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There are fears that Liverpool star player Xherdan Shaqiri will be ready to quit the Anfield anytime from now after refusing to deny he would leave the club to Italy.
Although, Xherdan Shaqiri had stated that he is happy at the Merseyside club but the fact that he has no regular playing time makes it an issue that would be difficult for him to adapt to.
In his interview with Gazzetta Dello Sport, the Swiss international said he has no offer yet on the table but unwittingly sang the praise Italian Serie A side Inter Milan.
It would be recalled that Xherdan Shaqiri has a history with the Italian league having played at the San Siro before joining the now Championship League side Stoke City.
Xherdan Shaqiri stated that he has some good memories of the Italian Serie A club which makes the club special to him as he added that they have got lots of quality players and history.
When asked if he would seek a return back, he clearly stated that he was happy at the Anfield but noted that anything can still happen.
Xherdan Shaqiri has got just nine games under his belt as a Liverpool player and has scored two goals in the process.


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The Economic Opportunity Act of 2013 could help fund the redevelopment of the state's urban centers and suburban office parks.
Earlier this month, both Senate and Assembly committees took up the Economic Opportunity Act of 2013, a mammoth piece of legislation that consolidates New Jersey’s disparate economic development incentive programs into two. Grow NJ is focused on attracting and retaining companies here in New Jersey, while the Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant Program (ERG) creates incentives for development and redevelopment in urban and other designated areas.
The bills are moving fast and have garnered widespread support muted by some criticism.
Grow NJ provides financial incentives to companies to encourage economic growth and job creation, as well as to preserve jobs in New Jersey that are at risk of relocation. The bill links incentives to specific job creation goals based on industry type and minimum capital investment thresholds. It also provides increased tax credits to companies that locate in urban and distressed municipalities. Additional tax-credit awards are offered to companies locating in impoverished areas, building near public transit, providing jobs in New Jersey’s targeted growth industries, and adhering to green-design standards, among other categories.
ERG provides tax incentives for both commercial and residential development in qualified locations. On the commercial side, the tax credit is linked to a net-benefits test and actual incremental tax revenue generated by the project. On the residential side, the bill provides up to $600 million in tax incentives for development and redevelopment projects in qualified areas. Of this total, $250 million is reserved for residential projects in designated urban areas that are near transit, including rail and light-rail stations.
Under the old Urban Hub Tax Credit program, only nine municipalities were eligible for tax-credit funding. This bill reserves $250 million for those municipalities, but then goes on to furnish an additional $200 million to other distressed municipalities and poor neighborhoods around the state. These areas can also benefit from the revitalization and economic growth that the Urban Hub Tax Credit has facilitated in places such as Newark and Jersey City.
The bill also takes into consideration the toll taken by Hurricane Sandy and designates funds to those hard-hit disaster areas that are in need of economic stimulus. For these areas, the bill appropriates $100 million for residential development and redevelopment. The remaining incentives are essentially spread throughout other regions of the state.
This bill is a particularly critical tool for urban areas that are diamonds in the rough, but have long suffered from public- and private-sector disinvestment. These are the places that Richard Florida, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class," argues are well-positioned for economic growth and prosperity in the new economy.
These urban centers are the places where “the creative class” of educated knowledge-based professionals wants to live. They are the communities where the Millennial Generation, those born in the 1980s and 1990s, are gravitating, evidencing different choices from their parents, who tended to prefer more suburban environments.
Despite this well-documented trend, developers still struggle to make these places work economically. Why? One key reason is that in many urban areas of New Jersey, including Trenton and Camden, there is a financing gap. In other words, the cost to a developer of producing a quality product that young professionals would find desirable exceeds the market value of what a buyer is willing to pay in these urban markets. That’s where a program such as ERG comes in and why it is such a critical tool for urban developers working to invest and create quality housing.
One project that would facilitate the transformation of an urban market is the Block-3 undertaking in Trenton’s Wire Rope District. This venture consists of a set of historic but vacant Roebling factories, adjacent to a RiverLine light rail station and the redeveloped Roebling Market.
The development comprises approximately 450,000 square feet of market-rate residential housing, along with creative-class office and restaurant and retail amenities arranged around a central piazza programmed with various festivals and art shows.
HHG Development has been designated by the Mercer County Improvement Authority to transform this 6.8-acre tract of vacant Roebling factories. The project has received all planning-board and environmental approvals. The hurdle? The venture has a financing gap and needs the ERG Program to move forward.
Our urban areas are not the only places that stand to benefit from the Economic Opportunity Act of 2013. New Jersey’s suburban office parks are suffering from dramatically high vacancy rates. James Hughes and Joseph Seneca recently published a fascinating document, "Rutgers Regional Report: Reinventing the New Jersey Economy," which tells the story of the rise and current decline of New Jersey’s suburban office parks.
They also indicate that 80 percent of the commercial office space ever built in New Jersey was put up in the 1980s, with the 11-county northern and central Jersey market becoming the fifth-largest metropolitan office market nationally, connected by a vast suburban roadway network.
The problem? The suburban office park is no longer "viewed as the most efficient and cost-competitive place for carrying out knowledge-based activity.” Both the office inventory and the transportation infrastructure that supports it are aging and suffer from underinvestment. New generations of workers are interested in “diversity, sustainability, and walkability.” Once New Jersey outpaced New York City in terms of job growth; now New York City has taken the lead.
So what should New Jersey do? As the Rutgers report says, "wholesale abandonment is really not a viable option," so there is a need to “re-imagine . . . existing assets.” New Jersey needs to look at adaptive reuse and green design, as well as considering uses of land and the shape of community beyond the four corners of the office structure itself.
The Economic Opportunity Act of 2013 provides incentives to do just that. The bill provides new financial incentives for the redevelopment of vacant commercial buildings that have over 400,000 square feet of office, laboratory, or industrial space that have been vacant for at least one year.
Novo Nordisk, a global healthcare company specializing in diabetes care, based in Middlesex County, New Jersey, is an example of how to “reimagine existing assets.” Novo Nordisk is redeveloping the 770,000 square foot former Merrill Lynch site in Plainsboro constructed in the 1980s into their new headquarters. By choosing to redevelop this existing site, Novo Nordisk was able to reduce their carbon footprint, renovate the outdated building to LEED Silver standards, and create 500 union construction jobs. While they did not utilize state economic development incentives, there are many examples of aging behemoth structures around the state that may not get a second chance absent such financial incentives.
The Economic Opportunity Act of 2013 is not perfect. It spreads incentives around the state, including some areas that may not be appropriate for additional growth. But it does far more good than harm, creating new opportunities to revitalize New Jersey’s existing landscape, ranging from our historic urban centers to our suburban office parks.

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A toxicology report has revealed that famous golfer Tiger Woods had several drugs in his system when he was taken into custody on suspicion of DUI in late May. The drugs included THC, Vicodin, Xanax, Ambien and Dilaudid.
On May 29, authorities found the 41-year-old golfer asleep in his vehicle which was sitting in the middle of a Florida highway. Police said that he sounded confused when he was questioned. He reportedly told an officer that he was taking a prescription medication, though it was not stated what that medication was. After the incident, Woods said that he had experienced an unexpected reaction to the medication following a back surgery he had undergone in April. In early July, Woods released a statement saying that he had completed treatment at a private intensive program out of state.
Following the release of the toxicology report, Woods issued another statement saying that he had been trying to treat the back pain and a sleeping problem on his own without medical assistance. He continued by saying that he was now working with doctors to treat his medical conditions and has made significant progress.
Being convicted of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol can have serious consequences, including a jail sentence, a suspension of driving privileges and potentially even job repercussions. As a result, people who are facing these charges might want to contact a criminal defense attorney as soon as possible so that a strategy to counter the allegations can be built. One potential challenge could be to the traffic stop itself, with the assertion that the authorities did not have the requisite reasonable suspicion to pull the vehicle over.

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The planet Mercury is too close to the Sun and will not be visible. So is Venus. Venus is close to the Sun, but as the planet is brighter, you might have a go try to see where you have a good and clear horizon. Look just before Sunrise low in the East at about 5 am. The planet is in the in the constellation Aries. The red planet Mars is best seen from 10.10 pm to 4.50 am and is in the in the constellation Scorpius. The giant planet Jupiter is best seen from 9.15 pm to 3.30 am and is in the constellation Leo. Saturn is best seen from 10.40 pm to 4.30 am and is in the constellation Ophiuchus.
Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, is predominantly famous for one reason: Polaris, the star that appears directly above the North Pole of the Earth. Polaris can always be used to find due North and can be easily found by drawing a line through Merak and Dubhe in the Big Dipper. Many non-astronomers are under the mistaken belief that Polaris is the brightest star in the sky, but it isn’t. That honour belongs to Sirius and, besides its position in the night sky, Polaris is nothing outstanding. Even Ursa Minor itself is unremarkable.
Today at 2.26 pm the International Space Station will have a rocket burn and orbit manoeuver. Any prediction and calculation might differ slightly. Not drastically, but it will only be a minute or so.
Mercury has its closest approach at 6 pm. The distance to the Earth is 0.554 AU. One Astronomical Unit (AU) is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Satellites are visible with the naked eye. They move slowly, as "stars" or "dots" in the night sky. Iridium flares sudden lit up at certain times and at certain places in the night sky. At 11.31 pm a very bright Iridium flare appears in the West South West at an altitude of 35° in the constellation Leo. Another bright flare appears at 2.34 am in the North West at an altitude of 30° in the constellation Ursa Major.
The Moon is in maximum libration East at 3.55 am. Mare Crisium limb is tipped into our view.
When you have a small telescope or you can hold a good binocular steady, you can see the 4 bright Moons of the giant planet Jupiter. You also can see some activity on the planet's disc. The Great Red Spot is in transit on the Jupiter disc at 4.07 am.
The International Spaces Station (called ISS) is visible as a satellite and can be seen as a bright star moving between all other stars. You do not need a telescope of binocular. ISS is visible with the naked eye. ISS appears at 4.38 am in the South South West. Culmination or highest spot in the sky will be at 4.42 am in the South East at an altitude of 17°. ISS disappears at 4.47 am in the Eastern horizon.
A rather bright Iridium flare appears at 9.06 pm in the North North West at an altitude of 28° in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Look for the Earth shine on the Moon at about 10.35 pm.
Another very bright Iridium flare appears at 10.43 pm in the North East at an altitude of 35° in the constellation Cygnus.
Look at Jupiter before midnight at 23.50 pm. The Jupiter Moon Ganymede begins its transit. The Great Red Spot is in transit over the Jupiter disc at 11.58 pm.
Once more, a bright Iridium flare appears at 2.27 am in the North Eest at an altitude of 29° in the constellation Ursa Major.
The Jupiter Moon Ganymede ends it transit at 3.08 am.
ISS appears at 3.48 am in the South. Culmination or highest point in the sky will be at 3.50 am in the South East at an altitude of 12°. ISS disappears at 3.54 am in the Eastern horizon.
A very, very bright Iridium flare is visible at 4.05 am in the West at an altitude of 61° in the constellation Bootes. Although at twilight, worth a watch!
The equation of time is at maximum with 3.66 minutes at 5.50 pm. It means, if you use them ..., that the Sundials are early. The equation of time reaches a minor maximum. The Sun culminates before the mean noon.
It is First Quarter Moon at 6.02 pm. Having passed through the faint constellation of Cancer, the Moon now reaches First Quarter and appears close to the bright star Regulus in the constellation Leo. Jupiter awaits to the South West. Come back and see tomorrow to see the Moon closer to the giant planet.
The planet Mercury is close to Venus at 7.17 pm. Both planets are in the morning skies before Sun rise. As Mercury is much fainter then Venus, it will be very hard to see. Both planets are only 23' or less than a Lunar diameter separated. The planets are less than 7° from the Sun.
A very, very bright Iridium flare appears at 3.59 am in the West and 59° above the horizon in the constellation Bootes. Get out of bed for that!
ISS appears at 4.30 am in the South West. Culmination is at 4.33 am in the South South East at an altitude of 28°. ISS disappears at 4.38 am in the Eastern horizon.
Another rocket burn will take place at ISS and an orbit manoeuver will take place at 8.32 am.
An Iridium flare appears at 9.39 pm in the North North East at an altitude of 74° in the constellation Draco.
The Moon is close to the bright star called Rho Leo at 10.15 pm. They are about 4 lunar diameters separated. The Moon altitude is 40° and the Moon phase is 62%.
Another Iridium flare appears at 10.39 pm in the North East at an altitude of 38° in the constellation Cygnus. And at 11.22 pm a flare is visible in the West at 32° above the horizon in the constellation Leo.
After midnight the Jupiter Moon Callisto disappears for an occultation behind Jupiter at 1.03 am. The Great Red Spot is in transit over the planet at 1.37 am.
Yesterday the Moon appeared close to the star Regulus but it has since moved on and now lies between that bright star and Jupiter. You should be able to catch all three in the early evening twilight after sunset but the view will improve as the sky darkens and the other stars become more apparent. The Moon is closest to Jupiter at 2.35 am. They are less than 9 lunar diameters separated. It is low on the horizon at altitude of 6°. The Moon phase is 63%. Tomorrow the Moon continues its passage through the constellations and will appear closer to the South Eastern horizon.
ISS appears at 3.39 am in the South at and 13° above the horizon. Culmination is at 3.41 am in the South South East and at 20° altitude. ISS disappears at 3.46 am in the Eastern horizon.
Today in 1836 Francis Baily observed “Baily's Beads” at Inch Bonney in Roxburghshire, during an annular solar eclipse. His description of the striking optical effect aroused new interest in the study of solar eclipses. Baily's Beads are an arc of bright spots is briefly seen during an eclipse of the Sun immediately before and after totality. It is due to the light shining through the Moon's irregular surface features. The last bead is the brightest, resembling a diamond on a brilliant ring.
The Moon is at ascending node at 9.39 pm.
An Iridium flare appears at 11.16 pm in the West at an altitude of 32° in the constellation Leo.
After midnight, at 0.49 am the Jupiter Moon Io begins its transit. At 2.01 am the Jupiter Moon Io begins it shadow transit.
A very bright Iridium flare appears at 2.18 am in the North West and 24° above the horizon in the constellation Lynx.
ISS appears at 2.48 am in the South South East and 13° above the horizon. Culmination is at 2.48 am in the South East at 14° altitude. ISS disappears at 2.53 am in the Eastern horizon. One orbit of ISS around the Earth takes about 90 minutes. ISS appears again at 4.21 am in the South West. Culmination is at 4.24 am in the South South East at an altitude of 42°. ISS disappears 4.30 am in the East.
The Jupiter Moon Ganymede ends its eclipse at 10.02 pm. At 10.07 pm the Jupiter Moon Io disappears for an occultations behind the giant planet.
The Moon is close to the bright star called Zavijah at 10.20 pm. They are about 9 lunar diameters apart. The altitude is 37° and the Moon phase is 79%.
A very bright Iridium flare appears at 10.28 pm in the North East at an altitude of 41° in the constellation Draco.
The Jupiter Moon Io ends its eclipse at 1.36 am.
The Moon is now close to the star called Zaniah at 3 am. They are less than 3 lunar diameters separated. The Moon is now lower on the horizon, so look for a clear and open spot. The Golden Handle is visible on the Moon. The Sun rises on the Jura mountains, while Sinus Iridum is still in the shadow. Use a binocular to spot!
ISS appears at 3.30 am in the South South West and 17° above the horizon. Culmination is at 3.32 am in the South South East at an altitude of 31°. ISS disappears at 3.37 am in the Eastern horizon. After an orbit ISS appears again in twilight at 5.03 am in the West. Culmination is at 5.08 am in the South and 67° above the horizon. ISS disappears at 5.13 am in the East.
Today 180 years and Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer was born on 17 May 1836. He died on 16 August 1920 at the age of 84. He was an English astronomer who in 1868 discovered and named the element helium that he found in the Sun's atmosphere before it had been detected on Earth. He also applied the name chromosphere for the Sun's outer layer. Lockyer discovered, together with Pierre Janssen, the prominences or red flames that surround the solar disk.
The Moon is close to the stars Porrima and g29 Virginis at 10.15 pm. They are both approximately 7 lunar diameters separated. The Moon's altitude is 35° and the Moon phase is 86%.
The Jupiter Moon Io ends its shadow transit at 10.45 pm. At 11.08 pm the Great Red Spot is in transit on the Jupiter disc. The Jupiter Moon Europa begins its transit at 11.49 pm and begins its shadow transit at 2.19 am.
ISS appears at 2.39 am in the South South East at an altitude of 22°. Culmination is at the same time and ISS disappears shortly after at 2.44 am in the Eastern horizon. ISS appears once more at 4.11 am in the West South West. Culmination is at 4.15 am in the South South East at an altitude of 58°. ISS disappears at 4.21 am in the East.
The International Spaces Station (called ISS) is visible as a satellite and can be seen with the naked eye as a bright star moving between all other stars. ISS appears after midnight at 1.48 am in the East South East and 14° above the horizon. ISS disappears already after a few minutes in the Eastern horizon. An orbit around the Earth takes about 90 minutes. ISS appears again at 3.20 am in the South West and 17° altitude. Highest point in the sky or culmination is at 3.23 am in the South South East at an altitude of 46°. ISS disappears at 3.28 am in the Eastern horizon. And if you do not have enough of ISS ... ISS appears again at 4.54 am in the West. Culmination is at 4.59 in the South at 69° altitude and ISS disappears at 5.04 am in the East.

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PARTIT KOMUNISTA MALTI: "No Increase in Minimum wage" - Communist Party of Malta.
"No Increase in Minimum wage" - Communist Party of Malta.
The Communist Party of Malta deems the Budget as one that, Although there are positive measures: such as a one-off grant of € 1,000 per child for minimum wage earners, incentives for People with Disabilities, tax cut for first time property buyers, better paid maternity leave, grant to elderly people, and Measures to eradicate precarious jobs, still the minimum wage income was not Increased .
" The Party also feels That the Measures To further reduce the income tax rate to 25% for the well-off as anti-social. The Government Should Have distributed reduction amongst the workers who earn less than € 20,000-through the raising-up the level of the income tax ceiling ".
The Communist Party concluded by saying "that although the 35 Euro bonus was a step in the right direction, feels that this was not enough. The majority of the working class will still carry the burden for the well-off.

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That was fun! Featured Bible teacher Jennifer Rothschild was joined by actress and author Lisa Whelchel, and worship leader Shaun Groves for the perfect girls weekend!
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A fireworks display which saw four people injured when a stray rocket shot into the crowd is set to be moved to a new venue to cope with numbersand help boost safety.
Council chiefs say it is 'very likely' the event at Brunswick Park in Wednesbury will be held elsewhere after up to 12,000 people turned up last month.
A thorough investigation is being carried out into the November 5 incident before a final decision is made.
Four people were hurt when a firework went into the crowd atthe end of the show which saw double the expected number of people attend.
Sandwell Council leader Darren Cooper, said changes were planned due to the amount of visitors and traffic and parking issues an alternative venue could be found. He said: "We probably need to plan out a slightly bigger venue for next year for the Wednesbury event because it was so well attended - there were thousands.
"It is very likely we are going to have to move the event because of the amount of people that attended but where we move it to is unclear at this stage. It has got to be in Wednesbury."
No firm alternatives have been considered at this stage pending the investigation due to be concluded early next year but a display will remain in Wednesbury.
Council event organisers said at the time of the incident that the final firework shot off through safety barriers and into the crowd.
Councillor Cooper added: "They have been looking into the manufacturing of the firework because it may have been a dud.
"The initial feedback is that there isn't very much that we could have done to prevent it happening.
"I'm sure that people understand that fireworks are explosives and we do all we can to ensure safety.
"I would much prefer public displays that are done by organised and trained pyrotechnicians than I do to people in their back gardens."
Subsequent displays at Dartmouth Park in West Bromwich and Victoria Park in Smethwick proceeded as planned without incident despite the injuries at the Wednesbury event.
Sandwell councillor Maria Crompton, whose department oversaw the event, said after the incident that the authority had an 'excellent safety record' for bonfire events.
Among those to be injured was Jason Deeley-Brewer who suffered burn injuries when the rocket hit and exploded on his leg.
The 43-year-old, from Wednesbury, dismissed the idea to move the display. He said: "It's not the location, it's the organisation of the event which was wrong.
"They needed someway of monitoring how many people entered, maybe charging people when they came in."


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Back in London after running a weekend workshop for families at The Hepworth Wakefield. I love setting out the cutting and sticking table, a riot of wondrous Lyra Colour Giant pencils, hole punches, tape, wool, paper and card. It's a do-what-you-like-invent-create-stuff corner where eggs, roaring dinosaurs, butterflies and flowers emerged today. Adults were crammed round it too, their inner children demanding a bit of ME time!
This drawing is by a 4 year old who explored Gallery 5 which is full of small and enormous Hepworth working models. At the bottom of the page she drew the rope barrier with no opinion about it, just that it was there. Her sense of perspective intrigued me, as well as the people included in her gallery scene. A wonderful representation.


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The Jays are in a Seattle for a road and home series. All the talk in the media will be about the Canadians invading from the north.
The Jays have a new player, one Mike Hauschild who was in the Astros system until recently. Per Gibby Hauschild is a starter but the Jays didn't want to put him right in there so Clippard will start and then Hauschild will come in.
Ken Giles was added today and Dwight Smith and Darnell Sweeney were sent back to Buffalo. That leaves the Jays with a two man bench but Gibby says Pillar will be activated in the next few days.
What other surprises will the Jays have for us?

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LONDON, April 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Living under the strict rules of Yugoslavia’s socialist government was not always easy for the Karić family. Limitations on private enterprise conflicted with the family’s long-held entrepreneurial spirit, while high unemployment and the mass emigration of skilled workers made economic growth difficult to achieve.
It wasn’t until the country loosened its ideological restrictions in the 1960s that the Karić family’s business ideas could finally come to fruition. After opening the first private factory in Eastern Europe, they subsequently created the BK Group and set about transforming it into an industrial network of more than 400 contractors. The prevailing communist power structures in Beijing and Moscow may have disapproved the family’s entrepreneurial endeavours, but the development of the local economy was a vindication of their efforts.
Today a BK Group subsidiary, Dana Holdings, continues to show how private enterprise can deliver sustainable growth and empower local workers. The real estate construction company has already completed more than 1,000 projects across various markets and has many more planned for the future.
Among its most high-profile developments is Minsk World, a 3,000,000sq m mixed-use project scheduled for completion in 2028. When finished, it will comprise 30,000 high-quality residential units, 305,000sq m of Class A office space and a new International Financial Centre capable of attracting investment from all over the world.
Although the fall of the Iron Curtain has certainly caused an upturn in fortunes for many former-Soviet countries, there remains work to be done. States in Central and Eastern Europe still need an estimated €615bn of investment in transport infrastructure to catch up with countries in the West. Fortunately, Dana Holdings is helping to make that happen, one project at a time.
For more about Dana Holdings and how its construction projects are providing a boost to economies in Eastern Europe, check out an exclusive article in the latest edition of World Finance, available in print, on tablet and online now.


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Ross Gay’s newest book reminds me of why I love poetry. The sincerity and precision. The music. The seeing and cataloging what is beautiful and what is perverse. Though every word is well placed and every line well cared for, the poems wander, and wallow, and address themselves, and yet never loose focus. In poems the reader might wonder how she got from sexual innuendo to sharing a meal with small miracle worker: the bee, and so be forced to re-read and retrace the steps that got her there. Gay’s poem dare to the face both small, beautiful moments (most people would stumble over them without noticing) and the moments so large, so painful (most people would be rendered speechless and fearful).
In case you’re wondering, I think you should go read this book. Right now.
I was lucky to meet the wise Wendy Vardaman at The Book Cellar last year because we both had saint poems in the anthology St. Peter’s B-List and joined together with a few other poets for a poetry reading in honor of Saints and Strangers. Wendy writes poems that are warm, human, inviting, and often humorous. They kind of poems you want to walk around inside for a little while. I loved listening to her read her poems that night at the Book Cellar and loved reading her first collection, Obstructed View (Fireweed Press), on my own afterward. Wendy is the poet laureate of Madison, WI, and recently published another collection of poems, Reliquary of Debt (Lit Fest Press 2015). As you can see by taking a look at her website and the following interview, Wendy’s interests and accomplishments as an artist and an interpreter of art are many and varied (Check out the #midwestpoetic project in the list of links below the interview). I’m so grateful she took a moment to share with us about her journey because she’s reminded me of the importance of learning and collaborating and questioning and growing all the time.
I write poetry and prose. And prose poems and poetic prose. I write creative nonfiction and book reviews and author interviews. I write reviews as prose poems. I write scholarly poems and poetic scholarship. I write comments on student essays and poems. I write up product information for one of my jobs and upload it to websites. I write website content for the poetry press that I co-founded (Cowfeather) with Sarah Busse, and I write that with html and css code. I write journal entries and notes to myself and lists of things to do. I write Facebook status updates (occasionally) and Tweets (rarely) and blog entries that are more long form essays than blog posts. I write up events and copy for the jackets of books and the occasional press release, which I’m terrible at. I write texts to my kids, which I am also terrible at. I used to write letters, but I gave up on those a few years ago. I write way too many emails. I’m a compulsive note taker.
Rachel Lyon is a woman of much grace and many talents. Not only is her fiction swift and piercing, she plays the violin, is a radiant dinner guest, and generally all around wonderful person. I had the pleasure of getting to know Rachel while we were both at Indiana University’s MFA program. She’s now back in her home city, New York, working and writing, and she took a minute to share with us a little snippet of her life. You can find more of Rachel on Twitter: @manateesintrees and Instagram: @appleeyed and a list of her published works that can be enjoyed anywhere the internet goes.
I write stories, mostly, of all lengths—short-shorts, long shorts—and I’ve just finished a second draft of my first novel. I usually get up sometime around six so I can write in the morning before work. I find my mind is freshest then. As the day goes on, my mental noise tends to accumulate, and that can drown out what I most deeply want to say. In the morning my thoughts are quieter, and my language tends to be clearer.
If you have been feeling a lag in motivation in your writing life, you need to read this interview with Emelie Samuelson. Emelie is humorist, YA novelist, and all-around inspiring woman. She lives in the small town that the Gilmore Girls‘ Stars Hallow is based on. Read on to learn more about how and why she picked up and moved to this town. You’ll be inspired to follow your dreams.
I have my own blog, Awkwardly Alive and Pleasantly Peculiar, on which I share weekly stories about my many embarrassing moments in life, and I also just finished the first draft of my first novel. Now I’m in that dreadful editing process. The two projects are different enough, though, so my brain is never bored. The blog is all about the comedy and the novel is, well, not.
Can you tell us a little more about your first novel?
Michael Trocchia lives not only a double life as a working poet, but triple life: he also finds the time to teach philosophy at James Madison University. His first book, The Fatherlands, is a collection of short fictions/prose poems that, for me, nod toward a haunted fairytale world where logic doesn’t unfold in the ways you would expect. This world is peopled with faceless figures of “the woman,” “the man” and “the boy,” and every time a character resurfaces he is changed. His newest book, Unfounded, is a bit more traditional in appearance–there are no prose poems–but here again nothing can be understood as common. Every line break is followed by a surprise turn in logic or a not-yet-imagined imaged. And reading this collection also became an exercise in letting go, allowing myself to be lead through the mazey path each poem beckoned me down. In the second section of the collection (there are three sections total), the poems took a turn toward Ars Poetica. As a sometime instructor of poetry and writing, I’m always on the hunt for new Ars Poetica, and Michael has provided me a new one to add to my personal anthology with his poem “Poem Without Itself.” You can find Unfounded on Amazon.
I write poems, prose poems in some cases, and the shortest of fictions. I’m working on a lengthier project though, a hybrid novella, a narrative blend of poetry and prose. In it we meet a professor who in his youth was a thief. While he’s long given up thievery—having sold off, lost, forgotten, or abandoned much of what he’s stolen—he has to this day retained one item in particular, an item taken under strange circumstances. The work picks up with his decision to return this thing, decades later, to its rightful place, the very spot from which he took it, however wise or foolish that may be. We follow his journey back and meet with all sorts of characters and happenings along the way.
How do I write? Slowly, as if I am constantly learning to see, or learning to read for the first time. But sometimes it will pick up a degree or two and it is more like learning to play a piece of music that, in some sense, I already know. It occurs in the mornings mostly, or whenever I manage to find generous moments of solitude. If I’m out and about and there is no pen or keyboard at hand, I work the words over in my mind repeatedly, a small rehearsal of sorts, as if learning lines from a play. When at home in my study, there is often a cat nearby.
What are sources of inspiration that you return to?
The worlds of mythmakers, for sure, whether fallen to us in letters or images. There are other sources: I am often drawn back to the poems of Georg Trakl in autumn, the novels of Hamsun in winter, the Italians Sinisgalli, Buzzati, Vittorini, and Quasimodo in summer, and Yannis Ritsos, the Greek, all year round. Spring is my wildcard, a season for who-knows and not-yets, though Jeffers claws through sometimes, his narrative poems mostly. Then there is the music of J.S. Bach, Arvo Pärt, the sounds of Górecki and A Hawk and A Hacksaw.
Can you tell us a little bit about your job and how you got there?
I’ve two jobs, or perhaps one job while the other, if not itself my vocation, comprises a good part of it. What I call “the job” is my work for James Madison University Libraries, where I am the E-Journals Coordinator in the Technical Services Department. In short, I’m responsible for setting up the university’s electronic journals in all library systems, maintaining the holdings and date coverage, and making sure all access points and linking to the journals are working. In recent years, I’ve also headed up an event program for the library called JMuse Café. Our series of events provides an informal and lively forum for students, faculty, staff, and the community to come together and explore topics of public interest in ways that reach across multiple disciplines and diverse educational backgrounds.
What I refer to as a part of my vocation is the work that goes into teaching philosophy (also at JMU). In this work, as much as I am teaching students philosophy, I am of course always teaching myself along the way. The teaching opportunity and its various rewards could very well cease one day, but it is tough to see a day when pursuing my own studies and its rewards will come to an end. The work I do in philosophy is integral to the work I do as a writer. If we were to shred many of my poems, they’d become, I hope, no less than confetti tossed in the streets by a parade of old philosophers. This is certainly so for a large portion of pieces in Unfounded.
To the question of how I got here: In 2007 I began working at JMU after graduate school at Temple University in Philadelphia. My first job here was full-time in the library as the Processing and Binding Manager. In this role I took care of the stream of books acquired by the library, ensuring that the books and their catalog records received everything they need (checkout information, call number labels, stamps, security strips, etc.) in order to make it safely and swiftly to the shelves. I was also responsible for binding the journals routinely and whatever books that were falling apart. I had been in touch with some professors in the philosophy department at the time and, shortly after, I was offered a spot teaching part-time (on top of the library work). In 2010, I moved into the E-Journals position I mention above.
How does these jobs/vocations challenge/influence/inspire your writing life?
Danielle Campbell Photography. Trocchia reading at Chop Suey Books in Richmond, VA.
I go to work with thousands and thousands of authors each day, from antiquity through the present. There they are when I arrive, sitting on shelves throughout the library, always willing to have a conversation, to confound and astound me, to reveal some new aspect of the world, or force me to reconsider this, to imagine that. I can ask for no better company from 9 to 5. At every turn in the building I am reminded of something exquisite, of some immensity indexed, some wondrous triviality. I am met with volumes, with orders of worlds bound up with our experiences of them, with stacks and stacks of fragmented knowledge, with the colorful and worn spines of our languages and thought, with imprints of question and formulae, with the inks of countless laws, natural and not, that line much of our existence, and will, as far as I can tell, continue to do so long after I’m gone. The library as a whole, we might say, is something of a law unto itself. As Borges writes, “the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.” And now many such “secrets” and more have surfaced at our fingertips, at the touch of a key, given the electronic sphere that libraries, publishers, service and content providers have built up in recent decades. Through the course of a simple morning in the office, like this one for instance, I’ll work on a mix of electronic journals such as Psychology of Music, The Public Historian, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Canadian Slavonic Papers, American Antiquity, and so on. The various journals from our collections flood my workday, and sometimes bits of their content are thrown together, deposited here and there in my mind after I’ve finished working with them. And these sediments can often find their way into my writing in one form or another.
My work week setting then comes three-sided: this library environment, the classroom, and my study at home. Yes, the days come in the shape of a triangle, a shape well suited to my aesthetic.
So it seems that you’ve got a full plate, but your that plate is full of good things and each component nourishes another. I am reminded William Carlos Williams when he said “As a writer, I have never felt that medicine interfered with me but rather it was my very food and drink, the very thing that made it possible for me to write. ” What are your thoughts on this sentiment?
I would agree with Williams, but the key is for one to make “food and drink” of whatever it is one does for work. Not every doctor is a poet of course, but Williams made his work in medicine “food and drink” for writing because he was a poet. In a comprehensive way then, yes, everything must be made to nourish the other. So I’d say Poet Williams also fed the very experiences, shaped the vision and ear, of Doctor Williams, in the invisible ways he took to his daily work and what he took from it. “The poet feels abundantly the poetry of everything,” said Williams’ contemporary, Wallace Stevens, himself no stranger to a job “outside” of writing. But, I’d add, the poet only feels it abundantly insofar as he’s sought and gathered it inside him. If it wasn’t medicine for Williams, I imagine it would’ve been some other food and drink he’d gather together and put on the writing table. This is no easy effort, for sure. “Poetry,” wrote Jean Genet from a prison cell, “is a vision of the world obtained by an effort, sometimes exhausting, of the taut, buttressed will. Poetry is willful.” The challenge to all writers, I believe, is not to write but to live and write, no matter the living. This challenge, to echo Genet, is met by the will.
A few more words on this, concerning the idea of interference: We put ourselves at a great loss if we regard the “job” or anything else as interfering with the writing. Taken as such, it opens up all kinds of harm to one’s writing and causes what may be the real interference. One easily slides into the thought that one is not writing what he or she could be writing, reducing one’s efforts to an “if only.” “Only if I had some other job, or no job at all, what wonderful things I’d write! What a writer I’d be!” In this state, whatever writing one does risks suffering in the shadow of this phantom writing (that he or she is not doing). Or worse, understood as interfering, one sets oneself up for an excuse to write less and less, or eventually not at all. We might compare the batter who says that all pitchers interfere with his hitting. This player has somehow missed that the pitcher, though his opponent, provides the very thing he’s meant to hit.
That is particularly important advice, it seems to me, and well-explained too. And, one more question, if you don’t mind! I noticed in the bio on Unfounded it describes you as teacher and then as working in the library. What was the thought behind listing teaching first?
That’s a good question. I am not sure what my reasoning at the time was for putting it down in that order. What I can say is I identify myself a bit more with teaching philosophy than I do with the work I do in the library, as, again, I consider what goes into teaching to be part of my vocation. Also, teaching just literally requires more of me, as that “job” does not really slow down or end throughout a semester. In addition to class time, I am often, as any professor is, plugged into my teaching responsibilities in the evenings and on the weekends—whether it is putting material together for class, thinking up new ways to engage the students, responding to emails, grading, meeting with students, and so on. The library position itself—that is, the daily responsibilities—is typically confined to the forty-hour work week, aside from the resources I might draw on or the effects that the library world has for my writing.
I ‘m pleased to share with you my poem “Prairie” published in The Other Journal today, but which I started just after I heard Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson speak at IU, more than four years ago. And I’m still learning about the wonders of the grasslands and savanna ecosystems. Did you know that the grasslands is one of the only ecosystems that does not have a national park associated with it the U.S.? National Parks favor great changes in altitude (think Yosemite Valley to the peak of Half Dome). Though the prairie be humble, this rich ecosystem is still worth appreciating and thanking for its bounty. There are a few swatches left. Here are two I recently heard about: a patch in a st. louis cemetery and a restoration project in Iowa, with bison!
I first met Rebecca at a fortuitous holiday party in the neighborhood, when our mutual friend introduced us by saying, “You both write. You should talk.” We did talk and now I count her among the few writer friends who have seen me Pilox at Women’s Workout World. This is a testament to her kindness and grace, which is evident in all her essays and stories that I’ve been lucky enough to read.
I hope you will be as inspired as I was by her thoughtful interview about her own diligent writing practice, finding inspiration in other art forms, and how gears and gauges are like words and sentences.
I write nonfiction and sometimes fiction. Fiction always feels like giving myself a break from nonfiction because I tend to write essays that require months of picking away at research. But no matter what the genre is, I write slowly. That’s probably a matter of not making as much time for writing as I could, but I also like to think the story or essay is always there with me, walking around with me, and when I spend that much time with it, I finally get to know it better and realize what it’s missing.
There was a short story I was working on for three years, off and on, and it never felt finished. Then last January I was with my in-laws and while I was looking at a book of M.C. Escher’s artwork, I found an image that brought the story together and became central to its meaning. Then on the flight back I was reading Zadie Smith’s essay, “That Crafty Feeling” in her collection Changing My Mind, and it made me realize some super annoying things I was doing in the story that definitely needed to go. I revised the story again, sent it out, and Apeiron Review published it.
There’s definitely a hidden snare, there, too: Everything can be improved, and you can’t wait forever for the right piece of information to drift along. But I do find it comforting that if a story or essay isn’t coming together right now, I may have the resources later.
Inspiration means two things to me: first, what sources tend to spark ideas, and second, what sorts of things help when I get stuck. Social history sparks ideas. I like to know all sorts of nutty things people were up to in the past. I’ve been reading a lot about Romantic era scientists and poets lately. The Age of Wonder, Richard Holmes’s chronicle of the relationships between the poets and scientists of that era, makes me want to write at least eleven books.
When I get stuck, I turn to visual art, live lit, and poetry. I feel more inspired to write after I’ve browsed an art museum or gallery or spent an evening at the Uptown Poetry Slam. It helps me loosen up, not take myself so seriously, and just be part of the conversation. Poetry on the page helps too—I guess it moves me out of perfectionism and into joy.
Can you tell us a little bit about your day job and how you got there?
I’d been an adjunct for five years, up until 2013. I loved teaching, but it took everything I had. Weekends, evenings, and early mornings all went to lesson planning and grading. I wrote one story during the whole five years and it was for my mom, for Christmas, because she specifically asked me to write something. Eventually I gave up teaching and began freelance tech writing. The projects came in bursts and between bursts I could work on projects of my own. That was ideal for a while, and then the projects came in less frequent bursts, so I started working for my sister’s company, marketing orchards and small farms. Right now, I am doing that and working in a university writing center, which has brought many of the aspects I loved about teaching back into my life.
How does it challenge/influence/inspire your writing life?
I love this question. Is it okay to give a shout-out to my dad, who turns 60 this week?
My dad will spend all day working on pharmaceutical packaging equipment, facilities maintenance, autoclaves, or whatever else he’s assigned, and then he’ll come home, eat dinner, and head out to the barn to fix old cars. He just loves the materials. He loves lifting large metal things on jacks. He loves gears and gauges and catalytic converters and pumps.
I think I’m the same way about sentences and words. I love these materials. Any day I get to spend with the written word is a good day. I believe that good, clean writing brings beauty into the world—whether it’s good copy for a good cause, a clear pharmacology report for a pharmaceutical company’s investigational drug, or a gripping essay in Harper’s. The marketing job allows me to do lots of writing, and that feels fulfilling. It is a challenge to find time to work on my own projects, and it’s easy for work to just spill over into everything. (I work with social media. That’s dangerous.) Working from home several days a week is good, though. I had been waking up early and spending a few hours writing, and my goal for October is to get back to that.
You can find more of Rebecca’s fine writing on her client’s blogs and in Curator Magazine where she inspires us with an interview with Jazz musician Ron Thomas.
A chorus of diverse voices brings the saints to life in unexpected ways in this spirited collection, St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints. This is a highly enjoyable book, well-developed and curated by Miller, a gifted editor who has gathered over 100 poems on the saints without redundancy or narrowness. Some of the speakers are parents, deep in the trenches of everyday struggle, as in Martha Silano’s opening poem, “Poor Banished Children of Eve.” It begins as a kind of creed (“I believe in the dish in the sink”) then dips headlong into a version of the Lord’s prayer: “Lead us away from the temptation to chuck it all flee / to Thetis Island and glory be to dishwashing liquid / and the sponge glory to the microwave and Mr. Coffee.” Further along, Brian Doyle builds a wonderful defense of faith upon the theme of parenthood, beginning with Santa Caterina, who “conversed at length with the One Whom No Name Can Encompass / …he called her dearest daughter.” And for Kelli Russell Agodon, St. Pio (“Patron Saint of Worry”) remains a constant in the unfolding story of motherhood. Along with another friend and mother, she confesses: “We still pray though worry / we’re hard to please.” There’s humor here, too. St. Francis heads to yoga, at home among the Downward Dogs, the Cat, Cow, and Happy Baby poses, and in “St. Pachomius of the Unemployed,” one of the most delightful of the collection, we find the saint striding alongside a downtrodden but dogged pursuer of gainful employment. Even Santa Claus shows up, in an extended conversation wherein St. Nick is unemployed, estranged from his wife, broke, and endlessly thirsty for beer. In balance, there are also breathtakingly earnest poems, like Franz Wright’s stunning “Say My Name,” a poem of longing and loss that hinges on a few spare images inside St. Paul’s. Or Edward Hirsch’s sonically rich triptych “Away from Dogma,” which explores moments from Simone Weil’s biography. And there are poems like “St. Vincent de Paul’s Food Pantry Stomp” in which the saint in question is little more than a name for the speaker, but who still seems to witness and shelter, in some way, that speaker’s humanity. Whether deliberately or otherwise, the saints walk among us through this collection—bright with love, odd, downright scary sometimes—and yet vividly real for each speaker in very personal ways.

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text: Composer and clarinetist Nicholas Davies has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Roomful of Teeth, and the Santa Barbara Symphony. An accomplished soloist, he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra. As a composer, his commissions include those from the Houston Grand Opera, the Eureka Ensemble, the Webster Trio, and the Chicago Harp Quartet. Mr. Davies has been the director of the Rossini Club, a chamber music organization based in Nantucket, Massachusetts, for six seasons. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Rice University and a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California.

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What better place to get engaged than at one of your favorite artists’ concerts?
This young couple at Jason Aldean’s Madison Square Garden show did just that, giving the crowd an extra show with their surprise engagement. 23 year-old Alex Borsari carefully planned out the proposal and even spoke to event staff beforehand to ensure everything would go perfectly.
Things went even better than planned and he received a celebratory toast from Jason Aldean himself after the crowd went wild. Borsari’s new fiancée, Jess McCormack, noted that “You Make It Easy” will definitely be their wedding song.


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As a philosophy graduate student, I focused on the aesthetic theory of Schopenhauer, Hegel and Adorno, see the article section for some of my writings on these philosophers. Currently, I'm writing the second chapter of my PhD dissertation on the role of listening as a philosophical virtue and dialogic skill. Please find my university profile, including publications, on my UvA page.
In 2013 I graduated for my interdisciplinary Philosophy teachers degree. At present, I work as an independent philosophy teacher at Jenaplan school De Wilgenhoek and the Vrije Academie in Amsterdam. Should you be interested to contact me regarding my work or with any other enquiry, then please do not hesitate to send me a message via the contactform.

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The Jabra GN2120 mono headset proves that style and performance can seamlessly work together in the contact center or office. The Jabra GN2120 combines advanced noise canceling microphone technology, real life durability, and the flexibility to choose your preferred wearing style, all in a lightweight, great looking corded headset. Connect to your desk phone with QD (Quick Disconnect) connect cables. Also features a noise canceling microphone to eliminate ambient noise.


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Recently, the Civil Procedural Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure that govern venue in medical malpractice actions. The proposed amendments include eliminating Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1006(a.1), which requires that a medical professional liability action against a health care provider be brought in the county where the cause of action arose. The proposed changes would instead allow plaintiffs to file medical malpractice lawsuits in any county where a health care provider regularly conducts business.
Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1006(a.1) only applies to medical malpractice actions and was initially enacted when the Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Fund (MCare) Act was signed into law in 2002. In correlation with the MCare Act, the Supreme Court enacted new rules of civil procedure that governed venue. Rule 1006(a.1) was intended to deter forum shopping in medical malpractice cases. Prior to the passage of the MCare Act, medical malpractice lawsuits were being disproportionately filed in counties where juries were likely to render higher verdicts, such as Philadelphia County.
The explanatory comment to the proposed amendments indicates that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania seeks to rescind subdivision (a.1) of Rule 1006 because the "current rule provides special treatment of a particular class of defendants, which no longer appears warranted." The Rules Committee notes that data compiled by the Supreme Court evidences a decline in medical professional liability filings for the past 15 years. Moreover, the explanatory comment states that the reduction in filings has resulted in fewer compensated victims of medical malpractice. Essentially, the Rule Committee is seeking to eliminate the venue differentiation between healthcare provider defendants in medical malpractice actions and all other defendants in personal injury actions in Pennsylvania.
Comment: Elimination of Rule 1006(a.1) could potentially negatively impact healthcare providers in Pennsylvania. Plaintiffs would no longer have to file a medical malpractice action in the county where the treatment occurred and could instead file suit in a county with a propensity for higher jury verdicts and/or more favorable jury pools. Providers would then potentially be at risk for higher jury verdicts, higher settlements, and increased insurance premiums. Forum shopping could also result in healthcare providers having to travel long distances to depositions and trials. The Civil Procedural Rules Committee is seeking comments, suggestions, and objections to the proposed amendments by February 22, 2019.
For more information, please contact Elizabeth Speicher Van Wert at espeichervanwert@wglaw.com or 570.961.2403, or Noah E. Katz at nkatz@wglaw.com or 570.961.2706.


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Gupshup is a smart messaging platform that offers advanced developer tools for messaging – handling over 4 billion messages per month. It enables developers to build bots for SMS, Twitter, Slack, WeChat, Teamchat and messaging apps with a unified API. It also enables developers to embed smart messaging into their app or website for a seamlessly integrated user-experience. Over 30,000 businesses use the solution according to the company. The following is an API of the Week interview with CEO Beerud Sheth which is being done in conjunction with the All about the API conference to be held this July in Las Vegas.
What APIs do you have available?
Our primary APIs are for omni-channel messaging i.e. a single API to send and receive messages across any channel. Our APIs enable not just plain-text messaging, but also “smart” messages, such as polls, surveys and forms. Developers use these APIs to create advanced messaging bots. Developers can program the bots to enable messaging workflows on a bunch of messaging platforms – such as Twitter, Slack, SMS, Email and WeChat.
What are the benefits/ solutions they help provide?
There are many benefits to using this API.
GupShup API enables a whole range of new capabilities. Chat applications are evolving from P2P communications into full-fledged platforms for businesses. Imagine being able to book a cab, order food or check the score of your favorite sports team through the messaging app of your choice. Messaging Bots can do all of this and more. Similarly, on the enterprise side, imagine being able to do CRM, ERP, and HR related activities through messaging bots.
GupShup APIs reduce the cost and time of bot development. Using GupShup’s simple and powerful REST APIs, Developers can build a bot in minutes using their favorite language.
These examples of using the API just scratch the surface of what is possible with the GupShup platform.
What new business opportunities do they potentially open up for your partners?
GupShup APIs enable our partners to seize substantial new opportunities. Enterprise developers can automate business process and deploy instantly within their organizations. Startup developers can launch new startups rapidly. Our reseller partners have a new, innovative solution to take to their end-customers.
Why should developers/ decision makers choose to be part of your ecosystem?
Developers and decision makers should choose to be part of our ecosystem for a variety of reasons. Firstly, the market opportunity is here and now! GupShup offers the most powerful messaging APIs that enable developers to build advanced bots. Also, the messaging space is highly fragmented with roughly a dozen messengers with over a 100 million users. Our APIs give developers the power to make bots for different messaging apps very easily.
What are some of the cooler solutions that have been developed using your APIs?
Developers have built bots that enable CRM and HR workflows such as sales tracking, leader board creation, employee engagement etc. Developers have also built bots to enable e-commerce and other workflows as well.
How do you market your API’s?
We attend industry events and conferences across the world. Our latest event (where we had a booth too) was MWC at Barcelona. We also get the word out by hosting developer meet-ups across the world.
Who is the “customer” for your API’s?
Our API ‘customer’ can be pretty diverse. It can be any developer who wants to extend his service onto a messaging app. Developers who create bots to automate tasks, extend workflows or just provide cat GIFs on command are welcome to try out our platform.
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The last couple weeks have had its fair share of music happenings. Here is recap of some of them – with comments (of course).
VMA’s shower Lady Gaga with Awards – Let’s face it, Lady Gaga is the pulse of the music business right now. While her image arguably trumps her music, even the most cynical music critic can’t deny the catchy-ness of her singles. Plus, she can play the piano with competence.
While I am not sure she has has achieved her goal of creating “pop music metal fans would like” – her career is giving the music business something to study. Gaga’s success is no fluke – she is working all the angles. There must be quite a staff to manage the Gaga reach. Not only is the there the music but there are also the remixes, the repackages, the videos, the collaborations with other artists, TV appearances, magazine interviews and covers, website, blog, facebook with twitter updates. She is ubiquitous in a 21st century way. Hard to not respect her for this accomplishment alone.
What remains to be seen is if she can follow up The Fame with another collection of dance-pop ditties equal to “Paparazzi” and “Poker Face.” The success Gaga has experienced is rare in music. Even more rare is for the artist to be able to handle the success and stay focused on the music.
Her recent go as a political spokesperson for “don’t ask don’t tell” is not promising. Not sure how many are flocking to her for her opinion on this issue. The good news for Gaga is the global appetite for heavy dance music appears to be endless.
American Idol announces J-Lo and Stephen Tyler new judges. Just when Kara became tolerable and started providing meaningful and insightful comments, Fox canned her. Months of speculation came to an end with the announcement that Aerosmith’s rehab-ready lead singer Stephen Tyler, and former Living Color Fly Girl Jennifer Lopez will be joining Randy Jackson for season 10 of American Idol.
BTW – who won last year? I seem to have forgotten… I digress.
Train wreck, don’t look kids, cover your eyes!
What show is Simon on this year? I think I will watch that one.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announces 2011 inductees September 28. Once announced a full evalution of candidates will be presented. I am sure Kiss fans are having a vigil until then.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert 3-DVD set announced. This concert, one of the best video concerts I have ever seen, full of rock and roll magic, will be released September 28, finally. While this is great news for those who want to revisit the HBO broadcast, rock fans right now are scratching their heads wondering, “what no Blu-ray?” Only 16 bonus performances? No bonus interviews? WTF Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? A question Kiss fans have wondered for years!


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Lightweight and portable, the face & body tracking Hover Camera Passport is like having your own pocket-sized camera crew.
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An employee does not need to show a very strong causal connection between disability and unfavourable treatment to bring a "discrimination arising from a disability" claim. However, as the EAT has made clear in iForce Ltd v Wood, there still has to be some link between the two. An employee's mistaken belief that new working practices would have a negative effect on her osteoarthritis did not arise "in consequence of her disability" so her disability discrimination claim could not succeed.
Mrs Wood worked in a warehouse. She suffered from osteoarthritis and various adjustments had been made to her role to accommodate her disability. In 2016 working practices were changed to improve productivity, which sometimes required her to work by the warehouse doors. She refused to do so, believing that the temperature by the doors would be colder and that this would exacerbate her condition. The employer investigated the concern and found that there were no material differences in temperature in different parts of the warehouse. When the employee continued to refuse to work by the doors she was given a written warning and claimed that this was discrimination arising from a disability.
The tribunal found that Mrs Wood's refusal to work arose in consequence of her belief that the instruction would affect her disability and upheld her claim. However, the EAT overturned the decision. To succeed in her claim, Mrs Wood had to show that the "something" that led to unfavourable treatment (here her refusal to work) arose in consequence of her disability. It was the employee's mistaken belief that caused her to refuse to work. But she did not hold the mistaken belief that conditions were colder by the door because of something arising from her disability. The absence of a causal link between the disability and the belief was fatal to her case.


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The People of Bahrain went to the polls for the first time on Friday (1 December) to elect 22 members to a council with the initial task of agreeing to a draft Constitution.
Background: The People of Bahrain went to the polls for the first time on Friday (1 December) to elect 22 members to a council with the initial task of agreeing to a draft Constitution.
The council will have 44 members, including 12 Cabinet ministers and ten nominated representatives.
More than 90 per cent of the 30,000 registered voters went to the polls. Only men were permitted to cast a vote, despite persistent lobbying for women to have voting rights under the eventual constitution.
Fifty-four candidates contested the 17 elected seats, with the other five being returned unopposed.
Despite wet weather, voters began queuing outside the 20 polling stations in seven towns and about 50 villages more than an hour before the poll opened.
The candidates included Mahmud mardi, editor of Bahrain's main Arabic newspaper Al Adhws, H.M. Aryan, commercial manager of the British-African and Eastern Co., Hassan Mohamed Zein Al Abdin, Abedl Aziz Reachid, the youngest candidate, Jeafar All Ahmed, an insurance officer, Khalifa Miha'll and Abdel Aziz Shemian, who was reported to have been involved in riots against the then British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Selwyn Lloyd in 1956.


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Donating to Charity using cryptocurrency is not new. Several early investors who were able to make some decent rewards have been paying it back to the less fortunate.
Moving aid money quickly is very important. Anonymity or pseudonymity should be provided to those who are not willing to publicize their benevolence. There is a widespread belief in the power of cryptocurrency and related philanthropy to ultimately elevate and educate global communities. Several high profile humanitarian organizations are already accepting cryptocurrencies.
Another thing associated with cryptocurrencies is their jargon. New terminologies can be scary to users. This confuses and misinterprets the most viable cryptocurrency investing space. It is not good to ignore the fundamentals of the crypto token. Anyone who does it are doing it at their peril.
Increasing numbers of people are skeptical when it comes to analyzing the investing side of the space. There are a few investment grade cryptocurrencies that one might not want to miss. It is important to avoid the idea of jumping head first without being careful enough to have a home to go back to. If you want to become an investor, you can start as an early bird for little investment.
Much process refinements are happening for digital assets that are newly born. There will be price action for every news published about the progress and happenings of the crypto. So, it is practical to make an early bird investment in such asset types.
For those who are ready for crypto, there are hundreds of them like the Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP. There are yet other Altcoins. We need to have an idea of what it is, how to make use of it and where does it come from. Gone are the days when people thought of the cryptocurrency to be a form of currency that is not spendable. However, these days, cryptocurrency has become a legitimate form of money that can be used to pay for goods and services.
Big and small people are using cryptocurrency. Some are going straight to buying the high profile Bitcoin; others are buying TCAT tokens. While not everyone is aware of the importance of mass adoption, whether knowingly or unknowingly, increasing numbers of people are flocking in to use the cryptocurrency.
Several companies are now willing to consider cryptocurrency for their internal use. Several portals that allow buying cryptocurrencies and Altcoins using Fiat currencies are as well enabled for real-time use.
Several other services are launched in the market making things easier for crypto enthusiasts.

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Hammer Down Racing Report – Page 3 – Every Thursday Night at 7pm!
We will speak to “The Rebe” Dennis Whisman about this hard crash from this past weekend on the show as well as veteran racer Hillard Miller.
We have the initial look at the 2019 Oakshade Raceway race schedule as well as Rusty Schlenk Race Cars Future of Our Sport winner Oliver Osborn on tonight’s show.


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Heaven's Echoes is made up of ordinary people God has called to do an extraordinary work for Him here on this Earth!! This group began ministering as a Southern Gospel Quartet in 1983, based out of Plumerville, Arkansas. The group consist of family members raised up in Christian homes by God fearing, Bible believing parents who attended country churches where the Word of God was proclaimed! Each member, having made a profession of faith, chose to continue this Godly legacy. This foundation has stood firm through the years, and provided solid grounding in the principles of God's word for Heaven's Echoes as they continue their journey of service and obedience to the Lord.
If you would like to have Heaven's Echoes for a concert at your church or other venue you may contact the group using the booking information above. For additional information about Heaven's Echoes, click here.
Gus and Judy Biggers have been married for 33 years and make their home in Springfield, Arkansas. They have three beautiful daughters, two they hold on this earth and one God holds in Heaven. They also answer to Pop and Juju to two wonderful grandchildren. Gus is the Sound Technician for the group and joins them with touching renditions of songs promising a movement in your heart and soul.
Judy fills the lead vocal in Heaven's Echoes and is sure to motivate all with encouragement from God's Word and her contagious energy. Together, they joyfully share Kayla Jo's story of living life.. and living death.. to inspire all those who experience love and earthly loss and restore to all the Promise of the Faithfulness of God!! They are members of Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Plumerville, Arkansas.
Dwayne and Debbie Ward have been married for 39 glorious years and live in Jacksonville, Arkansas. They have two lovely children and three beautiful grandchildren. Having grown up the son of a Baptist Deacon, Dwayne was taught early in life about the Love of God and this love sustained him through a 49-week battle with colon cancer. To God be the Glory for Divine healing. Dwayne is sure to awaken a deeper love for Jesus inside the believer with his tenor vocals and uplifting spirit. Debbie is an anchor for the group with her outstanding alto vocal and has a heart and passion to share the love of Jesus with all she meets. She is a true warrior for Christ through every aspect of her life. Be sure to meet Debbie, whether on the platform, in the pew, or at the product table. They are members of Central Baptist Church in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Steve and Vickie Williams are the newest members of Heaven's Echoes and have been married 34 years. They reside in Alexandria, Arkansas. They are the proud parents of three sons and grandparents to eight precious grandchildren!! Son of Gerald Williams, Steve grew up in the Southern Gospel music industry and began his singing career at the age of 16 singing lead with The Melody Boys. Father and son share 100 years (Gerald 64 yrs. & Steve 36 yrs.) combined experience in Southern Gospel Ministry! Get ready to be energized by his low down bass voice. Vickie is a loving and devoted wife, Mom, friend, and dedicated member of Heaven's Echoes. You will find her ready to assist you in any way possible, from help with the products, to a listening ear with a tender heart and a prayerful spirit of service. They are members of Geyer Springs First Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It is with great joy and honor that the members of Heaven's Echoes commit themselves to the service of God. They pray God will use His ministry to bring lost souls to the saving Grace of Jesus Christ, and their greatest desire is to forever bring Honor and Glory to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!!! The group asks you to pray for Heaven's Echoes as they continue the journey God has set before them. They commit to pray for each of you as you seek Divine direction on the journey that God has set before you. As one group member put it, "May we all be Passionate in our service to God...while there is still time!"

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Middle Schoolers are weird and I love it. Insecurity, self worth and body image issues run rampant causing these “tweens” to act in strange and inexplicable ways. My youth group traveled to BigStuf summer camps last year in Panama City; it was there that I had the opportunity to engage in a conversation with a student who seemed to struggle with insecurities that were very much the opposite to those of her peers. I ended up giving her what seemed to be a reverse pep talk. I guess there is a first time for everything.
Where I am very used to encouraging 6, 7 and 8th graders to be confident in who they are even through the awkward teenage stages and to overcome the feelings that they are ugly or too skinny or too fat and all the usual teenage insecurities; I found myself face to face with an 8th grader who was not, in fact, awkward and whose peers could not keep their eyes off of her, not because of her gawkiness, but because of her natural beauty.
Racially ambiguous, flawless skin, petite figure, stylish fashion sense, a welcoming smile…this kid has a lot going for her when it comes to the outward appearance alone; that’s all before getting to her fun personality and sense of humor.
“I just feel like everyone is always looking at me, trying to figure out what I am. And I’m like humble and stuff…so I don’t really know like…what to do…” she explained.
Well what do I say to that? The usual, “you’re beautiful because you are God’s creation” doesn’t really apply here. Neither does the, “Your body is going through an awkward stage…hang in there and you’ll grow out of it,” speech.
So here I am standing next to this frustrated 8th grader and it hits me, she’s struggling with how other people are treating her regarding her appearance and it is affecting her feelings and the way she views life. The way that she is letting other people effect her is the same way that we as humans get bent out of shape when change happens. But just like we must learn to accept that change is not an option, she has to learn that her God-given beauty is not an option either. She can’t change the fact that people are going to double take when she walks down the street and she can’t change the fact that people are going to want to know what combination of races created her gorgeous skin tone, eye color and the placement of her cheekbones.
She has the option to ignore it and just drift through life, miserable. Or she can hold on to the discomfort and anger she feels and let it drive her somewhere she does not want to go in life. Or, she can make an attitude adjustment so that she will be moving in the right direction.
After getting through that whole thought process, I was at least able to use the classic ending of, “You just do you no matter what,” but it was really interesting to see how every person struggles through these “tween” years regardless of whether they are considered pretty or awkward.
At the end of the day we all have to come to the conclusion that we are going to be in charge of our attitudes about things that happen in life and the ways in which we react to them. There may be a different journey to that conclusion for all of us, but we get there nonetheless.
Through that one conversation with one student I saw the importance of being open to establishing community with a student and building relationships. That one conversation was the only time I talked with that student during the week. Every other time we crossed paths it was simply in passing, but the foundation is there and the door is always open. That’s when “leading small” gets big.