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Bethune is the founder of the historically Black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Once the statue is built, she will be the first African-American woman in Statuary Hall, a chamber dedicated to monuments honoring prominent Americans at the U.S. Capitol. |
Elsewhere, another discriminatory statue will fall to the ground. The controversial Stephen Foster memorial in the North Oakland neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will be replaced by a tribute to a Black woman. It will be the first statue to honor an African-American female, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.... |
Well, first, this statue has sparked protests for portraying Foster, a minstrel show songwriter. Also, an African-American banjo player is shown at the feet of the seated composer, an image that folks have criticized for being racist and depicting the myth of Black inferiority. The statue has also been under fire for w... |
As far as who will be the Black woman honored with the statue, community members will be able to vote on that decision. Pittsburgh residents can go to www.pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/survey/index.html to vote for one of seven choices for the new statue and suggest their own. |
NiSource Inc., an energy holding company, operates as a regulated natural gas and electric utility company in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Gas Distribution Operations and Electric Operations. It provides natural gas service and transportation for residential, commercial, and industrial custo... |
Discussion in 'Strength & Conditioning Discussion' started by Joey Sangfroid, May 16, 2008. |
so i went to the doc today and he was blown away by my heartbeat at 47 beats per minute. said i must be a super athelte. i hear the norm for one is 40-60 per minute. curious to know what yours is. |
"I once read that George W. Bush's resting heart rate was 43, which is amazing for a 50+ year old." |
Lies! Propaganda! We all know he is devoid of a heart. |
HR can be largely genetic also, hence Bush's reading, and taking reading's in places where your resting HR is not going to be where it should be for a true reading. Take it lying in your bed at night or in the morning. |
Currently my RHR is 52 BPM, and I am 47 years old. |
I am no "Super Athlete". |
Neither is a super athlete. Both are great resting heart rates. Regardless of what anyone says, a 47 resting HR is pretty unusual. The norm isn't 40-60....the norm is 60-80. |
so what does that make my 60 HR? |
Leaving behind the controversy triggered by his alleged comments on the Bofors deal, President Pranab Mukherjee is all set to undertake first Indian State visit to Sweden on May 31 for advancing bilateral relations with one of India's biggest foreign investors. |
“We are keenly looking forward to the first-ever President of India visit to Sweden and Belarus. This subject (the interview and consequent political controversy) is not relevant to the visit of the President to Sweden and Belarus,” Navtej Sarna, Secretary (West) in the Ministry of External Affairs said. |
Sarna repeatedly shot down queries on whether the heat and dust generated over the interview would have any adverse consequence for Mukherjee's first trip to Sweden. The controversy was generated by a Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter that published an interview of Mukherjee in which the President was quoted as saying Bofo... |
The Ambassador not only conveyed New Delhi's disappointment at the manner in which Mukherjee's comment was included, but also claimed the Presidential visit to Stockholm was at risk of being cancelled. On Thursday, Sarna, however, distanced himself from Harrison's comments. |
Even though Sweden is the third biggest contributor of foreign direct investment in India, this is the first State visit by an Indian President to the Scandinavian nation. Mukherjee will be visiting a smart city in Sweden besides holding talks with his counterpart King Carl Gustaf XVI, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Liv... |
The President will be accompanied by Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Hans Raj Ahir, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and BJP MP Ashwani Kumar, besides Vice Chancellors of seven universities. |
MANILA, NOVEMBER 16, 2011 (TRIBUNE) Whenever Noynoy issues an empty boast, which noticeably is becoming more frequent nowadays, something falls out from off the sky to knock him on the head. |
Just after bragging at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum event that his administration has solved the rice sufficiency problem and that more Filipinos are getting employed, equating to a reduced number of families under the poverty level, comes another survey showing that 52 percent, or more than half o... |
The survey covered Sept. 4 to 7 and was commissioned by a newspaper for the Social Weather Stations (SWS) to undertake. |
The results of the most recent survey indicated a disturbing trajectory of more Filipinos being engulfed by the despair of poverty and hopelessness in contrast to Noynoy’s claim of an improving and vibrant economy, a frame of mind that Filipinos are already familiar with for the more than past nine years. |
The survey showed that the sampling translates to 10.4 million families who consider themselves poor. That would be more or less 50 million Filipinos who rate themselves impoverished based on the average five persons to a Filipino family. |
To rate the claim of Noynoy’s improving state of the economy through the rising level of employment, the survey would also indicate that the head and adult members of the 10 million families can be deduced to believe that they are not earning enough to make ends meet, and also that joblessness has risen. |
The recent survey of the National Statistics Office last July showed that of the 40 million employable Filipinos, also showed a combined underemployment and unemploment rate of 26 percent or 10.4 million Filipinos not having a decent livelihood or having no means of earning a living at all. |
Add to this another estimated 10 million Filipinos working abroad and a mere 19 million Filipinos are either not complaining or have a productive livelihood. |
The survey also showed that the threshold among families to rate themselves poor has also risen, pointing to the earning power of families not being able to catch up with rising prices. |
A family that considers itself poor can no longer make do with P15,000 a month in Metro Manila compared to a P4,000 threshold in the previous survey. This was a jump of more than three times in the needed income capacity of a family to make ends meet. |
For a family to eat decently, the amount needed also grew by P1,000 a month to P6,000 a month in the capital and a bit lower in other parts of the country. |
Again as in similar surveys previously, the costly P21-billion cash transfer program to double to around P40 billion in next year’s budget was shown in the survey as not mattering at all in reducing the poverty perception among Filipinos. |
Noynoy has credited the doleouts of P500 a month to the poorest of families for supposedly reducing the poverty level which the survey did not bear out. |
At the Apec summit, Noynoy, however, was trumpeting three quarters of bumper harvests and increased employment opportunities for Filipinos which are both fictional based on the surveys. |
The Apec meetings themselves would seek to open up economies on the Asia-Pacific, a free market concept that the country under Noynoy cannot even cope with within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) region. |
The economy remains among the weakest in the region as a result of weak investments inflow and Noynoy has nothing to offer up to this time to counter it. And the way he does it is to brag about fictional achievements. |
It’s all talk still but now its talk is spiced up with too much hot air. |
A third quarter survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on self-rated poverty and hunger found an increase in number despite the Aquino administation’s flagship anti-poverty program — the conditional cash transfer (CCT), or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps). |
According to the Sept. 4-7 poll, 52 percent of the respondents, or an estimated 10.4 Filipino households, say they consider themselves poor and 41 percent, composed of 8.2 million families going hungry (food poor). |
Self-rated poverty jumped by 15 points to 53 percent in Balance Luzon, from only 38 percent in June, the SWS survey added. |
It also noted that the poverty rating rose by nine points to 62 percent in rural areas and stayed at 43 percent in towns and cities. |
SWS’ newspaper partner, BusinessWorld, has first crack at survey publications. |
Also, self-rated food poverty jumped to 45 percent in Balance Luzon, the highest since June 2006, from the 28 percent recorded in an earlier survey. |
Poor families continued to lower their living standards, with self-rated poverty thresholds staying sluggish despite inflation, the SWS added. |
“The September 2011 self-rated poverty and self-rated food poverty thresholds have already been surpassed in the past for all areas,” it stressed. |
In terms of hunger, the SWS said this was at 28 percent among the self-rated poor. |
The figure is higher than the 16 percent rating recorded among those who considered themselves as “not poor” and the 13.4 percent among those who consider themselves as being on the borderline. |
Among the self-rated food poor, hunger was at 31.1 percent, more than double the 14.8 percent rating recorded among the “not food poor” and the 14.7 percent among those on the borderline. |
Severe hunger, defined as experiencing having nothing to eat “often” or “always” in the last three months, was at: 5.5 percent among poor households, 2.2 percent among the “not poor,” and 0.7 percent among those on the borderline. |
The SWS said the poll used face-to-face interviews with 1,200 adults in Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. |
The SWS survey questions about the family’s experience of hunger, self-rated poverty and self-rated food-poverty are directed to the household head. |
Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Action camera company GoPro plans to reduce its workforce by 20 percent and stop producing drones following its preliminary fourth-quarter report. |
The California-based company predicted a decline in its fourth-quarter revenue including a negative impact of approximately $80 million for price protection on its HERO6 Black, HERO5 Black and HERO5 Session cameras, and its Karma drone. |
"GoPro is committed to turning our business around in 2018," GoPro CEO Nicholas Woodman said. "We entered the new year with strong sell-through and are excited with our hardware and software roadmap. We expect that going forward, our roadmap coupled with a lower operating expense model will enable GoPro to return to pr... |
As part of its plan to reduce operating costs by $80 million, GoPro is reducing its global workforce from 1,254 employees to fewer than 1,000 employees worldwide. |
The company also plans to exit the drone market after selling the remaining stock of its Karma drones. GoPro launched the Karma in 2016 and it was recalled about two weeks later after reports the drones would lose power during operation. |
Woodman also will reduce his cash compensation to $1, down from $800,000 in 2016. |
GoPro's Chief Operating Officer Charles Prober will exit the company Feb. 16 and senior vice president of corporate development Sharon Zezima will resign effective March 30, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
Woodman told CNBC the company would consider a sale or partnership with another, although it plans to remain independent. |
"If there are opportunities for us to unite with a bigger parent company to scale GoPro even bigger, that is something that we would look at," he said. |
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A screenshot of Apple’s indirect channel inventory suggests that Tuesday’s big cloak-pull event will indeed reveal new MacBook Pro with Retina display laptops and fifth generation iPads. |
Now before anyone starts throwing round too many wild assumptions, it should be noted that since the data comes from one of Apple’s indirect channels – a stream that supports big retailers and resellers, not Apple’s own online and retail stores – the information should be viewed as a rough indication of what the Califo... |
Still, viewed as a supplement to existing information, the results are a valuable snapshot of what may be happening in Apple’s wider inventory stocks. The figures suggest that Apple has no plans to restock existing models of the iPad 4 Retina or indeed the MacBook Pro Retina and Mac Pro. So does this mean that the elec... |
In contrast, interestingly the iPad mini is continuing to be stocked with high inventory, suggesting a price drop for the non-Retina display devices in the wake of the new iPad mini 2. |
The insight comes alongside an analyst’s claim that Apple’s launch event tomorrow will also witness the release of the iPad Mini 2 and iPad 5 – but that neither of these devices will feature TouchID or be treated to a gold finish. |
A new report released to investors by KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reasons that Apple doesn’t have enough resources to incorporate TouchID into its new tablets with all its efforts being put into producing enough iPhone 5S stocks to keep up with global demand. |
His claims contravene the several images of gold iPad 5s and iPad Mini 2s that have leaked onto the Internet of late. Despite shattering some gold-tinged illusions though, Kuo has revealed that the new iPads will feature an upgraded 8-megapixel camera on the rear with the latest 64-bit A7 processers and the M7 chip to ... |
For more information, have a look at our Countdown to 22 October and be sure to check back with ITProPortal tomorrow when we’ll be live-blogging the launch event and bringing you concrete answers to all the questions that have been churned out of the rumour mill. |
American opera has always been in search of an idiom, a language, to make the art form uniquely, indigenously American.m The search has been long, hard, and essentially fruitless. There are precious few works that have emerged to hold the stage and proclaim themselves, though it has not been for want of effort. |
The man with the best batting average to date is arguably Carlisle Floyd, whose "Susannah" hasm had a life of its own, as has his more recent "Of Mice and Men," which has even been performed in such places as Ireland's Wexford Festival. |
And now, picking up the pieces after his critically disastrous "Bilby's Doll, " Floyd has written "Willie Stark." The work, a co-production of the Houston grand Opera and the Kennedy Center in Washington, is on stage here in an all-stops-out effort boasting a gifted acting cast, Harold Prince's engrossing production, a... |
The opera deserves to have a life of its own. It is an earnest, eloquent score ideally suited to smaller companies, offering fine vehicles for four principals, numerous secondary performers, and a good director. It packs its wallop, and audiences love it, if Houston's insistent, vociferous standing ovation is any indic... |
Willie Stark is the name of the Huey Longbased character Robert Penn Warren treated in his sprawling novel "All the King's Men." It seems a rather unwieldy framework for an opera, particularly one scored for only a 35-piece orchestra. Floyd has tackled the novel with great gusto, and he is one of the few living opera c... |
Floyd's musical muse may not be the most characterful or distinctive. Nevertheless, he is a wise and thoughtful composer, gifted with a splendid ear for melody, a firm conviction of what expressive powers opera as an art form possesses. He exploits these well, and often movingly. The stretches between these masterful s... |
There is an ominous, brooding undertow that spans the opera, as Floyd tells of this corn-pone politician, this redneck who falls into political power as a figure of backlash against the corruption of machine politicking. What Floyd fails convincingly to convey is the staggering irony of Stark's devolution into a thuggy... |
The people around Stark lose depth and texture as well. The spineless Duffy loses his treacherous edge. Sodie becomes too simplistically in love with Willie. By becoming a composite of so many disparate characters in the book, Jack Burden's motivations become at first murky and then rather too pat. And after he has bee... |
That said, the tapestry that Floyd does weave is a rich one. We get love conflicts, power politics, closeted skeletons, suicides, murder, mayhem, and passions, all tellingly put to music. Most of the principals have vivid arias that are not only challenging as vocal feats, but thoroughly compelling as musical encounter... |
The first act seems to have general and also, specifically, pacing problems -- appearing some 10 or 15 minutes too long for its own good. But many operas have first acts that seem too long, yet if cut, would utterly destroy the cumulative impact of the closing act. And those closing pages, with Willie shot , killed, an... |
Prince's production is massive, monumental. The set by Eugene Lee is a stretch of steps, framed by neofascist architectural columns with noble political catchwords and ideals chiseled into the surface. The creamish hue of it all is quite handsome visually, utterly impersonal, rather dehumanizing, and not at all indicat... |
Ken Billington's lighting gives the production the color it so desperately needs, Judith Dolan's costumes are all to the point, and the entire show has the look of a big Broadway production. That is not meant as a pejorative, as if Broadway were the supposed enemy of operatic reality. |
For many Broadway has been the only American musico-theatrical original, and certainly the theatrical values of Broadway have been consistently more inventive than those seen on most operatic stages. Nonetheless, there are problems where Prince's ideas, though usually stunning, clash with what the music is actually ask... |
The cast assembled was splendidly theatrical -- a handsome array of actors who sing well -- the new trend in American opera overall. Yet Floyd's music consistently asked that the singers be full-throatedly operatic, to have voices of quality, and power with easy ringing tops so that his or her particularly operatic emo... |
Timothy Nolen may be the only baritone today who can create such a vivid Willie, and make us care (care too much, in fact) for his plight, make us hope that venality will not overtake the simple honest qualities. At times he seemed too energetic for his own good, echoing a Frank Sinatra-portrayed hood rather than count... |
The other grand performance came from Jan Curtis as Sadie, actually convincing us that this attractive singer was really the pockmarked, dowdy, desperate creature Sadie says she is. Miss Curtis's voice is not as smooth and rounded as one might have wanted, but she gave a larger-than-life performance, which is, after al... |
Alan Keys, the Jack Burden, proved a pleasant presence noticeably overtaxed by the vocal demands of a very good role. Julia Conwell was equally at odds with the most explicitly operatic role in the work -- that of Anne Stanton, Jack's fiancee who becomes Stark's mistress. The remainder of the cast performed more than h... |
The production now moves intact to Washington's Kennedy Center for 12 performances between May 9 and 29. Perhaps amplification will not be needed there -- consistently the most annoying part of the Houston production, yet (ironically) crucial for understanding the generally excellent diction.Some changes are said to be... |
Atletico Madrid have indicated they will appeal an eight-match suspension handed to Diego Costa by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) on Thursday. |
Atletico president Enrique Cerezo suggested on Thursday the club will appeal against the decision. |
The RFEF ruled Costa should, therefore, be suspended for four matches for “clear insults and offensive expressions made by the player towards the referee” and another four, after “meeting the referee with mild violence, without aggressive spirit, but in a manner that is reflected in the act of grabbing”. |
Make way for another online ticketing startup, this one coming at the market by way of Eastern Europe. TicketForEvent, a London-based B2B online ticketing site with most of its operations in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey, has raised $3 million, which it will use to expand its business in the region, to extend to entertain... |
It looks like TicketForEvent is Abele’s first-ever investment — an indication of sorts of how Eastern Europe continues to develop its own home-grown funding network to match the army of regionally focused startups emerging in the area. |
Since launching last year, TicketForEvent has sold more than 130,000 tickets for over 1,000 B2B events in the three countries. The company, which competes against the likes of Cvent, Eventbrite, Amiando and Ticketfly, says that it’s managed to surmount challenges specific to Eastern Europe, which gives it an advantage ... |
Specifically, the payments landscape is very fragmented: TicketForEvent says it aggregates some 90 different payment methods in its service. |
“Our primary competitors are the well-known global players– Eventbrite, Cvents, Amiando, Ticketfly etc. However, they have struggled to break into the CIS market, where we have an advantage. Our team completely understands the market and its particular challenges,” says co-founder Hennadiy Netyaha. |
In addition to this, the company has built up a system for managing interactive seating charts and running affiliate marketing programmes, so that third parties can also link up with its ticketing system. |
Perhaps because of the barriers to entry around areas like online payments for its competitors, so far, TicketForEvent says that it’s seen very strong demand for its services. Currently it has sales of $5 million, but it says that it has contracts in place totalling $50 million. That still puts it very far behind the l... |
As for geographical expansion, TicketForEvent will start to market itself in the rest of Europe in about a year, although it already has customers in the UK, Austria, The Netherlands, Germany and the U.S. “This is proof for us that we are ready to face the competition in Europe and attract a good market share,” he says... |
The company has been self-funded up to now. |
There isn’t much in the way of information about Abele Ventures, but it looks like it is only opening up for business this month, according to this logo design brief posted on the crowdsourced design site 99 Designs. |
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