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PARIS— 'Let me get this straight," said the immigration official at Raleigh-Durham airport in North Carolina, reviewing the documents that would allow me onto U.S. soil for the first time. "You have a French passport, which was issued in Indonesia, you were born in Australia, and your J-11 visa for entry into the United States of America was delivered in Venezuela. Is that right?"
Indeed, it was. What made the official even more wary was the fact that I sounded distinctly American, without a trace of a foreign accent. "Your English is amazing, how much time have you spent in the United States?" he asked. "Approximately 18 minutes," I said. "This is my first time."
He was incredulous when I explained that I had acquired an American accent while studying in international schools overseas, but eventually issued me a verbal "Welcome to America." It was to be my fifth country of residence in 17 years, only two years of which were spent in France, my "passport country."
According to a fairly new area of study, I am a "Third Culture Kid" — a TCK — or an Adult Third Culture Kid, to be exact. Some prefer the expression "Global Nomad," but both terms refer to an increasingly large group of individuals who have spent a significant portion of their formative years overseas. To many sons and daughters of business executives, diplomats, military officials and missionaries, a passport is little more than a travel document, for it does not necessarily denote where "home" is.
Between "Third Culture Kids" there is an inexplicable link that is difficult to describe. Often I have been introduced to someone with whom I immediately bonded, only to learn later that the person had also grown up overseas. We relate to our shared "Third Culture" better than to our parents' culture (the first) or that of our host country (the second). What is surprising is that someone who grew up in a mission in Africa shares the same "third culture" as a diplomat's child who grew up in Guatemala.
For us, home sometimes changed every few years, with a shift in language and culture often accompanying the inevitable changes in schools and houses. The question most often posed when people learn about my childhood overseas is, "Wasn't it difficult to move around like that repeatedly, not to feel as though you had a real home?"
As a child, however, the idea never even occurred to me. When one is born eight time zones away from one's passport country, how can being overseas possibly appear difficult? For young global nomads, tackling cultural and linguistic hurdles is the norm. The question is comparable to asking a native of Seoul if it was difficult to learn to speak Korean.
As children, my siblings and I were oblivious to our good fortune. We laughed at the English accents of UTA's airline staff during our yearly 22-hour journeys between Australia and France. We didn't realize how lucky we were to be raised in a bilingual environment.
My earliest memory of genuine change is of the day my parents called the five of us into a room to announce that we would soon be leaving Australia. With atlas in hand, our father — a civil engineer — pointed to Indonesia and we learned that we would soon embark upon a new life there.
It was in Jakarta that we learned to boil water before drinking it, and that, at the age of 7, I knew not to handle objects with my left hand for fear of offending Indonesians. It was also there that I first questioned the foundations of racism, when passers-by pointed and yelled orang putih (white person).
Indonesia exposed us to true poverty and to danger. We awoke one night in 1984 to discover damage to our home, only to learn that a nearby ammunition dump had caught fire and that bombs were raining on our neighborhood.
Our education in politics and social upheaval continued several years later in Venezuela. We witnessed several coup attempts — one of which sent bullets through my father's office window — with riots, pillaged stores and empty supermarket shelves. Martial law and curfew ensued, while tanks and armed boys — they did not look older than 16 — patrolled our neighborhood in Caracas.
More than anything, living overseas provided us with many rich, wonderful memories. While my Bahasa Indonesia is no longer fluent, I still enjoy spicy Indonesian food, the tartness of tamarind and the joys of chewing on sugar cane. There is a particular color that I can envision that can only be described as "rice paddy green." I still like knowing that I learned to speak Spanish by listening to salsa.
In Venezuela I tackled an application form for an American university that required an essay on the following subject: "If you were to show our admissions officers your home town, what is it that you would show them, and why?" It occurred to me that I did not even know which home town to write about. The country in which I had spent the most time was Australia, and I hadn't set foot there since the age of 7.
Instead, I wrote about the house my parents owned in the south of France, where we spent our annual summer vacations. The house contained furniture, artwork, photos and souvenirs from each country we'd lived in: Indonesian batiks and puppets hung next to Venezuelan naïf paintings. Home is this sum of all our places of residence.
On moving to the United States, I left behind the comfort of being surrounded by numerous other Third Culture Kids — and soon realized the extent to which my life experiences had been different from my American fellow students. Like the immigration officer at Raleigh-Durham airport, many people exercised caution upon hearing about my past, as if they could not categorize me. Even the Red Cross was wary, once barring me from donating blood because my years overseas classified me as "high risk." More generally, I soon learnt from the reactions of some students that it was sometimes best not to mention stories of life overseas, even though they were the only stories I knew.
Four years after entering the United States, I moved to Britain to attend graduate school. At Heathrow airport I only had to flash my French passport to pass through immigration.
No, I did not find it particularly difficult to grow up overseas. My experiences abroad were as rich and positive as they were varied, and if anything, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. But sometimes it is nice to walk through immigration like everyone else, without having a stranger scrutinize one's life story.
Anne-Sophie Bolon is on the staff of the International Herald Tribune.
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Marietta Daily Journal - January 16, 2018
By: Jon Gargis
MARIETTA — The Gateway Marietta Community Improvement District is expected next month to fill a vacancy on its seven-member board following the departure of the CID board's chairman.
Jeff Shaw is chief executive officer and principal at Bridge Commercial Real Estate. Bridge had been the owner-operator of Parkway Center, a 16-acre office campus with two 12-story class-A office towers totaling 460,000 square feet. They are located at 1800 and 1850 Parkway Place off Franklin Gateway. The CID meets within the 1850 building.
Last month, Bridge sold the office towers, which stand just west of I-75 and just south of South Marietta Parkway, and an accompanying 5 acres of land to The Simpson Group at a price of about $62 million, according to CoStar Group, a commercial real estate information and marketing firm. With Bridge no longer owning the property within the CID, Shaw can no longer serve on the board of the self-taxing district, which is comprised of property owners in the district or their representatives.
"Jeff has expressed some interest of staying on the board, which would require someone to nominate him," said Joe Knight, executive director of the CID.
Knight said The Simpson Group, as owner of the office towers, could choose to nominate Shaw or potentially tap someone else as a nominee.
The CID is expected to call a caucus of electors for its next board meeting on Feb. 20 to fill Shaw's board seat. The meeting is also likely to see an election amongst the board for its next chairman, which had been Shaw's role.
At the time of the Parkway Center's sale, according to a news release last month from Bridge, the property had 29 tenants including WellStar Health Systems, the state's largest healthcare system. The Parkway Center, according to Knight, is the largest contributor to the CID.
Expected to become the second-largest contributor to the CID, Knight said, is Swedish home furniture retailer Ikea, which last month announced along with city of Marietta officials its plans to open a second metro Atlanta location.
The retailer will go into a 28-acre property on Franklin Gateway purchased by the city in 2015 for $17.7 million and currently under contract for $9.25 million. The property was formerly the site of the Marquis Place apartment complex. The city bought and razed the dilapidated complex using funding from a $68 million redevelopment bond approved by voters in 2013.
Daniel Cummings, the city's economic development manager, told board members that Ikea is aiming to close on the property in February or March, and is in the process of rezoning a smaller piece of land in front of the city property, which will become part of the store's parking lot. The company has committed to purchasing the 6-acre site on which a shopping center currently sits.
But Cummings said the company has not announced a timeline to build or open the store.
"There's so many moving parts to it, that there's some hesitancy to do that, but I think they're certainly interested in starting the process and moving very quickly," he said. "What that exactly looks like with all the different moving parts, it's a little tough to nail down."
The 338,000 square-foot shopping center will be the largest single retailer in Cobb County history, City Manager Bill Bruton previously told the MDJ. Bruton said it will be the second largest single retailer in the state, coming in just behind the only other Ikea in Georgia at Atlantic Station. That location, which opened in 2005, is 366,000 square feet. There are 47 locations in the United States.
Cummings said Ikea's Marietta location is expected to have between 250 and 300 employees and draw a million customers per year — an "absolutely massive" economic impact.
The new store, he added, could also spark additional activity within the city and Franklin Gateway.
"I think already what you've seen in the corridor between Atlanta United coming and Home Depot having their Marietta Technology Center down there, I think the call for new development was already out there, but this only provides the area even more viability from an economic standpoint," Cummings said.
In addition to potential new development it may spark, Cummings said Ikea's impending arrival benefits the city by putting the land back on its property tax rolls.
While Knight said the CID has not calculated a potential dollar impact from Ikea, board members were optimistic about the effect it would have.
"A million cars coming on Franklin Gateway have got to have a positive effect," said Bob Morgan, the CID's treasurer and principal of Cerqueda, Morgan & Collins certified public accountants.


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Laser Holographic Hole Drilling research conducted at the University of New Orleans, College of Engineering has the potential of making residual stress analysis measurements an inexpensive, quick, and highly accurate process for industry.
The shipbuilding industry is beginning to implement new technologies such as automated welding, cutting, and material movement in shipbuilding processes. In order for these technologies to work as envisioned, the shipyards will have tighter dimensional control of parts and must develop increased control of distortion of parts. The distortion of steel plates is almost always due to the residual stress (RS) that is caused by manufacturing processes. Some of those processes are milling, drilling, cutting, grinding, and welding – all necessary steps in the manufacturing of ships. Since the elimination of RS is not possible using today's manufacturing process, an inexpensive and quick method of measuring the stress is necessary. Once the degree of stress can be identified and measured inexpensively and corrective actions can be taken to reduce the stress, distortion can be reduced before other manufacturing processes are impacted.
Traditional methods of measuring stress are Strain Gage Hole Drilling (SGHD) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD). Other methods are available, including Synchrotron and Neutron Diffraction, but neither is considered to have a high degree of reliability. The University of New Orleans, College of Engineering (UNO COE) has recently undertaken a project to assess the capabilities of a new technology for measuring residual stress in materials. This technology is called Laser Holographic Hole Drilling (LHHD). In the mid-1980s, research found that holographic hole drilling caused an interference fringe pattern related to the displacements that occurred as a result of the hole drilling to the subsurface residual stress. In-plane sensitive electronic speckle pattern interferometry with automated fringe analysis was developed in 2000 for rapid stress analysis. The attainment of real-time or near-real-time results of the tests are now available. One RS measurement typically takes only five minutes.
The research team at the UNO COE measured RS in test specimens using several techniques, including SGHD, XRD, and LHHD. SGHD and XRD were selected because they are the industry standards. Each of the three methods for measuring RS has advantages and disadvantages. LHHD may become the preferred method of measuring RS in the shipbuilding industry. The advantages of LHHD over other methods include portability and quickness, no surface preparation, no costly strain gages, automated drilling and data analysis, and only two material properties required (Young's Modulus and Poisson's Ratio). LHHD is also semidestructive and does require hole drilling. A comparison of the results of the three technologies using identical base material conditions indicated that LHHD can become the most effective test method for determination of RS. However, the vibrations always present in a production atmosphere make LHHD measures problematic. This issue must be resolved before LHHD replaces SGHD or XRD as the preferred method of residual stress measurement in an industrial setting.
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Should we separate feminism into waves? It's a complicated question with a complicated subject, and I think there are good arguments both ways. To some extent, the division of feminism into waves serves to divide what is undoubtedly a continuum, disrupting the chain running between feminists fighting for suffrage to those of today. Furthermore, they lend themselves to division and fighting in the feminist movement itself; to quote the Jennifer Baumgardner article, "if anyone is going to resist a new wave, it is the previous wave, populated by women and men who believe that they have plenty left to offer." On top of these realities, such divisions lend themselves to easy classification that perhaps misses the deeply nuanced positions of many feminists and dismisses those caught between waves, forcing them into categories that fail to encapsulate their true views.
But despite all the failures of these seemingly overly simple classifications, there is a genuine need for them. This discussion is far from an issue restricted to the feminist movement; historians know that the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era were not totally distinct, but they nevertheless use separate names to describe them. And I think this is where it becomes important to have these shorthand phrases. When we say that Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a First Wave Feminist, it allows us to immediately have some idea of the time she lived in and the ideals she fought for. While that classification results in a not insignificant loss of detail and nuance, it also allows for us to work with a framework when we talk about feminist history. This is the same argument that Baumgardner uses, and I think that in the end it trumps the loss of nuance that comes from these classifications.
So, in the end, I do believe that we should classify feminists into waves. But I also think we should be extraordinarily careful when we do so, because every time we say she was a first or second or third wave feminist, we lose some of the complexities that defined that person's ideals and contributions to the feminist movement.
On another note, I found the idea of the feminist cookbooks very interesting because they seemed so anathema to many ideals of the movement today. I think that this really shows how far we've come, and how ingrained societal ideas of gender roles can be. Even the radicals of that time still felt that their place was in the kitchen, and it's important to recognize both that we are far from that time and still quite likely to fall back into similar gender stereotypes.


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Los Angeles, CA, April 17, 2018 – Newly formed Vertuoso is signing Carey Lundin, a member of the Producers Guild of America, a multi award-winning director, writer and producer specializing in political campaigns, comedic digital series and documentaries, to their growing roster of content creators.
Lundin's digital series, Citizen Kate, The Outsiders' View of Inside Politics, 2008 (90 episodes, distributed by FiOS, and YouTube Partner as an official partner channel) followed Barack Obama from his launch through his inauguration. Working with producer John Heinsen, (another Vertuoso Producer), the series attracted hundreds of thousands of followers and hit a high water mark when her sweet yet idiotic "butter bust of Obama" sculpted by the beloved Butter Cow Lady of Iowa, made the international news and helped him secure the vote in the crucial Iowa caucus.
In 2016 Lundin rebooted Citizen Kate to cover Trump's early campaign in Iowa, Clinton and Bernie Sanders. That series featured two Second City improvisers who wore cat ears to symbolize female power (a year before the Women's Rally in DC) and used Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook to drive youth voter turnout initiatives.
Lundin developed her political savvy over a decade as Creative Director of Adelstein/Liston (A/L Media), a Chicago political media firm, working with federal, state and judicial races, public health campaigns (organ donation, EPA, ride-sharing) and corporate clients such as NEC, FMC and Allstate. Currently, Lundin is developing a highly creative get out the vote (GOTV) campaign called "Flip it Blue."
Lundin's award winning film, "Jens Jensen The Living Green" tells the story of an early landscape architect turned eco-justice warrior. The film aired on PBS nationally and made her a public speaker on how you can turn your art into activism.
Curt Doty, CEO and Co-Founder, has long specialized in integrated marketing, multi-channel storytelling, branding, identity, and user experience, states, "We are thrilled to have Carey join our team. Her political campaign background will help us connect with the newly energized Millennial base as we are facing the upcoming campaign season. Her prolific background in creating digital series is a perfect fit."
Greg Babiuk, COO and Co-Founder, is an award-winning creative development and media production executive with over 20 years of experience across all media and comments, "Carey brings all the credibility to our space and offering. The right skills, the right platforms and the right background. We are excited at the possibilities."
Lundin recently directed and co-wrote The WORST Travel Show, a five-episode travel series that satirized twee vloggers for the newly launched Facebook Watch and WatchMojo.
Lundin adds,"Political engagement has never been higher in anyone's memory in this nation, that's why it's very exciting for me as a writer/director/producer to be able to connect with the mobile audience in such an impactful way. Vertuoso can leverage the right strategy for the right demo to connect the issues audiences care about, with brands that want to be part of the national conversation."
About VERTUOSO:
Founded by media executives Curt Doty and Greg Babiuk in 2017, and located in Los Angeles, New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico, Vertuoso works with brands, agencies, studios, networks, and media companies to collaborate on enhancing and optimizing video campaigns to take advantage of the newest behaviors in the consumption of social video.
Vertuoso is one of the first creative and production agencies to focus on vertical storytelling. With a collection of content creators across the country, Vertuoso is already developing shows and branded content, which they call "VertisodesSM" for various platforms.
The company's phone is: 310.994.7810. Please see:
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Hi Holotable Heroes!
Here is all the new content you'll find after today's update, 9/12/18.
Master assassin, father of Boba Fett, and one of the galaxy's best Bounty Hunters, Jango Fett has joined the Holotables! Jango is a strong leader for any Bounty Hunter squad with his powerful attacks and amazing buffs for your entire team. Complete Jango's Contract to give all allied Bounty Hunters an incredible buff: BOUNTY HUNTER'S RESOLVE will revive your Bounty Hunters when they are defeated and allow them to ignore Taunt.
Cad Bane received a rework recently and now he's getting his modified Rogue-class starfighter, Xanadu Blood! This stealthy support ship uses BREACH to weaken its foes while protecting its allies. Form the ultimate Bounty Hunter fleet with Xanadu Blood, Slave I and the Hound's Tooth.
There was another Bounty Hunter still looking for a Contract out in the galaxy, and she's found it. The shapeshifter Zam Wesell has a few new tricks up her sleeve and maybe even a Thermal Detonator or two. Zam's explosive new reworked kit means she loves to team up with anyone that can lob more detonators in the enemy squad's direction. In addition, all characters that use Thermal Detonators received an upgrade: All Thermal Detonators can no longer be dispelled!
For more info on these units, check out the kit reveals and strategy guides below:
Jango Fett
Zam Wesell
Xanadu Blood
Here is the list of changes for this update:
Thermal Detonators can no longer be dispelled
Added Smuggler faction tag to the following characters:
-Young Han Solo
-Vandor Chewbacca
-Young Lando
-Enfys Nest
-Veteran Smuggler Chewbacca
-Veteran Smuggler Han Solo
-Han Solo
Added Cargo Ship tag to Hound's Tooth
Omega Battles can now be simmed
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Territory Battles, Special Missions will reward double Guild Event Tokens for September's Hoth Rebel Assault! Enjoy, and thanks for playing! (Starting 9/18)
For a limited time, the refresh cost for Hard Nodes has been reduced. The first refresh now costs 25 Crystals instead of 50 Crystals, and the second refresh now costs 50 Crystals instead of 100 Crystals. This change applies to Light Side, Dark Side, and Fleet Battle Hard Nodes.
Rogue Hunter
With this release we are introducing the powerful new ship Xanadu Blood (piloted by Cad Bane) into Galaxy of Heroes. You can get a feel for this sleek fighter in the Rogue Hunter Marquee event, and can see more details about it in its kit reveal post here.
Event begins:
September 13th
Level requirements for event: 60+
Forced Ally: Xanadu Blood
The Template in the Tempest
Finally, Jango Fett arrives on the Holotables. This notorious Bounty Hunter can be acquired in The Template in the Tempest Marquee event. Owing to the mystique and fan fondness for this character, we've added some extra "oomph" into this event with bonus rewards and some additional tiers where you can take Jango (and other Bounty Hunters) on some missions. These bounty tiers are replayable each day for the duration of the event, and award mod salvage. For more details about Jango Fett check out his kit reveal here.
Event begins:
September 20th
Level requirements for event: 20+
Forced Ally: Jango Fett
Smuggler's Run
Keep on Smugglin'
With this release we're adding a new Resource event (think Credit Heist & Droid Smuggling), called "Smuggler's Run". In this event you use Smuggler characters to try and sneak one over on the Empire and get your smuggled goods to their destination.
This event has 4 mission tiers and, similar to Credit Heist, the tiers unlock as your level up. Tier 1 unlocks at 50, Tier 2 unlocks at 70, and the final two tiers both unlock at level 80. This event requires Smuggler characters (see below) and awards Mods and Mod Salvage, including rare salvage pieces necessary to upgrade 5A Mods to 6E mods as rewards in Tier 4.
Like other resource events, Victory Counts are shared across all tiers, so do the highest tier you can.
Note that Tier 4 is quite difficult.
We have added the "Smuggler" profession tag to the following characters: Han Solo, Veteran Smuggler Han Solo, Veteran Smuggler Chewbacca, Young Han Solo, Young Lando, Qi'ra, L3-37, Vandor Chewbacca, & Enfys Nest
Event begins:
September 18th
Level requirements for event: 50+
Character Requirements: Smuggler Faction only
These characters are now farmable in the following locations:
Jedi Bastila Shan
Dark Side Hard 5-B
Fleet Battles Hard 2-D
Replaces Jedi Knight Anakin (Still available on Light Side Hard 5-C, Dark Side Hard 7-D and Cantina 7-G)
Jolee Bindo
Dark Side Hard 6-D
Fleet Battles Hard 4-E
Replaces General Veers (Still available on Light Side Hard 4-C/6-C)
Chromium Packs
Zam Wesell Bundle
Bundle Includes:
Zam Wesell Character Shards (x50)
XP Training Droids
Ability Mats
Date available:
September 12th
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
Into The Breach Bundle
Bundle Includes:
Xanadu Blood Ship Blueprints (x30)
Cad Bane Character Shards (x50)
XP Training Droids
Ability Mats
Date available:
September 13th
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
Into The Breach Pack
Power up the Xanadu Blood with this brand new pack!
Each pack guarantees at least 5 blueprints for Xanadu Blood and may drop up to 330 SHARDS!
Date available:
September 13th
1299 Crystals
Maximum # purchases: 1
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
Smuggler's Faction Mega Pack
Power up your Smugglers with a Smugglers Faction Mega-Pack!
Each pack awards FIVE card of character shards worth between 10 to 330 Character Shards for Smuggler characters, plus a bonus card containing 10 to 330 shards of Enfys Nest
Possible characters:
L3-37 Qi'ra Vandor Chewbacca Veteran Smuggler Chewbacca Veteran Smuggler Han Solo Young Han Solo Young Lando Calrissian
Guaranteed Bonus:
Enfys Nest
Date available:
September 18th
2799 Crystals
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
Smuggler Pack
Power up your Smugglers with a Smuggler Faction Pack!
Each pack awards one card of character shards worth between 10 to 330 Character Shards for Smuggler characters.
Date available:
September 18th
699 Crystals
Maximum # purchases: 1
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
Clone Wars: Hunters Bundle
Bundle Includes:
Jango Fett (x30)
XP Training Droids
Ability Mats
Date available:
September 20th
Maximum # purchases: 1
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
Clone Wars: Hunters Pack
Power up Jango Fett with this brand new pack!
Each pack guarantees at least 5 shards for Jango Fett and may drop up to 330 SHARDS!
Date available:
September 20th
1299 Crystals
Minimum Level requirements: 20+
A bug has been fixed with the Ion Cannon level 3 description. It no longer states it starts on cooldown.
Jolee's "Eh, You Do It" Protection Up will now correctly apply to an ally unit and will no longer stack with itself.
Updated Contraband Cargo's Deadly Tier description to display correct Requirements.
Fixed a bug where Sith Trooper will deal damage to himself under protection when he counter attacks against an enemy Traya lead team.
Updated Sabine's Darksaber ability so she always inflicts Armor Shred with 50% Defense reduction per stack.
Poe Dameron's X-wing: "Dramatic Entrance" buff will now correctly refresh when enemies are defeated with bonus damage.
Sith Fighter's unique buffs will now be granted properly during assist calls.
Fixed an issue with Chimaera's basic ability "Calculated Strike" being able to selected Stunned or Dazed allies for the assist call.
Fixed a bug where Embo will always gain both Offense and Protection.
Luminara Unduli's Leader ability, "Elegant Steps", will now grant Heal Over Time to allies if they gained Defense Penetration Up or Legendary Battle Meditation.
Fixed a bug where "Hunting Party"'s damage penalty is stacking with other sources of Offense debuff.
Fixed a bug where Bossk's leader contract does not trigger on counter attacks or Assist attacks.
Kylo Ren's Ragged Cut will no longer allow healing on enemies inflicted with Healing Immunity.
A bug has been fixed with Asajj Ventress' second special ability applying Defense Down before dealing damage.
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Special prosecutor is requested in the case of Councilman Michael Brooks
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has asked that a special prosecutor be appointed in the police investigation of Kansas City Councilman Michael Brooks.
Baker said Tuesday that she realized a special prosecutor should be appointed because of the appearance of a conflict of interest within her office. An assistant county prosecutor, Alissia Canady, has filed to run for Brooks' 5th District Council seat. Brooks has not yet filed to seek re-election to that seat.
Last month, Brooks' council aide, Tonia Titus, filed a police report accusing him of choking her in his office. Through his attorney, Brooks has denied the allegation.
Police investigated the allegation and have turned over a case file to Jackson County for review.
Baker said she never had any doubt that she could objectively review the case, but she realized there is the appearance of a conflict of interest.
"To ensure the public's trust, I felt I had to sign off on this case," she said, adding that she had not looked at the police file and did not know what the police found.
Presiding Jackson County Circuit Judge Marco Roldan will appoint the special prosecutor, who would determine whether any charges should be filed.
Meanwhile, Kansas City officials hired an outside law firm to do a separate investigation of the allegation on behalf of the city. Information related to that report is expected soon at City Hall.
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Hammock swings from Rightside to MarkMonitor
Statton Hammock has joined brand protection registrar MarkMonitor as its new vice president of global policy and industry development.
He was most recently VP of business and legal affairs at Rightside, the portfolio gTLD registry that got acquired by Donuts in July. He spent four years there.
The new gig sounds like a broad brief. In a press release, MarkMonitor said Hammock will oversee "the development and execution of MarkMonitor's global policy, thought leadership, business development and awareness strategy".
MarkMonitor nowadays is a business of Clarivate Analytics under president Chris Veator, who started at the company in July.
Former MarkMonitor execs join new brand protection registrar
Two former MarkMonitor executives have teamed up with a Fairwinds co-founder to launch a new "next generation" brand protection registrar.
The new company is Brandsight. It was set up by CEO Phil Lodico, who left brand consultancy Fairwinds about a year ago, and was accredited by ICANN earlier this month.
The first two hires are Matt Serlin, who until a couple months ago was VP of client services at MarkMonitor, and Elisa Cooper, who joins after being VP of marketing at the intellectual property management company Lecorpio.
Cooper, who also worked for MarkMonitor in the same position until a couple of years ago, will be Brandsight's head of marketing and policy. Serlin will head up operations and client services.
The two told me yesterday that Brandsight will attempt to differentiate itself from its alma maters through a combination of better technology, expertise and use of data.
Both have many years experience in the domain industry and ICANN and, one imagines, thick contacts books of potential clients.
The Brandsight site, which went live today, will feature improved workflow via a streamlined user interface, they said.
The company also hopes "better leverage big data to help companies make better decisions and streamline processes around domain management", Cooper said.
"Legacy registrars haven't been focused on building new technology, some for almost 10 years," she said.
It looks like it's going to be a boutique operation at first — I believe Lodico, Serlin and Cooper are the only three employees right now — but Cooper said the plan is to staff up over the remainder of the year in areas such as sales.
The idea is to be a company that is purely focused on corporate domain services as its core competency, as opposed to what they called the "legacy" larger registrars that have domains as just one service among many, Cooper and Serlin said.
Brandsight is based in New York state and funded by private investors.
MarkMonitor tells .feedback to take a hike after "breach" claim
MarkMonitor is to voluntarily terminate its registrar relationship with Top Level Spectrum after the .feedback registry hit it with a breach of contract notice.
Troy Fuhriman, director of domain management at the registrar, told DI today that the company has just sent TLS a letter stating that it no longer wishes to sell .feedback names.
TLS earlier this month accused MarkMonitor of breaking the terms of its Registry-Registrar Agreements by leaking details of that agreement to media outlets including yours truly.
While TLS CEO Jay Westerdal told DI that an apology from MarkMonitor would be enough to make the termination threat go away, MarkMonitor has clearly decided against that route.
"We're going to terminate all accreditation agreements for .feedback," he said. "In part it's a response to ICANN's finding that Top Level Spectrum violated its Pubic Interest Commitments, and what we believe is a retaliatory breach notification from them."
MarkMonitor and a small posse of high-profile clients including Facebook recently won a Public Interest Commitment Dispute Resolution Policy complaint against .feedback, related to the transparency of its launch policies and pricing.
It was in that complaint that MarkMonitor released details contained in the RRA that TLS deemed to be confidential.
Terminating the agreement means that MarkMonitor will no longer be able to sell .feedback names as a registrar and will have to transfer its existing registrations to a different registrar.
Not many clients are affected. MarkMonitor had only 45 .feedback domains under management at the last count (which was still enough to make it the fourth-largest independent .feedback registrar).
Most of these domains will be moved to 101domain, which with fewer than 200 domains is still the leading .feedback registrar.
UPDATE: Westerdal says that MarkMonitor was in fact terminated on Monday. Neither party claims that MarkMonitor made any effort to comply with the breach notice by apologizing.
.feedback threatens to shut off MarkMonitor
Top Level Spectrum, the controversial .feedback gTLD registry, has threatened to de-accredit MarkMonitor unless it apologizes for "breaching" its registrar contract.
The move is evidently retaliation for the MarkMonitor-coordinated complaint about .feedback's launch policies, which last month led to TLS being found in breach of its own ICANN contract.
De-accreditation would mean MarkMonitor would not be able to sell .feedback domains any more, and its .feedback names would be transferred to another registrar.
In a letter to MarkMonitor (pdf) yesterday, TLS informs the registrar that it breached its Registry-Registrar Agreement by releasing said RRA to "the press" as part of the exhibits to its Public Interest Commitments Dispute Resolution Policy complaint.
The problem we take issue with is that your exhibit should have redacted the "Confidential RRA Agreement" prior to being handed over to " the press " and it should have been marked in an appropriate way so ICANN would not publicly disclose it. As we can tell no precautions were taken and as a party to the action we find that you violated the confidentiality of the agreement.
I understand "the press" in this case includes DI and others. We published the document last October. We were not asked to keep anything confidential.
The RRA section of the document is marked as "private and confidential" and contains terms forbidding the disclosure of such information, but the name of the registrar is redacted.
TLS believes the undisclosed registrar is actually Facebook, a MarkMonitor client and one of the several parties to the PICDRP complaint against .feedback.
While Facebook may not have actually signed the RRA, MarkMonitor certainly did and therefore should not have released the document, TLS says.
The letter concludes that the "breach… seems incurable" and says: "Please let us know what actions you will take to cure this breach with us or we will have no other option but to de-accredited your Registrars."
Despite this, TLS CEO Jay Westerdal tells us that an apology will be enough to cure the alleged breach.
The threat is reminiscent of a move pulled by Vox Populi, the .sucks registry, last year. Vox deaccredited MarkMonitor rival Com Laude in June for allegedly leaking a confidential document to DI (I was never able to locate or identify the allegedly leaked document, and had not published any document marked as confidential).
TLS was found in breach of the Public Interest Commitments in its ICANN contract last month by a PICDRP panel. It was the first registry to suffer such a loss.
The PICDRP panel found that .feedback's launch had not been conducted in a transparent way, but it stopped short of addressing MarkMonitor's complaints about "fraudulent" behavior.
.feedback gTLD in breach of contract after big brand "fraud" claims
ICANN has slapped .feedback operator Top Level Spectrum with a contract breach notice after a huge complaint about alleged fraud filed by a gang of big brands.
The company becomes the third new gTLD to be hit by a breach notice, and the first to receive one as a result of losing a Public Interest Commitments Dispute Resolution Process case.
While TLS dodged the "fraud" charges on a technicality, the breach is arguably the most serious found by ICANN in a new gTLD registry to date.
The three-person PICDRP panel found TLS was in violation of the following commitment from its registry agreement:
Registry Operator will operate the TLD in a transparent manner consistent with general principles of openness and non-discrimination by establishing, publishing and adhering to clear registration policies.
But TLS dodged the more serious charges of "fraudulent" behavior, which it denied, largely on the technicality that its PICs only require it to bar its registrants from such behavior.
There's nothing in the PICs preventing the registry from behaving fraudulently, so the PICDRP panel declined to rule on those allegations, saying only that they "may be actionable in another forum".
The complainants, which filed their 1,800-page complaint in October, were MarkMonitor and a bunch of its clients, including Adobe, American Apparel, Best Buy, Facebook, Levi and Verizon.
They'd claimed among other things that 70% of .feedback domains were trademarked names actually registered by the registry, and that TLS had stuffed each site with reviews either paid for or scraped from services such as Yelp!.
They claimed that Free.Feedback, a free domains service hosted by an affiliated entity, had been set up to auto-populate Whois records with the names of brand owners (or whoever owned the matching .com domain) even when the registrant was not the brand owner.
This resulted in brand owners receiving "phishing" emails related to domains they'd never registered, the complainants stated.
TLS denied all all the allegations of fraud, but the PICDRP panel wound up not ruling on many of them anyway, stating:
the Panel finds that Respondent's Registry Operator Agreement contains no covenant by the Respondent to not engage in fraudulent and deceptive practices.
The only violations it found related to the transparency of .feedback's launch policies.
The panel found that TLS had not given 90 days notice of policy changes and had not made its unusual pricing model (which included an extra fee for domains that did not resolve to live sites) transparent.
The registry had a number of unusual launch programs, which I outlined in December 2015 but which were apparently not adequately communicated to registrars and registrants.
The panel also found that Free.Feedback had failed to verify the email addresses of registrants and had failed to make it easy for trademark owners to cancel domains registered in their names without their consent.
Finally, it also found that TLS had registered a bunch of trademark-match domain names to itself during the .feedback sunrise period:
self-allocating or reserving domains that correspond to the trademark owners' marks during the Sunrise period constitutes a failure by the Respondent to adhere to Clause 6 of its Registration and Launch policies, versions 1 and 2. According to the policies, Sunrise period is exclusively reserved for trademark owners
TLS, in its defense, denied that it had self-allocated these names and told the panel it had "accidentally" released them into the zone file temporarily.
As a result of the PIC breaches found by the panel, ICANN Compliance has issued a breach notice (pdf) against the company.
To cure the breach, and avoid having its Registry Agreement taken away, TLD has to, by April 15:
Provide ICANN with corrective and preventative action(s), including implementation dates and milestones, to ensure that Top Level Spectrum will operate the TLD feedback in a transparent manner consistent with general principles of openness and nondiscrimination by establishing, publishing and adhering to clear registration policies;
That seems to me like it's probably vague enough to go either way, but I'd be surprised if TLS doesn't manage to comply.


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Some years ago my husband and I were invited to a bookclub dinner with two other couples in California. The wife of one of my husband's employees came up with the idea and thought it would be fun.
I was used to my Dallas bookclub that was comprised of a half dozen, wine-guzzling, loquacious females.
My friend, Karla (Dallas book club) told me that her husband said, "What kind of granola is Mary eating out there in California?" After he found out it was for couples.
Or something to that effect. Equivalent of "What's Mary smoking out there?"
The book was "The Last Lecture" written by the late Randy Pausch.
I recommend it. Or at least watch his video. Inspiration from a man who knew that he wasn't going to be around too much longer.
Hubby didn't finish the book but I shared the finer points with him during the car ride.
It was a good book. Focused on the important things in life and unrealized dreams.
Had dinner and wine.
So far, so good.
Then the woman puts a pot on the table and asks that we all write down our own unrealized dream on a slip of paper. Without our names.
The six of us complied.
Then she pulled out each one and read them. We had to guess who wrote each one.
So far, so good.
First one was "I always wanted to be a veterinarian but didn't get accepted into the program."
Uh oh!
A little guesswork determined this was from the hostess who was currently working as a pediatrician.
Who knew medical school was easier to get into than a veterinary program?
Next was, "I wanted to be an airplane pilot but couldn't due to an eye injury."
That was from my husband who was a CEO at the time.
Geez. I was starting to sweat. Maybe I didn't put too much thought into mine!
Can't remember the others. But I'll never forget mine.
"I always wanted to learn how to whistle."
A lofty goal from a lofty girl.
Well, that certainly lightened the mood although that was not my intention.
I realized (after I mentally berated myself for such a simple answer) that I was the only one who had written down a goal that I could actually still achieve. If I pursued it.
No, I still haven't learned how to whistle.
But I will devote some time to it. Right after I devote the time to training my overly enthusiastic, five year old Jack Russell named Thumper. LOL.
Hadn't even thought of whistling for a couple of years. But discussion was prompted at a family gathering a few weeks ago when someone mentioned meeting the best whistler in Ireland.
Led to some chatting in the room. Who can whistle?
My father's side? Apparently not so much.
But my mother's side is a different story. My grandfather was always whistling. And his kids could whistle.
Got me thinking about it all over again. 🙂
Have a wonderful week while you are thinking about what you would write on that scrap of paper.
Big or small.
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Keiji Inafune, the influential creator of Mega Man and more recently, Dead Rising, has announced that he will soon be leaving Japanese developer Capcom.
Inafune has been with the company for 23 years and was the Head of the Research and Development Group at the company. However, he believes there is nowhere higher for him to go at the company.
He said, "A manager's work means evaluating your subordinates and speaking your dreams. Anyone who can do both of those can be a manager. I thought that when I came here, and I still think that now."
He's now said to be looking for a new challenge within the industry.
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Asheville Citizen-Times investigative reporter Jon Ostendorff announced Friday that he's leaving the newspaper to join WLOS as investigative reporter there. I'm guessing that Ostendorff is filling the job left open by former WLOS investigative reporter Mike Mason, who dropped off the TV news with no explanation.
Gannett reporter Tonya Maxwell, who has been covering the environment for the Citizen-Times and its sister newspaper the Greenville News, will replace Ostendorff in Asheville (she's been based in Greenville). Maxwell also worked for the Citizen-Times in the early 2000s.
There's no word on whether a reporter will be hired to fill Maxwell's environmental reporting position.
This isn't the first time a Citizen-Times reporter has moved to WLOS. Maggie Lauterer worked as a reporter and columnist for the newspaper in the 1980s before joining WLOS. Her folksy reports profiling mountain people were quite popular. She decided to try her hand at politics in the 1990s and made a run for U.S. Congress, but was defeated by incumbent Charles Taylor.
Here's Jon's announcement via FB:
Today I am saying goodbye to my friends and colleagues at the Asheville Citizen-Times. Next week will be my last at the newspaper.
I have taken a job with WLOS News 13 as an investigative reporter. I am looking forward to this new opportunity in journalism in Western North Carolina.
The Citizen-Times has been my professional home for 15 years. I will miss my friends at the newspaper and at Gannett.
Thank you to all the editors, reporters and photographers who taught me the ropes and inspired me to grow as a journalist. You have been the best part of the job.
You will always be in my heart and I know I will see many of you again out covering the story.


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The Brand That Changed How We See Watches
The wristwatch as we know it today is perhaps the most classic and enduring item in a man's wardrobe. Like many of today's popular trends (Think bomber/Military Jackets) it's origins are in the armed forces. The British army began issuing watches to soldiers in 1917 in an effort to synchronize the creeping barrage approach.
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Since World War I, the watch has become an integral part of a man's everyday wardrobe. Baby Boomers and Generation X not only wear a watch everyday but many collect watches and view them as heirloom items to be passed on from generation to generation. The fashion industry has even increasingly looked to interweave technology into everyday products—most notably Apple's iWatch and TAG Heuer's Connected.
Until recently, men either had to shell out thousands for a pricey model from a name brand, or take their chances on a mall brand. Enter Daniel Wellington, an affordable, on trend and Instagram-friendly brand that has taken the notoriously hard to please social media generation by storm.
Founder Fillip Tysander was backpacking through Australia when he met an alluring British man named Daniel Wellington. Tysander was struck by Wellington's style, and his ability to be gentlemanly while relaxed and unpretentious. Wellington had a penchant for wearing vintage watches on old NATO straps, a classic style pioneered by the British Navy in the 70s. Upon returning home to Sweden, Tysander started an eponymous watch company for the stranger he'd left behind. "We could see an opening in the market for a watch brand with a timeless and classic design at an attractive price point. This concept is still very much a part of what makes Daniel Wellington so special," said Tysander.
In an industry where more is better and brands are expected to produce up to 12 collections a year, the thing that sets Daniel Wellington apart is it's unwavering commitment to minimalism. "I was looking for a slim thin and minimalistic watch, but I couldn't find what I was looking for," said Tysander reflecting on the direction of the aesthetic. The brand has managed to create products that are recognizable yet don't overpower the rest of the outfit.
The aesthetic of these watches may rival luxury competitors but one thing DW provides is an affordable alternative for the masses. The collection runs from $185-$330. They currently come in five different sizes; from 26mm to a more substantial 40mm. As a consistent aesthetic— and one of the hallmarks of this brand—all the faces are minimalistic and dials are white, with slim lines marking each hour.
Straps are available in Nato or Leather styles for both men and women. Nato, the more youthful strap, was pioneered by the British navy in the 70's, while the leather option offers a more formal and classic choice.
All Daniel Wellington watches have individual serial numbers, which is rare for watches at this price-point and is a testament to the brand's commitment to quality. While Tysander is delighted by Daniel Wellington's success - with sales of over 200 Million last year in over 100 countries— with success comes the inevitable knock-offs trying to emulate the formula. The company has requested over 13,000 takedowns by fraudulent users on ads, marketplaces and social media since last December.
Daniel Wellington was an early adopter of social media and has since grown an admirable following: The brand has 2 million followers on Instagram and over 400,000 thousand on Facebook. "It has always been a priority for us to work with contemporary methods, and social media has felt like a natural choice from the very beginning," said Tysander. "Social media allows us to interact with the most important people: our customers and fans around the world." The brand has actively engaged their followers through their #DWPickoftheDay contest and the recently launched #WheresmyWellington campaign.
As for the future of the brand, Tysander is excited about a number of new and interesting projects coming up. "Our future looks extremely promising," he says.
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(2) Where any court makes an order or gives judgement to the effect that any tax assessed under this Act or any other law should have been assessed under a provision of a law different from that under which it was assessed, then in consequence of such order or judgement or to give effect to any finding or direction contained in any such order or judgement, such turnover or part thereof, may be assessed or re-assessed to tax, as the case may be, at any time within five years from the date of such order or judgement, notwithstanding any limitation period which would otherwise be applicable under the law applicable to that assessment or re-assessment.
(3) Where any proceedings for the recovery of any tax, penalty, interest or any part thereof remaining unpaid, have been commenced in a court and the amount of tax, penalty or interest is subsequently modified, enhanced or reduced in consequence of any decision made or order passed in the appeal, the prescribed authority may, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, inform the dealer or the person and the authority under whose order the recovery is to be made, and thereupon such proceedings may be continued with the modified, enhanced or reduced amount of tax, penalty or interest therein substituted.
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I want to start this off by saying that I am no Photoshop or photo editing expert. I very much so learn by doing and have really just been playing around with different apps and programs to get the right look and feel that I am after for the photos that I post. Each edit ends up a bit different than the last, and I have no set rhyme or reason for what I do or a theme that I follow.
I have taught myself a lot since the beginning of this Instagram journey and can definitely say photo editing is at the top of the list in terms of life saving Instagram skill sets. I don't know about you, but even a year and a half into the Instagram game, I still seriously wonder how some of the content creators do it! They make it look like they have a photographer following them around 24/7 and capture the most beautiful photos. Clearly part of the reason they are at the level of content creation they are at, but still… mind blowing.
Now, before you set your expectations too high, let me bring it back to reality for a second. I still have no idea what I'm doing half the time, how to pose, what angle the lighting should be at, or what looks good together. I set up a tripod with my phone, use a timer, and end up with probably 70 terrible photos before I get the one good one to share. I just kinda do, hope for the best, and clean up the colours in post. Which I actually feel is more realistic for anyone looking for everyday editing tips as there is no fancy anything happening here. The best part about all of it is that I shoot and edit everything on my iPhone (sidebar – there are some occasions where I have a photographer for things but majority of what you see is shot on an iphone).
A few tips before we dive in:
1. If you are looking to shoot and capture "the photo", be prepared to throw all your public insecurity and shame out the window because it can be embarrassing as fuck sometimes, but you just gotta do it to get the shot.
2. Poor lighting makes an iPhone photo very difficult to edit. The more natural light you can get from the start, the better your edit will be. Ie. Outdoor photos usually turn out very well in post vs dark condo photos.
3. Always always wipe the camera on your phone and make sure it is finger print free. You cannot edit out a blurry fingerprint smudge. Making sure you have a clean lens beforehand will give you a much better quality picture.
The two apps I live by are Snapseed and Facetune (and not for body editing). I occasionally use VSCO, but only one feature/filter and honestly hardly ever lately.
1. Tune Image
Purpose: To edit the classic things like brightness, contrast, saturation etc.
How I Use It: I always increase the following: Brightness, contrast, Ambiance, & Highlights. I decrease shadows and I don't touch Saturation or warmth 99% of the time.
2. Details
Purpose: To edit the sharpness and structure of the photo
How I Use It: I normally increase both structure & sharpening slighting unless it's a photo with low quality lighting. In those cases, I decrease the structure as it helps soften the image and remove some of the haze/low quality
3. Perspective
Purpose: To change the angle (perspective) of the photo
How I Use It: This one can be tricky and seriously mess up your image if you over edit with it. You can never lengthen one thing without shortening something else so pay attention to that if you use it. I use it to help turn images slightly so they appear more centered when they are a tad off.
4. Expand
Purpose: To expand the edges of the photo
How I Use It: If an images doesn't properly fit in the Instagram frame/square on my profile (I'm super picky about the overall look and feel on my page), I use this feature to give it a bit more size so it fits when I post it.
5. Selective
Purpose: To selectively change the brightness, saturation, or structure of a specific area of the photo
How I Use It: I use this to brighten specific areas of an image without altering the entire photo. Great for giving the sky a bit more brightness without over brightening the people in the image.
6. Brush
Purpose: To increase or decrease the brightness, exposure saturation or temperature of the image based on where you brush
How I Use It: Be careful with this one. I used to love it and get a little carried away with how I used it. Now I use it to brighten things like walls (more specifically shadows on white walls) or in the sand etc.
7. Portrait
Purpose: To place a spotlight on and brighten the face in the image
How I Use It: A great way to draw attention to the faces in an image. I like "Combo One" with a few adjustments to the face spotlight and eye clarity. Be careful not to overdo it as you can look very edited if you do too much with this feature.
8. Healing
Purpose: To remove items from the photo
How I Use It: This is a great tool for removing unwanted people, or items in an image that make the background look messy.
This may seem like a lot to do for one image but it honestly takes 5 min and can dramatically change your photo.
Facetune can sometimes have a bad rap because it mainly used by people to edit their bodies and make them "skinny" (Full disclosure – before I started my fitness journey and learnt to actually love myself, I fully used this app to change my body and all the things I didn't like about it). BUT, Facetune has a ton of other amazing features in it that I use more often than not to help with colouring an image rather than body editing.
1. Patch
Purpose: To mimic one part of a photo and place it on another
How I Use It: Probably my all-time favourite tool. I use it to remove unwanted items and people when the healing feature in Snapseed doesn't quite get it right. Think things like outlets or other unwanted background items.
2. Tones
Purpose: To match one colour and place it elsewhere
How I Use It: This is an amazing feature. It allows you to pick a colour and apply it in another place. Great for blending and taking away any harsh highlights that may be in the image.
3. Whiten
Purpose: To whiten your teeth
How I Use It: I use this feature to brighten walls, tile, sand etc. and really give the background a nice bright white feel. I find it easier than the brush tool on Snapseed and you get the same effect.
4. Smooth
Purpose: To smooth your skin
How I Use it: I use this if the image is really poor quality to help with graininess or if I'm trying to blend something I've removed by patching. I don't often use it to smooth my skin unless the photo is of very low quality. This feature is similar to decreasing the structure in Snapseed but can be area specific.
5. Detail
Purpose: To accentuate details
How I Use It: This is my go to in order to draw attention to something. I mostly use it for products/logos that I am featuring as it helps the item pop in the picture especially when they may be a bit out of focus.
VSCO is more of a pre-set filter based app. From what I know, this is a common app for many bloggers and content creators as it allows them to have that consistent aesthetic/theme when you look at their profile. I tried to stick with it for a bit, but I prefer a page that is full or more real and less curated colour moments. It may look a bit messier but its more me and tbh a lot less time consuming. This app also has a ton of paid options in it but I have never gone down that road.
When I do use VSCO I stick to A5 or A6, I bring it down to about a level 4/5 then increase the exposure and contrast in the selective edit feature. This works most of the time and does wonders for brightening an image.
Now without this feeling overwhelming or having you think I'm a crazy person, let me remind you that I do not use all of these tools on every photo. Some photos don't need as much love as others, but when they do, these steps can be very helpful!


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Chan Pratt Inspiration
The Chan Pratt Foundation will be hosting its annual fundraiser on January 31, 2019 at Sapodilla Estate, West Bay Street. This event will serve as a fundraiser for the Chan Pratt Memorial Art Scholarship Endowment Fund at The University of The Bahamas which was established in June 2016.
This year's event will feature the works of various Bahamian artists exhibiting a diversity of styles inspired by the work of Mr. Chan Pratt, under the theme "Recreating Old Nassau." Guests can look forward to an evening of live music, art, and atmosphere. Savory and sweet bites will be provided, as well as wine and a welcome cocktail.
As mentioned, this is a fundraising event and the donation of $100 will generate income for the Endowment Fund as well as the operational expenses of the Chan Pratt Foundation.


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Greetings and Namaste to you from NCBS at Kathmandu, Nepal. We would like to briefly write some words from our three weeks on the short vacation trip. We made this trip from our graduates' village Dev, Jet, Suka and Sonam. Brother Surya, Sonam, and Arun joined me for 14 days of our trip. We visited local the congregations of Dev, Chandra Prakash, Sonam and other surrounding areas of Makwanpur, Tanahu, Dhading and Rasuwa districts. Graduates, their local congregations and many other congregations were encouraged with our visit.
April 3rd – Wednesday - we began our journey from the NCBS building toward Dev's home by a local Tata sumo van. We reached brother Ezekiel's home at 2 PM. We took a river bath. Brother Abraham and Chandra Prakash joined us from their home. We had an evening family Bible study with their family and other neighborhoods.
April 4th - Thursday - we woke up at 6 AM. We began to walk toward Dev's local congregation after having a light breakfast. It was taken 2 and a half hours from brother Ezekiel's home to reach the Maishirang Church where Dev preaches every Sunday. This is in the Makwanpr district. We had a whole day Bible study with almost 75 Christian brothers and sisters. We stayed that night in that village.
April 5th - Friday - Today is a free travel day. We went to the Chitwan National Park where we had spent half a day. We enjoyed our day by seeing natural beauty, rivers, elephant, rhinoceros and the animal museum. We came back to brother Chandra Prakash's home by late evening. His village is in the Tanahu district. We had a short evening devotional of Bible study with their family.
April 6th - Saturday - We had a day of Bible study at Kota, Kalikatar. Brother Chandra Prakash is our present student. He is the preacher of that local congregation.
April 7th - Sunday - We did morning worship service at Kota, Kaliktar village. We did not make any travel due to Nepal Bandh (one day all shops, transportations are closed). We went near villages to visit and have Bible study with the believers' houses.
April 8th - Monday - We left Chandra Prakash's family and came back toward Pokhara Bus Park at Narayanghat. We reached Malekhu Bazar about three and half hours by highway bus. We had lunch and took another local van to reach Dhading Besi. This is the headquarter for the Dhading district. This is 580 meters above sea level. It was a one hour travel journey from Malekhy Bazar. After getting down at Dhading Besi we changed another van to go to Gyangsang village. It is four hours up and down hilly roads. We arrived at 8 PM in Gyangsang. This is 2350 meters above sea level. We stayed at a hotel and had dinner. This was a long traveling day for us, but we enjoyed our day. We were traveling toward the Dhading district of Bagmati zone. Brother Sonam and other Tamang brothers and sisters live in this area. Dhading is a tourist area for trekking, Ganesh Himal and other natural beauties.
April 9th - Tuesday – After having breakfast we began to walk from Gyansang village toward brother Sonam's village. We started our hill and mountain walking journey about 6 AM. We reached one village called Shertung at 6 PM. This is 1920 meters above sea level. We stayed at the Lodge and took rest. We did not reach our destination. We were unable to walk more than this. This is really a tiresome journey.
April -10th - Wednesday - We woke up little late this morning due to yesterday's walking, but we did start our walking about 7 AM after breakfast. We reached Tipling village at 11:30 AM. This is 1819 meters above sea level. We had lunch and an hour rest. Again we walked 3 hours toward brother Sonam's home. Finally we reached his home in Puru village. This is around 1900 meters above sea level. We took a bath and some time for rest. Then we had an evening Bible study.
April 11th - Thursday – We did a half day Bible study at Puru where brother Sonam works locally. We walked toward Linjo village which took one and half hours for us. This is 2020 meters above sea level. We had an evening Bible study with brother B. Bahadur and Linjo's congregations.
April 12th - Friday - We left Linjo village at 7 AM. We climbed 4303 meters on a high mountain called Marsyong pass of Pangsang Dada. We enjoyed some time in the snow. Then we reached one lodge and a hotel at Somdang village. We reached Somdang at 7:30 PM. Somdang is 3270 meters above sea level.
April 13th - Saturday - This is another whole day walking from Somdang villge to Shyabru Besi village. We did this journey through Gatlang which is 2238 meter above sea level. We have Lord's congregation at Gatlang. We arrived at Shyabru Besi at 7 PM. We had night Bible study at here. We were encouraged by the Brothers and sisters from Shyabru Besi. This is 1503 meters above sea level.
April 14th - Sunday - We had a short Bible study with few Christian brothers and sisters at one of the brothers house. We didn't wait for the evening worship service. We did worship service at one of the hotels. We left Shabru Besi for visiting Gosaikunda Lake, Langtang National Park. We stayed one night at Goshaikunda. It is 4000-4700 meters above sea level.
April 15th - Monday - We returned back to Dhunche. This is the headquarters for Rasuwa district. It is 1830 meters above sea level. We stayed at hotel and got ready for the return back to Kathmandu.
April 16th - Tuesday - We took a bus at 7 Am. We reached at NCBS at 4 PM.
Benefits of the trip:
1. To encourage our past and present students.
2. To provide and get spiritual nourishment from the word of God by studying together with new audiences.
3. To get some new students for our next batch.
4. To build close relationship within the school and different congregations.
Servant of Christ
Gajendra Deshar
Nepal Center for Biblical Study
Kathmandu, Nepal


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So the blog of my big summer is finally here, or at least the start! During this summer, my boyfriend and I decided to take one month break abroad. Once you move from your own country and then get together with a person from yet another nationality, where to move next is such a hard topic. I am Portuguese, my boyfriend Italian and we live in the Netherlands for four years and a half. We loved this period of our life, but we feel that is time for a change. Where to go next or what to do is still not clear. Since we couldn't solve this part, we decided to put together our savings and take a month off to Thailand and Cambodia. We realised that we are still young and we already live with so many responsibilities by starting our independent life abroad that we needed to stop for a moment and enjoy life, doing the things we love the most while opening our horizons for the future.
Long story short, my boyfriend just decided to find flights and book the tickets! I was a bit nervous, but in reality, if he didn't do this crazy thing, we would be still dreaming and planning behind our computer. If you are young, student and well, money is an issue, obviously is not easy to take spontaneous decisions all the time. However, what worked for us, apart from saving for almost a year, was to book things throughout 5 months and paying slowly in advance all the stuff we could. First the flights, then the Airbnb accommodation (this one was easy because we had a coupon with 35 euros discount!), and then we started with some domestic flights in between Thailand and Cambodia and when we were actually there we just had food, some hotels and normal daily living expenses to pay for. We also found really cheap tickets for Thailand with Finnair and we were super satisfied with the service. When booking our tickets we also decided to make a 3 days stopover in Helsinki and is about that days that this post is all about!
We arrived at the airport and we only needed 5 euros to arrive in Helsinki city centre in a 45 minutes train ride. We started by finding our Airbnb and we were really happy to discover that was close to the centre and exactly what we needed for a few nights in the city. After a small conversation with our host, she told us that dinner time was almost gone (at 16:00) and if we wanted to try the Market we needed to run. Well, that's what we did. We started our walk in the city and went through Esplanadi Park until the Market Square. There you can find a lot of food stands and we quickly got our dinner: meatballs, sausages and salmon. Tip of advice, always choose fish over meat. The salmon was absolutely delicious!
After eating and enjoying a moment near the water, we walked until the Helsinki Cathedral and streets around this area. Helsinki is a unique city and was fun to start to discover it. After, we stopped at a cafe/bar found on our way home. it was called "Why join the navy when you can be a pirate" and had a really creative atmosphere. We drank some expensive beers (and I though Netherlands was expensive....) and enjoyed the nice vibe of the place.
I was always proud of my planning and travel skills, but truth be told, my boyfriend is simply the best in it. He researches so much and always find the best plan to see absolutely everything in the time frame available. With a full plan in our hands, we started our second day by looking for a brunch place. A lot of places were closed because it was Sunday but we still managed to find an amazing solution. I am kind of a plant obsessed, so our breakfast place was a great choice for me. Andante Coffee Shop is a cute place where we had nice croissants for breakfast, surrounded by plants and a vintage decor!
After having our relaxing breakfast, we started our visit by walking towards the Design Museum, passing also by St. John's Church, right in front of it. I am a graphic designer and visiting this museum was mandatory for me, but in this case, I would say is mandatory for everybody! It is fantastic to see how much they incorporated good design in their lives, plus the influence they have on the history of design. The museum is affordable, fun and informative. Did you know that the Finish are responsible for the game of "Snake" in Nokia phones as well as the more recent success "Angry Birds"?
Another must do while in Helsinki is visiting one of the many saunas, an essential part of Finnish culture and identity. After talking with some locals and doing some research, we decided to go for Löyly. As mentioned on their website "public saunas used to be common in bigger cities but now that most new apartments have sauna of their own, public saunas have decreased dramatically in number. As a sense of community is becoming a more and more important part of new urban culture, many new public saunas are being planned."
If we were still not convinced of going there by the amazing architecture of the place and the possibility to jump right into the Baltic Sea, we discovered that the co-owner is Jasper Pääkkönen, actor in the serie Vikings, which we were completely obsessed for. When we arrived there, we were very lucky to get a place in, since most of the people had reservation. The price was yet another surprise, 20 euros for 2 hours. Quite cheap for what we were expecting of such luxurious setting. Before our appointment, we had some hours to kill so we just relaxed nearby, in a very nice restaurant called Birgitta. We ate burgers and bread with salmon and enjoyed the sun.
This sauna was for both men and women and you must dress appropriately. If you forgot your bathing suit, you can rent it there. There were two different saunas, smoke and steam. Two hours is really the perfect time for enjoying the experience and this sauna gives you so many options of how to do it. Inside they have an internal lounge with fireplaces and cold water to drink, showers and other relaxing spots, while outside there are chairs and direct access to the sea! Another great aspect of this sauna was the fact that was full of Finish, so we could really experience it beyond the touristic scene.
After the sauna, we were feeling extremely relaxed and decide to quietly take a walk back to the centre. The city is incredibly easy to walk even though the distances seemed far on the map. We did a little break in a food stand at Kompassitori square and we finally tried the famous salmon soup! I am usually not a big fan of salmon, but, suddenly, I was in love. Our walk continued through Kaivopuisto Park until we were back in the centre and stopped at Uspenski Cathedral. Unfortunately, we couldn't see it inside but was still worth it to appreciate the outside of the building. The "Flying Dutch", a boat with restaurant/bar and live music marked the end of our long walk.
In the morning of our last day, we took our few hours left in the city and use it to visit the "Temppeliaukion Kirkko". The church was designed by the architects and brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen and built directly into the solid rock. How impressive is that has such a modern feeling and was opened in 1969? It has a small entering fee and is quite overcrowded. If you can find a time with fewer people, I believe it would benefit your experience. After this visit, we took our luggage and, heading back to the station, stopped in the "Kamppi Chapel". You can easily miss it between the other city buildings but is worth to stop for a bit. It's from 2012 and called "the silence chappel", beautiful and peaceful inside and with no entry fee.
Maybe we could have done other things in the city, but I really enjoyed this pit stop before our long travel! Unfortunately, I didn't have time or space in my luggage to explore the vintage and design scene, but definitely will do it next time.
Stay tuned since the next blogs will be about Thailand and Cambodia!
Sara Lima


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Former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand is expecting a big performance from striker Marcus Rashford when Jose Mourinho's side visit Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
The defender turned broadcaster says he wants Rashford to emulate his performance for England on Monday night. The striker scored and was heavily involved as Gareth Southgate's side beat Spain 3-2 in Seville.
Rashford has so far this season failed to produce such performances in a United shirt but Ferdinand believes his moment to change that has arrived and has backed the 20-year-old to be the matchwinner.
'Right, before I go out and take my boy to football,' Ferdinand posted on his Twitter account.
'Manchester United are down at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea, always a tough place for Man United to go. Didn't win many games in my time there.
'But I feel (Marcus) Rashford I think this is his time man. He burst onto the scene, no fear, going at people and putting defenders on the back foot. I want to see that again.
'He scored goals midweek for England, his confidence must be flying, come on man bring that into a Man United shirt.'
'Ease the pressure off this club, ease the pressure off themselves as players, ease the pressure of the manager. Let's go, come on!'
The Portuguese will be hoping to build on some of the momentum generated by his side's 3-2 comeback win over Newcastle before the international break.
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MINCE LAMB TAJINE | Fancy a taste of Morocco in the comfort of your own home?
If you are short on time, then look no further than this great Middle Eastern dish featuring lamb mince and authentic Moroccan spices that only takes 15 minutes to make.
Having caught up with friends a few nights ago over a Moroccan meal, I was not impressed by the quality of Middle Eastern cuisine in Hong Kong. So on that note, I took the initiative to whip out my tajine I procured from Marrakesh (back in Jan 2014) to make my own tajine. While a chicken tajine would take much longer to make, I was short on time (as I invited an ex colleague over), so opted for a simple minced lamb tajine.
First, a little history lesson on the Tajine.
The tagine dates back to Harun al-Rashid who was a ruler of the Early Muslim conquests. The earliest writings about the concept of cooking in a tajine appear in the famous Alf layla wa Layla (One Thousand and One Nights), an Arabic story collection from the 9th century. It is also mentioned during the times of the Islamic reign of the Abbasid Empire (stretching from the Middle East/Asia to North Africa and Andalusia) during the 9th century. The dish would have been already famous amongst the nomadic Bedouin people of the Arabian Peninsula, who added dried fruits like dates, apricots and plums to give it its unique taste. Tagine is often eaten with french fries, either on the top or on the side.
Today, the cooking-pot and its traditional broth is primarily prepared in the Middle East and North Africa. In North Africa it is called a Tajine, while in the Middle East it is called a maraq (broth) or a qidra(cooking pot).
There are different ways to prepare the tajine. In the original qidra style saman (clarified butter) is used to lubricate the surface and a puree of chopped onion is added for flavour and aroma. For muqawlli-style cooking, the ingredients are placed in olive oil to enrich the flavours.
There are many descriptions of how to prepare a tajine from Arab scholars from the mid-centuries. A famous description is the one from Ibn al-Adim:
Boil the meat and fry with fresh coriander, onions and hot spices and a little garlic. Then pick out the fennel hearts and cut in half. Put over the meat. Put back some of the broth on it along with sheep's tail. Boil until cooked and the broth has been absorbed. Remove [from the heat].
— Ibn al-Adim, Kitab Al Wuslah il Al-Habib fi wasf al tayyibat wa Al-Tib
Moroccan Minced Lamb Tajine
PREP TIME: 15 min | COOK TIME: 30 min | TOTAL TIME: 45 min | YIELDS: 3-4 servings
- 450g/1lb lean lamb mince
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped
- 20ml/4tsp plain flour
- 10ml/2tsp ground cinnamon
- 5ml/1tsp ground coriander
- 5ml/1tsp ground cumin
- 10ml/2tsp ground turmeric
- 10ml/2tsp ground ginger
- 1.25ml/¼tsp saffron threads, soaked in a little hot water, optional
- 200ml/7floz good, hot lamb or vegetable stock
- 15ml/1tbsp runny honey
- Salt and freshly milled black pepper
- 75g/3oz ready to eat apricots or prunes, halved
- 2 tablespoons of freshly diced parsley/coriander, to garnish
- Heat a large non-stick pan or tajine on low-medium heat and add a tablespoon of olive oil. Gently fry the lamb with the onion for 3-4 minutes, breaking up any lumps with the back of a spoon.
- Add the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes. Add the spices and saffron (if used) and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the stock and honey, season, bring to the boil, reduce the heat and cook for 15-20 minutes.
- 5 minutes before the end of the tagine cooking time, add the dried fruit. Adjust seasoning if required.
- Remove from the heat, garnish with the parsley/coriander. Serve with couscous if desired.


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Seanchai ("Storyteller" in Irish) Library celebrates the Celtic tradition of stories told around the hearth or in the pub to friends, family, and welcomed strangers. Seanchai Libraries bring stories of all kinds to life, in Virtual Worlds: Second Life & Kitely on the Open Metaverse.
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Two new girls to add to "Down the Maiden's Path" BOM series.
This is Martha for February. I love the cherries in this one and the wonderful shade of red (my favorite color!!)
And this is Annabell for March/April. This picture doesn't do her justice. The colors are so much prettier in person.
There are two more blocks to come for those of you locally that are doing the BOM. We have Daisy for May/June and Betsy for July. I hope everyone has enjoyed working on these girls as much as I have had in designing and stitching them. Each time I stitch a new one I say "that's my favorite!". So they must all be my favorites.
Find some time to do a little stitching today............