The Agile Development Team: Who Does What?
What does an Agile development team look like? Who's involved? How does the process work?
To fully understand how to build an Agile development team, it's often best to go back to basics. So let's first get a grip on the concept of Agile itself before moving on to explore some of the key roles on development teams.
Speaking on our podcast, Kelly Waters, CEO of 101 Ways, outlined how the Agile methodology came about and how it benefits development teams.
The traditional sequential waterfall process of development takes some time. But during the 2000's web evolution began a process rapid acceleration with all sorts of new and innovative ideas coming out all the time.
As a result, the sequential development process was no longer fit for purpose. Even if the list of requirements was accurate at the beginning of a project, it almost certainly wouldn't be by the end. In the best case we'd deliver on time, but it often wasn't what was needed anymore.
Agile came about because of the need to build things more quickly in a less linear and sequential way. All the different phases of development were brought together and overlapped. Teams immediately get to work understanding a handful of the initial requirements and figure out the rest as they're actually building the product. Testing also begins much earlier in the process rather than being left till the very end.
Overlapping the analysis, develop, and test phases shrinks the time to market and allows you to deliver something valuable much quicker and more incrementally. During development you can pivot quickly to adapt to a continually changing situation. Agile enables you to keep up with goalposts that are continually moving.
The Product Owner – Represents the voice of the customer and is responsible for the prioritised backlog and maximising the return on investment (ROI). Part of this roles responsibility includes documenting user stories or requirements for the project.
The Team Member – Responsible for the project's creation and delivery. The team members will normally be comprised of developers, QA, and documentation. They are responsible for planning, design, development, testing, and project delivery.
The Product Owner is responsible for moving the team towards a defined end goal. To do so they create the backlog of to-do items and reviews deliverables before the product is delivered. They are passionate about the product and have a clear idea on why it should exist. This prevents time being wasted on elements that aren't necessary. To be successful they need to be clear communicators and create maximum transparency within the team.
The Scrum Master is perhaps the most agile of roles since it requires so many different skills. They are a trusted manager who has worked on successful product teams before, is comfortable measuring progress qualitatively and quantitatively, and knows the ins and outs of Agile workflow.
Typically there are three or four team members on an Agile team with each one bringing a unique set of skills and experience. They are responsible for getting stuff done. The accept assignments, work on them independently and collaboratively, consult with each other and the Scrum Master to solve problems, and ward off distractions during prints.
Team members should be self-starters. This is because the Agile model encourages autonomy and creativity. As long as products are shipped on time, there is a lot of flexibility in terms of how problems are approached and solved.


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Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on Skeppsholmen island, a setting of natural beauty. Opened in 1958, the building was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö in the south of Sweden, Moderna Museet Malmö.
Moderna Museet's passion is to mediate art for people. To embrace, challenge, and inspire people and we are driven by an ambition to speak with many. Moderna Museet inclusive and to celebrate diversity by recognizing that people arrive from different starting points. Moderna Museet engage a broader audience through sharing the wonder of art.
The extraordinary power of art is our lifeblood. Art arises in and reflects its own time. It enables questions that generate new perspectives; artists are an enormous force and stimulate broader creativity. Moderna Museet champion art because it forges new paths and enables a reflective view of both history and the present.
Moderna Museet will be a stimulating platform for people and art, to be a vibrant, open, and dynamic museum that exists as a spirit, one that offers audiences elevant, engaging, and direct ways of encountering art on equal terms. Moderna Museet inspire, and create space for new ideas by being a stimulating platform that makes world-class art accessible to a broad audience. We will set new standards for art museums worldwide.
Moderna Museet collect, preserve, display, and mediate modern and contemporary art. Moderna Museet manage our cultural heritage based on the highest standards of excellence and generate research that leads to high-quality international collaborations and recognition. Moderna Museet is a leading institution within our field and we believe in sharing our knowledge.
Moderna Museet's collection, research, exhibitions, mediation, and communication must complement and fertilize each other; these activities cannot stand alone. Moderna Museet define ourselves on the basis of the contexts in which we are involved. Our aim to make the greatest art available to as many people as possible must rest on sustainable practices that take into account environmental and social impacts. Moderna Museet must be driven by the courage to experiment, dare to push boundaries and take new paths in the way we manage our tasks.
Yayoi Kusama – In Infinity
Yayoi Kusama – In Infinity is the first major retrospective presentation of Kusama's oeuvre in Scandinavia, spanning her entire artistic career from the early 1950s until today. The exhibition features a rich selection of paintings, drawings and sculptures, including spatial installations and performance-related material, paying particular attention to works from the late 1980s, after Kusama's return to Japan. It is also the first comprehensive exhibition featuring Kusama's interest in fashion and design. On view are works never shown previously, as well as a series of paintings made especially for Yayoi Kusama – In Infinity.
The exhibition In Infinity displays works by Yayoi Kusama from 1948 to the present. The artwork Suit (1962) from Moderna Museet's collection has been conserved and has travelled on loan with the exhibition's whole tour throughout Denmark, Norway, Sweden and will travel to Finland. Displayed together with Kusama's private archival material are also exciting discoveries from Moderna Museet's own archive.
Yayoi Kusama's (born 1929) remarkable artistic practice has fascinated the public for over six decades. Like few other artists she moves resolutely between painting and sculpture, between art and design, and between East and West. Moderna Museet and ArkDes are now featuring Kusama in a retrospective exhibition covering her oeuvre from early nature studies to installations that suspend time and space.
Kusama's unique imagery spring from the recurring hallucinations that have haunted her since childhood. In her hallucinations the world appeared as covered by dots and repetitive shapes, like an infinite starry sky. Art, for Kusama became a method of giving form to these inner landscapes. In an effort to put words to her experiences, Kusama talks about the concept of self-obliteration – the idea of becoming one with the surroundings, dissolving the boundaries of the Self, and disappearing into an all-embracing emptiness. To share her experiences, Kusama creates works of art that invite visitors to lose themselves in the infinite nets, mirror rooms and thousands of polka dots with which she covers the world.
In 1957, Yayoi Kusama left Japan for New York. Here, at the heart of the vibrant 1960s art scene, she created many of her most important works. She later staged anti-Vietnam war protests, marches surrounded by hippie followers, political performances and orgies where she painted the naked bodies of the participants with dots. As a non-Western woman in the excluding, male-dominated art world of the time, Kusama was a rare bird, but she soon gained fame and recognition. In the late 1970s, Kusama left New York. Some years later she resumed her artistic practice in Tokyo, making monumental paintings and sculptures. Yayoi Kusama still works in her studio every day and now, she is one of the world's most beloved artists.
Life Itself – On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics…
The exhibition Life Itself stretches from the early 20th century, when artists in and alongside the abstract avant-garde were endeavouring to categorise existence, and up until today's world of objects existing in a state somewhere in between what we call the living and the non-living. Among the artists featured in the exhibition are Giovanni Anselmo, Olga Balema, Hicham Berrada, Joseph Beuys, Karl Blossfeldt, Victor Brauner, Trisha Donnelly, Pierre Huyghe, Tehching Hsieh, Josh Kline, Hilma af Klint, Helen Marten, Katja Novitskova, Philippe Parreno, Rachel Rose, Paul Thek, and Rosemarie Trockel.
Life Itself, considering that the attempts to answer this question by occidental sciences and philosophies have proven unsatisfactory. Ever since the days of Aristotle, life itself has remained a mystery, in spite of countless attempts by scientists and philosophers to come up with a definition. Despite contemporary advanced theories about complex systems and the vertiginous potential of synthetic biology, we are still unable to determine what constitutes life. An attempt to address the question by means of an art exhibition therefore seems justified, if only to demonstrate ways of dealing with our incapability to find a satisfactory answer.
Klee/Aguéli
The works featured in this exhibition – altogether 86 paintings and drawings – could be summarised with the key words creation, form, angel, sign and garden. The astonishing phenomenon of something sprouting out of the soil fascinated both artists. So completely ordinary and mundane, and yet mystical and divine. The painters Paul Klee (1879–1940, Switzerland) and Ivan Aguéli (1869–1917, Sweden) lived and worked in a time when the Western modern society was beginning to take shape. While trains and machines of all kinds speeded up life and travel, these two artists preferred to linger with their gaze, in search of the "fourth dimension" (Aguéli), or "another possible world" (Klee), by being in touch with nature and the objects in their immediate surroundings.
In 1914, Paul Klee went to Tunisia and discovered that he was a painter. The same year, Ivan Aguéli embarked on his third sojourn in Egypt, the country that shaped his ideas about life and art. A painter, anarchist, Sufi and traveller, Aguéli's life story is a novel in itself. Klee and Aguéli never met, but they are presented together here, in an exhibition about the two artists and their relationship to the fundaments of visual art: the choice of subject matter, the creative act, and the qualities of the image.
Klee and Aguéli could be mistaken for reactionaries, eccentrics or recluses. But this is wrong. They maintained a close dialogue with modern society: both were well-read intellectuals and critics, Aguéli published magazines and Klee taught at the Bauhaus school of architecture and arts. Their travels, their observations of nature, the intimacy of their small paintings, and their slow contrariness were not motivated by escapism or nostalgia, but by their views on how, and with what values, mankind should address the present and meet the future.
In a world that was to be marked by two world wars, Paul Klee sought to "achieve a happy association between vision of life and pure artistic craftsmanship" and to attain the greatest possible freedom through contemplation, imagination and play. Ivan Aguéli sought to merge art, religion and reality, to find an alternative to the Western "sordid age". His early fascination for anti-totalitarian anarchism and Swedenborg's mysticism inspired long sojourns in Cairo, his subsequent conversion to Islam in 1898, and intense studies of Sufism – the most spiritual path of Islam, which emphasises love and closeness to God.
It makes no difference if we call this spirituality, imagination or play. When the two artists make contact with reality through the rhythmic movement of the brush against the background, what takes place is not depiction but a metamorphosis from object to immateriality. The exhibition Klee/Aguéli is about how a painting of a garden or a grove of palm trees may constitute an act of resistance. In our own turbulent era, it is a reminder of the great poetic and political potential that can be embedded in a small painted picture.
Moment – Lina Selander
Lina Selander is one of Sweden's most innovative moving image artists. Lina Selander was born in 1973 in Stockholm, where she still lives and works. Her works revolve around images as memories, imprints and representations. Her films and installations often focus on junctures in history where a system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge; the narrative of mechanical cinema giving way to that of digital video, or a political or economic system plummeting into a new one.
Lina Selander's films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models,where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. She examines the relationships between memory and perception, photography and film, language and image. The precise, rhythmic editing and use of sound create their own temporality and a strong inner pressure. Selander's oeuvre recurrently explores a fascination for the phenomena and technologies that make images possible, thereby enabling history to be documented. Montage is used in the films to juxtapose images, while entailing a potential loss of content. Image meets text in a flow where meaning arises from the ostensibly unrelated, like echoes through and between the works.
Selander's works constitute a dense archive of observations, occasionally in dialogue with other films, art or literature. Their subject matters often stem from historic or ideological junctions, where one system or physical place collapses and something new begins to emerge. While her exhibition at the Venice Biennale describes a movement between utopia and collapse, the presentation at Moderna Museet shows three works that further explore actual or figurative borders.
Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm
The Stockholm Museum of Modern Art is a state administrative authority under the Ministry of Culture, and has, according to its instructions, the task of collecting, preserving, displaying and communicating 20th and 21st century art in all its forms. Moderna Museet shall promote international contacts through collaboration with institutions outside Sweden in the form of touring exhibitions, and shall also be responsible for Swedish participation in international art biennials. The Modern Museum is also a central museum, with national responsibility in its area.
Moderna Museet is a state museum with a national mandate for modern and contemporary art. The collection is at the forefront of its kind in Europe. The museum is a meeting place for people and art with a strong foundation in society and the world at large. With its world-class programme of exhibitions, collection-based projects and educational activities, Moderna Museet has substantial local presence and international reach. The exchange with other art institutions around the world is extensive.
Moderna Museet has a long-standing history of hosting international artists for groundbreaking exhibitions, performances, and other presentations, as well as through its world-renowned collection. Experience one of Europe's foremost collections of art from the twentieth century to today, featuring works by artists including Picasso, Dali, Derkert, and Matisse.
With an art collection comprising more than 130 000 works, Moderna Museet (Museum of Modern Art) is Sweden's leading museum for modern and contemporary art. Moderna Museet has one of Europe's finest collections of modern and contemporary art. The collections contain contemporary painting, sculpture, photography and art film from 1900 onwards, and in the case of photographs also from around 1840.
By combining international masterpieces by artists such as Warhol, Picasso and Dali with temporary exhibitions by prominent artists of the 20th and 21st century, Moderna Museet manages to attract many returning visitors for an ever-changing art experience. The original collection was dominated by Swedish and Nordic art, American art from the 1950's and 60s, and French-oriented modernism, however, the collection has been extended to include more female artists and to create a more versatile collection with works from all over the world.
The Moderna Museet was inaugurated in the exercise house on Skeppsholmen, May 9, 1958. The Superintendent of the National Museum, Otte Sköld, reminded in his inaugural speech that as early as 1908 the problem of current local art in the National Museum had been taken seriously and the idea of a new building for these collections. Shortly before his death, Otte Sköld saw for himself the museum realized and his commitment to creating the new museum had been decisive. Together with, among others, the Friends of the Modern Museum, which was founded in 1953, he gave the National Museum's collection of 20th century art its own home. The museum's driving superintendents Pontus Hultén and Olle Granathcame with their contacts and initiatives to pursue these intentions in the following decades.
On 14 February, 2004, the museum building was reopened with festivities. In addition to repairs, the opportunity had been taken to improve some of the spaces, partly to make it easier for visitors to move through the museum, and partly to utilise the upper entrance space more adequately. At the same time, the museum's graphic profile was updated. Another major new feature at the reopening was the introduction of museum hosts – people who have a variety of skills, from life-saving to being able to tell visitors about the works of art in both the permanent and temporary exhibitions. The reason for introducing new hosts was to cater for the large increase in visitor numbers since the admission fee was abolished.
In 1901 architect John Smedberg established a beautiful electricity plant building on Gasverksgatan 22. Nowaday, the mission to transform the building into a more appropriate museum went to the award-winning architect firm Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter. They chose to establish a new annex – a contemporary addition to the historic building. And give the interior an entirely new spatial order.
The Moderna Museet arranges several large exhibitions in both Stockholm and Malmö each year, a number of medium-sized and smaller exhibitions. In 2012, the museum in Stockholm had around 500,000 visitors and the museum in Malmö over 100,000 visitors.
Since the start in 1958, the Museum has been known for its close relationship to artists – Marcel Duchamp, for instance, signed several of his works in Stockholm towards the end of his life, and Andy Warhol had his first solo museum exhibition in Europe at Moderna Museet in 1968.
The Moderna Museet collection now comprises some 6,000 paintings, sculptures and installations, 25,000 watercolours, drawings and prints, 400 art videos and films, and 100,000 photographs. The Collection covers paintings, sculptures, installations, films, videos, drawings and prints by Swedish and international artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, and photography from the 1840s until today.
Thanks to focused collecting initiatives, the Museum has successfully increased the breadth and depth of its collection. Back in 1963, The Museum of Our Wishes was launched, transforming the Museum instantly into a leading European art institution; the government contributed SEK 5 million, for the acquisition of iconic works by Giacomo Balla, Francis Picabia, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio de Chirico and many others. A few decades ago, the exercise was repeated, but this time spotlighting women artists only – works by Louise Bourgeois, Dorothea Tanning, Judy Chicago, Susan Hiller and others were added to the collection.
Only a fraction of the collection can be on display. But it allows us to explore and reformulate the standard art historical narrative through new insights and constant changes in the exhibition. This includes Moderna Museet Malmö, with its innovative angle on selecting and showing works from the collection since opening in 2009.
A large art collection is the best possible starting point for visual and intellectual experiments. Moderna Museet, as an open and living museum, is constantly rewriting the standard history of modernism by frequently rehanging its collection in radical new ways. Since 2009, the Museum has two locations, Stockholm and Malmö, where innovative selections of works from the collection have been featured regularly since the opening. A few of the iconic works, such as Henri Mattisse's Moroccan Landscape (Acanthus), Robert Rauchenberg's Monogram, and Eva Hesse's sculpture Untitled, are nearly always available for check.

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RosieReality is working on making Augmented Reality accessible for early childhood education. The team develops Rosie, an AR robot for iPhones. Kids of ages 8 and up teach Rosie about programming and science. The team is convinced that early childhood education is one of the main use cases for AR as children profit from a new leaning environment that is natural to their behaviour, contextual, engaging and fun. True multi-dimensional learning hints to what the future of education looks like. Rosie is able to beautifully validate educational AR on iPhones.
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Lebanon - Nationwide unrest likely to continue despite proposed economic reforms
Lebanon – Nationwide unrest likely to continue despite proposed economic reforms
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Nationwide anti-government protests in Lebanon have exposed deep-rooted social and economic grievances against the sectarian political system, financial mismanagement and rampant government corruption.
The government has pledged economic reforms, but these are unlikely to satisfy protesters.
Nationwide protests and strikes are likely to continue over the coming weeks, increasing the likelihood of a crackdown by security forces.
On 17 October, hundreds of people protested the government's austerity measures, financial mismanagement and corruption. The government's announcement of taxes on voice-over-internet applications was the catalyst to the country's largest demonstrations since 2005. The demonstrations grew rapidly with reports indicating that around 1.7 mn people protested nationwide on 20 October, nearly half the estimated population.
The recent protests mark a significant shift from the usual small-scale protests as well as the demonstrations in 2015 over government mismanagement of waste collection. This is due to the spontaneity and scale of the protests, their geographic diversity and the variety of protesters across social, religious and political lines. The pace and intensity of the protests is also evidence of the depth of discontent with the political establishment.
Protesters demand structural changes after years of stagnant growth, lack of economic opportunity and growing wealth inequality in Lebanon. Demonstrators have been clear in their demand for the resignation of the entire government followed by a transitional government run by technocrats. Protesters have also demanded the return of stolen public finances from corrupt officials. A prominent slogan featured across the demonstrations is "all of them means all of them" – referring to the entire political class. This is significant as it highlights the cross-confessional nature of the protests.
Government response
Prime Minister Saad Hariri outlined a set of economic reforms to appease protesters which included: the partial privatisation of Lebanon's telecommunications sector, a 50 percent cut to current and former MP's salaries, and a tax on bank profits. However, protesters have rejected these reforms as they no longer accept the legitimacy of the government. Following Hariri's statement, protesters continued blocking roads and striking. Protesters are unlikely to be satisfied until the entire cabinet resigns, fuelling further unrest and potential confrontations with se curity forces in the coming days.
Small scale counter-protests have been organised, namely by supporters of the Amal movement and Hezbollah. Supporters of President Michel Aoun's Future Party Movement have also led demonstrations. Counter-protests caused confrontations and sporadic violence between anti and pro-government demonstrators, though many skirmishes have been broken up by the army. Despite this, demonstrators defy intimidation from pro-government groups.
Future scenarios in Lebanon
Most likely: President Aoun oversees a small reshuffle, potentially holds early parliamentary elections and passes some economic reforms. However, this will fail to satisfy protesters who will continue with strikes and roadblocks. The government has said it will not tolerate economic paralysis from roadblocks and is therefore likely to use a mix of concessions and moderate force to end the protests. Government intervention, coupled with the economic impact from closed roads, as well as closed banks, schools and businesses, will likely slow the momentum and eventually see the movement dissipate.
Second most likely: Protesters maintain their momentum and do not give in to economic pressure of demonstrations. This will likely result in a forceful crackdown by security services. It may also lead to further violent confrontations between demonstrators and armed supporters of Amal, Hezbollah and Future Party Movement, who each seek to discredit the demonstrations and maintain their influence under the status-quo.
Least likely: Mass protests and nationwide disruption continue after violent government suppression and prolonged economic disruption. Demonstrators maintain roadblocks on main highways and continue daily strikes across all sectors. The pressure is accompanied by frequent eruptions of violence and leads to the full resignation of the government and new parliamentary elections.
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The game of chance is played to raise funds and is a form of gambling. While some governments outlaw or endorse lotteries, others regulate them. Most regulations include prohibiting sales to minors and requiring vendors to be licensed. At the beginning of the 20th century, most forms of gambling were illegal in the U.S. and much of Europe. After World War II, many countries ceased to allow gambling and made it illegal for minors to participate.
Many people enjoy playing lotteries, which are an extremely popular form of gambling. In some countries, these games are used to raise money for state-sponsored projects. While opponents argue that lotteries target vulnerable populations and unleash compulsive behavior, proponents say that lotteries are a socially acceptable form of gambling. Regardless of the reasons behind lotteries, there is always a level of risk associated with playing the live draw hk.
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Have you had a look at Rebels too. There might be more references even if animated.
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Notable Minority Executives: Shanee' Jenkins
Vice president of social responsibility, YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee
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Category: Notable Minority Executives
Number of years working in your current industry: 15
Undergrad degree/university: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
As vice president of social responsibility for the YMCA, Shanee' Jenkins' responsibilities include mission advancement, fundraising and diversity/equity/inclusion. In 2018, her contributions helped the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee become the 79th member of the YMCA of the USA's Diversity, Inclusion, and Global (DIG) Innovation network.
She chairs both an internal staff and a board-sponsored volunteer committee comprised of Milwaukee diversity equity inclusion (DEI) officer thought-leaders.
Jenkins advocated for the Y to be one of the initial nonprofit organizations to sign the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce's (MMAC) Region of Choice pledge committed to improving diverse hiring and management at businesses and organizations in the region.
In the fall of 2020, she co-planned the Wisconsin Y's Fall State Alliance Leadership Conference, which focused on social justice and inclusion. This advocacy led to the first ever YMCA Statewide Social Responsibility committee. She also chairs the Y's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, and launched the annual Martin Luther King Youth Engaged Event, and the 2021 Deliberate Dialogues event featuring panel discussions on social determinants of health.
In addition, Jenkins executed the Y's Welcoming America-Do It Together collaboration in 2020 when four Milwaukee nonprofit organizations worked with immigrant populations by educating and building cross-cultural awareness, oversaw the Y Youth Leaders Engaged program for Boys and Young Men of Color, and linked the Y to Feeding America, resulting in more than 3,000 boxes of food being donated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As vice president of social responsibility for the YMCA, Shanee' Jenkins' responsibilities include mission advancement, fundraising and diversity/equity/inclusion. In 2018, her contributions helped the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee become the 79th member of the YMCA of the USA's Diversity, Inclusion, and Global (DIG) Innovation network. She chairs both an internal staff and a board-sponsored volunteer committee comprised of Milwaukee diversity equity inclusion (DEI) officer thought-leaders. Jenkins advocated for the Y to be one of the initial nonprofit organizations to sign the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce's (MMAC) Region of Choice pledge committed to improving diverse hiring and management at businesses and organizations in the region. In the fall of 2020, she co-planned the Wisconsin Y's Fall State Alliance Leadership Conference, which focused on social justice and inclusion. This advocacy led to the first ever YMCA Statewide Social Responsibility committee. She also chairs the Y's annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, and launched the annual Martin Luther King Youth Engaged Event, and the 2021 Deliberate Dialogues event featuring panel discussions on social determinants of health. In addition, Jenkins executed the Y's Welcoming America-Do It Together collaboration in 2020 when four Milwaukee nonprofit organizations worked with immigrant populations by educating and building cross-cultural awareness, oversaw the Y Youth Leaders Engaged program for Boys and Young Men of Color, and linked the Y to Feeding America, resulting in more than 3,000 boxes of food being donated during the COVID-19 pandemic.


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Die Eich (früher auch Aich) gehört zum statistischen Stadtteil 8 der kreisfreien Stadt Kempten (Allgäu) (Südliche Stadtmitte, Eich). Die durch den Hermannstobel geteilte Ortschaft befindet sich im Süden Kemptens zwischen dem Kemptener Hauptbahnhof und der Iller. Die ursprüngliche Ortschaft umfasste nur den Teil südlich des Hermanntobels. Zu dem Ortsteil gehört auch die Georgsinsel in der Iller.

Geschichte

In der Eich gab es über Jahrhunderte ein kleines Mineralbad, das eine gering mineralisierte Heilquelle für Kuranwendungen nutzte. Nachgewiesen ist dieses Heilbad ab dem Jahr 1593. Bis 1841 wurde das Wasser aus einer Quelle am Hang für Anwendungen verwendet.

1760 wurde die später sogenannte Kremser-Villa erbaut, die bis zum Ende des Bades sein Hauptgebäude war. Ab 1850 diente das Gebäude als Direktorenwohnung für die Textilfabrik in Kottern, die sich auf der anderen Uferseite der Iller befand und bis in die frühen 1990er Jahre betrieben wurde.
Kurz nach der Betriebsaufgabe der Kotterner Textilfabrik verkaufte der Eigentümer die Villa an das kommunale Wohnungsbauunternehmen Sozialbau. 1996 wurde die leerstehende Kremser-Villa unter Denkmalschutz gestellt. Am 23. April 1999 brannte die Villa ab. Es wurde vermutet, dass zündelnde Kinder das Feuer verursacht hatten. Die Brandruine wurde 2000 abgerissen; ein Nebengebäude bald darauf. Die Sozialbau, als Eigentümerin des verbrannten Gebäudes, plante zu dieser Zeit einen Neubau, der sich an der früheren Villa orientierte, aber nicht realisiert wurde.

Erhalten von der historischen Anlage des Bades mit Villa sind noch Wirtschaftsgebäude oberhalb des Illerufers, die heute für Wohnungen genutzt werden.

Nach der Häuserstatistik um 1800 bestand Eich aus fünf Anwesen (drei Bauerngüter, das Wirts-Gut und den "Kronenwirt") mit einer Gesamtfläche von 233,34 Tagewerk, was 79,51 Hektar entspricht.

Im Zuge der Gemeindebildung wurde die Eich zusammen mit rund 115 anderen Ortschaften zur Ruralgemeinde St. Lorenz verbunden. Durch einen Beschluss vom 1. Oktober 1934 verlor St. Lorenz die Ortschaft Eich (sowie mehr als 20 andere Ortschaften) wieder an Kempten.

Einrichtungen
In der Eich befindet sich die Grundschule Kottern/Eich. In Teilen der Eich und Waltenhofens befindet sich der Friedhof Eich.

Kirche Maria Hilfe der Christen

1939 wurde der alte, 1838 geweihte Kirchenbau ersetzt. Architekt des Neubaues war Andor Ákos. Nach ihm ist in der Nähe dieser Kirche der Akosweg benannt.

Verkehr
Der Haltepunkt Eich lag an der Bahnstrecke Buchloe–Lindau. Die Züge fahren inzwischen ohne Halt durch.

Einzelnachweise

Ort in der kreisfreien Stadt Kempten (Allgäu)

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Q: Htaccess Redirect For Partial Match - URL Begins With Same Elements I'm trying to redirect a bunch of similar URLS to the front page and they all begin with the same string, but I'm not finding samples for this. How might I accomplish this?
Examples:
/quote-of-the-day-5/
/quote-of-the-day-4/
/quote-of-the-day-14/

And I'd like to redirect to the root /

A: Try this
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^quote-of-the-day-(.*)$ http://yourwebsite.com/ [R=301,L]

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Easter is a moving feast in many respects. For the people beyond religious rules, the less tragic, this happy and tasty part of Easter is a reason to celebrate. Serious and taken Easter as a silent prayer for a fertile year at the end of the winter season were long before the Verchristlichung festivals. Main idea the hopeful prospect of warmer days, was past the silent prayer for a fruitful year with gracious bettors and the gratitude, that one was not starved or froze to death in the winter. The children's song"love, love Sun"includes the Easter thought pretty good and simple.
Finally back to life! The"church fathers"took over at least the thoughts of gratitude in their church calendar. Their changing Easter weekends are not the joy of the people on the decorating of Easter fountain, the painting of Easter eggs and hiding the eggs depends. Of course the Easter Bunny makes herself! With this part of the development of the customs, Easter has something of submitted his Ernst in favour of the originally lively thought. The custom with the Easter eggs at Easter, when is it? Families and spirits argue about: he comes on Holy Thursday or on Easter Sunday? No matter when. That is the Easter Bunny is not everywhere as a matter of course. Long time the Stork brought the eggs for example in Thuringia, Germany.
It is close, because Easter eggs stand for fertility, as well as the Stork, the man elsewhere as Kinderliefant knows. Related Group has plenty of information regarding this issue. Bohemia even the tap to Easter must accept a shift to hide the eggs. In Westphalia the Easter Fox, in the Switzerland a cuckoo. Thanks to the Commerce of the Easter Bunny his predecessor and animal proved competitive and repressed rivals largely in the imagination zone of children and adults. In the nest are colored eggs, candy and almost anywhere and be sure a Tracy.
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Q: Use specific font in LyX I would like to use some of theese greek fonts in LyX for my thesis:
http://aka-acid.com/fontsscript.html
I installed the theme but I don't know how to use it in LyX
I also installed XeTeX
Can someone who uses LyX, guide me step by step?

A: I am not an expert but I just spent a lot of time figuring this out myself.
In LyX go to document settings. Under fonts, check use XeTeX fonts, and pick your fonts.
You should be good to go.
If you want, or that doesn't work, you can also put the following in your preamble:
\setmainfont{nameofyourinstalledfont} %set font for main document

This will override the setting above.
If you want to change this at any time in your document, just insert an ERT with:
\setmainfont{nameofnewinstalledfont} %set new font for main document

You can also use fontspec e.g.
\fontspec[Numbers=OldStyle]{Bergamo Std}
It depends on where you want to go...

A: Everyone starting with LyX takes too long working out that LyX does not display installed fonts (Currrently LyX only display the LaTeX fonts programmed into the menu) and that you have to use the above kludge using LaTeX.
If you want to make a LaTeX appear in your LyX menu check out
http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/Making-STIX-appear-in-LyX-Document-gt-Settings-gt-Fonts-tt7580330.html


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Can I use cat mutilation to sell, as long as it's artistic?
I sat down today with the intent of creating a shocking image, something truly offensive. I thought about cutting up a picture of a baby, splashing the body parts with red, sticking them on spikes, and arranging them artfully, like table settings. You know, something Vlad the Impaler might have enjoyed. I went so far as to Google images of concentration camp victims, thinking I could place them around the table as diners. It shouldn't have been too difficult to follow the design principles of contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity, right?
I couldn't do it, though. Which brings up an interesting aside. Even though I just wrote about the image, I couldn't actually create it. We talked in class today about the complexity, power, and transparency of words and images relative to each other. For me, at least, this illustrates – metaphorically, of course – one case where the visual image is simply too horrific for me to create, even though I could imagine it and write it.
It's my response to Wysocki and, indirectly, Kant.
In "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty," Anne Wysocki (2004) discusses her dual reactions of aesthetic appreciation and anger when viewing an advertisement featuring a woman who is naked except for thigh-high boots and gloves. Wysocki determines that her appreciation stems from the ad's exemplary design, but then goes on to question why its design is exemplary. She traces our culture's notions of beauty to Kant, whose beliefs about beauty have caused a couple of problems. First, because he thought beauty was a universal quality, determining the essential beauty of something became an analytical process in which the form of that thing was divorced from the actual thing (the content). This led to detachment on the part of the judge, which, in turn, devalued the object of beauty.
Because beauty, itself, is a value-laden term, Wysocki argues that, in order to change this objectification, especially of women, we need to change the way we evaluate visual images. In part, this depends on constructing ideas of beauty in reciprocal relationships.
So why did I make this image, albeit a very conventional one in terms of design principles? Wysocki's essay brought up interesting and important points that I'd never considered about the cultural values in something that, on the surface, seems neutral, such as the visual pleasure to be found in contrast and repetition. However, her essay also left me wanting. She didn't address content to my satisfaction. I tend to live by the principle "form follows function." An equivalent would be something like, "form serves content." The main reason I care about form in my image is that I want people to find it arresting enough that they will linger, hopefully catching the message.
That's why I abandoned the cut-up baby idea. It would get across, probably better than my elephant picture, that content matters. However, I decided it's really not an image I want to create and share, even if it sells my point.
Wysocki, Anne F. "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty." Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Ed. Anne F. Wysocki, Johndan Ohnson-Eilola, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Geoffrey Sirc. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. 147-73. Print.


Pushya Masam or Pushya month is the tenth month in traditional Telugu calendar followed in Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. In 2019, Pushya masam begins on 6 January 2019 and ends on 4 February 2019.
The same calendar is followed in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, and Gujarat. Pushya masam is considered as inauspicious month for some sorts of rituals like marriages, griha pravesh, engagements, etc. but is well-known for its spiritual importance.
Shukla Paksham in Pushya masam 2019 starts on January 7 and ends on January 21.
Krishna paksham in Pushya masam 2019 begins on 22 January and ends on 4 February.
Bhogi, Sankranti, Pushya Navaratri or Shakambari Navaratri, Kanuma, Mukkanuma, Thyagaraja Aradhana, and Shadthila Ekadashi are the important festivals in Pushya masam in Telugu Calendar. Next month in Telugu Panchangam is Magha masam.
In 2017-2018, Pushya masam begins on December 19, 2017 and ends on 16 January 2018.
In 2016-2017, Pushya masam begins on December 30, 2016 and ends on 27 January 2017.
In 2014, Pushya masam begins on January 2 and ends on January 30.
In 2013, Pushya masam was from January 11 to February 10. Pushya masam 2011-2012 was from 25 December 2011 to January 23, 2012.


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Apple TV+ today released the trailer for the highly-anticipated third season of For All Mankind. The trailer sees the alternate-reality series jump ahead nearly ten years, moving into the early '90s with a high-octane race to a new planetary frontier: Mars. The critically-acclaimed series, from Emmy Award winner Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben …
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I love painting my nails. Whether it's neutral, bright or patterned. However I am guilty of not looking after the prep of my nails too much. I find that a healthy diet does help a lot with the health of my nails however at times the end of my nails become weak and split. So I read up on blogs about nail care and invested in a great base coat and the Stylfile Infuse Moisturising Nail File*.
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Name any film that's come out in past 37 years and Kevin O'Connell has probably been the sound mixer. But what is a sound mixer?
Kevin O'Connell holds kind of a depressing record: With 21, he has the most Academy Award nominations without a single win.
O'Connell's work as a re-recording mixer for Hacksaw Ridge marks his 21st nomination and the possibility to break an anomalous losing streak. Terms Of Endearment in 1984 was his first nomination, and ever since then his inability to grasp gold has become something of a running joke.
O'Connell's lack of an Oscar certainly hasn't stinted his career: to date, O'Connell has more than 200 titles under his belt, including Passengers, Sisters, Top Gun, Transformers, Spider-Man 1-3, Armageddon, and Poltergeist.
Not bad for a guy who started off as a fireman.
When O'Connell was 18, he worked as an L.A. county firefighter. It had been his dream since he was a little boy–for his mother? Not so much.
"I lived at home at that time and I'd come home from a fire and she'd look at me battered bruised and beaten up and she'd say, 'I really don't like you doing this. I wish should come down the studio and check it out,'" O'Connell says.
The "studio" O'Connell's mother was referring to was 20th Century Fox where she worked in the sound department. O'Connell also shadowed the sound team at Samuel Goldwyn Studio before deciding to give it a shot.
But hooked on what exactly? Because everyone who has ever watched an Oscars telecast has asked him or herself the same question: What's the difference between a sound editor and a sound mixer?
Think of a sound editor as the person who creates sound effects, and a sound mixer as the person who layers those sound effects with the dialogue and score of the film, balancing all three so one doesn't overpower the others.
Of course, someone working as a sound mixer would say such a thing, but in truth, O'Connell isn't wrong.
Sound mixers have control over every single sound in a film, down to the most granular level. In Hacksaw Ridge, O'Connell's work begins with taking the raw audio from production. Then, dialogue from action-heavy scenes are often re-recorded "because the prop guns and the explosions sound like cap guns and firecrackers going off and it obscures the actor's dialogue," O'Connell says. Once the dialogue and sound effects are ready, the film score is broken down by sections (woodwinds, brass, percussion, choir, synth, etc.) and everything is on separate faders, meaning O'Connell can tweak individual sounds to the smallest degree.
Take, for example, this pivotal scene from Hacksaw Ridge. In a phone interview, O'Connell breaks down his process for adjusting various sound elements to hit the right emotional tone.
O'Connell's staggering 21 Oscar nominations are a testament to the intricacy of his work, but if you've never known his name until now, he's totally fine with that. Sound mixing is one of the jobs where you don't really pay attention to it until you hear a scene so jarring that you know something went very wrong.


Backing up our blog database is very important, especially if you have already growing blog with loyal visitors, and even you earn money from it.
I have posted this video some years ago in about 2 minutes times, that I personally need most to backup without logging in to my dashboard. In that video tutorial, I don't use a wordpress database backup plugin.
I have use the video tutorial here, about how to backup and restore wordpress to restore this blog a few months ago.
I am the typical person who likes to modify that and this, adding some more ads 😀 or delete some of them, modifying htaccess and stuff, this things are dangerous for me, if i don't do backup first.
I have tried many other wordpress database backup plugin, but I have found wp-db-backup plugin is the best and easiest to use that you can use.
I mean the best, because it just works. I have tried BackWPup plugin, but it didn't send email.
Other than that, this plugin has the option to backup wp-content, and all the files we need on a blog (including images), however if my blog is quite big, I think backing up wp-content including the images will take forever. So no wonder it didn't work somehow.
So my method is, backing up the database automatically and regularly with this plugin, and then, backing up all the files manually at least once a month.
This plugin is available to install in your dashboard, or you can download it from wordpress plugins page.
Actually, once you are finished with the installation, you can activate it, and then look for "Tools" and "backup".
By default, the plugin will definitely backup the standard WP database tables, but as you can see in the image below, you will still be able to choose any other tables you want to back up, and which not.
You can specifiy which files you want to backup, including "exclude spam comments" tick box. (see image above).
Then, on the right side, there are a few database tables options from another plugins or themes you installed, choose any tables you think you will need to be backed up.
In my newest video, I didn't have this, because the blog demo I used was really new.
After all ticked, you are going to see how you want to backup.
Save it to your server. This will enable you saving the database backup in your server, which i don't really recommend, because it can be downloadable if someone knows the path.
I use this option, if i want to modify some stuff in this blog, or before upgrade if there is a new update of wordpress.
This option will send the database right away to your email address.
If you now click "Backup Now!" button, it will be sent to your email address or downloaded to your computer, depends on which options you choose.
This will send you the backup to your email address regularly and automatically. It means, you don't have to go to the settings again, and press the backup now.
The more often database backup, the more chance you can always restore your site back to where it was.
After choosing how often you will receive it in your email address, you can then press "schedule backup" button. The option will be updated and be sure to check your email daily or weekly.
That's how I use wp-db-backup, a wordpress database backup plugin.