While employees can rely on such people for advice, it also helps the organization understand people's aspirations.
MUMBAI: When employees need career advice, they usually turn to the HR manager or the immediate line manager. If that doesn't help, chances are they will look outside and may even land new jobs, resulting in loss of talent. Such situations can be averted if organizations channelize career advice to employees.
An internal job marketplace is one such tool where advice can be crowdsourced to help shape employee careers. Such a system breaks down the barriers between HR or reporting managers and employees, who can openly seek career advice from in-house "counsellors". This gives organizations a greater chance to retain employees.
HCL Technologies, which has launched 'career connect', believes the best people who can give career advice are those who have charted out new paths and career directions for themselves. While employees can rely on such people for advice, it also helps the organization understand people's aspirations.
Prithvi Shergill, chief HR officer, HCL Technologies, said, "We realized we have to make such a system available to employees. So we enable a platform virtually on Career Connect and physically run internal career fairs, which help people aspiring for particular positions to seek advice and connect with those who can add value to their career path as well as talk to the hiring managers for those positions.We see this as an internal career marketplace so it is easier to find a job inside than outside."
Shergill said there are more than 45,000-odd conversations going on at the moment, with people creating their own networks, taking ownership of their own careers and managing it themselves. The system also ensures people don't sit on a single project for long. "This way we ensure people rotate assignments after 18-36 months in a project. With the kind of changes taking place at the workplace, employees need to constantly reinvent themselves," said Shergill.
Some companies engage in crowdsourcing for select employees through the referral route. Jayanthi Vaidyanathan, director-HR, PayPal India, said it hosts career development workshops, mentoring and personal branding sessions across the year. "We ensure talent visibility for our employees across the APAC region through our 'talent council', which identifies and recog nizes exceptional work produced by employees. Through our talent leadership programme and structured job rotation schemes, we create opportunities for top talent in to gain work experience with different technology and business teams across the region as well as around the world," said Vaidyanathan.
Prasenjit Bhattacharya, CEO, Great Place to Work Institute, India, said career fairs and crowdsourcing career ideas is catching on because "employees believe they have a career when they see role models".
Intel, said Bhattacharya, has a career adviser network that provides employees with a platform to reach out to colleagues to build a greater understanding of any topic, professional or personal, or explore more on any geography or business unit for future job potential. The objective of the tool, he said, is career exploration and planning.


Twitter is growing fast; a lot of people share their whereabouts via this micro blog. Either you love it or you hate it: 'why do I have to know that you are in a row for the cash point in the supermarket of that you are going to the loo?' That's what people say when they don't see the point of it. But let's be honest: Twitter is more than just twaddle. Twitter becomes more important as a source for research or a way to find out trends on different topics in society.
Computer scientists Mark Dredze en Michael J. Paul from the John Hopkins University developed a program to filter and analyse tweets referring to health matters. Their goal was to find out whether twitter is a useful source of public health information. They found out that it actually is! From the tweets you can analyse for instance the course of the flu. But it's not as simple as it looks like. Just filtering on 'fever' won't help, because a lot of teens have a Justin Bieber fever and they put it on Twitter! But you know, that has nothing to do with the real flu!
Dredze and Paul analysed 2 billion tweets between May 2009 and October 2010 with the program they developed. The program filtered 1,5 million tweets referring to health matters. Not only about the flu, but on several illnesses like allergies, insomnia, cancer, depression and obesity. By making a selection on location they could see the course of the allergy season in the United States.
It's all very interesting, but Twitter is not the Holy Grail. This kind of research has its limitations. It's especially young people that are on twitter, and as a researcher you depend on what people are willing to share via Twitter. But it is very innovative and I think this kind of research will be developed and used over the years. And then it can be useful after all to tweet about your visits to the loo!
Social Media in health care: get in touch!
Cathy van Beek: Patients in the driver seat: that's participatory healthcare!
Participatory healthcare: join the team!


Rackspace® (NYSE: RAX)today announced that Folk2Folk, a financial peer-to-peer business lender, is using Fanatical Support® for Microsoft Azure® from Rackspace to disrupt the lending sector.
The firm based in South West England aims to take traditional lending and borrowing into the digital age by matching local business owners with local investors, bypassing the banks and City institutions. With traditional banks declining an increasing number of business loans each quarter, Folk2Folk offers a genuine alternative to traditional financial services. With a personal approach, the company aims to help local businesses access the right finance for their needs and at the same time enable investors to make a low-risk return.
Formed in 2013, this new breed of lender isn't burdened by legacy systems like many other financial institutions and has embraced cloud technology from the start – allowing it to quickly scale and compete with the big players. Its lending to date stands at over £120 million with a target of providing over £1 billion of finance to UK businesses by 2020. Technology lies at the heart of this goal, as it allows the company to meet the needs of entrepreneurs and business owners by delivering a personal touch – anytime, anywhere on any device.
Investing in Fanatical Support for Microsoft Azure has allowed Folk2Folk the flexibility, scalability and security needed to continue growing, without the need to constantly expand its in-house IT team. Setting the platform up independently would have required the lender to build its own physical infrastructure, employing a whole new team and incurring around £250,000 in costs.
After first calling Rackspace, the newly architected solution took just five weeks to go live. Since then, the infrastructure has gone through three significant iterations to optimise performance. Even now, changes are still being made thanks to the platform's flexibility plus the regular feedback and suggestions for improvement provided by Rackspace.
Folk2Folk is now planning to triple its branch network by 2018 as well as putting in place the foundations to keep innovating, growing its product set and expanding its peer-to-peer markets – which is all powered by technology. With 24x7x365 support from Rackspace, the lender is able to spot and rectify any issues immediately, minimising costly downtime.
Folk2Folk uses Fanatical Support for Microsoft Azure, which allows companies to speed up deployment of Azure, reduce costs and optimise performance. Rackspace has over 250 Microsoft-certified professionals worldwide which means Folk2Folk has access to deep expertise in Microsoft-cloud technology to help them simplify adoption, evaluate risk and manage operations across platforms. As a financial services organisation, compliance is important for Folk2Folk. Working with Rackspace, the lender is able to address Financial Conduct Authority security requirements which help keep customer data secure.


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Guantanamo releases seen as arbitrary
Redlands teacher arrested
City facilities closed
Suit: Trash funds used illegally
School board gives itself raise
By Redlands Daily Facts | redlands@dfmdev.com |
October 3, 2007 at 12:00 a.m.
SECRECY: Some men transferred abroad after hearings remain threats in military's eyes.
By Andrew O. Selsky
Two dozen prisoners were cleared for transfer from Guantanamo Bay last year even though U.S. military panels found they still posed a threat to the United States and its allies.
Dozens more were cleared even though they didn't show up for their hearings. One Saudi arrested in Afghanistan was approved for release after offering a peculiar account that he had gone to the Taliban-controlled country to lose weight.
Pentagon documents obtained by The Associated Press show seemingly inconsistent decisions to release men declared by the Bush administration to be among America's most-hardened enemies. Coupled with accusations that some detainees have been held for years on little evidence, the decisions raise questions about whether they were arbitrary.
Human rights groups contend the documents show the military panels, known as Administrative Review Boards, often are overridden by political expediency at Guantanamo, where about 340 men are still held.
"What it says on your passport is more important than what it says in your ARB," said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, noting that European citizens at Guantanamo were among the first to get out amid intense lobbying by their countries.
The Pentagon created the Administrative Review Board process in 2004 as the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was filling up with men captured around the world in the war on terrorist groups.
The boards hold sessions in a trailer, hearing testimony from detainees and making recommendations on whether to transfer, release or hold the men. The final decisions are made by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, who is not bound by the recommendations, but who officials say usually follows them.
The Pentagon, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the AP, released transcripts and memos last month from last year's hearings.
England ordered 273 inmates kept at Guantanamo and 55 transferred to authorities in other nations. He didn't order outright releases, but most detainees transferred from Guantanamo have been freed after arriving home.
The heavily censored documents indicate testimony before the panels often had little effect on the outcome.
Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, who served as a liaison between Guantanamo tribunals and intelligence agencies, criticized the process used to decide which detainees are sent home.
"The decisions are not orderly nor analytic and only rational if you accept the premise that they are made for political and not legal reasons," Abraham said in an e-mail to the AP.
Redlands Unified failed to address complaints about teacher accused of sexual abuse, lawsuit alleges
Here's why Redlands will require 20% less parking to be built downtown
Here's what's closed due to 210 Freeway work from Redlands to San Bernardino
Newsom budget: The good, the bad and the ugly
Baal, Ashtoreth and Molech – God's Old Testament rivals
Baal, Ashtoreth and Molech - God's Old Testament rivals
Redlands Unified teacher arrested in alleged sexual abuse of student
We illustrated 7 dwarfs that didn't make it into Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' in honor of the film's 80th anniversary
We illustrated 7 dwarfs that didn't make it into Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' in honor of the film's 80th anniversary
Study: Thousands of Californians may lack access to safe drinking water

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Let's Get CVLT, Let's Get TGTHR
Got two great gigs in the next couple weeks that I want to make a little bit of a big deal about!
First up, next Monday (May 6) at Middlesex, I'm excited to take a turn as a guest at CVLT, Cambridge / Boston's semimonthly source for "Electronic Death Music" (as they put it) —
This is an exciting opportunity to delve into some harder, darker sounds I don't often play out. You can count on some duppy-haunted dancehall, k-hole reggaeton, and unvarnished grime. And as you can see, I'll not only be joined by CVLT's residents but by the one and only Nick Dawg of Beantown Boogietown, Boston's premiere bass(scene) boosting blog.
FYI, Nick just cooked up a mix full of tracks c/o this year's Together acts (more about that in a moment)–
Plus+++ the night will begin with an 8pm screening of The Earth Rejects Him by local filmmaker Jared Skolnick. Here's a blurb (and a teaser):
The Earth Rejects Him is a chilling short film written and directed by Jared Skolnick about a young boy who discovers a corpse while biking in the woods, "then faces unexpected and macabre consequences when he tries to bury it." Influenced by the films of Werner Herzog, Terrence Malick, and Guillermo del Toro and the short stories of H.P. Lovecraft, Skolnick shows us the sinister side of a sunny day in a lush forest when a young boy takes a tumble off his bike over a small cliff and lands in a tangle of fallen leaves.
Sounds like the perfect beginning to a night of pleasurably dark vibes, no?
Just in case you're still wondering what these all these adjectives might mean, CVLT resident El Poser recently posted a vernal mix that helps give a sense of the vibe (though I also saw him play an incredibly bounce-y set opening for Dubbel Dutch at SWERVE a couple weeks back, so you never know):
On the other side of the vibes spectrum, I'm absolutely thrilled to be a part of this!!!!
There's a lot I could say about Picó Picante (my fave dance night in Boston) and Toy Selectah (one of my fave producer / DJ / A&Rs in the world), but for now allow me to crib from the infotaining blurb the Pajaritos put together —
// PICÓ PICANTE featuring Toy Selectah, May 16th at Good Life
On Thursday, May 16th, PICÓ PICANTE takes over both floors of Good Life for a special edition showcase for this year's Together Festival. Monterrey-based producer Toy Selectah (Sones del Mexside, Mad Decent) headlines, known originally as the mix-master wizard for Mexico's Hip Hop en Español pioneers Control Machete. Most recently, Toy's productions gallop rural rhythms of Colombian-Mexican cumbias, reggae, and other urban styles to create his own trademark sound and collective called Sonidero Nacional. Toy's responsible for developing the Mexican phenomenon 3BALLMTY, and has also worked with the likes of Calle 13, Don Omar, Manu Chao, Morrissey and many others. He now resides as Creative Director, A&R and CEO of his own production company and boutique label, Sones del Mexside.
Supporting downstairs at Good Life will be Wayne&Wax and Picó Picante's resident Pajaritos, with live HEXbeam visual prophecies. Upstairs features Ultratumba of Picó and SWERVE residents Brizgnar and El Poser.
Thursday, May 16th | 9 PM – 2 AM | Good Life, 28 Kingston Street, Boston | 21+ | $5 | FACEBOOK
// Grassroots Digital, a panel-discussion organized by Wayne Marshall, May 16th at Together Center
We're excited to share that Wayne Marshall (Wayne&Wax, Harvard University) has organized and will moderate a panel-discussion in conjunction with Together Festival daytime programming, with Picó guest Toy Selectah and more to be announced:
From Mexico to Mali to Bed-Stuy, digital tools of production and publication are facilitating new interactions between grassroots culture and industrial capture, informal amateurism and art world remediation. Drawing on the expertise of several actors in this wide, weird world, our panel seeks to explore a few stories of spectacular circulation that shed light on new forms of media exchange and exploitation.
Thursday, May 16th | 2 – 3:30 PM | Together Center, 328 Mass Ave, Cambridge | All Ages | Free
Thank You, Dr. King! (No Thanks, CPS)
Our 5yo brought this home from school this month. I don't know where to begin.
I mean, obviously the last one takes the cake, but I'm also tickled by the first choice students are given: an airplaine vs. a picture of Martin Luther King talking. Hmmm, which one?
Admittedly, I'm finding it tricky to introduce my little girls to the sorrows and horrors of racism, but somehow we've got to do better than this. Come on, Cambridge. #smdh
It's a little hard to believe, but our little girl turns a big 5 today! Shine on, my dear–
5 years flush with joy & pride & love. You're an awesome kid, Neeks, thanks for being you.
The Kind of Drones We Like
Hard to believe the fall semester is already coming to a close, but we're going out with a bang in Technomusicology (see & hear some of our projects here and there): Thursday's final class session will feature a visit from none other than Jace Clayton, aka DJ /Rupture, globe-trotting artist, writer, label honcho, three-turntable magician, & one of the finest non-card-carrying technomusicologists in "the field"!
Jace will be presenting Sufi Plug Ins, his recently launched, semi-crowdsourced, collaboratively-produced, free (!) audio software / art project. As described over at Beyond Digital, Sufi Plugs Ins includes
four software synthesizers hardwired to North African maqam scales with quartertone tuning built-in, a device called DEVOTION which lowers your computer's volume 5 times a day during call to prayer (presets include Agnostic, Fervent, Devout), and a drone machine
Now that's what I call technomusicology! Check it out —
Jace is always very thoughtful (see, e.g., his own post on the project), so I'm quite looking forward to the demonstration & conversation. My students have been using Ableton all semester while reading across the history of sound technologies and how people have made them musical — what Jonathan Sterne refers to as their plasticity — so they should have a good vantage on the ways Sufi Plug Ins exploits the special affordances and constraints of contemporary techno-musical media.
Whether or not you too have been reading along and messing with Ableton, the event is free and open to the public, so if you're interested in joining us from 3-5pm this Thursday, Nov 29, please do.
Music 190r: Technomusicology presents…
SUFI PLUG INS
a conversation with Jace Clayton (DJ /Rupture)
Arts @ 29 Garden (corner of Garden and Chauncy Streets)
Thurs, Nov 9, 3-5 pm
Maybe see & hear you there!
I'm Not a Harvard Man, I'm a Harvard, Man
I'm very pleased to report that I'll be teaching full-time in the Music Department at Harvard this year, filling the big shoes of two ethnomusicolleagues on leave, Ingrid Monson & Richard Wolf. This is an honor and a pleasure, and even as a one-year non-renewable gig, it sure beats the adjunct beat I was walking last year. Plus, I can walk to work, so that's nice.
Best of all, though, is that the fine people here are happy to let me offer the kinds of courses that I'd like to — namely, courses that grapple with some of the themes central to my research — which apparently complement the ongoing offerings here rather well. This semester I'm teaching two seminars, to a mix of undergrads and grad students, and I'm happy to share the syllabi here.
The first, Music 207r: Music, Race and Nation (PDF), takes as its subject the entanglements between these three things, entanglements that readers of this blog know have been central to my work on reggae, hip-hop, reggaeton, and nu world music, to name a few. After reading several pieces which attempt to clarify the meanings of these terms and their uses in the musicological (and anthropological) literature, we will turn to a series of case studies. Allow me to share the description here, but feel free to download the PDF for closer perusal:
This seminar reviews recent theoretical perspectives on race, nationalism, and music, both from within ethno/musicology and beyond, including general works and a series of specific studies articulating music's relationship to such projects and ideas. Examining how musical representations and experiences figure in the creation of public and private notions of race and nation, our course grapples with music's power to mediate imagined and inscribed cartographies of self and other.
While the course will give students a broad foundation for discussing matters of music, race, and nationalism, our study of various forms of modern encounter with musical difference centers on European imperialism, the transatlantic African diaspora, and their myriad intersections. Coursework will center on readings (typically between 80-100 pages/week) and in-class discussion, brief weekly writing assignments, and a final paper of students' own design.
The second class, Music 190r: Technomusicology (PDF), is, as I've noted here before, something of a concept that I'm making up as I go along. Really, though, it's an idea that I've been working through on this blog for many years now, and I'm simply delighted that I'm getting a chance to bring some of these experiments in multimedia forms of music scholarship/play directly into the classroom as our primary object and method. Here's the description:
If in a previous moment "bi-musicality" represented cutting-edge musicological literacy, today's technology suffused world may call for the development of something akin to "technomusicology." This course concentrates on the longstanding and increasing interplay between music and technology while exploring new modes of technologically assisted research and publication.
Beginning by reading across the growing literature that attends to music in the age of its technological reproducibility, we will then turn to a series of exercises or etudes, alongside germane readings, to explore some technologically-mediated forms and practices as potential openings for new directions in music scholarship.
In addition to developing an historical grasp on the imbrication of music and tech, students will cultivate competencies in audio and video editing, sampling and arranging, mixing and remixing, producing mashups and composing soundscapes. Occasional evening tutorials will be available over the course of the semester to assist with ongoing projects and to help get familiar with the software we will be using: Ableton Live.
Did I mention that I secured an internal arts-making grant to buy all of my students Ableton? Pretty cool, eh? And that we will have at least two technomusicological luminaries as guests this semester? (Namely, Jace Clayton talking Sufi Plug-Ins, and Harmonix's Matt Boch talking interactive musical video game design.) I don't know about you, but I would have killed to take this course as an undergrad — or as a grad student for that matter. Here's hoping we produce a series of experiments that stand as shining examples and help to move this fledgling "field" forward (technomusicology, that is — shouts to my ethno-sistren Kiri Miller for her own efforts in this regard).
Of course, as is always the case, I'm already considering additions and revisions to the syllabi. For one, I think the Music, Race and Nation course would be nicely rounded out by reading the recent book by the Comaroffs (who also arrived at Harvard this fall), Ethnicity Inc.. And after listening to Keith Fullerton Whitman's live-mix of early recordings by pioneer ethnomusicologist / field-recordist Hugh Tracey, I'm seriously considering adding a "remix the Harvard audio archives" project to Technomusicology. This is a really stunning and wonderful way to work with audio archives, and we'll certainly be giving it a good listen and some thought together (bravo, Keith!) —
In the spring I will be offering my own version of Music 97c (Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective), focusing on the music of North America, Latin America/Caribbean, and Indonesia, as well as a graduate seminar on "Musical Publics." But I've still got some work to put into those syllabi, so if these titles pique your curiosity, please check back later in the semester. Between now and then, I hope to have lots of interesting things to share as they emerge from this term's offerings.
Good Giggity! (Early Summer Edition)
Summer vibes really on lock all a sudden, eh? Boston tropical and ting! (In fact, the main reason I'm finally getting around to writing this post — best intentions notwithstanding — is on account of IT IS TOO HOT TO SLEEP.)
The dog daze arrived just in time, tho, for I'm delighted to report that this very evening, FRIDAY JUNE 22, on only the second or so night of summer, I'll have the pleasure of plumbing some seasonal depths by playing what has become, hands down, my favorite dance party in town: Picó Picante. And alongside no less than my pardner-in-beatresearch, DJ Flack, & other local luminaries —
Can't wait! Nuff props to Pajaritos for making the space. It's really an honor to finally get behind the decks (if while triggering a laptop) to rock the reliably great crowd they rally. You'll find few sessions in Boston as welcoming and warm. Expect plenty reggae/ton from me. Time to get some dembow into dem bones!
The second gig I want to mention here isn't actually mine at all, but it's well worth your consideration — and as it happens, it's being put on c/o two good friends: Pacey "Library of Vinyl" Foster and local author Elijah Wald (who, I'm pretty tickled to say, was a student in my global hip-hop course this spring).
Elijah is a real polymath and a serious scholar, and when he sets out to write about something — whether the blues or narcocorridos — he sure digs deep. His last book, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock'n'Roll, is an indispensable history of US popular (dance) music during the first half of the twentieth century, no less worth your time for its polemical title (which is really more of a subtext).
I'm pleased to note that Elijah's new book bears at least as provocative a title as the last, especially for those of us who grew up a little closer to hip-hop than r'n'r —
This new tome, hot off the presses, is the subject of Elijah's talk this Sunday night at Pace's place (accompanied by germane musical selections by the vinyl-librarian himself), the first of what I hope will be many such "salons" Pacey hosts at his awesome East Cambridge loft. Here's the deets:
"The Dirty Dozens: From Mississippi Blues to Gangsta Rap"
A talk/listening session with Elijah Wald, author of "The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama"
Sunday, June 24, 8-10 PM
Library of Vinyl Experience @ The Chicken Loft (above the "Live Poultry Fresh Killed" sign)
613 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA. 02141
$5 Tickets at Brown Paper Tickets
Snacks and beverages will be available. Also copies of the new book.
Limited to 30 People! Get your tickets now to reserve your spot.
DJ Pace will be spinning dirty classics before and after the talk. Friend the new Library of Vinyl on Facebook for information about this and future events.
And here's a little about the book, including some pretty killer blurbage:
A century before gangsta rappers took dirty rhyming to the top of the charts, Mississippi barrelhouse pianists were singing lyrics as hardcore as anything in the rap canon. In fact, they were singing some of the same lyrics—the nasty insult rhymes known as "the dozens." A form of verbal dueling popular in rural fields and on urban streets, the dozens is one of the basic building blocks of African American vernacular virtuosity, and has overlapped into pop songs, comedy routines, instrumental cutting sessions, and rap freestyle battles.
Tracing back to African ritual poetry, the dozens is part of a vast tradition of unashamedly sexual verse that consistently flourished in African diaspora communities but rarely surfaced on record or in print, except in heavily censored or bowdlerized versions. Some popular rhymes have endured in oral culture since the nineteenth century, turning up in the work of artists as disparate as Jelly Roll Morton, Zora Neale Hurston, George Carlin, and Flavor Flav.
"This book is sexy… and poignant, smart and a piece of history."
"This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published."
–Terry Teachout, Artsjournal
"The Dozens are in very good hands here. Wald gives them the detailed, broad, and serious consideration they have long deserved."
–Tricia Rose, author of Black Noise and The Hip Hop Wars
Maybe I'll see you or your mom there?
Finally, I just want to remind that we've got our next session of Beat Research coming up next week, and buay is this one gonna be a doozy!
Click on that flyer above for an "invite" and check the video promo below c/o D'hana, aka Chubrub —
Not much more to add here. But get yourself ready for a full-on live performance from LE1F, plus a set from Boston's own Micah, and yeah, we really couldn't be more thrilled to host the first appearance of ZOMBIE NU LIFE. (Pretty sure Rizzla DJ is my favorite people-mover on the planet right now.)
Kill mon dead; resurrect; repeat.
& Found! (But Still a Little Lost)
Not long after my last post went public, a savvy searcher quickly proved that what I thought was fairly ungooglable (at least without knowing Arabic) was, in fact, waiting for me on eBay. And beyond simply locating & IDing the music/CD in question, this kind commenter hit Arabkidsmusic paydirt.
First, I want to take back my description of the CD itself (pictured here) as "clutterred"; scans of the jewelcase reveal heretofore unimagined photoshop riches–
And the seller pointed to other visually alluring CDs that I now want to hear, including one clearly 'shopped by the same artiste —
And one which departs significantly in visual style, but is no less tempting —
Plus, the seller decorates with nifty gifs to boot —
Taken altogether, even with my lack of Arabic, I find the whole ensemble to offer a rather fascinating snapshot of some of the various and sundry artifacts gathered around music culture today.
But the best part of all is that it turns out, not too surprisingly, that the tracks I shared yesterday are fairly popular songs by Lebanese pop star Nancy Ajram, who — though we must keep in mind that its a bot's list — has a YouTube channel with 13,000+ videos on it.
I'm not too surprised to learn it was Lebanese, since Boston and Cambridge and especially neighboring Watertown have a relatively large Lebanese (and more generally, Armenian-via-other-places) community. This is why we are so fortunately rich in hummus and other goodies. (Hands down, IMO, Eastern Lamejun beats any other hummus in the Greater Boston area, but I digress…)
The songs I posted yesterday appear, in the same "medley" fashion, in a rather fantastic (and apparently "big budget") video, which the eBay site links to as a "preview." They were released in 2007 on an album for kids after Ajram "discovered," according to the Wiki page, that young people were a substantial part of her audience.
Here's the must-see video, which, if the beginning gets too cutesy-pedantic you might fast-fwd to 1:20 or so to see Ajram-as-Tinkerbell descending into a city of children-dressed-like-adults:
My daughters, incidentally, really enjoyed this — the visuals as well as the music, though I have to admit I liked it a bit more when I could imagine reggaetoneros in the mix.
At any rate, while perusing the Wikipedia page for Shakhbat Shakhabit, I was slightly surprised to see what seemed like an obvious bit of moralist editorial —
The album & video were the most notable and successful work for children at the time, following a huge wave of works directed to children. The reason for this could be the fact that it was purely meant for children, unlike children works by other singers that included sexual content for adults.
This didn't seem surprising, exactly. There's plenty of oddly salacious stuff that gets marketed to children (and their parents) in the US too, of course. Still, "sexual content" seemed a bit strong. But then, in my ensuing random walk (or rabbithole spelunk) on YouTube, I turned up a few things that, in the immortal words of Arsenio Hall (or Freedom Williams), make you say hmmmm, e.g.–
But there's a lot of fun stuff to be seen too — and lots of songs about telephones maybe? — such as the following, which is awesomely jarring in its treble-culturized teeveediation, but also depicts a roomful of kids having a lot of fun dancing to some classic rhythms:
Anyway, I'll stop there for now & leave you to your own funky spelunks, but I'm glad to solve this mystery — thx mystery commenter! — and to have found another YouTube musical wormhole to wiggle through.
Found & Lost
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We found the CD above a few blocks from home as we were walking up Concord Ave last month. It was badly scratched, probably the reason for its unceremonious discard — and no doubt compounded by however long it had been kicking it by the curb. All the same, it was awfully alluring. I immediately twitpic'd it, tweeting to g0d that it might play, and stuck it in my pocket.
Back home, I couldn't get much further than the second track (though, notably, it fared better in my car system than my computer), but fortunately Track 1 was a whopping 15 minutes and several songs long. The contents, though still pretty mysterious to me, are about as awesome as I had imagined they might be, considering the crazed white baby, intense pink, and unauthorized Tinkerbell cluttering the cover.
Appropriately, the opening is epic. I keep wanting it to break into an 808 State jam, and I keep wishing I had an inkling of what they were saying. Since the first two songs really run together, this first chunk I'm sharing is a good 8+ minutes:
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At about 8:30 into Track 1, there's an amazingly reggaetony riff and vocal (which I'm sorely tempted to sample), but from there, rhythmically-speaking anyway, the track heads more into saidi than dembow territory:
Finally, just before the CD crapped out, it offered up one of the funkiest versions of happy birthday I've ever heard —
I can only really approach this at a fairly superficial level of sound & image, sorry to say, since I can't read or understand the language at all. Any help with that, or with finding other (and less scratched) recordings like this one would be much appreciated. Decent kids cocktail is hard to come by these days!
Beat Research is sad to announce that after 7.5 years of hosting our experimental party music, the Enormous Room is closing its doors. DJ Flack and I were pretty surprised when the rumors started circulating last Tuesday that this past weekend would be the club's last, but we felt like we went out with a bang with last week's visit from Mungo's Hi-Fi, even if we didn't realize it was a farewell party at the time.
Grateful as we feel toward our longtime home, we're not feeling much like mourning the past. Rather, we're excited about the future of Beat Research, which is looking bright. Although we're not ready quite yet to confirm the details on our new location, we're psyched to report that we'll be holding a special interim bash at the nearby Middlesex Lounge next Monday (10/17), in conjunction with friends from MIT/Japan and NYC!
Come join us at 10pm on 10/17 for a chance to dance with Japan's leading virtual idol, Hatsune Miku, a software-based singer whose biggest fans are also her songwriters! Some of Miku's creators, visiting from Japan, will be on hand to discuss the phenomenon and to demonstrate a prototype projection method for her live concerts. Here's a taste of what that looks like (but be sure to browse YouTube or Niconico for hundreds of amazing "crowdsourced" videos)–
To make things even more insane, we've invited one of Miku's fans from NYC, the indomitable Venus X, to come join us and play her signature mix of warped, underground sounds (which I'd love to see Miku dance along with). I've been wanting to invite Venus to be our guest for a while now, and when I saw her tweet about Miku, I couldn't resist making this dream come true.
If you're not hip to Venus, try googling Ghe20 G0Th1k to find out why she's being sought out by Shakira, retweeted by Drake, and dropping science on DJ /Rupture's radio show (2nite!), while presiding over one of the most exciting parties in Gotham. Or just come join us at the Middlesex next Monday and have your mindbody blown.
Plus, the pairing couldn't be more perfect what with Venus's latest hair adventures. But don't get twisted, this trill cannot be duplicated—
Good bye, Enormous Room. Long live Beat Research!
Beat Research, Humungo Edition!
Mungo's Sound (which will not, alas, be in attendance this Monday)
Permit me to dub the description of my partner Beat Research, the estimable Mr.Flackett —
Yes the heavy heavy sounds of Mungo's Hi Fi will be coming through BR for a special last minute stop while on tour from Scotland. The world-renowned producer is also the brains behind the venerable Scotch Bonnet record label- where modern electronic sounds collide with traditional dub reggae vibes. He has never been to Boston so lets show him what Boston is made of- We'll be bringing some extra bass for the occasion, you bring your skanking shoes.
Speaking of "what Boston is made of" the early set (9-11pm) features %100 Boston made material in all kinds of styles and genres, courtesy of beat scholars Pacey Foster and Brian Coleman. Not just killer DJs- Pace wrote the Boston chapter of Hip-hop in America: A regional guide, and Brian, who compiled Check the Technique after years of interviewing hip-hop artists, was one of the first DJs to play undergournd hip-hop over Boston's airwaves through groundbreaking radio shows like "School Beats" on WZBC (with the late Tim Haslett).
Should be one helluva session, folks.
Here's the latest from Scotch Bonnet —
Mungo's Hi Fi – Bogle 12″ by mungoshifi
As usual, the details:
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Always a great stop. The staff is very helpful and the town is alive.
I never respond to these but this time I really have to...the marina staff went totally out of their way to make sure all our needs were met. They brought out tables and chairs for our groups buffet breakfast and repeatedly asked if there was anything they could assist with. They were over-and-above with great, friendly, service.
The dock staff were great, as always. However, the "new" showers developed for the marinas guests were a disappointment. The shower stalls were tiny, the areas were poorly designed, and there was no complimentary soap/shampoo.
Docks & electric were upgraded since last visit. New Dockmaster/staff are awesome! We will return!
Danfords is a very well operated and maintained marina. I have a 33ft express cruiser and I found the slips to be of ample size and there is plenty of maneuvering room in the fairway. The staff is very courteous and helpful. The hotel is beautiful but we noticed that boaters are treated as second class people, they cater to their other guests. The showers for the boaters can only be accessed by walking out to main street. Port Jefferson isn't really a boater friendly place. There's no place near by to buy groceries, liquor, or marine supplies/hardware. Nice for an over-nighter but not for an extended stay.


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How Two Films Show Men In Fear Of Turning Out Like Their Dads
On Brad Pitt in 'Ad Astra' and Adam Driver in 'Marriage Story'
by Mark Asch
How many movies have a scene in which a woman wanly begs a man to please not rob that bank, climb that mountain, fight that battle, only for the man to grimly tell her, Baby, it's what I've gotta do?
Baby, I gotta go to outer space: In so many astronaut movies, the stakes of our protagonists' quests are measured by the individual hearts they must break for The Good of All Mankind. In Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey achieves escape velocity from the earthly responsibilities represented by his daughter—transcendence has its own gravitational pull, as does adrenaline for the action-movie cop strapping on his gun before his wife is even awake, as does discovery for the adventure-epic explorer whose wife waits by the window for his letters, and so on and so on.
This fall has been a banner season for astronauts "slip[ping] the surly bonds of earth," including a couple of gender-swapped examples. In Lucy in the Sky, NASA's Natalie Portman is so stimulated by her space-walk that she never comes down, blowing up her marriage on the bad bet that boning down with John Hamm in the bed of a pickup truck is the closest terrestrial equivalent to "the high untrespassed sanctity of space." In Alice Winocour's Proxima, which premiered alongside Lucy in the Sky at September's Toronto International Film Festival, astrophysicist and single mom Eva Green feels guilt and excitement as she prepares for the flight that will take her away from her young daughter. And in this fall's Ad Astra, out now, Brad Pitt hurtles toward the edges of the solar system, moping over flashbacks of his failed marriage to Liv Tyler—a passive marker of his sacrifice, whose sketchy role consists entirely of bemoaning his distance from her. He is flying away, but Ad Astra tweaks the formula by emphasizing that he is flying toward something as well—someone, in fact. Pitt's Roy McBride's mission, to investigate a series of power surges threatening the very stability of the Earth, puts him onto a collision course with his father, out there on a spaceship orbiting Neptune. The same father, Cliff McBride (Tommy Lee Jones), who, years ago, chose a one-way ticket to the stars over his family.
Yes, yes, Roy has to cross the asteroid belt just to finally have a real conversation with his father—it's an easy joke, and a good one. But Ad Astra's opposing poles of escape and obligation, of abandonment and responsibility, fit the cyclical shape of this movie about fathers and sons—about the way that we are fated all our lives to orbit around our dads.
Photos by Francois Duhamel
The vision of deep space conjured by Ad Astra filmmaker James Gray and his team is disorienting for being so familiar. Like this spring's High Life, the technology has an analog tactility, and the world-building emphasizes the languor and banality of life under late capitalism. There's a Hudson News at the airport on the moon, bureaucratic chatter on interstellar shuttles, and a Martian customs stamp dispensed by a chatty Natasha Lyonne. (Wherever you go, there you are.) The film was shot, by cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema, on 35mm: Celluloid remains a better format than digital for capturing deep blacks, and so Ad Astra's visuals inspire in equal parts awe and gloom at the fathomless infinitude. Over the course of the film, as Pitt gets so far from the sun that it becomes just another star in the night sky, light sources become progressively less natural, more artificial, bouncing off the harsh metallic grays and off-whites of spacesuits and spacecrafts, evoking a kind of permanent seasonal affective disorder.
This depressive atmosphere (or lack thereof) is keyed to Pitt's performance. Throughout the film, Roy submits to psychological evaluations, in which he narrates his inner state to a computer and has his equilibrium algorithmically assessed; he constantly affirms that he is present in the moment and in his surroundings, aware of others and his relation to them. These repeated assurances—he's fine, he's fine, he's fine—become less convincing with every mechanical repetition (if you have to ask, you already know the answer), and are delivered by Pitt in the dour, deadened voice of a man resigned to going through the motions of happiness.
Writing about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for this publication a couple of months ago, I said that Brad Pitt emblematized a model of masculinity that "seems equally a model of manly competence and a near-tragic loner." Moreso than Tarantino's cocky L.A. story, Ad Astra, with its vast negative space, shows the hollowness of Pitt's self-containment, the smallness of it. It is in one of these psych evaluations that Pitt's voice finally breaks, shows a little bit of desperation and resentment and maybe anger at his own circumstances, as Roy confesses to the computer: "I don't want to be like my dad."
This, as they say, hits. Here is a man—a character journeying among the stars, an actor who is himself a star, take your pick—well more than halfway through a life that has taken him so far from where he started, discovering himself powerless to reinvent himself, still in the shadow of his father.
Like his hero dad, Roy is devoted to his work, which is not a passion but a duty: He is renowned within Ad Astra's version of the Space Force for a heart which, no matter the nervy circumstances, never races past the point of competence; he is calm, collected, and ever mission-oriented. Through the glimpses we get of Tommy Lee Jones, and the revered Cliff's list of pioneering accomplishments, we see the father as an ideal to aspire to, as well as a stern, absolute figure in his son's life—a presence as remote and dominating as God. But when Roy finally gets to the rings of Neptune, he finds his guiding star on the blink. Jones, normally the most astringent of actors—a perfect father-figure for Pitt in this minimalist mode of his career—alternates between modes of messianic fury and teary, raggedy pathos; he's playing a man so uncompromising, he's finally eaten himself up from the inside.
Roy must have begun to suspect this, to sense it through own weariness. In Pitt's stoic, stunted performance, we see a man who has built himself in his father's image, in ways knowing and unknowing. In the way he moves—so coolly he might freeze—Pitt conveys Roy's fatigue. He stands in for a generation of men whose fluency in the therapeutic language of psych check-ins has not saved them from tracing the same old patterns. Baby, I gotta go.
In 2005, Noah Baumbach, then in his mid-30s, wrote and directed The Squid and the Whale, drawing heavily from his own parents' divorce during his teen years. He focused particularly on how another accomplished, forbidding father (Jeff Daniels, as a bearded author like Baumbach's experimental novelist dad Jonathan) cast another long shadow over his bright young son (Jesse Eisenberg), who over the course of the film becomes, heartbreakingly, a burgeoning douchebag in his impatience to be an intellect like his father.
The film was quippy, and its perspectives were balanced; it was eviscerating and finally forgiving of its characters—the self-aware work of someone who had learned from the past in order not to repeat it. The year it came out, Baumbach married Jennifer Jason Leigh; the couple had a son shortly before Leigh filed for divorce in 2010. Baumbach's new film Marriage Story, which I also saw in Toronto and which opens in a limited theatrical release on November 6 before arriving on Netflix in early December, tracks the dissolution of the union between avant-garde theater director Charlie (Adam Driver) and actor Nicole (Scarlett Johansson), the parents of a young son. Many of their irreconcilable differences seem like exaggerated versions of Baumbach and Leigh's: he's an auteur, and she's a performer; he's a New Yorker, and she's part of a Los Angeles acting family; his work skews highbrow, and hers lowbrow.
As The Squid and the Whale gains poignancy for its evocation of a middle-class nuclear-family childhood as paradise lost, Marriage Story does for its telescoped arc of love and disillusionment. Charlie and Nicole are already separating as the film begins, but the opening scene is a montage scored to his-and-hers voiceovers: Charlie's list of "What I love about Nicole" and Nicole's "What I love about Charlie." That he cries at movies; that he misses his stop on the subway when he's reading a good book; that he works so hard at, and takes such joy in, being a dad; and that he's made a life for himself by breaking free of the cycles of alcoholism and violence in his parents' house. Which makes it all the more painful when, during the big actor-showcase screaming argument centerpiece, Nicole twists the knife into Charlie: You're just like your dad.
Photo by Wilson Webb
This, too, hits. That the fate of the sensitive, scarred writer-director of The Squid and the Whale is to go on to make a movie in which his author-surrogate is accused of being just like his dad feels something like a family curse. In Ad Astra, before his own confession, Pitt muses on his own inherited capacity for "rage"; as the fight with Nicole rages on in Marriage Story, Charlie punches a wall. For a character who is willfully stoppering his basest masculine impulses, you can't do better than Adam Driver, but more than any old-school toxicity, the connection between Roy and Charlie, and their tragedy, is their detachment from their relationships, the home they find at work and their unbridgeable distance from the domestic sphere.
In contrast to Roy, and presumably to his middle-American father, Charlie is an artist, professionally introspective—an urban millennial who's built his theater company into an enlightened, open community. But this modern man runs up against some very traditional limitations, as he comes to see how helpless he is around the house. Charlie loves his son, and takes pride in being present, but one of the faultlines that the movie opens up in his and Nicole's relationship is the way in which this ostensibly two-career household slid out of balance, with the demands of his theater work taken seriously as non-negotiable, and her professional opportunities only indulged when their demands of travel or time wouldn't interfere with family life. They live in NYC, so she doesn't work in L.A. Charlie and Nicole begin Marriage Story committed to uncoupling amicably, but throughout the film, their expensive lawyers say the unsayable, laying bare the subtext that Charlie and Nicole were happy enough to gloss over back when they were happy together: That it wasn't an equal marriage, that Charlie was the careerist and Nicole was the helpmeet—that his preferred pronoun was "me," and Nicole's was "we." Once the two of them are established as single parents trying to split custody, Charlie discovers that this was true, and that it has consequences.
In an essay published in The New York Times in 2017, Andrew Rannells described the "depressing bachelor pad" his father moved into when, at age 61, he and the actor's mother decided to divorce:
The walls were beige and so was the carpet. The furniture he had picked out was too large and too dark. The place was filled with stuff, yet looked empty.
He was trying to make it a home but didn't know how. [...] [W]e ate sandwiches. He put out the plates and napkins and a canister of Pringles. When he opened his kitchen cupboard, I saw that it was stocked with canned stew.
You'd like to think that, as a man grows older, he outgrows the phase of his life where he sleeps on a box spring on the floor, decorates with unframed posters, and generally lives like an animal. But what if that's not how it works? What if you just press pause in your evolution when you pair off, offload your responsibilities onto another person—and then, suddenly, at 35 or 50 or 61, you have to pick up where you left off, in a space as void of human warmth as the edge of the solar system? What if you're adrift in an apartment whose emptiness is like a mirror to the sudden emptiness of your own life?
In Marriage Story, Charlie rents an unfurnished place in Los Angeles, forgoing his and Nicole's airy apartment in New York and its accumulated clutter of artistic and family life. His bachelor pad, too, has beige walls and a carpet—the carpet is awful, thick, muffling, synthetic. There are dark cabinets and artificial light in the apartment's too-narrow kitchen, and the walls are naked. Charlie knows this, and makes an effort, which in his case means FaceTiming with his assistant back in New York—she advises him on where to hang things, which plants to put in which corners. This is less a case of the place "needing a woman's touch" than of dressing a set for a guy pretending to have a home.
There's a good Sad Dad Pad in Lucy in the Sky, too: In the film's funniest scene, earthbound astronaut John Hamm lounges on his couch, shirtless and wordless and silently, sloppily Scotch-drunk, watching a TV set that's the only thing on the shelves. (In Heat, Robert De Niro's consummate-pro thief lives by the credo "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat," and resides in an apartment whose cabinets are as empty as Hamm's. This is presumably because of his Zen-like devotion to his craft, but I wonder if he even knows how to boil ramen. Heat is the ultimate "baby, I gotta go rob that bank" movie, and at the end of it, De Niro dies, because he makes a sentimental play for probably the first time in his life.) Early in the fourth season of Mad Men, Dr. Faye Miller tells a newly divorced Don Draper (Hamm again!), "Don't worry. You'll be married again in a year," a prophecy which is fulfilled by the end of the season, when Don, who has been sleeping with Faye, proposes to his secretary after she does a good job watching his kids on vacation. She could have been anyone.
The other big showcase scene in Marriage Story occurs when a family-court evaluator shows up at Charlie's apartment to watch him and his son for an evening. Charlie wants custody, but cracks under the stress of having to be the permanently switched-on caregiver. Little by little, he second-guesses himself as he goes through the unnatural motions of meal prep and supervision, grows tense over the pressure of open-ended one-on-one bonding time, and becomes upset to discover all the little gaps in his understanding of his own child, what he's like and what he likes to do, what sort of toys and games and meals he enjoys—gaps Charlie's been filling with his own misrememberings and biases, presuming, like Daniels' character in The Squid and the Whale and Cliff in Ad Astra, that his son is essentially a miniature version of himself and his preferences. He thought he knew what he was doing, he thought he wanted this, but the scene fades out on an exhausted Charlie—following a stunning bit of slapstick acting from Driver which I shan't spoil—realizing that he's a drop-in parent, chastened by his own ineptitude. Maybe he'll do better next time. Maybe his son will.
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Индиго кристал је српски филм из 2023. године режисера и сценаристе Луке Михаиловића.

Лука Михаиловић је рекао да је "Индиго кристал" његов дипломски филм који је почео да пише крајем друге године факултета, вративши се после две године у родни Шабац, када је видео колико се град физички променио.

Михаиловић је истакао "осећај странца у сопственом граду, где осећате да се све променило, а заправо се ништа није променило". Према његовим речима, филм је социјална драма која има егзистенцијални моменат када главни јунак покушава да се асимилује у друштво. Уз то има друштвени моменат када јунак преузима улогу старијег брата над једним клинцем, а трећи елемент је мелодрамски.

Филм се такође води слоганом "Није слобода да радиш све што хоћеш, слобода је да не радиш оно што нећеш".

Филм  je премијерно приказан 7. марта 2023. у МТС двораниу Београду.

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Прича филма прати четири дана Вука, тридесетосмогодишњег повратника из затвора, који гоњен самоубиством најбољег друга покушава да спасе његовог млађег брата на вече годишњице самоубиства.

Улоге

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|Миодраг Радоњић || Вук
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|Нина Јанковић || Маја
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|Денис Мурић || Зизи
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|Павле Менсур || Снифи
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|Милош Петровић Тројпец || Гоџи
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|Милош Ђуровић || Маре
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|Матеја Поповић || Тошке
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|Реља Деспотовић || Неми
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|Ђорђе Бибић || Тајсон
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|Горица Поповић ||
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|Милан Чучиловић ||
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|Драгомир Мршић ||
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|Синиша Максимовић ||
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|Милан Пеливановић ||
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|Димитрије Лацку Спировски ||
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|Ива Јовановић ||
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|Анита Огњановић ||
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|Исидора Јанковић ||
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Спољашње везе

Филмови 2023.
Филмови на српском језику
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Though women have always been the target demographic of magazines, those magazines have almost exclusively been run by men. Not anymore. With a new women's travel publication on the market, and more tours being created by and for women, new opportunities abound. Join us for this exciting panel that explores the ways in which the travel industry is pivoting to be more inclusive of women–and which brands you should be following, asap.
Working 9-5 but dreaming about a life full of adventure? It doesn't have to be one or the other. There are a ton of ways to travel while still working a full-time job, and this segment will discuss your options.
Award-winning author and photographer Lola Akinmade Åkerström explores culture through food, tradition, and lifestyle for high profile publications and partnerships such as National Geographic Traveler, BBC, The Guardian, Lonely Planet, Mercedes-Benz, amongst others. She is the author of two books – the award-winning Due North & bestselling LAGOM: Swedish Secret of Living Well. LAGOM is available in 17 foreign language editions around the world.
She is the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Bill Muster Award recipient and her photography is represented by National Geographic Image Collection. She was recently honored with a MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Award within media and culture.
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Claire and Tenny are two women who decided to do something other people thought was "crazy"–walk the length of the US/ Mexico border. In doing so, they became the first people to ever complete this task. And what they learned along the way, about humanity, stereotypes and misperceptions, had led to life-changing lessons.
Travel is for everyone. So why is it only some of us are represented? Here, we'll talk about how we view "who" travel is for, and meet three inspirational women who are making change in the industry.
Continue networking after an inspirational and informative day! Grab some dinner after the conference on your own (the party won't have food), and then meet us at Gia, a chic Lower East Side speakeasy with a Shanghai theme, for a cocktail or two on us.
You've got a huge idea–awesome! Now how do you find the money to bring it to life? In this informational talk, Deidre Mathis will share her story of how she successfully raised $28k in pitch competitions to help launch her dream of opening Wanderstay Hostel, in Houston, Texas. Deidre is now the first black woman in the United States to own a hostel.
It's a subject women get funny around: money. But making sure you're financially independent and secure is paramount to living a life of travel. In this informative talk, learn the things smart women do to prepare for rainy days, save up to travel more, and ensure their safety abroad.
The airline industry is constantly changing the rules when it comes to luggage. Learn how to maximize luggage restrictions in your favor in this fun and informational segment on which pieces to take, how to pack efficiently and never pay to check a bag again.
Want to turn your passion for travel into a business? The truth is, you don't have to go far to create the business of your dreams while serving a global audience. In this session, Jessie shares how she built a tour company from scratch, including important pre-launch considerations, mistakes to avoid and how to scale.
You came to New York for a travel event–so travel! Take your chance to check out the neighborhood and grab a bite on our hour-long lunch break.
What does it take to succeed in the travel industry? Knowing she didn't want to work in an office, Alyssa Ramos set out to live a life of travel. With a dream and unwavering determination, she's turned seeing the world into a full-time business, with several streams of income. Here's how she did it.
Food travel has become a hot topic in the past few years, and as readers explore what to eat when they travel, publications have become hungry for more culinary focused stories. But the meatier story isn't about what's on the plate — it's how what's on the plate got there. Make your food story stand out by learning what kinds of questions to ask and angles to explore along with tips and tricks that will give your article more depth.
Upgrade your travels, upgrade your life. Learn how to land upgrades on flights and hotels, maximize benefits for free and reward travel, and upgrade your travels. Because ain't nobody got time for economy class.


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Helikon-Tex Malamute Vest can be used as an individual layer or worn underneath outer layers. What is more, it can be easily stuffed in a pack or cargo pouch without damaging to its properties.
The huge airsoft Event – "The 7-th day on the armor" took place near Moscow, Russia.
3200 armed men and women participated this event with lot of fun by using a large number of the real army vehicles including the tanks.
The TAGinn company is one of the sponsors of this event presented a video showing the action that took place in there!
We've just received small delivery of excellent LBX Tactical equipment, a section of legendary London Bridge Trading. Now you can have legendary Armatus tactical vest, used by Chris Costa himself!
Good Day! New Promotions for all of you.
Madbull is pleased to announce the release of ultra light-weight, ergonomic Noveske NSR handguard for the airsoft market! The NSR was designed with the goal of being the lightest and smallest free floating forend. The KeyMod system offers a mounting platform for a variety of (future) accessories and components. The future of the direct mountable accessory is here and now. The KeyMod self-contained components/mounting hardware index and V-block onto the platform, achieving a secured and accurate hold to the system, while separate lugs take the recoil force off the fasteners. The pass through attachment method eliminates the need for loose screws and backing plates that can easily be lost, or difficult to install. The Noveske NSR is the next evolution in rail section technology, don't get left behind!
– User friendly mounting Keymod accessories.
Viper L/A Special Forces Vest is available now at Military 1st!
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Another great weekend at Eversley – thanks to everyone who played, see you all next month for the next one.
This weekend is the Tuddenham end of month Skirmish. We are also running a night game on Saturday – please arrive in good time for a 2000 start.
Next weekend we are back at Norwich – the Saturday is a full day of milsim action – over 5hrs out in the field with various objectives for both sides to complete. The Sunday is an open skirmish day with a reduced walk on price of £15 or £35 to include gun hire.
That's right – it's end of month again already and time for another epic skirmish weekender at our flagship site. There will be the usual Saturday and Sunday madness, with a BBQ social on Saturday evening (bring your own food and drink) – anyone is welcome to come to the social, even if you're not playing.
We have also added a night game on Saturday, so if you fancy some after dark action around the buildings, give it a try. You don't need night vision, but some kind of torch would be a good idea, as we don't floodlight the whole area. Pistols and shotguns are the weapons of choice, but any weapons are welcome as long as they shoot under 350fps and can be used on single shot only.
Due to popular request from the milsim guys, we've created a full milsim day at our awesome Norwich site on the Saturday. £25 if a deposit is paid in advance, or £30 on the day, loyalty vouchers accepted.
This is a day for experienced players only with over five hours out in the field, bandage based medics, limited ammo, multiple objectives over the day and no break for lunch.
Team ID will be based on camo types, so if you haven't booked your team in advance you need to be prepared to change if needed so we don't have to use tape or armbands.
A skirmish day open to everyone, beginners and experienced players alike. Any kind of gun can be used as long as it's within site energy limits.
As part two of our re-opening promotion offer walk on is only £15, or £35 with a gun rental. Vouchers are not accepted against these prices, but fresh ones will be issued to keep you in the loop.
Swedish M90 uniforms, genuine and unissued, are back at Flecktarn.co.uk. Medium to heavy weight fabrics perfect for the cooler and wetter months ahead, unique camouflage pattern and a variety of sizes from 41 chest to 45 chest and 32 waist to 37 waist. Price 28.80 per shirt and 34.95 per pair of trousers.
The sneak review of XTC-G1. When you have a CQB game today, but you find that the muzzle velocity is higher than the rule? XTC-G1 features FPS adjustable. You could use long hexagonal key to adjust the FPS. If you would like to change the spring, also use the hexagonal key change the spring without disassembly the upper and lower receiver, even the gearbox.
Some of you might like to use our AEG irregular spring. Every spring has gone through vigorous and sophisticated quality tests from the moment a new design leaves the software drawing through to final mass production.
New Items @ eHobby Asia!!


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Satellite sessions are organised and supported by individuals, non-profit groups, organisations, or commercial entities. The Union offers these groups the opportunity to showcase their work, research and programmes, or draw more attention to a specific subject or area by organising a satellite.
Satellite sessions will be held from 25-27 October outside of the core programme hours. Morning sessions will run for 75 minutes and evening sessions will be allotted 90 minutes.
As part of the global healthcare community, how can we impact the TB patient pathway and overcome existing challenges?
In this session we are introducing the concept of TB stigma, and the two toolkits, and share our experiences of implementing both tools in Kazakhstan and provide an opportunity of experiencing the tools and a selection of sessions first-hand.
how the use of new or repurposed drugs might help mitigate hearing loss associated with the use of the injectable drugs.
Using mobile phones, data networks and web systems, digital adherence technologies can play an important role to support patient centered approaches, improve adherence, persistence on treatment and eventually TB treatment success rates by facilitating data-driven, differentiated TB care.
In July 2018, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law released a supplement to its landmark report of 2012- Risks, Rights, & Health. The 2018 supplement addresses barriers to a rights-based response to TB and makes several recommendations to governments aimed at creating an enabling legal and rights environment for an effective response to TB.
This Symposium provides an overview of the global childhood TB epidemic, presents the new 2nd edition of the Childhood TB Roadmap, and the KNCV Childhood TB Benchmarking tool to help countries to assess the status of their own childhood TB interventions against the Childhood TB Roadmap and develop their own country specific policies, strategy and roadmap in response.
The symposium further explores new and improved child-friendly ways towards prevention, early detection, improved diagnosis, and management of latent childhood TB.


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George Clooney, Son of a News Man, Is Smarter Than Everyone Else Hit by the Sony Hack
A leaked email proves he's right to guard his privacy so closely.
By Ryan Bort
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In late November Sony was hacked so thoroughly that practically every piece of information ever digitally transmitted by the studio was compromised. Yes, that includes executives' emails, and one particular leaked exchange with George Clooney proves that the actor and activist might be a little farther ahead of the game than the rest of us:
We've always known Clooney to be especially guarded of his privacy. When discussing Twitter with Esquire's Tom Junod for a 2013 profile, Clooney questioned why anyone would want to make themselves so available. Earlier this year, he lashed out at The Daily Mail for making false claims about his then-future mother-in-law Baria Alamuddin. In both his criticism of that paper and in the email above, Clooney notes that he is the "son of a news man." It's an antiquated notion—that of the "news man"—but it goes a long way in explaining the high premium Clooney places on his own privacy, as well the lengths he'll go to ensure it. He understands the nature of the media, and that technology is making our lives more and more transparent, whether we want them to be or not.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go change my email signature to "...fuckers..."
[H/T: Gizmodo
Martin Luther King Jr., American Preacher
The Ohio Gerrymanderers Just Took Another Hit
Nobody Cares That Afghans Are Starving?
SCOTUS Vaccine Decision Was an Opening Shot
How Can You Stop the Virus When You Can't See It?
Jan 6 Indictment Describes a Sophisticated Plot
Herschel Walker Makes Tommy Tuberville Look Good
Everyone in Centrist Punditland Is on an Acid Trip
The Big Money Supreme Court Will Rule on Big Money
This Case Is Why McConnell Was Ruthless
The 15 Best Movies That Didn't Win Oscars
Style Don'ts On Display in New Dumb and Dumber To Movie Poster
George Clooney's Rules for Living
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Movies
George Clooney's Thoughts for Today
The Man Who Literally Built 'Star Wars'


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A cikloheptatrién szerves vegyület, színtelen folyadék, képlete C7H8. A szerves kémiában ismétlődően elméleti érdeklődésre tart számot. A fémorganikus kémiában ligandumként, a szerves kémiai szintézisekben mint építőegység használatos. A cikloheptatrién nem aromás vegyület, amit az is mutat, hogy a (−CH2−) metilénhíd a többi atom síkjából kiemelkedik.

Szintézise
Először Albert Ladenburg állította elő 1881-ben, a tropin lebontásával. Szerkezetbizonyító szintézisét Richard Willstätter végezte el 1901-ben, cikloheptanonból kiindulva, így igazolta a vegyület héttagú gyűrűs voltát.

Laboratóriumi előállítása benzol és diazometán fotokémiai reakciójával vagy ciklohexén és diklórkarbén addíciójával történhet. A cikloheptatriénszármazékok hasonló klasszikus előállítási módja a Buchner-féle gyűrűbővítés, melynek első lépésében benzol és etil-diazoacetát reagál a megfelelő norkaradién karbonsav keletkezése közben, mely magasabb hőmérsékleten gyűrűbővüléssel cikloheptatriénkarbonsav-etil-észterré rendeződik át.

Reakciói
A metilénhídról egy hidridiont eltávolítva síkalkatú, aromás cikloheptatrién kation, más néven tropilium kation vagy tropiliumion keletkezik. E kation egyik gyakorlati előállítási módja PCl5 oxidálószert használ. Diels–Alder-reakciókban a cikloheptatrién diénként reagál. Számos fémkomplexe ismert, ilyen például a Cr(CO)3(C7H8).

A ciklooktatetraénnel együtt rodamin 6G festéklézerekben triplett kvencserként használják.

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Here it is: A thigh-high slit that reaches the stars!
The sexed-up, leg-baring look was all over every red carpet in 2017, but Lupita Nyong'o managed to do it best at the Sunday premiere of "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
Daisy took the titular "star" literally in a sparkling deep blue dress with white star appliques. Smoky blue eyes finished the head-turning look.
Meanwhile, Sofia Vergara and Laura Dern opted for a more traditional aesthetic: Sofia's tea-length navy dress was safe but lovely, and Laura's lingerie-inspired lace gown proved she's always willing to take a fashion risk!
A number of young stars turned out for the night, as well. "Stranger Things" actor Gaten Matarazzo and Disney Channel actresses Sofia Carson and Dove Cameron were all excited to attend the hot-ticket premiere.
Check out all the looks in the gallery above -- and notable looks from past "Star Wars" premieres in the one below.


AUSTIN, TX -After years of denying doping, the world's best cyclist couldn't deny it anymore. Lance Armstrong finally came clean to the queen of talk, Oprah Winfrey.
In the brutally honest interview, Armstrong admitted the drugs started back in the 1990's.
He also said he didn't believe it was possible to win seven Tour De France races without taking some type of performance enhancing drugs.
Armstrong, who in the past, bullied other racers for doping and has publicly and repeatedly denied his performance enhancing drug use is trying to restore his public image. Stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 7 Tour De France titles, he's also lost his major sponsors like Nike and Anheuser-Busch.
Now he begins dealing with lawsuits which start with the New York Times who is trying to recover more than $1.5 million from a 2006 settlement they paid out to him for printing claims from a book that he had taken performance enhancing drugs.
After so many years of essentially duping the entire world into thinking that he's a great guy with a huge heart and drive for life, it's going to be really tough for him to regain trust from…well, everyone.


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Q: need to add Quill Rich Text Editor into form Need to integrate Quill Rich Text Editor into the form.
Instead of a textarea, it shows div as below.

                <button class="ql-bold"></button>
                <button class="ql-italic"></button>
                <button class="ql-underline"></button>
                <button class="ql-link"></button>
                <button class="ql-image"></button>

Need to send data to form with name as message in post method.
Normally in text area we can just give textarea name
How to do it. Need help

A: You can use a hidden <input> to submit the contents of the editor using a form. Place the input into your form, set a name, then update the value with Javascript whenever the content of the editor changes. The value of the input will be automatically submitted with the form.

<form>

  <input type='hidden' name='richText' id='hidden-input'>
</form>

A: Solucion FORM QUILL EDITOR:
Link CSS:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://htmlstream.com/preview/front-v4.2/html/assets/css/vendor.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://htmlstream.com/preview/front-v4.2/html/assets/vendor/bootstrap-icons/font/bootstrap-icons.css">

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://htmlstream.com/preview/front-v4.2/html/assets/css/theme.min.css?v=1.0">

Link JS:

En mi html:
<form id="form-perfil" name="form-perfil" method="POST">

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      <textarea name="text_quill" style="display: none;" id="text_quill"></textarea>

  <button type="submit" class="mt-3 float-right btn btn-primary">Enviar formulario</button>

</form>

En mi JS:
// INITIALIZATION OF QUILLJS EDITOR
// =======================================================
var quill = $.HSCore.components.HSQuill.init('.js-quill');

// =======================================================
$("#form-perfil").on("submit", function (e) {
  e.preventDefault(); //No se activará la acción predeterminada del evento

  $("#text_quill").val($(".ql-editor").html());

  var formData = new FormData($("#form-perfil")[0]);
  $.ajax({
    url: "ajax/pago_administrador.php",
    type: "POST",
    data: formData,
    contentType: false,
    processData: false,
    success: function (datos) {  },
  });
});

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