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Georgia Football: Bulldogs Midseason Review and Second Half Preview
Everything had gone according to plan for the 2019 Georgia Bulldogs through the first five games of the season. Georgia looked every bit the SEC East favorite it was projected to be through a 5-0 start, which included a 2-0 mark in conference. The Bulldogs were ranked No. 3 in the AP poll, squarely in the mix for another run at the College Football Playoff. And then everything changed.
It's fitting that our Georgia football midseason review and second-half preview comes the week after the Bulldogs lost 20-17 to South Carolina in double overtime. The Dawgs had several chances to escape with a win and dominated the Gamecocks statistically, outgaining them 468-297 yards overall and by an average of 0.56 yards per play. What's more, South Carolina was forced to turn to third-string quarterback and part-time receiver Dakereon Joyner after an injury to starter Ryan Hilinski. Georgia held a 30-16 edge in first downs, converted half (9-for-18) of its third-down opportunities (compared to South Carolina's 5-for-18), and finished with more passing yards (295) and rushing yards (173) than the Gamecocks (155 and 142, respectively).
But the Bulldogs lost the turnover battle 4-0. Quarterback Jake Fromm was responsible (at least statistically speaking) for all four giveaways, as he threw his first three interceptions of the season, including one that was returned for a South Carolina touchdown just before halftime. Fromm also lost a fumble, which killed a promising third-quarter drive at the Gamecocks 30-yard line.
It wasn't all Fromm's fault, of course. All-American kicker Rodrigo Blankenship drilled a 50-yard field goal on the opening possession of the game, but he had a 53-yard attempt blocked (his first failed attempt all season), wasn't given the chance at a potential game-winning, 55-yard attempt at the end of regulation, and then missed a 42-yarder outright to seal the loss.
Furthermore, the offensive line was uncharacteristically shaky all day and allowed three sacks after surrendering just one in its previous five contests. Receivers struggled to get open, which hurt both Fromm and the offensive line. The defense failed to record a sack for the second time in three weeks. Head coach Kirby Smart opted not to try the last-second field goal because he believed an illegal shift penalty pushed Georgia out of range. The pick-six came on a poor decision by Fromm, but the interception in OT was due to a catchable pass bouncing off of wide receiver Tyler Simmons' hands. The offense gained zero yards in the second overtime period prior to Blankenship's miss.
In short, Georgia dominated South Carolina in many ways, but the Bulldogs were undone by inconsistency, poor execution, and missed opportunities. And now, with a back-loaded schedule on the horizon, the Dawgs have little room for error in the SEC East and zero in the playoff hunt.
Offensive MVP: OT Andrew Thomas
If not for the poor result against South Carolina, the Bulldogs' first-half offensive MVP likely would have been Jake Fromm. The junior quarterback has completed 70.4 percent of his passes for 1,371 yards and nine touchdowns overall. Running back D'Andre Swift is another worthy candidate, with 573 rushing yards, 155 receiving yards and six total touchdowns through the first six games.
However, tackle Thomas — an Athlon Sports Midseason All-American — is the best player on the Georgia roster. Thomas has allowed zero sacks and only three hurries in 372 snaps this season, according to Pro Football Focus. And though the offensive line was a weak spot against the Gamecocks, Thomas was solid as usual.
Defensive MVP: S J.R. Reed
Few Georgia defenders rank among the SEC leaders in major statistical categories. The primary exception is safety Eric Stokes, who is currently tied for third in the league with seven passes defended. Linebacker Monty Rice ranks No. 19 on the SEC leaderboard with 38 tackles, and top pass rusher Azeez Ojulari is tied for No. 7 in the league with 3.5 sacks.
But the best all-around performance this year belongs to Reed, which should come as no surprise given his preseason All-American status. The senior safety is second on the team with 31 total tackles, tied for the lead with one interception (a fourth-quarter pick that helped secure the 23-17 win over Notre Dame), and his 14-yard touchdown on a fumble return against Murray State is one of two defensive TDs the Bulldogs have scored thus far. Reed also has recorded 1.5 tackles for a loss and three pass breakups.
Best Moment of First Half: Win Over Notre Dame
The support Georgia fans showed to Arkansas State head coach Blake Anderson honoring his late wife, Wendy, was one of the best feel-good stories of the first half for any program. On the field, a 43-14 victory over Tennessee in Knoxville is worth celebrating more. However, a win over a top-10 Notre Dame squad — which would be an important piece of the puzzle for the Bulldogs' efforts to rebuild a playoff resume — could prove to be most important should Georgia run the table in the regular season and make a late CFP push.
Best Newcomer: WR George Pickens
No Georgia newcomer has created more highlight plays than Pickens. He posted career highs with seven catches and 98 yards against South Carolina, and he leads the Bulldogs with 283 receiving yards overall. The former five-star recruit has 19 receptions, which ties him with fellow newcomer and Miami graduate transfer Lawrence Cager.
Biggest Surprise: Loss to South Carolina
This could also be labeled "Rodrigo Blankenship isn't perfect," given the star kicker missed a 42-yard field goal that would have sent the game into a third overtime. Nevertheless, the loss as a whole (in which there is plenty of blame to go around between players and coaches), was one of the most unexpected of the 2019 college football season to date. Georgia was more than a three-touchdown favorite to beat the Gamecocks at home.
Three Things to Watch in the Second Half
1. Offensive line health
Andrew Thomas is our pick as the first-half offensive MVP, and the offensive line as a whole has widely been described as a strength of the team, having surrendered an SEC-low 4.0 sacks this year. Only two FBS teams have allowed fewer. However, the O-line also has suffered several significant injuries with multiple starters missing time. In fact, the Bulldogs have fielded five different starting lineups in six games. Improved health and consistency are vital to Georgia's SEC title hopes.
2. Improvement rushing the passer
The biggest weakness of the Georgia defense in 2018 was its inconsistent pass rush. The Dawgs started well in 2019 and racked up 12 sacks in the first three contests, putting most concerns to rest. Yet Georgia has recorded just three sacks in each of its last three games and was shut out in the category against both Notre Dame and South Carolina — inarguably the two toughest opponents to date. The dry run has sunk the Bulldogs into a tie at No. 43 on the FBS leaderboard in both overall sacks (15.0) and average sacks per game (2.5). Only four SEC teams rank lower. And with the schedule getting tougher in the second, inconsistency pressuring the quarterback is again an issue.
3. Offensive play-calling
Though Georgia ranks fourth in the SEC and a more-than-respectable No. 18 in the country in scoring offense (38.5 ppg), some in the fan base believe play-calling has been too conservative. Swift recently shared his belief the Bulldogs need to "do a better job getting the ball to playmakers in space and trying to get the ball outside a little more," as well as "take more shots downfield." Georgia has a talent advantage on offense in virtually every game it plays the rest of the year, and it will be interesting to see if offensive coordinator James Coley opts to use it more aggressively moving forward.
Ranking the Toughest Remaining Games on the Schedule
1. Nov. 2 vs. Florida (Jacksonville, Fla.)
What has long been considered the de facto SEC East championship game is even more important now that both teams have little room for error following losses. The Gators have been banged up on both sides of the football, losing quarterback Feleipe Franks early in the season, playing without Kadarius Toney for several weeks, and shuffling starters in and out along the defensive line and in the secondary on a weekly basis. But Florida is still one of the most talented teams in the country — especially on defense.
2. Nov. 16 at Auburn
Auburn was arguably the most impressive team in college football through the first six weeks of the season, picking up wins over ranked Oregon and Texas A&M before falling to Florida. True freshman quarterback Bo Nix has a bright future, and Auburn is strong on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Defensive lineman Derrick Brown headlines perhaps the best unit in the nation.
3. Nov. 23 vs. Texas A&M
Like South Carolina, Texas A&M is midway through one of the toughest schedules in the nation. But also like the Gamecocks, the Aggies have the talent to compete with the best. Quarterback Kellen Mond has been inconsistent as a passer, but he has a big arm, quick feet and one of the best receiving corps in the SEC.
4. Nov. 9 vs. Missouri
Georgia leads the SEC in scoring defense (12.3 ppg allowed) and rushing defense (73.33 ypg), but Missouri has posted the most impressive numbers in terms of total yardage allowed. The Tigers lead the league and rank sixth in the country in both total defense (262.7 ypg) and yards allowed per play (4.04), and Mizzou's SEC-leading pass defense (154.7) ranks fourth overall. Plus, the offense has been solid with Clemson transfer quarterback Kelly Bryant leading the way.
5. Oct. 19 vs. Kentucky
Next up for the Bulldogs, Kentucky is set to visit Athens with one of the most dynamic players in the conference playing a bigger and more important role. All-SEC-caliber receiver and return man Lynn Bowden started at quarterback for the Wildcats in last week's 24-20 win over Arkansas. Bowden completed seven of 11 pass attempts for 78 yards and a touchdown, gained 196 rushing yards, and scored twice on 24 carries. It's unclear whether or not Bowden or Sawyer Smith will start behind center, but regardless, Bowden is an elite playmaker who could give the Dawgs fits.
6. Nov. 30 at Georgia Tech
The first season for new Georgia Tech head coach Geoff Collins has been a struggle, and Georgia will likely be a huge favorite over its in-state rival. This year's clash with the Yellow Jackets should be a tune-up for the postseason, as by Thanksgiving the Bulldogs should know whether they'll make a return trip to Atlanta the following week for the SEC Championship Game or stay home and wait for a later bowl game.
— Written by Nicholas Ian Allen, who is part of the Athlon Contributor Network and managing editor of CFBWinningEdge. Follow him on Twitter @NicholasIAllen.


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Having come to enjoy Trevor Noah and his commentary on The Daily Show, thanks to Born a Crime I now have a much greater appreciation for his opinions and viewpoint. His experiences in post-Apartheid South Africa as a mixed-race child make him uniquely situated to understand multiple sides of a racial argument. In addition, his story provides an excellent background for understanding the nuances of race and skin color and the internal decision-making any person of color must make when entering a room filled with white people.
By all accounts, Mr. Noah had multiple brushes with death and faced a childhood that the system had rigged to fail him. Mr. Noah recognizes all this and acknowledges that his success is due mostly to the formidable woman that is his mother. Each of his stories shows the remarkable independence his mother had and taught her sons. More importantly, each shows the lengths to which his mother was willing to go to make sure he had a chance to beat the rigged system that was South Africa. Her methods might appear harsh to white readers, but I suspect any Black person reading it will recognize the desperation his mother had to teach her son the harsh realities of the world before he discovered them for himself.
Whether it is a coping mechanism or an aspect of his comedian background, in Born a Crime, Mr. Noah finds ways to make the most shocking stories palatable, almost funny. He does this while maintaining the reverence such serious history deserves. In a way, it is as if he is marveling at the fact that he faced so many things without knowing how remarkable they truly are as much as his audience is. At the same time, underlying the comedy is a poignancy and gratitude for having escaped, which makes sense the more you learn.
Being eight years older than Mr. Noah, I too grew up both during and after Apartheid, except, as I quickly learned from the book, I had no idea what Apartheid really was. I only knew it was bad and racist. Plus, I had a faint idea that it involved white people holding all the power. What I did not know was that it was slavery in a modern-day format. Nor did I have a clue just how far the Apartheid government went to subjugate its Black inhabitants. Before going into any of his own stories, Mr. Noah is careful to enlighten his readers with the necessary understanding of the racial, political, tribal, socio-economic, geographical, historical, and other cultural factors that make his stories so remarkable. Thus, not only do you learn about his life, you learn quite a bit about South Africa in the 1990s and 2000s.
Mr. Noah's narration is beyond excellent. I particularly delighted in hearing him speak the many African languages he knows. Plus, as with any autobiography, hearing the author's story from his own lips imbues it with an intimacy that other narrators cannot bring to his words. Even if this is one you already read, I highly recommend listening to the audiobook for the pronunciations and inflections that only Mr. Noah can add.
Part of becoming anti-racist is becoming empathetic to people of color and their experiences. In Born a Crime, Mr. Noah provides readers with firsthand insight into a racist world. While you might never experience racism yourself, Mr. Noah makes it easy to put yourself into his shoes. As such, in our current society, where it is more important than ever to recognize systemic racism and the damage it inflicts on anyone of color, Born a Crime becomes an important stopping point along the journey towards anti-racism.

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PORTFOLIO: Textiles, Paper, Calligraphy
From Friday 10th July to Saturday 29 August Solomon Fine Art, in conjunction with the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCoI), Irish Design 2015 (ID2015) and The Doyle Collection, are pleased to host an exhibition of textiles, paper and calligraphy by Ireland's most renowned artists and makers.
PORTFOLIO: Textiles, Paper, Calligraphy will be held in the stunning new 60sqm gallery space, located at the main entrance to The Westbury Hotel and Westbury Mall on Balfe Street, just a few steps from Solomon Fine Art's existing gallery and a stone's throw from Grafton Street.
PORTFOLIO: Textiles, Paper, Calligraphy will present innovative artworks by fourteen highly regarded artists, working in a centuries-old continuum. Featured artists and makers include Frances Crowe, Nicola Henley, Patricia Murphy, Denis Kelly of Ceadogán Rugs, Denis Brown and Deirdre McCrory as well as fashion designer Helen Cody who has the distinction of being selected for this year's prestigious PORTFOLIO 'Critical Selection' publication. The multi-award winning Luxury Leather Accessories Designer and Artist, Úna Burke will also feature. Úna's clients and collaborators include Phillip Lim, Seoul's Simone Handbag Museum and Nick Knight's creative laboratory "SHOWstudio". Solomon Fine Art is looking forward to exhibiting stunning hand crafted wool and silk rugs and wall hangings, crafted luxury leather accessories, hand spun tapestries woven with paper, cotton and wool, original prints and calico screen prints and two exquisite couture dresses by Helen Cody. Pairing the traditional values of remarkable craftsmanship and contemporary design, these talented makers, with meticulous care and attention to detail, create truly unique and distinguished work.
PORTFOLIO: Textiles, Paper, Calligraphy is part of a twelve month schedule of exhibitions in the new Solomon space which aims to showcase the DCCoI's PORTFOLIO programme of over 100 of Ireland's most renowned designers and makers in the following disciplines: Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery, Metals, Paper, Textiles, Calligraphy, Furniture, Woodturning and Basketry. All artworks on display in PORTFOLIO @ Solomon will be available to purchase, providing visitors and collectors with a unique opportunity to acquire one-off or limited edition pieces from internationally collected and emerging practitioners working to the highest standards of design, quality and technical skill.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Denis Brown, Diedre McCrory, Nicola Henley, Patricia Murphy, Agnes de Viln, Bernie Leahy, Jennifer Slattery, Ceadogán Rugs, Muriel Beckett, Frances Crowe, Helen Cody, Liz Nilsson, Brendan Joseph and Úna Burke.
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Gov. Paul LePage, as an individual, has joined eight states in backing Mississippi's appeal of a federal court ruling that struck down the state's "religious freedom" law.
The law allows public employees to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples if it violates their "sincerely held religious or moral convictions," as long as the employee makes sure that the couple is able to get a license without delay. The law also would bar the state from forcing a pastor to perform, or a church to host, a same-sex wedding; from punishing foster or adoptive parents for "raising their children according to their religion's teachings regarding same-sex marriage;" or compelling businesses, such as photographers or wedding cake makers, to provide services to a same-sex couple's wedding if it violates their religious beliefs or convictions.
A federal district court judge struck down the law, saying it was discriminatory based on sexual orientation.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a "friend of the court" brief Thursday supporting Mississippi's appeal of the District Court ruling. Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah also signed onto the Texas filing, and LePage is listed as supporting the brief as an individual. The brief was filed with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Timothy Feeley, a spokesman for Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, said LePage did not contact her office about seeking to have the state join the filing.
Maine voters legalized same-sex marriage in a 2012 referendum. Voters added protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to the state's Civil Rights Act in 2005.
Maine state Sen. David Burns, R-Whiting, introduced a bill similar to the Mississippi law in early 2015, then withdrew it.
LePage's communications staff did not return emails Friday seeking comment on the governor's action. In May, he joined officials from 10 other states in suing the Obama administration over a federal directive saying that public schools should let transgender students use bathrooms or locker rooms that match their gender identity.
LePage was the sole governor who signed onto the suit in his personal capacity, not as a representative of the state of Maine, where the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2014 that schools cannot discriminate against transgender students.
In December, LePage also joined other Republican officials in signing a court brief in Virginia seeking to block a transgender boy's challenge of his school's bathroom policy.
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191767With over 200 BiG X machines out in the fields around the world by now, the second generation is nearing completion in 2005. The new BiG X prototype is launched, powered by two synchronised six-cylinder engines that deliver a rated output of about 1000hp. These machines boast a beefier drive system and higher-capacity headers. The new model also has a 14-row maize header which translates into a work width of 10.50m. Unlike the existing EasyCollect models, the new 14-row maize header is split into three sections that fold into a sub 3.50m transport width, consigning transport issues to the past.
In autumn 2005, KRONE implements the AutoScan sensor on all EasyCollect maize headers. The sensor detects maturity levels in maize crops. This allows the electronic system on the harvester to control the chopping length fully automatically. The benefits are obvious – green (i.e. moist) maize is automatically chopped to longer lengths, maintaining the structure of the crop whereas brown (i.e. dry) maize is chopped to shorter lengths for better compaction in the clamp and stopping fermentation.
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Dear Candlenistas,
This month is about Valentine's Day, one of my favourite times of the year because I get to see many different couples trying to woo and surprise each other creatively. So many ways to keep the flame alive – the question is, how do you make Valentine's Day an unforgettable experience for your special someone? When you are working at home or in the office, or looking after children, romance can be quite hard to navigate on Valentine's Day.
Researchers have long confirmed that scents can help seduce your partner and put you both in the mood for sensual love. Whether candles, oils or perfume, scents can heighten your romance and passion for each other. That also works for any of your partner's favourite home-cooked dishes. You know what they say, "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach" -- so even if the entire house smells like mutton varuval, that's a SCENT of LOVE!
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Scents have been used in ancient medicine and perfumerie because of their associations with religion, beauty and love. The Greeks believed wearing a nice fragrance was pleasing to the gods and also to attract their favoured loved ones; Cleopatra the Egyptian queen liberally used rose petals to improve her physical attractiveness to Mark Anthony. Even when scents were used for medicine and healing during the 17th to 19th centuries, many people also turned to perfumes to boost their charms.
Smell can stimulate the brain as it is one of our most powerful senses associated with memory, nostalgia and self-esteem – when we think about our loved ones, their fragrances and body scent come to our mind.
Since Valentine's Day is about rekindling love and passion, what better than to use particular scents to...help you ramp up the heat....
How do you know which scent can set you on romantic fire? Here are a few recommended smells:
· Jasmine & Myrrh can be a good starter scent for creating a romantic feel.
· Sage can enhance the mood for sensual romance.
· Best scents to excite men: Orchid, White Floral, Vanilla
· Top scents to seduce your woman: Warm spice, Amber, Musk.
One simple way to include these wonderful smells on Valentine's Day is using fragranced candles; their amber glow is the best for diffusing the scent. With the soft flicker of the flame, the candles can create a more inviting and warm ambiance. Choosing the right candle scent especially on this day of love can help set up the mood, help you relax and focus on each other.
I hope this adds on to a new list of scents to look out for when searching for love, wherever you may be. And hey, if you do run out of ideas, a meal at a banana leaf rice restaurant might just hit the spot!


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30 April 2021
You might have heard of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals; you might have heard of the Paris Climate Agreement. But I hope you have already heard about the European Green New Deal. The European Green New Deal has made headlines in the last months. What is it, how will it fuel the green transition and what opportunities will it bring to young engineers?


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DRAPER, Utah – Police released new information Friday about the 7-vehicle accident that killed one woman, seriously injured her daughter and caused lesser injuries to several other people Thursday night.
Susan Madsen, 43, of Draper died at the scene and her daughter was seriously injured in
the crash that occurred at the intersection of 12300 South and Lone Peak Parkway Thursday at about 6:30 p.m. Four other people were transported to hospitals with minor injuries.
According to a press release from the Draper City Police Department, the man who caused the crash is 44-year-old Bill Robert Thompson. Police stated they received a call about a domestic violence report, but the suspect left before police arrived.
A statement of probable cause states Thompson allegedly assaulted multiple people at that location before driving away.
The court document states Thompson was involved in an altercation with his roommate, and that Thompson hit the roommate several times in the face with an open hand—while the roommate was holding Thompson's son.
Neighbors who reported they tried to help the roommate said Thompson also assaulted them. There were two children in the home who witnessed the altercation.
At about 6:30 p.m., a person reported that the white truck drove toward their vehicle while it was stopped and made contact with the vehicle. The victim stated the driver of the truck began laughing and staring the victim down before leaving.
The 7-car accident occurred a few minutes after the first collision, and officers later determined Thompson was the suspect in the domestic investigation.
Thompson was taken to a hospital for injuries he sustained in the crash. He was booked into jail after he was released.
According to the statement of probable cause, Thompson faces charges that include aggravated assault as a third-degree felony, automobile homicide as a second-degree felony, DUI with serious bodily injury as a third-degree felony, and seven counts of DUI with bodily injury as class A misdemeanors, domestic assault as a class B misdemeanor and two counts of domestic assault in the presence of a child.


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While I was working at AIG this summer, I was introduced to a little thing called the project life cycle. It loosely looks like the following: initiate, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling. If I were to describe my project/portfolio it looks more like this: initiate, planning, executing, sadness, excitement, anger, and then panic. Then it basically cycles around the last four phases over and over again.
All jokes aside, there is a lot between now and graduation, and I've definitely got my work cut out for me. Granted, my e-portfolio isn't what I'm most concerned about because I'm quite excited about putting it together, making it look nice, polishing it, etc. I could spend hours on the computer just messing with the portfolio. The main issue that I'm having is working through my project to get it to a point where it actually constitutes a capstone project.
To give you a brief intro, I'm looking at the issues and concerns that college-aged women have when it comes to their professional lives and appearances and how seven women deal with that. I'm basically trying to determine what small things men and women can do every day to help mitigate for those issues. So I'm essentially just panicking about bringing this project into reality. I've got a bunch of wonderful material to work with, but it's a matter of determining how to actually present that material.


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Disorganization can creep into any process within an organization. Whenever there are a number of people working on a particular project you can be rest assured there will be documents and files lying around here and there creating clutter, making it difficult for the employees to focus on the task at hand.
Every office space needs re-organization every once in a while to ensure all documents are stacked properly, which would increase the efficiency of the employees. Here are a few tips which may help you better organize your workplace for the year ahead.
- De-clutter and Digitize
The first step towards having an organized workspace is by getting rid of the non-essentials. Disorganization can be further contained with use of digitization of important documents, which will help in clearing up much space.
- Make use of Office Storage
Adding desk organizers, shelves and cabinets would free-up a lot of space. Another benefit of utilizing such storage spaces would be proper arrangement of all office essentials such as documents, copier papers and toner cartridges making it easy for your employees to gain access to the same.
- Create a Supply Closet
StrategySupply closets are your strategic organizational ground zero. Take the time to rethink how your supplies are organized. Invest in shelves and separators that allow you to separate items. Baskets, bins, and labels can also make it easy to create a highly organized closet that everyone can navigate with no confusion.
- Provide Desk Organization Kits to Employees
Desk organization kits are the need of the hour if you want your employee's workstation to be free from clutter. Desk organization kits may include book & file racks, file trays, pen holders, etc.
Investing in the above-mentioned items will help to create an amiable work environment for 2018. Spearheading office organization efforts will help your employees perform their jobs more effectively thereby boosting the performance of the organization as a whole.


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The struggle, especially for the youth of today, is not necessarily that of freedom, but it is a struggle of finding an identity. Avile Njameni, the founder of Aliv3 Movement, speaks to us on the existence of the movement and explains how it tries to tackle the challenge of young people just functioning on autopilot without any purpose. The conversation isn't yet finished as you can hear on the interview because there is a lot to talk about, but we tried to capture what we can for this segment.
Please listen below and follow the movement at http://www.aliv3.co.za and don't forget to follow us to and subscribe to the channel.
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Meet Deanne Catmull
Deanne believes that a safe physical and psycho-social environment is important for ensuring an optimal experience for staff and students.
"When these elements combine, it provides the perfect recipe for a successful workplace."
In her role as a Technical Officer at the Melbourne Dental School, Deanne assists staff and students with the planning and designing of experiments, as well as the analysis of data, within Microbiology-focused projects.
In her career, Deanne designed custom-built flow cell systems that allowed her to visualise, study and analyse undisturbed biofilms on dental materials in high resolution. These flow cells were instrumental for determining the antimicrobial potential of a dental filling material called FujiVII EP, which contains Recaldent™ technology. FujiVII EP is now sold by the GC Corporation worldwide.
She also enjoys using her science and mathematical qualifications to mentor high school students who are interested in pursuing scientific endeavours. She has presented to hundreds of future university students at multiple Industry Day Program sessions, and has also supervised a student in their VCE Extended Investigation project.
"I love interacting with young, bright and passionate minds and mentoring them to follow their dreams and passions. Success and joy comes from doing what you love and whist there are always some twists and turns along the way, there are always opportunities that can be found from these and immense growth within them."
Deanne Catmull at the Melbourne Marathon
Outside of the lab, Deanne puts aside the microscope and takes in a long view of the city by running marathons, including the Melbourne Marathon and also Run For The Kids.
For Deanne, the Melbourne Dental School is a great place to work because of its people and its vision for the future.
"We are acknowledging and supporting what we do best moving forward, but also recognising that there is room for improvement and we are pushing the reset button on all of these areas."
"This creates new and exciting challenges for everyone and plenty of opportunities for staff and students to thrive in the future."


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A Jones fracture — the broken bone in the foot that Philadelphia rookie Ben Simmons recently has surgery to repair — is difficult to put on a recovery timeline. That part of the foot (the outside of the foot closer to the ankle) does not get good blood flow and that can slow recovery. Plus with a prized rookie, the Sixers have a history of being cautious — and Simmons' agent may want to be even more cautious.
But Brett Brown, the Sixers coach, said Friday afternoon he expected Simmons back on the court in January. Here is what he told Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"It's not doom and gloom," Brown said when asked when asked how his team is adjusting to its various injuries at the moment. "Ben is coming back in January. We are still trying to find information on Jerryd [Bayless]. Jahlil [Okafor] is still trying to touch the court in his first preseason game."
Within a couple hours, Brown had backtracked off that timeline. Here is his pregame quote Friday night, via CSNPhilly.com.
"I did mention a January hopeful return, and that was premature. That was a coach doing a lot more wishing than receiving instruction…
"We will play this out," Brown said of Simmons. "Everything is on track with his rehab. It's only been two weeks since the surgery. Over a short period of time, we will be better prepared to give a statement that will map out his future."
While it is certainly possible Simmons is back in January, the Sixers history shows they are not going to push this. Even if it takes longer — maybe closer to the All-Star break — Brown would certainly work with it. As Brown told us when he joined PBT for a podcast, he wants to spend a lot of this season seeing how his young, athletic front line can play together? Can Joel Embiid, Jahlil Okafor, and Dario Saric all play together in a big front line? How do Simmons and Embiid mesh? Simmons and Saric? Where does Nerlens Noel fit in all this once he returns from his latest injury?
Until Brown gets guys healthy and on the court it's impossible to know.
For all our sakes, I hope Simmons is back in January. And if he is, the possibility of him still winning Rookie of the Year exists.


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Nurse and single mom of 5 encourages families to embrace homeschooling
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - With many children struggling to learn through zoom classes, more and more parents are making the leap to home school. It's a big decision that many families never thought they'd have to make, and it's of course a huge adjustment for the entire household
Some would say Nancy Hill does it all.
"It's definitely not easy at times, it can definitely be a struggle, but that's normal!"
As a single mother of five, she also cares for her elderly parents.
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"It's all perspective, I believe it's all about a matter of perspective, you know our house is pretty small, we're about 1400 square feet, it's a little nest but we're making the best of it."
To top it off, she works a nursing shift about once a week and home schools her five kids, ranging from ages 8 to 12.
"I understand how it can be very overwhelming at first but I really encourage parents to take a step back and say you know what this is our chance to shape our kid and teach them the educational things that of course are necessary but more focus should be placed on real life skills."
And that's what makes it all worth it, she says. The children's days are filled with learning outside of their schoolbooks.
"You can teach things in every aspect of your day and the kids are just going to soak that up."
She says the homeschooling curriculum allows kids them to get academic work done faster, and in a flexible manner.
"It's a basic outline and you can do it for however works best for your family, and we have so much freedom."
Hill stresses that she knows it isn't easy. It takes work to get into a routine that works, and a lot of sacrifice.
"Parents don't be hard on yourselves. You'll have good days, you'll have bad days, but your kids are going to learn regardless."
She says she's found the benefits are endless and feels her children are learning faster - and more - than they could in a classroom.
"Every parent will say, 'Oh it went so fast,' and it does, so this is our time. This is our time to make a difference with our families for the future. We can't control certain things but this is one thing that we can make a difference on."
As a nurse, Hill has seen the devastation of these times up close, and says she feels it is more important than ever for parents to be actively involved in shaping their children. She says teaching her children to be compassionate and selfless during a pandemic is a priceless lesson she hopes will stick with them forever.


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Date: 23rd May 2014 Distance walked: 10.6 miles Total distance: 110 miles
The tide was further out on my return to Coverack than it had been when I had arrived there on foot from Helford two weeks previously. The sort of beach of sand and stones that suggests it would have been a lot sandier before this winter's storms stripped most of it back to reveal the underlying rock and pebble mix – a familiar sight along the beaches of south Cornwall so far this spring – was exposed. I was impatient to stride out, having spent far too long sitting on a bus then waiting at Sainsbury's for another bus on which I sat for an even greater length of time in order to get here. Coverack and Falmouth are not far apart geographically but by road it is necessary to negotiate the complicated network of the North Helford to get here, it's not possible to go in a straight line.
The village is centred around a little mini-peninsula, in the northern lee of which shelters the harbour behind the protective wall that extends round from the point of the land. Half a mile south a similar, slightly higher, slightly longer promontory projects eastwards into the sea, rough fingers of rock sticking up from its higher summit with a fort marked on the map. Although my un-archaeologically-educated eye can see no trace of it now, you can see how this would have made a good vantage point for a prehistoric fortification. I can see along the coast for miles myself, and even though I'm looking back along places I've walked within the last two months I'm not really sure what I'm looking at or quite how far I can see. Lowland Point was obvious in the near distance. As it was overcast but sunny at the same time (this is Cornwall, we do have oxymoronic combinations of weather conditions like that) the far distance was discernible but not sharply so. The Dodman? Gull Rock off Nare? Could that be Rame Head far far in the distance, the furthest point of land on my eastern horizon? I cast my mind back to that sunny afternoon in mid March when I stood at St Michael's chapel on Rame Head, blustered about by the wind, looking west at the long line of barely discernible landform that reached so far south on the western horizon that it could only have been the Lizard Peninsula. That being so I could well have seen Rame Head from Chynhalls Point, which is about half way down the full length of the Lizard.
Leaving Chynhalls Point – from Cornish chy-en-alls, house on the cliff – I ended up doubling back on myself and coming out along a damp woody path with water issuing over the path and tall hemlock water dropwort and big rhubarb-like gunnera leaves growing alongside. Through a gate with a cattle warning sign and two stone posts wide enough to admit a human but too narrow for a cow to squeeze through then round an unexplained sort of sculpture installation with abstractions of objects and creatures such as birds and planes. I later discover that this was the Terence Coventry Sculpture Park and there are around twenty five sculptures placed within three meadows here at any one time, depending on demand from other venues or exhibitions.
And then I was out onto the coast proper, heading for Black Head which marks the 'corner' where the coastline turns west again. Here was another different landscape: low and scrubby, heathy, boulder-strewn, gorse-grazed and craggy round the edges. I consult my geological map now I'm at home to find that just before Coverack I'd crossed into Serpentine, its extrusions cropping up through the ground like crusty old toes of long-buried stone giants sleeping beneath the topsoil. Exposed cliffs had a blockier look to them than the previous slates, dolerites and gabbro. I wanted to use the word zawn to describe the steeper cuts in the coastal edge for the first time walking the coast in sequence like this. It's a Cornish word meaning 'chasm' and crops up a lot in the more rugged parts of the coastline, particularly further west. It's almost onomatopoeic, like a sharp yawn in the cliff face, the spikiness of the letters z and w concurrent with the shape of what it describes, the n the shape the feature makes in the coastline or on the map.
Up close the landscape was intricate, the greenery delicate where it seemed rough and scrubby en masse. Starry mosses. Soft but dry tufts of grasses and rush between the heather tussocks. The first of late spring's sheepsbit scabious, only the outer whorls in petal, the inner compound flowers closed in spirals of graded blue beads. A pale mauve cranesbill with notched petals. Small butterflies everywhere: some I identified later as the small pearl-bordered fritillary; the larger brown ones, spotted wood. Some small pale blue flower with the thinnest deep blue veins on its five petals which turned out to be pale flax Linum bienne.
I don't remember seeing any people for a long time. I came across a small cluster of ponies – four or five, not enough to warrant the collective noun of a herd – grazing the heath near the path. Ponies are perfect for maintaining a healthy heath because they nibble vegetation rather than pull like cattle do, and they're hardy enough and sure-footed enough to roam the rougher terrain and digest gorse and heather shoots helping keep the vegetation low and regenerating and preventing the furze from getting too big and woody and blocking out some of the smaller, more delicate heath species that need space and light in between to thrive.
It threatened rain very briefly as I was descending down to Downas Cove after Beagles Point. A stream ran down the small valley and filtered over the rocky beach at the bottom into the sea, but I could see from the top of the valley slope that the footbridge had been turned over onto its side, presumably by the sea. After my experience crossing a river on foot at Gillan Creek I was disproportionately anxious about a repeat performance. I told myself I was being silly and doubtless the stream would prove narrow enough to stride over, and what kind of coastal walker was I anyway to baulk at the crossing of a stream? In the end it was fine, of course, I barely got the soles of my boots wet. Between Downas Cove and Lankidden I saw Zawn Vinoc labelled on the map and felt justified in wanting to use the word.
I remember Kennack Beach from when I came to Cornwall on holiday when I was twelve: two halves with a short walk over the dune cliffs between. I also remember it being a lot sandier. Perhaps I misremembered. Perhaps it was: that was quite a while ago and the fabric of a beach can change in a very short time, sometimes within a day if the sea is rough enough. I picked up an especially attractive serpentine pebble from among the stones of the beach to add to the growing collection of pocket rocks that's littering my windowsill at home: pistachio green marbled with blue. I crossed over the cliff to the second section of beach which was both slightly sandier and busier. I sat down on the taupe coloured sand for lunch and people-watched as some school aged kids messed about at the water's edge and some Poles in really inappropriate clothing appeared. I even had an ice cream as I was setting off, from one of the two competing local ice cream companies set up at the little cafe-toilets-shop installation. It was blackcurrant: incredibly creamy and fruity and purple. I can't remember if it was Kelly's or Roskilly's though.
The path followed the road uphill and then veered off through lime green flowered alexanders and along the edge of a caravan park. Foxgloves taller than me were in flower. I rounded a curve in the coast then descended into Poltesco valley, where some old stone buildings were hidden away right on the beach. Walls and remains of more buildings indicated the site of some form of industry. A small, fast flowing river ran down to the shore through the middle of the buildings' shells suggesting that it was once of use in whatever workings took place here. I later discovered it is an old serpentine works. The whole site was filled with red valerian in full bloom in bubblegum pink and cerise red, interspersed with white cow parsley. A cormorant was standing on a jagged black tooth of a rock just offshore with its wings spread out wide to dry. The place held a draw for me so I added it to my mental list of places to return to with time to explore further.
I headed onwards towards Cadgwith, rounding Enys Head and Kildown Point where a previous slump had caused a down-step in the inner curve of a cliff, now well vegetated but sunk like a cake that's had too much raising agent in the mixture. More rugged coastline, beautiful but hard to photograph because of the size and scale: I couldn't frame a shot that captured enough of it in one go to do it justice. The sun was out, drawing sharp the relief and colour: black shadows in the cracks and crevices of the steep-sided cliffs, the gold sprawl of lichen on the higher slopes of the cliff ledges, and outcrops of rock like slices of island chipped out of the middle of each seagull-swarmed zawn.
Cadgwith fishing village appeared suddenly in a space in the cliffs somewhat in the manner of Polperro or Portloe, but as thatched and picturesque as Helford. I passed a cottage in the process of being re-thatched as I descended towards the harbour. Its roof was bristling with a fringe of untrimmed reeds and freshly honey-coloured like the thatch of a children's book illustration, whereas the reality is normally a weathered dark brown. A woman was coming down the ladder. I'm sure she's heard all the Lady Thatcher jokes she needs for a lifetime.
The village smelled fishy. The harbour at its centre was a tiny pebble beach with its working vessels drawn up above the tideline. Crates of nets and blue rope. Lobster pots. Really Cornish accents. I was tired so I stopped in the shade of the Fish Cellars, now a tea shop, and had a pot of tea to try and revive myself for the final furlong. I'd probably only walked seven or eight miles but I was ready to stop then really. Perhaps it was because it was unexpectedly warm. More likely that it had been two weeks since my last coast path expedition and I'd just got out of condition.
There were lots of names coming up on the map of the coastline that suggested interesting things ahead. I had no idea what an ogo was but there was Dollar Ogo and Chough's Ogo. First was the Devil's Frying Pan, a huge hole set back from the edge of the cliff with a short bridge of cliff edge opening it up to the sea. I imagined it would be much more spectacular at high tide in a storm with the sea water being forced through the small arch. I wondered how it had been made and found out from the guide book when I got home that it was a collapsed cave. The following coastline gave no further clues as to what an ogo could be, nor did I see any choughs. I did hear the sound of fulmars below me – like the creaking of tree branches in the wind – a sound I've learned on these walks that belongs to a bird I've also learned on these walks. As I walked on I could see back to where the noise was coming from, and there were three of the grey-backed seabirds, necks arched back with their bills wide, creeaaakkking away to each other on a narrow ledge in the cliff. Butterflies everywhere again, red admirals, small tortoiseshells, more of the well-camouflaged spotted wood; and caterpillars too – fat hairy ones inching across the bare path, and webby nests of tiny ones in the hedge branches that were both fascinating and repellent to look at.
I'd thought for some time I could see Lizard Point on the horizon but it wasn't until I reached Church Cove that I realised the farthest promontory of land I could see was actually Bass Point. Just round the corner is Kilcobben Cove with the newest incarnation of the Lizard Lifeboat Station. There has been a lifeboat stationed at Lizard Point since 1859. Originally it was housed at Polpeor, a cove on the western side of the lighthouse almost at the most southerly tip of the peninsula. It was moved to Kilcobben Cove in 1961, where the first lifeboat station was at the top of the cliff. A near-vertical track runs down to the sea and I initially thought that the boat would be launched down this before I realised that it is actually a funicular railway to take the crew down the slipway at the water's edge where the vessel itself was kept. This station closed in 2010 when the new one was constructed at the bottom of the cliff to house the larger class of lifeboat that is now maintained here.
I forewent descending the flight of 200 steps that the crew have to run down every time there's a shout and down which the public are invited to get a closer look at new lifeboat station, and pressed on. Not far on at the next headland I could see the white block of the Lloyd's Signal Station, like a Lego-build. The grassland over the cliff tops was flushed with bluebells in full bloom: so many that from a distance the green sward was overlaid with a veil of blue like a hyacinth-coloured mould. Passing the signal station, with its semaphore arms stuck in letter T position, I could finally see Lizard Point. It still looked quite a way off. I was walking directly into the sun and the sky was so bright I could hardly see the shape of the lighthouse perched on the headland. It's a low lighthouse, rather than the tall stripy pillar a child would draw – in fact as far as I can tell all the lighthouses in Cornwall are all white rather than the traditional stripes – the height and prominence of the land here negates any need for a more impressive structure. Great tor-like lumps of rocks were exposed along the cliff tops between here and the most southerly point. The sea shone like beaten foil below.
I passed the Housel Bay Hotel at about quarter past five. Ahead the path divided. The official SWCP route carried on left around the coast to the lighthouse, with two alternative options to Lizard village in the other direction. The last connecting bus to Helston would leave the village green at 17:40. I dithered for a moment assessing how tired I was and how far I could realistically walk in 25 minutes. As much as I wanted to finish the day in bright sunshine at the lighthouse, probably with a silhouette photo of the structure itself against the deep blue of the sky, it wasn't worth the risk of missing that bus and stranding myself.
So I forked right and followed the path up through fields of scraggy-looking sheep and fat-uddered jersey cows towards the village. Swallows dipped and darted. Rabbits' ears glowed pink in the sun. It was only after the bus arrived and I finally sat down feeling hot and tired that I realised how pink the tops of my shoulders above the boat neck of my t-shirt were glowing. So much for it being so overcast for the first part of the day when the sun was behind me.
[coastlining [′kōst'līn·iŋ] – the process of obtaining data from which the coastline can be charted]


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Honda Classic: Former champion Rickie Fowler will play in 2020 event
The Honda Classic added another notable name to its field Friday with 2017 champion and 2019 runner-up Rickie Fowler announcing his intention to play.
Fowler, a Jupiter resident, joins a tournament that already has commitments from world No. 1 Brooks Koepka, who grew up in Wellington and currently lives in Jupiter, No. 10 Justin Rose, No. 11 Tommy Fleetwood and reigning British Open champion Shane Lowry.
The biggest name in golf, Tiger Woods, still hasn't committed. The Jupiter Island resident skipped the Honda Classic last year.
Players have until Feb. 21 to commit to playing in the Honda Classic, which runs from Feb. 27 to March 1 at PGA National Golf Club.
This will be Fowler's fifth Honda Classic. In his previous four appearances, he's notched three top-10 finishes. He's qualified for the Fed Ex playoffs for 10 consecutive years and was won five PGA Tour titles, most recently the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open.
Fowler has already had two top-10 finishes this year, but he's looking for more.
"For me, a multiple-win year," Fowler said. "That's really where my goals start. It's not necessarily cuts made or top-10s, Top-5s. I want wins. So that's what would define a successful year.
"So got to start with the first one and go from there. But a multiple-win season would be nice. Obviously, make one of those a major and it's a really good year."
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MONSTA X's Joohoney finally released his much awaited mixtape PSYCHE today. The eclectic mix of tracks are versatile and are sure to get listeners both, hyped up and hit them right in those feels! The rapper-singer brings forth a diverse set of tunes that are evidently straight from the heart. The album is somewhat autobiographical as Joohoney expresses his journey.
PSYCHE sees him delving into deeper feelings through his story as a member of MONSTA X, as a producer, rapper and solo musician – Joohoney expresses these in the most awe-inspiring and authentic way and this is what makes this mixtape a masterpiece to say the least.
First Impressions
This magnetizing mixtape features a total of seven songs namely "INTRO : AMBITION," "PSYCHE," "DIA", "SMOKY" "DARK AND CLOUD (feat. Boa Kim)", "KING" and "WING SUIT (feat. Tem)". The mixtape truly showcase the different colors of Joohoney through his visionary perspective in each of the tracks.
The moment he begins rapping, fans are sure to recognize the hard-hitting lines from his intro performance at the Asia Artist Awards 2018 "Jealousy + Shoot Out" performance stage. This is followed by his intro verse from 2018 MAMA Fans' Choice In Japan wherein MONSTA X performed the track "SPARK".
He then delves into his intro from the group's "Alligator" Comeback stage and ends the track with his fiery verse from the recent "FANTASIA" Comeback Stage at SBS' Inkigayo.
He brilliantly merges each of the intros to create one cohesive number that is captivating and one that exudes confidence to its maximum level with lines such as, "My microphone is the sound that tears the guitar", "Failure is a word that I don't have" and "Remember my name JOOHONEY, 1HUNNIT, Whether it's hurt or pain, let's bring it on". This is definitely a track that is energetic as it is empowering.
This track is intense and intriguing for sure. "PSYCHE" is a song that follows the life of a person surrounded with money and fame. Moreover, the keyword "psyche" in this track is ambiguous – it refers to the success or failure that one experiences in life and at the same time it sheds light on the artist's deepest thoughts to express his inner self.
In the track, Joohoney talks about, well, his psyche. He conveys his views on success and hustling everyday to attain it. Additionally, the minimal drum beat melody combined with the track's addictive hook and powerful and wild rap verses leave quite a strong impression.
Now this song is a MOOD! "Actually, my mom's job is a jewelry designer/ I am DIA YA YA," Joohoney proclaims as he compares himself to a shiny diamond in this upbeat number. The rap verses on "DIA" are snazzy to say the least against the groovy guitar based instrumental of the track. This is definitely a song that will crash the repeat button on listeners' playlists because it is extremely captivating with its fierce lyricism and boasts of a catchy beat. Without a doubt, Joohoney slays and shines like a diamond on "DIA".
The rapper had fans feeling the feels when he first unveiled a teaser of this hard-hitting track. It is indeed very stirring to see the otherwise fiery musician showcase his toned-down and more vulnerable side. Joohoney's emotion laced rap verses and enrapturing chorus as he sings, "Smoky, I'm trying to start again/ Smoky, I'll take on the pain/ Smoky/ I'm trying to smile again/ Smoky, I can't see myself again/ Smoky, Come on hold my hand again/ Smoky, I'll wait for you there," are enough to tug at listeners' heartstrings.
"Dark and cloudy, my story of the dark past," the MONSTA X member reminisces as he croons in his husky voice on this piano based R&B number. The track is like a diary log of sorts wherein Joohoney talks about his pre-debut days and the struggles he faced to getting to where he is today. On the track while Joohoney showcases swag with his strong rap verses, Boa Kim adds this lovely texture to the overall melody, giving the track a certain sultry air to it.
The track has a very lasting impression as Joohoney expresses his raw emotions as he vows to reach to the top and become king. There is power as well as an air of defiance that surges through every line on this song as the rapper sings, "I am the king, you, the king, these are the kings, they are the king, all the kings/ Each person's strength is born, feel don't you know shit/ With my broken wings, I'll go without fear." "KING" is a track that declares that the King Joohoney has arrived and how!
"WING SUIT" sees Joohoney reminisce about childhood days as well as his drive for success that he owes to his fam. Of course the rapper steals the show with his lit rap style, however, TEM ensures that all focus is on her as she blazes through her verses she commences saying, "Surprised to see me on a track? I told you all that I'd be back". What's more? snippet's of Oli's voice during her verse just add this sweetness to the otherwise intense track.
"WING SUIT" is the perfect track to close the album with especially when the rapper ends it with his signature "BAKSU" (Which, believe it or not, we couldn't help but baksu to)!
Overall, the album is paragon to the musical genius that Joohoney is. Each and every track showcases a different side to him and with keeping both, authenticity and aesthetics in mind at that. The album is aptly named PSYCHE for Joohoney gives a glimpse into his beautiful mind as he projects his emotions and thoughts through each of the smashing songs.
Music Video Musings
Simple but soul-stirring – is what the mesmerizing monochrome music video is. The moment the video begins, you know you're in for an emotional rollercoaster ride. Joohoney evokes a sense of loneliness as he walks / runs alone amidst a hazy setting in his all black attire.
Moreover, the MONSTA X member brings the heartrending emotions of the track to life with his mannerisms and expressions in the video. The rapper running through the smoke is somewhat representative of him trying to reach for clarity before he is engulfed by the smog that could be indicative of anxious thoughts or feelings.
This is even seen in the lyricism as in the song Joohoney expresses his unease as he sings, "They're gonna try to bring me down/ My future smoky" but also his sincere plea for seeing through these clouds of smoke when he avers, "I'm trying to start again."
The music video is extremely poignant and powerful primarily in several shots of the rapper running endlessly, his pained expressions and especially when he screams as he covers his ears – all these instances and more are enough to make viewers feel a twinge and maybe even shed a tear or two.
MONSTA X's Joohoney has truly showcased his mettle as a powerhouse artist with this mixtape and there is certainly no denying that.
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Be cordially invited to see this History of Kirpal Sagar. Some more videos will follow.
For those who are really interested in spirituality, not because it is in fashion, but in their hearts, sincere seekers of the truth – these videos will fill your heart with love and peace providing many answers.
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Love, light and life – to everyone!
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Mehmet Ali Sanlikol On Muslim Identity In Boston And 'Othello In The Sergalio'Play
Composer and Emerson College professor Mehmet Ali Sanlikol has lived in Boston for over 20 years, but he says he's never felt the conundrum he's experiencing these days as a Muslim in Boston and in the United States. He hopes that his coffeehouse opera, "Othello in the Sergalio," will help to expand perspectives on Islam in Boston and beyond.
"Othello in the Seraglio" will be performed Wednesday at OBERON and April 8 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.
Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, composer, Emerson College professor, president of DUNYA.
Radio Boston: Re-Imagining Othello As A Multi-Cultural, Intimate Opera
- "Shakespeare's Othello is a familiar story of love, power, jealousy, and manipulation, but you've never heard it like this before. A new production melds three languages — English, Italian, and Turkish — for a musical retelling of the familiar tragedy, tapping into Ottoman folklore."
International Business Times: Meet The Muslim Americans Voting For Donald Trump, Including An Activist Suing The NYPD Over Surveillance
- "You would be hard-pressed to find someone more passionate about protecting the civil rights of American Muslims than 39-year-old Farhaj Hassan. A U.S. Army reservist who was deployed to Iraq, Hassan, who lives in Helmetta, New Jersey, is the lead plaintiff in a landmark lawsuit against the city of New York for its police department's blanket surveillance program of Muslims in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The impetus for the lawsuit, says Hassan, a devout Shiite Muslim, stems from his patriotism and his belief that people should not be treated like suspects simply because of their faith."
This segment aired on March 2, 2016.


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HALIFAX, N.S. — From the streets of Toronto's Jane-Finch neighbourhood to the stage of Halifax's Light House Arts Centre, the story of the new musical Hood Habits has had an unexpected and emotional journey, fueled by the hope for a better future for urban youth.
The springboard for the play, written and directed by Halifax creator Tara Taylor, is the graphic novel by educator, counsellor and former CFL player Curtis Bell and illustrator Bruno Amezcua, inspired by the real-life stories of the young people Bell inspired to seek a life beyond the street gang culture in which they'd become enmeshed.
For six years, Bell's 9 Heavens Healing Academy brought dozens of young people from Toronto neighbourhoods beset by gang activity to the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve near Hamilton, where they worked with Black mentors and First Nations elders to rebuild their sense of self-worth and re-examine their priorities in life.
The program's goal was to "break the habits of the 'hood" that saw them becoming involved in gangs when educational, family and community support was unavailable. When Bell and Amezcua took the 9 Heavens participants' stories to a broader audience with the Hood Habits graphic novel, Taylor was so moved by the book that she knew she wanted to adapt it for the stage through her Charles Taylor Theatre & Media Arts Association.
Hope for inner-city youth
"First I cried, then I laughed," says Taylor backstage at the Light House Arts Centre, where Hood Habits is running Aug 25 to 28. "Then I got disgusted because of when I think of my children of the same age and what these kids are actually going through, it just disgusted me (over) what the systems are like in Jane and Finch in Toronto. And what they are close to being like down here, down home.
"So I'm like, 'OK, this program needs to continue.' Because (Curtis) wrote it after his funding ended for this program for these at-risk kids. And I just wanted to do something to start generating some money and some awareness for him to be able to continue this project because it started with the kids in Toronto, but he also came down to Halifax to see the kids in the inner city down here."
Turning Hood Habits into a musical was a long, involved process for Taylor, who began by taking her early draft to the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, and shaping it at their Playwrights Colony retreat with actor/playwright/Ship's Company Theatre artistic director Richie Wilcox, while getting a first-draft read-through by professional actors.
Making Hood Habits a musical
Turning it into a musical became a reality with songwriting collaborators Ross Unger, Natasha Thomas, Bush 2 Da Reen and Olivia Purnell, and choreographers Brandon Skeete and Harmony Adesola, with Taylor drawing on her own experience in productions of Dreamgirls, The Color Purple and The Wiz, along with her own original musical about the life of civil rights icon Viola Desmond, which she staged at the Spatz Theatre in 2018 and Dartmouth Players in 2019.
"So with that, I was like, 'OK, if I wrote 10 songs for that, I probably could do it for this. Folks always ask me if I'll ever write anything other than musicals, and I probably won't.
"There always has to be at least one song. That's just my background. So it wasn't too hard to figure out where the music should happen, and who to bring in to make that music happen."
Hood Habits carries a powerful message, designed for an audience from ages 12 through adults, through an entertaining medium of song, dance and drama, but the play's activism extends beyond the stage in her company's mission to provide opportunities for emerging Black actors and theatre technicians.
Producing a work like this is also a chance to build on the potential that she sees in the performers and artisans that she's encountered and build a community that will enrich the world of Canadian theatre at large.
"Through the musical, I want to show these kids that they can do it," she says of her cast of 12. "A lot of them want to act full time, I want to help them see that they can have a career in this without doing the things that they have had to do or have not had to do."
Opportunity for Black theatre artists
Taylor's partner in this process is stage manager Nikki Beaulieu-Belliveau, whose background with Neptune Theatre and the Dartmouth Players has been a valuable asset in bringing Hood Habits from page to stage. While Taylor herself considers her method of choosing participants to be "unorthodox", Beaulieu-Belliveau has seen the positive effects.
"I've watched a lot of people kind of come out of their shells, and do stuff that they didn't think they could do," she says of Taylor's cast. "Paired between a few veteran actors who have been doing it for a while, the green ones — all of a sudden when they are doing scene work together — realize that they can dig down deep into that emotion that they're looking for."
To make Hood Habits more universal, Taylor has set the musical in a non-specific community, although attendees will notice some Halifax references popping up in the script. The fictionalized versions of true-life stories related by Bell in the graphic novel underline how the issues affecting at-risk youth across Canada all have similar roots; or as main character Flex says in the play, 25 per cent of it is their environment, 25 per cent of it is "our fault", 25 per cent is in the hands of parents and 25 per cent is due to the actions (or inaction) of government and the justice system, "and that all adds up to 100 per cent failure."
"That's directly from the novel, and Curtis has made it a clear message that it takes all of our parts to raise these kids up the way they should be. To me, that says it takes a village," says Taylor, who wants the musical to amplify Bell's message of hope for the future of these kids, and a broader message about stopping the violence that has taken so many young lives.
"(Curtis) definitely wants to give the kids hope and understanding that there's more to life than what they see on television and experience in these neighbourhoods. It's systemic. And we have to definitely address it in a number of ways through government and through community."
Hood Habits runs in the Light House Arts Centre's Performance Hall from Thursday, Aug. 25 to Saturday, Aug. 27 at 7 p.m. with weekend matinees on Aug. 27 and Sunday, Aug. 28. For tickets, visit lighthouseartscentre.ca/events.


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|Written by Echuca College Term 3 2009, Snowy River Campus
With the support of other term 3 students, Echuca College participated in the Relay for Life walk in their community. We had a reunion and celebrated with Shaun, Sarah, Jayde, Aidan, Brandon and Ashley their CLP. Well done everyone!
As part of their CLP Project the Echuca College students decided to get involved in the Relay for Life because many of them have been affected by it and thought it would be a great cause to support. The students are also doing a movie and a raffle to help raise money for the Cancer Council. They invited their Snowy teacher Tiwana Merrit and all of the other students from term 3 along as well as a means of a having a Term 3 reunion!


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Patrick Cross has new life in Orange Beach, but you'll still see him sometimes in Montgomery
The singer/songwriter has a new single "Dangerous" releasing Oct. 16, and will perform at TASTE in Montgomery on Oct. 23
Montgomery's Patrick Cross has found a new life on the coast. The singer/songwriter has been playing at Flora-Bama and getting acclimated to his new home in Orange Beach.
"My buddy Davis Nix works down here. Once COVID hit and kind of shut everything down in the Montgomery area, they were nice enough to have me down to play some gigs at the coast," Cross said. "After about a month of doing that, they said why don't you just move down here? That wasn't a very hard decision to make. I think I was on the road three weeks from then moving down."
Cross said Orange Beach has a really tight community, very much like Montgomery's.
"Within a week of me being down here, I already made a bunch of friends and they're all welcoming me in with open arms, especially the music community," Cross said. "The community at Flora-Bama is really tight."
Of course, Orange Beach took a beating recently from Hurricane Sally, with flooding and other major damages. Fortunately, Cross was up in Montgomery when it hit.
"The day before when I left, it was supposed to be a tropical depression," Cross said. "It wasn't supposed to be anything really to worry about. By the time I got to Montgomery, they had upgraded it to a Category 2, directly over Orange Beach."
Even without a hurricane at his back, Cross plans to keep returning to Montgomery, the place he's spent years playing and crafting songs. He's got a show Oct. 23 at TASTE, 5251 Hampstead High Street.
"I'm working on booking some other dates up here," Cross said. "Every time I'm back in Montgomery, I'm always excited to play a show."
New music just ahead
Cross is releasing the single "Dangerous" on Oct. 16 from an upcoming, currently untitled EP.
"The song itself is about coming to terms with the fact that everybody who told you this person was bad for you was in fact bad for you," Cross said. "I wrote it back when I was in college, probably 2013. There's this big '80s revival sound going around right now with a lot of chorus guitars and synthesizers and big drum kits. I kind of wanted to dive into that, because I love the colors the '80s music has. We're trying to really harness that."
Songs for the rest of the EP are still being selected, though he knows of at least four planned for it.
Finding his sound
"I always grew up around music," Cross said. "Our house was a small guitar store. My dad's a very talented guitarist and my mom's a very talented pianist and vocalist. My mom always told us growing up that no matter what we wanted to do in life, we were going to have some foundation in music. We were going to understand the basics of it. So at an early age, we already had a taste for arts and music."
In 7th grade, Cross found a couple of cool kids in his class that played guitar. The idea clicked.
"I was like, my dad plays guitar and he's cool, and they play guitar and they're cool," Cross said. "So maybe if I learn guitar, I'll be cool too. It didn't end up working out. I still wasn't cool. But I found guitar, and it was the best decision I made."
While he's grown into a singer/songwriter who has originals to perform, he also loves doing cover songs.
"I think it's a good way to help find your sound," Cross said. "You'll learn a song that somebody else wrote, and the way that they wrote it and the way that they performed it. After a couple of months playing it, you notice these changes being made to it that you're not even aware of."
While he's performing shows, Cross reads the room to see how the audience is taking in the songs.
"If they're starting to pay more attention to what I'm doing and it's a little more intimate, then I'll throw in some originals," Cross said.
Follow Cross on Instagram and Twitter under @patrick_cross.
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Shannon Heupel at email@example.com.


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Police blotter: Nov. 18
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City of Neenah police department
Nov. 6
- Damage to property, 1100 block of West Winneconne Avenue. A caller reported that a windshield wiper on a vehicle was bent back and broken while it was parked in the parking lot.
- Damage to property, 200 block of Clairmont Court. A caller reported the driver's side tires of a vehicle were slashed while it was parked in the apartment parking lot.
Nov. 7
- Damage to property, 1100 Oxford Court. A caller reported that salad dressing was poured on a vehicle and pumpkins were smashed in the driveway of the residence.
Nov. 10
- Damage to property, 200 block of East Columbian Avenue. A caller reported that two vehicles parked in the driveway had been scratched.
- Damage to property, 400 block of Bosworth Lane. Police responded to a report of a front window at a residence having a hole in the outer glass pane that appeared to have been caused by a BB gun.
- Auto theft, 800 block of Main Street. A vehicle was stolen while it was being warmed up on the roadway in front of the residence.
Nov. 12
- Theft, 2100 block of Brooks Avenue. A caller reported a cell phone was taken out of a lunch box while at the business.
Town of Menasha police department
Oct. 31
Theft, 1300 block of Jacobsen Road. A 27-year-old Town of Menasha man was cited for theft after failing to pay for $8 worth of gasoline.
Nov. 3
- Theft, 1100 block of Appleton Road. An 18-year-old Neenah woman was cited for theft of checks from a business. She also is facing forgery charges in Outagamie and Winnebago counties for fraudulently signing and cashing the checks.
- Theft, 100 block of Anton Court. Sometime in the past day a men's bike was taken from a garage.
Nov. 4
- Damage to property, 1100 block of Racine Road. A resident reported that the passenger's side window of his car was damaged overnight. The investigating officer suspected that someone had fired several pellets or BBs at the window.
- Disturbance, 800 block of Irish Road. Officers were called to residence for a fight between several juveniles. During this fight, quite a bit of profanity was used among the kids and a 10-year-old girl pulled out a knife and held it to an 10-year-old boy, telling him that she was going to "shank him." The girl was referred to juvenile authorities and released to her parents.
- Theft, 2100 block of Camelot Court. A 20-year-old Town of Menasha woman was cited for theft after she had taken a cell phone from a man that she had a previous relationship with and sold it at a second-hand retailer in Appleton.
Nov. 6
- OWI, 900 block of Irish Road. A 43-year-old Oshkosh woman was cited for OWI after she had driven into a ditch. She blamed the incident on her GPS, which apparently told her to make a turn and she did.
Nov. 7
- Auto theft, 200 block of Stroebe Road. A resident reports that sometime overnight his car was taken from the garage. The car is described as a 2002 blue Jeep Liberty SUV.
- Theft, 100 block of River Island Court. A resident reports the theft of several keys and other paperwork from her unlocked car overnight.


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How does the lack of faculty diversity impact college students?
On this edition of Your Call, we'll explore how the lack of racial and gender diversity among university faculty impacts the learning experience of students.
Just 0.7 percent of university faculty nationwide are Native American, five percent are Latino, six percent are Black, and 10 percent are Asian, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Why do universities lack faculty diversity? What are the impacts on students? And what can universities do to hire a more diverse staff?
Kelly Mack, STEM professor and vice president for undergraduate STEM education at the Association of American Colleges and Universities
Nancy Raquel Mirabal, associate professor and director of the US Latina/o Studies Program at the University of Maryland
Aaron Harvey, UC Berkeley pre-law student pursuing a degree in Political Science
Web Resources:
LatinxTalk: STEM Has a Diversity Problem
The Daily Californian: Berkeley Underground Scholars creates 'prison-to-school' pipeline on campus
NCES: Characteristics of Postsecondary Faculty
NSF: NCSES publishes latest Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering report


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For once, I'm thinking of this before I go to a conference… every time, attendees ask me whether the slides will be available somewhere, and every time I say yes, the organizers are going to put them somewhere, but I don't know where or when and I'll try to remember making them available myself. Usually I do remember, but sometimes I'm sure I don't… So, here you are. These are the two presentations I'm going to do at Basta Italia on Tuesday.
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