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Review: Robert Mickey, Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972. Princeton University Press, 2015. 584 pp.
In 1934, textile workers across the South joined compatriots around the country in what was at the time the largest strike the nation had ever experienced. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia mobilized his firmly unified political resources to mount a swift and harsh response. After declaring martial law and deploying the National Guard, he had hundreds of workers rounded up into a de facto internment camp—which he then visited personally, subjecting the imprisoned activists to an outdoor reading from Mein Kampf. In the face of similar shows of force in other states, the strike soon withered away, its demands reduced to rhetorical point-scoring as the New Deal's long implementation slowly unfolded. In his recent book Paths Out of Dixie, Robert Mickey relates this anecdote almost in passing—for him, it's just one of many events exemplifying the ways partisan autocracy and racial ideology dovetailed to secure White elite rule in the post-Reconstruction South. Mickey puts such vignettes to good use, weaving them into a detailed and compelling study that breaks new ground in academic political science by analyzing, for the first time, the history of the South after Reconstruction as a story of genuinely authoritarian governance.
Paths Out of Dixie presents a systematic and compelling reinterpretation of the eleven ex-Confederate states as systematically repressive regimes that began to democratize only after the Second World War. Mickey is a political scientist, educated at Harvard and now a tenured professor at the University of Michigan. Political science is in many ways a fragmented, even balkanized, profession, comprising numerous "subfields" that are more or less internally unified by their themes or approaches but that do not always do a particularly good job of speaking to each other. The innovation of Mickey's book lies in large part in the way in which he crosses those traditional intra-disciplinary divisions, taking the lessons of comparative research on authoritarian regime change and applying them to the study of American political development.
Mickey's analysis rests on the insight that ostensibly democratic governance can mask thoroughly authoritarian power. As is common in empirical and historical social science, Mickey defines "democracy" in fairly minimal terms, as a package of formal procedures and civil-society protections. Democratic rule, on this account, combines a basic set of institutionalized mechanisms for formal electoral competition with civil liberty guarantees that protect the role of the public in political life. "Authoritarian" regimes are, in turn defined simply as those that fail to meet these basic criteria. Even by the minimal standards of this framework, the post-Reconstruction governments of the former Confederate states were authentically authoritarian for much of the twentieth century, their careful claims of democratic legitimacy notwithstanding. Moreover, Mickey convincingly rejects the influential claim (advanced by Robert Dahl, Kenneth Vickery, and others) that the South of the Jim Crow era should be understood as a "herrenvolk" or "partial" democracy—that is, as one in which the government enjoys a basically democratic structure even as the full citizenship of public political participation is limited to a dominant ethnic or racial group. The significance of Mickey's book thus lies in large part in his emphatic rejection of even this more limited defense of the postwar South's democratic credentials. Mickey's analysis demonstrates that the Southern states six decades ago weren't even democratic for White people, and so they are best analyzed as properly authoritaran, not as partially or fully democratic, regimes.
To make his case, Mickey draws on an impressively broad array of sources from the massive body of existing research on Southern politics, but he looks at their insights anew through a lens taken from comparative political science. From the beginning his project is situated within a broader range of studies of the region: the modernization-oriented interpretations of Southern political development offered by Earl Black and Merle Black and by Numan Bartley; Doug McAdam's sociological work on Black insurgency; economic-historical approaches drawing on the work of Barrington Moore and others; and, especially, V. O. Key's influential research on Southern elites.
Mickey relies on these academic approaches and others to flesh out the details of his historical narratives, but he constructs his interpretative account in a way that moves beyond each of the studies on which he draws. Most significantly, Mickey borrows from comparative research the concept of "enclave authoritarianism"—subnational authoritarian governance exercising hegemony over a smaller region within a larger, federally governed country. In comparative political science, the idea of the authoritarian enclave has emerged as an important research tool primarily in recent studies of Central and South America, but Mickey breaks new ground by applying the concept to the eleven post-Confederate governments.
The end result is that Mickey takes a well-established body of work on the South and pushes it in a new direction by introducing previously unused conceptual tools.
Mickey takes as case studies three Deep South states: Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. For each, he traces out in expansive detail the ways in which rulers' responses to internal and external democratization pressures shaped their states' varying trajectories in the middle of the twentieth century. With the end of Reconstruction, the former Confederate states revised their constitutions and restructured their legal and political institutions in order to consolidate single-party systems that unified state-level governments with their Democratic Party machines. In the ensuing decades, the effects of these reactionary transformations denied the Black population access to the polls while depriving the states' only partially enfranchised White bases of any meaningful choices when voting. (Southern states still widely excluded poor Whites from the franchise in the first part of the twentieth century.) Like many authoritarian regimes around the world, the Southern states held elections that served merely to provide a cover of legitimacy to the self-perpetuating rule of the elites—in this case, wealthy White men—with no entrance available to those denied access to the machinations of the status quo.
The upshot is that the political history of the South is best interpreted in terms not of a widening public sphere achieved through political reforms but rather a protracted struggle for fundamental, totalizing regime change. Understood against this historical background, the Black liberation movement was not a push for inclusion within what would otherwise have been a more or less satisfactory legal system. Rather, Black leaders effectively built an insurgent rebellion aiming at the total transformation of post-Reconstruction governance.
Southern authoritarianism was Janus-faced, its activity ordered at once by White supremacy (limiting any significant Black access to governing institutions) and by one-party rule (preempting any meaningful electoral options for enfranchised Whites). Racial ideology underpinned mass Wite support for the South's rulers within their respective states, while party hegemony secured the region's critical importance to the national Democratic party and thereby its relative protection from federal interference. In Mickey's account, the South's eleven authoritarian enclaves only began to democratize after the Second World War, when the internal pressures of Black insurgents and the top-down changes imposed by the federal government and the national Democratic organization began to chip away at White Democratic hegemony within the Southern states.
This democratic transition, which unfolded in different ways and at different paces across the region, opened the ballot box to the Black population and to large numbers of poor Whites for the first time since the withdrawal of military occupation at the end of Reconstruction. As electoral politics opened up to once-excluded actors, increasingly robust two-party competition chipped away at the White Democratic monopoly even as Black activists contested White supremacy in new ways.
Of particular interest is Mickey's emphasis on the integration of public universities, which he places at the center of his argument. The varying routes travelled by the rulers of South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi as they handled the judicial mandates to integrate Clemson University, University of Georgia, and the University of Mississippi crystallized the broader differences in how the elites of these states dealt with the legal and political demands of democratization.
Across the region, Southern rulers and their White constituents seriously discussed closing down or privatizing educational institutions rather than allowing the admission of African-American students. The education crises thus provide a window into the processes by which elites managed their own interests, responded to civilian and federal pressures, and sought to safeguard their positions of privilege within both the territories they governed and the national party with which they were aligned. In a contemporary moment in which public higher education in the South faces new threats from reactionary political forces, Mickey's focus on the political salience of these institutions is especially timely.
Mickey's final chapter surveys a few of the possibilities opened up through his reframing of American political development. He points out that his interpretative lens suggests the relevance to Southern politics of the idea of "transitional justice"—a concept more familiar in discussions of South Africa, Latin America, and the former Soviet bloc than in conversations about the United States. (Debates about reparations, he argues, could be worked out more clearly in these terms.)
Moreover, he notes that any account of the South's late and recent democratization must change our understanding of the kind of polity that the United States writ large has been all along. Because the South, despite the ambitions of its secessionists past and present, cannot be understood apart from the United States as a whole (nor the reverse), any study with even half the scope and achievement of Mickey's has far-reaching ramifications for debates about the country's past and future.
In many respects, Mickey's argument is among the most ambitious and provocative I've encountered in contemporary political science. It brings together an impressive range of sources; it synthesizes them into a compelling account of a set of complex and fiercely debated problems; and it makes a straightforward but widely significant contribution to our understanding of those questions. Paths Out of Dixie promises to transform academic research on the political history of the South and thus to better inform public understanding of the complex processes that have unfolded in the region since the abolition of chattel slavery.
Yet the book is long overdue, and is indeed in many ways simply catching up to what other disciplines and other communities have known for a long time. I was stunned to discover that Mickey's interpretation of the South in terms of authoritarianism rather than racial democracy is basically a new one within political science. Indeed, I suspect that the contours of the landscape he maps out will feel familiar to those outside the academy whose understanding of American history is shaped by more or less leftwing or radical political commitments, as it will to those in the more critically inclined areas of the humanities.
Within Black American political thought and the activist movements that it has animated, there is a long tradition of contesting the democratic credentials of the United States as a whole and of the South in particular. This line of thought has often relied on a call for the nation to live up to the ideals it has always to some degree espoused yet persistently failed to realize. Frederick Douglass' famous speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" provides one early source for this critique; its political ethos was echoed, reiterated, and redeveloped throughout Black intellectual traditions that developed after the Civil War. In the early twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois explicitly challenged the South's claim to democracy in the era of White Democratic hegemony (particularly in The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America), even as the work of Ida B. Wells and other Black feminists laid bare the hypocrisy of the nation's democratic ideals in the decades before the dismantling of Jim Crow.
Black nationalism and other forms of political radicalism emerging within and alongside the civil rights movement likewise dismantled the claim to democratic legitimacy upon which the White South relied. And of course, in recent years, Ta-Nehisi Coates's provocative analysis of American "kleptocracy" has cogently recapitulated a long history of Black discourse on reparations from which some of the most significant critical accounts of "democracy" in this country have emerged. Yet these traditions are largely absent from Paths Out of Dixie. The book in this way reinscribes, rather than challenges, the very failings of social science that have allowed Mickey's argument to appear so original within his discipline.
Mickey seems to fail to recognize that though his interpretative approach is in many respects wholly new within American empirical political science, it nevertheless stands in a long line of projects that have advanced similar moral and political claims. This should not undercut the book's real academic achievements: Mickey's deft use of the tools of comparative politics to analyze the South in authoritarian terms is indeed unprecedented, and the book coherently synthesizes and analyzes wide resources that are likely to be of great value to those who are more aware than he of the intellectual genealogy of his project's critical ambitions.
Yet the obscuring of that genealogy in the book itself risks leaving political science with the sense that it is enough merely to achieve a better understanding of the South's history, when what the discipline most forcefully needs is a wholesale interrogation of the assumptions about its own canons, topics, and tools that have let it to go so long without arriving at an account like the one Mickey advances.
As a work of political science, Paths Out of Dixie is thus at once monumentally original and tellingly conventional. Its impressive argument provides indispensable tools for anyone who seeks to grasp the story of the South in social-scientific terms—but its failure to see its precedents outside of contemporary social science stands as a reminder that White academia has its own path lying still ahead.


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by Bryan Sanderford
Choosing a door control system for a facility is of the utmost importance to ensure the safety and security of people, property, and assets. Owners and designers need to select a system that is appropriate based on the flow of people, the type of assets held within the facility, and current and future security threats.
Doors are usually thought of as a means of keeping someone out, or alternately, keeping someone in. Doors provide privacy and, when locked, a level of security that is both simple and effective. There are many ways doors can be opened or closed. They can be manually operated with a handle or push bar, revolve, swing, or even slide into a pocket in the wall. They can be operated automatically with the push of a button, the swipe of a card, or a proximity device, or be programmed to lock if another door is open or unsecure.
There are more options for door technology on the market than ever before, including advanced programmable door interlock systems (often called mantraps), which provide very high levels of security. By gaining a better understanding of how different door interlock systems work, designers and specifiers can select the most appropriate configuration for a given project.
There are numerous applications for interlock systems spanning a variety of industries. Some of the most prevalent users include:
- casinos, in areas where cash is handled;
- armored car facilities, to control vehicle entry;
- prisons and police stations, for transporting detainees;
- medical facilities, for patient transport and deliveries;
- secure government facilities, such as federal reserves and military R&D installations;
- sensitive compartmented information facilities (SCIF) where sensitive information and conversations take place;
- high risk wholesale and retail establishments where expensive merchandise, such as jewelry, is exchanged;
- check cashing facilities, to monitor individuals entering areas where cash transactions take place;
- schools where access areas require added security; and
- laboratory and pharmaceutical facilities where clean rooms are deployed.
Door interlock systems provide a form of protection not afforded by conventional access control systems, which, typically, can be more easily compromised due to their connection to a networked computer susceptible to hacking.
In its simplest form, a door interlock system is composed of two doors electronically connected so one cannot open until the other has closed. A good way to visualize the technology is by picturing an entryway with a door at either end. Using some form of access control device, a user is granted access through the first door to enter the hallway. Once the first door is closed, the second door can then be opened automatically or triggered by an operator, allowing the user to pass through the second door. Such simple applications are often used in applications like inner city jewelry stores where an employee grants initial access to a visitor, and then visually screens them before allowing entry into the sales area. This same basic door interlocking set-up has countless applications across many different industries.
Office complexes and industrial facilities are increasingly employing door interlock systems as they represent a very reliable and secure means of managing both pedestrian and vehicular traffic. There are several important criteria to consider when choosing a door interlocking system, based on the type of facility and the specific application. The parameters for each installation vary greatly depending on the client's specific security objectives. Typically, a design consultant or systems integrator is tasked with working out the design and installation specifics.

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College Park — The introduction of Michael Locksley as Maryland's new head football coach was accompanied by much fanfare. The band played. The cheerleaders cheered. A large crowd of boosters, former players and various well-wishers applauded as he took the stage at the newly renovated Cole Field House.
Perhaps the most important face in that crowd stood inconspicuously on the edge of the gathering, offering a tacit endorsement of the man who was chosen to lead the Terrapin football program out of the saddest period in its history.
Marty McNair, who lost his son Jordan in June to a poorly treated case of exertional heatstroke, did not speak at the introductory media conference and waved off interview requests afterward, but his presence in support of Locksley spoke loudly about the new beginning that the university and its athletic department hope the new coach represents.
"Marty and my relationship goes back a long way,'' Locksley said during his opening remarks. "Our kids went to school together. We both tragically lost our kids. I've been a mentor for Marty and Marty has been a sounding board for me the last year, year and a half as we've worked through the emotions and the toughness of losing a child."
Locksley tragically lost his son nine months before McNair was stricken during a spring conditioning drill. Meiko Anthony Locksley was shot to death in Columbia, and the crime remains unsolved.
Their shared grief brought Michael and his wife, Kia, together with Marty McNair and Jordan's mother, Tonya, and it has kept them close.
"We have a common bond,'' Locksley added later. "The circle of life isn't built for parents to bury kids. Our relationship has continued to grow, and for him to be here today means the world to me and my family."
When McNair died in June, it set off a series of events that led to the firing of head football coach D.J. Durkin, the announcement that UM president Wallace Loh will retire at the end of this school year and, now, the hiring of Locksley to rescue a football program that badly needs someone with his recent track record and highly regarded recruiting skills.
Maybe it is a controversial hire, considering that Locksley's first Division I head coaching job at New Mexico ended badly both on the field and off, but his "homecoming" was partly the result of a groundswell of support for him in the UM community.
He is popular with some of the program's biggest boosters and he already has shown the ability to lure top-flight local talent to Maryland. Terps fans haven't forgotten that the young man who has an outside chance to win this year's Heisman Trophy — record-setting Ohio State quarterback Dwayne Haskins — was a Maryland commit who originally vowed to be a magnet for other top local recruits before backing out when Locksley was not hired to replace Randy Edsall three years ago.
If that was the right decision at the time in light of Locksley's 3-31 record as a head coach at New Mexico and for six games as interim head coach here in 2015, his three-year tenure as an assistant to Alabama coaching legend Nick Saban apparently answered whatever questions the search committee had about his qualifications for the unique challenge he has just accepted.
"I just spent three years of my 28 years in this business coaching under a guy that I feel is the greatest coach in the history of college football, if not football alone," Locksley said. "And I just spent three years saturating and seeing what it's like to be done right and I can only hope that I can take just a little bit of what I've learned from coach Saban the last three years and implement and install it here at the University of Maryland."
Locksley said that it would take hours to list everything he learned from Saban on the way to winning the Frank Broyles Award this year as the top assistant coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision, but he gave it a try.
"I think the biggest thing that I've learned from being under coach Saban is, focus on the process and not the results,'' he said. "Don't worry about game day. Don't look up at the scoreboard. Let's win every day and maximize every opportunity in your program. … The man is amazing in terms of his preparation. There's nobody that works harder than Nick Saban."
Whether Locksley will turn out to be the perfect choice to lead the Terps program forward obviously remains to be seen, but his life experience and personal proximity to the McNair family should give comfort to the parents of current players and future recruits.
"Every decision I make with these kids will be made as if they were my own child," Locksley said. "That's not anything I take lightly. I'm proud of the way they came together and fought adversity after losing a brother in Jordan. I know what it's like to lose someone you love, having lost my son Meiko here."
Locksley tiptoed around a question about the alleged "toxic" football culture that was described in an ESPN expose last summer, instead complimenting interim coach Matt Canada and the players for the way they held the program together this past season.
"I can really only comment on where I see this program going forward,'' he said. "It's my goal to build this team into a football family. … There are always going to be issues that come up and the No. 1 thing for me, just like being a father in a family, is ensuring that every decision I make moving forward as the leader of this family will put the health, welfare and safety of the students first like I would my own children."


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Securian Financial has been protecting families for more than 140 years. As our company has grown and evolved, we've never lost sight of those who depend on us.
Our history
Our founding
Russell Dorr founds the Bankers Association of Minnesota on August 6, the first life insurance company in Minnesota.
We restructure into a mutual life insurance company and adopt a new name — Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company — that we keep for almost a century.
Minnesota Mutual Life issues its first group life insurance policy. Mrs. A. J. Serviss of the Twin City Agency becomes the first woman to join the ranks of our top sales producers after selling the policy.
Minnesota Mutual Life develops its first pension plan.
We make our first serious investment in technology when we order our first computer system, which occupied 1,000 square feet of space within our new headquarters at 345 Cedar Street.
We begin offering low cost loan protection through savings and loan associations, laying the foundation for the broad array of products and services we provide the credit union market today.
We introduce the first flexible life insurance policy — Adjustable Life — a single policy that can be adjusted to meet financial needs throughout all stages of life.
We create an asset management subsidiary and establish our broker-dealer, Securian Financial Services, Inc.
We begin providing 401(k) plans, the fastest growing employee benefit in the country at the time.
Variable life and annuity product launches offer a range of investment options, placing us at the forefront of the variable product revolution.
Bob Senkler begins his successful 20-year run as CEO.
Minnesota Mutual develops its Variable Group Universal Life (VGUL) product, offering investment flexibility previously unavailable in group plans.
We adopt a mutual holding company structure and the Minnesota Life brand.
We launch our first transactional website, LifeBenefits.com, to streamline and simplify enrollment for group insurance products in the large employer market.
We introduce the Securian brand.
Securian acquires Allied Solutions, one of the largest distributors of products in the credit union market, and significantly broadens our market presence and product offerings.
Securian acquires a majority stake in Asset Allocation & Management Company (AAM), more than tripling the assets we manage for outside insurance companies.
Insurance in force surpasses $1 trillion.
Chris Hilger becomes CEO.
Securian expands into Canada through the acquisition of Canadian Premier Life Insurance Company and its affiliates, Legacy General Insurance Company, CRI Canada and Selient.
Acquired Empyrean Benefit Solutions, a benefits administration and technology company, to expand our offerings in the employee benefits market.
1. Securian Financial Group, Inc. is the parent corporation of Minnesota Life Insurance Company and Securian Life Insurance Company, a New York authorized insurer. Certain financial highlights are presented at the parent level only. Assets under management includes an acquired majority interest in Asset Allocation & Management Company (AAM), a Securian Financial affiliate.


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An app for the apathetic.
Eat Roulette randomly chooses a place for you to eat, drink, or get caffeinated and guides you there.
Ever gone back and forth on where you should eat and the answer from all sides is 'I don't care, I'm just hungry'? Well you never will again.
Eat Roulette is a tongue in cheek app that I designed and developed in Swift for iOS, in collaboration with Jared Lodwick. Its goal is simple - to make the act of deciding where to go next as easy as tapping a single button.
Eat Roulette is fully functional and is pending release in 2018.
When we originally toyed with the idea of Eat Roulette, it was in the form of a skeumorphic interface with a wheel of fortune style wheel that users would literally spin to discover where they would be going.
We initially thought this would be a fun interaction for a simple tool, but as we started to validate the concept with other people, we quickly realized that we had stumbled on a funny, but real, problem, and that many people would be interested in a more useful interface for simplifying their decision making.
The beauty of the original wheel was it's speed and irreverance. We wanted to make sure to bring these concepts over to the final UI by creating as few decision making points as possible for people.
However, upgrading the UI also allowed us to be more helpful, by adding additional information about places the app decided on, adding the ability to roll again, as well as having in-app over the shoulder navigation to make the entire experience from rolling to going as quick and easy as possible.
We used sketches and flows to determine the core flows and architecture of the application for development. In the meantime we began to explore type hierarchy and layout in the form of slightly higher fidelity digital wireframes.
Eat Roulette has an extremely simple interface and a very narrow focus by design. It has one purpose and one purpose only - to help you quickly choose a place to eat or drink and go there.
Eat Roulette will automatically center the map over a user's current location, based feedback we've received that people generally prefer to go somewhere nearby when rolling the dice on their destiny.
Users can move the map by dragging, and can pinch and zoom to adjust their search area to any size or location.
There is also a button to easily re-center the map to a user's current location, which appears automatically if a user moves the map far enough away from their original location.
Hit the search button, and each possible destination will light up with a dot. After pinging each spot, our magic eight balls of infinite possibility finally agree on a randomly chosen location.
If no destinations are found within your search area, Eat Roulette will automatically zoom out one increment at a time and re-search the larger area to find you the closest possible results to your desired region.
Eat Roulette searches for locations rated above 2 stars that are currently open.
The location details are displayed, along with the route, and one more button press switches you into a custom over the shoulder navigation mode.
The directions provided will automatically switch between walking and driving directions depending on the distance between your current location and the selected venue.
The estimated walking time to your location, or driving time if over 2 miles away, is displayed alongside your estimated arrival time. The contact information and website are also provided to keep you occupied while en route.
Once you arrive at a venue, the journey is completed, and Eat Roulette resets to its default state.
Eat Roulette provides the ability to search for restaurants, bars, and cafes by providing a dead-simple filtering system.
The filter selection is intentionally kept minimal to remove the burden of choice from users, per the design principles of the app. Frankly, even including a filter is pushing it, but our user testing has shown that bar hopping is a super fun way to enjoy Eat Roulette.
These filters let you roll the a different set of dice depending on the mood you are in, or the types of things you want to explore. Restaurants are the default filter, but Eat Roulette will remember your previous selection between sessions.
Armed with builds of Eat Roulette on our phones, we would frequently dog food the app with ourselves and friends. This naturally extended in social situations where we would hand our device to a member of our party, and observe them learning how to use the app. We then left them to roll for the next location and decide our group's destiny.
This process was very effective for scrubbing out confusing elements of the UI and superfluous animations. It also helped us fine tune default search radius' and prompted the implementation of certain search behaviors, like excluding results under 2 star ratings.
Stage two of user testing is ongoing and is your classic closed beta, wherein we selected candidates from all over the United States to participate in the current version of Eat Roulette. This is a crucial testing phase for this application, as we need to validate the experience across different types of locations.
We put special effort into selecting users in rural and suburban areas to see if our process for random selection is hitting the mark often enough for the app to be useful. Early results are promising, but there is clearly a need to mitigate the frequency of chains in suburban and rural areas. No one wants to go to Starbucks every time.
Beta testing will conclude Q1 of 2018, at which point we will launch the first production version of Eat Roulette on the iOS app store.
I developed Eat Roulette natively for iOS using Swift. There were many development hurdles to overcome in the process of creating Eat Roulette, and a few that I'm fairly proud of. I've broken them down here in terms of their relationship to the overall user experience.
Instead of only looking for places within the radius of a users current location, Eat Roulette allows users to adjust the map anywhere at any zoom level and search within the visible map area. This helps support the myriad use-cases surrounding making plans ahead of time.
Eat Roulette uses Google Maps to get a given area to search in, then it uses the Google Places API to get of all the currently open venues in that area which match the user's selected filter (Restaurant, Bar, or Cafe). From that list, we drop all locations that have a 2 star rating or lower, and randomly select from the remaining results.
If no restaurants are found within the search area, Eat Roulette will zoom out one increment at a time and re-search until it finds something to get you the closest possible results to your desired area. This result is displayed to the user, where they can confirm and begin navigation.
Eat Roulette uses the Google Directions API for routing, and has a completely custom built navigation system.
The routing system is given two GPS coordinates, and queries google maps for each leg of the journey, which I then visualize over the map system with the Eat Roulette stylized lines. Upon selecting a place to navigate to, the map perspective switches to over the shoulder.
Once a user is within 20 feet of a turn, Eat Roulette automatically adjusts the map perspective to face down the next street. The app also detects when a user has arrived at their specified location and returns to its default state.
If a location is further than walking distance, the app will automatically switch between driving and walking directions without any additional input from the user.
Eat Roulette is a conceptually and visually simple app which feels great to use.
Part of the 'good hand feel' is due to the snappy animation styles which transition between states. Every panel slides in and out, the map is always lively and in motion, and each place that is 'pinged' during search is represented visually to give users insight into the system.
Subtle panning and zooming of the map occurs to create a natural fit for the route so that the directions always fall within view. I spent a lot of time creating custom animation curves and pushing Swift to the limits to accomplish the tight animated feeling.


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Back-in-the-black Planet X is to resurrect the Holdsworth Racing team. This was one of the iconic professional squads of the 1970s. Planet X owns the rights to the Holdsworth marque, and is making steel-framed bikes with the famous name.
"We have risen from our slumber," says a Planet X statement, "and it's a definite for 2018 that we are back in the game and you'll be seeing the famous Holdsworth jersey back on the UK race scene."
According to the statement from the Yorkshire company the team will be led by "one of the countries [sic] most established and recognisable riders."
Holdsworth has a chequered history. W.F. "Sandy" Holdsworth took over a London bike shop – Ashlone Cycle Works – in 1927 and started making road bikes for the booming "lightweight" market.
This shop closed in 2013. The Holdsworth brand was one of the leading specialist marques of the 1950s through to the 1970s, famous for its "Aids to Happy Cycling" catalogue and its race team.
The team was co-sponsored by Italy's Campagnolo – Holdsworth was also one of the brand's distributors.
The Holdsworth name was sold to Elswick Hopper in the mid-1980s and then transferred to Falcon Cycles via the Tandem Group. Planet X acquired rights to the name in 2014.
Earlier this year BikeBiz reported that Planet X had boosted its annual profits by £900,000 reporting a £1.01m profit for the financial year to 29th March. This follows a restructuring of the company, including making almost half of its staff redundant in November last year.
The Rotherham-based company employed 118 staff, and is run by founder Dave Loughran. In the precious financial year Planet X made a profit of £109,689. Prior to that the company made a loss of £86,594 on a turnover of £20 million.
The annual financial report for the business said "significant changes [have been] made over the last 18 months, which saw the business return to profitability last year, has now resulted in significant profits in this year.
"The main elements of the reorganisation within the business have now been completed and the coming year will benefit from the full impact of these changes.
The report added: "The only adverse factor in the year was the impact of Brexit upon exchange rates, which increased the prices of many imported components.
"This has reduced the gross margin achieved in the year."
Spotter: Chris Sidwells


text: In line with a couple of other posts, I'd love to have a discussion about the audience for digital humanities projects. Do we have any obligations in terms of who we create these for? What are the expectations of them? How can we widen the scope of who is being reached? It's exciting to think that tools are being created that can be used for instruction in the classroom, to advance scholarly work, and to create communities; I wonder how to balance all these different roles within one project. Or should they be created with one goal in mind? It'd be great to hear first-hand from those who develop projects to see how these considerations are evaluated and used to shape projects. I'd also love to hear what others think about the different environments generating this work. As a student newly entranced by the excitement of digital humanities, I'm still a little unsure of the lay of the land. Perhaps we could talk about the different ways and places from which this work can be happened upon.


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Hi, i am running Atahualpa 3.7.1 on Wordpress 3.2.1 and I am having problems getting my site indexed by Google.
At first, all my pages had a robots meta tag set at (noindex, follow). Resetting the Wordpress privacy settings to allow all including search engines fixed the tags on my home and primary pages to (index, follow), but my tag and category pages are still set at (noindex, follow).
I am using the Headspace2 plugin which shows that the meta-robots setting is not checked for noindex on any of my pages (they don't give an option to set it for "Index"). ATO SEO options are set to "No" for "Use Bytes for all SEO options"
Is anything else in Atahualpa setting the meta-robot tags to (noindex, follow) on my tag and category pages? I believe these tags are preventing google from indexing my site.
Any other ideas on how to change?
My site is www.bestspaceheaters.us
Thank you very much.


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The Best Sale You Shouldn't Make
You are asked to quote a job.
The specs of the piece are well within your capabilities. This is a new customer, one that you know little about but what little you know troubles you...
Their Website screams of being the lowest cost provider in their industry. Your key contact is very difficult to get a hold of. It takes multiple phone attempts to get any kind of response from her. This, despite the fact that she actually reached out to you initially.
And that's another thing: She reached out to you. Why? It's extremely rare to receive a phone call from a company looking for a quote. In this day and age of, "We're happy with our current vendor" and Caller ID and voicemail, alarms go off when an incoming phone call starts with, "I'd like to speak with one of your salespeople."
There are a lot of questions that you could and should ask a new potential customer. You should know about their company background and industry. You certainly want to know the story behind anything you are quoting on.
But there are even more questions on the "forbidden" list:
- "Why are you calling me?"
- "Did something happen between you and your current vendor?"
- "What kind of relationship do you have with your existing vendor base?"
- "Will you leave me for a better price?"
- "Will you value the work that I will do for you and reward me with your loyalty?"
Is this an order you want? Really?
Is this a customer you want? Really?
Customers do not come with warning labels on them. From the outside, it is difficult to tell the good witches from the bad witches. Unfortunately, you don't know which is really a witch until after you take the plunge. All you have is your intuition and a few facts to go by.
In his fascinating book, "Blink," Malcolm Gladwell talks about "thin-slicing," the act of making judgment calls based on a gut feeling. This might be one of those times when you listen to that little voice inside your head and walk away.
Or, maybe not. What does your gut tell you?
Bill Farquharson is a Vice President at NAPL. His training programs can drive the sales of print reps and selling owners. Check out his Sales Resources page and contact him at (781) 934-7036 or email@example.com
Bill Farquharson is a respected industry expert and highly sought after speaker known for his energetic and entertaining presentations. Bill engages his audiences with wit and wisdom earned as a 40-year print sales veteran while teaching new ideas for solving classic sales challenges. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (781) 934-7036. Bill's two books, The 25 Best Print Sales Tips Ever and Who's Making Money at Digital/Inkjet Printing…and How? as well as information on his new subscription-based website, The Sales Vault, are available at salesvault.pro.


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Flemish companies have been both early adopters and innovators in the field of audiovisual technology, placing them in the vanguard of new digital production and distribution methods. This creativity has helped small companies and family firms develop into significant players in the global entertainment industry. Barco's state-of-the-art visualisation technology and Galaxy Studio's Auro-3D immersive three-dimensional audio technology are just two examples of the innovative character of the region.
Productions coming to Flanders can choose from a wide variety of high-end audio and image post-production facilities, from simple rooms in quiet locations to grand studio complexes offering a wide range of technical and professional support. Flanders is also home to the biggest indoor water studio in the Benelux region, measuring 3,300 m², with a 35 x 25 m pool and multiple rental companies providing the latest lighting and grip equipment. These facilities have been used recently by international productions such as the BBC/HBO drama series Parade's End, the BBC/Starz historical drama series The White Queen, Dreamworks' The Fifth Estate, Kathrine Windfeld's The Team and Terence Davis' A Quiet Passion.
As for animation, whether you're looking for stop-motion, motion-capture, 2D, or 3D/CGI, Flanders has it all.
An overview of the professional expertise available in the Flanders Region can be found in the Screen Flanders' online production guide and industry database on www.screenflanders.com.


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Scott County Relay for Life is success
(Local News ~ 06/10/07)
Above:?Cancer survivors begin the survivor lap at the kickoff for the Scott County Relay for Life on Friday night at Sikeston High School. The 24-hour event also included live music and games. Left:?Caleb Booker of Portageville walks the survivor lap with two Sikeston High School cheerleaders. Caleb has not suffered from cancer, but sickle cell anemia. In February, his school hosted a mini Relay for Life, in which they raised $10,000 in Caleb's honor...
R-6 School District is making changes
(Local News ~ 06/10/07)
SIKESTON -- Reorganization of the Sikeston R-6 School District is well under way as the district is in the process of moving from building to building and making leadership changes at some of those facilities. "Basically from grades five and up, we're moving about half of the staff and half of the student body," superintendent Steve Borgsmiller said. "This is a major undertaking."...
Murder verdict returned
(Local News ~ 06/10/07)
CHARLESTON -- A Charleston man was found guilty following a day-long trial for a May 2004 murder at a Charleston residence. After an hour and 15 minutes of deliberation, the jury found Antoine Atchison, 23, of Charleston guilty of first-degree murder and armed criminal action for the shooting death of Chance Kitchen, 25, of Charleston on May 9, 2004...
Ayers signs with Williams Baptist
(High School Sports ~ 06/10/07)
WALNUT RIDGE, Ark. -- The Williams Baptist College basketball team will have the services of Spencer Ayers starting this fall. Ayers, who is from Sikeston, Mo., recently signed his commitment to play for the Eagles. Ayers, a 6'3" forward, is a 2007 graduate of Thomas W. Kelly High School in Benton, Mo. He was picked the past two seasons for the All Conference team, as well as the Southeast Missourian Christmas All-Tournament team. He was also named a BA Sports All Star this year...
Four named All-Region
(High School Sports ~ 06/10/07)
SIKESTON -- Four Sikeston girls were honored with all-region selections by area coaches recently. Junior Jordi Ferrell was named first team all-region as well as offensively player of the year in the region while sophomore Abbi Keefer was named first team as a forward...
Sharks fare well at Poplar Bluff swim meet
(High School Sports ~ 06/10/07)
POPLAR BLUFF -- The Sikeston Sharks swim team had several top performers at last week's swim meet in Poplar Bluff. The Sharks' top performer was 11-year-old Natalie Stevens, who placed first in the 100 freestyle, second in the 50 back stroke and second in the 50 freestyle...
Hangin' tough
(High School Sports ~ 06/10/07)
Ty Simmons from Beaumont, Texas, tries to hang on during the bull riding competition at Friday's Professional Bull Riders Rodeo at the Sikeston Jaycee Rodeo Grounds. The two-day competition finished on Saturday.
Francis - Pratt
(Engagement ~ 06/10/07)
SIKESTON -- Glen Francis of Dexter and Bud and Regina Griffin of Oran have announced the engagement of their daughter, Adrienne Elaine Francis, to Brooks Allen Pratt, son of Harry and Vickie Pratt of Sikeston. A 2001 graduate of Dexter High School, the future bride is a 2005 graduate of Missouri Baptist University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in education with an emphasis in early childhood and elementary education with a minor in psychology. ...
Rolwing - Wilson
(Wedding ~ 06/10/07)
CHARLESTON -- Laura Elizabeth Rolwing and Brian Scott Wilson exchanged wedding vows during an early afternoon ceremony May 19, 2007, at St. Henry Catholic Church in Charleston. Monsignor Richard C. Rolwing officiated at the double-ring service. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hunter Rolwing of Charleston. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dawson and Mr. and Mrs. F.D. Rolwing...
Students can receive experience, cash during summer breaks
(Business ~ 06/10/07)
SIKESTON -- With extra time on their hands, high school and college students are now looking for jobs to fill their days and pocketbooks. And they're in luck, because several area employers are looking for help to cover vacations or just add some extra hands...
Noranda's scholarship provides seven Southeast Missouri State students with valuable experience
(Business ~ 06/10/07)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Seven undergraduate students from the Department of Industrial and Engineering Technology at Southeast Missouri State University have received the Noranda Aluminum Scholarship, allowing them the opportunity to receive real-world experience in their future profession...
A standard for nursing
(Business ~ 06/10/07)
The Missouri General Assembly recently passed legislation sponsored by Rep. Ellen Brandom of the 160th District, pictured right, that will advance nursing regulatory excellence for greater public protection. With the passage of this bill, the Missouri State Board of Nursing is granted expedited hearing authority, allowing the Board to take quick action to stop the unlawful conduct of a nurse. ...
Business briefcase 6/10
(Business ~ 06/10/07)
BENTON - Kasey Mathes-Klughart of Benton, a district representative with Modern Woodmen of America, was named Rookie of the Month in the Missouri East Agency for the month of May. The honor is given to a full-time representative that has been with Modern Woodmen of America for less than three years and is leading the agency in production...
First place
(High School Sports ~ 06/10/07)
Team Combat, a 12-under traveling baseball team, competed in a 12-under AA/ AAA/Major tournament May 19-20 at Fountain Lakes Sports Complex in St. Louis. They won first place beating the St. Louis Outlaws 2-1 in the championship game. Pictured front row left to right are:?Josh King, Drew Harper, Cord Sheehy, Josh Hampton and Kody Moore. Standing:?coach Rod Anderson, Tyler Anderson, ?Connor Landers, Tyler Neal, Tanner Murphy, Ryan Nippe and coach Brian Harper...
Births (Published 6/10)
(Births ~ 06/10/07)
EAST PRAIRIE - Megan and Timothy Parker are the parents of their fourth child, second son, born at 9 p.m. May 14, 2007, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Tucker Ray Parker weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces, and was 18 inches long. Maternal grandparents are Don and Joyce Hart of Matthews and Lee B. and Patty Presson of St. Louis...
Charles Burnett
(Obituary ~ 06/10/07)
MATTHEWS -- Reinterment and memorial services for former Matthews resident Charles Ray Burnett will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Missouri State Veteran's Cemetery at Bloomfield. The Rev. John Goodwin of the Hunter Memorial First Presbyterian Church will officiate...
R.C. Brooks
(Obituary ~ 06/10/07)
PERRY, Ga. -- Robert Calvin Brooks, 80, died June 3, 2007, in Perry. Born Oct. 12, 1926, in Manilla, Ark., son of the late Arch Franklin and Virginia Mae Robinson Brooks, he was in the furniture business in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a World War II veteran...
Marie Watkins
(Obituary ~ 06/10/07)
MORLEY -- Marie Watkins, 82, died June 8, 2007, at her daughter's home in Morehouse. Born Aug. 20, 1924, in Lilbourn, daughter of the late Walter and Norellia McCulley Graham, she had been a cook for Holiday Inn and El Capri motels before her retirement...
Cooperative effort benefits community
(Column ~ 06/10/07)
The Sikeston Housing Authority and the Sikeston Department of Public Safety will soon announce a major initiative and cooperative effort to address crime in our community. Though some of the details of the program have been discussed, this will mark a major level of cooperation that, I think, speaks well for our community...
Speakout 6/10
(Opinion ~ 06/10/07)
Thank goodness somebody said something about these kids running around the bar at the American Legion Club. I just really appreciate someone saying something about it. On the turning left at Wal-Mart issue, I am real proud there is a no left turn sign there. ...
Looking Back 6/10
(History ~ 06/10/07)
SIKESTON - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Horne are spending today in Columbia where they are attending the graduation exercises of their granddaughter, Miss Alice Van Horne, where she attends classes. SIKESTON - Bill Burch was chosen as national director of the Junior Chamber of Commerce in installation services Saturday in Columbia. He will serve one year with 300 Jaycees from 50 states on the national board. Burch will represent districts 10, 12 and 13 at state Jaycee functions...
Depot's caboose gets facelift
(Local News ~ 06/10/07)
SIKESTON -- After he moved from the bright lights of Las Vegas to Sikeston, Dan Jones said he has grown an appreciation for the small town's history. That's why he's volunteered for the past two years at the Sikeston Depot, as a handyman, in addition to setting up for exhibits...
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The eXXpedition North Pacific crew have started their experience with a beach clean alongside Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii. eXXpedition Crew Member Michelle Byle tells us more:
"The final few days leading up to the voyage have been full of activity, and emotion. Through a collaboration with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, the eXXpedition crew conducted a beach clean-up at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge on the north coast of Oahu on Saturday afternoon. This particular area of the island gets the greatest accumulation of plastic from the North Pacific Gyre, as it's directly in-line with the current coming from the gyre.
The amount of microplastic found on the beach was astounding. We were supplied with screens to separate the plastic from the sand. However, even after the sand was removed, it was challenging for us to tell the difference between the small pieces of plastic and the pieces of broken down shell and coral. We asked ourselves, if it's this challenging for us, as humans, to tell the difference between these things, how can animals possibly understand what is food, and what is plastic?
Shake, rattle and roll out the nurdles! eXXpedition North Pacific leg 1 crew were excited to be able to join forces with @sustainablecoastlineshawaii to clean some of the marine debris from a beach on the north-east coast. This coastline gets the full force of the Pacific waves, wind and marine debris.
Seeing the accumulation of microplastics first hand was overwhelming. Hearing from our guides from Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii that this stretch of beach we worked hard to clean would be just as full of plastic the next day, and the day after that, was heart-wrenching. But seeing this first-hand only served to reconfirm our commitment to this issue, and to getting the word out to the world at large, that it's time for change. And that change starts with each and every one of us, and our decisions."
The North Pacific Crew will be sending us daily updates from Sea Dragon, which will be posted here on the eXXpedition website. You will also be able to see updates from the crew and ground team throughout North Pacific on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Curious about where Sea Dragon is RIGHT NOW? Click here to see exactly where she is!


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Dear Stakeholders,
Greetings to you!!
We are pleased to invite you and to seek your support in the successful conduct of Capacity Building and Awareness Workshop on Resource efficiency and Cleaner Production in Erode. The details of the technical workshop are given below:
- Venue: MELANGE CLUB (P) LTD. S.FNo., 341-315, Perundurai Road, Erode
- Date: January 25, 2019 (Friday) Time: 05:00 pm – 07:30 pm
We are attaching the programme schedule for your reference. Following are some of the key features and attractions of the workshop: <Agenda Erode_Rev-02 (1)>
- Resource efficiency and cleaner production measures in Erode textiles processing cluster- CII
- Hot water from waste heat recovery solutions – Promethean Energy
- Thermal Solutions- Excess Air Control- Forbes Marshall
- Solar Thermal Solutions- Mangla Smart Energy Solutions
Please fill out the basic details through google form, this will help us in planning the event better. <Register Here>
There is no Participation / Registration Fee for the workshop. We believe that our combined effort will be most effective to boost the adoption of resource efficient technologies in and around Erode cluster.


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A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which a single or much more buildings form a complicated of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable shoppers to walk from unit to unit. Dubai is considered as the city of shopping centres so each year people today travel from distant corners of the planet to shop from here. Shopping mall also homes Asia's largest indoor theme park and Malaysia's initial IMAX theatre, which shows both 2D and 3D motion pictures. Shopping at factory outlets is one particular of the many solutions to do your pre-Christmas shopping with out going over your price range. This mall receives 28 million guests every year and much more than 23 000 people are employed in the mall.
The mall suffers a setback of limited occupation due to the inadequate inaccessibility, which is attributed to the absence of airports inside the city or even a important highway subsequent to the mall. Mall visitors can unquestionably experience a lot of fun and enjoyment from the malls distinct attractions. Malls deliver various venues for leisure and entertainment, such as arcade centers and film theaters.


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Ambassador McMullen Visits the Swiss Canton of Valais
Ambassador Edward McMullen, Jr. delivered closing remarks at the 5th annual Swiss-U.S. Energy Innovation Days (SUEID) on August 22 in Sion. He highlighted the fact that both Switzerland and the U.S. are conducting innovative energy research, which presents an opportunity to deepen U.S.-Swiss cooperation on solving 21st century energy challenges. Previous conferences were hosted in ... Read More»


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- Shefali shared a snippet from the award show
- She wrote: "OMG, OMG, OMG"
- The video shows Richie Mehta delivering a speech after winning the award
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It's a great moment for team Delhi Crime – the web-series won the Best Drama Series award at the 48th International Emmys on Monday. Delhi Crime, a seven-part series written and directed by Richie Mehta, features Shefali Shah in the lead role and after the series' big win, the actress excitement spilled onto Instagram. Shefali plays the role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi, who leads a thorough search for the culprits of the horrific 2012 Delhi gang-rape and murder, in the web-series. Sharing a snippet from the award show, which was held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic, Shefali Shah wrote: "OMG, OMG, OMG."
The video, recorded by Shefali Shah, shows director Richie Mehta delivering a quick speech after winning the award. In the background, Shefali can be heard screaming "Oh my god" with joy.
Take a look at Shefali Shah's epic reaction:
Delhi Crime recreates the police investigation, tracing the pursuit of the six men behind the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder. The series also stars Rajesh Tailang, Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, Vinod Sherawat, Mridul Sharma, Gopal Datt Tiwari, Gaurav Rana, Yashaswini Dayama, Jaya Bhattacharya, Anurag Arora and Sidharth Bhardwaj, among many others.
Earlier on Monday, Shefali Shah shared a poster of Delhi Crime to show how she prepped for the awards. "Fingers, toes, intestines, crossed!" she wrote in the caption.
When Delhi Crime was nominated for the International Emmy Awards in September, Shefali Shah shared a still from the series and wrote: "Easily one of the most-richest experiences of my life. And the pride I feel just to be a part of it is indescribable. #DelhiCrime."
Prime Video's Four More Shots Please was also nominated for the Best Comedy Series at the 48th International Emmys while actor Arjun Mathur was up for the Best Actor award for his role in Made In Heaven.
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Around this time of year most people are starting to think about preparing their taxes for the previous financial year. But, what if everything you needed for tax season was already in one convenient location? You can greatly diminish the amount of time it takes to put all of the materials together by creating a tax binder at the start of each fiscal year. That will keep everything in place until you're ready to hand it over to your tax preparer.
The most important thing I've discovered is that staying on top of tracking tax related items is key for the overall integrity of my books. Now while in theory that sounds easy, we're all busy running a business which if we're being honest takes A LOT of time and energy so it's likely that tracking your taxes on a regular schedule does not get the attention it deserves. I get it, I really do, but I promise that staying on top of your tax information as it occurs will not only allow for a smoother tax season but allow for the level of accuracy and integrity within your business that I am sure you are seeking!
Tax Binder Breakdown
I divide my tax binder into 8 tabbed sections:
1) Monthly Income/Report
2) YTD Income
3) Monthly Mileage
4) YTD Mileage
5) Monthly Expenses
6) Monthly Reports
7) Quarterly/YTD Reports
8) Pay Stubs/1099's/W-2's/Misc.
Monthly Income/Report & YTD Income Tabs
Monthly Income/Report is used for the current months full report, private studio invoices for each student, pay stubs, and tracking of additional income.
At the end of the month I move all of these trackers to tab 2) YTD Income for easy reference throughout the year.
Monthly/YTD Mileage Tabs
I keep four weekly mileage reports under the monthly mileage tab to cover the current month and move them to tab 4) YTD Mileage at the end of the month. You want to be sure to keep all weekly mileage trackers for the year showing the date, location traveled, purpose, and distance.
Monthly Expenses Tab
I keep all monthly expense logs under this tab and rotate them so the current month is always visible on top.
Monthly Reports Tab
This is where I store the monthly report trackers when not placed in the current month's 1) Monthly Income/Report Tab.
Quarterly/YTD Reports
I have created four quarterly reports that outline totals for Income, Expenses, Mileage, and Taxes paid/estimated for each quarter as well as yearly reports for each of the above listed categories.
Quarterly reports are not necessary as the yearly reports will provide the same information. However, I like to be able to track trends on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis. That way, I can make the best projections for taxes, retirement planning, and my overall spending.
Pay Stubs/1099's/W-2's/Misc.
This is where I store all tax related documents that my tax preparer will need for preparing tax returns.
Income Tracker
As a freelance musician I have several streams of income each month which can make it challenging to keep everything in order. I've found that by separating my income into three categories each month I am able to keep the most accurate account. I divide my income tracker into the following three sections: Private Studio, W-2's, and 1099's.
To track the income of my private studio I print copies of each invoice that is sent to each student at the start of each month. The invoice states the date/times we are scheduled to have lessons that month, the cost per lesson, the total balance, and any remaining balance they may have on their account. From there I make note of the following: the date they paid their invoice (as well as the amount), any cancellations/rescheduling, and any auditions, evaluations, etc. that the student may have coming up. The image below shows an example of the monthly invoice my students receive and is generated using MyMusicStaff; (if you are a private instructor looking to organize your studio, I recommend checking this online program out. If you're interested in trying out MyMusicStaff contact me for a referral code for one month free!)
Using the invoice allows me to account for all lesson income leaving less room for questioning should my books be audited. It is important when reporting income, expenses, etc. that the accuracy of our books is not solely for ourselves. Sure, it's great to see growth in our business and it is essential to know this information to make the most informed business decisions. However, in regard to this tax binder your objective should be to provide accurate information to your tax preparer that supports your tax claims should you be audited at the state or federal levels.
To track any additional income from W-2's (college/orchestra pay) and 1099's (any additional income that is not from my studio or covered by a W-2) I use the Monthly Report. In addition, I keep all of my employer generated paystubs under the last tab of my binder. If I do not receive a paystub for paid work I track that income on the form titled "1099 Miscellaneous Income" also located in the back of the binder.
Expense Tracker
For my business spending I use the monthly expense tracker shown below. I try to keep this very simple noting the date, a short description of the expense, the amount, and the category my tax preparer will likely place it under (i.e. office supplies, teaching materials, meals, etc.). Once I've tracked the expense, I then take the receipt and store it in the expense tab pocket in my binder.
A few tips for tracking your expenses:
Standard receipts usually fade over time so it's worth scanning and/or making a photocopy of receipts that might be harder to read in future years.
If you are buying both personal and business supplies in the same trip, ask the cashier if you can make two separate transactions. They are always understanding when customers need to purchase items separately, and it saves you a lot of time subtracting the cost of personal items and sales tax to determine the business expenses you incurred.
Most importantly, SAVE YOUR RECEIPTS! Without the proper documentation you cannot expense an item no matter the cost. If you are concerned with losing receipts, there are various applications that allow you to snap a picture of your receipt and save it for later.
Expenses can be challenging because the rules often change from year to year. I find Investopedia, the Wikipedia of investing and finance, to be a very valuable resource and easy to understand. If you are looking to track your expenses, or want to know which ones you might be missing out on, use this link for deductions specifically for the self-employed. Another very helpful resource they provide is a dictionary of financial terms that will help you to better understand the various aspects of your business and your tax return.
Mileage Tracker
If you plan to deduct any of your business mileage, you'll need to keep an accurate record of all the miles you plan to claim. In the past I've tried various forms of mileage tracking from apps that track when I am driving to Excel spreadsheets. It seems, the more "high tech" or involved the method, the less likely I was to actually keep track of my milage in a timely manner. I've found the easiest way for me to accurately keep track of my mileage is by using this simple weekly spreadsheet at the end of everyday. The biggest advice I can give you is to stay on top of your tracking methods to ensure the most accurate records! It might seem like a pain to schedule a few minutes every day/week but it is way more efficient than trying to organize months of backlogged information!
Putting Your Tax Binder to Use
Remember to keep your tax records where they are readily available. These binders would be a great asset should you ever be audited; you can be confident that all of the information is accurate and in one convenient location.
I hope this helps you think of the various aspects of your business you should be tracking to show growth and to build rock solid bookkeeping methods. You can download my tax templates here. Always be sure to keep your records accurate, to the best of your knowledge, and find yourself a tax preparer who can assist you and your growing business.
Good luck as you develop your tax binder to crush it in 2020!


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The Oromo People's National Struggle for Freedom is Not Against the Rights of Any Other People
Like the Oromo people, several other peoples in the empire state of Ethiopia have been under the yoke of Abyssinian colonialism since the creation of that empire in its present form. With ideological and material support of its allies, the Abyssinian regime conquered the southern peoples one after another, targeting one nation at a time. This sequential conquer helped them to re-enforce their colonial army with the resources and manpower of the already conquered people in their subsequent attacks on the remaining southern nations. This shows that the defeat of one people have facilitated the defeat of the rest of the southern people. In this regard, with its vast human and natural wealth, the occupation of Oromia had created a perfect opportunity for colonial army and opened a door for the occupation of the remaining southern nations. Such type of divide and attack strategy was a standard tactic used by all colonial powers, and as such, was not a unique Abyssinian tactic
After southerners were all conquered in such a way, our fate has been one and the same. The magnitude and type of colonial segregation the Oromos have experienced are very similar with the ones used on Somalis, Afars, Gedi'os, Gambelas and Bani-shanguls. We are all equally looted, brutally massacred, denied our human and democratic rights and all together are reduced to a secondary citizen. All these facts demonstrate that we southerners are linked by history and fate. Our common misfortune calls for our joint action to reverse it. We are colonized together and therefore we must be liberated together. This is the firm belief of the OLF and the Oromo people.
The truth being this, successive Abyssinian colonial regimes have been trying everything in their capacities to bury this fact. They did everything they could to apply the old colonial game of divide and rule and sow the seed of permanent animosity between the colonized peoples in the south. They designed several tactics that induce conflicts between colonized peoples. In places where they were successful, they have inflicted countless bloodsheds between neighbouring peoples. They did so between Oromos and Somalis, Oromos and Afars, Oromos and Isas, Oromos and Gedi'os etc. Their fear is obvious, if the oppressed nations unite, their joint action will crash their colonial regime in no time. More than the oppressed, the oppressors know the might of the united oppressed people. To eliminate that potential the oppressors have left no stone unturned.
As a apart of this general picture, the wayane have recently embarked on another wave of campaign of blackmailing the Oromo national movement. The effort is to turn other peoples, residing in Oromia, against the just cause of Oromos. They are disseminating a baseless fabricated cheap propaganda campaign telling the people that: if Oromos get to power they will swallow you, will expel you from Oromia etc. The fact that the current Tigray regime and the old Amara regime have both used the same propaganda shows that they are all the same when it comes to the Oromo question. They all know what they did to the Oromo people and so that they all fear from the Oromo people and its just cause. They want to depict its struggle as a monster to deny it any sympathy and support.
However, the aim of the Oromo struggle is very far from what they think. The aim of the Oromo struggle led by the OLF is only to gain back our country that was taken away from us by force. It is not, in any way, against the rights of any other people. The OLF believes that the Oromo people win the right to self-determination and open up a venue for other peoples to achieve the same rights. After winning the right to self-determination, the Oromo people will live side by side with its neighbours in peace, equality and respect. The OLF believes that peace and security in the region is possible only when oppressions of any sort are eliminated and peoples live together through mutual understanding, equality and respect for each other's rights. The fact of the matter being this, we believe that baseless propaganda blown by the Wayane regime to divide us should not get the ears of the oppressed peoples. We are colonized together and thus we must be liberated together. Therefore, to defeat their cheap disinformation we must act together.
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Since long ago, Don ca tai tu (Amateur singing) in southern Viet Nam has been rooted in the cultural and spiritual life of the southern people. On December 5, 2013 the art of Don ca tai tu was officially recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO.
Exploring the folk songs of the south
Mentioning Don ca tai tu, people often think of a unique folk art which is seen as a "specialty" of the southerners. People in the south, regardless of the rich or the poor, male or male, old or young can perform Don ca tai tu anywhere and at any time. Therefore, this musical art is performed at parties, in the orchard gardens on moon-lit nights, on the boats drifting along the green canals or at rituals, weeding, funerals and death anniversaries.
According to researchers, Don ca tai tu appeared in the late 19th century. It originated from Hue court music and soon became a gene of traditional folk music with the popular nuance of the southern watery area.
The word "amateur" in Don ca tai tu refers to an artist who is excellent in ancient music and has a special talent for playing the instruments and singing. It does not mean "unprofessional". It means that the "amateurs" perform not to earn their living but to amuse themselves when they are happy and nobody can spend money buying their performance. However, their performing skill is not low because they have to practice diligently and create their own style. This musical art does not have its own performance costumes and the performers are not finical about the costumes. They only pay attention to dressing to suit the performance space when they perform at communal houses, temples or on stage.
According to Professor Tran Van Khe who has devoted his life to introducing the traditional music of Viet Nam in general and Don ca tai tu of the south in particular to the world, in the early 20th century Don ca tai tu developed strongly and quickly spread throughout the six provinces of the south. At that time, due to the interaction and emulation among the amateurs' groups, their performing techniques were improved and the recording and systemization of the ancient songs were perfected. Many well-known artists in the Don ca tai tu circle in the south emerged, typically Nguyen Quan Dai (or Ba Doi) in Long An, Tran Quang Quon (or Ky Quon) in Vinh Long, Moc Quan Nguyen Trong Quyen in Can Tho, Le Tai Khi (or Nhac Khi) and monk Nguyen Chieu in Bac Lieu. These artists were accredited with promoting this art form to develop strongly in the first half of the 20th century.
The main musical instruments in Don ca tai tu include the moon-shaped lute, the two-stringed fiddle, the 16-stringed zither and the monochord, which are known as the "four major instruments". In 1930, the guitar, violin and Hawaiian guitar were added. The Song lan (percussion) was also used for beating time. Traditionally, the instrumentalists rarely perform solo, but they perform duets (on moon-shaped lute and 16-stringed zither) or trios (moon-shaped lute, 16-stringed zither and two-stringed fiddle), sometimes on the flute. The most interesting part of the Don ca tai tu performance is the prelude of the instrumentalist and the recitatives of the singer to tune the instrument and inspire the performer, creating the atmosphere for the band. In the impromptu performance the singers often perform with their own style after the original based on the traditional music. It is their elements that create the new and appealing features of the performance.
Don ca tai tu has many different songs but in general it has 20 major songs called "Nhi thap huyen to ban" for four tunes, including six Bac songs expressing joy and broad-mindedness, seven Ha songs used in the solemn rituals, three Nam songs expressing comfort and elegance and four Oan songs describing the scenes of sadness, sorrow and separation. Additionally, there are eight Ngu songs, ten uninterrupted songs, many variants and new songs composed by maestros and talented artists.
For over a century, Don ca tai tu has existed, developed sustainably and become a daily spiritual food. It is also a "specialty" that the southern people use to treat the visitors to the southern watery area.
Vitality of Don ca tai tu
Unlike many types of folk songs, Don ca tai tu has a strong vitality. Not only domestic but also foreign tourists who visit Viet Nam love this art from because of its rustic, familiar, romantic and unique characteristics.
Professor Tran Van Khe said that in 1963, he asked musician Nguyen Huu Ba to record a single disc of Don ca tai tu to introduce to UNESCO. In 1972, he sent to UNESCO the second disc of this music performed by him and professor of music, Vinh Bao. Cocora Radio France invited Prof. Tran Van Khe and professor of music Vinh Bao (in 1972) and 16-stringed zither artist, Hai Phuong (in 1994) to record another two discs which were listed in the best-selling albums in France and were awarded the music critic award of the year.
We came to Bac Lieu Province, an area with a strong Don ca tai tu movement in the south. It is also the native land of musician composer Cao Van Lau who is the author of the song "Da co hoai lang" (Night drum beat causes longing for absent husband), a symbolic heritage of the Don ca tai tu village in Bac Lieu Province.
Every hamlet, village, commune, ward and city in Bac Lieu has Don ca tai tu clubs. At present, the province has 227 Don ca tai tu clubs with 2,143 members including 475 instrumentalists and 1,668 singers. Of these clubs, 55 clubs have been provided with equipment and tools for activities by the State. All clubs have periodic activities. Every year, Bac Lieu organizes a Don ca tai tu festival, providing more opportunities for the clubs to perform and enhance their professional skills.
For over 10 years now, Bac Lieu, Soc Trang and Ca Mau Provinces along with some southwestern provinces have annually organized a musical exchange to promote the Don ca tai tu movement to develop.
Nguyen Quoc Minh, Director of Cultural Centre and Chief of the Department of Culture in Bac Lieu City said that the community training course on "Singing the Da co hoai lang (standard version) and Vong co (Longing for the drum beat) organized by the centre was attracting a large number of people of all ages, including elderly people who are over 80 years of age and teenagers.
Le Thi Thu Thao, a 14-year-old girl in Nha Mat Ward said: "I like Don ca tai very much because since I was little I have heard a lot of songs performed by my parents, my mother's sister and brother in the family's events or at parties. I learn hown to take a breath and keep the rhythm so that I feel more confident when singing."
With its achievements and proud tradition in the development of the Don ca tai tu art, Bac Lieu Province has been chosen to host the first Don ca tai tu festival in Viet Nam by the State. The festival will take place in April 2014 with the theme "Don ca tai tu – The inner voice of the southern people".
To prepare for this event, a part from continuing the conservation and promotion of the Don ca tai tu movement, Bac Lieu has built and repaired 26 keys projects, typically the commemorative area for the southern Don ca tai tu and musician Cao Van Lau, the cultural and artistic exhibition center and Cao Van Lau Theature, and the Hung Vuong Square.
According to the latest statistics, the Don ca tai tu movement has spread to 21 cities and provinces throughout the country and has 2,258 clubs with 13,800 members, of whom the youngest is six years old and the oldest is 99 years old.
Besides the strong development of the Don ca tai tu movement, attention and large investment have been given to the research and training of this art form in a professional way. Ho Chi Minh City is the largest center for the training and research on Don ca tai tu in the country. Here, there are two units which can train professional artists in this art. They include the Traditional Music Faculty of the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory and the Traditional Music Faculty of the Ho Chi Minh Conservatory and the Traditional Drama and Song Faculty of the University of Drama and Cinematography. There are also many Don ca tai tu classes opened by the house of culture in the city and districts and by the artisans to teach those who love this art.
It can be said that Don ca tai tu is the "soul" of the southern cultural heritage. It is not only an art form which shows the cultural traits as well as the simple, friendly, generous and affectionate personality of the southern people but also has a high ability to attract and connect the community, so it always has a strong vitality and exists immortally with the cultural life of the nation./.
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The huge rural population of young people in Wakiso, Uganda has little access to libraries and community centres. The Centre for Youth Driven Development Initiatives wants to build a community centre to serve the hundreds of young people in our area. We will provide a safe space to foster a culture of reading, and offer opportunities to develop entrepreneurship and community organisation skills. This will be a place to learn how to stay healthy, develop computer skills, play sports and have fun!
Uganda has a large youth population and, as a result of poverty, there exists a high rate of school drop-outs and few after-school job opportunities. This is even worse in the rural communities, like Ndazabazadde, where CFYDDI work. There were no libraries or community centres in the area until we started renting a small building; we were overwhelmed by how many people wanted to attend but the small space, lack of electricity and limited funds for activities have restrained our capacity.
This project will expand our work by constructing the first community centre and library in the area. A large library of shelves stocked with useful books will enable many young people to study and prepare for exams, while training groups in entrepreneurship and community organisation will ensure young people can fulfill their potential. We will install electricity so visitors can use the centre late into the evening and provide a recreational space for community mobilisation and sports games.
At its busiest, our current space has hosted 300+ people at a time! During school holidays we have 50+ library daily users, with a monthly average of 600+ visitors including children and young people, women, farmers, doctors and teachers. With a bigger space, more books and electricity there's no telling how many people we will reach! Having space to conduct vital training and offer guidance will enable us not just to improve the livelihoods of our visitors, but to develop the entire community.
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I often think back to my teenage jobs and wonder how those experiences translated into my current outlook on work, business, capitalism and life in general. One theme I used to encounter frequently as a low-wage unskilled worker was the plight of the business owner vs. the plight of the worker. I recall being surrounded by employees who were continuously criticizing the business owner or corporation as being "cheap" or not treating them right. It was usually the same cliques that had been around for a while, often older and likely to be doing the same type of work throughout their adult life, but sometimes it was a teenager like myself. Occasionally, I'd play devil's advocate and ask why it is they feel that way or what their suggestions were for management to be more "equitable". The answers ranged from higher pay to the notion that employees should all "share the profits". I questioned why the company would do that if they didn't have to. The employees after all were usually in and out of the place every 6 months to a year, they never put up a dime of their own money to start the business and they had nothing vested in the business. These suggestions didn't make sense to me, but they made perfect sense to the high-minded 30-somethings working the register. I get that experience and company loyalty should translate into increased pay over time (that's what a raise is), but the sense of entitlement in the environment seemed over the top when I put myself in the owner's shoes.
The Feed Store
One of my first jobs was at a feed store which both delivered feed to surrounding farms as well as a retail store in town which catered to all your typical domestic animals as well as farm animals and horses. The owner was a 50-something guy who apparently was an early investor (or co-founder allegedly) in Border's Books but sold out very early and missed out on a huge windfall. He had parlayed a mild payout from years prior into this feed store. As I recall, I was paid the going rate for unskilled labor which was a bit over minimum wage. I worked probably 20 hours per week and I got a break or two per day. During the summer that I worked, we drove around in a truck, listened to music, ate lunch where and when we wanted and got some exercise to boot – not bad work as I saw it. The owner also threw us a Christmas party at his expense and gave a small Christmas bonus. And he was Jewish.
What I found to be somewhat annoying was the constant jabs employees took behind his back about how rich he was, how cheap he was, how much more they should be paid, etc. It just didn't sit well with me based on my assessment. I mean, the guy was 50-something driving a crappy car and working around the clock running his store while trying to open another. His son worked at the store too and his wife did book-keeping. I'd been to his house once and it was a typical middle class suburban home. Outwardly, he didn't appear to be particularly wealthy. And what if he was? Good for him. He had over the years taken substantial business risks with his own money, put his own blood, sweat and tears into his business, and paid his employees the going market rate.
The Grocery Store
Another teenage gig of mine was a ShopRite grocery store. I used to work relatively fast and efficiently. I enjoyed the work, the pace, and of course a paycheck. I recall on certain tasks like inventory, restocking shelves, etc., I'd get a little attitude from some of my co-workers that by working so fast, "management would expect it to get done that quickly all the time". Reading between the lines, they wanted me to slow down. I was ruining their gig. The cigarette breaks and goofing off would be in jeopardy if they were expected to increase their output. I wasn't out to be a hero or martyr myself for the local supermarket, but this type of mentality and behavior started to educate me on the thinking of "the worker" vs. "the business". As a young child I imagined workers and the business existed in some sort of harmony looking to achieve a common goal (textbook naivety), the reality was that many employees viewed productivity as a zero-sum game. The more productive they were, the harder they'd be expected to work – and the more overtime hours would dry up. Thus, slow down and demand more.
Present Day
Aside from my current workplace, I hear from a lot of people in professional roles – both friends and in comments and posts from around the blogosphere. A lot of people are rightly concerned and annoyed by the financial crisis and the indirect impact it's had on their incomes. It's tough not to be frustrated when you hear that your company beat earnings expectations by a few cents, yet there's no raise this year. On the flipside, what's the competition doing? If your company's competitors are doing the same thing or your industry is facing increasing pressure from various forces (overseas manufacturing, declining product relevance, whatever), while the current quarter's profit may be front and center, perhaps company leadership is looking more strategically at just how difficult things are going to be for the company years down the road and they're making tough choices to stay competitive now and avoid layoffs outright. Some people view what's going on as the unfortunate by-product of another boom-bust cycle with the inevitable casualties ranging from layoffs to decreased real wages, bonuses and benefits in the present with the expectation that during the next boom, jobs will be growing, competition to retain workers will result in increased compensation and things will improve overall. To the contrary, some people, even in relatively high positions voice surprisingly negative views on how their company treats their employees. In many cases, they're right. In some cases, it just doesn't seem to reflect reality.
In these various relationships and interactions, I've started to view people as being in one of two camps – pro-worker or pro-business. If you've followed me for a bit, you can tell I'm pro-business. I get why corporations do what they do. I sometimes don't agree, but I see where they're coming from. I don't mean to belittle or chastise the opposing view. I mean, if I'm a miner at Massey Energy I probably wouldn't be feeling very pro-company these days. In some businesses, nepotism runs rampant. And how could an ex-employee of Enron not be cynical about corporate America? I think a lot depends on historical and personal perspective. That leads to my question:
Are You Pro-Business or Pro-Worker? Why
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What can we learn from Disneyland's Jungle Cruise? What Laszlo Bock has to say here about employees is actually MORE true of volunteers. Empowerment can be key in keeping volunteers, particularly the highly skilled ones.
How does a leader of volunteers put it into practice?
- Be intentional about asking, "How's it going?" and even more intentional about listening carefully to the answer.
- Ask for suggestions for improving the volunteer experience and take them seriously.
- Don't be a lone ranger. A leader (manager, coordinator) doesn't have to do everything. Invite volunteers who show interest and aptitude to take on extra responsibilities
- Invite volunteers to do things their way, not necessarily yours. But be sure that you are clear on the outcomes expected.
Disney, Insubordination and Giving Employees More Control—Laszlo Bock


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