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Q: Vba-how to open csv file among several csv files and make this file active from the sharepoint site(.aspx not sharedrive) for next steps I have three files one is a excel file enabled with macro where my macro is(1), the csv file to run the macro on(2). The new csv file that would be opened(3)
I am new to userform I created a web browser control and was able to initialize in the userform and added the code
  Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
  Me.WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://sharepoint_site.aspx"
  End Sub

now when I click on the required csv file I get file download. There how do I just open the file and  make this newly opened csv file as active? There are many csv files on the sharepoint site.The user selects a specific file and gets a file download box where it should jusst open that csv file. The reason for using userform as suggested by @David was to better control the newly opened CSV file and have the name of the file stored to perform the next steps of the code rather than file 2 where the macro is run to be the active workbook.Below code was my previous code which was part of a case statement.
Dim IE As Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.application")
With IE
    .Visible = True
   .navigate ("https://site.aspx")
  MsgBox "Select the file and click open file"

Here obviously activated the file (2) where the macro ran but wanted to activate the newly opened file. Any help on this is greatly appreciated & thank you in advance.

A: Try something like this instead of the WebBrowser control, my apologies for pointing you in the wrong direction:
Sub foo()
Dim SummaryWB As Workbook
Dim vrtSelectedItem As Variant

With Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogOpen)
    .InitialFileName = "https:\\your_sharepoint\team\folder" & "\"
    .AllowMultiSelect = False
    .Show
    For Each vrtSelectedItem In .SelectedItems
        Set SummaryWB = Workbooks.Open(vrtSelectedItem)
    Next
End With

If SummaryWB Is Nothing Then Exit Sub

Call SomeOtherMacro(SummaryWB)

End Sub

So then you have some other macro that will process this workbook, you send the workbook to it like the above Call statement, and make sure that the other procedure accepts a Workbook:
Sub SomeOtherMacro(wb as Workbook)

' This macro will do something to the workbook
    wb.Worksheets(1).Select
    MsgBox wb.Name & " sheet 1 is now selected!"
End Sub

Modified from this answer.


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The Aranayaka Polling Division is a Polling Division in the Kegalle Electoral District, in the Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka.

Presidential Election Results

Summary

The winner of Aranayaka has matched the final country result 6 out of 8 times. Hence, Aranayaka is a Weak Bellwether for Presidential Elections.

2019 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

2015 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

2010 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

2005 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

1999 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

1994 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

1988 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

1982 Sri Lankan Presidential Election

Parliamentary Election Results

Summary

The winner of Aranayaka has matched the final country result 6 out of 7 times. Hence, Aranayaka is a Strong Bellwether for Parliamentary Elections.

2015 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

2010 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

2004 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

2001 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

2000 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

1994 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

1989 Sri Lankan Parliamentary Election

Demographics

Ethnicity

The Aranayaka Polling Division has a Sinhalese majority (90.1%) . In comparison, the Kegalle Electoral District (which contains the Aranayaka Polling Division) has a Sinhalese majority (85.5%)

Religion

The Aranayaka Polling Division has a Buddhist majority (90.0%) . In comparison, the Kegalle Electoral District (which contains the Aranayaka Polling Division) has a Buddhist majority (84.4%)

Polling Divisions of Sri Lanka
Polling Divisions of the Kegalle Electoral District

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Jimi Hendrix Plays "Sgt. Pepper" for The Beatles, Just Three Days After It's Release
There are many ways to celebrate a new album from a band you admire. You can have a listening party alone. You can have a listening party with friends. You can learn the title track in a couple of days and play it onstage while the band you admire sits in the audience. That last one might be overkill. Unless you're Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was so excited after the UK release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 that he opened a set at London's Saville Theatre with his own, Hendrix-ified rendition of the album's McCartney-penned title song. In the audience: McCartney and George Harrison.
It's a loose, good-natured tribute that, as you might imagine, made quite an impression on the Beatles in attendance. "It's still obviously a shining memory for me," McCartney recalled many years later, "because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished."
To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you'd put it in, but he just opened with it. It's a pretty major compliment in anyone's book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career.
McCartney frequently reminisces about that night. See him do so in the clip above from an August, 2010 concert. Macca gushes over Hendrix's solo, then tells the audience how Jimi---having thrown his guitar out of tune during the solo with his whammy bar dive-bombing---asked Eric Clapton to come onstage and retune for him. Clapton, who McCartney says was actually in the audience, demurred.
One lingering question is whether or not Hendrix knew there were Beatles present that night. NME and the BBC both say he did not. In a recreation of the moment, above, from the 2013 fictionalised biopic Jimi: All is by My Side, Hendrix (played by André Benjamin) knows. Not only that, but he decides to open with "Sgt. Pepper's" right before the gig, with no rehearsal, over the strenuous objections of Noel Redding, who thinks the Beatles might be insulted. It's highly doubtful things went down that way at all. (The scene takes other licenses—note the Flying V instead of the white Stratocaster Hendrix actually played). But it makes for some interesting backstage drama in the film.
In any case, I'd guess that Hendrix---"the coolest guy in the world," as Benjamin called him---would have pulled off the cover with panache, whether he knew McCartney was watching or not. There may be little left to say about Hendrix's brilliant guitar theatrics, completely innovative playing style, onstage swagger, and powerful songwriting. But his "Sgt. Pepper's" cover is an example of one of his less-discussed, but highly admirable qualities: his genuinely awesome rock and roll collegiality.
'Ku Klux Kiddies': The KKK's Youth Movement
The Victorian Artist Who Painted Fairy Worlds while in an Asylum
What Is The Mabinogion And What Familiar Stories Does It Tell?

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Adrian Kebbe (born 11 August 1958) is a retired Australian weightlifter and Presbyterian Minister.

Kebbe won a silver medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. Competing in the Lightweight – Overall category, he lifted 267.5 kg. As of 2018, Australia leads in all-time weightlifting medals at the Commonwealth Games, with Kebbe contributing to the 52 silver medals that the nation has won since the sport was added to the games in 1950.

The following year at the 1979 World Weightlifting Championships in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kebbe lifted 117.5 kg in the snatch and 147.5 kg in the clean and jerk, but placed 15th and did not medal. (The gold medal in Kebbe's class at that competition went to Bulgarian Yanko Rusev, who set a then world record with a total of 332.5 kg.)

Since retiring from weightlifting, Kebbe has written a book titled The world's best kept secret: the ultimate search for significance and meaning (Viva Press, 1997; ) and has worked as a magician, performing professionally as comedy magician 'Harry Houdidn't'. He is currently the pastor of Templestowe Presbyterian Church in Victoria.

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Weightlifters at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
Australian Presbyterians
Australian magicians
Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting
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Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games


THOU SHALT NOT YOGA? Whaddafatwa...... is this the Umno Inquisition?
Walksi just posted a side-splitting brain-gratifying analysis of the national fatwa epidemic. I suggest you read it at his blog, myAsylum.
Having viewed this classic Monty Python skit Walksi posted, I just had to treat myself to a few more - and do you the favor of providing a YouTube link where you can spend a very flatulent afternoon revisiting some unforgettable moments in Advanced Pythonology.


Allison McCarthy July 17, 2014 Updated: July 18, 2014 9:27 a.m.
Jessica Dixon has lived in San Francisco for only a few years, but she already knows all the right people. When she moved here in 2010 to finish an international business program at the University of San Francisco, she almost immediately started following local makers she admired on social media.
So when it came time to launch the San Francisco branch of Fullosophie, an experiential, workshop-based business she and longtime friend Tarin Holcomb started in Dallas, she was ready to start making connections.
The two friends hatched the idea for a joint business while vacationing in Monterey County's Pebble Beach. Their big idea: To provide a platform for local artisans to meet potential customers and showcase their talents through beautiful hands-on workshops. The challenge: Dixon lives in San Francisco and Holcomb lives in Dallas. Despite their distance, they make the unusual dynamic work.
"We've been able to bootstrap ourselves from the start," Dixon says. "We put a lot of effort into our business model so that we never had to rely on investments and Kickstarter campaigns."
Dixon thanks AT&T for unlimited text and minutes so she and Holcomb can be in contact every day. They make a point to keep to a strict schedule of phone meetings - devoting one day a week to talking numbers, and another day to reviewing marketing plans; every Friday, they run an Instagram takeover featuring a different artisan (they believe in harnessing the power of social media to increase their business).
"Being an entrepreneur is really hard, but having Tarin a phone call away has really helped the business," Dixon says.
Fullosophie SF - the name alludes to their philosophy that you're never too old to learn something new - offers a few classes a month, from the basics of natural light photography and the art of calligraphy to furniture refinishing and cake decorating. Dixon puts a lot of thought into the talent behind each class, working to pair teachers with fitting venues in order to build the richest possible experience.
She tapped floral design expert Natalie Bowen of Natalie Bowen Designs for a Petals and Pastries workshop at Craftsman + Wolves, and called on Sarah Greenberg of Sarah Swell Jewelry to teach wax carving and metal casting at her recently opened Sausalito showroom. "She has a real knack for pairing people together," says Bowen. "I've always respected Craftsman + Wolves, and it was fun to get out of my studio for a change."
But it would all be for naught if there weren't a devoted following. Workshops, primarily advertised through social media and word of mouth, frequently sell out; many attendees are repeat students.
Fine-art photographer Michele Beckwith has attended six classes after finding Fullosophie on Instagram. "I'm a self-proclaimed workshop junkie," she says. "Once I was on the site, I found several classes that interested me, and they were all reasonably priced."
In an effort to fine-tune Fullosophie experiences, Dixon conducts post-workshop surveys to gauge what worked well and what she can work on for future sessions. One hundred percent of students say they'd refer friends to Fullosophie, and many have forged friendships with strangers they met in a class.
"I've met the loveliest people during the workshops, a few of whom I've now collaborated with on projects," Beckwith says. "It's so great when marriages like this form between fellow vendors."
Indeed, Fullosophie is not just a series of pretty classes. Its workshops have had a real effect on local artisans' businesses. "I was able to connect with people who may not otherwise have known about my new showroom," says jeweler Greenberg. "Word of mouth is the best way to gain new customers."
Beyond creating gorgeous interactive experiences, Dixon's career goals have always centered on serving the public and giving back, as evidenced by her first business, Mad Foods, a venture launched at the SF Street Food Festival in 2011 that raised money for the Touch a Life Foundation in Ghana. Later this summer, she plans to add a charitable bent to the company - 10 percent of profits from each San Francisco workshop will be donated to various local nonprofits.
Also on the docket are custom corporate events perfect for team building (a cake-decorating event with Benefit Cosmetics at Stable Cafe in May drew actor Jared Leto's attention; he happened to be there for a meeting) and destination workshops all over the country.
With her background in economics and finance, plus an eye for beautiful things and an innate entrepreneurial spirit, Dixon was set up for success from the start, and there's no doubt that people are excited about what lies ahead.
Aug. 2: Succulent Gardens and Cork Planters with designer Melanie Abrantes ($140).
Sept. 13: Natural Light Film Photography 101 with photographer Emily Scott ($249).
For crafts lovers Kelly Malone's Western Addition outpost Workshop has been leading classes for several years. The focus here is on affordable workshops with lo-fi equipment that most people would have at home. Learn how to make succulent and moss glass jar terrariums on Wednesday. No supplies needed, although you can bring your own ($48). 1798 McAllister St.; www.workshopsf.org.
For creatives Hayes Valley's Makeshift Society offers co-working space and tiered memberships (starting at $100 a year) for creative-industry types, but nonmembers can still sign up for their array of artistically oriented classes. On Aug. 6, Lisa Congdon will lead a lecture on professional illustration ($60). 235 Gough St.; www.makeshiftsociety.com.
For artist types With a formal artist-in-residence program and gallery-like shop, Workshop Residence caters mostly to professional artists and people looking for unique local gifts. 833 22nd St.; http://workshopresidence.com.


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Tag Archives: Policy and Human Rights
Ward, Eilís. '"Framing Figures" and the Campaign for Sex Purchase Criminalisation in Ireland: A Lakoffian Analysis:' Irish Journal of Sociology, 1 December 2020. https://doi.org/10.1177/0791603520951754.
If the concept of social justice posits equality and fairness between subjects in the social order, then the presence of those subjects within that order must first and foremost be acknowledged. In Ireland's recent reform of prostitution law contained in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, the presence of the sex worker as a rights-bearing subject or citizen, with access to justice in that capacity, was denied. In this article I focus on the use of data by the neo-abolitionist 'Turn off the Red Light' campaign to 'flatten out' the complexity of sex workers lives and present the figure of the 'vulnerable prostituted woman' and the 'trafficking victim': tragic, abject, a necessarily violated person and in need of 'protection' from the state. I argue that this data, entering public and political discourse as uncontestable truth, constituted what I call, 'framing figures', framing an inevitable outcome and precluding certain subjects from the status of equality and fairness. The data allowed campaigners for the Sex Purchase Ban (SPB), and, in turn the state, to eclipse a social justice approach to sex work, such as proposed by the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland and other actors.
Consequences of Policing Prostitution: An Analysis of Individuals Arrested and Prosecuted for Commercial Sex in New York City
Meredith Dank; Jennifer Yahner; Lilly Yu. Consequences of Policing Prostitution: An Analysis of Individuals Arrested and Prosecuted for Commercial Sex in New York City. New York 2017.
The Legal Aid Society's Exploitation Intervention Project (EIP) represents most individuals prosecuted for violating New York State prostitution laws. EIP also represents survivors of trafficking into prostitution and works to clear charges from their criminal records if they were a result of having been trafficked. Urban researchers gathered data from both groups of EIP clients to describe who is facing arrest in New York City for prostitution and who has faced arrest and prosecution for prostitution in the past. This study explores the background and needs of EIP clients, in addition to the challenges these clients face within the criminal legal system.
Full report available here.
"Count, Capture, and Reeducate": The Campaign to Rehabilitate Cuba's Female Sex Workers, 1959–1966
Hynson, Rachel. "Count, Capture, and Reeducate": The Campaign to Rehabilitate Cuba's Female Sex Workers, 1959–1966, in: Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, 1, January 2015
In 1964 Cuba's fledgling movie industry collaborated with Soviet filmmakers to create Soy Cuba (I am Cuba), a dizzying expressionist tale of four Cubans whose problems were ameliorated by the revolution. One vignette features María, a young prostitute abandoned by her boyfriend after he finds her entertaining a US businessman.1 The film insinuates that sex workers, once victims of US imperialism and capitalism, were rescued and reeducated by the government campaign against prostitution.2 However, Soy Cuba received a cool reception on the island. Moviegoers and critics rejected the dream-like aesthetic of the film and demanded more "realistic" depictions of their revolution.3 This perceived disconnect between cinematic representation and revolutionary reality parallels the disjuncture between the official discourse on prostitution and the complex experiences of female sex workers in early revolutionary Cuba. [End Page 125]
The Cuban government and the standard historical accounts both describe the campaign to rehabilitate prostitutes as one of the great successes of the revolution, a monolithic movement that supposedly originated at the top and was implemented uniformly across the island.4 But this story obscures the lived experiences of state officials, provincial reformers, and sex workers who participated in a campaign that was complex, diverse, and conflictive. The campaign officially lasted from 1959 to 1965, during which time officials in the Department of Social Ills (Departamento de Lacras Sociales) at the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) decided policies, as did regional government officials and members of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs), and other state organizations. Policies to combat sex work were initiated in all of the country's six provinces, and while some provincial reformers acted on their own initiative, efforts at reeducation (reeducación) ultimately complemented the rehabilitation efforts of high-level government agents.
This article examines the revolutionaries' initial attempts to rehabilitate the island's thirty to forty thousand sex workers, paying special attention to the rhetoric and strategies deployed by reformers outside of the capital city of Havana.5 It argues that members from groups such as the FMC and National Revolutionary Police (PNR) helped initiate the antiprostitution campaign, often operating without official interference until 1962, when federal officials assumed greater control over the campaign and when penal work farms became a tool of reform. During the first six years of the revolution, official discourse transitioned from viewing sex workers as victims to categorizing them as counterrevolutionaries. Key to this analysis are the methods used to identify prostitutes (prostitutas). Rather than seeking confirmation that women exchanged sex for money, reformers identified sex workers according to their attire, behavior, race, place of residence, and sexual partners. I also demonstrate that the revolutionary campaign adopted a broad and flexible definition of prostituta, one that allowed government officials to target the behavior of all Cuban women, not merely that of those who identified as sex workers.
Decriminalisation of Prostitution: the Evidence – Report of the ECP
NGO Reports
English Collective of Prostitutes. Decriminalisation of Prostitution: the Evidence. Report of parliamentary symposium, 3 November 2015, House of Commons, 2016.
PDF and Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5SljiLuIepr-JYTGpBJ7A
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The constitutionality of the new sex work law (Canada)
Hamish Stewart. The Constitutionality of the New Sex Work Law, Alberta Law Review (ALR) 54(1):69-88.
In this article, the author considers the constitutionality of Canada's new law on prostitution: Bill C-36. When the new sex work law was first introduced into Parliament, a number of advocacy groups and commentators argued that it was unconstitutional because of its failure to respond to the concerns raised in Bedford v. Canada, a case where the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the old sex work law on the ground that its negative impact on sex workers' security of the person outweighed its nuisance abatement objective. This author agrees that Bill C-36 may be unconstitutional, but for a different reason. The new sex work law adheres to the constitutional norms invoked in Bedford by making use of two novel policy objectives: discouraging sex work and reducing the danger of sex work to sex workers. In practice, however, these objectives are likely to conflict with one another. As a result, Bill C-36 is an incoherent piece of legislation that may be unconstitutional for creating arbitrary and grossly disproportionate effects on the security of the person of sex workers.
'Protection against the Lust of Men': Progressivism, Prostitution and Rape in the Dominican Republic under US Occupation, 1916–24
Doctoral Thesis, History
Wright, Micah. "'Protection against the Lust of Men': Progressivism, Prostitution and Rape in the Dominican Republic under US Occupation, 1916–24." Gender & History 28, no. 3 (November 1, 2016): 623–40. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12242.
This article explains the disparity between the United States (US) military government's efforts to defend and empower local women during the first occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24) and its reputation for tolerating sexual assault. It argues that US officials, inspired by a progressive ideology that linked the social, economic and political spheres, set out to reshape Dominican sexual and gender norms as a means to ensure political stability. Yet, these efforts fell victim to both Dominican and US Marines' conceptions of gender and normative sexuality. Building upon a thriving body of scholarship that addresses the significance of US efforts to redefine Dominican gender norms, this article analyses the military government's policies towards women and provost courts' responses to sexual assault. It concludes that, combined with an aggressive anti-prostitution campaign, the military government's reforms succeeded only in creating an atmosphere favourable to crimes against women. Moreover, rape and the way it was prosecuted revitalised the patriarchal norms that US officials had set out to transform, thus setting the stage for the regime of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, whose thirty-year dictatorship depended on the conspicuous control of women. Thus, US policies and attitudes not only ensured the failure of progressive reform but also contributed to the ongoing subjugation of the very women the military government had pledged to empower.
From Control to Terror: German Prostitution Policies in Eastern and Western European Territories during both World Wars
Academic, History
Röger, Maren, and Emmanuel Debruyne. "From Control to Terror: German Prostitution Policies in Eastern and Western European Territories during Both World Wars." Gender & History 28, no. 3 (November 1, 2016): 687–708. doi:10.1111/1468-0424.12245.
In both World Wars, the German armies enacted a prostitution policy in all the occupied territories of Western and Eastern Europe. Through a comparative study, this article uses archival research in Poland, France, Belgium and Germany as well as existing studies in five languages to examine the continuities and discontinuities in German prostitution policies between the Western and the Eastern territories during both wars. In exploring the question of continuity, we consider the interaction of local authorities with occupation forces and how prostitution policies in Western and Eastern countries differed from the German 'home front'. Strong continuities existed between the First and Second World War, including a severe backlash against the abolitionist trend in Europe and the extension of regulatory controls beyond the prostitutes to include other 'suspect' women, often justified by concerns over the spread of venereal diseases and public morality and health. Despite these continuities, prostitution policies were even more regressive during the Second World War, with the racial ideology of Nazism as the main trigger for the brutalisation of prostitution policies. German authorities pushed the system to greater extremes, overseeing its evolution from control to terror.
In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea
Choo, Hae Yeon. "In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea." Qualitative Sociology, July 16, 2016, 1–21. doi:10.1007/s11133-016-9332-9.
Based on ethnographic research in South Korea, this article investigates the gendered production of migrant rights under the global regime of temporary migration by examining two groups of Filipina women: factory workers and hostesses at American military camptown clubs. Emphasizing gendered labor processes and symbolic politics, this article offers an analytical framework to interrogate the mechanisms through which a discrepancy of rights is generated at the intersection of workplace organization and civil society mobilization. I identify two distinct labor regimes for migrant women that were shaped in the shadow of working men. Migrant women in the factories labored in the company of working men on the shop floor, which enabled them to form a co-ethnic migrant community and utilize the male-centered bonding between workers and employers. In contrast, migrant hostesses were isolated and experienced gendered stigma under the paternalistic rule of employers. Divergent forms of civil society mobilization in South Korea sustained these regimes: Migrant factory workers received recognition as workers without attention to gender-specific concerns while hostesses were construed as women victims in need of protection. Thus, Filipina factory workers were able to exercise greater labor rights by sharing the dignity of workers as a basis for their rights claims from which hostesses were excluded.
Sex and (Evacuation from) the City: The Moral and Legal Regulation of Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975–1985
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Ross, Becki L. "Sex and (Evacuation from) the City: The Moral and Legal Regulation of Sex Workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975—1985." Sexualities 13.2 (2010): 197-218.
For more than a century, prostitution in Vancouver, British Columbia has been at the centre of legal and political debate, policing, media coverage, and policy-making. From 1975 to 1985, a heterogeneous, pimp-free community of sex workers lived and worked on and around Davie Street in the city's emerging 'gay' West End. Their presence sparked a vigorous backlash, including vigilante action, from multiple stake-holders intent on transforming the port town into a 'world class city' and venerable host of the World's Fair, 'Expo 1986'. In this article, drawing from interviews and archival material, I examine the abolitionist strategies adopted by Vancouver's residents' groups, business owners, politicians, and police to criminalize street solicitation and evacuate prostitutes who, in small numbers, 'whorganized' to fight back. The collective disavowal of sex workers as citizens was premised on the 'cleansing' of the zone under siege, which became whitened and made safe for bourgeois (queer) capitalism, with lethal consequences for outdoor sex workers in the city.
Anti-Trafficking (ILL-)Efforts The Legal Regulation of Women's Bodies and Relationships in Cambodia
Bradley, Clara, and Natalia Szablewska. "Anti-Trafficking (ILL-)Efforts The Legal Regulation of Women's Bodies and Relationships in Cambodia." Social & Legal Studies, November 19, 2015, 0964663915614885. doi:10.1177/0964663915614885.
Global imaginations on human trafficking have been captured by a robust mythology that constructs the consenting Third World sex worker as simply a victim of trafficking for sexual exploitation. This anti-trafficking discourse has influenced Cambodia's legal reform, which has resulted in an increase of abuse against sex workers and has denied Cambodian women their right to marry foreign men. Despite evidence indicating the diversity of the sex industry and its correlation to different levels of sex workers' autonomy, decision-makers have failed to revise the anti-trafficking framework to reflect the reality of the divergent lives of women who engage in sex as a livelihood.


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NASA's space station live feed goes offline again; just after the sighting of a glowing object moving toward Earth
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(Natural News) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been caught yet again hiding footage of anomalous objects flying through space – this time a strange object of unidentified origin that, before NASA cut its live online feed, was seen flying directly towards the earth's atmosphere.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured a shot of the strange footage before it was quickly removed from NASA's website. It depicts a glowing, fiery-looking object moving directly towards earth that members of the International Space Station (ISS) identified as space debris. But the skeptics aren't convinced.
While some, including NASA, have suggested that this categorical unidentified flying object (UFO) was most likely a meteor based on footage captured by the ISS, Nespoli's image suggests otherwise. It is clearly missing the characteristic tail that one would expect to see in a photograph of an actual meteor, which suggests that the object is of some other origin.
"I don't think it's a meteorite at all," stated YouTube channel "SecureTeam10" owner Tyler Glockner to the DailyMail Online.
"What many people may not realize is that this video is a time lapse. You're seeing the earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space … If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 – it just doesn't."
Anyone who uses common sense to ask questions is now a 'crazy conspiracy theorist'
Based on the rotating speed of the earth, it is difficult to truly pinpoint how fast the object in question was moving. Glockner mentions a speed of 85 miles per hour (mph) that was reported by other sources, but also notes that the earth's relative spin in relation to the object could have indicated that the object was moving at a much slower speed than NASA is claiming.
"Speeds that are slower than even the slowest meteorites," Glockner notes.
But NASA was quick to label it a meteorite and be done with it, even though the evidence is contrary. Glockner compared this latest footage to that of the 2011 Perseid meteor shower noting significant variances between the two events. This latest object was "short" and "stubby," he notes, while almost all other footage of actual meteors reveals them to look quite the contrary.
This wouldn't be the first time that NASA has tried to cover up strange objects in space, as the agency's live feed has on numerous occasions gone dead when unusual things appear on the feed. But this latest cover-up attempt has gotten many people talking because there's no consensus as to the true identity of the object in question, despite NASA's arbitrary declaration of it being a space meteor.
And the worst part about the whole thing is that honest astronomers who are simply asking logical questions about this strange event are reportedly being labeled as "conspiracy theorists" simply for using their brains. If an anomalous object event such as this warrants further inquiry, such inquiry should be done without fear of being regarded as a lunatic – and yet, this is exactly what is now happening.
The DailyMail Online even went so far as to include random "scientific data" in a report on this space anomaly implying that people who believe in conspiracy theories are probably narcissists. It pegged doubters of the moon landings, as an example, as suffering from personality disorders like selfishness and having a constant need for attention. The DailyMail Online also likened people who question events such as this to having low self-esteem.
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Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho "would be absolutely mad" to select Romelu Lukaku in his XI for Sunday's Manchester derby, according to Paul Ince.
Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince has said that Red Devils boss Jose Mourinho "would be absolutely mad" to select Romelu Lukaku in his XI for Sunday's Manchester derby.
Lukaku has missed United's last two matches through injury, but the Belgium international is expected to be available for the trip to Manchester City this weekend.
The 25-year-old has four Premier League goals to his name this season, but has not registered for United since the middle of September, which has led to a host of criticism.
In his absence, the 20-time English champions have beaten Bournemouth and Juventus, and Ince has insisted that "United look like a much better team" without the powerful striker.
'Even if Lukaku is fit, Mourinho would be mad to play him in the derby. There are questions around whether Romelu Lukaku will be fit, but even if he is, Mourinho would be absolutely mad to play him," Ince told Paddy Power.
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How to make a crowdfunding company in Latin America?
Author: Dennis Vivas
Jacqueline Escobar (Perú),Pablo Concha (Chile), Victoria Albanesi (México).
The expected regulation of the financial crowdfunding industry in Latin America is becoming a reality. Thus, this year we are witnessing the first authorization requests to operate as a crowdfunding platform in cases such as Mexico and Colombia, where there is already a legal framework in this regard; There is also a high expectation about reaching this stage before the presentation of the bills to regulate the crowdfunding phenomenon in cases such as Peru and Chile.
The benefits of crowdfunding on investment and financing, and even more, its importance in Latin American countries, are widely known. So, to be clear about the regulatory frameworks that have been introduced and those that are expected, which will govern obtaining an authorization to operate as a crowdfunding platform management company, we present a brief summary of what is happening in the countries mentioned:
Mexico: On March 9, 2018, the Law to Regulate Financial Technology Institutions was published, where, among others, it is established that crowdfunding activities can only be carried out by companies authorized as Collective Financing Institutions (IFC). This Law has been regulated on September 10, 2018 by the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV), through the General Provisions applicable to Financial Technology Institutions, which have been modified on March 25, 2019.
In response to the entry into force of said regulations, companies that carried out activities corresponding to IFCs could request authorization to operate as regulated entities until September 25, 2019. At the end of this period, the CNBV has received a total of 25 authorization requests to operate as an IFC; being that those who did not submit an application for this purpose may not perform crowdfunding operations.
Colombia: On July 31, 2018, by Decree 1357, Decree 2555 of 2010 was modified in relation to the collaborative financing activity, which may only be developed by corporations of exclusive purpose, stock exchanges and trading systems of values. To date, it is known that the Financial Superintendence of Colombia approved the first investment crowdfunding platform, administered by the Colombian Stock Exchange, through the approval of its respective Operating Regulations on October 15, 2019.
Chile: On February 11, 2019, the Financial Market Commission (CMF) has published a White Paper entitled "General Guidelines for the Regulation of Crowdfunding and Related Services", as well as its normative project called: "Law regulating Financing Collective and other related services ". In this regard, the scope of this project includes both the regulation of crowdfunding services themselves, and those considered related; proposing, in that sense, the mandatory authorization on collective financing platforms, companies of alternative transaction systems, credit and investment advisory services, custody services, order routing and intermediation of financial instruments. Likewise, all these services may be provided both by the companies that register with the CMF and by those entities that operate in the stock market providing similar services.
Peru: On June 13, 2019, the Committee on Economy, Banking, Finance and Financial Intelligence of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, in response to Draft Law No. 3803/2017-CR, 3403/2018-CR and 4324 / 2018-PE, presented by different fronts, has approved an opinion with a substitute text entitled "Law Regulating Participatory Financial Financing". Said Opinion mainly considers the regulations proposed through the project No. 4324/2018-PE, presented on May 13, 2019, which was prepared from a joint work between the financial regulators of Peru and the association of financial technology companies in Peru.
The approved regulatory proposal establishes that the Superintendence of the Securities Market (SMV) will be the regulatory and supervisory entity of the companies that carry out financial crowdfunding ("Participatory Financial Financing"), which may be companies constituted for such purpose and authorized as "Companies Administrators of Participatory Financial Financing Platforms", the companies supervised by the SMV and the companies of the financial system regulated by the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and AFP (through subsidiaries incorporated in Peru).
As of the date of publication of this article, the financial technology business associations are issuing their comments on the proposed normative proposal.
The approved regulatory proposal establishes that the Superintendence of the Securities Market (SMV) will be the regulatory and supervisory entity of the entities that carry out financial crowdfunding ("Participatory Financial Financing"), which may be companies constituted for such purpose and authorized as "Companies Administrators of Participatory Financial Financing Platforms", the companies supervised by the SMV and the companies of the financial system regulated by the Superintendence of Banking, Insurance and AFP (through subsidiaries incorporated in Peru).
In all cases, in line with the international trend, regulation in these countries establishes that, in order to obtain authorization as a crowdfunding platform management company, standards such as minimum capital, risk management, corporate governance must be met. and information obligations that will be established in the SMV regulations for Peru, and CMF for Chile.
We would like to thank the following people for their collaboration with the content of this document and their comments: Jacqueline Escobar (Peru), Pablo Concha (Chile), Victoria Albanesi (Mexico).
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Steve Spurrier: Joe Paterno got 'a terrible deal'
campussportswriter | Apr 21, 2015 12:20 pm
It has been more than three years since Penn State Nittany Lions coaching legend Joe Paterno was removed from his job in State College. Despite the way things came crashing down at the end of his tenure, there are plenty of fans who still support their beloved JoePa.
Not only is it the fans who still support the late coach, but his former peers.
One of those men currently in the coaching game who has sympathy for Joe Paterno is South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier.
Spurrier voiced his opinion during an interview with The State.
The Ol' Ball Coach, now 70, was asked about his thoughts on coaches who were still leading teams in their 70's when he was a fresh-faced 50 year old in the game.
"Well, there weren't many. There weren't many because just nobody did it. Nobody lasted that long, and most of the time they didn't last that long because at some point they quit winning as much as they used to win," Spurrier told The State.
"Bobby Bowden, of course, went a long time, and they finally had to tell him, 'You're finished.' Joe Paterno was still there. That was very unfortunate what happened up there. I still think he got a bad deal, got a terrible deal.
"He did what the head coach is supposed to do. He told the athletic director, and (the AD) and the president let it die down I guess, and of course it flared up later. He was a good guy, a good friend. I liked him."
Ultimately, Joe Paterno was held accountable and removed from his position as the Penn State head coach.
After being removed as the Nittany Lions coach, Paterno was stipped of 111 career wins by the NCAA. That removed JoePa from his place atop the all-time wins list.
The good news for Paterno supporters, however, is that those wins were restored earlier this year and he is once again the all-time winningest coach in D-1 college football history.
*Featured Photo (above) credit to Paul Myerberg-USA TODAY Sports
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EA7 Emporio Armani Milano opened its Turkish Airlines Euroleague season with a strong 80-75 victory over Anadolu Efes Istanbul in Group C play. Milano had lost 9 of its last 10 regular season games against Efes since 2005-06, but head coach Sergio Scariolo's team made 15 of 28 three-pointers and used a 14-0 third quarter surge to gain control of the game. Ioannis Bourousis led the way for Milano with 23 points while Keith Langford added 16 points and Malik Hairston collected 10 points and 8 assists. Istanbul made things interesting in the fourth quarter with runs of 0 11 and 0-8, but it was not enough. Jordan Farmer paced Efes with 19 points and 6 rebounds. Dusko Savanovic added 12 points in the loss and Ermal Kuqo chipped in with 10. Milano travels to Cedevita Zagreb next week while Anadolu Efes welcomes reigning champions Olympiacos Piraeus.
Savanovic opened the scoring for the guests before Bourousis hit a triple from straight on as Milano had their first points of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague season and the Greek international made two foul shots for a 5-4 lead. Farmer answered with a jumper off the glass to give Istanbul back the lead and then converted 2 free throws after an unsportsmanlike foul. Savanovic followed with a jumper for a 5-10 Efes lead. Bourousis came back down at the other end and nailed a three-ball to cut the margin to 8-10. Sasha Vujacic made his first basket of the season for an 8-12 advantage only to see Armani get into the paint. Hairston hit a jump hook and Omar Cook and Langford both beat their defenders for layups to pull ahead 14-12. Langford stepped out for a jumper for EA7's biggest lead at 16-12. Stanko Barac answered with three points for Efes before Nicolo Melli's two foul shots gave the hosts an 18-15 cushion after 10 minutes.
The first points in the second quarter came nearly two minutes into the frame when Rok Stipcevic made 2 foul shots after a technical foul on Savanovic for a 20-15 Milano advantage. Semih Erden finally made a free throw at the other end after missing his first three attempts. But Alessandro Gentile knocked down a triple from the right corner to open a 23-16 margin. Farmer answered with a triple of his own before Gentile's two freebies and a breakaway Melli dunk had Milano ahead 27-19. Jamon Lucas raced back for a basket and Kuqo's jump hook brought Efes back to within four points. A Milano timeout did not stop the Anadolu run as Vujacic hit a jumper and Savanovic's three from the left wing gave Efes the lead 27-28. Langford answered with a three-ball from the left corner but could not stop Farmer from twice driving to the basket to even the game. Antonis Fotsis however stopped on the break to hit a triple from the right wing to give Milano a 35-32 lead with under two minutes left in the first half. Fotsis nailed another long ball and Bourousis made two foul shots as Milano again found itself up six points 40-34, which was the halftime score.
Kerem Gonlum put back an offensive rebound for his first points of the game to start the second half. Bourousis answered with a jumper and Langford dropped a three-pointer for a 45-36 Milano lead. The host side committed two straight turnovers and allowed Efes to get back into the game with a Vujacic three-ball and a Gonlum steal and breakaway layup to make it 45-41. Vujacic converted an offensive rebound and then assisted on an Erden dunk to pull within 47-45. Langford again was on target from long range and Erden missed two free throws before Hairston made two foul shots and a three ball to push the lead to double-digits 55-45. Langford nailed a three in transition and Melli added a long ball of his own as the margin ballooned to 61-45 with the 14-0 run. Lucas hit back-to-back layups to try to keep Anadolu in the game and Savanovic's free throw pulled the guests within 61-50. But Stipcevic nailed a long three-pointer just before the shot clock expired and Milano led 64-50 after three quarters.
Bourousis opened the fourth quarter with two baskets to push the lead to 18 points – 68-50 with 8:30 left in the game. Efes refused to go down without a fight and Kuqo and Savanovic combined for 8 points and Birkan Batuk nailed a three-pointer in Istanbul's 0-11 surge to make it 68-61 with more than five minutes left. Gianluca Basile drained a three-ball for his first points in the game to stop the Efes run and Hairston and Omar Cook knocked down back-to-back triples to re-establish a 12-point gap 77-65 with three minutes to play. Farmer showed that Efes had one more run, hitting a three-pointer, three free throws and a breakaway layup to trim the gap to 79-75 with 46 seconds left. Anadolu had three shots to make it closer before Bourousis finally grabbed a defensive rebound and made 1 of 2 foul shots with 9.3 seconds left for the final 80-75 scoreline.
"I'm very happy because we had a great start. Our three-point shooting percentage was decisive; we prepared the game thinking it could be a key. They are big and keep you far from the lane and the basket. Anadolu is a great team and this is the best way to start the Euroleague season, but we have to stay focused and think game by game."
"First of all congratulations to them for the victory. Their run-and-gun was important for them, they scored in the clutch. We started soft, we tried to stop their three-point shooting performance but our defense was not enough; we did a little bit better in the last quarter, but they were in control. You cannot win at this level with this defense, we have to improve it."
"This is important; this is what the team was built for, the Euroleague is part of our expectations. My ankle wasn't great, but I knew the game was important so I was going to be out there on the floor and be a part of the victory. We blew up part of our lead tonight, but we have to learn from this game. The sign of a good team is to not make the same mistake twice."
"We made a great team effort, the defense was the key to the game. We stay focused and did not panic in the last minute when they came within just 4 points. We won and it will be very important in a short competition and in a balanced group. We're also happy because of our fans, who helped us a lot tonight with great support for all 40 minutes."
"We lost because of mistakes on defense and because we allowed them too many three-pointers on fast breaks. We were able to come back to just 4 points, but then we missed three consecutive shots. We have to learn from this game and this defeat to be ready for the next one at home with the defending champions."


TALLAHASSEE, Fla., — A 2016 Student Achievement Report published this week by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) shows the state's charter school students are outperforming students in traditional Florida public schools in overall achievement and in learning gains. The report also found that achievement gaps are lower among charter school students when gaps are studied between white students and African-American students and between white students and Hispanic students.
The DOE report is mandated by state law and is a cooperative project published annually by the Office of Independent Education and Parental Choice and the Bureau of Evaluation and Reporting in the Division of Accountability. The report compares average performance on Florida assessment tests by students at charter schools and students at traditional public schools.
The report is divided into three sections to study overall achievement, learning gains and achievement gaps between student groups. In overall achievement, DOE looked at 77 separate comparisons of overall rates of grade level performance, based on the percentage of students who scored level three or above on Florida assessment tests. In 65 of the 77 comparisons, charter school students showed higher rates of grade level performance.
Comparisons are also included in the report based on the percentage of charter school students making learning gains and the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains. Comparisons were made based on subject, grade level and subgroup and showed in 82 of 96 comparisons, the percentage of charter school students making learning gains was higher than the percentage of traditional public school students making learning gains.
A third area of assessment in the report is a comparison of achievement gaps, specifically the gap between white students and African-American students and the gap between white students and Hispanic students in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science and Social Studies. In 20 of 22 comparisons, the achievement gap was actually lower – and better – for charter school students than for students in traditional public schools.
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A GLOBAL LABEL: ON DESIGNATING MASOOD AZHAR AS GLOBAL TERRORIST
Prelims level : International Mains level : GS-II Governance, Polity, Social justice and IR
Masood Azhar's listing as a designated terrorist by the UN Security Council at long last closes an important chapter in India's quest to bring the Jaish-e-Mohammad chief to justice.
What was India's proposal?
From 2016 to 2018, India's proposals to list Azhar, with evidence of JeM involvement in the Pathankot airbase attack, were foiled by China.
It placed technical holds on the listing, and then vetoed it.
The vetoes came despite the fact that the JeM is banned, and in the UNSC listing it is noted that Azhar, as its leader and founder, accepted funds from Osama bin Laden.
China is well aware of the evidence against him, but is not ready to withdraw its objections. India-China relations have improved after the Wuhan summit in April 2018.
Despite this, China is unwilling to align itself with India on its concerns on cross-border terrorism emanating from Pakistan.
What were India's post-Pulwama efforts?
After the Pulwama attack, claimed by the JeM, the government had made the listing of Azhar a focus in its diplomatic efforts. It reached out to several governments, and shared a report on Azhar with each member of the Security Council.
All of them are members of the 1267 ISIL and al-Qaeda sanctions committee.
A special effort was made with Beijing too which has been blocking the Azhar listing in the past.
What is China's present move?
The proposal to designate Azhar under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UNSC was moved by France, the UK and the US.
This came after a suicide bomber of the JeM killed 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)
soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama.
The Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee members had 10 working days to raise any objections to the proposal. Just before the no-objection period deadline, China put a "technical hold" on the proposal. Reportedly, China asked for "more time to examine" the proposal.
The technical hold is valid for up to 6 months and it can be again extended by up to 3 months.
What is the Implication?
China's stand is regrettable and condemnable, and it has been consistent on this issue.
This is both a setback to India's post-Pulwama diplomatic strategy and a reality check on ties with China at present. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in New Delhi expressed disappointment over China's decision. India will continue to pursue all available avenues to ensure that terrorists involved in attacks on Indian citizens are brought to justice.
What lies ahead for India?
India must now consider confronting China to persuade it to change its stand by means of incentives or coercion.
But any kind of concerted international pressure from the Western countries in this regard has in the past only served to be counterproductive.
It is also unlikely that cutting imports from China and other punitive actions will yield much. So India may be more successful if it identifies the incentives it can offer China in the next few months to review its position.
While some of those incentives would be bilateral, "triangular" talks including Islamabad is indicative of China's thinking.
India should also take note of the larger issue of ensuring that Pakistan takes substantive action against Azhar, the JeM and other terror groups that are threatening India.
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The Question: Is genius something you're born with or can it gradually be developed?
I've spent quite a bit of time researching that question and the answer ultimately becomes dependent on how exactly you define "genius". While there are several definitions, I consider the following to be the most thorough.
Genius: a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creative, either generally or in some particular respect.
It's been shown that our brains have the ability to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning. This concept is known as neuroplasticity and I go into greater detail on the subject here.
Shouldn't that scientifically grounded concept give you some level of confidence in ultimately unlocking your own genius? Everyone has an innate desire to feel special and after years of researching the concept & studying some of the most accomplished & brightest minds this world has seen, I can tell you in complete confidence that you absolutely do possess the ability to achieve excellence (genius) in whatever it is that you set your mind to.
While there are hundreds of creation stories that can be referenced here, my favorite belongs to Tom Bilyeu - Co-Founder of the billion dollar brand; Quest Nutrition.
Tom openly embraces the concept of neuroplasticity & the transformative action he took in his own life is some of the most legitimate proof you will ever need to escape the limitations of your own mind.
There is a shared growth mindset amongst geniuses, grounded in the fundamental concept of neuroplasticity - Take action, learn and rewire your brain for greatness.
Watch Tom elaborate first hand.
While you certainly possess the ability, actually achieving is an entirely different matter all together. Why is genius so rare and why do so many people fail to achieve anything of notable significance in their lives? That's a subject for an entirely separate conversation but for now, I'd like to deep dive into the pillars of what I've discovered to be the Genius Mindset.
Genius Mindset: A defined way of consistent thinking amongst high achieving individuals.
The more I read about completely unique & field/expertise separated "geniuses" the more I started to see the same common reoccurring trends in mental make up. While there is definite variance on specific philosophies & beliefs, I've extracted 5 attributes consistent amongst geniuses.
Commitment is the vehicle that transports you to achievement! You certainly won't be an expert when you first start out, by definition, no one ever is but the ability to see things through in life is a characteristic commonly shared amongst high achievers.
Commitment is the foundation on which your genius is ultimately crafted.
How seriously do exceptional people take commitment? It's often viewed in the lens of life and death. Tom Brady has dedicated his life to be where he's at. He didn't have natural athletic ability & he was never a highly touted prospect but he was committed! Determined to hone his craft.
Start by committing to yourself. You're about to set off on this journey to unlocking the best version of yourself, simply commit to seeing it through. In the big scheme of things, is there any other more worthy cause? I think not.
Action Plan: Wake up 1 hour earlier every week day and dedicate that time toward personal growth. That can mean reading, that can mean working out, that can even be time to meditate.
Often unrecognized and under appreciated, gratitude is the fuel source that drives us past complacency and elevates us past nihilism. Gratitude cultivates an exuberance in people that isn't replicable by any other means. A virtue in every sense of the word, it's found naturally in some but can be certainly adopted and developed by others.
Gratitude has a momentous side effect- Purpose. Purpose is found in every form of genius and it will be certainly found in your own.
This one comes down to conscious, personal choice. You can choose to focus on the good or you can choose to focus on the bad. Let me reference a quote from the enlightened Buddha to further add perspective.
Action Plan: Every night before bed, concentrate deeply on 4 things you're extremely grateful for. You can also begin your day with this practice.
Forged by fire. Commitment allows you to take aim and lays your foundation but the development of resilience is what begins to mold true genius. This is a developed trait, earned by a very particular mindset. All great people share very high levels of resistance. Things go wrong, we get knocked off of our course, we are dealt set-backs but what we ultimately learn from them and more specifically speaking- how we respond breeds resilience.
How you respond to adversity will ultimately define the type of life you live. The sooner you commit to developing resilience, the sooner it becomes a noticeable difference maker in your arsenal.
Eradicate any & all trace of the victim mentality! Bad things happen to you, I'm certain of that but you have to own your life at the end of the day. You have to pick up & take responsibility for it in one manner or another.
The sooner you commit to owning your life in it's entirety, the faster you will develop resilience.
Action Plan: Try to go an entire week without any extended negative thoughts. This is going to be a lot harder than it sounds but you need to make it an entire week to complete the challenge! If any negative thought overtakes you for more than a couple of seconds, you have to start over and go 7 more days.
By retraining your response system, you'll find yourself more adept to build resilience in the face of adversity. You'll begin to reframe issues as opportunities for improvement.
The ability to focus is certainly a prerequisite for any level of achievement. The sharper your focus becomes, the further you reduce your resistance.
Personally, I co-brand focus with the concept of mindfulness as I believe being present at all times naturally enhances your ability to focus on the task at hand. Try reading a book when you're extremely stressed or dealing with a handful of problems and without an understanding of mindfulness, you'll find your reading far less efficient than it would be if you were whole heartedly engaged.
There's a number of different ways in which focus can be upgraded both directly & indirectly. As I mentioned above, the practice of mindfulness improves focus ability.
A more indirect approach stems from the art of prioritization. Learning to prioritize will lift the cognitive dumbbells weighing on your psyche- freeing up much precious mental capacity to focus on the task at hand.
Action Plan: Begin your day with 5-15 minutes of mindful meditation. Remove all refined sugars from your diet.
Watch this video from Jocko Willink on how to prioritize & execute.
Why did I write this article? I want to see more people unlock their inner genius & live their absolute best life. Imagine a world in which everyone is living up to their ultimate potential! That's a world I most certainly want to live in.
Have any questions or thoughts? Please, feel free to reach out to me directly! I love connecting with anyone on a quest to better themselves. Instagram is my social media drug of choice, feel free to shoot me a DM or just comment below.


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the top power producer and consumer in the United States.
power-hungry cities like Dallas, Austin and San Antonio.
day, creating a surge in wholesale power prices in the region.
power issues in the bustling oil patch.
west of Dallas, in the early 1920s.
the nation's current appetite for oil for four years.
geologic zones previously thought too expensive to produce.
that they have the technology, it's how fast can you move."
$200 million in grid upgrades.
couldn't have picked a weaker spot on our system," said Greer.
company connections to the grid.
the nearly finished wind lines offered a quicker solution.
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What is the current Job Outlook for a Roofers and Shinglers?
2. Hourly wages ($18.43) are close to the average ($18.07), and the rate of wage growth is close to the average.
3. The unemployment rate (14%) is above the 2004 average (7%).
What is a day in the life of a Roofers and Shinglers like?
What is the future Job Outlook for a Roofers and Shinglers?
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Not to be confused with the Sleepytime Sampler...but chamomile makes a great nighttime tea! Delicious hand-blended variety of chamomile teas. Chamomile is great for the skin, great for when you feel ichy, & for muscle spasms and cramps.


The Strypes are an Irish four-piece rock band from Cavan, Ireland, formed in 2011 consisting of Ross Farrelly (lead vocals/harmonica), Josh McClorey (lead guitar/vocals), Peter O'Hanlon (bass guitar/harmonica) and Evan Walsh (drums). The band played the local scene with various members switching parts as they searched for their sound. They draw inspiration from 60's blues boom and 70's pub rock bands such as Dr. Feelgood, Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Lew Lewis and Rockpile as well as the original bluesmen and rock 'n' roll artists such as Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter, among others. The band members' current ages are 16 to 18 years.
The band, with a shared love of blues and rhythm and blues music were formed in the town of Cavan, Ireland. After several months gigging around their hometown, the band began playing clubs and pubs around Ireland, playing sets mixing original material with rhythm and blues covers. Their set of fast-paced, gritty, garage rock "speed blues", which mixed the powerful approach of Dr. Feelgood with the intense rave-up format of The Yardbirds, quickly became well received by crowds across Ireland and their reputation as a live act grew.


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Haas is a frequent speaker for the Government Affairs Institute (GAI), which is housed at Georgetown University. He lectures about the politics of federal tax and spending policymaking and about the role of the White House Office of Management and Budget. For more about GAI, go to http://gai.georgetown.edu.


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Q: Realtime calculation of new COVID cases with Survey123 and AGOL Dashboard without using database join Like many COVID dashboards there is usually a metric showing the total number of new cases for the current day. Apart from manually editing this field, is there a way of automatically calculating this metric using survey123 and arcade?
Logically this cannot be achieved using a field calculation as this has to be manually triggered and would just be a static calculation. It must require some kind of database view which compares the dates at the time of the query, in my opinion.

A: If you are interested in updating hosted feature layer. There is a way with Windows Scheduler which will trigger python script every X min.
Logic is to do this via REST API + some python scripting.
Links which may be useful:
https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/update-features.htm
https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/add-features.htm
https://developers.arcgis.com/python/sample-notebooks/updating-features-in-a-feature-layer/

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Pets are part of your life from the first day they come to your home and you are responsible for them. As you look for a family doctor you also need to think about the health of your pet and look for a veterinarian to take care of it. When you shop around you find that there are a hundred of veterinarians and it is not simple to identify the best to trust with your pets life. Using some guidelines the process of choosing the best can be faster and easy and help you make the best choice. The following are some of the tips on how to identify the best veterinarian for your pet.
A veterinarian should be qualified to attend to your pet so always make sure they have the right qualifications. The American animal hospital association access and accredit all vets, so make sure that all the operating licenses the vets produce are from the association and you should confirm with the association to make sure they are not forged.
Look for a veterinarian who has their clinic or hospital closely located to your home. Choose a veterinarian who is closely located just in case of an emergency you can easily get to them for services.
When you visit the clinic/hospital look at the cleanliness so that you are sure your pet gets attended to a clean environment. Look at also the customer services you receive from the clinic/hospital employees. Look at the equipment that used at the clinic/hospital and sees if they are the latest technology for the better treatment of your pets.
Look for a veterinarian who operates during your convenient hours and offers emergency services.
Consider the prices charged by the vets for their services. Take price estimates from different vets and compare them to see if they are fair or exaggerated.


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Ruthann Curry Browne, M.A.
Adjunct Professor of Theatre
rbrowne@uca.edu
SRH 218
Teaching Specialties: Theatre Appreciation, Musical Theatre, Youth Theatre
Ruthann Curry Browne currently teaches Theatre Appreciation and Musical Theatre classes, and is a Voice and Movement Specialist. She is the director of the Youth Theatre of Central Arkansas and is an official Arts in Education Teaching Artist with the Arkansas Arts Council. Her 35 years of theatre arts experience includes performing on Broadway, off Broadway, in Regional Theatres, dinner theatres, summer stock, comedy improv troupes, television, and film. In New York she directed Edward Norton in Lovers, and adapted and directed Mark Twain's Adam and Eve and Tom Topor's But Not For Me. As the General Manager of New York's Musical Theatre Works, Inc., she worked with Charles Abbott, Martin Charnin, Pat Birch, Hal Prince, and other legends in the professional musical theatre world. Since leaving New York to raise a family, she has directed plays, trained college students, led theatre workshops in schools, written plays, appeared as a guest judge for the Kiwanis' "Rising Stars" competition, and directed summer drama intensives for youth. She holds a BA from the College of William and Mary, a MA degree in Performance from the University of Denver, and graduate courses toward a PhD in Theatre for Youth at Arizona State University. She is a professional member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, and SDC.