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Susan McLaughlin
[Publisher's note: This article was provided by Blackbaud, a maker of fundraising software. Blackbaud is a PJ business partner.]
We have all sat around a conference table when a well-meaning volunteer or board member suggests a new event to raise funds.
The suggestion is usually prefaced with "I went to…," or "The nonprofit down the street had success with…" followed by "and I think we should try it."
Before agreeing, you need to consider whether your organization needs or can afford another special event.
Special events have a place in every fundraising program. But nonprofits must evaluate the goals and objectives of each event to determine its value.
I took an informal survey of nonprofits recently and asked how the economy has affected fundraising performance.
The biggest impact was decreased revenue and participation at events. In a tough economy, budgets get tighter and expendable items are cut.
Businesses and individuals consider special events to be a luxury, not a necessity. Nonprofits should consider special events as a luxury and not a necessity as well.
No organization should rely on net proceeds from special events as a primary funding source. Without that pressure, you can truly analyze the value of special events.
'Friendraising' events
You may use the term "friendraiser" to describe events. Events provide the opportunity for nonprofits to raise awareness and engage new constituents as well as raise money.
Every special event is a friendraiser. However, this philosophy fails when there is no follow-up strategy to continue to engage those new friends after the event ends.
After the event, dollars are counted, thank you notes are sent, and staff begins to focus on the next task. The friends you just raised are forgotten until next year when it's time to start planning for the event again.
Part of every pre-event process must be to identify key participants on the attendance list and develop a strategy of engagement.
Your post-event process then must be to follow through with that strategy and begin to engage these new friends in a way that raises their interest and inclination to give to your organization.
Without a strategy of engagement, your event could become simply a line item in a personal or corporate budget.
Sure, you may meet your net revenue goal for the event, but you might be missing out on a much larger gift.
Can you afford another special event?
When you tally expenses, you include catering, linens, rentals, etc. But let's consider the true cost. How much staff time are you investing and is it worth it?
Event activities may start as early as a year in advance. To truly evaluate the success of your event, you must analyze the number of hours spent by staff and the total pay attributed to those hours.
You may find that the true cost of the event causes you to lose money. But, will you be able to make up that loss with a well-planned strategy of engagement that leads to a major gift?
In a tough economy, you must evaluate every event and determine whether that friendraiser will meet your fundraising goals.
Susan McLaughlin, CFRE, is principal consultant for Blackbaud.


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Diving entry point
At the entry area to the left, you will find a larger-sized wooden house, from which you must dive, diagonally, left hand for 10 minutes until you reach the first of three menhirs at a depth of 17 meters.
The second menhir lies slightly to the right, a bit further behind. In order to reach the third and largest menhir, you should follow the floor to a depth of 29 meters, where a huge rock quite suddenly appears out of the mud floor. It reaches up until a depth of 17 m, and with a complete (diving) lap around it, offers you a few surprises. On the way back, you can spend some time in the shallow water and observe fish among the sparse vegetation.
Since 2010 the first happy place under water in the Salzkammergut is here. The mystical formation of three menhirs offers some surprises for divers. The place of happiness sign is about 10 meters at the left hand side from the entry point for divers.
The description of the diving spot on the information board is only available in German. You can find the English description in the catalog of Attersee Diving (available at the tourist offices in all villages around lake Attersee or online
Please get in touch for more information.

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Short Story by Agnita Pandian
There lived an ordinary middle class guy called Chiyaan who from a Brahmin family. Born in 1982, Chiyaan was educated in Chennai city in B.Com Finance. He took over his father's job as a bank teller in Chennai's Kodambakkam area State Bank of India branch. He has a loving mother, a younger sister in 12th std. and younger brother who was in middle school. He played road cricket with his younger brother and took his sister to school on his bike. They were a loving family.
Chiyaan was content with who he was and considered himself a mediocre guy. Although ordinary in all forms, Chiyaan had one special gift that he didn't know about. He had very vivid dreams. In these dreams he saw strange things but felt very real. He was in every one of those dreams doing certain acts. He dismissed these as just silly or bad dreams. This continued for a while. One day he dreamt that a regular guy poojari comes to deposit 1 crore rupees. He forgets the dream in the morning and went about his day in the morning. To his astonishment, the same poojari man deposited 1 crore that day. This dream to real life parallelism repeated a few times and he realized that he had a special gift to see the people and their futures via dreams. He saw a lot of bad things happening and in a few instances acts on them and gets recognized as the hero by the society. He started to like this new found popularism.
He often dreams about a girl called Tamizh. It was not his dream-girl that he would have loved to meet or any such thing. Tamizh is an ordinary woman who is from the lower class. She's often dressed in just the same 3 cotton sarees and often working cleaning jobs in people's houses etc. She's drop dead rustic gorgeous and has a kind soul which makes her eternally beautiful in Chiyaan's mind. But she's in trouble. Chiyaan repeatedly dreams about Tamizh because he sees her in a miserable state in those dreams and he's trying to find the source of her sufferings. One day he attempts to talk to Tamizh in his dream but in vain as she obfuscates from him. Next day in his dream, Chiyaan follows her to her work place and somehow she escapes again. Same things happen on few occasions and he does not succeed in meeting her. He likes dreaming about her although it's a dead end dream.
After a long day of work at the bank Chiyaan goes out with his friends and when he's returning home late evening he feels like he's in road that looks familiar. He's realizes he's on the same road that he chased Tamizh once in his dream. He spots the same girl Tamizh from his dreams, only this is real. The difference is Tamizh is dressed in military outfit and has muscles as big as cage fighters. Nothing like what she looked like in his dreams. She's also killing people and doing bad things. Chiyaan is shocked and confused. Shocked because he was fond of the simple Tamizh from the dreams and confused because he thought his dreams showed accurate description of people, but now he saw a wrong interpretation of this girl, usually he's right.
Chiyaan tries hard to follow Tamizh and talk to her. But, somehow he misses the exact same way he missed her in the previous dreams. This happens a few times and he's not able to stop the bad things she's doing to people. Chiyaan thinks Tamizh's associated with this secret man character that's making her do things. Chiyaan sometimes gets confused when he's following her in dreams and when he's following her in real life because she appears in both.
To put a stop to this, Chiyaan tries to figure out why he is even chasing her to begin with. This takes him through a journey. Chiyaan finally meets Tamizh when he helps her out of trouble a couple of times from her enemies. Tamizh slowly starts to unfold her story to Chiyaan. She's a simple girl who changed herself to fight circumstances. He gets even more deeply absorbed into her. In the process he gets into dangerous things like robbing assets, killing people and doing bad things with Tamizh. Slowly he realizes that he's crossing boundaries between good and bad. He tries to stop Tamizh but she gets angry. She gets close to killing Chiyaan one day. Chiyaan is shocked and hurt. But, there's no way out. Chiyaan then decides to kill her. In the process the girl makes him realize that in reality he's actually the bad guy and he's been doing bad things all this while.
In reality Chiyaan is a negative character who tries to disrupt peace in the world. He's born orphan, and he develops hatred for the world. He just starts to destroy the world for fun. The banker guy is the dreamt fiction of the bad guy. All what bad Chiyaan wanted from life but never had was the banker guy's life. However, Chiyaan had some goodness in him and wanted to change. So, bad Chiyaan creates the girl himself to either change the bad guy's mind so Chiyaan becomes a good man or destroy him – One of the two outcomes. The girl hence is set on her mission.
In the end, the girl is killed by Chiyaan that drives him to insanity because he loved her dearly. Killing her kills his spirit but that just pushes him over the edge because he lost the only thing he loved. He's driven to more negativity.
Dedicated to Chiyaan Vikram!


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When it comes on the way to tooth replacement, dental implants are usually the best option. Most of our dental patients usually request dental implants to restore tooth functioning and also showcase a perfect set of teeth.
At Philip Farzad, DDS dental clinic we offer various types of dental implants. Our proficient dental specialists work together with you to select the best dental implants for you. Dental implants are available in various different types. You can opt for hard metallic dental implants or simple acrylic implants that are easy to fit. All in all, implant dentistry is a very convenient form of tooth reconstruction that beats other dental treatment methods.
Implant dentistry can either be done for dental treatment or cosmetic treatment. Dental implants restore the functionality of teeth making them stronger and more resilient to cavities and decay. One of the most ordinary dental issues that require dental implants is decayed teeth. If a tooth has a lot of decay making it dysfunctional, it can be extracted and a dental implant placed in place of it.
A dental implant can also be used to replace teeth lost due to dental conditions. For people with tooth loss, especially the aged population, dental implants can be used to replace a whole set of teeth. For such cases, we usually apply either All on 4 and all on six implants since they replace a whole set of teeth for a lower price.
Not everyone can get dental implants. In implant dentistry, we usually perform surgical operations on the gum and jawbone. This means the dental patient has to have a strong jawbone. If you have a weak or insufficient jawbone, we may have to perform a bone graft. However, some forms of dental implants do not need a bone graft since they rely on strong implants that are placed on equal intervals of the gum.
Visit us today for the best implant dentistry in the city. Poor oral hygiene may also hinder implant surgery. Since the implants rely on the gum for support, an infected gum may weaken the support causing the tooth to weaken and shake. Our dentist will first treat any dental issues before continuing the treatment. Children are not qualified for dental implants since the implant could interfere with growing teeth.
Dental implants take a long time to heal fully. During this period, you should avoid hard foods that may press hard against the tooth. If you experience any bleeding or excess pain, visit a dentist as soon as possible to get the condition treated.
Although dental implants are opposed to decay and cavities, it is important to maintain good oral hygiene in order to maintain healthy support for the teeth. Gum infection can cause dental implants to become loose and affect their functioning. Taking regular visits to the dentist can help treat potential dental issues and also help assess the condition of the implants.


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So I was watching a bunch of YouTube videos of people showing what they'd gotten for Christmas, and it kind of made me want to share what I'd gotten. Except I haven't made a video in a while and it felt a bit weird for the first video in a while to be a bunch of gifts I'd received. So I'm doing it in blog post form, in the hopes that it doesn't seem as self-centred when written down.
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Winter 2017 Makeup Haul
It's officially winter (apparently it wasn't before) and I have for you all a long-awaited, kind of late, (but worth it!) winter makeup haul.
This has a mix of free samples, drugstore products, and Sephora products.
Fall 2017 Book Haul
Look at this MASSIVE AMOUNT OF BOOKS that I bought, despite my bank account's complaining. Enjoy!
Fall Makeup Look 2017
It's been a while since I've done a makeup post, and the first (and last) one I ever did quickly became my most liked post. So here's another.
New Shows 2017
There've been a lot of shows so far in 2017 and I haven't seen them all, not to mention the ones that have yet to come out, but I've seen a few. If you're looking for a new show to watch, you're in luck because I'm going to tell you about a few of the shows I think are worth watching.
Spring 2017 Makeup Haul
Over the past couple of months, I bought a decent amount of makeup which I would love to share with you. I've never done a beauty blog post before, so we'll see how this goes.


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Secretariat - Some Risks Are Worth Taking
What if you knew a secret that few others knew or could even understand. What if there was something in your life that so captured your hopes, dreams and imagination that you risked everything to see the dream develop into exciting reality?
There is something mysterious and awe-inspiring about a magnificent stallion and from the first quote from the book of Job in the beginning of the movie, that awe builds into a crescendo of excitement for the horse with the big heart that shattered the records forever.
Secretariat the movie is a mostly accurate account of the incredible Triple Crown winning chestnut stallion and his owner Penny Chenery Tweedy, played elegantly by Diane Lane. The real life Penny was a housewife in Colorado raising four children when destiny called her back to a life she had only seemingly left behind.
Publicly Penny Chenery gave the impression she was a typical 60's housewife--"I was doing diapers and meals," she recalls. "I was a wife and mother doing what I was supposed to do. I was playing the acceptable role. I didn't have any personal ambitions. It didn't occur to me that I'd have a career."
For those who knew her, she was far more capable and ambitious than she professed. Like Secretariat she was a thoroughbred. Helen Bates "Penny" Chenery Tweedy was born in New Rochelle NY and raised in Virginia. Unlike her brother Hollis and her sister Margaret, Penny was "daddy's girl" and shared Christopher Chenery's deep love of horses. Since she was five, she spent her Saturdays and Sundays either on horseback or watching her father's polo matches and fox hunts.
In contrast, Penny's father Christopher grew up in poverty, saving shoe leather in the summer by going barefoot. He determined his family would not have to live that way and demonstrating a drive and business sense that would set him apart, became a successful public utilities executive. "We were probably one of the wealthiest families in this small town, and that sets you apart a little bit," Chenery related. "During the Depression, everybody still needs water and gas and light. So we didn't suffer. I was young, but I remember I was the only one in the class who got new dresses."
Christopher, in the mid 1930s, was able to purchase back The Meadow, which his cousin had lost in 1922. He built stables and a home and brought back a pride of ownership to the thousands of acres. Penny attended Madeira School in nearby Fairfax, Virginia and then Smith College. She volunteered some time as a Red Cross "donut dollie" in France and Germany during World War II and worked for a naval architectural firm that built the Normandy invasion's landing craft. After graduating from Smith College Penny entered Columbia School of Business where she met her husband Jack Tweedy, (Dylan Walsh) a Columbia law student. As Meadow Stable started producing competitive Thoroughbreds, Chenery was involved as a board member, but the Tweedy family moved to Boulder and by 1950 she was pregnant with their first of four children.
While his daughter was raising children, Christopher Chenery was building The Meadow into a breeding and racing phenomenon. Champion horses, from what became known as Meadow Stable, won
more than 200 races from 1951 to 1960 with purses totalling more than $2.5 million. But by the
late 1960s, Christopher Chenery's winning streak came to an end. An
Alzheimer-like senilty took a toll on his judgment. He sold four of his
most valuable broodmares for a mere $40,000 apiece. The Meadow began to
lose money and reputation and when in 1968 her father was admitted to
the hospital where he would spend the last few years of his life, Penny
was selected by the Meadow Stable board to replace him.
"I knew that, of (his three) children, I had been groomed to succeed Dad. So I just thought, 'Well, there's a lot to do here, but this is what I'm supposed to do.' I really didn't doubt myself."
Penny Chenery Tweedy was 45 when she determined to leave Denver and manage The Meadow. Her brother and sister wanted to sell the farm and the 130 breeding and racing stock their father owned. "If you run the farm," Hollis Chenery said, "you're going to be the only one having the fun. We ought to sell everything and make some investments that will involve all three of us." Penny laughs as she recalls: "It was time," she said, "to play the daddy card." If their father were still healthy they all knew what he would do. "The land has supported the horses, and the horses have supported the land."
Reluctantly, her brother and sister agreed to allow her to try it on a trial basis. Soon after arriving, Penny saw that the Chenery stable and farm was seriously losing money and if she didn't act quickly, it would not be able to sustain itself. Penny talked to her husband and their children and told them that she needed to stay for a while on the farm to get things back in order. With the help of her father's longtime assistant, Mrs. Elizabeth Ham (Margo Martindale), Penny assumed the responsibilities of getting the farm back on track.
To bring herself up to speed, Penny immersed herself in The Blood-Horse, Thoroughbred Record and Daily Racing Form, studying as if she were facing finals at Columbia. She also met with one of her father's closest friends, Bull Hancock (Fred Thompson), who owned Claiborne Farm and he quickly became a trusted advisor.
Penny began making some hard decisions as she began to learn the more subtle, but vital sides of the horse business. I think I was able to achieve things that helped women in their quest for acceptance as functioning individuals in the business world or in the sporting world, the industry is a very old-fashioned one, and they didn't like having a woman in charge. . . . I did, when I had to, go in and say, "This is what's going to happen."
Meadow Stable was one of the few farms who both bred and raced their offspring which meant that training was as important as breeding. Chenery didn't like how Casey Hayes, her father's long time trainer overworked the horses and thought he should have spoken up during the underselling of the four broodmares. Penny related: "The biggest thing that I did was to fire Casey and to hire Roger Laurin and then, when he left, to hire his father Lucien" in 1971.
Penny followed her father's breeding strategy and bred Iberia with First Landing, a match that created Riva Ridge. While the movie focuses on Secretariat, it was Riva Ridge's impressive wins that took early pressure off the finances of the farm. Her father had also formed a deal with Ogden Phipps, owner of Bold Ruler, at Claiborne. According to a "coin toss" arrangement, whoever won the toss picked one of the two offspring or unborn foal and the loser kept the other two in lieu of a stud fee.
Penny made a decision to breed her two mares Hasty Matelda and Somethingroyal to Bold Ruler. Something told her to breed Somethingroyal for the second time to Bold Ruler as part of the "coin toss" arrangement and this decision would make history. Phipps won and chose the filly of Somethingroyal and Penny was left with the unborn and unknown foal.
In the movie, both Penny and the seasoned trainer Lucian have an almost presicient instinct about the unborn foal. In a dramatic birth scene, Lucian (John Malkovich) is astounded by the speed at which Secretariat gets up and starts walking. It is almost as if the foal can't wait to start moving toward his appointment with destiny.
Christopher Chenery, 86, died the first week of January in 1973, before Secretariat embarked on his 3-year-old season. Just as the Chenery heirs were faced with paying a $6 million estate tax, Secretariat was syndicated for breeding purposes for $6.08 million.
"That saved the day," Penny Chenery said. "But if my father had died just two months sooner, it would have been even worse. There would have been nothing we could have done but sell Secretariat outright."
The movie for me was as much about Penny as it was about Secretariat. Both of them had impressive bloodlines. Secretariat's father, Bold Ruler demonstrated speed and impressive wins and Secretariat's mother, Somethingroyal was the product of a sire thought to be one of the fastest long distance runners in American racing history. Even Secretariat's size and chestnut color reminded everyone who knew racing of the legendary Man o' War.
Lucien Luarin kept his growing excitement about Secretariat's training from Penny, saying things like: "Your big Bold Ruler colt don't show me nothin. He can't outrun a fat man." When Secretariat finished fourth in his maiden race at New York's Aqueduct Racetrack, Laurin threw a chair across the box seat. "It surprised me because Lucien had not told me what he really thought," Penny said. "It was then I started to pay close attention, because Lucien knew how to lose — 'You win some; you lose some.' But the explosive reaction really surprised me. I said, 'Maybe I need to take another look at this horse.'"
Penny took a risk hiring the semi-retired trainer, but he had an intuition his son Roger did not have. She had fired one trainer who overworked the horses, but allowed Lucien to work Secretariat even harder because he said the big horse needed it. Circulatory tests and later measurements attest to the fact that Secretariat had one of the largest hearts in racing history.
The long backstretch of the Belmont Stakes is a champion killer, a test of a three-year-old heart, a career ender. The big red machine, mighty Secretariat, met the challenge head-on, while Sham, his major threat to supremacy that season, never raced again. ~ Barbara Anne Hellberg
When Secretariat was two, people said he could never be a fast horse because he was too fat. Experts said he might run a short race but he would have trouble winning a long distance one like the Kentucky Derby or the Belmont Stakes.
Racing fans will always talk about Secretariat's Kentucky Derby time. First, because his final time of 1:59 2/5 broke the track record for 1 1/4 miles in the world's most important horse race. And second, because The Big Red Horse ran faster every quarter mile of the race, just building power like a locomotive and finishing like a jet. ~ Secretariat.com
When is it acceptable to take a risk? The story of Secretariat and Penny Chenery is a powerful portrayal of extraordinary personal and lasting success through responsible risk taking. Some of the principles we can get from their experiences are the following:
1. Love something enough to warrant taking a risk.
Both Penny Chenery and her father Christopher loved horses and the idea of competition and thoroughbred racing. When her brother and sister wanted to sell the farm, Penny appealed to them using the love their father had for the farm and horses but it was her own personal desire to show what she and her stallion could do that kept her motivated and moving forward.
2. Draw from your experience.
When you love something or someone, chances are you will spend some time learning about it or them. Penny spent her free time riding and attending the horse competitions as well as being on the board of the Meadow Stables when she was older. Her experience gave her the insight to know when a trainer was off, what a business needed and which direction to take it.
3. Be prepared.
Both the Boy Scouts and Davy Crockett who said "Be sure you are right, then go ahead," knew the virtue of being prepared. Penny not only had experience, but she also learned business strategy and principles at Columbia. She devoured all the trade publications and enlisted the advice of trusted advisers. She prepared for the expected estate tax by setting up Secretariat's breeding syndication.
4. Have a goal worth the risk.
Penny not only had her own reputation at stake, she also faced the possibility of losing the farm her father had poured his life into. Few of us put ourselves in that position, but sometimes the prize is worth the sacrifice. In the movie, Secretariat looks the media in the eye and poses as if to say "I know what I can do and you better pay attention." Secretariat won the triple crown's final race by 31 lengths with a time no horse has ever beat. He was not just racing, he was making a statement. The jockey never used his whip in the final stretch. It was for this reason that he is only non-human to be included in the 100 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century.
torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is
sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. ~ André Gide
As we all know the story of Secertarit was a great story....Bur the penny Tweedy story was great as well. No one belived in her insight. She stuck to her dream and won.....Dreams do come true. I belive if there wasn't our a penny Tweedy the Seceriat story wouldn't comment be the same...
I haven't seen the movie yet but I want to. Very nice hub about Penny and Secretariat I love horse movies and this is a great story
Great hub....I got the movie for my wife for Valentine's Day and she loved it...I actually got to see Secretariat in person in the mid 80s....awesome looking horse even near the end of his life. Voted up
Excellent movie and a very well written hub about it. :) Nice job!
I finally got to watch the movie last night and I had to come back and re-read the hub! :)
I love your poems and your review. You are outstanding. Penny left for Denver at age 45 she started a great adventure - very inspirational.
I MUST see this movie.
What are your top ten movies?
A great story Winsome and you losesome, as they say. I'll keep an eye out for that movie as it sounds interesting. Cheers mate from Melbourne the home of the richest flat race in the world. The Melbourne cup.
I am sorry but I have to admit I never heard of it and therefore it was twice as interesting to read the story. Thank you,
This is a movie I'm certainly going to watch out for! There's something about movies about horses that captures the imagination...National Velvet...Seabiscuit...oh, and Black Beauty! :)
What a wonderful winning hub, Winsome, about a wonderful, winning horse. Secretariat was very special and very exciting to watch. And you made this hub very special and exciting to read. Thank you.
I particularly remember watching Secretariat run in the 3 races as a winner. This is a very interesting hub and you made some excellent points. I'm glad you told these stories.


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Wondering how to press pants?
When people think of ironing clothes, they usually think of dress shirts covered in wrinkles, but ironing is also essential to keeping your pants looking good. You'll find that ironing pants is broadly similar to ironing any other article of clothing: use broad, sweeping motions and don't press down too hard. However, there are a few peculiarities that you need to be aware of in order to know how to iron pants.
This article is going to cover three of the essential tips to ironing pants, ranging from how to properly crease a pair of dress pants, to the technique you should use for your pockets. While most of these tips are applicable for dress pants, you can use them to improve your ironing technique with all types of trousers.
Best way to Iron Pants
The most popular use for a clothing iron with pants is creasing dress pants, which is essential to maintain their look. But how to iron dress pants? When you crease pants, you'll want to lay them down flat on the ironing board and line up the inseams of each of the pant legs on top of each other.
Once you've lined up the seams for one of the pant legs, press the iron down and run it along the outer edges of the pants (which will be the front and back when you wear them). Repeat this for the other pant leg until you have creases. Once you've creased the pants, press each leg down the middle once to eliminate any remaining wrinkles.
How to iron pants pockets
A lot of people neglect to iron their pocket linings, and you may be wondering why you should iron a part of your pants that nobody can see. When your pants are tight, wrinkles in the pockets will be visible through the fabric. If the wrinkles are bad enough, they may even make the pockets bunch up.
All you have to do is lay out your pants on the ironing board and turn the pocket linings inside out, poking out of the waist. When you have them positioned, simply run your iron over the pocket linings until all of the wrinkles have been worked out of them and then place them back inside the pants.
How to Iron Around Zippers
When ironing pants, you'll want to be more careful than when you work with other kinds of clothes thanks to the prevalence of zippers and buttons on them. Beyond making it harder to iron your pants, these bits can also end up damaging the soleplate of your iron.
While ironing the waistband, ensure that your iron doesn't come into direct contact with the button, especially if it's made out of plastic instead of metal. While working around the waistband, you'll want to press along the surface, but you'll have to watch out for the pleats.
Ironing pants isn't difficult, but there are a few extra things that you have to consider when doing so. We hope that this short guide has proven helpful in providing you with the proper ironing technique and guideline on how to iron pants and trousers of all types. We sincerely hope that these ironing tips for pants have been useful to you.


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Here's the April 2019 magCulture Podcast!
Recorded at the magCulture Shop — listen for the squeeky door! — Jeremy Leslie and Liv Siddall discuss how magazines parody the format, with a look at the recent ninth issue of Buffalo Zine and its ten parody cover designs. We look back at Joseph Ernst's wonderful Naked Woman Covered in Glitter, and Words and hear from Claire Milbraith about Editorial Magazine's new mascot (itself a form of parody).
Here's the surf mag (above) alongside Good Trouble Jeremy and Liv refer to as they discuss the line between parody and copying. And below, the launch cover of Zembla starring Tilda Swinton.
There's also a look at a bunch of recent arrivals including The South London Review of Hand Dryers, Failed States and Gusher, plus Vince Aletti's fabulous book of fashion magazine photography 'Issues'.
The Back Issue is literary magazine Zembla, the first time Dan Crowe and Matt Willey collaborated. They've since launched Port, and Matt's moved to The NYTimes Magazine. Dan looks back for us at Zembla and shares the lessons he drew from it.
The magCulture Podcast is recorded at the magCulture Shop. Click on the link below to listen via Soundcloud, subscribe via iTunes or use Spotify.
If you enjoy the magCulture Podcast please give it some love on iTunes, Soundcloud or wherever you're listening. And drop us an email with suggestions: email@example.com
Huge thanks to our friends at Park Communications for their support of the magCulture Podcast.
Production and editing by Lucy Dearlove.


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Things I do Online: Googlewhack
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There is something addicting about a Googlewhack. You start slowly but as you continue to whack it becomes harder and harder to stop. With each keystroke you are a little more engaged, a little closer to your goal, a little more addicted. As your engagement level grows, your awareness of the passage of time diminishes. You eventually look at the clock in shock realizing that you should have been in bed hours ago. Similar to another popular whacking activity, you realize that you are all alone in a dark room feeling embarrassed and a bit depressed. Welcome to the world of Googlewhack.
Googlewhacking is a term coined by Gary Stock in 2002. The goal of Googlewhacking is to type two words into Google and have it return one search result. The rules of the game are that both words must be real words and you cannot use quotations. This game is as difficult as it is pointless. It's extremely unproductive and highly addictive; perfect for anyone using the internet.
Here are a list of successful Googlewhacks. The catch 22 about a Googlewhack is that by posting you have a Googlewhack, you no longer have a Googlewhack. Can you create a Googlewhack? Here are my metrics so far.
Internet Metrics:
Time spent Googlewhacking: 2 hours
Successful Googlewhacks: 0
§ 5 Responses to Things I do Online: Googlewhack
Hi everyone, have been browsing for a while however decided to take the ultimate jump and finally enlist. Am looking forward to newsing at last.


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From crappy resumes to terrible interviews, these 11 issues keep popping up for the modern job seeker.
Too bad, because the job market remains tough. Not as bad as it was in 2009 when nearly one in every 10 Americans were unemployed. But even in today's job market, most jobs have dozens of qualified applicants.
Which means the most successful job seekers must avoid the most common job hunt mistakes…
Spelling and Grammar Issues
Let's just get this one out of the way right now. It's never been acceptable to have spelling or grammar issues on your resume. However, with today's technology, it's practically inexcusable. Here are a few tools to help you out:
- Grammarly | It catches more errors than your standard word processor and has a browser plug-in to help you with those online applications.
- Microsoft Word | Built in spell check for decades now. Use it.
- Google Docs | It's a free online word processor with built in spell check.
Employment Gaps
It's possible your resume has a few gaps on it. It could be the time you saved up and went to Europe for a summer, or the time you were laid off for six months. Don't just leave these gaps. Always have an explanation ready.
Try not to use the words "fired" or "vacation." Use "cut-backs" or "educational trip." Failure to explain gap years sufficiently can cut your chances of landing the job. Employers don't like question marks, so don't leave any.
Not Following Instructions
This is a great way to ruin your chance of getting a job as soon as you hit apply. The modern job seeker must follow all instructions to make life easy for the person sifting through applications. If you don't follow instructions, your resume may not be viewed at all.
- Did you attach the required portfolio samples?
- Are you applying using the right methods (online, in person, etc.)?
- Did you answer all mandatory questions?
Applying If Obviously Under or Overqualified
It just wastes time. With so many perfectly qualified candidates, don't waste your time trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Unless the job ad says they'll consider all skill levels, they almost certainly won't.
However, you do have a slim chance if you're slightly overqualified. In a tight job market, it may be your only option. Generally speaking, don't do it. It doesn't often work.
Not Personalizing Your Application
It's absolutely brutal when people use the same application information and cover letter for every job they apply for. It's very obvious when people use terms like "to whom it may concern" and "applying for a job at your company" What company?
Templates are fine for your cover letter, but make sure the first paragraph directly relates to the job you're applying for. Change all the "your company" references to the actual name of the company. These little details can go a long way for the modern job seeker.
Trashing Previous Employer
This does absolutely nothing for you. Nothing. There is no reason to trash a former employer. It may be easy to highlight how you were better than them, had better ideas, better ways of doing things, but it makes you look small and petty. Also, it's a small world. The business community isn't very large. You'd be surprised who the person interviewing you knows.
- Have a positive attitude at all times.
- Highlight what you'd change, while still speaking highly of the former employer.
- Don't talk about differences; talk about similarities.
Dressing Inappropriately
That 1980's metal band t-shirt is great for an interview as a roadie on a local band tour, but deadly for an interview with corporate America. They always say "dress for the job you want, not the one you have" so that you'll dress appropriately. You want to be seen as someone who would slot into the job nicely. If they can see you in the job, you'll get the job. Do your research, and know what to wear.
The Modern Job Seeker Needs A Cover Letter
If you've never written a cover letter before, now's the perfect time to start attaching one to your resume. Your resume is just your work history. Your cover letter is your sales pitch. It's a chance to talk about all the great things about you that your resume doesn't say.
- Be brief. Don't fill it up with a summary of your resume.
- Talk about successes and accomplishments.
- Make each cover letter unique to the business you're applying for.
- Be polite, and thank them for their time in advance.
Focusing On Past Jobs Instead of Past Accomplishments
Sure, your past job title is important. But what's more important than the fact that you were VP of Sales, is that you increased sales by 440% in your first two years on the job. Potential employers care more about what you've done, than what you were called. Try to focus on results, and your interview will be much more impressive.
Poor Recommendations
Just because someone knows your name, doesn't mean they'll make a good reference. Here are four of the most common poor references the modern job seeker must avoid:
- Family members | Of course they'll be positive. They don't carry much weight when it comes to helping you get a job.
- Anyone who fired you | This should go without saying, but people still use them. Even if the employer says they'll give you one as they're firing you, find someone else. They didn't like you enough to keep you around.
- Friends and roommates | Almost worthless. They've never worked with you. They might as well be complete strangers.
- Anyone you didn't inform first | If you're using them as a reference, let them know. It's not a great surprise. It can catch them off guard and who knows what they'll say.
Great references from people you've worked for, people in community organizations (Scouts, local church, Rotary club), and those that hold positions of power (police chief, mayor, etc.) help. Secure as many as possible.
Not Preparing for the Interview
Preparing for an interview doesn't involve much. A modern job seeker should visit the company website, check them out on social media, think of any questions you want answers to in advance, ask around about the company and expect the unexpected, etc.
Walking into an interview with nothing but confidence may work for some people, but most people need more. Bring an extra copy of your resume. Lots of managers are busy and don't have the one you sent handy. Show up a few minutes early and don't be afraid to ask questions. This shows you're interested in the job and want to make sure it's a good fit.
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Saturday September 7th is expected to be mostly cloudy, with the high to be near 28°C/82°F, and the low to be 24°C/75°F, according to the Weather Underground.
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Karl Rahner, SJ (1904-1984), was one of the most important theologians of the 20th century. Of note, his meditations on mysticism rejected any world view which would suggest a dichotomy or hierarchy between the 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' forms of mystical experience. For him, divine grace is seen as a fundamental element of human existence.
Rahner was born in March 1904. He was the fourth of seven children, the son of a local college professor and a devout Christian mother. In 1922 Karl followed his older brother Hugo and entered the Jesuit community. As a Jesuit novice Rahner was formed in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. This formation had a lasting influence on his spiritual and intellectual development.
"But I think that the spirituality of Ignatius himself, which one learned through the practice of prayer and religious formation, was more significant to me than all the learned philosophy and theology inside and outside of the Order."
In his studies Rahner also became thoroughly conversant with the thinking of the Fathers of the Church, especially on topics such as grace, the sacraments, spirituality, and mysticism. In 1934 Rahner was sent to the University of Freiburg to study philosophy. In Freiburg Rahner studied with Martin Heidegger whose philosophical approach raised serious questions as to how the western philosophical tradition should be understood. Influenced by Heidegger, Rahner wrote his dissertation (later published as Spirit in the World), which taught that the human search for meaning was rooted in the unlimited horizon of God's own being experienced within the world.
Rahner's Catholic advisor, Martin Honecker, found his thesis unacceptable and refused to approve it. Rahner moved to the Jesuit University in Innsbruck where he completed a dissertation in theology in 1937. A number of years later Rahner was asked by one of his students how disappointed was he when he received Honecker's rejection letter. Rahner replied, "I was not disappointed at all." Had the dissertation been accepted he would have had to interrupt his theology studies, return to Freiburg, and spend months preparing for and taking his comprehensive examinations to finish the doctorate. "I was relieved to be delivered from that work," he said with a smile.
Rahner taught at Innsbruck between 1937 and 1939—when the university was taken over by the Nazis. Rahner went to Vienna, Austria where he spent the war years teaching and as a pastor. After the war, Rahner returned to Innsbruck and later taught in Munich and Munster until his retirement in 1971. In his "retirement" years Rahner lectured, wrote, and did pastoral work in Innsbruck and Munich until his death in 1984.
In 1962 Rahner was appointed as a peritus (expert advisor) by Pope John XXIII for the Second Vatican Council. Cardinal Koenig in Vienna selected Rahner as his private adviser on the Council documents. During the Council, Rahner worked with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) to prepare an alternate text on the issue of the relationship between Scripture and Tradition that was accepted by the German bishops. (Later Rahner and Ratzinger would disagree on the direction of some of Rahner's writings.) Other topics discussed during Vatican II that showed Rahner's influence included the divine inspiration of the Bible, the relationship of the Church to the modern world, and the possibility of salvation outside the Church even for nonbelievers.
In an interview later in life, Rahner said he did not think people would find his life that interesting as it was basically concerned with studying and writing. Rahner's publications include: twenty-three volumes of Theological Investigations, acting as coeditor of Herder's ten-volume Lexicon fur Theologie und Kirche; the six-volume Sacramentum Mundi:An Encyclopedia of Theology; Encyclopedia of Theology: The Concise Sacramentum Mundi; and a 30-volume encyclopedia, Christian Faith in Modern Society. In all there are over 3,500 published works written or edited by Rahner.
Rahner's academic interests were rooted in his pastoral concerns. Academic theology was never an end in itself, but always a way to serve the life and mission of the Church. Rahner's pastoral concerns are also revealed in the many retreats he conducted and the many prayers he wrote, gathered in Prayers and Meditations: An Anthology of the Spiritual Writings by Karl Rahner.
Rahner's students found him a simple and holy priest whose concern for them was expressed in many kind actions on their behalf. He was a close personal advisor and spiritual director. The students also speak of Rahner's continuing concern for those in need. They would spend hours with him finding money, food, clothing, and shelter for the needy. His outreach included missionaries working with the poor in foreign lands. At the academic convocation celebrating his 80th birthday Rahner made a public appeal for money to provide a motorcycle for a priest in the African missions.
To the end of his life, Rahner was ever more convinced that the meaning of life was bound up in the experiences, history, and sacramental life that are God's world of grace. Throughout his spiritual writings and with greater vehemence in the latter part of his life, Rahner portrays God as inspiriting the world to shape human destiny and to liberate people to see God in all things, in order to know in that freedom that their search for meaning can only end in God.
Rahner produced volumes and volumes of commentary on God, redemption, the life of grace. Scattered throughout the tomes of long and often convoluted sentences are short and clear statements recognized as seminal insights which continue to be much quoted. One of those statements bears a relationship to what the Christian must be today. "The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at all" (Theol. Invent. XX, 149). By mysticism, Rahner explains, he does not mean some esoteric phenomenon but "a genuine experience of God emerging from the very heart of our existence." He goes on to comment that the source of spiritual conviction comes not from theology but from the personal experience of God. This statement, made late in Rahner's career, is similar to the comment reported of Thomas Aquinas at the end of his life about his volumes of theology being so much straw.
Rahner was active in his last years until illness and exhaustion took their toll. He died peacefully on March 30, 1984, in the University Medical Clinic of Innsbruck.
The basis for Rahner's theology is that all human beings have a latent ("unthematic") experience of God in any perception of meaning or "transcendental experience." It is only because of this proto-revelation that recognizing a distinctively special revelation (such as the Christian Gospel) is possible. His theology influenced the Second Vatican Council and was ground-breaking for the development of what is generally seen as the modern understanding of Catholicism.
Written near the end of his life, Rahner's Foundations of Christian Faith (Grundkurs des Glaubens) is the most developed and systematic of his works, most of which were published in the form of essays. Among the most important of his essays was The Trinity, in which he argues that "the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity, and the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity". That is to say, God communicates Himself to humanity ("economic" Trinity) as He really is in the divine Life ("immanent" Trinity).
Rahner maintained that the fulfillment of human existence consists in receiving God's self-communication, and that the human being is actually constituted by this divine self-communication. Because such experience is the "condition of possibility" for knowledge and freedom as such, Rahner borrows the language of Kant to describe this experience as "transcendental." This transcendental experiential factor reveals his closeness to Maréchal's Transcendental Thomism.
Such is the extent of Rahner's idea of the "natural knowledge of God"—what can be known by reason prior to the advent of "special" revelation. God is only approached asymptotically, in the mode of what Rahner calls "absolute mystery." While one may try to furnish proofs for God's existence, these explicit proofs ultimately refer to the inescapable orientation towards Mystery which constitute—by transcendental necessity—the very nature of the human being.
Rahner often prefers the term "mystery" to that of "God." He identifies the God of Absolute Being as Absolute Mystery. At best, philosophy approaches God only asymptotically, evoking the question whether attempts to know God are in vain. Can the line between the human asymptote and the Mystery asymptote connect? In Rahner's theology, the Absolute Mystery reveals himself in self-communication. Revelation, however, does not resolve the Mystery; it increases cognizance of God's incomprehensibility." Experiences of the mystery of themselves point people to the Absolute Mystery, "an always-ever-greater Mystery." Even in heaven, God will still be an incomprehensible mystery.
At the core and crux of Rahner's meditations on mysticism is a fundamental emphasis of a world view which militates quite radically against any which seek to erect a dichotomy or hierarchy between the 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary' forms of mystical experience. Rahner's notion that the particularly explicit mystical experience is on no higher level than the 'ordinary' experience of Christian being, will likely appear scandalous to the reader who doesn't grasp fully and completely this fundamental distinction in Rahner's world view.
Rahner examines evolution in his work, Homanisation (1958, rev. 1965). The title represents a term he coined, deriving it from "hominization", the theory of man's evolutionary origins. The book's Preface describes the limits of Catholic theology with respect to evolution, further on giving a summary of official church teaching on the theory. The author then continues in the next sections to propound "fundamental theology" in order to elucidate the background or foundation of church teaching. In the third section Rahner raises some philosophical and theological questions relating to the concept of becoming, the concept of cause, the distinction between spirit and matter, the unity of spirit and matter, the concept of operation, and the creation of the spiritual soul. In his writing, Rahner does not simply deal with the origin of man, but with his existence and his future, issues that can be of some concern to the evolutionary theory. Central for Rahner is the theological doctrine of grace, which for Rahner is a constituent element of man's existence, so that grace is a permanent modification of human nature in a supernatural "existential", to use a Heidegger term. Accordingly, Rahner doubts the real possibility of a state of pure nature (natura pura), which is human existence without being involved with grace. In treating the present existence of man and his future as human, Rahner affirms that "the fulfillment of human existence occurs in receiving God's gift of Himself, not only in the beatific vision at the end of time, but present now as seed in grace."
Rahner has been open to the prospect of extraterrestrial intelligence, the idea that cosmic evolution has yielded sentient life forms in other galaxies. Logically, this raises for Rahner some important questions of philosophical, ethical and theological significance: he argues against any theological prohibition of the notion of extraterrestrial life, while separating the existential significance of such life forms from that of angels. Moreover, Rahner advances the possibility of multiple Incarnations, but does not delve into it: given the strong Christological orientation of his theology, it does not appear likely he would have propended for repetitions of the Incarnation of Christ.
For Rahner at the heart of Christian doctrine is the co-reality of Incarnation-grace. Incarnation and grace appear as technical terms to describe the central message of the Gospel: God has communicated Himself. The self-communication of God is crucial in Rahner's view: grace is not something other than God, not some celestial 'substance,' but God Himself. The event of Jesus Christ is, according to Rahner, the center-point of the self-communication of God. God, insists Rahner, does not only communicate Himself from without; rather, grace is the constitutive element both of the objective reality of revelation (the incarnate Word) and the subjective principle of our hearing (the Holy Spirit). Thus grace lies at both sides—without and within.
Rahner's particular interpretation of the mode in which grace makes itself present is that grace is a permanent modification of human nature in a supernatural existential (a phrase borrowed from Heidegger). Grace is perceived in light of Christianity as a constitutive element of human existence. For this reason, Rahner denies the possibility of a state of pure nature (natura pura, human existence without being-involved with grace), which according to him is a counterfactual.
Anonymous Christianity is the theological concept that declares that people who have never heard the Christian Gospel might be saved through Christ. Inspiration for this idea sometimes comes from the Second Vatican Council's Lumen gentium, which teaches that those "who no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or His Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and moved by grace, try in their actions to do His will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation".
Rahner's development of the idea preceded the Council, and became more insistent after it received its dogmatic formulation. Non-Christians could have "in [their] basic orientation and fundamental decision", Rahner wrote, "accepted the salvific grace of God, through Christ, although [they] may never have heard of the Christian revelation." His writings on the subject were somewhat related to his views about the mode of grace.
If one then examines Rahner's transcendental Christology, it may be seen that it "presupposes an understanding of the relationship of mutual conditioning and mediation in human existence between what is transcendentally necessary and what is concretely and contingently historical". It is a sort of relationship between the two elements in such a way that "the transcendental element is always an intrinsic condition of the historical element in the historical self" while "in spite of its being freely posited, the historical element co-determines existence in an absolute sense". Transcendental Christology is "the experiences which man always and inescapably has". Human beings were created to freely transcend themselves and the objects in the world, towards the incomprehensible Mystery called God; the limitations of human situation make a human being hope that the full meaning of humanity and the unity of everything in the world will be fulfilled by God's self-giving. Furthermore, God's self-communication and human hope for it should be "mediated historically" because of "the unity of transcendentality and historicity in human existence": human hope looks in history for its salvation from God that "becomes final and irreversible, and is the end in an 'eschatological' sense".
At this point Rahner proposes two possibilities of human salvation, i.e. either as "fulfillment in an absolute sense" which means the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth, or as "a historical event within history". The event of human salvation by God's self-giving love should be the event of a human person, because God's salvific love can only be effective in history when a person freely accepts his love, surrenders everything to God in death and in death is accepted by God. Rahner significantly affirms that the character of the saviour is exemplary and absolute: given the unity of the world and of history from the view point of both God and the world, such an "individual" destiny has "exemplary" significance for the world as a whole. Such a man with this destiny is what is meant by an "absolute saviour".
According to Rahner, human beings are created to be oriented towards the incomprehensible Mystery called God. However, this human orientation towards the Mystery can be fully grasped only if we as humans freely choose to be grasped by the incomprehensible One: if God assumes human nature as God's own reality with God's irrevocable offer of God's self-communication, and a person freely accepts it, the person is united with God, reaching the very point towards which humanity is always moving by virtue of its essence, a God-Man which is fully fulfilled in the person of Jesus of Nazareth claimed by Christian faith. In this sense, Rahner sees the incarnation of God as "the unique and highest instance of the actualization of the essence of human reality".
An appreciation of Karl Rahner's "everyday mysticism" can be found here:
A PDF on Karl Rahner's Mystical Theology by Rahner expert Harvey D. Egan can be read here:
Quotes by Karl Rahner:
"So You haven't really sent me away from You, after all. When You assigned me the task of going out among men, You were only repeating to me Your one and only commandment: to find my way home to You in love. All care of souls is ultimately possible only in union with You, only in the love that binds me to You and thus makes me Your companion in finding a path to the hearts of men."
"Thanks to Your mercy, O Infinite God, I know something about You not only through concepts and words, but through experience. I have actually known You through living contact; I have met You in joy and suffering. For You are the first and last experience of my life. Yes, really You Yourself, not just a concept of You, not just the name which we ourselves have given to You! You have descended upon me in water and the Spirit, in my baptism. And then there was no question of my convincing or excogitating anything about You. Then my reason with its extravagant cleverness was still silent. Then, without asking me, You made Yourself my poor heart's destiny."
"Transcendence grasped in its unlimited breadth is the a priori condition of objective and reflective knowledge and evaluation . . . It is also the precondition for the freedom which is historically expressed and objectified."
"Man's knowledge and liberty always reach out beyond the individual object of inner and outward experience . . . this anticipation is the condition that makes objective knowledge and the free act possible."
"When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying."
"In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all."
"The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable."
"Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself."
"For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)…always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have."
"Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright."
"In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes."
"Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!"
"The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me."
"The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable."
"If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries."
"In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished."
"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."
"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
"Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here."


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Earlier in the Day:
It was a busy day on the Asian economic calendar this morning. Key stats included building consent and business confidence figures out of New Zealand and trade data out of China.
For the Kiwi Dollar
The NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Survey (QSBO) showed that a net 21% of businesses expect a deterioration in general economic conditions over the coming year. In the 3rd quarter, a net 40% of businesses had expected a deterioration.
- In the 4th quarter, a net 20% of manufacturers expect worsening economic conditions, improving from 52% in the 3rd
- Across the services sector, a net 26% of firms expected deterioration in economic conditions. The services sector was the most pessimistic of the sectors in the quarter.
- Weak profitability left firms cautious over expansion plans, and investments in buildings in particular. A net 10% of firms were looking to reduce investments in buildings in the coming year. By contrast, firms were more positive when it came to hiring in the next quarter.
The Kiwi Dollar moved from $0.66339 to $0.66306 upon release of the figures.
Building consents slid by 8.5% in November, following on from a 1.3% decline in October. Economists had forecast a 2.1% rise.
The Kiwi Dollar moved from $0.66303 to $0.66304 upon release of the figures. At the time of writing, the Kiwi Dollar was down by 0.06% to $0.6627.
Out of China
China's trade surplus widened from $37.93bn to $46.79bn in December. Economists had forecast a widening to $48bn.
- Exports rose by 7.6% in December, year-on-year, reversing a 1.3% decline in November. Economists had forecast a 3.2% increase.
- Imports jumped by 16.3% in December, year-on-year, following on from a 0.5% increase in November. Economists had forecast a 9.6% rise.
The Aussie Dollar moved from $0.68933 to $0.68983 upon release of the figures. At the time of writing, the Aussie Dollar was down by 0.09% to $0.6898.
At the time of writing, the Japanese Yen was down by 0.12% to ¥110.08 against the greenback.
The Day Ahead:
For the EUR
It's another quiet day ahead on the economic calendar, with no material stats due out of the Eurozone to provide the EUR with direction.
The lack of stats will continue to leave the EUR in hands of geopolitics.
It's all about the phase 1 trade agreement for now.
At the time of writing, the EUR was up by 0.04% to $1.1138.
For the Pound
It's also a quiet day ahead on the economic calendar. There are no material stats to provide the Pound with direction.
The lack of stats will leave Brexit chatter to influence on the day Britain's departure date rapidly approaches.
On the monetary policy front, dovish chatter from BoE MPC members and yesterday's disappointing stats will test the Pound.
At the time of writing, the Pound was up by 0.04% to $1.2994.
Across the Pond
It's a relatively busy day on the data front, with December inflation figures due out of the U.S later today.
Barring an unexpected pickup in inflationary pressures the numbers are unlikely to have a lasting impact on the Dollar.
The focus in the early part of the week will remain on geopolitics as the U.S and China ready to sign the phase 1 trade agreement on Wednesday.
Expect any negative chatter to rattle the markets…
The Dollar Spot Index was up by 0.03% to 97.379 at the time of writing.
For the Loonie
It's a quiet day on the economic calendar. There are no material stats scheduled for release to provide the Loonie with direction.
The lack of stats will leave the Loonie in the hands of market risk sentiment and influence on crude oil prices.
Trade data out of China in the early part of the day and the signing of the U.S – China phase 1 agreement tomorrow are positives.
The Loonie was up by 0.02% to C$1.3055 against the U.S Dollar, at the time of writing.
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Here at Service Pros, we understand a bed bug issue is stressful. Vacuuming is a powerful DIY bed bug treatment. If you need assistance with either wasp control or bee control, call us to do the job. Commercial wasp and hornet aerosols are available to people for healing wasp nests.
Bed bug bites usually cause itchy welts. A specialist insecticide that controls lots of insects indoors and outside in commercial and residential locations of South Jordan. On the grounds of pest control type, the pests segment is projected to be the largest contributor to the pest control market during the forecast period. Eggs are placed in cracks, crevices and other isolated and shielded shelters. There are many distinct varieties of ants and ant pest control methods.
There's not any scientific evidence to support the achievement of drier sheets repelling bed bugs. Cover things which will be taken out of the area in plastic bags before moving into the next room to protect against any hidden bed bug out of infesting a different room. So we're providing information on how to control a bed bug infestation by yourself.
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But, insecticides are the primary way of controlling termites and throughout the Southeast. Many bed bug wracking specialists recommend removing personal and household items in the infested structure. In my experience, the bite marks left from bed bugs are considerably more itchy that mosquito bites and remain for a longer time period.
Do not use any insecticide sprays as you're using baits, and check and refresh bait stations regularly. Hornets colony are considerably bigger, nests (gray and papery-like) often constructed high up on tree branches, plus they do not like sweet consumption. If you are unsure about if you're taking a look at bees or wasps, contact a professional pest controller and they'll be able to assist.
The termites seem to be gone in South Jordan 84095, but may in reality be going into the construction in different areas. Wasps also hibernate during the winter and don't produce honey. It is possible to stick to the initial aerosol spray treatment with an insecticide dust. Dusts are fantastic for difficult to reach areas such as the corners of mattresses and also in which mattresses and box springs match.
Because of this, it's much more economical and easier to conduct do it yourself termite prevention, and take all necessary precautions during house building, follow a simple set of principles and inspect wooden structures frequently. It can be immediately used and works very well in wall voids and identify treatments on demanding subterranean infestations. To locate a nest, carefully watch the flight route of the coming wasps, this becomes easier later in the summer as the quantities of wasps increase. Most ants come in your home or business looking for food. Bed bugs don't need to feed each night and can go a couple of days between feedings.
We have pest control methods which specifically target ants. Mice invade your home seeking food, water and warmth. According to a Swedish research, bird bugs are capable of living up to 9 weeks without re-feeding, so eliminating them once an infestation has started could be upsetting.
Additionally, bed bugs may build up a resistance to certain pyrethroids, which makes them hard to treat. Ants will travel in a wide range searching for food, after paths they have created and clustering around the source of food, becoming a nuisance in houses, organizations and companies in South Jordan UT 84095.
You may typically find carpenter ant nests in moist wood in decks, foundations, woodpiles close to your property, trees, openings between boards, etc.. Wasps won't use the identical nest the next year, even though they make a satellite nest very close to the previous nest for the following year.
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KOBE – An apology was issued Tuesday by the president of the firm running a Kyoto Prefecture chicken farm where bird flu broke out and thousands of fowl died over a week's time before authorities learned of the outbreak from an anonymous tip.
Hideaki Asada, 41, president of Asada Nosan, the operator of the Funai farm in Tanba, Kyoto Prefecture, told reporters at the firm's headquarters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, that he was sorry for the problems the delay caused.
At the same time, however, he claimed that the farm's plans to sell off all of its chickens to a processor was not related to the bird flu outbreak.
On Monday, a senior official at Arinobe, the Hyogo-based processor, revealed that Asada had told him around Feb. 23 that he wanted to unload the Tanba farm's birds. Chickens had begun dying at the farm en masse Feb. 20, but it was not until Feb. 27 that authorities, acting on an anonymous telephone tip, went to the farm and tested the birds for avian flu, turning up positive results.
During Tuesday's news conference, Asada admitted he asked Arinobe to buy the chickens, but he added his firm had been planning to scale back egg production since last summer due to falling prices and the plan was not a result of the bird flu outbreak.
He claimed he told Arinobe officials Feb. 26 that birds were dying by the thousands, and also offered to suspend the sale. However, Arinobe did not oppose the shipment, saying it had already reserved orders for the birds and that stopping the shipment would cause problems, according to Asada. The Japan Poultry Association said Tuesday it plans to fire Asada as its vice chairman and board member because the outbreak at the farm caused inconvenience for consumers and other producers.


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Volume 28, Issue 4
Fall 1963
Criminal Law in Missouri--The Need for Revision
Edward H. Hunvald Jr.
Municipal Law in Missouri
T. E. Lauer
Probate Law and Practice
Almon H. Maus
Property Law in Missouri
Willard L. Eckhardt
Torts in Missouri
Glenn A. McCleary
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1. Intro
GOlegal provides agile and pragmatic solutions for assessing organizations' maturity in terms of compliance to a variety of problematics including Private Corruption regulations.
2. Objective
In order to assess your organization's maturity, we have analyzed underlying regulations, identified most relevant directives applicable and "translated" those in common business terms and concepts in order to structure and clarify your compliance journey.
Outputs of such assignments aim therefore at facilitating your decision-making process in terms of concrete actions to undertake to further enhance your compliance maturity.
3. Methodology, risks, assets & actions
We've identified the risks that are applicable to the problematic under evaluation. For each one of these risks, we've listed some assets having – when correctly implemented – a positive impact on underlying risks. By "asset" is meant an organizational or technical measure available to mitigate a risk. Assets are regrouped under 4 main categories:
- Roles & responsibilities
- Processes
- Documentation
- Information tools & systems
In order to assess the "implementation quality" of your assets, we further check if some critical actions have already been implemented or are yet to be taken.
4. Process
Our analysis follows a three-step approach.
- First, we analyze the overall theoretical risk sensitivity of your organization based on some key structural dimensions such as sector of activity or size.
- We then proceed to evaluate your global perception (i.e. how key stakeholders within your organization perceive the risks) by determining awareness & readiness levels across your business lines.
- Finally, we dive into more details to estimate your current state of progression; i.e. what has already been achieved and what are the possible complementary actions available to positively impact your maturity level.


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Kansas City Public Schools recently launched its "Breakfast in the Classroom" program at six schools: Harold Holliday Sr. Montessori School, James Elementary School, Longfellow Elementary School, Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, Trailwoods Elementary School, and Troost Elementary School.
Kansas City Public Schools received $477,742 in grant funding for 25 schools serving 12,500 students to introduce the breakfast service. The expansion is jointly funded by General Mills Foundation and the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC), a consortium of national education and nutrition organizations including the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), the NEA Foundation, and the School Nutrition Foundation, which is funded by the Walmart Foundation.
The program is designed to serve nutritionally balanced breakfasts that meet the current USDA nutrition standards for the School Breakfast Program (SBP). The BIC program is an in-class model that encourages all students to participate in breakfast. The School Breakfast Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and non-profit private schools and residential child care institutions since 1975.
States across the country are requiring schools to make the transition toward non-traditional breakfast service like Breakfast in the Classroom. In fact, 12 states have already enacted legislation that require low-income schools with low breakfast participation to implement non-traditional breakfast service.
According to the Food Research & Action Center's recently released School Breakfast Scorecard, more than 226,000 low-income children in Missouri participated in the national School Breakfast Program on an average school day in 2017-2018. Operation Food Search notes that 17.4 percent of children in Missouri – nearly one in six children – live in households that struggle with hunger.
On a national basis, 57% of low-income students who participate in the school lunch program also participated in school breakfast. In Missouri, 60.9% of low-income students who receive school lunch also receive school breakfast. 93.6% of Missouri schools that offer lunch also offer breakfast.


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The Autumn Girl shows TIFF potential
A young girl runs among pale grass as long and flowing as her hair during a project that breathes life into the fears and curiosity that feed the story she's there to tell.
"That girl explores the stuff that I think about a lot; life after death," says North Bay filmmaker Eric Boissonneault who purges his own personal demons, thoughts and feelings through her.
She's the unlikely star of what he calls an existential ghost story exploring the loss of innocence and unexpected danger in his latest project The Autumn Girl that has potential to be picked up at the Toronto International Film Festival and has turned heads at two major arts organizations.
The project, through his company Rain Dog Media, needed years to reach its final edit, shot in the fall of 2011 in Bonfield, Astorville and Rutherglen and raising the bar for local production.
Boissonneault earned the unique credential as the only Northern filmmaker to compete with scores of southern Ontario artists for a combined $15,000 in funding from the Ontario Arts Council and National Film Board.
It was a priority for Boissonneault to shoot The Autumn Girl with a proper budget to hire local professionals and provide the right equipment and services for the cast and 20-member crew mainly from Northern Ontario during the rainy two-day shoot.
It's work experience for local talent, and there's an excitement among members of a Northern crew that's sometimes lacking in Toronto-based filmmakers.
That's not the case for producer Eric Gamache, originally from North Bay, who joined the project that allowed Boissonneault to immerse himself fully as director, screenwriter and editor.
The story began long before the cast and crew converged in rural Northern Ontario.
Boissonneault met his young actress, Kiva Carlson, years earlier during the filming of Oliver Sherman, a psychological thriller about a troubled war vet who seeks out the soldier who saved his life.
Boissonneault always had Carlson in mind as his autumn girl, a nameless character with no dialogue who relies entirely on body language and expression to tell her tale.
"I thought it was very well made," Carlson says.
It's different than any other role the 10-year-old has played during her tender years as an actress, and she admits being nervous at first until Boissonneault and his crew turned it into a fun shoot for her despite the dark message.
Carlson also earned a role as a young girl whose pregnant mother takes desperate measures to induce labour during an episode of the Carte Blanche production Hard Rock Medical filmed last year in Sudbury for TV Ontario.
The Autumn Girl was her first leading role and a breakthrough to become more comfortable on camera and on set, says her father, Tyson Carlson.
"Eric has been brilliant. He's helped us the whole way. He's a North Bay gem, a talented young guy," Carlson says.
Carlson is also a screenwriter who plans to work with Boissonneault and Gamache in the fall for Stillborn, a short film about dealing with the loss of a child during the Depression.
Carlson says The Autumn Girl is a watermark for pulling off a professional production within a limited budget — a skill which could hel attract producers who are looking for that kind of fiscal responsibility.
That doesn't take into consideration the work it takes get these films to production in the first place.
"If you're doing this, you're doing it out of love," Carlson says.
"You're working in the trenches before anything beautiful comes out of it."


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Healthy Choc Chip Cookie Dough Balls
Have you ever sat at home and you feel like you absolutely NEED to have a snack else you might die in the next 5 minutes?
Well, that might be a tad over exaggerated but if you're a girl, you know what I'm saying!
To avoid going straight for a bag of sweets or something unhealthy, I like to keep homemade balls in my fridge for when the cravings hit.
Since I've gone completely gluten free, I've been craving them choc chip cookies badly! So of course these choc chip cookie dough balls were the first things I wanted to make.
So whip up a batch of these to keep in the fridge for up to a week (if they last that long!). Trust, you won't even know they are healthy they taste so good.
Healthy Choc Chip Cookie Dough Balls
Makes: 8 large balls
For the cookie dough balls:
- 150g chickpeas (in water, not brine)
- 2 teaspoons maca powder
- Dash of pink Himalayan salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 3 medjool dates
- 3 tablespoons coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup oat flour
- 1/4 cup desiccated coconut
- 50g dark chocolate
For the choc nut butter drizzle:
- 1 teaspoon almond butter
- 2 tablespoons coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon cocoa powder
- Cocoa nibs (optional)
- In a food processor, throw in the chickpeas, maca powder, salt, vanilla essence, dates and coconut milk and blend until it's a smooth consistency.
- Scrape into a bowl and measure in the coconut sugar, oat flour and desiccated coconut. Mix until well combined.
- Either grate the chocolate or cut it into tiny chunks then add it to the bowl. Use a spoon to mix it in until combined. Do not mix too much or the chocolate may incorporate into the dough.
- Use about 1 tablespoon of dough and roll into balls (do it quickly so the chocolate doesn't melt in your hands) and put them on a plate. The mixture will be a little sticky but this gives it the cookie dough texture.
- Once all the balls are made, it's time to make the choc nut drizzle.
- In a small bowl, mix the almond butter, coconut milk and cocoa powder together. It should be runny.
- Drizzle it over the balls until its all been used up.
- Sprinkle some cocoa nibs on top and you're done!
- Eat responsibly 😉


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OXM UK writes: "It's with Robert Rodriguez-esque cunning that Dark Sector seamlessly switches direction at every tantalising corner. One second, it's a Splinter Cell-style infiltration mission, the next it's a military shooter involving the X-Men. Then, suddenly, you're ankle-deep in dank sewers, fending off a tirade of sprinter zombies, before - BANG - everything blows up in your face and you're rucking with hordes of fire-spurting, club-waving, going-invisible super mutants in massive free-for-all skirmishes. Explosive gaming plot twists, for sure.
If there's one thing you can't knock, it's Dark Sector's endeavour. Developed by the co-creators of the Unreal franchise, this third-person action blast attempts to bypass accusations of generic gunplay by way of reluctant super powers. It begins with your Special-Ops agent on a quest to waste a mad scientist in an East European hideaway, when a virus infection grants him inhuman powers. We're talking metal arms complemented by a lethal three-bladed boomerang (known as a glaive, but which resembles a mammoth Shinobi shuriken star), before later leading on to further nifty add-ons such as force fields and temporary invisibility."


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Girls and young women in Australia are overwhelmingly eager to lead change on the biggest social issues facing their time and look up to fierce, determined and unapologetic female leaders for inspiration.
That's according to findings in the She Has a Plan: the unique power of girls to lead change report, which has been released for International Day of the Girl 2019 (October 11), by Plan International Australia, the leading international charity for girls' equality.
It found 91% of girls and young women expressed a strong desire to become leaders to tackle the biggest challenges of our time. They cited their mothers as their main source of support in their own lives and fierce female leaders as their inspirations. The survey of 1461 young women and girls aged 12 to 25 found:
- More than half (53%) nominated climate change as their number one concern facing society, followed by violence against women (18%), gender inequality (9%) and poverty (7%).
- Half (53%) said climate change and one in six (16%) said gender inequality was the biggest issue facing their own personal future. One in five agreed that girls were best placed to lead action on climate change.
- 91% of Australian girls and young women said they had a great desire to be a leader to make positive changes for the future, however they were less confident in their abilities to achieve that leadership.
- Girls cited sexism as the number one thing holding girls around the world back, followed by lack of education and lack of confidence.
- Their biggest wish for girls around the world was for them to be equal (one in three agreed), followed by ending misogyny and harassment (one in five) and granting free education for all girls (one in six).
- They named their mothers as the best person to build their confidence to lead, followed by their friends, teachers, fathers and then siblings.
- When it came to inspirational women, Australian girls and women named Jacinda Ardern, Malala Yousazfai, Emma Watson and Greta Thunberg as their top role models (see full list of top 20 below).
Plan International Australia's CEO Susanne Legena said Plan International Australia today joins millions around the world to celebrate International Day of the Girl.
"It may be Day of the Girl today but in reality, 2019, has actually been the year of the girl," Ms Legena said. "We've seen extraordinary girls and young women everywhere rising up and taking charge of their futures. For every Greta and every Malala, there are hundreds of fearless girl activists in the developing world doing extraordinary work every day to combat child marriage, child trafficking, teen pregnancy and violence.
"In this survey Australian girls have told us loud and clear that they see climate change as the most urgent threat to society and to their own futures. And we know that globally, girls in the developing world will bear the brunt of climate change. We must continue to fund and advocate for free, accessible and appropriate education for girls everywhere as a hugely important way to mitigate the impact of climate.
"Despite the uncertainty ahead, 2019 is an exciting time to be a girl. Girls everywhere are rising up and taking charge. They are wise beyond their years and they understand that action is the antidote for despair.
"It's not just up to girls, however. They need support from all of us to succeed. We must stand in solidarity with these incredible young people who are refusing to be consumed by despair and are sending a powerful message to our political leaders that apathy and inaction will not be tolerated."
To celebrate International Day of the Girl, Plan International Australia is today launching its Give Equal campaign (via giveequal.org) - a fundraising campaign to support girls in the developing world to overcome the barriers that prevent them from becoming leaders in their own right.
"This report clearly shows that girls want to lead. Unfortunately not every girl gets that chance. That's why it's so important people get on board with our Give Equal campaign, which will directly fund programs that lift girls out of poverty so they can realise their potential and pursue their dreams," Ms Legena added.
When it came to role models in the She Has a Plan report, the top 20 most influential girls and women (ranked in order of most popular answer):
Top 10 role-models for girls – prompted*
Top 10 role-models for girls - unprompted*
Malala Yousafzai
Jacinda Ardern
Emma Watson
Michelle Obama
Greta Thunberg
Jameela Jamill
Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez
Jan Fran
Serena Williams
Rosie Batty
Ash Barty
Julia Gillard
Julie Bishop
Lilly Singh
Emma Gonzalez/Yassmin Abdel Magied (equal place)
Meghan Markle
Samantha Kerr
Clementine Ford
*from a list developed by a focus group of girls and young women
* free text – 'please add anyone not listed'
Plan International Australia's CEO Susanne Legena said: "It is clear that Australian girls are not impressed with traditional masculine models of leadership. They look to people like Jacinda Ardern and Malala, whose strength is drawn from empathy and kindness. They admire women and girls who are fearless and powerful, but who do not covet that power for itself. Rather, it is power for change and power for others. This is female leadership."
Lead researcher on the She Has a Plan report, Dr Rebecca Huntley, said girl activists are changing the course of history. "We've seen the impact a young woman activist like Greta Thunberg can have not only on a whole generation of young men and women around the world but adults too," Dr Huntley said.
"It's young women in particular who are leading the climate strikes around the world. It's a dramatic example of one of the research findings: that girls have strong views about social change, want to be involved in making the world a better place but worry their voices aren't going to be heard.
"The research reiterates the important role of family and friends in a girl's life, to make her feel confident and achieving their dreams. Girls and young women know there are significant barriers facing them including sexism, discrimination and lack of opportunities to lead. Role models from sport, media and politics can inspire us but mothers and friends are the ones who will support us to get there."
EMPOWER A GIRL! Sign up to Plan International's Give Equal campaign today www.giveequal.org
Notes to editors
Plan International has a group of diverse, media-trained young women available for interviews, as well as high quality vox pop footage of them responding to the themes in the report, and talking about their role-models and why girls must be educated and empowered. Quality B-Roll, graphics and multimedia to support this report is available on request – please email firstname.lastname@example.com
About Plan International Australia: Plan International Australia works around the world to tackle the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice for children. Plan International strives to make girls truly visible: acknowledging their power and potential, and taking a stand when they are exploited, discriminated against and silenced – this includes abroad and in Australia.


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Lionsgate has released ten new character posters for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. As you may recall, at the end of John Wick: Chapter 2, Wick (Keanu Reeves) was declared "excommunicado" from the Continental and that a global contract had been offered on his head for killing Santino while Santino was under the sanctuary of the Continental hotel. The "Tick Tock" likely refers to the fact that time is running out for John Wick since there's an entire world of assassins that wants him dead.
As for these posters, while they're not quite as stunning as the first teaser poster, they get the job done. Plus, you get posters for folks like Jason Mantzoukas and Lance Reddick! That's great! You will never see me argue against a Jason Mantzoukas poster.
Check out the posters below via IGN. The film opens May 17th and also stars Ian McShane, Lawrence Fishburne, Anelica Huston, Halle Berry, Jason Mantzoukas, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tiger Hu Chen, Yayan Ruhian, Cecep Arif Rahman, Lance Reddick, Common, and Ruby Rose.