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God help me if, in my supposed "Golden Years," I'm hanging out by my mailbox, hopefully not hunched over like Quasimodo or leaning on a walker or sitting on a scooter (no offense to those who need them for mobility, I just hope it's not me), on a certain day of each month anxiously awaiting my Social Security check so I can survive for another month.
Often through no fault of their own – or sometimes, through bad luck, setbacks, unfortunate decisions, costly medical problems, lack of foresight and typical life struggles – that is the fate of many older people in the U.S. The fear that I may join them drives me to try to maximize my income-producing options for the future and save and invest as much as possible, as hard as it is with two college-age children, my own graduate school education, a mortgage, and a life in a metro area with one of the nation's highest costs of living.
The AARP's Retirement Confidence Survey revealed that nearly half of 50+ workers and nearly three in five retirees have less than $25,000 in savings and investments. That, to me, certainly seems like a crisis of poverty engulfing our elderly citizens. Think about it: three of five retirees who may live 20 years in retirement may have $1,000 or less in savings and investments for each of those years. That's a retirement of mere survival.
The survey found that Social Security is a major source of retirement income for two of three retirees over age 50.
The survey concluded that Americans age 50 and older may not have a realistic view of their financial future in retirement and are not adequately preparing for it.
Whether many people could possibly adequately prepare for it in this age is another matter, with wages and income stagnant in perpetuity; rampant employer layoffs, persistent and widespread unemployment and jobs shipped overseas; escalating and unaffordable college tuition; high student and consumer debt loads; and rising consumer costs and government fees and taxes.
In my state, Maryland, politicians are trying to force workers to save for retirement. A new legislative effort has been launched to establish retirement security plans for more than a million Marylanders who would otherwise rely entirely on Social Security in retirement.
U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez joined Maryland leaders to promote the national initiative at the state level: the creation of workplace savings accounts in which employees would be automatically enrolled but would have the right to bow out of participation.
While I believe the financial fate of the nation's elderly is important to the U.S. economy and society's overall health and well-being, I contend that the government is overstepping its reach in this effort of forced "workplace savings accounts." I also believe in individual responsibility and accountability and free choice. And where does this policy leave entrepreneurs, consultants and other non-traditional income earners in this unstable economy which is increasingly moving toward a free-agent model and employers cannot be counted upon for a secure job for life?
As for me, this fear of over-reliance on somewhat meager Social Security payments is one of my motivations for pursuing a graduate degree in mental health counseling. Counseling is something I can do independently to produce income if I so choose, and a career that doesn't necessarily come with a built-in retirement date. It expands my options, and I want all the options I can generate at my disposal to live life on my own terms in the future.


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IV therapy health trend comes to Canada
REVIV, an IV therapy company founded by ER doctors has recently opened a flagship location in Toronto and has plans for future expansion to Montreal and Vancouver.
The IV bar is a hit with celebrities and the work hard play hard crowd that cannot afford to be down and out even for a day. Whether for jet lag, cold and flu, hangovers, or added energy and wellness benefits, REVIV has an IV hydration therapy for anyone's needs and wellness goals. In addition to the IV drips, REVIV offers a variety of vitamin booster shots including the popular Glutathione and B12 shots. These therapies are great for anyone seeking elevated energy, alertness, anti aging, and improved appearance to hair, skin, and nails.
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Along with San Pellegrino (from Italy) and Perrier, Evian is the most visible luxury water in the world. A flagship product of prestigtious Groupe Danone, Evian's source in Haute Savoie was discovered in 1789 by the Marquis de Lessert. Nitrates are acceptable at 3.8 milligrams per liter; other than that, there really is nothing exceptional in its chemistry besides the strong level of Silica, and low Sodium content. With its neutral 7.2 pH, Evian rolls along, providing a signature taste enjoyed by many.
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Who ever thought NYC would have movie screenings in the middle of winter? Today Bryant Park's third annual Winter Film Festival kicks off with Disney's Peter Pan at 7PM! Screenings will take place each Monday this month aside Citi Pond's 900-square-foot rink-side viewing screen.
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Cancer drug screening process saves discovery time and limits use of mice
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A method of testing drugs thatprompt the immune system to attack and destroy cancer cells has been developed which can speed up drug discovering andreducethe unnecessary use of mice in drug screening programmes.
Certain cancer drugs help the body's immune system identify and kill tumour cells through a process known as 'immunogenic cell death' (ICD). This effectively works by allowing apatient's own dying cancer cells to act as a vaccine that promotes an immune response against the tumour cells. However, ICD only occurs when the immune system is alerted to a dying cell via special signals sent out by the cell.
UK-based contract research organisation KWS BioTesthas created a test that searches for these signals in order to determine whether or not a drug is able to combat cancer through ICD.
Over the last few decades, immunotherapy has become a hot topic in the world of cancer research. The idea that the immune system can be harnessed to combat the spread of tumour cells has ushered in a conceptual revolution resulting in the development and licensing of therapeutic agents based around this theory. Further research has also shown that many of the current therapies used in a clinical setting already use this mechanism to combat malignant cells.
The most reliable way to evaluate a compound's ability to trigger ICD involves exposing malignant cells to the test molecule in a laboratory.These treated tumourcells are then used to inoculate mice which later have live cancer cells introduced into their systems. If no tumours develop, the compound has successfully triggered ICD and the recipient mice will have developed immunity against the cancer cells.
However, this type of testing is not practical when large numbers of drugs are being screened.
The experts at KWS BioTest have developed a test that registers the presence of signals sent by the dying cell — these signals are known as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Three of these DAMPs have long been recognised for their vital role in ICD. Those are Calreticulin (CRT), which is exposed on the cell surface, ATP,which is the secreted from the cell, and B1 (HMGB1), a passively released high mobility group protein.
By using these surrogate markers, compounds can be pre-screened before progressing to the next stage of the drug development process.
Professor Neil A. Williams, CSO at KWS BioTest, said: "The recognition that some conventional and new cancer therapies can enhance recognition of cancer cells by the immune system points toward their use in combination with immunotherapies and heralds the possibility of improved outcomes for patients. The assays, now validated at KWS, offer the potential to predict which drugs might work in this way, reducing the numbers of animals required in research and speeding up the development of new human treatments."


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Ibaka looks around him and sees a team primed to defend its title
Serge Ibaka has been around the NBA long enough to know when a team is getting locked in.
And that's exactly what he is seeing from the Raptors as they bide their time in Fort Myers, Fla., awaiting the opening of the NBA campus where the season will resume and conclude over the next three and a half months.
Fresh off an early afternoon workout, Ibaka took a few minutes of his day to answer questions from the media back in Toronto.
His take at this point in the ramp-up towards the restart: the Raptors will need some time to get up to speed physically but mentally they are there to win.
"I think, physically, it's going to take us a little bit of time, it's kind of normal," Ibaka said referring to the near four-month gap between shutdown and a return to the basketball court.
"But mentally I think we're ready … We know what is waiting for us out there, now it's time to get a little bit in game condition and then we'll be good to go."
The Raptors may be the defending champs but the odds-makers and the American public don't seem to put too much stock in that.
Perhaps it's the loss of Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green, both valid reasons to doubt a repeat by the Raptors, but if there is one trait this team adopted last season it was to block out the outside noise and just focus on themselves.
Toronto will arrive in Orlando with the second best record in the Eastern Conference and the third best record overall, but the odds-makers in Vegas have five teams pegged above them to win the title. In addition to Milwaukee and the Los Angeles Lakers, who have better records than the Raptors, the Clippers, Rockets and Celtics are also considered better shots to win the title.
Ibaka, with the benefit of a true insider's look, isn't buying that.
"We believe in us," Ibaka said. "We have the experience. We have the championship mentality already. We have confidence. But now it's time to go to work. And like I said, we're ready."
Ibaka was asked what it was that he saw in his teammates that made him so sure they were ready for another title run.
"I saw just how everyone is in great shape," Ibaka said. "They came here in great shape and as soon as we got here everyone was starting to put in work. I've been in the league for 11 years. You can see when people are locked in and they are ready mentally, and when they are not. So I can tell you right now mentally everybody is ready. Everybody is ready."
Considering how seamlessly the Raptors marched through the first three quarters of the season without Leonard and Green, and while dealing with injuries to every key member of the rotation save OG Anunoby, it's actually surprising that the defending champs aren't being shown a little more respect.
Take into account the short eight-game window before the playoffs begin and one would think a team that is both versatile and adaptable to just about any playing style like the Raptors would be seen as more of a threat, not less.
Ibaka, and he speaks for his teammates on this as well based on previous interviews, really couldn't care less. He knows what this team has already accomplished this season without Leonard and Green and he expects more now that the whole team is healthy for one of the first times this season.
"Yeah. I'm very excited," Ibaka said. "I can't wait, because like you said we didn't have everybody all season this year. I think it's going to be a little weird in the beginning to have everybody at the same time, but I think it's a good thing because we need that. I can't really wait to see how it's going to work out for us having everybody back."
Ibaka has been a big part of the reason the Raptors have been able to sustain all the injuries — 214 man games lost, 15 different starting lineups.
He is scoring a career best 16 points a night while providing all the usual rim protection and unwavering attention to defence that has always been his forte.
He was particularly valuable during the 27-game absence of defensive stalwart Marc Gasol. The Raptors big man is back and not just healthy but leaner and more ripped than he has ever been since joining the Raptors a year ago February.
But if anyone is anticipating Ibaka losing his role or playing a lesser one with Gasol back to full strength and then some, think again.
Head coach Nick Nurse has not been hiding the fact that he fully expects to make good use of his super big lineup that has one of his two starting guards on the floor along with OG Anunoby, Pascal Siakam, Ibaka and Gasol.
Ibaka might not see the same number of starts he was seeing earlier in the regular season when the season resumed July 30 in Orlando, but count on Nurse getting the same number of minutes or close to it that he was getting earlier.
Ibaka has been that central to Toronto's success this season.
The eight games the Raptors will play to round out the regular season have been known for weeks.
This weekend we learned which teams the Raptors will face in some tune-up games before things actually start to count.
Toronto will face Houston, Portland and Phoenix in their three prep games for the actual seeding games that will begin on July 30.
Officially tabbed the "Scrimmage Schedule" of the restart, Toronto will see a nice mix of elite scorers in James Harden, Damian Lillard and Devin Booker in the three games that can really test a defence, something Toronto prides itself on and the perfect tuneup for a team looking to find its legs and its rhythm as quickly as possible.
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It's the start of a new school year and already things are picking up for school boards across the county. Fairfax County Public Schools recently held two meetings and plans to hold several more in the near future.
On September 10th, 2018, a school board meeting was held at Fairfax City's city hall regarding the new Tuition Bill, the School Opening Report, and Summer School Report. The meeting established that Fairfax City's summer school went on without many issues, and that schools across the city have opened smoothly. The tuition bill entailed much of the budget regarding schools within the city and plans to provide funding for several items on their agenda. Grants to schools to support summer enrichment programs, field trips and staff development, funds to reimburse teachers who achieve National Board Certification Support for increasing 1:1 technology at Lanier Middle School for all students, funding for the Innovation Lab at Daniels Run ES and STEAM Lab at Providence ES to provide science and engineering to all students in elementary school, for example, are such items that will be addressed with the new bill.
The current city school board consists of five members: Carolyn Pitches (Chairman), Toby Sorensen (Vice Chair), Jon Buttram (Former Chairman), Mitch Sutterfield, and Bob Reinsel. The Fairfax City School Board was established for leaders and champions for public education to serve in their community. The board has administrative and operational control of the city's schools, and conducts regular meetings, with the next meetings scheduled on October 1st and November 5th.
The Fairfax County School Board, not the same as the aforementioned board, also held a meeting on September 13th, 2018, and covered a variety of topics that are relevant to the county as a whole. The meeting had its usual run-through and had covered several qualms of the general public of Fairfax County's public school system.
To kick the meeting off, in support of September being child cancer awareness month, the board decided start the conference with a message to all attendees and viewers at home by addressing an organization by the name of Ellie's Hats, whose mission is to brighten the day of a child who is battling cancer by sending a package of hats and other items for the child battling cancer and their siblings. To learn more head to their website at ellieshats.org.
The board also decided to acknowledge schools across the county for their academic achievement, namely the receiving of the Governor's Award of Academic Excellence. Some of these schools include Flint Hill Elementary School, Chesterbrook Elementary, Franklin Middle School, Rocky Run Middle School, Chantilly High School, Oakton High School, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology as well as several other schools.
There was also a section on citizen participation during that meeting where those who are not part of the board receive a chance to voice their concerns in front of both the board and general public. On the 13th, there were three main issues covered throughout the conference.
A recurring issue brought up by parents and teachers alike were all tied to an incident at South Lakes High School at which the FCPS School Board decided to remove teachers and administrators and relocate them with little notice. The movement was highly protested and was still carried out earlier this summer. One of the citizens, who will remain anonymous, stated that FCPS removed staff from South County without reason, and failed to follow up on what they promised. The several parents and teachers claim that the notice was delivered via mass community e-mail, setting a bad example for the students as protocols were not followed and the code of ethics was broken. The collective citizens that protested the relocation of the staff at South Lakes have voiced their anger, calling the incident shameful, unjust, as well as disrespectful to all of the staff members that were removed from their positions, leaving the school disorganized and not functioning as smoothly as it once did.
On a much lighter note, another concerned individual brought up recent issues with the board failing to show transparency with what they do. The entity who brought up the issue came with statistical reports that the board had published over the course of a few months, and questioned the validity of the results, as well as what the board keeps away from the public. The questioning party continued to request information that the public deserves to know instead of only what they're given now.
Something more relevant to students however, was a proposal to switch the graduation system from a completion to a mastery system. The student who addressed the issue displayed the lack of fundamental skills students show during school, with online school in particular being more severe. The student mentions that, due to a lack of class time, students are often not able to go over questions they may have missed on an exam, furthering the importance of a mastery class rather than a completion class. The student also brought up possible solutions for funding, exemplifying the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation after they funded a similar program in the past.


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Sadat X – "I Know This Game" [Official Video]
Sadat X samples Biggie on the hook for "I Know This Game" – the detailed breakdown of the hip-hop industry from his forthcoming New York New York LP. The video directed by Al Tejeda features the Brand Nubian vet dropping gems for those with little to no industry experience. He cites inexperienced promoters, tour budgets and the bottom line of having to pay bills in his clinic on the business of rap. With this track Sadat X may be one of the first MCs to address the erosion of the recording industry and the livelihoods that have gone with it; he talks in great detail about a&r's and other label representatives who found themselves jobless after "Sony fired everybody." Sadat X also goes through the litany of reasons why rappers end up falling off – a checklist that is as amusing as it is sad. Check the footage below for the full picture. Stay tuned for more from Sadat X.


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National PTA Healthy Lifestyles Grant
Take Your Family to School Week
National PTA's Take Your Family to School Week is a program encouraging strong family engagement and the importance of partnerships among parents, teachers, and school administrators. .
National PTA Life Achievement Award
How will you say: "Thank you for your outstanding service to our children"?Give the award of a lifetime. Give the National PTA Life Achievement Award—the highest honor from the nation's largest child advocacy organization—to the person who daily lives out his or her commitment to children.Recognize and thank that special person you know who goes above and beyond for all children—the one who acts as a tireless advocate for children's education, health, and well-being.
The recipient of the National PTA Life Achievement Award will receive a certificate of recognition, a congratulatory letter from the national PTA® president, and an elegant 10-karat gold lapel pin or tie tack. The award items will be sent according to the directions accompanying your request and a sample press release will be provided for use in your local media.
The $125 fee for presenting the Life Achievement Award supports the National PTA Endowment Fund and helps ensure the longevity of the association. Your honoree need not be a PTA member to receive the award.
Present the National PTA Life Achievement Award at a ceremony recognizing your honoree's work. In doing so, you will generate positive publicity and bring together your school, your community, and your PTA.
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Kindle Recipients for 2017:
- Eagle Nest Elementary & Middle School PTA – Angel Fire
- Gonzales Elementary PTA – Santa Fe
- Jemez Mountain Community PTA – Gallina
Kindle Recipients for 2015:
- Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School PTA – Rio Rancho
- Bellehaven Elementary PTA – Albuquerque
- Puesta Del Sol Elementary PTA – Rio Rancho
Kindle Recipients for 2013:
- Acoma Elementary PTA – Albuquerque
- Delores Gonzales Elementary PTA – Albuquerque
- Alameda Elementary PTA – Albuquerque
National PTA School of Excellence
2016-2018 Schools of Excellence:
- Capitan PTA – Capitan
- La Cueva High School PTSA – Albuquerque
2015-2017 Schools of Excellence:
- Montezuma Elementary – Albuquerque
- Joe Stanley Smith Elementary – Carlsbad
2014-2016 Schools of Excellence:
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On this second day of spring, I found a jar of poetry and bits in a bush on a neighborhood footpath. I almost left it there without a look. (Scandinavians believe in mind-your-own-business and leave-no-trace. We can take it too far.)
I picked it up, and investigated by layers. First I read the words I could see through the glass. They were David Whyte words, and beautiful. I knew then, as I had before/life is no passing memory of what has been/nor the remaining pages in a great book/waiting to be read.
I put it back unopened and walked my dog.
On the return, I picked up the jar again, opened it. JAR #15, it said. I removed two slips of paper, and twigs and stones wrapped in string. "This jar is part of an interactive poetry and art installation that started on Bainbridge Island, Washington. If you've found this jar you can keep it, hide it somewhere new as it is, or fill it with new words and treasures for another person to discover."
There is a website, Jars of Words. Islander Rebecca Rockefeller says she started this project as a birthday present to herself. My present to her is Rumi: "She is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
I write about it here because it seems important. I cover local politics on this blog. It is strenuous, not always rewarding, but usually worthwhile. I've watched how we do things—people who hold office or work for our government, or express an opinion, or build something, or organize their neighbors. It is often graceless. Always passionate.
Trying to get things done in a town full of opinions involves argument. Meetings. Hearings. Positions taken, grudges held.
To be startled by poetry on a morning walk puts the whole thing in context. People live and work and love. They disagree and take offense and avoid each other. They forget and go on. This is what people do in the markets and coffee houses and streets all over the world, all over time.
The poet Carolyn Forche tells a story about a Central American human rights worker who, upon hearing that the U.S. was sending an ambassador to help in the aftermath of revolution and civil war, asked, "Why send us your bureaucrats? Send us your poets. Send us the soul of your country."
So Bainbridge Island. Here is the soul of our island, from Jar #15. (more…)


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Child Abuse Prevention Month 2019 is officially over, but we're excited to continue the momentum begun during CAPM to keep spreading the word about our new Know More website, which is full of ways to make a difference in the lives of families and kids every day of the year. All seven of 90by30's Lane County regions really went to town with promoting awarenress this year. From pinwheel gardens to painted store windows to articles in local papers, our Regional Leadership Teams really put in the work this year. Thank you everyone who dressed in blue, attended a 90by30 open house, or otherwise stood up for children during the key month of April!


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Join us to celebrate the roots of one of the richest musical cultures in the world with a night of Cuban live music and rumba.
The evening will begin with a free lesson in Rumba with Luanda Pau, followed by live music from duo Gerardo & Su Rumbache who will bring a fusion of Afro-Cuban percussion, classical music and jazz to the dance floor. The legendary pair infuse their performances with the soul, spirit and enticing energy of Afro-Cuban music as found on the streets of Havana and Matanzas, and inspiring audiences to dance.
The night will alternate between the live band and DJ Javier who will continue to bring a taste of Havana's night life with a special Cuban musical set.
Where I'm from, hardly anyone is exposed to the arts. There's a load of talent but no guidance. Roundhouse changed my life." Benna Read my story
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*Fees are £1.95 per transaction
No under-18s after 9pm
Latecomers will be admitted throughout
Running Times
19:00 – 20:00 – Rumba lesson with Luanda Pau
20:00 – 21:00 – DJ Javier La Rosa
21:00 – 21:45 – Gerardo & Su Rumbache
21:45 – 23:00 – DJ Javier La Máquina De Cuba
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A justice system is put in place to protect the people. But, truthfully, I don't feel safe in saying that our system protects everyone. Sure, every system is flawed, but at this point I'd have to say that our system is pretty much unjust to minorities (read: everyone who's not a white man). Say what you want about that statement, but Stanford swimmer Brock Turner's release from prison after only serving half of his already lenient six-month sentence is all the proof necessary. This comes after the 21-year-old was convicted on "three felony charges: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated/unconscious person, penetration of an intoxicated person, and penetration of an unconscious person."
After the controversial sentencing and the prosecutors' request for at least six years in prison, Turner will be released Friday, September 2, reportedly due to "good behavior."
More from CafeMom: No More Brock Turners: If You Have a Son, You Need to Step Up
In light of this news, we must acknowledge one fact, and that is this:
Most times our judicial system is rigged against all minorities and women (basically anyone who is not a privileged white male). Our system has shown us this time and time again, especially in the way that it constantly helps to perpetuate rape culture.
Why white male privilege and not just male privilege? Well, because while Stanford swimmer Turner only had to sit a measly three months in jail, this black high school athlete was sentenced to five years in prison for a rape that he didn't commit. And there are so many more horrifying examples of inequality in the system.
As Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, who is leading the effort to recall Judge Aaron Perksy (who handed down the sentence in this case), pointed out to the Washington Post -- this bias and privilege held among males (especially among "young white males at elite universities") is "a long standing pattern."
Profesor Dauber's Mailbag: "the vicious ideology of feminism is clouding your eyes" #VagendaofManocide @democracynow pic.twitter.com/yfn2FPm4g2— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) August 30, 2016
Brock Turner blamed "party culture" for his actions -- and, instead of forcing Turner to take ownership, the irresponsible judge basically decided to hell with what this young woman must have gone through and will continue to go through -- it's of high importance that we protect this criminal's promising future.
From the judge to both Turner and his a**hole of a father, the entire case was pumped with unchecked, white male ego.
What message does that send to the women and men who we're constantly trying to educate on the ins and outs of sexual assault and rape culture? Does it create more of a conversation or less of one? How does this dictate the mindset of future generations to come? There are a lot of scary questions, but each of them is deserving of some serious thought.
Even after the judge's decision to step away from criminal cases and only try civil suits, I find absolutely no comfort. Despite Brock's conviction and requirement of drug rehabilitation, I find no comfort.
More from CafeMom: Dad of Stanford Rapist Defends His Son in Disgusting Display of Male Privilege
It is, however, the victim's harrowing letter that brings comfort. If you're truly reading it, you'll know that it is, in fact, only the beginning of a discussion. It brings me a little bit of hope that even under these circumstances, it will undoubtedly change the way we see rape victims, the act of rape, and rape culture all at once.
Her message perfectly captures the absurdity of rape culture, as it horrifically describes the unjust system that vilified her out of fear that -- according to Judge Aaron Persky -- "a prison sentence would have a severe impact on him." That him being the rapist. She wrote:
I was pummeled with narrowed, pointed questions that dissected my personal life, love life, past life, family life, inane questions, accumulating trivial details to try and find an excuse for this guy who had me half naked before even bothering to ask for my name. After a physical assault, I was assaulted with questions designed to attack me, to say see, her facts don't line up, she's out of her mind, she's practically an alcoholic, she probably wanted to hook up, he's like an athlete right, they were both drunk, whatever, the hospital stuff she remembers is after the fact, why take it into account, Brock has a lot at stake so he's having a really hard time right now.
This brave and honest message will encourage other women to continue to speak out, until they feel they've truly been heard. As the victim told BuzzFeed, "Even if the sentence is light, hopefully this will wake people up .... I want the judge to know that he ignited a tiny fire. If anything, this is a reason for all of us to speak even louder." And I couldn't agree more.
We can't cower away out of fear that rape culture will win out again, but instead we must come forward and continue to make our voices heard again and again and again, until women are seen with just as much esteem and worth as privileged white men. Until women get the justice that white men seem to be entitled to when being questioned about sexual assault.
More from CafeMom: How One Sexual Assault Survivor Learned to Live & Love After 21 Years of Abuse
And it seems like this message is at least starting to resonate. Just today Chessy Proutt, the victim in this New Hampshire sexual assault case, spoke out for the first time (she was 15 and therefore remained anonymous at the time) to declare that she refuses to be ashamed. "I want everyone to know that I am not afraid or ashamed anymore, and I never should have been," she said on the Today show. "It's been two years now since the whole ordeal, and I feel ready to stand up and own what happened to me and make sure other people, other girls and boys, don't need to be ashamed, either." Moreover, in response to the Brock Turner case, the California State Assembly just passed a bill that would force anyone convicted of sexual assault to go to prison.
So we may not have won the battle with this one, but we're set to win the war -- if (and only if) we continue fighting for ourselves and our equality through any and every platform that gives us even the slightest voice. But, I believe that we will make ourselves heard.
If you or someone you know has been the victim of a sexual assault, you can find help and support at RAINN.org, the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1 800 656 HOPE (4673), or Safe Horizon Crime Victims Hotline 1 866 689 HELP (4357).
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PLOPPED in a white leather chair in a small office in Bloomberg L.P.'s Manhattan headquarters, Andrew Lack knows exactly how to articulate the aspirations of this 28-year-old media and technology company.
"We want to be the world's most influential news organization," says Mr. Lack, who oversees Bloomberg's television, radio and dot-com endeavors.
Very clear. The most influential. On the planet.
It's a goal several other Bloomberg executives have already mentioned to a pair of visitors. And when Mr. Lack, 62, a former head of NBC News, hears his guests wonder if something funny is in his company's coffee a special sauce that keeps all Bloombergians marching so efficiently and effectively to the same tune he looks a tad chagrined.
"Oh, my! I don't want to sound as if I'm on message," he says, laughing apprehensively while also sending a "help me" look to a Bloomberg spokeswoman nearby.
These days, truth be told, the entire company is on message. That's because the data behemoth that Michael R. Bloomberg created and named after himself in 1981, long before he became mayor of New York, finally has the reach, resources and appetites to try snaring the mantle of Most Influential at least in the rarefied world of business news.
After years of being an underdog pushing its troops to be better and faster, Bloomberg now has an upper hand. Publishing giants like Condé Nast, Time Inc. and The New York Times, with their veteran scribes and rich histories, have laid off people and scaled back. Bloomberg may lack the pedigree and gloss of some of its rivals, but it has one thing they don't right now: money to throw around.
This year alone, Bloomberg, deploying the cash spouting from its data business, has recruited refugees from The Wall Street Journal and Fortune and opened bureaus in places like Ecuador and Abu Dhabi. Its editorial staff (which includes radio, TV and Web site workers) now numbers 2,200, compared with 1,250 journalists at The Times and 1,900 at Dow Jones (a figure that includes the newswires and the Journal staff).
When the 80-year-old BusinessWeek went on the block, Bloomberg opened its wallet and snatched it away from circling private equity firms in October for just $5 million in cash a relatively small sum that still represents a big change. For the last decade, Bloomberg has barely bothered to venture outside the realm of high finance; its news was produced to help subscribers to its terminals make more money for themselves.
With BusinessWeek, likely to be renamed Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the company is setting its sights on a much broader audience. That includes Main Street readers and, much more important for Bloomberg, senior executives, government leaders and other global movers and shakers. It's also trying to revamp its Web site and television programming long neglected inside the company into services that appeal to people who don't trade securities for a living.
At a time when most media companies can barely pay for cake at going-away parties, Bloomberg appears to be rolling in dough.
Its headquarters, on the East Side, has the crystalline look and smooth textures of an airport terminal from the 22nd century. It has sleek, elegantly curved glass walls, outdoor patios, art installations hanging over escalators, fish tanks filled with exotic species and digital screens overhead that display the weather with lightning flashes and trading levels for the Nasdaq. Employees snack on free kiwis and pomegranates and gulp fancy sodas. The company even employs full-time bathroom attendants to wipe up errant droplets of water on the countertops.
Although Bloomberg, which is privately held, draws attention for its media ambitions, a vast majority of the company's projected $6.3 billion in revenue and nearly all of its profit derives from financial information systems. These software packages, still known as "terminals" from when Bloomberg made the hardware, can be found on virtually all Wall Street trading desks, housing huge amounts of data and analytics, from price quotations for fixed-income and derivative products to complex risk analysis making Bloomberg a live-on-Wall-Street, die-on-Wall-Street enterprise.
During the financial boom of the last two decades, Bloomberg terminals flew out the door. This year, for the first time in the company's history, the number of installed terminals will fall, albeit modestly. Some analysts wonder whether the company's fast-growth days could be behind it, spurring it to seek new ways to make money on Wall Street while upping the ante in its media game.
The time has come, company officials say, to move beyond a hard-core clientele of financial information hounds.
"We need a broader audience," says Daniel L. Doctoroff, Bloomberg's president. "The history of this company is you do the counterintuitive, countercyclical thing. It's part of our DNA."
IN an odd way, for all of Bloomberg's new-media savvy, the company now finds itself trying to wedge old-media acquisitions and culture into a company built on speed, efficiency and digital technology.
Since emerging out of nowhere in 1981, Bloomberg now controls a third of the $16 billion global financial data market, according to year-end 2008 numbers from Inside Market Data Reference, a research firm. (Thomson Reuters Markets controls another third, and a handful of smaller players jockey for the rest.)
Bloomberg got a strong hold on Wall Street in the '90s, in part through its messaging capabilities, which allowed traders, long before e-mail was prevalent, to swap price information for securities that traded privately between brokers and buyers.
That was just the simple stuff. Wall Street gurus now use Bloomberg's whiz-bang systems to graphically map their portfolios or to assess counterparty risk.
This operation accounts for 85 percent of Bloomberg's revenue, and the focus is helping roughly 280,000 customers who each pay about $20,000 annually to get millisecond head starts on pricing or market-moving headlines, as well as in-depth financial analysis.
During the recent, bubbly boom on Wall Street, from 2004 to 2007, Bloomberg's revenue climbed an average of 13 percent annually, according to the company. But the financial crisis and the collapse of several companies that were large Bloomberg customers Lehman Brothers alone had 3,500 terminals has translated into a slowdown.
Revenue at Bloomberg is expected to grow around 3 percent this year, but the firm's installed base of terminals will most likely be down about 2 percent, says Mr. Doctoroff.
It's unlikely that Bloomberg will have the same robust levels of growth it did during Wall Street's boom years, Mr. Doctoroff acknowledges. "But the growth will still be meaningful," he added. "We should see single-digit percentage growth in terminal units."
These days, for instance, Bloomberg is looking for new revenue streams from trading and internal risk-management programs for Wall Street firms, says Thomas F. Secunda, who oversees Bloomberg's financial products.
A slightly rumpled figure who liberally sprinkles the term "killer app" into conversations, Mr. Secunda met Mr. Bloomberg at Salomon Brothers, the onetime Wall Street bond-trading powerhouse, in the 1970s. (Mr. Bloomberg started his company with a $10 million severance check he received when he left Salomon.)
Though Mr. Bloomberg stepped back from the company when he became mayor in 2002, his fingerprints are still all over it. Mr. Doctoroff worked for him as a deputy mayor before joining the company, and Peter T. Grauer, the company's chairman, met Mr. Bloomberg through their daughters' horse-jumping competitions. Mr. Bloomberg, who owns 85 percent of the company, was consulted on and approved the Merrill Lynch and BusinessWeek deals, Mr. Grauer says, as is allowed under the city's conflict-of-interest guidelines.
Inside the company's sleek headquarters is a buzzing collection of worker bees and brainiacs. Although Ph.D.'s in physics and math are hired to develop quantitative programs for the terminals, one of Bloomberg's biggest challenges is getting customers to use those myriad applications. Many customers use only a small fraction of the machines' 30,146 functions.
On the hunt for new customers, Bloomberg is testing a Web-based product aimed at law firms. Executives are also looking at the sports arena, sussing out interest among team owners or even fantasy leagues for a system to analyze sports statistics.
Shoveling money into research for corporate customers thirsty for more information may prove to be a winning growth formula. But heads are definitely being scratched as Bloomberg invests more money in news an industry that, by and large, is struggling mightily to merely stay afloat, much less find financial growth.
BLOOMBERG'S newsroom is so Sam's-Club-warehouse-big that it needs guideposts for what each long aisle of editors and reporters covers: "Stocks," "Emerging Markets," Corporate Finance" and so on. On a recent morning, it was surprisingly quiet, with reporters speaking on their headsets and clacking away at multiple Bloomberg screens spreading horizontally across their desks.
In one corner, a signpost designates the "Speed Desk." The members of this department 200 people worldwide spend their days spitting out headlines, in an effort to give subscribers a three-second lead that can mean a better price on a commodity or a stock.
Former employees complain that they often felt surveilled in the newsroom, and the place can still come across as something of a white-collar, digital sweatshop terminals and ID cards, for example, closely monitor employees' comings and goings. Still, that same rigid culture and disciplinary zeal have produced a formidable enterprise.
"We started with nothing when Bloomberg News began in 1990," says Matthew Winkler, who, as editor in chief, has overseen the news operation from the beginning. "There was no pedigree, no platform, no reputation to speak of."
For many years, Bloomberg viewed news as little more than an added service for Wall Street traders. To that end, Mr. Winkler demanded short, direct articles. He ordered reporters to avoid adverbs and adjectives, along with "but" and "however," which he said muddled the clarity of sentences.
"I could write a Bloomberg earnings story in my sleep, because it's the same formula for every single story," says Chris Roush, a business journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who worked at Bloomberg News in the late 1990s. "To a certain degree, the reporters there feel like their creativity is stifled because of that."
Mr. Winkler's reputation as a volatile manager also made recruiting more- seasoned talent a challenge. Nowadays, in interviews at least, he makes efforts to check his high-horsepower persona. Although he manages more journalists than almost any other editor in the business, Mr. Winkler, 54, still seems to think like an underdog. He uses verbs like "prove" and "aspire" when discussing Bloomberg News. After he leaves the interview in which he doesn't say a single inappropriate word Mr. Winkler e-mails his media-relations chief to ask: "WAS I OKAY?"
Two floors above the sprawling newsroom, wedged in the corner of the corporate department take a right at "Philanthropy" is a recent arrival to Bloomberg, a longtime newsman. At 67, Norman Pearlstine has already held two of the biggest jobs in old media: managing editor of The Journal and editor in chief of Time Inc.
"Norm Pearlstine comes to Bloomberg, he provides instant credibility for people who wonder what is Bloomberg up to," Mr. Winkler says.
So last year, Mr. Pearlstine was recruited from the Carlyle Group, the private equity firm, and named chief content officer. The role has him playing media consigliere to Mr. Doctoroff and Mr. Grauer, advising on Web, television and news operations.
Mr. Pearlstine didn't expect his role to be hugely taxing when he signed on, and his responsibilities, by design, have been relatively open-ended. "I actually came in with what I thought was the perfect job," he says. "I had two desks and no one reporting to me. I thought I deserved this after all this time."
Despite Mr. Pearlstine's years of experience as an editing maestro, he has largely stayed away from Mr. Winkler's news operation.
"I've seen him around," says Christine Harper, chief financial correspondent, of Mr. Pearlstine, but "he doesn't seem to be as directly involved in the news."
The ambitions for Bloomberg's news operation were changing even before Mr. Pearlstine arrived. Bloomberg has used the cash spraying from its terminal business to hire an astounding number of journalists in recent years, becoming something of a haven in a downsizing industry. Top writers or editors from Fortune, Forbes and The Journal land there seemingly weekly. (Six of the company's 11 executive editors have worked at The Journal.)
Bloomberg now has 142 journalists in Washington, 196 in Tokyo and 30 in Paris. It recently opened bureaus in Nigeria, Ghana and Cyprus. It has won numerous journalism awards and, to cite just one example, has offered some of the shrewdest coverage of the financial crisis over the last couple of years.
The problem is that all of this work is largely distributed through its 280,000 Bloomberg machines, so its audience is confined mostly to those who subscribe to its terminals. Bloomberg essentially has a giant army of reporters with no route to the broader media sea.
TO reach that broader audience and to have its name and its brand distributed beyond its terminals, Bloomberg has been dependent on newspapers to carry its reports.
Newspapers like The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville use a lot of Bloomberg articles. More significantly, Bloomberg is collaborating with The Washington Post on a newswire service set to start in January. Bloomberg is also planning a host of new charges for newspapers to use its content.
To carve out its own destiny in print while also reaching a new audience of decision-makers, Bloomberg snapped up BusinessWeek. Mr. Pearlstine had been sniffing around other media properties, including Congressional Quarterly, when BusinessWeek came on the block this summer. BusinessWeek's parent company, McGraw-Hill, was under pressure to sell the magazine, which lost more than $43 million last year.
What attracted Bloomberg was BusinessWeek's audience. With a circulation of more than 900,000, and about 11 million Web site visitors a month, BusinessWeek potentially expands Bloomberg's readership and sources well beyond its trading-floor customers.
Executives hope BusinessWeek will become a place where President Obama or Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric will go to for the kind of exclusive interviews they have traditionally given more established news publications. (Although Bloomberg has some arts and culture coverage, the company says it has no interest in moving substantially beyond its core offering of business information and news.)
BusinessWeek employees are interviewing to keep their jobs and have to submit essays outlining goals for themselves and the magazine, along with fresh résumés. Mr. Pearlstine is leaning on old-media hands to advise him on the integration, including the former Time editor Jim Kelly and Stephen B. Shepard, who edited BusinessWeek for 20 years before being succeeded by Stephen J. Adler in 2005. (Mr. Adler resigned from the magazine after Bloomberg acquired it.)
Mr. Pearlstine says Bloomberg will maintain the magazine as a weekly, improve the paper quality and expand globally, with The Economist as a model. A culture clash might emerge in bringing a magazine, with its individualistic writers, into Bloomberg's monochrome culture.
"The company isn't in the business of building stars I think that they're based on teamwork and contribution," says Andrew Leckey, president of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. "How the magazine fits in there is a little tricky." One early antistar move: on Friday, Bloomberg ended the BusinessWeek column of CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. (Jack and Suzy Welch also announced that they're ending their column in the magazine.)
Although Mr. Pearlstine and Mr. Winkler both report directly to Mr. Doctoroff, Mr. Pearlstine will have to report through Mr. Winkler on BusinessWeek matters "because it's editorial," Mr. Winkler says.
Other media players, meanwhile, are watching what Bloomberg does with the existing BusinessWeek and Bloomberg Web sites. Will it combine them? Will they charge readers for content? And more important does Bloomberg care if any of its media properties actually make money?
"BusinessWeek we expect will be profitable, but it doesn't have to be profitable a year or two years from now," Mr. Doctoroff says.
OTHER Bloomberg media holdings have not been under much, if any, pressure over the years to make money and for the most part have seemed like second thoughts at the company. Consider Bloomberg Markets, a magazine free to terminal subscribers that was introduced in 1992 and is not profitable. Its first cover featured a drawing of the terminal.
"It was basically a monthly users' manual," says Ron Henkoff, the current editor. "There were no sections. There were no photos." Although the magazine looks and reads a lot better today, it's still terminal-focused. Articles run first on the terminal, and even the most ambitious pieces, like "Street of Broken Dreams," a report in May about laid-off financial employees, carry terminal tip boxes. ("Type UKWILOMA Index GP Go to graph changes in payrolls.")
Likewise, when Bloomberg Television was introduced in 1994, Mr. Lack, then at NBC, was unimpressed. Bloomberg covered most of the screen with an L-shaped box jammed with market information. "Bloomberg basically said: 'We don't care if you like us or not. Just look at this. Isn't it amazing?'" recalls Mr. Lack. "You almost felt as though you were choked by all that data."
When Mr. Pearlstine recruited him last year to run the multimedia business television, radio and Web what Mr. Lack found was alarming. "I thought it was going to be a turnaround," he says. "Then I found that it felt more like a start-up. There wasn't an infrastructure here to produce a professional cable television channel."
Mr. Lack has made some changes, including decluttering on-screen graphics, pulling anchors from a dark studio into a newsroom setting, and adding shows like day-after repeats of "Charlie Rose" at night. Still, Bloomberg's cable audience in the United States is much smaller than CNBC's.
"We'll make this into a business, don't get me wrong," Mr. Lack says. "Four or five years from now, this will be a business."
As recently as a year ago, when Bloomberg tried to hire Mr. Lack, he thought that executives' talk of being "most influential" was absurd. "I, of course, completely dismissed it."
Now, he says, he's a convert. "This is not an old-media company," Mr. Lack says. "We're a new kid on the block in a new world order."


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10 Free Things to Do in Edmonton
Edmonton for Budget Travellers
For free things to do in Edmonton, the central public space of Sir Winston Churchill Square is a great starting point, and there's usually lots going on there. The Old Strathcona neighbourhood in south-central Edmonton offers historical walks, and is alive with bars, shops, and street performers.
Further out on the outskirts and around the North Saskatchewan River Valley, you can find an assortment of lush and beautiful parks for budget-friendly escapes. From scenic viewpoints for taking in breathtaking cityscapes to scientific observatories for searching the stars, there's plenty around Edmonton for budget travellers, as you'll find below.
Walk through Churchill Square
There's plenty to see and do, right in the heart of town
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You can take in the beautiful gardens and pick a bench to sit on inside Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton's main public space. Even when there aren't any major multiday festivals going on, there's always something happening, like buskers playing or painters applying their amazing artistry onto a piece of canvas. Enjoy free Wi-Fi, grab cheap snacks from the street food vendors, or take a selfie against the huge Happy Wall – a vivid, 17-metre-long interactive pixel art installation.
Asukoht: 100 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 2E5, Canada
Telefon: +1 780-442-5311
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Explore Edmonton's river valley parks
Scenic riverside spaces for hiking and picnicking
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If you're up for some adventure, Edmonton's great collection of river valley parks are all free to hike through. With over a dozen parks spread throughout the North Saskatchewan River Valley, you have plenty to choose from. You can enjoy scenic riverside trails for cycling, leisure walks, or a morning jog between the interconnected parklands of Hawrelak, Buena Vista, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier Park. Picnics and barbeques are great at Government House Park, with paved paths heading into the lush forests of McKinnon Ravine.
Alberta Legislature Building
Explore the beautiful gardens
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If you're looking for an iconic Edmontonian landmark for memorable photos, Alberta Legislature Building is one of the city's best. Home to the province's Legislative Assembly, the building is photogenic for its majestic, Beaux-Arts architecture, standing tall on its manicured grounds. It's easy to snap a cool shot of the landmark from any angle, with its marble pillars and domed roof, and with beautiful fountains in a row that beautifully light up at night. You also can sign up for a free tour of the inside.
Asukoht: 10800 97 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T5K 2B6, Canada
Avatud: Daily from 10 am to 5 pm
Telefon: +1 780-427-7362
Browse through Old Strathcona Farmers' Market
Enjoy Edmonton's fresh goods
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Edmonton's Old Strathcona neighbourhood offers pleasurable walks through the historical heart of the city, with rows of heritage buildings and classical theatres that hark back to the Roaring '20s. If you plan to explore the district on a Saturday morning, you can check out the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market on 83 Avenue, where over 100 different vendors open stalls inside a large warehouse-like building. Locally grown produce such as plump, red strawberries can be a tempting snack, and there are handmade arts and crafts for souvenirs, too.
Asukoht: 10310 83 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 5C3, Canada
Avatud: Saturdays from 8 am to 3 pm
Telefon: +1 780-439-1844
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Stargaze at the University of Alberta Observatory
Marvel at the wonders of astronomy
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If you're keen on science and astronomy but looking for a cheaper alternative to Edmonton's Telus World of Science, a visit to the Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science might work for you. It's on the main campus of the University of Alberta, where you can find an observatory that's open to the public every Thursday. They have volunteers on standby who'll be able to show you around and help you to track your favourite heavenly bodies through the telescopes. Wear warm clothes as their telescopes are situated outside and it can be chilly.
Asukoht: Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada
Avatud: Thursdays from midday to 1 pm and from 7 pm to 8 pm
Telefon: +1 780-492-3111
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Art Gallery of Alberta
A variety of visual arts to enjoy
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Housed in an eye-catching building off Churchill Square, the Art Gallery of Alberta is a cool destination for art-lovers in Edmonton. While you'll need to get tickets to explore the regularly rotated exhibits on most days, there are free days when you can admire the wealth of contemporary paintings and photographs on display. You can expect free admissions to the gallery on celebrated Canadian days, such as Family Day on 18th February, Canada Day on 1st July, National Aboriginal Day on 21st June, and throughout the Alberta Culture Days weekend at the end of September.
Asukoht: 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, Edmonton, AB T5J 2C1, Canada
Avatud: Tuesday–Wednesday from 11 am to 8 pm, Thursday–Friday from 11 am to 5 pm, Saturday–Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm (closed on Mondays)
Telefon: +1 780-422-6223
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Enjoy a nature hike through Mactaggart Sanctuary
A popular and scenic loop in Edmonton
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You'll find no shortage of beautiful nature trails throughout the North Saskatchewan River Valley. The Mactaggart Sanctuary Path is a very popular one which allows you to enjoy the scenic outdoors for approximately 2 km. It's a relatively easy trail to accomplish and comes with the bonus of occasional native bird and wildlife sightings along the way. The best time to hike the route is between May and October, when you can expect the foliage and flowers to be at their most vivid.
Asukoht: Mactaggart Sanctuary Trail, Edmonton, AB T6J 5N2, Canada
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Neon Sign Museum
Enjoy an evening walk under vintage signs
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While enjoying an evening walk down the street from the hockey and concert venue of Rogers Place, you can find one of Edmonton's quirkiest open-air museums glimmering in the dark. The Neon Sign Museum is a one-of-a-kind gallery that features a collection of functional neon signs that were salvaged, restored, and reinstalled from various historical stores, stations, and theatres throughout the city. There are over a dozen neon signs in its collection, lining the walls of the TELUS building and the Mercer Warehouse building on 104 Street.
Asukoht: 104 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0K7, Canada
Telefon: +1 780-496-5281
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Go on an art walk on Whyte Avenue
Have an arty afternoon stroll through Old Strathcona
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Edmonton's Whyte Avenue serves as the main route that runs through the Old Strathcona historical neighbourhood in downtown. It also happens to serve as an open-air venue for Edmonton's Art Walk, which is usually held in July. This is when the avenue turns into an outdoor art studio, with painters and illustrators putting up their canvasses and easels all along its 4 km length. This allows art-lovers to watch masterpieces take shape before their eyes, and you can even get a good price to buy them directly from their creators.
Asukoht: 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Take in the view from the 100 Street Funicular
Enjoy scenic rides overlooking the downtown skyline
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The Mechanized River Valley Access in Edmonton was established to provide easy access to the North Saskatchewan River Valley and is now best known as the 100 Street Funicular. A platform allows you to take in amazing panoramas from the top bank near the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, then you can proceed down the flight of stairs and across the promenade and bridge towards the glass-enclosed funicular. The smooth ride down provides you with wonderful views over the curves of the river and the downtown skyline.
Asukoht: 10065 100 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0N6, Canada
Avatud: Daily from 7 am to 9 pm
Telefon: +1 780-944-5555
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How Chidinma Okeke's Sexual Affairs With Anambra Broadcasting Service Boss Got Her In Trouble
Oct 27, 2016 – How Chidinma Okeke's Sexual Affairs With Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant Boss Got Her Into Trouble
As Anambra Broadcasting Service, ABS, organisers of the Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant installs another Miss Anambra today, in Akwa, the state capital, following the sudden removal of the reigning queen, Chidinma Okeke, there are indications that trouble looms ahead as the embattled ex-beauty queen has alleged a threat to her life for wanting to unravel the mystery behind her dethronement. Miss Okeke was dethroned after the allegedly sex tape video of herself and friend hit the internet.
Before she fled Nigeria, the dethroned queen called for a press conference to unravel the circumstances surrounding her predicament, but the forces behind her ordeal are said to be spiting fire, warning her against the consequences of what she wants to do.
However, the ex-beauty queen today took to her Facebook page to raise alarm following the threat to her life.
In her words:
"Good morning all. This is Chidinma Okeke, Miss Anambra 2015, considering the need to make the world know the truth about the trending scandal and what we have been going through before, then and now I decided to address a world press conference at the NUJ press centre Awka. But from the moment I made public this intention I have been under siege of threats by my black- mailers and traducers.
They are seriously threatening to shoot me at the press conference if I ever open my mouth to say the real truth about the ugly episode. My life is under serious threat if they succeed in killing me today the world already know my traducers the truth is unearthed."
According to an online source, Chidinma has been having an illicit sexual affair with one of the top management staff of Anambra State Broadcasting service, the man we learnt guaranteed her the crown.
Troubled started after she refused to cooperate with the said 'oga' when he tried to pass her over so his other friends can have a taste of her.
When she turned down the offer and could not bear the pressure of being passed around like prostitute, she surrendered her Kia car and crown.
Meanwhile, an insider revealed to NG today that her asylum application has been approved in an undisclosed country.
The source added that the lady in the second part of the viral video is Miss Okeke.


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There seems to be an ongoing debate lately about authors paying people to review their books on websites like Amazon, Goodreads, etc. Some see this as simple commercialism: you have to get your brand out there, and you have to present it in the best possible light. Others see it as a violation of the trust between author and reader: the reader should be able to check reviews for honest feedback about the novel in question before deciding if they want to spend their hard-earned money on it, or something else.
So we apparently have a problem. Publishing is most certainly a business, and how does one promote a business? Advertisement, sponsorship, spokespeople… isn't that what a reviewer is? A spokesperson? Don't other businesses use them? What makes a published book any different?
Honestly, I have a hard time coming to a purely rational and logical conclusion that purchased reviews are inherently wrong and evil. How are they any different than a food manufacturer who tells you this product has less fat, but doesn't bother to mention that it actually still has more calories and sodium? Or when an ambulance chasing lawyer pops on your TV screen and line of people tell you how much more money you're going to get out of that guy who hit your car. Most of those people were never injured: they're paid actors. So what's the big deal?
The big deal, to me at least, is that it feels dishonest. It feels like the author is trying to trick readers into buying their book by falsifying the public's reaction to it. Reviews are one of the strongest word-of-mouth generating media authors have, and anyone in publishing knows that word-of-mouth is what sells books. Sure a flashy cover will make someone pick it up off a shelf, and a good blurb will do a lot to get someone to buy it at that point, but word-of-mouth blows that away.
What these authors are doing poisons the well. It makes readers question the glowing positive reviews for the books out there that are actually that damn good. If a book has an overall 4.9/5 star rating, no one is going to believe it was actually that well received, even if the author never paid for a single damn review in his/her life. And the really shitty part is that author can never outright prove that those reviews are real without every single one of those people coming forward and saying 'I'm a real person and I actually loved this fucking book!'
As an author, I have too much pride to pay for a review. I want my work to speak for itself. I don't want to have to pay someone to write some bullshit smattering of nonsense that sounds like they might have read something one time, and leave a 5 star entry so someone will buy it under false pretense.
Those are my thoughts on it.
The other part of this is that someone out there decided it was a good idea to straight call out some writers for buying reviews. Now, I don't know many of the authors on the list, but I've met a couple, and you know what? Some of those people are DAMN good writers. Good enough that they don't need to purchase reviews because people already love what they do and tell all their friends about it. For my own edification, and because I like the guy, here's a link to Hugh Howey's response to some twerp calling him out for buying reviews. Personally, I think it's bullshit. I met Hugh at WorldCon, and he was a great fucking guy. Top Notch. You know what else is top notch? His fucking writing.
That's why he has a bunch of really high rated reviews. His shit's good.
After all that, I want to close with this: Yes, paying for reviews seems like shady business. It makes me, and others I'm sure, second-guess what we see on these websites, and that can spell murder for someone who's an author-publisher and trying to get sales based on the genuine ratings they have. Saying that, though, can we really look at it any differently than commercials in any other industry, or restaurant/auto shop/other business reviews on Google or Angie's List?
Regardless, if you're going to put out a list of people doing this shady business, you should be REAL fucking sure you have the goods on them before putting their names out there. Because if you're wrong about them, you're not only putting yourself in prime position for a lawsuit, but you're recklessly putting their career at risk, and that's the sort of behavior we should be condemning.


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Andrew Wiggins is the 2014-15 NBA Rookie of the Year. To celebrate the Minnesota Timberwolves rook's big accomplishment, adidas has introduced a limited edition version of the Crazylight Boost 2015, which you can see in the photos above.
The ROY colorway is inspired by Andrew's journey to the NBA, including maple leaves for his home country of Canada, Kansas Jayhawks accents and Wolves colors, too. Wiggins, you may remember, debuted the Crazylight Boost 2015 at the Rising Stars Challenge during NBA All-Star Weekend.
This limited run Crazylight Boost 2015 is available right now at adidas.com and starting tomorrow, May 1 via Foot Locker and Eastbay.


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I find the latest rumor--that Stewart-Haas Racing has offered a deal to Kurt Busch for next year.
I know I've read that all over the internet, but it just doesn't make sense. I believe the initial report that originated from Fox Sports was that Busch made an offer to Stewart-Haas Racing, not the other way around.
According to a story this morning by Lee Spencer, "Sources tell FOXSports.com that Kurt Busch has been made a formal, multiyear offer to join Stewart-Haas Racing next season. The offer was made before Stewart's sprint-car accident on Aug. 5."
Since there are so many copy-cat stories in cyber space, few of which are fact checked or verified in any way, I want to reserve judgement.
I refuse to speculate any further until this is confirmed by SHR. I doubt it will be.


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The Session Menu
The Session menu groups together everything related to the session and the file operations.
|Creates a new session
|Opens an existing session
|Opens a list of recent sessions that can be opened
|Closes the current session (but not Ardour)
|Saves the current session
|Save As…
|Saves to a new session (with options)
|Changes the name of the session
|Snapshot (& keep working on current version)…
|Create a Snapshot but any subsequent change will be saved to this session
|Snapshot (& switch to new version)…
|Same thing, and any subsequent change will be saved to this new snapshot session
|Save Template…
|Saves the session as a template, without the audio
|Exports the session as a compressed file for archiving or sharing purposes, optionally compressing the audio to FLAC
|Edit Metadata…
|Opens the Metadata window, where information about the session can be saved
|Import Metadata…
|Creates the metadata by extracting them from another session
|Add Track, Bus or VCA…
|Adds a new track/bus/VCA to the session, same as the Track > Add Track, Bus or VCA…
|Opens the Import windows, to add media to the session
|Import PT session
|Import a ProTools© session file. Not everything in the original session can be imported.
|Add Lua Script…
|Loads or adds a Lua Session script to the current session
|Remove Lua Script
|Removes a loaded Lua Session script from the session
|Open Video…
|Imports a video file in the session
|Remove Video
|Removes the video part of the session (the video timeline disappears)
|Export to Audio File(s)…
|Export all or part of the session in audio form
|Stem export…
|Exports each track as its own audio file (for e.g. DAW interchange)
|Export to Video File
|Exports the session to a video file
|Bring all media into session folder
|Copies all the media files imported from outside the session folder in that folder, see Cleaning up Sessions
|Reset Peak Files
|Reinitializes the buffered images representing the audio files
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|Quarantines all the media files not used in the session to a specific sub-folder of the session
|Flush Wastebasket
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|[] Properties
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Are you excited to see the most epic battles? The final battles of the international tournament are just hours away!
We'd like to remind the lucky ticket holders that the event will take place at the following address: Belarus, Minsk, PRIME HALL concert venue at the Zamok shopping centre. Those who aren't able to come are invited to watch the live stream. The tournament finals will be covered for you by SIm_Saladin, Deselver, and Tortik in Russian and Bushka in English.
Schedule 13:30—start of the event 13:45—introduction of participating teams 14:10—start of matches 16:40—rand Finals
Please note that the schedule may change depending on the duration of the battles. So if you don't want to miss anything, please come to the very beginning. In addition to the tournament, we will show battles between developers and players, interviews with the winners and runners-up, the cup award ceremony, and Blitz Twister Cup closing.
Different kinds of teams have made it to the finals: here we have last year's winners—C4 and the newly formed Blitzkrieg. We've already provided detailed descriptions of the participants, today we'll give only basic information. So, here are the finalists of the Blitz Twister Cup preliminaries:
See you on November 11. Spectacular battles are waiting for you!


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For those of you who are, like me, anti-Valentine's, it can get kind of depressing and irritating when this day hits. In case you've forgotten, here is one of many reasons that I don't do Valentine's Day. That's why I have come up with my top 5 reasons to celebrate February 14 that AREN'T Valentine's Day.
You're Not Pregnant!
Ladies, did you just get a negative pregnancy test? Guys, did your g/f take the morning after pill after your pre-Valentine's Day romp? Well, why not celebrate the fact that you aren't about to be saddled down with diapers and debt with a
few many drinks? Go to bed whenever you please and blare your stereo as loud as you want, because you don't have to worry about waking up to a baby cry!
Salman Rushdie's (Clearly Failed) Execution Order
Not sure how many people will know of or remember this, but back in 1989, author Salman Rushdie had just published his book titled The Satanic Verses. Because of the fact that it was based partially on the life of Muhammad, it caused an uproar in the Muslim community. So much so, in fact, that Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa to all 'good Muslims,' asking for Rushdie and his publishers to be killed. This caused Rushdie to remain in hiding for the most part in England for many years.
To celebrate the failed attempt, go out for some Middle-Eastern food and carry a copy of the book with you.
Don't take me seriously about the book. The food is good though, you should definitely go try it.
Oregon's Birthday/Arizona's Birthday
February 14th is also a Statehood day for both Oregon and Arizona. For those who don't know what a statehood day is, it is the date commemorating the date that that particular US state joined the Union. Oregon received statehood on February 14, 1859, followed by Arizona many years later on February 14, 1912
Why not have a dry martini night at your house with different flavours or garnishes to celebrate two of the driest, blandest states' addition to the great land of America? Bonus points if your appetizers are all brown and lack flavour.
Simon Pegg's Birthday
This is by far, one of my favorite options for today. Simon Pegg, known for his role as Shaun in Shaun of the Dead, and Scotty in the most recent Star Trek films was born on this day in 1970. If you don't find this man hilarious, then there is something serious wrong with you. Spend your Valentine's eve with a date marathoning some lesser-known Pegg vehicles; may I recommend Run Fatboy Run, or the Spaced series?
Dodged A Bullet
Did you just toss a crazy ex after finding out they gave you an STD? Â Ditch a crazy stalker? Find out your ex knocked up 2 women within two month of each other? That is reason to celebrate!! Why? Because you just dodged a giant fucking bullet, that's why. Have a party, invite all your friends and take turns playing darts with their picture taped to the board!
Above all else on this capitalist corporation fueled day, have fun. It could always be a lot worse!


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An Analysis of HB2 vs. HB 142
If something is 100% bad and you have an opportunity to remove 50 or 60% of the bad – what would you do?
Would you remove all portions that you could and commit your all to continued efforts to remove remaining bad? Or would you say forget it – leave 100% bad in place?
I chose the former……..
What did HB 2 do:
· It took away your right to sue in state court for discrimination – be it age, religion, race or gender.
· It took away local governments' rights to impose workplace protections in its contracts with private businesses.
· It allowed for the exemption of protections for a class of people that need our support and protection.
What does HB 142 do:
· Removes HB2 restrictions on what bathroom a person can use
· Leaves in place local ordinances protecting LGBT rights
· Puts time limited moratorium on new local ordinances protecting LGBT rights or restricting LGBT rights
· Restores local governments' authority to enact local minimum wage ordinances
· Restores a person's right to recover through the state court system when they are fired based upon race, ethnicity, national origin, gender or religion.
· Restores local governments' authority to enact family leave policies, child welfare protections and similar polices
· Restores local governments' authority to contract on terms that include protections for all communities
· Opens the door for NCAA, ACC, NBA tournaments and other sporting events in North Carolina
· Puts North Carolina back on the list for many business and job creators.
This is where we are:
· We can't let perfect be the enemy of good. This bill is not perfect and it's not all that we want for our state. With our extremely limited leverage, we had to act to stop the bleeding.
· We have to look at the reality of the political landscape in North Carolina. Republicans have a super majority in the House and the Senate. They have the power to pass whatever legislation they want without any Democratic input. Which means, they could have passed a RFRA bill in response to all this; they could have passed further discriminations; they could have passed further sanctions on cities and counties.
· Repealing HB 2 lifts economic sanctions, but it doesn't restore human rights because they weren't effectively in place to start with – and we take the blame for that. Make no mistake: this is not the end. We must not quit until we add LGBT protections across North Carolina. But this is a good start.
In Raleigh
· S447. Turning TAs Into Teachers. (Barefoot, McInnis, Smith-Ingram)
o Amends SL 2016-94, Section 8.29, pertaining to the Teacher Assistant Tuition Reimbursement Pilot Program. Expands the pilot program to include the local boards of education in Bertie County Schools, Duplin County Schools, Edenton-Chowan County Schools, Edgecombe County Schools, Halifax County Schools, Nash-Rocky Mount Schools, Northampton County Schools, Tyrrell County Schools, Vance County Schools, and Washington County Schools, beginning with the 2017-18 fiscal year. Makes changes to clarify the existing specified local boards of education are participating in the pilot program beginning with the 2016-17 fiscal year. Adds a provision allowing for a teacher assistant to continue to receive salary and benefits while student teaching in the local school administrative unit in accordance with GS 115C-310 (teacher assistants engaged in student teaching).
o Directs all of the local boards of education participating in the pilot program to jointly report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by September 1, 2018, and every year thereafter, including the previous report specifications. Makes changes to clarify that the local boards of education participating in the pilot program for the 2016-17 fiscal year are to jointly report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by September 1, 2017.
o Appropriates from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction $225,000 in recurring funds for the 2017-18 fiscal year for expanding the number of local school administrative units participating in the pilot program.
· SB 483: NC Comprehensive School Accountability (Smith-Ingram, Clark)
o This bill would require comprehensive and uniform accountability through student testing for private schools receiving opportunity scholarship funds.
o Given that the state is providing public dollars to private schools for education opportunities, it is imperative that we hold these schools accountable and ensure they are being both good stewards of public dollars and effective educators.
· SB 484: PARTF Funding Conditions and Match. (Smith-Ingram)
o Sets the local governmental unit match at 50% for local park and recreation purposes other than projects described in below. Provides that the appraised value of land that is donated to a local government unite or public authority can by applied to the match required by this provision.
o Sets the local governmental unit match at 15% for tier one counties and 10% for tier two or three counties for land acquisition, including the acquisition of unbuildable lots for public recreational purposes. Requires at least 50% of the local match to be in cash, and allows up to 50% to be the value of in-kind donations by the local governmental unit.
o Sets the local governmental match at 25% in tier one counties and 10% in tier two and three counties for park and recreation site improvements. Requires at least 50% of the local match to be in cash, and allows up to 50% to be the value of in-kind donations by the local governmental unit.
Bills to Watch
· S314. Give Retirees 2% COLA/Funds. (Waddell, D. Davis, Smith-Ingram)
o Amends GS 135-5, concerning retirement benefits for teachers and state employees, adding new subsection (vvv), providing for cost-of-living increases of 2%.
o Amends GS 135-65, concerning retirement benefits for individuals in the consolidated judicial retirement system, adding new subsection (gg), providing for cost-of-living increases of 2%.
o Amends GS 120-4.22A, concerning retirement benefits for members of the legislative retirement system, adding new subsection (aa), providing for cost-of-living increases of 2%.
o Appropriates $88 million from the General Fund to the Reserve for Retiree Cost-of-Living Adjustments for the 2017-18 fiscal year and $88 million for the 2018-19 fiscal year to implement the cost-of-living adjustment authorized in this act.
· S467. North Carolina Retirement Reform. (Wells, Rabon, Rabin)
o An Act to reform the North Carolina retirement system by providing that certain persons hired by the state beginning July 1, 2018, shall participate in the North Carolina 401(k) plan or North Carolina 457 plan rather than the teachers' and state employees' retirement system or the consolidated judicial retirement system; to provide that members of the general assembly who first become members on or after July 1, 2018, shall participate in the North Carolina 401(k) plan or North Carolina 457 plan rather than the legislative retirement system; to provide that certain local governmental employees hired on or after July 1, 2018, shall participate in the North Carolina 401(k) plan or North Carolina 457 plan; to change state health plan eligibility for state retirees; and to make conforming changes.
Come Meet the Senator
· Northampton County Commissioners' Meeting – Monday, April 3rd – 9am
· Washington County Commissioners' Meeting – Monday, April 3rd – 6pm
· Tarboro High School – Monday, April 10th – 10am –
The Watch Dog response: I would love to see a Town Hall meeting to talk about these things so that the correct information can be communicated because some folk talk about the issue but I wonder do they know all the facts. I think that folk are getting bits and pieces and don't know the whole story which would make them better able to talk about the issue.


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Today's agenda was thinking out of the box. As Toni wrote yesterday: "Tomorrow is all about cooking. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen!"We went after a workout consisting of several movements, as many reps as possible in 30 minutes, some strength moves and some basic stuff. This was the longest amrap we've had this far. As warm-up we rowed, did regular warm-up and then lifted deadlifts and push presses with 100 and 50kg and naturally went through all the Fry-up's moves.
Fry-up. Result: 7 rounds and 22 double unders. Total of 732 reps.
- 3 deadlift (100kg) = 24 reps
- 7 burpee = 56 reps
- 40 double unders = 302 reps
- 3 push press (50kg) = 21 reps
- 7 pull-ups = 49 reps
- 40 squats = 280 reps
It was difficult to set a strategy beforehand as I've never done as long a wod as this was. I figured one round would take somewhere around 5 minutes so I decided to concentrate doing one round unbroken, then keep a 30sec break and move on to next round. I stuck with this plan throughout the entire half an hour. Thinking it afterwards, I shouldn't have taken those breaks necessarily after each round. I was afraid of getting totally burnt if I don't take rest periods at all in 30min. The combination of burpees and double unders got my heart, racing wildly. Other than that, my conditioning stayed good and consistent.
The deadlifts were too light. 100kg is about 60% of my max, it felt like the bar was flying up. Maybe more reps or heavier kilos would have been a wise decision. I thought about 120kg yesterday but decided on 100kg anyway. Burpees got some action in my heart even though there were just a few of them. Especially as double unders followed right after them. I'm very happy of my double unders during this workout. First round I took all 40 reps in a row. All but round number 4 went in 2x20. Only that fourth round went in 3-4 attempts. I've never been this good in double unders in a workout when fatigue crawls in. Really, these were easy, awesome!
Push presses were the most demanding movement for me today. Maybe because my shoulders have taken hit for several days in a row. Doing clean & jerks, snatches, overhead squats, pull-ups, ring dips, shoulder presses and push presses in the last four days maybe took their toll. All pull-ups went unbroken, I liked doing them and could have taken more of them. Nice to witness that pull-ups were not a struggle this time :)
Squats were the ones that burnt my hamstrings. The first rounds were not bad but then in the middle of the workout those last squats - after 30 reps - the hamstring fire came in. I pushed them through unbroken anyway. As a summary, all reps in all movements went unbroken, except from double unders which I did in 2x20reps.
Our fry-up worked well for its purpose. The point was to increase metabolic conditioning, go for a clearly longer metcon than normally and include power ingredients as well. We could have spiced it up with heavier kilos in the barbell. Next time when I go for similar type of workout, I'll strategize it more perfectly. If I could turn back time, I would keep shorter breaks between rounds. I thought I would be totally gassed after this one. However, I felt like I had something in my sleeve after the half an hour.
Toni's fry-up. Result: 6 rounds and 5 burpees. Total of 368 reps.
- 3 deadlift (100kg) = 21 reps
- 7 burpee = 47 reps
- 20 double unders = 120 reps
- 3 push press (50kg) = 18 reps
- 7 pull-ups = 42 reps
- 20 squats = 120 reps
|Toni's deadlift
Toni took the same wod with slight modifications. Double unders and squats were 20 reps and pull-ups were assisted pull-ups. I think we felt the pressure differently on the moves. Toni experienced push presses as easy ones. Give us some insight of your thoughts chef!
Visa took another huge load up, this time deadlifting 180kg. And hey, this is his "easy week" =)
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Maz Bonafide gives us a sneak preview into his stunning forthcoming solo debut track 'Jaan'. This beautiful, romantic, Bollywood inspired track looks set to be one of the biggest love songs of 2014.
Maz is one half of the popular UK Asian duo 'Bonafide', hence the stage name 'Maz Bonafide'. This new song highlights his versatility, range and ability to switch from one genre to another effortlessly!
The accompanying video to 'Jaan' is nothing short of epic and brings a breath of fresh air and creativity to the UK Asian music industry. The video was shot entirely on location in Pakistan and features Pakistani drama actress and VJ 'Hina Sultan'.
Be prepared to witness this musical revolution…
Watch the official trailer here:
'Jaan' releases on Thursday 31st July on the Naughty Sound Records label via iTunes, Google Play & Amazon Mp3.