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When it comes to goal setting, financier Warren Buffett's process is flat-out Midwestern in its straightforward simplicity. His advice boils down to this: Identify 25 goals, circle the top five, focus on them, forget the rest.
Such streamlining can move a lot of things forward in life, including work challenges. To keep up in the meetings industry requires change. But when you face too many changes at once, it can be hard to focus.
Better to take a few small steps and make slow but steady progress. Here are five steps you could take to improve your events — and your life — in 2020.
Invest in a better work life.
Put yourself at the top of the list for a change. What one purchase in 2020 could improve your work life? Maybe it is a major investment, like a new office chair or a speedier tablet. Chances are good you are among the 478 million people that the U.S. Travel Association projects will travel for business in 2020. Travel is hard on both body and spirit, so investments like light, durable spinner luggage, a fashionable $25 blanket scarf for chilly flights or a lightweight eye mask and noise-canceling headphones for restful travel are inexpensive but priceless in terms of well-being.
Take small bites toward better meals.
It's easier to digest your food when you take smaller bites. And small changes are easier to swallow when it comes to making conference meals more interesting.
So instead of overhauling your event food-and-beverage program completely, change one meal. Forgo traditional continental breakfast for breakfast bowls. Westin Hotels has done this with ancient grains bowls enhanced by protein add-ins like peanut butter or eggs.
With nearly one-fifth of Americans claiming to be vegetarian or moving in that direction, try an all-veggie luncheon. New faux meat products like Beyond Burgers make it easier to win acceptance of hardcore carnivores; a meal of fresh vegetables will also be popular with those who are weight conscious or concerned about heart health, two major worries of American diners. You can also promote such a meal as being kind to the earth, a la Meat Free Monday, a movement started 10 years ago by Paul McCartney and his family to slow climate change, conserve natural resources and improve health by going meat-free one day a week.
Seriously, get out of the box.
If you haven't already, break out of the ballroom. If you have, do it again, in a different type of venue. From Crain's Business Report to the Knoxville Sentinel newspaper, meeting professionals are talking up nontraditional spaces. Especially for smaller meetings, the options are abundant: breweries, wineries, warehouses, music hot spots, burger joints. Larger events also have options nearly everywhere. Towns like Roanoke, Virginia, and Louisville, Kentucky, have been known to shut down streets and take parties to the pavement. Airplane hangars are big, roomy and, when the weather's good, easily become open-air. Botanical gardens and greenhouses can breathe a sigh of relief into a stuffy dinner. One group that has become adept at planning small off-site events is the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. At its annual conference each year, it stages readings and performances at small venues. When AWP met in Portland, Oregon, last year, it used theaters, bookstores, coffee shops and bars. And it wisely made sure each venue met all accessibility requirements.
Plan for families.
Work already takes people away from their families eight or more hours a day; do you really want to contribute to the separation? Conferences, especially those aimed at associations and religious groups, will likely see attendance increase if they have conferences over weekends or during school breaks and choose destinations with plenty for family members to do. It doesn't have to be Disney; a beachfront hotel with some play pools can keep a family entertained. Destinations rich in history — think Williamsburg, Virginia, and its Colonial Williamsburg or Springfield, Illinois, and its Lincoln sites — are entertaining and educational. In the winter, a hotel with a water park or a ski resort with slopes for tubing can offer brisk fun. And don't forget to build in events that involve everyone: a beach party with volleyball, a fall picnic or a bonfire with s'mores.
Step up social media efforts.
If you don't think social media can connect your audience, consider this story about a schoolteacher who started a Facebook page to keep her peers informed about opportunities for teachers to learn and grow. She started by asking her network of teacher friends to follow the page, and before long, as they shared the page with their friends, the number of followers grew to 10,000. Now it is 20,000. The point is that a Facebook page that promotes your conference and nothing more is OK, but a page that keeps people engaged throughout the year and promotes the conference is even better. Of course, Facebook is just one social media platform — and the largest by far. The key is to look at your audience, determine which platforms best suit it and put them to work to build awareness of what your organization does and why its meetings and conferences are worth attending.


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How to Draw a Witch Hat on Adobe Illustrator?
You can create a witch hat on Adobe Illustrator, using a mix of the pen tool, direct selection tool, and the shape tool, all together. Each part of the hat can be edited, using these different tools, to make a very appealing witch hat. Follow the steps as mentioned below.
- Click on the shape tool, which by default would be a rectangle shape. If you right click on the icon, you can see the different options for shapes. Choose the second last option from the list, which is the star tool.
- Just because it is a star, does not mean that it can only be used to make a star, but, you can use it to make other shapes. Once you have selected the star shape, and when you click on the artboard once, a dialogue box appears which shows the settings of the star tool. You can change these settings according to the shape you want to draw. Since I want to make a triangle, I will change the number for points from 5 to 3 to draw a triangle and click OK.
- Draw a triangle on the artboard, depending on how big you want the shape to be.
- To bring curves to this straight-edged triangle, I will use the pen tool to make anchor points on the triangle, where I want the shape to be curved. The image below shows curves just for the upper edges, I also added some to the base of the triangle to make it look more 3D.
- Once I have made the anchor points on the triangle, I will select the Direct Selection tool, to use these anchor points to curve the shape from different parts.
- Now, to make the wider part of the hat, which is mostly a huge circle, you need to select the ellipses tool from the left toolbar. This is the same option where you selected the star tool from.
- Draw an oval depending on the upper part of the hat. It should not be too small, and it shouldn't be too wide as well. Make sure that it is equally proportionate to the upper part of the hat to make it look more realistic.
Because when you create a second image, it is drawn over the previous image. To make the hat look real, you need to place the oval that you just created behind the upper part of the hat. To do this, right click on the ellipses you just drew, Go to the option that says 'Arrange', an extended list of options will appear, which is where you need to select the option for 'Send to back'.
This will send the oval behind the triangular shape.
- Now once you have made the whole hat, you need to alter the colors of the hat to add some depth. Gradient fill is what we will use for this.
- One the left toolbar panel, right at the end of it, you will notice three options for fill. You have to select the one in the center, which is for gradient fill as the icon for is displays.
Note: You need to select the shape that you want to add a gradient fill to. Without selecting the shape, you cannot have this gradient fill implemented to it.
- After selecting the shape, your shape will look like this.
An addition gradient fill settings option box will appear, where you can edit the color of the fill, and how you want the gradient to appear, whether you want it from the center, the edge or diagonally.
Clicking on the circle in the image below, you can change the color shading of the gradient.
Follow the same steps for the oval that you created, adjusting the gradient accordingly. Gradient always gives a more realistic look to the image. As you can see in the image below for the final outcome of our witch hat.

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President Donald Trump and the first lady, joined by the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump, visited Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue Tuesday afternoon in the wake of the massacre at the house of worship this weekend.
As Rabbi Jeffrey Myers — who escaped the gunfire that killed 11 on Saturday morning — was outside the Tree of Life to greet the president, protesters gathered near the synagogue awaiting Trump's arrival.
Thousands of people from all faiths, united in their anger, marched toward the synagogue.
Rev. Susan Rothenberg, a Presbyterian minister who lives down the street from the synagogue, was among those shouting and holding banners — and she encouraged other neighbors, including children, to join her.
"Words have meaning!" neighbors screamed.
"I'm just going to pay my respects," Trump told Fox News on Monday. "I'm also going to the hospital to see the officers and some of the people that were so badly hurt. So — and I really look forward to going — I would have done it even sooner, but I didn't want to disrupt anymore."
The President and First Lady lit a candle with the rabbis and Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer in honor of the 11 victims.
They also placed stones, as part of Jewish tradition, and white roses on the Stars of David set up in a makeshift memorial for those killed.
After visiting the synagogue, the president and first lady arrived at a hospital where they met with medical staff and officers who were wounded in the attack.


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This coming Tuesday the museum will open its doors once more. We hope that soon we will also be able to organise some kind of activity for our members again.
The building has adopted the mandatory health safety measures enabling it to reopen and thus join the municipality's two libraries as active cultural facilities.
The museum will be open to visitors during its regular hours, limiting access to a maximum quota and obliging users to wear masks. Also, some of its areas (on the second floor) will continue to be limited for the moment because their layout prevents minimum distances from being maintained.
Those of you who have paid for the visit to Valencia on March 21, the money is in the museum waiting to be collected.
Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10.00am-1.00pm and 5.00pm-8.00pm
Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays: 10.00am-1.00pm (Mondays closed)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Twitter rant from San Diego Chargers wide receiver let Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters puzzled but unconcerned heading into the matchup between the two teams in the Sunday's season finale.
"I'm not worried about him," Peters said of Allen. "I'm worried about the Chiefs getting to the Super Bowl. We're going to the playoffs, baby."
Peters said he doesn't know what prompted Allen's tirade.
"I don't know either, bro," Peters said. "It don't even matter. Let him get healthy, man. I'm praying for a speedy recovery. We need him back on the field. The fans miss him."
Allen played just a half game for the Chargers this season. He sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament at Arrowhead Stadium in the season opener.
The Chargers wideout blitzed the Chiefs, and primarily Peters, for 63 yards on six catches before leaving the game. Allen currently sits on the team's injured reserve list.
But that didn't stop the veteran unleashing his taunts seemingly directed towards Peters on Twitter.
I know who happy I'm not playing this week! Haha #bum
— Keenan Allen (@Keenan13Allen) December 29, 2016
— Keenan Allen (@Keenan13Allen) December 29, 2016
Peters said he didn't where Allen's perceived beef with him originated.
"So I don't know if it's nothing though," Peters said. "You all can ask him."
But the Chiefs cornerback said he didn't have an issues with Allen's trash talk.
"It's all good for me," Peters said. "It's football, it's football. I ain't tripping on that (crap). You talk (crap), you have fun, you get beat sometimes."
"He knows how to get in contact with me if we have a problem or anything," Peters said.
Matt Derrick is the lead beat writer for ChiefsDigest.com and the Topeka Capital-Journal. Use the contact page to reach him or find him on Twitter: @MattDerrick.
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Two workshops to support the Waterbird Habitat Enhancement Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Join U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership at one of two free workshops in support of on-farm habitat creation through the Waterbird Habitat Enhancement Program (WHEP). WHEP is for farmers interested in adding bird-friendly farming practices on eligible farms in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. This conservation program is focused on, but is not limited to, several practices beneficial to birds and farmers:
Short-term flooding of fields in summer,
No-till, no-chop rice fields,
Post-harvest residue management of corn fields,
Winter flooding of corn fields with staggered flood-up,
Winter flooding of fields with staggered drawdown in February
WHEP is a voluntary program; interested growers must apply to their local NRCS office for this special habitat program. The first application deadline is Friday, February 20, 2015. Thereafter, applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through July.
WHO: Audubon California, Point Blue Conservation Science, The Nature Conservancy, Delta Protection Commission, Delta Conservancy, and NRCS
WHAT: Free workshops about on-farm habitat creation
WHEN: Monday February 9, 2015 at the Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church, 14120 Grand Ave, Walnut Grove, CA 95690
Friday, February 13, 2015 at the Isleton Community Center, 208 Jackson Blvd, Isleton, CA 95641
WHY: WHEP was first offered to producers in 2012 in the Sacramento Valley with a focus on rice; since that time, over 120,000 acres and 220 producers have enrolled in WHEP to implement practices that enhance their fields for migratory birds. This year, WHEP is expanding to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to support additional crops.
The program is available in the following counties: Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Yolo, Butte, Sutter, Colusa, Glenn, Placer and Yuba. Interested parties should attend one of the free workshops or contact their local NRCS Service Center to learn more about the program and application process.
About Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership
The Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership (MBCP) is a collaboration between Audubon California, Point Blue Conservation Science, and The Nature Conservancy. Combining the experience and expertise of three of California's leaders in bird conservation enables the Partnership to address issues of science, habitat conservation, restoration, management, and conservation policy to ensure California can support its migratory bird populations.


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City Planning, PhD
The University of Pennsylvania is an intellectually stimulating environment in which to study the serious problems that face our metropolitan areas today and the broad spectrum of responses to meet those challenges. Students enrolled in the City and Regional Planning Ph.D. program have easy access to a broad, multi-disciplinary faculty and all the resources of a first-rate urban research university.
The Ph.D. program in City and Regional Planning (CPLN), governed by the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning, is one of the oldest in the country, dating back to the 1950s. Penn's faculty has guided more than 300 students though their graduate studies to the completion of the degree and aided them in assuming positions of leadership in both academia and the profession throughout the United States and across the world.
Penn's Ph.D. program in city and regional planning has a straightforward objective: to train thought-leaders and exceptional scholars. To this end, the Graduate Group aims to ensure acquisition of strong research and communication skills. It is also committed to cultivating enduring faculty/student mentoring relationships and collegial networking among a students' peers, including other Ph.D. students in urban-focused disciplines.
For more information: https://www.design.upenn.edu/city-regional-planning/phd/about
View the University's Academic Rules for PhD Programs.
A total of 20 course units are required.
The Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning does not designate a formal list of required courses other than the Doctoral Seminar and research methods, but allows students to work with the Graduate Group Chair and their principal advisor to develop a study plan consistent with their research and future teaching interests.
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|Four consecutive semesters are required:
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The Graduate Group maintains a list of courses in quantitative and qualitative methods and spatial analytics offered in various schools of the University.
Additional Requirements
Additional elements of the program include:
- Preparatory Requirements (Writing and Presentation and Scholarly Preparation)
- Qualifying/Candidacy Examinations
- Dissertation
The degree and major requirements displayed are intended as a guide for students entering in the Fall of 2023 and later. Students should consult with their academic program regarding final certifications and requirements for graduation.


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Colored trails: A multiagent system testbed for decision-making research (demonstration)
Ficici, Sevan
Gal, Ya'akov Kobi
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CitationSevan G. Ficici, Avi Pfeffer, Ya'akov Gal, and Barbara Grosz Stuart Shieber. Colored trails: A multiagent system testbed for decision-making research (demonstration). In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, 12-16 May 2008.
AbstractWith increasing frequency, computer agents participate in collaborative and competitive multiagent domains in which humans reason strategically to make decisions. The deployment of computer agents in such domains requires that the agents understand something about human behavior so that they can interact successfully with people; the computer agents must be sensitive to how people reason in strategic settings as well as to the social utilities people employ to inform their reasoning. To date, these design requirements for computer agents have received relatively little attention. To further research in this area, we are developing the Colored Trails (CT) testbed [5], a configurable and extensible open-source system for use by the research community at large to investigate multiagent decision making.
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The twentieth WNBA regular season has come and gone with the blink of an eye, even with the Olympic break, where Team USA—which included four Lynx players—brought home the gold in August. We have quickly arrived at the playoffs where the real test begins with a new format for the postseason, one that has its own nuances each team must deal with. Let's go over them, shall we?
- The top eight teams in the league make the postseason regardless of conference.
- There are now four rounds.
- The first two rounds are single elimination games.
- The next two rounds, the semifinals and finals, are five game playoffs (2-2-1 format).
- Teams are re-seeded after each round.
- In the first round, the five-seed hosts the eight-seed and the six-seed hosts the seven-seed.
- In the second round, the three-seed will host the lowest seed from the first round. The four-seed will play the highest seed coming out of the first round.
- The Lynx will host the lowest seed making it out of round two and the Sparks host the higher seed.
So what does this all mean? Well, the Lynx (one-seed) and the Sparks (two-seed) are fortunate enough to avoid the nerve-inducing single-elimination rounds. Having five games to prove how good they actually are is a huge advantage for them. This also means the two have to wait 10 plus days since their last game to play and they won't know their opponents until the second round ends due to re-seeding.
Some may argue that the teams making it out of the single-elimination rounds have some sort of upper hand. They get to keep any sort of rhythm they may have had at the end of the year and benefit from one or two tune-up games before facing one of the behemoths, who are biding their time.
I contend that the WNBA gave them the double-byes because they know who sells games better to casual fans and this new format accelerates the postseason to the good stuff. We'll get to see two rounds that could go potentially five games, when previously that could only happen in the Finals. However, the edge goes to the top dogs with this format. They get time to rest with the assurance that they're playing two home games, where Minnesota (15-2) and Los Angeles (14-3) dominated opponents.
If you think this break for the Lynx will cause them to come back to earth, you're not paying attention. They have won 13 of their last 15 games going back to before the Olympic break and are the best coached team in the league. Call me biased but you can't deny she has the highest winning percentage in WNBA history, and she will have had 10 days to prepare her game plan and work out any kinks the team has had. It would be shocking if they were knocked out by one of the bottom six teams in a five-game series.
On the other hand, the Sparks are 6-7 in their last 13 games and have recently struggled with teams they were dominating early in the season, ultimately losing yet again to the Lynx, along with that the top seed. Not exactly an inspiring stretch. Still, they have Nneka Ogwumike, the AP Player of the Year and MVP favorite, former two-time MVP in Candace Parker, and sharpshooter Kristi Toliver, so don't count them out at all.
Those two are the favorites, but there are others in the mix that could pull off the upsets. Here's a snapshot of the seeding of the playoffs:
One-Seed: Minnesota Lynx (28-6)
What more can be said about this team? They rank second in both offense and defense in terms of points per game, thanks to their four Olympians and deep bench. They play so well together as a team as they were second in assists per game (20.0) but if their post-break play is any indication, Maya Moore and Sylvia Fowles are about to go off.
Two-Seed: Los Angeles Sparks (26-8)
Two of their losses at home were handed to them by, ahem, look up. That bodes well for the good guys if those two eventually meet in the finals, which is very likely considering their body of work. They struggled late in the year but don't expect that to continue.
Three-Seed: New York Liberty (21-13)
Tina Charles was the early favorite to win MVP as she has led the league in points and rebounds per game almost the entire season. Ogwumike has surpassed her, as she is the best player on a better team and when you combine that with her efficiency the New York forward fell behind. Sugar Rodgers has proven deadly in the past but the Lynx wouldn't see their former player until the finals if they were to meet up.
Four-Seed: Chicago Sky (18-16)
Last year's MVP Elena Delle Donne could be out the rest of the year after having thumb surgery, putting serious doubts on their chances of winning it. They went 3-3 to end the season since she got injured in a blowout against the Mystics, including an overtime win over Minnesota, but things don't look good if she cannot return.
Five-Seed: Indiana Fever (17-17)
Tamika Catchings looks to win one more championship before she retires at the end of this year. The Fever are hoping for a return to the finals to avenge their loss last year, taking the Lynx all the way to game five.
Six-Seed: Atlanta Dream (17-17)
Tiffany Hayes made a critical mistake in picking up her seventh technical foul against Minnesota in the last game of the season. It means she is suspended for the first game against Seattle and Angel McCoughtry will need to carry this team to the second round.
Seven-Seed: Seattle Storm (16-18)
Breanna Stewart is already a superstar and will obviously win Rookie of the Year honors. Throw in one-year vet Jewell Lloyd and Seattle has the future looking pretty good. The seasoned Sue Bird probably wants to win now though and they have saved their best play for last this year, winning five of their previous six games.
Eight-Seed: Phoenix Mercury (16-18)
GMs around the league tabbed them the favorites to win it all before the year started and they ended up just sneaking into the postseason. It makes me a little nervous that they are the bottom seed because if they can figure it out and win the next two games, the Lynx biggest rival will be coming back to try to avenge the three losses early in the season.
The playoffs start today so let me know who you've got in the matchups tonight, and who you do or don't want to see when Minnesota finally gets to play next Wednesday.
Game times:
(8) Phoenix at (5) Indiana - 5 PM CT, ESPNews
(7) Seattle at (6) Atlanta - 7 PM CT, ESPNews


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Why this waste?" are the words that Judas shouts after seeing the woman anoint Jesus' head and feet with expensive perfume from her beautiful alabaster bottle. Many believe this would have been a year's worth of savings in order to have the funds to purchase this rare perfume from India. Many, if not most of the onlookers at this impromptu worship service during a casual dinner, thought this act of worship was totally unnecessary and extremely excessive. The truth is, what others were criticizing as a waste, Jesus was praising and declaring as beautiful. Mary's extravagant devotion and worship was celebrated by Jesus and seen as according to the plan and preparation for his death. (Re: Matthew 26:6-13) I share this story to encourage anyone who has ever heard that their efforts, devotion, or love were a waste and unnecessary. You are not a waste and what you have done is not a waste. Please know that when people are often most appalled, God is the one that's applauding your efforts, love and service. Galatians 1:10 says, "Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ." Stay Close to Jesus
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You may marvel why the costs for these designer handbags are low. It's because the drop shippers get their items from these wholesalers who specialize in designer handbags. In consequence, the drop shipper can afford to promote them at decrease prices in comparison with these in retail shops. When something costs much less, the tendency is for the buyer to purchase more. Because of this, the vendor will even profit more from it. This is very true in designer purses. We all know that designer purses are durable and women don't only need one however many in order to match their outfit. Many ladies are usually not simply contented with having one purse. They should match their handbags with their outfit and the event that they are going to attend.
After you could have chosen a good dwelling based business alternative, the next step is to do the majority of your advertising on-line. Tons of promotional alternatives exist on the internet that does not value something besides the time it takes so that you can implement them. One of many issues is what type of clients they're aiming at.
Get motivated and start loving your job once more.
How are you going to tell when you have a "Fix-It" Factory? Simply pay attention to how much time you spend on time beyond regulation, fireplace preventing and crisis management. Do you constantly rely on heroics to save the day? Do you reward fire preventing, but not fireplace prevention? Do you might have hordes of workers inspecting the finished product or service? If so, the "Repair-It" Manufacturing unit is costing $20-$forty out of each $one hundred you spend.
One possibility for making a productivity chart is to write down (action) down what tasks you intend to perform every day; then as you complete them, check them off. A second choice is have a look at the lengthy task record you created, choose an exercise, and when you will have completed the task add it to your chart. I began my chart after reading Get Clients Now by C.J. Hayden. This e-book is a guide on easy methods to select activities in line with your current business section; after which walks you through the method of creating a chart utilizing the activities you chose.
What's your business advertising goals?
If I take advantage of slides, they're enjoyable, they're customized for the prospect, and so they're not canned. Backside Line? This kind of software program basically tracks accounts payable and receivable (what your business owes and what's owed to your business). It's essential to combine a imaginative and prescient that you've got in your business i.e. what is going to your business be like in 10 years into the future? Do you have plans to expand your business if it becomes profitable?
I don't do MLM any more, not because I do not imagine it's a superb tool for Joe Average to construct a greater life for himself. (Ladies, forgive me for talking in the male voice, after all I am male. I may have stated Josephine Common, Joe's wife, however statistics show that more women succeed at MULTI LEVEL MARKETING than men.) I have simply moved on to extra interesting things, for me.
The organization that pioneered and made sponsored evaluations frequent is PayPerPost, which gave rise to several other such marketplaces. By following these five steps you can not solely set up a profitable affiliate marketing online businesses, you too can find that you've the time, vitality and incentive to continue constructing it for the foreseeable future.


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What's the Deal with Code Complete?
Who the heck wants or needs to read a 900 page book about how you should indent your code?
what's Up?
Obviously you're in your majority that's only skimmed the book if you only think it's about indenting...
I'm about a third of the way through the beta version. Doubt if it would go down to fifty pages.
Stephen Jones
"Can't we all just get along?"
Rodney K.
With Posts like this, we can't.
What's the Deal with Indentation Handbook?
Paulo Caetano
Get back to work, Paulo!
Paulo's Boss
Even though it's quite long, it reads quickly. I've read it (the first version) more than once.
"Get back to work, Paulo!"
Paulo Caetano
We monitor your computer.
Okay, so maybe in retrospect a better book is just waiting to be written that will be a Strunk and White to the Code Complete... anyway, it was a fun read back then (okay let me qualify fun, I don't read a lot of real books)
Li-fan Chen
I didn't get the big deal about the book too. I heard high praise all over about this book, and I bought it for full price on Amazon.
I found CC unimpressive as well. Not downright wrong, he just didn't tell me anything I didn't already know. Might be quite useful if you pick it up early in your career, though.
Chris Nahr
The problem is that the book is well over due for a complete rewrite. It was interesting to read 5 years ago and you might still be violating some of the worst habits it pointed out, but since everyone reads it it's been a while since I have seen people unknowingly break some of these rules.
Li-fan Chen
The galleys for the second edition was up on the net this January. I downloaded it and printed it out.
Stephen Jones
what's up,
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Carestream 9600 3-in-1 Dental X-Ray CBCT
Smarter and better than ever
The world's most intelligent CBCT system is now even smarter and more versatile than ever. The CS 9600 redefines quality and usability, making it the perfect imaging system for dental professionals and specialists who want a new level of precision.
Benefits at a glance
- Scalable, 2-in-1 scanner designed to grow with your practice (3D Face scanning option is available starting at $6,000 to make it 3-in-1)
- Smart innovations drive precision at every exam
- AI-powered positioning helps get consistent results effortlessly
- Crystal-clear images with limited artifacts and noise
- Broadest range of volume sizes with 4×4 to 16×17 FOV
AI-powered positioning
With innovations such as a Live Positioning Assistant, video cameras, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the CS 9600 is designed to deliver more accurate scans on the first try, with consistent results over time. The system records each patient's parameters, making follow-up imaging repeatable with a single touch.
Integrated patient seat
The CS 9600 is the only unit with an integrated retractable seat1 that allows users to comfortably scan patients in a stable seated position or in a standing position.
Cephalometric images and tracings in just a few seconds
The CS 9600's optional Scan Ceph module gives you the ability to perform high-quality cephalometric exams in seconds. Scan images in as little as 3 seconds to reduce the risk of motion blur and obtain fully automated tracings in 10 seconds.
Meets the needs of any specialty
The CS 9600 offers up to 14 fields of view, ranging from 4cm x 4cm to 16cm x 17cm, to support all of your diagnostic needs – from routine exams to specialized ones.
Versatile and Scalable
A multi-function imaging system blending 2D panoramic and cephalometric imaging and CBCT imaging, with optional 3D facial scanning and 3D model scanning.
Opportunity-creating software
Our imaging software suite includes optional implant, orthodontic, restoration, and airway analysis modules to help you take full advantage of the money capabilities of digital dentistry.


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A poultry farmer, Mr Joel Oduware, has lamented over the challenges faced by local farmers in Lagos State in the disposal of poultry waste.
Oduware, who made the complaint in an interview in Lagos on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, said that several poultry farmers in the state were closing shop owing to inadequate poultry waste disposal.
"The disposal of poultry waste is a very big issue to poultry farmers in Lagos. Most farms in the state are closing shop because of the issue of poultry waste disposal.
"The inability to find adequate means to dispose poultry waste in the state has posed a major challenge to the industry.
"We have very big issues with the disposal of poultry waste in this state; the government needs to come back with the project on poultry waste management scheme.
"To commence the scheme, the government should liaise with the poultry farmers on how to manage the waste they generate.
"The government should work out a formula on poultry waste management that local poultry farmers in the state can key into effectively," the farmer said.
Oduware said the issue of inadequate poultry waste disposal was peculiar to farmers in Lagos, unlike other states that have adequate land spaces to process the waste into organic fertiliser.
He also decried the epileptic services of the waste disposal agents in the state who rarely came to evacuate the poultry waste in good time.
"In rural areas like Ogun and Oyo states, poultry farmers do not have issues with waste disposal but actually generate extra income from them.
"What they do is that they bury the poultry waste in the ground because of the land space available and generate organic fertilisers from them and sell them to local crop farmers.
"The reverse is the case in Lagos because you cannot just go dig up anywhere to bury poultry waste, waste management have pushed a lot of poultry farmers out of business.
"I was once reported to the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency that my farm was generating waste that constituted environmental nuisance.
"We pay the waste collectors to pick up the poultry waste but they are epileptic in their services and do not come to pick up our waste in good time," Oduware said.
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Top Sites along the Natchez Trace Parkway
Story and photos by Tom Uhlenbrock
Tom is an award-winning travel writer and journalist based in St. Louis.
Visit the ruins of a 19th-century mansion or venture to a swamp filled with cypress trees.
There are 90-plus historic and scenic sites on the Natchez Trace Parkway, a 444-mile drive that runs from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee. Here are my picks of the top six:
Mount Locust (milepost 15.5)
Between 1785 and 1830, more than 50 inns were located on the Trace. The Mount Locust Inn is the last one standing, although it's not open for overnight stays. Built in the late 1700s, the cost of a stay was 25 cents until the inn eventually became the family living quarters on a cotton plantation. Today, the inn sits in a parklike setting and visitors are invited to climb the front walkway and see where early travelers ate and spent the night.
Windsor Ruins (milepost 30)
Visiting the ruins requires a detour off the Trace onto Highway 552, but it's worth the 11-mile trip. A cotton planter built a magnificent mansion in 1861 that was destroyed by fire 30 years later. An architectural drawing shows how it looked. All that's left today is a group of 45-foot, free-standing columns with iron capitals. Standing alone in the forest, it is America's version of ancient Roman ruins.
Cypress Swamp (milepost 121)
Located just beyond the north end of the giant Ross R. Barnett Reservoir, there is a 20-minute walk on boardwalks and pathways along the perimeter of a patch of swamp filled with large cypress trees and their knobby knees. Signs say alligators sometimes visit this primordial setting, but all I saw was a delicate ribbon snake with neon-yellow stripes and a blooming Jack-in-the-pulpit.
Rock Spring Trail (milepost 330)
After the Rock Spring Road turnoff, a short walk through the woods leads to stepping stones that take you across Colbert Creek. Follow the creek to an active beaver dam that creates a small pond from the flow of Rock Spring. With wild sweet William and Virginia bluebells blooming in the woods, and songbirds, peeping frogs and the gurgling stream providing the soundtrack, it was a great start to a spring day.
Wichahpi Stone Wall (milepost 338)
This is absolutely the weirdest stop on the Trace. A short drive on County Road 8 takes you outside the parkway's boundaries to a spot in the woods where the late Tom Hendrix spent 30 years building a winding stone wall. The 5-foot-high and 5-foot-thick wall runs more than a mile like a maze through the trees. The site is open and free to the public from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hendrix undertook the prodigious project as a tribute to his great-great-grandmother, a Yuchi Indian who was relocated to a reservation and made the long journey back home. Hendrix quotes a tribal elder as saying: "All things shall pass. Only the stones will remain."
Fall Hollow (milepost 392)
An overlook gives a nice view of a lovely waterfall that cascades down the hillside of Fall Hollow. Drive another 13 miles north, and you get a more spectacular version at Jackson Falls. A steep, paved walkway leads to the base of the double-decker waterfall, which on the day I drove through was thundering with sheets of water coming over two rock shelves. Children were playing on the boulders of the mossy grotto below. It's an awesome sight when the water is right.
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Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA
Who do you think you are? No matter where we have lived on this planet, we've formed our identities with whatever information has been available to us. Initially, our family, extended family, and tribe told us who we were, and we saw ourselves mirrored in their faces and actions. Later, as people migrated and groups mixed more readily, we developed more complex identities. In some families, all the personal stories and historic records fit together comfortably. In others, there was a pervasive sense that something was missing—relatives not to be mentioned, questions never to be asked, pieces of personal history and identity never to be known.
Today, with relatively easy access to our ancestry via DNA, we have more data about ourselves and our family histories than previous generations could have imagined. But does all this information translate into a stronger and more cohesive personal identity? Sometimes. The truth is it can also provide a family history we had never anticipated and bring us relatives who are not always welcome on our family tree. In the most extreme cases, our ancestry DNA can make us question our very identity: Who did I think I was? Who am I now?
In the 12 fascinating lessons of Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA, Anita Foeman, PhD, a Professor of Communication and Media, and founder and primary investigator of the DNA Discussion Project at West Chester University, takes us behind the scenes to examine what really happens when individuals receive their personal DNA ancestry results. By learning about their individual and family reactions, we can learn more about our own identity narratives as well.
What Can We Learn from Ancestral DNA?
Companies that process your DNA sample to provide data about your ancestry use several types of DNA to glean information. These include:
- Mitochondrial DNA: Found around the cell nucleus, this DNA is not subject to the shuffling and recombination of typical reproductive chromosomes. Passed from mother to child through the egg cell almost exactly intact, miniscule changes occur only over thousands of years and allow for ancestry tracking.
- Y DNA: Tracking with this DNA is based on the sex-determining chromosome for males in the non-recombining portions of DNA. It is less stable than the mitochondrial DNA but can also identify groups of association.
- Autosomal DNA: This DNA reflects the individual's full background, resulting from combining the DNA of both parents. Using ancestry-informative markers, tests using autosomal DNA evaluate large numbers of genetic variations across a person's entire genome.
After collecting and analyzing the DNA samples, the companies then compare the patterns they find in your DNA to the vast libraries they have of other samples, identifying which groups show similar patterns to your own. DNA ancestry companies have become more precise as more people joined the testing pool of individuals and their DNA libraries grew.
Your results will tell you where your ancestors likely lived, and you will probably receive a chart indicating what percentage of your ancestors came from which parts of the world. You might also receive information about others who have been tested by that company who seem to be a close genetic match to you—potential cousins or aunts, maybe siblings or, in some cases, even parents.
But no matter what else shows up in your DNA ancestry chart, recent discoveries in genetics have confirmed the "Out of Africa" theory, meaning that your personal lineage goes back to Africa.
Although many other theories had been proposed, scientists working with mitochondrial DNA in the 1980s were able to identify the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of every person alive today—an African woman that scientists named Mitochondrial Eve. This woman and her progeny eventually out-produced every other lineage alive at the time. Later, our most recent common patrilineal ancestor was identified and named Y DNA Adam. The two did not reproduce together, but both lived in Africa probably less than 200,000 years ago, according to most recent estimates.
As a consequence of this common heritage, the DNA of every human being alive today—regardless of height, skin color, hair texture, or any other physical characteristic—is 99.9% identical.
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For most of us, race plays a large role in our identity. And yet, your DNA results will not give you information about race per se. That's because genetics reveal clearly that racial divisions are arbitrary, societal, and cultural in nature—not genetic. In fact, scientists have even found that two individuals from different racial populations can be genetically more similar than two individuals from the same population. So, are you genetically closer to members of your own race? Not necessarily.
What happens when the ancestral DNA results of a person from one race reveal ancestral geography potentially indicating relatives of another race? That depends on whether the individual and family are open to revising their personal narrative, or whether they feel the narrative must stay unchanged at all costs, even in the face of compelling scientific evidence.
In this course, you will hear about:
- A brown-complexioned student who considered himself to be African American, but whose DNA test revealed ancestry that was 50% European;
- A young Italian American woman whose results indicated an ancestry that was about 25% African; and
- A young white man whose results indicated a one percent Middle Eastern ancestry—too much for some of his family members to accept.
Some people are thrilled to find more variety in their history, others less so. Anita describes seeing people literally jump for joy upon finding out they have Middle Eastern, Asian, European, or African ancestry in their backgrounds—while others have literally broken down in tears of discomfort when receiving the same results.
Research reveals that most people who identify as white are less likely than other groups to broaden their personal identity when results reveal unexpected ethnicities in their history. Their family narrative has worked well for them, and they have no desire to change it. People of color, however, as well as the youngest generation of any race, are more likely to open their arms to potential new aspects of their identity. Multiracial individuals, who had already become comfortable with a more fluid identify before their DNA ancestry testing, often lead the way in accepting even more complexity in their ancestral results.
You Have Your DNA Ancestry Results—Now What?
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In response, scholars are turning to the reciprocal engagement model, originally developed by social workers, with several suggestions that can help families explore the new ancestry information, including:
- Share information;
- Be open and honest about feelings, and acknowledge that emotions count; and
- Respect each person's autonomy and resiliency.
As you'll discover in Identity in the Age of Ancestral DNA, genetics brings us all to conversations that would have been impossible just a few decades ago. As we investigate our own DNA ancestry, there's hope we'll become more willing to accept a fluid identity in ourselves and others. We do have the ability to reclaim the totality of what we are and live well with any paradox—working toward a more wide-reaching human narrative.
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By David Izzo (Shaw University, Raleigh NC)
To be capable of love –this is, of course, about two thirds of the battle; the other third is becoming capable of the intelligence that endows the love with effectiveness in an obscure and complicated and largely loveless world. It is not enough merely to know, and it is not enough merely to love; there must be knowledge-love and charity-understanding or pajna-karuna, in the language of Buddhism—wisdom-compassion. (Aldous Huxley)
Any event in any part of the universe has as it determining conditions all previous events in all parts of the universe. (Huxley)
Aldous Huxley's last novel Island was written in part after he learned that he had cancer and he may have believed that this would be his last opportunity to express his vision of a utopian society in which a key component would be mystical philosophy. Island was published in 1962 and Huxley died almost fifty years ago, on November 22nd, 1963 (the same day, incidentally, on which C. S. Lewis died; however, their deaths were eclipsed in the news by another event, as this was also the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination). Huxley had spent a lifetime writing about the ways that untapped human potentiality could be nurtured, seeing science as a means to serve humanity for the good rather than science being used to expand the reach of the military-industrial complex he found in the U.S. that sought profit before the needs of people.
Any change of the collective human mind would need to be achieved through humanity's collective re-education or, in effect, by creating the above-mentioned 'determining conditions' that would lead to this beneficent evolution. Huxley's last novel Island was his instructional guide for setting up these determining conditions. Island was the new age before the new age. In 1968, the paperback reprint sold over a million copies.
In a letter of 22 November 1958, Huxley wrote about writing Island:
I have been working at my phantasy about a society in which serious efforts are made to realize human potentialities…. The locale of the story is a hypothetical island between Ceylon and Sumatra—independent in spite of colonialism, where the process of turning an old Shivaite-Mayahana-Buddhist society into something combining the best features of the East and West was inaugurated in the eighteen-forties by a Scottish surgeon, (modeled on James Esdaille) who operates on the then Raja under 'magnetic anesthesia [hypnosis],' becomes his friend and acts as his collaborator in initiating the necessary changes, which are carried on by successors of the Scotchman and the king, during the succeeding three generations. It is interesting to try and imagine what could be done to create such a place dedicated to eliciting all the latent powers and gifts of individuals, by consciously adopting and combining desirable features from different cultures, Indian, modern Western, Polynesian, Chinese (Letters, 850).
The novel's protagonist, Will Farnaby, is a writer employed by multinational energy corporation to spy on Pala, which may have large oil resources waiting to be exploited. Pala is a small society that is an ongoing experiment in finding means to serve the ends of teaching people methods that achieve the greater good for the inhabitants through re-education of body, mind, and spirit. Will first meets two island children: Mary Sarojini and Tom Krishna MacPhail. They are the grandchildren of Dr. Robert MacPhail who began Pala with the Old Raja. Will is invited to stay at their living quarters. When Will awakens the next morning, he reads several chapters of the Old Raja's perennially philosophical book, Notes on What's What. He learns that Pala is a New Age world where many of the ideas Huxley describes have since been developed and written about. In his conversion Will is taken, chapter-by-chapter, into Huxley's polemical descriptions of a potential paradise. So are readers. The novel's conflict is between a selfless utopia and selfish capitalist greed.
Will is shown around the island. He begins a revelatory reawakening of his consciousness to the potential for human goodness he finds on this benevolent patch of land, which is a much happier place than the profit-driven world he came from. Science integrates with the arts and education to retrain body, mind, and spirit. Huxley details theory and practice based on his lifelong study. There is an Agricultural Experimental Station to breed better crops so that no one should go hungry. The educational and health care systems include the best of the east and west. Organized religion is not dogmatic but is based in mystical intuitive logic and self-experience. God is not an angry God used for propaganda as in the outside world, but a loving God that wishes all of his creation to love and be loved. (Huxley also coined the word 'neurotheology' in this novel, for the branch of study which seeks to explain religious experience using neurology.) Huxley's belief that human nature itself would need to be fundamentally re-oriented through education is paramount in Island. Yet, Huxley knew that the entrenched human nature that already existed would resist a common cause of universal love because the ego is self-serving and self-preserving rather than a vehicle for collective good will.
Huxley's purpose for Island was to embody a safe haven where humanity could work to provide enlightenment on a better way of living. Fifty years later it remains not only current but still prescient and remains a guide to Holistic contentment.
David Garrett Izzo is Professor of English. He has a website which includes more information about his research and his work on Aldous Huxley.


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National Park Geek Logo 3/4 Sleeve T-Shirt - Various Colors
$ 35.99
When you want to go classic and retro, this National Park Geek 3/4 sleeve shirt will do the job. Pick your favorite combination and be the talk of the trails. The feel of this shirt is soft and comfortable. The T-shirt is 100% cotton and comfy to wear for years of exploring our National Parks and voicing your love for them.
This ¾ sleeve raglan tee is a classic piece made from 100% USA ring-spun cotton and with a modern color blocking look.
The shirt is unisex sizing. Please size accordingly.
Available in S to 2XL.
2XL +$2.00 per shirt
Please keep in mind all shirts are custom printed per your order thus we can not accept returns unless it is a manufacturing defect. Please check your sizing prior to ordering and up size as needed. Thank you.
- 4.5 oz., 30/1 fine knit jersey
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Developing learners' employability skills
Prepare your learners to thrive in their future careers.
- Online
- One session
- Two hours
Developing learners' employability skills is a key driver for organisations that want to prepare their learners for the 21st century workplace. In this online workshop, you will explore ways in which technology-enhanced learning can support and build on learners' employability skills, knowledge and experience.
The workshop will provide you with a range of activities to use with learners, so you can make informed decisions when using tools and technologies that will help them succeed in the modern digital world.
You will be able to take away the associated resources and complete, reflect on and follow up the activities in your own time. You will also be able to use these resources to run similar workshops in your own organisational settings.
- Share good practice and learn from others from within the education community
- Take away materials and skills to share with your teams
- One year of online support following the course
- Learn with Jisc subject specialists
Who should attend
This workshop is aimed at careers and curriculum staff and other professionals involved in supporting the employability and support needs of learners (for example, from employability teams, the library, learning technology or learning support).
What we cover
The workshop will cover the following:
- You will consider key employability skills, knowledge and experience and how technology-enhanced learning can support and develop each of these
- From work readiness and lifelong learning, through to professional skills and knowledge, and authentic experience; we will explore how technology can enhance and improve the way that students learn, reflect and network
- We will share examples of practical activities that can be done in the classroom or at a distance that build up employability skills in all these areas
- You will reflect on current organisational practices and share and address challenges
Training outcomes
You will:
- Explore the Jisc model of employability skills
- Identify barriers to employability
- Understand how technology-enhanced learning can support and develop these skills
- Share examples of technology-based activities that can be done in the classroom or at a distance
- Reflect on current organisational practices
- Share and address challenges
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The Bachelor creator Mike Fleiss has been accused by his pregnant wife of domestic violence and demanding she get an abortion.
Laura Fleiss, the estranged wife of the reality TV maker, was granted a temporary restraining order against him after alleging he has been physically, verbally and emotionally abusive toward her. In court documents filed in Los Angeles court on Tuesday and obtained by E! News, Fleiss, a former Miss America winner, alleged in a declaration that her husband had been verbally abusive toward her and became "enraged" in recent weeks over the fact she is pregnant with their second child. The couple welcomed son Benjamin in 2015 and she declared she is currently approximately 10 weeks pregnant.
According to Laura's declaration, he allegedly told her many times he did not want to have a second child and, on July 4, he allegedly demanded she get an abortion and threatened to cut her off financially if she did not. She alleged he further told her she could choose between having an abortion or returning to her native Wisconsin without their son. She claimed he previously threatened divorce if she did not get an abortion. The following day, he allegedly forced her to call her mom and told her mom Laura was getting an abortion, according to her declaration.
On July 6, Mike took her cell phone out of her hands and, when she begged for her cell phone back, he allegedly "grabbed my body, forcibly pinned me up against the wall and held me there," she claimed in her declaration.
She further claimed he pushed her away as he walked out of the house and threatened to punch her face in. Laura alleged he began to back up his pick-up truck while she was standing on the running board. She claimed he then stopped the car "suddenly" and "forcefully" shoved her off the running board before driving away with her cell phone. She explained a neighbor drove her and her son to a friend's house, who then took her to a police station and she spoke to an officer. However, Laura said she declined to file an Emergency Protective Order as she was allegedly fearful of further inciting Mike.
"I am afraid of Mike. I am afraid he will continue to act erratically towards me, verbally and physically, and in the presence of Ben," she said in her declaration. "I have been hiding in a hotel for the past several days with Ben, and want to be able to return home without fear for myself, my son and my unborn child."
In addition to the July incident, Laura accused Mike of making "emotionally derogatory and demeaning comments" toward her allegedly designed to "demonstrate his financial coercive control" over her. She accused him of name-calling on a regular basis, including "lazy," "fat" and "incapable."
In her declaration, she also claimed she saw some "flirtatious" text messages between Mike and a female friend on his phone while they were out to dinner the weekend of their wedding anniversary in April 2018. She alleged he "went ballistic" when he knew she had seen the messages. The next day, he allegedly told her he was calling his attorney to file for divorce. Mike filed for divorce on July 10 after five years of marriage.
Mike's attorneys filed a responsive declaration on Tuesday requesting the court deny Laura's domestic violence restraining order and grant his request that she return their son to Los Angeles and he be given primary custody of him. In his declaration, Mike denied hurting, attacking or attempting to physically harm Laura or their son and claimed Laura was the aggressor during the July 6 incident. He claimed she has refused to communicate with her since he filed for divorce and he has not seen her since July 7.
In sharing his side of the story, Mike noted they started seeing a marital counselor early this year. He alleged Laura wanted to have another baby, which he did not want because he claimed she had a difficult time caring for their son when he was a baby. He claimed they eventually agreed not to have another child and Laura said she went on birth control. Mike claimed Laura was never on birth control and that she later admitted to lying to get pregnant as well as sending apology text messages and offering to go to rehab or get counseling.
On July 6, he claims he asked to see her phone to make sure she was not having an affair. According to Mike, she would not give him the phone, so he took it, allegedly prompting her to attack him. He left the house and went to his car while she allegedly pounded him with her fists and jumped on his back to get the phone back. He claimed she pounded on him so hard as he ran down the staircase that "the side of my head was slammed against the wall."
Once in the car, Mike said he "very slowly" began to back out to see if she would leave the truck and that she eventually jumped out of the truck and he left. Mike said he was concerned for Laura's well-being and contacted her friend and father about her, as well as had a friend deliver her phone back to the house. He said he met with Laura, their son and a friend back at the house the next day before he left for Los Angeles. Mike said in his declaration Laura texted him on July 9 and then stopped all contact. "I am very concerned about Ben's safety and Laura's emotional state," he said, noting he does not know where they are.
According to court documents, the temporary restraining order protects both Laura and their son Benjamin and orders Mike not to "harass, attack, strike, threaten, assault (sexually or otherwise), hit, follow, stalk, molest, destroy personal property, disturb the peace, keep under surveillance, impersonate (on the Internet, electronically or otherwise), or block movements." It further prevents him from contacting Laura and orders him to stay at least 100 yards away from her, their son, his school or child care and their home. He was also ordered to move out of their Hanalei, Hawaii home and stay away from their dog. Temporary legal and physical custody of Benjamin was granted to Laura with no visitation for Mike.
The temporary restraining order is in effect until the end of a court hearing on August 6.
Meanwhile, a Warner Bros. spokesperson told E! News, "We are aware of these serious allegations, and are looking into them."


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"The prevailing wisdom, backed by experts, is that children are less likely to pick on peers if they understand the damage they can do. But kids aren't born empathetic, they're more susceptible to impulses, and worse, one experts points out, the lesson meant to tame the bully may have the opposite effect."
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"Toronto Mayor Rob Ford helped kick off Bullying Awareness Week at city hall on Monday and admitted that he was the victim of taunts in his youth. This year the City of Toronto has partnered with police, anti-violence group PREVNet, the Toronto Coalition for the Awareness and Prevention of Bullying and others to launch Bullying Awareness Week, which goes until Nov. 18."
"Not that long ago, the main social activity in a teen's life comprised of face-to-face communication (yes I can appreciate how old I sound in writing this). For today's teen, the primary mode of communication is texting—in fact, close to 20% of teens exchange more than 6000 texts per month. Almost all teens (95%) are on-line (the other 5% are probably grounded) using social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook."
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Monetary Policymaking As An Optimization Exercise
6 Pages Posted: 25 Sep 2019
Date Written: September 17, 2019
Monetary policymaking can be seen as an optimization exercise to be performed by central banks. In practice, central banks can be classified according to the monetary mandate assigned to them, mainly a single or a dual mandate. Among independent central banks, a majority are single-objective targeters, while the minority exercise a dual mandate. The main argument against adopting a double mandate is an apparent inconsistency between objectives and instruments and also about a potential risk for monetary independence. This paper illustrates how both mandates can be defined as an optimization problem. The dual mandate, far from being inconsistent or a threat to monetary independence, is more effective for improving social well-being since it represents the maximization of growth subject to the minimum of inflation.
Keywords: Monetary Policy, Dual Monetary Mandate, Inflation Target, Potential Growth, Monetary Policy Rate, Optimization Model
JEL Classification: C61, E52, E58, E61, O43
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