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New Zed Cred Program Announced for Open Education Week
The Associate of Arts in General Studies degree will now be offered with cost-free textbooks
News / March 26, 2019
by Braden Klassen
(Kristen Frier)
KPU has added the Associate of Arts in General Studies to its growing list of Zed Cred programs, making it the third program at the university that consists entirely of courses which come with zero textbook costs.
KPU is the leading school in B.C. for offering Zed Cred programs. The first began in 2017 as a way to help post-secondary students access education by removing the financial barriers raised by the increasing cost of textbooks.
Studies have shown that many students in B.C. choose not to purchase at least one textbook during their semester due to the high costs, which can have a negative impact on their academic performance.
Psychology instructor Rajiv Jhangiani has been at the forefront of the open education resources (OER) movement at KPU, and is involved in researching and implementing it by supporting Zed Cred programs.
"There is quite a bit of evidence that, for example, ensuring that students have equitable access to teaching and learning resources makes it more possible for those who can't afford to attend or complete post-secondary education, and [they] benefit a lot from using OER," he says.
The program announcement was made a week before the beginning of Open Education Week, which KPU celebrated by launching its Open Publishing Suite (OPUS). OPUS is a platform offered by the university's library that will help both students and instructors find, use, or even create their own open education material.
The newest Zed Cred program is a 60-credit, two-year degree, which is the first of its kind in B.C. It covers basic prerequisites like English and quantitative courses, which can be used for credits put towards other Arts degrees.
"The lovely thing about general studies is that it's flexible, so anyone can look at it as a sort of stepping stone on the way to a Bachelor of Arts degree," says Jhangiani. "With 20 courses, we're talking about the equivalent of giving every student a scholarship of $2,250, which is not a small thing. That's hundreds of hours saved from working a minimum wage job while studying."
Last fall, Jhangiani presented to the U.N. in New York on how open education can contribute to the organization's sustainable development goals for improving things like global education, poverty, and social equality. He also was given in open education in January by BCCampus, an organization that works to improve student learning outcomes in B.C. through open education.
Amanda Coolidge, Senior Manager at BCCampus, says that more post-secondary institutions are becoming aware of the benefits of OERs, and that schools like The Justice Institute of B.C. and Thompson Rivers University have also adopted OERs into some of their curricula. She adds that students who have used open textbooks are performing as well as or better than when they don't have access to open education materials.
"We're seeing a need for things like nursing, we're seeing a need for business and health sciences," says Coolidge. "As more and more instructors become aware of this option, as well as administrators, it's becoming extremely helpful for students at the end of the day."
BCCampus currently has over 270 open textbook items available in digital formats on its website, which can help students who use text-to-speech or online translators.


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Late Brahms is wonderfully crafted - which is why it's so dull
Craftsmanship can be dangerous for composers. It undermines Mendelssohn's claim to greatness. And it's become the curse of modern classical music
Damian Thompson
Johannes Brahms, 1877 (Photo: Getty)
Brahms's Clarinet Quintet begins, writes his biographer Jan Swafford, with 'a gentle, dying-away roulade that raises a veil of autumnal melancholy over the whole piece: the evanescent sweet-sadness of autumn, beautiful in its dying'.
This being late autumn, I listened to the quintet on Sunday to see if its 'distillation of Brahmsian yearning' still made an overwhelming impression on me. It did. I swear these are the most miserable 35 minutes in classical music.
One critic refers admiringly to the display of 'every super-refined shade of silver-grey regret'. But that's the problem. The ageing Brahms — obese, cantankerous, his spirits lowered by the deaths of friends and undiagnosed cancer — sets about depressing his audience with the precision of a genius (which he was). No sooner has the clarinet soared than it finds a clever way to snake down the stave, slithering through the elegant droopy twiddling of the strings. Every movement sounds much the same to me, but that's a heresy that lovers of the work — and they are countless — think they can refute just by pointing at the score, where Brahms tweaks the counterpoint and crops the phrases so that there's always something new happening.
And so the old boy gets away with forcing his mood on us, whereas when Mahler does it we wince at his self-pity. That's fine if you're into the heavy wistfulness of late Brahms chamber music. I loathe it, not just because it strikes me as spiritually empty but because the composer's superlative craftsmanship ensures that every bar is drenched in despair. Nobody could describe the Clarinet Quintet as an uneven work.
Craftsmanship can be dangerous for musicians. Its relationship to inspiration is complicated. There are composers — Telemann, Rimsky-Korsakov, perhaps Richard Strauss — whose contrapuntal fluency or mastery of the orchestra fails to disguise thin material. There's the sad case of Mendelssohn, of whom it's been said that he was born a genius and died a fine composer. He was 16 when he wrote his incomparable Octet, after which his inspiration faded but his technical facility didn't; the late Violin Concerto marks a return to form, but not to the form of the Octet — to my ears it's tainted by that close relation of craftsmanship, good taste.
With Brahms, you're venturing into difficult territory, not least because his devotees think anyone who criticises him must be tone-deaf or a secret fan of Karl Jenkins. They're ruder in my experience than Wagnerians, who are used to hearing their idol being trashed. They insist that Brahms's craftsmanship reached wondrous levels but was always at the service of increasingly subtle ideas. Moreover, he was a visionary — Schoenberg, no less, said his asymmetrical phrases made him 'progressive'.
Maybe so, but it's not the whole picture. The Second Piano Concerto is certainly innovative (e.g., four movements instead of three) but its close-knit subtlety makes it —heresy alert — more boring than its predecessor. The finale of the Fourth Symphony is a tightly argued passacaglia, a fact that surprises musicologists far more than it does audiences; I listen to it dutifully, whereas the blazing finale of the First has me on the edge of my seat. The craftsmanship of the Fourth never lets up, and the result is a work that — like the Clarinet Quintet — verges on monotony.
There's a supremely professional evenness about late Brahms that, alas, really is prophetic. The cult of craftsmanship is the curse of modern classical music. Brahms can't take all the blame for it; 20th-century composers didn't want to ape his unsexy mannerisms — yet, without realising it, they inherited his cast of mind.
Schoenberg, who thought Brahms was such a pioneer, turned evenness into doctrine with his 12-tone technique. Tonal composers achieved dreary consistency by different means: there are symphonies by Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and dozens of lesser contemporaries in which uniformity of style can make you lose track of which movement you're in. Minimalism? Don't get me started. And nine out of ten 21st-century chamber and symphonic works are so 'subtle', however extreme their dynamics, that they're unmemorable even if you've followed the composer's conceited programme notes.
It's at times like this that I yearn for Schumann or early Bruckner, who were so carried away by their ideas that they can sound like self-taught amateurs. They'd never get away with it today. Rough-hewn or untidy music is 'unprofessional' and might lose you a commission. And so concertgoers are condemned to yet more intricate 'soundscapes' that, for all their craftsmanship, are little more than management jargon set to music.
TaggedBrahms, Bruckner, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Mendelssohn, Schoenberg, Schumann, Wagner
Bowled over by Bruckner
Spare us this unanimous chorus of praise for Pierre Boulez
Wedding music lives or dies at the hands of the organist
Was Barenboim happy hiding inside a provincial orchestra from Venezuela?
Hamish Redux
Yes, you may have a point in that early Brahms is more striking than the later stuff (if I could keep just one symphony I think I'd take the 2nd or 3rd, as it happens, together with the 1st piano concerto). Becoming too conventional is always a danger if you become a national treasure.
However, I can't go along with your slurs on Sibelius and Vaughan Williams. Sib 4 and VW 4, 5 and 6 are as heterogenous and original as you'll ever find outside the classical Haydn/Beethoven symphony.
Robert Rawson
What a very strange piece of writing (I'll save your strange comment about Telemann for another time). 'The cult of craftsmanship is the curse of modern classical music'—if modern (or other) classical music suffers from anything it isn't because there is too much craftsmanship. In which work, by the way, does Schumann ever sound like a 'self-taught amateur'? If you want to argue that Brahms' conservatism is itself a bad thing, go ahead and do so, but I'm struggling to identify a central argument in your piece. If late Brahms is dull, it surely can't be because it is too well crafted, but rather because it is poorly crafted. If it's poorly crafted, tell us why you think so.
Sue Smith
As a piece of casuistry the article isn't worth your questions.
Stuart Taylor
I've been trying to find something uplifting about this article, but I'm afraid it's just too well crafted.
ecclesiam
Well, it is *late* Damian Thompson.
I have to go with the great man on this (Damian, not Eccles). However, I would include most of Mozart (outwith the later piano concerti) as being samey and making me lose my track.
zugzwang
I would recommend getting out of bed on the right side. The Clarinet Quintet has always been controversial. Some early critics found it diffuse and self-indulgent. Yet it is a wonderful work, the contrast between the surface lyricism and the muscular craftsmanship (which you seem not to like) redeems it from being either diffuse or monotonous. The Fourth symphony is endlessly fascinating, whereas repeated exposure to the First does eventually show one where the seams are, not to its advantage. The Fourth was repudiated by the group of friends to whom Brahms played it on his return from the the country, but a success with audiences and musical analysts equally, though for different reasons (to paraphrase Mozart, the former are drawn to it without necessarily knowing why). Brahms's craftsmanship has neither the triteness of much Mendelssohn (sadly, I agree with the put-down) nor the aridity of the 20th century. You have to be more tired than the world-weary Brahms not to hear that.
Dukeofplazatoro
As an organist my views will be more skewed towards the organ works, but the Chorale Preludes of Brahms, which were some of the last things he wrote are sublimely beautiful, all different in character and in no way dull.
And do you really think the second piano concerto is boring?
trace9
So when Brahms ain't Liszt he's better missed. Goddit.
tolpuddle1
Late-Brahms isn't boring – but it is unbearably sad and poignant. The most painful part of it being the resignation, the acceptance (which can be a vice, not a virtue).
Presumably this is all connected with Brahms's loss of his Christian faith, though he seems to have moved back towards or to Christianity in his last year or so.
Herman_U_Tick
For me, each of Brahms' symphonies is more polished than its predecessor
yet the First is my favourite for its conviction and passion even if it is a bit
untidy here and there.
King Zog
Dull? The late piano pieces are highly experimental, full of ambiguity and disruption – particularly in their rhythmic profile.
Damian Thompson belongs to the largest ethnic minorty in this country… The Philstines.
Neil Saunders
Stick to what you know about, Damian. This obviously does not include Brahms.
If a thing, whatever it might be, is *wonderfully* crafted, how can it at the same time be *dull*? Makes no sense at all. As for Brahms 4th, an absolute barnstormer mate.
merlinbenko
To say Brahms 2nd piano concerto is boring is such a ridiculous comment to make, and shows you have no musical judgement or appreciation whatsoever. Let me know what music you do enjoy and find interesting and I'll make sure I avoid it at all costs. Just because the passacaglia at the end of the fourth symphony is not the most exhilarating doesn't mean you need to write an article belittling a large portion of his wonderful later music, at the same time dismissing craftsmanship. You might as well also dismiss the entire output of Beethoven and Bach.
Innit Bruv
Stick to Rossini. Late Brahms is not for every Tom,D*ck or Harry.
The late piano works, the B flat Piano Concerto and the E minor
Symphony are all masterpieces.

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NBA Picks: Verizon Slam Dunk Contest 2/18/17
Brad Burns
Magic phenom aims to dazzle New Orleans
After narrowly losing to Zach LaVine 12 months ago, Aaron Gordon appears fully committed to winning the 2017 All-Star dunk contest. Will anyone else even put up a fight in tonight's main event?
First-time competitors include DeAndre Jordan, Glenn Robinson III and Derrick Jones Jr. According to online sports book Bovada.lv, though, Gordon enters the fray as a 1/2 favorite. Handicappers give the largely unknown Jones the next-best odds at 3-2.
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Frankly, one wonders if this evening's showcase can possibly match the drama of last year's spectacle in Toronto. LaVine and Gordon needed two tie-breaking overtime rounds to determine a champion, with the former eventually pulling out a 299-291 victory. Yet Gordon definitely succeeded in capturing the hearts and minds of everybody at the Air Canada Centre that evening. Inconsistency continues to prevent him from breaking out as an all-around stud in Orlando, but the 6-foot-9 forward remains one of the league's most talented and exciting young performers.
If Gordon falters, then perhaps Jones will hold a coming-out party. Phoenix's undrafted rookie has seen a grand total of 18 minutes across five appearances since Dec. 17. Still, coaches laud his athleticism and leaping ability. Whether the UNLV product's capable of handling the pressure of All-Star Weekend remains to be seen.
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Victoria Espinel, U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, unveils the Administration's first Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft.
I am pleased to announce that today we unveiled the Administration's first Joint Strategic Plan to combat intellectual property theft.
The U.S. economy leads the world in innovation and creativity thanks to American inventors, artists and workers. Our ability to develop new technology, designs and artistic works supports jobs and allows us to export great new products and services around the world. Our citizens need to feel confident that they can invest in new innovation and intellectual property, knowing it will be safe from theft. Ensuring that our ideas and ingenuity are protected helps us create jobs and increase our exports.
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The American economy is driven by the innovation and creativity of its people. We need to protect the ideas and artistry that has made us so successful. We need to make sure we protect our citizens from the risks to public health and safety posed by criminal activity and by dangerous counterfeits. This strategy is the coordinated effort of your government to protect consumers and our economy from these real threats. I am confident that this strategy will be a significant step in that direction. I encourage you to read the strategy we submitted to Congress today. If you do, I hope that you will agree that we are headed along the right path.


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Update, August 28, 2020
Dear CanCham Members and Friends,
Welcome to September! We are introducing a new format to inform you of what the CanCham is doing. Please follow our news page for updates.
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2020 18.30 CanCham's Health & Leisure Group Zoom meeting. Register
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 18.30 CanCham's Trade Facilitation & Export Group Zoom meeting. Register
Thursday, September 10th, 2020 18.30 CanCham's Construction Related Services Group Zoom meeting. Register
Monday, October 5th at 18.30 – AGM (venue to be determined)
Monday, October 12th, 2020 at 18.30 – Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner, Radisson Blu Elizabete Hotel, Elizabetes iela 73, CanCham Focus on Canada and the Canadian Embassy with H.E. Kevin Rex, Canadian Government Ambassador to Latvia.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 18.30 CanCham's Health & Leisure Group Zoom meeting.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 18.30 CanCham's Trade Facilitation & Export Group Zoom meeting.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 18.30 CanCham's Construction Related Services Group Zoom meeting.
Monday, October 26th, 2020 at 18.30 – "Show and Tell" Construction Related Services member presentations evening
Recent Past events
CanCham's Canada's 153rd birthday celebration on Thursday, July 2nd on the Terrace of the Pullman Riga Old Town Hotel. See Report
The Commercial visit to Iecava with the Canadian Embassy in Latvia and the CanCham on Thursday, August 6th, 2020. See Report
This year's AGM takes place on Monday, October 5th at 18.30.
We have one vacancy on the Board of Directors, and invite members to nominate candidates for this position or volunteer themselves. Please send nominations to info@cancham.lv.
The vacancy occurred with the resignation of Henrik Mjoman of Prime Recruitment from the Board. Henrik has been a long time member of the CanCham, and was instrumental in making the CanCham what it is today with his work on the Board. We thank him for his service.
We wish to recognize those members who advance CanCham's objectives by having signed up at enhanced membership levels:
Corporate Contributing Members: Exupery International School, Savoie Laporte
Senior Corporate Members: Singh's Restaurant, Indian Raja Restaurant, Energolukss
One of the CanCham's objectives is to create business opportunities for its members through strategic partnerships between Canadian and Latvian businesses through our networking activities, and to use our international partners to provide added possibilities. Some time age, we concluded that businesses entering a new market had little success, and so, we developed the Destination Management Coordination (DMC) approach. This works! We are now using this approach to connect to Canada and the international community.
The COVID-19 situation led to the CanCham changing its way of working since we could no longer meet in person. From May to June, the Health & Leisure, Trade Facilitation & Export and Construction Related Services Groups held a total of 18 ZOOM meetings. As a result, we found that we could connect not only to our members outside Riga, but also to others in Canada and other countries. In September, we will continue these meetings every two weeks.
One concern voiced by our members is that they do not know what each other does. To deal with this, each group will have a "Show & Tell" event allowing members and those interested in presenting to the CanCham to provide a five minute ppt presentation. This will also allow Canadian companies to be involved. Four events are planned in the coming months, starting with the Construction Related Services Group on Monday, October 26th, 2020.
We had a very successful commercial visit with the Canadian Embassy to Iecava to meet local businesses. Our aim was to find local businesses with which our members and Canadian companies can develop strategic partnerships with. Excellent contacts were made, and we were impressed with the professionalism of the companies visited. Now we plan to look for counterparts in Canada for some of these companies.
CanCham will also be involved in the organization of two health related conferences, one in May related to a Life Sciences organization facilitated by one of our Canadian DMCs, and an ophthalmology conference spearheaded by our member, the Latvian American Eye Centre.
Par CanCham latviešu valodā – a presentation describing the CanCham in the Latvian language has been prepared by br.ook interior architecture. We thank Ligita Breģe and Baiba Rūķe for putting this together.
We are pleased to announce that one of our Board Members, Julie O'Donohue, has returned to Canada (Ottawa) and married Matthew Cooke who was just promoted to the position of Major in the CAF. Julie will continue to serve on the CanCham Board. Many changes in their lives. We wish them both the best that life can bring.
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5 of the world's most famous female spies
James Bond may have had the gadgets but, according to a recent interview with a top female intelligence officer, women, in particular mothers, make 'bloody good spies'. This is because they can multi-task and have a better understanding of emotions.
Nobody does it better? Well, here's five of the world's most famous women spies the world has ever seen!
Mata Hari: Famous, sensuous, exotic dancing, double agent
To kick off our list of five of the world's most famous women spies, meet Mata Hari. A Dutch exotic dancer whose real name was the less exotic Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. Her near naked, sensual routine was an instant hit when she began her career in 1905.
With her risqué costumes and suggestive dances, Mata drew huge audiences across Berlin, Vienna and Madrid, and was said to have had many affairs with both military and political figures of the day.
By 1914 the first world war hit Europe, and Mata's many connections in high places allowed her to travel freely around. The precise activities of her spying are unclear, but in 1917 the French accused her of working for the Germans, using evidence from covert British intelligence.
Mata maintained she was paid to spy for the French in Belgium, but the French authorities said she had turned double agent and passed on classified information to the Germans. She was arrested and executed by firing squad in 1917 aged 41, refusing to wear the blindfold offered to her in her last few moments.
Nancy Wake: The 'White Mouse' who killed an SS Sentry with her bare hands
A leading figure for the French resistance in WWII, Nancy Wake became one of the most decorated service women of the war. Known as the 'White Mouse' by the Gestapo, due to her elusiveness, she was their most wanted person with a five million franc price on her head.
During her under cover work Nancy once cycled 300 miles through German checkpoints to replace codes her wireless operator had been forced to destroy in a German raid. Later, when she escaped to back to Britain, she was enrolled into the Special Operations Executive (SOE).
Nancy was then parachuted back into occupied Auvernge where she provided arms and intelligence to local resistance forces camped out in the Forest of Tronçais. She helped lead attacks on SS soldiers causing 1,400 casualties, while only suffering 100 themsleves.
On one such raid Nancy killed an SS sentry with her bare hands to stop him from raising the alarm. After the war ended she found out her husband had sadly died under Gestapo torture having refused to reveal her whereabouts.
Ethel Rosenberg: Executed by the US for passing on nuclear secrets to the Russians
Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg and her husband Julius were executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1953 for passing on information about the construction of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
She was accused of typing up stolen atomic secrets from notes provided by her brother. The FBI caught the couple, along with other atomic spies, in 1950 and by the time of their trial on conspiracy to commit espionage in 1951, their two young children had been taken into care.
Throughout their detention, the couple refused to incriminate the other spies in the network, although the testimony of others, including Ethel's brother and sister-in-law, condemned her and her husband to the chair.
They were executed in June 1953 amid widespread outrage and controversy, with many seeing the couple as scapegoats for anti-Semitism and McCarthyism. The Nobel prize-winner, Jean-Paul Sartre, called the case 'a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation.'
Indeed, in 2001, her brother took back his testimony saying, 'I frankly think my wife did the typing, but I don't remember.'
Anna Chapman: The Russian 'flamed-haired beauty'
Anna Chapman, known as Russia's 'flamed-haired beauty', was arrested with nine others in 2010 on suspicion of involvement in the 'Illegal's Program' spy ring. The group was a network of Russian sleeper agents whose apparent aim was to infiltrate high-end social and political circles, although later accounts told of a group of spies bungling on a truly epic scale.
An economics graduate with an IQ of 162 and a taste for the high life, Anna was born in the industrial southern Russian city of Volgograd, daughter to a senior KGB official. In 2001 she married British Alex Chapman, gaining her dual Russian–British citizenship and a British passport.
After their marriage broke down she moved to Manhattan, where she was well placed to send sensitive information back to the Kremlin. She was arrested in 2010 by an FBI sting in which she was asked to forward a fake passport onto another spy.
After phoning her father for advice, she handed the passport into US police and was subsequently arrested, tried and deported back to Russia as part of a spy swap. Once back in Russia, Anna maintained her celebrity status, as well as receiving one of Russia's highest medals for espionage, she also appeared on the front cover of the Russian edition of Maxim magazine.
Later, in 2012, it was reported Anna almost caught a senior member of Barack Obama's cabinet in a honeytrap operation.
Josephine Baker: Smuggled information using invisible ink on her sheet music
More erotic dancing from American born French dancer, singer, actress, civil rights activist and French resistance spy, Josephine Baker. She moved to Paris from the US in 1925 becoming an instant success as an erotic dancer, leading to dazzling performances at the iconic Folies Bergère.
When war broke out in 1939 she was recruited by French military intelligence as an 'honorable correspondent' to gather information about German troop locations from officials at the many parties she would attend at emabassies and ministries throughout Europe.
Even when Germany invaded France the Nazis, due to her huge popularity, allowed her free movement and she would carry information for transmission to England written in invisible ink on her sheet music.
After the war she returned to America and was instrumental in the civil rights movement, refusing to play at segregated venues and receiving death threats from the Klu Klux Klan. In 1963 Josephine Baker was the only official female speaker at the March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr, gave his famous 'I have a dream' speech.
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Murdered Love: P.O.D. uses the F word
Musicians rarely use the "F" word if they want to receive radio play. The group Insane Clown Posse, when they wrote the song, "F--- the World" knew that it would never achieve popular status, using the "F" word 93 times in that song alone. Of course, the members of ICP don't claim to be Christians.
The first popular Christian musician who used the "F" word was Bono from U2 with his statement on national TV that the stage at the Golden Globe Awards was "f---ing brilliant." His statement raised a firestorm of controversy. Because his statement was on live American TV, the FCC was involved and ruled that Bono did not violate FCC standards. They concluded that the wording "f---ing" was used as an adjective not a verb, making it in the same classification as "bloody" which is commonly used on British TV.
Next, there is Brian "Head" Welch who recently left Korn and started his own band because of his conversion to Christianity. His song, Flush, has a very controversial video attached to it. The video has lesbian behavior, scantily clad women and drug use in it. The song makes no mention of Christ, just a dark, nihilistic portrayal of a sinful lifestyle. The last line, "come on, get up, let's change" is a reference to the life changing behavior that can occur when one opens his/her life up to the saving power of Christ.
I read Head's autobiography and am impressed with his undying allegiance to our Savior and his commitment to reach an audience that would not normally listen to Christian music. He's dying to bring his Korn fans to Christ.
Arguably, that's where P.O.D. is coming from on this new album, Murdered Love. P.O.D. has a large Christian fan base but has always had a wider appeal to the secular world since the albums Southtown and Satellite. There have been rumors that P.O.D. has given up their Christian beliefs. Many believe that P.O.D. will alienate their Christian audience. There have been statements that a Christian should never use the "F" word. The Christian world, from my observation, has not been terribly charitable to P.O.D.
Nevertheless, P.O.D. keeps cranking out terrific music. This new album, Murdered Love, is no exception. The title track, of Jesus' crucifixion, is an absolute masterpiece and representative of P.O.D.'s finest. However, my favorite track, "I Am" is just mind-blowing. This is the song that has gotten P.O.D. into some hot water. This is the track that uses the "F" word. My heart breaks when I hear this song and it has nothing to do with the fact that P.O.D. uses the "F" word. This song is meaningful to me because it is clear that P.O.D. understands the hurting sinfulness of our world.
Some people are saying that P.O.D. is just trying to reach a wider audience. However, I believe that he is trying to shock his Christian audience out of their white, sanitized Christian bubble. This song is written from the perspective of a person who has been horribly used, abused, and beaten down. Here is a lyrical sample:
I am the murderer, the pervert, sick to the core,
I am the unclean dope fiend, I am the whore
I am the forgotten child, ravaged and raped and sex trafficked
Since I'm a little strange Daddy called me a faggot
Are you the One that's come to set me free?
Cuz if you knew who I am would You really want to die for me?
They say you are the cursed man, the One who hangs from this tree
But I know if this is the One and Only Son of God, so tell me who the F--- is He?
Don't let the "F" word distract you. This is the way that the used and abused of the world feel. "I'm not worthy of anybody loving. Plus, I live in hell and this God that you talk about doesn't help me. So, F--- this God!"
Their anger is unmistakable.
These are the people that we see every day, but walking around in our little Christian bubbles we refuse to interact with them. They are the broken, dejected, dirty, the dregs of society. They are the drunken, drugged, prostituted, sexually confused, homeless people that we tend to avoid. How dare I get my hands dirty by interacting with them?!
Our sanitized, white, perfect Christian world needs to be awakened. The world is going to hell around us. They are mad at the way we ignore them and they blame God because of our insensitivity and our hangups on the "proper" way that Christians are to talk and act.
With the song "I Am", I believe that P.O.D. is saying that God will hold us responsible for how we portray His impeccable character to a hurting world.
I am so glad for bands like P.O.D. who rock our world (in more ways than one) and help us to see that there is a dying world out there and we need to be making a difference. People need to see that God cares, God loves and they are worthy of someone dying to save them.
Jesus died to save the world.
Are you dying to share Jesus with this dying world?
Tomorrow, you will see another perspective on swearing from my friend, The Seeking Disciple.
BE HOLY.
BE A MAN.
POWERFUL THINKING. POWERFUL LOVE.
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Sedition Case: Ranaut Sisters Record Statement With Mumbai Police
Mumbai: Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel appeared before the Bandra Police on Friday, pursuant to a Bombay High Court order in connection with a sedition case filed against them, a lawyer said.
"As directed by the Bombay HC, they reached the Bandra Police Station at around 1 pm to record their statement," lawyer Ravish Zamindar, the advocate for the complainant Munawwarali S.A. Sayyed, told IANS.
In November, a division bench comprising Justices S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik accepted advocate Rizwan Siddique's undertaking that the two Ranaut sisters would report to the Mumbai Police on January 8, in response to the summons issued to them.
The court had also barred the two sisters from making any "instigating statements" on social media platforms to the subject matter in the FIR lodged by the police, Zamindar added.
The high court orders came in a plea filed by Ranaut-Chandel seeking to quash the police FIR lodged on October 17 on the directions of Bandra Court Metropolitan Magistrate J.Y. Ghule over alleged hateful social media posts by the duo.
Following the FIR, the sisters were issued summons by the Bandra Police to appear on three different dates which they skipped on various grounds. After the third summon, they moved the Bombay HC.
"Among the charges are those under Section 124-A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code… besides spreading communal hatred and falsehoods. The police had already recorded the statement of Sayyed in this connection in October," Zamindar said.
A Bollywood casting director and fitness trainer, Sayyed had accused Kangana and Rangoli of defaming the film industry, portraying the people working in it in bad light with allegations of nepotism, drug addiction, communal bias, and attempting to drive a wedge between artistes of different communities, calling them murderers, insulting religions, etc. on social media and through their public utterances.
In his complaint, he also charged the Ranaut sisters with seeking to create a 'Hindu-Muslim divide' through objectionable comments, citing Rangoli's remarks like "make the mullahs and secular media stand in line and shoot them down; history may call us Nazis, who cares" to prove his point.
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In a week where new grounds (or the prospect of them at least) seem to be logging the headlines Tottenham travel to the KingPower stadium. One of those stadiums built specifically for football and one that has tasted its own recent success. The Tottenham project may be on a larger scale but Spurs will be looking to do what Leicester have already done in the future, win the Premier League.
Despite actually seeing it happen, it's still kind of difficult to believe that a side like Leicester could so completely tip the scale on the big boys and top the season after 38 games. But it happened and most Leicester fans would have accepted, perhaps even expected, a season of trouble since in exchange for being recognized as the best team in the land.
Leicester were the form team last season, Chelsea the form team this season but if you look over two seasons of football then it's Spurs that come out on top. There are no prizes for that though, however commendable that may be.
Since the departure of Claudio Ranieri and the arrival of Craig Shakespeare Leicester have been a very different team to the one we saw in the first half of the season. In fact, they much more closely resemble the side we saw win the league last season. Mahrez seems more dangerous, Vardy is back among the goals and Leicester once again look a dangerous side.
Now Spurs effectively have nothing but pride to play for, this could be a good time for Leicester to welcome them. Tottenham have been very good this season but if they have a weakness it's their form away from home. Their stats drop pretty much across the board on their travels, 47 goals scored at home, 26 away. 9 goals conceded at home, 15 away. The best home record in the Premier League, only the 6th best away.
Looking at the form over the last six games you could easily be tempted into backing Spurs here. That may be a mistake though, check out their form over their last 6 away games (3 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss) and things don't look so rosy.
I'd love to be able to back Spurs, I really would but I think the energy was spent in the game against Manchester United and this could be a case of "after the Lord Mayors show". Instead, I think this game will end in a draw which, while disappointing as a fan, gives me an opportunity as a bettor.
BetVictor are currently offering 3.9 for a draw and that's a healthy set of odds for this game. Certainly better than my second bet which would be both teams to score which is a paltry 1.62 in comparison. A correct score bet is at 8 with both green listed bookmakers William Hill and BetVictor and I can see this one finishing 1-1.
For once though I'm not going to go that far though. I'm happy with my 3.9 on the draw and am happy to call it a day at that.


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Domingo Cirici Ventalló (Tarrasa, 1878 - Madrid, 9 de diciembre de 1917) fue un periodista y escritor carlista español.

Biografía
Trabajó en varios periódicos de Barcelona, hasta que en octubre de 1909 se trasladó a Madrid para colaborar con el El Correo Español, llamado por su director Salvador Morales Marcén y por indicación de Juan Vázquez de Mella, que lo conocían de Barcelona. En este periódico trabajó hasta su muerte, publicando centenares de artículos, e hizo famosa la sección Del mentidero.

Escribió algunas obras, generalmente satíricas y de fantasía política. Fue también redactor del Diario de Valencia, con Luis Lucia y Martín y Mengod; de El Mentidero, con Delgado Barreto; y de El Fusil, con Arrufat Mestres.

Fue candidato a diputado a Cortes en dos ocasiones, pero no logró ser elegido. Fue padre del escritor y guionista Matías Cirici-Ventalló.

Domingo Cirici Ventalló era considerado por Luis Lucia Lucia como el mejor periodista de España.

Obras
La República española en 191...: fantasía política (1911)
Memorias de Muñoz Villena: fantasía de costumbres políticas contemporáneas (1912)
La Peregrinación de la lealtad: Don Jaime en España y los jaimistas en el extranjero (1913)
El secreto de lord Kitchener: fantasía sobre la Guerra Europea (1914)
Sátiras políticas (1916)
La tragedia del diputado Anfrúns : novela de costumbres políticas contemporáneas (1917)
Vida de don Jaime de Borbón (s.d.)

Referencias

Enlaces externos
EL SECRETO DE LORD KITCHENER

Carlistas de Cataluña
Periodistas de España del siglo XX
Satíricos de España
Literatos carlistas
Escritores de España del siglo XX
Escritores de la provincia de Barcelona
Escritores sobre el carlismo
Periodistas carlistas
Nacidos en Tarrasa


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How Secret Agent Society Small Group Program empowers kids
Posted on Wed 13 Nov 2019
Written by Tina Wild
The Secret Agent Society (SAS) Small Group Program helps kids 8 to 12 years of age who have social or emotional challenges to crack the code of friendships and find their tribe.
This evidence-based program is one of the most successful of its kind in the world, providing children, including those on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or with anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anger management difficulties and undiagnosed difficulties, with the tools and skills to change their everyday lives by making friends, and feeling happier, calmer and braver.
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Samuel's story
Samuel's mum, Rachael, heard about Secret Agent Society (SAS) Small Group Program through a friend and several health professionals. Rachael was interested in how it can help build social skills in kids and decided this was a "must-do" for her 11 year old son, Samuel.
What difference did Secret Agent Society (SAS) Small Group Program make to Samuel?
The weekly rewards specific to his interest in computers and technology captivated his attention and maintained the motivation to continue with the course. The robot hand was a huge success!
His confidence improved, for example, he now chooses his own library books at the local library and will borrow them by himself. At home, with verbal prompting, he will explain handball rules to his younger sister.
He's now aware of looking at people's faces when speaking to them and is able to identify emotions through facial expressions and different tones of voice.
He particularly enjoyed the computer game part of this program.
He's now willing to think and show more interest in other people's topic during conversation.
He tries different activities, such as riding his bike at home on the streets with other boys his age, who are all from different schools.
Overall, he looks more comfortable and happy with who he is, which is so lovely and heartening to see. The skills he's learned can be used for life, so it was definitely worthwhile investing the time.
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- We were taught new ways to help Samuel to improve his communication both with peers and family.
- Our confidence increased in being able to follow strategies and use the same language from weekly topics; like anxiety and anger, which we learned on computer games called emotionometer and play code.
- The inclusion of games to name and identify emotions was very engaging for Samuel's learning. The secret agent detective computer game has scenarios where several children are playing together and one of the characters gives hints on how it's best to ask people to join in playing and what to do if people say no to playing.
- The program helped us to understand how Samuel thinks and acts, and as result, improved our ability to communicate with him. We now change the way we chat by asking questions in a different way, this helps to get more information about the topic being discussed.
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Q: UITextfield is becoming focused after UIButton pressed I have a UITextfield for entering text. A button triggers a functionality. After completion of the IBAction the UITextfield is getting focused again. After the IBAction I want to keyboard to disappear. What happends now is that due to the IBAction of the button, the keyboards disappears (I'm showing a UIAlert) and after the IBAction the keyboards pop's up again together with the focus in the UITextfield. Is it possible to prevent the UITextfield to be focused after the IBAction?

A: Before displaying the alert, call [resignFirstResponder] on the UITextField.

A: Found the problem. While carrying out the operations in the IBAction method I was locking the view with:
[self.view setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
// do the job
[self.view setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];

This activates the UITextfield again. So I put a [self.hostName resignFirstResponder]; directly behind the setUserInteractionEnabled:YES.
So after coming back from the IBAction nothing is focused.
SOLUTION:
[self.view setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];
// do the job
[self.view setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
[self.hostName resignFirstResponder];

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NICE 2019 Global Digital Evidence Management Benchmark Study Ranks Manual Evidence Handling as One of Law Enforcement's Most Significant Challenges
HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 18, 2019--
As digital evidence continues to grow, the challenges of collecting, analyzing and sharing it only get more complex. NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) announced today that it has published its Digital Evidence Management Benchmark Study which illuminates the top concerns of managing digital evidence. The study highlights the results of an extensive survey of FBI National Academy Associates, Inc. ( FBINAA ) members and other police executives.
"With ever-expanding digital evidence comes the need for true digital transformation," said Chris Wooten, Executive Vice President, NICE. "Today, evidence is increasingly digital, but investigative processes around collecting, analyzing and sharing evidence have not adapted to the digital age. This is a major concern for forces worldwide. That's why we undertook this survey of FBINAA members and other police executives."
The NICE Digital Evidence Management Benchmark Study results were aligned with another Digital Evidence Management benchmark study that NICE conducted with UK-based CoPaCC in 2018 titled Digital Evidence Management: User Perspectives. Among the key results of the more recent NICE Benchmark Study conducted in cooperation with the FBINAA:
"The NICE Digital Evidence Management Benchmark Study reveals there is substantial consensus among departments, not only around the challenges of managing digital evidence but more importantly around the need to develop effective strategies to improve investigative workflows," added Wooten. "As a one-stop solution for automating manual processes around the collection, management, analysis and sharing of all types of digital evidence, our NICE Investigate solution addresses the law enforcement pain points uncovered in this research by helping agencies accelerate their digital transformation."
To download a copy of the complete NICE Digital Evidence Management Benchmark Study, click here.
To learn more about NICE Investigate click here.
About the FBINAA
FBI National Academy Associates, Inc. (FBINAA) is a non-profit, international organization of nearly 17,000 senior law enforcement professionals dedicated to providing communities, states, countries, and the law enforcement profession with the highest degree of expertise, training, education and information. As the strongest law enforcement leadership network in the world, FBINAA is dedicated to strengthening the rule of law around the globe. Members of the FBINAA are graduates of the FBI's prestigious National Academy Program, representing all 50 states, 170 countries and over 7,500 law enforcement agencies. FBINAA members make up the highest one percent of all senior law enforcement in the world. Learn more at https://www.fbinaa.org.
About NICE Public Safety
Over 3,000 organizations worldwide rely on NICE'S public safety and law enforcement solutions. NICE is helping agencies tame the rising tide of digital evidence with its NICE Investigate Digital Evidence Management solution. Mounting digital evidence is on a collision course with outdated technology and decades-old investigative processes, and police departments are reaching a breaking point. Running on the secure Microsoft Azure Government cloud, NICE Investigate is a comprehensive, scalable, CJIS-compliant, cloud-based, end-to-end solution for managing investigations and digital evidence. NICE Investigate automates digital evidence collection, analysis and sharing to enhance case solvability and transform investigators into more efficient and effective crime-solvers. NICE Investigate earned Frost & Sullivan's prestigious Technology Leadership Award for Investigation and Evidence Management Solutions and has been recognized multiple times as Best Investigative solution in American Security Today 's 'ASTORS' Awards. Learn more at www.nice.com/Investigate.
About NICE
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) is the world's leading provider of both cloud and on-premises enterprise software solutions that empower organizations to make smarter decisions based on advanced analytics of structured and unstructured data. NICE helps organizations of all sizes deliver better customer service, ensure compliance, combat fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 companies, are using NICE solutions. www.nice.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements, including the statements by Mr. Wooten are based on the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the management of NICE Ltd. (the Company). In some cases, such forward-looking statements can be identified by terms such as believe, expect, may, will, intend, project, plan, estimate or similar words. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results or performance of the Company to differ materially from those described herein, including but not limited to the impact of the global economic environment on the Company's customer base (particularly financial services firms) potentially impacting our business and financial condition; competition; changes in technology and market requirements; decline in demand for the Company's products; inability to timely develop and introduce new technologies, products and applications; difficulties or delays in absorbing and integrating acquired operations, products, technologies and personnel; loss of market share; an inability to maintain certain marketing and distribution arrangements; and the effect of newly enacted or modified laws, regulation or standards on the Company and our products. For a more detailed description of the risk factors and uncertainties affecting the company, refer to the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise them, except as required by law.
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I wanted to write about David Bowie's Let's Dance album for the Rialto Cold Fire pamphlet, primarily because it features the song 'Modern Love', one of my favourite songs to dance to.
It's a song about ambivalence, especially towards love, but is sung and played with such a huge sense of joy that it feels like a celebration, the chorus call-and-responses (shown in brackets) providing feverish jubilation.
This song comes first on the album and, to my mind, dominates it – I measure everything else against it. The songs that follow immediately, the cracked paranoiac 'China Girl' already made famous by Iggy Pop, and the floor-stopping 'Let's Dance', are also memorable and striking, spectacular, but then it all seems to descend into a mix of poppy puff pieces that feel far removed from the more inventive ambitions of his earlier work. They're far removed from the first three tracks of this album, even.
Bowie later referred to this, with Let's Dance as the starting point, as his "Phil Collins" period. A Phil Collins period means different things to different people (especially to Phil Collins I'd assume) but my impression is that Bowie used it pejoratively, to indicate a prioritisation of commercialism at the expense of credibility. Selling out, if you like, but in all its meanings, and deliberately of course, as with everything Bowie did. Even so, 'Modern Love' remains a glorious pop hymn, at the top of a strange knowing album slide down that enacts Bowie's transition into a different phase of his career.
I wanted to try and capture some of this feeling in the poem – this ambivalence towards love, towards work, towards the world, the possibility of great highs and great lows, but also this sense of being on the edge of something, of starting a descent. It is also a product of the period I wrote it in: late January 2017.
I almost feel nostalgic for the manifestation of my anxieties in that period. They seem so calm and collected in comparison to today's. It was after Trump's inauguration, when reality was starting to sink in, but the year was still new. The mass culling of all my childhood heroes, including Bowie, that happened in 2016 was over, and Brexit realities had yet to hit. This was all back before Trump had decided to try and start a race war and a nuclear war in the same week, back before people were flying swastikas so openly over America. There's a bit of 'China Girl' in the poem, but perhaps if I was writing now I might have leant on it more.


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11.25 am in Portcullis House. It is Wednesday, and Anna Soubry needs to leave at 11.30 to go and get her seat in the Chamber for PMQs. Running late from a previous meeting means I have five minutes with her. In that time, we discuss her motivation for becoming an MP, being a woman and 'rebel' in Parliament, Margaret Thatcher, and dealing with online abuse. First impressions count for a lot, but rarely in so short a time is someone's drive, passion, and integrity so evident and compelling.
Having had a career in both journalism and law, Anna Soubry became the Conservative MP for Broxtowe in 2010. During her time in Parliament, she has served as a junior minister for both Health and Defence, and was the Minister for Small Businesses. Soubry backed the 'Remain' campaign in the 2016 Referendum, and has since been an ardent critic of many prominent figures who supported leaving the EU, notably, Boris Johnson. She has recently made some particularly inflammatory headlines for rebelling against her party on the issue of Parliament having a vote on the final referendum deal.
GP: What motivated you to become an MP?
AS: Like all Members of Parliament you want to make a difference, you want to make a change, and you want to make people's lives better. What distinguishes most of us is how we achieve that common goal.
GP: You infamously called out Dennis Skinner in 2015 for his inappropriate comments likening you to Margaret Thatcher in the Chamber. How do you find being a woman in Parliament?
AS: You do get some nonsense, which is quite concerning, that in 2018 there are still some people who really don't understand that it is 2018 and that women are here and we're here to stay! I think in both parties you get people with unacceptable attitudes, and yes, I do get very agitated when people fall into that stereotype "I'm a woman, I'm a Tory, therefore I must be Margaret Thatcher". For God's sake! Get a grip. Move on.
AS: Ah well, you see the excellent painting outside it is quite irreverent!
Of course, Margaret Thatcher was the first woman to lead a major political party in Britain, and the first female Prime Minister. Like her or not, she achieved a great deal. There were mistakes that were made, and I think by the end she'd stopped being the champion of ordinary people and started to believe her own hype. But she did achieve an enormous turnaround in the fortunes of this country. I do sometimes think that the vilification of her by the Left, which is deeply unpleasant, actually stems from their own problems with women and their own misogyny.
GP: Speaking of political unpleasantness, I see you've got the 'Brexit Mutineers' Telegraph cover on your wall too. This cover has been blamed for directing a lot of abuse towards MPs who don't tow the line on Brexit. But more worryingly, you've been the recipient of a lot of abuse, not only from the press, but online too. Has this got worse following the Referendum, and how do you deal with it?
AS: It's definitely got worse. We all know that after Brexit the number of hate crimes increased, so not only has the unpleasantness got worse for Members of Parliament, but also for people who come from other countries to live and work in the UK. Even more appallingly, people with black and brown faces, second or third generation immigrants, are being asked "why are you still here? Go back to your own country." I mean, how much more ashamed can you be of the current state of affairs than after that and what has happened to so many brilliant people who are British through and through but just happen not to have white skin?! These attitudes also affect all those EU workers, without whom our economy and our public series could not survive. It was appalling.
GP: You're more recently known for being a rebel in your own party, over Amendment 7 for example. What motivates you to defy the party line on issues such as Brexit?
AS: The thing is, as the great Ken Clarke said, our views on Europe were the views and policy of the Conservative Party for fifty years. Only now are we being seen as rebels, we were always mainstream, which speaks a lot about the awfully unfortunate situation that my party has got itself into. But, in any event, Brexit has always been a cross-party issue, and working cross-party (which I think people like!) is beneficial for many reasons. I think we should do more of it, notably on the NHS and social care. It should not be a criticism.
The vote on Amendment 7 was all about Parliament, not ministers, having a meaningful say on the terms upon which we leave the European Union. So the idea that it was somehow something wrong, on the contrary, it absolutely resonated with the results of the Referendum, where 52% of those who voted, voted apparently to "take back control" only to see actually a power grab by government on a scale we haven't seen for hundreds and hundreds of years.
This interview was conducted on 31st January 2018.