The Iceland-based sound artist Ben Frost released one of 2014's best records, A U R O R A, so here comes the obligatory remix EP, V A R I A N T. It's frontloaded with three takes on ceremonially pounding highlight "Venter", followed by versions of the equally forceful "Nolan" and the calmer drone piece "No Sorrowing". Frost mines a hard, ferrous seam between multiple genres related by intensity and repetition, and these remixes isolate them in individual strands—noise (Dutch E Germ), ambient (HTRK), dance (Evian Christ and Kangding Ray), and industrial (Regis). This results in diluted tracks that either pale in comparison to the brawny originals, seem superficially connected to them, or both. It would be a tall order to expect them to rival Frost's raw power, but these remixes don't unearth much fascinating stuff, and the EP turns out (mostly) competent but wan.
Evian Christ turns "Venter" into regal, explosive EDM, coring its melody down to a nervy screw and cladding it in huge basses and time-bomb drum programming. Though it's the most immediate track here, this pro forma banger is neither particularly inspired nor particularly Frost—it really could be any Evian Christ song. A less splashy but more satisfying composition is Raster-Norton artist Kangding Ray's "No Sorrowing". On the original, a lone subfrequency drop in acres of long tones suggested walking over crystalline plains and suddenly falling into a pit; Ray retrofits it as rough-textured house music, like Frost as Jon Hopkins. Downwards label proprietor Regis gives "Nolan" a solid, somewhat similar treatment, but more gnarled and industrial.
And then there's the Dutch E Germ remix of "Venter", which is actually pretty bad. Dominated by shrapnel-like blasts of noise and an annoying squeak like a rusty wheel, it's repetitive and grating without being transfixing. A desultory, imbalanced structure changes without going anywhere in particular. Jagged tone pileups and irritating shrills are just the kind of harshness-for-its-own-sake that Frost eschews in favor of clear, commanding compositions. HTRK's version follows it and comes as a relief. You won't be surprised to hear that the Australian down-tempo duo turns it into chill-out music, reducing its tribal drums to a hollow knock and then blowing thin currents of atmosphere around a lone fillip of bass. It's a little tedious, though it's sensual and hypnotic if you let yourself flow into it.
The most fundamental, buried part of Frost's aesthetic is classical minimalism, a strand that is left undisturbed by these surface-level retrofits. A remix EP that exhumed it could provide actual interest and value, but it doesn't seem like that much thought went into this—it's par for the course that instead of creating a new, coherent collection, you send out stems to some people you like and hope for the best. These kinds of remixes can make for great bonus tracks and promotional freebies—and hey, if someone wants to pay for them as a collection, more power to Frost. But if you need another reminder of the pointlessness of the remix EP as a commercial artifact, here it is.


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Q: material Ui with tailwind in next js for my next js project tailwind is the main styling library, I used materal UI for javascript snippets, mui pagination and radio group are working fine in my local machine but in server mui classes are being renamed, I came to know from stackoverflow that mui needs to configure for next js, I searched about this in chat GPT and I got the following code.
import { CacheProvider, EmotionCache } from "@emotion/react";
import { createTheme, ThemeProvider } from "@mui/material/styles";
import { ServerStyleSheets } from "@mui/styles";
import createCache from "@emotion/cache";
import { styled } from "@mui/system";
import { AppContext, AppInitialProps, AppPropsType } from "next/app";
import { ReactElement } from "react";
import { NextPageContext } from "next";

interface MyAppProps extends AppPropsType {
  emotionCache?: EmotionCache;
}

const cache = createCache({ key: "css", prepend: true });
const theme = createTheme();

const StyledComponent = styled("div")({});

interface NextPageContextWithRenderPage extends NextPageContext {
  renderPage: () => Promise<{
    html: string;
    head?: JSX.Element[];
  }>;
}

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps, emotionCache }: MyAppProps): ReactElement {
  return (
    <CacheProvider value={emotionCache || cache}>
      <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
        <StyledComponent>
          <Component {...pageProps} />
        </StyledComponent>
      </ThemeProvider>
    </CacheProvider>
  );
}

MyApp.getInitialProps = async ({
  Component,
  ctx,
}: AppContext): Promise<AppInitialProps & { emotionCache: EmotionCache }> => {
  // Generate server-side styles
  const sheets = new ServerStyleSheets();
  const originalRenderPage = ctx.renderPage;

  try {
    ctx.renderPage = () =>
      originalRenderPage({
        enhanceApp: (App: ReactElement) => (props) =>
          sheets.collect(<App {...props} />),
      });

    const initialProps = await App.getInitialProps({ Component, ctx });
    return {
      ...initialProps,
      // Styles fragment is rendered after the app and page rendering finish.
      emotionCache: sheets.getStyleElement(),
    };
  } finally {
    ctx.renderPage = originalRenderPage;
  }
};

interface MyAppInitialProps extends AppInitialProps {
  styles: JSX.Element[];
}

export type { MyAppInitialProps };

export default MyApp;

But adding this in my _app.js component tailwind classes are not working at all.How to solve this? please help me
I tried all the ways available in stackoverflow, but I got no solution related to solve the tailwind issue, I am overwriting mui classes for fonts and color changing in my project, I want those classes to be consistent in server as they are in my local

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Congratulations on your first Disney Cruise which sets sail very soon! You must be crossing things off your list like every mom tends to do before a big trip. You're right to prepare for what might happen but expect a seamless voyage.
A physician and a nurse are on call 24 hours a day to provide basic medical services on every Disney cruise. They are employed by a company independent from Disney Cruise Line, and standard prevailing fees will be charged for all services -- which usually aren't covered by medical insurance. Therefore, for your peace of mind in case of unexpected medical emergencies, Disney Cruise Line recommends the purchase of the Disney Cruise Vacation Insurance for costs incurred for treatment, medical evaluation and/or repatriation, if necessary. In addition to the medical services, there are medications -- such as antibiotics -- which can be dispersed to patients. However, you will be charged a premium.
As a traveling family, we have definitely experienced our share of minor illnesses and accidents while away from home. So, I always pack a small version of my medicine cabinet for every trip. I include something for tummy issues, band-aids and antibiotic ointment, motion sickness tablets, cold remedies, muscle-ache creams and pain relievers/fever reducers. For the most part, I've been able to treat my gang as "Dr. Mom," but there have been a few occasions where we've had to seek medical treatment while away. It's not always cost-efficient or convenient, but you do what you have to do when the situation arises. I hope and pray that your vacation is without incidents or illness.


By now you've probably noticed in your Google Analytics (or other web analytics package or even your log files) that you're receiving an unusually high rate of foreign traffic from odd websites which may or may not load when you try vising them (they may have even redirected you to a NSFW website).
This is almost surely referral spam. These are bots crawling your site leaving a false referrer. The idea here is to get you or whoever goes through your analytics to visit these sites, most likely to hit you with affiliate offers or ad impressions. It can be annoying, but they've got bills to pay too!
While this traffic may be minuscule for large, popular websites, it can really throw analytics reports off for small sites with little traffic, where this referral spam will account for a sizable portion and skew the results (especially "averages," which you should avoid becoming too dependent on).
There are a few things you can do. You can block these requests now, and prevent them from showing up in the future. You can do this in Google Analytics as well as in your .htaccess file (my preferred method). Unfortunately this only blocks future requests, and the legacy requests are already baked into your reports, but you can filter those out of GA with the use of segments.
This is my preferred method since it blocks these requests from appearing in any traffic report (GA or otherwise). What's more is your method for blocking them in GA will depend on which version you have installed (another reason to avoid doing this in GA and nip it in the bud at the htaccess). In this example, we would add this to our .htaccess file.
While adding the above snippet to your .htaccess will prevent these URLs from showing up moving forward, it won't remove them retroactively. They will still show up in reports that select dates prior to your .htacess modification. Fortunately, Google's Segmentation makes it possible to apply a retroactive filter (with the caveat that the segment has to be selected for the filter to take effect).
You can create this as its own and/or add it to an existing segment. This will allow you to view older reports without the effects of referral spam.
It should be noted that there are many of these bots/referrers out there. After blocking the current referral spam URLs, you'll likely start receiving referral spam from new sets of URLs, in which case you'll want to repeat the same steps above. Now go forth and filter.
You can't block https referers with apache if your site is non https. HTTP_REFERER is always empty when referring from https to http for security purposes.
Thanks Dave, I've updated the post to at least show http to avoid misleading anyone. So apparently the https referrers simply pass through as direct visits in GA (assuming the landing page is http).


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Q: R and Shiny: object not found EDITED to include full UI and sample data
I did read the other StackOverflow qs on this issue, but none seemed to address the cause of my error.
When the app loads, I get "error object [name of district I've selected] not found" for the District (inputID = "d"). I know it must be an issue with the subsetting reactive in the server, but I've tried everything (loading the data in the server, removing the vector from the filter function, changing the data type of the variables).
I also took this code from another Shiny App I built, which works. I can't see any differences between the two, besides that one is geom_point() and this is geom_col() so again, not sure what is going on.
Thanks!
Sample data:
sample <- sample_n(pop, 10)

dput(sample)

structure(list(GazID = c(NA, NA, "13872", NA, "13610", "13985",
"13984", "13434", "13428", "13631"), Province = c("Niolandskaia",
"Kaluzhskaia", "Iaroslavskaia", "Vyborgskaia", "Moskovskaia",
"Volynskaia", "Volynskaia", "Orenburgskaia", "Orenburgskaia",
"Arkhangel'skaia"), District = c(NA, "Suhinichinbezuezdniigorod",
"Romanov", NA, "Zvenigorod", "Kovel", "Lutsk", "Ufa", "Orenburg",
"Mezen"), TotalPop = c(NA, NA, 104104, NA, 71746, 103381, 102779,
93145, 62740, 26796), Male = c(NA, NA, 48604, NA, 36948, 52266,
50393, 46403, 32617, 13078), Female = c(NA, NA, 55500, NA, 34798,
51115, 52386, 46742, 30123, 13718), City = c(NA, 5552, NA, NA,
1253, 4254, 5552, 6682, 9533, NA), Rural = c(NA, NA, NA, NA,
70493, 99127, 97228, 86483, 53207, NA)), row.names = c(NA, -10L
), class = c("tbl_df", "tbl", "data.frame"))

Above the UI:
library(tidyverse)
library(readr)
library(shiny)
library(stringr)
library(rebus)

pop <- read_csv("pop.csv")

pop$TotalPop <- str_replace_all(pop$TotalPop, pattern = fixed(","), replacement = "")
pop$Male <- str_replace_all(pop$Male, pattern = fixed(","), replacement = "")
pop$Female <- str_replace_all(pop$Female, pattern = fixed(","), replacement = "")
pop$City <- str_replace_all(pop$City, pattern = fixed(","), replacement = "")
pop$Rural <- str_replace_all(pop$Rural, pattern = fixed(","), replacement = "")
pop$District <- str_remove_all(pop$District, pattern = "[^[:alnum:]]")
pop$TotalPop <- as.numeric(pop$TotalPop)
pop$Male <- as.numeric(pop$Male)
pop$Female <- as.numeric(pop$Female)
pop$City <- as.numeric(pop$City)
pop$Rural <- as.numeric(pop$Rural)
pop$GazID <- as.character(pop$GazID)
pop$District <- str_trim(pop$District)

The UI:
ui <- fluidPage(

   titlePanel("Population Data from VSO"),

   sidebarLayout(
        sidebarPanel(
        selectInput(inputId = "y", #internal label
                    label = "Population to map", #label that user sees
                    choices = c("Total population" = "TotalPop",
                                "Male population" = "Male",
                                "Female population" = "Female",
                                "Urban population" = "City",
                                "Rural population" = "Rural"),
                    selected = "TotalPop"),

        selectizeInput(inputId = "d",
                       label = "Select district",
                       choices = c(pop$District),
                       multiple = TRUE, # can choose multiple
                       options = list(maxItems = 5))),

      mainPanel(
         plotOutput("plot")
      )
   )
)

The server:
server <- function(input, output) {
      pop_subset <- reactive({
        req(input$d)
        filter(pop, District %in% c(input$d)
               )})

 output$plot <- renderPlot({
  ggplot(data = pop_subset(), aes_string(x = pop_subset()$District, y =     input$y)) +
          geom_col(aes(fill = pop_subset()$District)) +
          labs(x = "District", y = "Population") +
          scale_fill_discrete(name = "Districts")
})}

shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

A: The problem is that you are using aes_string in your ggplot, but trying to pass District without quotes. I realize you need aes_string because you are using input$y, so just change your plot call to
  output$plot <- renderPlot({
    req(pop_subset())
    ggplot(data = pop_subset(), aes_string(x = "District", y =     input$y)) +
      geom_col(aes(fill = District)) +
      labs(x = "District", y = "Population") +
      scale_fill_discrete(name = "Districts")
  })

For reproducibility, packages and some sample data (no idea of its true representative nature, doesn't really matter I think).
library(dplyr)
library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)

set.seed(42)
n <- 50
pop <- data_frame(
  TotalPop = sample(1e4, size=n, replace=TRUE)
) %>%
  mutate(
    Male = pmax(0, TotalPop - sample(1e4, size=n, replace=TRUE)),
    Female = TotalPop - Male,
    City = sample(LETTERS, size=n, replace=TRUE),
    District = sample(letters, size=n, replace=TRUE)
  )


In the last month, while watching me move things around and pick things up, two different clients have commented about my back health, implying picking relatively light things up and down from the floor might somehow be harmful. I was perplexed by their statements, especially since I consider myself lucky to be in a vocation where regular movement is part of the job (or maybe it's my mildly OCD desire to have an uncluttered workspace that results in moving steps, kettlebells, and bolsters around regularly).
It turns out, when you bend over to pick something up, you are using a combination of trunk and hip movement to accomplish the task.* There are many different ways to pick something off of the floor; I vary the way I pick things up throughout the day because variability is good when it comes to movement.
The trouble with thinking bending over to pick things up is bad for your back is it changes the way you perform this action. Being afraid of a movement can lead to muscle guarding, limiting range of motion, and breath holding when you actually go to perform that task.
Maybe it's not picking things up that's bad for our backs. Maybe it's fear, anxiety, and a general mistrust that the body is strong enough to support us.


According to one of the social media posts, a student named Ahtesham Bilal Sofi from Kashmir who went missing last week from his college in Greater Noida has joined a militant group in Jammu and Kashmir.
There was a post along with a photograph on social media which claims to be of Ahtesham Bilal Sofi. In the photograph which was there on facebook also, shows Ahtesham Billal Sofi, wearing a black dress and headdress standing beside the ISIS flag. It is now very clearly visible that the missing student has joined an ISIS group of militants.
The student was just 17 years old and a resident of Srinagar and he was pursuing graduation from Sharda University at Greater Noida. On October 28th, he took permission from the college staff to go to Delhi, which is approximately 35 km from Greater Noida.
After he went missing, next morning there was a complaint registered in the police station of Greater Noida of a 'missing person'. Later on, a case was filed by the police in Srinagar regarding the same.
As per the news sources, the police department started the search operation after the case was registered. Police traced his mobile location which was showing Srinagar after this police traced his call log according to which he last spoke to his father on Monday and then his mobile phone was switched off.
The SHO of Greater Noida's Knowledge Park police station said, Ahtesham last location was traced in Srinagar and he also called his father at 4:30 pm on Monday, 29th October. After that, his phone was switched off.
It is clear from the social media posts that Ahtasham Bilal Sofi has united with the militant's group ISJK, which is also influenced by ISIS beliefs.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh said that since 28th October they have been tracking the case closely and has taken apprehension of the pictures which got viral on social media.
Asim Arun Inspector General of ATS said that we are in continuous contact with the Jammu and Kashmir Police. The police of Jammu and Kashmir also initiated the information regarding Ahtesham's occurrence in the Srinagar. The last location which was traced by the Greater Noida Police shows his presence in the terror sensitive area Pulwama District in south Kashmir.


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Soldiers stopped him as Lotor walked through the ship, the Drules eager to congratulate him, both on the success he had had in repelling the Doom invaders, and on his mating with Allura. He was all smiles, especially when they mentioned his mate, Lotor pleased, and glowing with his happiness. Word had quickly spread through the ship, the people there whispering about how his human mate had come to him, her concern and care doing much to fight back the illness that had tried to ravage his body.
Unspoken was the Drules' relief over his recovery, Lotor knowing they had to have been worried about what would have happened to them if he had died from the fever. No one knew for certain what kind of life the homeless Drule would have had, if they would have been welcome on Arus for however long the planet remained free of Doom's control.
It was something to think about, Lotor knowing as their leader it was up to him to secure a home for them, temporary or otherwise as they began preparations to fight for Doom's throne. He couldn't take for granted that they would all be allowed to stay on Arus, he had to discuss such things with Allura and her advisor. It wasn't the only thing he had to speak to Coran about, Lotor feeling nervous at the thought of broaching the topic of marriage. He didn't know how the human would react, but he wanted his mating with Allura to be recognized through the humans' law.
He walked down the ramp of the warship, listening to his boots do an echo of sound on the metal. It was good to be in clothes that fit him, in shoes that weren't several sizes too small. It wasn't his commander's uniform that he wore, but off duty clothing that had been found in the soldier's barracks. It was Drule designed, with a bold splash of red against black. His bandaged hand stood in stark contrast with it's white gauze, and he had placed his sword so that it rested on his right hip so that his left hand could draw it if needed.
He wasn't as confidant a fighter with his left hand, but Lotor felt certain he could defend himself if need be. Not that he expected any one to attack him on Arus! But he was a warrior first and foremost, his sword an extension of himself. It was the same with many of the Drules, those soldiers wearing swords or blasters on their hips. Just looking around the area by the Drule ships showed many soldiers walking around, off doing patrols or drills.
There was many ships on the castle's property, although they weren't even half of the Drule armada. Those captured ships were back on one of Arus' two moons, currently being checked over to see how much damage had been done to them during the fighting. Those that could not be repaired would be salvaged to make parts for other ships, nothing would go to waste.
Lotor nodded his hellos at the Drule soldiers who were practicing their sword techniques. Their instructor paused the lesson so that the men and women could bow to the prince, but Lotor was already moving onwards. He could see the castle of lions, and along with it the scaffolding that covered the entire eastern wall, and stretched up high in the sky. Many men were working around it, a mix of human and Drules that must have numbered seven dozen at least.
In fact it looked like they had more help than could do them any good, Lotor wondering how they did not all trip on each other while trying to work. He continued to walk towards the castle, watching the antics of the people there. Women were on the ground floor, bringing drink and food to the men working, or standing off to the side and just watching them do the hard labor.
He noticed that a woman in particular, for she was staring at him. He smiled at her, a bit bemused towards her shocked expression. His smile seem to galvanize her into action, she was nudging the two women besides her. They turned, and immediately began talking in furtive whispers. It was strange behavior, but Lotor chose to ignore it, coming closer towards the scaffolding.
He craned his head back, studying the men who were working on the wall. He spied some very familiar faces, the communications expert Ryder standing on the second floor landing of the scaffolding. He was currently handling a heavy wall beam with another Drule, carrying it over to it's proper position in the wall. One of the Voltron Force members was also on the wall, the man Lotor vaguely remembered as being called Hunk.
It was surprising to see him there, the prince not aware the Voltron Force had come back from space. If anything, he thought for sure they would insist on remaining on the moon to guard over the captured Drule armada, which only left Lotor to wonder who else had returned to Arus.
Climbing down the scaffolding was Sabbath, exhibiting the catlike grace that was a trait that all Drule shared. His dark colored pants were dust coated, and his shirt clung to his back with thick spots of sweat. It was the sweat soaked shirt that made Sabbath stand out from the other workers, Lotor realizing that every man, regardless of race, age, or physical condition had gone shirtless.
As if feeling Lotor's gaze on him, Sabbath turned, and raised his hand in greeting. Lotor walked towards him, the Drules meeting at a halfway point across the lawn. Lotor continued to eye Sabbath in his shirt, and noticed the smell of plaster thick on him. It almost disguised the fainter smell of a woman's perfume, a smell that was most obviously not Sabbath's natural scent.
"What?" Sabbath sounded defensive as he looked at Lotor's grin. "Why are you looking at me that way?!"
"Sabbath, you dog!" Lotor smirked, and clapped a hand on Sabbath's back. "So I take it, congratulations are in order!?" Sabbath did a slow blinking of his eyes, trying to go for a blank look on his face.
"I don't know what you are talking about." He said, and now Lotor frowned.
"I'm talking about you and Romelle." Lotor hauled Sabbath in closer to him, trying not to be obvious he was smelling the man. "Her scent's all over you."
"Are you sure you are not mistaken?" Sababth asked. "I have taken many baths…..and I am covered in dirt and dust…"
"And still smelling better than you ought to have a right to!" Lotor teased, then got serious. "Sabbath, why do you try to hide it? You've made love to her, haven't you?"
Instead of grinning, Sabbath looked panicked, jerking away from Lotor. "I don't….I don't know what you mean…."
Lotor frowned at that. This was not the way of a mated Drule. They never tried to hide their union, they did everything short of boasting about it. But Sabbath seemed almost afraid of Lotor knowing the truth, and that was something the Drule prince did not understand.
"Sabbath, what is going on? Tell me…."
"Is that an order, your highness?" Sabbath asked, tone and body stiff.
"I ask you as a friend, but if you won't tell me, then yes…It can be a royal command." Lotor told him. Sabbath seemed to sigh with his whole body, and glanced around surreptitiously.
"Not here." He decided, and gestured for Lotor to walk with him into the castle. "There's too many eyes and ears in this place."
Lotor couldn't deny that, spying the fact that more women were looking at them, and holding whispered conversations that were punctuated with loud giggles. It was strange behavior, and he could not understand the cause for it. Did it have something to do with Romelle and Sabbath?
He followed his friend into the castle, and here it was quieter. They hurried into one of the side rooms, which was thankfully empty of people. Sabbath closed the door, and let out another sigh, seeming weary.
"Tell me." Lotor said insistently.
Sabbath strode over to a chair, and sank down into it's cushions. His hands folded around themselves, and he leaned forward. "I mated with Romelle." He said it simply, confirming what Lotor already knew.
"And?" prodded Lotor, knowing there had to be more, a reason why Sabbath didn't look as happy as he should be.
"And….she is ashamed of me." His eyes lowered, Sabbath trying to hide his pain.
"She is ashamed of me." He repeated, with no less agony. "She doesn't want to be tied to me in that way. Doesn't want to be seen as my mate. She made me promise that no one would find out…"
"And how did you think to keep that promise?!" Lotor was more than a little sarcastic. "Any Drule who smelled you would know you took your woman to bed!"
"I've taken a lot of baths." Sabbath said lamely. "And covered my scent as best I could…."
"It wasn't enough…" Lotor told him. "Let me guess…..you wear the shirt to hide the marks of her favor." Sabbath nodded, and Lotor felt sorry for him. Sabbath should have been basking in the attention of both his mate, and the awe of the gathered men who would see his scratched up back. "Oh Sabbath….how could you promise such a thing to her?!"
"It was the only way!" Sabbath ran an agitated hand through his braided hair. "The only way she would agree to be with me!"
"But she's not with you, is she?!" Lotor demanded. "Not if she's making you hide the relationship." He took the seat across from Sabbath, staring at the Drule. "She doesn't understand anything does she?" Lotor scowled. "The little fool."
"Don't call her that!" Snapped Sabbath.
"Why not? That's what she is….and you are an even bigger fool for going along with this charade!" Lotor scoffed. "Just what are you two thinking, do you even have a plan for the future?! How do you intend to make a life together if you are constantly hiding the nature of your relationship?!"
"I'm just giving her time…" Sabbath said after a moment's pause.
"Time to do what?!"
"To get used to the idea of being with me." Sabbath answered, and Lotor stared at him. "What?"
"The way you said that has given me a horrible sense of foreboding." Lotor replied. "Sabbath…you did explain what she was getting into by having sex with you, didn't you?"
"I told her she was my mate…" Sabbath began, and Lotor interrupted with a shout.
"That's not enough! These humans are different from us. They need to be made to understand exactly what is happening, and the consequences of their actions! Does she know she cannot separate herself from you now? That this relationship cannot be ended?!"
Sabbath lowered his eyes, as though ashamed of his actions. "I might have….neglected to mention some of that…."
"Sabbath!" Lotor exclaimed, exasperated. He hung his head, looking prepared for punishment from his prince. "Just what did you tell her?"
"That I love her and want her to be mine." Sabbath said, not meeting Lotor's gaze. "That I would do anything for her, that I would always love and cherish her. That I would protect her with my dying breath if need be. That I wanted a future with her…a family…"
Lotor sat back in his seat, knowing it was similar to what he had told Allura time and time again. And if Romelle was anything like her cousin, she would need to hear such things repeated several times before it would take hold in her mind as the truth.
"She seemed…receptive to me…" Sabbath added, and Lotor frowned at him.
"Just when did it happen?"
"When we were trapped inside one of the castle's rooms." That confirmed to Lotor what he had been sure of. "She was scared, of me, and of what would happen to us if no one came to our rescue. I calmed her down, and assured her she had no reason to fear. That I would find a way for us to get out of this predicament. We….we got to talking, and one thing led to another…"
"I can't imagine how." Lotor said truthfully.
Sabbath shrugged. "She admitted she wanted me." A hint of a smile played on his face, the first Lotor could ever remember seeing on Sabbath. "She agreed to let me have her, but that it would come with conditions…"
"And you were willing to pay whatever price she had set." Lotor murmured, wondering how much he would have agreed to if he had been in Sabbath's place.
"I did not realize at the time it would become a relationship built on secrets and hiding. That she would sate herself on me, and then deny me any further touches!" He looked pained now.
It sounded to Lotor like they had both sought to trick the other, Sabbath pulling Romelle into a relationship she did not want, and Romelle wanting to use Sabbath to scratch the itch she had. It was a fine mess Sabbath had set up for himself, one that didn't seem to have any easy answers.
"You two have to come to an understanding." Lotor said at last. "You have to be honest with her, and she needs to examine her feelings whatever they are." He hesitated, but needed to speak the truth to Sabbath. "You shouldn't have touched her with passion until she was sure of what she wanted."
Sabbath hung his head, surely realizing the validity of Lotor's words. "I want her so badly…" He raised his eyes, a desperate look to them. "How did you manage to wait so long with your mate….?"
"I don't know how I managed so long without taking Allura…" Lotor admitted. "Some of it was made easier because she was so receptive to me and my touches. But Sabbath! Don't lose heart! If Romelle wanted you enough that one time, it must mean she's on some part receptive to you. You must press the advantage…and above all, do not allow her to use you just for sex!"
"I…I'll try…" Sabbath's voice was shaky.
"Don't just try, do!" Lotor said, though knew it was easier said than done. He didn't envy Sabbath the challenge he had before him, and he could only hope that Romelle wouldn't lead Sabbath into further damaging heartbreak. "Come…we both have work to do." Sabbath stood more slowly than Lotor did, still looking as though his confidence was shattered. But he followed Lotor out of the room, and there they parted ways, Sabbath off to continue to repair the castle's eastern wall.
Lotor wanted to find Allura, and share with her what he had learned. But he also knew he needed to speak to Coran, and so he decided to see if he could not find the human in his office. The further he went into the castle, the more strange looks he earned from people passing by. It was starting to get on his nerves, Lotor tempted to grab someone and shake the reason out of them.
There was two guards outside Coran's office, and they stood a little straighter at the sight of Lotor. He nodded to them, and they opened the door, Coran's voice rising in greeting. Lotor entered, and smiled at the royal advisor, who gestured for him to take a seat before his desk.
"It's good to see you are well, your highness." Coran said politely.
"Thank you." Lotor answered, and chuckled. "I hear I was at death's door, but I can assure you I have made a full recovery according to Doctor Zutarei."
Coran nodded, and sat down, an expectant look in his eyes. "I hear you have something to discuss with me."
"Er yes…" Lotor turned nervous, not sure how to go about telling the man he wanted to marry Allura. "There are several things, but this I feel is the most important."
"Do go on." Bade Coran, and Lotor tried not to fidget.
"It's about Princess Allura…" He realized he had no better way to prepare the man for this, and just blurted it out. "I love her. I want to marry her according to the customs of your people."
Coran said nothing at first, just leaning back in his seat. It made Lotor even more nervous, the prince wondering if he should mention they were already a mated pair in the eyes of the Drule.
"Princess Allura has mentioned this to me already." Coran said, and a breath Lotor wasn't aware of holding, expelled out of him.
"Has she?" He asked, trying not to appear overly concerned.
"The way she tells it, you two are already wed by the customs of your people." Continued Coran, to which Lotor nodded a yes. "I do wish you two would have waited, and thought this thing through."
Lotor nearly laughed them. "Believe me, we both gave it much thought, and waited as long as we were able too…"
"And I understand you can neither be divorced, nor wish to separate." Coran statement earned another nod from Lotor. "Under these circumstances, I can only say yes to the marriage."
Lotor almost wilted with relief. "Then you will help me with the preparations? I mean, there is so much I don't understand about human customs, and this is something I do not wish to make a mistake with."
"Of course your highness." A gracious nod from Coran. "And with the situation as it is, I think the sooner you are officially wed the better."
"Yes!" exclaimed Lotor enthusiastically. He wanted nothing and no one to prevent this marriage from happening.
"As such, you should report to the castle seamstresses at your first convenient moment." Coran told him. "You need to be fitted for traditional wedding garb suitable for one that is marrying our princess."
"All right." Nodded Lotor, wondering how long it would take to get the clothing ready.
"Now, you mention this was only the first of the things you wanted to talk to me about?"
"Er yes. I don't know if Allura has broached the subject with you yet, but I would like to put in a formal request for Arus' aid in my campaign against my father." Lotor stated.
Coran nodded. "She has indeed spoke of her desire to help you. And I'll tell you now, Arus will do what it can to help you in this battle. Call it your hero's reward for the part you and your supporters played in keeping Arus free of King Zarkon's tyranny."
"I'd like to get started as soon as possible on training men." Lotor told him. "I also need to start making calls….I need to rally the support of the Drules on the home world if we are going to win this battle."
"Of course." Agreed Coran. "It will be an expensive campaign, and one that Arus alone cannot foot the bill."
"I wouldn't ask you too!" protested Lotor. "I am not without resources of my own, and if I can gain financial support from the nobles, Arus would be greatly relieved of much of the burden."
"Then I suggest you start making the calls." Coran said. "It is my understanding that King Zarkon has yet to learn of the defeat of his armada." A smile then. "Your General Pardust has been giving him the run around, feeding him lies that make him think the battle is going well."
Lotor chuckled at that. "And my father doesn't think to question where his commander is? Heh…he's a fool."
"Foolish or not, he is still a dangerous enemy." Coran warned, and Lotor nodded in agreement.
"He will be twice so when he learns of our plans against him!" He stood then, and Coran rose as well. "Now if you will excuse me…I have things to attend to." He smiled then. "You would not happen to know where my mate Allura is?"
Coran blinked at his choice in words, but was otherwise without comment on that. With a shrug of his shoulders, he hazard a guess that perhaps Allura was in the castle gardens. Lotor smiled and thanked him, hurrying off to find his mate.


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Searcys, a prominent hospitality and restaurant group which celebrated its 170th anniversary last year, is proud to have honoured the very best of its teams at the Searcys Annual Awards in London, on 18 January 2018. It was a truly spectacular night that recognised the high standard of staff excellence across their portfolio of restaurants, bars and venues.
The event provided a much-valued opportunity to present the company's achievements to an audience of 150 guests, including catering managers, chefs and sales and marketing teams from 29 different venues.
The conference was followed by the awards ceremony that honoured key staff nominated by their peers in 9 categories. 10-11 Carlton House Terrace took home two awards: Venue of the Year, a category which recognised exceptional teams that delivered innovation and value to the business and the Chef of the Year award, scoffed by chef Valeria Di Rita.
With a longstanding heritage of innovation and quality, Searcys is a prominent hospitality and restaurant group, founded in 1847 by the pastry chef to the Duke of Northumberland.
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The legal opinion of the Monsanto Tribunal has been spread to all corners of the world by social and official media. We have sent the text to a wide range of organizations and legal associations. We have not stopped Monsanto and its toxic business yet – but, of course, no one expected it would be that easy.
However, it has been a major step towards a world without toxic chemicals. Monsanto is in trouble, not only because of the tribunal, but for many reasons: the authorization of Monsanto's flagship Roundup (and its ingredient glyphosate) is expiring in the EU. People no longer accept damage to their health and sue Monsanto in court. The Tribunal and court cases have been exposing the way Monsanto works, and this helps to inspire others to show the true cost of Monsanto's business. Films and books are released on this important topic as you can read below. Out in the fields, nature defends itself: more and more weeds are resistant to Roundup! Monsanto's 'solution' to this problem, another very toxic herbicide dicamba – turns out to be a complete failure.
All this indicates that Monsanto's toxic agriculture and extortion have reached their limits. An ever-growing number of people understand that we can and have to feed the world without poisoning it. A recent UN Report denounced the myth that pesticides are necessary to feed the world. We should reward farmers and not exploit them, we can work with nature instead of waging a war against it.
Please, help us to make that happen: spread the word, help in the different campaigns and donate if you can to make our work possible.
The license for glyphosate, active ingredient of Roundup, is expiring in the EU and it has created a huge discussion. Over 1.3 million EU citizens have signed an official request to ban glyphosate, to reform the pesticide approval procedure, and to set EU-wide mandatory reduction targets for pesticide use. In the discussion it has become clear that the report by Food Authority EFSA – based on a report by the German regulatory agency BfR – is not independent and relies heavily on studies by Monsanto and other large companies. The report even copied part of the text from a Monsanto study.
On the 11th of October there will be an official hearing in the EU Parliament. Monsanto has been invited but will not show up, nor will BfR. Soon the EU member states will have to cast their vote for the final decision. One of the largest, France, has previously announced it would vote against the renewal of the license for glyphosate.
Look here for a comprehensive timeline of events in this very important issue.
Over this year, an incredible amount of secret documents from various industries and companies were made public. In March 2017, an American Judge ruled – over Monsanto's objections – that certain internal documents could be unsealed in the frame the multidistrict litigation glyphosate cancer case. Observers were quick to rename these documents the 'Monsanto Papers'.
In addition, 100,000 pages of documents (testimonies, unpublished studies, meeting minutes…) obtained through lawsuits against chemical companies and U.S. regulation agencies were collected by environmental activists. They were made publicly available through a project called the Poison Papers. With such documents out, it becomes increasingly 'difficult' for companies like Monsanto to deny accusations of concealment, deception or collusion.
Consumers' groups have been conducting a series of tests with food products in the U.S. Glyphosate was found in many of them, including the famous 'all natural' Ben & Jerry's ice creams, from the company Unilever. The Organic Consumers Association is now pushing the brand to go organic, if it really wants 'to make the world a better place' as advertised. Help them and sign their open letter.
Shortly after the OCA, the French organisation Générations Futures conducted tests on food products found in supermarkets and found out that 53% of them contained glyphosate residues. Such results show the pervasive nature of glyphosate-containing herbicides. Combined with the important work of health and environmental organizations, they should carry weight on the debates over glyphosate re-authorization in the EU.
This new investigation by Marie-Monique Robin – maker of the brilliant documentary The World According to Monsanto – will be broadcast in French and German on ARTE TV channel on October 17th. For several months, the journalist followed Roundup victims and experts from all over the world, revealing a massive health and environmental scandal. Like the trailer, the DVD version will also include English subtitles. Watch the trailer and order your copy in advance.
Dr. Shiv Chopra was one of three Health Canada veterinary scientists who spoke out in the 1990s. He denounced the pressure from their bosses to approve drugs (including the infamous bovine growth hormone rBST), despite concerns about its safety. He accused the federal government of allowing corporations to influence the approval process for veterinary drugs and inadequately protecting the food system. He and his colleagues, Dr. Haydon and Dr. Lambert, were eventually fired in 2004 for insubordination. Unlike Chopra, Haydon and Lambert previously won the right to be reinstated because previous suspensions had been wiped from their records.
After retirement, Chopra founded an organization called the Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and Health and has been a public speaker and expert witness. He still has concerns about five classes of products used in the food system – hormones, antibiotics, slaughterhouse byproducts used in animal feed, pesticides and genetically modified organisms. 'The cause and the issue is still there,' he said.
Read more about that case and watch Dr. Chopra's testimony at the Monsanto Tribunal.
There has been a lot of public pressure on the merger authorities to prevent the Bayer – Monsanto merger. Too much power, bad for farmers and consumers is the general opinion. The EU Commission has now launched an in-depth investigation. However, we should not be too optimistic, for in the past nine out of ten of all mergers were approved.
This comprehensive 160-page brochure describes in German and French what happened during the Monsanto Tribunal. It is printed and distributed in Switzerland. If we can raise the necessary funds, we will also make an international version.
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The funds raised to organize the Monsanto Tribunal and the outreach have now come to an end. None of the speakers and witnesses have received any money except travel expenses. Most of the organisation work has been done by volunteers, only a small part of the staff has received a very moderate salary during the preparations. We are proud that we have been able to achieve this very important work with your support!
- We would need €6,000 for the translation of the above-mentioned brochure about the Monsanto Tribunal into English and Spanish.
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Ruling elites have three basic ways to keep the subject population under their thumb: threaten, bribe, and bamboozle. Everything they do is a variant of one or more of these basic actions. So, if the lush, misleading overgrowth were cut away, all government activities could be undertaken by only three departments: the Department of Cops and Soldiers; the Department of Santa Claus; and the Department of Delusion. However, if such a drastic, visible simplification were undertaken, the efficacy of the bamboozlement would be greatly diminished. It would be a public disservice, of course, to load more truth on the people than they can stand.


Satirical cartoon character Polly Bean has become the first fictional supermodel to be 'signed up' to the Special Division of Premier Model Management.
Known as one of the top modelling agencies, with alumni faces such as Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista, Premier recently invited the world into their hectic London office. The seven-part fly-on-the-wall documentary, 'The Model Agency', was shown on channel four in February 2011. The programme was a surprising, fascinating, bitchy and perhaps just a little bit controversial portrayal of Carol White's agency. Throughout, White was the head-strong, eccentric protagonist, so it's hardly a surprise that Polly Bean would choose to partner with Premier.
Burberry: From Plough Horse to Thoroughbred?
For some time I've wanted to write an article about the change in Burberry as a business, about the time I had a lecture with Christopher Bailey, which was the same week I attended a Q&A with Colin McDowell (who talked about Burberry), and the time I went to Burberry AW '10 at LFW.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Fourteen years ago, Burberry was all but put out to pasture, suffering from a dusty image and its logo being pasted on cake tins, doilies and aprons. Rose-Marie Bravo was put in the saddle and took Burberry for a ride down Chav lane to the gates of the luxury racecourse. Despite doing a great job in fixing Burberry over her nine-year tenure, setting the foundations for her successor and consistently beating market expectations, the jury was still out as to whether Burberry could ever become a thoroughbred luxury brand.
The next phase of growth was spearheaded by Angela Ahrendts, who joined Burberry in 2006. Since her arrival Burberry has galloped to the top of the luxury valuation leaderboard, more than doubling in turnover and market capitalisation to £1.5 billion and £5.8 billion respectively, twice the rate of growth of LVMH's turnover and market value over the same period.
The recent results announcement was very strong with revenue growth of 27 percent and operating profit increasing 37 percent. However, initial market reaction was muted by the company's warning that more investment was required in its flagships and that margin growth would suffer in the short term as a result.
In this article we will examine how far the brand has come, where the potential for growth lies and what pitfalls it may encounter along the way.


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Spokane makes a play for superstar city jobs — that will be a heavy lift
Part of the downtown skyline of Spokane. (JEFF T. GREEN / AP, 2001)
Jon Talton
Special to The Seattle Times
The mayor of Spokane is looking to lure jobs from Seattle and other cities. Good luck.
No snark. I wish him well. Competition is good for everybody. Elevating the economy of Washington's second-largest city would be good for the state, too.
More than boosterism is involved in Spokane's effort. More even than the normal focus of local politicians on jobs (some pols here in Seattle seem to regard them, especially the well-paid ones coveted by places such as Spokane, as a curse).
Spokane needs to up its game if it wants to catch some of the better-performing metros its size. The metro area's performance during this long expansion has been mixed at best, boosterism notwithstanding.
This old railroad-and-natural-resources capital is emblematic of the challenges facing numerous American inland metros. Yes, it's cheaper to buy a house but most wages are lower, too. The migration from the coasts that urban scholars often advocate isn't happening in a way that helps many "left behind" places.
Spokane's labor force is at a record high, yes. Manufacturing employment has crept up from its Great Recession low, too. But it remains well below not only its levels of the 1990s but also the 2000s.
Overall job creation is a challenge.
In March, the most recent month with seasonally adjusted data, metro Spokane's unemployment rate was 5.5%. That compares with 3.9% for Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue. Spokane's rate typically runs higher than Seattle. Nationally, the rate was 3.8%.
Higher joblessness is not necessarily a problem of all midsized cities beyond the coasts. Harrisburg, Penn., and Chattanooga, Tenn., both with similar population to Spokane, clocked in at 3.3%. Elsewhere in the Intermountain West, Boise's unemployment rate in March was 2.7%. Salt Lake City was 2.9%.
The poverty rate is high in Spokane, too, 19.4%, compared with the national average of 12.3%.
The Milken Institute's latest Best Performing Cities report ranked Spokane 103 overall, out of 200 U.S. metropolitan areas. (Seattle-Bellevue-Everett was No. 8). Provo-Orem, Utah, with a similar population to Spokane, ranked No. 1.
Spokane's largest employers are typical of underperforming metros — health care, tribal casino, Walmart and government, especially Fairchild Air Force Base.
Nor would it be easy for Spokane to poach prime pieces of metro Seattle's remarkably diverse economic base.
Only about 3,000 people there work in the information sector, out of a total civilian workforce of 257,000.
Only 29.5% of adults in Spokane have a bachelor's degree or higher. That's just below the national average of 30%. Nearly 62% of Seattle residents meet this metric of a highly educated locality.
Spokane County is very red. In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump stomped Hillary Clinton by 48.1% to 39.7%.
Put all this together and it means Spokane would have a very hard time attracting prime technology talent and high-end offices of Big Tech, as well as minting startups. These typically happen in highly educated, tolerant blue regions.
Spokane is home to Gonzaga University, a well-regarded Roman Catholic institution; Whitworth University, a small Presbyterian liberal-arts college, and satellites of Washington State University and Eastern Washington University. WSU's new Elson Floyd College of Medicine and other health-science programs are located there.
Still, a 2017 report by the Milken Institute on technology transfer by universities — a key element of growing a tech economy by commercializing research — ranked UW No. 7. Spokane's institutions of higher education did not place among the 225 institutions examined.
For all these reasons, Spokane didn't stand a chance of landing Amazon HQ2. It also lacks the 1 million population requirement and major airport, and is car-dependent with minimal transit.
That didn't stop Spokane leaders from submitting a two-inch thick proposal to Amazon, joining 238 other localities competing for the prize.
Spokane has pluck and ambition, if not all the assets necessary to bring in the top layers of technology or other advanced industries, or to capitalize on the enduring "back to the city" movement craved by young talent.
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All that said, Spokane has many lovely areas and some great urban bones, many the remnant of its wealthy days. Unlike many left-behind cities, it has a real downtown with architectural variety and a beautiful park — home to the Expo '74 world's fair — as well as luxury apartments in the former Macy's building. Enchanting wilderness is nearby.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a study that showed Spokane among the top cities in the country with so-called opportunity jobs for people without college degrees. Newcomers from a variety of backgrounds find it a great place to live.
Seattleites weary of the city's in-your-face liberalism might be happy to know that Spokane outlawed camping on public land.
Still, I doubt the mayor and other officials can persuade many companies in cities such as Seattle and Denver to move there, beyond relocating lower-end assets. Amazon is opening a "fulfillment center" (read large warehouse).
Spokane might have better luck recruiting assets from non-superstar cities.
It might learn some lessons from Orem-Provo. In ranking it No. 1 among best-performing metros, Milken cited "a dynamic high-tech sector, educated workforce, and business-friendly tax and regulatory climate."
But the Utah metro is a close commute to Salt Lake City, a blue island with the University of Utah, and has established itself as a high-tech hub. Provo is connected to Salt Lake by commuter rail.
Essential to this success has been the leadership and cohesion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Provo is home to the church-owned Brigham Young University. Both the University of Utah and BYU have robust research capabilities.
So close and yet so far. Spokane's longtime enemy, especially after the railroads cut back and mining declined, is isolation.
Spokane is 288 miles from booming Seattle, but it might as well be 2,088.
Jon Talton retired in October 2019 after 12 years as economics columnist of The Seattle Times and 37 years in daily journalism. He's focusing full time on writing novels and history, and writing his personal blog, Rogue Columnist. You can reach him at jtalton@seattletimes.com.


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Santino (Sonny) Corleone is een personage uit Mario Puzo's roman De Peetvader (1969) en de verfilming The Godfather (1972). In het boek en de film is Sonny de oudste zoon van de New Yorkse maffiabaas Don Vito Corleone. Hij heeft twee broers, Michael Corleone en Fredo Corleone, en één zus, Connie Corleone. Hij heeft ook een geadopteerde broer, Tom Hagen.

In de film The Godfather wordt het personage van Sonny Corleone vertolkt door James Caan.

Rol in de Godfather Saga
Sonny is de impulsiefste en gewelddadigste van Vito's zonen. Bovendien heeft hij een zwak voor het vrouwelijk geslacht. Voor Michaels tijd als opvolger van Don Vito, is Sonny het meest van alle zonen betrokken bij de familiezaken. Zijn vader nam de schuld daarvoor op zich, omdat Sonny hem op jonge leeftijd Don Fanucci had zien vermoorden. Naast Sonny's gewelddadige natuur heeft hij ook een zachtere kant. Op 11-jarige leeftijd ontmoette hij Tom Hagen op straat. Hij nam de dakloze jongen mee naar huis en Hagen bleef sindsdien bij de familie wonen.

De normale gang van zaken in Sonny's leven wordt verstoord wanneer Virgil Sollozzo met een voorstel om in de drugshandel te stappen naar Don Vito komt. De Don weigert, maar Sonny toont in een moment van zwakte wel interesse in het voorstel van Sollozzo. De Don berispt hem daar dan ook voor. Sollozzo gelooft daarop echter dat als hij de Don uit de weg kan ruimen, Sonny wel in zee met hem zou gaan. Sollozzo beraamt vervolgens een (mislukte) aanslag op Don Corleone.

De peetvader geraakt wel zwaargewond en moet een lange weg afleggen om er weer bovenop te komen. In deze periode leidt Sonny de familiezaken. Hij bereidt een maffiaoorlog voor tegen Sollozzo en de Tattaglia's (die instonden voor Sollozzo). Sonny's broer, Michael, is vrijwilliger om Sollozzo en corrupte politiecommissaris McCluskey neer te schieten. Eerst is Sonny tegen dit idee, maar Michael weet hem te overtuigen. Ook komt Sonny erachter dat zijn zusje Connie al een lange tijd wordt mishandeld door zijn schoonbroertje Carlo Rizzi. Dit pikt Sonny echter niet en pakt Carlo kort daarna terug. Dat doet hij door Carlo flink in elkaar te slaan en hem te laten liggen tussen de menigte die er ondertussen bij is gaan kijken. Hier breekt zijn vriendschap met Carlo.

In de oorlog met de familie Tattaglia geeft Sonny de opdracht tot het vermoorden van Bruno Tattaglia, zoon van de maffiabaas Philip Tattaglia. Als wraak wordt Carlo Rizzi, de echtgenoot van Connie Corleone en oud vriend van Sonny Corleone, benaderd door Don Emilio Barzini om mee te helpen bij het opzetten van een val voor Sonny. Carlo gaat akkoord en om Sonny buiten te lokken, slaat Carlo opnieuw zijn vrouw Connie. Connie belt daarop het huis van haar ouders, waar ze Sonny uiteindelijk aan de lijn krijgt. Die snelt in razernij naar zijn wagen om naar Connie toe te komen en Carlo nogmaals aan te pakken. Zonder lijfwachten rijdt hij richting stad. Wanneer hij aan een tolhuisje arriveert, wordt hij door een stel maffiosi met machinegeweren neergeschoten. Hij sterft op 31-jarige leeftijd. Sonny's dood brengt Don Vito tot het voorstellen van een wapenstilstand.

Na Vito's dood neemt de nieuwe Don, Michael Corleone, wraak op Carlo Rizzi voor zijn aandeel in de moord op zijn broer Sonny Corleone. Ook rekent hij af met de leiders van de Five Families onder wie Philip Tattaglia.

Rol in de Godfather Sequels
Op het eind van The Godfather part II maakt Sonny nog een kort optreden in een flashback. In dit fragment zitten Sonny, Michael, Connie, Fredo, Tom Hagen en Carlo Rizzi aan tafel te wachten op de Don. Je krijgt te zien dat Sonny Carlo voorstelt aan zijn zus Connie. Michael vertelt in dit fragment dat hij zich als vrijwilliger in het leger heeft opgegeven om te vechten in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Sonny wordt kwaad omwille van die beslissing en zegt dat Michael zijn leven gaat wagen voor vreemdelingen.

Corleone, Sonny

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Life is full of storms. Following Jesus is no "get-out-of-storms free" card. We need hope to make it through life's storms. God gives us His hope as an anchor for our souls. God's promises are anchors for our souls.


The Nucleus from Rab returns for another season at The Outdoor Depot, this time as a Hoody. It's a firm favourite with it's old school charm which reminds us of the Lowe Alpine Micro Grid fleece. It is lightweight but should not be underestimated as it provides great warmth as a mid layer.


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PARISH COMMISSIONS: All parish organizations, clubs and societies relate to the parish through one of the Parish Commissions: Finance, Worship, Education and Christian Service.
Finance Commission: The Administration Commission has as its task the temporal atmosphere of the parish. Working with the Pastor and Business Administrator, they prepare both a Budget and Financial Report for the Pastoral Council. During the year they oversee the monthly income and expenditures of all areas of the parish. They are also concerned with the physical properties of the parish and are engaged in long term financial and temporal planning.
Worship Commission: Worship at the Sunday liturgy is the central focus of our lives as members of the Catholic Church. It is the time that we as a Christian Community come together to share the mystery of Jesus' presence in the Eucharist. It is important for all of us as members of this community to become involved as much as possible in making the liturgy a special time. The Parish Worship Commission co-ordinates all those involved in the worship of the parish: Ministers of the Word, Ministers of the Eucharist, Choir, Folk Group, Ushers Club and Altar Servers.
Education Commission: The passing on of the faith to future generations is a major work of the parish. The Education Commission oversees all the different educational activities of the parish, including, but not limited to Parish Schools, Religious education and Adult education.
Parish Schools: Our Lady of the Lakes Parish School is the only PreK-12 Catholic school on one campus in Oakland County.
High School Our Lady of the Lakes Parish High School has provided quality, value-centered education to parishioners and others since 1962. The students of our coeducational high school attend many fine universities each year. Competitively priced, our school provides a full array of curricular and extracurricular activities. As the home of 16 state championships, our students also proudly carry on the tradition of athletic excellence in a Catholic environment.
Middle School Established in 1998, Our Lady of the Lakes Parish Middle School has provided quality educational opportunities to 6th-8th grade children in a Catholic environment. Realizing the special care that students of this age require, an administrator was assigned specifically to this level. Class sizes were lowered and our curriculum was strengthened in the areas of computer, art, and foreign language. Our middle school students continue to find success in the classroom and on the athletic fields.
Elementary School: Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Parish Elementary School offers a strong curriculum intended to challenge students to grow academically and spiritually to reach their full potential. Our curriculum includes Religion, Mathematics, Science, Reading, Writing, English, Phonics, Spelling, Handwriting, Social Studies, Spanish, Computers, Art, Music, Physical Education, and Media instruction and adheres to state standards. Please visit our website at www.ollonline.org for further information.
Religious Education: Our Religious Education Program provides formal catechetical instruction for children 4 years of age through 8th grade. Our programs are coordinated with the parish grade and middle schools to offer a consistent program throughout the parish. Sacramental instruction for Eucharist, Reconciliation and Confirmation is also provided.
Pre-School – ages 4 and 5: This program meets Sunday morning during the 9:30 and 11:00 Masses.
Grades 1-8: Elementary Religious Education meets on Tuesdays, Grades 1-8 at 6:15pm, and on Wednesdays, Grades 1-8 meet at 4:30 p.m. and 6:15 pm.
R.C.I.A. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a process designed for adults who are thinking of becoming Catholic, for those who know that they want to become Catholic as well as for those who have been baptized but have not yet completed their Sacraments of Initiation (Eucharist and/or Confirmation). Classes meet September through April.
R.C.I.C. (Rite of Christian Initiation for Children) Please call the Religious Education Center for more information.
Christian Service: The Christian Service Commission depends largely on volunteers to run its programs. You as a parishioner of Our Lady of the Lakes Parish are encouraged to be involved with those projects you find interesting and worthwhile. Giving of our time and talent is what being a Christian is all about.
Funeral Luncheon Team: Assist bereaved families at the time of a funeral by serving a luncheon. Sign up to prepare a specific dish for a luncheon or to be a server.
Right To Life: The Right To Life Commission helps by keeping life issues before the parish. Life is God's great gift and it must be cherished at all its stages. The committee provides educational programs, assistance to the Pregnancy Center of Waterford, sale of RTL Christmas cards, Mother's Day carnations and Father's Day candy bars.
Home, Hospital and Nursing Home Visits: Visit members of the parish who may need company, or the Eucharist at your leisure.
Food Cupboard Support: O.L.L. helps support local area food cupboards with weekly donations and seasonal food drives.
Hospitality: Help supply hospitality for various parish and church functions.
St. Vincent de Paul Society: O.L.L. has an active St. Vincent de Paul Society that helps those in our area who are in real need.
Parish Center Summer Office Hours
Mon – Wed: 8:00 am - 7:30 pm
Sunday : 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Parish Contact Info
Our Lady of the Lakes
Waterford, MI 48329
parishoffice@ollonline.org
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"Active Sessions" concept created by Mike Sang, giving life to his own Podcast!
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Troubled K. Hovnanian sells part of Coral Springs community to Brookfield
Homes at Coral Lago start in the mid $400Ks
Feb.February 01, 2019 02:30 PM
Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield Asset Management (Credit: Zillow)
The troubled homebuilder K. Hovnanian just sold a large portion of its new home community in Coral Springs to a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management for $17.6 million.
Brookfield Holdings Lago bought 119 plots at K. Hovnanian's Coral Lago development, property records show. The rest of the homes and plots were previously sold to individual owners.
A Blackstone affiliate bought the site in 2015 for $12.1 million, giving Hovnanian the option of buy lots and build new homes.
Prices at the community start in the mid $400,000's. Coral Lago has five home designs with one to two stories, three to five bedrooms, up to three-and-a-half baths and two-car garages.
K. Hovnanian, a New Jersey-based homebuilder, has a number of projects in South Florida and throughout the country. In January, its parent company warned that its stock could be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange for falling under $1, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company's issues stem from piling up lots of debt before the financial crisis.
Brookfield is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S. It announced this week that it closed on a $15 billion property fund. Brookfield has already made 10 investments using more than $5 billion from the fund, including its purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue from the Kushners and its privatization of Forest City Realty Trust.
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The names of the licensed manufactured home set-up contractor.
The size, year, and model of the home.
If you are relocating a used manufactured home, either within Lee County or from another North Carolina county, you are required by state law to obtain a manufactured home tax moving permit from the tax office of the county the home was previously located in.
Note: A homeowner may set-up his own home, however, in order to do his own wiring the owner will have to pass a test administered by the Inspections Department proving that he has adequate knowledge of the necessary electrical codes.
The requirements for locating a manufactured home in Lee County depend upon where you want to locate the home. The City of Sanford regulates the location of manufactured homes within the city limits and in an area which extends approximately one mile past the city limits. Similarly, the Town of Broadway regulates the location of manufactured homes within the town limits and in an area which extends approximately one half mile past the town limits. (Contact the City of Sanford Inspections and Planning Department if your property is within these areas.) Lee County regulates the location of manufactured homes in the remaining portion of the County. Contact the Planning Department if your property is within Lee County's jurisdiction.
Pay for the application fee with the Lee County Inspections Department for the Environmental Health. The Environmental Health Department will need to do a soil evaluation for the suitability of locating a well and septic tank. The Heath Department must re-evaluate the lot if an existing septic tank or a perk test for a new system on a new lot. The Health Department may require more land area than the minimum area the Planning Department indicated was necessary. An evaluation of the lot by the Health Department is not required if the lot is served by both public water and sewer.
It is the owner of the manufactured home's responsibility to obtain the permit. Therefore, after you have your approval from the Health Department, bring your well and septic permit from their offices to the Inspections Department to obtain your set-up permit.
The Inspections Department will not issue a set-up permit without the Health and Planning Departments approval.
Pre-Inspection: Everything under the home must be approved before under skirting. Inside electrical must also be checked.
Final Inspection: After under skirting is in place and approved steps are in place.
Note: All manufactured housing cited in Lee County must be under skirted with weather resistant material or under pinned with masonry foundation before power can be turned on.


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PERC 2007 will commence with an Invited Talk & Panel Discussion Session (Wednesday -- 2:00-4:00). Three invited speakers will present their research focused on the conference theme. Each invited talk will be 30 minutes long. A 30 minute panel discussion will follow the three talks.
There will be a second Invited Talk & Panel Discussion Session (Thursday -- 10:00-12:00). Three invited speakers will present their research focused on the conference theme. Each invited talk will be 30 minutes long. A 30 minute panel discussion will follow the three talks.
There will be an invited talk following the Luncheon Banquet (Thursday --12:00-1:30).
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Roundtable discussions allow maximum interaction with the presenters by eliminating the formal didactic presentation. There will be opportunity for discussion on Wednesday evening, concurrent with the Contributed Poster Session. Individual presenters are assigned tables in a meeting room where interested persons may gather for discussion with the presenter about his or her paper or project. This format is particularly appropriate for papers addressing topics best pursued through extensive discussion. Authors are encouraged to bring copies of the full paper or summaries and to remain available for discussion throughout the session.
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AMC's Mad Men featured narcissistic, misogynistic and jaded characters like Roger Sterling… but their clean and polished outward demeanor struck a chord with audiences over the past few years.
Why? As they rode the crashing wave of the "We" generation into the mid 1960's (through the tipping point at the beginning of the "Me" cycle), they had characteristics reminiscent of both the "Me" and the "We" cycles – outwardly conservative and inwardly hedonistic.
As we are freshly out of the parallel tipping point back into the "We", we recognize and relate to the "Me"-oriented lust for gratification (We are freshly out of a "Me" cycle after all), but we also grow nostalgic of the clean cut and orderly appearance they flaunted at the end of their era.
We are at the cusp of a fundamental shift in values, equal and opposite to that of the early 1960′s America, one that the Mad Men found themselves fumbling to keep up with.
So. Going forward, why might you see young men casually sporting pin-stripe suits, pocket squares and wingtips over the next few years?
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est le titre d'une chanson de Don McLean, auteur-compositeur-interprète de rock américain, qui rend principalement hommage aux rockeurs morts dans un accident d'avion le , « le jour où la musique est morte » (The Day the Music Died en anglais).

Enregistrée et diffusée en 1971, elle est le premier titre de l'album du même nom. À sa sortie en simple, en 1972, elle fut en tête des ventes pendant quatre semaines. Longue de huit minutes et demie, la chanson relate l'histoire du rock 'n' roll à travers une série d'allusions, de l'accident d'avion en 1959 où sont morts Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens et J.P. Richardson Jr., au début des années 1970, époque à laquelle est composée la chanson.

L'interprétation des paroles de la chanson est l'objet de nombreuses controverses. Si McLean a clairement dédicacé l'album à Buddy Holly, la chanson ne mentionne explicitement qu'un nom de chanteur, John Lennon. Si certaines des allusions sont aisément décodées, d'autres suscitent de longs débats, que Don McLean a refusé de trancher. Ainsi, à un journaliste lui demandant des explications sur les paroles, Don McLean répondait : .

American Pie fait partie du patrimoine musical américain, et à ce titre, la chanson a été de nombreuses fois reprise, parodiée et commentée.

La chanson a été adaptée en français par Claude François, avec pour titre Feu de paille, face B du 45 tours Quand l'épicier ouvre sa boutique sorti en .
Dans le texte, le chanteur justifie son virage artistique, passant des adaptations soul et pop rock américaines de la Tamla Motown, à une variété plus populaire.

Enregistrement et sortie
L'enregistrement dAmerican Pie s'est déroulé le . Son premier passage radio a lieu un mois plus tard, le , en hommage à la fermeture de la légendaire scène rock de New York, Fillmore East, prévue le lendemain. Le single sort finalement en 45 tours en octobre, avec Empty Chairs sur la face B. Le mois suivant, la version longue de la chanson — plus de huit minutes — sort également : la chanson est alors répartie sur les deux faces du disque. Les singles sont édités par le label United Artists.

American Pie apparaît dans les classements de Billboard le  et atteint la première position le , qu'il garde jusqu'au .

Interprétations
Le site de Don McLean décrit ainsi le sens dAmerican Pie :

Reprises
 1972 : Claude François - Feu de paille
 2000 : Madonna - American Pie
 2013 : The King's Singers - Original Album Classics
 2021 : Home Free - American pie

Reprise de Madonna

American Pie est reprise par la chanteuse américaine Madonna dans une version pop/dance pour la bande originale du film Un couple presque parfait. Cette version dure 4 minutes 32. Elle est enregistrée en  et est publiée en

Dans une scène du film Un couple presque parfait, Abbie, le personnage principal et ses amis assistent aux funérailles d'un ami emporté par le sida et lors de l'inhumation, ceux-ci chantent un morceau d'. Après avoir tourné la scène, Rupert Everett convainc Madonna d'enregistrer sa propre version de la chanson et de l'inclure dans la bande originale du film.
La chanson a finalement été  produite par William Orbit qui avait déjà travaillé avec la chanteuse sur l'album .

Le titre est donc disponible sur la B.O. mais également comme titre bonus sur l'album , sauf aux États-Unis. Dans une interview accordée à Jo Whiley sur la  en 2001, Madonna admet avoir regretté cette décision car elle avait été contrainte d'ajouter le titre sur  à cause des pressions exercées par un cadre de sa maison de disques. Ainsi, le titre n'apparait pas sur la compilation GHV2.

Clip vidéo
Réalisée par Philipp Stölzl le  à Londres, la vidéo rend hommage aux années 1970, la période à laquelle la chanson fut réalisée la première fois. Madonna danse devant un drapeau américain géant, et certaines prises montrent des gens ordinaires, des enfants, une femme dans un magasin, des familles multiethniques qui posent pour une photo, un couple gay et lesbien qui s'embrassent. Il existe encore deux versions du clip affublées des remixes de Richard 'Humpty' Vission (les versions les plus utilisées par les radios), une version a été également produite par Dan-O-Rama Productions ainsi qu'une version montrant des images du film mais qui ne sera pas diffusée.

 Directeur : Philipp Stölzl
 Producteur : J.P. Fox
 Directeur de la photographie : John Mathieson
 Montage : Sven Budelmann
 Compagnie productrice : Oil Factory Inc.

Classements, volumes et certifications

Classements Mondiaux

Classements Billboard

Reprise de Home Free
Le , le groupe de country a cappella Home Free sort une nouvelle reprise de la chanson, d'une durée analogue à la version originale, et en collaboration avec Don McLean. C'est la première fois, en cinquante ans, que l'artiste originel enregistre une nouvelle version de sa chanson.

Intervenant dans le contexte de la crise sanitaire mondiale de covid-19, la chanson est accompagnée d'une collecte de fond en faveur de la NIVA Emergency Relief Fund, une association récoltant de l'argent pour soutenir les musiciens et producteurs en difficulté, les concerts et évènements musicaux étant pour la plupart annulés. La vidéo accompagnant la chanson sur YouTube, montrant les cinq chanteurs et Don McLean devant un montage de films et d'images de l'époque de la première version de la chanson, collecte au total plus de , en ayant fait environ de visionnages.

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Articles connexes
 American Pie (album)
 The Day the Music Died

Chanson interprétée par Don McLean
Chanson de rock américaine
Single musical sorti en 1971
Chanson de 1971
Single numéro un dans le Top Singles de RPM
Single numéro un dans le Billboard Hot 100
Single numéro un dans le Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
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Single numéro un en Irlande
Single numéro un en Finlande
Single numéro un au Royaume-Uni
Grammy Hall of Fame Award
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Single publié par Maverick Records
Single numéro un en Allemagne
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Single publié par United Artists Records


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Annie Dunman Ure (nacida Hunt, 3 de enero de 1893 - 13 de julio de 1976) fue una arqueóloga inglesa, que de 1922 a 1976 fue la primera conservadora del Museo de Arqueología Griega de Ure. Ella y su marido Percy Ure llevaron a cabo importantes excavaciones en Ritsona en Beocia, Grecia, convirtiéndola en una de las primeras mujeres arqueólogas en dirigir una excavación en Grecia.

Biografía
Annie Dunman Hunt nació en Worcester el 3 de enero de 1893, hija de George Henry Hunt, un relojero y joyero, y su esposa Elizabeth Ann. En su infancia, asistió a la Escuela Stoneycroft, un internado para niñas en Southport, y en 1911, Hunt fue aceptada en la Universidad de Reading como lectora de clásicos. Como Reading no tenía aún un estatuto universitario, recibió su bachiller universitario en letras en la Universidad de Londres en 1914.  Después de estar durante a Primera Guerra Mundial enseñando en el departamento de Clásicos de la universidad, se casó con su antiguo profesor Percy Ure en 1918, quien había pedido personalmente a Hunt que sustituyera a los miembros del personal que habían sido reclutados en la guerra.

En los años 1921 y 1922, los Ures excavaron en la aldea griega de Ritsona, Beocia, reanudando las excavaciones que habían sido iniciadas por Percy y Ronald M. Burrows entre 1905 y 1909. Se creía que el sitio correspondía a la antigua necrópolis de Micaleso, una ciudad mencionada en la Historia de la guerra del Peloponeso de Tucídides que había sufrido una masacre a manos de mercenarios tracios. Centradas principalmente en los entierros, las excavaciones produjeron una importante cantidad de cerámica beocia, que fueron importantes en su contribución a la clasificación y datación de la cerámica griega.  Percy y Annie fueron coautores de varios libros importantes sobre los hallazgos en Ritsona, y en 1922 fundaron el Museo de Arqueología Griega de Reading. Ure asumió un papel honorario como su primer conservador, posición que mantuvo hasta su muerte. Durante estos años viajó para estudiar e investigar en museos de toda Europa, y fue elegida como miembro correspondiente del Instituto Arqueológico Alemán. Annie también enseñó en la Abbey School de Reading  y en el Departamento de Clásicos de la Universidad de Reading.  Juntos, los Ure publicaron más de cincuenta artículos sobre la cerámica griega, hasta la muerte de Percy en 1950.

En 1954, Ure publicó un volumen escrito en colaboración junto con su difunto marido en la serie internacional Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, que cubría aproximadamente la mitad de la actual colección del Museo de Ure. Esta monografía fue descrita como un «monumento a su exigente diligencia», y cubría «estilos y clases de cerámica griega menos conocidos, que rara vez se encuentran en las placas de otros fascículos», y «recibió una gran aclamación» en una reunión académica en Lyon en 1956.

Ure murió el 13 de julio de 1976, a la edad de 83 años, diez días después de recibir un Doctorado Honorario de la Universidad de Reading. Le sobrevivieron sus dos hijos, Bill y Jean.

Publicaciones
A. Ure. 1922 A Black-figure Fragment in the Dorset Museum, Journal of Hellenic Studies 42: 192-97.
P. Ure and A. Ure. 1927. Sixth and Fifth Century Pottery from Rhitsona. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
A. Ure. 1929 Boeotian geometricising vases. JHS 49: 160-171.
P. Ure and A. Ure. 1954. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain 12. Reading 1. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
A. Ure. 1955 Krokotos and White Heron. Journal of Hellenic Studies 75: 90-103.
A. Ure. 1955. Threshing-floor or Vineyard. Classical Quarterly n.s. 5: 225-30.
A. Ure. 1958 The Argos Painter and the Painter of the Dancing Pan. American Journal of Archaeology 62: 389-95.
A. Ure. 1962 Boetian pottery from the Athenian Agora. Hesperia 31: 369-77.

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Published works by Annie Dunman Ure

Arqueólogas
Arqueólogos del Reino Unido del siglo XX
Alumnado de la Universidad de Reading
Profesores de la Universidad de Reading
Estudiosos de la alfarería y cerámica de la Antigua Grecia


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Two women pushing baby carriages down a Palm Beach County sidewalk were seriously hurt when a teen driver in a stolen SUV struck another vehicle and jumped the curb, police said.
The morning mayhem was triggered when a 16-year-old driver in a stolen Chevy Tahoe ran through a red light on North Palm Beach near the intersection of Limestone Creek catching the attention of police, who then began chasing him.
The driver was speeding and ran another red light, slamming into a Nissan Pathfinder as it was traveling down Delray Beach Road.
The two cars careened in opposite directions and struck the women, who were walking along separate corners at the intersection cops said.
One of the women, a mom pushing her 2-year-old boy, was critically injured, officials said.
"She was bleeding out the head. It look like she was already dead. Then she started moving," said a 52-year old witness.
Miraculously, the baby was unharmed, he said.
"The baby carriage was flattened and collapse out on the curb. Then somebody else open the carriage and the baby was there like nothing happened," the man said, adding that the child had no visible injuries.
The woman was listed in critical condition at Palm Beach County Hospital. Her son only had minor injuries and was treated at the same hospital.
The other woman and the 10-month-old boy she was pushing were in stable condition.
The driver of the Chevy tried to run from the scene but police quickly took him into custody. Charges against him were pending.
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HRWize's cloud-based HRM solution can act as an organization's intranet, allowing its users—from employees, managers, and HR department—to seamlessly carry out tasks according to their roles. For employees, HRWize gives full visibility into their profile, including total compensation, performance reports, and goals, and even options to request for training. They can also request for leaves, or check for approvals through the platform.
On the other hand, the platform allows managers to view every detail of an employee. Through dashboards with in-built calendar, they can carry out simple tasks like approval of leaves, to complex ones like monitoring the employee progress. One of the most powerful features of the platform, performance management, allows managers to easily monitor and improve entire team's performance. The competency mapping feature helps managers verify employee performance benchmarks and choose the better candidate for promotion based on the employee's potential skills. Managers can also participate in the recruitment process. HRWize's applicant tracking tool and recruitment feature provide managers and recruiters with full access and visibility to candidates who have applied for specific job roles. While carrying out all these tasks, HRWize also acts as an engagement platform that can facilitate social recognition and interaction between the teams.
HRWize's proven capabilities have assisted various SMBs in successfully managing their HR administrative process for better results. For instance, one of HRWize's clients, a forward thinking firm implemented HRWize's performance program to carry out performance review sessions. As they progressed, the platform allowed the client to conduct review session every month, as opposed to just twice a year. With the active participation of managers and employees in the review sessions, the client was able to reduce the workforce turnover rate from 24 to 11 percent while improving their performance.
While offering a broad range of functionalities, Sally has kept HRWize surprisingly pocket-friendly for enterprises. Along with this, organizations get unlimited storage to save all policies, procedures and other documents and reports of employees in the organization. For the future, HRWize is looking to expand its internal team and growing their client base across different industries.


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