Олександра Антонівна народилася в с.Авдіївка на Чернігівщині.
Працювала кореспондентом Луганського відділення НСПУ, 11 років була на профспілковій роботі, 4 роки жила та працювала в Чехословаччині. Більше 20 років займалася промисловим дизайном.
Член Національної спілки письменників України. Пише сатиричні ліричні, гумористичні твори, є автором більше 100 пісень.
Вже 5 років співпрацює з Київською благодійною APT асоціацією «Золота палітра». Брала участь в художніх виставках в Чехії, Росії, Білорусії, працювала в співавторстві з художниками Олександром Дудником, Андрієм Назаровим, Олександром Зоткіним. Є постійною учасницею благодійних аукціонів «Золотої палітри», «Коронації слова» та ін. Роботи автора знаходяться в приватних колекціях Чехії, Німеччини, Австрії, Польщі, Америки та ін.
І тільки погляд вслід юрбі бідовій.
І відкусить пахучий пряник білий.
"Вітер несе над потоком стрімким"
Пісню весняну, так легко і дзвінко.
Weightless over the hurrying waters.
Periwinkle blue song, periwinkle blue.
Jasmine yellow song, jasmine yellow.
I'm tired to the depth of my heart of this battle.
Залишили в небесах пір'їнку білу.
І не знає – де себе подіти.
Now left behind is just a little feather.
With no idea where to find its home.
A feather-like and homeless little thing.
А як же цвіли колись!
Have they been in bloom?
That did not ease their doom.
Та, Боже правий, що ж його робити?
Куди летить стрімка планета ця?
Чому ж брати так весело співають?
But yet, what does it mean, what does it matter?
Where has the Earth been flying from the start?
So why my brothers are rejoiced and singing?
Why do the wings come through and hurt again.
Like angel kisses sent with heaven's love.
As one would leave the soiled rags decaying.
Нехай зійде на неї благодать.
I'll wipe the Christmas star to greet its shining.
We walk across the river running dry.
The ears of wheat are empty, few and tiny.
God's blessings be on each their deed and deal.
But those are few tonight who share the meal.
Has crawled behind the hills.
The sea in desert swirls.
While heading to the Lord.
Of That who us defends.
And mix the lighter colors for the painting.
And desert golden-blacks are swiftly fading.
Deliver me from endless heavy raining.
The flood of spring its endless rush retaining.
І тане, і росте свіча.
Коли прощати вже не стане сил.
Таких не можна на поріг пускати.
Й сказати: «Там де ти – мене нема».
В зіницях крапля сонячна тремтіла.
The one who should be never let to enter.
And then she said: each other we exclude.
A drop of sunshine in her pupils dancing.
Then why was she with me so fiercely fencing?
And stopped: the soul was not for her to hark.
Of filthy masks of fear, mistrust and pride.
Not to regret those keeping secrets still.
Така болюча і така вразлива.
І сонце, що не гріє, тільки світить.
Its broken string unlikely to recover.
The moon is waning, suffering, it seems.
The sun is cold, it hardly even shone.
Desert the skies and don't return again.
To all the world, with summer overwhelmed.
Три кроки до біди, що впала на світанні.
І схлине скрипка при плечі.
Радію кожній квітці мов дитя.
Ступивши босим в теплі спориші.
Зробило вибір свій небесне Віче.
Their nest competing with the sky – and winning.
When magic circle finally will shatter.
The weaker ones are fragile broken matter.
The judgment has been made by court in heaven.
And light a candle for the ones who haven't.
Слід хмаринки що в небі воскрес.
Like a passing cloud, swift and spry.
Wants my soul to leave its cozy sky.
Both my skin and earth away I strip.
Then springs love, like waters from the deep.
How bitter is the autumn's song.
The grass still lives, but not for long.
Discover words of joy again.
Is disappearing in the flame.
Бліда, мов знята із хреста.
We hear the winter's fast approach.
So pale, so crucified, so scourged.
The shadow bravely plunges in.
The silken grass grows only thin.
Wipe smooth the palms of both my hands.
And shakes and misses summer heat.
Now golden petals float away.
The words of cold, the words of doom.
I'll have the last – not passed.
Свічу задуваєш, що світить на волю.
You are so used to live with them, like that.
This chance for freedom you can do without.
You chose your prison, thought it would be safe.
Now look how to your fragile throat it moves.
По стежці від пекла до раю.
From hell to bliss it brushes.
Grows warmer with my breathing.
The world kept moving in a dark conception.
Of fighting them, of finding joy in action.
To empty womb she listens, sitting, sighing.
No sinner crawls, no Holy Spirit's flying.
Ну от все. Покінчено. Нема її .
Here comes the end. It's over.It is finished.
Victorious, you overcame your love.
To burning tears, while, strong, you walk above.
Which means the storm is coming, storm is near.
Two halves of heart apart you proudly plowed.
Мені подасть свої серця розбиті.
Some cobwebs in the empty nest abandoned.
Who'll hand its broken hearts for me to handle.
He lost so long ago in summer grasses.
Returning me the joy that always passes.
Ви про що із нею, мила Донна?
Про кохання перше і останнє?
With this endless blue that has no bottom?
Do you talk about sails grown weary?
Or about love that lasts forever?
Moonlit river under them dissolving?
Здається, обірвалась – і немає.
The ice of grudge I hold.
І виривалась, і просилась вгору.
Геть відганяло сумніви і смуток.
They flew and sea beneath them smiled.
Then it runs off, then it runs wild.
With hundreds of the arrows sharp.
Will live forever in my heart.
Warming up forgotten colors cold.
Сумні чорнобривці й петунії білі.
I turn the pages in the book of past.
Cup spills the poison and forgives at last.
Is hidden underneath the withered leave.
Between the pages empty to the core.
I waste, I want more poison – just a drop to taste.
Keep them in the cell.


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Q: hover effect over nav. li but exclude the rest of the li elements

.nav li:hover a{
background-color: darkgrey;
}

.navbar li {
list-style-type: none;

float: right;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
margin-top: 17px;
font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif;
font-weight: lighter;

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Hey guy's.
In the nav bar i gave the li elements a hover effect.
now is the problem that it automatically applies to all the li on the page.
i want the effect only in my nav. bar but how ever i try it is or to all the  on the page or none.
the code how it is in the snippet doesnt work neither the only way how i can make the list hover is by:
li:hover a{background-color: darkgrey;} but then obviously it applies the all the li on the page.
is there a way around this?
thanks!!

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a.list:hover {
  background-color: darkgrey;
}

.navbar li {
list-style-type: none;

float: right;
padding-left: 5px;
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margin-top: 17px;
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wrong logic for the CSS. To have a hover effect you need:

a.(class/id):hover {
  style
}

However, I'm also not sure if that list is actually a good idea to do this. This will end in creating bad and ineffective habits.
After your Nav-Link has been visited the color will turn so might consider:

a.link:link {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #141414;
}

a.link:visited {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #141414;
}

a.link:active {
    text-decoration: underline;
    color: #141414;
}

This will prevent that a link button text going to change the color an unwanted way.

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package vgrechka.phizdetsidea.phizdets.codeInsight.intentions;

import com.intellij.openapi.editor.Editor;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.TextRange;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiElement;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiFile;
import com.intellij.psi.util.PsiTreeUtil;
import com.intellij.util.IncorrectOperationException;
import vgrechka.phizdetsidea.phizdets.PyBundle;
import vgrechka.phizdetsidea.phizdets.PyTokenTypes;
import vgrechka.phizdetsidea.phizdets.psi.*;
import vgrechka.phizdetsidea.phizdets.psi.impl.PyPsiUtils;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import static vgrechka.phizdetsidea.phizdets.psi.PyUtil.as;

/**
 * @author Mikhail Golubev
 */
public abstract class PyBaseConvertCollectionLiteralIntention extends PyBaseIntentionAction {
  private final Class<? extends PySequenceExpression> myTargetCollectionClass;
  private final String myTargetCollectionName;
  private final String myRightBrace;
  private final String myLeftBrace;

  public PyBaseConvertCollectionLiteralIntention(@NotNull Class<? extends PySequenceExpression> targetCollectionClass,
                                                 @NotNull String targetCollectionName,
                                                 @NotNull String leftBrace, @NotNull String rightBrace) {
    myTargetCollectionClass = targetCollectionClass;
    myTargetCollectionName = targetCollectionName;
    myLeftBrace = leftBrace;
    myRightBrace = rightBrace;
  }

  @Nls
  @NotNull
  @Override
  public String getFamilyName() {
    return PyBundle.message("INTN.convert.collection.literal.family", myTargetCollectionName);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isAvailable(@NotNull Project project, Editor editor, PsiFile file) {
    if (!(file instanceof PyFile)) {
      return false;
    }
    final PySequenceExpression literal = findCollectionLiteralUnderCaret(editor, file);
    if (myTargetCollectionClass.isInstance(literal)) {
      return false;
    }
    if (literal instanceof PyTupleExpression) {
      setText(PyBundle.message("INTN.convert.collection.literal.text", "tuple", myTargetCollectionName));
    }
    else if (literal instanceof PyListLiteralExpression) {
      setText(PyBundle.message("INTN.convert.collection.literal.text", "list", myTargetCollectionName));
    }
    else if (literal instanceof PySetLiteralExpression) {
      setText(PyBundle.message("INTN.convert.collection.literal.text", "set", myTargetCollectionName));
    }
    else {
      return false;
    }
    return isAvailableForCollection(literal);
  }

  protected boolean isAvailableForCollection(@NotNull PySequenceExpression literal) {
    return true;
  }

  @Override
  public void doInvoke(@NotNull Project project, Editor editor, PsiFile file) throws IncorrectOperationException {
    final PySequenceExpression literal = findCollectionLiteralUnderCaret(editor, file);
    assert literal != null;

    final PsiElement replacedElement = wrapCollection(literal);
    final PsiElement copy = prepareOriginalElementCopy(replacedElement.copy());

    final TextRange contentRange = getRangeOfContentWithoutBraces(copy);
    final String contentToWrap = contentRange.substring(copy.getText());
    final PyElementGenerator elementGenerator = PyElementGenerator.getInstance(project);
    final PyExpression newLiteral = elementGenerator.createExpressionFromText(LanguageLevel.forElement(file),
                                                                              myLeftBrace + contentToWrap + myRightBrace);
    replacedElement.replace(newLiteral);
  }

  @NotNull
  protected PsiElement prepareOriginalElementCopy(@NotNull PsiElement copy) {
    final PySequenceExpression sequence = unwrapCollection(copy);
    if (sequence instanceof PyTupleExpression) {
      final PyExpression[] elements = sequence.getElements();
      if (elements.length == 1) {
        final PsiElement next = PyPsiUtils.getNextNonCommentSibling(elements[0], true);
        // Strictly speaking single element tuple must contain trailing comma, but lets check explicitly nonetheless
        if (next != null && next.getNode().getElementType() == PyTokenTypes.COMMA) {
          next.delete();
        }
      }
    }
    return copy;
  }

  @NotNull
  protected static PySequenceExpression unwrapCollection(@NotNull PsiElement literal) {
    final PyParenthesizedExpression parenthesizedExpression = as(literal, PyParenthesizedExpression.class);
    if (parenthesizedExpression != null) {
      final PyExpression containedExpression = parenthesizedExpression.getContainedExpression();
      assert containedExpression != null;
      return (PyTupleExpression)containedExpression;
    }
    return (PySequenceExpression)literal;
  }

  @NotNull
  protected static PsiElement wrapCollection(@NotNull PySequenceExpression literal) {
    if (literal instanceof PyTupleExpression && literal.getParent() instanceof PyParenthesizedExpression) {
      return literal.getParent();
    }
    return literal;
  }

  @NotNull
  private static TextRange getRangeOfContentWithoutBraces(@NotNull PsiElement literal) {
    if (literal instanceof PyTupleExpression) {
      return TextRange.create(0, literal.getTextLength());
    }

    final String replacedText = literal.getText();

    final PsiElement firstChild = literal.getFirstChild();
    final int contentStartOffset;
    if (PyTokenTypes.OPEN_BRACES.contains(firstChild.getNode().getElementType())) {
      contentStartOffset = firstChild.getTextLength();
    }
    else {
      contentStartOffset = 0;
    }

    final PsiElement lastChild = literal.getLastChild();
    final int contentEndOffset;
    if (PyTokenTypes.CLOSE_BRACES.contains(lastChild.getNode().getElementType())) {
      contentEndOffset = replacedText.length() - lastChild.getTextLength();
    }
    else {
      contentEndOffset = replacedText.length();
    }

    return TextRange.create(contentStartOffset, contentEndOffset);
  }

  @Nullable
  private static PySequenceExpression findCollectionLiteralUnderCaret(@NotNull Editor editor, @NotNull PsiFile psiFile) {
    final int caretOffset = editor.getCaretModel().getOffset();
    final PsiElement curElem = psiFile.findElementAt(caretOffset);
    final PySequenceExpression seqExpr = PsiTreeUtil.getParentOfType(curElem, PySequenceExpression.class);
    if (seqExpr != null) {
      return seqExpr;
    }
    final PyParenthesizedExpression paren = (PyParenthesizedExpression)PsiTreeUtil.findFirstParent(curElem, element -> {
      final PyParenthesizedExpression parenthesizedExpr = as(element, PyParenthesizedExpression.class);
      return parenthesizedExpr != null && parenthesizedExpr.getContainedExpression() instanceof PyTupleExpression;
    });
    return paren != null ? ((PyTupleExpression)paren.getContainedExpression()) : null;
  }
}

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You know that to-do list of all the things you just can't seem to do? Mailing that package? Making a doctor's appointment? Submitting that reimbursement form to insurance?
Well, BuzzFeed's Anne Helen Petersen has given it a local habitation and a name: "errand paralysis" — the condition of being unable to do mundane tasks that do not relate to work and/or cannot be optimized with an app.
But what's interesting about errand paralysis is that it's a symptom of a much larger issue: Our culture's general obsession with efficiency, optimization, and ultimately being a "good worker." Which is all leading to ever-increasing rates of burnout.
In this conversation, we trace our obsession with overwork back to its roots: Starting with a generation groomed to believe they were defined by work, the rise of student debt and unstable job prospects that create constant precarity, and startup cultures that will peddle almost anything to keep you at work (snacks, meditation, craft beer).
If you're keen to break out of this obsession with overwork, my new course RESET shows you how to move through your workday in a way that's intentional, energizing, and inspiring. It's the perfect class for Hurry Slowly listeners who want to go deeper. Learn more at: reset-course.com.


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by Howard W.
Why you (the hep, feisty, aggro-addicted Y.F. reader) should care: Popol Vuh makes grandiose, emphatic, melodramatic, incantory spookadelica of the most potent sort and has been doing so since before most of y'all were more than a throbbing urge in your da and/or ma's underpantaloons.
Echoes of their oeuvre can be found in the post-punk bad-mood music of folks like Laibach, Einsturzende Neubauten, Swans, et. al., and I can honestly say that these offspring haven't outdistanced the Real Thang yet.
The recently released Best of Popol Vuh gives a brief summary of their film scoring for noted German director Werner Herzog, starting with 'Lacrime di Re' from 1973's Aguirre, the Wrath of God and ending with 'We are aware of the Misery' from 1985's Gasherbrun der Leichtende Berg. All this material is nothing short of stunning - plush, sensuous 'pocket symphonettes' woven from hypnotic modal guitars (think 'Venus in Furs') bleeding into haunted, brooding piano, devils'choirs, and thunderclap percussion punctuation. How Smile might have turned out had Charlie, not Van Dyke, been in the sandbox with Brian.
1991's For You and Me was largely disappointing; by-the-book aural wallpaper in a New Age style (which, incidentally, these guys do proudly take credit for inventing in the first place).
A new album, Sing for Song drives away the Wolves on the other hand, is a decisive return to form, vintage Vuh that blends dread and delight in that perverse yet perfect combination characteristic of this outfit.
This story begins in the late 1960s as the psychedelicized mind-set smacked into rock 'n 'roll with the same destructive-yet-fertilizing impact as an elephant turd hitting a patch of yojimba seeds. It yielded one of the great flowerings of truly popular/volk music norms of this century. As in LAD-induced synethasia, apparently granite-solid barriers began to blur, then dissolved between perceptual modalities, in this case rock 'n''roll and other musical idioms. Rock musicians in America and Great Britain discarded their previously cherished stylistic xenopohobia and began to greedily riffle through the aesthetic glossaries of genres outside their ken for fresah 'n' bizarre elements of melody, riddim, texture and even basic instrumentation in their search for more penetrating and expansive means of musical expression. This led to various bastardized colloquialisms which - for better 'r worsen - are still with us; to wit: jass-rock = fuzak, blues-rock = Thorogoodian underarchiever boogie woo, and country-rock = almost all contemporary C&W made by Nashville's under 40-set.
Concurrently, the rockers' interest in non-rock idioms encouraged the practitioners thereof to, in turn, try their hands at integrating their respective aesthetic canons with the R 'n'R format: electric instruments, a big, simpleton beat, radio-friendly song lengths, etc. (Ibid., Tribute to Jack Johnson, Electric Mud, and the first Charlie Daniels Band album). The phenomenon bore real strange fruit abroad where there was no indigenous rock heritage and thus little conditioned rockist sensibility to limit imaginations, and approaches to hybridization and extrapolations thereon. Thus they tended to be more unpredictable and extreme. It got real strange in Germany.
Florian Fricke was a young, classically trained composer living in Munich at the time. After studying at the Freiburg Conservatoire, Fricke was working at writing operatic music when his dabbling with primitive synthesizers, and friendship with Munich rock musicians such as Tangerine Dream, brought him to the attention of a major label in Germany, who were looking to get into the rock business via homegrown psychedelia. This was the beginning of Popol Vuh.
Your Flesh: So, how did Popol Vuh get started?
Florian Fricke: Essentially, Popol Vuh began in 1968. I lived in Munich at the time, and was working with the first Moog synthesizer, the big machine. As rumors of my work spread through Munich, more and more musicians came to visit me. Then I began to build the group with a man named Holger and Frank Fiedler who came from the Film Academy in Berlin; this guy helped with the technical side of things.
My original idea was to compose operas, but very soon record companies got interested. One company, United Artists was happy to talk with me and I quickly had a deal. After recording the first two records with the big moog (1970's Affenstunde and 1971's In der Garten Pharaos), I changed my musical style and did more music without electronics, pulling together an actual group with Conny Veigh on vocals and Gong Yun on guitar. With this line-up, I made three of four albums that were to become the foundations of the New Age genre of music. After these, I began making music with more rhythmic emphasis. At that time, 1975, Renate Knaup Aschauer an Daniel Fichstecher joined the group. They came from Amon Düül II, who had split up. I'm still playing with these people.
Your Flesh: Was Popol Vuh part of the German psychedelic scene?
Florian Fricke: No, I wasn't really aware of many of those groups, but I did work together with Tangerine Dream in the studio and had known members of the Munich-based Amon Düül II even before they started playing with me, who were part of the local community in that city.
Your Flesh: You hooked up with Herzog in 1972, early on in your career. How did you first meet him?
Florian Fricke: Herzog was in Rome in the studio to dub his film, Aguirre, the Wrath of God. He was looking for Ennio Morricone. He was trying to find a composer for the movie, but he didn't find anything that really fit with his movie. Herzog was talking with a young actress over wine and pasta and she said, "The only solution is to call Florian from Popol Vuh". He called me and the next day I flew to Rome. I talked with Herzog, watched the movie, came back to Munich the following day and wrote all the music for it in one afternoon. From that time onwards, there's been a good working relation between us.
Your Flesh: Could you describe how you actually work with Herzog?
Florian Fricke: It's always the same. The music is done when the movie is finished; it has to be ready very quick. I always have to work day and night in the studio tot get it done on time.
We have the same sense of intuition. Herzog will try and convey a basic, essential message that lies beneath the surface with his films, and I try to have my music flow from the depth of my soul. So that's the reason we are friends in our art.
Your Flesh: Is there any difference in your writing for films and your other compositions?
Florian Fricke: I have done a lot of music (over a dozen albums since 1972) that has nothing to do with the soundtracks. The way I compose for each is very different. Sometimes I start just playing piano. Sometimes I sing a melody by myself without any instruments; it's very easy sometimes - melodies fly to you like a bird, unbidden. But you are absolutely making art, creating music any way you do it. The particular inspiration is very important to my manner of composing. I'm not searching for particular music. Usually when the music does come to me spontaneously, that's when it's really good.
Your Flesh: Do you like to work in particular places or kinds of places?
Florian Fricke: Yes, that's always been the case. In the early days, it was a studio in the park in Munich, Bavaria Park. The studio was huge, with very high ceilings and lots of wood. It had wonderful acoustics. Today I work in a smaller studio but with more advanced technological equipment. I work together with an excellent musician, Guido. He really knows his way around the recording studios and handles alle the technological details.
It's very important when you're working in the studio that you can feel the spirit of the music. This is the kind of studio I work in, a special kind of studio. I've noticed that many young pop musicians are not in touch with that spiritual element of music; the atmosphere of a studio is not so important to them. They'll be playing video games, watching TV. However, to me the feel of the studio is very important.
Your Flesh: Over the years, you've taken many trips abroad to exotic locales like Tibet, Northern Africa and so on. Was this doing musical field work in preparation for your own composing, looking for inspiration?
Florian Fricke: When I am walking through the Himalayas, I feel at home, that life is as it should be. My first journey abroad was to the Himalayas and I was seeking to learn the Throat singing technique of the Tibetans. Once I arrived, I got lucky and met a bunch op people walking through the mountains who purified rooms with their singing. I spent a lot of time travelling with them through the mountains. Since then, I've been teaching the throat singing technique in Germany for many years... Without making much money!
From: Your Flesh, n29, 1994, p.44-46

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DOCTOR WHO DISCUSSION: PLANET OF EVIL
This Sunday on the podcast I talked with Adam and Nick about Planet of Evil, a Doctor Who serial from the Tom Baker era that is perfect for Halloween.
Also, we mentioned Nick's book Red White and Who, a massive compendium covering the history of Doctor Who in America. You can find it HERE.
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MAGNIFICENT WARRIORS REVIEW BY LU FENG LOVER
Magnificent Warriors is one of my favorite Michelle Yeoh movies and there is a great review by LuFengLover over at one of the Shaolin Chamber forum. One of her earlier films, the fights are sharp and on-point. And it also stars Derek Yee. You can find LuFengLover's review HERE.
SHAW BROTHERS SATURDAY: HEAVEN AND HELL
With Halloween on the horizon we decided to do Chang Cheh's bizarre venture through the underworld, Heaven and Hell. This is definitely one of his more unusual films, and it won't be everyone's cup of tea. Let's see what everyone thought about it on the podcast discussion.
KABUKI KAISER INTERVIEW (FLOWER LICHES OF THE DRAGONBOAT FESTIVAL)
Kabuki Kaiser is an indie designer running a small OSR press, Kabuki Kaiser. For the last three years he has been teaching video game design in India and today he spoke with us about his new OSR adventure, FlowerLiches of the Dragonboat Festival. It is available now HERE.
The book just came out today, just in time for Halloween. I have been taking a crack at it myself and it looks very cool. If you like wuxia, if you like Chinese Horror movies or ghost stories, definitely check it out.
Brendan Davis: What is Flower Liches of the DragonboatFestival and what systems is it compatible with?
Kabuki Kaiser: There's this Dragonboat Festival, a race on the river, which takes place for a week in whatever city you play with. For a week, the race is under the control of powerful undead creatures—Flower Liches invoked from undeath to bring prosperity back to the city. It's a setting encapsulated in time where the PCs can do whatever they want: investigate side quests, steal from the Flower Liches, fight them, participate in the race, etc. It's like a sandbox setting, but a tightly contained one because it's all just for a week. It's roughly compatible with everything OSR, I mean it has an AC, HD, spells, magic items so if you play with an OSR ruleset, you're good to go. As usual, I advise playing with either Labyrinth Lord, or Lamentations of the Flame Princess, but anything will do, really.
BD: Why did you decide to make Flower Liches of theDragonboat Festival?
KK: I saw a poster when I was in Vietnam. It said Tu Lich, and had flowers in it so I went wow Flower Liches! More seriously, I've read a lot about Chinese/Japanese Ghost Stories, travelled a lot in Asia, and wanted to bring that to the game table, this crazy fusion of gore, Wuxia, and high octane fantasy that you find in HK movies. I wanted to design something truly exotic, that would baffle your usual Oriental Adventures/L5R player, and yet, be true to the original Wuxia.
BD: How would you describe your approach to design?
KK: People are clever, that's my motto. They don't need to be told everything, they don't need to be pushed in the right direction because that's a roleplaying game, and there's no such thing as a right direction in a roleplaying game. I want to be surprised, I want people to grab this book, and blow my mind. You can design with that kind of goal, set the triggers here and there, plant the seeds of chaos so that this will eventually happen. I don't like to say things up front, to describe stuff at length, and all, I like to do it covertly so that you don't see it when you read the book, but when you play it, BANG, the puzzle falls into place, and then we share our imaginations for a bit, it's like magic.
BD: Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival has an interesting look and structure, with many portions of the text color-coded depending on how people plan to use it; can you talk a little bit about the structure and why you took this approach?
KK: Because it's a place, at a certain time you know. It won't change because you play halflings, or because you're up to no good, it has its own life, and I wanted this place, and time to be interesting, and challenging for all kind of players, and all kind of characters. You can play 1st level characters just fine, and you can die a sorry death with 15th level characters too, trust me. But when you do this, you need a way to show the DM how to navigate it, to leave breadcrumbs, that's why I use a few codes here and there.
BD: While Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival can be run with a regular group, you wrote it so it can be played with a single player who takes on the role of Detective Tu Wang Ping in the manner of Judge Dee. Can you elaborate on this aspect of the adventure? How do you see people using this book?
KK: That's just a possibility I left to whoever buys it. If they want, they can play all this with just a friend, and a pre-generated character. There's an investigation going on, it's a more focused kind of play, but it's also fun, and rewarding. You know, I've played for ages and ages, but sometimes there's just me, and sometimes just my partner and me, so I had to devise my own means to get the play going: solos, now 1 vs. 1, this kind of things.
BD: Can you talk about the art and graphic design of Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival?
KK: I've tried to make it look like something you would find on a shelf in China some 20-30 years ago, I don't know how well I succeeded, maybe it's okay. Evlyn joined me pretty soon on this project, and made a lot of illustrations, and then, I don't know why, we chose to use Prisma to make this really eerie, and psychedelic. When we realized that Prisma wasn't okay with commercial use, I wrote them, and got their approval, and permission. So that's basically a Russian software processing Canadian pictures for a book sold in the US, written by a Frenchman about Chinese Ghost Stories.
BD: You describe it as a wuxia Ghost Story; for those who might not be familiar with the topic, can you explain what sort of things people can expect to see?
KK: There's a lot of innocence, an almost pulp-era level of innocence in Chinese/Wuxia Ghost Stories. Heroes are heroes, and they fight all kind of really, really gross demons. I mean, Flower Liches, how can we get more outrageous than that? Smell my orchid old death. I'll spoil a bit here: they're not just Flower Liches, they're Kung-Fu Flower Liches. So there's a lot of room for innocence, and goodwill, but also truly grotesque demons, and a lot of triple jump fireball fists of anger.
BD: What were some of the influences that helped inspire Flower Liches of the Dragonboat Festival?
KK: I've got a whole Appendix N there: A Chinese Ghost Story, all the books from Robert Van Gulik, the Detective Dee movies, Role Aids' Lichlords of course because like in Flower Liches, you could play the one against the other, trick the liches, etc.
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DISPOSABLE DISCIPLES SESSION 66: IT CAME FROM ZHE VALLEY
This is a log for my ongoing Disposable Disciples of Bone Kingdom campaign. You can see the previous session log HERE.
Player Characters:
Shen Chun/Crazed Raksha
Little Bai
Yang Shen
Ong Lao
Min (Feiyan)
Disciples of the Sect:
Red Eagle (Little Bai)
Dim-Witted Chen (Shen Chun)
Xiaomei
Sects Alliances:
GOLDEN WAY ALLIANCE
An alliance of orthodox sects lead by Shen Chun (Zhao Kang-Green Cat Kang) and his wife Da Mei Mei. They wield the wind saber of Sunan and the Phoenix Crown of Bao. Their alliance includes Temple of the Jade Mercies, remnants of Relentless Corpse Sect, Purple Cavern Sect, Nature Loving Monk Sect, Dehua Sect, Golden Dragon Sect and connections with the House of Paper Shadows.
THE SOUTH WIND SOCIETY
Rivals to the Golden Way, they have been absorbing sects in the south and in Hai'an. They are led by Cunning Dragon and have absorbed: Tree Dwelling Nuns, Perfect Heaven Lineage, Southern River Sect, Sun Mai Sect, Glorious Death Cult, Crescent Moon Sect, and a small group lead by Silent Dagger.
Rulers:
Zhen Dao Empire: Emperor Zhao
Hai'an: Queen Ai Nu
Li Fan: King Yuan
Last session, the party contained the spirit of Shen Guan at the abandoned Crocodile Sect headquarters. Along the way they met a flower-giving man named Yang Shen. He came originally from Canyon Sect, an exterminated group that once held sway in The Valley. He joined the party hoping to reclaim The Valley from the current master. However news had reached him that things had changed for the worse in the region.
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No one had heard from Zhe Valley in two months. Messengers were sent, emissaries from powerful sects, but any who ventured there, either never came back or returned as a head in a box. Occasionally there was a note that simply said "Hua Yin". People came to believe a woman named Hua Yin had taken over Zhe Valley and closed it off to the world.
Yang Shen, Min and Ong went south while Shen Chun took care of things at the sect headquarters. Along the way they stopped at Zun City, and Yang Shen met with the head of Zun City Protection Agency to arrange for 75 men to wait for him at Dee. Chief Zhu accepted an offer of 10,000 spades for the deal.
They then went further south to The Valley. Upon their approach they passed through a region where they encountered a sack of silken web suspended from a tree. Ong attacked it with his chain and it burst to the ground, releasing ten hand-sized spiders that crawled at them aggressively. Min used her Hot Winds technique to destroy them.
Eventually they encountered a man dressed the scholarly robes of a She Valley senior. He was flanked by five other men. He told them "you are not welcome here, leave at once."
"Who are you?" Yang Shen asked.
"I am Hua Min," he said then pointed at his disciples, "We are all Hua Yin."
"So that is how this going to be," said Yang Shen, then leapt forward to attack. As the party encircled the group, Yang Shen lashed out with Sword Whipping Strike, felling the disciples and cutting the flesh of the scholar. The scholar then opened his mouth wide and a cluster of spiders poured out to attack the party. One of the spiders bit Ong in the stomach and began burrowing deep in his body. They managed to bring the scholar down and destroy the remaining spiders, then Yang Shen cut out the spider that was burrowing into Ong.
Inspecting the men, they saw they all had spiders in their skulls, which appeared to have devoured their brains.
Moving through the cobweb-covered hills they came to Ti Fan. Cutting a path through the webs, Ong and Min witnessed something crawling around the hill, trying to stalk the party. It was the size of a city block, with the body of a spider and the upper body of a great ogress. This was Hua Yin.
"You should not be here," said Hua Yin.
"Don't be a fool, let's talk this through, we can work out an arrangement. Clearly you have things under control here, we can work with you."
"You can serve me," said Hua Yin.
"No, we will negotiate an alliance but we will not be your servants," said Yang Shen.
"You are not my equals, I have ruled the valley since the world was created, who are you to issue demands of me?"
"I see there is no reasoning with you then," said Yang Shen.
Ong Lao leapt and used stabbed Hua Yin through the eye with his blade. Green slime flowed from the wound. Yang Shen leapt onto her back and began stabbing viciously. Min used her stride ability to appear outside the the immediate area so she could get a wide range for her hot winds.
Spiders begin to flow from the surrounding webs and converge on Ong and Yang Shen. Hua Yin reached back and delivered a devastating bite on Yang Shen, ripping out huge chucks of flesh.
The battle went on for some time. Hua Yin's size and power was unlike anything they had encountered. When Yang Shen attempted to attack her by striking meridians and disrupting Qi flow, he felt only absence. There was no Qi. She had no meridians. But her power was immense.
They coordinated their attacks, with Ong drawing her attention and evading her attempts to bite. With a final strike from a blaze of Blade of the Dancing Fox technique brought her down in a great heap.
This is where the session ended.
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Yellow and attractive Europe in the background, Sultan's feet (after levitation) in foreground (Photo: European Commission)
By Honor Mahony
BRUSSELS, 6. Mar 2012, 15:24
The European Commission was left red-faced on Tuesday (6 March) after a video clip meant to promote the benefits of enlargement was interpreted by several viewers as being xenophobic.
The short clip, entitled 'growing together', features an attractive woman, representing a peaceful Europe. She looks on in something like exasperation as three burly men enter the desolate building where she is standing and prance about aggressively.
An Asian man springs from the rafters dressed in martial arts gear, a turbaned-Sultan levitates with a long curved sword and a dread-locked black man kicks down the door and somersaults over to her.
Whereupon 'Europe', dressed head-to-toe in yellow, takes a deep breath and multiplies herself so she is surrounding them. Then they all sit in a big circle. The many Europes on the outside and the three would-be aggressors in the middle. After which the three men disappear and the woman - all 12 of her - morphs into the stars of the European Union flag.
The clip ends with the line "the more we are the stronger we are," alluding to the fact that EU is going to take on its 28th member this year (Croatia), and several more countries are due to enter in future.
Costing €127,000 to make, and approved by officials in the commission's enlargement department, the short ad was designed for audiences of 16-24 years and is supposed to portray enlargement positively.
But the message went awry.
Several viewers suggested the ad is xenophobic. In the few short days it was up, it even developed its own sub-narrative under which the three men were purportedly representing the so-called Brics countries - China, Brazil and India - the EU's geopolitical rivals.
The commission says the characters were chosen to represent the martial arts genres Kung Fu, Capoeira and Kalaripayattu.
"It started with demonstration of their skills and ended with all characters showing their mutual respect, concluding in a position of peace and harmony," said a statement.
"The clip was absolutely not intended to be racist and we obviously regret that it has been perceived in this way."
It has now been removed.
The misstep came after the commission recently won praise for another enlargement clip - this time targeting an older audience - which sought to dispel myths that Europeans have about another.
Peter Stano, enlargement spokesperson, admitted that it is difficult to anticipate how people are going to perceive such an ad, particularly as neither the audience nor the message can be controlled and social networks means word - good or bad - spreads instantly.
Referring to the film as internet Kill Bill, after the eponymous film, he indicated that the those who were "not meant to be the target group" were the ones complaining most vociferously.
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The Complicated Case of the Pennsylvania Cheerleader
The story of Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. began when Brandi Levy, a high-school freshman in eastern Pennsylvania, was passed over for the varsity cheerleading team. Levy took to Snapchat to express frustration, posting a photo of herself and a friend giving the middle finger, with the caption "Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything." She added, in another post, "Love how me and [another student] get told we need a year of jv before we make varsity but that's doesn't matter to anyone else?🙃 " Levy was apparently referring to the fact that an incoming freshman was put on the varsity team. According to a coach, some students who saw the posts were "visibly upset" and found them "inappropriate." Levy was suspended from cheerleading for a year for violating the team's rules, which require that students "have respect" for the school, coaches, and teammates, avoid "foul language and inappropriate gestures," and refrain from sharing "negative information regarding cheerleading, cheerleaders, or coaches . . . on the internet." The coaches as well as the school district also maintained that she violated a school rule that athletes must conduct themselves during the season "in such a way that the image of the Mahanoy School District would not be tarnished in any manner." Levy, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit, alleging that her suspension from the team violated the First Amendment. Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case, which the Justices understood not only to raise the question of whether public schools may discipline students for speech outside of the school-supervised setting but also to implicate public schools' power to punish students for discrimination, harassment, and bullying.
The precedent for the current limits of speech in schools was set in 1969, after a group of students and adults in Des Moines decided to wear black armbands as a silent protest against the Vietnam War. Public-school administrators learned of the plan and banned the wearing of the armbands at school. The handful of students who defied the ban were suspended. The Supreme Court, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District, held that disciplining the students violated the First Amendment. After all, the Court reasoned, the students' expression of opinion did not cause "disruption" to the school—that is, it didn't "substantially interfere with the work of the school or impinge upon the rights of other students." During the Cold War, the Court saw the school's disapproval and punishment of the dissenting students through that era's lens, stating that "state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism." In 2007, in Morse v. Frederick, the Court, with four liberal-leaning Justices dissenting, found that an Alaska public school did not violate the First Amendment in suspending a student who displayed a "pro-drug" banner stating "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS," at a school-supervised event. Only Justice Clarence Thomas took the view that "the First Amendment . . . does not protect student speech in public schools."
Levy's snaps were posted on a weekend and off-campus, while at a convenience store. It's easy to opine that the coaches overreacted and should have been more tolerant of a student blowing off steam about school-related disappointments, the normal rough and tumble of being a teen-ager. But schools and the Court also have to take into account that, these days, students tend to do that online, whether they are at school or at home. The past year of remote school has further unmoored students' communicative and interpersonal lives from a physical campus. If schools may discipline students for speech that is "disruptive" only when it happens to occur on campus or in a school-sanctioned setting, this may weaken their ability to address discrimination, harassment, and bullying. This is why the Biden Administration's Department of Justice argued in the Court on the same side as the school and against the punished student. The Administration's brief emphasized schools' need to comply with federal civil-rights statutes, including Title IX, that require schools to address speech that is harassing on the basis of sex, race, or disability, because that speech may interfere with equal access to education.
What makes this case much harder than it looks is that ideas of what harassment and bullying are have been expanding, to include even single instances of unwanted sexual comments, name-calling, or giving offense. (New York eliminated "severe or pervasive" from its legal definition of workplace harassment in 2019; Governor Andrew Cuomo called the "severe or pervasive" standard "absurd.") Rules requiring "respect" for others, sanctioning "inappropriate" conduct, and prohibiting "negative" online comments about other students are common in school policies against harassment and bullying. In this environment, it wouldn't be farfetched to say that Levy's snaps were inappropriately aggressive toward her team, coaches, and teammates, particularly the rising freshman student who made varsity, and caused them distress, detracting from the educational process. Online, I've seen adult public figures refer to social-media posts that are, perhaps, less aggressive or vituperative than Levy's teen-age posts as bullying them. (Melania Trump once said that she was one of "the most bullied [people] in the world.")
At oral arguments, the Justices probed the limits of critical, unpleasant, unkind, or offensive comments that might be understood to harm students' rights. Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked whether a school could discipline a group of classmates who say to a female student outside of school grounds, "You're so ugly, why are you even alive?" Justice Elena Kagan queried whether a school could ban the Confederate flag or a shirt saying "homosexuality is a sin." She also wondered about boys who create a Web site ranking girls on their appearance and discussing their "sexual activities." Justice Thomas asked about student comments on "Black Lives Matter, Antifa, or Proud Boys." Justice Samuel Alito probed whether a school could discipline a student who "believes that someone who is biologically male is a male" and who uses male pronouns to refer to a transgender-female student. (He may have had in mind a recent Sixth Circuit decision that a public university violated the First Amendment when it disciplined a professor for discrimination under Title IX after he refused to use a transgender student's preferred pronouns in class.) If any of these incidents made students feel harmed and discriminated against, would the school have power to punish the offender?
Of course, the A.C.L.U. does not wish to undermine civil-rights and anti-discrimination laws in the name of free speech under the First Amendment. In the cheerleading case, it has taken the position that there is no real conflict between free speech and equal access to education. While insisting that schools may not discipline student speech off-campus and online merely because it may cause "disruption," the A.C.L.U. also explained that schools may indeed do so if the speech is harassing or bullying, so long as the definitions used make clear that, in order to count as harassment or bullying, the conduct must be "severe or pervasive" and "interfere with access to education." This sounds reasonable as a matter of principle. But it is also striking that, in proposing a balance between robust freedom of speech and anti-harassment principles, the A.C.L.U. is effectively advocating drastic limits on the range of conduct that public schools may treat as harassment or bullying for discipline purposes. As Justice Sotomayor said, "The level at which speech has to arrive to meet those standards is very, very high, and I'm dubious that most of the conduct that teen-agers engage in would fit any of our traditional categories," which include legally defined threats and harassment. That is, most of what we routinely call harassment or bullying today in most contexts does not meet the high standard of "severe or pervasive." A one-off comment on social media expressing the idea that transgender athletes shouldn't be on the girls' team or use the girls' bathroom likely would not cut it. Nor would a snipe about the "Chinese virus." (Though we'd likely see claims that even single offensive comments about race, sex, or gender identity are severe enough to affect a marginalized student's access to education.) Schools want the power to discipline students for behavior before it becomes severe or pervasive, and "disruption" is a lower bar. But several Justices seemed skeptical that Levy's profane comments even met the "disruption" threshold.
The cheerleader's case is ultimately not just about high schools. It has implications for the relation between free speech and discrimination policies at universities, where students and faculty, as adults, are assumed to have even stronger free-speech interests, including academic freedom, and are, perhaps, even more attuned to the need to be free of harassment. As schools at all levels have expanded what they consider to be discrimination, harassment, and bullying in order to promote equal access to education, it was only a matter of time before that unfettered growth came up against the First Amendment, forcing a conscious compromise between values that sometimes threaten to collide.
Because Brandi Levy's posts didn't offend people on the basis of race, sex, or disability, the Court has the option to say, for now, only that schools aren't categorically barred from disciplining students for online messages just because they hit Send while off campus—a proposition with which both sides and the federal government agree—leaving for a future case the harder problem of what disciplinary definitions of harassment and bullying sufficiently respect free speech. Judging by the Justices' questions, though, they know the problem needs untangling, on and off campus, and soon.
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Cincinnati Zoo baby gorilla moving to Columbus Zoo
Officials say Columbus Zoo has previous experience with surrogacy placements
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Baby gorilla Kamina has been taken care of by a team of human surrogates at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and is ready to move in with other gorillas.Officials said after the two female gorillas in Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World showed little interest in the baby, the best option was to move Kamina to the Columbus Zoo."Our team of human surrogates has done everything right," said Ron Evans, curator of primates. "Kamina has learned all of the behaviors she needs to know in order to be successful in a gorilla group. Unfortunately, neither of the adult females that we hoped would bond with her did."Kamina arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo in September after her mother Ndjole didn't show any signs of maternal care toward her baby at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden.Officials said the Columbus Zoo has placed 14 surrogate infants with five coming from other zoos.Details for the transfer have not been finalized. Look for #BabyGorillaKamina updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Baby gorilla Kamina has been taken care of by a team of human surrogates at Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and is ready to move in with other gorillas.
Officials said after the two female gorillas in Cincinnati Zoo's Gorilla World showed little interest in the baby, the best option was to move Kamina to the Columbus Zoo.
Baby gorilla shunned by mom moves to 2nd Ohio zoo
"Our team of human surrogates has done everything right," said Ron Evans, curator of primates. "Kamina has learned all of the behaviors she needs to know in order to be successful in a gorilla group. Unfortunately, neither of the adult females that we hoped would bond with her did."
Kamina arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo in September after her mother Ndjole didn't show any signs of maternal care toward her baby at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden.
Officials said the Columbus Zoo has placed 14 surrogate infants with five coming from other zoos.
Details for the transfer have not been finalized. Look for #BabyGorillaKamina updates on Facebook and Twitter.


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(CNN) - Leading e-cigarette company Juul Labs is looking into setting up its own retail stores, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.
The plans, which have not been finalized, could bring some of the company's retail sales in-house amid increasing pressure from the US Food and Drug Administration, elected officials and health groups concerning the surge of vaping among youth.
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According to the source, a small team has been hired and is focusing on launching initial locations in Houston and Dallas. The stores would only be accessible to those 21 and over, and they would check customers' IDs at the door. Only mint, menthol and tobacco flavors would be sold. The company sells other flavors -- mango, cucumber, fruit and creme -- through its online portal, which asks customers to verify ages.
The company is also considering doing so internationally in South Korea.
The source said the company isn't planning a large retail footprint at this stage, describing the effort as a way to learn more about verifying users' ages, limiting bulk purchases and understanding how these locations could impact smokers' tendencies to switch to vaping -- often described by the industry as a less harmful alternative. The company may also allow users to recycle pods and replace defective products at these locations.
Juul declined to comment for this story.
The FDA revealed in November that vaping had increased nearly 80% among high schoolers and 50% among middle schoolers since the year before. Public health experts say that Juul has largely propelled the rise, holding about 75% of the e-cigarette market in the United States. Experts worry that e-cigarettes could put kids' developing brains at risk, get them hooked on nicotine early in life and be a gateway to smoking and other drugs.
Juul has maintained that its products are not for kids and are intended to convert adult former smokers. In previous statements, the company has said it's taken significant actions to prevent its products from getting into kids' hands.
Juul products are already sold in a number of retail locations, including some gas stations and vape shops.
In November, the company vowed to halt most retail sales of flavor products while restricting flavor sales to adults 21 and older on its secure website. The company also shut down much of its social media activities in the US.
In addition, Juul is the focus of lawsuits like one in North Carolina, whose attorney general claims the company marketed its products to children and misled the public about risks associated with those products. The lawsuit, announced in May, is the first by a state over the company's alleged marketing toward teens.
Last year, tobacco giant Altria took a 35% stake in Juul in a deal worth $12.8 billion. Altria will also be distributing Philip Morris International's "heat-not-burn" tobacco device, called IQOS, under an exclusive agreement. The device is the focus of a retail pilot: Following the FDA's decision last month to allow sales of the device, an IQOS store and other retail touchpoints are planned in Atlanta in the coming months, according to an Altria statement issued last month.
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Palm Springs, CA – What do you get when you mix a clean-freak, quick-witted business man with years of human resource experience and a cabaret-singing, research-geek Jill-of-all-trades?
You get theVirtual Source Team (theVST), a newly formed partnership between entrepreneurs Bill Masters of Rancho Santa Margarita, CA and Francesca (FRAN-chess-ka) Amari Sajtar (SIGH-tar) of Palm Springs, CA.
theVirtual Source Team is a Virtual Assistance firm offering a variety of administrative, marketing and human resources services remotely to small businesses, solopreneurs and startup firms who don't have their own staff, but have ongoing tasks, duties and projects that are necessary to keep their businesses running and successful.
The Virtual Assistant field is a fairly new industry that has grown partly from corporate downsizing and partly from the convenience of the Internet. The Internet created a medium where people can communicate, transfer files electronically, research, and work remotely from home. In essence, it created a "web" connecting people in remote locations and allowed Bill and Francesca to monitor each other's Facebook time.
Conversely, corporate downsizing has created opportunity for virtual assistants who could take over small, random projects that pop up for businesses that no longer have staff and need to subcontract out the work. When you combine the market need for projects and the Internet as the connection to remote people, you have a new business model: the Virtual Assistant.
theVST will offer everything from administrative assistant services (appointment setting, calendar keeping, data entry) to market research, proofreading, editing, social media and digital content to human resource services (posting jobs, screening candidates, employee handbooks) to producing special events, audiobooks and more.
Masters has been performing in an administrative and Human Resources capacity for more than 20 years. He started off stuffing floppy disks into envelopes for MicroSim Corporation and prospered forward from there. He got his start in Human Resources at Triconex Corporation (now Schneider Electric) as an Administrative Assistant, which grew into a Benefits Administrator position. His human resources managerial expertise was honed at Pioneer Electronics, New York Food Company and Kurtzman Carson Consultants. He then served as a Human Resources Field Advisor to Longs Drug, covering 55 stores in the Southern California Region.
When CVS purchased Long Drugs, Masters was laid off, moved to the Palm Springs area and started Pigpen House Cleaning with the last of his money. He grew the business from nothing to about $100K in sales in less than 5 years. Pigpen was the leader in home services in the Coachella Valley, outshining all competition in Yelp reviews. He met Francesca when cleaning her messy house and they decided to partner and form theVirtual Source Team.
Amari Sajtar has been a professional singer most of her life, and has supplemented that with jobs primarily in the nonprofit world, doing public relations, media relations, marketing, writing and editing. The last eight years has been spent directing and working in the audiobook industry, which allows theVST to offer some unique, specialized services to its clients.
And they'll be cleaning and singing their way through all of their projects, to boot!
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Killed by Congressional Cowardice
By davidswanson - Posted on 19 September 2014
We tend to think of war as resulting from an excess of aggression or disorderliness or rebellion. Western academics hunt in the genes of foreigners and study chimpanzees to find the root of the nastiness.
But one would be hard press to count the number of people who have lost their lives to an excess of cowardice in the halls of the United States Congress. "This chamber reeks of blood," said Senator George McGovern, who would have been shocked anew this week.
On Constitution Day, the House of Representatives -- followed the next day by the Senate -- decided to put off until after the next U.S. elections in November any possible consideration of the new U.S. war already underway in Iraq and Syria, but voted in the meantime to approve of shipping weapons over to Syria to fuel the violence.
Here's a website that tells you how your Representative and Senators voted and lets you send them an appropriate message with one click.
Said Congressman Jim McDermott, who voted No: "This amendment, which is valid only through early December, serves as nothing more than a faux authorization designed to get Congress through the election season. Moreover, it addresses only one aspect of the strategy the President outlined last week. That is not a responsible way to conduct public policy."
So, the President announced a three-year war, based on no timetable anyone has produced other than that of U.S. presidential elections. And Congress declared that it would consider looking into the matter after the next Congressional election. But it's not as if we don't all know that they are allowing the war to go on and worsen each and every day. Numerous Congress members denounce Congress for what they themselves call a shameful act of cowardice. But which of them are protesting their "leadership"? Which of them are moving a discharge petition to force a vote? Which of them are using the War Powers Resolution to compel a vote regardless of what the "leadership" wants?
Back on the 25th of July the House overwhelmingly passed the McGovern-Jones-Lee resolution which required the President to seek Congressional authorization before sending troops to Iraq. The President went ahead and ignored that. Will Congress cut off the funding? Censure? Impeach? Nope. Congress voted to approve weapons and training for Syrians who are closely allied with the forces Obama is already waging an air and ground war against in Iraq.
Senator Tim Kaine had been leading the charge to demand that Congress vote before any new war. (As noted, the House did, and the Senate did not follow suit.) Now Kaine says a discussion of that following the U.S. Congressional elections will be sufficient. Until then, the United States will fuel the violence on both sides of a complex war, while repeating incessantly "There is no military solution" and deploying the military and military weaponry in a counterproductive effort to find a solution.
Remarked Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who voted No on weapons to Syria: "The consequences of this vote will be a further expansion of a war currently taking place and our further involvement in a sectarian war. . . . What is missing from this debate is the political, economic, diplomatic and regionally-led solutions that will ultimately be the tools for security in the region and for any potential future threats to the United States."
Also missing was an organized opposition. Republicans voted yes and no, as did Democrats, as did the so-called Progressive Caucus, as did the Black Caucus. These people need to hear the message that cowardice is not a campaign strategy. They must be confronted with the demand that they stop this war, just as they were a year ago, when scary ISIS videos weren't manipulating Americans into once again doing the bidding of terrorists who gain strength from U.S. attacks. A year ago we spoke up. We confronted Congress members at town hall meetings. We stopped them.
Now they've literally cut and run. They're taking a two-month vacation in order to pretend they have nothing to do with the escalating violence. They need to hear from us in person. But we can start by sending them a note to let them know what we think.
Remember, their duty is not to vote approval for a new war, which will then somehow make everything OK. Their duty is to uphold the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the U.N. Charter, the wisdom of most of the world, the lessons of the past decade, and basic common decency by stopping the war.
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Q: How to use a hash value defined in my program in a another perl one-liner program? I am using Perl on Windows with Eclipse IDE.
What I have already done is, that I have parsed a text file and extracted the contents I need, into a %hash.
And finally, my %hash "Key" contains function names and %hash "Value" contains the corresponding function definition.
Now, my query is, Can I used my%hash "Values" in a PERL one-liner(which I am running at the end of the same program) ?
If Yes, then I have tried the following, and it doesn't seem to work:
perl -pi.bak -e "if(! /#/){s/ PERFORM ([\\w-]+)\.?/qq(#  PERFORM \$1\n). \$hash{\$1}/ge}" TestFinal.txt;

A: Variables are usually only stored in memory, to keep a variable between different instances of Perl, you will need some kind of "persistence".
You can use Data::Dumper, Storable, DBM::Deep, or any other of a number of mechanisms.
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Script:
#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

# this module can dump a variable in "do"-able format
use Data::Dumper;

my %hash = (
  john => 'doe',
  tarzan => 'jane',
);

open my $fh, '>', 'data' or die "cannot open data file";
print $fh Dumper \%hash;

One liner:
perl -e '%hash = do "data" or die "cannot load data"; # do stuff with %hash'


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There's a lot going on right now, and a lot at stake. Here's a short guide to a number of important deadlines that are rapidly approaching.
Monday, Dec. 10 is the deadline for submitting comments regarding the Trump Administration's dangerous public charge proposal. The Trump Administration's change to the public charge rule would create a pay-to-play immigration system that would force immigrant families to choose between getting the social services they need or becoming lawful permanent residents, locking immigrant families into poverty as a result.
CHN has teamed up with the Protecting Immigrant Families campaign to stand up against this change. The most important thing you can do is leave a comment in the Federal Register. Click this link to access CHN's comment guide and find out how you can comment as an individual or on behalf of an organization.
Friday, Dec. 14 is the deadline for signing on to the Strengthening America's Values and Economy for All (SAVE) statement of principles. If you haven't already, please sign on your national, state, or local organization today. Even if you have signed in previous years, we need your signature again this year.
Read the full statement of principles and see a list of current signers here.
Why is signing the SAVE statement of principles so important?
This coming January, over 100 new members will be sworn in to the 116th Congress. It is imperative that we meet them with a strong commitment to keep human needs policies, programs, and priorities front and center.
Don't delay. Sign the SAVE for All statement of principles today.
Saturday, Dec. 15 is the deadline for signing up for Open Enrollment in Marketplace coverage. We blogged on this earlier this week. The Trump Administration, never a fan of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has cut the time available to enroll, and has slashed funding for outreach and advertising to let people know about Open Enrollment. So it is incumbent upon all of us to make sure people know about the Dec. 15 deadline.
Families USA has prepared an Open Enrollment resource clearinghouse blog. It includes resources for consumers and resources for organizations working to spread the word about enrollment. The clearinghouse includes resources directly from HealthCare.gov as well as from Young Invincibles, Community Catalyst, Get America Covered, Kaiser Family Foundation, Out2Enroll and more partners.
Friday, Dec. 21 is widely expected to be the (new) deadline for Congress to pass, and President Trump to sign, a measure to keep government running. We know that Trump is insisting that $5 billion be appropriated to build "the wall." We are just as strongly insistent that such an expenditure is unnecessary, wasteful, and would divert urgently needed resources from human needs priorities. And by the way, the Trump Administration has spent only 6 percent of the money it's already been provided by Congress for wall/barriers construction, according to Congressional staff.
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An evolutionary model has been developed based on liquid biopsies that can help predict the time for progression in colorectal cancer, reveals a new study.
The study was published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The authors of the study were co-senior authors Andrea Sottoriva, PhD, MSc, Chris Rokos Fellow in Evolution and Cancer and team leader at The Institute of Cancer Research, London and Nicola Valeri, MD, PhD, team leader in Gastrointestinal Cancer Biology and Genomics at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and consultant medical oncologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.
"By combining frequent longitudinal sampling of cell-free DNA with mathematical modeling of tumor evolution, we were able to make statistical predictions of patients who were at risk of progression," said Sottoriva. "We could also determine when a cancer was going to come back, on a patient-by-patient basis. This is the first time that quantitative forecasting of this sort has been successfully used in cancer."
While clinicians often use tumor biopsies for cancer genotyping, many tumors have intratumor heterogeneity which can drive treatment resistance; therefore, multiple biopsies in time and space are needed to better understand how tumors evolve to resist therapy, explained Valeri.
Liquid biopsies are non-invasive, allowing the collection of circulating tumor DNA at many time points without additional risk to the patient. Furthermore, the analysis of circulating tumor DNA may capture the intratumoral heterogeneity better than a small piece of the tumor, said Valeri.
While much research has focused on the clinical utility of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) for disease monitoring, the use of liquid biopsies as a predictive tool in estimating time to disease progression has not been thoroughly investigated, Sottoriva noted.
The research team analyzed the results of the PROSPECT-C trial which evaluated biomarkers of both response and resistance to anti-EGFR therapies in patients with wild-type RAS metastatic colorectal cancer.
Tumor biopsies were taken from patients at predefined time points of pre-treatment (baseline) and post-treatment (disease progression), and at partial response in some. Additionally, patients provided plasma samples every four weeks until disease progression.
Even though standard tumor genotyping categorized patients as having metastatic colorectal cancer with wild-type RAS, analysis of baseline cfDNA revealed that many of these patients' tumors had aberrations in RAS proteins, which may explain why they were resistant to cetuximab, an EGFR inhibitor, noted Valeri. Furthermore, ultra-deep sequencing of baseline tumor biopsy cores revealed RAS mutations, further highlighting the limitations of standard methods for tumor genotyping, he added.
Valeri and colleagues generated mathematical models which utilized cfDNA and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels from individual patients' plasma to predict time to progression. The results were validated using RECIST measurements from radiological imaging data.
The mathematical model utilizing CEA measurements was applied to six patients to predict time to clinical progression. Of these predictions, three were within 10 percent of progression time as measured by RECIST.
Notably, predictions generated with high sensitivity cfDNA profiling allowed for the prediction of progression time several weeks in advance, compared with models utilizing CEA measurements. With the information garnered from the cfDNA, the researchers could generate multiple models based on the predicted growth of individual subclones driven by different mutations.
The accuracy of the models utilizing cfDNA relies on the identification of the dominant subclones in patients with polyclonal resistance mechanisms, Valeri said.
"Integration of novel monitoring technologies like cfDNA, in combination with mathematical modeling of tumor forecasting, may offer the opportunity to act early, stop therapy, or change treatment to stay one step ahead of the disease," said Valeri. "Our method allows for a more accurate prediction as well as improved monitoring of response to therapy."
The limitations of the study include a small sample size, in addition to focusing on RAS pathway aberrations in the mathematical models, as other genetic and non-genetic determinants will likely cause resistance and disease progression, noted Sottoriva. This model will need to be prospectively validated in future trials, he added.
This study was funded by Cancer Research UK, the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the European Union. Valeri received honoraria from Merck Serono, Bayer, and Eli Lilly. Sottoriva declares no conflicts of interest.


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DEUTSCH, DAVID – German rabbi; born at Zülz, Silesia, 1810; died at Sohrau, Silesia, July 31, 1873. He was brought up by his relative Menahem Deutsch, at Breslau. He studied Talmud under Mordecai Benet at Nikolsburg, and under Moses Sofer at...
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Kew Media Distribution and Participant Confirm New Distribution Partnership
Leading global distributor Kew Media Distribution (KMD), part of Kew Media Group, has today signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Participant.
London, October 2, 2019 – Leading global distributor Kew Media Distribution (KMD), part of Kew Media Group, has today signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social change. The deal grants KMD global television and digital rights to limited new projects from LA-based Participant, across documentary and narrative feature films, alongside award-winning content from Participant's library.
Participant, the company behind such Academy Award®-winning films as Spotlight, Green Book and Roma, was founded in 2004 by Jeff Skoll and has expanded into a multi-platform company that produces impact campaigns alongside its content designed to accelerate the reach and impact of solutions to the world's most pressing issues.
David Linde, Participant CEO, comments: "We do all we can to ensure that our programming combines the power of a good story, well told, with opportunities for real world impact. Reaching audiences around the world is central to the success of our work, and we are thrilled to grow our network of world-class distribution partners by working with Kew."
Jonathan Ford EVP of Sales at Kew Media Distribution adds: "Participant's content really resonates with the growing voice of the 'conscious consumer' around the world. We look forward to working with them to grow that audience and to help bring global awareness to a multitude of topics through their high-end documentaries and fiction features."
Participant Titles listed in the deal include Oscar®-nominated documentary Food, Inc.; Emmy Award® nominee Pressure Cooker; Sundance Award winners 3 ½ Minutes, 12 Bullets and Circumstance; SXSW Festival winner The Great Invisible; and The World According to Sesame Street.
The deal was negotiated on behalf of Participant by Krista Wegener, Participant's EVP of Sales and Distribution, and Danice Woodley, SVP of Business and Legal Affairs for Participant.
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