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It's a sunny day in the Big Apple and the editor of Follies Magazine, Dean Richards, is having a bit of a day. His finance manager, Carter Drummond, has just informed him that the bank isn't giving him another loan, he just got blasted over the phone by literary agent Gary Manning about his client Ben Forman's upcoming profile on JB Fletcher, and his assistant Ellen Harper has just shown him some photos that suck.
Some top-notch exposition right there.
Across town, the profile piece on JB Fletcher is going well.
Unfortunately what with Ben's constant crashing bumping and spilling things the interview has to be cut short as Jess has Business. Instead Ben decides he'll follow JB around the next day.
Jess heads off to her lunch meeting, which happens to be with Dean Richards and his lady friend Kathryn Schofield, and assures Dean that the profile is going a treat and that Ben is adorable. Kathryn goes off to her photo shoot leaving Dean and Jess to throwback cocktails until local media mogul Harrison Kane pops up.
"Been a long time!" He says to JB.
Turns out Harrison isn't there to see JB, he just wants to remind Dean that if he doesn't accept Harrison's bid for the magazine Harrison will just run the magazine out of business. He sashays away, and JB explains to Dean that a year earlier Harrison was shopping around a movie option for one of JB's books that he didn't have rights to and did such a bad job that by the time a legitimate producer wanted the rights the whole thing was cactus.
Meanwhile, Ben is kicking back relaxing all cool shooting some bball outside after school at his house with his friend/raging crush Abby Peters, who is rehearsing for an audition that afternoon. She thinks she'd be a big success if she had an agent like Ben so he gives his agent a call, and tells Abby that she should call him that afternoon. Abby's boyfriend Dave picks her up and tells her he hopes she's learned her lines this time.
Jesus Dave, calm down.
After they leave Ben gets a phone call from Harrison Kane, who is rather impressed with Ben's screenplay and wants to turn it into a movie, but he thinks Ben should get a different agent – Gary Manion is demanding 100K for the rights to it. Ben says he'll see what he can do, and suggests Abby for one of the roles. Harrison tells him to have her people call his people to sort it out.
Harrison hangs up. Kathryn Schofield is disinterestedly reading a magazine on his couch.
The next day Ben manages to get his last bits of interview from Jess as she races about the place. As she jumps into a taxi, she gives him a free word of advice – keep an eye on his script, and his wallet, around Harrison Kane.
Word must get back to Gary Manion as he puts a ferocious call into Harrison Kane, livid that Kane has shopped around scripts he doesn't have the rights to. Harrison can't get a word in. Manion says it's 100K or nothing, and there'll be hell to pay if he shops the script around or does one of his famous scope'n'gropes on Abby Peters.
*Coughs* Relevant *Coughs*
Manion hangs up on Kane, and there's a knock on the door. It's Carter Drummond, begging Harrison not to rescind his offer. Kane tells him too late, he's going to destroy Follies Magazine and everyone involved in it, and to get the hell out. Carter departs, leaving Kane with a letter from his lawyers. Something about financial records which I'm sure is important.
Meanwhile, Kathryn is hard at work going about her model business, while a frustrated photographer called Hans bemoans her lack of interest. Dean calls a wrap and orders Hans to deliver some photos by 10am the next morning.
The above goes the way you expect these things to go. Ben arrives just to hear banging and crashing, Abby shouting "NO!" and then sees her run out of the room and into the elevator. He chases her but she flees into a taxi and disappears into the traffic. Meanwhile, room service arrives at Kane's hotel room to find Kane dead in the bathtub with a hair dryer.
NYPD's finest detective, Stan Zbornak Artie Gelber is naturally assigned the case and pops round JB's house for a statement and a chat, as Jessica's name appears in Harrison Kane's little black book. JB confirms that she and Dean saw Kane at the restaurant two days ago, and that she and Kane didn't have the best relationship. Artie wants to make this quick, he's got reservations in the Catskills etc etc
Ben Forman, who was at JB's going over his draft of the profile piece, makes to leave but Artie has questions for him too. Jess asks him if they have any suspects and Artie tells her half the world had it in for Harrison Kane. They do know that at some point the previous night Kane had a visitor from someone who liked cigars and bourbon but that they hadn't ID'd them yet.
Down at Follies HQ Dean and Gary are getting into it over the phone, ending in Gary telling Dean to treat Ben with more respect or he walks, and Dean telling Gary if he tries to extort more money out of him for Ben they are all finished. Carter the finance guy is there too, freaking out after Harrison's untimely demise – with him dead, the banks think Follies have no more money, but Dean says he's got some leads.
Jess is summoned down to the precinct when her fingerprints turn up on a manuscript, but it turns out to be hers – the one Kane was shopping around without permission the previous year. Detective Henderson pops his head in to say they still hadn't found Gary Manion, and that there were still some prints they hadn't identified. Artie apologises for dragging Jessica into it and she tells him for what it's worth she was home alone at the time of the murder.
Out in the street, Carter the finance guy and Ellen the assistant at Follies trade barbs. Ellen is meant to be spying on Dean for Carter, which she initially agreed to when Dean started up with Kathryn but now she wants out and she doesn't care if Carter tells Dean she was spying for him.
Back at home Jess gets a phone call from Dean asking if she's heard from Gary Manion or from Ben – he's gone AWOL and hasn't submitted his profile on JB. Jess tells him she'll get right on it, and calls the phone company pretending to be Gary Manion's secretary. Praise be for lax security.
And now lets take a moment to appreciate how 90s this actually is:
Jess is hot on the trail of Garry Manion and heads down to his office, where she first runs into Abby Peters and then Artie and Detective Henderson, the latter of which elegantly breaks into the office. There's no sign of Manion inside, but JB has a sneaking suspicion she knows where to find him.
They head over to Ben's house, and find Garry on the phone, issuing more ultimatums.
Artie puts Ben under arrest and they all cruise down to the precinct. While Artie wanders around congratulating himself Ben explains to Jess that Garry Manion was a creation borne out of necessity – editors wouldn't read his work unless he had an agent and agents wouldn't look at his work unless he'd already sold something. So, he became Garry Manion.
Artie pops back in and confirms that Ben's prints are all over everything plus someone saw him there. Jess tells him to wait and speak to his lawyer but Ben says there's no point, he's ready to sign a confession. Artie's stoked, he's got Catskills to get to, but Jess isn't buying it. She has a theory though.
Meanwhile, Dean and Kathyrn are out to dinner. Dean has an ulterior motive, which Kathryn spots a mile away – Dean needs more money to keep the paper afloat and Kathryn has it. They are interrupted by the appearance of Ellen, who lets Dean know the magazine went to print with the JB article and it's great. She senses tension and wanders off again. Kathryn tells Dean she'll think about the loan.
Jess goes to see Abby, and despite the constant interruptions from Dave the 90s guy, manages to get Abby to admit to being in the hotel room.
She also picks up a magazine.
At his studio, Hans is about to settle in for a solid night of drinking when he finds Carter sitting in a chair.
"The pictures Hans." Says Carter.
"I haven't got them." Says Hans.
"Stop jerking me around Hans." Says Carter. "Hello Hans. You're breaking my balls"
The pictures, apparently, are of Kathryn in bed with Harrison Kane, which Carter was going to use to break up Dean and Kathryn. Hans tells Carter he destroyed them.
Back at the police station Abby explains what happened with Harrison and Ben explains that after he saw Abby run out he went in to yell at Harrison, found him dead, freaked out and tried to cover up evidence of Abby's crime. Except it wasn't Abby. Artie is delighted Jess convinced her to come forward, he's sure that hers is the only set of fingerprints left unidentified and it seals Ben's fate.
Artie's about to head out at last, when he gets a phone call from Jess – she wants to know where Abby got that magazine from. She tells Artie she doesn't know, and Artie and Jess go to her apartment to take a look at it. It's addressed to Hans "You're breaking my balls" the photographer.
Over dinner that night, Jess tells Dean and Kathyrn that the evidence against Abby is mounting up and that the police are going to search Abby's apartment the next day. Which is all the bait she needs.
I mean everyone else had a motive, so why not her? She gave Harrison money to finance a movie that she was meant to be in, but then she found out Harrison had no money so she bumped him off.
Ugh it's too hot to question this.


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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
White Wednesday - Finally...pics of my white room
8 comments:
- NanaNor's said...
Hi Nellie, Loved seeing your white pieces-all so elegant and perfect together-especially Becky's pieces(boy does she have some talent and you are blessed to receive them). I'm just now settling back in from being away so had to stop by and say hello. Glad everything is well with you dear.
Hugs, Noreen
- October 25, 2011 at 6:39 PM
- Debbie said...
Don't you just love decorating with whites?
Your shelves look great!
The pumpkin from Becky is very sweet.
good job!!!!
- October 25, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- Lois Christensen said...
It looks really nice! And I knew that was Becky's pumpkin the minute I saw it! She does such pretty work! Glad your daughter is home and you get to finally see her tonight! Hope the plans are continuing to come along nicely! Enjoy your visit!
- October 25, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- BECKY said...
YAY for the homecoming of the honeymooners!! I just have to hear all about it!!
Love the white room gal! You do such a lovely job with your vignettes!! {such joy to see my creations in amongst them, too!} :o)
Hopefully we can connect in the next day or so! Felt like I was getting sick last night, but apparently fought it off!! Woohoo!
Have a wonderful day!
Holler if you need some help!!
Love you,
- October 26, 2011 at 9:10 AM
- sistersusiesays said...
WOW! Nellie, I didn't know you had so many things that are white! My favorite is the little bird next to the bird house!
Love to you,
- October 26, 2011 at 8:12 PM
- Diane said...
OMGosh, I ♥ all your pretty "whites". That pumpkin is just the cutest. I think I would leave it out year round Ÿ
- October 27, 2011 at 3:45 PM
- Jennifer said...
Just LOVE those white pumpkins!! Everything looks so nice - I really like the way you group things together on your shelves. Hope everything comes together - with all that you have going on!!
Enjoy every day:)
- October 27, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Sue said...
Oh my...your shelf is stunning and everything is placed perfectly! How beautiful!
- November 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM

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With the advent of the mobile phone and SMSs, life was all about 160 characters. But we guess, Google has taken it further and beyond. Rockying presents to you the funniest yet the scariest experience the world of Google has to offer! Let us see what the Google Punch has to offer:
Invasion of privacy: Well this is what the video has to say. Have a look!
The video is hilarious but the trailing message it leaves behind looks scary. Once an individual open an account with Google mail or any other domain, the Google spiders capture all the information stored in it. The very fact that you are searchable has made Google almost larger than life.
To quote a dialogue from I, Robot: We robots will ensure mankind's continued existence… At times, the creator needs to be protected by its creation…"
Now this is intimidating. If one looks at it closely, it almost seems like this Teserect (you would know if you have seen Avengers) that once created seems to grow and gather power on its own. Privacy invasion? Guaranteed.
The piling database and information that Google has every passing minute has already impacted several businesses and individuals. Even though it provides all information at zero expense but the information that humans put into use can back fire at some point in time.
Google by the end of the next decade will possibly have the highest potential to turn everything into a digital pool. Who knows, it just might be the last sane "MAN" on the face of the earth?
Tickle your humor bone and see what all can turn Google in the near future!
- TOOTHBRUSH: Your dirty toothbrush post the brushing session will update itself online and 224,55567,0000 views will decide your dental expenses!
- THE PAINT BRUSH: Every stroke will decide its own colour and even tell if that stroke was plagiarized from Van Gogh or Monet. It will directly put all paintings on slide shows and the number of clicks will decide the longevity of the painting.
- THE GOOGLE FLOWER: It will grow only on an Ipad or the computer screen. Mobile phones can sow the seeds and see that it germinates but the flower would need a bigger screen space for growth. It will not need sunlight. LED lights emanated from computer screen would do.
- THE GOOGLE ROCKING CHAIR: The faster you swing, the more easily you are traced and stay connected. The moment you get off the chair, the viewers will be able to see your activities.
- THE GOOGLE BODY METER: It will keep a track of the exact number of times you swallowed and breathed. This information will be used for national and citizenship records. In short, Google will replace the concept of death and birth certificates. Once you are plugged, it is all online.


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Wed 24 Sep 2008
Screaming inside, but nobody can hear – feeling powerlessPosted by rapunzel under Personal Growth
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I feel like a non-person. This is nothing new, but I am feeling so powerless and invisible right now. And stuck. I don't know what to say. Saying anything gets me in trouble. Not saying anything keeps me stuck. The whole thing gives me a horrible headache, and I think that maybe I shouldn't exist.
 I wanted to keep this positive here, but tonight I need to try to sort some things out. And I would appreciate any help that you can offer. Okay, I was going to write more of the details, but if I did that, I would sound like I am whining, if I don't already. Let's just say it isn't limited to one area of my life, but right now I'm extremely burned out with my job, not because I don't like the job or the people I work with, but because the administration does not seem to appreciate me. It is really at a critical level right now, and I've tried to tell them so, and they just keep on making it worse.
I am recognizing a pattern, and it is lack of personal power. Any sense of having control of my own life was systematically destroyed during my childhood. I gave up a long time ago, and trying to gain some control now is an uphill battle and I'm facing major obstacles and often ready to give up again and conclude that I don't deserve to have a chance, or even to exist. Yeah, following that thought out to its conclusion is a pretty bad place.
So, okay, since I have identified lack of personal power as my problem, I went looking for some information about Personal Power, and found a helpful article. This quote kind-of says it:
To feel that we are worthwhile individuals, to know that we exist, we have to express our power – feel that we are in control. This imperative to express our power and experience control is central to human behavior. Every human does something to express his or her power in the world. This power can be expressed creatively or destructively.
Humans first attempt to express their power creatively. If such attempts fail repeatedly, they experience themselves as powerless. They may feel helpless and hopeless, and become depressed. What they experience is that they cannot make a positive difference in their own lives or in the world. A cognitive breakdown occurs between their actions and the results they produce. Mentally and intellectually they cease to understand the connections between their behavior and the consequences of their behavior. Then they express their power destructively.
The article is here if you want to read it. And there is some good stuff in there, with discussion of Martin Seligman and Learned Helplessness, and Learned Optimism, and Ghandi, and how to use Power Messages.
I am still scared and don't have much confidence, but I have to admit that reading that article at least gave me a sense that I can try something, if only to find information to validate how I'm feeling.


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In a world where meat is murder and your car rapes the environment, where your shoes are hand stitched by a one-armed, malnourished-epileptic Filipino child, what are we meant to do? Who will point us in a direction that will leave both our wallet and conscience intact? BATMAN, that's who!
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Eric Trump becomes second Trump to appear on radio show with ties to white nationalism
Eric Trump appeared on a radio program with ties to white nationalist James Edwards on Wednesday, proving yet again that the Trump campaign doesn't seem too concerned about its image, according to Right Wing Watch. He's the second Trump to do so.
The young Trump spoke with "Liberty Roundtable" host Sam Bushman about Tuesday's vice presidential debate, as well as how his father will save America's "inner cities."
The Trump campaign came under fire earlier this year when Donald Jr. appeared on the same program but was interviewed by Edwards, who was called in by Bushman as another guest.
Edwards is the host of the racist radio show "The Political Cesspool," which he founded in 2005 just outside of Memphis, Tennessee.
The show's mission statement suggests that it "stands for the Dispossessed Majority" and is "pro-white," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
However, the radio host told the Huffington Post in March that he and his team "reject media descriptions of our work as 'white supremacist,' 'pro-slavery' and other such scare words."
After appearing on "Liberty Roundtable" with Bushman and Edwards earlier this year, Donald Jr. was under fire for agreeing to speak on the show with the white nationalist.
Liberals love the first amendment until you say something they don't agree with.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 12, 2016
He denied knowing that Edwards would be on the show or that he had any knowledge of his background, claiming "He was brought into the interview without my knowledge." He added, "Had I known, I would have obviously never done an interview with him," Bloomberg reported at the time.
Now that Eric spoke on the same radio talk show on which his brother appeared, it would seem that the Trump campaign isn't even trying to distance itself from the white nationalist movement.


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The Review/ Feature/
Picking up the Pieces
The music director of the celebrated Against the Grain Theatre opera company considers Schoenberg, Straub-Huillet, and the dangers of "difficulty"
On Sunday, March 12, the award-winning Canadian indie opera company Against the Grain Theatre will perform pieces by Claude Vivier and Arnold Schoenberg in advance of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's cinematic adaptation of Schoenberg's opera Moses and Aaron, screening as part of TIFF Cinematheque's Straub-Huillet retrospective.
Two weeks ago, Against the Grain joined us in the TIFF Bell Lightbox atrium for a live open rehearsal of the pieces being performed. Below, you can watch the video of this unique presentation, and also read AtG musical director Topher Mokrzewski's helpful primer on Schoenberg's work — along with his own ambivalent reflections on the shadow that the composer has cast upon 20th- (and 21st-)century music.
These are the facts: Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an Austrian Jewish classical composer whose life-long compositional trajectory began in the lush terrain of late-19th century Romanticism, developed (some would argue inevitably) into the dark post-tonal chaos of German expressionism, and culminated in that historic and fundamental break from the tonal bonds — which had ruled the structure and methodology of Western music composition for centuries — known as the 12-tone system.
It is no easy feat to write about the most pivotal figure in 20th-century classical music. It is an enterprise which takes one back to those not so heady days of music school, where feverish evenings were occupied in desperate attempts to write anything of consequence for the imminently due music history paper. Back when I was learning his music, it was made clear to me that Schoenberg's importance and value was not up for debate. It was taken for granted that he was a great composer, and views to the contrary were neither encouraged nor looked upon favourably. Yet while I am fundamentally in agreement with my former professors from a historical and musical standpoint, and while I have a minor affinity for a few of Schoenberg's works, if I am being completely honest with myself (and with you), I must make an admission. Dear reader, I must confess that I do not really care for the music of Arnold Schoenberg. And I reckon that I'm not the only one.
But let us return to that subject later. The first issue we must address is the question of what makes Schoenberg the most pivotal figure in 20th- century music.
Schoenberg began his musical career as an acolyte of the now almost universally beloved symphonist, Gustav Mahler. Mahler famously wrote that to compose a symphony was, for him, akin to the construction of a world, which is to say it was a creative act of epic proportions.
Gustav Mahler, Third Symphony
Mahler came by his grandeur honestly. The late 19th century was, musically speaking, an inferno that had been set aflame by the genius of Richard Wagner, who famously wrote lengthy operas on grand subjects to poetic prose of his own creation. His aim was to achieve the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art: Wagner believed that the unification of multiple art forms — literary, philosophical, musical, theatrical and more, all tied together with a bow in operatic form — was the only means of achieving progress in art in general.
While Wagner often wrote lengthy polemics on these (and a great many other!) subjects, it is in his musical language that we hear these principles most powerfully put into action. Wagner's music is intensely chromatic, unstable, churning, heated; unlike much of the music from generations before, it does not adhere to strict key relationships, and the tonal boundaries (that is to say, the predominance of certain key centres) are stretched to a hitherto unparalleled degree.
Wagner's operas shook the musical world to its very foundations, and became the inspiration for many composers who followed in his footsteps and applied his aesthetic principles to their own work. It's thus that Mahler was to the symphony what Wagner was to opera, and both were of tremendous importance in the development of the young Schoenberg. In early works like the famous Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), we hear a Schoenberg wholly enthralled by the music of his predecessors: the harmonies are rich and complex, the character is hyper-Romantic, and the overall impression is decidedly sensual.
But the continual subverting of the dominance of tonality by ever more adventurous chromaticism came with consequences. It gradually became clear to Schoenberg (as, indeed, it probably did to Mahler as well, though he died too early to "get there") that the very fabric of Western musical language was being torn apart. At the turn of the 20th century, and in direct response to the cultural predominance of Wagner's work, many composers began to find alternative modes of expression and new ways in which to communicate their musical intentions. As Schoenberg began his second phase of experimentation, in atonality (music which no longer operates under the hegemony of a key centre and the regimented tonal relationships which are a by-product of that dominance), his Russian colleague Stravinsky was creating a scandal in Paris with The Rite of Spring, and Debussy and (to a lesser extent) Ravel had revolutionized French music with so-called "Impressionism." Like Europe in general, European music was in a continuous state of flux.
A brief moment of backtracking is required here in order to shed a little more light on the musical makeup of Schoenberg, with the aim of understanding why he eventually devised the system of 12-tone composition. It's important to note that while Wagner unquestionably dominated the music world of the late 19th century, his innovations were not developed in a vacuum. Rather, they were a response to a larger musical battle which had transpired earlier in the century, one rather dramatically dubbed the "War of the Romantics." Wagner's principal enemy here was Johannes Brahms, a composer who was obsessed with the historical and conceived of his own work as an extension of the tradition which he had inherited from Bach, Handel, Mozart, and most especially Beethoven.
Johannes Brahms, Second Symphony
The details of this aesthetic debate are too complex to be related here, but the mention of Brahms is nonetheless important, as Schoenberg was very much a fan of the composer — a fact which is quite interesting to note, given the polarized nature of musical discourse around this time. The fact that Schoenberg was heavily influenced by Brahms, that lover of old forms and link to the venerable stylistic past of the first Viennese school, indicates that the progressive, rule-bending tendencies he inherited from the Wagnerians was balanced by a strong desire for rigorous order and formal organization.
In the 1920s, Schoenberg — feeling the historical imperative to bring order out of atonal chaos — devised the 12-tone system. Instead of composing works in, say, the key of D major, or shimmying in the endless chromatic muck, he created a method of writing music that takes all 12 tones in the chromatic scale, renders them equal in value, and then organizes them into cells which act as building blocks upon which the composition can be structured. As he continued to develop this method, he applied ever more elaborate devices by which to treat the 12-tone cell, known as a "row" or "set." This was a revolutionary, and complicated, new way to organize music, and it garnered Schoenberg much praise and much derision.
As far as Schoenberg was concerned, however, the 12-tone system was moving music into the future. Schoenberg later went on to mentor his own group of acolytes, who would be collectively identified under the moniker of the "Second Viennese School." And his influence did not stop at Berg and Webern: many composers of the next generation took his basic system and ran with it, developing what is now called "serial" music. If 12-tone compositions employ collections of 12-tone segments and manipulate them, then why — so the serialists asked — could this manner of arrangement not also apply to the principles of rhythm, dynamics, or timbre? Over the coming decades, serialism became the dominant compositional force of Western classical music; it was intellectually rigorous and staunchly defended ideologically, with at times an almost religious fervency — think, for example, of Pierre Boulez.
(*Ed. note: is it mere chance that one of Straub-Huillet's earliest supporters was *the serialist composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote to Straub, à propos of his divisive first short film Machorka-Muff,
"You yourself must know that you have not chosen an easy path…. What interested me above all in your film was the composition of the film-time; it is closely related to music. It is all the more astonishing that a film that is relatively taut and brief should have the courage of slow tempi, of pauses, rests…. You have let each element arrive at its own irreplaceable moment. Nothing in the film could be altered or replaced; and there is no ornamentation. 'Everything is essential,' as Webern said.")
The most prominent Schoenberg work featured in the Straub-Huillet retrospective is the composer's only opera,* Moses and Aaron*, which is widely considered to be his masterpiece. Schoenberg wrote this work, which chronicles the Hebrew quest for liberation, as both an expression of his Jewish identity and a response to the rise of anti-Semitic prejudice as Nazism spread across Europe. In this regard, therefore, it is a piece which is as timely as ever, since despite a dark century of history it seems that we have not yet found our way toward universal kindness and mutual respect for one another. Like the opera itself, the work of uniting all humanity in harmony remains unfinished.
Excerpt from the Vienna State Opera's 2006 production of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron
From the same production
Though Schoenberg often expressed a desire to complete Moses and Aaron — and though he would eventually immigrate safely to the United States and live well beyond the dark decade when the piece was written — for whatever reason he never got around to it. He did, however, spend the remainder of his days composing and mentoring younger composers. More than any other composer of his era, Schoenberg's ideas were disseminated far and wide, eventually forming the foundation upon which much of the rest of 20th-century music is built. One could even argue that he is responsible for nearly all music that followed, since even diametrically opposed styles (e.g., minimalism) were developed in direct response to the heavily intellectual, rule- and process-based organization of serialism.
Notwithstanding Schoenberg's pre-eminence among subsequent generations of composers, however, many musicians, concertgoers and commentators (both in his own time and afterward) have expressed philosophical opposition to the overly intellectualized and rather severe approach represented by the 12-tone system and serialism. Indeed, the track upon which composers of this stripe have set forth has at times been one of conscious snobbery and anti-democratic sentiment. When the American serial composer Milton Babbitt famously penned an article entitled "Who Cares if You Listen?," he was expressing the view of many composers who have set their sails against the winds of audience appreciation.
This is their prerogative, of course, and I'd be the last one to tout the unconditional value of populist movements, whether in music, politics, or otherwise. There is a need for complexity in music, if only to avoid banality — but it is interesting to note that Schoenberg's place in musical history was cemented during the same time when performance and audience engagement parted ways from the broad consumption of new works. These days, despite the postmodern plethora of contradictory musical styles (some tonal and accessible, others less so), we musicians are still struggling to make the case for the value and importance of new works. It remains an uphill battle, and one that is not well-served by the elitist tone taken by certain artists who, while talented, lack empathy and the fundamental understanding that art should be created for something other than itself, and maybe even for someone other than oneself.
But this ought not to be a polemic in its own right. In the end, what is more important than my personal tastes or views on Schoenberg, his historical significance or the details of his stylistic innovations, is that you experience his work with open ears, mind and heart. This is the only sensible approach to any "new" music. That it might change your life is a prospect not totally outside the realm of possibility.


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Old Hill Partners' John Howe To Moderate Private Debt Panel at LPGP Connect
Darien, CT – June 22, 2015 – Old Hill Partners' CEO John Howe will be moderating a panel of private debt industry specialists at the LPGP Connect Private Debt conference in New York on July 14, 2015.
Howe, an expert in structured asset-backed transactions with more than twenty years of experience in alternative lending, will focus on the question of private debt pricing, an increasingly critical question as institutional interest in the asset class skyrockets.
His panel, which begins at 4:30 PM, will specifically cover the following questions:
- Is the private debt market priced correctly? If not, how should it be priced?
- With the current data available, how can managers make correct long-term allocation decisions?
- How can LP's determine whether a manager has the right level of experience and expertise?
- Successful private debt pricing models of the future.
Old Hill is proud to participate in this conference, which brings together more than 100 LPs and GPs from the global private debt community to analyze the latest trends in this fast-growing market, network and discuss investment opportunities.
About Old Hill Partners
Darien, CT-based Old Hill Partners Inc., is an SEC-registered investment adviser with significant experience in asset-backed lending and alternative investment management. The firm offers customized lending products and services to middle market clients seeking creative funding structures for growth initiatives. The firm was founded by John C. Howe in 1996.


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MSDN Fall 2008 Events (SQL 2008, Silverlight 2 & VSTO)...
Thank you so much for attending the MSDN Sessions in the Pacific Northwest!
As promised, please find the slides and the speaker information enclosed below:
Slides and Resources: http://www.msdnevents.com/resources/2008-fall-resources.aspx (Resources 'coming soon')
You can also watch and download the presentations from below:
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: sql mithund)
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View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: vsto mithund)
Thanks to all our wonderful presenters...(Boise, happening soon! And, I can already vouch for David and Chris! :))
Arnie Rowland - SQL MVP & Consultant
Patrick Cauldwell - Director of Education at SoftSource & SL Expert
Erik Mork - Silverlight Consultant & Also runs the show @ Sparkling Client (Silverlight Podcast)
David Star- Founder of ElegantCode and ElegantCodeCast, a very popular blogging community! Also works at Accentient as a Technology Trainer
Chris Brandsma: Our own INETA Community Champion & Also works as a Software Engineer in MobileDataforce
As always, if you have any more questions don't hesitate to email me.
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Teleworking – that is this week's federal IT initiatives topic. And, everyone who I have spoken with has an opinion on the subject. One point of debate is whether or not government agents or employees should or should not be allowed to work remotely. Regardless of your stance on the matter, I talked with Steve Riley, about how to enable a teleworking model with the user experience in mind, should the user be offered the option to work remotely.
As users work remotely or on the go, they are moving farther away from the data and applications. So naturally, the cloud seems like the perfect place to store data and application for access anywhere, from any device at any time. But, therein lies the challenge.
Data center consolidation (moving the data and application farther away from the user) + cloud first policy (mandate) + telework (remote and on the go users) = Challenges
What does Riverbed offer that enables telework models? Steelhead. It works in data centers, in the cloud, as well as on mobile devices. Steelhead Mobile is based on the same technology as our Steelhead appliances, as Cloud Steelhead, as Virtual Steelhead. Bottom line is federal IT leaders can help remote agents experience the best performance possible, as if they were working next door, even if they are located across the country.
Watch the video Q&A with Steve. As a heads up, Steve dropped a stat, citing an IDC report claiming that an Exabyte of new data is created every day. To put it into perspective, an Exabyte is 10 to the 18th power. That is one with 18 zeros (1,000,000,000,000,000,000). That is one billion gigabytes of new data every day.
Where is all that data coming from? Users like you and me.


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WASHINGTON – It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, they're not real, warns physicist Costas Efthimiou.
Obviously, you might say.
But Efthimiou, a professor at the University of Central Florida, points to surveys that show American gullibility for the supernatural.
Using science and math, Efthimiou explains why it is ghosts can't walk among us while also gliding through walls, like Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghost. That violates Newton's law of action and reaction. If ghosts walk, their feet apply force to the floor, but if they go through walls they are without substance, the professor says.
"So which is it? Are ghosts material or material-less?" he asks.
Zombies and vampires fare even worse under Efthimiou's skeptical microscope.
Efthimiou looked at the most prominent child-turned-zombie case that zombie aficionados cite: the 1989 case of a Haitian 17-year-old who was declared dead and then rose from the grave a day after the funeral and was considered a zombie. The boy, who never died but was paralyzed and could not communicate, had been poisoned with toxins from a relative of the deadly Japanese pufferfish, later research showed.
Efthimiou takes out the calculator to prove that if a vampire sucked one person's blood each month – turning each victim into an equally hungry vampire – after a couple of years there would be no people left, just vampires. He started his calculations with just one vampire and 537 million humans on Jan. 1, 1600 and shows that the human population would be down to zero by July 1602.
Take that Casper, Dracula and creepy friends.
All this may seem obvious, but to Efthimiou and other scientists, the public often isn't as skeptical as you might think. Efthimiou points to National Science Foundation reports showing widespread belief in pseudosciences – such as vampires, astrology and ESP.
More than 1 in 3 Americans believe houses can be haunted, a 2005 Gallup poll showed. More than 20 percent of Americans believe in witches and that people can communicate with the dead. TV shows such as Medium and Ghost Whisperer are popular.
"We're talking about a large fraction of the public that believes in subjects that scientists believe are out of the question," said Efthimiou. His paper is in an archive awaiting publication either in the journal Physics Education or the magazine Skeptical Inquirer, he said.
University of Maryland physics professor Bob Park, author of the book Voodoo Science, said scientists have to keep telling the public what seems all-too-obvious. "There are things that we need to point out that are crap," Park said.
It's gotten so bad, Park has a hard time watching movies these days. Not Efthimiou, who liked the horror movie The Ring. "I have nothing against movies," he said. "I have nothing against people who like them, as long as they don't mix reality with fiction."
And Halloween? Both physicists will suspend disbelief when vampires, ghosts and zombies come to their doors.
"I give them candy and I feign fright," Park said. "They enjoy it, what the hell. The problem is the ones that never get over it."


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First things first, this is not a debate. So the lefts and rights can eat popcorn and read this article.
A common yet misleading notion pops up if you were ever to imagine a Sikkimese taxi driver. A sturdy but slightly crummy guy at his late thirties, bearing a tattooed arm, who has a soft spot for his four-wheeler which earns him his livelihood, perhaps the present thought pattern prevails but with the clock of change ticking by, one might as well imagine a female taxi driver in their near future. It is no longer a shock to witness women driving taxis and in fact it has been broadly accepted by the society as well. Gone are the days when only a father could be the financial pillar of the family, due to the fact that women don't want to stay behind the curtains anymore but engage more of themselves in the matter of providing to the well-being of their loved ones.
Women have already entered and flourished in the job market, working full-time for decent wages. National and Multinational companies have established their franchises in Sikkim, generating more employment options for men and women. The latter haven't held back their thought of pursuing a career suited to their interests, instead have made their voices heard.
As far as entrepreneurship is concerned, women are also equal torchbearers as men. Ms Sonam Tshering Bhutia the owner of the Taste Bud Sikkim: Chocolate House has earned reputation by employing 10 women under her belonging to that locality. By selling wondrous and one of her kind chocolates she is not only creating employment but setting an example for the budding talents.
Another rising Gangtokian female entrepreneur, Ms Devika Kerongay Gurung is a freelance artist who has attained wondrous feats in the field of art. She has established a project by the name of "Fidgety Fingers", which aids Below Poverty Line women, school dropouts, and victims of social, physical and sexual abuse. Fidgety Fingers has been functioning at optimum levels by helping women develop their artistic capacity in knitting and crochet art, and a certain percentage of the company's monetary profit reaches the women involved in making them.
Her new discovery, "The Ink Transfer Technique" implements a technique which passes ink onto the canvas through a medium, preferably gel. Transferring ink in this way elevates the look and feel of the artwork, setting a mood of gratification in the viewer's mind. This innovative discovery is sure to seize tremendous opportunities in the field of art, providing a bigger scope for creative and artistic ventures.
Taxi driving has long been a career option for only the male members of the local society. It has aided them well, earning enough to lead a plentiful life and finding solutions of the problems set forward to him in the course of his lifetime.
As time brings about progress and modernisation in Sikkim and around, women have also started considering taxi driving as a profession and living more independently. The restrictions enforced on the idea of taxi driving being only a career option for the male members of the society are sooner or later going to suffer a blow to the head. There already are a number of female taxi drivers who have broken the conventional style of thinking by standing up for themselves with a desire to venture out into the modern world and to smash the barriers of a narrow-minded society.
The Traffic Police Department also laid their helping hands to the female taxi drivers by providing a separate taxi stand at the site of Bansilal Petrol Pump. The decision by the department is well appreciated as of now. With the rise in taxis driven by the women in the town, this major transition in the status of the society might shatter the lean pane of gender restriction to job options and boom the local economy.


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I've had a digital camera for almost 5 years, starting with a Minolta Z1, and then a Canon 400D. I fall in and out of lust with taking photos of everything, but I always enjoy it when I do manage to take some great photos.
My latest plan is to try out project 365. I want to take more photos, and better photos. I want to capture things, and see things differently. I hope this page will be updated monthly, with a mosaic of my month's photos. For now, a random sample can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashish/ (opens in new window)
- 1. DaniGirl - September 10, 2009
You have a great eye for colour and detail! Was just poking around in your photostream — really good stuff!


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The Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC) is currently involved in a year-long professional development activity focused on improving our teaching. Teaching in an academic library includes both in-classroom instruction as well as working one-on-one and in groups for training student employees. CLIC would like to invite interested students in St. Kate's MLIS program to join us in some of the activities planned for the year. Activities include:
- Reading Char Booth's book Reflective Teaching/Effective Learning and participating in online and at least one in-person book discussion
- – see our site at ReflectingCLIC.wordpress.com
- A talk by Char Booth, followed by a luncheon on October 28th
- Luncheon will be at Macalester College. The talk and luncheon will be open to a larger group and will include librarians from the U of M, as well as other institutions.
- A limited number of spaces (10) will be reserved for St. Kate's students to participate in the afternoon workshop to be held following the luncheon (details on how those students will be selected will be available after Sept. 1)
- Costs are still to be determined, but we will work with St. Kate's to make costs for students reasonable and affordable.
In addition to the Char Booth activity, the CLIC libraries would like to work with you to provide mentoring opportunities by connecting with librarians who are experienced in teaching and involved in information fluency/literacy efforts on the individual CLIC library campuses (Augsburg, Bethel, Concordia, Hamline, Macalester, Northwestern, St. Catherine University, University of St. Thomas)
We also hope to develop communities of practice and would like to provide opportunities for St. Kate's students to become involved.
You can officially sign up by sending an e-mail to Tom Nichol (Executive Director of CLIC) at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Wayne, I was not referring to you and apologize if it appeared that way. My stalkers know who they are. I will check it out. thanks.
dude change your water heater asap. it could leak at any time and then what !
Times are tough. I may go tankless.
I agree with last post. Dont overthink, Time for a new water heater. 200$ Home Depot-Installation-1 hr, can you sweat pipe, Mike?
hey how much for tankless and where do I get one?
I have not tried but I got a pal that can.
Three page article should answer your basic questions…
Thanks Jeff I will check it out.
Mike, you're a licensed contractor, right? Don't buy Water Heaters at Home Improvement Stores I always bought stuff like that from trade supply houses. Takagi's aren't too bad, just make sure you understand Pros and Cons of both set ups. Try getting a trickle of hot water from a tankless… try it.
Seriously though, If you are a lic/regst'd contractor, a plumbing supply house may offer you a better product for less money.
The plumbers I know would shoot me if I bought the brands at HI stores, they have problems (you can look at the brands next time you're there). I've had a couple of plumbers tell me that I should look pretty hard whenever I see one of those tanks installed, as some Homeowner went and bought one and "hooked it up"… Don't prove 'em right Mike!
As far as not knowing how to sweat, you may be better off dealing with compression fittings/couplings if you're not familiar with sweating copper. You wouldn't be saving money by buying a decent torch and other tools. http://www.doityourself.com/stry/cutjoincopperpipe
Theres a plumbing supply in Miami, you can get Titan tankless there wholesale, Ill get the # from my boy Al the plumber, You may need an EC depending on your amps. let you know t'morrow
Good Grief! Its a water heater, not the Space Shuttle.
It could be if installed wrong…
Mike, what is going on?:shock: You have no idea what is a TPR?](*,) Are you kidding?#-o
You really want to be a home inspector?:roll:-X
This will be the last time I will answer this. I asked about corrision and got this as a response:
TPR extension blues…:sad:
I had thought he was trying to actually give a answer that may have matched the question, but he was not… I had no questions about the instalation of the water heater. I had no idea what the abbreviation of tpr blues would have to do with corriosion issue I had asked about.
Which part confused you? TPR or extension?
Times are tough so you want to spend more money? Is your electrical service adequate for an electric unit? Depending on the size of the water heater you get, you may need anything from one double pole 40 amp breaker for a single point of use heater, to four double pole 30 amp breakers for the equivalent of a 50 gallon storage type water heater.
Of course you could have gas available but now you would need to run gas lines, check for the appropriate size lines for your unit. 1/2 lines may not meet the heater requirements.
Not only that but a long run of the special flue required can cost you more than the unit.
I would only buy a tank less model if there were space constrictions or a tank did not produce enough heated water in a set amount of time for me.
It is so much easier to just pop in the new one of similar design.
When saying "tankless" I think Michael means without a water heater. Located in South Florida who needs a water heater? :mrgreen:
Not sure if he knew before this thread what a tankless water heater was?
The abbreviations are confusing. :shock:


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For a while, Pharaohs were lost in obscure record stores, prized by collectors and unknown to most. Thankfully, their influential fusion of hearty African rhythms with funky grooves and jazzy horns has been reissued by Ubiquity Records for further generations. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, this group -- which hovered around 11 members -- created long sprawling jams, thick with tumultuous congas, massive horn punctuations and scratchy, James Brown-style guitar. With the addition of extremely soulful singing, this Chicago-based group had the potential to become serious stars; they did not, due to a breakup in 1973. The unfortunate demise of the band was a mixed blessing in some senses, with members Charles Handy (trumpet), Louis Satterfield (trombone,) Don Myrick (alto sax), and Maurice White (drums) going on to form the foundation of the seminal group Earth, Wind & Fire.


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Did you know that Harris County has the 2nd highest rate of child food insecurity in the nation? That means that every day in our community there are 88,740 children who may not know when their next meal is coming. That is 1 out 4 preschoolers!
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The Second City's Greatest Hits, Vol. 59
- Date: September 07, 2019 7:30 p.m.
- Location: MCL Grand
100 N. Charles
Lewisville, Texas 75057
MCL Grand presents:
The Second City's Greatest Hits, Vol. 59
Saturday, Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m.
There's a reason the biggest names in laughter all catapulted their careers at The Second City...it's been the funniest place on the planet since '59! Come witness the next generation of comedy superstars put their spin on the legendary comedy company's greatest hits, re-booted and re-imagined for today. From sketch comedy to original songs to world-famous improv, The Second City will leave you rolling in the aisles! *Cue mic drop.*
Fresh, fast and always spectacularly funny, The Second City is celebrating nearly sixty years of producing cutting-edge satirical revues and launching the careers of generation after generation of comedy's best and brightest.
Tickets are $40 reserved seating (table seating), $30 for tier one, and $20 for tier two. Purchase tickets online at mclgrand.tix.com.
$15 Lewisville resident tickets are available in the tier 2 section of the venue and can be purchased in person at MCL Grand during normal business hours. Must show valid driver's license or utility bill to validate residency. Subject to availability. Sales tax included in ticket price.
*Show may contain adult or mature content*
To reach MCL Grand from Interstate 35E, take exit 452 and proceed east on Main Street to Charles Street. MCL Grand will be on the left. Free public parking is available along Main and Church streets, or at Lewisville City Hall across Church Street from the center.
For details about upcoming events, or rental information for the facility, please visit MCLGrand.com or call 972.219.8446.


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Dental Cleanings and Exams
Dental cleanings and exams at Rosemont Dental are designed to improve and protect the health of your mouth. We pay special attention to the following factors during every appointment:
- Lymph nodes and lower jaw joints
- Signs of gum disease, loose or broken teeth, tooth decay, and other damage
- Changes in the way your gums cover your teeth
- Overall cleanliness of your teeth and gums
- Any signs of oral cancer
Of course, every dental exam also involves a cleaning to remove plaque that regular brushing and flossing often miss. In addition, hardened plaque, tartar, can only be removed via a professional cleaning. We also apply fluoride if needed. Topical fluoride is a simple yet powerful way to protect teeth from cavities, especially if you have tooth enamel problems, dry mouth, or generally poor oral health.
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The Canadian Dental Association recommends that both children and adults receive a professional teeth cleaning and exam twice a year. Patients with a history of periodontal disease or another recurring oral disease or condition may require more frequent treatments.
You should brush your teeth in the morning and before you go to bed, or after each meal. You should also floss daily, and rinse with an anti-bacterial mouthwash. This will help keep your teeth and gums healthy between dental cleanings.
Remember to change your toothbrush every 2-3 months, and avoid using hard-bristled toothbrushes, and this can cause tooth sensitivity and promote bleeding gums.
If you are experiencing dental pain, contact our dentists. Waiting could make the problem worse, and early treatment is always easier to perform, less invasive, and less expensive.
Dental cleanings keep your teeth and gums clean and healthy, and help you avoid paying for expensive dental procedures in the future. For example, when gum disease is left untreated, you may require deep cleaning (scaling and root planing), gum grafting, bone grafting, or a tooth replacement.
The human mouth is full of bacteria. Some forms of bacteria are beneficial to your oral health, while some can be extremely damaging. When harmful bacteria accumulate on your teeth, they release acids that erode dental enamel and inflame the gums, causing tooth decay, periodontal disease, discolouration, and tooth loss. Other oral diseases may also develop as a result of these conditions. Practicing good oral hygiene at home and receiving regular dental cleanings help to remove harmful bacteria, plaque, and tartar from your mouth and keep your teeth and gums healthy.


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A specific area of the trading floor that is designed for the trading of commodities, individual futures, or option contracts.
A location on a commodities exchange trading floor where the futures of a particular commodity are traded. Also called ring.


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No effective ministry can be done without effective prayer.
Your intercession is crucial to the outcome of this ministry.
Please use the link to the right to join their "Prayer Session" for today.
We look forward to serving you,
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The Management of Living Beings or Emo-management
Van Hoorebeke, Delphine
This book is based on the author's research carried out over the last ten years in terms of emotional management. It establishes the intervention of emotions at all levels of management: the Littré definition, management being the art of the possible, "the art of guiding, managing, handling, motivating ... even resolving and arranging". Emotion is a subject studied particularly in management in English speaking countries and has become a topic of growing interest in organizational behavior. E-motion is, in this book, considered based on its etymological origin (ex-movere: put into action by the external factors). The objective is to demonstrate a new vision of responsible management and to confront the current challenges in motion. In this way, the latter tends to take into consideration the 'living', i.e. the psychobiological, neurological and sociological aspects of people in business.
Foreword by Martine Brasseur ix
Foreword by Claude Berghmans xiii
Preface xvii
Introduction xxi
Chapter 1. Emotion 1
1.1. Emotion: a complex concept 1
1.2. Expression 6
1.3. An adjustment tool 8
1.4. A neurological system 10
1.5. A complex system 12
1.6. Subject to dissonance and inhibition 13
1.7. Contagion 14
Chapter 2. Managing Individuals 19
2.1. The art of managing customer focus: the relations dependent on monitoring and margins to maneuver 19
2.1.1. Organizational norms 21
2.1.2. Dissonances 23
2.2. The art of motivating: commitment and satisfaction 27
2.2.1. Different types of commitment 27
2.2.2. Commitment–satisfaction–e-motion 29
2.3. The art of administering well: the process approach, a proactive and sustainable method 31
2.3.1. Emo-management, a process that concerns everyone 32
2.3.2. A multitude of effects in the workplace 35
2.3.3. Levers for managing 38
2.4. The art of ensuring health and safety in the workplace: well-being at work 42
2.4.1. A neurobiological process 43
2.4.2. Reasons to become ill? 44
2.4.3. Real consequences? 45
2.4.4. A schema like this in business? 48
2.5. A factual approach for effective decision-making: knowledge of the emotional decision-making process 52
2.5.1. Decision and emotion 52
2.5.2. Decision and emotion, at the origin: a rejection 53
2.5.3. Decision and the neurobiological process 57
2.5.4. Decision and emo-management? 60
2.5.5. Decision, emo-management and contagion 62
Chapter 3. Managing a Collective 65
3.1. An evidence-based approach for effective collective decision-making: understanding the process of emo-decisional contagion 65
3.2. The art of leading: authentic leadership and emotional intelligence 69
3.2.1. The manager and emotions 70
3.2.2. The manager and emotional intelligence 71
3.2.3. Is everyone capable of emo-managing? 73
3.3. The art of reconciling the present with the future: the principle of continuous improvement 75
3.3.1. Change and emotion 76
3.3.2. Change = trust = emotion 78
3.3.3. Change, a shared emotional acceptance 81
3.3.4. Lever for the acceptance of change through emo-management 82
3.4. The art of bringing people together: mutually beneficial relations with others and the social aspect of managerial responsibility 84
3.4.1. Collective emotion, arsenal of emo-management 85
3.4.2. A paradoxical arsenal: positive and negative effects 86
3.5. The art of managing diversity: learning and creating collectively 89
3.5.1. Diversity between conflicts and group work 90
3.5.2. Managing diversity with emo-management 93
3.5.3. Emo-management, a factor in diversity 94
3.6. A common point: an essential element for collective intelligence, emotional contagion 99
3.6.1. Emo-management: dealing with emotional contagion 101
3.6.2. Mathematical and economic tools to better manage emotional contagion 101
Conclusion 107
Bibliography 115
Index 143


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How To DIY Laundry Basket
DIY Laundry Basket – laundry basket is present almost everywhere at the moment. We can find it in any house because they are very useful when dealing with laundry management. With the help of laundry baskets we can save a lot of time and effort when dealing with laundry, or even ironing. When replacing a new basket, many people decide to throw away old stuff. What these people do not know is that old laundry basket can also be used to store other items, thus providing valuable storage space. This is one of the most numerous. An important reason why we should reuse used baskets.
The old basket can make the perfect recycling place for your home. Most use a simple box where they throw garbage and then take it to a larger container when full. Using a basket for recycling purposes is a great idea and very efficient. You can use an old basket, no matter the size or weight because it will still do its job perfectly. For larger baskets, you might want to use a garbage bag to make it easier to remove the garbage outside. As you can see, old baskets make a big dumpster and this is just one of the many uses they can have. People also use old baskets to store various items, such as extra sheets or blankets. Of course, you usually put it in your closet but what do we do when there is no place anymore? We improvise.
Old DIY laundry basket is perfect for storing a large blanket that spends a lot of space. It is better if you have a higher basket that has a cap because you can store lots of stuff in it. The good thing was the blankets and sheets would be kept clean and organized. Blankets and sheets are not the only items that can be stored in an old laundry basket. Many people use their baskets to store unused gift supplies, such as gift ribbons, gift bags and wrapping paper. Of course, the bigger the old basket the better because you can store more stuff in it.


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|We took the subway to Myeongdong for dinner at James Cheese Back Ribs,
|At level 2.
|There were 3 of us.
We ordered a fried rice and ribs for portions for 2 people.
|Had been hearing so much about this ribs with cheese dish for the past 1 year.
Finally, I decided to try it.
|We were pretty entertained by how the waitress whipped up our fried rice ^^
|However, the fried rice turned out to be a little disappointing cos it was too wet after she mixed in the egg ㅠㅠ


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George School in Newtown, after a campaign by students, decides that even a high school can make a statement, joining the divestment movement.
A Pennsylvania high school just made history.
George School in Newtown announced April 27 that it would divest its $150 million endowment of holdings in coal mining companies, likely becoming the first secondary school in the nation to join the global movement to rid investment portfolios of fossil fuel stocks. The decision was prompted by a student petition.
"I was thrilled that the kids were active and concerned and brought this to the board—and that the board was respectful," said head of school Nancy Starmer.
George School, founded in 1893 by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), is a private boarding and day school with about 550 students. Serving ninth through 12th grades, the campus sits on a 240-acre plot in Bucks County, about 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
Last spring, more than a dozen students submitted a proposal calling for the school to divest from all fossil fuels. In it, they wrote that "our school should not be invested in corporations involved with the extraction, production, or distribution of fossil fuels" because of climate change threats, and because of the school's mission to develop "faithful stewardship of the earth."
The school formed a committee of faculty and school board members, including Starmer, at the start of the school year to investigate the issue. The group researched divestment and held several meetings with the students.
On April 25, the committee presented its findings to a divided board. Some members were concerned that divesting from all fossil fuels would "negatively impact the earnings on the endowment," according to Starmer. Others were fully committed to using "our endowment for socially responsible purposes because we're an educational institution," she said.
The resulting consensus was to divest the school's endowment holdings (i.e., stocks and bonds) tied to coal companies within a year. Coal holdings make up less than 5 percent of its endowment.
"I think we ended up in the middle," said Starmer. "We came up with a solution that some see as too little and some see as too much, but we did so by listening carefully to different points of view. And I think it's a first step in a much longer and a much broader conversation that we'll hopefully be keeping up with over the next several years."
The board also agreed to invest in renewable energy companies, as well as to ramp up the school's energy efficiency and sustainability efforts.
Although the decision might pack more symbolic rather than financial punch, it is likely to inspire other high schools to follow suit. So far at least 30 colleges have divested or committed to divest since the movement kicked off in 2011, along with dozens of cities, religious institutions, foudations and individuals with investment portfolios worth an estimated $50 billion.
At least five other high schools on the East Coast have launched divestment campaigns in recent years: Bronx High School of Science in New York; Gilman School in Maryland; Phillips Academy in Massachusetts; Phillips Exeter Academy and St. Paul's School in New Hampshire.
The alumni-led effort at St. Paul's School kicked off last year. After meeting with school administrators, the school's board decided against divestment. The group is now looking to reignite the conversation, according to Wick Beavers, a 1970 alum spearheading the campaign. Beavers added that Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat and a supporter of climate change action, is one of the 200 alumni who signed a petition in support of divestment.
The status of the other four high school campaigns is unclear.
Students are also looking beyond their individual schools. For example, in Massachusetts, 18 students—action fellows for the nonprofit Alliance for Climate Education (ACE)—launched a campaign this year to divest the state's teacher pension fund from fossil fuels.
This is the first year ACE fellows tackled divestment. Leah Qusba, an ACE spokeswoman, said the group plans to launch similar divestment fellowship opportunities in New York and San Francisco in the fall.
Kerry Brock, a senior at Newton North High School, is one of the Massachusetts fellows. She told InsideClimate News that she supports divestment because the alternative is "just wrong" and unethical.
For Brock and some of the other fellows, divestment even played a role in the schools they considered when applying for college. In particular, the way a school treated its student activists was important for her. Brock will be attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which has an active divestment chapter.
"When I think about college, I think about more than just a place to take classes, [it's] a place to really learn how to stand up and fight in the world for whatever it is you are trying to fight for," she said. "And when colleges don't encourage that, that's really discouraging."
The academic divestment movement accelerated this spring when 10 college groups held sit-ins on campus. The reaction by administrators was mixed. At Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College, students were able to occupy the hallway of an administration building for 32 days with no punishment. Meanwhile, a one-day sit-in on the Yale campus in Connecticut resulted in 19 students being cited for trespassing. So far none of the schools involved in the recent protests have agreed to divestment.
Could the influence of potential applicants in favor of divestment tip the scales?
Karthik Ganapathy, communications manager for the climate activist group 350.org, said he hopes so.
By weaving divestment into their college decisions, high school students could make a big impact on the college divestment efforts, he said.
"If more and more students say 'I'm not going to go to a school that invests in dirty energy of the past,' then that becomes the thing that colleges sort of have to address," said Ganapathy. "And that's one of the most exciting areas of campaign work that we've seen."


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Title – Huchcha 2, Producer – Umesh Reddy, Direction – N Omprakash Rao, Music – Anoop Seelin, Cinematography – Vinay Reddy, Cast – Krishna, Shravya, Saikumar, Avinash, Malavika, Sadhu Kokila, Omprakash Rao, Srinivasamurthy, Aruna Balaraj and others.
Director N Om Prakash Rao is back in form. Inspired from 2005 film 'Raam' N Omprakash has brought it to the present day with powerful actors, comedy here and there, lovely compositions from Anoop Seelin and excellent cinematography adds to the hype of this film.
Actor Krishna is sure to reach the front line of action heroes from this film. In two shades the six feet actor is mind blowing. Not only Malavika is frightened even the audience get frightened at places.
"Huchcha 2" inside is a man with gold heart. That is Ram for you. He is mad about his mother Sharadamma (Malavika Avinash). Studies and living with mother and behaving very rudely something wrong happen is a shiver to own mother.
It is because mother once tell Ram that he is 'Devara Maga' the duty bound social youth Ram looks like Huchcha. He is not so exactly. Such a fond son loses his mother. The police frame him as killer of his mother. The interrogation from senior cop Saikumar reveals the nature and several incidents.
Ram behind the prison gives a button to the police that finally give a clue to the killer of Sharadamma. The end is search for real killer by Ram and that is something very powerful end.
It is a best commercial entertainer from N Omprakash Rao. Krishna has done very good job in two shades in him. Shravya is peerless, Saikumar is impeccable, Avinash is marvelous, Malavika Avinash is simply superb.
The Laali Song, a montage song on love and a college song for Shravya are very well composed by Anoop Seelin. For the first time he has roped in Shreya Goshal for Thumba Prithiso….and song is extremely good in composition and singing.
Cinematography is additional booster to this film, editing, comedy angle, action portions, MS Ramesh dialogues are good in quality that increases value of the film.
Huchcha 2 is a film you can easily have a look.
Score – 3.5/5


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Phyrexia is one of several fictional planes featured in the storyline and cards from the trading card game Magic: The Gathering. It is often called the final Hell for artifacts, or simply The Nine Hells.
Phyrexia is an artificial plane formed from nine hollow spheres, each darker and more unpleasant than the last.
The spheres are each distinctly different from each other:
- The first sphere, the surface, is a mechanical parody of nature. A soot and smog streaked sky lowers over a broad, dusty plain spotted with clumps of oily trees and rusting remains of tormented artifacts. Unimaginably large furnaces throw ash and fire into the skies. Water in the streams is slick with oil. Although appearing to be a complete, natural ecosystem, the sphere is in fact composed entirely of machines and semi-magical constructs. Most notable are the dragon engines, which are both organic and mechanical warbeasts in the form of dragons.
- The second sphere is composed of the debris of the first, and smokestacks from lower levels. It lies under a ceiling of twisted beams and metal structures. It is an ashen waste filled with broken machinery. The only light and a hellish heat come from vast, smoke-grimed chimneys. This sphere also contains ammunition dumps which are the size of several large Dominarian cities.
- The third sphere is a virtually impassable tangle of pipes and ducts filled with horrors. It contains spatial distortions that prevent planeswalking to the lower spheres.
- The fourth sphere houses great furnaces, and the facility where new phyrexians are born/constructed. Most phyrexians live on this sphere
- The fifth sphere is home to the Boiling Sea of Glistening Oil, a corrupt substance that is the Phyrexian equivalent of blood. It is also home to a massive steam creature.
- The sixth sphere houses the chambers of Yawgmoth's Inner Circle of praetors and minions. As Yawgmoth himself is largely imprisoned within the ninth sphere, it is they who see his will done.
- The seventh sphere is known as the "Punishment Sphere," and is the closest thing to hell seen in Magic continuity. Those who defy Yawgmoth's will are tortured here for millennia. This sphere is inhabited by Phyrexian Gremlins and Yawgmoth Demons. Phyrexian Gremlins are short, hairy, ebon beings which serve as semi-intelligent servants. They evince an extreme excitement at the prospect of destroying artifacts or artificers.
- The eighth sphere is described as 'pure energy'.
- The ninth sphere is the Sanctum of Yawgmoth, a place where he controls reality itself.
On Phyrexia exist warped versions of the Thran Portals, which make artificial planeswalking possible. Phyrexian Portals are opened through the sacrifice of creatures, artifacts or a great deal of magical energy.
Phyrexia was created by an ancient Planeswalker who liked to take the form of a dragon; it was not named Phyrexia at that time. When he died, it was taken over by a Thran named Yawgmoth with the help of another planeswalker named Dyfed, whom he personally killed later. Yawgmoth had been artificially and magically modifying his Thran followers in a process that he called phyresis, the diametric opposite of the Powerstone Phthisis that he'd been working to cure. A war broke out between the Phyrexians and the other Thran, which both forced Yawgmoth's retreat to Phyrexia and caused the collapse of the Thran nation.
Yawgmoth was closed off from Dominaria for 5,000 years, until the brothers Urza and Mishra discovered the powerstone used to close the portal, unintentionally splitting it in half and igniting an epic power struggle and devastating war. Mishra became tainted by Phyrexian intrigue, and was provided with dragon engines and Phyrexian modifications. Urza discovered what the Phyrexians were doing and blamed them for corrupting Mishra. The war culminated with Urza nearly destroying the world with the Golgothian Sylex, also resulting in his ascendence to become a Planeswalker. Urza vowed to destroy the Phyrexians and avenge the loss of his brother.
Phyrexia suffered at least two direct attacks by Urza himself, each of which devastated small portions of Phyrexia but failed to cause permanent harm, and nearly cost Urza his life. During one of these attacks, Xantcha, a Phyrexian outcast assisting Urza, was able to recover her personality matrix, or "heart". This would have important ramifications later. Urza then changed tactics and began building up a military force on Dominaria.
Artificial planes are inherently unstable, and Phyrexia was no exception. Yawgmoth knew that he had to find a permanent home for himself and his Phyrexian followers. His focus was his home plane of Dominaria located in the Dominian Nexus. Thus the Phyrexians began planning for their eventual invasion of Dominaria. These invasion plans involved the use of another artificial plane, Rath, which would be fused with Dominaria. This Planeshift required Rath to first increase substantially in mass, so the Phyrexians set up a flowstone furnace that continuously synthesized matter out of nothingness. The Phyrexian-appointed ruler of Rath was titled the Evincar.
Years later, during the reign of Evincar Volrath, the crew of the flying ship Weatherlight invaded Rath in search of its captain, Sisay, kidnapped by Volrath in an attempt to gain control of Weatherlight and her Commander, Gerrard. During this incursion, Tahngarth, a minotaur warrior, was tortured and twisted in an attempt to convert him into a Phyrexian, Karn, a pacifist and the ship's engineer, was tortured and forced to slay other beings, the shipmate Crovax turned into a vampire and was left behind, while Volrath himself left the plane aboard the Weatherlight. This did not please the Phyrexians, who wanted their Evincars to stay in Rath instead of chasing after personal vendettas. So they enlisted Crovax to their cause and began modifying him. They killed the Elvish princess Avila, daughter of Eladamri, and completed her to create Belbe, who would be their emissary to Rath and would choose a new Evincar. Belbe had four contenders to choose from. The first was Commander Greven il-Vec, Volrath's second-in-command and commander of the airship Predator, who did not want to be Evincar because he "would rather be the sword than the hand that wields it". The second was Ertai, another Weatherlight crew member who'd been left behind, who was having an intimate relationship with Belbe at the time and who also did not want the title. The third was Crovax, who had become completely psychopathic and whom Belbe personally despised. The fourth was newly returned Volrath, who was reluctantly given a second chance. Ultimately, Crovax was chosen to be the new Evincar, Volrath was executed via flowstone injection, and Ertai fully joined the Phyrexians after Belbe was killed by Eladamri, leader of Rath's Skyshroud Elves.
Not long after this fiasco the Phyrexians, led by General Tsabo Tavoc, launched their long-awaited invasion of Dominaria. The Phyrexians' most devastating weapons were engineered plagues, which were enhanced using Phyrexian nanotechnology. In a last-ditch attempt to stymie the invasion, nine planeswalkers (including Urza) entered the plane of Phyrexia, in gigantic titan engines of Urza's design, and planted bombs to destroy the plane. Though four of the planeswalkers were killed, and Urza was twisted by Yawgmoth into slaying the planeswalker Taysir, dismantling the detonator, and pledging his loyalty to Phyrexia, the remaining planeswalkers were successful in setting off the bombs manually, causing severe damage to the first seven spheres. Dominaria ultimately won the war with Phyrexia using the combined items of Urza's Legacy, namely the flying ship Weatherlight, assorted artifacts, Gerrard himself, and Urza's powerstone eyes to destroy Yawgmoth.
Phyrexia was thought to be destroyed during the Apocalypse, However, in Scourge, a new god-like being, Karona, travelled to Phyrexia and encountered a badly weakened but still-living Yawgmoth. This may mean that Yawgmoth and Phyrexia still survive, but given Karona's nature, this may have been a creation of her own will, see the Yawgmoth article.
The first stage of a Phyrexian lifecycle is the Newt. Newts are descended from the Thran, but have been bred to be genderless, among other things. Newts are grown in vats, from which they emerge in a fully adult state.
Once a Newt emerges, it is usually put through the process of Completion, wherein most of its normal body parts are removed and given mechanical replacements. Organic weapons like stingers and venom sacs are often implanted as well.
Many Phyrexian soldiers are Completed so thoroughly that they no longer resemble humans in the slightest. Generally speaking, the most heavily modified Phyrexians are also the most highly regarded, because destructive capability is valued above almost all else. For proof of this, look at the Phyrexian General, Tsabo Tavoc.
Phyrexians' most important values are efficiency and the search for perfection. One card says "Phyrexia wastes nothing. Its food chain is a spiraling cycle". Another says "Everything will find its use in Phyrexia. Eventually." The character Xantcha often repeats the phrase "waste not, want not", which is one of the first lessons taught to newts.
Phyrexians can be divided into the following categories (Take note, however, that these categories might overlap. Most Phyrexians are partly mechanical and partly undead at the same time, and all of them are certainly horrific.)
- Sleeper Agents--Sleeper agents are designed to spy on other planes, and gather information before other phyrexians come to invade. Usually they are newts that have not been compleated. They can resemble males or females but not children. They are not always aware that they are phyrexians. Xantcha and K'rrik were sleeper agents.
- Minions -- Minions of Phyrexia serve a variety of roles including spies, assassins, shock troops, and priests. Such examples include the Priest of Gix, Sleeper Agent, Phyrexian Infiltrator, and Phyrexian Slayer.
- Undead--Reanimated corpses. Creatures such as the Monitor, Unworthy Dead, Reaper, Scuta and Bloodstock are examples of the various skeletons and zombies that make up this category. These creatures are particularly noxious; some even have the capability to instantly kill living creatures that come into contact with them.
- Carriers--Biomechanical constructs bred for the sole purpose of spreading Phyrexian engineered plagues. The Denouncer, Debaser, Defiler and Plaguelord are members of this type. All of them are suicide bombers, self-destructing to release clouds of highly infectious plague spores.
- Mechanical Constructs--Although most Phyrexians are partly mechanical, these particular constructs are completely mechanical. These are war machines meant to completely crush any enemy forces that survive the various biohazardous attacks that the Phyrexians employ. These unthinking monsters range from the medium-sized War Beast and Hulk to the enormous Colossus. The largest inhabitant of Phyrexia save for Yawgmoth himself, the Dreadnought, is also mechanical. Another mechanical construct would be the Dragon Engine.
- Horrors--Monstrous creations (perhaps combinations of the above three categories) that are horrific beyond description. These are the most difficult Phyrexians to control (as opposed to the blindly obedient mechanical constructs) and can cause serious damage to both allied and enemy alike. The Rager, Witch Engine, Plague Spitter, Devouring Strossus, Gargantua and Negator are examples of Horrors.
- Knights--This category is one that is based more on role than physical construction and is composed of certain Phyrexians who are more than simple killing machines. These Phyrexians still possess human-like intellect and will, though these are subservient to Yawgmoth. There are at least three separate "Orders" of Knights in Yawgmoth's service: The Eastern Paladins, devoted to the extermination of natural life; the Western Paladins, devoted to the annihilation of non-Phyrexian forms of society; and the Order of Yawgmoth, which is the Phyrexian "royal guard." Another Phyrexian knight is the Sanguine Guard.
No one and nothing ever created on other planes survives Phyrexia, or is even considered worthy to survive by the Priests of Yawgmoth. Artificers and Thrull Breeders are the most despised for the transgressions against the faith.
The Phyrexians' holy documents are titled the "Phyrexian Scriptures", and speak of a "Grand Evolution". Some quotes follow.
"From void evolved Phyrexia. Yawgmoth, Father of Machines, saw its perfection. Thus the Grand Evolution began."
"Great Yawgmoth moves across the seas of shard and bone and rust. We exalt him in life, in death, and in between."
"Father of Machines! Your filigree gaze carves us, and the scars dance upon our grateful flesh."
"Let weak feed on weak, that we may divine the nature of strength."
"Ash is our air, darkness our flesh."
Additionally, there is an Oath of the West and an Oath of the East, which are taken by the Western and Eastern Paladins, and also refer to the Grand Evolution.
The Phyrexian way of life derives from the instinct for survival. Survival of the fittest is represented here with Yawgmoth as the directional coordinator. While it is without a doubt the most effective as well as efficient way of gaining superiority, it is one tracked and single minded in its approach. Whereas Yawgmoth delved only in the aspect of "war" and its applications to life, he had to forsake the aspects of art, exploration, and thought. The very nature of Phyrexian "life" is a countermeasure to the culture and morality of Dominaria. For the sole means of destroying another, Yawgmoth's "phyresis" is really insurpassable in its success, yet it is a path to sterility. The ultimate result of a mechanically cruel existence like Phyrexia's is the eliminations of all adversaries, and without enemies the causal drive of the race drops out.
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The Groundhogs-SPLIT CD (EMI, EU)
Steering away from their blues roots and heading on even further into that vague "rubric" (copyright 1984 Robert Christgau) of progressive rock, the Groundhogs seem to have hit upon a nice li'l niche of their own with SPLIT. Mixing early-seventies heavy metal and whatever was left of the English r&b scene at the time, SPLIT does make for a pleasant romp into the guitar-based shenanigans that were overwhelming the cast and crew of ZIGZAG at the time and come to think of it, this 'un was even considered pretty hot snat for more than a few mid-Amerigan teenage bunsnitches, George Brigman included. A few tried and trues out there might feel like doing a bitta wincing at various definitely un-punk smart guitar moves (I don't), but then again when you're right and ready to settle back into heavy metal bliss T. S. and crew all of a sudden switch gears and head back to their roots for the album closer entitled (what else but) "Groundhog". With groups like the Groundhogs, Can, Amon Duul II and later on Dr. Feelgood and the Stranglers, it's not hard to fathom why Liberty/United Artists was one of the more hotcha major labels in operation even if we hadda pay import prices to hear some of it!
(And true, this is yet another one of those reviews o' mine which really doesn't say very much about the music at hand, but then again given how important SPLIT remains in the canon of heavy metal this disque's natural credibility and overall accomplishment is already known to you readers so why beat any more dead horses to the point where the resultant mess is ready to be sold at the butcher shop as ground round? Besides, I've done that already more'n a few times with my very own hagiographic praise of many a band, and frankly my sense of rabid fandom tends to make even me nauseous at times!)
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Introduction: Pier 9 Resource: Accessing Custom Post Processors on a Mac in Fusion 360
This Instructable is for Workshop Users at Pier 9. However, it's relevant to anyone who:
1. Uses Fusion 360 on a Mac
2. Has a custom post processor
When Mac users post process their CAM files to turn them into G-code, by default Fusion 360 only shows Generic Posts. This Instructable will show you where to put your custom post processors so you can access them.
Step 1: Enable Access to A360 Drive
1. Go to A360.
2. Right click your image in the top right corner--your profile--and click Settings.
3. Enable access to the A360 drive with the slider bar.
Step 2: CAMPosts
1. Click the dropdown next to A360 at the top of the screen, and select A360 drive. It may take a few moments to load.
2. Click "New Folder" in the upper right corner and create a folder called CAMPosts.
Step 3: Upload CPS File
1. Double click the new folder and click Upload in the top right corner.
2. Select your CPS file and click Open.
Step 4: Preferences in Fusion
1. Restart Fusion 360.
2. Go to your profile by clicking your name in one of the upper corners. In the dropdown, select Preferences.
3. Under General on the left hand side, click CAM.
4. Select the box next to "Enable Cloud Libraries" to allow access to your A360 post processors.
Step 5: Post Process!
1. Right click Setup 1 and select Post process.
2. Set the Source to My Cloud Posts.
3. Your post processor should appear in the dropdown next to Post processor.
4. Add a program number and comment, and hit OK to generate your G-code!
Step 6: Troubleshooting
If you can't get Cloud posts to sync up, try following this guide to use Personal posts instead.
Scroll down to the bottom to see instructions for a Mac.