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OQHRA Hall of Fame
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OQHRA Press Release
OKLAHOMA QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSOCIATION NAMES KRISSY BAMBERG NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OKLAHOMA QUARTER HORSE RACING ASSOCIATION NAMES KRISSY BAMBERG NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Edmond, OK May 20, 2021—Lake Newcomb, President of OQHRA, has announced today that Krissy Bamberg has been selected to be the Executive Director of OQHRA. Krissy
The OQHRA Stallion Auction closes today at noon! Don't miss out! ... 'Expand'See Less
CATHEY ACCEPTS DIRECTOR OF RACING HELM AT REMINGTON PARK
OKLAHOMA CITY – When 2023 racing begins at Remington Park, it will start with new guidance in the racing department. Kelly Cathey has accepted the director of racing position and will oversee the operation for all breeds competing at the Oklahoma City facility.
The American Quarter Horse, Paint and Appaloosa Season will begin March 9. The 2023 Thoroughbred Season will get underway in late August.
Cathey brings more than 30 years of experience in horse racing to Remington Park. He first worked with horses in the late 1980s as a teenager, assisting his father who was a trainer. He has also served as a groom, pony person, assistant trainer, valet and assistant starter.
Cathey moved into track management in 1998 at Retama Park in Selma, Texas. He has also worked for Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas; Sam Houston Race Park in Houston and Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla. He has held nearly every position associated with racing, pari-mutuel wagering and simulcast operations throughout his career.
Since 2013 Cathey has worked for the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission as a state steward (2013-2015), advancing to the role of executive director of the commission in 2015. He will leave that post to become the director of racing at Remington Park.
"Remington Park and Global Gaming are excited to have Kelly Cathey join our racing team," said Matt Vance, executive vice president of racing operations at Remington Park. "Kelly has a resume reflective of more than 30 years in the sport, working as a racing executive and regulator. His extensive experience with both Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses and their respective organizations throughout the region makes him uniquely qualified to lead our racing department at Remington Park."
Horsemen will bring horses onto the grounds at Remington Park beginning Feb. 6 with the initial morning of training set for Tuesday, Feb. 7. The first night of the spring season falls on Thursday, March 9 and the 50-date schedule continues through Saturday, June 3. ... 'Expand'See Less
Good luck and welcome!
R̳e̳m̳i̳n̳g̳t̳o̳n̳ P̳a̳r̳k̳ H̳a̳i̳r̳ T̳e̳s̳t̳i̳n̳g̳ I̳n̳f̳o̳r̳m̳a̳t̳i̳o̳n̳
It continues to be the goal of Remington Park and OQHRA to provide a race meeting of the highest quality and integrity. As a condition of entry, no horse will be allowed to enter a race at Remington Park unless results of a negative hair test have been provided to Remington Park prior to entry. All pre-entry hair testing will be facilitated by OQHRA. Pre-entry hair tests will be good for 90 days beginning the day after the sample is collected. All tests will expire after 90 days and horses must re-test to remain eligible, regardless of if the horse started in a race within those 90 days. In no event will a horse be eligible to enter a race unless a current negative hair test is on file at Remington Park in accordance with the conditions set forth in the condition book. The Remington Park Racing Office nor OQHRA staff receive the results of hair testing. All test results submitted to Remington Park management will remain confidential. Any horse receiving a positive hair test will be unable to enter until a negative test is obtained, there is no penalty to the trainer.
To better serve horsemen, OQHRA will be setting up offsite testing days at Retama Park, Lone Star Park and Blue Ribbon Downs. The OQHRA testing crew will be available at each location one day, allowing horsemen the opportunity to get horses tested closer to where they are stabled/training. Horses needing to be tested in other states do have the opportunity to have an offsite test done by a state veterinarian working under the auspices of a State Regulatory Agency.
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗮 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 – 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟱𝘁𝗵
Appointments should be made by 2/2/23 by calling (405) 881-5120. Cost of test - $275. These tests will expire on Sunday, May 7, 2023. T̲a̲t̲t̲o̲o̲e̲r̲ w̲i̲l̲l̲ b̲e̲ o̲n̲ s̲i̲t̲e̲ a̲s̲ w̲e̲l̲l̲,̲ a̲p̲p̲o̲i̲n̲t̲m̲e̲n̲t̲s̲ c̲a̲n̲ b̲e̲ m̲a̲d̲e̲ b̲y̲ c̲a̲l̲l̲i̲n̲g̲ h̲a̲i̲r̲ t̲e̲s̲t̲i̲n̲g̲ l̲i̲n̲e̲.̲
𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 – 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟰𝘁𝗵
Please call ASAP to sign up for this date/location must have a minimum of 40 horses scheduled. (405) 881-5120. Cost of test - $275. These tests will expire on May 26, 2023
T̲a̲t̲t̲o̲o̲e̲r̲ w̲i̲l̲l̲ b̲e̲ o̲n̲ s̲i̲t̲e̲ a̲s̲ w̲e̲l̲l̲,̲ a̲p̲p̲o̲i̲n̲t̲m̲e̲n̲t̲s̲ c̲a̲n̲ b̲e̲ m̲a̲d̲e̲ b̲y̲ c̲a̲l̲l̲i̲n̲g̲ h̲a̲i̲r̲ t̲e̲s̲t̲i̲n̲g̲ l̲i̲n̲e̲.̲
𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝗯𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀 – 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟯𝗿𝗱
Appointments should be made by 3/1/2023 by calling (405) 881-5120. Cost of test - $225. These tests will expire June 2, 2023
𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 – 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟴𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆.
Onsite testing during February will be conducted 9:00 – noon, Monday through Friday beginning Wednesday, February 8th. There will be no Hair Testing on Tuesday, February 14th or Friday, February 24th. Tests done in February will expire before the end of the meet. Please review the schedule and test/safe dates posted on OQHRA.com and plan accordingly. Onsite test cost $225.
𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕/𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒕 (405) 881-5120. Full schedule and details can be found at www.oqhra.com
*𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠 (𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘) 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑝𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. ... 'Expand'See Less
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subtitle - "DAYUM GURL those LEGS"
A present for everybody's favourite DestinyBlue, for her birthday!
As a change, this was done entirely digitally, in PS. Took 3-4 hours ish.
Haha, I am totally not abusing my privileges to stalk you for creepster reasons AT ALL.


Josh Levy was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford PACS. Josh is a campaign strategist and digital rights advocate. He's currently building a "digital security exchange" to coordinate the digital security community and help it be more responsive to the needs of high-risk communities and civil society organizations.
For more than a decade, as advocacy director at Access Now, campaign director at Free Press, managing editor of Change.org and associate editor of techPresident and Personal Democracy Forum, Levy has provided strategic leadership in global efforts to protect free expression online, secure strong open internet rules, reign in overreaching government surveillance, and otherwise protect the rights of at-risk internet users. He holds an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, where he was an early proponent and analyst of the use of emergent social platforms for political and social advocacy.
Learn more about Josh Levy's fellowship project: the Digital Security Exchange.


Just when you thought England was funk impaired, Discotheque shuttles in 18 juggernauts to blow your wig and change your mind. Importing musical cues from stateside pioneers, the groups here stir in their native African and Caribbean influences for flavor. The set mixes usual suspects like Cymande, Labi Siffre, and Average White Band with more obscure outfits such as Black Velvet and The Equals. Replete with liner notes, interviews, photos, and a gang of gnarly funk, this is a must for collectors and connoisseurs of groove. Star cut: Madeline Bell's rare gator funk jam "Comin' Atcha," produced by Led Zeppelin bassist John-Paul Jones.


Bikadgaba is a low-population world with a population of less than 10,000 sophonts in size.
Bikadgaba, as a member world of the Third Imperium has a member of the Imperial Nobility overseeing the world.
Bikadgaba has a good quality starport.
Bikadgaba possesses a Technology Level of TL–10 or TL-A in Hexadecimal Notation.
Bikadgaba has a Civil Service Bureaucracy government.


Do you wish to travel to Uttarakhand? I've curated a list of a few homestays so that you can disconnect from the world.
Indian architecture is said to be one of the finest architectures in the world. Check out the most beautiful step wells and reminisce the history with me.
Nowadays, more and more people are looking for offbeat destinations to travel. Know about some of the most beautiful and enchanting Indian villages which are incomparable to anything in the world.
Make your Valentine's Day even more special by leaving the town for a while. To make it easier for you, I have short listed a few beautiful and romantic destinations in India.
The season of winter brings very pleasant and festive vibes. Winter is on its peak and many of you must be thinking of going on a trip. If you are fond of mountains and snow, then Uttarakhand is a perfect tourist destination for you.
There are so many top best beautiful places in Himachal Pradesh that needs to be cherished. So, here are some of the top best tourist places in Himachal Pradesh that are a must to visit this winter season. Go To these best tourist places in Himachal and Experience the Best Winters of Your Life.
In such a hectic schedule, a Getaway Trip is very necessary to relax your mind and body. It is suggested to make plans with more number of people.
To accentuate the glory of Amber Palace during night, the night tourism was being inaugurated by the government of Rajasthan officially on February 21 2015. Here the story of Rajputs is been narrated which takes you through the memory lane of Amber describing its traditions and the grand lifestyle of the royal family.
Among a number of beautiful tourist spots in Jaipur, one of them is "Sisodia Rani Ka Bagh". Located near the Jaipur-Agra highway, this tourist destination has multi-level lush gardens.
Known about the 8 Prominent Gates of Jaipur's Old City!
Many readers show a great interest in the architecture and its elements of Jaipur city. Apart from its rich culture and royal heritage, Jaipur is also famous for the old city gates which are also known as Jaipur gates. Jaipur city wall was an essential part of old Jaipur or walled city planning by Maharajah Sawai Jai Singh II- founder of Jaipur.
If you've ever googled "airport outfits," you've no doubt been bombarded with pictures of celebrities strutting through security in their high heels, leather pants and cool blouses. But I mean, is that realistic?
Experience The Starry Night At These CAMPING SITES Near Jaipur!
This weekend go for camping to feel the fresh air and hear the chirping of the birds at these beautiful places around Jaipur. With all that work that's piled up and all those assignments to complete, every morning goes to waste in transit. It's all too taxing, isn't it? Through the entire journey, all you do is wonder how amazing it would be if you could just go away to some place distant.


a Heck of a Salad!! said my friend Raymond!
While beans drain, put Spike seasoning, ground cumin, and ground ancho chili pepper in a small bowl, then add lime juice and white balsamic vinegar and stir to combine. Whisk in the olive oil a tablespoon at a time, until dressing ingredients are well combined.
Remove drained beans from colander (blot dry with paper towel if they still seem wet) and put them in a bowl large enough to hold all the salad. Mix 1/4 cup of dressing mixture into the beans and let them marinate while you chop the peppers, onions, and cilantro.
Chop red and green bell pepper into small pieces about the size of beans (I cut off the stem and bottom end of the peppers, cut out the seeds, then cut a slit down one side of the pepper and flatten it out for an easy way to cut small pieces like this. Be sure to also chop up the stem and bottom ends!) Add chopped peppers to the beans. Chop red onion into pieces the size of beans, and add to beans and peppers in the bowl.
Wash cilantro and spin dry in salad spinner or dry with paper towels. Finely chop cilantro, then stir into beans, pepper, and onions in bowl. Add additional dressing until the salad is as moist as you'd like it. (You probably won't need all the dressing, but save it to re-moisten any leftover salad after it's been refrigerated.) Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste, and serve. The salad can also be made ahead and chilled before serving.
What a great twist on a salad! Sounds delicious!


BRIGHTLIGHTS: storyofmylife / heart her and her blog.
storyofmylife / heart her and her blog.
Sorry I have been MIA for a few days, it's just been so hot here plus 33-37 and I do not have the energy these past couple days to keep up with the things I need to. I know I haven't done anything on here and thought I should go on here and post about something. I had this waiting around to post for a while but I just never got around to it and today seems like the perfect day!
I found her(Jenni) blog not that long ago and not too recently and I fell in complete LOVE. I thought she is worth mentioning for those that have not ever come across her blog. Oh and she is super gorgeous like the first day of spring! I even had to share it with my friend and my mom the love story especially, melt my heart! Oh and I forgot to mention her husband has the most beautiful eyes eveeeeeer!!
My favorite entries from her blog that stole my heart were theses and how could they not be! I am a complete sucker for stories like these, especially when they are real life! I attached those links below and you can read them for yourself and leave her some blog love.
Yeah this was a stolen heart moment after reading this! Wow, I was not expecting to reading something like this at all but I was in definite awe after! This was initially my reaction "Oh my gosh! that love story blew me out of the water, pure pure faith! How often do you hear something like that? I like how persistent he was and his eyes, holy smokes his eyes, gorgeous. gorgeous. gorgeous! Crazy how people know that so fast! ("First time I saw her I knew she would be my wife!") Awww and comes true!!"
If you love love stories like me, total sucker here, I think you should read.
This entry with the tweet made me laugh so haaaard!! I literally died and of course I had to share this with my friend. Gave me a good laugh!
I loved this because it's not often you get to hear from someone's significant other and so I liked how he answered the questions but more so how he took the time to post on her blog and answer all the questions from her followers. Great read and so smart. Haha, one of my favorite questions was this "Jenni does a lot of outfit posts, but what is your favorite sort of outfit to see her in? Glamorous? Casual? Sweatpants/hair tied chillin with no make up on? (lil Drake lyrics)" Another question that I liked was "when are you gonna make some babies?! haha.. loved the response!
I like the excerpt from one of her favorite books she wrote out on this post!
Another funny post that I loved.
I know this isn't directly on her blog but a guest post on another's but I wanted to share because I liked what she had to say on being a newlywed.
I enjoyed this entry because it was something inspirational and about life and changing.
This was the first thing that I had come across that got me to her blog and oh boy, these photos are gorgeous!
I believe this is it and to check out who Jenni is click here to read her about me and get to know her, her blog and her life! enjoy. =) I hope you all enjoy the links I have posted that made me fall in love with her and her blog. I know there is a TON more entries but these ones are what stuck out for me and I am sure you will find yours or more stuff which I haven't linked up.
I have a lovely evening.
I know what you mean about the heat! I have no AC at our house and I have been wilting and not wanting to do anything! But there is so much to be done, I sure hope it cools down soon!
Ugh, the heat is the worst, isn't it? It makes you not want to do ANYTHING.
Thank you SO much for the amazing comment you left on my blog! You are so sweet and honestly with support from people like you, I feel like I can do anything! Your blog is fantastic, and I will definitely read her blog.


My other purchase of the weekend (if we're not counting the 80s pink knit I snaffled up at a vintage market this aft) was a pretty sedate fashion grab by my standards.
But winter is a-coming (look outside the window, Londoners – FOG) and everyone needs a sensible pair of black heeled boots.
The Peeton design by Dune are an absolute classic, and mega comfy to (ahem) boot.
Also, I did have – I am ashamed to say – black studded heeled boots from Primark, but as I have vowed never to let their fast fashion darken my doorway again, I sent them off to the charity shop and now I have these little babies to love instead.


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Get Her Out! Philadelphia 76ers Fans Want Kendall Jenner Banned From Games
Nov. 26 2018, Updated 5:03 p.m. ET
Philadelphia 76ers fans are crying foul on Kendall Jenner. They're blaming the model for their team's embarrassing loss Friday to the struggling Cavs. They think she's such bad luck; they've signed a petition to block her from coming to anymore games. Read on for more details.
Kendall was sitting courtside when the 76ers got beat 121-112. She was watching her beau Ben Simmons, who plays for Philly.
About 3000 people have signed the petition that says, "we as fans cannot sit idly by and let Kendall Jenner ruin what could be a truly special season by her attendance at Sixers games. We must take action." The outrage comes after their team lost their first home game of the season. The defeat was also the Cavs' first win on the road.
The Kardashian curse refers to the theory that all men who date the women in the family have their lives turned upside down after the relationship
Kendall and the basketball star have been linked together for months.
Ironically, the winning team also starred a player linked to a Kardashian. Khloe's boyfriend and father to daughter True, Tristan Thompson plays for the Cavaliers. Of course, their relationship has been strained since he cheated on Khloe days before she gave birth.
What do you think about the fans trying to ban Kendall from games? Let us know in the comments.

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Post 3: Mapping Stakeholders and Image Analysis
By Patricia Roxas
Week 2 Map:
This is an initial mind map of the stakeholders I developed on my own during Week 2. For this mapping exercise, I tried to write down as many stakeholders that I believed were involved in the issue of gender equality. By categorising the human and non-human entities, I was able to create a coherent map which revealed some of the complexities and links between them. Even though this mind map is very general and limited, it is certainly a good starting point. One thing I learnt from this exercise is that there are numerous human and non-human entities that have the power to shape or influence gender equality in various ways.
During Week 4, I created another stakeholders map with other people who were exploring the same issue of gender equality. We took a different approach by listing the stakeholders associated with specific words that relate to gender equality. This approach led me to discover the major stakeholders in gender equality. As seen on the map, media appears the most and therefore holds the most powerful influence amongst the stakeholders. For example, magazines and social media can have a negative impact on body image and body shaming as well as perceptions of men and women. They can also have a positive impact in terms of generating awareness and voicing out opinions. This collaborative task was beneficial because my team members were able to contribute various stakeholders which I had not listed in my initial mind map such as judges, writers, editors, photographers etc.
Image Analysis:
(Unknown n.d.)
This image derives from the years following World War II in which women began to be integrated in the workforce due to the demanding economic and industrial needs brought by the devastation of the war. Although the women's ability to work was a significant step in achieving gender equality, women of UK still hoped for fair wages and lower rates of discrimination in the workplace. Therefore, as seen in the image, two women workers are holding signs in order to protest for their rights regarding equal pay. What's noticeable about the image is that the women are standing firmly and have slight grins on their faces, thus showing that they are optimistic about the fight for equal pay. This photo serves as evidence that women have been fighting for equal pay for decades.
(Unknown 2016)
This photograph captures the moment after the Republican Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, signed a bill prohibiting employers from asking job seekers their salary. The bill attempts to ensure that people are paid not based on their gender but what they are worth. The crowd behind the Governor is mostly composed of women and only a few men but all seem to look very cheerful and some are in the midst of clapping. The crowd also appears to come from diverse backgrounds and age groups. They stand closely together behind the Governor which demonstrates their strong sense of community and mutual approval for pay equity.
(DeChillo 2012)
This photograph shows a woman named Annie Houle who is the national director of the WAGE Project. She holds up a $1 bill and play money to show the advantage that men have over women in terms of pay. The play money is obviously representative of women's pay as it is of lesser value and also pink, a more feminine colour. The use of bright pink play money is an unconventional way of representing the pay gap, therefore it brings more attention than simply stating numbers. Annie has intentionally placed the play money on top of the real dollar in order to show the stark difference in size, in terms of the paper and essentially the quantity.
(ANZ 2016)
This image is taken from the video series, titled Pocket Money launched by ANZ in commemoration of International Women's Day 2016. The video series was a social experiment that aims to bring the issue of the gender pay gap in Australia to a personal level by reenacting it with brothers and sisters who do the same chores yet receive different amounts of pay. The image captures the innocent responses the children. While the girl is shocked and displeased about the situation, the boy is thrilled and seem to show no empathy towards the girl. This coincides with the attitudes of men and women today since most women are affected by the issue whereas men have been repeatedly criticised for lacking care towards towards women receiving lower pay. The use of children in highlighting the gender pay gap is very powerful and evocative as it poses many things for the viewers to think about such as how their daughters would feel if they were paid less than their sons as well as the future of pay gap and its implications on their children.
(MTV 2016)
This image shows a 'wage-gap' alarm clock which was initiated on April 2016 by MTV's Look Different Campaign and PARTY NY. The alarm clock has a minimal design as there are no numbers included to ensure more focus is placed on the 79% handle. According to studies, women who work full time are paid only 79% of men's salary. So the clock, strikes an alarm as it reaches 79% of the work day to remind women that they will no longer be paid for their work. This image stood out to me as I had never imagined that the wage gap could possibly be integrated into everyday objects. It is an innovative design that serves as a daily reminder that the wage gap is real. It not only makes people more aware of the issue but also makes it more understandable.
(Onwusa 2015)
This cartoon produced by Samuel Akinfenwa Onwusa reflects the gender inequality present in the workplace, particularly job interviews. The woman in the cartoon is seen facing rejection by a male employer, despite her education or qualification. In contrast to this, she gains approval as she holds a male mask in front of her. This cartoon may in fact be based on a research which has found that much of the discrimination faced by women in the workplace is influenced by biases male employers hold. Such biases include women being associated with negative qualities and a lack of leadership skills, thus the reason for their rejection in the employment process. In order to combat these biases, women will need to talk about their abilities confidently like men who, according to research, are better at doing so.
(Hop 2015)
Another cartoon that portrays gender inequality is by a young designer named Agata Hop. Hop illustrates a man riding an escalator to success while a woman will need to use a ladder. This is symbolic of the harsh reality of today: one will have to work harder to succeed. This is the case for women as they are often expected to take a maternity leave and take care of their children. Following maternity leave, women become less employable and employers become hesitant about whether they can successfully fulfil the job.
(Facebook 2015)
This image shows a side-by-side comparison of the old and new Friends Icon in Facebook. It demonstrates how Facebook has been able to take a step towards gender equality through a small design tweak to its Friends icon. Facebook design manager, Caitlin Winner was offended by the original Facebook icon (left) as it illustrated the inferiority of women. The silhouette of the woman was smaller than the man and was also behind it. As a woman, Caitlin was determined to portray women as equal to men.The image on the right displays the refreshed icon with the woman placed slightly smaller, in front of the man. Although the change may be small, Caitlin's refreshed icon is a great step in acknowledging gender issues. It brings to light that symbolism can also play a part in revealing gender biases and has inspired me to look more closely at this.
(#ItWasNeverADress 2015)
Similarly, this campaign also uses symbolism as a way to challenge gender biases and perceptions about women's sensitivity. The campaign created by Tania Katan features the iconic woman figure on bathroom signs and a reinterpretation of it with an addition of a superhero cape and the caption: "It was never a dress". The idea behind this campaign is simple yet very effective as a subtle change in the womens bathroom signs immediately shifts the audience perceptions of women. For example, it encourages the audience to focus on audacious and powerful gestures that women can make especially in male-dominated fields of science, technology, arts, mathematics and politics. Additionally, the campaign serves to empower women to enter these fields associated with men.
(Always 2016)
#LikeAGirl is a campaign which attempts to change the meaning of the phrase 'like a girl' which is often used as an insult to men's weakness and vanity. As shown, an image of a fearless young girl holding a baseball is juxtaposed with the text questioning the viewers: "What does it mean to do things #LikeAGirl?". The aim of this is to challenge the way we think about girls as being weak. The campaign also has other images depicting young girls in other sports such as rugby and golf to reinforce the idea that girls are capable of doing anything and any sport even though it is typically associated with men.
Always 2016, Always' #LikeAGirl, Canva, viewed 15 August 2016, <https://designschool.canva.com/blog/cause-marketing/>.
ANZ 2016, ANZ highlights gender pay gap in OZ in new social case study via Whybin/TBWA Melbourne, Campaign Brief, viewed 15 August 2016, <http://www.campaignbrief.com/2016/03/anz-highlights-gender-pay-gap.html>.
DeChillo, S. 2012, How to Attack the Gender Wage Gap? Speak Up, The New York Times, viewed 18 August 2016, < http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/business/to-solve-the-gender-wage-gap-learn-to-speak-up.html?_r=0>.
Facebook 2015, Facebook takes a step towards gender equality with its latest design refresh, Express, viewed 12 August 2016, <http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/589706/Facebook-Gender-Equality-Design-Change-Tweak-Male-Female-Icon>.
Hop, A. 2015, Comic & Cartoon Competition – Winners, UN Women, viewed 12 August 2016, <http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/comic-competition/winners>.
#ItWasNeverADress 2015, #ItWasNeverADress, Bored Panda, viewed 12 August 2016, <http://www.boredpanda.com/bathroom-sign-gender-equality-it-was-never-a-dress-tania-katan/>.
MTV 2016, This genius 'wage gap' alarm clock rings for women after 79% of the work day, Lost At E Minor, viewed 15 August 2016, <http://www.lostateminor.com/2016/06/07/this-wage-gap-alarm-clock-rings-after-79-of-the-work-day/>.
Onwusa, S. A. 2015, Comic & Cartoon Competition – Winners, UN Women, viewed 12 August 2016, <http://beijing20.unwomen.org/en/get-involved/comic-competition/winners>.
Unknown 2016, New bill created to help close gender pay gap makes it ILLEGAL for employers to ask people how much they are paid during job interviews, Daily Mail, viewed 18 August 2016, <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3722566/Massachusetts-passes-new-law-close-gender-pay-gap.html#ixzz4IiPUXnL9>.
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CenturyLink, a telecommunications company that pushed hard into cloud computing starting with its $3.2 billion acquisition of Savvis four years ago, followed by purchases of Appfog and Tier 3, is losing its two top cloud executives, Fortune has learned.
Jared Wray, who was senior vice president of platform and application framework development, is leaving the company as is Jonathan King, vice president of platform strategy and business development. A CenturyLink (CTL) spokesman confirmed both departures, which have not been announced.
King was heavily involved in CenturyLink's acquisitions of Savvis, which in 2011 gave CenturyLink data centers for a cloud computing push; Appfog, which provided cloud software expertise; and Tier 3, a respected cloud infrastructure provider founded by Wray in 2006. King also helped drive acquisition of Orchestrate, a cloud-focused managed database service earlier this year.
A source close to the company said these exits indicate a strategic shift away from public cloud infrastructure where CenturyLink faced bruising competition from much bigger players, most notably market leader Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) Azure.
In the public cloud scenario, the provider (say Amazon or Microsoft) operates massive amounts of shared computing, storage, and networking capabilities that are rented to multiple customers. Businesses are increasingly using those resources instead of adding to their own existing data centers.
Other telco-rooted cloud computing offerings including Verizon's have also had trouble competing with the big boys. CenturyLink's acquisition of Savvis, mirrored Verizon's (VZ) earlier $1.4 billion buyout of Terremark.
CenturyLink has shown other signs that its cloud business is stumbling. Andrew Higginbotham, another top cloud exec, left in January while CenturyLink executives said on the earnings call a few months ago that they may sell off data centers. To be fair, a company doesn't need to own data centers to run a cloud business. But CenturyLink's comments raised eyebrows considering it had spent several billion dollars to get Savvis' data centers not too long ago.
The CenturyLink spokesman said the executive changes do not mean a reduced emphasis on cloud. Rather, he said it would streamline product development using a flatter organization, he said.
Aamir Hussein, who joined CenturyLink last year as executive vice president and chief technology officer, appears to be running the show now.
The source close to the company said he thinks this new management decided CenturyLink had too many challenges ahead with Amazon to keep pouring resources into its rival cloud business. In his view, Wray and King were the cloud gurus at the company. The people Hussein brought on as well as the legacy CenturyLink people are more focused on networking products, he said. And, while networking is key, cloud is about a lot more than that.
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For those who are forcing themselves in dealing with issues surrounding the Samsung Epic 4G's uploads speed problems, there is good news as a fix for it should become available very soon.
Actually, it's proclaimed on Sprint's community forums by an admin that the carrier will begin to push it out to handset owners starting on September 30th – tomorrow! Sprint expects to have it out to just about everyone as they send it over the course of the next four days – so hopefully all issues will be addressed by it.
Still, we'll have to wait and check out the change log if any other fixes or goodies are expected from it – but we'd imagine that the upload speed issue is priority number one for most owners right now.
I can't wait. I love it when a cell phone company is getting fixes out right away!
Oh wait, didnt the phone just come out? wasnt there any live tests performed to prevent this? oh well, at least it's not a death grip so i guess we are progressing. Great job sprint. Hurry up and keep pushing more wimax phones out before Verizon catches up, even if they havent been fully tested. Hey, people still bought the iphone, storm,etc.


Which frames had Extruded Chainstay Bridge?
Just curious which years, and frames had the extruded chainstay bridge.
The non-Factory hardtails from '96 until the 2001. The 2000-2001 base Homegrown falls in there but was a bit of an oddball.
Interesting. So those are the heavier 3.4lb frames?
Yes, though the increased weight was also a function of the different aluminum alloy/tube butting, head tube-down tube gusset that wasn't on the Factory frames, etc. The 2000-2001 frames with extruded bridge were advertised as sub-3 pounds.


Sergio Alcocer is the founder of Rest of the World.
Sergio was President and Chief Creative of LatinWorks, a leading multicultural agency in the US based in Austin, Texas. Sergio is one of the most respected and versatile advertising creatives in the US and Latin America. He has a long history of crafting effective award winning campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the world. In 2007 Sergio was awarded at the Cannes Lion Awards for his commercial for Bud Light 'Classroom'. He led LatinWorks development of the Bud Light Campaign for the 2007 Super Bowl that was recognized as #1 in polls by the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Sun Times, the Kellogg School of Business and Washington University. Sergio has won several other creative awards at the Cannes Lions Festival, FIAP (Argentina), San Sebastian (Spain), the CLIOs (NY Festival), National Addy's and Grand Prix at Festivcal Caribe (Panama). In 2009, Sergio won "Best of Show" and most awarded multicultural agency in the US at the AdAge creative awards and LatinWorks won a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lion Festival in Film for Starburst ("llama" spot).
Sergio is a proud graduate of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership. His EMBA Thesis proposes the creation of Virtual Innovation Partnerships in creative cities around the world to counter the effects of the loss of talent in the US due to immigration reforms and the rise of emerging economies.
"I am a marketer who specializes in Multicultural communication in the USA. I am the President and Chief Creative Officer of LatinWorks, based in Austin, Texas. I provide creative solutions for big American companies to win with the 50 million plus Hispanics living in the USA. LatinWorks has been named Multicultural Agency of the year of 2009 by the two leading trade magazines, Advertising Age and AdWeek. During 2008 and 2009 no other agency in our space won more new clients or received more creative awards than us. I can assure you is not a coincidence that I was enrolled at the Berlin School from February 2008 to August 2009. The impact that the school had on me and through me, on my agency, has been huge.
I first heard about the Berlin School while attending the Cannes Advertising Festival in 2007. It felt like a perfect fit right away. Of course I knew who Michael Conrad was so I looked into it and decided to apply. From the first time I heard about it I knew it was something very needed for our industry. After twenty plus years as a creative, the last ten running an advertising agency, I needed to re ignite my passion for the business. I found myself in my mid forties stuck in my own knowledge, tired and a little burned out. Successful as I was I knew I needed to look forward and prepare for the enormous wave of change in our industry. In a nutshell I came into the Berlin School looking for the tools to start the second half of my career. I got that and much more.
The core of the Berlin School is about how to lead creative business. In our field one gets to the top by starting at the bottom. Many of us are self made, meaning that we learned our trade while doing it, not necessarily in a Business School. But when you get to a point in which it is now your turn to lead an agency, are you truly prepared to lead? That's what the Berlin School gives you: a framework to apply all what you know as a seasoned professional in a more structured way.
The Berlin School taught me that the real role of a creative leader is to create the circumstances for others to create. Having creative people on top of companies is a great way to infuse creativity through out the organization. Creativity needs to be defined more broadly, it's an attitude, a fresh way to bring solutions to our clients."


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Q: Inferring asymptotic behaviour from the dominant pole of the Laplace transform Hi,
I am reposting the following question with the hope that a more detailed description will lead to a more descriptive response:
dominant pole in the laplace transform
I have a vector function $X(t)=(X_1(t),X_2(t),...,X_n(t))$ whose components satisfy a delay-difference equation and whose Laplace transform $\hat{X}(s)$ has a unique pole $x_0$ of largest real part with $x_0$ on the real axis.\
I am able to show that the poles of $\hat{X}(s)e^{st}$ are confined to the vertical strip $\{z \in \mathbb{C}:-R\leq \textrm{Re}(z) \leq x_0\}$, for some $R>0$, and that for each $t$,
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X_i(t) = \lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\sum_{s_j \in \Gamma_n}\textrm{Res}(\hat{X}_i(s)e^{st};s_j)
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where $(\Gamma_n)_{n=1,2,...}$ is a sequence of contours that expands to fill the region
$ \{ z \in \mathbb{C}:\textrm{Re}(z) < x_0+\epsilon \} $
for some $\epsilon$, and $s_j \in \Gamma_n$ denotes a pole in the interior of the contour $\Gamma_n$.  In any vertical strip just to the left of $x_0$, there are an infinite number of poles.  If $x_0$ has order $m$ as a pole of $\hat{X}_i(s)e^{st}$, then $X_i(t)/(e^{x_0t}t^{m-1})$ should converge to a positive constant as $t\rightarrow\infty$, however I am having trouble showing that the contribution of the leading pole dominates the combined contribution of other poles.  The way that I imagine doing this is in two parts:

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*Showing that the combined contribution of poles $s_j$ with $\textrm{Re}(s_j)\geq x_0-\delta$ are small

*Showing that the combined contribution of the remaining poles is bounded by $Ce^{(x_0-\delta+\Delta)t}$, for some $C>0$, as $t\rightarrow\infty$.
Here $\delta>0$ is a sufficiently small positive constant and $0 <\Delta<\delta$.
It appears that item 1 can be proved by bounding the density of poles near the line $\{z:\textrm{Re}(z)=x_0\}$.  Item 2 seems more obvious.  Is anyone aware of a general result from which item 2 follows?  Thanks in advance.

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So how are Liberians on this side of the ocean handling all this?
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Park Hill is known to host the most densely populated Liberian community outside Liberia. The area lies right at the tip of Brooklyn's pointed feet, tucked in the northeastern corner of Staten Island, where more than ten thousand Liberians overall are said to live. And to which many more have fled, during the days in which refugees from the civil war that was tearing the country apart were being resettled in the United States, or still travel to: from family members simply joining their relatives for vacations or business, to celebrity visitors like compatriots Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf herself.
But the only reason why Park Hill seems to suddenly be worthy of everybody's attention is another one: it starts with an E and has already claimed almost forty-five hundred victims. As of yesterday, the assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Bruce Aylward, said that the virus actually has a seventy percent mortality rate and that we could expect the number of new cases to skyrocket to ten thousand a week by December. In the meantime, after the death of Liberian "patient zero" Thomas Eric Duncan, two nurses who were part of the Dallas Hospital team who tried to save him are now infected.
They're worried about their families back home, tired of being asked "How do you feel about it?" and actually even starting to get a bit pissed off with the media, which by raising the public consciousness's alarm level from "alert" to "almost panic" has increasingly and very subtly saddled them with an aura of guilt: they somehow brought the virus into the United States—or are about to.


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...that the Scorn can use Dark Ether to resurrect themselves?
"The ground upon which you walk shall burn. YOU shall burn."
Urrox, Flame Prince, also known as the "Scion of Oryx", is a Hive Knight found in the Prison of Elders. Urrox held watch over an ancient brood that has long since vanished. He has a special ability where if he stamps the ground, the floor will cause solar damage to Guardians for ten seconds.
Upon entering the arena, head straight to the left and into the back corner. Here you will conduct the entire fight. One guardian should be watching each side of the small area to quickly dispatch any and all lower level Hive. The third guardian may choose to run between the sides and help the other two until there is enough time to deal damage to Urrox.
Recommended weapons would be ascended Black Hammer and Gjallarhorn due to their abilities to deal solar damage. Black Hammer's Precision Mag Bonus perk is invaluable during this fight as it eliminates the need to risk running out and acquiring ammunition drops.
Hive Wizards and Knights should be dealt with swiftly along with the Thralls as these enemies are more likely to rush your party.
It should be noted that when he enables his "Searing Flames" debuff against the guardians, you will only suffer damage if you are touching the floor. An effective strategy is to have a Titan place a shield which grants Blessing of Light and to use jump perks which can keep you in the air for larger amounts of time.
Patience is key in this fight and Urrox should only be damaged when it is safe enough to do so using the above mentioned weapons.


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Is the helmet gunmetal color supposed to match the armor gunmetal color? It seems to me that the armor is lighter, but maybe it's the lighting?
I think it would be safe to assume that they are the same color.
the way the light hits it..
In all the OT films, if you can study production photos, you can see the faceplate metallic gray and the chest armor's metallic gray are the same color. There are times where people have thought differently and use the ROTJ Death Star landing bay scene as the basis of why Vader is supposedly very dark, or why the armor is brighter.
This article discusses a set photo, and you can see there is plenty of black on the floor and walls (offscreen) that reflected on the mask, making it look dark. Also, the publicity shot of him in the landing bay looking right into the camera - the armor is reflecting a lot of overhead lighting based on its angle in relation to the face.
In each of the above examples, you can see the metallic gray paint of the face and armor are within the same brightness range when they are not terribly contrasted by set lighting.
There are times where people have thought differently and use the ROTJ Death Star landing bay scene as the basis of why Vader is supposedly very dark, or why the armor is brighter.
I agree with the people who believe this.
I understand. And that is why I say that production photographs can give you insights than screenshots alone can provide.
Here is the ROTJ Vader. Notice the face isn't nearly as dark as how his mask reflects the black surfaces of the set in the landing bay scene.
Also, the publicity shot of him in the landing bay looking right into the camera - the armor is reflecting a lot of overhead lighting based on its angle in relation to the face. ????
There are plenty of reference photos of the helmets outside of the landing scene that show a much lighter gunmetal. It was the extreme overhead lighting coupled with the large flaring of the dome blocking the light that created the dark effect on the face. I done the same with my helmets and got the same effect.


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Dubai's pursuit of jewellery domination
Dubai is employing Italian sparkle to improve its jewellery credentials
by Robert Anderson
Every winter, an industrial estate on the outskirts of the Italian city of Vicenza becomes the unusual host for the world of jewellery.
This year, the opening event on the jewellery calendar, Vicenzaoro January, took place amid the bitter chill of plunging stock and commodity prices and an uncertain outlook for global consumer demand.
"We are paying a lot of attention to what will happen in 2016 because luxury and jewellery itself may be under pressure," says event organiser Fiera De Vicenza's managing director Corrado Facco.
But if the climate has proven chilly back home, where many European markets are still in recovery mode from the recession, Italian jewellers are looking to the warmer temperatures of the Gulf with optimism.
"Europe is the traditional market but in recent years there have been a lot of problems with the business because the economy is very difficult," says handcrafted jeweler Scanavin's co-founder Roberta Scanavin. "And so the major market [for us] is the Arabian market."
Scanavin is one of a number of Italian firms that has tapped into the regional demand for luxury.
"If we see the figures, more than .6bn($6.6bn) was exported by Italian jewelers around the world and again the first market was Dubai," says Facco.
The Italian event organiser is now hoping to capitalise on this demand as Dubai looks to put itself on the global jewellery map.
The jewellery capital of the world
Dubai's appeal for Italian jewelers has been longstanding, according to Facco."In the last five years Dubai itself was and is the most important market for the Italian exporters in terms of jewellery,"he says.
It was with this in mind that his organisation approached Dubai World Trade Centre three years ago with the intention of creating the region's largest business-to-business jewellery trade show.
"When we discussed with Mr Almarri, the CEO of World Trade Centre, he was very clear. He said 'we are choosing you to make a joint venture because you are number one in Europe and we want to be number one on
a global scale'."
The resulting joint venture, DV Global Link, launched Vicenzaoro Dubai last year and the show will return in April with lofty ambitions to become the Baselworld of the Middle East.
However, both Vicenzaoro and the emirate still have some way to go in achieving their goals.
Dubai accounted for 30 per cent of the luxury market in the Middle East in 2014, according to management consultancy Bain & Company. But the regional sale of personal luxury goods, including jewellery, is still far from world beating at $8.9bn last year compared to $86.6bn in the United States, the consultancy estimates. When ranked by city, Dubai stood alongside Moscow and Miami with $3.3bn of luxury sales estimated in 2015 compared to $29.7bn in New York and around $14.3bn in London and Paris.
Equally Vicenzaoro Dubai will be hard pressed, at least to begin with, to reach the scale of industry heavyweight Baselworld, which attracted 150,000 attendees last year. A target to become one of the top five dates for the international jewellery and goldsmith sectors by 2020 seems more realistic.
In the meantime, jewellers see the potential for Dubai to become an important stepping-stone to other markets.
Scanavin, which creates exclusive collections for a partner in the GCC, says it plans to use the emirate as a springboard to do business with companies in Africa.
"For the moment they are closed because they come only in Dubai to find the product. And so it is important for us to be there," she says.
The company is also eyeing opportunities in Iran, Lebanon, Libya and Iraq should stability improve. "If the political problems are resolved I think we have a big opportunity to sell more."
Many others, like Nanis Italian Jewels, are also seeing potential in the GCC market. The company has operated in the region for more than 10 years through a partnership with Saudi Arabia's Al Moallim.
"It is a market that is receptive, they are very fashionable and they like the concept of Nanis which is a higher level of craftsmanship but very playful," says the company's designer Laura Bicego. She says women in the region are sometimes more receptive to fashion trends than those in the US and have a different attitude to purchases than in other parts of the world.
"In the Middle East, they are still attracted by the investment but they are also very attracted by the design and they appreciate it and they pay for it."
The company is particularly focused on Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, where a local partner is reopening a store.
Uncertain outlook
Looking to the year ahead, the outlook for the regional jewellery market is mixed.
In a February report, Dubai Gold & Jewellery Group chairman Tawhid Abdullah said gold sales in the emirate grew about 5 per cent to Dhs 14bn last year. He predicted jewellery sales could rise by another 5 per cent this year.
But there were signs of a slowdown in a fourth quarter when gold jewellery sales fell by 5 per cent in the Middle East, according to the World Gold Council. This included 4 per cent, 3 per cent and 5 per reductions in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait respectively.
"Unsurprisingly, further falls in the price of oil and continued confl ict across the region have fed through to declines in gold jewellery consumption. Declining tourist revenue was an added factor in the UAE," the organisation notes.
Despite these local factors, Fiera di Vicenza president and former Valentino chairman Matteo Marzotti is optimistic.
"In spite of signs of a softening economy and tourism in the region, we are expecting a stronger and more mature exhibition event in Dubai," he says.
Jewellers will be hoping this optimism is proven right as the industry continues to tackle global headwinds.
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Robert Anderson March 5, 2016
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One of the most physically grueling weeks on the mat for Burlington High School's varsity grapplers begins tonight – Jan. 18 – when the Cougars travel to Wray for 6:30 p.m. dual, before they conclude their weekend with an overnight trip to Northglenn for an evening triangular Friday, Jan. 19, and the all-day Northglenn Norse Invitational Saturday, Jan. 20.
Friday's action at Northglenn begins at 5:30 p.m., while Saturday's tournament starts at 9 a.m.
The match originally scheduled with Holyoke tonight in the 'Pit' has been moved to Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 6:30 p.m.
Senior parents will be acknowledged at that time.
Fans are encouraged to come to the 'Pit' Tuesday to support the Cougars in the only home match of the 2017-2018 campaign.
See details inside this week's Record.


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2019 Military Friendly Employers list ranks Allstate in second place
October 2, 2018 September 30, 2018 Julie Campbell
This is the third consecutive year the company has received this important distinction as an employer.
Allstate Insurance has received the second spot on the 2019 Military Friendly Employers list. It has received this honor once again in recognition for its efforts to hire, train, develop and retain both military veterans and their spouses.
Allstate Insurance has long made active efforts to maintain and build its military and veterans programs.
The Allstate insurance company has received recognition as a Military Friendly Employer for three consecutive years. The insurer maintains several military and veteran programs. They include its Joining Forces for Good licensing initiative. That program helps to transition veterans so they can work for Allstate agency owners as licensed sales professionals.
In 2017, over 150 veterans were hired through the Joining Forces for Good program, according to a recent Allstate release. Furthermore, 215 veterans were hired into other positions by Allstate throughout last year.
Allstate Insurance also received recognition for having made over $350,000 in donations and for over 3,000 volunteer hours for nonprofits and organizations that serve veterans and military members. The Allstate Veterans Engagement Team and Supporters (AVETS) Employee Resource Group at the national insurance company is another program it maintains to support both active military, veterans and their loved ones. That group works to provide community and support to achieve career success through Allstate.
Allstate is proud of its recognition on the 2019 Military Friendly Employers list once again.
"At Allstate, we're proud to foster the careers of transitioning service members and veterans to ensure they can succeed," said Allstate's director of military programs, Joseph Pennington. "The programs we have in place to support veterans continue to grow, and we look forward to serving even more veterans in 2019 and beyond."
Providing veterans and active military members with support is a component of Allstate's wider inclusive diversity commitment. The insurer's 11 employee resource groups promote an inclusive working environment. That way, all employees have the opportunity to perform at their greatest potential. Firms receiving the Military Friendly Employer designation undergo a thorough evaluation using responses to a proprietary survey and public data sources.
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Two accused of robbing man in Manchester Twp. motel
Two people are accused of robbing a man after he just got out of the shower at his Econo Lodge motel room last month, according to authorities.
Two accused of robbing man in Manchester Twp. motel Two people are accused of robbing a man after he just got out of the shower at his Econo Lodge motel room last month, according to authorities. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/16/two-accused-robbing-man-manchester-twp-motel/2594485002/
Christopher Dornblaser, York Dispatch Published 5:00 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2019 | Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Jan. 23, 2019
Two people are accused of robbing a man after he had just gotten out of the shower at his Econo Lodge motel room last month, according to authorities.
Northern York County Regional Police said Emily Ann Merth and Joel Perez forced their way into the room and stole more than $1,300 in cash from the man Dec. 11.
It wasn't until early January, when fingerprint testing results came back, that police were able to identify the suspects as Merth and Perez, charging documents state.
Merth, 23, of Derry Township, Dauphin County, is charged with robbery, trespassing, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy to commit those offenses.
Perez, 25, of the 400 block of Juniper Street, York City, faces the same charges. As of Wednesday, Jan. 23, he had not been arraigned on the charges.
Emily Merth (Photo: Submitted)
Incident: Police said the man was showering about 10 a.m. at the motel, 222 Arsenal Road, when he heard a knock on the room door, so he put a towel on and went to see who knocked.
He cracked the door open and saw a woman, later identified as Merth, according to police. The man asked her what she wanted, and another person, later identified as Perez, pushed the door open and forced his way into the room, court documents state.
The man's towel fell as he tried to push the two from his room, and because the floor and his feet were wet, he wasn't able to get any traction, according to authorities.
Perez pushed him around while Merth grabbed $22 in cash that was on a nearby table, charging documents state.
During the scuffle, police said a backpack on the coat rack fell and exposed a bank envelope containing $1,300, which Merth took, according to police.
The victim was yelling at them and telling them to leave, but they stayed, charging documents state.
After some more scuffling, police said the two fled, prompting the victim to chase after them. Merth and Perez ran to the motel hallway and out the exit toward the Round the Clock Diner, according to authorities.
Police said the victim wasn't able to get back into his room, and he had to get the front desk clerk to let him in.
Officers responded to the area and couldn't find the two, but they did find the envelope that the $1,300 was in, court documents state.
The envelope and the victim's door were processed for prints, which matched Perez, according to officials. Perez and Merth are accused of a North York burglary in October, charging documents state.
The victim was shown a photo array and was able to identify the two as the ones who robbed him, according to police.
Merth was arraigned on the charges Saturday, Jan. 12, and sent to York County Prison on $50,000 bail. She does not have an attorney listed.
Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 25 at District Judge Jeffrey Oberdorf's office.
— Reach Christopher Dornblaser at cdornblaser@yorkdispatch.com or on Twitter at @YDDornblaser.
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China's Economy Has Hit the Skids; Why Haven't Internet Investors Noticed?
China's economic growth has slowed to a quarter-century low of 7.4 percent. You wouldn't know it, though, looking at the gigantic rounds that China-based Internet companies are raising.
Just this week, Apus Group, a six-month-old, Beijing-based Android app development firm, raised a whopping $100 million; Beibei.com, a nine-month-old, mother and baby-focused e-commerce site in Hangzhou, raised $100 million; and Meituan, a four-year-old group discount platform that's headquartered in Beijing, pulled in $700 million. There was also that little announcement by the Chinese government late last week about the venture capital fund it's establishing with $6.5 billion to support start-ups in emerging industries.
The word "bubble" invariably comes to mind. But there's something far different going on, insist those bullish about Chinese tech companies.
Take Glenn Solomon, a managing director at the cross-border investment firm GGV Capital and a frequent visitor to China. Though he acknowledges that "China's economic growth will inevitably slow as the law of large numbers takes effect," he says two very different economies in China — old and new — explain the seeming disconnect between that slowing growth and all the money sloshing into tech startups.
In China's retail industry, for example, overexpansion has hurt large, established brick-and mortar-retailers who are seeing flat or slowing growth and retrenching. Meanwhile, Alibaba and other new e-commerce players are growing extremely rapidly, says Solomon, noting that "on the ground [in China], there are delivery trucks lining the streets."
That divergence is "pronounced and growing" across other industries, too, says Solomon. "Companies in the Xiaomi ecosystem focused on home automation are rapidly going direct to consumer, while traditional players in this area are seeing a slowdown."
Travel, mobile commerce, and companies whose apps aim to improve their users' offline experience — among them the GGV-backed Tujia.com, a site similar to Airbnb that raised $100 million last June, and Didi Dache, a taxi app that closed on $700 million in December — are also trouncing weaker, traditional offline players, he says.
Yet there are other reasons to rationalize those big investment rounds, suggests Michael Feldman, an independent consultant based in Hong Kong who advises on cross-border technology investments from China to Israel.
Feldman notes that unlike, say, Facebook, which only recently began reaching into new businesses, the "tentacles" of China Internet giants like Tencent Holdings and Alibaba stretch into everything from car service apps to their own mobile payment services, including Tencent's Tenpay, and Alibaba's Alipay.
That growing reach is a scary prospect to startups and would-be entrepreneurs. "In almost anything you do online, you could potentially be competing with them," notes Feldman. But in their race to compete with one another, such behemoths have also grown more acquisitive than they used to be — creating once-scant M&A opportunities. "It used to be that they'd either copy your product or pay a team to join their company, then they'd destroy the competing company," explains Feldman. "Now that they're kind of globalizing, they're beginning to behave differently."
China is also seeing its first generation of battle-tested tech entrepreneurs launch companies, which is emboldening investors to back them with big checks, notes Feldman. "Everyone knows the PayPal Mafia and Google Mafia and Facebook Mafia. China now has its own mafias," including those to spin out of Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and Xiaomi, among others.
If that development is leading to some froth, Feldman, like Solomon, doesn't seem terribly concerned. As in the U.S. and elsewhere, he suggests, China's tech economy isn't as closely tethered to the country's broader economy as one might imagine.
"Ultimately, it's about the adoption of mobile," Feldman says. "As in most of the world, it's just totally changing society. At this point, the mobile revolution seems to be an unstoppable force."
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As China's Internet Giants Look to U.S, GGV Makes Introductions
GGV Capital knows China. The 13-year-old, expansion-stage venture firm, with offices on Sand Hill Road and in Shanghai, prides itself on a U.S.-China strategy that sees its partners spending healthy amounts of time in both countries. With China now the world's second largest economy and, as of last year, the world's largest trading nation, that puts GGV in an enviable position.
Already, 16 of GGV's portfolio companies have gone public since 2010, several of them China-based, including the Chinese online travel booking service Qunar, which went out in November, and the entertainment site YY.com, which held its IPO in November 2012. Meanwhile, e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba — which GGV backed in both its A and B rounds, in 2003 and 2004, respectively — is expected to go public this year at a valuation of up to $150 billion. (Asked if it still holds its stake in the company, GGV says only that it "continues to work actively" with Alibaba.)
Now, GGV is looking to invest alongside China's Internet giants as they endeavor to expand their presence in the U.S. market. In October, for example, Alibaba led a $50 million financing round in Quixey, a Mountain View-based search engine for apps, and GGV participated in the round.
Last week, I spoke with GGV managing partner Glenn Solomon about Chinese companies looking to invest here. Our conversation has been edited for length.
What's the biggest trend you're seeing?
We're living in a truly cross-border world, so we're seeing more China companies that want to access the U.S. capital markets and more U.S. entrepreneurs, particularly in mobile, recognizing that China is a really important part of market.
Why are Alibaba and Tencent and others so keen on backing and acquiring U.S. companies?
First, the big players are very cash rich. And while they've been peacefully coexisting in China for the last couple of years — Tencent [Holdings] is really a social and entertainment gaming company; Baidu is search; and Alibaba has largely been e-commerce — the intensity of the competition amongst them is increasing as the China market matures. Particularly around mobile, where they've all been pretty aggressive about finding ways to increase their business, they're bumping into each other more and more.
So they see the U.S. as the next frontier.
It might be odd for someone in Silicon Valley to think of the U.S. as a second frontier. But the Chinese market, as it relates to mobile, is bigger than the U.S. And while there is still room for [these companies] to grow in China, they're thinking about international expansion and the U.S. makes sense. They also want access to companies in the U.S. that they can learn from to re-import opportunities to China.
How directly are they looking to copy U.S. companies?
Many companies look something like U.S. companies, but they have a very unique flavor. Qunar, for example, has elements of its business that are extremely local, and the entrepreneur who started it is very Chinese. He's very worldly, but he grew up in Beijing; he went to a Chinese university.
Another example is the video chat service YY.com. It's a social network, but its primary form of communication is voice, so it's synchronous, rather than asynchronous, and it's thriving. People are increasingly using it to play "World of Warcraft"; you have performers performing to large audiences on the platform; and the economic model is virtual items, which most people in the U.S. didn't quite understand when the company went public. [YY.com debuted on Nasdaq at roughly $10 per share; it's now trading at $71 per share.]
Would you say Chinese Internet companies are ahead of the U.S. when it comes to revenue?
In many ways, yes, entrepreneurs are importing techniques from China, including free-to-play, with calls to action within applications that produce virtual item revenue. That's much more developed in China and that model came out of Asia, but you're seeing more and more of it in the U.S. In fact, if you go to [Apple's] App Store on your phone, you'll see that the 20 top-grossing apps are free; it's because they do a very good job of monetizing that small segment of the base who play the game or use the app, whatever it might be.
Where is China on the enterprise side of things?
It's early days in enterprise. I'd say China is three to five years behind the U.S., but we expect it to emerge as a big opportunity, so we've been investing in some younger software-as-a-service companies and the like.
Other trends to watch?
The M&A market is more active than in the past. An example would be Baidu, which has a large strategic interest in Qunar; we expect we'll see more M&A and strategic investing in China.
There's also a more active angel community, which is good for our business, as we primarily invest in B and C rounds. It's not quite as fashionable as it is here [to be an angel investor], but things are changing.
Filed Under: Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Alibaba, Baidu, GGV Capital, Glenn Solomon, Nimble Storage, Qunar, Square, Tencent, YY.com


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Q: isolating specific values in external .js array I'm currently trying to populate a selection list from an external javascript array. It works but I'm trying to populate only certain values using an ID column, which is failing. I'm using check-boxes and an 'If' statement to see which box is checked, and populate the appropriate array values based on this selection. I'm then using another 'If' within a for loop to match the ID value in the array, and add the matching values to the selection. However, it seems that it is completely disregarding the condition and reading the entire array in to selection list. It could be an obvious mistake with my code as I am only a novice.
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A: Your first mistake is here:
var islands = document.getElementById("island_form");

document.getElementById() returns a single DOM element, not a list of objects.  So, thus islands[0] and islands[1] are going to be undefined and islands[0].checked will make a script error.
You can only have one DOM element with a given id.  You can have multiple elements with a class name so maybe you should switch to using class names and be using document.getElementsByClassName("something")

FYI, you should be looking in the browser error console or debug console to see script errors as this should have given you an indication of some trouble here.


January 2, 2016 a very good day to start.
I just finished the chapter "Vectorrekening in vlak in ruimte" , which translates to "Vector calculus in plane and space". It is part of the interactive course "Linear Algebra" published by SOWISO.
I learned from Hans Sterk (whose lecture notes have served as input and inspiration) that the best way to introduce mathematics is by hands-on experience first, and abstraction later. This method is known from the Karate Kid movie, where mr. Miyagi lets his pupil wash his car and paint his walls before explaining anything about the greater picture. The idea in this chapter is that familiar knowledge of the plane and space (the classical ones, no curved space is discussed here) is used to introduce vectors, computing with them, bases and working with coördinates, inner products and wedge products. In order get an idea of how this principle works, you should know that the wedge product is defined as the scalar multiple of the unit vector that form a right hand oriented triple.
Actually the next chapter will also be of an introductory nature, teaching the student how to solve linear equations and introducing matrices as a tool.
It is only after these two chapters that vector spaces are introduced axiomatically.


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Caroline Rhy Davids nee Foley (1857 - 1942) was a British Pali scholar and translator, the daughter of John Foley, a vicar, and his wife Elizabeth. She studied at University College, London and in 1894 married Thomas Rhys Davids, also a prominent Pali scholar. A lecturer at the University of Manchester, she was president of the Pali Text Society established by her husband from 1923 - 1942, and she published widely on Buddhism. Caroline Rhys Davids was also active in a number of reform causes including children's welfare, poverty alleviation, and women's suffrage. The three extant versions of Schreiner's letters to Caroline Rhys Davids all appear in Cronwright-Schreiner's The Letters and so should be treated with caution as their relationship to Schreiner's original letters is not known and there are likely to be significant inaccuracies as well as omissions. However, these 'letters' do illustrate their shared interest in women's suffrage and also the 'native question', with Schreiner commenting in particular on the treatment of Indians in the Transvaal. Schreiner also wrote her thanks to Rhys Davids for the dedication of her translation Psalms of the Early Buddhists to her in 1909. The dedication reads: "To Olive Schreiner, Seer of 'Dreams', this translation of verses ascribed to the spiritual daughters of Gotama Buddha, 'The Wake', is in grateful and loving homage dedicated" (Rhys Davids 1909).
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We all learn about anger and ways to express it as we grow up, usually through modelling by our parents or other role models. For many young people in out-of-home care, these lessons have been inconsistent or potentially detrimental, particularly if they have been in an environment where violence is the primary means of dealing with conflict and expressing anger. Helping young people develop their knowledge and insight can support them to realise it is possible to manage their anger in more acceptable and beneficial ways.
This is often a really sensitive issue and talking about anger itself may be a trigger so have a think of the environment and timing of these conversations. Like many things, young people are more likely to discuss this issue when they feel safe and respected. A well-established relationship with good rapport will go a long way to benefit such conversations.
Hear their story. While there are things you have probably noticed about a young person's experience with anger by asking them to provide their story is a way for you and them to truly understand the meaning of their anger to them.
Who do you get angry with? How often? Where and when?
How do you show your anger? How do you react when you're angry?
Who in your life models constructive ways to manage anger?
What did you learn about anger from your caregivers?
What did you learn about when you should get angry?
How do you feel about your anger?
Explore the ways that anger works for them. When is it helpful?
Sometimes young people experience a lot of shame and stigma associated with their anger and behaviour. Helping them to see themselves as separate to these feelings and behaviour is crucial for them to understand that nothing is 'wrong with them'. Rather they learn that it has developed for a number of reasons such as their childhood experiences and therefore they have control over how they manage and express it.
A good way to explore and help a young person learn about their anger is through unpacking a recent experience.
Tom is 14 and has lived in residential care since he was 11.
Tom grew up in an environment that he rarely felt safe. His dad drank a lot and would often fight with his mum, at times this would get physical. When Tom was about 7, his dad started being violent towards him as well. Tom found it really hard to relax and sleep as he never knew what mood his dad would be in. Tom never really saw any other ways of dealing with conflict than violence. When Tom went to school, he noticed that he seemed to get frustrated more easily than other young people and found it hard to calm down when he felt like this. The teachers also noticed that Tom would hit himself and start fights for what often seemed like no reason. Tom tried cannabis and soon began smoking it most days as he found it helped him relax and stay calm.
Young people in out-of-home care have often had early life experiences of trauma such as abuse or neglect that make it more challenging for them to manage their anger. Not only have they learnt that anger is always expressed through violence, they can often exist physically at a high level of hyper-vigilance and hence have a 'low tolerance' to frustration.


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Nella mitologia inca Kay Pacha è il mondo terreno dove gli esseri umani abitano e trascorrono le loro vite.

Il mondo per gli Inca era composto da tre piani: Hanan Pacha (il mondo di sopra), Kay Pacha (il mondo di qui) e Uku Pacha (il mondo di sotto) dove si pensava risiedessero i morti e anche i bambini mai nati.

In lingua quechua, pacha significa sia tempo che spazio.

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Music Genre of the Blues Music Essay
According to the report thinking of blues alone can trigger betrayal and misfortune thoughts. To be more succinct, assume you have lost your job without the hopes of getting another anytime soon, well that is when the blues come in. The Blues is one of the few genres capable of traversing a wide range of emotions of its audience.
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This is not about the border wall that has been talked about so much in political circles. It is much more intimate than that. This has to do with walls and bridges that we put up between us and other people: our spouse, our family, our friends, our neighbors, and our co-workers (the people closest to us).
Even a fortress has a drawbridge. Back in medieval times when a castle was built, if they really wanted to make it secure they built a moat around it. I don't know if it had alligators or not, but just the fact that it was surrounded by water made it harder for someone to get in. The only way to get into the castle was over the drawbridge.
People have a way of putting up walls between themselves and others. Sometimes it is necessary because of abuse or neglect, but often it is just due to hurt feelings and lack of forgiveness. If it is abuse or neglect, be very careful about letting that bridge down. You should never allow anyone to abuse you.
If it is hurt feelings or lack of forgiveness that has caused you to build a wall, consider lowering the drawbridge and allowing the other person into your life again. Forgiving them is the first step in restoring a relationship. Open dialog can only happen if you are willing to talk to them about how your feel and try to understand how they feel.
I realize that it is an impossible dream to fully love everyone, but we can at least do our part, right? We can't control what others do, but we can control what we do. If we do the right thing and lower the drawbridge to allow others in, good things can happen. Don't allow the fear of getting hurt keep you from having meaningful relationships. Fear and love won't live in the same room. One of them has to go, and it might as well be fear that you let go of.
You can't live a life of isolation and expect to reap anything close to peace, happiness, and contentment. Let go of the fear, lower the bridge, and learn to live fully and freely. Love is the bridge.
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