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Margaret Carlson, Columnist, Bloomberg News, Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute, and Steve Clemons, Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic and Quartz (Qz.com), conclude New York Ideas 2013.
Margaret Carlson is a Bloomberg View columnist. A former White House correspondent for Time, she was also Time's first female columnist. She appeared on CNN's "Capital Gang" for 15 years.
Steve Clemons is Washington editor at large for The Atlantic and editor of Atlantic Live. He writes frequently about politics and foreign affairs.
Clemons is a senior fellow and the founder of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., where he previously served as executive vice president. He writes and speaks frequently about the D.C. political scene, foreign policy, and national security issues, as well as domestic and global economic-policy challenges.
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|Publication number||US4367876 A|
|Application number||US 06/129,652|
|Publication date||Jan 11, 1983|
|Filing date||Mar 12, 1980|
|Priority date||Mar 12, 1979|
|Also published as||DE3009676A1, DE3009676C2|
|Publication number||06129652, 129652, US 4367876 A, US 4367876A, US-A-4367876, US4367876 A, US4367876A|
|Original Assignee||Kabushiki Kaisha Universal|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (34), Classifications (12), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to score display apparatus for use in pinball game machines and a display method therefor, more particularly to such score display apparatus and a display method in which a CRT visual display unit is provided in a part of a pinball game machine to indicate several scores of players in digital display.
Various types of pinball game machines with a micro-computer built in for controlling automatically the actions of many movable components, associated circuits and elements and performing the scoring operation for the player who is up, are already known. One of them, for example, disclosed in Japanese Patent Appln. Disclosure No. 52-64325 (corresponding to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 633,470, filed November, 1975), is provided with four score indicators so as to enable four players to compete with each other and to indicate simultaneously four player-related scores. Such indications are respectively comprised of six transversely aligned digit elements to display to six figures of a number, each of which elements is completed segmentally by seven light-emitting diodes. Other pinball game machines on the market are provided with six score indications so as to enable six players to compete with each other in games.
Generally, the score indicator utilizing a plurality of seven-segment digit elements is at a disadvantage from the viewpoint of manufacture and cost thereof, because it requires the same number of indicators as the number of players that can play at one time.
Thus, when the score display apparatus indicates six player-related scores to be numbers of six figures, then six score indicators, thirty six latch means and thirty six recorders will be basically required. Although a dynamic driving system will be utilized, fourty five signal lines will be further required to drive these indicators. This results in making the wiring operation very troublesome. Furthermore, it is difficult to reorganize the score display apparatus in such a case as it is desirable to increase the number of players that can play at one time. Furthermore, the score display apparatus using such indicators cannot be adapted to provide information relative to games without score information. Therefore, the conventional score display apparatus has not found wide application.
It is accordingly a principal object of the present invention to provide score display apparatus for use in pinball game machines which may be manufactured easily and inexpensively.
It is another object of the present invention to provide score display apparatus for use in pinball game machines which permits multipurpose applications such as providing various information relative to the games as well as scoring indications.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide score display apparatus for use in pinball game machines which may be easily reorganized as desired, with only the modification of softwear when it is desirable to change the number of players that can play at one time.
Finally, it is an object of the present invention to provide a score display method for pinball game machines in which the score indication of the player at play is performed using large-size digits so as to enable the players to distinguish it easily from the scores of the other players.
The present invention is particularly concerned with such score apparatus for use in pinball game machines wherein the data is transferred from a micro-computer for operating scores and the like into a memory means to be memorized and then each memory cell of the memory means is sequentially accessed to read out the data. The data read-out is transferred to a CRT visual display unit for displaying information comprising characters and digits after the conversion into video signals.
In the case of a plurality of players playing at one time, the score of the player at play is displayed with large-size digits on a predetermined special portion of the screen of the CRT visual display unit. By virtue of this, the score display position for each player is interchanged one after another when the player to operate the pinball game machine takes the place of the player whose play is finished.
The score display apparatus using the CRT visual display unit in accordance with the present invention may provide various information on the CRT visual display unit such as game operation manners, the number of games playable, warning of accidents and the like, as well as scoring information.
The score display apparatus in accordance with the present invention basically comprises a CRT visual display unit already on the market, a display RAM (random access memory), a timing generator, a pattern ROM (read only memory) and a mixer, so that it is less expensive than conventional score indicators using six digit elements in seven segments. In addition, the score display apparatus using the CRT visual display unit serves to make wiring operations easily and to lower the cost, because a group of elements from the display RAM to the mixer circuit may be disposed on a single base panel and the connection between the mixer circuit and the CRT visual display unit is completed by at least two signal transmission lines.
The accompanying drawings illustrate a preferred construction of the present invention in which the above objects, advantages and features are more clearly illustrated as well as others which will be readily understood from the following description:
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pinball game machine in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a side elevational view of a pinball game machine in accordance with the present invention, showing the CRT visual display unit in section;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the electric circuit embodying a score display apparatus with the CRT visual display unit in accordance with the present invention;
FIGS. 4 and 5 are diagrammatic illustrations of television screens on which various information is displayed;
FIGS. 6 to 8 are flow charts of the program and the sub-program representing sequences for displaying the scores of players; and
FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic illustration showing a part of the working RAM memory table.
Referring to the drawings and particularly to FIG. 1 thereof, there is shown a pinball game machine 1 having a cabinet 2 for a playing field and a cabinet 3 for a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) visual display unit. The cabinet 2 has playing field 5 therein and has four legs 4 secured to the underside thereof which support the cabinet 2 to be located appropriately at waist height of the usual game player. In accordance with the usual construction, the playing field 5 includes a plurality of partitions 6 forming passageways for a round ball, a plurality of kicker devices 7 for striking and driving the round ball across the playing field and targets 8, all located within the playing field 5. In such pinball game machines, when special passageways are passed through by the ball, and when the kickers and the targets are engaged by the ball, various scores are established.
The manually operable lever 9 of the ball-feeding mechanism is biased by a spring, not shown, so the player can play the ball by the releasing manually the lever, in the usual way. The ball, driven to the upper end of the playing field 5 by the lever, through passageway 10, rolls downward under the force of gravity across the playing field which is inclined downwardly. During this rolling movement, when the elements such as kickers 7 and targets 8 are engaged by the ball, the switches incorporated in these elements are actuated to provide additional scoring. Further scoring switches are appropriately disposed within particular passageways and establish various scores when engaged by the ball passing through the passageway, all in a well known and conventional manner.
In accordance with the usual construction, the pinball game machine also includes a pair of manually operated or controlled flippers 11 pivotally mounted at the bottom portion of the playing field. The flippers 11 engage the ball and return it upwardly on the playing field 5. The flipper controls are conventionally in the form of right and left buttoms 12 provided on the corresponding side walls of the cabinet 2 for manual operation by the operator. Between these flippers there is defined a space, which is substantially twice as large as the diameter of the ball, to permit the ball to pass through. When the ball passes through the space with the result of finishing the game or a portion of the game, the ball activates a switch to render the pinball game machine inoperable. When the ball is returned again to the initial position from which it was ejected, then the game can continue.
In addition, a coin-receiving means is provided to condition the playing of the game on the introduction of coins. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the reference numeral 13 indicates a coin selector which can differentiate a genuine coin of the proper denomination, from others. Introduction of the coins into the coin selector 13 will turn on a coin switch and will condition the pinball game machine to be operable, for example for first and second players with the response providing for automatic and alternate playing and scoring for the two players.
As illustrated in FIG. 2, the cabinet 3 including a CRT visual display unit is formed with an opening 14 within which the CRT visual display unit 15 is appropriately received. The cabinet 3 is also provided with a transparent glass plate 16 which may close the front surface of the casing and through which the images displayed on the screen of the CRT visual display unit may be observed. Further, in the bottom portion of the CRT visual display unit cabinet 3, a control circuit system such as a microcomputer or the like is enclosed.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the control circuit system in accordance with the present invention in which the clock signals from a clock generator circuit 20 are transmitted into a conventional CPU (central processing unit) 21. In a program ROM 22 is stored programs such as the scoring operation, the display operation and instructions of controlling and operating associated elements of the pinball game machine. A working RAM 23 is provided, to memorize temporarily the controlling and operating data. An input port 24 receives signals from a dip-switch and so forth, and from a plurality of playing field switches 25 disposed on the playing field for scoring and for resetting the condition of the game. Furthermore, an output port 26 is connected with target score lamps included in the playing field 5 which are operated when the target 8 is engaged, and with solenoids or solenoid coils incorporated in the kicker 7, a voice or sounds speaker and so forth. The micro-computer is basically comprised by the clock generator circuit 20, CPU 21, the program ROM 22, the working RAM 23, the input port 24 and the output port 26.
The clock signal from the clock generator circuit 20 is transmitted to the timing generator circuit 27 in which horizontal synchronizing signals, vertical synchronizing signals, address signals for the display RAM and the like may be established.
The location of the display RAM 28 in which the data from the working RAM 23 is stored is addressed by the CPU 21. Upon reading the data from the display RAM 28, it is addressed by the instruction signal from the timing generator circuit 27 and the data stored therein is immediately read out. In this way, the display RAM 28 may be addressed either by the timing generator circuit 27 or by the CPU 21, so that a selector means 29 is provided across its address bus line so as alternatively to change over the address operation from one to the other with the signal from the timing generator circuit 27.
Also to the display RAM 28 is, on the one hand, transferred the data from the working ROM 23, on the other hand transfers the read-out data into the pattern ROM 30. In this embodiment, a circuit means such as a character generator may be utilized as the pattern ROM. For that reason, another selector 31 is provided across its data bus line.
In the pattern ROM 30 various character data such as alphabet letters, large size digits and small size digits are memorized. Character data memorized in the pattern ROM 30 are addressed and read out by the address signal from the display RAM 28, and then the character data are converted to series signals through a parallel-serial converter circuit 32. The series signals are transferred to a mixer circuit 33 by which disuse signals for a blanking period are cleared. The video signals output from the mixer 33 is transferred to the CRT visual display unit displaying the player's score, various information on the game, and other information.
FIG. 4 illustrates configurations of the display of scores on the screen of the CRT visual display unit. One play of the game will be over when the ball passes through the space between flippers 11 and falls down. Introduction of one coin (for example a quarter) into a coin acceptor (not shown) will condition the pinball game machine for one player to play three games (the operation of a dip switch may change the play to five games).
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the introduction of three coins into a coin acceptor and three operations of a start buttom 34 may condition the pinball game machine for three players to play at one time.
FIG. 4(a) illustrates a score indication pattern displayed on the screen of the CRT visual display unit, in which it is indicated that the first player is at play and his current total score is "52070." The score of the first player is indicated in large-size digits at the top of the screen, and the scores of the others are indicated in order, in the lower portion thereof.
When the one play of the game of the first player is over, the scores of the second and third players move up. The score of the current player is of course indicated in large-size digits and the others in small-size digits. Thus, the score of the first player is indicated under the third player's score, as shown in FIG. 4(b).
Furthermore, when the play of the second player is over, the indications of scores are advanced in like manner as shown in FIG. 4(c). In this way, the players can not only play three games but also compete with each other as to total score.
Another preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIG. 5, in which there are provided indications such as repeatable games and other information in addition to the score indications. The signal of "PLAYING BALL" under the lowermost score indication means the repeatable games, that is, in the case shown in FIG. 5, the number of the play for the first player. The legend "NUMBER MATCH" means that one additional game play will be given to the player who has the score with the last two digits the same as the number randomly indicated on this line when all of the games are terminated. Furthermore, the legend "CREDIT" means the number of coins still unused in the coin acceptor.
The flowchart shown in FIG. 6 illustrates the program representing the procedure by which the indication of the player who is up is changed. The program will be run in response to the fall of the ball through the passageway between the flippers. The player indicated takes the place of a prior player. Now the relationship between the player count and the player may be given by the following table:
______________________________________Player Count Player______________________________________0 1st player1 2nd player2 3rd player3 4th player4 5th player5 6th player______________________________________
The flow charts shown in FIG. 7 illustrate sub-routine programs representing the procedures by which the score of the player who is up is indicated with large-size digits.
FIG. 8 illustrates the flow chart of the sub-routine programs representing the procedure to indicate the scores of the other players with small-size digits.
FIG. 9 illustrates a part of the working ROM memory table in which three words are applied to each score of the players and six scores are carried therein.
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tDCS: What to Know About Electrode Brain Boosting
tDCS: What to Know About Electrode Brain Boosting
Brain zapping. If you’ve heard of it, it was probably in the context of 1960s-style mental institutions and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), neither of which look like very much fun. However, ECT is not the only type of zapping, or stimulating electrical currents in your brain, that doctors and scientists have been dabbling in during the past 50 years. As it turns out, ECT has a gentler, safer, and much less intense cousin called transcranial direct current stimulation, tDCS, which can be used for everything from minor mental maladies to improving memory and coordination, all in the comfort of your own home instead of one of those scary looking gurneys.
What tDCS Does
tDCS uses a fraction of the current in ECT, only 1-2 milliamps, which passes through brain tissue via electrodes placed on the scalp. The stimulation is too weak to directly cause neuronal firing, but is thought to interact with the neuronal membrane and background neural activity. It can induce lasting changes in neuronal excitability, the intensity with which your neurons react to stimuli. A tDCS device is like a small, handheld battery that fuels spongey electrodes, which clip to your head. Attaching these to different parts of the head can affect many different mental processes, from language learning to solving math problems, so if you’re looking to become a math guru, this might help!
One example of the importance of stimulating different parts of the brain: putting an anode over the motor cortex and cathode over the contralateral supra-orbital region produces a lasting increase in motor cortical excitability, but when the electrodes are reversed, a decrease in motor cortical excitability is seen; it’s important to know what you’re zapping! The efficacy and duration of the tDCS-induced neuronal changes in humans depend on length of the stimulation, size of the electrodes, and strength of the current.
tDCS was originally developed in the 20th century by the military, which studied whether brain stimulation could cut down pilot training time. They’ve also measured if tDCS improves visual recognition, and have found that tDCS made airmen twice as accurately identify tanks and missile launchers in radar scans, as well as their improving abilities to detect hidden threats – which is important, whether you’re in the military or walking to your car at night in a sketchy part of town.
On a chemical level, tDCS has big effects on your brain. Using this sort of stimulation increases levels of the neurotransmitters glutamate and glutamine. Glutamate is the main chemical messenger in the brain, so having more of it gives your brain a greater capacity to send messages and process information. tDCS also raises levels of NAA, a strong indicator that your neurons are healthy. Together, all of these chemicals stimulated by tDCS support learning and brain adaptations; the more, the merrier (to an extent). On the flip side, researchers have documented almost immediate decreases in these neurotransmitter surges at the end of stimulation sessions, so getting your learning in during the tDCS session is essential. That said, the learning you’ve done does not fade, and studies have shown that there’s a cumulative effect on overall learning – consistent tDCS use may make neurological changes in your brain that make your brain function and learning more efficient, even without stimulation.
tCDS is Used for a Variety of Reasons
- tDCS is increasingly used for memory and retention. If you’re trying to memorize anything from your next big speech to vocabulary, using tDCS while learning the material has been shown to be incredibly helpful.
- On top of learning abilities, there’s also evidence that consistent tDCS can help alleviate depression, anxiety and other mental issues. One large study found that 48% of patients treated for depression with tDCS experienced meaningful improvements in their mental health with consistent sessions over a 6-week period. tDCS is also not treatment-resistant like many other potential cures are, making it a useful lifelong tool for combatting depression. The responses are so compelling that some hospitals like Beth Israel in New York and Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston have used it for treating depression.
- Another study demonstrated that tDCS could lead to increased motor cortical excitement and improve a variety of basic motor functions, which is good news both for those of us that are just plain uncoordinated, and older patients with diseases like Parkinson’s.
Using tDCS at Home is Simple
If you’re itching to try out tDCS at home, there are a few options for purchasing your own kit. Foc.us is a company that makes adequate tDCS kits; they’re marketed towards athletes, but are great for everyone. Omni Stimulator and the Brain Stimulator also sell quality products.
Before you start hooking up the electrodes:
- Make sure you are fully informed regarding what tDCS is and what risks are involved. If you have any unusual medical issues, consult with your doctor.
- Make sure you have your tDCS device, battery, electrodes, headphones, straps, etc. ready to go. If you will be using a Halo headset, follow their directions as appropriate.
- Wet your electrodes (not to the point of dripping) with saline or tap water as desired. Place as desired.
- Set your tDCS device for 1 to 1.5 mA and start at 5 minutes for the session time. Over time, you may work up to 20 minute sessions.
- Start your tDCS session.
Doing a session for longer than 20-25 minutes could potentially be harmful, as can doing stimulation sessions too often. Most practiced users will use tDCS 3-4 days per week, but it’s important to work up to that level instead of jumping on in!
Be Smart About Getting Smarter
Something to be mindful of, in spite of the positive benefits of tDCS, is the notion that enhancing one cognitive ability can happen at the expense of another. Think about savants, who have incredible mental gifts in certain areas, yet struggle tremendously in others. That’s not to say that using tDCS will damage your brain or impair your learning if used properly, but there have been some reports of increased introversion and other slight but notable mood changes during and briefly after tDCS sessions.
As with anything that effects that brain, there are some risks. However, it has been proven many times that tDCS can be safely used, both by doctors and patients. Just make sure that before you start improving your memory, you understand where, how long, and at what intensity you need to be stimulating – most products come with instructional manuals, and DIY TDCS is a great resource for more information for the at-home user.
Now that you know how, get out there and get stimulating!
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Ukraine Crisis Roils Global Markets
Sara Murray and Chris Hyzy look at market reaction to the Ukrainian crisis, and Rebecca Smith looks at threats to the U.S. power grid.
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... the ... the escalating crisis in Ukraine of the global markets today ... welcome here Monday afternoon news have I'm Sara Mary let's go straight to our markets Jack ... today that Jones industrial average down about a hundred and fifty five points or ... less than a percentage point there ... the Nasdaq closing down about thirty one points about three quarters of a percentage point any SNP also ending down today about fourteen points their ... decrease in the free driving up oil prices day sending investors are rushing in victory CCK then assets of what she UVU it with your money ... joining me now is as high teens and the chief investment officer and managing director U S Trust like a thousand things to rehear Curacao the made up some of the losses save it still rough day in the markets haven't you seen this situation Ukraine in the infancy investors that ... he ought to give the body was mostly focus on what was going on year to billion Germany that the linkages between them the expose of the Russia has in terms of energy with Europe and the overall economic impact ... is still a good portion of the markets to clear the higher beta errors with an emerging markets also cut a slot on this news images Amec stimulation of ... in this whole movement out of risk assets that are most vulnerable to wide swings we saw that May and June of last year it put itself here at the beginning of two thousand and fourteen ... but we what fell down six percent we came all the way back seven point five percent here we are about eighteen forty six on the Essen P ... and and people still understand that the geo political landscape is very tenuous at this point ... some of the seeker after the SA people moving into and with the outlook for that for those short-term ... del Boyle's up ... two dollars a barrel are so high even higher than that one point in time gold is up as well and other insurance page ... proceed on risk assets not Treasuries were well bid today as well ... 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The First Congregational Church on the Green in New Milford will present a concert series by Armstrong Chamber Concerts beginning Oct. 17. All concerts will be held at 3 p.m. at the church. The series is sponsored in part by the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. The Oct. 17 concert will feature performances by Helen Armstrong, as well as world-renowned French horn player Joseph Anderer and critically-acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva. It will include works by Beethoven, Koechlin, Wilder and Brahms. Ms. Armstrong will be joined by award-winning violinist Anthea Kreston and cellist Jason Duckles for the Nov. 21 concert, which will include works by Mozart, Ravel and Dohnanyi. The music of Dahl, Stravinsky and Arensky will be featured April 10 when Robert deMaine, principal cellist of the Detroit Symphony, clarinetist Todd Palmer, pianist Andrew Armstrong will perform. The series will conclude May 22. Ms. Armstrong will be joined by violinist Louise Schulman, cellist Wolfram Koessel, flutist Carol Wicenc, oboist Gerard Reuter and pianist Gerald Robbins to perform works by Bach, Adolphe and Brahms. Tickets, which include admission to a reception, are $20 per person per concert. A subscription package is available for $65. Students will be admitted for free. For more information or reservations, call (860) 868-0522, or mail a check for the appropriate amount to ACC, P.O. Box 367, Washington Depot, CT 06794. Tickets will also be available at the door. | <urn:uuid:aba000de-1b84-460c-82b0-238d1d4c81de> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/articleComments/Chamber-concerts-to-be-held-in-New-Milford-77453.php | 2021-09-23T01:48:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057416.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923013955-20210923043955-00259.warc.gz | en | 0.924002 | 349 |
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Ms. PELOSI. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank him for his leadership on this important issue, not only as this legislation comes to the floor, but for the past couple of decades on the subject. I commend the maker of our motion to accept the Senate bill, Congresswoman Gwen Moore, for her sincere leadership on this issue as well.
Madam Speaker, 18 years ago, Members of Congress came together--some of us gathered in this Chamber right now--came together to make history with the original passage of the Violence Against Women Act. We helped ensure that no victim of domestic violence has to suffer in silence.
I want to especially salute our Vice President, Joe Biden, who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate at the time, who worked with our chairman and many Members on both sides of the aisle to pass that legislation, again, making history.
The original Violence Against Women Act took domestic violence out of the shadows and shone bright sunshine on it.
In the years since, domestic violence has decreased by more than 50 percent--more than 50 percent. What a remarkable outcome. Twice in the intervening years we have come together in a bipartisan way to reauthorize and strengthen the law. This year our colleagues in the Senate acted similarly, passing a strong bill with a strong bipartisan vote of 68 1, including the support of every single woman in the Senate, Democratic and Republican alike. In doing so, they not only built on the history of the past, but they made progress for the safety of American women.
In sharp contrast, sadly, while it was a strong bipartisan bill in the Senate, and our substitute that we requested from the Rules Committee was to be able to put forth the Senate bill, so that would be the Senate Democrats and Republicans and House Democrats all in agreement, unfortunately in sharp contrast, House Republicans have brought to the floor today a bill that is controversial in that it will weaken the protections we have given to those who suffer domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
This legislation on the floor fails vulnerable people--members of the LGBT community, Native American women, and immigrant victims. All people deserve to be protected from domestic violence. There should be no exceptions to this law. We can't say women of America, we're passing a bill to protect you--not so fast in your applause if you happen to be a member of the LGBT community, an immigrant or otherwise, or a Native American woman.
Because the Republican bill is a step backward from the current law of the land, more than 300 organizations have spoken out in opposition, from the American Bar Association to the YWCA.
Local law enforcement officials have said that this Republican House bill ``will impede criminal investigations, undermine prosecutions, and interfere with victim safety.'' I repeat the quotation. The local law enforcement officials have said this bill ``will impede criminal investigations, undermine prosecutions and interfere with victim safety.''
Religious organizations such as the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and the National Association of Evangelicals have also expressed strong opposition to certain provisions of this legislation.
The many advocates and experts who work day in and day out on this issue, on the issue of domestic violence, have also opposed the House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act. Republicans have chosen not to listen to the professionals in the field and are failing to give the many organizations serving battered women the tools that they need.
The Obama administration has said in their Statement of Administration Policy that the legislation ``rolls back existing law and removes long-standing protections for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault--crimes that predominantly affect women.'' That is why the President's senior advisers have said that they would recommend that the President veto this bill.
Today, this House of Representatives has heard powerful statements from women Members of Congress about the need to pass a strong Violence Against Women bill. I hope that the safety of women will be high on the list of our colleagues as they determine their vote.
For nearly 20 years, the Violence Against Women Act has strengthened communities and provided critical life-saving support to victims of violence. Because of this law, more victims get the help they need and domestic violence rates have decreased. Not only has VAWA saved lives; it has saved money. All Americans are entitled to feel safe, including in their own homes--every one of us. Yet too many women continue to live in fear. That is why we must strengthen, never weaken, the Violence Against Women Act.
And I want to commend the members of the Judiciary Committee, my colleagues on the House side, the Democratic side, who have brought such tremendous intellectual resource to this legislation, listening to those who minister to the needs of women who have been victims of domestic violence and to those who are trying to protect it.
I know that everyone in this body, Democratic and Republican alike, have the same goal, which is the safety of women. We not only want us to have the same goal, we want us to have the same goal for all women in America. And that's why we must strengthen, never weaken, the Violence Against Women Act.
Because this bill on the floor rolls back current law and fails to protect all victims of violence, I urge my colleagues to oppose it.
Office of the Democratic Leader
May 16, 2012.
UPDATED: MORE THAN 300 ORGANIZATIONS OPPOSE HOUSE GOP VAWA BILL
Today, the House will consider H.R. 4970, the House GOP Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization bill. The bill is being considered under a closed rule.
More than 300 organizations oppose the House GOP bill, including such groups as the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, National Network to End Domestic Violence, National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, Break the Cycle, Legal Momentum, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, YWCA USA, AAUW, Business and Professional Women's Foundation, National Women's Law Center, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, American Bar Association, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, Human Rights Campaign, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church, Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and National Congress of American Indians.
The National Association of Evangelicals and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service are opposed to the immigrant provisions in the bill.
The Administration has also issued a veto threat on the bill.
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Franklin working to reduce storm runoff
With help from an Environmental Protection Agency grant, the Department of Public Works has entered the early stages of an across-the-board analysis of green strategies for reducing stormwater runoff.
Ultimately, the DPW intends to quantify the short-term and long-term benefits of rain gardens, permeated pavement and planter boxes, among other forms of green infrastructure.
By next June, the department hopes to roll out an extensive plan to deal with the runoff, a major polluter of local rivers, lakes and ponds.
"There are a lot of ideas out there, but there is not a lot of numbers behind those ideas," said director Robert Cantoreggi. "We are doing a lot of good things and progressive things in Franklin, but what’s their ultimate value?"
Cantoreggi said he would also continue adopting more environmentally friendly approaches to development. A recent example, the public works chief said, is how his department has tried to green up as many of the town’s 220 cul-de-sacs — big producers of runoff — as much as possible, removing pavement and replacing it with miniature oases of flowers and trees.
In July, EPA awarded the town $50,000 toward the development of a comprehensive plan to implement green infrastructure. Unlike metal pipes or filters — common tools for diverting stormwater — green infrastructure involves using soil to capture and cleanse polluted water, recycling it back into the earth.
The grant, part of the agency’s initiative to forge partnerships with communities across the country, gave 17 towns and cities from 16 states a total of $970,000.
Franklin was one of 150 to send a letter of interest outlining its project's green goals. Barnstable, the only other Massachusetts town to win the grant, received $75,000.
Under the Clean Water Act, Franklin and other Massachusetts communities have to obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit before any stormwater flows into a waterway.
And the rivers, lakes and ponds cannot exceed state standards for water quality. These standards outline, in part, limits on pH, bacteria, dissolved oxygen and temperature levels in different classes of water bodies.
Franklin sits near the headwaters of the 80-mile Charles River, a Class B waterway because it acts as a habitat for fish and wildlife. Sections of the river have tested high for nutrients, metals and pathogens, as well as oil and grease.
Experts say those materials largely come from dirty runoff flowing into otherwise pristine waters.
The town has in the past worked closely with the Charles River Watershed Association on various projects to soften its impact on the river. Last year, for instance, DPW installed stormwater-catching rain gardens and tree pits at the commuter rail parking lot on Depot Street.
"Franklin has been really aggressive in doing their part to find clean water solutions, especially in recent years," said Julie Wood, a senior scientist for the association, which will aid DPW in the green infrastructure study. "This grant is going to help them look … at how they are using water on a big picture level."
A few important questions regarding the town’s water use will likely guide DPW’s research, Wood said. "How is their drinking water usage affecting the river?" she said. "How is their development affecting the river? How can they build in a way that doesn’t alter the water cycle?"
"I am excited about this project," she added. "I think it’s great that they are looking at the problem holistically. That’s kind of why you do studies. … I think some of the research they do, while it may be specific to Franklin, will be useful for other communities as well."
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The TPP is a large trading block that many see as a counter to China. Yet, Trudeau seems more interested in a “free trade” deal with the Communist State than he does in a deal with democratic allies.
Something quite strange is going on in Canada’s trade policy.
While opposing so-called “free trade” deals makes sense considering the damage that has been done to Canadian workers, that’s not what’s driving the Trudeau governments concerns (since when did they care about Canadian workers?)
Instead, the Trudeau government appears to be pushing away our democratic allies while getting closer and closer to China.
That’s the case with ongoing negotiations around the TPP, where Japan is now considering the possibility going ahead without Canada, as reported by the National Post:
“Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau balked at finalizing the Trans-Pacific Partnership last month, Japanese officials say the other countries in the trade deal could decide to push ahead on it without Canada. In interviews with the National Post in Tokyo Monday, officials from Japan’s foreign affairs ministry confirmed that if all the other countries involved in TPP talks agree on a text, there’s nothing stopping them from going ahead without Canada and letting the Canadians accede whenever they are ready.”
If Canada leaves the TPP and refuses “free trade” with China, that would be a good thing. We should sign one-on-one deals with countries based on the trade of specific products, rather than the massive deals that end up empowering the globalist elites while betraying workers.
However, the Trudeau government has said they are still seeking a deal with China, which raises the possibility that Canada could end up without a deal with our democratic allies (TPP), while signing a deal with China.
That would be a huge mistake for our country, as anything we don’t like about TPP would be way worse in any deal with China.
For all the flaws of the TPP, at least countries like Japan have a system based upon the rule of law and have at least nominal respect for private property.
That’s not the case in China, meaning that whatever is signed with them is no guarantee the deal will be respected down the road.
That raises the question of why the Trudeau government seems to be pushing back harder on the TPP than they are on “free trade” with China.
Unfortunately, Trudeau has a repeated record of bowing down to China’s wishes, while distancing our country from traditional Canadian allies.
China would love nothing more than to see the TPP fall apart, and for the TPP countries to come running to China for a deal that will serve China’s interests.
While it still seems likely that Canada will sign on to the TPP at some point, one has to wonder whether the Trudeau government is purposely sabotaging it – or at least throwing a wrench into the works – in order to send a message to China that Canada is prepared to do what the Communist State demands.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Trudeau government made a questionable decision that weakened Canada to strengthen China. The government has let China take over Canadian national security companies – including one that is expected to give China a boost in technology that will help them catch up to our allies.
The government also seems set to approve China’s attempt to buy Aecon – a massive Canadian construction firm behind some of our most iconic national projects.
With all that in mind, it wouldn’t be a big surprise if Trudeau wanted to weaken or end the TPP to further the interests of China.
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The Darwinex brand is focused on helping profitable forex traders to make more money from their skills through its Darwinia competition and the possibility to get third-party investments. As a new trader on Darwinex therefore, you will most likely be engrossed in fantasising about the amount of trading capital you could get from the Darwinia competition and the investors on the platform.
However, it only takes a few months to see possible challenges that can make your dream of the “profitable trader lifestyle” so near, yet so far. The way Darwinex is structured means many traders are not aware of these challenges. So they feel a bit disappointed when they find out they have built up their hopes way too much.
Although the Darwinex Community is reasonably active, no one has ever made a post for traders moving to Darwinex the first time. This post is borne out of our experience on the platform. It will help traders signing up to Darwinex newly.
Note: This post is for traders that will start a new account and those that will “migrate” their accounts with a D-Score lower than 70. Such traders probably haven’t been on an investor platform such as Darwinex before. If you have an account with D-score 70+ on migration or if you are a prominent professional trader already famous in some circles, some of the points raised here (if not all) may not apply to you. If you haven’t read our post explaining the Darwinex attributes, please do so first before proceeding to read this.
Darwinex is an Excellent Broker
You will rarely have any operational issues with Darwinex. When they do arise, you can trust their world class support to resolve them speedily. This is not saying we don’t have things we’d like them to do better but the fact is, there aren’t many better brokers around.
You Need Patience While Building your Darwinex D-score
Unless you are a scalper or one with a short and fixed duration for trades opened, you will have to wait for at least 9 months for your EX (which is a significant driver of the D-score) to get to 10.
If you trade longer term with no fixed duration on specific trades, you could need up to 2 years or more to have EX 10. Just be patient and focus on your trading. Which brings us to the next point…
Ignore the Frustrations of a Slow EX Growth
Regardless of your mental strength as a trader, you will be faced with the temptation to alter your trading style to hit EX 10 faster (unless you don’t have the “peanut problem” which means you don’t really care about investments and external funding at least immediately).
We can guarantee from our own experience and the experiences of other traders on the Darwinex platform, that if you try this, you will regret it. Trade the way you have always done and allow the Darwinex metrics to sort themselves out.
Don’t be Too Quick to Publish Your Darwin
Of course, the main reason a trader will publish a young Darwin quickly is to start getting investments as fast as possible. However, few investors will ever look at a young Darwin with a low EX unless you are riding double-digit returns in the immediate term (1-3 month window).
So wait until your EX has grown to at least 3-4 or at least when you have obtained the >50% badge before publishing. This will also ensure you don’t dwell too long on the disappointment from a lack of investments. When you have built EX reasonably and have made more than 50% return, you will automatically start getting some look from investors.
Combining the “feeling” that comes with seeing no investors and trying to navigate the other pressures that come with being a trader on an open platform like this, is not good. Of course, you should do the opposite of this advice if you need the transparency that comes with listing a Darwin to stay disciplined in your trading.
Darwinex Investors are not Patient with Young Darwins
…Or unpopular ones. So do not worry about anything if you find them dumping your Darwin as soon as you have a minor drawdown. This may stem from the fact that they have been burned in the past by young Darwins who hit a small drawdown and then crashed, but that’s just how it is.
If you can get to EX 10 and a D-score greater than 70, they MAY be less likely to run away especially if there are already dozens of other investors on your Darwin.
Lots of Small Investors Trump one Big Investor
Don’t roll out the celebratory drums when one investor puts in €100,000 in your early days when you are still struggling for investors or even when you are fully established. It often means that they are impressed with your recent substantial return and think you can do it every month. As soon as you have a drawdown of any kind, they will exit.
On the Darwinex platform, it is better to have 25-50 people pooling together €75,000 as investments for you than having 2-3 people bringing €250,000. The former group is more likely to be a robust pool of investors that can ride through a drawdown. The latter is more likely to be a small group of affluent investors just looking for the next quick profit.
Ignore Investor Behaviour
Don’t spend time trying to understand investor behaviour on Darwinex. Even older traders are yet to decipher everything on that front. The only two things you need to know are:
- They are most wary of new Darwins that do not have years of history and a high D-score already.
- They like an elegant equity curve. If the sleek equity curve is accompanied by a single digit drawdown, even better.
Similarly, don’t worry about investors trading your Darwin. These are investors that try to buy and sell Darwins the way we trade currency pairs. Unfortunately, in many cases, they end up losing money.
Just stay patient and keep delivering good results and investors will follow soon enough. It could take a month or six, but good trading is usually rewarded.
Maintain Trading Behaviour Regardless of Invested Amount
Don’t make the mistake of altering your trading because you have 5-7 digits in investment sums. Of course, you want to retain the investors but don’t go out of your usual trading methods to do that.
Reducing or increasing risk, for example, or being quick to take profits in a bid to preserve gains will come back to bite you sooner rather than later.
The Darwinia Competition is Great!
It has helped many traders with investments before investors started noticing them and it remains the biggest provider of performance fees for traders on Darwinex.
When you win any Darwinia allocation, you don’t have to worry about it disappearing for the next 6 months.
However, you need a D-score of at least 65 to challenge for Darwinia consistently. Some new traders may be naïve to think that they can start challenging immediately they open an account. No.
You will have to build your EX to 10 first. Even when EX is already 10, you still need other metrics to line up and give you a high enough D-score. Even when you have a high D-score, parameters like Regularity can massively impact your final finish on the Darwinia table.
If your D-score is above 65, focus on getting many good months in a year. If it is still below that, focus on your trading and building the account while admiring winners of Darwinia each month 😀
Of course, some people win Darwinia allocation with D-score lower than 65, but that is rare and requires a month with double-digit returns. Even at that, you will rarely get higher than the €100,000 level. Watch out for our full post on the Darwinia competition!
The Darwinia rankings model has generated a lot of debate on the Darwinex forum and elsewhere, but it is what it is. The company sets the rules and can change it at will. In fact, many new traders are left sad when they discover the way the rankings operate. Now that we have told you what to expect about the Darwinia, you can manage your expectations better.
Don’t Get Intimidated
Do not get intimidated by the fact that there are many excellent programmer-traders on Darwinex, some of them with big websites and physical offices.
Good manual traders sitting behind their single Laptop at home, who also don’t know a line of code, exist. At the end of the day, positive returns are what matters.
Whether you are making gains with a sophisticated EA trading from a Skyscraper office or entirely manually trading from your kitchen table, it is not the concern of savvy investors.
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This is a fascia, front bumper (when using on 94 models, must also use rubber strips 3549386/7 (kd) or 3549388/89 (kf) (paint to match), for Cadillac automobiles. It fits for Cadillac Eldorado, Eldorado touring, Concours, D'elegance, Deville, Hearse, Limousine, and Seville for the U.S. from 1994 to 1996. It's a genuine General Motors part with an OEM part number 03549390. Please keep in mind that this fascia is discontinued for the U.S. market since October 1, 2011, and is discontinued for Canada market since February 28, 2009.
This fascia has dimensions 14.10 in × 70.50 in × 33.30 in, usually, it comes in a set of 1 item in retail packaging.
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Commercial activity was also at a 31-month high while civil engineering was more subdued but still at a 12-month high.
Supply chain pressures continued in July, which contributed to another sharp lengthening of delivery times for construction products and materials. However, input cost inflation moderated from the nine-month high seen in June.
Survey respondents commented on improving demand conditions, higher volumes of new project starts and, in some cases, a degree of catch-up from the bad weather earlier in 2018. Construction companies also noted that a lack of work to replace completed projects (particularly railway infrastructure work) continued to hold back growth in the civil engineering sub-sector.
Tim Moore, associate director at IHS Markit and author of the report, said: “July data reveals an impressive turnaround in the performance of the UK construction sector, with output growth the strongest for just over one year.
“While the recent rebound in construction work has been flattered by its recovery from a low base earlier in 2018, there are also signs that underlying demand conditions have picked up this summer.”
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“Residential and commercial building took the overall lead with the most robust performances since December 2015 and even civil engineering put on a slightly better show.
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Hillary Clinton may not like to use the word “terrorist,” but the New York Times has no problem using that word — to refer to Donald Trump, at least.
Columnist Charles M. Blow led with that inflammatory accusation on Monday’s opinion page:
Donald Trump is a domestic terrorist; only his form of terror doesn’t boil down to blowing things up. He’s the 70-year-old toddler who knows nearly nothing, hurls insults, has simplistic solutions for complex problems and is quick to throw a tantrum. Also, in case you didn’t know it, this toddler is mean to girls and is a bit of a bigot.
Blow did not define what he meant by “terrorist.”
The episode recalls one in 2011, when columnist Joe Nocera called the Tea Party movement “terrorists”:
You know what they say: Never negotiate with terrorists. It only encourages them.
These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took.
The Times editorial page appears to be holding a name-calling competition. Tuesday’s paper featured Roger Cohen opening in a similar style to Blow, albeit with a slightly less inflammatory epithet:
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“You can’t improve what you don’t measure.”
This quote, often attributed to Peter Drucker, is one that we hear in the business world quite a bit. And it certainly rings true. Without continuous measurement, it’s impossible for any business to know what’s going well and improve what isn’t.
By now, most brands and retailers that sell online understand the importance of continuous measurement. These brands regularly track myriad key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine how they’re progressing toward their goals – and identify areas to optimize all stages of the funnel.
Some of the most common metrics tracked by brands include traffic, cart abandonment, conversion, sales, and lifetime value – among others. However, the best brands know they must also incorporate certain user-generated content (UGC) metrics into their list of eCommerce KPIs.
In this post, we’ll discuss why UGC metrics matter – and five you should add to your eCommerce KPIs today.
The Importance of Tracking UGC Metrics
It’s a simple fact that modern consumers rely on ratings and reviews, questions and answers, and other types of user-generated content to make informed purchase decisions. Our research found that 74% of consumers consider reviews to be at least somewhat important when making purchase decisions. And 89% read Q&A when deciding whether or not to purchase a product.
As the prevalence of online shopping has grown, so too has the importance of UGC. This content helps shoppers better evaluate a product they’re not able to touch and see prior to purchase.
UGC is also a really powerful tool for eCommerce brands. It’s proven to increase traffic. According to our friends at PowerReviews, 81% of all traffic occurs on product pages with reviews.
This content also positively impacts conversion. According to Yotpo data, UGC can increase conversion rates by as much as 200%.
Finally, the insights in reviews and other types of UGC can be leveraged to improve products and experiences – which positively impacts conversion, loyalty, and lifetime value.
Pretty powerful stuff, huh?
Because user-generated content (or the lack thereof) has the power to impact a brand’s bottom line, it’s important for brands to regularly track certain key metrics.
5 UGC Metrics Brands Need to Start Tracking
By regularly measuring key UGC metrics and making changes based on your findings, you can positively impact sales outcomes. But which UGC-related metrics matter the most?
Here are the five UGC metrics tracked by the most successful brands.
#1 Average Star Rating
Depending on the type of review, the average star rating provides a high level overview of how customers feel about a brand, a product, a location, or something else. For example, a four star average star rating for a store location tells us the vast majority of customers like the store – but there may be some opportunities for improvement. On the other hand, an average star rating of one for a piece of furniture suggests that customers have a lot of gripes.
Of course, a great average star rating should be the goal. According to Yotpo, 96% of all products purchased have an average star rating of at least four.
But don’t panic if every product doesn’t have a perfect average star rating of 5.0. According to research from Northwestern University, customers perceive perfect average star ratings as too good to be true. Per this research, the ideal average star rating falls between 4.2 and 4.5.
In fact, the occasional negative review can actually be a good thing. It helps future shoppers better determine if a product will meet their needs. And, it’s an opportunity for the brand to respond and restore trust both with the reviewer and future shoppers. Our research found that 73% of consumers would overlook a negative review if there was a sufficient response from the brand.
Finally, negative reviews can shed light on opportunities to improve, which can then improve customer satisfaction.
So aim high, but don’t sweat if all of your products don’t have perfect star ratings.
#2 Portion of Products with Reviews
The presence of even a single review can positively impact conversion. Per an analysis from PowerReviews, shoppers who visit a product page with between one and ten reviews are 55.2% more likely to convert than if the page had no reviews.
In order to maximize sales, the goal should be to ensure every product in your catalog has at least one review. Be sure to regularly measure the portion of your products with reviews – and then focus your efforts on generating reviews for those product pages that have none.
#3 Quantity of Reviews
A PowerReviews analysis found that the more reviews, the larger the impact on conversion. While shoppers exposed to 1-10 reviews convert at a rate that’s 52.2% higher than average, products that have 101 or more reviews see a conversion rate increase of over 250%!
As such, it’s important for brands to continuously measure how many reviews they have – both overall and per product. Then, generation efforts can be focused on products with a lower quantity of reviews, which will positively impact conversion.
#4 Q&A and Review Response TIme
When a brand responds quickly to a question posed via Q&A, it helps eliminate the shopper’s uncertainties. That boosts their confidence and likelihood of converting. According to Bazaarvoice, brands that retailers that respond to Q&A see a 98% conversion lift.
Many shoppers expect responses to reviews, too. Our research found that 81% expect brands to respond to one, two or three star product reviews at least sometimes. And 70% have this expectation for four or five star reviews.
And they’re not willing to wait around. Our research also found that 72% of those who expect a response to a negative review expect it to come within 48 hours. And 70% of those who expect a response to a positive review feel that it should be posted within this same time frame.
By responding quickly, a brand can fix problems, restore trust, foster loyalty and increase lifetime value.
As such, it’s important for brands to track Q&A and review response time, both overall and at the agent level. If your response time is less-than-stellar, consider using a platform like Reputation Studio from 1440, which allows you to consolidate all reviews and Q&A into a single platform: Salesforce. That way, you can more effectively and efficiently monitor content across channels – and provide the timely responses consumers have come to expect.
#5 Actions Taken Based on Reviews and Q&A
Reviews and Q&A are full of powerful insights. Winning brands leverage these insights to deliver even better products and experiences.
What’s more, when shoppers share their feedback via reviews, they expect brands to take action on it. Our research found that over three-quarters (77% of consumers say that if they left a product review with feedback about a problem or flaw, they’d expect the manufacturer to take action to fix it. And 79% expect a manufacturer to fix a product description if they leave a review pointing out inaccurate information.
One important metric to track is how often you take action based on customer reviews. Such actions might include fixing a product, updating a product description, or eliminating a product altogether – among others.
Identifying actionable insights in reviews and Q&A can be challenging – especially if you’re collecting many different types of reviews from various sites. However, with Reputation Studio, brands can holistically identify insights and trends across all channels – and then take action on them.
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This one is called simply “The Breakfast Fight Club,” by artist David MacDowell (via theHighDefinite). I guess it’s pretty cool. I like the Fight Club characters in there. But is that enough to justify there not being Judd Nelson or Emilio Estevez? I don’t know, man. I just don’t know.
Also, how does it stack up against the work of Brandon Bird? I’ve previously posted Bird’s works “Uncanny Valley,” and “No One Wants to Play Sega with Harrison Ford,” both of which I’d give a slight edge to over this one. (Bird’s “Mr. Noodle,” starring David Schwimmer is below. You can see some of his other stuff here.) MacDowell’s piece also hits a little too close to home for me. You see I often wander around my neighborhood shouting, “NO, F*CK YOU, MOLLY RINGWALD!” at no one in particular. Nonetheless, I’d be proud to hang any of these paintings in my parlor next to the ginger scalps. (They bring me luck). | <urn:uuid:ea1d2013-eb97-48dd-89bd-b7f65d365f02> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://uproxx.com/filmdrunk/yeah-the-breakfast-fight-club-is-pretty-cool/ | 2016-08-28T09:10:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982935910.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823200855-00254-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948151 | 263 |
The countdown has begun with less than a month to the opening of the long-awaited new Meaford Public Library.
CEO Cathie Lee advises that the target date for the opening of the new library facility at intersection of Sykes and Trowbridge Streets is Monday, October 26.
The logistics of moving a library is daunting but it’s business as usual now till Saturday, October 17, when the doors of the existing library close to the public one last time. Movers arrive on Monday, October 19, and the transfer of books and equipment begins. Behind the scenes, staff has been sorting, packing, cataloging new acquisitions, and preparing all the library books for the Radio Frequency Identification (RFI) technology that will be one of many high-tech features in the new library.
In September, library staff announced three substantial donations that put the library fundraising campaign over the top. The Rotary Club of Meaford donated $127,000; the Stanley Knight Heritage Society $50,000; and the W. Garfield Weston Foundation (Loblaws) $65,000. More than $780,000 has been raised by the Meaford Public Library Fundraising Campaign.
"It warms my heart to see that so many folks in our community see the value of a new accessible library,” Lee said. “The success of this campaign can certainly be attributed to the hard work of so many library champions over the past few decades."
The Meaford Public Library Fundraising Campaign Committee was appointed by the municipal Council in 2018. It was formed as a partnership among the library, the municipality, and the Friends of the Meaford Public Library. The original goal was to raise $750,000.
The Rotary Club of Meaford approached the library a few years ago wanting to be involved, according to Amy Solecki, Community Outreach Co-ordinator. “One of the club’s focuses is youth. Of the $127,000 donated, $62,000 is earmarked for technology in the Project Room, a room adjacent to the teen space in the new library,” she said.
“The technology portion of the donation will allow the library to offer new and emerging tech options, such as ten hot-spots that can be borrowed just like a book and give Internet service to up to 20 people, podcasting equipment, a green screen, lots of software, and new MacBook Pro laptops.”
Rooms in the new library will be named in recognition of donations of $50,000 or more, such as the Rotary, the Stanley Knight, and the Weston Foundation donations, according to Lee. “It’s gratifying to know that the Rotarians, the Stanley Knight family, and our local grocery store owners, Bill and Barb MacDonald, recognize the value of the library and the strong relationship we have with the community,” she said.
Due to COVID-19, grand opening celebrations have been postponed till next spring.
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Steve and I are staying with Skyler, Scott, and Egan while we wait for The Incrementalists to be released, with all subsequent fanfare and book tour goodness. It is an exciting time. Perhaps… too exciting?
Last night, boxes of author copies of the book arrived, and Steve & Skyler immediately built a fort with them, refusing to come out for dinner until they were done playing “cowboys and incrementalists”.
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Colombian potato farmers went on strike Tuesday calling on the government to protect the industry from high production costs and new imports.
Protests have manifested in departments throughout Colombia including the central Boyaca and Cundinamarca departments, northwestern Antioquia, southern Nariño and the southwestern Cauca department. Farmers are seeking government protection from rising costs of potato production and an increase in cheaper imported potato products.
Cesar Pachon, a representative for the Potato Farmers Dignity Movement told newspaper El Colombiano that the strikers, “Are searching for a price control [or subsidy] because the potato is selling for less than its [production] cost, soft loans, debt refinancing and support for inputs because they are expensive.”
The Potato Dignity Movement reported that production costs have risen by 20% and that prices have fallen from $48 (COP 70,000) for a 275 pound sack of potatoes to $22 (COP 40,000).
Potato growers are also worried about the effects of Colombia’s recent free trade agreements and the new potato products entering the market.
“We need a clear state policy in the long term to enable us to compete. We are exposed to international markets without the tools,” said Pachon.
Juan Fernando Romero, a press representative with the Boyaca Governors Office confirmed with Colombia Reports that there are protests throughout the department and that approximately 2,000 people are protesting on the department’s Bridge of Boyaca. Romero said there were no reports of violence outside of an isolated incident.
Caracol Radio reported that 5,000 protesters are blocking the highway from the eastern city of Tunja to the capital Bogota.
The governor of Boyaca will reportedly meet with officials from Cundinamarca and Nariño to search for an end to the protests.
- Con marchas, papicultores reclaman mayor atención del Gobierno (RCN Radio)
- Paperos se movilizan para pedirle un precio de sustentacion al gobierno (El Colombiano)
- Interview with Juan Fernando Romero (Boyaca Governor’s press office)
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Still, it's a pleasant surprise watching the 40-year-old world-famous star and style icon — who set tongues wagging right at the start of this year when she wore a curve-clinging, sequin-studded catsuit for a New Year's Eve performance — in her new role as Mom. She's cool, calm, and even giggly as her irrepressible toddlers, who are by her side these days everywhere from movie sets to the recording studio, repeatedly test her patience: They can have one piece of candy, but only one and she means it. Motherhood and a multifaceted career make for a balancing act that Jennifer's not afraid to admit she'll probably never completely figure out. But her balance is getting steadier every day, and the guidance and practiced parenting skills of her husband, singer Marc Anthony, are a big part of what helps her keep everything from going completely haywire.
Now, as the superstar gets ready to hit the ground running with the April release of The Back-up Plan, her first film in three years; a guest-starring role on Glee; followed by the summer release of her new CD, Love?, and a possible tour, it seems that mommyhood has transformed her. This time in her life, she says, is as much about the journey as the results. "Marc and I talk about this all the time," she admits. "He's always checking in with me. He's like, 'Are you happy here? Are you happy working so hard?' And I am. I love having the kids running around; that's my real life. Of course I want success and for things to go well and for people to enjoy what I do, but more important, I want to be able to enjoy my kids and my work every step of the way." Mom may be her most fulfilling role to date — but don't think for a minute that Jennifer's given up the spotlight for the sandbox.
How has being a mom changed you?
I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.
Why was The Back-up Plan the first film you decided to do after you had the twins?
The first time I read it, I loved it. I realized that Kate Angelo, who wrote it, had just gone through pregnancy as well, so we had a similar way of looking at the script. I loved my character's voice; the script was funny, edgy, touching, and timely. Plus, I have always been a big fan of romantic comedies. I mean, I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie. There's something about movies like these that make you feel so good and happy and that you want to live in that world — to be that girl and be part of the fairy tale. I have always believed in fairy tales.
What are your favorite romantic comedies?
I have a couple: I've always loved When Harry Met Sally, because it really shows men and women and how they are when it comes to relationships. I also love Prelude to a Kiss, because it's about someone being in love with not the shell of the woman but her soul, and that's what I always wanted — someone to love me for my soul, for me as I really am.
How did you know Marc was "the one"?
I think you can love many different people, but that's different from what makes a great partner in life, which Marc is for me. When you love somebody so much that you're willing to work to be a better person, and that other person is willing to do the same for you, that's when you have magic in a bottle. And that's not easy to find.
How does he inspire you?
He inspires me to be better at everything — a better person, mom, singer, performer, friend, and wife. A marriage is long, and you've got to like the person as much as you love or lust after them. You've got to be friends first.
As a couple, are you more similar than not?
We are very similar. He's a very passionate person, and so am I. He has his own world around him, as do I. We're both very opinionated about our work, and we are both very strong people. There are times when that is the best, most amazing thing in the world, and then times when that also makes things difficult. Here's the thing with relationships that nobody tells you: You're not going to find one person where everything is always going to be perfect — that's bull. You have to work at a relationship, and you have to agree to disagree. You have to find someone who is willing to work out the kinks with you and you with them. Communication is everything; it's the only thing. If your communication game is strong, you can get through the tough stuff. But if it's not, the littlest thing can bring the relationship down.
Are you and Marc into date night yet?
Ha. Not yet, but we're lucky because we get to travel and work together a lot. Sometimes we get the chance to travel by ourselves for like two days, and we'll get that great time to spend with each other and talk and be together in a way that you can't be when the kids are always there. We both know how important that is.
What's a typical night at home with Marc and the kids like?
It's awesome — these are the favorite moments of my life because it's all about family time and that sense of belonging and togetherness. We play games and hang out with the kids, eat dinner together, put them in their pajamas, and put them to bed. Then we have a little time to ourselves.
How have your priorities changed since you've become a mom?
My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority — even above myself.
What's been the biggest surprise about being a mom — something you didn't anticipate?
Guilt. I didn't know that feeling before. You don't know about it because nobody ever tells you. I think it's because women are a little ashamed to admit it. You feel guilty whenever you can't have your kids right there with you on your hip. And for me there's two, so it's bad back and bad arm time having a 50-pound kid on each side. I never expected to feel the guilt of not being able to be there for them at every single moment.
How do you reconcile that guilt?
I'm not different from any other mom who feels the need to go out there and work to provide the best for their kids. I ask myself, What would make me the best me to my kids? And that's being a happy, healthy individual who has a sense of fulfillment and can give them everything they need. But that takes a lot of work.
Tell me a little bit about what the mommy learning curve has been like for you.
When I first had the babies, I didn't even know how to put a diaper on! Luckily, Marc already had children and he was really good at all that stuff. We had a nurse for the first six weeks while I was recuperating, but I mean I was almost afraid to touch them because I might hurt them, because they were only five pounds each.
Juggling one toddler can be a challenge; how do you handle two?
[Laughs] I'm still figuring it out, but I try to cart them along with me wherever I go and spend as much time with them as possible, even when I'm working. Usually if I know there is no danger on a set or in a studio, I can set up a little play area for them where they can run around and hopefully no one will mind.
How do you plan to deal with the fame issue once Max and Emme are old enough to be aware of it?
I think by the standards of this business, Marc and I live a pretty normal life, except for all the traveling. We're together a lot. We wake up as a family together, we have meals together, we put them to bed together most nights. We might even get to spend more time with them than most working parents because we don't work normal working hours and we have the luxury of taking them with us. Sometimes we're home all day and don't even go to work until after they are in bed at night.
What's the greatest lesson you've learned so far from your kids?
I think the biggest thing they've taught me is what loving someone is and what it should feel like. It's like, Wow, how much do I love these children? No matter what they do — it doesn't matter. This is what unconditional love means. It's crazy, but it's heaven and earth.
You turned 40 last year. Were you at all traumatized by that?
It's funny because it really wasn't a landmark birthday for me. I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now. In fact, 40 turned out to be an empowered place for me, because I also realized how much I didn't know when I was 20 or even 30.
So you don't see 40 as some sort of peak as an artist or woman?
No way. I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better. There's no way in the world that just because women turn the number 40, they're anything less than amazing. That's crazy. If anything, you're even more amazing!
What advice do you have for women who have sunk into the doldrums and let that inner spark burn low?
You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves. If that means once a week you're going to go off without the kids or without anybody and just go shoe shopping — well, that's me, because I love shoes — or get a facial even if your sister thinks that's selfish, or join a Zumba class, or take a painting class, or whatever, you've just got to do it. It's just two hours a week, for heaven's sake.
What do you do for yourself when you need that getaway moment?
I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea. Those kinds of things fulfill my soul and keep the spark alive. Women have to do things that spark their souls so they feel young, vibrant, sexy, and full of life. You should never lose that part of yourself.
You've topped every "sexiest woman alive" list more times than I can remember. Do you still feel that way?
Sometimes when I get home and I'm not feeling so great, I make myself go to the gym. Then I come home and take a shower, put on a great outfit, some makeup, tie my hair up, and I feel pepped up and great about myself. I think that for some reason, when you maintain yourself, people are really surprised. It's inspiring for women who have kids and take care of themselves to be sexy.
Do you want to be that kind of role model for women?
[Laughs] I want to be that for myself!
Was it your dreams or your talent that drove your success?
Hmm... I always knew what I wanted to do. When I first started acting and singing, I just thought about being the best I could be. I always wanted to be great at what I did — that's what drove me. My race has never been with anyone else, it's been with myself. If I got rejected, I wouldn't take it personally. I was like, Make them a fan and they'll bring you back in for something else. I never thought about money or fame, and I never really thought that would happen to me. All that was just a by-product.
Do you consider yourself to be a fearless person?
No, I'm not always fearless. I'm usually a little bit afraid, but I don't ever let that take over. I think when there is a sense of fear, it motivates me. Usually I'm able to tell myself, "Screw it, I'm just going to do this." And then that's it, I've done it, and if it was 100 percent a success, that's great, and if not, that's okay too because I still did it. I don't do regrets. But I am a perfectionist, so I'm always re-evaluating and re-analyzing so I can make whatever it was better for the next time.
How have your children changed you as an artist?
You can't help but be more thoughtful and more aware after you have kids. I think they've made me feel things in a deeper way and that's enhanced my work. My job deals with feelings, emotions, and expressing them, so I think my kids have actually helped me be better at what I do. I feel more confident when I'm working than I ever did before because you have that deeper understanding of life, and that introspection really helps me be better as a writer, singer, actor, whatever. They've made me feel things in a deeper and more profound way than I ever did before.
Of all your talents and successes, what do you most want to be remembered for?
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Entel HX446L Licence-Free Business Walkie-Talkie With LCD Display
The Entel HX446L is a professional-quality general-purpose "licence-free" walkie-talkie with many advanced features as well as being very compact and light.
The HX446L features a useful backlit LCD display that shows volume level selected, channel information, battery life remaining and also battery charge cycles used and remaining for each battery pack. It is very simple to use - just an on/off/volume control, a rotary channel selector and alarm button.
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Portland Trail Blazers guard Mo Williams admitted his disagreement with Houston Rockets rookie Troy Daniels during the first round of the playoffs was all a ploy to get into the rookie's head, which makes Williams something of a tactical genius.
He said in an interview on NBATV (h/t Adi Joseph of USA Today):
My thing was, let me get him some attention. Let me get the reporters in his locker room asking him questions about me that has nothing to do with the game. Now, all his homeboys got to call him — all his friends, his mom, his sister, everybody. ‘What’s going on? Is something wrong with you guys?’ ‘There’s nothing wrong with us.’ The thing is, it’s all a tactic.
Well, either that or Williams is just a bully who couldn't figure out a physical way to stop Daniels from torching him.
Houston's sharpshooting rookie went a combined 7-of-11 from long distance in Games 3 and 4 after not playing a minute in either of the series' first two games. In fact, his performance down the stretch was integral to the Rockets' Game 3 win.
Out of ideas to stop Daniels, Williams confronted him as both teams headed to the tunnel after Game 4.
According to the Houston Chronicle's Jenny Dial Creech, before Game 5, Williams said: "Let’s see if the rook’s ready, whatever his name is."
Creech even noted at the time that Williams was probably up to something:
The ‘rook’ was guard Troy Daniels, who exchanged words with Williams after Game 4 in Portland although neither player is sharing any details about what was said or why.
Williams’ gamesmanship aside, Daniels has been making a name for himself in these playoffs.
It's hard to know if Williams deserves credit for Daniels' disappearance after Game 4, but it's only fair to point out that the rookie scored just five points in Game 5 and put up a goose egg in nine minutes in Game 6.
So we should at least consider crediting Williams for a successfully completed psyche-out.
Williams broached the topic of his beef with Daniels in the context of discussing the ongoing extracurriculars between Lance Stephenson and LeBron James in the Eastern Conference Finals—possibly alluding to the fact that Stephenson was employing a similar tactic.
If that's the case, Stephenson is probably in for drastically different result than the one Williams achieved.
James looked particularly feisty in Game 3, hounding Stephenson all over the court and taking every opportunity to get into the Indiana Pacers guard's personal space. Clearly playing with some added motivation, LeBron led his Miami Heat to a 2-1 series lead.
As the Heat look to take even firmer control of the series, Stephenson will probably regret his decision to hassle the game's best player. It's one thing to get inside the head of an unproven rookie, as Williams successfully did.
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HBC’s CEO explains why Target botched its Canadian launch—and why Saks will do better
In hindsight, maybe Target should have hired Richard Baker to oversee its foray into the Canadian marketplace. In an interview for the Globe, the CEO of the Hudson’s Bay Company pinpoints no fewer than nine mistakes made by the big box retailer, including not having an office and spending enormous amounts of money on leaseholds. He says he’s planning a “very low risk” approach for Saks Fifth Avenue’s north-of-the-border launch:
I’m opening up two stores, not 100-and-whatever stores. They paid $1.8-billion for leaseholds, then they paid $10-million per store to fix them up. They had no office, they had no buyers, they had no planners, they had no distribution centre, they had no POS [point-of-sale] system, they had no IT backbone. They created everything from scratch while we’re coming in very quietly opening up two stores with existing infrastructure.
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“Passion is the fire that gives light to your Journey”
Founder of B H & Company and UrSmartSpoc.com. Bevan has been into hospitality industry for last 14 years and well-connected in his field domain. The dream of UrSmartSpoc began in his Hubli apartment and took its shape in Bangalore from Dreams to reality. A Great planner, quick in thought process & decision making and an entrepreneur from an early age. He has a great strategic vision & a zeal for customer service and client relationship. Bevan strongly believes in putting right people in to right place to make things happen for better. He had remarkably set up initial operations for one of the critical alternate revenue stream by ensure online booking strategy for trading partner and the member enrollment on line module and setting up the payment gateways on online business structure and development. He strongly believes in Quality and has been in various quality process in his career.
Worked in different roles from Customer service, quality, Customer retention, operations@ Accenture, @ Hutchinson India Ltd – Dial An Exchange Bangalore, @ RCI and @ Club Mahindra Holidays India Ltd Bangalore.
Bevan has never been afraid to try on different hats. He started UrSmartSpoc with three friends, and did everything from designing the Website to handling the smallest issues of company. A True Go Getter.
Co-Founder of UrSmartSpoc, Charu is a technically competent professional with core strengths in handling Customer relationship, bringing customer view in the organization, people management skills and to steer business goals by devising appropriate team strategy and creating win-win situation. A master in managing client relationship Customer Acquisition, Business development and Marketing. In the course of her association with leading institutions, she is equipped with presentation and people management skills. She manages new business development and major market coverage. Charu carries an experience in setting up various travel companies and its process. Along with managing the teams of Clients and Suppliers needs and necessity. Charu believes in simplicity and hard work that can create history along with experience.
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Chief Officer Legal & Compliance
Co-Founder of UrSmartSpoc, Austin has been into the hospitality industry from the basics to responsible positions withheld for over 2 decades. Managed Specialty restaurants / Renowned recreational centers/Family oriented clubs / and with an exposure across country in USA [ Chicago ] for over 9 yrs and a well appreciated personality. Managed knit associations TANA, AKA, TTA, CTA and prominent wedding arrangements in large numbers, catered to Celebrity clientele and partly a chef in disguise and a Legal Advisor. An extremely people savvy personality. Now into sharing his expertise into hospitality services and orientation crash courses for Education institutions / Corporate World / Hospitality facility managements / Food service sectors. A master in wining hearts through the knowledge he shares.
Director - CRM
Director of UrSmartSpoc, Jaleel has gained excellent knowledge and experience in the hospitality, Timeshare and E-Commerce industry through many years of varied experiences in different region and different types of hotels and other hospitality sectors. He has been associated with 2 Start-up companies in Hospitality and E-Commerce Industry. Jaleel truly believes in getting your number right and to give "wow" experience to your guest/client by the hard work and your skills. | <urn:uuid:97110f32-e4f8-4de2-89bb-78cad1f6016f> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.ursmartspoc.com/about | 2023-06-06T14:07:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652569.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606114156-20230606144156-00327.warc.gz | en | 0.956895 | 715 |
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NYMEX Thursday Wrap: WTI falls below $38/bbl, natgas climbs above $2
Houston, April 7, 2016 (PCW) -— May NYMEX crude futures settled down $0.49/bbl to $37.26/bbl. June Brent at the close of the NYMEX decreased $0.53/bbl to $39.31/bbl.
The June Brent/WTI spread widened at $0.83/bbl favoring Brent. Prompt natural gas futures were up 10.7 cents at $2.018/mmBtu. May NYMEX RBOB futures closed at $1.3812/gal, down 1.35 cpg.
US Gulf cash gasoline differentials ended mixed versus Wednesday’s levels.
A2 CBOB 87 regular was higher at 19.75 cpg under the screen.
CBOB 87 was down at 15 cpg under the screen.
D2 CBOB 93 premium was higher at 3 cpg over the screen.
CBOB 93 increased to 2.75 cpg over the screen.
RBOB was higher at 13.50 cpg under the screen.
The 3-2-1 crack in the Gulf Coast was $11.20/bbl, $5.97/bbl under the screen. -– John Troland
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Twotara Baby Girls/Boys 0-3M Reversible Pink/Blue Striped RomperBoy or girl this outfit is a perfect for your little baby or a shower gift by Twotara.
Boy or girl this outfit is a perfect for your little baby or a shower gift by Twotara. Long sleeves. Round neckline. Snaps from neck to ankle for easy changes. Main pattern is stripes, accent pattern (on sleeves and pockets) is circles. Reversible garment: one side pink, the other side blue. Twotara is redefining the newborn gender neutral market by introducing a line of reversible baby clothing and accessories that are PINK on one side and BLUE on the other so they're always perfect. Our dual-sided garments are gender-specific and every article is made of soft, 100% interlock knit cotton making them super comfortable on a newborn's skin. 0-3M fits babies 24"long and weight of 8-12lbs.
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ONF Collaborating with Google and Barefoot Networks to Demonstrate the ONOS Controller Integrated with the P4 Toolchain and a Programmable Dataplane
Today at the ONF we announced availability of the first P4 proof of concept data center fabric solution PoC to demonstrate switch and protocol independent SDN programmability enabling network operators to define their own forwarding pipelines on the fly. In collaboration with P4.org, Google and Barefoot Networks, we’ve created this PoC to explore and demonstrate the capabilities of the programmable dataplane enabled by P4 and P4 Runtime. The ONF is also open sourcing artifacts to enable a complete demonstrable prototype to be assembled (from a soft switch through controller extensions) to encourage broad experimentation and innovation across the industry.
This blog post provides some more background and color on what we’ve been doing.
ONOS P4 Brigade Collaborating With P4.org, Google and Barefoot Networks
The ONOS Project has been working on building P4 support into the ONOS controller by leveraging P4 Runtime. The P4 Brigade, a smaller team within the ONOS project focused on advancing the high-level language, in collaboration with P4.org, Google and Barefoot Networks has completed the first demonstrable prototype, and will be showing this demo at the SDN World Congress next week.
History: OpenFlow Gives Rise to P4
OpenFlow® was the enabling innovation that helped drive the SDN movement. It exposed the interfaces for forwarding devices (switches), making it possible for external controllers to access and program forwarding rules in the network. This made possible the emergence of third-party controllers, companies like Google created their own controllers, and open source offerings like the ONOS controller emerged and gained traction. Today, this technology has served as a catalyst for tremendous innovation, it is widely used and is a fundamental part of ONF’s CORD platform and CORD-Trellis fabric enabling innovative service delivery.
With time it became clear that OpenFlow, while breakthrough in nature, provided only a limited ability to program the network. In fact, it only allows control of a dataplane whose raw capabilities have been predefined in the hardware. OpenFlow allows the dataplane forwarding path to be populated with forwarding entries, such as how to reach a particular server, but it cannot define or alter the types of packets that the dataplane can understand nor the sequence of processing steps that are applied to packets (the pipeline). It is as if OpenFlow is a traffic officer that can direct traffic at an intersection, but the cars themselves can never be altered and the road can never be reconfigured. This meant network operators cannot define their own forwarding pipelines — they have to depend on switch or switch ASIC vendors and they have to wait for OpenFlow spec to evolve and it takes time. This has limited potential of SDN.
P4 Unleashes Next Wave of SDN Programmability
P4 is a language that (re)defines the forwarding behavior of the dataplane. With P4, new processing pipelines and packet formats can be defined, virtually unlimited packet manipulation is made possible and a whole new level of SDN innovation is enabled.
With the addition of P4 Runtime, a standard is emerging for the definition of how an external controller can interface with a P4 enabled dataplane. Now SDN controllers gain the ability to not only program the forwarding tables in predefined ASIC pipelines, but they can now dynamically redefine how the dataplane parses, interprets and processes packets. An ASIC development and deployment cycle is no longer needed to create and deploy new innovative capabilities (a costly multi-year process) and a network operator or use does not need to wait for the protocol spec such as OpenFlow to evolve to (re)define its forwarding pipelines. The network now becomes truly programmable, eliminating the remaining barriers to achieving true SDN programmability.
Growing Importance of P4 Runtime
P4 has a value even for data planes that do not support P4 programs in hardware. Even for fixed function networking hardware the P4 language can be used to describe the forwarding pipeline and capabilities of the device, and then the P4 Runtime can be used by controllers to interface to the hardware. This imparts to the controller a clear and unambiguous definition of the hardware’s capabilities, and lets the controller use a standard interface for controlling these capabilities. This ultimately makes it possible to support new dataplane hardware devices without the need to reengineer the controller. P4 Runtime is an important enabler for further disaggregation of the data plane and the SDN controller, even in the absence of native P4 support in the hardware itself.
P4 Runtime Demo
Next week a live demo of ONOS running a Barefoot spine-leaf fabric will be featured at the SDN World Congress. The demo highlights ONOS discovering, configuring and controlling a Barefoot leaf-spine fabric using P4 Runtime.
This demo is the result of collaboration between the ONF, the ONOS P4 Brigade, Google Cloud and Barefoot to demonstrate ONOS controlling a P4 fabric.
Be sure to also check out the press release to learn more about the demo.
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Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS) Training
The Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS) sets out nine Commitments that organisations and individuals involved in humanitarian response can use to improve the quality and effectiveness of the assistance they provide. It also facilitates greater accountability to communities and people affected by crisis: knowing what humanitarian organisations have committed to will enable them to hold those organisations to account.
Marilise Turnbull (Principal Consultant, Atrato) produced a training video on the CHS for Oxfam, to be used to introduce the standard to staff and partner organisations.
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If you’ve already been able to capture the heart of an Aquarius man and now he’s pulled back or broken up with you, you know that it’s a devastating feeling. It’s frustrating when you realize that you had everything you could ever want and now it’s all just seemed to disappear into thin air. Break ups are often just a bump in the road for a couple. Many couples actually recover from a break up to go on to have a loving, satisfying, long term relationship.
Getting an Aquarius man back can seem like an almost insurmountable task. If you’ve already tried you know that he may shut you down quickly when you ask to talk about the broken relationship. He also may be ignoring your calls and texts which only results in you feeling insignificant and discarded.
When it comes to getting an Aquarius man to fall back in love with you, it’s all about the actions that you take. There are very specific things that you need to be doing and saying right at this moment to push certain psychological triggers within him that will make him race back to you begging you to take him back.
Find out now what you should be doing at this very moment to lay the groundwork to get back the man you love. It doesn’t matter if the break up was your idea, if it was his or if you two just slowly drifted apart. If you’re intent on building a future with him, take the initiative and make it happen.
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New York in the summer is a steamy haze of worlds colliding — bands jamming out in galleries and in parks and at pools, music mixing with the humid air. Brooklyn band Ex Cops‘ new video for “Spring Break (Birthday Song)” captures that summer’s caldron feel, documenting a July 4 performance at MoMA through the eyes of the band — as well as an intrepid biker.
“When we were offered the MoMA show, we knew we had to do something with it because it’s such a weird special thing to play,” the band’s Brian Harding told Hive. “So we wanted to capture a day in the life of two different people who were headed to the same event.”
The song itself is a simple affair — the airiest off of the band’s debut full-length record, True Hallucinations. It’s a slip of a summer breeze — a singalong kind of jam whose refrain samples that old standard, “Happy Birthday.”
“It’s an innocent song,” Harding said. “It was the first song we ever recorded together and it will always be our little gem that we keep under our bed and in our hearts.”
The video has that same, light-filled, uncomplicated feel. In addition to following the band as they prepare for the artsy event, the video — directed by the band, photographer Annelise Phillips and friend/producer Dan Shapiro — tracks a biker, played by friend of the band Nickolas Kimbrell. Kimbrell, who also designed the band’s costumes, cavorts around the city, painting banners and shirts, slurping on iced coffee and paling around with the off-brand costumed characters in Times Square. The whole thing evokes that feeling you get during a New York summer when behind every building lurks a shimmering mirage of activity.
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My passion is students who are the first in their families to attend college. They are an extraordinary campus asset, adding to our community in a myriad of ways. Paying for college is a challenge for many students, but can be especially acute for firstgens. In my experience, sometimes at the tail end of their studies, resources run out. What stands between them and a degree is sometimes only a few hundred dollars. Join me in supporting their success by making a contribution to a fund or scholarship that helps them reach the goal line. I did that through Indiana State University linked to my 2017 Kilimanjaro climb, and have done so through my soon to be new institutional home, William Paterson University (“retention fund”) for this 2019 Everest High Passes trip. If you wish to support students through ISU or WPU in particular, click on the link above and feel good about making a difference in the life of a student and the families for which they will make proud! | <urn:uuid:d2a89789-10b4-48d6-95e0-a487ad19cbdd> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://everestpassesjosh.com/my-student-passion/ | 2021-09-25T18:54:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057733.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925172649-20210925202649-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.969626 | 203 |
Andrew Mitchell resigns over police comments row
Andrew Mitchell has quit as government chief whip after weeks of pressure over an argument with police officers in Downing Street.
The Tory MP has admitted swearing at officers in the incident but again denied calling police "plebs".
He told David Cameron - who has stood by him - that "damaging publicity" meant he could no longer do his job.
Former Commons leader Sir George Young will be the new chief whip, Downing Street said.
Mr Mitchell's resignation is a victory for the Police Federation and Labour who have led calls for him to go.
But it spells the end of a 25-year political career for the Sutton Coldfield MP, who was promoted from international development secretary to chief whip in September's cabinet reshuffle.
BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson said Mr Mitchell told the prime minister about his decision in person, at Mr Cameron's country residence Chequers.
The prime minister has accepted his resignation.'Learn your place'
In his resignation letter, Mr Mitchell says "it has become clear to me that whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter I will not be able to fulfil my duties as we both would wish.
This is a serious setback for David Cameron as he held onto Mr Mitchell instead of sacking him straight after his angry clash”
"Nor is it fair to continue to put my family and colleagues through this upsetting and damaging publicity".
He repeats his "categorical assurance" that he did not call police officers "plebs" - as alleged in the police report on the incident.
But he adds: "The offending comment and the reason for my apology to the police was my parting remark 'I thought you guys were supposed to f***ing help us'.
"It was obviously wrong of me to use such bad language and I am very sorry about it and grateful to the police officer for accepting my apology."
Mr Mitchell - whose job was to maintain discipline on the Conservative benches - was thrust into the spotlight when The Sun accused him in a front page story of calling police "plebs".
His outburst came after armed police stopped him from cycling through the main Downing Street gate, instead directing him to the smaller pedestrian gate.
He is reported to have used foul language and told the officer at the gates to "learn your place" and "you don't run this government".'Complete denial'
The officer concerned reported the incident to his superiors and the official police log, which appeared to contradict Mr Mitchell's story, was later leaked to the media.
End Quote Michael Dugher Shadow Cabinet Office Minister
David Cameron is left looking profoundly weak and totally out of touch”
Mr Mitchell came under intense pressure from the Police Federation - which represents rank-and-file officers - and which refused to accept his version of events.
The MP stayed away from the Conservative Party conference in an attempt to defuse the row, but despite the support of backbench Tory MPs it became clear when Parliament returned from recess on Monday that it was not going to go away.
Mr Mitchell's fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on, following a stormy prime minister's question time.
In his letter of reply to Mr Mitchell, Mr Cameron said he "understood" why Mr Mitchell was resigning, adding: "I regret this has become necessary."
Shadow cabinet office minister Michael Dugher, for Labour, said: "After weeks in complete denial, Andrew Mitchell has finally bowed to public pressure.
"What people will want to know is why, when the entire country could see that what Mr Mitchell did was wrong, the prime minister totally failed to act.
"David Cameron is left looking profoundly weak and totally out of touch, doing everything he could to hold on to Mr Mitchell only for his chief whip to bow to the inevitable given the understandable public anger."'Honesty and integrity'
Nick Robinson said the fight had gone out of Mr Mitchell, who was considered to be a fighter and a former soldier who loved political scrapping.
Our correspondent said he had fallen victim to the persistence of the Labour Party - "who portrayed him as all that was worst about the government, symbolising one rule for those at the top and one for everyone else" - and the Police Federation who were fighting the government over cuts and reform.
End Quote Jacob Rees-Mogg Conservative MP
Somebody lost his temper. Frankly, big deal. All sorts of people lose their temper in their daily lives, it's part of human nature”
"In the end he fell victim to his past behaviour, with too few people prepared to defend him, the tough guy paid for just being too tough", he added.
Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales said: "It is not good to see anyone fall from public office but the decision by the prime minister to accept Andrew Mitchell's resignation seemed almost inevitable.
"Andrew Mitchell has apologised to our Metropolitan Police colleague and our colleague has accepted the apology. We hope this matter is now closed."
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the incident had been "hugely exaggerated".
"Somebody lost his temper. Frankly, big deal. All sorts of people lose their temper in their daily lives, it's part of human nature. To blow this up into a resignation issue has been rather unfortunate and actually trivialises politics when there are many important things going on," he told BBC's Newsnight.
Mr Mitchell told our correspondent he will seek to deliver a personal resignation statement in the Commons early next week.
The new chief whip, Sir George Young, was thought to have retired to the backbenches after giving up his position as leader of the House of Commons in September's reshuffle.
The Tory grandee, who went to Eton and became an MP in 1974, had held the post since 2010, but was replaced by former health secretary, Andrew Lansley.
Sir George has some experience of the government whips office, serving there in 1990 and also acting as an opposition whip under Margaret Thatcher before she became prime minister in 1979.
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Singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge is asking a judge to install a smoking ban around her two young children after her ex-lover allegedly burned one of the tots with a cigarette by accident.
Etheridge and actress Tammy Lynn Michaels ended their seven-year relationship in 2010 and they’ve been locked in a war of words over their five-year-old twins Johnnie and Miller ever since.
Earlier this week Tammy launched a legal battle against the Grammy winner, seeking a hike in child custody payments and accusing Etheridge of brainwashing the toddlers into being rude to her.
And now the Come to My Window hitmaker has fired back with her own legal documents, requesting a smoke-free court order to protect the well-being of their two kids.
The singer also used her latest court documents, obtained by TMZ.com, to dismiss Michaels’ recent claims she lacked maternal instinct, calling her ex “angry and vindictive”.
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Brighton, or London on Sea is a superb location for a stag party. Shoot loads to do, fantastic atmosphere and easy to get to.
The downside of organising a stag do in Brighton is all in the word organising. We're not bothered because we do it all the time, but if you are panicking at the prospect of organising a weekend or you are simply very busy then why not get GoBananas to take some of the weight off your shoulders. We can organise every aspect of your stag weekend and we can both make things happen as well as advise you on what is possible and what is unfeasible.
Packages are designed to give you some idea of what is possible and available for you in Brighton. They give you an idea of the sort of budgets involved and the way that you can connect different things to do. We know that stag parties come in all shapes and sizes and while budget accommodation may suit one group, it may not suit another. We can easily modify packages by adding or removing activities or upgrading or downgrading your hotels. Not a problem for us, or at least it is less of a problem for us than it could be for you. So rather than then spend a couple of months on the phone and chasing people on emails, why not ask us to take it on. The good news is it won't cost you any more money and it will save you a great deal of time.
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You've asked what you can send me while I'm on cruise; those things
which I want but cannot get while on the ship thousands of miles away. The
list was fairly easy to write. I suspect that it won't be so easy to fill the order.
Please send me autumn. Fill a box with that special chill the evenings
get that forebodes the cold of winter, that Jack Frost nip. Add the colors
of fall: the
yellows, reds and browns of leaves whose cycle of life has ended. Send me
the sound they make as
you shuffle through ankle-deep blankets of them scattered across the yard.
to wrap some of the fragrant smoke which spirals up from the pile as they
with it the yellow harvest moon caught in the naked branches of a tree
has begun its winter sleep.
Later you can send me winter. Send me the first heavy snowfall; that
muted, magical silence which comes down across the land with the fat flakes
up quickly. Don't forget the taste of snowflakes on my tongue, or the
dusting of snow
caught in your hair like jewels. Send me a blanket of white under a full
the land seems to glow. Send me a snowman, or even better a snow family
snow-daddy, snow-mommy and little snow children with button eyes, sticks
for arms and carrots
for noses. Send me an evening in front of a fireplace with hopes and dreams
in the flames.
Send me some of your warmth, as we snuggle beneath the covers on a cold
Icicles, too; long sturdy ones and thin delicate ones.
The holidays, too, I'll want those. Send me Halloween with the little
witches, ghosts, cowboys and pirates. Carefully wrap for me the shy voices
"trick or treat" from the little fairies joining in the ritual for the
Package them carefully with the louder, bolder cries of the more
experienced trolls and
Indians hidden safely behind disguises they are sure could fool even their
own parents. Send me the
smell of freshly carved pumpkins with their funny or horrifying
jack-o-lantern grins and
snarls. Capture for me some of the more grown-up magic that comes later
that one night a
year near the witching hour, when after the little ones are tucked in their
the house is quiet except maybe for a branch against the window and even
grownups get an
uneasy feeling that perhaps there are haunts and goblins about in the
Save for me the smells of roast turkey and dressing, homemade breads and
pies. Send me the smells of Thanksgiving, as the food is cooked all day and
is piled higher and higher. Send me that quiet sense of pride and
accomplishment that rests
briefly between setting the table and the feasting frenzy.
Send me a Christmas tree. Not just any tree; a fresh cut
tree felled by small hands assisted by mom and dad. Send it to me with
smell, some lights and sparkles all draped in tinsel carelessly tossed here
and there as the
young 'uns try to out do each other. Send me a glass of eggnog, ever so
Take your sips first, and leave the prints from your lips there on the
glass for me to
see and taste. Send me that sleepless anticipation of the night before
when little angels are trying so hard to go to sleep, knowing in their
hearts that Santa
won't come until they sleep. Share with me a glass of milk and a couple of
cookies as we help preserve the fleeting illusions of childhood. Send me
shouts as little ones get their first glimpse of the piles of gifts left by
St Nick. Send
the crinkle and tear of wrapping paper and the oohs and aahs that punctuate
each gift as it is
exposed and shown around. Send me the hugs as everyone opens the gifts that
what I wanted!"
For the last day of the year, send me a quiet evening
spent with you as we look forward to another year together, and marvel at
all we survived the
Space out the packages, but send me all the changes of
season, all the day-to-day worries and joys, all the holidays that I'll
miss as I sit
halfway around the world from you. Most of all, send me your thoughts and
hopes, your dreams and
wishes, your smiles and tears.
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Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict
The network "Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace and Conflict" is a collaborative project of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (Freiburg), the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg, the University of Bayreuth, and the University of Erfurt. It is an interdisciplinary research initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The network investigates how historically formed postcolonial hierarchies manifest themselves in contemporary conflict dynamics and what implications this has for sustainable conflict transformation in the future. To do so, the network brings together historical perspectives on the contexts of conflict formation (in particular those shaped by colonialism) with postcolonial research perspectives as well as with methodologies and theories of peace and conflict research.--------------------------------------------------------
Public Lecture by Prof. Dr. Paul Basu,
who holds the Hertz Chair for the Transdiciplinary Research Area Present Pasts at the University of Bonn and who is presenting as part of the first ThinkLab within the network Postcolonial Hierarchies (BMBF):
Colonial Heritage and Knowledge Production in Conflict
In this keynote presentation Paul Basu reflects on the relationships between colonialism and conflict, and colonialism and the production of knowledge about conflict through the lens of two periods of conflict in the West African state of Sierra Leone. The first period concerns the so-called Hut Tax War and Mendi Uprising of 1898, which followed the declaration of the Sierra Leone hinterland as a British Protectorate. The second, one hundred years later, concerns the 1991-2002 Sierra Leonean civil war, which followed 30 years after Sierra Leone’s independence from British rule. Commissions were appointed in the aftermath of both periods of conflict to investigate the causes and events of the conflicts, and to make sense of the seemingly senseless violence. Basu explores these processes of meaning-making and the colonial and postcolonial hierarchies of value they reveal. What kinds of knowledge inform the work of these commissions and their reports? Whose voices and testimonies are attended to? What purpose do these narratives of conflict serve? What truths do they obscure?
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A minimum of two Jiffy Latch-Lok Assemblies per mold are required. However, four units are preferred. Larger molds may require six, eight or more assemblies.
The Latch-Lok should not be used to overcome springs. Springs can cause the plate to deflect and bind as soon as one latch bar is released, even if only the slightest timing difference is present. Latch bars and release bars must be properly aligned with the body. The bars should enter the body freely. The latch bar should be fully released prior to the stripper bolts starting to pull the plate. Check the stripper bolt length. There should be no preload on the latch bars in the locked position. Latch-Loks should only be used in a horizontal press; they are not recommended for use in a vertical press; Otherwise, the weight of the entire plate must be lifted.
When only two units are used, the bodies should be mounted on the centerline of the mold for balanced operation. If using more than two assemblies, symmetric positioning of the Jiffy Latch Lok assemblies about the mold centerline is recommended. Balance is critical in so the mold design should be symmetrical. If not, be aware of any binding that may take place. | <urn:uuid:892f755f-99d8-43cd-90c5-572bbcd24842> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.dme.net/resources/faqs/what-are-design-guidelines-and-major-considerations-use-jiffy-latch-lok-assemblies | 2017-06-26T01:56:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320666.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626013946-20170626033946-00390.warc.gz | en | 0.902569 | 260 |
First, I asked All-Star intern TC to compile the catch % of all of the Cowboys receivers to see if the numbers back up my thoughts on how incredibly spare Roy Williams has been. The numbers don’t lie. Here are the entire 16 game numbers for all of the players, where he had 82 balls thrown at him combined:
Player Catch %
As you can guess, these are not the only numbers that indicate Roy Williams did not have the initial return we were all looking for. Of the 79 players ranked, he is 75th in DVOA at -17.1%. He was also 76th in DYAR with -39. Any way you look at it, he was one of the worst wide receivers playing football this year. It's not hard to see why: between the Lions and Cowboys, he was thrown at 82 times. He turned those opportunities into 430 yards and three touchdowns. I've got a strong feeling that Danny Amendola could pick up at least 430 yards if he was given 82 passes. I have that same feeling about nearly every receiver in the league and some that aren't. On the other side, Martellus Bennett is as awesome as Williams is sucky. He led tight ends in DVOA, and finished 13th in DYAR (the counting statistic) despite having been thrown only 27 passes. To put that in perspective, Chris Cooley is 14th in DYAR, and he was thrown 111 passes.
Meanwhile, reports broke yesterday that the Lions have at least some interest in Jason Garrett taking their job …I wonder if he wants out of this circus bad enough to take that job…I wonder how badly they want him…I wonder if he regrets his Atlanta and Baltimore decisions….
The Lions made history on Sunday, completing an unprecedented 0-16 season with a 31-21 loss at Green Bay. On Monday, they began working on the future -- again -- after firing coach Rod Marinelli and announcing two anticipated front-office promotions.
Tom Lewand, formerly the chief operating officer, is the new team president, while Martin Mayhew is the general manager. Both had been operating in those roles on an interim basis since Matt Millen was fired as president in September. Now both will spearhead what is expected to be a wide-reaching search for Marinelli's successor. And the work to find the Lions sixth coach since 2000 begins in earnest this week.
The Lions already have received permission to interview two of the top NFL candidates, New York Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo and Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz, a league source said. According to the NFL Network, the Lions also plan to interview Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier and Washington Redskins secondary coach Jerry Gray.
Spagnuolo was a leading candidate to land the vacant Washington Redskins coaching position last winter, but he removed his name from consideration and signed a contract extension with the Giants. That three-year, $6 million deal makes him one of the league's highest-paid coordinators. And with the Giants on a postseason bye week -- they practice today and Friday -- that interview is expected in the next few days, though Spagnuolo, 49, figures to have more than one team visiting him.
"We'll just let it play out," Spagnuolo told Newsday last week. "If the good Lord presents me with an opportunity because we had a bye week, then we'll take it from there. I'll give it the thought or address it when it happens."
Adam Scheffter looks at the top of the 2009 draft …
After a history-making 0-16 season, the only consolation for Detroit are these words: The Lions are now on the clock.
In fact, the teams at the top of the 2009 NFL Draft are. The official order of the first round of the draft still is being worked up and finalized, but here is the order of the first nine picks of the draft on Apr. 25-26.
1. Detroit — A franchise QB or linchpin left tackle would be enticing.
2. St. Louis — If the Lions don’t take an OT, the Rams will.
3. Kansas City — Could this be the year the Chiefs go quarterback in round one?
4. Seattle — An offensive line that was old and injured needs help.
5. Cleveland — Defense, defense, defense.
6. Cincinnati — More defense for Ohio.
7. Oakland — A big-time wide receiver would help JaMarcus Russell.
8. Jacksonville — After losing so many offensive linemen this season, it would be nice to add one.
9. Green Bay — A run stuffer who also could get some QB pressure is ticketed for Green Bay.
The Lions will use the Cowboys pick at #20 most likely …
By virtue of the Roy Williams trade that sent the receiver to Dallas for a first- and third-round draft pick, the Lions will get either the 19th or 20th choice in the first round.
The Cowboys are currently sitting at No. 20, but they could move up to No. 19 if San Diego goes to the Super Bowl. (The two Super Bowl contestants are automatically moved to No. 31 and No. 32 in the draft order -- with the winner going to No. 32.)
The Chargers are currently selecting in the 16th place and they'll stay there if their playoff run ends short of the Super Bowl.
For the third-round pick, the Lions will have the Cowboys' 17th or 18th choice in that round (again, depending on a possible Chargers' Super Bowl run). The Lions will have at least five overall picks in the top 82 choices.
According to multiple sites, the Cowboys 2009 opponents:
Cowboys 2009 schedule (dates announced in April)
AFC West and NFC South. Who knows what is tough anymore, but the AFC West looks reasonable.
And then there has been a high demand for information about the The future of the Pro Bowl …
The Pro Bowl will be played one week before the Super Bowl in 2010 and both games will be staged in Dolphin Stadium, a person directly involved in the decision told The Associated Press on Monday.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the NFL has not announced the move, but Hawaii's governor and Honolulu's mayor both confirmed the situation later Monday.
"While I am disappointed the Pro Bowl likely will not be played in Hawaii in 2010, I respect the NFL's decision to play the post season all-star game in the same city as the Super Bowl, one week before the Super Bowl, on a one-year test basis," Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle said in a statement.
It's not a new notion to have the game moved up to take place between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl. The NFL has discussed it multiple times in recent years, and commissioner Roger Goodell told the AP last month that having the game precede the Super Bowl would avoid a "somewhat anticlimactic" ending to the season.
"Plans for future Pro Bowls are not final, but we have stated publicly several times that we are giving strong consideration to moving the Pro Bowl to the week before the Super Bowl," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said. "We also have been exploring playing future Pro Bowls at the site of the Super Bowl as well as in Honolulu."
The Pro Bowl has been held in Honolulu since 1980, and it's probable that the game will return to Hawaii after 2010, although not on the permanent basis as has been the case over the past three decades. Lingle said she was hopeful a deal could be struck in time for the 2011 game to return to Honolulu, and the city's mayor, Mufi Hannemann, told The AP that he also is optimistic for eventual Pro Bowls.
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Belgian iPhone plans
Belgium has joined the ranks of countries that will soon receive the iPhone, according to regional site Astel.be. The site makes the crucial claim that the phone will be available unlocked, in a scheme similar to the one suggested for Italy by La Repubblica; while this could be a part of Apple's rumored new pricing plans, under which phones would be more expensive but unlocked by default, this may be a necessity, as Belgian law is said to prevent carrier exclusivity. A similar law resulted in the creation of an unlocked iPhone for France.
Three Belgian carriers -- Proximus, Mobistar and BASE -- are said to be creating special data packages for the iPhone, supporting unlimited transfers and "visual messaging." Mobistar may in fact have a temporary exclusive on the device, although if so this would last only two months.
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Mars Stealer is data-stealing malware-as-a-service, allowing cybercriminals to rent access to the infrastructure to launch their own attacks. The malware itself is often distributed as email attachments, malicious ads, and bundled with torrented files on file-sharing sites. Once infected, the malware steals a victim’s passwords and two-factor codes from their browser extensions, as well as the contents of their cryptocurrency wallets. The malware can also be used to deliver other malicious payloads, like ransomware. Earlier this year, a cracked copy of the Mars Stealer malware leaked online, allowing anyone to build their own Mars Stealer command and control server, but its documentation was flawed, and guided would-be bad actors to configure their servers in a way that would inadvertently expose the log files packed with user data stolen from victims’ computer. In some cases, the operator would inadvertently infect themselves with malware and expose their own private data. Mars Stealer gained traction in March after the takedown of Raccoon Stealer, another popular data-stealing malware. That led to an uptick in new Mars Stealer campaigns, including the mass-targeting of Ukraine in the weeks following Russia’s invasion, and a large-scale effort to infect victims by malicious ads. By April, security researchers said they found more than 40 servers hosting Mars Stealer. Now, Buguard, a penetration testing startup, said the vulnerability it discovered in the leaked malware lets it remotely break in and “defeat” Mars Stealer command and control servers that are used to steal data from victim’s infected computers. Youssef Mohamed, the company’s chief technology officer, told TechCrunch that the vulnerability, once exploited, deletes the logs from the targeted Mars Stealer server, terminates all the active sessions that cuts ties with the victims’ computers, then scrambles the dashboard’s password so that the operators can’t log back in. Mohamed said this means the operator loses access to all of their stolen data and would have to target and reinfect its victims all over again. Actively targeting the servers of bad actors and cybercriminals, known as “hacking back,” is unorthodox and hotly debated both for its merits and its drawbacks, and why the practice in the U.S. is solely reserved for government agencies. A generally accepted principle in good-faith security research is to look but don’t touch something found online if it does not belong to you, only document and report it. But while a common tactic is to request that web hosts and domain registrars shut down malicious domains, some bad actors set up shop in countries and on networks where they can operate their malware operations largely with legal impunity and without fear of prosecution. Mohamed said his company has discovered and neutralized five Mars Stealer servers so far, four of which subsequently went offline. The company is not publishing the vulnerability as to not tip off operators, but said it would share details of the flaw with authorities with the aim of helping take down more Mars Stealer operators. The vulnerability also exists in Erbium, another data-stealing malware with a similar malware-as-a-service model to Mars Stealer, Mohamed said. Hackers are locking out Mars Stealer operators from their own servers by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
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Guest Review: What They Always Tell Us
This review was written by Isaiah Vianese. Isaiah is a poet and writing instructor in New York. You can read his blog and some of his poetry here.
Martin Wilson’s What They Always Tell Us takes its cue from John Donovan’s I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. Like Donovan, Wilson does not distract himself with a message, but focuses on writing a good story. Focusing on the relationship between two brothers, Alex and James, he creates an engrossing and plausible narrative about a stifling Alabama high school.
When we meet Alex and James, we discover sixteen-year-old Alex has recently survived a suicide attempt that isolates him from his former friends. James, a senior, has lost touch with his brother after the incident, but is preoccupied with graduating and moving on to the university of his dreams. Over the course of the novel, the brothers explore friendships, falling in love, and the importance of family—topics explored with great skill.
Wilson’s presentation is nothing short of masterful. First of all, he does not fall for the fads that cripple YA novels. Avoiding text messages, IMs, and emails, he prevents technology from scarring his chapters. The boys talk on the phone and drive nice cars, but the story is not hinged on hardware or pop culture. When they watch TV, Alex and James discuss the content in satisfying but ambiguous terms. In this way, the novel could occur in the eighties, nineties, or present day.
The novel even fails to be dated by its discussion of Alex’s homosexuality. One can only claim that it occurs sometime in the past 30 years—definitely post-Stonewall. Alex falls in love and deals with the challenges of keeping his love life private. Living in the closet has its drawbacks, but it also protects him. If anything, Wilson’s novel acts as a marker for where we are as a culture; while we may have stepped forward from the guilt in Donovan’s I’ll Get There… we have not stepped far. In fact, we seem to be at a standstill. Today, a teen can read What They Always Tell Us and identify with Alex in the same way a reader in the 80s might have (had the novel been written decades earlier).
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Would you trade your password for chocolate?
If yes, click here sharpish
OK, security pros, let's talk just amongst ourselves for just a minute. You might have seen that recent news item that reported that 70 per cent of people would willingly trade their computer password for a bar of chocolate. I don't know about you, but that left a pretty sour taste in my mouth. Even worse, 34 per cent would give away their password for nothing! WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE THINKING?!
Clearly, we need to better educate the unwashed masses about the importance of keeping their passwords secure. Along with that, helping them come up with better passwords would be nice. I'm sure you're as sick as I am of seeing passwords like "password", "beer", or "123456".
Here's my suggestion: copy the letter below and send it to everyone that needs it. You know who they are. Don't send this part - we don't want them to know that we've been talking about them behind their backs. Just send the letter below, and then follow up with a phone call or a short conversation, just to make sure they "got it." It's not going to be a panacea, but it'll be a start.
And if one of them returns from a break wiping chocolate off their hands, you know whose password to change immediately. Copy this letter... and hand it out.
Safe and Simple Passwords
by Scott Granneman © Copyright 2004, www.SecurityFocus.com
Hi. I know you probably have a lot to do right now, but I'd appreciate just a few minutes of your time so that we can talk about something that's actually pretty important: your computer passwords.
When I say "computer passwords", by the way, I'm talking about the passwords you use to log in to your computer, and the passwords you use to log in to all the websites you visit.
Right off the bat, let me say that I understand how many passwords you probably have to remember, and how many times every day you have to type one in somewhere. I agree with you that it's annoying and tedious to have to constantly use all those passwords, and I myself have difficuly remembering all of mine. It can really be overwhelming sometimes.
Unfortunately, passwords are about all we have right now in terms of computer security. Oh, you might have heard of "biometrics", which means that some part of your body is scanned to prove your identity, like your fingerprint, or your eyes, or your voice. Biometrics are available now, but they're still kind of expensive, and they don't always work right, and a lot of people have some very valid objections to the technology in terms of privacy, so it's going to be a while before biometrics are widespread.
You might also have seen those little cards that some people have, with numbers that change every minute. The idea is that the user enters that number and a PIN, and then they can log in where they need to. As you can imagine, that solution costs a lot of money, and it would be impractical to have a separate card for every single Web site that you wanted to visit. There are other methods as well, but they all have similar issues: they're too expensive right now, or not ready for prime time, or still way too complicated. So, we're stuck with passwords for the time being.
Since passwords are what we have to use, we need to be really careful with them. It's important that you keep them as secret as possible. Think of it this way: you probably keep your car keys pretty safe. If a stranger walked up to you on the street and asked for your car keys, you wouldn't let him have them, since you don't know him and therefore have no idea what he might do with your car. Even if friends ask for your car keys, you're probably unwilling to just hand them over, unless it's an absolute emergency.
Car keys are one thing, but I'll bet you do the same with your house keys. And your passport. And your driver's license. Your credit card numbers. Your bank account numbers. Your social security number. And so on. We've all learned to keep certain things safe because we know that in the wrong hands, they can lead to trouble.
Well, the same thing is true for your passwords. The more people that know them, the more likely that something bad is going to happen. In fact, the easier it is for people to guess them, the more likely it is that something bad is going to happen. So you need to pick good passwords (more on that in just a minute) and you need to keep them as secret as possible.
Now, I know that you might be thinking: "So what if someone got one of my passwords? I have nothing to hide." The problem isn't necessarily that someone will look at your stuff on your computer. The problem is that some hackers use your password to take control of your computer without your realizing it. They then use your computer to do some really bad stuff, like attack government computers, or traffic in child porn, or send thousands of spam email messages. Since it's your computer that is doing these things, you're in for a lot of hassle when the authorities come calling. Your computer can get impounded as evidence, your house can get torn apart in a search, and you can get charged with a crime. I know you're innocent, and you know you're innocent, but you'll still have to deal with the police, and the courts, and lawyers, and it will cost you a lot in terms of time, money, and energy. It's not just an idle threat - it has happened a lot more than you may realize.
So keep your password safe. Don't write it down, and don't put it on a sticky note and hide it on the bottom of your keyboard (everyone knows that trick!). Never tell anyone your password unless you are absolutely positive that they are authorized to get it. Ask for ID, and be sure you understand exactly why they need your password. Ask to speak to a supervisor or manager to clarify that the individual asking for your password really needs it. Treat your password like you treat your car keys, or your passport, or your driver's license.
Finally, here's some advice on choosing a password. I'm going to give you a couple of rules, and they may seem scary, but don't freak out. I'm going to let you know a secret that will help you apply those rules in a logical way that you can remember ... trust me!
Here's the first rule: a good password is at least eight characters long. Even longer is better, but eight characters is enough.
The second rule: you should use a mix of at least three of these four things: small letters, capital letters, numbers, and symbols. If you can use all four, great, but at least use three of them.
The third rule: don't use easy-to-guess or easy-to-crack passwords. What's an easy-to-guess password? Your name, your significant other's name, your pet's name, your kids' names, your car, your home address, your employer, your favorite singer, and so on. As for easy-to-crack passwords, you need to know that there is software available called "password crackers" that basically try to guess and guess and guess passwords until they get the right answer. That software makes mincemeat of passwords that are all numbers, so never use that, but it also easily cracks passwords that are based on dictionary words, even if they're words from other languages. (If you'd like to see some examples of bad passwords that you should always avoid, check out this article: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=8823).
And the final rule: good passwords are easy to remember and hard to guess. "password" is really easy to remember, but it's also super easy to guess. "^R49lk#an5#" is really hard to guess, but I can't remember it, and I just typed it out. So how do we come up with a good password that (a) has at least eight characters in it, (b) uses a mix of small and capital letters, numbers, and symbols, (c) isn't easy-to-guess or easy-to-crack, and (d) is easy to remember? Here's how.
Everyone has a favorite song or poem. For instance, let's say that your favorite song is Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven". The first line of that song is "There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold." Take the first letter of each word, and you get "Talwsatgig". That's a good start for a password! It's ten characters long, and it's easy to remember, as long as you know the first line of the song. However, it only uses small and captial letters, so let's add more.
When you were a kid, you may have played around with a simple code, in which a=1 and b=2, all the way to z=26. Here's another one that a lot of people sometimes used: a=@, b=6, e=3, i=1 (or !), l=1 (or l=!), o=0, s=5 (or s=$), t=+, and so on. Basically, you match the letters to a number or symbol that they sort of resemble. You can do this however you'd like, using whatever makes the most sense to you. If we do that, and then apply these substitutions to the password we've been developing, we get this: "Ta1w5atg1g". Now that is a great password!
Is that too hard? Then keep the mix of upper and lowercase letters, and tack a year on the end. Better yet, reverse the digits of the year. So your password might now be "Talwsatgig86", which is still very good. The important thing is, try to get a mix.
I know you may be thinking, "There is no way that I will be able to remember that!" But really, it's not hard. You know the song, and you'll be able to remember the simple letter/number subsitution, or the year. Just sing it to yourself (not out loud!), and type. After you do it a couple of times, it will just fly off your fingers, I guarantee.
Here's one final tip: as I said above, you should never write your password down. But you can do this, if you'd like something to help jog your memory. Go on the Internet and find a Web site that lists Led Zep lyrics. Print out the words to "Stairway to Heaven" and post them on the wall next to your computer. You'll have a reminder available all the time. If someone sees your lyrics, they'll just think you're a fan, not that your password is coded right there in front of them (unless they read this little piece, that is!).
Thanks for reading this. I hope it helps, and I hope you understand a little more why computer people want their friends, family members, and co-workers to safeguard their passwords. If you have any questions, ask the person who gave you this letter - I'm sure they'll be glad to help. Good luck, and be safe!
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Health is the most important thing people have, so many of us are trying to learn new things every day that will help us stay healthy for as long as possible. Today, it seems that scientists know everything there is to know about the human body, however this is simply not true.
For example, recently, doctors have discovered that skipping breakfast has no impact on health, and the shivering when it’s cold helps you lose weight.
People who look younger than they really are, live longer lives
Scientists from Denmark studied 387 pairs of twins in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and found that just in appearance is enough to say whether a person will live up to the old age or not. In other words, if a person looks younger than their real age, they will live longer than a person who looks older than their real age. And scientists have proved that this has been programmed in our DNA.
Key pieces of DNA called telomeres, which indicate the ability of cells to replicate, are also related to how young a person looks. So, people who look younger have shorter telomeres.
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Skipping breakfast does not lead to health problems.
In 1944, a food-producing company called “General Foods” launched an aggressive PR campaign. In order to increase the sales of their cereals, shops gave leaflets to customers and told them how important breakfast is on the radio and could hear words like, “Nutritionists claim that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.”
Thus, cereals became the most popular breakfast food, and various experts continued to say that everyone should eat breakfast. But medical research has shown that skipping breakfast does not lead to health problems and does not affect losing or gaining weight. This message is actually just a myth.
Shivering when you’re cold helps you lose weight.
Scientists at the Sydney Medical Research Institute in Garvan found that 10 minutes of shivering in the cold weather burns roughly the same amount of energy as an one-hour workout. These are new findings were built on the previous research of so-called brown fats – a type of fatty tissue that essentially burns energy instead of storing it.
The “restless body” helps you lose weight as well.
Studies have shown that many of the people who are not subject to overweight are continually making “additional” movements during their everyday life, such as patting their fingers, walking around in circles while talking, and so on. As it turns out, even this seemingly small physical activity helps the body to burn up to 350 extra calories a day. This means you can lose 13 kilograms a year just by “tapping” your fingers.
Biting the nails in childhood is good for our health.
Canadian scientists studied the habits of 1,000 children aged 5 to 9, and several years later they performed allergic tests. It has been shown that children who bite their nails rarely develop asthma, are less susceptible to allergic reactions and have stronger immune systems. According to researchers, the entering microbes make the immune system stronger and more powerful.
Blood pressure may increase when there is a doctor around you.
Up to 20% of the world’s population have the so-called white coat syndrome. These people have a subconscious fear of doctors and when they are in a medical facility their blood pressure rises. These people may seem calm and do not even realize they are scared. Women have this syndrome more often, especially in the first weeks of pregnancy. | <urn:uuid:2328f79c-c202-4077-ba59-b326440fa4a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.fitnessandpower.com/fitness-and-health/health-facts-that-made-us-wonder-how-is-this-possible | 2022-05-29T12:05:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662644142.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20220529103854-20220529133854-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.975949 | 739 |
So you may not have noticed, but I haven’t exactly been, um, prolific the last couple days. I’d like to say it’s because I’ve been so busy doing charitable acts for stray puppies, but the truth is that I’ve mostly been playing around with Elements, following lots of tutorials, and creating things like this:
Which I think looks awesome but which I never ever could have made if I hadn’t been following a tutorial.🙂
I haven’t only been playing on Elements. I’ve also been practicing my mad hair-styling skills on the little girls at work:
Those are french braids, people. And yes, they’re kind of loose and probably not at all even, but they are still french braids. And this was taken last week and I’ve gotten more practice since then. I’m doing better and better. I was really sad yesterday I didn’t have my camera because I did this style on a girl with longer hair and did messy buns (which my awesome sister taught me how to make), and it looked awesome. Oh well.
And I have been doting on the Little One, who is stinking cute. And reading other people’s blogs. And generally finding every possible way to procrastinate my housework.
But one of the biggest things I’ve been working on this week is my 101 in 1001 list. You can click on the link to see my list, or on the 101 in 1001 tab at the top of my blog banner. If you’ve never heard of this project, it’s about setting goals. And then you give yourself 1001 days to do them– that’s almost three years. My sister convinced me to join her, but she doesn’t have her list quite ready yet. When she does I will link her up.
So that’s what I’ve been up to, and what I will be up to. I’d love it if you would join me in this whole goal-setting thing. If you do, be sure to post and let me know so we can cheer each other on!
Oh, and by the way, tune in tomorrow for a GIVEAWAY!!!🙂
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This week Apple is going to unveil various updated iPod models and probably some other consumer media devices. Around our house, the new iPod Touch is eagerly awaited by someone who is too old to believe in Santa but still thinks he has an account at the Apple Store.
Ryan Kim of the SF Chronicle has a great article summarizing Apple’s shift away from Mac OS X and towards iOS everywhere:
"I think the iOS operating system is so powerful for Apple, it's generating most of their revenues, between the iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone, iTunes and the App Store," said independent mobile analyst Brian Hall. "Clearly, I think Apple realizes that they want to continue down this path."Some speculate that Macs will eventually run iOS, and Kim quotes Steve Jobs himself:
Steve Jobs has acknowledged the shift, saying the future of Apple is in lighter, non-PC devices, which he likened to cars, comparing computers to old trucks used during the country's agrarian past.The article concludes with a quote of Jean-Louis Gasée, the former Apple VP of R&D whose stubbornness (along with John Sculley’s cluelessness) nearly killed the company:
"PCs are going to be like trucks," Jobs said at the D8 conference in June. "They're still going to be around, they're still going to have a lot of value, but they're going to be used by one out of X people."
Jean-Louis Gassee, a partner at venture capital firm Allegis Capital and a former Apple executive, said he's doubtful Apple will bring iOS to the Mac because it will add too much complexity, something Apple traditionally avoids. But he said iOS, combined with iTunes, has given the company a system it never had with the Mac.The article is must reading — it’s about as complete a job as you could expect for pre-announcement speculation, and I can’t really add to it.
"It's obvious from Apple's actions they believe in the future of iOS," he said. "They're putting a lot of resources behind it. With iOS and iTunes, Apple has an ecosystem with no equal." | <urn:uuid:3c99efad-67b3-4ff7-bb73-3702988be28a> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://blog.openitstrategies.com/2010_08_01_archive.html | 2015-09-02T21:42:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440645293619.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827031453-00093-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97627 | 447 |
Daily Deal 11/27/12: Cyber Tuesday at Nine West
Every morning I wake up to an inbox overloaded with special offers, deals, flash sales and hot items. So why not let me do the work for you? I have looked through them all to pick the deal you just can't miss! Whether it's an on trend item, a fantastic sale or a classic staple piece, rest assured I will give you the daily deal worth buying.
Many amazing items are already reduced and today you will receive an extra 20% one item and 30% off two items! So basically, buy more and save more. If that's not a reason to buy shoes, I don't know what is.
My two favorite sale items are in their Vintage America Collection. The first is a Botkier bag for Nine West - The Jackson. It's a great everyday size, comes in brown and gunmetal, and is already reduced to $276. Depending on what else you buy, the bag will be reduced to $220 or $193. A Botkier for $193? Don't think, just buy!
My other favorite sale item is the Howlin booties. They are not reduced by that much ($174 from $249) but again, the more you buy the more you save. I love the zipper and buckle details that make this bootie a little biker chic but remain classic enough to wear next year as well. | <urn:uuid:a180a6f0-f0bc-40dc-8e4f-704c45bfceca> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwfashion/article/Daily-Deal-112712-Cyber-Tuesday-at-Nine-West-20121127 | 2014-04-19T21:02:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609537376.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005217-00088-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962686 | 292 |
Saquon Barkley will be the 1st pick in your dynasty rookie draft. With that out of the way, we can dive into a group of RBs that presents plenty of intrigue behind him. Jared and Matt disagree on the order of any of the next 4 backs ... though they both have Nick Chubb, Sony Michel, Derrius Guice and Rashaad Penny in that range. We'll also hit on Royce Freeman, Kalen Ballage, Josh Adams, Ronald Jones, Bo Scarbrough, John Kelly, Kerryon Johnson, Nyheim Hines and Mark Walton. That's all in the 2nd half of the show. Before that, we're sorting through the top 6 QBs -- led by Baker Mayfield and Lamar Jackson.
Check out our full -- and still growing -- list of incoming rookie profiles.
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Theme and What is it?
It is the height of the Middle Ages and various orders of knights are exerting their influence across Europe. As they fight new foes, erect buildings and spread their power, they grow in influence, ultimately causing King Philip to become nervous and to entreat the Pope to disband the holy orders, thus ending their rise to power. Compete to see who can amass the most influence during this tumultuous time.
Crusaders: Thy Will be Done from Tasty Minstrel Games is a game for two to four players in which players control different orders of knights, spreading across Europe and vying for influence. To set up the game, each player will take their set of components (player board, action wedge tiles, knight meeples, building meeples, action tokens, and troop tokens) and then draw two random knight order tiles of which they will select one to keep. Some knight order tiles have special powers that affect set up, while others give special powers for the duration of the game. Players will then set up the board. Shuffle the enemy tokens and place them randomly on the indicated spaces with the Saracen tokens being placed with their building or troop icon faceup. Place the enemy majority award tiles near the board and place 20 influence worth of tokens plus 60 per player near the board, setting the rest aside. Players will alternate taking turns throughout the game.
On a player’s turn, they will either resolve an action or upgrade a wedge. There are five different actions spread across the starting action tiles. The power of each action is determined the number of action tokens on the wedge when it is selected, plus any applicable bonuses from your player board. Upgraded action wedges feature two actions and allow the player to split the action tokens between them, but they must place at least one action token in order to benefit from the action. So even if you have bonuses from your player board for one of the two actions, they will not trigger unless you place at least one action token on the action. After resolving an action, the player takes all action tokens from the space and distributes them one at a time, clockwise around the wheel, beginning with the next action space. When a player chooses to upgrade an action wedge, they select a wedge, flip it over, leaving all action tokens in place. They may then distribute the action tokens of any wedge as normal
The five actions in Crusaders are Travel, Muster, Crusade, Influence, and Build. Remember, each action has a power value equal to the number of action tokens plus any player board bonuses. Travel allows a player to distribute movement points between their knight tokens. Leaving a space costs one point while leaving a space occupied by an enemy token costs two points of movement. Muster allows you to flip your lowest level troop token, provided the power of the action is equal to or greater than the cost of the token. Troop tokens also provide a number of influence based on their level once acquired. Crusade allows the player to fight one of the enemy tokens on the board, provided they also have one of their own knights in that region. The power of the
Crusade action must be equal to or greater than the strength of their enemy, as indicated by the strength track for the appropriate enemy. Each time a Slav or Prussian is defeated, the players will keep the token, and raise the correlating marker up one on the defense track. When defeating a Saracen, you may place the next building of that type onto the board or flip the next troop tile as indicated by the token and receive influence accordingly. Influence simply awards influence tokens to the player equal to the power of the action. Finally, Build allows a player to place a building from their player board into an unoccupied space holding one of your own knights. Players choose any type of building for which the power of their build action is equal to or greater than the lowest-level building of that type. Some regions have building bonus tiles that give discounts to certain buildings or extra influence for specific buildings. Each new building placed uncovers further action bonuses, which are cumulative. Unlocked knights are placed into the same region as the castle that unlocked them.
When the last influence token is taken, the game will end at the end of that round, so that all players have an equal number of turns. Influence can still be collected, either from the spare tokens or on paper if those have also run out. Next, the enemy majority tiles are awarded to the players with the most enemy tokens of each type. Finally, players may receive bonus influence from level IV buildings. The player with the most influence is the winner.
As a medieval historian, I was very intrigued by this game from the outset. By his own admission, the designer has taken some artistic license in order to include a wide variety of orders and for the needs of the game. While not intending to be a history lesson, the theme provides an interesting jumping off point for this euro game.
Game Build Quality
Crusaders comes with 32 enemy tokens, 30 building bonus tiles, six enemy majority award tiles, 61 influence tokens, 10 knight order tiles, and 4 sets of player pieces each of which including: one player board, six action wedge tiles, three knight tokens, 16 building tokens, 12 action tokens, and five troop tokens. All of the punchboard tokens are very thick and sturdy. The knight and building tokens are standard meeples of good quality. All in all, the game feels very durable. There isn’t an insert per se, but as usual with Tasty Minstrel Games, there are plenty of baggies included.
The artsyle, apart from the knights on the order tiles, is relatively subdued. Good color choices and graphic design give the map of a Europe a clean feel. I like the way that most areas of that have color, the color has sort of a sunburst feeling. The iconography on the building bonus tiles are easy to read and convey the information without making the board feel cluttered.
Age Range & Weight
At the heart of Crusaders: Thy Will be Done is an action rondel powered by a mancala mechanism and is therefore, relatively simple. Maximizing efficiency on the rondel and deciding when best to upgrade one of your actions and which to choose is slightly more difficult. However, assuming you do not take umbrage with the theme of the game, I would think children as young as 10 could understand the game, with slightly younger than that possibly able to simply play along. I would expect most kids of a middle school age could play it well. While there is some depth to your choices, it all does come back to the action rondel.
Crusaders: Thy Will be Done took me a little by surprise. It looks at once both very complex and very simple, yet manages to blend the two so that what you are left with is not so much something of middling difficulty, but more so a game with a very simple base mechanism that allows a surprising amount of strategic depth in its execution. The actions are straightforward and the graphic design of the player board and various tiles and tokens convey quite a bit of information easily. Our first game with four new players only took 90 minutes to setup, teach, and play. The game just keeps moving along. You are either taking actions to work on powering up a specific action for later, or selecting that action once it reaches critical mass. In the early game, choosing to upgrade an action token and then redistribute action tiles from a different wedge can help you course correct if you haven’t been able to build up a particularly powerful action yet. It feels like there is quite a bit of depth here and there are even a few variants listed at the back of the rulebook. The game just flows and packs a lot of action into a game that plays in under an hour. Tasty Minstrel Games looks to have another hit on their hands and if haven’t gotten a chance to check it out yet, you should look for it during the upcoming convention season. | <urn:uuid:4e72c493-cba5-428c-ac58-f65506a3133a> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://meeplegamers.com/Crusaders-TMG-Review | 2019-11-16T21:06:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668765.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20191116204950-20191116232950-00491.warc.gz | en | 0.958542 | 1,659 |
COUNCIL chiefs have ruled out selling-off a town centre cenotaph as part of a major redevelopment.
But they have failed to convince veterans who are calling for the war memorial in Stoke to be properly protected.
Regimental associations believe the cenotaph will be at the mercy of developers when Stoke-on-Trent City Council moves its headquarters to Hanley's Central Business District (CBD).
The authority has moved to assure the former servicemen that it will seek to secure the future of the Kingsway memorial, should the area it sits on be redeveloped.
But the veterans have raised fears that, because the cenotaph is not an officially listed building, its future could be in doubt.
Maurice Hope, from the Potteries and District REME Association, has contacted all councillors and the city's three MPS about the issue.
The 69-year-old, from Fenton, said: "I contacted the city council asking for assurances that when the area is sold off the cenotaph would be safe.
"However, I was told that as it is not a listed building, any speculator that buys the land is fully within their rights to come and knock it down.
"This isn't on, because the cenotaph has been left to the city. So I emailed all 44 councillors and the three MPs.
"Then I got a response from the council saying it is committed to maintaining it. But I'm worried that after the next election the people who are making all these decisions might not be in office." The council says it has no plans to sell the land where the cenotaph stands, and that the public would be consulted about any redevelopment of the area.
In an email to Mr Hope, councillor Ruth Rosenau, cabinet member for regeneration, planning and transportation, said: "The city council has no plans to sell the land on which the cenotaph sits or land immediately adjacent to it.
"As part of any redevelopment of the wider area the council will seek to ensure, as owner of the land and custodian of the cenotaph, that there is suitable public access to the structure and that remembrance services can continue. This reflects the council's unfaltering acknowledgment of the importance of the cenotaph as a centre of remembrance and the role it plays in the history of the people of this city.
"As part of any redevelopment proposals for the surrounding area there will be consultation with all the relevant organisations including representatives of those who use the cenotaph." Members of other regimental organisations have echoed Mr Hope's concerns.
Michael Beaman, the 63-year old secretary of the Stoke-on-Trent branch of the Royal Army Service Corps/Royal Corps of Transport Association, from Fenton, said: "I'm dubious about what the council promises because it tend to change its mind. We don't want anything happening to the cenotaph. It is there for the men and women who sacrificed their lives in not only two world wars, but other wars since."
Peter Hopwood, secretary of the Staffordshire Regiment Association's Fenton and District Branch, said it was 'disgraceful' that there should be any doubt over the memorial's future.
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Just what the stock market didn't need: A Hindenburg sighting
As if investors weren't feeling edgy enough about the stock market as economic fears mount again, now there's the "Hindenburg Omen" to worry about.
The zerohedge blog brought this generally little-discussed market indicator to light late last week, and headlines about it followed far and wide on the Web over the weekend.
The omen was created by technical analyst Jim Miekka in 1995, according to a report by Dow Jones reporter Steven Russolillo. Miekka was looking for a formula to predict stock market crashes -- hence the moniker of Hindenburg, for the German zeppelin that suddenly exploded while docking in New Jersey in 1937.
The omen requires four market conditions to be satisfied, including that a significant number of New York Stock Exchange issues hit new 52-week highs on the same day that a significant number of other NYSE shares are hitting new 52-week lows.
Why should that be a bad thing? Market technician Robert McHugh explains it well in this blog post from Sunday, but basically the idea is that a market with a meaningful number of stocks simultaneously at new highs and new lows is badly confused, and is more likely to be at risk of heading lower than higher.
All four conditions for the omen were met in Thursday's trading session, the first time that's happened since June 2008. Three months after that last signal, of course, was the start of the market meltdown that followed the collapse of Lehman Bros.
But to have substantial predictive value, the omen's conditions must be met in another trading session within 36 days of the first occurrence, McHugh says. So the clock is ticking now.
As for the omen's track record in signaling a looming market crash, that may depend on your idea of what constitutes a "crash."
A true omen (meaning one whose conditions were met at least twice in a 36-day period) has been triggered fewer than 30 times since 1986, according to McHugh's calculations. He notes that the omen has foreshadowed every major stock market decline since '86, including the genuine crash of October 1987 and the deep, drawn-out bear market of 2000-2002.
But most omens have been followed by market losses of less than 15% in the Dow Jones industrial average, according to a chart McHugh includes in his blog post. And although the appearance of the omen has almost always signaled a slide in the Dow, some of those declines have been blink-and-you-miss-them affairs -- a 2.1% drop in 1993, for example, and a 2.2% loss in 2005.
A final caveat: The omen isn't always there when you really need it. It apparently was a no-show before the stock market's slump in May and June of this year, a sell-off that slashed 16% off the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
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Representation matters in the sports world
The football season started on Friday and the start of the season featured a special moment before Lohn’s football game with Bluff Dale.
In a video posted to Sixmania’s Facebook page, a female referee and football player were interviewed before the game. The referee was identified as Amanda Saenz and the player is Taylor Bass. Ironically, the interviewer was also a woman and commented on it.
“I just found it so fun that there were two females out here along with me, one being a ref and one being a player,” she said.
The occurrence was both fun and rare for obvious reasons. While there are more women in sports – whether covering, playing and/or officiating – there still aren’t as many as some would hope.
That’s why it’s important to highlight these moments when they happen. The more young girls see other people who look like them, the more likely they are to want to participate.
When someone is made to believe that there are only certain jobs/careers that are for them, they’re less likely to venture out of that box. There shouldn’t be gender roles or expectations on one’s passion.
As a woman in sports, there have been countless times when I was the only person who looked like me, in more ways than one. I met one of my best friends in college because we were the only female interns at a sports radio station.
I can also remember covering state wrestling and, though I didn’t think about it at the time, I was the only woman covering the event.
There were female photographers, but none that were journalists, mostly the mothers of the wrestlers. This particular experience will always stick with me because it was the first time where the lack of female sports journalists truly resonated with me the more I thought about it. Sure, there were looks when I went into the tunnel to interview players, but I had a job to do and I did it.
The experience was one I’ll never forget not just because of me embodying the word ‘minority,’ but also because I found that I really enjoy covering wrestling.
That’s one of the many moments that I thought of as I watched Bass and Saenz talk about being two of the only females on the gridiron Friday night. Sure, they’ll get looks or maybe even the occasional comment. At the end of the day, though, they had a job to do and they did it.
As of Monday night, the video had over 5,300 views and nearly 200 reactions with various comments supporting both Bass and Saenz. Maybe somewhere, a young girl watched that video and it inspired her to want to pick up the ol’ pigskin or try something outside of what is expected of her.
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Lovette & Ricketts
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Manufacturer: Lovette & Ricketts
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Purchase: I bought my L&R second hand off a friend who had purchased it new. I paid $950.00 Canadian.
Likes: I love this saddle. I have had Stubben and Passier in the past but this saddle is just the most comfortable thing in the world and with the adjustable tree I can fit it to either of my horses. The leather is amazing, such good quality! I love the look, feel and wear and I would recomend thier products to everyone.
Dislikes: So far, nothing has dissapointed me....
Quality: Quality and material are VERY good, VERY high quality and put together very well.
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President Donald Trump on Friday shared tweets praising him that he thought were from his sister — but were actually from a fake account.
Trump retweeted an article from conservative talk show host Wayne Dupree’s website, which appeared to buy that @thebettytrump was actually run by the president’s older sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau.
The tweets were gushingly positive about her brother, praising him for being the true winner of the election, and hailing him for fighting to overturn the results.
(Trump did not win the election; President-elect Joe Biden did.)
“This election inspired me to break my silence and speak out on behalf of my family,” one of the tweets read. “My brother Don won this election and will fight this to the very end. We’ve always been a family of fighters.”
Trump responded to the article about the tweets, writing, “Thank you Elizabeth! LOVE!”
The parody account, which first tweeted this week, has been suspended by Twitter for violating its policies against platform manipulation and spam.
The article Trump retweeted has been updated to say that the tweets were made by an “alleged sister.”
Whoever started the parody account also fessed up in a tweet on Friday. “I would have clarified sooner that I was a parody but I certainly didn’t anticipate Trump himself taking notice of the account!” @thebettytrump said.
The president’s eldest sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a retired federal judge who has publicly kept quiet about her brother. But in a series of audio clips released by her niece Mary Trump in August, she called her brother a liar with “no principles” whom you “can’t trust.”
Mary Trump released the clips, which were short segments of interviews with her aunt, following the publication of her book about her uncle, “Too Much and Never Enough.”
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At 9:00am Saturday morning, Rachel, Michelle, Angela, and I found ourselves heading into the shower room with mops, brooms, brushes, brillo pads, Mr. Muscle liquid, and bleach. Michelle and Angela (the other two American teachers here for one/two semesters) had had the idea to do a serious cleaning in the shower room, and we had hopped on the bandwagon. The showers were pretty nasty, so we were eager to see how much better we could make it. But we had no idea what we were in for.
This school has been in operation for 9 years, and we’re all wondering whether these showers had ever had a deep cleaning. The rust and iron stains and bad enough, but then there was enough hair in the drains to fill up two plastic bags… anyway. Mom, I will never complain about cleaning our bathroom again. We spent 4 hours doing nothing but scrubbing, rinsing, scrubbing, rinsing, bleaching, scrubbing, and rinsing. And at the end… it hardly looked different. While it definitely is cleaner and it will make showering a much nicer process for us, overall the floors are still brown and stained, the pipes are still covered in dried… stuff, and the rust still has dominion.
Even though we poured out hearts and souls into those showers, they had been left dirty for so long that it would take far, far more than a one-time effort to make them truly clean again. And…. that sounds like a spiritual parallel!
In our relationships with others, we do not have time to let disagreements, grudges, or selfishness sit. Left alone, it will start to rust. Or breed mosquitoes – who knows! I learned this lesson this week in two ways: in the showers, I saw the consequences of leaving dirtiness alone, and on Tuesday, I learned the benefits of making reconciliation.
Tuesday morning, we were all out in the courtyard. I was sitting down, and someone was taking a picture in front of me, so I scooted down the bench in order to be out of the picture. And as I sat down again, I heard a snap. As I looked down to see what it was, Angela turned around as well and saw… her new sunglasses broken on the bench. “Oh, Angela!” I said, not sure what to say, but she starting immediately raving about how everything in China is cheap and breaks easy, and how she had barely even tossed them onto the bench and they broke! She didn’t even know I had done it. And she didn’t ask me. I just stayed silent and let her think that I had nothing to do with it. After all, I knew they had cost 100 Yuan, and that was about half of the spending money I had left. I couldn’t afford to reimburse her. She would never know.
That night, it kept me awake. Sure, I hadn’t lied to her. But then again, isn’t allowing someone to believe a deception basically the same thing? I didn’t have to tell her, but could I really spend the next four months with her knowing I had deceived her? I couldn’t pay her 100 Yuan… but wasn’t even that much worth a restored relationship?
I knew if I let the thoughts fester too long, if I let too much time pass, it would become so much harder to clean up this mess I had made by not telling the truth from the beginning. So the next morning, I found Angela in the office, and just told her. I told her that I didn’t know why I hadn’t told her the truth from the beginning, but I sat on her glasses. And I gave her 100 Yuan and asked her to go a buy a new pair. She said it was okay, but that wasn’t really the important part. I left knowing there was nothing between us.
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UK tour operator Cape Verde Experience is delighted to announce its new 2018/19 brochure is now available to order. Offering package, tailormade and island hopping holidays, the new brochure is bigger and better than ever before, aiming to showcase the impressive variety of holidays available in the archipelago.
Highlights of the 2018/19 brochure:
New hotel on Santo Antão – Tiduca Hotel is a new addition to the operator’s collection for the upcoming season and is recommended for two to three-night add-on stays. Its location means it’s ideal for walking and trekking, and a stay here gives guests a superb opportunity to witness what traditional Cape Verdean life is like.
New exclusivity agreement at the Hilton Cabo Verde Sal Resort – the operator is delighted to offer partial ocean view deluxe rooms exclusively in the UK market from winter 2018.
Welcoming back Spinguera Eco Lodge – a small, eco-friendly hotel on Boa Vista with just 12 rooms, Spinguera offers a tranquil and intimate holiday in an authentic and unspoilt location. Its fairly remote location in the north of the island, around a 10-minute walk from the beach, makes it ideal for couples looking to escape everyday life, although mod-cons such as Wi-Fi are still available.
Oasis Salinas Sea – another hotel the operator has welcomed back for 2018, this all-inclusive resort is ideally placed along Santa Maria’s golden sands on Sal island. Just a five-minute walk from the town, Salinas Sea provides a full entertainment and activity programme for children 4-12, along with a wellness centre and a great choice of bars and restaurants.
Further island hopping ideas and itineraries are also presented, including a Sal and Boa Vista island duo, showcasing how customers are able to build their perfect holiday across the archipelago.
Now in its 12th year of operation, the specialist has focused on growing its portfolio. In 2017, the operator introduced the island of São Nicolau to its programme, making a total of seven of the 10 islands available to customers for holidays.
For further information, images and press trip enquiries please contact Stacey Parsons or Louise Thomas on 01489 866 963, or email: email@example.com
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Still in London, and enjoying every minute of time well spent with family. Even on vacation I still find time to read the headlines.
So, here is this week's list of things I find amusing from around the Internet. Enjoy!
Interesting article on how companies will be incorporating analytics into their security measures which makes me wonder "wait, why weren't you already doing this?"
Forget self driving cars, we are about to have self flying fighter pilots. I'm certain this won't lead to the end of humanity.
Wonderful article by Troy here, showing more examples of basic security failures from some large companies and websites.
Valuable data for anyone that travels, ever.
It is surprisingly low, IMO. I'd like to see some data on how much capacity and throughput these data centers are providing over time as well.
I enjoyed how the author broke down #Brexit and related it to software. We've all seen both sides of this equation.
I've always found summertime as a good time to review your DR plans, and this article is a nice reminder.
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Therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) decreases the risk of asthma exacerbations. Recent studies have suggested that ICS therapy also may decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, and perhaps of all-cause mortality. We examined this hypothesis in a large, well-characterized cohort of asthmatic women.
In 1976, the Nurses' Health Study enrolled 121,700 registered nurses, who were 30 to 55 years of age. Participants were asked about “physician-diagnosed asthma” on biennial questionnaires. In 1998, asthmatic participants were sent a supplementary questionnaire on asthma diagnosis and management, including ICS use. Mortality was assessed through 2003, without knowledge of the 1998 (baseline) ICS status. The odds ratios (ORs) for death were adjusted for age, asthma severity, smoking, heart disease, cancer, stroke, aspirin, and statin use.
Among 2,671 eligible women (ie, those who responded to the 1998 supplement [85%], met criteria for persistent asthma, and had not received a prior diagnosis of COPD), 54% reported ICS use. Over the next 5 years, 87 women (3.3%) died (cardiovascular deaths, 22; cancer deaths, 31; other, 34 [including 4 from asthma]). Compared to asthmatic women who did not use ICSs, those receiving therapy with ICSs had lower all-cause mortality (OR, 0.58; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.36 to 0.92). ICS users were at significantly lower risk of cardiovascular death (OR, 0.35; 95% CI, 0.13 to 0.93), but not of death from cancer (OR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.32 to 1.38) or other causes (OR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.30 to 1.27).
ICS use was associated with significantly lower cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in women with asthma. These observational data suggest that ICSs may indeed have antiinflammatory benefits beyond the airway, which is a possibility that merits further study. | <urn:uuid:3511c8e4-6517-45e4-bb5c-a3bd2fc3b0cd> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1044750 | 2016-12-04T22:28:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541426.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00056-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95525 | 440 |
Red Hat to pack punch on Oracle clustering?
More than just a Linux distro
Analysis Red Hat's Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 event Wednesday was something of a formality, given how long it has kept the world waiting for an update.
The real news today is in the services Red Hat plans around RHEL - particularly on virtualization - in response to increased competitive pressures from Oracle, Microsoft, Novell and Sun Microsystems.
Oracle last October started a feeding frenzy with the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) low-priced, update and patching service, which convinced skittish Wall Street investors the end was nigh as Red Hat would be forced to drop prices. Good-bye margins.
Market reaction was overdone: five months on and Red Hat concedes just two ULN defectors - one of which is Oracle's own OnDemand hosted business. So the vultures aren't exactly circling over Research Triangle Park, NC yet. But Red Hat knows it cannot stand still. Rather that wrestle with Oracle etc on price, it has picked a fight on "value" predicated on virtualized computing.
Red Hat will phase out its Enterprise Linux ES and AS offerings for RHEL 5, supporting up to four operating system guests, and the RHEL 5 "Advanced Platform", with storage, high availability and unlimited guests. Both are priced in line with ES and AS - $349 and $799 per system and $1,499 and $2,499 per system. New pricing can be found here.
Red Hat is simply packing more into subscriptions, especially with Xen. The thinking is to bring virtualization to a mass market of customers and ISVs using a transparent price system that's easy to comprehend and doesn't act a barrier to adoption. "We wanted to get out of the situation of counting virtual guests... [customers] have enough difficulty counting physical systems and sockets," Paul Cormier, Red Hat EVP of engineering, said at today's RHEL launch in San Francisco.
With this in mind, Red Hat is revamping customer support and services, which in turn will help it cement its standing with the likes of MySQL and EnterpriseDB, to name but two. With partners such as these, Red Hat could mount a challenge for the database clustering market, a key plank of Oracle's business. Today the operative word is could. Red Hat's plans here have potential, but key details must be ironed out before it can realized them.
Red Hat is simplifying its support contract with a single service level agreement (SLA) across its Linux and JBoss middleware products. It also promises to solve all problems for its software when used with third-party hardware and software through the Red Hat co-operative resolution center.
Ian Gray, vice president of global support services, promised: "If we ship the bits we support the bits. There are no loop holes or roadblocks, and you don't end up in conversations that end up: 'You are doing something with out product we don't support'."
That becomes important as Red Hat takes its first steps towards expanding the partner ecosystem. Red Hat Exchange (RHX), due sometime this year, will initially consist of 10 plus open source database, business applications and middleware vendors certified to Red Hat. Ignore the Web 2.0 fluff - Red Hat promises users rating favorite applications Amazon-style (this is business software, kids, not books) - RHX should make it easier for customers to find applications certified to Red Hat, help bring partners to market, and take Red Hat into new deployments. | <urn:uuid:03810de6-b1b6-4713-8a99-408ce5926af5> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/15/red_hat_rhel_oracle/ | 2016-02-14T15:07:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701987329.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205195307-00085-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944517 | 735 |
Canadian actor-singer Nolan Gerard Funk — whose credits include the Nickelodeon musical Spectacular! and the Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie — is joining the cast of Glee as the Warblers’ new frontman, Hunter, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Hunter’s first order of business? Luring ex-Warbler Blaine back into the fold so they can win a national championship. (And in case you’re wondering, that’s all Hunter wants with Blaine; a source confirms that the newbie is straight.)
Funk, whose resume also boasts arcs on Warehouse 13 and Angels in America, as well as a supporting role in the current big screen spooker House at the End of the Street, kicks off his recurring Glee stint in this season’s seventh episode, titled “Dynamic Duets.”Follow @MichaelAusiello | <urn:uuid:452c858c-ec92-4531-9a6e-ef98bc9497a9> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | http://tvline.com/2012/10/01/glee-nolan-gerard-funk-warbler/ | 2018-04-20T05:15:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125937114.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20180420042340-20180420062340-00487.warc.gz | en | 0.937572 | 186 |
This episode we chat about the methodology behind predicting voter behavior with special guest, Luke Riley who worked in Hillary Clinton’s Brooklyn data operation.
We start by exploring how campaigns and firms like Cambridge Analytica build a predictive mathematical model of the electorate using consumer data and polling.
Then we discuss how this process played out with the dynamics of the 2016 election. Can the best data in the world make up for an enthusiasm gap?
Finally we look forward to the future of campaign data and analytics. What were the lessons learned and where are we headed?
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In Search of the Perfect Window
THOSE who advertise rooms or flats to let often describe them as "room with bath" or "room with tea and coffee-making facilities." A more attractive proposition would be "room with window," for without a view a room is hardly a living place - merely a place of transit.
As an itinerant young writer, I lived in many single-room apartments, or "bed-sitters" as they were called, and I have to admit that the quality of my life was certainly enhanced if any window looked out on something a little more inspiring than a factory wall or someone's backyard.
We cherish a romantic image of a starving young poet living in a garret and writing odes to skylarks, but, believe me, garrets don't help. For six months in London I lived in a small attic room that had no view at all, except for the roofs of other houses - an endless vista of gray tiles and blackened chimneys, without so much as a proverbial cat to relieve the monotony. I did not write a single ode, for no self-respecting nightingale or lark ever found its way up there.
My next room, somewhere near Clapham Junction, had a "view of the railway," but you couldn't actually see the railway lines because of the rows of washing that were hung out to dry behind the building.
It was a working-class area, and there were no laundries around the corner. But if you couldn't see the railway, you could certainly hear it. Every time a train thundered past, the building shuddered, and ornaments, crockery, and dishes rattled and rocked as though an earthquake were in progress. It was impossible to hang a picture on the wall; the nail (and with it the picture) fell out after a couple of days. But it reminded me a bit of my Uncle Fred's railway quarters just near Delhi's main railway st ation, and I managed to write a couple of train stories while living in this particular room.
Train windows, naturally, have no equal when it comes to views, especially in India, where there's an ever-changing panorama of mountain, forest, desert, village, town, and city - along with the colorful crowds at every railway station.
But good, personal windows - windows to live with - these were to prove elusive for several years. Even after returning to India, I had some difficulty finding the ideal window.
Moving briefly to a small town in northern India, I was directed to the Park View lodging house. There did happen to be a park in the vicinity, but no view of it could be had from my room or, indeed, from any room in the house. But I found, to my surprise, that the bathroom window actually looked out on the park. It provided a fine view! However, there is a limit to the length of time one can spend in the bath, gazing out at palm fronds waving in the distance. So I moved on again.
After a couple of claustrophobic years in New Delhi, I escaped to the hills, fully expecting that I would immediately find rooms or a cottage with windows facing the eternal snows. But it was not to be!
To see the snows I had to walk four miles from my lodgings to the highest point in the hill station. My window looked out on a high stone rampart, built to prevent the steep hillside from collapsing. True, a number of wild things grew in the wall - bunches of red sorrel, dandelions, tough weeds of various kinds, and, at the base, a large clump of nettles. Now I am sure there are people who can grow ecstatic over nettles, but I am not one of them. I find that nettles sting me at the first opportunity. So I gave my nettles a wide berth.
And then, at last, persistence was rewarded. I found my present abode, a windswept, rather shaky old house on the edge of a spur. My bedroom window opened on to blue skies, mountains striding away into the far distance, winding rivers in the valley below, and, just to bring me down to earth, the local television tower. Like the Red Shadow in "The Desert Song," I could stand at my window and sing "Blue heaven, and you and I," even if the only listener was a startled policeman.
The window was so positioned that I could lie on my bed and look at the sky, or sit at my desk and look at the hills, or stand at the window and look at the road below.
Which is the best of these views?
Some would say the hills, but the hills never change. Some would say the road, because the road is full of change and movement - tinkers, tailors, tourists, salesmen, cars, trucks and motorcycles, mules, ponies, and even, on one occasion, an elephant. The elephant had no business being up here, but I suppose if Hannibal could take them over the Alps, an attempt could also be made on the Himalayan passes. (It returned to the plains the next day.)
THE road is never dull, but, given a choice, I'd opt for the sky. The sky is never the same. Even when it's cloudless, the sky colors are different. The morning sky, the daytime sky, the evening sky, the moonlit sky, the starry sky, these are all different skies. And there are almost always birds in the sky - eagles flying high, mountain swifts doing acrobatics, cheeky myna birds meeting under the eaves of the roof, sparrows flitting in and out of the room at will. Sometimes a butterfly floats in on the breeze. And on summer nights, great moths enter at the open window, dazzled by my reading light. I have to catch them and put them out again, lest they injure themselves.
When the monsoon rains arrive, the window has to be closed, otherwise cloud and mist fill the room, and that isn't good for my books. But the sky is even more fascinating at this time of the year.
From my desk I can, at this very moment, see the clouds advancing across the valley, rolling over the hills, ascending the next range. Raindrops patter against the window panes, closed until the rain stops.
And when the shower passes and the clouds open up, the heavens are a deeper, darker blue. Truly magic casements these. ... For every time I see the sky I am aware of belonging to the universe rather than to just one corner of the earth. | <urn:uuid:861d9d85-ba44-41a4-b91b-4dd2db6a97c5> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.csmonitor.com/1992/0717/17161.html | 2018-03-23T23:15:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257649095.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180323220107-20180324000107-00096.warc.gz | en | 0.973313 | 1,392 |
The Seven Feasts of Jehovah - Leviticus 23
Address given at the Plumstead Conference 1996
Leviticus chapter 23, verses 1-6, 9-11, 15-17, 23-27, 33-36
The Old Testament has often be called the picture book of the New Testament and I think that everyone of us knows that we have many, many types in the Old Testament, images of truths which have only been revealed in the New Testament. We have persons like Isaac as a figure of Christ and so forth, we have, especially in the people of Israel after their liberation from Egypt, many types, I only take the tabernacle which is an apt type of Christ and His assembly without going into any detail. If we think of the offerings, the sacrifices which all speak of the one sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. And we have also in the seven feasts of Jehovah of which we have been reading this evening a typical description, I would say, of the entire spiritual history of the world and being that we are occupied with the future, the prophecy, I think it might be an apt filling up of the end of the conference to occupy ourselves for some moments with these seven feasts of the Lord.
These seven feasts were naturally, as it is said in the Darby translation, set feasts or feast times, as John says, for drawing near to God. That was the idea, the thought of God, to have fixed times to draw His people toward Himself. But not only was this the idea, the thought of God, but He wanted to give instruction not to the Israelites, as Paul writes in his first epistle to the Corinthians when He gave the commandment that the threshing oxen should not be muzzled, he did not think of the oxen alone, He thought of us. And the same is true when we consider the feasts of Jehovah. If we have paid attention somebody might say but there were eight feasts mentioned, the first being in verse 3 which is the sabbath and indeed if we count all these occasions, these set occasions, there are these eight but the sabbath not being a yearly feast but a weekly recurring occasion. It is on the one hand counted among those feasts but on the other hand it is clearly detached from the seven feasts which only occurred once a year and this sabbath shows us perhaps the idea which we find already in this first chapter of the Bible and which we find in the last book of the Bible of which we have been speaking during our conference today, the eternal rest of Jehovah. The thought of God was, is and shall always be: rest for the soul. For Himself, when He had finished the creation, God rested on the seventh day, and He sanctified this day to detach it from all the other days in which He had accomplished the creatorial work. But then came sin. Many thousand years later when the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, was on this earth, walking over the scene, He said, and He worked on the sabbath, He healed on the sabbath, He was the Lord of the sabbath. And when the Pharisees reproached Him He said 'Man was not created for the sabbath but the sabbath for man' and then He added in another Gospel, He said until that time, even today, "My Father worketh hitherto and I work." There was no real rest, sin had entered into this world, God could not find rest in this world, He cannot find it. So, what was to be done? He sent His Son, the Lord Jesus came to give us rest and He has brought rest to everybody. I don't know whether everybody tonight gathered with us here, has already found this rest for the soul but the Lord said in Matthew 11, the now very well-known words 'Come to Me, all ye burdened and heavy laden and I shall give you rest.' That is the idea of the sabbath, God wants man to have rest and wants to enjoy this rest together with His creatures but this can only be today after sin had entered into this world on the qround of the atoning work of Christ. So this idea of the rest is still there and therefore the author of the epistle to the Hebrews writes 'there remains yet a sabbath rest or a sabbatism for the people of God. But this rest can be looked at from two sides, it can be looked at from the inward rest which the Lord has in store for everybody who believes in His word now to find rest or peace for his conscience and for his soul but it has also the other respect that there shall be an outward scene of rest for all those who belong to Him. It will be fulfilled in a preliminary way in the millennium but it will be fulfilled in the most perfect way in all eternity. This sabbath rest for the people of God is yet remaining. We are waiting for it but we see that, can well understand that this thought of rest was the underlying thought of God in all His works and that is why every week we term the sabbath, the day of rest when the Israelite was not allowed to work. For us we will find this in the course of these feasts, this sabbath has given place to the first day of the week which also had its place already in the Old Testament without any Israelite being able to understand what was the real meaning of that first day, the new beginning which we find even in the first group of feasts.
So we turn now to these seven yearly returning feasts in Israel most of which are well-known especially the first one, the passover of which we have read in verse 4 "These are the set feasts of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons; In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the two evenings, is the passover to Jehovah." All these Israelites who received this commandment probably had celebrated this first passover already in Egypt. We all know that what was the occasion of this passover, this as it is in Hebrew and the English translation is even in phonetically a little bit in accord with the Hebrew which is not the case in German and in French, because it really means, passing over. The occasion was the judgement of God on all the first born, representatives of the whole people in Egypt. And for every Israelite there was this possibility of being spared of this judgement by slaughtering the passover lamb, taking the blood of this lamb and putting it on the door posts and the lintel of the door and by that means being saved from the judgement. And the wonderful thing which also has a very touching voice for us is that not the Israelites, the first born, had to see the blood, it was to be on the outside of the house. And God said 'When I see the blood I will pass over you'. It is not our appreciation of the blood of Christ - which will never reach that height which God has for it - but it is His appreciation of the precious blood of Christ.
So the passover which was celebrated in the beginning of the month and if we turn to Exodus 12 we will see that God really instituted a new beginning. The normal Hebrew or Jewish year begins in Autumn, in September/October, that is the normal, the civil year but in Exodus 12, in the Darby Bible I think there is a note when it says there 'this is to be the beginning of your months', that is he said 'the beginning of the holy year'. It was actually a new beginning starting with the sacrifice of the passover lamb with freedom from judgement and the beginning of salvation, the beginning of a new life. We see that in the New Testament just to explain that the passover is really a type of the work of the Lord Jesus, in I Corinthians 5 the apostle explained it expressly, I Corinthians 5, verse 7 at the end "For also our passover Christ has been sacrificed". It is always important to find a New Testament explanation for an Old Testament type so it is easier to understand that we don't stray from the meaning of Scripture. The Holy Spirit explains in the New Testament that the passover is really a type of the work of Christ in freeing us from the judgement which we had deserved.
But then the second feast which follows immediately after the passover which was celebrated on the fourteenth of the first month was in verse 6 the day the feast of unleavened bread which started on the fifteenth day of the first month of the holy year and which lasted for one complete week. And having opened I Corinthians 5 we can just continue in verse 8 "So that let us celebrate the feast not with old leaven nor with leaven of malice and wickedness but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." So we have in these two verses, 7 and 8, the full explanation of the two first feasts of Jehovah, the passover which was one day, reminiscent of the memorial of the freedom from judgement by the blood of the lamb, and then this seven day feast of unleavened bread. Well, these seven days, one week, speak of a period, seven being the divine number of perfection, completion, which shows that, and it is exactly in this way that Paul by the Holy Spirit explains this, it is an image of our life 'let us celebrate the feast' is not to be understood to celebrate the feast of the Supper as sometimes is being said. No, the feast is here the feast of unleavened bread which is the whole week which follows the passover, the whole week and week after week after week, it is an image of our, a type, of our entire lives, life marked by unleavened bread. Now, leaven in the New Testament and also in the Old Testament, is always, if it is taken typically, a type of sin, of sin allowed in one's life and not judged. And it was absolutely forbidden to have any leaven in the house of a Jew for one week after the passover and so God says in I Corinthians 5 that it is not apt for the Christian to have any leaven of old leaven which speaks of our lives of the old man, our lives before our conversion nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, we still have our old nature, the old man has been crucified, Romans 6, verse 6, but the flesh is still there and the flesh has not changed the law, and it has no right of existence, put it away, self judgement is the thing for our everyday life. And so we can see that we have to put away this leaven of malice and wickedness and to live our lives with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth, things which were represented in perfection by the Lord Jesus and we are to follow Him. So this second feast of Israel or the feast of Jehovah rather is a type of the entire life of a believer.
Then we continue to the third feast in verse 9 "Jehovah spoke to Moses saying 'Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I give unto you, and ye reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest. And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah to be accepted for you; on the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it." This was the third feast of Jehovah, the feast of the first-fruits or the feast of the wave-sheaf. Now, this might be a little bit more difficult because it was in very close connection with the first two feasts. It was eaten exactly on the first day of the week, there we have for the first time the first day of the week in those feasts typically mentioned. Now if we take the passover, it was to be held on the fourteenth day of the month which could be any weekday. And then started seven days of unleavened bread, type of the life of the Christian. But then we have here a fixed day of the week, the first day after the sabbath naturally following the passover so if the passover was on a Monday then exactly seven days later on the Lord's day, the first day of the week after the sabbath this feast of the wave-sheaf or the first-fruits was to be celebrated. But when the real Passover was sacrificed the first day of the week followed three days and three nights after the sacrificing of the Passover, the death of the Lord. And what happened on this first day of the next week after the death of our Lord? He was raised from the dead, He was as I Corinthians 15 says, verse 20, He was the real firstfruits, the firstfruits of those fallen asleep, He is the first born of those who have been dead, nobody has been raised by God Himself without human intermediation except the Lord Jesus and all people who have been raised before, even by Himself, had been raised only, that we say, to die a second time but the Lord Jesus was raised in a life marked by incorruptibility. And that is why we find here that this feast was only to be celebrated when they came into the land of Canaan because the land of Canaan brings us into the heavenly sphere, into the heavenly places, that is the type of heavenly places. And if we study the New Testament, especially the letters of Paul exactly, then we shall find that the resurrection of the Lord and our resurrection with Him is only mentioned in the Ephesians and Colossians and once I think in Timothy but in no other letter of the apostle Paul is our resurrection with Him, our spiritual not our future resurrection, but our dying with Him and our being raised with Him spiritually mentioned. And these are exactly those epistles in which our heavenly position is presented. When the Lord was raised from the dead He did not belong anymore to this earth. In one sense virtually He never belonged to this earth, He was always the heavenly Stranger, but He came down and He took part in our condition. He became man, not the sinful condition but our creature condition. I know that this is some discussion here in the English speaking world about the terms 'condition' and 'state', but what I mean is simply that the Lord Jesus became the perfect man except sin, sin excepted. He came down, He was on this earth and He was surrounded by all the marks of the human state, sin excepted. He was hungry, He was thirsty, He was tired but after the accomplishment of His work, after His resurrection, He did no longer belonged to this earth, He belonged now as man to heaven where He went forty days afterwards. And that is why we find here that this feast is connected with the land, not with the desert 'When ye come into the land'. In the desert there are no first-fruits, there is no crop to be raised, only in the land, and they should bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of which we find in just to mention the exact passage, I Corinthians 15, should I perhaps mention other passages, but I take this one from the resurrection chapter, I Corinthians 15, verse 20 "But now Christ is raised from among the dead, firstfruits of those fallen asleep". This is the fulfilment of the feast of the wave-sheaf which was to be presented in the land which brings the people of God in the full possession and enjoyment of what He has given to us. He doesn't want us to be poor and joyless Christians, He wants to see us in connection and relation with the Lord and in the enjoyment of all the blessings He has procured for us. But this was not yet the last feast.
The first three feasts which belong very closely together which all have, as we can easily see from the New Testament quotations, found their fulfilment in the work of Christ.
But then we have the fourth feast which is mentioned from verse 15 onwards
"And ye shall count from the morning after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven weeks; they shall be complete; even unto the morning after the seventh sabbath shall ye count fifty days; and ye shall present a new oblation to Jehovah. Out of your dwelling shall ye bring two wave-loaves and of two tenths of fine flour; with leaven shall they be baken; [as] first-fruits to Jehovah."
Fifty days after the resurrection day, after the waving of the first-fruits, the wave-sheaf, was another feast of which we find the fulfilment also in the New Testament. If we take the Greek exactly, it says in Acts 2, verse 1 'And when the feast of the fiftieth was fulfilled', the fifty days mentioned here, seven weeks plus one day, the day of Pentecost. Pentecost is simply the Greek word for 'fifty'. The day of Pentecost was the fulfilling of the feast of the weeks which was to take place seven weeks after the presenting of the firstfruits, this wave sheaf and when we go to the New Testament and ask what was the meaning, what happened on this day of Pentecost, we see that it was the foundation day of the assembly.
So we have in these four feasts, passover, unleavened bread, the wave sheaf and the feast of the weeks the whole, one could say, the entire plan of God for the salvation and the union of His own brought about by the work of the Lord. And it is interesting that these types in many respects and here especially fall short of the reality because on the day of Pentecost, as Paul explains it later, all the believers, these at least one hundred and twenty believers who were together there in the upper room, were baptised according to I Corithians 12, verse 13 by one Spirit to one body which is expressed every Lord's day in the breaking of bread, one loaf, one body, "Because we, [being] many, are one loaf, one body; for we all partake of that one loaf." But here the type falls short, they had to bring not one loaf but two loaves. There are many types of the assembly in the Old Testament, take for example the tabernacle, but there is not a type of this wonderful oneness of the Church of God to the present day. The people of Israel is also a type of the heavenly people, twelve tribes, and here we have two loaves, two loaves, verse 17, which are characterised that they contain leaven.
Now, we have just heard that leaven is not to be allowed in the lives of the Christians but here we see that they have been baken with leaven. Leaven which is not baked works but the moment it is exposed to fire the working, the energy of this leaven, stops, it is only the memory that there was leaven in this loaf but it has finished. And this is exactly the state, the assembly, consisting of believers, is in because every believer knows that he was once leavened but due to the judgement undergone by the Lord Jesus this leaven, the old man, has been taken away, the working of sin has finished - not in practice but with regard to our position.
This feast of weeks is also connected with first-fruits brought to Jehovah, these two loaves of bread, the nearest, the closest approach to the oneness of the assembly in the Old Testament, two loaves. In the tabernacle there were twelve loaves, speaking of the twelve tribes, but here we have two loaves, not one. This type falls short in that respect but there we find again this word 'first-fruits' but in the Darby translation, in the note and it is very important that we find it here, this word for first-fruits is another word than that which we have had in verse 10, as the note says which is the same word as in chapter 2 Vers 12 in connection with the meat offering. We are also first-fruits, as James says in his first chapter, verse 18 "According to His own will begat He us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain firstfruits of His creatures", firstfruits of the new creation. If you look around you see the old creation, everybody by nature is the old creation, this earth is the old creation but in this old creation lying under sin there are new creatures, every believer is the part of the new creation. Paul says this and it is also the very precious thing to remember this: we do not any longer belong to this old creation, we are in it but Paul says in II Corinthians 5 Vers 17 'if anybone be in Christ there is a new creation; the old things have passed away, behold all things have become new.' Isn't that a wonderful thing, we ought to be able to say 'I belong to the new creation, I'm a new creature'. But why are we firstfruits? Because of everything of which we have been speaking, the remnant, the millennium, everything is future but we are living at present and that is why we are really the firstfruits of the new creation and everything in this old creation will undergo judgement except the believers, they were taken out of this old creation to be really, to enter as firstfruits into the new state of things.
And then comes a pause, an interval. We see that all the first four feasts have a relation to the passover which is the beginning of the old year, a new beginning, passover, and even the feast of weeks was seven weeks after the first day of the week, after the resurrection of the Lord. And then comes a time of several months until the seventh month as we have read in verse 24:
"Speak unto the children of Israel saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first of the month, shall ye have a rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets"'.
What we have considered until now was actually the work of Christ for everybody who believes whether Jew or Gentile and the result even including the building, the making of the assembly. But now comes an interval of many months and what we have here, the seventh month, if we turn back to Exodus 12 where we have found that God has reversed the order of the months we shall find that this was the seventh month in actually the normal beginning of the normal year which is here called the seventh because here we have the holy year. But, what I want to say is that now God, by these feasts turns back to the normal order and we can say to the earthly order to His earthly people. What we have had now is the formation of the heavenly people by the first four feasts but the last three feasts which are firstly separated by a longer interval from the first four, secondly bring us back into the earthly and, let me say, normal order of things, show us that something must be changing here and I think we can say that was in the first place it is the returning to the people of Israel, that the last three feasts have to do with the development of Israel and secondly that they, this is indicated by the interval which was not to be even fixed by a certain number of days because this interval was always changing from the day of Pentecost until the first of the seventh year you only have to take several calendars you will see that every year the number of days will be different showing that this difference is not a fixed distance. That's why we don't know when the Lord will take up His relations with Israel. He will do it as certainly - and this is one lesson which we can draw from these seven feasts - as four of these feasts have already been fulfilled two thousand years ago and God has given them one thousand five hundred years before they were fulfilled. They have all been fulfilled. Prophecy fulfilled, typology fulfilled, four of the seven feasts are fulfilled: should not that be for everybody a very earnest and serious hint that there will be no doubt - and there can be no doubt - that the last three feasts will also find their fulfilment? The Bible is full of these things. How many prophecies concerning the Lord Jesus, actual prophecies, have been fulfilled, undeniably fulfilled? And still man does not believe. But for us who believe in that which has happened we know we can infer that that which has been prophesied, prophecy, and is not yet fulfilled will as certainly be fulfilled as that which has been fulfilled.
So we turn to these last three feasts. The seventh month the Lord will speak to Israel and He will do it by means of a trumpet. It is not the trumpet which will take the saint up, this would belong to the first four feasts but it is not mentioned. This is a new beginning in the new setting with His own people, with Israel, and I only mention Joel 2, verse 1: "Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is at hand; a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness, as the dawn spreads upon the mountains;- a great people and strong". 'Blow the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm because the day of Jehovah is at hand': that is exactly the meaning of these trumpets in verse 24:
"In the seventh month, on the first of the month" the beginning of this month "shall ye have a rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. No manner of servile work shall ye do".
We read this commandment to do no manner of servile work practically at every feast and it shows us, we read it here a very close connection with blowing of the trumpet, it shows that in all the dealings of God with man, with His heavenly people or with His earthly people we can do nothing. It is not our work and it will not be the work of the Jew that they return, it will be the work of God Who will blow the trumpet and we can say that between the 22nd and the 23rd verse (just as in the Revelation where we have no direct indication of the rapture of the assembly after chapter 3) so here we have no indication of the rapture but it is there, it should be here between verse 22 and verse 23 and then after the assembly, the believers asleep and alive have been taken away the Old Testament and the New Testament and every believer have been caught up to be for ever with the Lord then this trumpet for Israel shall be sounded and Israel will be spiritually awakened. Now, there could be lots of things said as to the state of Israel. We see that outwardly a great part, not the greater part, I think that in New York alone there are more Jews than in the whole state of Israel, more than three million, but a great part of this people who have in our days been returned to Israel after two thousand years of absence but it is not yet the trumpet. It is what we find perhaps in Ezekiel 37, the dead bones have been gathered in the valley but there is no life in it and for the spiritual life, the waiting for the Messiah. They have sinned and that's what we had this afternoon that the woman has to flee into the desert (Rev. 12). This is something which has not yet appeared in Israel and which will probably, very probably, openly come to life after the rapture of the assembly and not before because this will be to my mind the effect of the sounding of the trumpet that the people of Israel open their ears again to the word of God, to the voice of His prophets.
And then we have the second of the second group, the sixth feast in verse 26 "And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Also on the tenth of this seventh month is the day of atonement: a holy convocation shall it be unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and present an offering by fire to Jehovah." Now, this day of atonement is explained very largely in chapter 16 of the book of Leviticus. And it shows us it is very often, rightly so, applied to ourselves, Hebrews does so, Hebrews 9 and partly 10 is a biblical explanation where Scripture explains Scripture, of the day of atonement and the apostle who wrote the epistle to the Hebrews writes that Christ is the fulfilment of the work of the High Priest, the fulfilment also of this sacrifice of the two goats and the other offerings by His offering which has taken place once for all whereas in the day of atonement the only time the High Priest was allowed to enter into the Holiest of Holies once a year, Hebrews 9 says, this shows that it was not yet a complete salvation but it's this once a year is also a type of the work done once and for all by the Lord Jesus. We apply this to ourselves and we can do it because the work of the Lord is universal, it is for every man, it is for the believers of the Old Testament times, Romans 3:25 it says there that God "passed by the sins that had taken place before thruogh the forebearance..." God looked over the sins in the past days with a view to Calvary, it is, it has been fulfilled for us in the present time and it will be the foundation of the New Covenant which will be made with the people of Israel. And here we see that Israel will have their own day of atonement, that after the sound of the trumpet, it's not an exact historical description, but that the main thing for Israel after the call of God to come back to Him by the trumpets the main thing will be that Israel as people will see that the Lord Jesus, our Saviour, is also their goat of atonement, that He has also taken their sins, that He is the One Whose blood was brought two thousand years ago into the heavenly sanctuary, that He is the One Who was sent away as Azazel.... 'His blood be on us and on our children' but then they will see that their sins were on Him, that their children's sin were put on Him and they will look at Him Whom they have pierced: that is the day of atonement for Israel. I don't say that this is given in a sense or in view to any historical exact description but just to show us the main thrust of what God will be doing with His people, His earthly people.
And then we come to the seventh feast, the last feast, which cannot be anything else than the great rest of God for His earthly people, the millennium, which is described in verse 33 and following
"And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of booths seven days to Jehovah. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation: no manner of servile work shall ye do. Seven days ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah; on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall present an offering by fire to Jehovah: it is a solemn assembly; no manner of servile work shall ye do."
This feast which also lasted one week is a picture, an apt image of the millennium, a feast of joy where Israel was bidden to make huts of leaves and of branches and to rejoice in what God had done for them and this will be true for Israel in the millennium, that will be the true feast of tabernacles as it is given here. But it does not end there. Even as we had a new beginning right from the beginning after the passover the first day of the week the resurrection day of the Lord, also here we have not the first day of the week but the eighth day which in reality is again the first day of a new week. And this opens our eyes and our view towards a time which will follow after the millennium, the eighth day is the day of eternity, the eternal day where we will in a way continue what has has begun in the millennium. The millennium has a double meaning, it is on the one hand the glorious end of the ways of God with the old creation. It will not tumble down as it is now. God will in the thousand years reign of Christ by a man demonstrate gloriously that peace and justice are possible on this poor earth. If we look around us now we would hardly believe that this is possible but God will close the history of the last thousand years of this world's history with this demonstration, a thousand years of peace and justice. In one sense this is the end of the present world but in one sense which shows already even if it's the old creation, it shows a glimpse of what will be eternal although it is imperfect and so we see here that the eighth day is in a way the continuation, it is a new beginning on the one hand but on the other hand it is the continuation of the reign because even if we take the thousand years reign, reigning, ruling will not end after the millennium. In Revelation 22 we see that the servants of the Lord will reign with Him in all eternity.
This is in one chapter marvellously put, I only could give a short overview, if we look into all these feasts we will receive much more instruction but in one chapter, three thousand five hundred years ago given to us the moral, or let us say the divine, view of the history of the world. The work of the Lord at Calvary and the history of His earthly people which... led to a glorious end which will not be the end but which will lead us on to this eternal state for which we may now wait and even as Peter says (2nd Epistle, 3:12) we can hasten that day, hasten the day of God although it is after the day of the Lord in the millennium but because the one follows to the other. So we see that God in His word wants us to be informed about His thoughts, this is His thoughts for His children to take us as it were into His arms and say 'Look here, this is what I have in store for everybody who believes in the Lord Jesus, for everybody who belongs to My earthly people' and in a way it is a call to all those, if anybody should be here tonight who says 'Well, I don't understand a thing' - you can understand that God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him may not perish but have life eternal. | <urn:uuid:fff49ecc-7375-440b-8293-1efbf9ae20b6> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://biblecentre.org/content.php?mode=7&item=337 | 2015-11-30T18:47:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398462987.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205422-00197-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976814 | 7,182 |
So, you’ve bitten the bullet and decided to become a professional guitarist? Well, good for you! The life of a professional guitarist is difficult but rewarding at the same time. Whatever the naysayers may say, if you play your cards right, you can indeed make a living as a professional guitarist, all the while doing what you love!
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First of all, every guitarist must have an axe. Like it or not, music isn’t a cheap hobby or profession. It requires robust instruments and equipment to ensure that you create the best, “professional” sound.
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A wedding should be unique and personalized to match the couple’s personal style and interests while also considering the guest experience. Pretty Flowers offers florals for clients with a love of flowers and free expression. Our weddings have no rules.
Choose a saturated color palette
This Bridal bouquet had red ‘Piano’ Garden roses, dark centered red Anemones, Viburnum Berries, Scabiosa and Pepperberry. Amy’s bright bouquet really popped against the gray October sky when they married at her family’s farm in Auburn, Maine.
2. Wear a colored Wedding dress unique to you
Eliza Hulme chose a soft pink ruffly wedding dress for her October wedding in Harpswell, Maine. We used the dress as inspiration for her bridal bouquet. We chose feminine and romantic flowers including ‘Juliet’ Garden Roses, ruby red Ranunculus and Jasmine vine while also adding a little whimsy with blue Viburnum Berries and Seeded Eucalyptus.
3. Hold a bouquet sans flowers
Sara asked for a bouquet without flowers. Here, we used Ornamental Kale, Lotus Pods, Guinea Fowl Feathers, Kiwi Vine, Nigella Pods, Eryngium, Explosion Grass, Seeded Eucalyptus, Succulents and Scabiosa Pods.
4. Marry on a boat, barefoot
Lindsey + Jason fell in love while sailing. Of course, it seemed fitting to gather their closest friends and family and marry on a schooner in a small private ceremony and then sail to their wedding reception in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
5. Decorate your Donkey
Willie was Claire’s family pet and was to be included in the festivities at their summer wedding in West Bath, Maine. We decorated his bridal with light greenery and a few Helleborus flowers as an accent.
6. Have an unconventional Dress Code
A dress code engages guests in a playful way and makes for a memorable experience. Eliza + Tim kindly requested their guests wear plaid. Some took it to heart. Most Mainers already have plaid in their closets and the fabric is often heavier- perfect for a late day October wedding.
7. Incorporate natural elements into your Tablescapes
Danielle was raised in a funeral home and was around flowers on a regular basis- but not for joyous or celebratory occasions. Understandably, flowers were not something she grew up loving. She asked us to create a tablescape using only greenery and succulents. Here, we used ‘Silver Dollar Eucalyptus’, Viburnum Berries, Ruscus, Salal and Seeded Eucalyptus. Danielle provided her own Amethyst chunks which added a little sparkle.
8. Have your wedding party wear white too
Not only was Karina an identical twin, but her sister also wore white- causing many to do a double take! This may not work for everyone but because Karina + Seth’s wedding flowers were also subdued it wasn’t very distracting. The cut of their dresses also signifies who is who.
9. Have your bouquet made with a juggling baton
Amy hired her handyman/husband aka Maloney Marine Rigging to saw Cheryl’s juggling baton in half. The bouquet stems fit snuggly into the cavity and Amy laced it back up with the holes Mr. Maloney drilled into the sides.
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Blog Settings: Categories
Categories allow you to easily organize posts into groups by topic. Each category has its own index page, which displays all of the posts assigned to that category. This will help your readers to browse your blog by topic.
At Settings > Categories, you can add, delete, and edit categories. A maximum of 300 categories can be added to your blog.
Adding a new category
From the Categories page, enter the title of the category into the Add a new category field and click Add. The new category will be added to the list.
Please note the Categories list and cloud and Archives index will not update with the new category until a published post is assigned to the category. The category index page isn't created until a published post is assigned to the newly created category.
Deleting a category
Click the Delete button next to the category in order to remove it from the list. You will be prompted to confirm the deletion of the category. Click OK to complete the deletion.
Deleting a category will remove it from your blog and the category will no longer be associated with any posts. Posts assigned to the category will not be deleted, however.
Editing a category
Click the Edit button to change the title of the category. Click Save to complete the changes.
When the title of a category is changed, the URL for the category index page will remain the same. If you want to change the name of the category and the associated link to the category, a new category will need to be created, and the posts assigned to the new category.
For advanced template designs, any references to the category within the templates will need to be updated with the new category name.
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Linking to Category pages
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Embracing Technology in the Legal Process
One of the key strategies in streamlining debt resolution through legal procedures is the incorporation of advanced technologies. Over the past decade, various technological solutions have emerged, offering improvements in managing and resolving legal debt-related matters.
Legal case management software is integral to this transformation. This kind of software can automate rote tasks like scheduling and client communication, keeping all case-related information in one easily accessible location. Documents can be generated, stored, and retrieved electronically, which speeds up the process significantly and improves organization. Should you desire to discover more about the subject, we’ve got just the thing for you. family lawyer https://www.thesandslawgroup.com/los-angeles-divorce-lawyers/, check out the external resource packed with supplementary details and perspectives.
Online dispute resolution platforms have also proven effective in expediting debt resolution. These platforms facilitate negotiations between parties and assist in reaching settlements without the need for physical court appearances. This not only makes the process faster but also more cost-efficient.
Implementing Clear Legal Protocols
Developing and adhering to standardized legal protocols is crucial for an efficient debt resolution process. Clear protocols provide a structured pathway for legal practitioners to follow, ensuring that each case is managed consistently and that all parties understand the required steps at each stage. Standardized forms and documents that can be easily customized for individual cases reduce preparation time and minimize the risk of errors.
For the system to work effectively, these protocols must be communicated clearly to all stakeholders, including legal professionals, clients, and the judiciary. Regular training on protocol updates is necessary to ensure that everyone involved remains informed and competent in their roles and responsibilities.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Methods
Outside of traditional court proceedings, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods such as mediation, arbitration, or even settlement conferences, play an essential role in resolving debt disputes more efficiently. These methods focus on a collaborative approach, which often leads to a quicker and more amicable resolution compared to litigation.
Mediation involves a neutral third-party mediator who facilitates dialogue and negotiation between the debtor and creditor. It’s often voluntary and can lead to a legally binding agreement. Arbitration, on the other hand, entrusts the resolving decision to the arbitrator, whose ruling is generally final and binding. Incorporating ADR methods into debt resolution protocols can significantly cut down on the time and expense associated with court cases.
Fostering Continuous Legal Education on Debt Resolution
Continuously educating legal professionals on the latest regulations, trends, and practices in debt resolution is elemental in streamlining the process. Engaging in regular learning opportunities allows lawyers, paralegals, and judges to stay current on the ever-evolving landscape of debt law.
Legal education in the context of debt resolution should cover topics such as the impact of new legislation, ethical considerations for negotiators, and the effectiveness of various resolution strategies. A strong foundation in these areas increases the probability of successful negotiations, reduces the potential for protracted legal battles, and contributes to overall system efficiency.
These educational initiatives can take many forms, including seminars, workshops, online courses, or legal publications. The key is to ensure accessibility so that all professionals can participate regardless of their exact area of practice or geographic location.
Collaborative Efforts Between Legal and Financial Sectors
Finally, a collaborative relationship between the legal and financial sectors can facilitate a smoother debt resolution process. Legal professionals should have a working knowledge of financial principles, and similarly, finance professionals must be aware of the legal aspects relevant to debt resolution.
By promoting inter-professional understanding and cooperation, each sector can anticipate and respond effectively to the challenges that arise during the debt resolution process. This could involve joint training sessions, combined workshops, or cross-professional conferences aimed at fostering a sense of teamwork in resolving debt-related issues.
Such collaboration can also influence policy development, ensuring that legal frameworks are aligned with economic realities, which is vital given the fast pace of change in the financial world. Uncover fresh viewpoints and extra information about the subject in this recommended external source. Debt Collection Https://Www.Thesandslawgroup.Com/Los-Angeles-Divorce-Lawyers/, proceed with your educational quest and broaden your understanding of the topic.
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I've never seen a challenge like that one before.
Immediately I knew which image I would use for the challenge. It is a My-Besties Bee by Sherri Baldy 3d sheet. It comes in digi, and in 3d printables. http://scrapbookstampsociety.com/auction_details.php?auction_id=107591
Be sure to find a honeybee and come play along! You have 6 more days to play! Ends 2/5
Another challenge I am entering is over at the Stamping Boutique found here: http://thestampingboutiquechallengeblog.blogspot.ca/ The challenge is to make your own
background. I used a Cuttlebug folder called Dots to make my background.
I can't find an end date for this, so hurry up come play!
My card is simple and quick.
Cuttlebug Embossing folder Dots
My-Besties Bee 3d sheet
patterned paper from Colorbok
|This is what the 3d sheet looks like after it is scanned on the brother scan n cut|
|The printout taped to mat with painters tape. I find this easier than|
spraying a mat to get it sticky each time.
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