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Dr Jeremy Grummet is a urological surgeon with specific training and expertise in urological cancers. He performs MRI-targeted transperineal biopsy for maximal accuracy and minimal morbidity in prostate cancer diagnosis.
Dr Grummet also performs both robotic and open radical prostatectomy for the treatment of prostate cancer and is trained in brachytherapy (radioactive seed implantation). He routinely performs laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery for kidney cancer.
In addition to his expertise in uro-oncology, Dr Grummet also treats a wide range of general urological problems, performing surgery for kidney stones (using laser ablation), benign prostate disease, post-prostatectomy incontinence and erectile dysfunction and vasectomy.
Dr Grummet completed his formal training in urology obtaining his FRACS in 2007. The following year he completed a Clinical Uro-Oncology Fellowship under the supervision of Dr Martin Gleave at the Prostate Centre in Vancouver, Canada. During his Fellowship year Dr Grummet helped establish the robotic prostatectomy program at Vancouver General Hospital and completed a Robotic Surgery Mini-Residency at the University of California Irvine.
Dr Grummet has presented widely at multiple national and international conferences on the benefits of surgery for high risk localized prostate cancer, and is a strong advocate for active surveillance for low risk prostate cancer to minimise unnecessary treatment. He is an investigator on the PRIAS study, the largest worldwide study assessing outcomes for patients on active surveillance.
Publications – Peer Reviewed
Risk factors for infection following prostate biopsy
Anderson E, Leahy O, Cheng AC, Grummet J.
BMC Infect Dis. 2015 Dec 23;15(1): 580.
Current practice of prostate biopsy in Australia and New Zealand: A survey.
Davis P, Paul E, Grummet J.
Urol Ann. 2015: Jul-Sep; 7(3): 315-9.
The state of TRUS biopsy sepsis in Australia: Re-admissions to Victorian Hospitals with TRUS biopsy-related infection over 5 years.
Roth H, Millar J, Cheng A, Byrne A, Evans S, Grummet J.
BJU Int. 2015: Oct;116 Suppl 3:49-53. doi: 10.1111/bju13209.
Could MRI solve the prostate cancer conundrum?
Grummet J, O'Sullivan R.
Med J Aust 2015 May 4; 202(8): 410-11.
A high PSA level in a man with suspected prostatitis. It's just due to inflammation, right?
Grummet J.
Medicine Today 2015; 16(5); 61-62.
Testicular loss following bacterial epididymo-orchitis: Case report and literature review.
Fehily SR, Trubiano JA, McLean C, Teoh BW, Grummet JP, Cheery CL, Vujovoc O.
Can Urol Assoc J. 2015 Mar-Apr;9(3-4):E149-51.
Significant impact of transperineal template biopsy of the prostate at a single tertiary institution.
Huang S, Reeves F, Preece J, Satasivam P, Royce P, Grummet J.
Urology Annals 2015: Oct-Dec;7(4):428-32.
Patients with medical risk factors for chronic kidney disease are at increased risk of renal impairment despite the use of nephron-sparing surgery.
Satasivam P, Reeves S, Rao K, Ivey Z, Basto M, Yip M, Roth H, Grummet J, Goad J, Moon D, Appu S, Lawrentschuk N, Bolton D, Kearsley J, Costello A, Frydenberg M.
BJU Int. 2015 Oct;116(4):590-5. doi: 10.1111/bju.13075.
Penthrox alone versus Penthrox plus PILA for analgesia in TRUS-guided prostate biopsy.
Huang S, Pepdjonovic L, Konstantatos A, Frydenberg M, Grummet J.
ANZ J Surg 2015 Feb 5. doi: 10.1111/ans.12974.
Transperineal biopsy prostate cancer detection in first biopsy and post-negative TRUS biopsy settings: The Victorian Transperineal Biopsy Collaboration experience.
Ong WL, Weerakoon M, Huang S, Paul E, Lawrentschuk N, Frydenberg M, Moon D, Murphy D, Grummet J.
BJU Int. 2015 Oct;116(4):568-76. doi: 10.1111/bju.13031.
Primary apocrine adenocarcinoma of scrotum suspected as urothelial carcinoma metastasis: a clinical and pathological dilemma.
Sean Huang, Mark Frydenberg, Alan Pham, Jeremy P. Grummet.
Urology Annals. 2015 Jan;7(1):97-9.
TRUS biopsy sepsis and the rise of carbapenem antibiotic use.
Leahy O, O'Reilly M, Phillips D, Dyer D, Grummet J.
ANZ J Surg 2014 Dec;85(12):931-5. doi: 10.1111/ans.12933.
Sepsis and 'superbugs': should we favour the transperineal over the transrectal approach for prostate biopsy?
Grummet JP, Weerakoon M, Huang S, Lawrentschuk N, Frydenberg M, Moon DA, O'Reilly M, Murphy D.
BJU Int. 2014 Sep;114(3):384-8.
Is zero sepsis alone enough to justify transperineal prostate biopsy?
Murphy DG, Weerakoon M, Grummet J.
BJU Int. 2014 Jul;114(1):3-4.
Trans-perineal prostate biopsy: template-guided or free-hand?
Dundee PE, Grummet J, Murphy DG
BJU Int. 2014 May;115(5):681-3. doi: 10.1111/bju.12860.
A bioengineered microenvironment to quantitatively measure the tumorigenic properties of cancer-associated fibroblasts in human prostate cancer.
Clark AK, Taubenberger AV, Taylor RA, Niranjan B, Chea ZY, Zotenko E, Sieh S, Pedersen JS, Norden S, Frydenberg M, Grummet JP, Pook DW; Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource, Stirzaker C, Clark SJ, Lawrence MG, Ellem SJ, Hutmacher DW, Risbridger GP.
Biomaterials. 2013 Jul;34(20):4777-85.
Splash! The spontaneous rupture of a bladder diverticulum: a rare cause of an acute abdomen.
Leahy O, Grummet J.
ANZ J Surg. 2013 Oct;83(10):792-3.
The 'green whistle': a novel method of analgesia for transrectal prostate biopsy.
Grummet J, Huang S, Konstantatos A, Frydenberg M.
BJU Int. 2012 Dec;110 Suppl 4:85-8.
Radical prostatectomy for high-risk clinically localized prostate cancer: a prospective single institution series.
Koupparis AJ, Grummet JP, Hurtado-Coll A, Bell RH, Buchan N, Goldenberg SL, Gleave ME.
Can Urol Assoc J. 2011 Dec;5(6):E156-61.
Paraneoplastic syndromes in prostate cancer.
Hong MK, Kong J, Namdarian B, Longano A, Grummet J, Hovens CM, Costello AJ, Corcoran NM.
Nat Rev Urol. 2010 Dec;7(12):681-92.
Vesicourethral anastomosis with 2-octyl cyanoacrylate adhesive in an in vivo canine model.
Grummet JP, Costello AJ, Swanson DA, Stephens LC, Cromeens DM.
Urology. 2002 Nov;60(5):935-8.
Laser welded vesicourethral anastomosis in an in vivo canine model: a pilot study.
Grummet JP, Costello AJ, Swanson DA, Stephens LC, Cromeens DM.
J Urol. 2002 Jul;168(1):281-4.


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Who am I? (Hint: Marquese)
Usually here people highlight their wealth of experience as education professionals or stay at home moms with multiple kids and an entire day available to commit to homeschooling. I fall into none of these categories. I am an ordinary, single, working mom, who happened to have accomplished some extraordinary things.
My background, growing up in poor, crime filled areas and attending one of the worst high schools in the nation, is an unlikely start for someone who has now obtained an Ivy League MBA and a generous salary, but I have achieved just that. The difficulties I experienced while achieving my success have led me to analyze the major deficiencies of our education system and accordingly prepare my son to overcome it.
Like many of you, I learned through the school of hard knocks, but I believe we each have a responsibility to help those that come behind us and collectively we have a responsibility to come together to help our children.
My agenda is simple.. I hope to do my part to decrease the dire statistics plaguing African Americans in higher education and financial growth.
Who is Phoenix?
Obviously as a mom I think this kid is the most awesome kid in the world, however, even considering him objectively I am still very proud of him and his accomplishments.
Phoenix started reading at the age of 3, was able to add and subtract by age 4 and multiply by the age of 5. Upon entry into public school, he was skipped ahead one grade after testing on a 2nd grade reading level. He started 1st grade at age 5, but remained ahead of his class academically because of his love of reading. In second grade his teacher recommended him for the gifted program. He is now in 3rd grade, reading at a 5.6 grade level (5th grader with 6 months) and understands 4th grade math concepts and basic algebra using hands on equations.
When he isn't reading, 8 Year old Phoenix enjoys feeding the homeless and playing with friends. Phoenix participates on the local Soccer team, practices Hapkido Martial arts, and is involved with the Sigma Beta mentorship club.


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iSisters' programs enhance employability skill development, provide a critical and effective stepping stone to improved quality of life, and initiate long term and high impact positive change for marginalized women.
Each program is designed in collaboration with the partner organization and customized for the specific learning needs of the students. While each program is unique, all programs aim to help women: learn about technology, explore career options, encourage life-long learning, gain self-esteem, improve earning potential and economic independence.
iSisters learning programs are aligned to ISTE NETS (International Society of Technology in Education National Education Technology Standards) and the Conference Board of Canada's Employability Skills 2000+.
Technology Mentoring for Young Mothers
Technology Mentoring for Young At-Risk Mothers is a new program that expands iSisters' workshops into the new Bethany Hope Centre for Young Parents. Students will gain digital literacy skills which will enable them to return to and succeed in high school and prepare for employment. The program builds community capacity to support at-risk, young parents.
Through this project, our goal is to offer young at-risk Moms a full set of digital and media literacy skills, as well as mentoring in new communications technologies at the new Bethany Hope Centre, free of charge to them and to Bethany Hope, in a familiar and safe environment.
Career Connections
Career Connections is a new program that will connect our students, graduates and alumni with customized employment and self-employment learning opportunities, information and resources. It will expand and mature iSisters' program offering to meet the needs of, and leverage existing resources to support the transition to work for our learners.
The Mobile Lab
The iSisters Mobile Learning Lab is a new project that takes iSisters' award-winning technology training workshops to young at-risk women in Ottawa. It was launched in 2011-2012. We partner with community organizations that offer shelter and drop in services to young women.
iTeachnology™ is an online version of our award winning Employment Support Technology Mentoring Program. It is an integral element to providing a sustainable program for our partners to administer.


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Masters of Music
One movement from a J. S. Bach Lute Suite or from the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro (BWV 998).
Two contrasting works from different periods.
Music Therapy
Those applying for admission to the Music Therapy graduate or graduate equivalency program must follow the application procedure posted in "Graduate Studies in Music." Additionally, students should submit a writing sample and should contact the coordinator of graduate studies in music therapy at email@example.com or (936)294-1376 for a faculty interview. All students applying for the music therapy masters equivalency program must pass the music therapy equivalency audition as a part of the interview. Music therapy master equivalency applicants who do not have a bachelor's degree in music (i.e., music performance, music education, or music therapy) should take the School of Music audition.
Masters of Music
The purpose of this degree is to provide advanced skills in the research of music for students planning to pursue the Ph.D. in musicology or for those seeking to teach at the college level.
In addition to the admission requirements for the SHSU School of Music, students seeking admission to the Musicology track for the Masters of Music degree must submit a sample of academic writing relevant to musicology and complete an admission interview with the Musicology Coordinator, Dr. Sheryl Murphy-Manley (firstname.lastname@example.com), and/or the primary Professor in the student's field of study. Applicants to the musicology track must have maintained a minimum of 3.0 GPA for all undergraduate music credit hours, and maintained a minimum of 3.25 GPA in all music literature and music history courses. Graduate students who graduate with an emphasis in Musicology are required to pass a language proficiency examination in either German or French. The language requirement should ideally be fulfilled by the end of the second semester of study.
Please see the Percussion Studio page for audition materials.
Masters of Music in Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music
Applicants should prepare three contrasting works in different instrumentation (for example: a baroque flute sonata, a romantic string sonata and modern vocal work). Both an audition repertoire list and a complete repertoire list (instrumental and vocal) must be submitted with your application. Sight reading proficiency will be examined during the audition. Any changes to the audition requirements must be discussed with Dr. ILonka Rus-Edery, firstname.lastname@example.com, Director of Collaborative Piano Area, at least four weeks before the scheduled audition.
MM applicants for the Collaborative Piano program are eligible for a collaborative piano assistantship and must submit a resume detailing their collaborative piano experience and a repertoire list in addition to the assistantship application. It is important that the applicant coordinate the audition with both the office of Graduate Studies at SHSU as well as the Director of the Collaborative Piano Area.
In special circumstances such as international applicants, an unedited video recording will be considered in lieu of a live audition. If you wish to upload a recorded audition, please contact Dr. Rus-Edery for permission and instructions before proceeding.
Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass
Prepare the first movement of a romantic concerto with cadenza (if applicable), and two movements of an unaccompanied partita or sonata by J. S. Bach (from memory).
Prepare two contrasting works. Performance majors must play these from memory. Also prepare three orchestral excerpts from the standard literature.
Masters of Music
Prospective graduate students are to prepare a program of five memorized pieces from which the voice faculty will choose selections for the audition. Music must be memorized. The prepared pieces must cover all of the following categories:
- At least one selection in English, Italian, German, and French.
- At least one, but no more than two arias (opera or oratorio).
- At least one selection must have been written before 1800.
- At least one selection must have been written after 1920.
Students may bring their own accompanist or one will be provided. Please bring a copy of the sheet music to the audition to share with the accompanist. The accompanist's copy should be prepared with all the notes on the page, double-sided and contained in a three-ringed binder. Music must be in the keys in which you will sing. Students will have the opportunity to work with the accompanist briefly before their audition.
Prospective students will be asked to sight-read a short musical passage. Students may also be asked to repeat short melodic passages (played on the piano) to demonstrate tonal memory and musicianship skills.
Masters of Music
Wind players should prepare two entire works from contrasting time periods from the standard repertoire. Three to four orchestral excerpts from the standard literature should also be prepared. An accompanist is not necessary. Music may be used.
School of Music
Sam Houston State University
1751 Avenue I, Huntsville, TX 77340
Phone: 936-294-1360
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Flex Your Space – 4 Reasons Why Flexible Coworking Spaces Are Great For Business
Today's businessman (or woman) has the ability to tap into a number of resources to build their empire. One of the reasons that turning your Read More
Today's businessman (or woman) has the ability to tap into a number of resources to build their empire. One of the reasons that turning your Read More
Travel time is only ever glamorous in retrospect. It's hot, cold, stuffy, sweaty, stressful, tiring and filled with other people. Although we can't magically teleport Read More
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Cats have long commanded the Internet spotlight, but a few dogs are barking their way to the top.
One dog in particular is capturing the attention of people everywhere. Her name is Pig.
While she is a Pig in name only, physically she more closely resembles a frog given she has fully developed legs attached to a body that appears to be half missing.
Take a look:
The mixed-breed dog lives in Alabama with her owner Kim Dillenbeck, who adopted Pig after finding her abandoned in a forest. In a Sky News video interview, Dillenbeck explains that the dog has short spine syndrome, meaning she is missing about seven inches of her spine, and her hips and joints are not positioned correctly on her body.
But that doesn't stop Pig from being totally lovable and having the best time as a dog. She's also gained much attention after Dillenbeck created her a Facebook page called Pig the Unusual Dog. The page has about 94,000 likes, and people everywhere seem to love the little dog's story.
In the Sky News video, veterinarian Dr Rachael Hudson-Breland says "The whole clinic loves her. She comes in, she's a rockstar here. We had no idea that she was a rockstar anywhere else..."
"...And I don't think Pig really knows she looks any different."
Pig plays with friends in dog parks and in fountains, and we are so glad she gets to happily run around, though her vet adds: "She runs around, she plays. The only thing with Pig is ... she has respiratory issues, so when she's running around she gets a little more tired than most dogs."
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Round 4 - Sunday, 5th March - TBC
Fr. Prendergast Gaels v Abbey Rangers
Round 3 - Sunday, 26th February - Monasterevan/Nurney
Abbey Rangers v Rheban
Round 2 - Sunday, 19 February - TBC
Castlemitchell v Abbey Rangers
Round 1 - Sunday, 12th February - Castlemitchell
The Abbey Rangers minor team begin their Division 4B campaign with a visit to Castlemitchell on Sunday, 12th February at 12.00pm. Rangers have three away fixtures on the cards and two at home. The full list can be found below.
Our minors have generally done well at this level, beating Milltown in the league final two years. There are bound to be some very competitive encounters ahead, particularly against local rivals like Fr. Prendergast Gaels, the amalgamation of Monasterevan and Nurney.
Abbey Rangers v Moorefield
Round 5 - Sunday, 12th March - Murphy Memorial Park, Grangenolvin
Grangenolvin v Abbey Rangers
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Ask a (woman) physicist
Christine Nattrass, Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, talks about science, outreach, and women in physics.
Last April 25, the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), hosted a Facebook live event called "Ask a physicist: Women in Physics". Assistant Professor Christine Nattrass, who is an ALICE collaboration member, was one of the three scientists invited to talk about their career and discuss about the presence of women in physics, which - although increased in the last few decades - is still small compared to men's.
Why are there still less women studying physics than men? Why –in general- are there even lesser women reaching high profile positions? What are the biggest challenges they face and what can be done to change this situation? These and others are the questions that were addressed in the one-hour live event organized at UTK, in which the speakers brought their own experience of women in science, as well as of lecturers who interact directly with young students.
The live-stream of this event (available here, on the Facebook page of the UTK Department of Physics and Astronomy) received a large number of views, 3.7 thousand. Such success confirms the interest in this kind of informal talks about science, which allow the participation of followers who can post comments and questions on the event page or in private messages.
This is only the latest of a series of similar events organized within the outreach and education programme led by Kranti Gunthoti, which includes 'Saturday Morning Physics' lectures and social media activities, mainly oriented to high school students and general public.
Christine Nattrass participated in a number of these initiatives, in which she talked about the Quark Gluon Plasma and the ALICE experiment. "I think that outreach is very important for various reasons," she comments, "first of all because it is part of our responsibilities towards society: we get money for our research from the taxes, thus we have to make people know why what we do is relevant; in addition, it can help to increase the common scientific literacy. In the second place, I find it useful for myself, because it forces me to look at things in a different way, to develop the adequate tools and metaphors to explain difficult concepts to people who don't speak the language of physicists; in the end I believe that this effort makes me a better speaker, even for an expert audience".
Besides being involved in education, Christine is also active in trying to attract more female students to study science in her University. "We have a peculiar situation here at UTK", she explains, "since in my department there are 6 women out of 33 faculty members, which is not a bad fraction, while only 10-15% of our students are women, less than the average value (around 22%) in the rest of US".
Scissors diagram showing the actual percentages of men and women at each level of physics and the expected percentages based on bachelor's degree production in the past. [Font: AIP Publication Number R-430.02: 'Women in Physics and Astronomy, 2005', by R. Ivie and K.N. Ray, February 2005]
A report published by the American Institute of Physics in 2005 shows that the representation of women in physics and astronomy is still much lower than the men's and the divide significantly increases as we climb the academic ladder.
While almost half of high school physics students in US are girls, less that one-fourth of bachelor's degrees and just 18% of PhD's in physics are earned by women. At the faculty level, women's participation is even smaller: just 10% of faculty members and only 5% of full professors of physics are women.
According to this report, the fact that most women studying physics at high school do not choose to continue in the field is most likely the result of exposure to a culture that still portrays science, especially physical science, as a primarily male pursuit.
"It is not trivial to understand why in our University we perform better in terms of faculty members than of students; nevertheless," adds Christine, "we have to do the best we can to inspire more women to take undergraduate and graduate courses in physics".


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Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I've come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like.
Mike Leake on People don't become angels and you shouldn't want them to.
You won't be an angel when you die. And thank God for that. Angels aren't in union with Christ. But real flesh and blood people like you and I are in union with Christ. We'll enjoy Him forever in a way that an angel cannot.
Ron Edmondson on 7 warning signs a leader is about to crash.
I've learned there are some common indicators that a leader is heading towards burnout. The sooner we can recognize them, the sooner we know to reach out for help.
Archie Parrish on Avoiding burnout.
The term burnout was coined by rocket scientists to describe shutting down a jet or rocket engine by exhausting or shutting off its fuel. Dr. Herbert J. Freudenberg, in his 1974 book Burnout: The High Cost of High Achievement, was the first psychologist to use this term. He defined burnout as "the extinction of motivation or incentive, especially where one's devotion to a cause or relationship fails to produce the desired results."
Aaron Armstrong on Is church growth all about the pastor?
When it comes to church attendance, nothing matters as much as the ability of the pastor to deliver good sermons. If a pastor is good at his job, the church grows. If he's bad at his job, the church shrinks. Sounds unspiritual—but it's true. It shouldn't be this way—but it is. Each week is a referendum on the pastor's ability to deliver an inspiring sermon.


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About Us
What is maxforlive.com?
On maxforlive.com, users contribute to an online library of free Max for Live Devices that you can browse and search for in a number of useful ways. You can share your .amxd files (the Max for Live device file type) with other users and make them easily accessible based on a number of attributes you assign.
Who owns maxforlive.com?
This site was originally conceived in 2009 by Clint of the IDM/Dark Ambient/Experimental band synnack and was an unofficial source of Max for Live devices. In 2018, Cycling '74 worked with Clint to take on the operation and maintenance of the website.
Many thanks to Clint for spearheading the maxforlive.com effort in its early days.


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Singapore's F1 Pit Building was filled to the brim with everything "street" this past weekend, as Culture Cartel showcased the best of street culture that Southeast Asia and the world has to offer.
It was, in a way, a historic weekend. It was the first time in Asia where different aspects of street culture met, and formed a coherent narrative on the state of local and global street culture today and where it's heading.
I attended the event with high expectations, and it did not disappoint. Judging by the sizable amount of the crowd last weekend—from die-hard street culture fans to curious onlookers—it's a little hard to believe that it took so long for an event like this to happen.
Here are just some of the coolest things I spotted during the two-day festivities:
The first ever VR graffiti battle in Asia
Though I don't think you can tell graffiti artists to ditch their spray paint cans just yet, I can't deny that the VR graffiti battle at Culture Cartel was a glimpse of how the art is evolving. Using Tilt Brush by Google, participants went on brushing away in virtual reality with only 10 minutes to complete their masterpiece. They were supposedly the first VR graffiti battle participants in this continent, so if I were them, I would brag about that for at least a whole year. Check out snippets of the qualifiers and finals on VICE Asia's Instagram highlights.
Tattoo legends Nissaco and Gakkin
It's not everyday that you get to be in the same room as so many legends, so I tried to take it in as much as possible. Headlining the event were two legendary tattoo artists from Japan, Nissaco and Gakkin. VICE got to sit down with them to have a quick chat, but some of the other attendees were luckier as they were able to score a tattoo from them. Both Nissaco and Gakkin also judged the event's tattoo competition where artists from Oracle Tattoo, Skin Label, and Singapore Electric reigned supreme.
Toys and more toys
If there's one thing Culture Cartel 2018 reiterated, it's how serious the toy scene is. From KAWS, to Be@rbrick, to Mighty Jaxx, Culture Cartel didn't fall short on showcasing how awesome these collector's items are. There's even a talk called "The Toy Market Today," which took place on Saturday, that discussed the serious hobby-slash-business toy collecting has become all around the world.
All types of Hypebeasts
I have to admit, half of what made Culture Cartel so interesting were the people it drew. You could see groups of young people wearing head-to-toe street designers, but there were plenty who came in basic fast fashion gear. All weekend, many people spent a considerable amount of time lining up to get their pre-orders on shoes like the Air Jordan XI Concord and some new Yeezys. Besides the massive brands, there were plenty of local streetwear labels that opened up shops there as well.
Points of discussion at "Streetwear Today," another panel at the event, were how much the streetwear industry has changed in five years (in summary, A LOT) and how much social media and Hype in capital H has affected both brands and retailers alike.
So much art
Various pieces of art lined the venue, from walls of graffiti to gorilla cardboard sculptures. There were some pop culture-inspired paintings up for grabs too. Highly respected artists in Singapore and in other countries were also in attendance, such as legendary New York graffiti artist Stash. No matter where you looked, there were plenty to see. The long lines, the competitions, the panels, and the collaborations I saw between artists and musicians this past weekend are a reminder that the rapidly changing world of street culture is all the more reason we need to take a moment to appreciate it all, at events like this.
Want to relive the weekend? Follow VICE Asia on Instagram and check out our highlights for live coverage of #CultureCartel2018.


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Asserting the legal rights and obligations of an unmarried father may begin by establishing paternity. Paternity is assumed if a father is married to the child's mother, but there are other situations in which paternity may be assumed as well. These include a father signing a voluntary acknowledgment or even establishing a close relationship with the child and getting parental rights in court. However, in some circumstances, a Kansas mother or father may want a paternity test. A DNA test proves paternity with 99% accuracy.
The consequences of establishing paternity
How can you relinquish your parental rights?
When considering the issue of paternity, most in Wichita might think your actions in such a regard would be limited to either trying to establish your paternity or dispute such a claim being made against you. Yet there could also be scenarios where your paternity is not so much in question, but rather if you want to maintain your parental rights.
Why is genetic information important to your child?
Some Kansas fathers may be pondering whether legally establishing their paternity is a good idea. If you are in this position, you should know that having the state recognize your parentage gives your child access to information about your family's genetic history. If your child can learn about your genetic background, your child will be better informed to make crucial life decisions.
Paternity cases: what's in a name?
When two unmarried parents decide to end their relationship, it is still necessary to make legal provisions for the support and custody of their children, just as it is to make similar provisions for the children of married parents who decide to divorce. It is common for attorneys to refer to the former type of proceeding as a paternity case. We at Stange Law Firm know that, as a father involved in a paternity case in Kansas, you probably have many questions regarding how the legal arrangements pertaining to the split will affect your children and your relationship with them.
Is establishing paternity important for your child?
If you have had a child with someone who you do not anticipate maintaining a relationship with, you may wonder whether or not it is important that you have an official document that declares paternity. However, being proactive about determining in writing, who your child's biological parents are can actually prove to be quite beneficial to his or her future. If you are trying to determine whether or not paternity is important for your child in Kansas, you may be interested in the potential benefits of your decision.
How can you establish paternity?
Popular media and other forums have seemingly made the process of establishing paternity a bad thing. This may be because such revelations are often given in the context of informing a reluctant individual that he is indeed the father of a child. Yet there may be just as many (if not more) advantages to you legally determining that a child is yours. Beyond the emotional bond that it establishes between you and your kid, confirming paternity may allow you visitation and custody rights, and makes it easier for you to secure benefits for and bequeath assets to your child.
Establishing paternity in Kansas
Quite a bit of misinformation exists about establishing paternity in Wichita. Many seem to believe that it can only be done through genetic testing, through which results are shockingly revealed by someone exclaiming "You are the father!" In reality, paternity is a concept that is more presumed than it is proven. Many clients have come to us here at the Stange Law Firm questioning the exact processes for establishing paternity is Kansas (both in cases wanting to disprove they fathered a child and those where they wanted to verify a child was indeed their own). If you share the same question, then you may be surprised to learn that there are actually several methods the state uses.
Approaching a paternity test discussion
Bringing up the topic of a paternity test alone is enough to throw most Kansas residents into a world of stress. Although ordering a test is possible without the mother or father's knowledge, many would prefer to keep communication open -- especially when it comes to family planning. Despite the fact that communication can help ease tension, many express confusion and worry over a paternity discussion and the procedures that follow.
What goes into a paternity test in Kansas?
No matter the situation at hand, the topic of establishing paternity can easily become a sensitive one. Many Kansas mothers and fathers even feel that such testing is unnecessary. However, each state contains paternity laws that ultimately help protect the children involved. As with many cases, however, there can be many gray areas to establishing paternity after welcoming a little one into the world.


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Motorola Solutions invites you to the next MotoTALK about Modern C++, the good, the bad and the ugly
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Incentivizing Cooperation in Afghanistan
By: MAJ Greg Merkl, US Army
The United States' prospects for success against the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan seem inexorably linked to its ability to inspire cooperation among disparate actors in a land of dynamic alliances. To centralize power in a way that will keep the Taliban from establishing sanctuary—much less overt control—in significant regions of the troubled state, the United States and its allies must find ways to foster a capable Kabul government. The last decade of conflict has only increased the complexity of trying rapidly to build a poor, weakly affiliated agrarian society into the likeness of a modern democracy. Moreover, lessons from the Afghanistan war demonstrate how the United States has made a difficult task monumentally more complicated through poor strategic decision-making.
The United States' profligate use of money to influence loyalties in Afghanistan has confused and hindered efforts at establishing legitimate governance, at the levels of both the tribal shura and the National Assembly. Financial aid certainly serves a vital purpose in rebuilding a war-ravaged land. Too little aid can leave a broken state in the violence of desperation. Conversely, too much aid can drown a fledgling legal and political system in corruption. A "sweet spot" exists where the structure of the financial incentives encourages cooperation according to the rule of law. The United States has substantially overshot this sweet spot.
As long as the Department of Defense is going to espouse the concept of "money as a weapons system," it would do well to reestablish the left and right limits of its financial weapons.1 A realist's perspective on the nature of cooperation highlights the fact that the United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars inspiring counterproductive behavior within Afghan society. The influx of cash into the Afghan system of social and commercial relationships has not only overwhelmed its modes of accountability, but actually encourages unethical and anti-social behavior.
Solving the Prisoner's Dilemma
The paradigm of the "Prisoner's Dilemma" illustrates how natural impulses tend to favor competition over cooperation. In its simplest outline, the dilemma postulates a scenario whereby two individuals can choose to cooperate for the best mutual outcome, or compete and risk the worst mutual outcome. The incentive structure paradoxically leads them to compete, because each believes he can gain a unilateral advantage through competition.2 This scenario plays out frequently in most societies.3
To illustrate this concept, consider the hypothetical scenario of Daoud and Omar, two farmers in modern-day Afghanistan. Each has a large herd of sheep, and they share grazing lands. If they share the land reasonably and responsibly, both can adequately maintain their flocks. Daoud could, conversely, try to force Omar out of the pasture so Daoud's sheep get all the grass. If Omar submits without a fight, Daoud's herd will increase by five at the expense of 10 of Omar's flock, for a net loss to the community of five sheep. The reverse is also true. If, however, they both attempt to seize the entire pasture, they will get into a costly conflict. Some of their sheep will die from starvation, and they will have to sell others to finance their feud. In this eventuality, each will lose five sheep, for a net loss of 10. The matrix in Figure 1 shows the "normal form" of the game: the first number listed in each cell is the change in the number of sheep owned by Daoud and the second number is the change in the number owned by Omar.
One can quickly see that Daoud should always compete. If Omar is foolish enough to cooperate, then Daoud will see a gain of five sheep by competing. If Omar chooses to compete while Daoud remains passive, then Daoud will lose 10 of his flock to starvation in a naively benevolent gesture of cooperation. By competing, he still loses sheep, but he loses five instead of 10. The exact same logic applies to Omar. As a result, the tendency for both will be to compete, despite the fact that this will lead to the worst possible mutual outcome. This incentive structure bodes poorly for the community. The cooperate–cooperate strategy clearly offers the most total utility for the society in which Omar and Daoud live, but the incentive of personal gain will reliably drive a self-interested player to compete. So, how can society balance the incentive scale to ensure that it does not bear the opportunity cost of 10 sheep in this ill-fated conflict?
The Beauty of Punishment
The simplistic model described previously clearly does not tell the entire story. Although history recounts tales of horrific conflict, communities have managed to control violent contests between individuals or groups in order to build a better future for all members. Nevertheless, numerous studies across multiple disciplines have drawn the same conclusion: People are not naturally motivated to cooperate. They cooperate largely because society enforces cooperation.
Heuristically, one may assume that a person cooperates as a spontaneous outpouring from a kind heart. Most of us need only to look within our own family to see that bonds of trust and shared interests can mitigate the competitive urge ascribed to the self-interested player in the Prisoner's Dilemma. Then again, everyone has heard a story or two about the time when Omar broke into Daoud's piggy bank to splurge on whistle pops and comic books at the corner store. It does not take many incidents of cheating within a family, a neighborhood, or a community to erode the bonds of trust. In fact, as the bonds of community expand past the family and the neighborhood, the temptation to cheat increases in a vicious cycle.4 This leads to the "tragedy of the commons," in which self-interested players pursue outcomes that enrich themselves in the short term but hurt the community at large for the long term.5
Why, then, do members of a community generally cooperate? Simply put, people cooperate because social institutions force them to cooperate. Even though Daoud sees an incentive to cheat Omar, his local shura has a clear interest in ensuring that he cooperates. The normal form of the game shows that, taken together, a society maintains its status quo through cooperation. The compete–cooperate and compete–compete strategies promise a loss of five and 10 sheep, respectively, to the community. To forestall this, successful societies force cooperation when it serves the interests of the community, by punishing those who attempt to compete.6
Fortunately, Daoud and Omar have a powerful local shura. If either decides to cheat the other by usurping the grazing fields, the shura will punish the infraction at a cost of 20 sheep. Figure 2 shows the new normal form of the game with a penalty of 20 sheep for counterproductive decisions to compete.7 In this scenario, both Daoud and Omar should clearly cooperate.
By imposing a penalty of 20 sheep for failing to cooperate, the local shura will inspire productive cooperation. But, if eliciting cooperation is so simple, why do real people in relationships like Daoud's and Omar's so often choose to battle?
Defying Society for the Risk of Gain
Daoud might cheat for the same reason a burglar might rob a bank: He thinks that he will get away with the crime. To prevent him from taking this risk, the local shura must maintain a good track record of punishing infractions. Again, the normal form of the game gives insight into why the shura must consistently punish cheaters. If Daoud believes that he can compete without incurring the penalty of 20 sheep with a probability of α, his prospects change entirely. Daoud assumes that Omar will follow the law. Therefore, if Daoud cooperates, he expects no change in sheep. If he cheats, he expects to gain five sheep with a probability of α and to lose 15 sheep with a probability of 1 – α. The utility of cheating is then 5α – 15(1 – α). To incentivize cooperation, Daoud's shura must make certain that he expects a better outcome from cooperation. Mathematically, 0 > 5α – 15(1 – α). Therefore, if Daoud believes that α, the probability that he will get away with cheating, is less than 75%, he will cooperate. Note that a stiffer penalty with the same value of α will further reduce Daoud's incentive to cheat. For this reason, many shuras would take all of Daoud's sheep, his favorite goat, and possibly a hand for stealing from the community!
Societies must keep the value of α (the chances of getting away with the crime) low enough to favor the community. In doing so, they encourage a rational Daoud to follow the rules. But sometimes societies break down. And with them goes the incentive to cooperate.
Captain America: The Breaker and Builder of Societies
To emphasize the relevance of these basic incentive structures to current U.S. policy, consider the United States' mission in Afghanistan. Growing up in rural Afghanistan, neither Daoud nor Omar had much vested interest in religious extremists. Following 9/11, however, their district's acquiescence to the local Taliban militia brought hypothetical Captain America— an extremely motivated U.S. Army company commander—to their village. Captain America is an expert in hybrid conflict, so he seamlessly transitions from breaking to building as the situation requires.
Initially, Captain America focuses on breaking. He controls a vast array of 50-caliber machine guns mounted on armored vehicles, automatic grenade launchers, and laser-guided missiles. Moreover, he has 120 motivated soldiers dedicated to eradicating the Taliban from every corner of the little village. In short order, Captain America has used his lethal weapons systems to eradicate—however temporarily—the Taliban. He has shown admirable discretion with his fire control measures, but the fighting has still taken a toll on the village. Much of the mud-engineered infrastructure has crumbled from the over-pressure of 500-pound bombs, and the members of the village shura have gone into hiding.
Under these conditions, Daoud may now be tempted to cheat the system for two reasons. First, the absence of his shura might lead him to believe that he can get away with seizing the pasture from Omar without punishment. That is, he faces the incentive structure of the Prisoner's Dilemma. Second, he may cheat out of desperation. Assume that the war has truly ravaged the community and that Daoud's family is living in poverty. He and his family will starve if he cannot gain more sheep. A despondent Daoud has no choice but to compete. He knows that he will get no additional sheep from cooperating, so he does not even consider choosing this option; it leads to guaranteed starvation. Instead, he sends a prayer toward heaven and competes. He does not expect a good outcome, but it is truly his only chance at survival.
Fortunately, Captain America has a generous war chest for rebuilding the community, and he easily voids both of these conditions. He quickly reestablishes the shura and reconstructs the demolished government buildings. He helps to finance a police force that can establish the rule of law. He also supports aid projects directly aimed at protecting Daoud and his family from starvation. In no time, Captain America has reestablished the pre-war status quo, and he should stop here.
Eager to exceed the standard and inspired by the concept of money as a weapons system, however, Captain America takes it a step further. He initially broke the system through combat. In doing so, he broke the society's ability to enforce cooperation. In rebuilding, he fulfilled his debt. Now, however, by surpassing the standards of restoration, he will actually break the community through his naïve benevolence.
Breaking with Benevolence
A catastrophic loss clearly undermines the power of a community to enforce cooperation, but a sudden major gain similarly ruins the incentive structure. Afghanistan provides a detailed case study to illustrate the ways in which this occurs. The primary problem with quick riches lies in their affect on the community's ability to enforce punishment in dynamic economic systems.
Captain America meets Daoud in a shura meeting and decides that he would like to purchase his heart and mind. Daoud appears amicable, intelligent, and relatively influential in the community, so it seems perfectly logical for Captain America to expend his CERP (Commander's Emergency Response Program) funds on Daoud's behalf. Soon, an Afghan contractor appears and digs a well close to Daoud's farm at a price of about $1,000, an amount Daoud would never have managed on his own. Daoud is now perceived to have the backing of Captain America—a force far more powerful than his local shura. The next day, Daoud ruminates while minding his flock, and considers forcing Omar to accept less of the grazing grounds. Daoud is a big deal in the village now, as he sees it, and Omar should feel grateful to get any land at all for his sheep to graze. Ultimately, however, his gentler sensibilities prevail, and Daoud settles for the status quo.
Over time, Daoud's relationship with Captain America blossoms. Daoud always speaks in support of Captain America at the shura, and he provides Captain America with frequent—and occasionally accurate—reports on the town's business. Daoud soon takes note of the American captain's affinity for digging wells. Never a scrupulous businessman, Daoud decides to take a chance and calls a cousin in Kandahar who owns a drilling rig. Soon, the two have a booming business digging a well a week for the development-minded commander. Daoud starts to wonder how the community ever procured water prior to the infusion of benevolent aid money. While Captain America has purchased Daoud's heart and mind, Daoud has followed suit, just like countless other Afghan contractors, and purchased a mansion on Kabul's Street Six with his newly generated wealth.8 One day, Daoud decides to force Omar completely out, and he seizes their shared pasture. At this point, neither the shura nor Omar can do much to discourage this behavior.
Two factors influence the ability of a community to use punishment to force cooperation in this environment. First, Captain America's implied support of Daoud reduces the likelihood that the shura will censure Daoud for his misdeeds. Second, when Daoud's income suddenly makes herding sheep a pastime instead of a livelihood, he can purchase the consent of the shura with side payments. In the first case, a direct increase in α, the probability that Daoud will be able to cheat without penalty, results from his relationship with Captain America. In the second case, Daoud can make a side payment to the shura, and they will turn the other way while he steals Omar's land. This hypothetical scenario paints the endemic corruption plaguing the artificially bloated Afghan economy in painfully vivid detail.9, 10
In the normal form of the game, one may argue that Daoud has no incentive to offer a side payment to the shura. After all, if the shura confiscates 20 sheep as a consequence for cheating, Daoud would have to pay at least this sum for a modest gain of five sheep over Omar. Here, one must take careful note of the nature of the side payment. Daoud has gained control over the shura. If Daoud values this power at 15 sheep, then he breaks even. In politics, this type of influence carries a value far greater than 15 sheep and a dozen camels. In fact, at this point in the game, Daoud really does not even care about the sheep. Usurping the power of the shura is the prize that he seeks.
Prior to the change in his status from a common sheep farmer to a powerful businessman, Daoud did not have the wherewithal to buy influence because he needed the sheep that he gained through cooperation to support his family. He simply did not have the capital to invest in the political machine. Moreover, a wise shura takes its bribes under careful consideration. If things should go badly for a conspiring member of the shura, Daoud's deep pockets and cozy relationship with Captain America would help smooth things over. Prior to his accumulation of wealth, Daoud could not have mitigated these risks.
Daoud's display of power incurs some risk as well. He must ensure that Omar has enough sheep to survive so that he does not become desperate, which might lead to a direct confrontation between the two. With Daoud as the power broker, the game structure mirrors that of warlord politics. In it, Daoud represents a strong player and Omar represents a weak player.11 A strong Daoud has a dominant strategy of competing, yielding a submissive Omar. Daoud simply must not allow Omar to sink into the realm of despair, because if Omar does, then Daoud will face a belligerent and desperate opponent. Omar has little chance of defeating Daoud, but if confrontation is his only chance of survival, he will unquestionably take the risk. A dominant strategy of conflict emerges in this circumstance. Fortunately, Daoud can evade this dynamic.
Daoud now controls the resources throughout his village, and if Omar needs some sheep, Daoud can easily afford to act as the benevolent dictator in return for continued submissive support. Should the community meet with utter calamity, so that everyone needs more sheep than Daoud can provide, he has nimbly and wisely hedged his bets with his Kabul residence. In all likelihood, Daoud moved his wife and kids to Kabul long ago. The guarantee of a permanent change of scenery and a comfortable early retirement ensure that Daoud will continue to usurp power within his community without fear. Although Captain America certainly bought the heart and mind of Daoud, and was able to report impressive non-lethal aid numbers to his higher headquarters, he simultaneously had an immeasurably negative impact on the culture of mutually beneficial cooperation within his area of responsibility. Daoud, Omar, and their lineage of ancestors survived without Captain America's wells. Because he failed to understand the true needs of the village or the effects of superfluous cash on an economy concerned with grazing sheep, Captain America nullified the community's ability to use punishment as a means for evading the pitfall of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
Captain America's Lesson
Aid money plays a crucial role in a war zone. Yet, the United States seems to advocate spreading money around as a way for its commanders to buy support. While Captain America purchased the support of Daoud, he destroyed the shura—and the community that depended on it—in the process. Instead of using money as a weapons system to buy friends, Captain America should have used just enough aid to restore power to the community government and to avert catastrophic loss. Investments beyond this sweet spot may curry favor with a minority of the community, but they do not build an enduring, self-reliant society.
Admittedly, some circumstances do call for buying friends. When the United States engages in this type of behavior, it must do so with clear-eyed realism regarding the negative effects that using money as a weapons system has on indigenous communities. Current Army doctrine gives little consideration to this phenomenon, which helps explain the current state of affairs in Afghanistan. We can imagine that every new mansion springing up in Kabul's suburbs memorializes a dying community shura in the heart of the Afghan conflict.
About the Author(s): MAJ Greg Merkl is a Special Forces Officer who currently serves as a mathematics instructor at West Point.
1. Commander's Guide to Money as a Weapon System, Handbook No. 09-27 (Fort Leavenworth: United States Army Center for Army Lessons Learned, 2009).
2. Martin J. Osborne, An Introduction to Game Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 14–18.
3. Howard Raiffa, The Art and Science of Negotiation (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), 346–349. Raiffa describes a similar scenario when discussing Thomas Schelling's "N-Person Prisoner's Dilemma Game."
4. Jack Hirshleifer and Juan Carolos Martinez Coll, "What Strategies Can Support the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation?" Journal of Conflict Resolution vol. 32, no. 2 (June 1988): 367–398. Hirshleifer and Coll show that evolutionary behavior does not generally lead to cooperative behavior in the prisoner's dilemma. Instead, a threat of punishment can favor the emergence of dominant strategies.
5. Steven Kuhn, "Prisoner's Dilemma," in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta, ed. (Spring 2009): http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/prisoner-dilemma/. Kuhn looks at many games that emulate the normal form of the prisoner's dilemma, including the tragedy of the commons.
6. Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson, "Punishment Allows the Evolution of Cooperation (or Anything Else) in Sizable Groups," in Ethology and Sociobiology vol. 13 (1992): 171–195.
7. Note that this payoff structure is simply the previous payoff structure with a penalty of 20 assigned to any player who chooses to compete.
8. "Afghan yuppies get rich on ten years of war," Dawn Online, October 3, 2011: http://dawn.com/2011/10/03/ afghan-yuppies-get-rich-on-ten-years-of-war/
9. Karen DeYoun, "U.S. finds Afghan anti-corruption efforts 'deeply troubling,'" The Washington Post, December 11, 2012: http:// articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-11/world/35768044_1_ kabul-bank-afghan-government-cash-counters
10. Kevin T. Carroll, "Afghan Corruption-The Greatest Obstacle to Victory in Operation Enduring Freedom," Georgetown Journal of International Law vol. 43, no. 3 (Spring 2012): 873–898. Carroll's work gives a detailed account of the problems of corruption and how United States' funding has encouraged it.
11. Gordon McCormick and Lindsay Fritz, "The Logic of Warlord Politics," Third World Quarterly vol. 30, no. 1 (2009): 81–112.


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Review for Bestie by Bella Jewel
Title: Bestie
Series: Jokers Wrath MC
Author: Bella Jewel
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 13, 2016
From USA Today Bestselling Author Bella Jewel comes a new novel in the international bestselling Jokers Wrath MC Series.
The universe works in mysterious ways.
Well, it did for me, anyway.
It was like it knew that I needed him.
It put him in my life during a time I honestly thought I couldn't go on.
He was broken. I was broken.
We only had one thing to offer each other – friendship.
A true, deep, incredible friendship.
Laughter fixed us.
Talking bonded us.
He quickly became my everything.
This is our story.
I can't promise it's always perfect.
It might make you laugh.
It might make you cry.
It might even make you love.
It's real.
It's us. Besties.
**Contains Adult Themes - This book can be read as a standalone**
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Kim's Review
Bella Jewel's "Bestie" is the fifth tale in the Joker's Wrath MC series, but you can read it as a standalone, I did. Molly's boyfriend breaks up with her and she's a mess. She's just going through the motions for a bit. One day at the store she sees Roman, a man she's seen at a few gatherings. They chat and she recognizes something in his eyes... pain. They change numbers and see if they can be friends. What they end up with is a best friend in each other. Can a man and a woman be just friends? What happens when his ex comes back into the picture? What happens when her ex comes sniffing around? Find out this and more in this awesome read!!!
5 out of 5 stars
Author Bio
Bella Jewel is a self published, USA Today bestselling author. She's been publishing since 2013. Her first release was a contemporary romance, Hell's Knights which topped the charts upon release. Since that time, she has published over five novels, gaining a bestseller status on numerous platforms. She lives in North Queensland and is currently studying editing and proofreading to further expand her career. Bella has been writing since she was just shy of fifteen years old. In Summer 2013 she was offered an ebook deal through Montlake Romance for her bestselling modern day pirate series, Enslaved By The Ocean. She plans to expand her writing career, planning many new releases for the future.
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Badshah Khan's Islamic Nonviolence
I feel incredibly inspired by the wisdom, vision and life of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better know as Badshah. As a Muslim I feel that this path is one completely in tune with the inner unity and love of Islam.
For those who are unfamiliar with this great Muslim figure, I suggest reading Eknath Easwaran's book, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam.
Badshah Khan was a Pathan who defied the British much like his contemporary Gandhi. He created the largest nonviolent "army" in the world, the Khudai Khitmatgars. They were Pathans who set to follow the example of the Prophet and his followers during their time in Mecca, by showing unswerving patience, love and restraint in the face of brutality and violence. Sadly, he was imprisoned for more than half his life, first under British rule in India, and later in Pakistan as the North-West frontier became a part of it during partition
This is a powerful, courageous figure who led a movement to bring education, peace and prosperity to his people. This is Islamic liberation theology much like that of great Christian figures such as Oscar Romero. Islam is full of many figures like this. I cannot claim to be able to share anything new about Badshah Khan, yet I would like to share a few quotes.
This is the oath that the Khudai Khitmatgars had to take:
"I am a Khudai Khitmagar; and as God needs no service, but serving his creation is serving him, I promise to serve humanity in the name of God.
I promise to refrain from violence and from taking revenge.
I promise to forgive those who oppress me or treat me with cruelty.
I promise to refrain from taking part in feuds and quarrels and from creating enmity.
I promise to treat every Pathan as my brother and friend.
I promise to refrain from antisocial customs and practices.
I promise to live a simple life, to practice virtue and to refrain from evil.
I promise to practice good manners and good behavior and not to lead a life of idleness.
I promise to devote at least two hours a day to social work."
Here is a quote from Khan:
"I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it."


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School of Music
The School of Music of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts prepares students for professional careers. Our goal is twofold: to enable students to attain their highest musical aspirations and to meet the challenge of succeeding in a highly competitive profession. With this in mind, we have designed rigorous programs of study.
In its conservatory setting, UNCSA provides an artistic environment in which each student pursues personal musical development. But the School of Music is also a professional training ground in which the student actively and realistically prepares for the practical aspects of making a living as a musician.
Each student pursues a course of musical study with an outstanding artist-faculty. As professionals in their own areas, faculty members are committed to continuing their own careers while sharing a wealth of experience and knowledge with their students.
The School of Music offers two different programs of study: a four-year curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Music degree and a two-year curriculum leading to the Undergraduate Arts Certificate in Music. Both the degree and the certificate are offered with concentrations in the following areas:
- Brass (trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba, and euphonium)
- Composition
- Guitar
- Harp
- Organ
- Percussion
- Piano
- Strings (violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass)
- Voice
- Woodwinds (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and saxophone)
Bachelor of Music (Four-year program)
The Bachelor of Music program offers a student a thorough musical foundation coupled with the perspective of a liberal arts education. This mixture of music and liberal arts classes creates a well-rounded musician as well as one prepared for the demands of living in today's world. A student who may eventually choose to pursue graduate work in music should complete this course of study.
Undergraduate Arts Certificate in Music (Two-year program)
The Undergraduate Arts Certificate permits a student to concentrate entirely on musical studies in a rigorous yet flexible curriculum. The core of the certificate curriculum consists of applied work with an artist-faculty in the area of concentration, augmented by participation in ensembles as appropriate. The balance of the curriculum is flexible, reflecting the particular development and interests of the individual student, and draws from the music classroom courses offered in the degree program. These courses are chosen in consultation with the student's arts advisor and with the approval of the Associate Dean of the School of Music.
Career Development and Music Entrepreneurship Courses
To provide a student with entrepreneurial knowledge needed by a musician, all degree- seeking undergraduates take two semesters of Career Development Seminar. In addition to this required class, a student may choose from other courses to further enhance entrepreneurial skills and career preparedness, such as Digital Audio and Recording, Instrumental Conducting, Choral Conducting, Public Speaking, Writing for Your Profession, and Foundations of Finance. In addition, a percussion student has the opportunity to participate in a variety of internships specifically designed to provide hands-on experiences in areas of potential employment for freelance musicians. These include writing and arranging for college and public school marching bands, dance accompaniment, coordinating percussion activities in the public schools, and hand drumming in education, healthcare, and community settings.
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A. Admissions Requirements
Admission to all undergraduate programs in the School of Music is by application and audition. Specific information about application and audition requirements is available on the UNCSA website.
Applicants for the Bachelor of Music degree or the Undergraduate Arts Certificate must hold a high school diploma or GED. In addition, degree-seeking applicants must meet the Minimum Course Requirements (MCRs) and Minimum Admission Requirements (MARs) of the University of North Carolina system. Specific information about MCRs and MARs, as well as TOEFL scores for international students, is available in the Office of Admissions section of the Bulletin.
To be admissible to any undergraduate program in the School of Music, applicants must possess the following essential qualifications:
- Aural ability to discriminate discrete pitches;
- Visual ability sufficient to read standard notated music;
- Visual ability sufficient to recognize and interpret gestures of a conductor for concentrations requiring ensemble participation;
- Fine motor skills sufficient to play a keyboard instrument regardless of area of concentration;
- Ability to participate in group instruction.
B. Transfer Information
The School of Music accepts transfer credit for Music curriculum requirements from accredited undergraduate programs on a case-by-case basis. Only courses that have received a grade of "C" or better will be considered, and transfer credit may not account for more than 50 percent of the degree. Transfer credit will be determined by the Associate Dean of the School of Music, be based upon evaluation of the student's transcript and/or UNCSA School of Music placement assessments in consultation with the appropriate faculty, and be approved by the Dean of the School of Music. To receive consideration for transfer credit, a student must make a formal request in writing to the Associate Dean of the School of Music.
A. Undergraduate Jury Requirements
Undergraduate students are expected to participate in all departmental juries.
B. Undergraduate Recital Requirements
Undergraduate students concentrating in performance are required to perform a full recital during the senior year. This capstone requirement is satisfied upon successful completion of both a juried recital hearing and the public performance of the same recital program. The recital hearing is the mechanism through which a student receives faculty approval to proceed with the public performance. This approval includes both the contents of the program as well as the student's preparation. The hearing is at least twenty minutes in length and occurs no less than three weeks before the public performance, with a minimum of two faculty members (recital hearing jury) present, including the major teacher. The hearing may include any portions of the recital program selected by the faculty in attendance. At the hearing, the student must provide a printed copy of the recital program containing titles, composers, and timings of pieces.
Written comments and a pass/fail grade for the recital hearing are given by each faculty member. A majority of the recital hearing jury must approve the recital hearing. In cases in which a majority of the faculty do not assign a passing grade, remediation for successful completion of the recital hearing is recommended and an appropriate timeline for a second hearing is established.
Undergraduate composition students are required to produce one recital of their works under the guidance of faculty in the composition department.
C. Minimum Grade Point Averages, Probation, and Non-Continuation
Students in the School of Music are expected to achieve and maintain certain minimum Grade Point Averages (GPAs). Failure to achieve and/or maintain these minimum GPAs results in placement on probation and ultimately in non-continuation in the program. Specific information about minimum GPA requirements, probation and non-continuation is available in the Institutional Policies Section of the Bulletin.


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In an unexpected press release at the San Diego Comic Con 2014 Boom! Studios and IDW Publishing have announced that the original Star Trek cast will meet the original Planet of the Apes cast in a crossover title.
Both franchises are enormously popular amongst not only Science Fiction buffs but comic fans as well. Personally I can't wait!
Having read the excellent Star Trek/Doctor Who crossover published by IDW in which the Doctor and the crew of the Next Generation team up against an alliance of the Borg and Cybermen these fantastic mixes of fantasy fiction make exiting and interesting reading.
The Press release reads:
San Diego, CA (July 25, 2014) – Have you ever wondered what it would be like to "mind-meld" with a sentient ape? Or wanted to see a Klingon on horseback, brandishing a rifle? Readers will soon have a chance to peek into just such an alternate future, as IDW Publishing partners with BOOM! Studios for the crossover event of the year: Star Trek/Planet of the Apes.
IDW will publish the crossover, which will mark the first time BOOM! Studios has partnered with another publisher on a series. Together they will bring Star Trek, licensed by CBS Consumer Products, and 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes together in a way that is sure to delight existing fans and make new ones. The series will pair the original U.S.S. Enterprise crew with Taylor, Nova and the cast from the original Planet of the Apes film.
"Planet of the Apes and Star Trek are groundbreaking science-fiction properties and both deal with many of the same social issues and themes," says Greg Goldstein IDW President & Chief Operating Officer. "A crossover between the two is a natural and long overdue."
"Before I could read comic books as a child, I could watch science fiction on my television. My dad used to wake me up way past my bedtime to watch Star Trek in syndication—it came on after the nightly news—and I took a Planet of the Apes lunchbox with me to kindergarten every day," says BOOM! Studios Founder and CEO Ross Richie. "Suffice to say, teaming up these two titans of science fiction on the page in a way that they probably will never meet each other on the silver screen is a huge moment for me personally and emotionally."
The creative team will be a mix of proven experience and new blood with scripts by beloved Star Trek scribes Scott and David Tipton (Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation 2) and interior art and covers by the British newcomer Rachael Stott.
"With the Klingons secretly backing a renegade gorilla general in a coup for control of Ape City, Captain Kirk finds himself in the uncomfortable position of having to help out Dr. Zaius' orangutans," explains David Tipton. "Taylor won't be happy with that!"
"What an epic pairing! I'm so excited to see Taylor, Kirk…and those damned dirty apes…in our upcoming comic," says IDW editor Sarah Gaydos, "We're eager to team up these exciting creative forces to bring this to life."
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Who are the burned out backpackers, you're probably thinking? I asked myself if I will ever get burned out backpacking? Why would I? It's fun, it's awesome, it's adventure. All you have to do is travel around indefinitely, aimlessly, just following where your instincts want to go, discover things you never thought you will or learned something you only dreamed of doing(and thought it was impossible). I thought then, NEVAH!
I met lots of long time travellers too, backpacking all over the world continuously for years and some of them said, they will soon have to stop, go back to their country and work, or settle somewhere to live (whether in Southeast Asia or Europe or somewhere away from their home country). It is fun going around, meeting people, doing things, exploring languages and cultures but when you're doing it for so long, you will get burned out, bored.
Bored?! Well, yeah…funny how I thought then "How the hell would that kind of lifestyle bore you?" I think, its not how but when it becomes your routine, no matter how adventurous your routine is will become normal to you and soon will bore you.
Did I felt the same? Hell yeah! The first time I went backpacking non stop for more than a year and a half Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific, slowly got me bored and tired hopping places to places that I thought I want to settle down (good thing I didn't). I went back to Philippines and wanted something new, but I know travelling will always be a part of me.
I went working in Singapore, but then again after few months of draining myself working and thinking about the visa stuff, I started travelling again and that time I was bold enough to do it alone. Once again, the travel bug's venom was triggered in my blood and it was stronger. Stronger, because even after 3-4 months backpacking solo I still have to go and do flashpacks here and there.
My passion to see the world is still there, and I don't know when or will it ever stop burning in me but true to the title, burned out backpackers will always look for adventure, just need to break the routine!
Lyndsay is the mind behind this fashion blog, she also blogs about her travels on Discount Travel Blogger giving tips on how to explore the world as cheap as possible. She has earned units in Masters in Psychology, designs websites and graphics, online marketer, YouTuberand a singer by heart.


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Money in Muay Thai & Fighters Pay – Why British Muay Thai "is Getting Bigger BUT Very, Very Slowly" – Muay Thai Grand Prix world champion, Danny Edwards, explains the issues effecting the development of both Muay Thai and Kickboxing in the UK (and across the western world), including: the money in Muay Thai, fighters pay and how this and much more adversely effects the growth of British Muay Thai.
Edwards fights out of K-Star Legacy Gym in Birmingham, under the coaching of former two-time world champion, Damien Trainor. Edwards's next Muay Thai fight is against multiple world champion, Michael Wakeling in April 2019 for, the vacant 76.7kg Muay Thai Grand Prix world title.
Support K1ANOOP via Patreon from £1/month to produce more videos about Kickboxing and Muay Thai fighters.
Interviewed by, Anoop Hothi – Instagram @anoophothi @k1anoop
With thanks to: Danny Edwards (Instagram @edwards901), Damien Trainor (Instagram @trainor103) & K-Star Legacy Gym.
Photo Credit (Featured Image/Thumbnail): Buakaw – Screengrab via YouTube: MAX Muay Thai.


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- Model name: Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
- Focus Type: Autofocus / Manual
- Format : FX / APS-C / Crop Sensor
- Mounts: Nikon F
- Color: Black
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A state of the art lens optimized for both FX and DX format Nikon DSLRs, the AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED covers a very popular focal length range. It features many of the advancements in lens technology achieved by Nikon in the last few years. A constant f/2.8 aperture means the leans is perfect for low light photography. Together with the zoo range that covers a wide angle of 24mm to a zoom of 70mm, this lens is perfect for a range of needs.
Nikon has built-in its Nano Crystals elements in the glass to eliminate much of the flare and ghosting that normally plagues lenses at wide focal length. Silent Wave Motor (SWM) technology allows for ultra quiet focusing, a major advantage when using the auto-focusing capabilities of the lens.
A majority of Nikon's lenses come with the ED (Extra-low dispersion glass) technology. This is ideal for the purpose of reducing color fringing or chromatic aberration. Precision Glass Mold (PGM) Aspherical elements (AS) ensures that the lens has a reduced spherical aberration as well with increased sharpness and contrast. Nikon's M/A (Auto to Manual) focusing feature allows the user to switch to manual focusing instantaneously simply by turning the focusing ring. IF (Internal focusing) allows for a non-obtrusive lens barrel.
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|15 elements in 11 groups (with 3 ED glass elements, 3 aspherical lenses and one Nano Crystal Coat)
|84° – 34°20' (61° – 22°50' with DX-format camera)
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|0.38 m/1.2 ft. (with focal length 35-50 mm
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|Approx. 900 g/31.7 oz.
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On November 24, 1992, "Columbia" label released "The Future", the ninth Leonard Cohen studio album. It was recorded January – June 1992, and was produced by Leonard Cohen, Steve Lindsey, Bill Ginn, Leanne Ungar, Rebecca De Mornay and Yoav Goren. The album was certified Platinum in Canada by "Music Canada".
- Leonard Cohen – vocals, programming, saxophone, violin
- Bob Metzger, Paul Jackson Jr., Dean Parks, Dennis Herring – guitar
- Freddie Washington, Bob Glaub, Lee Sklar– bass
- Steve Lindsey, Greg Phillinganes, Jeff Fisher, Randy Kerber, John Barnes, James Cox, Mike Finnigan, Stephen Croes – keyboards
- Steve Meador, James Gadson, Vinnie Colaiuta, Ed Greene– drums
- Lenny Castro– percussion
- Brandon Fields, Lon Price – tenor saxophone
- Greg Smith – baritone saxophone
- Lee Thornburg – trumpet, trombone
- Bob Furgo – violin
- Anjani Thomas, Jacquelyn Gouche-Farris, Tony Warren, Valerie Pinkston-Mayo, Julie Christensen, Perla Batalla, David Morgan, Jennifer Warnes, Edna Wright, Jean Johnson, Peggi Blu – backing vocals
- The A. Mass Choir– choir; directed by Donald Taylor
- David Campbell – orchestral and background vocal arrangements
Track listing:
All tracks by Leonard Cohen, except where noted.
- The Future
- Waiting for the Miracle – Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson
- Be for Real – Frederick Knight
- Closing Time
- Anthem
- Democracy
- Light as the Breeze
- Always – Irving Berlin
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4th spot on the bench
There are eight players vying for this last bench spot alongside Ramon Castro, Mark Teahen, and Omar Vizquel. What's sad, if not unsurprising, is that some of the best performers in camp come from this group of players, fighting for their major-league lives.
The Pick: Lastings Milledge
The pick could easily be at least five of the other seven players, but Milledge brings a "wow" factor to the White Sox that could prove crucial in the case of a prolonged slump or injury. The onetime first-rounder has proven nearly as sound defensively as Brent Lillibridge and Alejandro De Aza and is every bit the baserunner. He also brings more pop as evidenced by his pair of home runs on Thursday to bring his Cactus league total to four.
Fundamentally (bunting), he might trail the competition, but the White Sox have enough bunters on the roster. It also helps that as the fifth outfielder (given that Teahen will likely see a healthy chunk of time spelling Carlos Quentin in right), Milledge balances the bench as a right-hander, which gives him an advantage over De Aza. Perhaps the biggest advantage Milledge has over the competition is five walks against five strikeouts—all of the other aspirant outfielders are much heavier on the Ks.
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Take a look at the newest addition to the hit video game franchise that has sold more than eight million copies worldwide with the latest batch of Zumba Fitness Core screenshots. Check out in-game venues, superstar Zumba instructors and exclusive gameplay below.
Zumba Fitness Core features 40 new songs and routines, 33 international dance styles from around the world and hot new choreography designed to sculpt stronger abs through a total body workout. PARTY YOUR ABS OFF as celebrity Zumba instructors guide you through routines set to a range of current chart-topping hits, era classics, exclusive re-records and genre-blending fusion tracks that together with new Zumba original songs, deliver the most diverse range of dance styles of any Zumba Fitness game to date. Choose from 45 different pre-set classes or customize your workout to suit your preference. New fitness features include nutrition and lifestyle tips plus personal goals you can work toward to keep motivated. Skip the crunches and dance your way to tight, toned abs with this engaging new interactive fitness experience!
Zumba Fitness Core will launch October 16, 2012 for the Wii system from Nintendo and Kinect for Xbox 360. A playable Kinect for Xbox 360 demo is also now available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Pre-order the game and find out more at www.ZumbaFitnessGame.com.