under Washington's vote-by-mail system.
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Voters who are not registered automatically will be able to register on Election Day. Studies have shown that the 15 states with Election Day registration have seen voter turnout increase by as much as 10 percent. High school students who are 16 and 17 years old will also be able to pre-register at their schools so they can vote when they turn 18.
Finally, Washington becomes the second state after California to adopt a state Voting Rights Act, intended to boost minority representation at the local level. The law calls for shifting from citywide to district-based local elections. Yakima, Washington, for example, is 45 percent Hispanic, but there were no Latinos on the city council as of 2014, because elections were conducted on a citywide basis and the city's white majority declined to vote for a Hispanic candidate. But after the city switched to district-based elections following a lawsuit by the ACLU, three Latina city council members were elected for the first time. The Washington Voting Rights Act will make it easier for cities and counties to adopt similar district-based elections, which could boost Latino participation in particular: In the 10 counties with the highest Latino populations in the state, there are no Latino county commissioners.
Washington's voting reform package highlights a broader national trend of states expanding access to the ballot, in an attempt to combat Republican voter suppression efforts at the national level and in other states. From 2010 to 2017, 23 states passed new voting restrictions. Now, the pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction: Legislators have introduced at least 206 bills to expand access to the ballot in 30 states this year, according to the Brennan Center for Justice.
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"Unlike previous years, we're playing on offense," says Faiz Shakir, political director of the ACLU, which this year launched a Let People Vote campaign in every state. "We're seeing a nationwide awakening around voting rights."
A number of important swing states will vote on ballot initiatives in 2018 that would expand voting rights. The ACLU is currently gathering signatures for a ballot initiative in Michigan that would enact Election Day registration and make it easier to cast an absentee ballot. (Michigan has no early voting.) An initiative to create an independent redistricting commission in the state has already qualified for the 2018 ballot. In Florida, voters will decide whether to restore voting rights to ex-felons, a move that would enfranchise 1.5 million Floridians, including 1 in 5 African Americans who are currently unable to vote. Nevada will vote on an automatic voter registration ballot initiative.
In state legislatures, Hawaii has passed vote by mail, New York is close to passing early voting, and automatic voter registration could soon become law in Utah, Maryland, and New Jersey. The New Jersey Legislature is also considering whether to allow inmates to vote and to restore voting rights to ex-felons on probation or parole.
After a decade of Republican attacks on the franchise, Democrats are starting to take voting rights more seriously, with states paying close attention to what other states are doing. After Inslee announced his intention to sign the voter access bills, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf tweeted, "Participation in our elections is a key function of democracy. As states around the country take steps to improve voter participation, I'm ready to sign legislation to build on PA's progress and enact same-day registration, automatic registration, and no-excuse absentee voting."
This story has been updated to reflect Inslee's signing of the bills.