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Hello. I just got in contact with a group in Seattle making "solidarity" art and I wanted to know what that means to you. Is acknowledging the horrors in Gaza the most effective way to make Palestinians feel seen? Or is there more value in incorporating symbols of resilience, like olive trees, watermelons, and spoons?

By acknowledging, I mean create something enraging, like depicting the drastically different living conditions on the Palestinian and Israeli sides of the border wall. Healthy people in open farmland on one side and a warzone on the other. Or is it better to include a little hope? One idea I've been mulling over is painting a Palestinian child and IDF solider in a way that suggests David and Goliath (I found out the most common charge against Palestinian youths is throwing rocks). Another is Gaza as a torn tapestry with Mother Palestine sewing over and repairing the rips with tatreez.

I guess the real question is: Do you think most Palestinians would appreciate an attempt at comfort, or is it better to simply grieve with them?

Thank you so much for sending this in. My personal take is the most inspiring imagery are symbols of resistance. For example, this poster is embedded in many Palestinians' minds (click) as a prime example of resistance. I love images of olives and flowers not because they're soft, but because they represent life to me. Something I also adore is Rafeef Ziadah's poem "We Teach Life, Sir" and Samah Fadil's "Then, A Palestinian was Born," as words that speak to me as core parts of Palestinian resistance.

I think you can definitely mix strength and grief, or comfort and grief together when talking about Palestine. Refaat said it best: "the most dangerous thing I have is an expo marker but if an Israeli soldier were to come to my house I would use that expo marker and throw it at them." To us, the idea that we have to resist is grief and the grief moves us to resist. I personally really love the david and golaith imagery because it reminds me of the poster below.

I guess this is all to say that you can mix them together, the grief of seeing people dying and the strength of resistance against the oppression. What's the most effective thing is portraying the truth: Israel kills and Palestine resists.

Here is the image. I highly encourage everyone to print out this poster and post it around town if you're able. Or even post it around social media if you can, and link back to palarchive so that people can see there's so much palestinian art and history that they can explore.

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Georgia man sentenced to prison for assaulting officer, hotel guests while naked, high on drugs

Naked Georgia Man Sentenced After Assaulting Multiple People, Including Police Officer In a bizarre incident that unfolded in Acworth, Georgia, a 37-year-old man named Kelly Holcomb has been found guilty of assaulting multiple individuals, including a police officer, all while in a disrobed and drug-induced state. Holcomb's actions on that fateful day have resulted in a significant legal consequence. On December 17, 2022, Kelly Holcomb was accused of forcibly entering a room at the Deerfield Lodge in Acworth, Georgia. Within the room, he engaged in acts of violence, striking a man and a woman in the face. Reports poured in about a naked individual wreaking havoc and attacking people. In response, Acworth Police Officer Taneisha Palarche was dispatched to conduct a welfare check on the situation. However, her encounter with Holcomb took a violent turn. Instead of calming down, he launched further attacks, this time targeting another person and the police officer herself. Officer Eric Mistretta recounted, "He was naked and believed to be intoxicated on multiple different types of drugs." The situation escalated as Holcomb knocked out one of Palarche's front teeth, strangled her, and attempted to gouge her eyes out with his thumbs. Local residents intervened, providing crucial assistance to free the beleaguered officer. Additional police officers soon arrived at the scene, but Holcomb's aggression continued as he kicked one of them. Despite their efforts to restrain him and the use of a Taser, they were unable to subdue him. Ultimately, officers managed to apprehend Holcomb, who was subsequently transported to a hospital for evaluation. Following his release from the hospital, he was booked into jail. While officers struggled to contain the situation, Metro EMS arrived on the scene to administer a sedative to calm Holcomb down, as recounted by Officer Mistretta. In the legal aftermath, a Cobb County jury found Holcomb guilty on various charges, including aggravated battery on a peace officer, aggravated assault on a peace officer, aggravated battery, aggravated assault, obstruction of an officer, burglary in the first degree, and misdemeanor battery. During the trial, Holcomb admitted to having used methamphetamine before the assault. Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Nolan Slifko remarked, "I'm thankful for the bystanders that helped Officer Palarche and the other victims in this case. This case shows the dangers of drug use and the harmful consequences it has not just for the user but the individuals surrounding them." The verdict came with a significant consequence. Holcomb has been sentenced to 20 years, with the first 15 years to be served in prison. During the sentencing, Judge Jason D. Marbutt delivered a stern message, stating, "Your bad decisions have led us here," and ordered Holcomb to have no contact with the victims. Read the full article

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[ad_1] A Georgia man found guilty of assaulting multiple people, including a police officer, while he was naked and high on drugs has been sentenced.Kelly Holcomb, 37, was accused of entering a Deerfield Lodge room in Acworth, Georgia, on December 17 and punching a man and a woman in the face.Police received reports of a naked man running around attacking people, and Acworth Police Officer Taneisha Palarche was the first to respond to the room for a welfare check, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. Palarche approached Holcomb and attempted to calm him down, but instead, he attacked another person before then attacking the officer."He was naked and believed to be intoxicated on multiple different types of drugs," Officer Eric Mistretta said after the incident last year.NAKED GEORGIA MAN ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTS HOTEL GUESTS, POLICE OFFICER WHILE ‘HIGH ON DRUGS’ Kelly Holcomb, 37, was accused of entering a Deerfield Lodge room in Acworth, Georgia, on December 17 and attacking people. (Acworth Police Department)Holcomb knocked out one of Palarche's front teeth, strangled her and attempted to gouge her eyes out with his thumbs, police said. Some residents reportedly tried to distract the man while one resident helped free the officer.Back-up officers eventually arrived, and Holcomb kicked one of them. The officers attempted to restrain him and used a Taser, but their efforts were unsuccessful.Officers were ultimately able to arrest Holcomb, who was then transported to a hospital. He was later booked into jail after his release from the hospital."While officers were trying to restrain the suspect Metro EMS arrived at the scene to assist and were able to administer a sedative to calm Holcomb down," Mistretta said.FORMER FULTON COUNTY JAIL OFFICER INDICTED FOR ALLEGEDLY USING EXCESSIVE FORCE WITH DETAINEE Kelly Holcomb was arrested and transported to a hospital. He was later booked into jail after his release from the hospital. (Acworth Police)A Cobb County jury found Holcomb guilty of one count of aggravated battery on a peace officer, one count of aggravated assault on a peace officer, two counts of aggravated battery, one count of aggravated assault, two counts of obstruction of an officer, one count of burglary in the first degree and one count of misdemeanor battery.Holcomb admitted during the trial to having smoked methamphetamine prior to the assault.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP"I’m thankful for the bystanders that helped Officer Palarche and the other victims in this case. This case shows the dangers of drug use and the harmful consequences it has not just for the user but the individuals surrounding them." Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Nolan Slifko said in a statement to Fox 5 Atlanta.Holcomb was sentenced to 20 years with the first 15 years to be served in prison."Your bad decisions have led us here," Judge Jason D. Marbutt said during sentencing, according to WSB-TV. The judge ordered Holcomb to have no contact with the victims. [ad_2]

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Irritator challengeri

By José Carlos Cortés 

Etymology: The One That Irritated

First Described By: Martill et al., 1996

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Megalosauroidea, Megalosauria, Spinosauridae, Spinosaurinae

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: Between 110 and 108 million years ago, in the Albian of the Early Cretaceous 

Irritator is known from the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation in Brazil 

Physical Description: Irritator was a Spinosaurid, so the weird crocodile-mimicking theropods that roamed the Cretaceous landscape across the Southern hemisphere (and some of Europe). Irritator, however, is not known from very much material, despite having loads written about it. It was one of the smaller members of the Spinosaur group, only about 7.5 meters long and not weigh more than one tonne - which may actually indicate it could have still had some sort of fluffy integument, though this still seems unlikely based on its ecology. As a Spinosaur, Irritator would have been fairly bulky, with a long and vaguely crocodilian skull. Its skull also featured a long thin crest going from the midline to the eye, where it flattened into a bulge - this was probably some sort of display structure. Little is known of the rest of its skeleton, but it is known to have had a long and well-clawed hand. It probably had some sort of sail on its back, but it probably was a shorter one, and whether or not its legs were a normal size is unknown. 

By Alexander Vieira, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Irritator is on the far right, in green) 

Diet: Irritator would have mainly fed upon fish and other aquatic organisms.

Behavior: Irritator, being a Spinosaur, spent most of its time in the water, swimming about and searching for food. Since it was rather small, it would have been able to fit in smaller streams of water than most of its other relatives. Though, since it probably still had fairly decent legs, it also would have spent a good amount of time on the land, surveying the shore for food and seeking out prey. Its long snout would then be used to grab fish and other animals from the water, using the lightweight instrument to grab food it might not be able to reach otherwise. While swimming, it would be able to use that snout to reach even more food than before, ducking its head underwater or doing the reverse to hide from land sources of prey. Its very powerful neck muscles would have also been extremely helpful in grabbing and holding onto thrashing prey. 

By Fred Wierum, CC BY 3.0 

Irritator was probably warm-blooded, and used its sail more for display than for keeping warm. This display structure may have been able to change color based on blood circulation or environment in order to send different messages to other members of the species. The crest on the center of the snout also probably served similar features, for displaying to one another. It seems likely that Irritator, like most other dinosaurs, took care of its young; but there is no evidence either way to support that hypothesis. 

By PaleoGeekSquared, CC BY 3.0 

Ecosystem: Irritator lived in the Romualdo Environment of Brazil, which was a basin of lakes surrounded by rivers and other wetland environments, filled to the brim with a wide variety of plantlife. Nearby was the burgeoning Atlantic Ocean, making this a Spinosaur’s favorite place of all. Here there were a wide variety of early flowering plants like magnolias, seagrasses, and lilies - all of which were associated heavily with this aquatic environment. There were many types of ray-finned fish, which would have been the primary source of prey for Irritator, as well as lobe-finned fish which would have also been decent sources of food. Sharks seem to have been rare. There were plenty of turtles too, including one of the earliest sea turtles Santanachelys. This was the land of extreme pterosaurs, including Anhanguera, Arirpesaurus, Barbosania, Brasileodactylus, Cearadacytlus, Maaradactylus, Santanadactylus, Tapejara, Thalassodromeus, Tropeognathus, Tupuxuara, and Unwindia. There was also a Notosuchian, Araripesuchus. There were other dinosaurs there too - the compsognathid Mirischia and the Tyrannosauroid Santanaraptor, which would have mainly fed on small animal prey. 

By Scott Reid

Other: Irritator was found as part of the illegal fossil trade, initially mistake for a pterosaur, then a maniraptoran, before being finally identified as a spinosaur. The confusion surrounding this fossil - and the fact that the snout had been artificially elongated by the fossil traders - lead to its name. Its position within the Spinosaurs is well supported, and it seems to have been at least somewhat closely related to Spinosaurus itself, rather than Baryonyx on the other end of the family tree.

~ By Meig Dickson

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Xu, X.; Currie, P.; Pittman, M.; Xing, L.; Meng, Q.; Lü, J.; Hu, D.; Yu, C. (2017). "Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur with transitional features". Nature Communications. 8: 14972.

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Generating Qualified Leads

Leads are potential customers that a business thrives on. In order to nurture qualified leads it is important to create a connection with the prospects through content that caters their needs, goals, triggers and interest. The content must be relevant, trustworthy and solution-oriented (Brand, 2021). Then, using touchpoint such as share valuable information directly, address common questions, and emphasize the solutions you offer to make these leads’ lives easier.

Once the relationship with consumers are being built and developed, sales and marketing play an important role as well. Digital marketing is an action plan of using digital communication media and can help a business to boost and transmit information. “Digital marketing has provided the solution to reach maximum number of leads for any good and services to be sold” (SAVEKAR, 2021). Some of the benefit of digital marketing are through channels/methods, such as Content  Marketing, Social  Media  Marketing, Campaign  Marketing,  Search Engine Optimization, Social Media Optimization, E-mail Directing Marketing, Display Advertising and so on. These channels helps a business to generate lead and drives people to the buyer’s journey that is composed by three steps. Firstly, audience looking for a solution, discover your content and follow you. Secondly, leads that consider your business as an option. Lastly, buyers who are convinced to buy your solution (Brand, 2021).

As was mentioned above, digital marketing channels are helpful when it comes to generate leads. For example, Social Media Marketing (SIM) is a mode of advertising of product or service through internet using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to name a few. Through  these channels  companies  have the  strength brand,  and helps  leads  for the  company  and these  leads  (consumer data)  can  be converted into customers with sincere marketing effort online (SAVEKAR, 2021). Also, Mobile Marketing has become relevant due to the popularity of mobile phones. It is helpful nowadays as SMS messages go in and out every time; meaning that it is ideal for any company looking to generate leads and prospective customers. Another marketing strategy is content marketing which helps to create and to promote content assets in order to generate brand awareness, traffic growth, lead generations and customers. It is made through blogging on a company website where information is displayed for visitors (Olson, Olson, Czaplewski, & Key, 2021). On the other hand, if you are looking to create interaction between leads and your business Chatbots are the tool. Chatbots can simulate an in-person conversation and improve the user experience and streamline the sales process (Cheng, & Jiang, 2021).

References.

Brand, B. Y. (2021). Content Marketing.https://amillienconcepts.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Content-Marketing-Webinar-Presentation-AMC.pdf

Cheng, Y., & Jiang, H. (2021, June 3). Customer–brand relationship in the era of artificial intelligence: understanding the role of chatbot marketing efforts. Journal of Product & Brand Management.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPBM-05-2020-2907/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest

Olson, E. M., Olson, K. M., Czaplewski, A. J., & Key, T. M. (2021, March 14). Business strategy and the management of digital marketing. Business Horizons.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681320301567

SAVEKAR, V. V. (2021, July 13). DIGITAL MARKETING AS A TOOL FOR EFFECTIVE ADVERTISEMENT. PalArch's Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology.https://archives.palarch.nl/index.php/jae/article/view/9299

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Week 2 Reliable Source

For this week’s blog, the assignment for the blog post was to find two reliable websites or journals that we could use that are reliable. For me, the purpose is not just to find a reliable source but entertaining ones as well. As a former English Instructor, I know that reliable and entertaining are not always synonymous in nature. But for an Instructional Designer, they should be.

The first journal I found was the PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology. I am quite interested in archaeology and was pleasantly surprised to find an article on Information processing. I now know that I will be able to find reliable articles from this fascinating journal.

The second journal that I discovered was The Career Development Quarterly. My current position has me working to help military families, this journal will be invaluable in my quest to be able to speak plainly to my audience. As an academic for over ten years, being able to change my writing style will be very helpful.

Al-Ethari, S. H., & Majwal Al-jubori, M. M. (2021). Building a Proposed Training Program for Teachers of E-Learning Classes According to the Theory of Information Processing to Develop Verbal Communication Skills. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 18(1), 3250–3256.

Clemens, E. V., & Milsom, A. S. (2008). Enlisted service members’ transition into the civilian world of work: A cognitive information approach. The Career Development Quarterly, 56(3), 246–256. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1002/j.2161-0045.2008.tb00039.x

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Quick Thoughts: Ongoing Post on the War on Gaza by Mouin Rabbani, (a Dutch-Palestinian Middle East analyst specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs)