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Weimar had once again inspired us to a visit: Weimar in summer: Moving, pulsating and extremely lively. The glory of the past flirts with fresh culture.
Generous park landscapes, open spaces and small alleys: ideal stages for drama, street festivals, mild evenings in the street café and large concert events. In summer, artists, audiences and strollers seek the outdoors and find a casual elegance in Weimar that only European cultural cities exude.
This must have happened to Johann Wolgang Goethe once, because when he came to Weimar in 1775, he showed great interest in the property for sale on the eastern Ilmhang. The house is possibly a winegrower's house from the 16th century - a time in which viticulture still played a major role in Weimar. In its time, the slope was more of an orchard or vegetable growing area. A depiction by Georg Melchior Kraus from 1777 shows this condition.
Meeting with Goethes Gardenhouse in Weimar
The garden was in a desolate state when Duke Carl August intended to give the property to his friend as a present. In April 1776, Johann Wolfgang Goethe acquired the garden on the Horne, including the garden house located in it, along with all of the earth, wall, tape, low and nail festivities in it. This is shown in the sales contract of April 22, 1776, which was confirmed four days later. The payment of the purchase price of 600 thalers in two installments of 300 thalers each was made by Friedrich Justin Bertuch from the Duke's box, who, however, considered it advisable to let Goethe appear as the buyer to the outside world.
Goethes most beloved place - his garden house
Goethe himself worked with great devotion on the renovation of the garden and had the house made habitable again. In 1777 he installed a wooden arbor on the south side of the house, which fell into disrepair during the Italian trip and was later removed. However, it is passed down through a drawing by Georg Melchior Kraus from 1777. Furthermore, Goethe had trellises attached to the house facades and planted. Roses (Rosa turbinata) grew in the north and west, vines in the south and honeysuckle in the east (probably Lonicera caprifolium).  The “stone of good luck” is located near the summer house. All in all, in contrast to today, the garden was also a kitchen garden. Here, Goethe laid the foundation stone for the redesign of the Ilmpark based on the Wörlitzer Park.
Since the small and modestly furnished house did not meet the demands placed on Goethe by office and social conditions, but could no longer accommodate his library and collections, he moved to the city in 1782, to the house on Frauenplan. But the summer house remained his favorite place to stay, which he used and visited again and again, for the last time on February 20, 1832.
In the garden house, Goethe worked on key works. Here he created parts of the prose version of "Iphigenie auf Tauris", here he worked on the dramas "Egmont" and "Torquato Tasso". Well-known poems such as “To the Moon”, “Restless Love” and “Hunter's Evening Song” were written here.
Today the garden house is set up as a museum.
Ground floor: The entrance is still today via the stairwell, which houses the cash register and a small museum shop. From there you get to a larger room, which Goethe called his “Erdsälgen” (Erd-Sälgen) and used it as a dining room. The oak tables still standing there today and the two brown-painted mineral cabinets were already part of the first furniture by Goethe. The two large Rome maps on the opposite walls served Goethe since 1829 to remember his trip to Rome and to be able to orientate himself for his work on the second volume of his “Italian Journey”. Back over the stairwell and a small anteroom, the visitor has a glimpse of the kitchen from the door, of which the stove, the fireplace and the sink are still part of the original furnishings from Goethe's time. The other equipment (equipment and dishes) come from Goethe's time, but not from his possession.
Upper floor: The stairs lead into an antechamber in which busts of Duchess Anna Amalia, Duke Carl August and a silhouette of his wife Luise can be seen. The atrium opposite the stairs was used as a salon and reception room. Here there are reliefs of portraits of Goethe's family members (parents, sister Cornelia) and Charlotte von Stein as well as a watercolor from 1779/80 by Goethe, which documents the back of the garden house with the attached arbor. The main room leads to the study, which is dominated by the high desk with seat and the fireplace. The study is adorned with various drawings by Goethe: Christiane Vulpius, sleeping on the sofa, dampening valleys near Ilmenau, Luisenkloster and Bergwerkskaue near Ilmenau. The bust on the mineral cabinet shows the philologist and writer Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, with whom Goethe was friends during his time in Frankfurt. Next to the study is the library as a central room on this side of the building. The filing cabinet and the writing secretary in Viennese style still belong to the original furniture from the years 1776 to 1782. The second corner room was Goethe's bedroom, in which there is his travel cot and a herbarium press, which is also used as a desk. The easy-to-assemble travel bed was supposed to protect Goethe from vermin in guest beds.
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Microsoft Highlights Windows Server 2016 Performance Specs
Microsoft is touting Windows Server 2016 in preparation for its Ignite conference next month, where the new server will make its debut.
This week, Microsoft published some Windows Server 2016 technical performance information compared with its current Windows Server products. Windows Server 2016 will boost the physical host memory support six times over the current Windows Server products. It will increase virtual machine memory support by 16 times as well, according to this table from Microsoft's Thursday blog post:
Jeff Woolsey, a principal program manager for Windows Server at Microsoft, indicated in the blog post that these performance boosts are a way to "push Hyper-V scalability." The new server is designed to support "new scenarios around data analytics and machine learning, which means really huge databases," he added.
Woolsey also highlighted three Windows Server 2016 features. He listed Shielded Virtual Machines, a security measure that will prevent the copying of virtual machine files, which can later be hacked. Woolsey described Shielded Virtual Machines as a "fundamental" protection for Hyper-V, VMware or other hypervisors.
Next, Storage Spaces Direct is a software-defined storage solution for high-availability scenarios. It will let organizations pool storage from local disks, including "new classes of disk devices, such as SATA and NVMe disk devices," Woolsey explained. It's described as an "evolution" of Microsoft's Storages Spaces pooling scheme. It can be used for primary or secondary storage, as well as for the backup and archiving of virtual machine files.
Lastly, Woolsey touted container support. Windows Server 2016 supports Windows Containers and Hyper-V Containers. Both are operating system virtualization approaches typically used for running multiple applications on a system without conflict. The Windows Server Containers approach isolates applications using namespaces, while Hyper-V Containers provide isolation via a lightweight virtual machine.
The new server's features to date haven't exactly been hidden as they've been available for review in Microsoft's technical preview releases. Windows Server 2016 is currently "feature complete" at Technical Preview 5, and readers can find a good overview of what to expect in this June Redmond article.
Windows Server 2016 is expected to hit general availability next month, and it'll be on Microsoft's price list for sale in October. The server will be offered in Datacenter, Standard and Essentials editions, with the top-of-the-line Datacenter edition supporting "unlimited" virtualization use rights. Microsoft is also switching the licensing to a per-physical-core model vs. the earlier per-processor approach.
Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.


[llvm-dev] LLVM IR from static/dynamic libraries
John Criswell via llvm-dev
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Oct 9 06:09:45 PDT 2015
On 10/8/15 11:20 PM, Vedant Kumar via llvm-dev wrote:
> Could you explain why you're trying to obfuscate libraries?
> At any rate if you're looking for a way to convert machine code into llvm IR, then I don't think there's a well-supported way of doing that.
There are at least two tools for converting machine code to LLVM IR.
One is RevGen (http://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/revgen.pdf).
The other is BAP (http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ejschwar/papers/cav11.pdf).
Both are open source though I'm not sure where to find them. A Google
search should fix that.
Please be aware that the LLVM IR generated by these tools is not quite
like the LLVM IR generated by Clang when compiling from source to LLVM
IR. RevGen (and probably BAP) create code that emulates the processor
on which the binary runs and then uses LLVM optimizations to try to
clean up the result. If you take the result and translate it back to
machine code, it may not run very efficiently (if it runs at all; these
tools are primarily designed to analyze binary code by reusing existing
infrastructure in LLVM).
If you want to obfuscate existing binary code, there may be better
methods. For example, if I were to do it, I would use LLVM's MC layer
to disassemble the code, maybe raise the code to the LLVM MachineInstr
level, and then do analysis/obfuscation at that level. Raising all the
way up to LLVM IR probably won't add much.
>> On Oct 6, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Sandeep Kumar Singh via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Is this possible to generate LLVM IR from any static/dynamic link library?
>> I have some static and dynamic link library and I want to generate LLVM IR as I want to obfuscate these libraries.
>> Is there any way to do the same.
>> Please give me some pointers on this.
>> LLVM Developers mailing list
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
> LLVM Developers mailing list
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
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The NC legislature is at it again! These so-called leaders are thinking up new ways to tax the hell out of the private sector. It’s not bad enough that they have made an enemy of Amazon.com and so many private sector leaders, now they are looking for ways to tax services! They want to tax Doctors, PAs, Dentists, Lawyers, Accountants, Hair Dressers, and more to pay for their loser programs and paybacks. And the people that are going to get stuck with this bill are the consumers! How long will it take for NC to get rid of these dirty rotten crooks.
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The video game industry remains among the fastest growing economic sectors in the world and Ukrainian companies are very much part of this process. According to research firm NewZoo, the global games market is going to make around USD 135 billion in revenue in 2018, which is almost twice as much as in 2012. Forecasts continue to predict double-digit annual growth for years to come. Companies with Ukrainian roots or offices in Ukraine have had a fair share of success in the global gaming industry, contributing to its fast-paced development with a vast variety of games ranging from mobile titles to top-tier PC and console franchises such as Metro by 4A Games or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. by GSC Game World.
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As to in-game items monetization technology and service, DMarket offers the gaming community an online platform where gamers can trade in-game items among themselves while developers gain revenue from every transaction fee. Someone who is not really into gaming might look down on such trading, assuming it is just another way for immature gamers to waste their time while not really generating serious revenues. However, such thinking is hard to justify when confronted by the relevant figures. Early this year, a virtual rifle from a game called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive sold for record high price of USD 61,000. To be more exact, this was a so-called skin for a rifle, a graphics file that changes the rifle’s appearance without changing its gameplay parameters.
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Honda Cars Philippines Inc. (HCPI) has officially launched the 2021 City alongside the facelifted CR-V. The debut of HCPI’s new subcompact sedan marks the first major update for the Philippine-spec City since 2017. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the updated features that the Honda City 2021 models can offer.
One of the biggest additions we got for the 2021 Honda City is the new variant called the RS version. This is a new variant for the model but not entirely for the local lineup. The RS variant will provide sportier design features such as RS headlights, badge, wheels, front grille, and more.
Other variants of the new model include 1.5 V CVT, 1.5 S CVT, and 1.5 S MT. The E, VX, and VX+ variants of the outgoing model are discontinued.
2021 Honda City Old vs New: Exterior
Old vs new (front): 2021 Honda City
Looking at the front, the brand logo is smaller. It now only overlaps at the bottom part of the horizontal slat on the front grille. In comparison, the previous model overlaps both the top and bottom ends. The headlights with daytime running lights are also redesigned and it now looks sleeker and modern. Of note, only the top-spec RS variant uses full LED headlights.
Old vs new (side): 2021 Honda City
As for the rear end, the LED taillights have been redesigned and a rear vent has been added on both sides of the rear bumper. The body lines on the sides now connect the front and rear lights providing a cleaner look.
>>> Related: 2021 Honda City RS coming soon, reservation now open
2021 Honda City Old vs New: Interior
Old vs new (interior): 2021 Honda City
Inside, the new Honda City features an 8-inch touchscreen that will now support both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto except for the S MT variant. The infotainment of the outgoing City has is a 7-inch touchscreen that supports Bluetooth, HDMI, and USB-in connections only.
The layout of the dashboard has been redesigned highlighted by the new 8-inch touchscreen. The aircon vents have also been restyled and moved to the side of the infotainment screen, while the climate controls now use dial tone knobs.
The seats for the top-spec City is made from leather and suede, while the rest of the variants are made from fabric. Just like the outgoing model, the Honda City still sports a black interior with ivory trims for the V CVT variant and red trims for the RS variant.
2021 Honda City Old vs New: Engine
Old vs new (rear): 2021 Honda City
Under the hood, the 2021 Honda City uses a 1.5-liter gasoline engine for all variants that make 119 horsepower and 145 Nm of torque coupled to either a CVT or a 6-speed manual transmission.
The Honda City currently rivals against the likes of the Toyota Vios, Mirage G4, Hyundai Reina, Kia Soluto, and Suzuki Dzire in the subcompact sedan segment. With the significant updates the 2021 City offers, we can expect it to stand out even more in its segment.
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The City is Japanese subcompact car stalwart Honda's entry in the segment. Now on its fifth generation, Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) is offering the City 2021 in four variants: RS CVT, V CVT, S CVT, and S MT. Honda City Price Philippines from PHP 848,000 to PHP 1,058,000. All variants come with a 1.5-liter four-cylinder i-VTEC gasoline engine which generates 119 hp and 145 Nm of torque. In addition, all variants come with a continuously variable transmission (CVT) except for the entry-level S variant that uses a six-speed manual gearbox instead. As for the dimensions, this small sedan has a length of 4,553 mm, a width of 1,748 mm, and a height of 1,467 mm. From the looks of it, this vehicle looks well suited to go up against its rivals in the subcompact sedan segment such as the Toyota Vios and Kia Soluto.
As compared to the outgoing model, the exterior of the latest release looks sharper and sportier. The new model comes with a sleeker design along with a revamped interior and updated in-cabin features. Upfront, the top-spec RS variant comes with full LED headlights, LED fog lamps, a more prominent fog light garnish, a glossy black mesh grille, and a sporty bumper. On the other hand, the non-RS City variants also come with a striking facia but it doesn’t have fog lamps. Also, non-RS trims are integrated with halogen projector headlamps.
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Alice and Martin Provensen created some beautiful work for this giant Golden Book edition of The Golden Bible: The New Testament from 1953. Absolutely brilliant. I find it hard to take my eyes off these pages. When I look at their work, I feel hopeful, joyous, optimistic. Much like the idea of what Jesus's birth was meant to be: the promise of something new. Of joy and peace. Happiness. When I look at these illustrations, I am happy:
The Golden Bible: New Testament; Edited and arranged by Elsa Jane Werner; Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. © 1953, Simon and Schuster.
I'm sitting here looking out at a scene that's covered in over a half foot of freshly fallen snow. It is Christmas Day. I feel peaceful, I feel optimistic. I wish the same for your Christmas.
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Behind every happy marriage is a lot of hard work. That’s even the case with Hailey and Justin Bieber.
In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar, the model talked openly about her relationship with the singer, crediting their mutual effort as the reason why they love spending time together. “He’s still the person that I want to be rushing back to,” the beauty entrepreneur told the publication. “I might fly somewhere and go do a job, but I can’t wait to come back and hang out. And I feel like that’s because of the effort that’s been put in on both sides. At the end of the day, he’s my best friend, but it still does take a lot of work to make it work. And then I know, eventually, when kids come into the picture, that’s going to be a whole other season of navigating how to make that work.”
The Biebers’ relationship was put to the test in 2022 when both of them suffered from health scares. In March 2022, the Rhode Skin founder experienced a blood clot to her brain, resulting in stroke-like symptoms. A few months later, the “Changes” singer was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, which caused facial paralysis.
Hailey believes these events helped strengthen their marriage because the duo realized they would always support one another through the ups and downs. “You don’t figure things out and get married but rather get married and figure things out,” she explained to the magazine. “I just think life is changing all the time—day to day, week to week, year to year. I think a perfect example of that is over the last six months, both of us have gone through very serious health scares. You have to figure out how to deal with this s**t as it comes, you know? There’s a reason they say, ‘for better or for worse.’”
The duo got engaged in July 2018. Two months later, they tied the knot during a courthouse wedding in New York City. In September 2019, the two swapped vows a second time in South Carolina. We can’t wait to watch the couple continue to grow in their roles as husband and wife.

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Marc Wilmots fuels Schalke speculation as Belgium manager admits he could cancel deal with national team to join German club
- Roberto Di Matteo stepped down as Schalke boss earlier this week
- Former Chelsea manager led the team to sixth place finish in Bundesliga
- Marc Wilmots revealed the German club have made contact with him
- The Belgium coach enjoyed two spells at Schalke as a player
Belgium manager Marc Wilmots has revealed he could cancel his deal with the national team to fill the managerial vacancy at Bundesliga club Schalke
The German club parted with Roberto Di Matteo earlier this week after the Italian led the club to a sixth place finish in the league.
Schalke announced on Tuesday that Di Matteo had stepped down as head coach after a disappointing end to the season, with Schalke only qualifying for the Europa League.
Belgium coach Marc Wilmots has revealed he could fill the managerial vacancy at Bundesliga side Schalke
Roberto Di Matteo stepped down as head coach of Schalke after just seven months in charge earlier this week
Wilmots, who enjoyed two spells at Schalke as a player, has admitted he spoken with the club and could take over the reins at the Veltins-Arena.
'I am in contact with Schalke and never said that I would stay until 2018 with the national team,' he said.
'I can activate my exit clause at any time.'
The former midfielder made over 130 appearances for Schalke and was briefly player-coach at the club in 2003.
Former midfielder made over 130 appearances for Schalke and was briefly player-coach at the club in 2003
Wilmots was speaking ahead of Belgium's vital Euro 2016 Qualifier clash against Wales on June 12
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“When Calls the Heart” star Viv Leacock opens up about what it was like working with Eddie Murphy, helping guide his biracial children through the current racially tense climate and more.
The Canfield family are the new kids on the block for the Hallmark Channel’s hit series “When Calls the Heart.” Leacock joins in on the show’s eighth season, along with his real-life children, Vienna and Elias Leacock. Leacock plays “Joseph Leacock,” while Vienna and Elias play “Angela” and “Cooper.” The Leacock’s and Natasha Burnett, who plays Joseph’s wife “Minnie,” make up the Canfield family. They are the first Black family to join the show’s fictional community of Hope Valley.
During an interview with WhereIsTheBuzzTV, Leacock shared that being on the show brings specific responsibilities for him, but the current climate for the Black community and the Asian community has greatly impacted his family outside of the set.
“My kids are half Black half Filipino, so. Obviously, the world sees my kids and they see Black kids, Leacock said. But, that’s not to say that they, kids, aren’t…they are seeing it from both sides. There’s a particular way that Black people get treated. There’s a particular way that Asian people are getting treated right now. Yeah, it’s impacting us. It’s impacting my kids.”
He added that his kids ask him the same questions that he wonders himself. “It’s always the same thing. The same questions that I asked when I was a kid, which is why? You know what I mean? Because you know who you are. You know that you aren’t doing anything. So, why would somebody dislike me?”
Leacock says the best advice that he gives his kids is this: “‘Anybody that would come at you because you’re Black, because they found out you’re half Filipino. They’re the ones that are afraid. It’s not… it’s not you. It’s them.'”
Later on in the interview, Leacock discussed his admiration for iconic comedian Eddie Murphy. Leacock was handpicked to work with Murphy with him on the film “I Spy.”
“Eddie Murphy, that’s my idol,” Leacock explained. “I remember when I was like 9 or 10, I was like, “I’m going to work with him one day. I’m going to work with Eddie Murphy one day. I don’t know how, but I’m going to.” Leacock went on to detail how the character he played was “so high up on the cast list” that he didn’t believe he was going to “get this part.” In the end, Leacock got the part, and the best advice he received while on set with Murphy was to conserve energy as an actor.
“It was really, reallly, really amazing working with Eddie. He’s very giving, and he’s really quiet. People don’t even understand. Eddie taught my to conserve my energy between takes. That’s why he’s quiet. He’s not quiet because he doesn’t want to say anything. He’s quiet because he’s the one that has to; he’s the one doing all the work. Fifteen hours a day, all week, five days a week, for months. Because it takes three of four months to film something. It’s on him,” Leacock said. “Eddie Murphy, that’s my idol.”
Watch the full interview with Viv Leacock down below.
“When Calls the Heart” comes on the Hallmark Channel every Sunday at 9 p.m. (EST).

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Valet : Life on the Installment Plan
The All Music Guide lists two entries for a band named Valet — a minimal listing for a band that released an EP in 1999 and a more thorough and descriptive entry for a band responsible for an album titled The Glamour Is Contagious. Yet neither one of them is credited with releasing Life on the Installment Plan, a new record, also by a band named Valet. Through a little research, however, I concluded that the first Valet, the second Valet and the one I recently discovered are all the same band. Exactly what all of this means, I don’t know, but I do know that Valet have been around a pretty long time, though I’m just now hearing them for the first time.
Valet (all three of them) hails from Minneapolis, power-pop hub of North America and home to greats like Husker Du, The Replacements, The Minutemen, Prince, Semisonic and newly discovered punk rock pranksters and labelmates The Plastic Constellations. The reason I bring up all of the famed city’s musical offspring is not so much that Valet sounds like all of them, but that they carry on the tradition of making finely crafted and enjoyable indie pop. They don’t share Husker Du’s aggression, The Replacements’ chaotic tendencies, Prince’s funkiness or The Minutemen’s penchant for brevity. Nonetheless, they can have their own notch next to all of these bands in the Mpls Hall of Fame, merely for being among the best bands to come out of the Midwestern locale.
Life on the Installment Plan is a gorgeous, shimmery collection of dream-pop that could easily find admirers in Ben Gibbard and Dean Wareham. And, as you might have expected, Valet shares a lot in common with both Death Cab for Cutie and Luna. Like the former, Valet’s music is melancholy and tight, as heard on the catchy opener “Habana” and the dense, but outstanding “Journalists.” However, Valet also wraps their music in a playful dreaminess, which lend a more upbeat side to “Manifesto” and “Bring Back the Firing Squad.” Lead singer Robin Kyle’s voice, a cross between Lou Barlow and Jeff Tweedy, lazily leads the songs through each dreamy segue with the faintest hint of emotion and regret, though Valet’s music somehow leaves the listener in a feelgood mood. At times, the band even sounds a bit alt-country, though keyboardist Paul Fugelsted manages to overcome these hints of twang with his heavenly textures.
It would be wrong to call Valet a new band because, well, they’ve been around a pretty long time. But it looks as if they’ll finally be introduced to a larger audience, thanks to a proper label release. It’s about time. Valet deserves to be heard.
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Step one in the RFP process is to identify the businesses you want to consider as potential bidders on your distribution business. You might have, essentially, options: specialist corporations that provide distribution companies to book publishers, and book publishers who deal with distribution for different publishers.
Every of those options has its pluses and minuses. Consider both—the broader you cast your net, the better your options, as well as your understanding of the range of companies available.
Regardless of the players you consider, your RFP must be despatched to a minimal of 4 bidders, and you must enable ample time (four months, minimum) for the entire process from RFP creation to final vendor selection.
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Before you alternate any data, all prospective bidders must be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The NDA mustn’t only embrace prohibitions against divulging confidential financial and operational information provided by either party, however ought to include a clause clearly prohibiting the discussion of the RFP with unauthorized parties within the writer’s organization. Moving to a third-party distribution enterprise model is a significant step, and until the decision is finalized and a transition plan confirmed, the details of the hassle needs to be shared only on a need-to-know basis. Past the potential anxiousness and disruption to your small business, your negotiating leverage is diminished in case your effort is stricken by information leaks.
Part One: Your Needs and Expectations
An RFP should have major sections. Part 1 ought to comprise details about your present operations and your expectations for what you are promoting over the three to 5 years following the transition to the third-party provider.
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The quality and quantity of the knowledge you provide will have a direct bearing on the accuracy of the bid and the quality of the working relationship between you and your distribution partner. It is a good idea to incorporate a multiyear view of the data listed above that illustrates both historic tendencies and prospects for the future.
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Part 2 of the RFP provides the prospective distribution partners with detailed questions relating to their organizations, the providers you’d like them to provide and, in fact, the
The RFP should, at minimum, request the next:
• Distributor background, together with history, ownership, organization chart, shopper list and monetary statements.
• Operational descriptions. Request a list of critical warehouse, fulfillment and repair processes, and written descriptions together with workmove diagrams. The operations should embody order intake, pick, pack and ship, customer support, invoicing, credit and collections, and processing of incoming shipments.
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• Pattern contract. You must have your authorized advisor review the distributor’s pattern contract.
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Iraqi Offensive: Victory Goes Beyond Battlefield
By BERNARD E. TRAINOR, Special to the New York Times
Published: April 20, 1988
WASHINGTON, April 19— Iraq's recapture of the Fao Peninsula is a major military and psychological victory for the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, in the view of Pentagon officials.
The unexpected Iraqi attack Sunday on the port city, captured by Iran in February 1986, removed a threat to Iraqi forces defending Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 80 miles to the north. It also eliminated a jumping-off point for a possible Iranian attack against Iraq's principal supply line from Kuwait, half that distance to the west. Iran also used the area, which juts out between Iran and Kuwait, as a launching site to fire Silkworm missiles against ships at anchor in the harbor at Kuwait.
Analysts here say the balance in the war remains in Iran's favor by virtue of its larger population and the fanaticism of its army. But the Iraqi victory complicates Iran's strategy.
In recapturing the most important piece of Iraqi territory lost to Iran since the start of the war, the operation also gave a morale boost to Iraqis weary of the war. The surprise victory also showed that the Iraqi Army, which has remained on the defensive since the failure of its initial invasion of Iran in September 1980, is now able to conduct major attacks successfully.
After Iranian Revolutionary Guards captured the peninsula two years ago, Iraq immediately launched a series of counterattacks to retake it. The Iraqi attacks were poorly planned and executed, and after suffering heavy casualties without budging the Iranians, the Iraqi high command called off the attempt and ordered its troops to dig in to defensive positions. No Change in Basic Strategy
Many military specialists on the war believed that the Iraqi Army did not have sufficient training or offensive spirit to go over to the attack. But within the past year Pentagon analysts began to revise their opinion as they noted major improvements in the Iraqi Army. They say successful Iraqi counterattacks against the Iranians in Kurdistan last month were proof that the Iraqi Army had improved.
Defense Department officials do not expect the Iraqi Army to abandon its basic defensive strategy, but it may mount more limited attacks in the future. Apparently the Iranian command in Fao did not think the Iraqis could or would attack their well-defended position. This may have led to a false sense of security, which the Iraqis used to their advantage to surprise the Iranians on Sunday morning.
The victory at Fao also strengthens Iraq's negotiating position for ending the war. Not only can Iraq's air force and long-range missiles hurt Iran, as they have been doing by attacking Teheran in the so-called war of the cities and hitting tankers carrying Iranian oil, but now the Iraqi Army has shown that it, too, can do more than just fight a defensive war. #4-5 Day Operation Expected The full details of the capture of Fao are not yet available, but based on available reports, the attack began Sunday morning. It was conducted in three phases - breakthrough, exploitation and mop-up. According to reports in the Iraqi press, the VII Corps commander, Lieut. Gen. Maher Abd al-Rasheed expected to take four to five days to complete the three phases. In fact it took less than two days.
The attack was launched on two axes down the Fao Peninsula. Divisions of the VII Corps, facing the Iranians from defensive positions about 10 miles north of the captured port, attacked south with infantry along an axis paralleling the western bank of Shatt al Arab waterway dividing Iraq and Iran at the head of the Persian Gulf.
A second and more decisive armored attack came across marshes and salt flats northwest of the Iranian defenses, which were anchored on the waterway boundary between Iraq and Kuwait and stretched north of the port across the Fao Peninsula to the Shatt al Arab.
The armored attack was made by the Presidential Guards Division of Iraq's elite Republican Guards who make up the Iraqi Army's strategic reserve. The Iranians keep a close watch on Guards units because of their combat strength and use as shock troops. Iranians Aware of Movements
The Presidential division had last been in combat in Kurdistan earlier in the year and had then moved to Basra for training. The Iranians were aware of its location and were apparently satisfied that its mission was to strengthen Basra's defenses against the expected Iranian winter offensive. It is not known if Iran was aware of the division's sudden move to Fao prior to Sunday's attack.
The Guards division attack was preceeded by commandos, who under the cover of darkness, cut paths through the Iranian defensive barriers and minefields undetected. Contrary to normal practice in attacking fortified positions, there was no prolonged artillery or air bombardment to soften the target. The Iraqis made limited use of their artillery, depending on surprise and the shock action of their tanks to achieve the breakthrough called for in the first phase of the attack.
The sudden appearance of the tanks, followed by infantry supported by armed attack helicopters, caught the Iranians by surprise, and the Iraqis quickly broke through to the port of Fao. The timing of the Iraqi attack coincided with the flood period of the Shatt al-Arab, which prevented the Iranians from reinforcing Fao, or from evacuating their forces once it was clear the Iraqis had succeeded in overrunning their defenses.
There were from 30,000 to 50,000 Iranian troops at Fao. The number killed or captured is not known at this time, but the sudden collapse of the Iranian defenses probably means casualties were relatively light on the Iraqi side.
map of the Persian Gulf highlighting the Fao Peninsula; photo of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq (Reuters)

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- All teams must provide a copy of stamped/certified roster(s) and player cards for guest players/players and coaches.You’ll also need to show us copies of each player’s medical release form (hard-copy only).
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Female sex hormones are a major cause of varicose veins during pregnancy. While a woman is pregnant the body will undergo a great deal of change. Hormone levels change and this can result in changes to the body including the increase in the amount of progesterone.
An increase in progesterone can cause blood vessels to relax which can lead to swelling of the veins. In addition to this, female sex hormones can directly cause spider veins, thread veins and broken veins.
If you have a history of varicose veins in the family, you are more likely to develop them as well. Varicose veins also tend to get worse with each pregnancy so if a patient experiences them during their first pregnancy then it is more likely that they will experience them in increasing strength in subsequent pregnancies.
The increased blood in the body during pregnancy places extra burden on veins. As the uterus grows it also creates pressure on the major veins in the pelvic area. This pressure, in turn, adds more pressure to the large vein on the right side of the body called the inferior vena cava. This can all push onto the leg veins and may result in varicose veins.

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Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle - of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a âtrueâ Jamaican, of her mother and grandmotherâs rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too âfaasâ or too âquietâ or too âboldâ or too âsoftâ. In âLittle Jamaicaâ, Torontoâs Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these 12 interconnected stories. We see her on a visit to Jamaica, startled by the sight of a severed pigâs head in her great auntâs freezer; in junior high, the victim of a devastating prank by her closest friends; and as a teenager in and out of her grandmotherâs house, trying to cope with the ongoing battles between her unyielding grandparents.
A rich and unforgettable portrait of growing up between worlds, Frying Plantain shows how, in one charged moment, friendship and love can turn to enmity and hate, well-meaning protection can become control and teasing play can turn to something much darker. In her brilliantly incisive debut, Zalika Reid-Benta artfully depicts the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation Canadians and first-generation cultural expectations and black identity and predominately white society.Â
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When former forensic photographer Miranda Rhoads moves to the seaside town of Lost Beach, she decides to make her living as a wildlife photographer, putting crime scenes behind her. But her plans are quickly upended when she comes across a couple sleeping in a canoe, entwined in an embrace. Looking closer, she realizes the man and woman aren't asleep - theyâve been murdered.Â Detective Joel Breda sets out to find answers - not only about the unidentified victims in the marshy death scene but also about the aloof and beautiful photographer who seems to know more about his investigation than he does.Â As they begin to unravel the motivation of a merciless serial killer, Miranda and Joel must race against the clock to make an arrest before the killer finds them first.
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Does Disability Make a Person Less Valuable?
Lately, I have had a couple of eye-opening experiences about disability. For one, while looking up a number of dictionary definitions for spina bifida, I noticed each called the condition either a "congenital defect" or a "birth defect."
That hooked me. For further clarification, I looked up the definition of "defect" on Merriam-Webster online. It said a defect was "a physical problem that causes something to be less valuable, effective, healthy, etc."
The same online dictionary, and others, also defined cleft lip, cleft palate, Down syndrome, and a whole host of heart problems as birth "defects." The Centers for Disease Control claims that "about one in every 33 babies is born with a birth defect." One website I found had a listing of hundreds of "defects" in people, ranging from deafness and intellectual disabilities to short limbs.
But do these differences and others really make a person "less valuable, effective, healthy, etc."?
A few weeks ago, I featured in a column Riva Lehrer, who was born with spina bifida. Instead of calling spina bifida a birth defect, which I had done numerous times over the years, I called it a condition. It would be a stretch to call Lehrer "less valuable" because of having spina bifida-or anyone with any disability being less valuable, for that matter. If anything, her condition helped make her more valuable to others. She has been a groundbreaking artist and writer about people with disabilities. What many people call a weakness, Lehrer has turned into a strength.
In 2002, my first newspaper column featured President Woodrow Wilson, who had dyslexia and couldn't read until age ten. His father helped him to compensate for his learning disability by coaching him to be an incredible public speaker. With dyslexia, he certainly wasn't less effective.
Which brings the question to mind: Is the word "disability" even accurate?
Again, Merriam-Webster online defines disability as "a condition (such as an illness or injury) that damages or limits a person's physical or mental abilities."
Primarily from writing this column eleven years, I could name off the top of my head dozens of people whose disability enhanced their lives and the lives of others.
Many people I interview wouldn't trade in their disability for anything. They became better people because their "disability" favorably re-directed their relationships, spirituality, careers or life purpose.
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Placer County News HeadlinesRoseville Financial Advisor Sentenced for Ripping Off ClientsMichelle Lee Kern, 36, who worked as a licensed financial advisor at Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. in Roseville has been sentenced to 46 months in prison.
Roseville, Rocklin among California's Best Cities for Home OwnershipIn a recent Nerd Wallet report, Rocklin, Folsom, and Roseville, rank 11th through 13th (respectively) among California's Best Cities for Homeownership.
Hidden Falls Regional Park Receives GrantPlacer County's "gem of the foothills," Hidden Falls Regional Park, is the recipient of a grant that will fund innovative projects protecting long-term ecological values and economic viability
Roseville Developer Begins Senior Community in Elk GroveUSA Properties Fund will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for Arbor Creek Senior Apartments at 10:30 a.m., Aug. 4, at the project site located at Elk Grove-Florin and Calvine roads
Rep. Tom McClintock Announces August Town Hall MeetingsRoseville, CA -- U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-04) has announced a series of town hall meetings in August.
Lincoln Man Serving Aboard the Navy's USS SomersetPetty Officer 1st Class Brian West, an aviation boatswain's mate from Lincoln, Calif. and 2003 graduate of Lincoln High School, is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Somerset
California Would Create More Jobs Without Prop 30In his recent piece for The Sacramento Bee, "State's job growth defies predictions after tax increases," David Cay Johnston argues that California's recent job creation numbers prove
Sacramento County Opposes Bay Delta Conservation PlanThis week the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors formally submitted comments challenging the findings of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) state environmental
Roseville to Host Senior Softball Western National ChampionshipsRoseville will play host this August to the Senior Softball Western National Championships
Roseville Crime Report Digest Update (7.29.14)Roseville, CA - The Roseville Police Department weekly crime report digest update for July 29, 2014.
Different Standards From Mortgage LendersJulie Jalone of MagnumOne Realty in Roseville, reports on a recent Fannie Mae survey which indicates there may be a growing difference in credit standards between small and large lenders. Which do you think has the tighter credit standards? Check out Julie's article and find out.
PCWA Comments on Bay Delta Conservation PlanDrought Watch: PCWA expresses concern about future water supply reliability for Placer County and claims EIR fails to consider key issues.


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mike.fernino4/5/21, 6:27 p.m.
Super Cool Vibe. Factory atmosphere with great brews and pours BUT let’s talk pizza. The pizza is great but it feels like they are trying to be Frank Pepe’. And in that regard they fall just alittle short. Nether the less this is a great place to hang out, have some drinks and enjoy really good pizza.
pizzavore10/18/20, 11:17 p.m.
Cheese pizza, 5:40pm on a Saturday, $11.81 Pros: Thin and delicious bar pie with a fantastic charred crunchy crust. Adequately sauced, fair price Cons: Little bit softer than I've had at Colony and Riko's in Stamford but still near them in taste and quality Verdict: It's a winner, put it in the books. Hard to imagine it gets much better than this in Bridgeport
robert.calanni3/8/20, 6:37 p.m.
The pizza was the thinnest I ever had. It flopped to much and the sauce was a little sweet. I would have given it a 7.1 but the guy making the pizza dropped the score even more. I had washed my hands in the restroom and there weren't any paper towels so I asked at the pizza counter. The guy making the pizza told me no even though there were several rolls of paper towels at the counter and that I should go ask a server. A server who over heard this offered me the napkins.
jake.laliberte1/26/20, 1:07 a.m.
No grease drip, no flop, great tang in the sauce. Really good crisp. Cheese/sauce ratio was good
john.co111/23/19, 5:06 p.m.
This pizza is great, thin, not greasy, with just the right amount of char. So DAMN GOOD!!
mike.davenport111/22/19, 3:14 a.m.
undercarriage was presidential-quality, and flavors were off the charts.
michael.lariviere11/3/19, 7:22 p.m.
Square slice. Not sure this is a fair review but it's the only time I've been. Might be higher in a different scenario. Good pie.
kj.mano10/24/19, 10:47 p.m.
BAR’s wannabe little brother. still very good. coal fired, crispy, floppy (because of the way it’s cut). only gripe is the amount of flour underneath.
danct768/25/19, 5:24 p.m.
Plain cheese pizza is a solid 7.8, but the Brewmaster pizza is out of this world! Overall delicious pizza and great atmosphere. 8.2
bob.abbate7/2/19, 10:57 p.m.
One of the best New Haven style pizzas you’ll ever have. Plus great beer. Unbeatable.

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Water main break causes congestion, cuts service
Water main break closes local road
CLARKS SUMMIT - A water main break Wednesday near the 900 block of South State Street is repaired and service is being restored, said Susan Turcmanovich, spokeswoman for Pennsylvania American Water.
The six-inch main broke around 4 a.m. The cause of the break is under investigation.
South State Street traffic was down to one lane while crews worked, causing some congestion, borough police Chief Joe Laguzzi said. There was no flooding, according to the chief.


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One morning last August, Lili Trifilio was feeling emotional.
“I’m honestly so nervous,” the singer-songwriter, then 24, admitted, her voice rising as she shook her head. It was the day before her indie-rock band Beach Bunny would headline a sold-out show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Beach Bunny’s recent success had seemed abstract to Trifilio, since most of it had happened during lockdown, on the internet, but the group’s biggest New York show to date would make it tangible.
“Over the pandemic, Beach Bunny has grown like 200 percent,” Trifilio continued, between sips of an iced Nutella mocha latte at a cafe not far from the venue, “and I don’t know what to expect.”
Trifilio has a wide, toothy smile and a choppy bobbed haircut that she likes to dye different colors — magenta, lilac, rust — though that day it was a naturalistic blonde. Onstage, she’s known for her bubbly, earnest positivity; at a recent Beach Bunny show, she gave an enthused recommendation for a local vegan restaurant, urged the audience to get their Covid-19 booster shots and led the entire crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to a fan. On albums she’s known for the emotional lucidity of her songwriting, which seems to trap fleeting feelings in shimmery amber.
Much of the recent growth in Beach Bunny’s popularity came via “Cloud 9,” a bouncy, guitar-driven love song from the Chicago band’s February 2020 debut album, “Honeymoon,” which in March 2021 became a viral hit on TikTok. Over 360,000 videos have now used Trifilio’s lilting valentine (“But when he loves me, I feel like I’m floating/When he calls me pretty, I feel like somebody”) to soundtrack photo reels of their lovers, crushes and besties; it has racked up more than 240 million streams on Spotify.
Several fans have asked Trifilio to record an acoustic version of “Cloud 9,” so they can use it as their wedding song. Trifilio finds it all a little ironic, given that she wrote it in the final days of a failing relationship.
“The lyrics are so smart,” Tegan Quin of the indie-pop duo Tegan and Sara said in a phone interview, “and melodically I find all their songs to be really creative.” She and her twin sister Sara were fans before “Cloud 9” took off, but the song’s popularity provided an opportunity for them to collaborate with Beach Bunny on a new version — as requested by fans — that also features “she” and “they” pronouns.
Beach Bunny’s music has plenty of admirers outside of the TikTok demographic, too. The actor Bob Odenkirk discovered the band several years ago while flipping through The Chicago Tribune, and he “immediately dug them,” he wrote in an email, because he found their sound to be “connected to the indie rock that I loved from the days of yore,” like Pixies, Sebadoh and the Cavedogs. He’s since become a vocal fan and even made a cameo in Beach Bunny’s recent “Star Wars”-spoofing video for the song “Entropy.”
“I’m an older white guy, and her lyrics are about longing and written from a female perspective,” Odenkirk added. “But I still feel very connected to the pain and estrangement of my 14-year-old self, and I always will.”
While the breakout of “Cloud 9” (and a prior TikTok success, “Prom Queen”) brought the band opportunities, Trifilio feared being pigeonholed or not taken seriously. “I was such a crab about it,” she said, twisting her straw. “Like I’m going to fall into this genre of internet bands. I was like, ‘No, I want to play big stages and play with bands I like, and not be thought of as cringey. I had all these weird ego dilemmas.”
Perhaps to combat those fears, during the pandemic, Trifilio taught herself about music production. She watched YouTube tutorials and countless interviews with producers who inspired her, like the electro-pop star Grimes. When the band started recording its second album, “Emotional Creature,” at Chicago’s Shirk Studios last spring, she felt more empowered to experiment.
“I think it’s cool that she’s an all-in-one show and does everything hands on,” Trifilio said of Grimes, citing her aggressively upbeat 2015 single “Kill V. Maim” as one of her favorite songs. “So after listening to her talk about production, going in I was like, ‘OK, I don’t really know how to do this, but can we make the beginning have this vibe? Before, I never knew to bring in those references.”
That increased ambition is apparent across “Emotional Creature,” out July 22, from the bright, explosively catchy leadoff track “Entropy” to the thrilling, nearly six-minute finale, “Love Song,” which in its satisfying final moments weaves together a medley of several other songs from the album.
“It still sounds like Beach Bunny,” Trifilio said, “but it just sounds a little more grown up. Which I’m happy with, because I’m growing up.”
TRIFILIO WAS RAISED in Chicago, and she started taking guitar lessons with a friend in fifth grade. “We did not have the attention spans for it,” she said with a laugh in a recent video interview from her childhood bedroom, where the purple walls matched her tie-dye butterfly shirt. (She moved into her own place during the pandemic, but still visits her parents frequently.) “But it was fun. That’s where I learned my basic skills. We were just like obnoxious kids, and so after a couple of years I quit because I had other things to do as a 13-year-old.”
Later in her teen years, Trifilio started participating in neighborhood jam sessions and teaching herself cover songs. She has noted on Twitter, amid the occasional Hannah Montana quotation, that while journalists compare her sound to “cool” ’90s bands, her most direct influence is the pop group Aly & AJ’s 2007 album, “Insomniatic.” (I hear traces of the alt-rock mainstays Letters to Cleo and the cheery indie-pop group Velocity Girl.) When she was 18, she thought, “Well, I’ve learned a lot of covers. Let’s see if I can use this combined knowledge to write something.”
The result was “6 Weeks,” a wailing, melancholic recollection of heartbreak (“Let’s begin at the end, when you tore me apart”) that she recorded on her computer with just an acoustic guitar. She presented it to her guitar-lesson friend as casually as possible: “I was like, I made this song, and I’m so embarrassed. Can you listen? I think I’m going to delete it.”
Trifilio’s pal gave her a much needed confidence boost — and an ultimatum. “She was like, ‘I’m going to stop being your friend if you don’t put this out,’” Trifilio recalled. “I was like, whoa, OK. Stakes are high.”
For the next few years, while she was studying journalism at DePaul University, Trifilio continued writing sharp, hooky power-pop songs and uploading them to a modest but growing online fan base. In 2017, she also started playing shows with a local group of guys — the drummer Jon Alvarado, the guitarist Matt Henkels and the bassist Aidan Cada, who was later replaced by Anthony Vaccaro — and her solo project became a proper band.
Trifilio’s candid, plain-spoken lyrics often sound like internal monologues; sometimes they’re pep talks, other times they give voice to her demons. The title track from the 2018 EP “Prom Queen” straddles the line between the two. “Shut up, count your calories,” it begins over a jangly chord progression. “I never looked good in Mom jeans.” The song became one of the most downcast tracks to inspire an internet dance craze. As her anxiety builds, the song becomes a critique of aesthetic perfectionism and diet culture that Trifilio, who has admitted that she has “struggled with [her] own body image,” knows all too well.
Many listeners related to Trifilio’s unabashed presentation of her insecurities. But “Prom Queen” found success on a platform that often rewards young people for adhering to the very conventions Trifilio was critiquing. Some noted the irony when the popular TikTok creator Addison Rae — the app’s honorary prom queen — posted a video of herself dancing and grinningly lip-syncing to a song that goes, “I was never cut out for Prom Queen.”
TikTok can make a song incredibly popular overnight; it can also very often divorce a song, or even fragments of a song, from its larger context. Trifilio, who was not yet familiar with the app when “Prom Queen” blew up in 2019, was concerned that listeners who only heard a line or two of the song might misconstrue it as an endorsement of behavior like calorie counting. So she pinned a lengthy statement to the song’s YouTube video, clearly stating her authorial intentions.
“I wrote this song for every person out there that has felt insecure, unloved, or unhappy in their own skin,” she wrote. “Please don’t harm your health or well being to live up to these invented expectations, it is not worth risking your life over.”
Three years and another round of app-fueled success later, Trifilio said she’s learned to relinquish control of how her songs might be received. “You know, I use music in the same way,” she said. “I’m sure artists had different intentions than how I interpret things.” “Prom Queen,” she added, is “kind of the public’s song now.”
AT A JULY 2019 show in New Mexico, Trifilio was surprised to notice a familiar face at the merch table: Odenkirk. He mentioned an upcoming audition he was preparing for, and as they parted Trifilio wished him good luck. “He spun around, gave me the finger guns, and he was like, ‘I don’t need it,’” she recalled with a laugh. “And I was like, ‘That’s right, you don’t need it!’ I need that level of confidence!’”
The bold and self-assured sound of “Emotional Creature” shows how far she’s come. Sean O’Keefe, who produced the album, called her “one of the best songwriters I’ve ever gotten to work with, and I’ve been fortunate enough to work with a lot of really great songwriters.” (His credits include Fall Out Boy and Plain White T’s.)
On the new album, piercing pop-punk tunes like “Gone” and “Deadweight” challenge emotionally ambivalent partners to wear their hearts on their sleeves. “You’re a diamond/Wish you could see you the way I see,” Trifilio sings on the mid-tempo rocker “Weeds,” during a chorus that offers loving advice to a heartbroken friend — or perhaps the singer herself. Writing the album, she said, helped her to confront her history of “shame around feeling big emotions.”
“That was, like, a therapy moment,” she said. “‘Wow, you have a lot of shame around being an emotional person, even though every human has feelings.”’
Trifilio has since come around on TikTok, too. “There is definitely a young girl audience, mostly coming from TikTok, with very little experience of even attending shows,” she said. “They tell me, ‘This is one of my first shows,’ and I’m like, ‘That’s amazing. I hope you go to so many more.’”
Such experiences seem indicative, to artists of a previous generation like Tegan and Sara, of a palpable change. “Streaming has devastated the music industry for artists, but it’s also made it really easy to be popular in corners of the industry that just didn’t exist when we were coming up,” Quin said. “Beach Bunny is an example of that. There’s just this vibrant, incredible scene flourishing around them because people can find them.”
At the Brooklyn cafe, Trifilio had noted, “When I was 16, there would be some band I’d see and I’d think, ‘It would be so cool to be in a band.’” Preparing to greet some of her new fans in the flesh the following night, she added, “It’s amazing to think that someone might come to a show and maybe that inspires them to learn a Beach Bunny song on guitar. And then they learn other songs on guitar. That’s wild.”


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We have been named one of Great Place to Work’s Best Workplaces in Korea for 2024 – our sixth year in a row earning this honor. We have also been consistently recognized for the past three years as one of the Best Workplaces for Women and Millennials in Korea.
In addition to the company-level wins, four of our employees have won individual awards in Great Place to Work. Kevin Shim, our Managing Director of Stryker Korea, won the Most Admired Leader in Korea. Jeff Lee, our BU Director of Mako, won the GPTW Pioneer in Korea award. Junghoon Seo, our Commercial Reporting Manager at CE, won the Innovative Leader in Korea award. Chloe Lee, our Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs, won the Best 100 Proud Working Mothers in Korea award.
These achievements are a testament to our Stryker culture of embracing diversity, advocating equity and promoting inclusion. We thank our employees for continuing to make Stryker a great place to work in Korea.