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POWER PLAY received critical acclaim in its 1996 National Black Theater Production, directed by the late Dr. Barbara Ann Teer and Adunni, winning the Audelco Award for Best Play and again for its 2005 Billie Holiday Theater Production with an extended run directed by Artistic Director Marjorie Moon, earning Lincoln Center Library's honor of inclusion in their prestigious Bound Edition of "Highlights from the 2005 New York Theater Season".
(The following is reprinted from Amsterdam News Article August 3, 1996)
Two decades ago, "for colored girls who considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf" ushered in the women's movement for African-Americans. The award-winning production caused much controversy and provoked outcries from African American men of Black male bashing, verbal castration and character assassination.
In the 70's, Ntozake Shange's "Colored Girls" presented a voice for Black women that had previously been unheard. It was a Pandora's Box of secret fears, pain, hurt and loss between Black men and women that had been silent. Though "For Colored Girls" was a place of healing for many African American women, its appeal was universal for the many women of the world who had no voice. Yet many African-American men view "For Colored Girls" as a personal affront to them as men and to the race as a whole. The "Colored Girls" were faced with charges of traitor, men haters and dykes.
So why has Lorey Hayes come full circle, writing a play glorifying African-American men?
"I was the youngest member of "For Colored Girls," said Hayes. "When we started creating the work, I didn't quite understand what it all meant because I had not yet had the experience of the women Ntozake was writing about. Years later, as I watched a revival of the play, I was overwhelmed with the power and intensity of emotions it evoked in me. I was now a woman and had met or dated men wo seemed to be clones of those depicted in "Colored Girls". But I was also fortunate enough to have met the kind of men who make you want to climb to the top of Mt. Everest and scream "There are great Black men in the world.
For African-American people to be healed as a race, we must heal our relationships by giving homage to the spirit that lifted us from slavery and segregation and is still with us today as we continue to fight for equality. The backbone of our courage has always been our togetherness, our families, Our salvation as a people will be in reestablishing our linkage and uplifting each other. What keeps us strong is our ability to transcend adversity and to stand up and take care of our own. My plays, in reflecting my respect for men, allow me to create strong, powerful roles for women." (End of Reprint)


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Matthias Schwab finishes second at Turkish Airlines Open
Article posted: 10 November 2019
Matthias Schwab finished in a share of second place at the Turkish Airlines Open.
It continued the Austrian's superb run of form and took him to 80th in the Official World Golf Rankings and 14th on the Race to Dubai.
Schwab led from the opening day and finished level with five other players on -20, eventually being the last man to be knocked out of the play-off by winner Tyrrell Hatton.
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Paarl – It has been a conspicuously bad summer for the supposedly next-in-line cricketers for the Proteas.
The South Africa A side were beaten for the third time on England's 2015/16 safari to these shores, in a Twenty20 fixture here on Wednesday night, succumbing by 44 runs before a healthy crowd on the grassed banks of balmy Boland Park.
At least there were flickering signs of a decent contest at times, in contrast to the previous meetings during the tour – a thrashing by an innings and 91 runs in a first-class match at Pietermaritzburg, and no less worrisome reverse by 163 runs in a 50-overs encounter in Kimberley.
It wasn't too many years ago that SA 'A' sides would pride themselves in either giving visiting teams a serious run for their money or actually beating them, so this trio of setbacks will do little to subdue a mounting theory that the domestic game is struggling at present for both quality and depth.
This was probably the "best" showing by the second-stringers against the English -- yet they still landed well short of a demanding target of 203.
That they avoided outright humiliation on this occasion was primarily down to a breezy second-wicket alliance of 88 runs in 10.2 overs between the young Titans right-hander Theunis de Bruyn (56) and his almost 37-year-old skipper Morne van Wyk (32).
Once they were separated, however, the innings gradually regressed, not helped by failures from two senior Proteas stalwarts, David Miller and Farhaan Behardien.
De Bruyn played some resounding drives as he negotiated 38 balls, and could feel chuffed to have come off against England again, having scored an unbeaten 73 in the Kimberley clash.
The England innings of 202 for six had been notable for meaty contributions from two batsmen who experienced rather contrasting fortunes in the recent one-day international series.
Their brains trust may have quietly viewed opener Alex Hales's authoritative 78 off 52 deliveries as more of a curse than a blessing, given that his form is hardly in doubt and by staying at the wicket into the 16th over, he slightly limited the opportunity for more needy members of the touring party to get in for significant vigils.
Still, he ended up notching a remarkable sixth knock of 50 or more in a row; this came on top of his scores of 112, 50, 65, 99 and 57 in the ODIs, where he was fittingly named player of the series despite ending on the losing side.
Captain Eoin Morgan could only have yearned for such a stellar sequence over the past couple of weeks – he failed to reach double figures in any of the last three contests and had a wretched personal series as a whole – but in a whirlwind stay at the Paarl crease he found some short-lived but positively pyrotechnic mojo.
The left-hander blasted 42 off 13 balls, including five mostly cleanly-struck sixes, and found the left-arm seam fare of Beuran Hendricks (not the talented Cape Cobras star's most productive game as he leaked 50 off three overs) particularly to his liking on a good, true pitch which made front-foot play very inviting.
Amidst the relative chaos, ICC World Twenty20-bound Aaron Phangiso did some pretty good pull-back work after an expensive first over, whilst Dolphins all-rounder Andile Phehlukwayo, 19, also kept credible control.
But the standout bowler was that enduring enigma Wayne Parnell, who registered 4-0-26-3 on an otherwise sitting-duck sort of day for faster bowlers and produced a really exemplary closing over of the English innings.
Showing good composure and mix-it-up skill, Parnell only conceded four runs and grabbed two scalps into the bargain.
England play the first of two KFC T20 internationals against the Proteas at Newlands on Friday.
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So. This guy works in the same building as where I had my student job, so, same academic department, but very much adjacent to me and had no supervisory position over me. He was friends with my supervisor, but as I was the only grad student working there I was treated much more as an equal - and we all had a bunch of very friendly conversations about our field and interests, etc., I helped direct the undergrads, I brought in an independent project to the space. (Anyways, he managed the workshop space in another part of the building, not the public facing space I was working in! Convoluted because vague!)
I always thought he was attractive, thoughtful, and seemingly very kind, if from a distance. But in the past couple weeks this guy and I had some really wonderful, long conversations kind of accidentally. At the end of year event we totally monopolized each other and sort of came out of a daze at the end, and we would run into each other and try to only say hi but boom twenty minutes would go by.
So at my last day of work he asked me out, very politely and..softly? If that makes sense? But! Alas! I was leaving the next day to go home before doing a summer language intensive abroad for three months. (OMG SO EXCITED OMG.) He seemed disappointed and suggested we maybe keep in touch over the summer. So, I slid into his DMs to give him my number, because at this point I was definitely lightly crushing and Feeling Free with my immanent departure.
And NOW we are sending BONA FIDE LETTERS over text. Did you know if you send too long of an iMessage text it opens up into a new plain text window?? Neither did I! And we're having wide ranging conversations about literature and art and our lives and it's wonderful and it's clear he's actually *listening* to what I'm saying and thinking about it, and we both keep saying how much we enjoy the other person's texts and how happy this is making us. So now I'm really crushing hard.
BUT. The problem. I'm 25, he's 38. I thought he was early to mid 30s until I googled him. (Also never dated/flirted with anyone with a (small) Wikipedia page before!) I'm...uncomfortable politically with men in their thirties dating twenty somethings. Date your own age!! I actually initially thought he wouldn't be interested because I was younger. I also give some side eye to things that get more intense over text instead of in person. On the other hand...he seems really, really kind. I genuinely like him. We did know each other before this texting. And in some ways, getting to know each other better like this over text also feels like some assurance that it's not just him trying to hit on a younger woman. Sooo...am I crazy for having a good feeling about this despite the age difference and the fact that we're not going to see each other for three months? It's so weird and unexpected!


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March 15, 2016
Media Contact: Syed Hussan (416 453 3632), Estefania Alfonso (416 809 7620) – No One Is Illegal – Toronto
Second death in immigration custody in one week reignites calls for detentions overhaul
Toronto — Immigration rights coalition End Immigration Detention Network is enraged and dismayed after a second immigration detainee died in Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) custody in one week. An emergency vigil will be held at CBSA offices to call for immediate action from the Trudeau government to end indefinite detention, end the use of provincial jails for immigration detention, overhaul of the judicial review process, and create an oversight body over the CBSA as first steps towards ending immigration detention.
WHAT: Emergency Vigil Against Deaths in Immigration Detention
WHEN: 7pm, Tuesday, March 15, 2016
WHERE: CBSA Offices, 74 Victoria Street
VISUALS: Dozens of concerned residents at candlelit vigil holding names and pictures of detainees who have died.
Francisco Javier Romero Astorga died in Maplehurst Correction Centre on Sunday, March 13 while being jailed on behalf of CBSA in an Ontario facility. His death follows the death of Melkioro Gahungu in the Toronto East Detention Centre on Monday, March 7th. Astorga's death is the 14th known case of death in border services custody since 2000, though CBSA has never publicly declared the total number of deaths in its care.
"Immigration detention is getting way out of hand. they are locking us up and forgetting about us. I have seen 5 people held in detention with me pass away while in CBSA custody, there is no end to detention and I am worried the next one will be me. I want immigration detention to end now" says 51 year old Francis Davidson, from inside Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario. Davidson has been in Canada 27 years and has been held in detention for the nearly 6. He has been organizing a protest strike from inside immigration detention since September 2013.
"We were already grieving Melkioro when we heard of Francisco's death, the heartbreak is just too much. The responsibility for this tragedy, the 14th death since 2000, ultimately lies with Federal politicians who must act swiftly to end detentions, particularly indefinite detentions, stop jailing migrants in provincial jails, and overhaul the broken judicial review process so that our friends and communities do not continue to die imprisoned without charges or trial," adds Estefania Alfonso, a member of No One Is Illegal – Toronto.
"CBSA and the provincial prisons they rent out are incapable of keeping people alive in their custody and the United Nations has already issued condemning opinions against immigration detention" says Karin Baqi, Staff Lawyer at South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario. "It is clear that immigration detention is deadly and unjustifiable. CBSA remains the only federal law enforcement agency without oversight, civilian, a human rights body or otherwise. They remain unaccountable for their crimes. These deaths will continue until they are brought under control."
Immigration detainees that have died in custody since 2000
At least 8 of the known deaths have taken place in Ontario provincial prisons
- Francisco Javier Romero Astorga (March 2016) Cause of death unknown (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Melkioro Gahungu (March 2016) Suicide (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan (June 2015) 'Restrained by guards' (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Joseph Dunn (September 2014) Suicide (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Prince Maxamillion Akamai (April 2014) Denied adequate medical care (Toronto Immigration Holding Centre)
- Unidentified man (March 2013) Cause of death unknown (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Lucia Vega Jimenez (December 2013) Suicide (in Vancouver immigration holding centre)
- Shawn Dwight Cole (December 2012) Denied adequate medical care (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Unidentified man (August 2010) Cause of death unknown (in Laval immigration holding centre)
- Kevon O'Brien-Phillip (January 2010) Beaten by fellow inmates (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Jan Szamko (December 2009) Denied adequate medical care (in Toronto immigration holding centre)
- Joseph Fernandes (January 2007) Denied adequate medical care (in Toronto immigration holding centre)
- Sheik Kudrath (April 2000) Denied adequate medical care (in Ontario provincial prison)
- Unidentified man (Unknown) Cause of death unknown (unknown)


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Robert Reich and Howard Dean. Where are They?
Many left-leaning Democrats are asking the same question. Reich would have been a superb choice at Treasury and Dean an obvious choice at HHS. Both are tough, forward-thinking progressive politicians with total command of the briefs in question. Many people inside and outside the Beltway are surprised that neither man was even in the running. Joe Trippi, a top Democratic consultant who ran Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential bid, "I think Robert Reich would have been a better appointment than Geithner".
And there are many others who agree.
So why aren't they the nominees?
There are many, many reasons.
First, both Robert Reich and Howard Dean are liberals, and that means they don't mesh with Obama's all inclusive 'new politics' (or centrism as it's otherwise known). They are mistakenly seen by the White House as skilled ideologues in a post-partisan world. Read the rest of this entry »
Robert Reich: Never Approached For Obama Cabinet Post
After the Judd Gregg and Daschle false-starts, it appears Obama has two more chances to fill a cabinet post with someone who is not a high-powered centrist insider. The silence surrounding any mention of Robert Reich for a cabinet position with the Obama administration has been deafening to many progresssives,
Reich gave a spirited endorsement of Obama in April of last year and is a perfect choice for the Commerce or HHS positions, an emminently qualified, insightful, forward-thinking voice in stark contrast to the rest of the middle-of-the roaders around the cabinet table.
I emailed Robert Reich to ask him whether he'd been approached by the new administration and received the following response;
I have neither been approached about, nor have I sought, a cabinet
position in the Obama administration.
When one of the most innovative and progressive policy-makers in the US today is passed over by the Obama administration, it's a fact that speaks volumes about the superficiality of Obama's call for change.
Why Did Obama Bypass Robert Reich?
Of all the cabinet choices that Obama didn't make, there are a few that really stick out. Not choosing Bill Richardson at State after he had switched loyalties from the Clinton camp early in the game and delivered a big jolt of legitimacy to the Obama team is one, but at least he got a job – if not the one he wanted. The big and potentially most worrying missing name from Obama's line-up is Robert Reich. Now, it's very possible that Reich said he wasn't interested, that he preferred being an academic and a commentator, but it's also possible he was left out in the cold.
If the latter is indeed true, it would be a very worrying sign for the economic path Obama is likely to take. Reich is the most reasonable, sensible, honest, straightforward and intelligent guy who wasn't chosen to steer the economy. He knows the mistakes that were made, he saw them coming a mile off, and unlike Tim Geithner, he has no role whatsoever in the disaster that has befallen us. His only 'crime' maybe that he is seen as too 'progressive', and might 'scare Wall Street' (not that Wall Street's opinion is worth a bucket of spit). Read the rest of this entry »
You Want Change? I Got Change For Ya Right Here – Job Retraining.
Beginning today, a series of long term policy suggestions that a few enlightened souls would see as real 'change' rather than messing about at the edges, while most who like the notion of messing about at the edges would see as radical.
Number 1.
Job Re-training.
There's an old political motto "When you don't have a clue about what to do with the economy, push a serious retraining agenda".
You might recall John McCain's recent earnest appeal for a big retraining push during the campaign. It was greeted with the usual response for ye olde retraining concept. Total silence. Nobody likes it. Nobody hates it. Nobody believes it will have any effect whatsoever. It's a great big yawn.
But does it have to be this way? Read the rest of this entry »


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Book Review: The Hidden History Of The Supreme Court
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann is a quick but important read for people who want to review the history of the Supreme Court. At 168 pages, the book takes readers … Continue reading
Posted in Progressive Community, SCOTUS, thom hartmann Tagged book review, Scotus, Supreme Court, thom hartmann
Can Democrats Change The 'Roberts Five' Majority?
If Democrats hope to undo the conservative lean of the United States Supreme Court it won't be as simple as Republicans had it in 2016. Many said the 2016 general election was as much about the Supreme Court as it … Continue reading
Posted in SCOTUS Tagged progressive values, Scotus
Video: Christine Blasey Ford's Full Testimony
ICYMI. Must see.
Posted in #trumpresistance Tagged Brett Kavanaugh, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testimony, Scotus
Ramirez's Yale Classmates Corroborate Allegation Against Kavanaugh
The Republicans would have us believe that the new sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh is a completely unsubstantiated claim. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez A classmate of Ramirez's, who declined to be identified because of the partisan battle over Kavanaugh's nomination, said that … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa Tagged Kavanaugh, Scotus
Kavanaugh: Net Neutrality Unconstitutional
https://www.fightforthefuture.org/ "Fight for the Future works to protect your rights in the digital age." Last week, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh doubled down on his stance that net neutrality is illegal and unconstitutional.1 If the Senate votes Kavanaugh onto the … Continue reading
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NRA Should Not Pick SCOTUS
Action Alert from Iowans for Gun Safety: Thanks to the influence of the gun lobby, US Senators (including Grassley and Ernst) have vowed to deny President Obama's Supreme Court nominee a hearing—never mind an up or down vote. But the … Continue reading
Posted in Charles Grassley Tagged Chuck Grassley, Gun lobby, Iowans for gun safety, joni ernst, NRA, Scotus
Public Demonstrations Planned To Protest Grassley Obstruction
WhyCourtsMatterIowa.org Why Courts Matter Iowa Coalition to Rally and Tell Senator Grassley – "Do Your Job" Why Courts Matter Iowa coalition members, volunteers and supporters will gather at the Polk County Courthouse, Sunday, March 13th at 2:00 pm, to protest … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election Campaign, Charles Grassley, SCOTUS Tagged Chuck Grassley, Grassley obstruction, Scotus, SCOTUS nomination
Women Justices Blast Texas Anti-Choice Law
Freespeech TV "With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court has only eight justices opening the way for a 4-4 tie in what many see as the biggest abortion case in a generation. Such a tie … Continue reading
Posted in SCOTUS Tagged Scotus, Texas abortion restrictions
Kaul: The Passion Of Scalia
otherwords.org George W. Bush might not have occupied the White House and brought on the Iraq War. By Donald Kaul My mother always told me never to speak ill of the dead. For that reason I won't go on at … Continue reading
Posted in SCOTUS Tagged Antonin Scalia, Donald Kaul, Scotus
Grassley Intends To Obstruct Supreme Court Nomination
[Note from BFIA: Click here to see Grassley's schedule of town hall meetings this week.] Des Moines, IA — The Why Courts Matter Iowa coalition released the following statement today in response to Senator Chuck Grassley's promise to delay a … Continue reading
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The new Pore Minimising Boost from Bio-Extracts is particularly good for anyone with an oily skin. It is an antibacterial, lentil based, vegan blend of actives, that can limit shine, control sebum and reinforce the collagen in the dermis, therefore making the pore look tighter and less enlarged. This is great because as we get older and out skin starts to slacken the pore walls kind of…flop and get bigger.
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Europe is a hugely popular destination for students from around the world, with hundreds of prestigious institutions, and some of the oldest universities in the world.
But which ones are the best for students? If you're thinking of going to university in Europe either for a full degree, or for a year or term abroad, this list is for you.
The data comes from QS — in the making of the index, they've brought together five different factors:
- Student mix
- Desirability
- University rankings
- Affordability
- Employer activity
Take a look at where the best European cities sit.


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Success Story
Business Name: Compass Commerical
Owners: Lynn Drake
Lynn Drake, President of Compass Commercial is certain of what her "true north" is for business. It is to exclusively represent tenants and buyers of commercial real estate and not landlords. Lynn Drake has a reputation built on twenty years of commercial real estate experience. Thus far in her career, Lynn has successfully completed over 2,000 real estate transactions ranging from small business tenant leases to the sale and purchase of industrial complexes.
Lynn understands the value of professional development and makes sure to sharpen her skills each year. Her favorite and most impactful training is the Women's Business Center's Leadership Institute for Women. This one-day executive education program provides women business owners with the leadership skills to navigate a successful business in the 21st Century. As markets continue to evolve and change, to remain competitive, a woman business owner must develop and implement a strategy to guide them through the changing dynamics of an increasing competitive market. Drake learned how to work with big companies and how to answer their request for proposals. She usually focused in on small business owners as clients, but began to realize that she was holding herself back from bigger deals. Lynn was highly influenced by presenter, Michelle Kantor, an attorney who shared tips and suggestions on how to create contract teaming and joint venture agreements. Kantor stress that if you are going to team with another company, make sure you get the right cut of the deal.
Drake has attended the last four Leadership Institute for Women and she credits her training in landing her biggest contract, which is with the real estate division of the State of Michigan. "Had I not gone to the Leadership Institute for Women, there would be no way of winning the State of Michigan contract, says Drake." I can count on quality speakers and relevant subjects from the Women Business Center at the Great Lakes Women's Business Council.


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We've all done it. Streamed endless amounts of television until our minds are pleasant puddles of mush, putting off the inevitable grade-determining work that defines college. "I'll get it done," we all chant to make ourselves feel better. But when we actually get down to it, it's like the world has crashed down on our shoulders. How did all that work suddenly multiply?!
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text: In July 2018, a whopping 320 square blocks in New York City's diverse Flatbush neighborhood was declared the new "Little Haiti." According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are about 160,000 Haitian immigrants living in the New York metropolitan area. They've been migrating in a steady stream since the late 1950s, often to escape political oppression and economic hardship. I was given the opportunity to photograph some of its intersections, hubs, and popular venues. This story was published on The Wall Street Journal online and in print on July 31, 2018.


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OK, the book focuses on online learners. But our traditional students or students in blended learning environment can benefit as well! Take advantage of the recently emerging technologies as well as innovative pedagogical practices! Chapters on learning relevance, engagement, collaboration, and interactivity as well as ones on learner autonomy, curiosity, product generation, and so form the centerpiece of this book. In addition, there is a chapter on how to support and motivate more hesitant or novice online instructors.
For further information on the e-book: TEC-VARIETY: 100+or Activities for Motivating and Retaining Learners Online to download the entire free e-book as well as individual chapters for FREE or to purchase the paperback or Kindle versions, please see: http://tec-variety.com/


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Many of you are starting to think about jobs in library and information science. Others are considering jobs in information science and associated fields. It's really important to build a network of colleagues and mentors who can help you find a position, write letters of recommendation, and introduce you to others.
- Build a network. Think about your social media persona. Lock down your Facebook page and flesh out LinkedIn. Build a positive, work oriented social media presence on all social media sites.
- Look at job ads. What skills are prospective employers looking for? What skills can you emphasize? What do you need to learn?
- Get some practical, hands-on experience at a cultural institution. Build a positive working relationship with your colleagues and supervisors. Think about this position as an entry into the profession.
- Brush up your writing skills. Write reviews, memos, letters, articles. Polish your spelling, grammar, sentence structure, and writing skills.
- Read widely. Read the newspaper or news feeds. Read reviews of current fiction, non-fiction, literature, current events. Read a few books. Haunt the bookstores looking at flyleaves and blurbs.
See what types of jobs are available through LAC Group https://lac-group.com/ and sign up for their blog.
Follow HLS (Hack Library School) http://www.hacklibraryschool.com to see what other students on the east coast are talking about in terms of jobs and careers.
Attend local meetings for Georgia archivists, librarians, paraprofessionals, special librarians. See if there's a local or regional ASIS&T or SLA group. Attend their meetings. Talk about your job, your career, and ask them about jobs and career advice.
Schedule some informational interviews asking other professionals for their advice.
Librarianship is all about networking. Talk to people and see what's out there. Don't be afraid to look outside traditional librarianship for jobs.


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Leveraging New Service Activation Testing Standards and Automated Service Assurance
The increasing demand for Ethernet services, particularly from enterprises, is great news for service providers, but it comes with demands for better service quality and faster responsiveness to service change requests. Delivering on these demands can be challenging, especially for service providers that rely on labor-intensive testing processes for service activation testing (SAT). In this paper, we examine the challenges providers face activating Ethernet and IP services, and show how new standards ensure thorough and accurate activation and benchmarking of services.
The paper covers the evolution of SAT for Ethernet and IP Services, the similarities and differences of Ethernet and IP SAT and how the migration to network functions virtualization (NFV) will increase the importance of SAT. We will also discuss how new standards can be integrated into an automated service assurance platform to achieve faster time to revenue and reduced time to resolve service issues. Lastly, the paper provides some practical examples outlining how automated assurance delivers benefits for SAT, troubleshooting and performance monitoring.
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The Chancellor Hotel
Looking for luxury and an upscale hotel experience in Fayetteville? Look no further than The Chancellor Hotel, one of the most stylish place to stay in Fayetteville. Located in the heart of the Historic Downtown Square, The Chancellor mixes business and pleasure with suites and rooms perfect for winding down or entertaining guests.
The boutique-style hotel has more than 192 rooms and 15 suites, each with room service available and ample work space. The modern decor offers a stylish retreat, with breathtaking views of the city and Ozark Mountains.
Fayetteville is home to abundant shopping and nightlife options, as well as a variety of local restaurants, and The Chancellor is perfectly located for enjoying the best of all things to do in Fayetteville.
The Chancellor is the perfect place to stay for a romantic or relaxing getaway, with its king size beds and breakfast-in-bed room service. It also offers special packages for guests, including one that allows you to experience the Fayetteville Ale Trail, a self-guided craft beer tour made up of 10 microbreweries in Northwest Arkansas, as well as a cidery!
The location of the hotel is unbeatable, with easy access to the Fayetteville Town Center, newly renovated Walton Arts Center and football games right across campus at Donald W. Reynolds Razorbacks Stadium. The hotel also allows for easy access to local businesses and popular meeting spots in the city. Local bars and restaurants on Dickson Street are within walking distance.
The elegant hotel also is perfect for meetings, weddings or special events in Fayetteville. The Chancellor features the 6494 Bistro & Lounge, a sophisticated take on Southern-cuisine staples and featuring signature cocktails. Among the amenities are an indoor/outdoor swimming pool and updated fitness center, perfect for a relaxing morning or evening.
For those in town on business travel, The Chancellor offers a retreat from stressful meetings or events. With valet parking, wake-up calls and free Wi-Fi, you'll never miss a moment if you're staying at The Chancellor. Suitable for even the busiest of schedules, this hotel is a fantastic place to stay for a memorable trip in the Ozark Mountains.


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Cosplayer Tomoyo Ichijouji > Prop of Homura Akemi (Madoka Magica)
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- 05-30-2014
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- Madoka Magica
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- Homura Akemi
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- Homura's shield
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- 2014
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- The first time I made it, it was a bit too small proportionally to the rest of the cosplay, so in 2014 for Fanime I remade it (and the first version was starting to come apart anyway). Though, I kept the crimson gems and the mechanical centerpieces by peeling them off the old one and sticking them on the new base lol! (Saved time and they were just fine maintenance-wise anyway)
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I put together a list of some computational neuroscience courses which have substantial material (handouts or reading lists) publically available on the web.
If you know of other such courses which are not listed there, feel free to add them.
This list drew heavily from two other lists (links to them are at the bottom of that page, in the section "other lists").


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It's pretty obvious how social media can impact a business. Thinking about how potent social networking is on our personal lives, it can do wonders for the business world. If you've ever seen the ad for SmartWater with Jennifer Aniston, it pretty much depicts what it takes to go viral on the internet. A pretty smart commercial idea, if you ask me.
Where I am going with this the fact that social media is huge. It affects, I'd say, everyone, in some way or another. I've picked three articles from three different sites, and with each I'm trying to really enforce my position on how critical social media is in this day and age. We take it so lightly, especially at this point in our lives but what we don't realize is how open we've become… with everyone. From a business perspective, that can be pretty harsh.
So I went to the site Mashable and I found this article, titled College Admissions Advice to Students: Think Now, Tweet Later written by Andrea Smith. It essentially talks about how the things we put on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, etc. are readily available to whoever wants to see them… and it's post secondary institutes that are looking. We put so much effort into applying for college and university; trying to make ourselves looks professional and 100% desirable to the best colleges/universities there are. It's almost the same as applying for a job – you want to get hired so you'll put "Lead a committee for environmental clean-up" instead of what it actually was, which was "picked up garbage around the school yard in grade eight". I mean, seriously… We want to look good. So why is it that people make Twitter updates talking about how drunk they got last night? Or how "Tiffany is SUCH a b*****!"? They say it's vulgarity and misconduct that really turn off employers and post secondary schools from accepting you. I don't think people consider the things they post before they post them. If you're tweeting "look at this awesome drunk picture from last friday!" and it's a picture of you and your friends urinating in a bush… where does your professional credibility go? The same place you should've been instead of the bush…
This really puts it into perspective how, especially in a business world, it is essential to remain professional even in your personal doings. If you were the CEO of Apple and you were tweeting "smoking bongs with the boys." how do you think your followers would take that? Not well, I would assume. It's always smart to keep yourself composed and professional on social media, especially with it being so influential. No matter if you're 45 and running a business to if you're 18 and getting high in your parents basement. Have your fun, just keep it away from where everyone can get at it.
Next site was Social Media Explorer, with an article titled Becoming a Social Business Isn't Just for Social Media, written by Ilana Rabinowitz. A quote I found interesting from the article was "For those of us who are deeply involved in social media, it's hard to imagine that there are businesses still questioning the value of it… becoming adept at social media means learning principles that can assure survival of a business in challenging times." This blog entry talks about how businesses are (and should be) using social media to their advantage. With the influential nature of social media, businesses are finding it more and more useful to be more proficient in that field. Social Media, especially these days, can really impact how successful a business is and that is, in most ways, a positive. After giving it a litte thought, however, I've also concluded that it can cause a lot of damage. It says in the article "The new openness has most significantly affected the way businesses need to operate." which basically means that our world is becoming more and more social media-based and in order to survive on a professional level, we need to adapt to these changes. A business that is in tune with what's currently happening on the internet will probably do a lot better than one that is still living in the 50s, so to speak.
The last one I checked out was called Facebook Makes Big Push To Educate New Users On Privacy, Adds In-Line Controls to Sign Up Flow written by Josh Costine on TechCrunch. This blog article talked about how Facebook is really trying to get their users to realize how easily the privacy settings are set now. Before, it was such a hassle to make sure your parents didn't see those crazy photos you took last night, or that status update with the F word that you were hoping your grandmother wouldn't read. They really want their users to see how user-friendly they've become in terms of privacy, and how simple it is. With the new addition to setting your privacy as soon as you set up your Facebook account, the users will realize how user-based they really are… or appear to be. In my mind, this is definitely a tactic to get more people to use the site. They more they see that Facebook is doing everything it can to ensure your privacy, the more they'll trust in it and use it. Pretty clever. In the world of business, I believe this is a smart move for Facebook. Like I said with the first article, teenagers especially aren't watching what they're putting on the internet – and I believe that's brought on by a hint of apathy. They don't care what is posted because "it's their life" and "they can do what they want". By providing this new feature, Facebook has in turn given those very people the chance to continue what they are doing – but in a "safer" environment. If you don't have to worry about your boss seeing you go to the bathroom in a bush, why not let the world know? If you find it funny, I'm sure someone else will too.
In summary, my main point is how essential social media has become from a business perspective. Not only how important it is, but how easily it affects business and the people in the business. Whether you're 17 year old, still in high school, applying to Queen's University and tweeting about how many shots it took for you to end up sleeping beside the toilet, or starting up a business and trying to find the best methods of improving yourself, or even a huge business that is looking to figuratively pull your users back in, we all need to realize the potency of social media and how we can use it to our advantage in a professional manner. No matter what you do, who you are, or where you're going – social media is extraordinarily prevalent at this moment in time and will help shape who you become later on. Practice safe tweeting.


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VoxelJet (VJET) - Buy or Sell? Buy VJET below $30, sell into a rally.
VoxelJet (VJET) hit $70 and then crashed back below $40 this week. VJET is part of the 3D Printing bubble that has taken the stock market by storm. Shares of VoxelJet (VJET) is a buy below $30 or a buy on a break above $40.10.
VoxelJet (VJET) will have support at the following levels - $38.31, $35.20, $33.80. Resistance is located at $40.10.
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Our services are free and we adhere to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) codes of ethics and practice. For more information please about BACP click here or for UKCP click here.
If you have had a positive result from a pregnancy test we can offer unbiased information and time and space for you to work through your feelings at your own pace whatever decision you make, we can offer support, practical assistance and signpost to other organisations.
If you have experienced a miscarriage or a stillbirth we can support you through the grieving process, offering support to you and your partner for as long as you need.
If you are troubled following an abortion, whether it was recent or many years ago, you are welcome to come and talk with a trained and experienced practitioner. We offer a post abortion course which enables you to work through your feelings at your own pace.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Emil Kazakov and Bulgarian Geopolitics
The Bulgarian diplomat Emil Kazakov has recently published a book titled The Bulgarian Geopolitics in 20th Century: A National, European and Global View, Faber, 2007, 252 p. (The book is in Bulgarian); Preface by Prof. Beatrice Giblin.
It is an original study of the geopolitical permanencies (perceptions and material factors) that have shaped Bulgarian politics from the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 until the end of the post-communist period in 1997-2000.
The first part of the book is dedicated to the historical and geopolitical conditions that have contributed towards the formation of the individual identity of Bulgarian politics: the three wars in 1913, 1919 and 1947; the Macedonian Question and the formation of a territorial perception of national unity.
The second part investigates the specifics of contemporary Bulgarian politics "inherited" from the national geopolitical pattern. The third part concerns the different perceptions of the Bulgarian geopolitical position and their impact on the decision making process. The final part analyzes the influence of the global geopolitical ideas over Bulgaria's position as a NATO and EU member and defends the need of a pragmatic approach towards the formulation of Bulgarian politics.
Emil Kazakov has a PhD in geopolitics and is an expert in external relations. He was born in Varna, Bulgaria in 1960 and has been posted in Paris and he is currently at the Permanent Mission of Bulgaria to the European Union in Brussels.
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Year 1 Evaluation Results
Findings from the Spring 2006 Irving Laptop Surveys for Teachers
Perceptions of Special Education Teachers
In an effort to inform EdTech procurement decisions in schools and districts across the country whose leaders realize the potential of technology to personalize learning and improve high-quality educational opportunities, Digital Learning Now! brought together experts from Getting Smart, Curriculum Associates, and The Learning Accelerator to create the Smart Series Guide to EdTech Procurement.
The procurement process outlined is informed by the lessons gleaned from the collective experiences of the authors in working with hundreds of school districts and across education policy matters in dozens of states. The authors have learned a great deal about the challenges that districts face when attempting to discern how best to integrate technology into their schools in a way that creates better environments for teachers to teach and students to learn.
They have heard consistent challenges articulated by educators around the country who are facing inter-related shifts in standards and assessments. In the race to meet these challenges, providers often market themselves in strikingly similar ways, even when their product and service offerings are very different. Frequently, the result is confusion and frustration from educational leaders who do not know where to begin.
The purpose of this study was to describe and identify Sedgwick High School's teacher and student perceptions of the impact of one-to-one laptop computer access using an appreciative inquiry theoretical research perspective and the theoretical frameworks of change and paradigm shift.
No one knows teaching like teachers, so we asked more than 3,100 educators what kinds of digital instructional tools are essential to help their students be prepared for college and careers in the 21st century.
In surveys and interviews, teachers told us that they are looking for resources that can help their students meet new, more rigorous standards, including the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards. They also are optimistic that digital instructional tools can be useful. But even as the instructional market is going increasingly digital and a huge array of products exists, gaps remain: Certain types of products that teachers said they need for specific instructional purposes are simply not available; in other cases, there are products available, but teachers aren't using them or don't perceive them to be effective. These market gaps present opportunities for product developers to create new digital instructional tools or improve existing ones to better meet the needs of teachers and students.
In the coming years, schools will be hit with a trio of potent reforms: teacher evaluations that will include student test scores, widespread adoption of higher academic standards, and the development of high stakes standardized tests aligned with these new standards. Each of these reforms challenges the status quo, demanding that schools systematically and continuously improve student performance, marking and measuring their progress each and every step along the way.
The new reforms will require significant changes in the classroom. The Common Core State Standards that have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, represent a retreat from the traditional rote, fact-based style of instruction toward teaching that fosters critical thinking and problem solving. Even non-Common Core states are pursuing a college and career-ready agenda that calls for the development of these skills among students and holds schools accountable for doing so. To meet these new standards, teachers will have to learn new teaching practices.
This is not just about providing professional development but about providing effective professional development. Availability alone is not an issue. In fact, in a recent study, researchers found that while 90 percent of teachers reported participating in professional development, most of those teachers also reported that it was totally useless (Darling-Hammond et al, 2009). Thus, the real issue isn't that teachers aren't provided professional development, but
that the typical offerings are ineffective at changing teachers' practice or student learning.
Teacher, Student and School Perspectives 3/13/2003
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DetroitNut90 replied to intrigued's topic in The LoungeTraffic around here is terrible. We have consistently fallen behind only Los Angeles and San Francisco (I think we're actually only second to LA now) in terms of traffic congestion. So if you're gonna be working in DC or the surrounding suburbs (especially Virginia), don't move to Baltimore. You will hate yourself everyday you're sitting on 95, 295, 29 or 1. That said, I like Baltimore. It has its bad parts, but so does every other city on the east coast. The Inner Harbor and Downtown are very nice. I've lived here all my life and I never get tired of going to the National Aquarium and the Maryland Science Center always has interesting exhibits. BWI is the only airport you'll ever need, and you can catch a Metrobus from there that will take you to Greenbelt and you can take Metro into DC from there. Some of the best hospitals around are here, as well as urban campuses of the University System of Maryland. The public primary schools aren't the best, though. The better neighborhoods are around the Inner Harbor and Downtown, but there are enclaves in other parts of the city, like Patterson Park in the east, Homeland, Roland Park, Cold Spring and Pimlico in the north. The better neighborhoods are cheaper than their equivalents in DC. That said, I highly recommend moving closer to DC if that's where you'll be spending the workday.
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DetroitNut90 replied to ocnblu's topic in The LoungeA white 350Z from Guam. Also, an early-90s Accord and a more-recent Corolla with carriage tops, back-to-back.
I guess when I bought it with 112,000 on the clock, I assumed the plugs were either new(er) or they'd be changed soon. Soon turned into 25,000 miles later...
Way for me to make a mountain out of a molehill...I took it to our mechanic yesterday, and a set of bad spark plugs and even worse plug wires later, the car's running better than the day I bought it. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.
It's a '98 with the L36 3800 Series II and 4T65-E. The fluid was a little low; once my dad got home, we put some in. It didn't seem to work, because the problem was still there. And now it's doing something else: when idling in park, the engine will run fine for a couple seconds and then start to sputter for a bit, then catch itself just before it stalls. Dad says if it were a bad plug or plug wire, it wouldn't be so intermittent; he thinks it might be something with a vacuum hose. No codes came up when I plugged in the scanner and none of the gauge lights have come on.
DetroitNut90 posted a topic in Tech SectionToday, I fixed the a/c in my Intrigue. One of the gears in the passenger-side blend door actuator got a huge crack in it, rendering the whole thing useless. Two trips to AutoZone later (the first time I ordered the part, it didn't make it onto the delivery truck ) and I've got cool air blowing out of the passenger-side vents for the first time in about a year. Today, I also noticed that something else is wrong with the car, and I'm worried that it's the transmission. Back in July, I went to look at a 2002 Taurus SEL, because my local Chevy-BPG dealer quoted me $1167 to fix the blend door problem (thank God for the internet, I fixed it myself for $140). I was hesitant to sink that amount of money into the Intrigue, so I started looking around to see if I could find something newer. Long story short, while I was on the dealership's lot, one of their detailers backed a Beetle into my Intrigue. I wasn't in the car, nor was my friend who came with me, so no injuries or anything, and it wasn't that fast of a crash to begin with. The only obvious effect was a slightly bent front plate and bracket and some scuffs to the paint, but I did see how much the car got rocked back-and-forth. On the way home, I noticed that the car would make something like a bucking motion when I was in 4th and lightly accelerating between 40 and 50. I had it taken the next day to our mechanic and they said that there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it. It's been doing that ever since, but they told me it might need a tune-up or the fluid flushed and replaced. Fast forward to today, the car made the same bucking motion, but this time, it happened right after I backed out of the parking space at the AutoZone. It did it when I accelerated out of the parking lot and a few more times at low speeds as I was driving home. I took it around the block after I installed the new blend door actuator and it seems to do it every time I put it in gear and drive off, accelerate from a stop, and then at a few other random spots. The tach goes a little crazy when this happens, jumping along with the rest of the car from 2000 up to 3000 and then back down again, which seems to me like it is something with the transmission. I remember something like this happening to my mom's Venture before we got rid of it; we took it to the mechanic and IIRC, he said it was a band that needed tightening. I'm really hoping this isn't anything sinister…any thoughts?
Well, that's only true if you ignore the CTS-V, the conceptual equivalent of the SHO/MKS Turbo (i.e. top performance trim).
What Happened to M. Night Shyamalan?
DetroitNut90 replied to CSpec's topic in The LoungeI went with some friends to a drive-in in Baltimore on Friday to see some movies; The Last Airbender was one of them. We paid attention for five minutes and then talked through the rest of it. When the guy on the broadcast asked everyone who liked the movie to flash their high-beams if they liked it, only three cars did out of at least 200.
When you car was new...
DetroitNut90 replied to knightfan26917's topic in The LoungeI had just finished second grade.
Nissan releases more 2011 Quest minivan teasers
DetroitNut90 replied to NewsFeeder's topic in NissanI kinda like the Japanese minivan concept. There are some details I don't agree with, but this sure is better than just abandoning the segment altogether.
I like the current one better...to me it's a more cohesive design. The dip in the rear window makes the side look convoluted and the dash looks like a small re-work with an iDrive grafted onto it. Oh well, at least it's a real minivan.
1989 Dodge Aries
DetroitNut90 replied to XP715's topic in The LoungeWere they even worth that much new?
Report: BMW Gran Coupe To Wear 6-Series Badge
DetroitNut90 replied to NINETY EIGHT REGENCY's topic in BMWFrom what I can see in the pictures (they're pretty bad), this looks to be pretty good-looking. It has a bit of an overhang, though.
How Long and How Far
DetroitNut90 replied to Z-06's topic in The LoungeI never understood why my friend's mom took 17 North out of Norfolk instead of going west on 64 to Richmond and then getting on 95 until I made the drive myself. 64 around and out of Hampton Roads is horrendous. Longest I've gone was...actually, that drive. Corolla, NC to Laurel, MD. Nine hours behind the wheel of what should've been no more than 4.


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Consumers are heavily focused on cleaning and disinfecting their living spaces to fight off germs and bacteria. As a result, products like wipes and sprays have been flying off the shelves. As consumers adapt to this new normal, cleaning will continue to remain top of mind, but they will also seek ways to return their home to the sanctuary it once was.


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Convincing mom to go to Maranatha was as easy as convincing an old woman in Kansas that God needed her to give money to a televangelist. She was always reading Bible study books and she was good for needing more than she could finish in a month. While she meandered the self-help section, I browsed the cassettes looking for something that I knew wouldn't be there. I flipped through the plastic cases of familiar names like Petra and Stryper and the REZ band. My parents had bought everyone of their cassettes for my birthday, Christmas, and Easter. I could count on a cassette with the Maranatha price tag half-way peeled on any of these holidays.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" my mother asked with a handful of study guides for Corinthians and Ephesians and tucked between were books on raising a Christian Boy in A Secular World and When They Don't Honor Their Parents. Mom figured since God had made me, the manual had to be out there somewhere.
"Not really."
"Do you have any of these?" She was looking down at the collection of REZ tapes. I wanted to say I have two of each! You've bought them for my birthday and Easter this year. Instead, I just nodded.
"Well, there's always Christmas."
Of course there was. One more Petra tape and I was going to pull a Fountain of Billy myself. I wanted to Rock. Not be rocked to sleep with another rendition of "The Coloring Song". I've never heard anyone take such an inspiring message and turn it into a song that would lull shepherds to sleep.
"I was looking for U2." There. I had fired my initial shot. Mother looked at me quizzically. I knew that she and the other mothers spoke in their little Bible study groups about things like the Anti-Christ/Devil's Children and the Culture Club, and how they were poisoning the minds of America. To be honest, I thought Boy George was as absurd as my parents did, but that didn't stop me from singing "Karma, Karma, Karma, Karma Chameleon" all day. Each time I did, I'd lose my radio for a week, but it was worth it just to see the frightened reaction on my parents face. If I had the balls, I'd have stolen some of my sister's makeup and painted myself to look like him, too. I'd have strawberry stained lips and I'd paint my eyes to look like the eye of Ra and I borrow a rainbow of felt and fabric from mom's sewing kit and make my hair look like a clown threw up on me. I didn't only because I was afraid I'd be sent to some dark rehab for future homosexuals. By the quirk in her look, U2 hadn't made it into their specter of fear.
"They're a new Christian band," I said sheepishly.
Mom shrugged. "Did you look in the U's?"
Yep. She really said that.
"They don't have them."
"Let's ask at the counter."
Oooh. Not what I had planned for. I was just hoping that I'd be able to move into the second phase of my plan smoothly. Once it was firmly established that Maranatha didn't have everything Christian they'd have to take me to the West Covina Mall where there was a Tower Records. I'd seen the place many times. It was a giant brick and red tile building with red and white metal awnings over the floor to ceiling windows in the parking lot of the mall. The windows had posters of Madonna and David Bowie and Adam Ant. And that was why I was never allowed to go inside. Damn you awkward gender-bending music trends!
Mom had thrown an unforeseen twist to my plot. I knew that the clerk would look through her shipping records and announce that, no, there was no such thing as U2. If Maranatha didn't have it, then it wasn't Christian. That would be the end of that.
Before we could get to the counter, I found a young lady wearing a soft peach/pastel shirt and blue jeans, her hair bunched atop her head in a pile of curls and feathering. Her Maranatha badge said her name was Clare. "Do you have U2?"
She looked dumbfounded and I could tell she was lost. Here's what she probably heard: "Do you have you, too?" If I let this moment go on too long, the spellbinding silence would lull my mom into anxiety and she'd lose it. She rationalize that I'd broken the poor girl's brain asking about a band that was clearly not a Christian band. "They're a new Christian band," I blurted.
"Oh," she said pleasantly. "Did you look under 'U'?"
No matter how hard I tried to scrub it off, the I'm-A-Complete-Idiot tattoo on my forehead wouldn't come off. "Not there."
"Maybe you can come back next week. We get more tapes then."
"Okay," I replied. "Can we come back next week?" I asked as I turned to my mother. I hoped this question would settle it and she wouldn't bring it up to the manager behind the counter. "We'll see."
As the cashier handed my mother her change I thought I'd made it out free and clear. She didn't say anything to the young girl other than a polite "God bless." She always said that to people. But then the stubby, portly manager with thinning brown hair, a face that showed the torment of acne filled high school years, and a light blue and white Hawaiian flower print shirt walked up behind the cashier and asked, "Did you find everything you needed?" Uh. No. Wasn't going to find it here in the first place. This was all a ruse. Please don't ruin it.
"My son wanted a cassette by U2."
I swear, if he asks if I looked under "u" I was going to hit someone.
Instead, he looked at his clipboard, flipped some pages, scowled, and replied, "We don't have them. Maybe you should try Tower Records."
Holy shit! Some middle-aged, balding, Magnum-wannabe managing a Christian bookstore suggested we go to Tower? I probably should have dropped to my knees on the spot and prayed a long prayer of forgiveness and repentance.
"No," my mother said softly. "My son says they're a Christian band."
The man looked at me for a moment. He saw right through me and through my hollow lie. "They have a small selection of Christian music and they can get Christian bands from Europe that we cannot."
Okay. Prayer wasn't enough. I probably should run off to some monastery, shave my head, take a vow of silence, and live the austere life! I could see it now. Me walking around a cloister in a brown robe with a rough hemp rope for a belt, shaved head, chanting, humming, and reading all the dirty pages of the Bible over and over again. It's a shame they no longer made illuminated manuscripts. I'd have had a blast drawing some of those pictures. A regular Biblical Penthouse forum.
My mother and I didn't say a word until we pulled into the driveway of our blue trimmed white house. I opened the door and slid out the backseat of the "banana boat"–a overtly derisive term used for my mother's yellow 1977 Dodge Aspen wagon. I was always embarrassed going to school in a Chiquita fruit. I followed my mother in silence. In the dining room, she set down her new collection of books on the table just as silently as she walked. She had a weird way of being deadly silent. I'd be in my room looking at the TV Guide, reading all the shows I'd never see including the late-night HBO ones and then there she'd be standing in my door. I swear she had a sixth sense when it came to my soul and its temptations.
"So can we?" I asked meekly.
"Can we what?"
"Tower records?"
She pursed her lips. I had as good of a chance getting my mom to go shopping with me in the Red Light district in Amsterdam than I had of getting her into Tower. At least there, you knew for certain the girls were girls. But that wasn't my hope. No, if fate was playing on my team–and it was after Mr. Magnum Christian guy–then my sister would take me.
"We'll talk with your father when he gets home."
And, just like that, I was back to recording on my two year old Memorex cassette. It was getting so bad you could barely hear the underlying recordings as I recorded new songs over the past. U2 would have to go into the dusty, neglected hope chest of my youth along with becoming a professional BMX racer, a big rig truck driver, hearing AC/DC for the first time, and living in a household that had cable television.
The topic of U2 and Tower Records never came up at dinner. Father, in his usual dour, stern voice, asked how school was, why my math test scores were low, and if I finished my homework for next week. I nodded. Anything more invited too many questions. After dinner, I finished my chores of clearing the table and cleaning the dishes. I was about to retreat to my room when dad came up to me and said, "You need to go to Tower Records?"
I'd heard about The Exorcist from kids at school whose parents were less fastidious about their faith. I knew that the girl in the movie was possessed; Satanic possession was something my parents feared would, or maybe had, happen to me. I'd heard the older kids quoting "What an excellent day for an exorcism" whenever something strange happened at school, or one of the teachers decided that it was paddling time. At our school, the administration exorcised the demons from us not with holy water or scripture but with a solid ping-pong paddle. I had my fair share of turns leaning over the principal's desk counting to three or five or the dreaded seven.
I looked up at my father, the austere man who's love I knew I had, but had to decipher through This-Is-Going-To-Hurt-Me-More-Than-You moments, and wondered if I needed a priest.
"You wanted a cassette."
I blinked blankly. It was that slow blink you might have as you drove by a car accident as they were pulling the bodies from the wreckage.
"Do you want to go or not?"
Oh. There he was. Stern and to the point. Glad to have you back.
Like most of the time I spent with my father, we drove the twenty five minutes to the West Covina mall in a silence that you'd hear in funeral homes or the Antarctic.
The inside of Tower was everything I imagined and then so much more. There were posters of bands that I had never heard of–New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, Violent Femmes, Ultravox–and some familiar names as well. Men At Work blared over the speakers. There were punks with leather jackets emblazoned with "The Ramones" on the back. There were guys wearing frilled white shirts that looked like something from a vintage 40's era pirate movie and girls wearing all black from hair, to eye makeup to lips to clothes. There were preppy kids and nerdy kids and just plain teenagers. It was an entirely different world to me, but it was the normal world. I was the one who lived in a void.
My dad's drill sergeant face became more stoic than Lincoln's on a rock in South Dakota. His mind was trying to grasp the unholiness of the situation, but it was like trying to capture smoke with your fingers. There was no way he'd be able to absorb the entirety of the place and I knew that I'd have to be quick about things or we'd be out the door faster than a Jehovah's Witness was kicked off my front porch.
And there was another problem. U2 was supposed to be a Christian band. I knew that was total bullshit. Their albums would be found in the rock section. The problem being, dad would follow me there and stop me dead in my tracks. Mr. Magnum guy from Maranatha Books couldn't help me now. I rushed over to the UVW section of the rock music hoping that my furtive darting, like a squirrel on a street not knowing which way to go as the car came to hit him, would help me elude my father.
Not Mr.-I-Was-A-Green-Beret guy. He had me as though he was a hound and I was the fox. He parked his massive body behind me as I pulled "War" from the rack. "This isn't Christian music," he said.
"Maybe they misfiled it." Yeah. Like that was going to work.
My father took one look at the record cover with the young boy, hands behind his head, a little cut on his lip, all in black and white, with "U2/WAR" in blood red and said: "Nope." He turned, and I knew that as a dutiful foot soldier, I was expected to follow quickstep.
On our way out of what must have seemed to my father to be one of the three portals to hell–the other two being Hollywood itself and Las Vegas–my father paused by the "new release" rack. I tried to follow his eyes across the rack. There were the usual sinners: A little girl in a white dress playing peeping tom (Violent Femmes); A building exploding as viewed through a sniper's scope (Def Leppard); An orange haired, bondage masked Annie Lennox; A pentagram and title "Shout At The Devil". At least Madonna looked somewhat decent. Then my eyes caught Juice Newton's latest album. God no. If he picked up that pastel cacophony of wretchedness I'd be shamed for all time.
What he reached for instead was "Built For Speed". I could see a twinkle in his eyes. He looked back in time through that cover. Maybe he saw himself in those Rockabilly outfits and slicked back hair standing in front of two amazing hot rods. In that moment, I realized that my father was a person, too. That there were memories and hopes and dreams behind that icy veneer.
And that's how I ended up walking into my bedroom with my first ever record. I played that album almost raw. I still have it, along with hundreds of others that I have since collected. Oh, I did end up with "War", on cassette, for my birthday. It was a gift from my sister.
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Orange County sheriff's officials took the suspect into custody on Friday. No further details were immediately released regarding the identity of the suspect.
Sheriff's officials were expected to hold a press conference at 4 p.m. to discuss the case.
Bernstein's body was found Tuesday in the brush along the perimeter of Lake Forest's Borrego Park after he had been missing for a week. Investigators said they are treating his death as a homicide.
MORE: Search warrant provides new details into investigation of OC student's death
The University of Pennsylvania student was last seen entering Borrego Park at about 11 p.m. on Jan. 2 by a friend who was with him at the time.
A search warrant, which has since been sealed, recently revealed details of the investigation.
An affidavit described detectives' interview with that friend who drove Berstein to the park the last time he was seen alive.
The friend said he and Bernstein spoke on Snapchat that night of Jan. 2 and made plans for the friend to pick him up. The friend said he seemed depressed, but didn't say he wanted to hurt himself.
They drove to the park. The friend said Bernstein then walked alone into the darkness.
Bernstein didn't respond to messages, so the friend said he left and went to a girlfriend's house, then returned to the park later.
Bernstein was reported missing the next day. His parents said he left the house with no wallet, money, identification, keys or eyeglasses.
#BREAKING: @OCSD investigators arrive with suspect in #BlazeBernstein case IN CUSTODY. @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/XFCZ4m7SCO— Greg Lee (@abc7greg) January 12, 2018
Detectives say as they were interviewing the friend, they noticed scratches and abrasions on the friend's hand. He said it was from a fight club.
They also saw dirt under his nails. He said it was from falling into a puddle.
They also said during the interview he appeared nervous, was talking fast and was visibly shaking. At one point, he pulled his jacket over his hands to prevent his fingers from touching doors.
The detectives interviewed the friend more than once and say his story remained consistent.
As the investigation continues, friends in Orange County, and at the University of Pennsylvania where he attended, have been mourning Bernstein.
A candlelight vigil was held Wednesday at Borrego Park in which friends mourned the loss and expressed support and prayers for his family.


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- Melbourne reseller, Interconnekt, nabs Quantum cloud backup agency
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- Interconnekt to "grey label" backup-as-a-service.
Melbourne reseller Interconnekt has become an early adopter of Quantum's "no upfront payment" backup-as-a-service and disaster-recovery-as-a-service offerings.
"It's a true MSP model – we effectively subscribe to what we require," Interconnect managing director Jacob Kino told CRN.
"Everyone talks about cloud computing transferring capital expenditure to operating expenditure, but for a reseller you're just moving it to your capex," he said. "That makes it difficult for smaller players, but with this 'pay-as-you-grow' model we can leverage capacity on demand licensing."
The vendor is offering the service as a grey label product, which in Interconnekt's case is called 'Connekt Protect - powered by Quantum'.
A Quantum statement says that the MSP "charges customers on a monthly basis for Quantum software that manages the backup". The backup is de-duplicated and replicated to the MSP's data centre. The vendor then "bills the MSP, in turn, a fraction of the cost of what the MSP charges the customer on a monthly basis".
Interconnekt's customers who have taken up the BaaS and DRaaS services include a financial services firm and a large hardwood timber mill in Gippsland, Victoria.
"With the risk of bushfires, they didn't want onsite primary infrastructure," Kino said. "We have their primary copy in a Melbourne data centre and we replicate data back to Gippsland – they're their own DR site."
Quantum's current MSP programme was launched in October.
"Alliance members can apply for extra certification to be a Quantum MSP," director of channel sales Anne Collins told CRN in February. "Once approved and trained, Quantum MSPs can make tremendous margins selling backup and disaster recovery as a service to their customers."
ANZ country manager for Quantum, Adrian Sharkey, told CRN of the importance of channel incentives: "We do 99.9 percent of our business through channel.
"Typically speaking we don't do direct sales – in three-and-a-half years I've approved one direct deal."


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