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is a Japanese light novel series written by Ao Jūmonji and illustrated by Eiri Shirai. The story follows a group of people who suddenly find themselves in a fantasy world with no memories from before their arrival, and chronicles their struggles to survive and make a life for themselves as volunteer soldiers.

Mutsumi Okubashi began serializing a manga adaptation in Gangan Joker in 2015. The novels were adapted into a 12-episode anime television series that ran from January to March 2016. An original video animation was released in March 2016. The anime is licensed in North America by Funimation as Grimgar, Ashes and Illusions, while J-Novel Club has acquired the rights to publish the original novels in English and Yen Press published the manga adaptation.

Plot
The story begins by showing a group of novice adventurers battling goblins in a forest. The party seems utterly out of their element and is forced to flee. It is revealed through a flashback that the party, which likely originates from modern Earth, awoke with a large group of people on this world just a few weeks ago.

With no memory of how they arrived and no other options they are quickly pressed into service as Trainee Volunteer Soldiers by a mysterious individual named Chief Britney. Some take to this better than others. The lead party is composed of the leftover individuals who did not.

Led by a man named Manato they have banded together, joined class guilds, and begun hunting weak monsters as a way to grow stronger and earn the money they need to survive. Initially things do not go well. Eventually, the party learns to work as a unit and experiences enough success hunting goblins to move from the forest to a ruined city. There, Manato dies saving them from ambush and leaves the responsibility for the group to the thief, Haruhiro.

Thrown into despair, the party is fractured and grieves for their lost friend, never having realized just how much Manato did to hold them all together. Once the party comes to terms with their loss, they take in a new Priest named Merry.

Merry is initially distant and broken from the loss of her own party, for which she blames herself, but gradually comes to regard Haruhiro and the party as friends though she remains distant. Back to full strength the party seeks to avenge Manato by striking at the heart of the goblin encampment in the ruins. After slaying the goblin king the party finds closure and decides to help Merry do the same by moving their monster hunting to the kobold-infested mines where her old party fell.

The season ends with Mary's past behind her and the surviving heroes coming to terms with the life and death nature of their time on the world of Grimgar.

Characters

Main characters

The thief of the group. Haruhiro is generally helpful and always willing to help out his party members. He is later forced to become the group's leader after Manato's death. Eventually he starts to pay more attention to his teammates' feelings, slowly improving as leader.

The dark knight of the group. He is brash, impulsive, and somewhat perverted, which leads him to constantly arguing with Haruhiro. Ranta is the troublemaker of the group constantly causing problems and making rash decisions for he has a slight hint of arrogance in his character. He is also the darkest at heart, repeatedly leaving the group to follow his own ambitions, though he also develops feelings for Yume.

Manato chose to become a Priest and ultimately assumed the role of the group's initial leader. He saw the positives in people and with that he was able to effectively strategize battle plans when the group began hunting goblins for the first time. As they progressed as a team, they began mapping out abandoned towns while hunting bigger goblin parties. However, while resting the group was ambushed by more goblins than they were accustomed to. Effectively moving his party to retreat, a goblin archer was able to successfully hit Manato square in the back as they ran away successfully. He died soon after. In a conversation after his death, Haruhiro mentioned that aside from missing his leadership and strategist plans, Manato was also a defensive tank like Moguzo and a front line attacker like Ranta.

Moguzo is the tallest and heaviest member of the group and hence chose to become a member of the Warrior guild. He wears the most ironclad armor and wields a wide blade broadsword that comes up to shoulder height. Although he is the most physically imposing, he challenges Shihoru for being the most soft spoken. On several occasions he will allow his friends to sleep in and will take their turn at cooking breakfast in the morning. He somewhat remembers doing this before and finding joy out of it. He also would carve wooden figurines of noteworthy quality in his spare time. Moguzo is eventually killed by exhaustion, and replaced by Kuzaku.

Brave and energetic, Yume is the Hunter of the group. She sees the rest of the group as family, and has a tendency to try and protect Shihoru because of her shy and timid nature. She later leaves the group for a six-month period to train.

The Mage of the group. She is shy, mainly opening up to Yume and, to an extent, Manato, whom she had feelings for. She also has an inferiority complex about herself, but gains confidence as the series goes on.

Joining shortly after Manato's death, Mary effectively replaces him as the Priest of the party. Initially, there is a lot of friction between Mary and the rest of the team, due to Manato's irreplaceability and Mary's seemingly uncaring personality. She was actually a lot like Manato, but after a tragic incident that led to the death of some of her friends, she became cold and aloof. However, after Haruhiro tells her about their own situation, she slowly opens to her new party. She calls Haruhiro by the nickname "Haru" ("Hiro" in the English anime dub due to Yume already calling him Haru), and the two eventually fall in love with each other.

The Paladin of the group who joins later, replacing Moguzo.

Supporting characters

A volunteer soldier who arrived at the same time as Haruhiro and the others, but graduated from his position as a trainee much sooner.

Supports Renji. He has brown hair with grey sides, and wears brown and metallic armor.

Supports Renji. He has dark hair and wears glasses. He wears a black robe with red trim and gold cuffs.

Supports Renji. She has long brown hair and a short brown dress and high boots.

Supports Renji. A petite girl with short blue hair, blue and white dress, and brown boots. She does not have a voice actress listed.

Leader of Team Orion and an acquaintance of Mary.

Supports Team Orion and Shinohara. Formerly supported Team Michiki and a friend of Mary.

Leader of Team Michiki. Became an undead following an unsuccessful battle against the savage kobold Death Spots.

Supports Michiki. Became an undead following an unsuccessful battle against the savage kobold Death Spots.

Supports Michiki. Became an undead following an unsuccessful battle against the savage kobold Death Spots.

A carefree man from Tokimune's team who introduced Mary to Haruhiro's team. He has messy brown hair, and wears a green and white robe that covers his brown outfit.

The Commanding Officer of Red Moon, which is Alterna Frontier Army's Reserve Force. Britney has short red hair with a purple streak, and wears a white vest and shorts, and black boots.

Haruhiro's Thief master. Barbara has short brown hair and wears glasses. She wears an outfit that has a brown band around her breasts and green shorts, and is outfitted with belts around her waist and legs to hold knives.

Manato's Priest master. Hōnen is a balding man with long white sideburns and beard. He wears a white robe with blue trim and gold vestment, and wields a staff.

Media

Light novel
The light novels are written by Ao Jūmonji and illustrated by Eiri Shirai, and are published by Overlap. The first volume was published in 2013. Online English light novel publisher J-Novel Club announced their acquisition of the series on October 28, 2016, and Seven Seas Entertainment publishes a print version as part of their collaboration with J-Novel Club.

Volume list

Manga
A manga adaptation by Mutsumi Okubashi began serialization in Square Enix's magazine Gangan Joker on 22 April 2015. North American publisher Yen Press announced their acquisition of the manga on 23 November 2016.

Volumes

Anime
An anime television series was written and directed by Ryosuke Nakamura and produced by A-1 Pictures. Mieko Hosoi acted as character designer. Both the opening theme song, "Knew day", and the ending theme, "Harvest", were performed by (K)NoW_NAME. The series was broadcast on AT-X, Tokyo MX, Nippon BS Broadcasting, and the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 11 January 2016 to 28 March 2016. Funimation acquired the rights to simulcast the series with an English dub in North America. The anime is listed with 6 Blu-ray and DVD volumes containing 2 episodes each, having a total of 12 episodes. Anime Limited will release the series in the UK.

A 10-minute original video animation numbered "episode 2.5" was bundled with the first Blu-ray and DVD volume of the anime, which was released on 16 March 2016. Toho streamed a promotional video for the OVA on 5 February 2016.

Episode list

Explanatory notes

References

External links
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Anime and manga based on light novels
Crunchyroll anime
Dark fantasy anime and manga
Gangan Comics manga
Isekai anime and manga
Isekai novels and light novels
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Seven Seas Entertainment titles
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Awesome Mix Vol. 2 tracklist: Fleetwood Mac, ELO and... The Hoff?
Of the many bits of genius in James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy, the use of music is one of the most commendable. The director not only put together an incredible mix of 70s and 80s staples, but he wove the soundtrack into the actual story in a way that fit the characters and markedly enhanced the film.
With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opening in just a few short weeks (May 5th), it looks like Gunn has done it again with the revelation of the tracklisting for the aptly titled Awesome Mix Vol. 2.
The sequel to one of the best selling vinyl records of recent times is here: presenting the tracklist to Awesome Mix Vol. 2.
There's plenty for music aficionados to love here, from Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra to Flash Light by Parliment. Even the most casual music fan can appreciate the inclusion of tracks like The Chain by Fleetwood Mac (apparently, the band had to watch the scene the song is used in before giving approval) and Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass.
There are also some deeper cuts, such as Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang by Silver and Jay and the Americans' Come a Little Bit Closer.
The final track on the album is one Gunn wrote alongside composer Tyler Bates to be the "Guardians take on Meco's disco Star Wars theme." It's a comedic number that features vocals by one of Peter Quill's (Chris Pratt) childhood heroes, the great David Hasselhoff.
Find the poster revealing the tracklisting below.
This article originally appeared on Consequence of Sound.
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La Selección femenina de fútbol de Gambia representa a Gambia en una competencia internacional de fútbol. A diciembre de 2019, el equipo solo ha competido en una competencia internacional importante, intentando clasificarse para la Copa de Naciones de África 2018. Gambia tiene dos equipos juveniles, un equipo menor de 17 años que compitió en las eliminatorias de la Copa Mundial Femenina Sub-17 de la FIFA, y un equipo menor de 19 años que se retiró de las eliminatorias regionales para una Copa Mundial Sub-20. El desarrollo de un equipo nacional enfrenta desafíos similares a los de África, aunque la asociación nacional de fútbol tiene cuatro miembros del personal que se centran en el fútbol femenino.

El equipo
En 1985, pocos países tenían equipos nacionales de fútbol femenino. Si bien el deporte ganó popularidad en todo el mundo en las últimas décadas, el equipo nacional de Gambia solo jugó su primer juego en 2007. Ese juego no fue reconocido por la FIFA.

La primera aparición del equipo nacional senior de Gambia en un evento importante ocurrió en abril de 2018 cuando perdieron un resultado de 1-2 en Burkina Faso en la primera ronda de clasificación para la Copa de Naciones de África 2018. En la segunda etapa del partido, Gambia produjo su propia victoria por 2-1. Como los resultados de ambas piernas fueron idénticos, se requirió un lanzamiento de penalti para determinar qué escuadrón avanzaría. Gambia convirtió los cinco penaltis y avanzó a la segunda ronda de clasificación. Gambia atrajo a la defensora de la campeona de la Copa de Naciones Nigeria como su oponente de la segunda ronda. No lograron anotar contra los Super Falcons, y fueron eliminados del torneo con una línea agregada de 0–7.

El país no tuvo un equipo nacional juvenil reconocido por la FIFA hasta 2012, cuando el equipo femenino sub-17 de Gambia compitió en los clasificatorios de la Confederación Africana de Fútbol para la Copa Mundial Sub-17 de la FIFA, que se celebrará en Azerbaiyán en septiembre de 2012. Gambia desplegó Un equipo sub-17 de 24 jugadores, reducido de un grupo inicial de 49 mujeres jóvenes. Dos chicas de la Aldea Infantil SOS Bakoteh fueron elegidas como miembros del equipo. Gambia jugó por primera vez con Sierra Leona en un par de partidos clasificatorios para el torneo. Gambia ganó el primer partido 3-0 en Banjul, la capital de Gambia. El partido de regreso se retrasó 24 horas y se jugó en Makeni. Gambia venció a Sierra Leona 4-3 para calificar para la ronda final. Gambia luego venció a Túnez 1–0 en casa y ganó 2–1 en Túnez. Adama Tamba y Awa Demba marcaron los goles de Gambia. El único gol de Túnez era un gol propio de Gambia. La victoria calificó a Gambia para la Copa Mundial de Azerbaiyán 2012.

Gambia también tiene un equipo sub-19 que jugaría en el Campeonato Africano Femenino Sub-19 en 2002. El primer partido de ese equipo gambiano fue contra Marruecos, pero el equipo se retiró de la competencia.

Antecedentes y desarrollo
El desarrollo del fútbol femenino en África enfrenta varios desafíos, incluido el acceso limitado a la educación, la pobreza entre las mujeres, las desigualdades y los abusos de los derechos humanos contra las mujeres. La financiación es otro problema que afecta el juego en África, donde la mayor parte de la asistencia financiera proviene de la FIFA y no de las asociaciones nacionales de fútbol. Otro desafío es la retención de jugadores de fútbol. Muchas mujeres futbolistas abandonan el continente para buscar mayores oportunidades en Europa o Estados Unidos.

La asociación nacional de fútbol de Gambia se fundó en 1952 y se afilió a la FIFA en 1968. El fútbol es el deporte femenino más popular en el país, y se jugó por primera vez en un sistema organizado en 1998.  Un nacional La competencia se lanzó en 2007, el mismo año en que la FIFA comenzó un curso educativo sobre fútbol para mujeres. La competencia estuvo activa tanto a nivel nacional como escolar en 2009. Hay cuatro empleados dedicados al fútbol femenino en la Asociación de Fútbol de Gambia , y la carta de la asociación exige la representación de las mujeres en el tablero.

Muerte de Fatim Jawara
En septiembre de 2016, Fatim Jawara, una jugadora de la selección nacional, abandonó su tierra natal, Serrekunda, en Gambia, y cruzó el desierto del Sahara hasta Libia. En noviembre de 2016, viajó con otros en dos barcos a través del mar Mediterráneo, en dirección a la isla italiana de Lampedusa.  Debido a una tormenta severa, sus barcos se hundieron y Jawara se ahogó. Ella tenía 19 años. Su ausencia se notó por primera vez cuando el equipo nacional debía jugar contra Casa Sports FC de Senegal como parte de un festival para celebrar el fútbol femenino. Jawara trató de pasar de contrabando a Europa, intentando cruzar el mar Mediterráneo en barco a Italia.  Ella viajó primero a Libia, antes de abordar el barco.  Varios días después del intento, el agente contactó a su familia para informarles que su bote se había volcado y que se había ahogado.

Reacciones a su muerte

 Lamin Kaba Bajo, presidente de la Federación de Fútbol de Gambia , dijo que "estamos de duelo en este momento, ya que es una gran pérdida para el equipo nacional de fútbol y la nación".

Registros competitivos

Copa Mundial

Juegos Olímpicos

Copa Femenina Africana de Naciones

Equipo actual
Equipo para la clasificación para el Campeonato Femenino de la CAF 2018.

Véase también

 Selección de fútbol de Gambia

 Fútbol femenino

Referencias

Selecciones femeninas de fútbol de la CAF
Fútbol femenino en Gambia
Fútbol Femenino


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Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement
Reference Number: S07-032
Senate Approval Date: Monday, January 01, 2007
A.S. Policy S07-32
A.S. Policy F00-32 (formerly F87-32)
At its meeting of March 27, 2007, the Academic Senate approved the following revised policy on the Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement:
San Francisco State University Graduate Student Awards for Distinguished Achievement are conferred on students who have earned a distinguished record for academic performance and contribution in the major field. Nominations for the awards are put forward by the faculty in the respective graduate major subject areas.
To be selected, the students shall have already distinguished themselves during their graduate student careers.
Criteria and the procedure for the selection of candidates will be determined by each individual college.
Criteria for selection must include, but are not limited to,
a) the candidate has a minimum grade point average of 3.75,
b) the candidate has filed a Graduate Approved Program with the Division of Graduate Studies, and
c) the candidate has an advisor's statement indicating that he or she is expected to graduate in spring or summer that year, or has already graduated in the immediate past summer or fall semester.
Academic achievement and scholarly work, as well as significant contributions to the profession, discipline, department, college, or university, and service to the community are additional examples of student achievement that may be taken into consideration. No student may receive this award more than once for a specific degree.
Each college may select a number of Distinguished Achievement Award recipients equal to the number of degrees or concentrations offered. Colleges offering fewer than 5 degrees will be allocated additional awards equal to two percent of the annual average number of graduate students completing degrees during the previous 5 years. Additionally, the College of Education will be allotted 4 additional positions for "credential only" students.
Colleges may allocate awards within the college as they choose provided the total number of awards granted does not exceed the number allotted to the College. Each College may submit the name of one of their awardees in nomination for the Master's Hood. From these names, a committee of the University Graduate Council will select the Master's Hood Recipient.
Responsibilities of the Dean of the Division of Graduate Studies in the award procedure include:
Informing the College Deans by the beginning of the Spring Semester as to the number of awards which are authorized for that academic year and to provide instructions for submitting nominations.
2. Receiving nominations and supporting documents from the College Deans and verifying basic eligibility (i.e., Graduate Approved Program on file, minimum 3.75 grade point average, has graduated or has advisor's statement).
3. Conducting the awards ceremony.
4. Issuing certificates of award.
5. Notifying Registrar for posting on transcripts.
The policy shall be reviewed by the Academic Policies Committee three years after its implementation.
*** Approved by the Academic Senate at its meeting on March 27, 2007 ***

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Patriots sign Austin Collie, place Vince Wilfork on IR
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In this Aug. 19, 2012, file photo, Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Austin Collie warms up before a preseason game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh.Mark Duncan — The Associated Press
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. >> The New England Patriots have signed four-year veteran Austin Collie to add experience to their young wide receiver corps.
They also placed defensive tackle Vince Wilfork on injured reserve on Thursday and released tight end Zach Sudfeld, a rookie free agent who struggled after an impressive preseason.
Collie spent his first four seasons with the Indianapolis Colts before signing as a free agent with San Francisco last Aug. 2. He had been a free agent since the 49ers released him Aug. 31.
He was a productive wide receiver out of the slot in his first three seasons but had at least three concussions since November 2010 and left another game with concussion-like symptoms. He missed three games early last season because of a concussion and played in just one game before rupturing the patellar tendon in his right knee.
Collie started 16 of his 42 games with the Colts, making 173 catches for 1,845 yards and 16 touchdowns. He had at least 54 receptions in each of his first three seasons but just one last year.
The Patriots have played with three rookies among their four wide receivers in the last three games after veteran Danny Amendola aggravated a groin injury in the opener. He hasn't played since and participated on a limited basis in practice on Wednesday and Thursday.
The rookies seemed to make progress in last Sunday night's 30-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons in which rookie Kenbrell Thompkins caught two touchdown passes from Tom Brady. But Julian Edelman, tied for the NFL lead with 34 catches, is the Patriots' only healthy veteran wide receiver.
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Wilfork, a five-time Pro Bowl player, tore his right Achilles tendon in the first quarter against Atlanta. He's missed just six games in his 10-year career.
The release of Sudfeld might indicate that Rob Gronkowski will play for the first time this season on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. He's been recovering from forearm and back surgeries. Patriots tight ends have just four catches this season: three by Michael Hoomanawanui, one by Matthew Mulligan and none by Sudfeld.
Gronkowski was limited in practice Wednesday and Thursday but has said his condition has been improving.


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An alphabetical catalogue of the books belonging to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Identifier: CPP 13/010-03
Overview Previously catalogued as 10a 171.
Catalogue of books belonging to the Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Examined by Doctors Thomas Parke and J. Wilson Moore
Catalogue of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Overview Volume 1 - Part I: A-M
Volume 2 - Part II: N-Z
Previously catalogued as 10a 128.
Library exhibition labels
Overview Established in 1788, the Library of the College of Physicians served as Philadelphia's central medical library for over 150 years, serving medical schools, hospitals, physicians and other health professionals. Today, it is an independent research library devoted to the history of medicine and serves hundreds of scholars, health professionals, students and popular writers each year. This collection, Library exhibtion labels, dates from the 1960s through 1997, although the bulk of the material...
Dates: circa 1960s - 1997; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1975
List of monetary contributions to the catalogue revision
Dates: 14 December 1905
Minutes of the Library Committee of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Overview The Library Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia became a standing committee in 1834. At this time, the chairman of the Library Committee acted as the Librarian of the College. In 1863, the Office of the Librarian was created, and the duties of the Library Committee were reduced to the "general supervision of the Library of the College".
This collection (1951-1981) includes minutes, financial statements, and correspondence.
Records of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Library I
Overview Established in 1788, the Library of the College of Physicians served as Philadelphia's central medical library for over 150 years, serving medical schools, hospitals, physicians and other health professionals. Today, it is an independent research library devoted to the history of medicine and serves hundreds of scholars, health professionals, students and popular writers each year. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Library records (1882 to 2005) extensively documents the administration...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1953-2007; 1807-2007
Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC)
Identifier: CPP 20
Overview In 1995, the C. Everett Koop Community Health Information Center (CHIC) opened, operated by the Katherine A. Shaw Public Services Division of the Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The CHIC was a community resource that provided the public with access to the latest information about medical and health concerns. Available resources included electronic information, journals, newsletters, pamphlets, videocassettes, and a circulating collection of books. The CHIC was operated...
Records of the Humanism in Medicine Program
Overview The College of Physicians of Philadelphia developed the Humanism in Medicine Program to help enrich the curriculum of local medical schools in the area. This initiative was conceptualized in the early 2000s and ended in 2007, with funding supported by Horace W. Goldsmith and Arcadia Foundations. The Program aimed to bridge the arts and humanities with medicine, inviting visiting scholars, doubling as successful poets and writers, to present their compositions and artists to exhibit their...
Dates: 1986 - 2007; Majority of material found within 2002 - 2007
Records of the Institute for Advancement of Medical Communication
Identifier: CPP 10/035
Overview The Institute for Advancement of Medical Communication (IAMC) was founded in 1958 as an independent, non-profit organization devoted solely to promoting better communication among biomedical and health science practitioners.On May 26, 1970, The Council of the College voted unanimously to assume the corporate administration of the IAMC with a Board of Directors under the Chairmanship of Dr. Francis C. Wood. The program was discontinued in late 1972 or 1973.The Records of...
Subject: Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia X
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 7
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 2
Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 2
Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 2
Aguirre, Anthony R. 1
College of Physicians of Philadelphia 1
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC) 1
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Humanism in Medicine 1
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Wood Institute, Library, and Museum Committee 1
Fisher, Charles Perry 1
Gartrell, Ellen 1
Greifenstein, Charles 1
Holloway, Lisabeth M. 1
Institute for Advancement of Medical Communications 1
Keen, William W. (William Williams) 1
Kenyon, Andrea 1
Lansing, Dorothy I. 1
Ruggere, Christine 1
Smink, Marjorie 1


Fine & Country sleeps rough this Thursday!
This Thursday, Lauren McFarland, Jasmine O'Dell, Emilie Despois, Louise Clarke, Nicola Laggett, Jo Ryan, Rebecca Simpson and Imogen Gartside will all sleep rough at Centrepoint's Sleep Out event to raise money for young homeless people in the UK.
Centrepoint's Sleep Out is an organised annual event in which participants must commit to spending one night sleeping outside with just a sleeping bag. The aim of the event is not to replicate the dangers of homelessness but to give those involved an insight into some of the realities including the cold, damp, noise and sleep deprivation.
The Fine & Country Park Lane team are thrilled to announce that they have already reached their target of &2,000 and would like to say a huge thank you to everyone from the network who have donated so generously. Now we have set our sights on making an even bigger contribution so please support us if you can in raising even more money for such a worthwhile cause – every donation no matter how small will be gratefully received.
To sponsor Fine & Country please click here or for more information on Centrepoint and the Sleep Out, please click here.


For us as human beings, our relationships with others matter a lot. Right from an early age, we are bound by so many relations. Right after birth, we become someone's kids, someone's grandkids etc. We acquire some relations right from our birth and some of them we acquire later in our lives. We get to choose our friends, life partners, teachers etc. If the relationship is good between two individual's then it is as good as friends forever. If it does not work at all then enmity develops. Till our last breath, we are always bound by relations. However, we forget the most important relationship of our life. We forget that we have a relationship with ourselves and thus we can either be our friends or turn out to be an enemy. An individual who conquers himself, who has risen above everything to the highest level of his consciousness is his friend. An ignorant individual who is simply unaware or does not believe in this concept and has not made a conquest of himself becomes his own enemy.
A person who has mastered himself will always remain detached during times of tragedy whereas the other person who is not detached but has knowledge about everything, has possessed almost everything may lose control. He loses it because he did not have it. Master of self-has control over oneself and thus never loses self. It is the wisdom that will help self-master to remain happy whether he is in a state of slavery or freedom. If we want to enjoy almost all the blessings that our life promises to us, we have to raise ourselves from everything. Self-realization is when absent, failure strikes its effects very easily. Shortcomings blow away our blessings. Obstacles seem like the one which can never be crossed. One who has mastered himself knows his inner strength and will be able to cross all the hurdles. The person who is not aware of inherent strength will never trust nature and thus gives up easily by saying that he is not suitable or well equipped. He has judged everything from the surface and not dig anything inside. He has tons of possibilities but never digs upon them and loses hope.
Welfare is hidden only when one learns to control oneself. We have two kinds of nature. On one hand, we can be very weak, unstable, always at fault, hopeless etc. On the other hand, we can be conqueror, victorious, majestic, invincible, glorious, successful etc. When we have a clear picture of ourselves, we are with our higher self. When we do not achieve higher self, we involve in self-depreciation. We criticize ourselves, let ourselves down and this is because we do not trust ourselves and have got no faith in ourselves. The mind has to be clear. Distortion of any sort in it makes us our own enemy. Any work regardless of whether it is simple and easy or whether it is very difficult and time-consuming if started with full confidence, courage, right attitude with almost no fear will be completed efficiently. If the same work is started with unwillingness, doubt, fear, depression, no sort of faith or trust, no matter how hard one works on it, it will be a complete failure. This itself proves that we ourselves our own friends as well as foes. If we want then we can rise above all the difficulties and make impossible things to become possible and if we want then can even turn out an easy task in almost a disaster.
We are responsible for indulging ourselves in depression and unhappiness and also throw this burden on others by blaming them. If we do not wish to come out of this vicious cycle of being unhappy, no matter what efforts are made, we will always be unhappy because we tend to love our sphere and will become fond of it. It is in our hands whether we want to escape and rise ourselves. We and only we have the power to rescue ourselves. Without the will and firm determination, this thing is not possible. Self-awakening is very essential. Awakening is actually an eye-opener. It helps one to raise oneself and never ever lower oneself. However, this sort of self-realization is very essential. If a person realizes it and is in the path of progress then soon his welfare is surely guaranteed in mere future. Thus, one has to master oneself.
Well begun is half done. If we begin work with dejected mind then we head towards failure and act like our own enemy. One can just stop for a moment and check to understand how much evil impulse they are carrying in their heart. When anger, lust, pain, hate, greed etc conquer us along with other intense emotions, we become our enemy. These evil characters destroy our soul. It is left to us whether we want to master them or let them overpower us. Anger is such an evil character that can destroy everything we have which required so long to build up. It not only causes harm to our relationships with other souls. First and the foremost person it affects is we ourselves. Whatever we give, we get it first. It is we who are creating anger and thus we will be the first ones to face its ill-effects. Similarly, whether it's lust, greed, hate or any other evil character, we will be the first ones to go through the adverse effects which they are imparting. They destroy finer part of our self. Ignorance is the main cause. Knowledge and wisdom rise a person above his lower self and that person will become his own friend and the person who does not conquer his self but allows his lower self to possess himself will become his own enemy.
We all like our friends and always want to spend time with them. They always help us in various ways and always think good about us and thus we are fond of them. On the other hand, our enemies not only do bad things to us, in fact, also create bad thoughts about us and thus we always want to be away from them. We can very well choose with whom we want to spend our time and with whom we do not want to. The choice is completely ours. But how can we run away from ourselves? When we become our friend, welfare is definite but what if we serve as an enemy for ourselves. In such case, how can we get rid of u?. In fact, we cannot. We can get rid of others but we cannot get rid of ourselves. Whether we are trying to be our friend or acting as an enemy, we have to live with ourselves. We do not have a choice of running away from ourselves, but we do have a choice whether we want to be our friend or enemy. The way we avoid the company of other enemies and try to keep us away from them so that they do not harm us, in the same way, we should try to become our friend and not enemy. If we become our own enemy, we will suffer badly. If we need success and if we need to empower ourselves then we need to raise ourselves high from all the odds that we have, control all our senses as well as our lower self. Once we become our friend, we will be able to fight with all the odds and will become serene in both happiness and pain, heat and cold. We will always remain aware as we have reached complete awakening within ourselves which will give realization and that will be constant. This realization will teach that we are supreme self and not someone who is of low nature to whom pain, greed, sufferings, demoralization etc can affect. We are the royal kings and no matter what circumstances arrive, we will be always royal and thus we need to behave accordingly.
We cannot expect our journey to run smooth and hurdle free. There will be hiccups, there will be obstacles. Fun is to cross all these odds and remain victorious. Lots of discipline is essential. Whatever knowledge we gain, we need to bring it to reality. Just learning it and keeping it stored somewhere in mind is of no use. We need to use this knowledge in practical life and gain actual experience. We should absorb it and use it in our day to day lives. Knowledge can be gained by anyone but wisdom comes only to a few great men. When this knowledge is brought into action, wisdom develops. Mind dwells but we have to control it, possess it completely. Once our mind is under our control, everything comes under control. It is a powerhouse of everything we do. It creates thoughts. Once we control our minds, our thought process comes in control. We can conquest our sense organs and master them instead of allowing them to rule over us. We become our masters and thus this helps us through all the odds. Such kind of person who masters himself can lead oneself and become a friend of oneself and the one who allows his mind, sense organs to overpower upon himself becomes a slave and is no less than an enemy to oneself.
Most of us today live in an illusion. We do not know what the art of living is. We feel that anger which we exhibit is actually a display of our strength and it shows how powerful we are. We feel that it is a must if we want our work to get done. We feel proud of ourselves when we control others and scare them. We have developed the same feelings towards excitement. Whenever a situation arrives, we believe it is normal to show emotions in the form of tears, pain, love, anger etc. One who does not show emotion is believed to be made of stone and considered heartless. We do not understand how much of fluctuations we are going through in a day and in our life when we react so vigorously to every situation. These are actually not the signs of strength but rather display weaknesses. The weak soul is one who cannot stand erect through all the odds and fluctuates through everything that comes in his life. The powerful soul is one to whom turbulence can never affect. To become powerful, wisdom is essential and only such souls can become one's friends.
We are what we think about ourselves. We are the results of what actually we are in our consciousness. Same things manifest in our body as well as in our mind. Thus, our conscience should be clear. If it is filled with fear and doubts then we will be living in an illusion and confusion. If conscious is clear and fearless then we will be strong and powerful. Realization is essential. We gain self-realization by gaining knowledge. We have to connect with ourselves and once we do that then there is no looking back. Same consciousness has the ability to store good things. We need to be aware of what is been stored in our consciousness. The choice is really ours about what we really need to keep and store in our minds and what not. An enemy will always desire to continue his enmity, just the way it is running. If we want, we can continue to remain our enemy by letting harsh and hatred feelings to remain in our consciousness or else wipe them out as soon as possible so that we can become our friends. We are unaware of our capacity and strength. Once we realize how powerful we are, we will be able to use infinite capacity hidden within us.
Relationships are essential. They unite us with others. A special bond develops between us and others. This unity teaches togetherness and spreads love in mankind. However, if a person who has not established a friendly relationship with himself, how can he do it with others. A special bond with parents, teachers, friends, relatives, society etc is all essential. We all look after each other, care for each other and spread the love. But a friend within us will be able to do greater good than anyone from outside. In the same way, the opposite is also true. Enemy hidden inside us will be able to do greater destruction than anyone from outside. We can either make ourselves or mar ourselves. The relationship that we have with ourselves is very unique and it is the purest and most essential when compared with other relationships. Options are always in our hands. We need to decide whether we want to be our friend or serve as an enemy. Whatever we choose, we will be writing our destiny and it will be we who will create our personality depending on our choices.


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Leadership Has an Image Problem
By Gary Ryan Blair in Leadership
Leadership has an image problem, and it's largely due to how many people in leadership positions behave.
The world has an overabundance of people with important sounding titles such as President, Senator, Coach, Policeman, and Holy Father…but far too often these people prove to be nothing more than a wolf in sheep's clothing.
They masquerade around using noble words such as integrity, transparency, ethics, decency, compassion, a strong moral compass and servant hood, yet their behavior demonstrates just the opposite.
The level of abuse, deceit, greed, selfishness, cronyism, and incompetence emanating from leadership positions is simply appalling.
IT'S ALL COMES DOWN TO CHARACTER
In the widening chasm between what we want and expect from our leaders and what we get, it is important to take a close look at leadership itself.
Leadership is all about one enduring quality: CHARACTER.
Properly performed, leadership is an exercise in outgoing and ongoing concern for others, including the definition and enforcement of boundaries as needed.
For leaders to be effective, however, there must be uncompromising emphasis on integrity of character.
THE REAL TEST OF LEADERSHIP….comes down to this one question:
Are you the kind of person that others want to follow?
The answer to that question depends on your character.
A strong leader sets a strong example, and NO ONE, under any circumstances, should ever be appointed to or accept a leadership role unless they are willing to have his or her character serve as the model for others to emulate.
A good leader knows that his or her character is contagious, and hopes that everyone will become "positively infected" and "inspired' to do the right thing, at all times.
A leader's nature casts a long shadow over his family, team, church, organization, and country, AND helps to determine the makeup of the organization itself.
What you do, how you do it, and what you say sets the tone for everyone involved and creates the boundaries of acceptable behavior.
The values you profess—the ones you hold in trust—must be aligned with the behaviors you demonstrate.
If not, you DO NOT deserve the title and should be removed from all responsibility. It's that simple.
People have an indisputable, divine right to expect and demand good character and exemplary conduct from their leaders.
The true test and strength of an enterprise is not to be found in a company's products or services, but in the character of its leaders.
Why? Because the leaders character serves as the conscience of the community.
Ethical behavior is not easy, nor should it be, but it is essential to effective leadership.
There is no gray area when it comes to character and integrity—it's foundational. With it, a committed team can produce outstanding results; without it, there is no respect or moral authority to execute.
THE IMPACT ON TRUST
A leader cannot succeed if people don't trust him.
If he lies, cheats, steals and bends the rules and says what is convenient in order to secure a vote, close a sale, or achieve any outcome for that matter, he might succeed in the short run, but will come up short in the end.
And that is precisely the problem we are faced with today, and I fear even more so in the future.
Truly, we are in a crisis of trust. It affects us on all levels—societal, institutional, organizational, spiritual, relational, and personal—and it has a perpetuating effect.
While many of us may be fairly resilient, still with each new violation of trust or corporate scandal, we tend to recover a little more slowly. We wonder what else is out there.
We become increasingly suspicious of other people. We begin to project the behavior of the few upon the many, and we are all paying for it dearly.
A leaders ability to lead by example, demonstrate trust and practice the fine art of transparency is perhaps the smartest move they can make.
WHAT TO DO NOW? Share your two-cents worth on the state of leadership and be sure to pass this post along.
character, Gary Ryan Blair, Lead by Example, Leadership
Muhammad Yunus is the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work pioneering the concept of microcredit - lending money to people so poor no one else would even consider them for a loan. Through the years, Yunus has lent five-point-six million dollars to more than 7 million people averaging about $130 per loan.


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Find the right Employment Law attorney in Nebraska
Employment law are those laws approved in Nebraska that apply to employers, employees and independent contractors. These laws apply to every aspect of workplace endeavors, such as hiring policies, wage disputes, and firing of employees. Nebraska's employment laws set forth particular mandates that need to be understood by both employers and employees.
Most job relationships in Nebraska are on the basis of "at will" employment, but in other cases there may be an employment contract with a set term. "At will" employment implies that either the employee or the employer may end the relationship at any time, so long as the reason for the termination is not illegal. Employment laws of Nebraska will be of primary importance in order to decide the clauses and agreements when an employment contract is used.
The Law of Discrimination in Nebraska
The laws of Nebraska in general prohibit discrimination. These laws apply to all stages of employment, ranging from the hiring process to the termination procedure. In Nebraska, it is illegal for an employer to discriminate against persons based on their membership in a certain class. These classes may include: age, race, gender, religion, national origin, and disability. Lawyers who specialize in workplace discrimination in Nebraska can help clarify when actions may be considered employment discrimination.
Interesting Facts About Nebraska
Nebraska is situated in the Great Plains region of the U.S. The Missouri River runs through the state, and is one of the top states for ranching and farming. The state's capital is Lincoln, which is where the state capitol building is located. The Nebraska Supreme Court meets on the second floor of the capitol building.
Many Nebraska court decisions have helped shape American law. One of these is the case of Meyer v. Nebraska (1923), involving the applications of Due Process rights under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Another important case is that of Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart (1976). The Nebraska Press case also involved constitutional rights, and has been cited as a reflection of the nation's emphasis on freedom of speech.
Nebraska's court system has played a vital role in the state's history. Many Nebraska court houses were constructed in the early 1900's, and some are now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Historic court houses in Nebraska include those in Sioux County and in Dawson County. In addition to the county courts, there are also District Courts, a Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court in Nebraska.
Lawyers in Nebraska are familiar with the individual rules and regulations that make up the state's laws. You may wish to contact a Nebraska lawyer if you have any legal questions or concerns about a legal dispute. A Nebraska attorney can also be helpful during the planning stages of different endeavors.
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Founder Institute Singapore - Rewired Summer 2014 (Launched!)
Founder Institute Singapore Summer 2014 is Launched and Taking Applications! Go to www.fi.co/join (select Singapore)
The next Founder Institute Singapore semester - will be tentatively called "Founder Institute Singapore Rewired 2014". I have been directing Founder Institute Semesters in Singapore for the past 4 years and mentored and helped start several chapters in Southeast Asia. Our cohort of alumni is the best group of people I have gotten to know ever. No assholes so far (which is what I am proud of), all real mofos who would not take no for an answer as they navigate the startup maze. I hereby salute you all.
I have invested in quite a few of you, exited one, mentored and advised a bunch. The feedback from the market on Founder Institute graduates are impeccable but we are not going to get big headed. Founder Institute founders possesses the founder DNA when you first enter the program, the rest is the idea, the tools, the push and the tenacity to get things done. I know roughly what will succeed now after all these years. So lets get down and do this shit.
There will be 2 main changes coming up (which are in the works but will be implemented in a form that I see fit once the semester starts, this is my FTM - fuck this moment):
1. We will focus a lot more on the first 5 weeks of ideation than ever before. In addition to the mentors' rating and special assignment grading of the founders at the 2 mentor review sessions. I will also give my input from the start and actively kick people out no matter what the mentor rating is.
The criteria is simple: focus on the mission and ideology of your company and clearly articulate the problem statement against your own personal founding story.
If the general direction is game changing, and may move me to think of quitting my job (hypothetically) to join you. You will be safe and will remain in the program.
This semester will be epic! Hang on, embrace yourself.
Close Encounter of the Hard Science Startup Kind
For the past 2 months, I mentored a group of over 40 scientists and entrepreneurs in the water technology industry (wth? you may ask) and put them through an entrepreneurial fast track program (condensed version of the Founder Institute program) with the purpose of potentially spinning out high growth water startup companies. The results were rather amazing. Not in terms of which teams were selected to pitch at Hydro Pitch Day on June 2nd, 2014 as part of the Singapore International Water Week, but in terms of how they have grown and how they have bonded and helped each other out in a short but definitely interesting 8 weeks.
I took up the challenge because it is precisely what I am uncomfortable with; dealing with PhDs and patents. Only in uncomfortable situations where you learn the most and ask the most interesting hard questions. Hard science and entrepreneurship, marrying them together is a pretty challenging task no matter who you are. Research institutes around the world are battling the "Return of Investment" question surrounding R&D budgets allocated over and over again, universities tries very hard to emulate MIT and Stanford and work on spinning out companies as part of their technology transfer KPIs. Singapore is no stranger to this.
Here are my summary of findings and take aways after working with the teams for 2 months. I hope my "outsider" perspective can shed some light.
Finding 1 - Technology chasing a market. Academic researchers tend to surround themselves with seemingly "great" intellectual property looking for a market to sell to or apply. A primary reason is because they do not have a well rounded complementary team who are able to hustle and research their way through the maze of customer development and very few are from industry. Most technology transfer offices are also weak at that because of the wide range of technologies they have to deal with, it is hard to be strong in a vertical when you are spread too thin.
Finding 2 - Seemingly "great" technology in the eyes of the inventor are technologies that are not validated yet by anyone that matter. Very few have begun trials with a prospective customer. They seldom have the time or know how to step back and reconsider whether what they have invented is indeed revolutionary or simply just incremental. The technology's strength and differentiation compared with other university technologies, startups who have been funded or in stealth mode or large company research labs has never been truly tested or benchmarked against.
Finding 3 - Most teams are weak in understanding who their actual customer and the form of their product. Without this clear understanding, it is difficult for many of them to clearly articulate the true market size and opportunity. However, it is due to the early stages of commercialization that they are in this predicament, this is also the precise stage to have people from various disciplines to be involved and infiltrate new ideas and ideas combinations to spark innovative "What if" questions.
Finding 4. Without special interventions from mentors, investors and "an ecosystem", hard science spin outs will take time and will continue to face challenges.
So what can we do to change this situation in addition to running entrepreneurial programs like the Lean Launch Pad, here are my preliminary thoughts (perpetually in beta) ;)
1. Research institutes and universities should carefully curate a panel of advisors that consists of;
a. World class (no geographical restrictions) hard science venture investors who invests in seed stage (writes the first check) who has seen, invested and worked with various technologies and scientists/entrepreneurs at a global level over a few cycles and/or decades;
b. Operational executives from potential customer segments who has experience procuring technologies and finally;
c. Founders operating in the same vertical who are not jaded (and hence become naturally pessimistic) by the industry, or the entrepreneurial process. Find recent entrepreneurs who are excited and upbeat about what they are doing to change the world.
Have them meet twice a year to look through potential research and patents. Each technology vertical should form one panel.
2. Research institutes and universities need to foster a culture of clashes of students, faculty from different disciplines, and the entrepreneurial community.
a. Run meet ups (in the central part of town please) where entrepreneurs and scientists gather, but not pitching the final business case rather to explain what the core technology does. Seasoned entrepreneurs who dare to ask the right "What if" questions will challenge all forms of thinking and seed new ideas. Let the question-storming start and foster among the community and do not constrain the process. Have someone facilitate the process who really knows how to foster creative questioning.
Finally, it has been a pleasure working with all of you at the Hydropreneur Program. I gained many new friends but importantly a new found respect for all of you. Your work, passion, expertise and sheer genius sometimes blows my mind. I enjoyed our crazy discussions and banter over the weeks. There are a bunch of you I would love to work with in the future and perhaps fund your new ventures if the investment criteria fits my fund. Till then, stay crazy, optimistic and keep asking crazy "Why & What if" questions.
Catch you all soon and keep in touch.
p.s. Good luck to the 6 finalists at Hydro Pitch Day! I will be cheering for you, and this time with no expletives. I hope.
Choose your beach head market wisely
Startups and movies have quite a bit in common.
Los Angeles, the Entertainment capital of the world.
San Francisco Bay Area, the Startup capital of the world.
We know that to some extent but somehow it does not truly hit home.
If you produce an English movie in Singapore looking for worldwide adoration and box office revenues, it usually ends up with limited distribution (classified a foreign language film) and screened in film festivals with limited distribution outcomes.
Sounds familiar?
How do you choose the right beach head market for your startup that you can readily dominate that makes sense from where you are and move on from there?
If there are essentially 3 types of major major markets, categorized as:
English speaking - SF Bay Area as the hub
Chinese speaking - Beijing, China as the hub (because China is indeed special)
a) Rest of World (Developed) b) Rest of World (Developing)
Then, starting out from Singapore with limited resources, capital, talent and rising cost is pretty challenging from the on set. Where is then your beach head market? What is your move, chief?
It goes back to the founding team especially the CEO and what his or her personal situations, ambitions, knowledge, connections lies. Some founders put the company ahead of themselves and consider what market is best for the company and go to where it brings the largest impact. Some founders go with what they are comfortable with and capitalize on the opportunity that they know they can achieve. There is no right or wrong answer here, that is why the startup game is incredibly hard.
If you have something game changing, or you are 1 of 3 companies in the world that do what you do, and/or you can demonstrate a 10x differentiation to your closest competitor or simply, you know something that no one else in the world knows, chances are there are only a small number of places that will understand you, appreciate your venture's risk reward profile and have the ready ecosystem that will surround you to make things happen. Go to where they are.
If your beach head market is not ready, changing customer behavior where early adopters are not abundant makes achieving escape velocity a lot harder. It usually takes more time than you think. If investors in that region do not have the time to wait for escape velocity to arrive, you will likely throttle down your ambition and iterate to fit a market that understands, engages and pays for what you have.
Therein lies the rise of clones and me too companies.
Trust me, they are equally as hard to start and run compared to companies with breakthrough ideas. However, if you have ambitions to solve local or regional problems using or applying solutions or products that people resonate with, where a lot of guess work has been taken out then interestingly timed products that will achieve traction will surface. However, these founders have to realize that because they have chosen this path, their markets maybe limited, with intense competition close by. They have to execute even faster.
Achieving a break through idea is hard. Everyone is trying to do that on a daily basis everywhere in the world. Courage and genius are still needed to pull it off.
Nobody says startups are easy. Choose your beach head market wisely.
So what is the purpose or role of Singapore then?
Personally, I think for now, Singapore is a special enough place that helps stitch Southeast Asia closer together and makes it easier for entrepreneurs to do business in the region (i.e. Rest of the World - Southeast Asia).
p.s. More on startup ecosystems coming up soon especially ours (Singapore).
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First MIT Visit and Takeaways
I recently went to MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the first time to attend a 3 days executive education program at MIT Sloan School of Management called MIT REAP, more here. More about the program in my next few posts but in short it has something to do with developing our startup ecosystem in Singapore.
Almost 26,000 companies are founded by MIT alumni that still existed in 2006. If they were a country, it would have the 11th highest GDP in the world. My first impression was that MIT churn out great technology companies from their licensed technologies, but that is not the case. Most of the 26,000 companies founded by MIT alumni, very few (about 10%) are from MIT-licensed technology. But don't get me wrong, there are still about 20-30 companies spun out yearly from MIT. It finally hit home after speaking to Dharmesh Shah from Hubspot that most software startups started by MIT alumni are not MIT-licensed.
After an informative and definitely transformative 3-4 days at MIT, here are my three takeaways with regards to startups that are associated with MIT and why they interest me:
A predominantly engineering university with a cluster of engineering disciplines creates tremendous network effects. World class in research, both in reality and in perception. I can feel my IQ rise as I wander around the campus, eavesdropping on conversations. No doubt, they have skills, some probably harbor world class skills of varying depths. Over the years, the history and performance of startups from MIT faculty and alumni further shaped those who enrolled, those who researched, and those who taught.
I ran into at least 4 professors who are entrepreneurs many times over or "have helped to start 12 companies". That is a pretty rare occurrence as compared to where I am from. The culture of collaboration, experimentation, and the courage to change the world seems to be within the culture of Cambridge and MIT. The desire to learn, improve and do forces everyone in the system to be better. It fosters "creative confidence" and the courage to explore paths to bring a product to market.
3. Collision
The most unique thing that caught me that were constantly being emphasized, was the way the campus is constructed to encourage "collision" amongst students, professors, post docs, and alumni. The famous MIT Media Lab is designed and located specifically to create "creative collisions". They even conduct entrepreneurship classes at the Media Lab, see https://www.media.mit.edu/about/ventures.
To add on to the 3 takeaways above, the talent pool in Boston/Cambridge is one of the best in the US, the availability of early stage capital is second only to Silicon Valley and co-working/collision spaces like CIC it only helps to support more creativity and courage to start companies.
My conclusion is, with enough density of people with the right entrepreneurial DNA and skills colliding together in a supportive ecosystem, amazing things will happen. What does this mean for me or Singapore? Stay tuned to my upcoming posts.
MIT technologies are readily available online http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/industry/inquiries.html#SelectedTechnologies.
An inventor's guide to startups for faculty and students http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/downloads/pdf/Startup_Guide.pdf
A world renowned Martin Trust Center of Entrepreneurship


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package poll_test

import (
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"testing"

	"github.com/matterpoll/matterpoll-emoji/poll"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)

func TestReadConf(t *testing.T) {
	assert := assert.New(t)
	require := require.New(t)
	p, err := getTestFilePath("sample_conf.json")
	assert.Nil(err)
	require.NotNil(p)

	c, err := poll.LoadConf(p)
	assert.Nil(err)
	require.NotNil(c)

	assert.Equal(c.Host, "http://localhost:8065")
	assert.Equal(c.Token, "9jrxak1ykxrmnaed9cps9i4cim")
	assert.Equal(c.User.ID, "bot")
	assert.Equal(c.User.Password, "botbot")
}

func TestValidate(t *testing.T) {
	assert := assert.New(t)
	require := require.New(t)
	tests := []struct {
		Filename    string
		ShouldError bool
	}{
		{"sample_conf.json", false},
		{"sample_conf_error.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_no_host.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_no_listen.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_no_token.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_wrong_token_length.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_no_user.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_no_user_id.json", true},
		{"sample_conf_error_no_user_password.json", true},
	}
	for _, test := range tests {
		p, err := getTestFilePath(test.Filename)
		assert.Nil(err)
		require.NotNil(p)

		c, err := poll.LoadConf(p)
		if test.ShouldError {
			assert.NotNil(err)
			assert.Nil(c)
		} else {
			assert.Nil(err)
			assert.NotNil(c)
		}
	}
}

func TestReadConfNotExistsError(t *testing.T) {
	assert := assert.New(t)
	require := require.New(t)
	p, err := getTestFilePath("not_exists.json")
	assert.Nil(err)
	require.NotNil(p)

	c, err := poll.LoadConf(p)
	assert.NotNil(err)
	assert.Nil(c)
}

func getTestFilePath(path string) (string, error) {
	d, err := os.Getwd()
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	return filepath.Join(d, "..", "testdata", path), nil
}


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Reviews For The Easily Distracted:
Sit in at the Honky Tonk at The Doyle and Debbie Show at Stages
Kelly Klaasmeyer
Kelly Klaasmeyer | July 6, 2006 | 4:00am
A hefty woman lies on the bathroom floor next to the toilet, her shirt hunched up around her waist, her pants at her ankles and her crotch in full view. There's a trail of unspooled toilet paper on the floor, and a man and a woman are crouched beside her, trying to do CPR. The man wears glasses and has a tape measure clipped to his belt. Looking for clues as to what's going on, you notice a diabetic's blood-sugar testing kit and syringe sharing the tiled bathroom counter with a set of Sunbeam hot rollers. The drawing, San Francisco Peaks (2006) by Michael Bise, is part of "Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories," an exhibition of Houston artists curated by Paola Morsiani at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Bise takes significant images from his life and re-creates them in highly detailed and slightly cartoonish drawings -- most of them are way too strange or specific to have been made up. The series of drawings The Kingdom of the Sick records Bise's stay in the hospital following heart surgery. In one scene, we see him sitting in his hospital bed puking into a plastic container; in another, an overhead view of the same room, we see illicit hospital copulation as he's straddled by his naked girlfriend.
The only drawing Bise wasn't actually present for was the toilet scene, which depicts his great-grandmother. His mother was the one who told him about it. Just imagining walking in on your grandmother, with her pants down doing an Elvis on the bathroom floor, is probably more than enough to sear an image into your mind. Bise has an incredible ability to convey a sense of place. Looking at the cherub-laden wallpaper of the suburban bathroom and the little framed Gainsborough reproductions -- yep, it's The Blue Boy -- will strike some chord of familiarity with practically every American.
"Perspectives 152: 4 Artists 4 Stories"
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 5216 Montrose, 713-284-8250
Through September 10
Bise does line drawings in pencil with no modeling, an approach high school art teachers rail against. But he makes it work through his incredible telling details and liberal use of patterns. There's an awkwardness to his drawing style; in some works, that awkwardness feels integrated into the whole, but other times it seems affected -- everything is consistently rendered until you run into some extremely skewed depiction of an object. San Francisco Peaks has a lot of flattish areas of pattern, until you get to the sink cabinet, which is surreally warped. It's a little distracting, but the rest of the drawing is so richly detailed that it's easy to overlook.
Bise's skewed perspectives come off quite well in Walls (2006), which offers a warped overhead view of three rooms. In one, a small boy is sleeping in a twin bed and Bise is sitting on the edge. According to the wall text, the drawing is about Bise's relationship with an older woman with a child, and how he became attached to the child. In the next room, the boy's mother sits on the toilet in her underwear snorting coke off the bathroom counter. (There's a lot of drama going on in Bise's bathrooms.) We see down the walls and into slices of other rooms and the photos and objects hanging on the walls. It's kind of like the angels' perspectives in the movie Wings of Desire. Bise, with his gift for narrative, knack for detail and mental camera angles, could easily make the transition into film. In the meantime, he's creating some really great drawings.
Janakie Lennie also has some really strong work. Her paintings of the unnatural hues of Houston's skies conjure up their own sense of place. The smoggy lavender canvases could be minimalist paintings if not for the tree foliage and steel structures creeping in at the sides and corners. As one of the most polluted cities in America, we have some of the most spectacular chemically enhanced sunsets, and Lennie captures them with paint that's delicately nuanced to create a luminous sense of depth.
Looking at her work, you can feel the dank humidity and petrochemical mist of our fair city. (Are those mosquito trucks I hear?) With our mix of lush subtropical foliage, concrete, steel and toxic emissions, the natural and industrial coexist in a sticky miasma. The unaccountably seductive color of Lennie's paintings is edged with the towers of petrochemical plants and the occasional leafy branch. A light glimmers in the distant haze like the Star of Bethlehem, except it's a gas flare.
Lennie is an Australian transplant who, like a lot of Houstonians, has come to accept her environment. She has found an edgy beauty growing from its bizarre mix of the natural and the unnatural.
Darryl Lauster is interested in the stories of things, the how and why of their making. He creates models of historic furniture and decorative objects and casts them in resin or porcelain. The process and history of craft fascinate him; he loves to explore techniques and comes up with some great stuff. But his love of experimentation sometimes leads him to dilute successful works with pieces that don't really pan out conceptually or formally.
One of his strongest pieces in the CAMH show is his Cast Federal Parlor Chair (2006), made from sandblasted resin. The resin gives the elegant frame of the chair a frosty, crystalline air. You feel like it might shatter -- or melt. Beside it is Table Based on Isamu Noguchi Design (2006) -- he's remaking the classic mid-century modern coffee table. Unfortunately, the scratched acrylic top and slightly off walnut base give the whole thing the feel of an awkwardly realized home-decor project. Lauster obviously enjoys the process of replicating these things; he just needs to edit them out when they don't work.
His series of polyester resin eagles are cast from his models of 19th-century bronze sculptures. They're realized in pink resin, possibly to feminize and take the edge off any rabid nationalist associations. But the eagles are just too clunky and awkward -- one of them looks like a duck. I don't know if the originals had the same clumsy qualities, but the eagles feel unnecessary compared to more successful works like the parlor chair.
Lauster's brown Transferware plates turned out well. They're based on an 18th-century pattern that originally depicted the landing of the Mayflower in the center of the plate. The plate's decorative rims -- rococo flourishes and a harbor scene -- now surround more recent scenes of American history: photographic images from the Library of Congress's collection. Images of Malcolm X, Elvis and Nixon, the San Francisco earthquake and asylum inmates adorn some of the the 24 plates. Lauster is replacing a Waspy touchstone of American history with more recent, less idealized and decidedly more diverse American scenes.
Meanwhile, Soody Sharifi gives us stories from one of the "Axes of Evil." The Iranian-born artist's ongoing series Maxiatures digitally inserts contemporary Iranian men and women into Old Master Persian miniatures. It's an interesting idea, but because Sharifi puts way too many people into the scenes, the effect becomes diluted. Having a select and unexpected few would work better. Ultimately, the images rely too much on exoticism for their appeal. And where earlier works were outputted onto photographic paper, the ones at the CAMH are printed onto nubby canvas that gives them a cheap Pier 1 aesthetic.
What does work well for Sharifi is her series of straight photographs of young Iranians, often shown in domestic settings. Teen girls lounge in their bedrooms. One wears a headscarf and has carefully drawn red lips, while the other is stretched out on a rug on the floor, her face obscured by her long, dark hair as she contemplates a photo of Enrique Iglesias she has extracted from under the bed. Another image shows other young girls in headscarves cavorting over the ancient ruins of Persepolis. One of them looks directly at the camera, stretched out on her back on the base of a destroyed column. Sharifi's work is a reminder of the real people and ancient culture that lie behind the West's frequent stereotyping and demonizing of Iran, but that's a side effect. In her empathetic photographs, Sharifi connects with individuals to create intimate, thoughtful images.
And in the end, regardless of any missteps, "4 Artists 4 Stories" pulls together four strong, and decidedly individual, Houston artists.
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Chinese Celebrities Are Being "Canceled" By The Communist Government For Being Too Rich And Famous
By Amy Lamare on August 31, 2021 in Articles › Entertainment
10 Of The Best Bets On The Stock Market That Have Earned The Bet Maker Millions, If Not Billions
Joe Rogan Signs $100 Million+ Deal To Move Exclusively To Spotify
How Did French Brothers Alain and Gerald Wertheimer Earn Their Combined $50 Billion Fortune
100-Year-Old Tony Murray Is The Oldest Living Billionaire In Europe And A War Hero
Billionaire Cartel Leader El Mencho's Brother-In-Law Extradited To US
Elon Musk Follows Through On Plan To Sell All Of His Things And "Own No House," Lists 5 More Houses
It's not a good time to be a wealthy business person or celebrity in China right now. Over the last 9 months, a handful of Chinese billionaires have had their empires dismantled bit by bit because they had become too wealthy and too influential. China's 10 richest tech billionaires have collectively shed over $100 billion in net worth since January.
And now the Chinese government is going after regular old celebrities. The Government's leaders no longer appreciate "fan" culture. And as you might suspect, that has put many of China's most famous and wealthy actors, actresses, and musicians in the crosshairs.
Vicki Zhao Wei (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Vicki Zhao Wei
Take the case of actress/singer "Vicki" Zhao Wei. She has been one of the most popular celebrities in China since the late 1990s.
She's also secretly one of the wealthiest actors in the world.
Back in 2016, her good friend Jack Ma encouraged Zhao and her husband to buy a large early chunk of stock in his new company, Alibaba Pictures. Fast forward to the present and that stake is now worth $1 billion.
This displeases the Chinese government.
As a punishment, recently Chinese regulators ordered Zhao to be completely deleted from the Chinese version of the internet. Authorities also ordered that all of her work — including film, television, and talk show appearances — be scrubbed from streaming sites in China. Additionally, all discussions about Zhao online are now censored.
Vicki and her husband, Huang Youlong, are believed to have fled China via private jet after her blacklisting. They are believed to be hiding out at their vineyard in the South of France.
Kris Wu
Singer and actor Kris Wu is another one of China's biggest stars. Unfortunately, on August 16 he was arrested on rape allegations. Within a week he was wiped from the internet.
Zheng Zhehan
Singer/actor Zheng Zhehan was similarly wiped off the planet. His offense? Kris posed for pictures at a Japanese shrine that commemorates Japanese citizens and soldiers who died in various wars.
Zheng Shuang
Back in April, actress Zheng Shuang was fined $46 million over unpaid income tax and excessive earnings. Zheng is not well known to American audiences, but she is one of the highest-paid actresses on the planet. The 29-year-old actress earned $25 million for 77 days of work on an upcoming 50-episode show called "A Chinese Ghost Story."
Fan BingBing
Chinese regulators have cracked down on celebrities before. Back in 2017, Fan BingBing – then one of the most famous Chinese actors in the world – was fined an unprecedented $100 million over tax payments.
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The Richest Actress In China Might Be On The Run From Her Own Government
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Q: How to retrieve Medium stories for a user from the API? I'm trying to integrate Medium blogging into an app by showing some cards with posts images and links to the original Medium publication.
From Medium API docs I can see how to retrieve publications and create posts, but it doesn't mention retrieving posts. Is retrieving posts/stories for a user currently possible using the Medium's API?

A: const MdFetch = async (name) => {
  const res = await fetch(
    `https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/${name}`
  );
  return await res.json();
};

const data = await MdFetch('@chawki726');

A: To get your posts as JSON objects
you can replace your user name instead of @USERNAME.
https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/@USERNAME

A: The API is write-only and is not intended to retrieve posts (Medium staff told me)
You can simply use the RSS feed as such:
https://medium.com/feed/@your_profile

You can simply get the RSS feed via GET, then if you need it in JSON format just use a NPM module like rss-to-json and you're good to go.

A: With that REST method you would do this: GET https://api.medium.com/v1/users/{{userId}}/publications and this would return the title, image, and the item's URL.
Further details: https://github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs#32-publications .
You can also add "?format=json" to the end of any URL on Medium and get useful data back.

A: Use this url, this url will give json format of posts
Replace studytact with your feed name
https://api.rss2json.com/v1/api.json?rss_url=https://medium.com/feed/studytact

A: I have built a basic function using AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway if anyone is interested. A detailed explanation is found on this blog post here and the repository for the the Lambda function built with Node.js is found here on Github. Hopefully someone here finds it useful.

A: Edit:
It is possible to make a request to the following URL and you will get the response. Unfortunately, the response is in RSS format which would require some parsing to JSON if needed.
https://medium.com/feed/@yourhandle

⚠ The following approach is not applicable anymore as it is behind Cloudflare's DDoS protection.
If you planning to get it from the Client-side using JavaScript or jQuery or Angular, etc. then you need to build an API gateway or web service that serves your feed. In the case of PHP, RoR, or any server-side that should not be the case.
You can get it directly in JSON format as given beneath:
https://medium.com/@yourhandle/latest?format=json

In my case, I made a simple web service in the express app and host it over Heroku. React App hits the API exposed over Heroku and gets the data.
const MEDIUM_URL = "https://medium.com/@yourhandle/latest?format=json";

router.get("/posts", (req, res, next) => {
  request.get(MEDIUM_URL, (err, apiRes, body) => {
    if (!err && apiRes.statusCode === 200) {
      let i = body.indexOf("{");
      const data = body.substr(i);
      res.send(data);
    } else {
      res.sendStatus(500).json(err);
    }
  });
});

A: Nowadays this URL:
https://medium.com/@username/latest?format=json

sits behind Cloudflare's DDoS protection service so instead of consistently being served your feed in JSON format, you will usually receive instead an HTML which is suppose to render a website to complete a reCAPTCHA and leaving you with no data from an API request.
And the following:
https://medium.com/feed/@username

has a limit of the latest 10 posts.
I'd suggest this free Cloudflare Worker that I made for this purpose. It works as a facade so you don't have to worry about neither how the posts are obtained from source, reCAPTCHAs or pagination.
Full article about it.
Live example. To fetch the following items add the query param ?next= with the value of the JSON field next which the API provides.

A: (Updating the JS Fiddle and the Clay function that explains it as we updated the function syntax to be cleaner)
I wrapped the Github package @mark-fasel was mentioning below into a Clay microservice that enables you to do exactly this:
Simplified Return Format: https://www.clay.run/services/nicoslepicos/medium-get-user-posts-new/code
I put together a little fiddle, since a user was asking how to use the endpoint in HTML to get the titles for their last 3 posts:
https://jsfiddle.net/h405m3ma/3/
You can call the API as:
curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"username":"nicolaerusan"}' https://clay.run/services/nicoslepicos/medium-get-users-posts-simple

You can also use it easily in your node code using the clay-client npm package and just write:
Clay.run('nicoslepicos/medium-get-user-posts-new', {"profile":"profileValue"})
.then((result) => {

  // Do what you want with returned result
  console.log(result);

})
.catch((error) => {

  console.log(error);

});

Hope that's helpful!

A: Check this One you will get all info about your own post........
mediumController.getBlogs = (req, res) => {
    parser('https://medium.com/feed/@profileName', function (err, rss) {
        if (err) {
            console.log(err);
        }

        var stories = [];

        for (var i = rss.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {

            var new_story = {};

            new_story.title = rss[i].title;
            new_story.description = rss[i].description;
            new_story.date = rss[i].date;
            new_story.link = rss[i].link;
            new_story.author = rss[i].author;
            new_story.comments = rss[i].comments;

            stories.push(new_story);
        }
        console.log('stories:');
        console.dir(stories);
        res.json(200, {
            Data: stories
        })
    });

}

A: I have created a custom REST API to retrieve the stats of a given post on Medium, all you need is to send a GET request to my custom API and you will retrieve the stats as a Json abject as follows:
Request :
curl https://endpoint/api/stats?story_url=THE_URL_OF_THE_MEDIUM_STORY

Response:
{
   "claps": 78,
   "comments": 1
}

The API responds within a reasonable response time (< 2 sec), you can find more about it in the following Medium article.


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Q: Why distinctUntilChanged won't work in asyncValidators in angular When I press a key on a form input for some reason the async validator doesn't detect the distinctUntilChanged and it still sends API requests.
for example if I press 35, delete 5 and after that add 5 again it still sends the request.
this is the code:
(I've tried pretty much everything but still doesn't work)
validateSomeNumber(control: FormControl): Observable<any> | Promise <any> {
    this.isSubmitBtnDisabled = true;
    return control.valueChanges.pipe(
      debounceTime(1000),
      distinctUntilChanged(),
      switchMap((value) => {
        return this.apiService.someApiRequest({ 'to_number': control.value }).pipe(
          map(res => {
            console.log(res);
            if (res.success) {
              // console.log(res);
              this.isSubmitBtnDisabled = false;
              return null;
            } else {
              // console.log(res);
              this.isSubmitBtnDisabled = true;
              return{ 'invalidCharacters': true };
            }
          }),
        );
      }),
      first()
    );
  }

A: By default validateSomeNumber is called after every value change.
If you return this on every value change
return control.valueChanges.pipe(
  debounceTime(1000),
  distinctUntilChanged(),
  ...
)

you're creating a new Observable of value changes on every value change. e.g if you type four characters you end up with four independent Observables each emitting one character and not with one Observable emitting four times. So debounceTime and distinctUntilChanged will only effecting the Observable you create on a particular value change but not the value change process as a whole. If they only effect an Observable that emits once they obviously don't work as you intend them to do.
You should return the http request directly
validateSomeNumber(control: FormControl): Observable<any> | Promise <any> {
  this.isSubmitBtnDisabled = true;
  return this.apiService.someApiRequest({ 'to_number': control.value }).pipe(
      map(..),
  );
}

Limiting the request frequency
Option 1: updateOn
To prevent the http request from being executed on every value change Angular recommends changing the updateOn property to submit or blur.
With template-driven forms:
<input [(ngModel)]="name" [ngModelOptions]="{updateOn: 'blur'}">

With reactive forms:
new FormControl('', {updateOn: 'blur'});

{updateOn: 'blur'} will only execute the validators when your input looses focus.
Option 2: Emulate debounceTime and distinctUntilChanged
Angular automatically unsubscribes from the previous Observable returned by the AsyncValidator if the form value changes. This allows you to emulate debounceTime with timer. To emulate distinctUntilChanged you can keep track of the last request term and do the equality check yourself.
private lastRequestTerm = null;

validateSomeNumber(control: FormControl): Observable<any> | Promise <any> {
  this.isSubmitBtnDisabled = true;
  // emulate debounceTime
  return timer(1000).pipe(
    // emulate distinceUntilChanged
    filter(_ => control.value != this.lastRequestTerm),
    switchMap(() => {
      this.lastSearchTerm = control.value;
      return this.apiService.someApiRequest({ 'to_number': control.value });
    }),
    map(..)
  );
}


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After completion of my Engineering, I started off my career as a Systems engineer at TCS where I was handling end to end Operations of a Global Banking client's Credit card application.
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List of villages in Shiggaon taluka or tehesil is listed below. Please click on a village link to view every detail of the village. Shiggaon is under the Haveri district in the state of Karnataka in India.


1 tbsp. roasted jeera (cumin) seeds.
1 cup white bread flour.
1 10g packet Instant yeast.
2 Tbsp cornflour mixed with a ¾ cup of normal tap water.
Mix all the ingredients except for the water and cornflour mixture, together in a bowl.
Add the cornflour water and mix.
Add a little warm water at a time, till you have a nice soft dough.
Gently knead till the dough comes together and there are no sticky parts left at the bottom of the container.
Place the dough in a bowl that has been lightly oil.
Cover with cling wrap and place in a warm to rise for 45 minutes or until double in size.
Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and gently shape into a log.
Grease your loaf pan and then pop the dough into the pan.
Cover with cling wrap again and place in a warm place to rise for another 10 minutes.
Remove the cling wrap and pop into a pre-heated oven to bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes or until the top is nice and golden brown.


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