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After last week's 70 -16 mauling of Featherstone Rovers, Salford Red Devils coach Ian Watson was hoping for a repeat performance against London Broncos.
But it was embarrassment all round as Salford sunk to a new lacklustre low.
The Reds made just one change with Greg Johnson replacing Daniel Vidot on the wing.
Both sides should have scored early in the game but a knock-on ruined Salford's chance, and shortly after, the Broncos were hauled down just short of the line.
In the 18th minute Broncos stand-off William Barthau intercepted a Michael Dobson pass, streaking 70 yards down the wing to open the scoring despite the chasing Dobson.
Jamie Soward was unable to add the conversion but the visitors were ahead at 0-4.
The Reds should have then scored after a promising Josh Jones break led to Josh Griffin knocking-on with the try line in sight.
In the 35th minute the Reds finally got on the scoreboard after several close calls, when George Griffin forced his way over under the posts despite a three-man tackle.
Gareth O'Brien added the kick to put Salford ahead for the first time at 6-4.
The Reds joy proved to be short-lived though as Broncos scored their second try four minutes later when Jamie Thackray turned the ball inside for Scott Leatherbarrow to touch down.
Soward converted for a 6-10 half-time lead.
As the Reds trooped off they had to suffer the indignity of their own fans booing them off.
The second-half followed the pattern of the first 40 minutes and it came as no surprise when the Broncos extended their lead in the 58th minute.
Soward broke clear before passing to winger Kameron Pearce-Paul who returned the ball for Soward to score.
As his conversion kick went in off the posts a surprise win was on the cards (6-16).
The Broncos then went further ahead when the Reds were penalised for holding down. Soward duly obliged (6-18).
Barthau then landed a drop-goal to nudge the Broncos further ahead at 6-19.
With just 10 minutes remaining the Reds finally burst into life with two tries in four minutes.
Firstly O'Brien sent Josh Griffin in for a try and then Junior S'au put him in for a second effort.
O'Brien converted the first try to put Salford within touching distance at 16-19.
They could have had a third too had Josh Griffin managed to get to an O'Brien short kick.
Broncos coach Ian Henderson was full of praise for his team afterwards as they outplayed the Reds in all quarters.
Ian Watson's post-match comments though were in stark contrast: "It was embarrassing and unacceptable.
"From minute one we underestimated London.
"I cannot understand it.
"After a really good show against Featherstone last week we warned the players not to underestimate London but that's what they did.
"It's a mindset thing and we also showed total disrespect for the ball.
"Our backs are to the wall but when we are backed into a corner like this there should be enough motivation with Super League careers and futures at stake.
"The Million Pound game is still in our hands but we know we are going to be questioned after this."
Salford Red Devils: O'Brien, Johnson, Jones, S'au, J Griffin, Evalds, Dobson, Burgess, Tomkins, G Griffin, Murdoch-Masila, Hauraki, Flanagan.
Subs: Lui, Kopczak, A Walne, Krasniqi.
Attendance: 2,521
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Menace Beach were in session with RadMac as part of The Road to BBC Music Day
Leeds-based band Menace Beach performed several songs from their new third album, 'Black Rainbow Sound' live at Leeds University as part of The Road to BBC Music Day. The band were in conversation with Stuart Maconie, and performed current single 'Crawl In Love', 'Tongue' and another album track '8000 Molecules'.
Listen back to the session here.

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Siemens Communications today announced a new version of its IMS-based fixed mobile convergence (FMC) solution with a deployment model supporting the enterprise market, the consumer cable operator market as well as the fixed/mobile telephony market.
Siemens has trialed the solution in the
According to the company news announcement, the Siemens IMS/FMC solution features transparent roaming and active handoffs across fixed and mobile networks. The solution includes personalized multimedia services and – for enterprises – presence-aware collaboration technologies that help improve workflow and business process efficiencies.
Features of the Siemens IMS/FMC solution include:
- Intelligent Address Book — Stored on the IMS/FMC subsystem and accessible on all networks, contact information needs only to be entered once and is available to all end devices.
- Roaming Button — Allows a subscriber to receive calls and messages on the device that he or she is currently using; this feature can be enabled or disabled based on presence and availability.
- Call-and-Share — Data and voice work together with this feature. While calling from home to a friend with a mobile phone to explain directions, for example, a subscriber could also sketch a route on a city map and send the instructions to the friend's mobile phone during the conversation.
Hosted enterprise services are also part of the Siemens IMS/FMC solution, enabling people, teams and organizations to communicate more efficiently and integrate business applications and workflow processes. The IMS/FMC solution incorporates technology from Siemens' HiPath OpenScape collaboration portal – providing presence-enhanced tools for multimedia correspondence including voice, messaging, document sharing, video, and conferencing.
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those tears
a cemented memory i can't shake
i remember from that night
a quiver in the voice that harshly
berated me for simple things
mistakes i can never unmake
a tremble in the hands that bruised me
and gently caressed my face
and the width of those broad shoulders
folded up like discarded paper waste
i froze in place
demanding of myself
how could i
become the very thing i hate
who is this stranger wearing my skin
when ever did i sprout these fangs and claws
when was this monster born within?
i felt my being fracture
a big part of me felt guilty
i felt my soul rupture into two
a part of me giggled and gloated silently
why does this creature live in me?
i'm better off alone
no sanctuary left for me
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Help Via the Internet
I was watching the local news tonight. Something I don't often do any longer. I usually head over to CNN to get a look at what's going on across the nation and the world, although CNN doesn't feed us much world news that is not US centric. Anyway, the local news folks do a short piece on what's happening with technology and the internet and one short piece caught my attention tonight. It was about a site that helps feed the hungry and I thought I'd share what I learned with you.
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Xi Focus: Strengthening the rank of teachers
Sep 11, 2019
BEIJING (China) September 11: Tuesday marks Teachers' Day in China.
Education is an area which Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has paid close attention to.
He considers education as key to the long-term development of the cause of the Party and the country and has made clear instructions on strengthening the rank of teachers since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012.
The following is a summary of efforts and achievements in this regard.
It appears to be a ritual for the country's over 16 million teachers to receive greetings from Xi on Teachers' Day in recent years.
Amid a tight schedule, Xi over the years has managed to find time to visit various school campuses, chat with educators and write to them, expressing his attention and expectations on education.
In September 2014, during his visit to Beijing Normal University, Xi urged Party committees and governments at all levels to attach utmost importance to the work on nurturing teachers.
He called for fostering a social atmosphere in which teachers are well respected and the importance of education is well understood.
In February 2015, Xi visited the faculty of a primary school in Yan'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. He said that education is very important to developing old revolutionary bases and poor areas.
Later in September 2015, Xi encouraged teachers to contribute more to education in poor areas in a reply letter to teachers from southwest China's Guizhou Province.
In September 2018, at a national education conference, Xi called on the Party and society to promote the social norms of respecting teachers and stressed enhancing the political, social and professional status of teachers.
In March 2019, Xi emphasized the role of ideological and political theory teachers who, he said, "should plant a good seed in the heart of their students and help them rightly 'do up their button' from the beginning."
A series of measures were taken following Xi's instructions.
-- The opinions on strengthening Party building in primary and middle schools as well as institutions of higher education were promulgated.
-- The long-term mechanism for improving and supervising teachers' moral standards was put in place.
-- More exemplary teachers were picked through the selection of model educators, including late geophysicist Huang Danian, a professor at Jilin University who helped China make advances in deep earth exploration.
-- From 2013 to 2019, the central government's budgetary spending amounted to 13.5 billion yuan (1.9 billion U.S. dollars) on a teachers' training program. During this period, 19.8 billion yuan in grants and subsidies was provided to rural teachers.
-- Overall reforms were being pursued in the system of training teachers.
-- The number of full-time teachers in China has kept rising, reaching 16.7 million in 2018. The number of schools topped 518,800 in 2018.
"Today's students are the major driving force that will realize our great Chinese dream: the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Teachers are dream builders, undertaking their mission to forge a 'dream team'," Xi said.
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Q. A pop-up constantly appears on my computer that states I am running low on disk space on D. How do I free up space and get rid of this message?
A. Windows is designed to start warning you of low disk space starting when there's 200 MB (megabytes) of free space. At that point Windows warns you once a session. If it drops to 80 MB you will get a warning every 4 hours or twice a session. If you drop to 50 MB or below you receive a warning every five minutes, until free space is above 50 MB.
This is actually a very good thing. A computer that is desperately low on hard drive space can be very problematic and these alerts are designed to help you in the event that your disk becomes too full.
In regards to your particular problem, drive D is usually your recovery partition where the software necessary to restore your computer system is stored and is not a place for you to store any files.
If you are receiving these warnings I would suspect that someone has stored or saved some files to your recovery partition.
You will need to open up Windows Explorer and take a look to see what you have there and remove what doesn't belong.


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Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming. Emerson was right: America is the land of tomorrow. ~Ronald Reagan
Watching Kyle grow up and being an integral part of his life has been a delight. I mean that with all sincerity. Some milestones have been easier to take over others. Example, when Kyle graduated from diapers to the potty. Score! That was time to celebrate! However, this most recent milestone is bittersweet, the seventh grade.
Kyle is in the junior high school! He is twelve and he is a preteen. Where has the time gone? In conjunction with this milestone, we also hit another, independence. Yes, for the last couple of years Kyle has been showing baby steps towards maturing and showing subtle hints of independence, but this one threw me off guard. Every year since Kyle was in kindergarten, actually I think preschool, I have watched him get on the bus. So naturally I thought this year will be no different. To be honest, I thought this might be the last year, of course I believe I've said that about the previous year too. Regardless, I was planning on hanging out with him early in the morning and seeing him off to the seventh grade.
Boy was I wrong! I asked Kyle what time the bus was picking him up and what time I should be there. He just kind of gave me an awkward grunt, the kind you do when you don't want to hurt someone's feelings yet you're not backing down of your plan of action. He said, "Umm that's ok Aunt Heather, I'm good." What? That's what I say to someone when I don't want to say 'no' yet say 'no'! It was just used on me?
Well, that was early on this past weekend. I thought, surely he would think this through and change his mind. Naturally, not letting the topic go, I said, "You sure buddy you don't want me to be there to watch you on your first day of school?" Then, I went into a dissertation of how his Aunt Nikki, his Gigi and me all paid for him to go to preschool for two years. And how I've been a driving force for him and his grades, as well as my family, for all these years. I also stated that it's been tradition for me to be there to see him off for his first day of school. I even tried to assure him that I would stand a side and not be an embarrassment. He probably didn't believe that, even though I meant it to the best of my ability.
Nope, Kyle would not budge. All he replied was, "Umm that's ok, I'm good." Yep, Kyle made a decision and was sticking to it. That I can respect. How can I not, when he is showing that he is maturing and wants to be responsible for himsel?. Ok, buddy I get it, kinda.
But again let's be real, I'm his Aunt Heather and the understanding is in the details. I went down the checklist, "Who's getting you up?" Himself. "Who's seeing you onto the bus?" Himself. "Who's getting you breakfast?" He said that he can get something at the school, which I advised him to grab a banana, apple or make himself at least cereal to ensure he has something in his tummy. That is the last thing he needs, to be hungry all the way till lunch! Everyone knows that wouldn't fly with me! Not a good way to start off the day, skipping out on fueling up the body. Kyle, being Kyle, also had to work out the details as to not break any rules or get in trouble with the breakfast situation. He commented, "Ya I guess I can eat on the bus to school, I don't think the bus driver cares. I can just toss my peel out the window. Or I can eat some of pappy's ribs!" That gave me a chuckle! Only Kyle worries about such small details. Helping to put his mind at ease, I said "Just pitch your peel in a trash can in school. If you choose to eat the ribs that will help you go till lunch, not a bad idea!" He thought about that and was fine with my advice. Then the ultimate question, "Who's planning out your outfit?" Himself! Now that scares me more than anything. As much as I pride myself on my ability to dress cute, stylish and couture, Kyle does not have that knack nor does he care. Even dad, who is strictly a jeans, under shirt and plaid shirt type of guy, always has his top tucked in, belt on and never dresses sloppy. Kyle on the other hand, has a different style to himself all together. One I have yet to fathom!
Maybe that will be Kyle's next milestone. Seriously, I can't wait for that one!
Regardless, Kyle has a full schedule already, going into advance math, taking a language, hope it's French, and whatever else the day brings. I'm sure Kyle will have a great first day of school, after all he is equipped with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King book to keep him entertained throughout the downtime. I hope to see many more milestones from Kyle! He is a bright and caring young man with a future of possibilities.
Milestones have their place in life. Even if they appear to be initially bad, there is always something good in them, a lesson or a pathway made for more milestones. I guess I just need to be here to help him through any rocky paths and guide him in the right direction. Love you buddy! Enjoy seventh grade!


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I've read that cats, like dogs, develop packs but not every cat will be accepted in every pack and the packs aren't limited to cats but may also include their Human(s) and dogs or other familiar animals. And there is no way to pre-determine which cat will be accepted into a pack. They say that a cat-pack can be as small as a single cat but I don't think that's true because every cat I've had included me in their pack. And isn't lone or single the opposite of "pack"? When my Zoo was alive, the pack included everyone in the house: me, Voodoo (my Shep/Rottie), Moe (an enormous orange tabby and very "Special Kitty"), Ranma (my old man), and Taki (a fat tortie). As they aged and grew sick and passed on, Taki, still "the baby" at 14 years, was left alone. She didn't particularly care for Burger, the hyper pit pup, so I adopted another kitty. A small, est 5 year old, female tabby that looked very much like Ranma. She and Taki didn't mind each other but they never formed a pack. Whereas I have countless pictures of the entire Zoo curled up, dog sleeping on cat sleeping on cat sleeping on dog sleeping on cat, Taki and Bama (the new tabby) didn't do this. They slept separate. Even on me, Taki stayed on my lap and Bama on my shoulders or chest. They played but not together. When eating, Bama held off until Taki was finished. Bama even accepted Burger into her pack but Taki was alone save me. I felt bad for her. She went from a large pack who played, slept and socialized together to just me. For three years, this was the norm until my roommate moved out and took Burger with him. Slowly, I noticed little changes in behavior. I saw Bama and Taki share a food dish simultaneously. Then I caught sight of Bama and Taki chasing each other playfully. Yesterday, I noticed Taki and Bama lounging next to each other on the patio. Not curled up together but definitely exhibiting pack behavior. Is it in the absence of the dog, is Bama suddenly lonely and bored enough to include Taki in her pack? I don't know if this will continue but I'm encouraged by it.
In another note of odd cat behavior, I saw something shocking today. Now, let me explain that Taki is obese to the point that when seeing her for the first time, people often exclaim "What is THAT?" I assure you, as a responsible pet owner, Ive tried different diets and some have worked to a degree but she is still a boat of a cat. She still hunts lizards, squaddling (scuttle-waddle) after them with enough speed to catch a few unsuspecting but today, I saw her RUN. With impressive speed, that bowling ball of a cat raced across the yard and half way up a tree after a squirrel. It has been years since I've seen her run and I certainly didn't think it in her power to haul that fat ass up a tree. Even Bama was surprised and confused, chasing after her. I wish I had video of it. It was inspiring. Like watching a pig sprout wings and take to the air.
Speaking of bowling balls, it's day 9 post-op and my head feels like a half ton brick (or a Taki-sized cat) teetering on top of a toothpick. I haven't regained feeling in my fingers yet either but I was warned that that could take a while. Still, the two men I spoke to who had this same surgery both said that they felt "immediately better" afterwards. Why don't I? Still, I must be getting better because I'm cranky. I wish for the world I could remove this collar from my neck and LOOK UP. I suppose I should just be grateful that I can shower without my head rolling off my shoulders.
On an entirely unrelated note, I've watched entirely too much TV during this convalescence. In a matter of days, I plowed through three seasons of Downton Abbey. I enjoy period pieces and appreciate the attention to historical detail here but the plot has gotten ridiculous. I mean, two major characters die horrible, sudden deaths under two separate freakish circumstances on the day their first child is born? And in the same Season? C'mon.


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Could Breaking Ships become an Industry???Yes Indeed,This new industry is all about recovering steel by dismantling it.It all started way back in 1979.As a result the Ship breaking Yards in Alang Mumbai developed.It is really surprising to believe that there were about 200-250 ship breaking Plots and it was also said that it is one of the largest of the Ship Breaking Industry and largest in world dismantling by breaking apart about 450-490 ships each year.It has a turnover about 7000-7500 Crores and has approximately 0.5 Lac Workers working on the Ship Breaking Tasks.
BlackPrints on Atmosphere:
The ship building industry is a very good industry to have bu it has also some disfavors it is a great Pollutant to the Atmosphere—-The disacharge and emissions of toxic materials to sea,sediments,Grounds and air cause acute and long-term pollution.The careless Discharge of the Oil into the sea has left many of the aquatic living Organisms in Lurches and it has not only made them change their Shelter but has also resulted in deaths of many marine Organisms.
The Environmental Committee and the "Go Green" Committee are figuring out measures to make this "Profitable" and Hazardous industry less Hazardous


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When it comes to promotional items, cancelling an order can be tricky. In order to avoid ending up in a sticky situation, there are a few key steps to follow.
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Although he's the new Dean of the CUHK Business School, Professor Kalok Chan is quite familiar with the surroundings as he completed his undergraduate studies there in the 1980s. In his second stretch at the respected institution, he will look to prepare the school and its students to compete in the global arena
By Leon Lee
In the early 1980s, Professor Kalok Chan was a bright-eyed undergraduate studying economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), looking forward to making his mark in the world. Fast forward 28 years later and he has returned to the mountainous campus in Shatin as the Wei Lun Professor of Finance and the new Dean of CUHK Business School.
"It's been great coming back to my alma mater. There's quite a lot of differences but some of the heritage and culture are still the same," says Chan. "More importantly, I see that CUHK and the Business School really have a lot of interesting developments and quite a lot of potential."
"It is a platform where I can really do something good for the university and the community using some of the experience that I have acquired before and bringing it back to the business school."
After completing his undergraduate studies at CUHK, he went abroad to the United States to obtain his PhD in Finance at Ohio State University. He stayed in the States after to do research and teach at Arizona State University. He finally returned to Hong Kong in 2003 to work in the business school at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as the Head of their Finance Department and eventually the Acting Dean of their Business School. In November of last year, Chan returned to the place where it all began.
Today, the CUHK Business School has over 4,600 full-time and part-time students along with almost 30,000 alumni which is the largest business alumni network in Hong Kong. Some notable alumni of the school are Kelvin Wu, principle partner at AID Partners, a private equity investor with investments in HMV and Legendary Pictures, Susanna Chiu, the first and only female president of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and Patrick Lee, CEO, North Asia & China at Inchcape Hong Kong.
Established in 1963, it was the first business school in Hong Kong and the region to offer Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive MBA programs.
A Second Chance
Actually this isn't the first time that CUHK has offered Chan a job. They approached him just as he finished his PhD. However, he chose to stay in the United States then to do research, as he believed it had a better environment for it than Hong Kong.
"[In the past], I don't think that there were too many research opportunities or even a focus on research. But of course now it is very different," says Chan.
"I mean whether you talk about CUHK or other institutions in Hong Kong, there is so much research momentum and so many research projects going on. I think that now if you talk about the business schools in Hong Kong, they have done a lot of good [work] and are comparable to some of the schools in the US or Europe."
The professor's research has been published in many top-ranked finance journals. But since he's started his new role in November, he has had less time to work on his own projects. However as the new Dean, he plans to continue to push and uphold the business school's reputation as a world-class research institution. The school currently has 10 research centers, which include the Asian Institute of Supply Chains & Logistics, Aviation Policy and Research Center and Center for International Business Studies.
Chan points out that many of his colleagues are already doing various research projects on China's economy, financial market, governance, etc. These are all important issues to explore as their economy is booming. He expressed an interest in researching the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect once he's more settled in as the Dean.
Lesson Learned
Chan certainly sees the mutual benefits of the increasing connectivity between Hong Kong and China through the stock connect and the mutual recognition of funds. For Hong Kong, it will grow its financial market, particularly the stock market and asset management industry while for China, it will provide them with increased access to international capital and clients as well as working to international standards. Moves like these will give the Mainland market a good foundation to build on as the recent stock market crash showed that there is still much that needs to be developed.
"I think [the stock market crash reveals that obviously the size of the market had really grown, but in terms of the infrastructure, it is really behind. The kind of the ad hoc policies and remedies are not really touching the real issues which sometimes make the matter worse. This is certainly quite a lesson to learn," Chan explains.
This lesson is one that the dean likened to one that Hong Kong learned in the late eighties when the city went through a global market crash. Remembered as Black Monday, stock markets in Hong Kong, Europe and the United States took sharp declines on October 19, 1987. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its largest one-day percentage decline. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange sank to 3,362.39 points, dropping 45.5 percent, and trading was subsequently suspended for four days.
"You can find at that time [Hong Kong] also made a huge mistake. So I think that maybe the mistake is no smaller than the kind of mistakes that the Mainland regulators have made," Chan says. "You just have to learn. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes you have to learn it the hard way. Now they just got the hard way."
Worldly Students
The increasing connectivity applies to the business school as well as they prepare students for the increasing globalization of business. Besides providing them with the foundation of knowledge, the business school is working hard to instill each student with the necessary communication skills and, more importantly, a global mindset.
Through exchange programs and internships, students get to experience how things are done in different parts of the world. In fact, some exchange programs are quite immersed in the curriculum such as the International Business and Chinese Enterprise. In partnership with the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina, students in the program will travel to China and US on various study trips. Those who have completed their four year undergraduate degree will then get the opportunity to complete a one-year Master of International Business in South Carolina.
CUHK has also recently opened a new campus in Shenzhen in April of last year, which the Dean sees as another avenue of opportunities for its students.
"If Hong Kong can really take advantage of the development of the Southern part of China like Shenzhen and Guangzhou, it would be good [for the development of local talent]. There are really a lot of the big companies and lot of the new startups and technology companies there," he says.
During his time at HKUST, Chan was the founding director of the well-received HKUST-NYU Stern Joint Master in Global Finance program. He is working on developing something similar for CUHK as he sees the tremendous value it can provide to students and their education.
Given the size of the economy in Asia, Chan believes it deserves more business schools as there are too few right now. The ones that are here already have shown to be very successful. According to the Financial Times, six out of the top 30 full-time MBA programs in 2015 are in Asia. Three of them are from Hong Kong with CUHK ranked 30th, where it was unranked the year before.
As far as teachers are concerned, Hong Kong doesn't seem to have any problems.
"I think in the last 15 to 20 years, Hong Kong has been attracting a lot of top scholars. And quite a lot of them are really just like me. We are educated in the West, received degrees in some of the best schools and even worked abroad. And with the rise of Asia and China, I think more scholars will continuously be interested in coming here."
Competing Against the World
Hong Kong is turning out more university graduates than ever before and Chan sees lots of potential in them. With more and more foreign talents coming to Hong Kong, the local students have to step up to compete with them both at home and abroad.
"[In the past], local talents will have more opportunities which means there was also more time for them to learn and to grow. But now, in this 21st century, companies and businesses are really looking for some kind of a quick return. So they really expect that their staff to be able to basically up and run on the first day," the professor says.
He's found that local students are probably even more skilled than before and is confident that they are able to rise to the challenge.
"That is the nature of Hong Kong, it is a very competitive city," Chan explains.
If there is one thing that can help students keep up with their competitors, he believes it is the student's attitude.
"One thing that is difficult to change is the attitude. So I think it is really the kind of attitude that determines whether the students will be able to succeed," Chan says. "It's about whether they are really persistent and resilient, if they are willing to do what it takes to persevere. This can determine whether they'll be able to succeed in business school and their career."
Looking back at his first time around at CUHK, his fondest memories was sitting down and chatting with classmates on the lawn outside the library of United College on campus. Now he'll have plenty of chances to make some new memories while helping future generations of students create lasting memories of their own.


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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. I've used Storify, one of my favorite social media tools, to summarize my experience by curating my tweets as well as the tweets of others which caught my eye throughout the day. (As click through my story, you can hover on any photos or videos to see the tweets associated with them.)
ISTE is an amazing conference for educators! Wonderful sessions filled with cool tech tools and deep ways to use them for teaching and learning plus thoughtful panels and conversations on deeper concerns in education. It's hard to put into words! There is abundant sharing from the conference on Twitter. Even if you can't attend in person, follow the #ISTE17 hashtag. You can learn no matter where you are!
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Today is May 15th, Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day. Yesterday, we published some preliminary background material about a man many people depise, who caused a great injustice in American to American citizens in the 20th Century. His efforts would, in fact, still be implemented into the 1960's. A rigid, autocratic man, Walter Ashby Plecker fancied himself a white knight defending and protecting the racial purity of the white race. Born into a well-to-do Virginian family he became a doctor. He was married, but never had children. He listed his hobbies as birds and books. He worked hard delivering many babies in poor households lacking basic hygiene and what most consider necessities. Many of these people were black or Indian. Concerned by a high incidence of syphilitic blindness, he began dispensing silver nitrate to be put in the eyes of newborns. He also contrived an incubator that could be put together in the poorest of homes.
A devout Presbyterian, he actually believed the mixing of races to be a sin. He helped establish churches around the state and supported fundamentalist missionaries. Plecker belonged to a conservative Southern branch of the church that believed the Bible was infallible and condoned segregation. Members of Plecker's branch maintained that God flooded the earth and destroyed Sodom to express his anger at racial interbreeding. He carried out a life long attempt to prevent this from happening, carrying his efforts to the most extreme measures.
The Eugenics Movement suited his needs perfectly. He was proud to be a scientist, practicing what he believed to be the latest scientific methods to improve mankind. He became a celebrity within the eugenics movement, which eventually began to lose support among scientists and furnish a platform for white supremacy. He spoke around the country, was widely published and wrote to every governor in the nation to urge passage of racial laws just as tough as Virginia's Racial Integrity Act. He dined at the New York home of Nazi sympathizer, Harry H. Laughlin, the nation's leading eugenics advocate.
In 1932, Plecker gave a keynote speech at the Third International Conference on Eugenics in New York. Among those in attendance was Ernst Rudin of Germany who, 11 months later, would help write Hitler's eugenics law.
In 1935, Plecker wrote to Walter Gross, the director of Germany's Bureau of Human Betterment and Eugenics. Writing on state stationery, he outlined Virginia's racial purity laws and asked to be put on a mailing list for bulletins from Gross' department. Complimenting the Third Reich for sterilizing 600 children in Algeria who were born to German women and black men, he commented; "I hope this work is complete and not one has been missed," he wrote. "I sometimes regret that we have not the authority to put some measures in practice in Virginia."
The Racial Integrity Act essentially narrowed race classifications on birth and marriage certificates to two choices: "white person" or "colored." The law defined a white as one with no trace of black blood. A white person could have no more than a one-sixteenth trace of Indian blood—an exception, much to Plecker's regret, legislators made to appease the descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe, who were considered among Virginia's first families.
The act forbade interracial marriage and lying about race on registration forms. Violators faced felony convictions and a year in prison.
Plecker strongly supported sterilization laws, arguing that feebleminded whites were prone to mate with Indians and blacks. He had no role in administering the law, however.
The Racial Integrity Act, on the other hand, was his to enforce, and Plecker went about it obsessively. He sold copies of eugenics books in his office and mailed his diatribes against racial interbreeding at government expense, stretching the Racial Integrity Act when necessary.
Plecker served in his powerful position as the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics from 1912 until 1946. Working with a vengance, he led the effort to purify the white race in Virginia by forcing Indians and other nonwhites to classify themselves as blacks. It amounted to bureaucratic genocide. He not only altered records and refused to register children as their rightful identity, he wrote insulting letters to new mothers which surely caused a lifetime of grief and frustration. The aftershocks are still being felt today. Indian tribes seeking recognition cannot provide the proof of their existance required because of Plecker's altered records. Families separated due to his draconian actions will never be reunited as the brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts and uncles because they have passed on in many cases. A lifetime lost. And genealogical brickwalls and roadblocks are encountered every day by persons trying to research their families.
"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them." ---George Santayana
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"Although unpopular at times, he has maintained his convictions about the future of the telecommunications industry and what it will take to make the latest technologies available to the U.S. consumer.
"We can only hope these views remain within the FCC, as the future for the consumer will rely heavily upon the advancements in this technology."


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5 Principles for Living Dynamically in the Will of God
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The book of Proverbs make's a startling statement, "many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lords purpose that prevails" (19:21). To live in the will of God is to consciously choose a course of action consistent with the revealed principles of scripture. The difficulty comes with attempting to apply those principles to particular situations. While there is a commonality to all human experience, every experience has its own unique features that make it imperative for each us to center ourselves individually in the will of God. This adds depth and quality to our lives. We can confidently approach the challenges of life.
The scriptures clearly attest to the fact that the one who does the will of God lives forever (1 John 2:17). Thus a life that is lived on the eternal principles of God's Word is destined for immortality. However, living in the will of God requires perseverance because there will be times when all your attempts to understand won't make any sense to you or anyone else, but if your decisions are consistent with the Word understanding will come. Such perseverance develops spiritual muscles and results in spiritual maturity (Col 4:12).
History is replete with individuals who practiced living their lives centered in the will of God. While at times they were controversial and even confrontational they were never insignificant. Living in the will of God led Abraham to uproot his family and risk life and limb to go where he was convinced God sent him; it led three young Hebrew statesmen to risk a fiery death by defying the king of Babylon with the words, "God will rescue us from your hand, But even if he does not..." It led Jesus to pray before accepting crucifixion, "your will be done" and it led Martin Luther to declare as he faced death, "here I stand, I can do no other, God help me." Here are five principles for living dynamically in the will of God.
In the context of living in the will of God, communion with God in prayer requires learning to discern the inner voice of his spirit. One of the challenges of life today is the constant chatter that invades the mind and agitates the spirit. Society strives for and prides itself on its interconnectedness. Instant communication is the mantra for the postmodern age and technology has provided a multitude of ways to achieve that end. As a result we find it harder than ever to hear the still small voice of God within the inner recesses of our spirit. It is critical then that we make a conscious, deliberate choice to be still and let the entire world be silent as we tune in to the voice of God. The Bible promises that the person whose thoughts are often on God will be kept in perfect peace (Isaiah 26:3). Find a quiet place and focus your thoughts on God and his love for you. It is a good idea to keep a pen and note pad handy to jot down what is given to you. My experience has been that inspirational thoughts like any other can easily be lost never to return.
Contemplation is thinking about the impressions, thoughts and ideas flowing out of communion. At this stage you are checking your impressions with the revealed word of God in scripture. This will give balance and direction to your thoughts. God's promise is "I will guide you in the way of wisdom" (Proverbs 4:11). The spirit is called the spirit of truth because it will guide you into all truth (John 16:13). It is never safe to rely solely on your own impressions.
Consult with trusted advisors who will bring their wisdom and spiritual insight to bear on your conclusions. The spirit of truth is one, he will be consistent. The same principles that guide you are accessible to other like-minded seekers. This is consistent with Proverbs 15:22, "without consultation plans are frustrated, but with many counselors they succeed" (NASU). In doing this, seek out persons who are willing to listen and pray with you not sit in judgment of your convictions. Keep in mind Job's friends thought they knew what Job should have done, but in the end they were proved wrong primarily because of their judgmental spirit. Beware of those who claim to have all the answers.
Cooperation is readiness to follow through with actions needed to fulfill the plans God has confirmed to you. This is where many persons fail. They are caught in the proverbial paralysis of analysis and seem incapable of getting from thought and planning to action. People who make it their business to live in the will of God are people of action. They are constantly growing, attempting more, and experiencing God's ideal for their lives. They take seriously the words of scripture, "for I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" (Jer 29:11). No matter how difficult the circumstances appear to be, living in God's will always means God's tomorrow will be better than today. Knowing this I stand ready to follow through where I am led.
As I have written elsewhere, celebration is the natural outgrowth of living in the will of God. Each day is an opportunity to experience the joy of his presence and the satisfaction of his approval. Cultivate a spirit of gratitude; in that way you open the mind to hear more distinctly the voice of God. It is a spiritual law that when we embrace and celebrate divine leadership in our lives, we become more spiritually alert and sensitive to his presence and guidance. In other words, the more I celebrate his leadership, the more of his leadership he gives me to celebrate. "Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance" (Matt 13:12), everything depends on our attitude.
These five principles for living in the will of God provide a framework for training the mind in the discipline of listening to and practicing the will of God. Each builds upon the other and follow a natural progression, following them will lead to a life of satisfaction and fulfillment. "May God give you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans. May there be shouts of joy when we hear the news of your victory, flags flying with praise to God for all he has done for you. May he answer all your prayers (Ps 20:4)."
Conroy Reynolds, MS MA is a mental health chaplain and ordained pastor. He is also the author of "Finding God in the Dark." More information is available at:
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Once a Thief is a Story Chapter in Uncharted 4. It is Chapter 6 in the campaign.
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This chapter begins with a cutscene followed by a climbing sequence. Follow Sam up and then down, where you can find a treasure on the left. Head to ledge to spot the beam beneath the bridge. Toss the hook at the beam and swing across to the cliff wall. Drop to the lowest part and head left. Sam will grapple onto the beam and swing. Take the holds down the wall and head to the rope, grabbing it when in reach. Wall run and leap to the next ledge. Continue left to the branch and swing to the stone wall. Hang on the wall to let the guards pass before climbing up.
Pull up and follow Sam through the citrus trees. Head right to find a treasure and follow Sam to the corner to speak with him for a conversation. Head to the balcony to view your destination. Inside the hut, go down the stairs and grapple to the beam. Go over the balcony and hang, then rappel down the rope. Wall run to leap across to the lower ledge.
Walk through the pillars, watching for another conversation prompt from Sam. Climb up the arch and look left to see a pole protruding from the cliff. Jump to it and swing to the next arch. Walk left and along the ledge to the wall. Climb up and swing from pole to pole and onto the rock. Sam will follow and climb up and grapple the light fixture. Grab the rope to trigger a cutscene.
Turn around before following Sully and enter the room behind to find a treasure. Leave the room and speak to Sam on the balcony for a conversation. There is another treasure on the balcony here. Head back in and follow them to the main floor. There is an acution sheet on the table near the bottom of the stairs. Go across the room to the cellar which is locked. Use the mini-game to pickpocket the waiter for the key. After 3 misses, Sam will distract him to complete the task.
Go back to the cellar and open it to trigger a cutscene. After, head left into a room to find a treasure. Then follow Sam into a hallway and downstairs. Look through the window to see the gunmen and head downstairs to find a locked gate. There is a treasure just underneath these stairs.
Head to the large wine barrel on a cart and push it aside to open the door. Find another barrel with a red ring and pull it out. Head into the opened passage and pull another barrel out. Head through the openings and pull a cask here to the vent. Climb it and enter the vent. Follow the duct out to a grate that won't open. Turn around and follow Sam to a loose grate and follow Sam. After letting some guards pass you can exit to a courtyard.
If you take the firescape around a corner here you can find a treasure. Follow Sam to the gate and press triangle. Head to the wall with the raised ladder, and work with Sam to boost him up and kick the ladder down. Climb to the next balcony, where you can find another treasure on a balcony near here. Follow Sam into the courtyard and boost up to the other raised ladder here. Sam will take the waiter's uniform here.
Go across the courtard and climb up. Head right and go down the stairs and climb to the arch's roof. Find the door to the power room. Jump to the gazebo roof in the center of the courtyard and then jump to the next roof. Go up the wall to the roof. Jump to the poles to trigger a cutscene. The pipe will break and he will slide down.
A cutscene will play in the gala. Back to Nate, head to the pole and jump to grab it. Let go and drop down to a pole. Nearby is a treasure. Climb up the wall to another pole and swing to another. From here swing to a longer pole and face the opposite way and slide right. Climb on the wall around the corner and to the top of the pipe. Go left on the pipe around the corner and continue to climb up the the open window at the top left.
Go to the end and drop down. Press triangle at the gate which is locked to trigger a cutscene. Search the marks in the room to find a crowbar. Open the door and and interact with the circuit box to trigger another cutscene and the chapter's end.
Once a Thief Collectibles Locations
|Mughal Water Container
|Treasure #7
|On the top of the cliff, at the cliff's edge (opposite the wooden bridge you rope on to).
|Nephrite Brass Cup
|Treasure #8
|Building window, near the citrus trees. Straight ahead from where you climb up into this area.
|Conversation 3
|In the area with the trees, walking around will trigger it.
|Conversation 4
|Stay near Sam after swinging on the rope, watch for the prompt as Sam walks near you.
|Viking Cloak Clasp
|Treasure #9
|At beginning of gala scene, turn around and enter the room behind. Treasure is on a shelf.
|Mother of Pearl Horn
|Treasure #10
|Balcony on top floor of the gala, on the right side.
|Conversation 5
|Speak to Sam on the balcony.
|Persian Bronze Bowl
|Treasure #11
|In the pantry, after stealing the key from the waiter. In the corner, behind a crate to the left of where you enter.
|Brass Barber's Bowl
|Treasure #12
|After exiting the pantry, at the bottom of the stairs. It's in the wine cellar, just after you get the prompt to peak in at the guards.
|Syrian Vase
|Treasure #13
|Exit the air vents to the garden. Drop down to the railing on the left and into the lower section. Use the ladder to reach the rooftops, treasure is on the first lower roof.
|Persian Candlestick
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|After Sam drops a ladder for you on the roof, ascend it and climb the structure on the left. Jump to a balcony on its left. Treasure is on the balcony.
|Mughal Dagger
|Treasure #15
|After dropping into the dark, muddy area post cutscene. Swing across the pole ahead. Hang from the cliff to your left and climb in the direction from where you came. Treasure will be found on a ledge.


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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World invites papers for a special issue on gender in the 2016 elections. We invite contributions on all topics relevant to gender and politics. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to): gender and the executive; women, social policy, and state legislative elections; intersectionality and the media; gender and public opinion; and women in changing political institutions. Informative papers on trends or cross-national comparisons are welcome as long as they are framed in relation to the 2016 U.S. election.
Despite having only about 5 percent of the world's population, the United States was the attack site for a disproportionate 31 percent of public mass shooters globally from 1966-2012, according to research presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Last week, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, during oral arguments in the gerrymandering case Gill v Whitford, referred to social science as "sociological gobbledygook." ASA President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has responded in a letter, the content of which is below. You can also download a .pdf of the letter here.
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The news of the murder of Khashoggi in the world's media is continuing that the news of the normalization of the Riyadh-Tel Aviv relations became a controversy as a regional headline. Another issue which was published after the Saudi defeat in al-Hudaydah and the US-British deadline to Saudi Arabia to end the Yemeni war, made trouble for Bin Salman. Bin Salman did not imagine that in less than a short period of time, there would be so much problems that each one could put Saudi Arabia at the risk of collapse.
- A) Political failure
Bin Salman faces failure challenge in the Lebanese, Iraqi, and even Malaysian elections, and the governments have a serious conflict with Riyadh, and on the other hand, he has failed to gain the Arab leadership of Islamic movements after political agreements with the governments of the region.
The dispute between Bin Salman and the ruling dynasty in Qatar has led to an increase among the Arab League and the Persian Gulf Arab states, which led to Qatar's withdrawal from the Saudi coalition, and the political processes led by Bin Salman and the Salman family to the Arab world finished without any achievement.
Compromise negotiations with the Zionist regime and Trump's behavior with the family of Bin Salman and the use of words such as lactating cows and … made a political frustration for the Salman family in the region, and many of the countries that have traditionally been of the supporters of Riyadh are now looking skeptical of the political situation in Saudi Arabia.
- B) Military defeat:
On the other hand, Bin Salman and Riyadh's decision makers thought they would be able to destroy the Alliance of Resistance in Sana'a with Yemen war and enter Sana'a within a short time and control the city. While not only this did not happen, but Ansarullah could strengthen its coalition with the support of other political groups in Yemen and resist the armed forces of coalition for nearly four years.
The process of militancy defeat in Yemen is not solely about the failure of controlling Sana'a. Saudi Arabia faces Ansarullah missiles, each of which has the power to target the entire territory of Saudi Arabia and can be a serious threat to Riyadh's military and security future. Along with that, the operational defeat in the Syrian war and the acquisition of all the important and strategic parts of Syria by Bashar al-Assad is definitely not pleasant to Bin Salman and will end all the costs of the seven-year Syrian war for the benefit of the resistance axis.
Alongside these, the presence of Hashd al-Sha'bi forces in the north put Saudi Arabia in a geopolitical tightness, and Saudi Arabia has actually siege. On the one hand, Iran is present in the Persian Gulf; on the other hand, with the presence of Hashd al-Sha'bi in Iraq on the northern borders, it feels insecure, and on the other hand, with the presence of Ansarullah in the south, the country will certainly not be able to achieve past authority.
- C) Economic failure:
Saudi imagination and the massive propaganda of Bin Salman were the achievement of economic authority. While with the Yemeni war and its enormous cost, Saudi Arabia is faced with a lot of budget deficits that cannot easily be compensated for. On the other hand, economic incentive schemes to attract capital, such as thermal and solar power plants, and dozens of civil projects have been rejected by other governments due to lack of funds or Saudi Arabian approaches to human rights, and many of the agreements were broken.
- D) Ideological defeat:
Bin Salman entered the royal crown prince position with the slogan of believes and religious reform, while the group was more engaged in media activism than they wanted to do political and religious reform, and the reform was too much like propaganda. The murder of Khashoggi has shown Saudi Arabia's face in the world and its link with the violation of human rights and privacy.
The mentioned crises are part of the unsolved crises of Bin Salman that has led the country to the brink of collapse.


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Iconic singer Aretha Franklin has died. She was 76.
The Associated Press reports that a publicist for the Queen of Soul shared that Franklin died Thursday at her home in Detroit.
She sang from a place deep inside, always. For that reason, we named her our Queen of Soul and for decades, she wore the crown – proudly.
The fourth of five children, Aretha Louise Franklin was born in 1942, in Memphis, but Detroit was where she called home. The daughter of a Baptist preacher and a gospel singer, she grew up singing along with playing the piano and organ in her father's church. Throughout her career, and whether she sang about love, life or for the Lord, you could hear, and feel, those roots planted firmly in the music.
Franklin was just a teenager when she recorded her first album, Songs of Faith, in 1956. Five years later, after a move to New York to sign with Columbia Records, she released the album, Aretha. That was the only beginning. By the late 60s and with a label-switch to Atlantic Records, the hits started coming.
First, there was "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," from the 1967 album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. The title track was a monster hit, too. Soon after, there was "Respect," which not only became an anthem, but also topped the charts and earned Franklin the first two of her 18 Grammy Awards.
As the years passed, the hits kept coming. Her catalog includes classics that continue to stand the test of time – from "Rock Steady," "Chain of Fools," "Day Dreaming" and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," to "Jump To It," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "Who's Zooming Who?", "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" with George Michael…and on and on.
And, of course, there's the entire Sparkle soundtrack, which was as much a cultural phenomenon as the 1976 film itself. Then in 1980, she signed with Arista Records, which was her label home for over two decades.
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The Queen of Soul works a feather boa and dress in 1968.
Along her journey, there were high and lows, both personal and professional, but Franklin endured. Through young motherhood, marriages and divorces, to the inevitable ebbs and flows in popular music…yes, she endured. And she blessed us with song, always.
She sang at the funerals of Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel great, Mahalia Jackson, as well as for the inaugurations of Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. In 2005, George W. Bush presented her with the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. Along with going down in history as the first woman to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Franklin also sits atop Rolling Stone's list of the greatest singers of all time.
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Aretha poses for a portrait in a stunning beaded gown in 1965.
The foundation she laid has served as a stepping stone for the many female vocalists who've followed her lead – from the late Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Kelly Price to Faith Evans, Lauryn Hill (with whom she sang on the 1998 single, "A Rose Is Still a Rose"), and Jennifer Hudson, whom she hand-selected to portray her in a forthcoming biopic.
Franklin's last performance was in November 2017 when she took the stage at the Elton John AIDS Foundation 25th Anniversary Gala. At the top of this year, she announced her retirement from touring.
The Queen of Soul did more than just supply the soundtrack of her generation and beyond. In fact, her music, her voice, was, and shall remain, woven into the tapestry of our culture. She was the gold standard and she'll always be our Queen.


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In his State of the Union Address, President Bush announced a new health care proposal that he claims will"help more Americans afford their own insurance." In fact, however, the President's proposal is more likely to weaken the nation's health care system than it is to make things better. It will not help the vast majority of the 47 million uninsured and will not address the inefficiencies in health care that contribute to skyrocketing costs. What it will do is undermine our country's most reliable source of health care coverage - the employer-sponsored system - and put more and more people into the individual market where the risks are much greater.
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Harvey Shapiro, an admired American poet who chose newspaper work over the time-honored academic vocation of his peers, and who as an editor at The New York Times made an epochal assignment — what became the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail" — that ultimately never appeared in the newspaper, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 88.
The cause was complications of recent surgery, his son Saul said.
Mr. Shapiro the poet was the author of a dozen books, published between 1953 and 2006. In spare, often epigrammatic style, his work explored the world around him, from street scenes to intimate portraits of family life, with its attendant pleasures and pain. It also examined what it meant for him to exist in that world — as a man, a husband, a father and a Jew.
In "The Mother of Invention," published in Bomb magazine in 2011, Mr. Shapiro wrote:
On my desk are the bills from the living
and in my sleep are the bills from the dead.
"Emptiness is the mother of invention"
says my fortune cookie. July 23, 2010.
Brooklyn. I walk in the slow rain,
never less accomplished, never happier.
Why should I doubt the world has meaning
when even in myself I see mysterious purposes.
A crow drops down for a moment,
black, rabbinical garb, croaking Kaddish.
Though his work was not to every critic's taste (some were discomforted by the vivid sexual language it could contain), others praised his dark humor, verbal economy and eye for detail.
Mr. Shapiro the editor was associated with The Times from 1957 until his retirement in 1995. He was variously an editor at The New York Times Magazine; the editor of The Times Book Review, a post he held from 1975 to 1983; and deputy editor of the magazine. In the early 1960s, as an editor at The Times Magazine, Mr. Shapiro made what was almost certainly his most inspired assignment. Reading about one of Dr. King's frequent jailings, he telephoned the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The next time Dr. King was in jail for any significant period, Mr. Shapiro suggested, he should compose a letter for publication.
In April 1963, while jailed in Birmingham, Ala., Dr. King did just that. But according to several published accounts, including "Carry Me Home" (2001), Diane McWhorter's Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicle of the civil rights movement, Mr. Shapiro was unable to persuade his superiors at the magazine to print it.
"Letter From Birmingham Jail," which endures as one of the canonical texts of the civil rights movement, was published instead in The Christian Century, The New Leader and elsewhere.
Throughout his newspaper career, Mr. Shapiro continued writing poetry, with his work centering not only on small domestic subjects but also on vast ones like war and the pulsating life of cities.
New York loomed especially large, with landmarks like Schrafft's and Russ & Daughters, the purveyor of smoked fish, bagels and other stuff of life on East Houston Street, threading their way companionably through his verse. Hart Crane was an early influence, Mr. Shapiro often said; Charles Reznikoff was a later one.
Here, in its entirety, is Mr. Shapiro's poem "New York Notes," from his collection "How Charlie Shavers Died and Other Poems" (2001):
Caught on a side street
in heavy traffic, I said
to the cabbie, I should
have walked. He replied,
I should have been a doctor.
When can I get on the 11:33
I ask the guy in the information booth
at the Atlantic Avenue Station.
When they open the doors, he says.
I am home among my people.
Harvey Irwin Shapiro was born in Chicago on Jan. 27, 1924, to an observant Jewish family. His first words were Yiddish. When he was a boy, the family moved to Manhattan and later to Woodmere, on Long Island.
Mr. Shapiro's studies at Yale were interrupted by World War II. Enlisting in the Army Air Forces, he flew 35 combat missions over Europe as a B-17 tail gunner and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Mr. Shapiro earned a bachelor's degree in English from Yale in 1947 and a master's degree in American literature from Columbia the next year.
In the mid-1950s, after teaching English at Cornell University and Bard College, Mr. Shapiro became an assistant editor at Commentary magazine. He was briefly the poetry editor (and an ad salesman) at The Village Voice and a fiction editor at The New Yorker before joining The Times.
Mr. Shapiro's marriage to Edna Lewis Kaufman ended in divorce. A resident of Brooklyn Heights, he is survived by his companion, Galen Williams; two sons, Saul and Dan, from his marriage to Ms. Kaufman; and three grandchildren.
His other volumes of poetry include "The Eye" (1953), "The Light Holds" (1984) and "National Cold Storage Company" (1988). Mr. Shapiro also edited a well-received anthology, "Poets of World War II," published by the Library of America in 2003.
As poets will, Mr. Shapiro sometimes wondered, poetically, how his own life would end. In these lines from "In a Bad Time," published in his last collection, "The Sights Along the Harbor" (2006), he concluded thus:
Who created you? Jacob J. Shapiro
and Dorothy Cohen. They created me,
and my dead sister, Annette, and my
younger brother, Allan. Who will uncreate
you? Impossible to predict just now
but my money is on pastrami.


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Michigan State University's Give Green Day will take place on Nov. 28.
Give Green Day is a 24-hour campaign to engage Spartans and friends across the world in giving back to support students at Michigan State.
David Moehring, a 1960 alumnus from California, has made a $50,000 challenge gift to kick off this year's effort, which has a goal of raising $250,000. His gift will be doled out throughout the day to encourage participation by matching gifts in giving challenges and as bonus money for projects that meet their fundraising goal.
"I owe a lot to this university," said Moehring. "I met my bride here many years ago and started out here on my career in medicine. I am so grateful for what this university has done for me."
There are 28 projects and programs seeking between $2,500 and $25,000. Participating are all of MSU's 18 colleges, in addition to Spartan Fund, the 4-H Foundation, the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, both campus museums, the MSU Libraries and WKAR.
Additionally, more than 60 alumni clubs will ask their members and friends to support club initiatives and scholarship funds.
Gifts to any of these causes will go right to work impacting the lives of MSU students and members of the larger MSU community.
MSU will harness the power of social media and word-of-mouth to spread the word. To date, more than 150 individuals have been recruited to Team Green to help advocate for support through their social networks.
In 2016, nearly 2,000 donors made a gift to MSU on Give Green Day, resulting in $241,939 raised – surpassing the goal of $100,000.
The day takes advantage of the timing of Giving Tuesday, a global day of philanthropy, following Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
For more information visit: givingday.msu.edu.
SOURCE: MSU Today


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These Firmware is Full Firmware, just like OTA (Over the Air) Firmware from Settings>About>System Updates. I'm just Provide the links so you can download it through your PC/Laptop. You Must know your current firmware version+build number to apply updates, for example i have T00F TW 22.214.171.124 so i download T00F TW (22.214.171.124 to 18.104.22.168) to apply update. And all of these firmware are official from ASUS server. You will not lose your data with OTA update (but for your safety i recommend to backup your data)
How to Update with OTA Firmware:
Method 1:
Download and Rename to MOFD_SDUPDATE.zip or
Replace T00x to T00G/T00J/T00F/Z00A/Z008 ,
Replace WW/TW
Replace x.xx.xx.x to your downloaded version (example 184.108.40.206)
Place to Internal Storage(not SD Card) and Restart waiting for Notification
Or you can see Manual OTA update Procedure
Download and extract the firmware on your computer.: After extracting you will find the SP Flash Tool,Driver and Install the
USB Drivers (skip if drivers are already installed).
Open the SP Flash Tool and load the Scatter File from the firmware folder
Connect your Smartphone to the computer using the USB Driver
Click on Upgrade Download Button in the SP Flash Tool to Begin the Flashing.
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The corporate fascists 'will of the people' woo about voting for whatever rich folk might happen to 'allow' we mere plebs to vote for is the complete opposite of the real democracy of the peace and harmony of the rule of law that exists for the benefit of everyone.
... the peace and harmony of the rule of law is entirely natural...
What the nationalists, globalists, patriots and every other fake going don't dare admit is law abiding civilians can repeal their multi-billion dollar corporate frauds with the peace and harmony of the rule of law, without voting for any self-serving 'sides' of phoney 'politicians' and their opinion treadmill of 'news' media.
It was entirely foreseeable that the sisyphean deceit of 'Article 50' would only ever be used by fascists and their appeasers.
The third man Guy Verhofstadt cynically 'sidesteps' the reality that rather than Brexit being just a Tory cat-fight that got 'out of control' Stake-knife Corbyn and the unions et al oppose civilians freedom in the European Union just as vehemently too, meaning that just like everything else, they are completely in lock-step.
In fact, the entirety of lawless Westminster has been violently 'out of control' for rather a long time now, cheered on by their propagandists.
Westminster totally spun 'out of control' at their State Opening in 2010.
Blair, 7/7 Livingstone and Brown had all been forced out, like Cameron then was, because they had all become a legal liability.
The 'gang of five' who primarily protected/worked with them, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Alan Duncan, Stake-knife Corbyn and Kier Starmer are still there holding the Brexit reins.
It very much suits them all to get their Brexit 'election' out of the way now, with very little risk of losing key seats on either 'side' because they can still continue telling any old lie they like, promising all sorts, to the beating drums of the Brexit 'news' media 'opinion' machine.
Brexit is just Westminster's latest and most overt manifestation of their irrational fascism, because they are completely detached from any rational reality.
The whole set piece is without any doubt being very carefully choreographed 'behind the scenes' by the likes of Lynton Crosby et al with their data sets and subsets of algorithms of all sorts etc.
All the 'politicians' and 'news' media do nothing but talk at and over law abiding civilians lecturing us how we should live our lives to line their self-serving pockets.
The lawless Westminster, which is the CCTV capital of and the largest 'surveillance' Stasi state in the European Union, has been rubber-stamping fraudulent violent corporate legislation at a great old rate for a very many years now.
There can only be real democracy when there are the checks and balances of the peace and harmony of the rule of law which exists for the benefit of everyone.


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Vale Fine Arts / Paso Robles Opening
Many thanks to Madeline Vale for trusting our work to show in her Winter Show. It was a fantastic opening and we were pleased to have had the chance to present our work in such a great space. We've been spreading the good word ever since / Madeline and Edward are an inspiring creative force (and gracious hosts to boot!)
It would be remiss of us if we didn't mention the other talented artists at the show. We felt honored to exhibit our pieces alongside so much great work, and having met a few of the artists, equally pleased by their self-effacing natures.
LEAPFROG photo by Steve E. Miller
Nice review from Anna Weltner at the San Louis Obispo NEW TIMES. And many thanks to Steve E. Miller for the great photographs!


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Hi IT pros,
I was presented with a task to migrate a WSUS server 3.2 to a newer version. I choose to do it to Windows Server 2016 to be on the latest version possible. As I always thought that moving WSUS is really troublesome work and for that matter we delayed move for a long time. But now I know that this is really a piece of cake to do it and you could in theory move it every 5 days.
I found this great web page with to-do's what to do, but in short it goes like this:
- Install a new server 2016
- Add Role "Windows Server Update Services"
- Leave everything on default (just choose Windows Internal Database – WID or SQL Server) and finish the task.
- When configuring WSUS choose Upstream server to your old WSUS and click "This is a replica of the upstream server"
- Finish everything as described on the web page
- After initial synchronization and downloading of updates you have to break replica and set update source back to Windows Update
- Then you have to check the following as in my case somethings were changed after I broke the replica
- Change WSUS name in Group policy where it is applied and wait for clients to connect
- Set Firewall rules if you have them in place.
Voila, your WSUS server is migrated.
Here is the link where I found this data:


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I've been following with interest a new development at Metro, an 'optin' public opinion panel.
I signed up last week and would encourage you to as well. But it's different.
The traditional model of citizen involvement in planning looks like:
- Notification by mail and electronic media
- "Open house" style meetings and written reports to inform the public on the background facts, issues and choices
- Written comments, meetings and sometimes more formal public hearings to gather input (sometimes filtered through a citizen advisory that attempts to be representative of various constituencies affected)
A public opinion panel is a different approach – as I understand the program it will attempt to pre-establish a large panel of folks who it is hoped will respond in the future (probably electronically) to some kind of survey instrument. If a sufficiently large base is built and is responsive then part of the benefit is to be able to create a respondent profile that is representative of the community, demographically, racially, age-wise, income-wise, etc.
I must admit, this gives me pause. The traditional process has more opportunity for the participants to shape the questions and politics, and allows for advocates to channel their passion into the process. But it also asks for a big time commitment from citizens to be effective, and risks vastly overweighting input from 'the usual suspects' and possibly giving better response to 'the squeaky wheels.'
The opinion panel approach is likely to be more representative, but also more dispassionate (good and bad?). It also puts a lot of responsibility on whomever is writing and vetting the survey instruments.
I don't know yet how Metro is going to use the opinion panel, I suspect it will be an added input, not a replacement for the traditional process.
I'll look forward to seeing this experiment progress.