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This story is part of The Privacy Divide, a series that explores the fault lines and disparities–economic, cultural, philosophical–that have developed around digital privacy and its impact on society.
Considering all the ways that companies are using technology to keep tabs on their employees, it makes perfect sense that some believe Big Business is fast becoming—and, indeed, may already have become—Big Brother.
Last year, the research firm Gartner found that more than 50% of the 239 large corporations it surveyed are using “nontraditional” monitoring techniques, including scrutinizing who is meeting with whom; analyzing the text of emails and social-media messages; scouring automated telephone transcripts; gleaning genetic data; and taking other such steps. That’s up from just 30% in 2015. And Gartner expects those ranks to reach 80% by next year.
“Technological advancements in several fields—big data analytics, communications capture, mobile device design, DNA testing, and biometrics—have dramatically expanded capacities for worker surveillance both on and off the job,” Cornell’s Ifeoma Ajunwa and New York University’s Kate Crawford and Jason Schultz warn in a 2016 law review article.
“The American worker,” they add, “must now contend with an all-seeing Argus Panoptes . . . that allows for the trawling of employee data from the Internet and the employer collection of productivity data and health data.”
Yet as scary as all of this sounds, invoking a figure from Greek mythology—Argus Panoptes was a hundred-eyed giant ultimately slain by Hermes—is actually quite apt. That’s because, while the specter of employers widely abusing workers’ privacy looms large, it doesn’t seem to be much of a real issue in most offices, factories, and shops across the country.
“Concern is very broad but not very deep,” says Lewis Maltby, the president of the National Workrights Institute and a longtime advocate for protecting the civil liberties of employees.
When he hears from workers, he notes, it’s typically not because management is poking around into private matters; it’s because their personal information was erased without any warning when they left their job and their employer reclaimed a company-owned cellphone. “That’s the most common complaint,” Maltby says.
One possible explanation for such apathy, Maltby suggests, is that many workers may not comprehend the full extent to which their employer is probing into their activities. And those that are aware may well realize that, generally speaking, there are stark limits to how much they can push back legally.
“If the employer has a reasonable purpose for the monitoring program, it’s over,” Maltby says. “The camera in the women’s bathroom doesn’t make it. But if a company reads employees’ email because it’s concerned about sexual harassment, they can argue there’s a legitimate purpose. It passes the test.”
Ajunwa, Crawford, and Schultz cite another factor, too: Whereas employers were once heavy-handed in their tactics—think of the way General Motors hired Pinkertons in the 1930s to conduct an espionage campaign against labor activists—they’ve now persuaded employees that sharing personal information is in their own interest.
“Surveillance in the workplace,” the three scholars say, “has mostly moved away from an authoritarian regime” to one that “evinces an ostensibly participatory character.”
An accepting workforce
Whatever the reason that more workers don’t protest the fact that most every movement and utterance on the job is subject to examination, V. John Ella, an employment and business attorney in Minneapolis, has definitely noticed it. “It’s almost as if the American workforce is accepting of this,” says Ella, who has written about workplace privacy for the American Bar Association.
Five years ago, Ella assumed that there would soon be “a big mushroom cloud of litigation” because of electronic intrusion into workers’ lives. But, from all that he and other lawyers can tell, it hasn’t materialized.
“It appears,” says Ella, “that people have become desensitized”—especially millennial workers, who grew up in something of a digital fishbowl. They now make up a larger share of the U.S. labor market than do those from any other generation.
Of course, not every company is viewed the same by its workers. Jim Harter, chief scientist for Gallup’s international workplace management and well-being practices, says employers that consistently treat their people with respect “have more leeway” to introduce new data-gathering methods. At companies where workers lack faith in management to do the right thing, however, such moves are sure be greeted more warily.
“It really starts and ends with culture,” Harter says.
Consider YouEarnedIt, which offers an employee recognition and engagement platform. It often asks workers at its client companies to disclose their home address in order to send them rewards. It also asks for their birthday (minus the year).
“In the abstract, that feels like a lot of personal information,” says Elizabeth Loucheur, YouEarnedIt’s vice president of customer success, “but we get very few requests to be removed from the system.” In all, while more than 500,000 employees across a wide range of companies are plugged in to YouEarnedIt, fewer than 100 have totally opted out.
Strikingly, worker acquiescence—if not outright approval—looks to be increasing even as the reach of technology is growing.
Several years ago, Gartner found that only 10% of employees said they were comfortable with their company “tracking personal data” about them. By last year, that had jumped to 30%. And when companies are clear about why they’re pursuing this information, that climbs to about 50%.
“You can’t say employees like it or don’t,” explains Brian Kropp, group vice president of Gartner’s HR practice. “It’s a split.”
Another element softening workers’ attitudes, some surmise, is that newfangled means of observing them don’t come in a vacuum. “HR has all sorts of very delicate information—your salary, your medical condition—and most people already trust that,” says MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland, a pioneer in using sociometric data to help companies better understand how their employees interact. “This is one more thing.”
In her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School’s Shoshana Zuboff makes a similar point—though she frames it in far more menacing terms. “The workplace,” she asserts, is “the gold standard of habituation contexts, where invasive technologies are normalized among captive populations of employees.”
Orwell at the office
Certainly, some companies do things that can feel downright Orwellian. The Daily Telegraph, the British newspaper, a few years ago installed a system of heat and motion sensors—dubbed OccupEye—to determine who was at their desk and who wasn’t. The company said it was all part of an effort to boost energy efficiency in the building, but it backed off after an uproar by the staff and their union representatives.
In a bid to root out employees who might be committing wrongdoing, JPMorgan reportedly used sophisticated software from Palantir Technologies to sift through email records, financial documents, and so on—only to have a full-fledged spying scandal erupt. (A spokeswoman for the bank says the company no longer engages in such practices.)
Amazon created a stir last year after it won a patent for a wristband that would allow for “ultrasonic tracking of a worker’s hands . . . to monitor performance of assigned tasks.” (The company says that it has no plans to use the gizmo, and if it ever did it would be to improve safety and ergonomics by alleviating employees from having to clutch handheld scanners—not to sniff out who’s taking a breather or a bathroom break.)
The article by Ajunwa, Crawford, and Schultz highlights other alarming cases, as well: the woman who was fired after she deleted from her phone an employee tracking app that documented her whereabouts even when she was off duty; the company that coerced its workers to produce DNA samples in an attempt to ferret out who had been leaving feces around the property; the office manager who accessed a worker’s psychiatric records.
Still, for all the headlines that such incidents generate, the vast majority of companies—particularly big corporations—tread very carefully when it comes to safeguarding privacy. When things blow up, it’s “the great, great exception,” says Kurt Heikkinen, the CEO of Montage, which helps about 100 of the Fortune 500 with their recruiting and hiring through the deployment of artificial intelligence and other technologies.
It can take many months, Heikkinen points out, for Montage to meet all of the security and privacy requirements that a client has in place.
YouEarnedIt has had a similar experience. “Companies are very conscientious” about keeping private information safe, Loucheur says, emphasizing that her team is able to win business only after it demonstrates that it keeps individual data encrypted and abides by various industry controls.
At Humanyze, a people analytics provider cofounded by MIT’s Pentland and some of his former doctoral students, CEO Ben Waber also finds that most clients are cautious. “The vast majority of companies we work with will proactively bring this up: ‘Hey, this sounds kind of creepy. Do you retain individual-level data?'” he says.
The answer: Nope.
Humanyze explores the time stamps of emails, the length of face-to-face conversations, and how communication flows within an organization, but no personally identifiable or confidential information is compiled. Integers, rather than employee names, are used. Data is encrypted and purged 90 days after a project is complete. Meanwhile, Humanyze software combs through all of this metadata is to uncover patterns about how well different teams work with each other—or don’t.
Anonymized and aggregated
Pentland says that this formula—”guaranteeing that everything is anonymized and aggregated” to groups of workers—should become a privacy benchmark.
The trouble is that while many companies take such measures, there are still plenty that don’t do anything of the sort, leaving employees vulnerable to having their privacy infringed upon. “I think it’s all over the map,” Pentland says.
Smaller organizations tend to be most lax. “There is a correlation between the size of the company and the urgency around security and privacy,” says Loucheur.
Maltby says that at least 25% of companies don’t even have a policy telling their IT staff not to snoop on their fellow workers. And few, if any, conduct privacy audits to reveal if there is a problem.
“How hard would that be?” Maltby asks. “Checking once a year wouldn’t be a great imposition.”
The single area that worries watchdogs the most is, perhaps, wellness. A majority of large companies and a significant percentage of smaller ones have programs today that, in the name of encouraging their workers to be in good physical and mental shape, seek out personal health information. This can include questions about whether workers are anxious or depressed, drink alcohol or use drugs, or take medication.
The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act are supposed to ensure that an employee’s sensitive details are held close. Yet there are gaps in these laws, experts say, and companies may not always adhere strictly to the regulations that are on the books.
“If employers have wellness programs, they’re supposed to tell you what it is they’re going to ask, exactly how the information is to be used, and who can have it,” says Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a healthcare research organization. “But no one knows if they are following these rules right now.”
The bottom line is that while workers may, by and large, be blasé about privacy on the job, dangers abound—and that has led to calls for a federal law that would be geared to protecting the privacy of employees specifically (as opposed to a more sweeping statute like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation).
An Employee Privacy Protection Act would recognize “data autonomy as an essential human right” and thereby shift the information that employers take in “from the domain and context of the ‘workplace’ to one of personhood,” Ajunwa, Crawford, and Schultz maintain.
Waber, the Humanyze CEO, agrees. “We should have proactive regulations rather than waiting for something really bad to happen,” he says. “This whole industry is in its infancy—the way Facebook was with its data 10 years ago.”
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Namely, the National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), NMDC’s wholly-owned subsidiary, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Masdar in May to collaborate on offshore wind and green hydrogen project development in the Emirates.
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The soil is hungry
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Note on prices: Because the best camping tents are bigger-ticket items, prices do fluctuate based on availability, model type, and so on. So take our prices as a general guideline, they are typically close to the mark. If you are worried about spending too much, wait until the off seasons, where prices generally go down.
The Nemo Losi is a remarkable tent for backpacking – and we mean real backpacking, the sort that has you out for a days or weeks at a time, where you have to scout out your own camping space on the trail and carry your own water purification system. At a little less than 5 pounds, it’s easier to bundle up and carry and than many tents, and comes with both two doors and a full mesh canopy.
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Dart looks to withstand challengers in primary
by RUSS STEWART
Cook County has had nine sheriffs since 1946, all of them ostensibly devoid of moral turpitude, reasonably competent, generally resistant to temptation to indulge in graft and favoritism, able to sublimate the duress and stress of sitting on a time bomb — and almost all eminently forgettable.
That’s Sheriff Tom Dart’s problem. He’s forgotten. The 51-year-old lawyer from Chicago’s clout-heavy 19th Ward craves a promotion — to Chicago mayor, U.S. attorney, Cook County Board president, state’s attorney, or even a high-level job in the Obama Administration’s Department of Justice.
"I love my job," Dart said. "I work 10 to 12 hours a day seven days a week. I get calls at 3 a.m. I’m making a difference."
Get me out of here, he really means. Dart sits atop a time bomb. The sheriff’s responsibilities include courthouse and courtroom security, operation of the County Jail and the House of Corrections, and patrol of the county’s unincorporated areas. A possible courtroom shooting, a jail break, a drug dealing or gun-toting deputy, a Juvenile Court incident — all have political repercussions.
Dart said that there have been no jail breaks during his 8-year term, only several "walk-aways" due to tangled paperwork. The jail houses 12,500 inmates, of whom half are accused felons awaiting trial and the remainder are convicted felons serving their sentence. More than 3,000 are housed in four segregated buildings and in Cermak Hospital, while being given medication and therapeutic and psychological treatment for mental health problems. Another 3,000 convicts or detainees are on electronic monitoring.
Welcome to "New Age" law enforcement. In the days of yore, the criminal justice system was intended to be punitive. Jail was a place of misery and suffering, to deter ex-cons from crime and re-incarceration. That philosophy "is not working," Dart said. Now the focus is curative: criminals are not predators, they’re victims. Instead of spending their life shuttling in and out of prison, they get a lifetime of Medicaid-paid meds and therapy, a Link card, Section 8 housing subsidies and public aid. It used to be: Don’t commit a crime if you can’t do the time. Now it’s: If you don’t commit another crime, the taxpayers will make sure you live real fine.
I asked Dart, a Democrat first elected in 2006, if the sheriff’s office is now a social service agency, a veritable halfway house. "If I can prevent one in 20 from coming back, I’m satisfied," Dart said. "We need a thoughtful strategy to fight crime."
According to Dart, his two-term accomplishments include Shakman decree compliance, a crackdown on sex trafficking, inmate mental health programs and screening, banning evictions on apartment tenants in foreclosure, monitoring gang activity, requiring rape kits and employing social workers to intervene in inmate, evictee and child matters.
Here’s a tricky multiple choice question: Who will be the next county sheriff? (a) Tom Dart. (b) Ted Palka. (c) Sylvester Baker. (d) Bill Evans. (e) Ed Burke Jr. (f) Chuck Norris.
If you answered (a), then you didn’t read the question. Dart is the sheriff, and he will easily beat Palka, Baker and Evans in the March 18 Democratic primary. If you answered (f), then you’ve been watching too many "Walker, Texas Ranger" reruns. If you picked (e), then you have phenomenal insight into the way Chicago and Cook County politics operates. Family and geography control. The South Side 19th Ward, which has controlled the sheriff’s office since 1990, will be superseded by the South Side 14th Ward.
Ed Burke Jr. will be sheriff some time soon. The son of 48-year Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, the City Council Finance Committee chairman, and Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, the younger Burke is one of the sheriff’s 210 "exempt" hires out of 6,640 employees.
on-exempts are hired through civil service exams, not political clout. Burke is an assistant chief deputy sheriff in charge of child support enforcement, earning $85,667. His father has $8.2 million in his campaign account — more than enough to spend (or is it buy?) his way into the sheriff’s job.
As for 19th Ward Alderman Matt O’Shea, who covets Dart’s job, forget about it.
Palka, a deputy sheriff and an inspector who has worked for the sheriff’s office for 30 years, said that the "culture of corruption and favoritism has not changed" under Dart. What also has not changed is the office’s reputation as a political career capstone, not a steppingstone.
Under the 1871 Illinois Constitution, a sheriff was limited to one 4-year term. The 1969 Constitutional Convention removed that term limit, the rationale being that graft was less endemic.
In the past 17 sheriff’s elections, the luckiest guy was Richard J. Daley, who lost the 1946 election to Republican Elmer Walsh by 1,044,294-978,011. Had Daley won, he would have been termed out in 1950, might not have been slated for county clerk in 1950, and would not have been on the mayoral track. Surprisingly, a Republican won five times, in 1946, 1950, 1962, 1966 and 1986. Not surprisingly, the job is usually a dead end. Only a few have advanced.
Democrat Joseph Lohman, who was elected sheriff in 1954, won the state treasurer’s post in 1958 but lost the 1960 primary for governor. Republican Dick Ogilvie, a former assistant U.S. attorney, was elected sheriff in an upset in 1962 by a vote of 951,647-921,605, won the county board presidency in 1966 and was elected governor in 1968. Ogilvie had designs on the presidency in 1976, but lost re-election in 1972. Republican Joe Woods, a former FBI agent whose sister was President Richard Nixon’s secretary, won the job in 1966 in another upset by 961,848-945,728, crafted a "law and order" image, but was trounced by Democrat George Dunne for county board president in 1970. Woods spent the next 18 years as an obscure and irrelevant county commissioner.
The year 1970 produced a sea change. The legendary Shakman decision precluded hiring or firing on a political basis. Prior to that, the 3,000-plus court bailiffs, process servers and jail officers were just a bunch of grunts. They worked precincts, donated to their party and committeeman, and were on the street if their party lost. Shakman "professionalized" local government. Once on the job, no coercion or compulsion could be exerted.
Dick Elrod, now a Circuit Court judge, was an obscure Chicago corporation counsel when he was assigned to monitor a 1969 "Days of Rage" anti-war protest. He was injured trying to tackle a protester and was partially paralyzed. In a stroke of genius, Daley ran the "heroic" Elrod for sheriff in 1970, against Republican Bernie Carey, another ex-FBI agent. Elrod won by a narrow 887,026-876,549. Carey became state’s attorney in 1972.
Able to seek re-election, Elrod won with ever-increasing majorities: He got 53.7 percent of the vote in 1974, 56.3 percent in 1978 and 69.5 percent in 1982.
Then, after 16 years, "Elrod fatigue," including a string of mini-time bombs, proved insurmountable. Former Chicago police superintendent Jim O’Grady switched parties to run as an Ed Vrdolyak Republican, whipped Elrod 706,659-673,233, and proceeded to a swift political demise. Harold Washington died in 1987, eliminating the "race factor," and Undersheriff Jim Dvorak became enmeshed in controversy.
In 1990 Alderman Mike Sheahan (19th) ran for sheriff, aided by the clout of Assessor Tom Hynes, the 19th Ward Democratic committeeman. In a humiliating meltdown, O’Grady got just 369,631 votes (28.5 percent of the total), to 719,489 (55.4 percent) for Sheahan and 191,101 (14.7 percent) for independent Tommy Brewer. Thereafter, the Republicans imploded. Sheahan won with 65.2 percent of the vote in 1994, with 71.1 percent against the son of a former Chicago police superintendent in 1998, and with 76.9 percent in 2002. In 2006 Sheahan pulled a "switcheroo," announcing for re-election and getting slated, but then withdrawing on the last day of filing, with the 19th Ward and Hynes’ allies submitting petitions for Dart, a 10-year state representative and a 2002 loser for state treasurer.
Dart won the 2006 election with 74.9 percent of the vote, and he was re-elected in 2010 with 77.2 percent. No Republican is on the 2014 ballot.
The primary is dispositive. Palka is appealing to ethnic voters, particularly Poles. "I am campaigning at all the Catholic churches," he said. "People want change. I will hire more deputies and police. I will stop the endless stream of civil rights and harassment lawsuits." Baker, a 22-year retired sheriff’s police sergeant, lost to Dart twice. Evans is a 23-year sheriff’s police lieutenant.
Dart got 331,318 votes (61.9 percent of the total cast) in 2006, beating Baker (133,944 votes) and Rich Remus (69,899 votes), in a turnout of 535,161. Baker, who is African American, carried four predominantly black wards, and Dart got more than 80 percent of the vote in his Southwest Side base. Dart trounced Baker in 2010 with 76.3 percent of the vote, getting 397,844 votes to Baker’s 123,096, in a turnout of 520,940. Baker won one ward, while Dart got more than 80 percent of the vote in the Northwest Side 33rd, 36th, 39th and 47th wards and more than 90 percent in the 11th Ward.
Turnout in 2014 will barely exceed 500,000. Palka projects Baker near 150,000 votes and Evans at 50,000. That leaves 300,000 for Dart and Palka to split.
No polls have been taken, but the "money race" is an accurate gauge. Dart had $310,211 on hand as of Jan. 1, and he raised $127,430 after April 1, 2013. Palka’s numbers were $44,279 and $52,390, respectively, Baker’s were $22,639 and $27,113, and Evans’ were $2,595 and $31,366.
Dart may be forgettable or forgotten, but he still has enough juice to get renominated. He’ll win with 55 percent of the vote.
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A collaboration between scientists in the UK and the USA has shown that gene therapy can give life-long protection to the light-sensitive photoreceptor cells responsible for colour vision in a mouse model of the most common inherited eye disorder.
Results published in the journal Molecular Therapy demonstrate that the preserved cells were able to drive visually-guided behaviour, even in later stages of the condition and despite becoming less sensitive to light.
Prevention of retinal degeneration using CNTF gene therapy applied to one eye of a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, which also has fluorescent cones that can be counted. At 8 weeks (PW8) both eyes appear similar, but by 30 weeks retinal pigment changes can be seen in the sham injected eye (c) as the degeneration progresses with all cones lost (d). In contrast, the CNTF treated eye (g, h) has a virtually unchanged fundal appearance and over 50 percent of cones surviving (from Lipinski et al., 2015).
Credit: University of Oxford/ Robert MacLaren
These findings are significant because they open up a new line of research to prevent nerve cell death in retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration. They may also have a wider application to neurodegenerative disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
The research was led by Professor Robert MacLaren at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology and funded in the UK primarily by Fight for Sight, with addition support from the Wellcome Trust, the Health Foundation, the Medical Research Council, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Oxford Stem Cell Institute and the NIHR Ophthalmology (Moorfields) and Oxford Biomedical Research Centres.
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) affects 1 in 4000 people, with symptoms that typically appear between age 10 and 30. Night vision and peripheral vision go first, as the photoreceptors active in low light - the 'rods' - start to degenerate. Eventually the condition affects the 'cones' - the photoreceptors responsible for central, detailed, colour vision.
The current study looked at a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa in which the mice lack rhodopsin - the main pigment in rod photoreceptors. At age 4 weeks - after rod degeneration was underway and before cones were affected - the mice were dosed with a virus modified to produce human ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) protein in the retina.
CNTF is a compound previously shown to prevent the loss of photoreceptors and retinal ganglion cells. However its use as a potential treatment has been in question because of concerns about toxicity. The unique approach in this study was to use a mouse which had fluorescent green cone photoreceptors which could be counted by examining the living retina with a modified ophthalmoscope at various timepoints during the course of the degeneration. This allowed precise titration of the gene therapy dose which minimised any toxic effects.
Treatment was given to one eye, while saline was given to the other eye as a control. At 8 weeks, non-invasive imaging showed similar numbers of cones in all treated and untreated eyes. However, the number of cones decreased rapidly over the time course of the experiment in low-dose and control eyes, reaching 0 by week 24.
What's really interesting is that, in contrast to previous CNTF studies, the research team was able to show that the preserved cones were functional by using behavioural tests and imaging blood flow in the visual cortex.
Next-generation sequencing at 30 weeks revealed that a group of genes previously linked to retinal disease were up to 89 times more active in high-dose eyes than in controls. Several genes usually active in the retina were also found to be less active in both medium- and high-dose eyes.
"Our results in this mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa clearly show that CNTF treatment can both give life-long protection to cone photoreceptors and preserve useful vision. While there remains a lot to understand, for example on the role of rods in cone preservation and translation to human retinal anatomy, this is a very promising study," said MacLaren, Professor of Ophthalmology at the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology.
"We already know from clinical trials aimed at preventing motor neuron loss in ALS that high-dose systemic treatment with CNTF causes too many adverse reactions to be tolerated by patients. However, our results suggest that directly increasing activity in the class of genes that were upregulated in our high-dose CNTF group has the potential to provide a novel, targeted treatment for retinitis pigmentosa and a range of neurodegenerative diseases."
Dr Dolores M Conroy, Director of Research at Fight for Sight, said:
"One of the most exciting prospects about these results is that the CNTF treatment was able to preserve vision even though rod degeneration had begun. This is a top priority for people with inherited and progressive eye conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa and AMD. As with any new line of research there is still a long way to go before any treatment could reach the clinic, but it is certainly possibly to look ahead and see that there will be a day when we can prevent sight loss with complex genetic involvement."
Lipinski, D.M., Barnard, A.R., Singh, M.S., Martin, S., Lee, E., Davies, W.I.L. & MacLaren, R.E. CNTF gene therapy confers lifelong neuroprotection in a mouse model of human retinitis pigmentosa. Mol. Ther., 2015.
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Caption: Prevention of retinal degeneration using CNTF gene therapy applied to one eye of a mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa, which also has fluorescent cones that can be counted. At 8 weeks (PW8) both eyes appear similar, but by 30 weeks retinal pigment changes can be seen in the sham injected eye (c) as the degeneration progresses with all cones lost (d). In contrast, the CNTF treated eye (g, h) has a virtually unchanged fundal appearance and over 50% of cones surviving (from Lipinski et al., 2015).
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* More than 190 genes are linked to inherited retinal disease of which about half cause retinitis pigmentosa (RP).
* We still don't know the exact genetic cause of photoreceptor loss in 30% of people with autosomal recessive RP (inherited from both parents) and 50% of people with autosomal dominant RP (inherited from one parent).
* Retinal ganglion cells form the optic nerve - the specialised cable that transmits visual signals from eye to brain.
* Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of sight loss in the UK. Most of the sight loss due to AMD happens during the later stages, which affect around 0.5 million over 50s in the UK and counting.
* Genetics is an important factor in the risk of developing AMD.
Fight for Sight is the leading UK charity dedicated to funding pioneering research to prevent sight loss and treat eye disease. Fight for Sight is funding research at leading universities and hospitals throughout the UK.
Major achievements to date include: saving the sight of thousands of premature babies through understanding and controlling levels of oxygen delivery; restoring sight by establishing the UK Corneal Transplant Service enabling over 52,000 corneal transplants to take place; providing the funding for the research leading to the world's first clinical trial for choroideremia; bringing hope to children with inherited eye disease by co-funding the team responsible for the world's first gene therapy clinical trial; and identifying new genes responsible for keratoconus, Nance-Horan syndrome, achromatopsia and retinitis pigmentosa.
Fight for Sight's current research programme is focusing on preventing and treating age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataract and corneal disease. We are also funding research into the causes of childhood blindness and a large number of rare eye diseases.
For more information, please contact: Ade Deane-Pratt on 020 7264 3906 or firstname.lastname@example.org
The Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology is part of Oxford University's Medical Sciences Division, one of the largest biomedical research centres in Europe, with over 2,500 people involved in research and more than 2,800 students. The University is rated the best in the world for medicine, and it is home to the UK's top-ranked medical school.
From the genetic and molecular basis of disease to the latest advances in neuroscience, Oxford is at the forefront of medical research. It has one of the largest clinical trial portfolios in the UK and great expertise in taking discoveries from the lab into the clinic. Partnerships with the local NHS Trusts enable patients to benefit from close links between medical research and healthcare delivery.
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April 16, 2020 issue
“Mr. Toshinori Abe, President (current Chairman), was aware of content-certified mail warnings before the final settlement of the land transaction. Also he did not disclose it to the Real Estate Department that I belonged to, and forced the transaction to close.”
Mr. Akira Kuroda, formerly with Sekisui House, says. The land fraud was unveiled in June 2017 and Sekisui House was defrauded of 5.55 billion yen through the transaction. Mr. Kuroda was head of Real Estate Department at that time.
The Real Estate Department reviews the credit of transaction counterparties and conducts due diligence on land purchase and sale contracts. Unless the Department approves of a transaction, you cannot execute any transactions. It is like a credit department at a financial institution.
For the land fraud, a total of 10 fraudulent landlord group members have been prosecuted, and in March this year Mike Uchida, one of the primary offenders, was sentenced by the Tokyo District Court to 12 years in jail (currently being appealed). However even almost three years have passed, there are some suspicions that have yet to be resolved -- there might have been a possible cooperation between the swindlers and the current management of Sekisui House.
If Mr. Abe was aware of the possibilities of fraud, he may be accused of violation of duty of care as a director or even of aggravated breach of trust.
The fraud took place at an old Japanese style inn Kaikikan in Gotanda, Tokyo. It is at a prime location in Tokyo, only a three-minute walk from JR Gotanda station. The 2,000 square meter property was well known in the real estate industry in Japan. The owner was Ms. Sakiko Ebisawa (deceased). She used to live there even after 2015 when the inn was closed.
The transaction was first brought in to Deputy Manager of the Tokyo Condominium Business Department in March 2017 via an acquaintance of Ms. Ebisawa.
The lady, who later turned out to be fake, showed her fake passport, seal, and seal certificate to the Department which, including Mr. Kazushi Mitani, then head of the Department and Managing Officer, became eager to pursue the deal.
On April 18, 2017, President Abe conducted a site inspection and the project became a “President Project”, and then the transaction started proceeding quickly.
They went into a contract on April 24, 2017, and paid an earnest money deposit of 1.4 billion yen. On June 1, 2017 the remaining and final settlement money of 4.9 billion yen was paid to the swindlers in deposit checks. Eight days later, the application to register the land transfer was rejected, and the fraud was unveiled.
Mr. Kuroda, one of those involved with the transaction, has broken silence while the rest of the people involved remain silent.
“From the beginning I kept saying ‘there is something wrong with this transaction.’ But Messrs. Abe and Mitani did not disclose to me all the negative information about the transaction counterparty, and forced me to sign off the deal. Despite that, Mr. Abe did not resign, and was promoted to Chairman. All of the four incumbent representative directors approved the deal in the internal approval process. I thought something has to be done and decided to talk to you about the truth.”
Mr. Kuroda first learned of the Gotanda land transaction on April 18, 2017 after the land had already become a “President Project.”
“I got a call from a senior manager of the Tokyo Condominium Business Department when I was on a bullet train to Osaka. He said, ‘it has already been approved by President Abe but I would like you to process an internal approval request, since Messrs Abe and Mitani already inspected the site and the transaction counterparty is in a hurry.”
On April 19, 2017, his Real Estate Department received the internal approval request.
“I called Mr. Mitani, who said ‘since Mr. Abe already inspected the site, please process the request immediately.’ The following day I went to see Mr. Abe at Osaka Head Office, and asked ‘Have you already approved of this transaction?’ and he said ‘Yes, please proceed and purchase the property quickly’. Before the rest of the reviewers and approvers, President signed off the deal, which is very irregular. On April 24, 2017 the payment of an earnest money deposit of 1.4 billion yen was made.”
The situation dramatically changed after that. On May 10, 2017 a content-certified mail warning was received at the Legal Department. It was sent by the landlord Sakiko Ebisawa. The letter said “I am the owner of the property. I was surprised to learn of your preliminary registration of transfer of the land. I have not entered into any contract on the property, so the preliminary registration must be invalid.”
A total of four warnings were received from Sakiko Ebisawa by May 23, 2017. Her second letter said “I will sue you unless the prelamination registration is removed.” The third one had her registration number of her seal certificate, and said “the party you are dealing with for the transaction is not me.”
The Legal Department immediately shared this with the Tokyo Condominium Business Department, but did not stop the deal. The Company tried to verify the identity of the seller.
“The Real Estate Department was not made aware of the content-certified mail warnings. But on May 12, 2017, I got a call from president of a real estate company in Kansai area saying ‘is this land transaction okay?’ And I became suspicious. On the same date, a broker came to visit the Tokyo General Affairs Department, and gave them the warning that the transaction was improper.”
So Mr. Kuroda called Mr. Mitani and said “Multiple warnings have been received. Is the intermediary company credible enough?” On May 18, 2017 Mr. Kuroda called Mr. Mitani again and told him that we should suspend the deal even losing the earnest money deposit of 1.4 billion yen. However Mr. Mitani would not listen to him saying “the Legal Department is fully involved, so no worries.”
Then the Tokyo Condominium Business Department started saying that they would like to conclude the deal early so no interferences are made by outsiders, and changed the final settlement of July 31, 2017 to June 1, 2017.
“On May 25, 2017, several employees of Finance & Accounting Department came to see me, and requested that I sign a wire transfer application form for the final settlement money to be wired from the Osaka Head Office to the Tokyo Condominium Business Department. Since I had suspicions about the deal, I called Mr. Mitani once again and asked ‘Did you really get President’s approval of this?’ Mr. Mitani immediately called President Abe and got back to me saying ‘I have President’s approval’. And I was told ‘You are the only one left to approve this’ and therefore I approved the wire transfer application.”
The final settlement was conducted on June 1, 2017 at a conference room in the Tokyo Condominium Business Department. The fake Ebisawa was late for the meeting, and did not bring a title certificate of the property. However Sekisui House accepted advice by the counterparty’s counsel that “the transaction can be registered with an identity verification of the seller.”
Another surprising thing happened on the same day. A Sekisui House employee who was at the transaction site, realizing that the light in the old inn was on despite the landowner is outside of the inn (at the transaction closing meeting), entered the inn, and the police came and asked the employee to accompany to the police. He called the Tokyo Condominium Business Department and gave them a warning, but those at the closing meeting determined that it was an interference by somebody who did not want to see this transaction closed, and continued with the final settlement. Multiple deposit checks worth 4.9 billion yen was handed to the swindlers.
Mr. Abe is not responsible?
On June 5, 2017, when Mr. Kuroda went to see Mr. Abe on a different project, Mr. Abe asked him:
“What is going on with that transaction?”
“Are you talking about that Gotanda land transaction? I was concerned since we got multiple warnings.”
Then Mr. Abe said:
“You know there were 3-4 weird mail messages received.”
“? What are you talking about?”
By warnings Mr. Kuroda meant the broker visit and the call from president of a real estate company in Kansai region. He was not aware of the content-certified mail warnings. This clearly shows that Mr. Abe granted his approval of the transaction despite his knowledge about the content-certified mail warnings.
“Since I was very concerned, as soon as I got back to my desk I called the Tokyo Condominium Business Department. They said ‘We do not yet know why but the land transfer registration process is now pending.’ I thought we were deceived and I was very shocked.”
In September 2017, three months after the land fraud was unveiled, Mr. Isami Wada, then Chairman, established an investigation committee which produced an investigation report, and Mr. Kuroda was interviewed in the process. The investigation report describes in detail that Mr. Abe and Mr. Mitani forced the transaction.
Mr. Wada presented a motion to dismiss Mr. Abe at a board meeting in January 2018. However the motion was rejected with a 5-5 vote, and in response Mr. Abe presented a motion to dismiss Mr. Wada, who offered his resignation before the motion was approved, knowing that he was going to lose. Only a summary of the investigation report was disclosed, and its full-text has been covered up.
“As I read the investigation report I learned of the content-certified mail warnings. What Mr. Abe talked about was this.”
While Mr. Abe remains in power, Mr. Kuroda, Mr. Mitani, and head of the Legal Department were all dismissed because they were held responsible for the incident.
“On March 1, 2018, I was called in by Chairman Abe and President Nakai, and was told ‘A number of media companies have been reporting on the fraud. I cannot have you with our company any longer.’”
He was thrown into despair by their words, and left Sekisui House.
“If I had known the content-certified mail warnings, I would not have approved the deal. I learned later that nobody within the Real Estate Department was made aware of the warnings. No money can be transferred without approval by head of the Real Estate Department. Mr. Abe, the Tokyo Condominium Business Department,, and Finance & Accounting Department conspired with each other and they all kept the Real Estate Department out of the loop.”
What is Sekisui House’s response to this? I asked the Company if Mr. Abe had known the content-certified mail, and they answered:
“The investigation that we conducted revealed that Mr. Abe had not been aware of the content-certified mail. He never conducted the deal knowing that there was a possibility of fraud. Our conclusion was that he did not violate his duty of care, etc.”
Even if Mr. Abe had not been aware of the mail, he should be held responsible for the fact that he did the rough-and-ready work on the “President Project”, thereby causing damage to the Company.
Mr. Wada has presented a Shareholder Proposal for the general meeting of shareholders to be held on April 23, 2020, seeking to replace the entire management team.
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Prince William graduates from university
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Prince William, the second in line to the British throne, has graduated from university in Scotland, watched by his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and his father Prince Charles.
The 23-year-old was awarded a masters degree in geography from St. Andrews University, where he has spent the past four years tucked away from the eyes of the media.
William, whose mother Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris almost eight years ago, was one of 260 students graduating from the university, including his girlfriend, Kate Middleton.
A deal with the press to leave William alone during his studies expires at the end of graduation week, when he will join the British Lions on their rugby tour in New Zealand and carry out his first solo engagements on behalf of the queen.
William has said he plans to sign up for military training at Sandhurst, the prestigious military academy south of London where his younger brother Harry began his studies last month.
"Today is a very special day for me and I am delighted that I can share it with my family," William said in a statement.
The prince also paid tribute to the queen, who it was feared would have to pull out after catching a bad cold earlier this week.
Wearing a black gown with cherry lining and red hood, and a white bow tie, William knelt in front of St. Andrews' Chancellor Kenneth Dover to be tapped on the head with a cap.
According to St. Andrews tradition, the cap is sewn from a fragment of breeches worn by Scottish religious reformer John Knox, who preached in the medieval university town in the 16th century.
Charles and his new wife the Duchess of Cornwall joined The Duke of Edinburgh and the queen in the front of the lower balcony.
Onlookers told the UK Press Association they leaned over the balcony to find William in his seat below and smiled broadly when they spotted him.
In his statement, William said: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at St. Andrews and I shall be very sad to leave.
"I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who has made my time here so enjoyable. I have been able to lead as 'normal' a student life as I could have hoped for and I'm very grateful to everyone, particularly the locals, who have helped make this happen."
Clarence House announced that after the summer break, the prince is to undertake work experience at a financial institution in the City of London, join a mountain rescue team, and learn more about land management.
"I very much hope that these work placements will give me hands-on experience in three very different but important areas," he said.
"The work experience in the City was something I was particularly keen to do as I feel that this is an area in which I could learn a lot and it may well help me with charitable fund-raising in the future.
"The land management experience will hopefully allow me to develop skills and an understanding of how to best look after the countryside.
"Joining a mountain rescue team really appealed to me as I can learn at first hand how these amazing people help save lives on a regular basis."
William said he was going to miss being in Scotland. He added: "I am very much looking forward to the challenges and opportunities which the future brings -- and not least, hopefully, an ultimately triumphant Lions tour of New Zealand."
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In the earliest hours of the 2017 Women's Theatre Festival, it was already apparent that script selection and production choices had been upgraded after last year's inaugural run. For one, the festival redefined Occupy the Stage, previously a continuous twenty-four-hour showcase of staged readings, as two identical programs staged twelve hours apart, giving us the chance to see more of them. And many were well worth seeing—professional-quality scripts worthy of full productions. In light of Space Girl's graduation to the main stage after its Occupy reading last year, here are several shows from this year's lineup we'd like to see again:
Shut Up, I'm On A Diet!: Under Lorelei Lemon's direction, playwright Catherine Weingarten's irreverent, cinematic farce seemed like a feminist twist on Wes Anderson. Conniving but charming California teen Tess (Anna Broadway) is driven to a sketchy eating-disorder clinic by her equally sketchy dad (a convincing Allan Maule). The deft social satire hits its bull's-eyes—trendy tech and pop psychology—as Tess manipulates a clueless intern (a rewarding Matthew Tucker) and her straitlaced roomie (a believable Rosemary Takacs).
He/She and Me: Janet Boudreau's warm, affecting one-woman show, written by Sharon Mathis and directed by Carolyn German, follows a character named Pat through prismatic changes as her longtime husband, Sam, undergoes a gender transition.
_____ Is a Rapist: Rebekah Boroughs and Lindsay Carpenter's absolutely remarkable script lets us approach two sexual assaults—one in the present, the other the historical tale of outdoor pioneer Emma Gatewood—with something totally unexpected: hope. Sensitive direction by Savannah Core and nuanced, authentic performances by Molly Winstead and Judy McCord clinch it. This must be staged again. | <urn:uuid:cb2d4757-c7e5-40b2-8569-fe2b16112d4a> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | https://m.indyweek.com/indyweek/in-year-two-the-womens-theatre-festival-improves-its-occupy-the-stage-marathon-putting-up-several-staged-readings-we-want-to-see-fully-prod/Content?oid=6944772 | 2017-07-23T19:01:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424586.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170723182550-20170723202550-00658.warc.gz | en | 0.951635 | 380 |
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Chemo Style on the Big Screen: Top 10 Picks for Cancer Movies
Editor's Note: This article was originally written by patient expert Michelle Kung.
From Ali McGraw's unapologizing romantic in "Love Story" to Debra Winger's wise-cracking daughter and mother of three in "Terms of Endearment," movie cancer patients usually die a beautifully poignant and peaceful death, or else, are so sick, they are beyond treatment and simply count down the days before they pass.
Reality, however, is far more messy. Tumors need treatment, family members need counseling, and most prevalently, patients need chemotherapy. Given its preference for terminal illnesses, Hollywood often skips depicting the ugliness of chemo aftereffects -- the vomiting, the shivering, the dry heaving, the moaning in agony -- so when thoughtful filmmakers actually take the time to infuse their cancer patients with confidence and courage, they produce honest characters whose personality and individual style shine through the pain.
The following ten films all feature intrepid chemo patients who demonstrate their beauty both internally and externally.
The Doctor (1991)
In this adaptation of Ed Rosenbaum's memoir "A Taste of My Own Medicine," William Hurt stars as Jack MacKee, a cocky surgeon who is cut down a notch after being diagnosed with throat cancer. Frustrated by the inefficiencies of his own hospital, MacKee is calmed down by and ultimately inspired by fellow patient June Ellis (Elizabeth Perkins). Suffering herself from a stage four brain tumor, June encourages MacKee to reconnect with his family and patients, all the while modeling snazzy headgear -- including a sequined and embroidered scarf, blacks hats, pink wool knits -- representative of her enlightened spirit.
Dying Young (1991)
Isolated art student Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) has been battling leukemia for a decade, but it's not until he hires drifter Hilary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) as his nurse and companion that he finds, yes, a reason to keep living. Hailing from a wealthy family, Geddes knows how to bust out with a sharp black beret for fine dining.
Marvin's Room (1996)
Before she developed breast cancer in 2005's "The Family Stone," Diane Keaton endured chemo as a leukemia patient in this adaptation of Scott McPherson's play. In need of a blood marrow transplant, Keaton's Bessie makes contact with her estranged sister Lee (Meryl Streep), who just happens to be a recent graduate of cosmetology school. After the siblings reconcile, Leigh restyles Bessie's hausfrau wig, giving her sister a snazzy, empowering new look.
One True Thing (1998)
After undergoing chemo for her unidentified cancer, Meryl Streep's uber-homemaker Kate must lay down her spatula and decorative mosaic tiles, and allow her career-oriented daughter Ellen (Renee Zellweger) to take over running the household. To keep herself and her family in good cheer, Kate models a variety of headgear - ranging from blue knit caps, green turbans, and a holly-patterned hat for Christmas -- to match the occasion.
Patch Adams (1998)
In this saccharine drama, Robin Williams stars as real-life doctor Hunter "Patch" Adams, a formerly suicidal medic turned inspirational healer. A believer in the palliative power of laughter, the doc cheers up a ward of bald chemotherapy patients by dressing as a clown. In turn, the children boldly don red sponge noses when Patch must defend this practice in court, when he is almost expelled from medical school.
After Susan Sarandon's mother of two Jackie Harrison is diagnosed with cancer, she realizes she must overcome her bitterness toward her ex-husband's new girlfriend (Julia Roberts) and teach her how to become a proper parent to her two children. Though Jackie's chemotherapy treatments are portrayed as unusually benign, she still manages to capture the deep sadness she feels in feeling her family behind.
Blow Dry (2001)
In an ironic stroke, hairdresser and ex-hair model Shelly (Natasha Richardson) is forced to style her own wigs to cover up her hair loss after her lung cancer returns for a third (and presumably, last) time. Luckily, she's not the only coiffeur in the family. After ten years of not speaking to her ex-husband (Alan Rickman), she lulls him into picking up his competition shears again. Together with their son and her new female lover, Shelly wins the British Hairdressing Championship with her family.
In director Mike Nichols' unflinching adaptation of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Emma Thompson plays Professor Vivian Bearing, a John Donne scholar diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer. Ordered to undergo eight rounds of experimental chemo at "full dosage," she is forced to rely on her wry humor and bald-head covering baseball cap to get her through the worst.
Pieces Of April (2003)
Many chemo patients opt for wigs to cover their inevitable hair loss, and no character captures the black humor of maintaining the hated hairpiece more than Patricia Clarkson as leukemia patient Joy in this comi-tragic film. While driving to a Thanksgiving dinner cooked by her estranged daughter (Katie Holmes), Joy's nausea forces her family to stop at a restroom every few miles, and in one, the wig flops into the toilet.
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (2006)
Based on Geralyn Lucas' life story, this surprisingly touching Lifetime movie features "Scrubs'" Sarah Chalke as a 28-year-old editor whose career as a TV news journalist is finally taking off when she's diagnosed with breast cancer. To combat her fear of chemo, she always applies a bright coat of red lipstick before going to her treatment, explaining that only confident women wear red lipstick. | <urn:uuid:e68fef74-0cf8-4dc5-adfc-8d391ba867ed> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | https://www.healthcentral.com/article/chemo-style-on-the-big-screen-top-10-picks-for-cancer-movies | 2018-12-15T22:43:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827137.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215222234-20181216004234-00143.warc.gz | en | 0.95053 | 1,247 |
The sunny garden at the riverside of the Fisherhouse is sixteen metres deep. You have a beautiful view of the hills across with woods and meadows. There is garden furniture and a barbecue. For the tenants there are two canoes available.In the spacious kitchen is a good place to be. The kitchen is equipped with dishwasher, oven etc. There is also wireless internet. In the summer you walk with your tray with the food through the basement or via the stairs in the back room to the garden at the river.The 'gigajukebox' in the living room contains thousands of hours of music, and there are also books - all in different genres. In the old vaulted cellar underneath there are basins, where once the fish caught in the river swam around a bit - hence the 'Fishershaus'.
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The average Californian uses about 192 gallons per day.
Typical water-use patterns vary according to geography, climate, lot size and other factors. As a general rule, per capita water use is higher in hotter, inland regions than in cooler, coastal locations.
If you live in a single-family home, 50% or more of the water you use every day may be going to your lawn or landscaping. Since a thirsty lawn can be the largest user of water in a home, finding ways to save water outdoors can make a big difference in your water bill.
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A lot of work is being done on this newsletter. I found a template in printshop that will work very good. I have been inserting the necessary information for the past week. It is my hope to be able to send it out as a PDF file by Wednesday.
It is going to look very good. My Rabbi saw the photo-template and liked it. Wait until he sees it in color. Here is how the template will look:
The front page will have the Torah portion.
An editoral page will be the second page.
The third page will have a understanding of a Greek or Hebrew word, and how, if misunderstood, it can change your understanding of the scripture
The fourth page deals with answering objections to your faith
The fifth page is going to be used to answer questions concerning Messianic Judaism
I think the sixth page is going to be used for a human interest story, and
the seventh page will be used for over-runs of the information on the first six pages
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painting peonies today. Did you know they symbolize romance, prosperity, compassion, and even bashfulness? -Last year, my friend gifted me a canvas and challenged me to create something in reflection of my twenties. Over the next while, I’ll be studying a series of flowers/plants in preparation for that final painting.
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Top 10 Pest Control Pricing Strategies
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Elements of the pricing mix
What does it cost to deliver your service.
What does I cost to sell your service.
What will it cost to perform a one time service.
What will it cost to perform a preventive service.
What will a call back cost.
What does it cost to promote your service
Analize your marketing costs
Analyse your advertising costs
Analize your branding costs
In order to arrive a pricing strategy you have to know the following
Know your Costs
Cost of Goods Sold
Service Fleet Expenses
Travel & Entertainment Expense
Bank Service Charges
Licenses and Permits
Postage and Delivery
Advertising & Marketing
QuickBooks Payments Fees
Technical Trainning Expenses
Things to know for a pricing model
Know your Competition
Know your Objectives
Know your Positioning Strategy
Know your Target Market
Ten Pest Control Pricing Models
1. The Competitive Pricing Model Tthis is an apples to apples comparison and price matching, this is the easiest way to set up pricing but it usually stagnates prices and commoditized services.
2. The Penetration Pricing Model
You set a low price to increase sales and market share, once you have captured the market share then you increase your price. Do have the branding and deep pockets to wage a price war.
3. The Skimming Pricing Model
You set an initial high price and then slowly lower your price to make your service available to more customers. In order skim profits of the market layer by layer similar to the diffusion of innovation.
4. The Service Line Pricing Model
Is your good better best type of pricing strategy
Good is general pests ants and roaches
Better adds rodents
Best adds fleas, ticks and mosquitoes
5. The Bundle Pricing Model
All inclusive in bundles a group of products at a reduced price. You might bundle GHP, L&O and add mosquito control and save 15%.
6. The Premium Pricing Model
Is high set to indicate that the product is “exclusive” I.e Bentley, Rolex and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream.
7. The Psychological Pricing Model
The best example of this is wallmart with its .97 and .88 versus .99 or 1.00
8. The Option Pricing Model
This is similar to service line pricing, but very difficult to use in pest control, who wants a particular pest excluded. Now includes bed bug service.
9. The Cost Plus Pricing Model
Is simple you mark up you service based on simple costs like labor and materials, this is mor difficult than it appears for service, you can use this for straight products sales like a wall lamp that the customer can just plug in themselves. Typical mark up is 40% to 50%
10. The Value Based Pricing Model
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Two Oakland County moms charged with subjecting daughters to genital cutting
Millions of little girls and young women have been subjected to a painful rite of passage that involves cutting their genitals — often without anesthesia — for centuries in parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Detroit Free Press
Six people now charged in federal investigation
The federal government has amped up its female genital mutilation prosecution, charging two Oakland County mothers with subjecting their daughters to the banned religious cutting ritual that has now been linked to four Michigan girls.
This brings the total number of identified victims to six — two from Minnesota, four from Michigan. And the number of defendants charged in the historic case is now up to six, including two doctors, a physician's wife, two mothers and a sixth woman — all of them accused of participating in various degrees of subjecting young girls to genital cutting as part of a religious practice within their Indian Muslim sect.
The latest two defendants — both of them mothers and citizens of India who appeared in federal court Wednesday with their husbands — were released on bond by a federal judge Wednesday and ordered to wear tethers and surrender their Indian passports. The women have also been prohibited from talking to any of the alleged victims or witnesses in this case, except for their daughters, whom they are still allowed to live with.
The government had asked the judge to place both women on home detention and prohibit them from visiting their local mosque, arguing obstructive activity that sought to derail investigators in this case occurred at the mosque and could happen again.
U.S. District Judge Mona Majzoub denied the government's requests after defense lawyers argued the mothers need to tend to the busy lives of their children, who have many activities planned for this summer, including camp, swimming, reading and technology lessons. They also argued that the defendants should be allowed to attend their religious services. As defense attorney Margaret Raben argued on behalf of her client: "The mosque is her family."
Raben also described her client as being a proud member of the Dawoodi Bohra.
"That's what got them into trouble here," said Raben, who stood at the lecturn with her arm around her client's shoulder, patting her at times for comfort.
The women were charged with conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation and one count of female genital mutilation.
A third woman, Tahera Shafiq of Wayne County, has also been indicted in the case for allegedly being present during some of the cutting procedures.
The new defendants were added to the original indictment that was handed up in April charging Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, a now-fired emergency room physician at Henry Ford, with performing the procedure on two Minnesota girls at a Livonia clinic in February. The clinic owner and his wife, Dr. Fakuruddin Attar and Farida Attar, have also been charged.
All six defendants are members of the Dawoodi Bohra — a small Indian Muslim sect with a mosque in Farmington Hills that practices female circumcision and believes it is a religious rite of passage.
According to the superseding or new indictment unsealed Wednesday, four Michigan girls have now been identified as victims of this practice, which is illegal in the U.S. and has been condemned worldwide.
Among those victims are an Oakland County girl who was subjected to a genital cutting procedure on May 30, 2015, at the Burhani Medical Clinic in Livonia. Prosecutors allege her mother brought her to the clinic, where Nagarwala allegedly performed a genital cutting procedure on the girl. The clinic owner’s wife, Farida Attar, also was there.
The other indicted mother is accused of bringing her daughter to the same clinic for the same procedure last year, sometime between June and Sept. 20, 2016. According to the indictment, Nagarwala performed that procedure as well and the victim's mother lied to law enforcement when questioned about whether female genital mutilation procedures took place.
While the U.S. Attorneys office has identified six victims in the government’s ongoing female genital mutilation probe, it has claimed that as many as 100 Bohra girls may have been subjected to genital cutting over the last 12 years.
The defendants have denied any wrongdoing and maintain they were not involved in any cutting, but rather subjected the girls only to scraping procedures that they believe are a religious rite of passage.
Editor's Note: The Free Press is not using the names of the two women charged to protect the identity of their daughters.
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A movie made in 1985 directed by Michael Ritchie. Written by Gregory McDonald(novel) and Andrew Bergman. Players: Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson, George Wendt, Geena Davis, and more.
A hilarious movie about a newspaper reporter, Fletch, who is working on the story of drug sales on the beaches of LA and is approached by Alan Stanwyck to murder him since he is dying of cancer.
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In the following month I’ll create posts to cover these topics:
- Part 1 – Set Up
- How I set up Scrivener to edit or write a new manuscript – My Way
- How I incorporate the Story Grid guidance inside Scrivener
- How I incorporate other writings methods
- Using a Global Value Tracker
- Part 2 – Using and setting up Meta Data
- A new way to use Meta Data to track the 5 Commandments for each scene
- Using Meta Data to Track the Literal and Essential Action as well as Value shifts
- Review of tracking Story Grid Spreadsheet Data using Meta Data
- And We’ll review the export feature that allows you to export all your metadata into an excel spreadsheet that resembles the Story Grid Spreadsheet Shawn Coyne uses
- Part 3 – Collections and Keywords
- Using Keywords to track Sub-Plots
- Using Collections to Track Main Characters, Locations, and Unique Elements
- Using synopsis to Track Beats
These topics have been the most frequently asked questions about my method. If you have more questions, please ask them in the comments below.
Now, let’s get started with the most fantastic combination since chocolate and peanut butter, Scrivener and the Story Grid!
Setting up the Meta Data in Scrivener
I discussed the basics of working with Metadata in my Metadata Function post, so check that if you are unfamiliar with the function. In this post, I will discuss a variety of Story Grid information that you can track. I will use these metadata techniques when I am editing manuscripts for clients or when I’m doing my self-editing on my own writing after I have written a first draft.
Real quick, you can find the Metadata by opening the Inspector, that little “i” in the blue circle at the top right corner of your Scrivener screen. This will open a pane (called the inspector, funny enough) on the right side of the screen. Then, select the metadata icon at the top of the inspector pane (the third icon from the left in the inspector pane). Make sure that you have selected a scene in the binder and the editor has a scene showing, not an empty folder; you can do this by selecting a scene in the Binder.
In the Custom Metadata section (in the inspector panel), select ‘Edit Custom Metadata’, the gear on the right side) and you should see this window pop up:
Tracking What the Story is About
In this section, you can add any metadata you want to track, and all of these categories can be exported into an excel spreadsheet, which I will show you at the end of this post. I use these metadata items to track specific story items, Story Grid spreadsheet items (as outlined in the Story Grid Book and in this article by Shawn Coyne), and the 5 commandments of the scene.
Don’t forget to select wrap text in the lower section so you can see all of the notes you are writing for each item.
As you can see above, here is what I track concerning Story Items:
- Beats: these are quick bullets of each significant event that happens in the scene
- Suggestions: these are my suggestions as an editor (or to myself if I’m self-editing) reference POV, story progression, suggestion on improving the 5 commandments, and any thing else I want to tell the author
- Military Lingo and Weapons: In this novel, it is military heavy and I want to track all the weapons and military lingo I am using, making sure I explain at some time in the novel so I don’t lose the reader. I’ve also used this (retitling futuristic words/ items) for science fiction novels where I track new words that the author is applying to their world or futuristic equipment.
- Subplots: Here I will mention which sub-plots appear in this scene, such as a love story or red herrings or clues leading to the real villain.
- Obligatory Scenes: these are the Genre obligatory scenes outlined in the Story Grid articles at www.storygrid.com
- Literal Action: I took this item from the Story Grid Masterwork Analysis books that the Story Grid releases (currently Pride and the Prejudice – The Story Grid Edition). This describes what exactly what the characters are literally doing, usually described in general.
- Essential Action: Also from the Story Grid Masterwork Analysis books. This describes the essential action of what the characters are doing in this scene, the most important pats of the scene that progress the story.
- What Life Value has changed for one or more of the characters in the scene: include all the life values that change in the scene
- What is the most important life value that changes: From all of the life values that change, highlight the value that best tracks the scene-by-scene progress of the global value at stake.
Tracking the Five Commandments of the Scene
The 5 Commandments are the core of the Story Grid Methodology. I wrote a previous post that tracked the 5 commandments in the Synopsis section of the Inspector Pane, but over the last year I’ve realized it is more helpful for me to track the 5 commandments in the metadata.
I made entries in the metadata that include:
- Inciting incident
- II Type: Type of Inciting Incident, this is a dropdown list (Casual or Coincidence) made in the editor and I’ll show you how at the end of this list.
- Turning Point
- Turning Point Type: also a list (Character Action or Revelation)
- Progressive Complications
- Crisis Question
- Crisis Question Type: Also a dropdown list (best bad choice or irreconcilable goods)
Here is where you make a drop down list in the metadata editor:
Story Grid Spreadsheet Metadata
The rest of the metadata I use to track everything that the Story Grid book recommends, if you want to see a review you can read Shawn Coyne’s article.
These items include:
- POV: Point of View the scene is told
- Period of time: Date / Time that scene takes place
- Duration: length of time the scene lasts
- Value Shift: This is the same as we spoke about the beginning of the post during the story items, you can take this out, but I put it here to keep all the Story Grid Spreadsheet items together incase you chose not to track the story items as I did.
- Polarity Shift
- Locations: Locations where the scene takes place
- On Stage Characters: Characters that appear in the scene
- Number of On Stage Characters
- Off Stage Characters: Characters that are mentioned in the scene, but not physically in the scene
- Number of Off Stage Characters
So, those are all the items I track in the metadata when I edit a manuscript. It’s seems like a lot, but it actually goes pretty fast since all the data is write next to the manuscript. Next, I’ll demonstrate how to export this into excel and numbers.
Exporting the Metadata you want into the form you want
There are three items in Scrivener that need to be selected in order to export all of your metadata into excel or numbers:
- In the binder, select the folder that includes all of the scenes / chapters that you want to export the metadata for
- Select the Outliner (highlighted below at the top right, multiple blue lines)
- Choose which metadata you want to export (the carrot beside the letters POV below, you’ll see the dropdown for all the metadata you can export)
Here are some close ups of the three items:
I will usually make two spreadsheets – one for the 5 commandments and one for the Story Grid Spreadsheet information (which will also include the story items I mentioned).
After you have selected these three things, you are ready to export. Select File, then Export, and then Outliner Contents as CSV. Then choose a location to save the new file. If you are using Scrivener in windows, this will automatically make an excel file with all your data, but if you are using apple then it will make a numbers file and if you want it in excel, you will have to copy it from numbers into excel.
This is what my numbers file looks like after I export the data for the 5 commandments:
So, that’s how I organize my Scrivener Metadata when I edit manuscripts. How can you use this? Well, after you write your first draft, you can go back and track to make sure you have 5 commandments for each scene. You can follow the progressive complications to make sure you making the stakes more difficult as the story progresses. You can create the Story Grid Spreadsheet as you reread you first draft easily and efficiently.
My third and final post on Scrivener will cover making collections to track character arcs and using keywords to track subplots and a few more tricks. See you next week!
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The Opening Of the Huge Thermal City Spa On Montreal's South Shore Has Been Postponed
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It's been several years now since the project of a huge spa in Saint-Bruno, on Montreal's South Shore, was announced. In fact, since 2016, we have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Thermal City Förena.
While the opening of this Nordic spa was scheduled for last summer, it was delayed until December. However, we have now learned that the opening of this relaxation complex is yet again postponed and is now scheduled for 2020.
The Förena spa, which represents an investment of $12M, is the first phase of this huge project that promises to be one of the largest spa cities in Canada.
Until now, few details have been revealed and the only images of the place that have been shared are those of the plans.
With the opening scheduled for this Friday, December 20, many were eager to finally see what it really looked like.
However, Narcity has recently learned that Förena has had to postpone its opening date until January 31, 2020.
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She went on to explain that the SkySpa Group, which is behind this new complex, wanted to "apologize for the additional delays, but prefer not to compromise the quality of the Förena trip."
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Each month, I am posting a round up of homemade and artisan breads from around the blogosphere.
If you would like to add your bread to the Bread Box, see the instructions at the end of this post. Send me your breads, flatbreads, pizzas, buns... anything with yeast or sourdough.
To see past round ups, check out the Bread Box Round Up Page.
Thanks to all who submitted their breads.
Onion Bialys from Flour.ish.en
Easy Crusty Bread from Herbivore Cucina
No Knead Artisan Bread from United Moms Network
Rhubarb and Custard Brioche Tart from Delicious Everyday
Hokkaido Milk Bread Hot Cross Bun Loaf from Domestic Gotthess
Skillet Pizza with Artichoke Cream, Mint, and Mozzarella from Gourmet Project
Kanelbullar from What's for Lunch Honey
Meatball Pizza with Roasted Garlic and Spinach from Simply Fresh Dinners
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has apologised to the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki; Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, and Chancellor of the Edo State University, Iyahmo, Dr. Makanjuola, over the recent attack on their convoy at his (Oshiomhole) country home in Estako West Local Government.
The former Edo State Governor said the people that carried out the attack were the thugs who invaded the university community on the orders of the Deputy Governor of the state, Hon Philip Shaibu.
According to Oshiomhole, the tension in the community started last Friday when Shaibu allegedly imported thugs into the community with a view to intimidate political opponents.
This was contained in a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Simon Ebegbulem, where the APC National Chairman pointed out that he left the convocation lecture on Thursday through the back so as to avoid being attacked by the thugs who laid siege at the entrance gate of the university.
“Security operatives accosted them at the gate and refused them entrance. The thugs started threatening the security operatives who insisted the deputy governor can enter the venue but they will not allow the thugs to gain access.
“Following their threats the security operatives tear gassed the thugs and the deputy governor. The thugs were dispersed while the deputy governor joined other dignitaries at the venue. This created tension already in the small community.
“However, after the event, Comrade Oshiomhole invited the Oba of Lagos, the Chancellor and others for lunch at his country home which is right opposite the university. Consequently, he left instruction at the gate that he was expecting these respected leaders.
“So when the visitors came, the governor drove in a bus with other officials but following the incident that occurred earlier where thugs sponsored by the deputy governor invaded the university, Iyamho youths barricaded the gate of the national chairman with a view to protecting him against any harm.
“Unfortunately, these youths sighted Andrew Momodu, Osaigbovo Iyoha in the bus which conveyed the governor to Oshiomhole’s residence. They decided to stop them from entering the compound because these were the same people who led the thugs that attacked Oshiomhole’s residence in Benin City penultimate week.
“While this confusion was on, the thugs brought by the deputy governor started destroying the vehicles belonging to Oshiomhole’s kinsmen.
“I want to state clearly that the vehicles destroyed were not in the convoy of the governor. The thugs targeted the vehicles belonging to Oshiomhole’s relations and friend and destroyed them. Thank God for the intervention of soldiers and other security operatives who came to restore peace.
“This would not have happened if not for the thugs who invaded the community loyal to the deputy governor.
“However, Comrade Oshiomhole expresses his sincere apologies to the governor, the revered Oba of Lagos and the Chancellor over the unfortunate incident.” | <urn:uuid:6640c340-c5fb-4ea1-9ba8-276a733f1430> | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | https://razornewsng.com/oshiomole-apologizes-to-obaseki-oba-akiolu-over-attack-points-accusing-finger-at-shaibu/ | 2022-07-06T00:45:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104655865.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20220705235755-20220706025755-00761.warc.gz | en | 0.964869 | 651 |
What is the double consonant rule?
If a word has only one vowel and ends with f, l, s or z; double the consonant. So, under this rule, s is spelled ss, l is spelled ll, f is spelled ff, and z is spelled zz. bell, less, buff, fizz are some examples of double consonant words.
In this post, I will be sharing double consonant worksheets.
The double consonant rule is an important spelling rule and requires constant practice. I will be sharing pack 2 of The Floss Rule with you today. You can try this pack after you have tried Pack 1.
Double consonant ff, ll, and ss words word sort worksheet where you have to cut the word tiles and paste them in the ff, ll, and ss box.
Match the double consonant ff, ll, ss, and zz words with the pictures. Don’t forget to trace the words and color the pictures.
Double consonant ‘ll’ words cut and paste worksheet for kindergarten. Cut the picture tiles, read the words, and place the pictures under the correct word.
Double consonant ‘ss’ words cut and paste worksheet for kindergarten. Cut the picture tiles, read the words, and place the pictures under the correct word.
Circle the word which is correct. This double consonant rule worksheet will be quite challenging for the kids. Only ff, ll, ss, and zz words end in a double consonant. The rest end in a single consonant.
In the above double consonant ss worksheet, the vowels are missing. Complete the words by adding the vowels.
Read the word bank and write the ff, ll, ss, and zz words.
The concept of ‘this and that’ with ll and ss words. ‘This’ is used to refer to things which are close to us and ‘that is used to refer to things which are far from us.
That is a toss.
This is a hill.
That is a miss.
This is a doll.
That is a gull.
This is a quill.
That is a mill. (windmill)
Unscramble the words to form logical sentences using basic punctuation. This worksheet is a good way to introduce sentences.
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It is hard to imagine, post O, Brother Where Art Thou?, how unfashionable Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings sounded in 1996 when they released their debut album of bluegrass-inspired folk songs under the name Gillian Welch. Thirteen years on, interest in “American primitive” music has never been higher. It is curious, then, that the duo hasn’t released anything since 2003’s mixed bag, Soul Journey. More curious still is that their latest full-length appears under Rawlings’ name (in a 2004 New Yorker profile, Welch described them as “a two-piece band called Gillian Welch”).
Opener “Ruby” is a sweet original that sounds like an up-tempo Gillian Welch track, and the kind of achingly beautiful tune Ryan Adams records once an album. “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)” follows, a song that Rawlings co-wrote with Adams for Adams’ solo debut, Heartbreaker. Rawlings recasts the rocking original as a bluegrass-inflected tune, and the result is listenable but inessential. “I Hear Them All,” a standout track first recorded by Old Crow Medicine Show (members of whom serve as the backing band on a number of tracks), is a two-and-a-half-minute slice of empathetic folk that suggests that a stripped-down, acoustic record from Rawlings could be a revelation.
The centerpiece of the record is a lengthy showpiece for Rawlings’ guitar chops; a cover of Bright Eyes’ “Method Acting,” paired as a medley with Neil Young’s classic “Cortez The Killer.” Rawlings expends more time on Conor Oberst’s trite composition (sample lyric: “It starts with an ending”) rather than a dramatic reworking of Young’s classic. “Cortez” gets an all-too-brief reading at the end of a lengthy guitar workout. On “Sweet Tooth,” a heartfelt novelty tune in the best American folk tradition, Rawlings’ vocals express the ideal American vernacular, recalling Bob Dylan’s intonations during the Rolling Thunder Revue era. The album drifts along with more serviceable, energetic folk tunes, before closer “Bells of Harlem,” a beautiful but derivative composition that is the height of the record’s tendency toward Dylan worship.
Substituting Rawlings for Welch as leader of the group doesn’t solve the central problem of the duo’s catalog: their inability to transcend their influences and create music as deeply felt as their inspirations. For dedicated adherents, A Friend Of A Friend is an essential part of the Rawlings-Welch story, but casual listeners should stick with 2001’s high water-mark Time (The Revelator).
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Officially it ‘s called the BMW M3 CRT with CRT representing Carbon Racing Technologies. But we ‘ll call it the best thing since sliced bread. The first thing that resonates with us is that BMW created the ultimate enthusiasts sedan with the CRT- taking the fabulous E90 M3 four door and dialing it up a couple notches. The practicality of a four door with the brazen attitude of the track prepped M3 GTS sans roll cage. BMW M has created a car that will give four grown adults the roller coaster ride of their lives.
Insiders tip us to the M3 CRT and M3 GTS limited edition runs (via BMW Individual and M) add up to what this generation ‘s M3 CSL would have been if the BMW AG board had approved it for production and the economy wasn ‘t in dire straits. The CRT was limited to 67 units all spec ‘d identically and, as you can imagine, sold quickly. Exclusive Frozen Polar Silver metallic exterior paint (matte) combined with Melbourne Red metallic applications and exposed Carbon Fiber set the tone on the outside.
Carbon Racing Technologies
The real story with this model is the weight savings thanks to Carbon Fiber. BMW M used this model to demonstrate new techniques it can now use in making vehicles lighter thanks in no small part the BMWi vehicles which will hit the market in less than a year. The hood on the M3 CRT consists of two carbon-fiber sheets encasing an aramid composite honeycomb for added rigidity. As a result, it has the strength of a traditional steel hood with just a quarter of the weight. Compared to a normal M3’s aluminum stamping, the weight is halved.
Inside the cabin, the front bucket seats use the basically the same process and therefore benefit from similar weight savings. The result is a car that tips the scales at just 3483 pounds despite a long list of standard equipment. Some equipment it includes are: a dual-clutch transmission, navigation, the BMW Individual audio system, and parking sensors. BMW says that, while the official weight savings over a typical M3 is 100 pounds, if all this equipment is considered, the real savings is well over 150 pounds. With the car’s added horsepower, the diet is good for a ratio of 7.7 pounds for each horse to carry on its back, an improvement of about one pound over the regular M3 sedan.
There are additional Carbon Fiber bits for aero; a rear lip spoiler and another on the front bumper to aid in down force and decrease weight over the stock pieces. When reading “rumors ” of BMW M making the next M3 lighter it should come as no surprise. BMW M has already shown their hand as to what they are capable of doing in the future.
Fire breathing dragon comes to mind when the exhaust begins to growl, the titanium cans pinging from heat and the hand built 4.4l V8 guzzling gas. The S65 is worked over from its base capacity of 4l in the M3 CRT, the M3 GTS and the Z4 GT3. The engine is so good that BMW Motorsport just drops it right in to those Z4s and they are off to the races. It pumps out a total of 450 HP at 8,300 rpm and a peak torque of 324 lbs-ft at 3,750 rpm. BMW reports its 0-60 time as 4.4 seconds, that is conservative- we ‘d bet on four flat with launch control doing its part.
Qualitatively there is little difference between the 4.4l and the 4.0l engines. They are both rev happy, engaging and have an unmistakable aural quality. The former just has more of everything. It ‘s like ordering the larger glass of your favorite beer- you just get more of the goodness. Gas mileage is on the other hand even worse, it is entirely possible to get single digits around town with this baby if you are enjoying it a little too much. That said, it ‘s worth using up dead dinosaur for even just the sound.
The one and only transmission is the seven-speed M DCT with Drivelogic. No, a manual is not warranted- this car is a track machine for turning out fast laps and still have some semblance of day to day drivability. The DCT also allows an uninterrupted flow of power through gear changes to deliver ridiculous acceleration. Its shift characteristics have been tuned specially for the engine powering the BMW M3 CRT and may be the most aggressive we have ever experienced from BMW.
More impressive than the engine is the handling and braking. Cornering on rails, stopping at the drop of hat- all those comparatives people use to describe the cream of the crop of sports cars fit with this sedan. Cornering is precise and braking is firm with loads of pedal feedback. For the street the suspension setup of coil overs with adjustable camber plates can be a bit jarring and overly aggressive on Straßenschaden (damaged roads) but is otherwise money in the bank. The brakes may squeal and grind a bit more than mainstream customers may like but those are sacrifices that we ‘d make every morning as the good far outweighs those little niggles.
Providing the clamping power are special six piston compound construction fixed calipers designed to save weight. The vented brake discs measure 378 x 32 millimeters at the front axle and 380 x 28 millimeters at the rear, stainless steel braided lines, a specially tuned DSC (Dynamic Stability Control) system – including ABS and M Dynamic Mode (MDM) assist in slowing this ultimate driving machine down.
Like the M3 GTS and the just released M6, the rear subframe is bolted to the chassis, making it rigid and increasing cornering ability. The coil overs can be adjusted at each corner for dampening and rebound- We were told the car was setup in the middle of the range, not full on track prep and not in comfy cozy mode but it felt about right considering what this car is designed to do. Noting that the wheels and tires are the same size and spec as those in the M3 Competition pack we were more than surprised how much stick the car had on the desolate backroads in the Eiffel region of Germany. Not by mistake, we drove the same roads the car was tested on by the M engineers during development.
Could more weight have been shaved on the interior? Yes, but the final product is comfortable, luxurious and gorgeous. The show stoppers are of course the seats. Carbon fiber buckets with some of the deepest bolstering we have ever seen off the track. In the rear, the center seat was sacrificed to introduce rear passengers to increased g-forces thanks to side bolsters.
Equipped with Navigation and other creature comforts the CRT is as much of a daily driver as a track machine. Packaged with exclusive door sill strips, door panels and dash trim in woven aluminum (like stainless steel brake lines) the interior is simply stunning. Completing the distinctive look inside the high-performance sedan are the Alcantara-covered M steering wheel and special Sakhir Orange and Black leather for the front and rear seats.
The Alcanatara wheel would be the only change we ‘d make- maybe an M Performance square bottom wheel with a Sakhir Orange stripe but otherwise it is flawless as long as you do not need to adjust the seat height upwards.
It ‘s tough to judge how fast a car really is until you look at hard numbers but this felt like the fastest production BMW we ‘d ever had the pleasure of piloting. Well, the numbers say that our sense was right. In December 2011, German magazine Autobild took all of the current BMW M models and tested them on the Sachsenring circuit in Germany. To no surprise the fastest model turned out to be the M3 CRT sedan.
In fact, according to Autobild, not only was it the fastest from all the models tested, it was also the fastest M Car they have ever tested on the Sachsenring. The M3 CRT lapped the circuit in 1:38.87. We talked with the author of that test and he felt with more seat time in the CRT the time could have even been quicker because car was such a performance surprise that it may not have been fully pushed to its limits.
We had held the BMW M3 CRT in high regards because of how it looked on paper. The new truth is that we didn ‘t have it high enough. The concept of more power and less weight is one that usually impacts creature comforts and the ability to drive on the street. While there are some sacrifices with the CRT in terms of ride comfort the overwhelming advantage of the car speaks volumes about what BMW M is capable of when there isn ‘t mass appeal to be considered.
The CRT may never be fully appreciated by enthusiasts because of the limited number of cars produced but the idea of a true track ready vehicle for a driver and three passengers is something for the ages- who needs the ‘Ring taxi when there is the CRT?
Simply put- this is the best car M has produced in terms of advances in technology and the actual performance.
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The Indigenous World Music Project: presents a distinctive voice for Native peoples throughout the Americas. Latin and First Nations professional musicians in collaboration, create a sound to unify their culture through music. The professional caliber of Native musicians today brings an exciting new wave of performers both traditional and contemporary. Aboriginal musicians write about native life and celebrate it. The Indigenous World concept has been embraced by the Native community, the time is right for it to appeal to a wider Canadian audience. Indigenous World is a recording that tells the story of the Andean, Aboriginal, Inuit, Latino, and Canadian peoples whose musical influences are separated geography but not by musical time.
Listen to a demo from Indigenous World available on Sound Cloud
Background: Marcos has been in development with “Indigenous World” for over a decade as the Producer; Composer and Performer, He has composed and produced experimental demo tracks for this project over the last seven years and is now near completion at the Q Music Studios in Toronto. Produced by Marcos Arcentales & Donald Quan it features many native musicians and performers across Canada such as; Pura Fe (vocals) Michele St. John (vocals) Jason Burnstick (guitar) Marie Gaudet (vocals), Kino Arcentales (pan pipes, spoken word) Miguel Vasquez (Flute & Latin Percussion: congas, bongos, cajon) just to name a few.
Marcos is the founding member of Kanatan Aski; World Beat and Native fusion band that introduced a new level of musical sound with its debut CD “Condor Meets the Eagle” (Juno Nomination 1994). Andean Colours and Andean Universe soon followed. Marcos has traveled throughout Canada and the Americas as a musician and composer working as a key collaborator with a number of leading Native artists.
As an urban Canadian with many cultural diversities he has shared his Andean musical roots in a way that reflects the multifaceted music and cultural traditions within the native community in all of the Americas as performer and composer. He has a great infinity with indigenous peoples not only in South American but throughout all of the Americas; his aim is to bring together Native peoples through music.
Indigenous music and sounds have always been part of the American continent that tells the story of past and present. Marcos’ vision has been to bring out a new form of contemporary style of sound without losing its true organic essence. Today´s “Indigenous World” musical sound incorporates the digital elements heard yet not developing a sound that can truly call ¨indigenized music.¨
“Indigenous World” tells a story that is endless in its musical form without distorting the traditional sound too extensively. It resonates a truly Canadian made musical fusion without being mainstream. Experimental and yet still traditional it relates to how our world is giving a voice to Mother Earth with music.
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The Story: In 1492 the Spanish made first contact with the Taino Nation of the Caribbean. “Conquista” was in their hearts and so began a vast genocide, a genocide that spread to the many Nations of Abya Yala (Kuna word meaning “Land of our Blood Ancestors”)
Soon after, to the North the English, Dutch and the French claimed Turtle Island and began the displacement of the Northern Nations. The Elders foretold of “the Condor meets the Eagle” a prophesy of a day when after 500 years, the many Nations who did survive the onslaught would continue their resistance. It would be then that, the Eagle of the North will fly side by side with the Condor of the South reminding the people that we are one family. A re-birth of Mother Earth will occur in a place called Indigenous World uniting all Indigenous people from the Four Directions of the Earth.
The Elders told how music will heal its people from centuries of oppression. The Southern Nations will touch people’s hearts with their Quena flutes and Zamponia Pan-pipes, while the Northern Nations will sing with their drum to the heart beat of Mother Earth. Indigenous World will become a place where dance and music shall free the spirit and cleanse the Earth.
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DESCRIPTION: Feel the rush of adrenaline as French high-wire expert Philippe Petit walks the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. In the biopic drama The Walk, follow Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) as he looks out from the towers at the incredible view of Lower Manhattan. Standing out among the skyscrapers is 33 Thomas Street, also known at the AT&T Long Lines Building. Built in 1974, the tower is an example of Brutalist architecture with its flat concrete slab exterior. Scroll down to see more film locations identifed from The Walk. | <urn:uuid:f1c8280e-da80-4ee3-878b-07a74f218d04> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://thetake.com/location/91074/33-thomas-street-att-long-lines-building-new-york-city-new-york-the-walk | 2017-03-01T17:58:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501174215.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104614-00457-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938274 | 121 |
Is your foot on the gas pedal?
I love soulful conversations. You know, the kind that leave you so inspired and fulfilled you feel like you are bursting at the seams? I had one last night. I was seated next to a woman who has been successfully married for 27 years and she shared some of her insight with me.
She was refined, soft-spoken and all heart. I scanned the room for her husband, positively making the connection that they belonged to each other. He was clad in purple pants and a green plaid jacket, smoking his own brand of cigar and entertaining a group of men who clearly wanted to be associated with him. I appreciated his posture and commented on how well he pulled off what might be considered a precarious outfit. “I bought those pants for him”, she said proudly, offering him such an adoring glance that I was moved. “Of course you did”. It was clear that she was madly in love.
I studied them silently for a moment, drenching myself in possibility. Then I asked her, “So, what’s your secret?”
“Never take your foot off the gas pedal”, she replied without a hitch. That’s it? I wanted more. I was glad to feel my fella lean in to our conversation just in time to hear her spell it out for me.
“It means you can’t get so comfortable that you stop trying. EVER. You are always moving forward – no complacency. Do things that please him (looking at me). Do you know the little things that make her happy (looking at him)? Do them. Forgive. Accept each other’s humanness. Enjoy the space as much as you enjoy the company. Remember, you love each other because of your differences, not in spite of them. It’s work. It will always be work. But nothing – NOTHING you will ever do will be more worth it.”
I was slightly troubled that it wasn’t more complicated.
“Oh, and we always spend Valentine’s Day together. No matter where in the world he is, I meet him there on Valentine’s Day. It’s our thing.” She gave me an endearing wink and with that, her exposition was complete.
I rely considerably on powerful conversations that lead to major paradigm shifts. It’s how I make a living. How often do I allow others to play such a role for me? Good question. I suppose my ego gets in the way. It feels better to pretend I have it all figured out until I find myself in the middle of a completely ridiculous argument about something so trivial it’s embarrassing. Last night, in one brief conversation, my own shift was sparked. I was inspired to do better, to be better in my own relationship – to focus more on being a provider and less on judging how exceptionally and consistently I’m provided for.
There’s an old saying that goes, “If you want something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done”. I’d like to add, “…and you have to BE someone you’ve never been.” I’m not saying I’m going to morph into a completely selfless human being. That’s not realistic, attainable or even remotely desirable to me. I am going to try harder though. There’s always room for growth and like my new friend encouraged, “Nothing you will ever do will be more worth it”. | <urn:uuid:faec5dce-7dfb-4930-833e-fdccd1515a30> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://www.jesseneidt.com/2016/11/29/is-your-foot-on-the-gas-pedal/ | 2021-01-25T21:22:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703644033.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125185643-20210125215643-00627.warc.gz | en | 0.978229 | 769 |
Anyone sensible should be cautious of a particular style when it becomes popularized, especially when celebrities jump on the band wagon. There are of course times when innovative ideas and approaches are catalysts for enriched culture and long lasting improvements – maybe even cementing themselves as milestones in fashion history. Consider the evolution of the Trench coat from its practical roots, or how a request for a shorter informal jacket by the Prince of Whales led the storied Savile Row tailor Henry Poole to invent the dinner jacket. Naturally the polar opposite of the spectrum would include perverse atrocities like parachute pants or the infamous “garbage bag” suit cut from the 90s; we can hang on to these for future photo album entertainment. One trend. This brings us to the point of this article, which is tonal dressing and what kind of trend it will turn out to be.
When it comes to keeping up to speed with the latest and greatest, I would probably be considered a “late adopter”, even if my style leans toward the classic side, and that may explain why I was admittedly a bit quick to shun the concept of tonal dressing, also known as “tone-on-tone”. For those who don’t know, tonal refers to building an ensemble which layers different tones of the same colour, and a safe interpretation is to coordinate shades of neutrals like black, white, grey, brown, etc. However, more interestingly, and perhaps a trickier choice, is to try a single monochrome colour like navy, as seen below. Obviously coordinating shades of a single colour coherently isn’t a ground breaking revelation, but even timeless staples in fashion were likely popularized at some point, and we shouldn’t allow that to cloud our judgement.
Only sound judgement and taste can allow us to decide for ourselves which trends are worth our time and money, and many would agree that truly great style is never achieved by following the heard. The question raised then is whether tonal dressing is a short lived blip destined to fade away, or potentially a timeless but edgy look to store in the tool box for years to come. The root of my apprehension may be that for a while it seemed like every Hollywood actor would appear on some late night talk show in a dark monochrome suit, with matching everything. The issue here is if they don’t execute the look well, it leaves a bad impression as opposed to showcasing the distinct potential.
Tip 1 – Take Baby Steps
The great thing about layering tones is that it’s not a look you have to fully commit to, it’s simplicity at its finest by coordinating just a couple monochrome items. You will develop some skill at finding the sweet spot between too much contrast and too matchy-matchy. While its an easy style to experiment with, it requires a keen eye for colour coordination and nuance as you incorporate more items into the outfit.
With this look, I went with a navy shirt and navy tie to demonstrate a very simple, low risk way to experiment. Consider this the fist step on the tonal ladder. Stay tuned for parts 2 and 3 for more looks and tips for tonal dressing. | <urn:uuid:7e005512-5c30-463b-8463-5dae0da961f3> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | http://www.woolandmen.com/allstylearticles/tonal-dressing-part-1 | 2019-08-22T21:33:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027317359.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20190822194105-20190822220105-00136.warc.gz | en | 0.953748 | 661 |
Arianespace have launched their Ariane 5 ECA on another mission, again to loft two satellites into orbit – namely ASTRA 2F and GSAT 10 – from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The launch was on schedule at 21:18 UTC on Friday evening, with the workhorse successfully sending its two passengers to GTO.
Ariane 5 ECA Launch:
The Ariane 5 ECA (Cryogenic Evolution type A) – the most powerful version in the Ariane 5 range – was used for this flight. The Ariane 5 ECA is an improved Ariane 5 Generic launcher.
Although it has the same general architecture, a number of major changes were made to the basic structure of the Ariane 5 Generic version to increase thrust and enable it to carry heavier payloads into orbit.
Designed to place payloads weighing up to 9.6 tonnes into GTO, this increased capacity allows the Ariane 5 ECA to handle dual launches of very large satellites.
Given Arianespace now enjoys a full family of launch vehicles – following the introduction of the Soyuz and Vega rockets at the Spaceport – the company has adopted a new numbering system to identify its missions with these three vehicles.
As such, Ariane 5 flights carry the “VA” designation, followed by the flight number. The “V” stands for “vol,” the French word for “flight,” while the “A” represents the use of an Ariane launch vehicle.
With the introduction of Soyuz at the Spaceport in 2011, Arianespace missions from South America with the medium-lift workhorse launcher are being designated “VS,” while flights with the lightweight Vega vehicle are referenced as “VV”, following its successful debut this year.
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This flight was designated Flight VA209 in Arianespace’s numbering system, representing the 209th mission of an Ariane family launcher since the maiden liftoff of an Ariane 1 version in 1979. The success is the 51st in a row for the Ariane 5.
The payload lift performance for Arianespace’s latest Ariane 5 mission was more than 10,200 kg., which includes some 9,400 kg. for its two satellite passengers – ASTRA 2F and GSAT-10 – along with the launcher’s dual-payload dispenser system and satellite integration hardware.
The mission’s Astra 2F passenger was produced by the Astrium division of EADS for satellite operator SES, and is configured with Ku- and Ka-band transponders to enable the delivery of next-generation broadcast, VSAT and broadband services in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
This powerful six metric ton-class relay platform utilizes Astrium’s Eurostar E3000 satellite bus and carries Ku- and Ka-band payloads for the delivery of high performance Direct-to-Home (DTH) and next-generation broadband services. It will be deployed first during the 30-minute flight sequence.
Its planned orbital location at 28.2 degrees East is one of SES’ prime positions that serves such premium broadcasters as BSkyB, the BBC, ITV and Channel 5. From this geostationary slot, SES delivers programming to almost 13 million satellite homes and over three million cable homes, as well as 700,000 Internet Protocol television (IPTV) homes in the U.K. and Ireland.
Additionally, 28.2 degrees East is used by SES to broadcast numerous channels for the growing DTH platforms in sub-Saharan Africa.
Also orbited by Ariane 5 was the Indian Space Research Organisation’s GSAT-10, which carries Ku- and C-band transponders for relay services, as well as the GAGAN (GPS and GEO augmented navigation) payload.
Configured with 12 Ku-band, 12 C-band and 12 extended C-band transponders, GSAT-10 utilizes the I-3K satellite bus developed by ISRO, with a power capability of some six kilowatts and a liftoff mass estimated at 3,400 kg.
Also included on GSAT-10 is the GAGAN (GPS and GEO augmented navigation) payload, which will support the Indian government’s implementation of a satellite-based regional capability to assist aircraft navigation over Indian airspace and in adjoining areas. The initial GAGAN payload was carried aboard the GSAT-8 spacecraft, orbited by Arianespace on an Ariane 5 mission in May 2011.
Arianespace’s September 28 mission continues a busy year of activity for the workhorse Ariane 5.
Previous launches conducted in 2012 include the March delivery of Europe’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle for servicing of the International Space Station – which is set to undock shortly after Friday’s launch – along with dual-payload missions that orbited JCSAT-13 & VINASAT-2 (May), EchoStar XVII & MSG-3 (July) and Intelsat 20 & HYLAS 2 (August).
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Types of Special Olympics Volunteer Coach Roles
There are several roles for a volunteer who wishes to become involved in Special Olympics sports as a certified Sports Volunteer/Coach. While some coaches may choose to remain a Sports Volunteer, other coaches may strive to increase their level of certification. Coaches who wish to increase their coaching level can follow the recommended SONA Coach Education System outlined below.
- Sports Volunteer (team manager, equipment manager, practice volunteer, chaperone)
- Level 1 Certified Coach
- Level 2 Certified Coach
- Level 3 Certified Coach
Level 3 Coach
All Level 2 requirements and one of the following:
- Principles of Coaching Course Principles of Coaching
- Positive Coaching Alliance: Double Goal Coach: Coaching for Winning and Life Lessons
- Positive Coaching Alliance: Double Goal Coach: Culture, Practice, and Games
- Fundamentals of Coaching - NFHS
- Other advanced coaching course or NGB Course as approved by the Program
- *Level 3 coach - eligible to coach above Program level
Level 2 Coach
Level 1 Coach
All Sport Volunteer requirements and one of the following:
- A: Face-to-face sport specific training
- B: ASEP/NFHS/NGB sport specific training
- C: Sport webinar (under development by SONA)
- D: Review materials, online quiz, submit three practice plans, and post practice notes for three sessions to Program sports staff
*Options A through D may be waived at the Program's discretion if the volunteer possesses interscholastic coaching experience and/or an NGB certification
- Coaching Unified Sports Course - If coach will be coaching a unified aspect of the sport
Courses for Continuing Education
In order to maintain certification, a coach must update his/her certifications every three years. A non-comprehensive list of courses approved for continuing education include:
Special Olympics Idaho encourages coaches entering athletes for state-level competition to obtain sport-specific certification through the Special Olympics International on line coach's training.
Coaching Special Olympics athletes is the heart of the Special Olympics program. A coach must successfully manage the introduction of new skills, physical fitness, safety and involvement in competition for Special Olympics athletes. In order to do that, a coach should possess the following key competencies to be able to:
- Identify necessary skills that a coach should develop.
- Develop a training plan for a season.
- Develop a training plan for an individual practice.
- Identify how an individual with an intellectual disability learns sports skills and rules and what a coach can do to facilitate learning (i.e., training sequence, levels of instruction).
- Identify what obstacles may challenge an athlete to learn sports skills and rules and what to do to overcome them.
- Develop a plan to provide appropriate supervision during a day trip and an overnight trip.
- Identify successful competition-day coaching strategies.
Special Olympics North America Coach Education System Overview
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Memorial services for 61-year old Tony Clift of Rushville, NE, are Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 2:00 PM at the New Christian Church in Rushville
A memorial has been established for the CARE cancer support program, the Rushville Rescue Unit, or the hospice program of Chadron Community Hospital and Health Services.
Donations may be sent in care of Chamberlain-Pier Funeral Home, PO Box 266, Gordon, NE 69343
Online condolences may be left at www.chamberlainchapel.com
Tony Clift passed away at his home on July 29, 2021.
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Another great find from the recycle center - obviously, you need to look deeper than the initial view. This had been used as a cat den, and was scratched in one corner, and a tacky curtain had been stapled on - horrors!
Learning how to see past those kinds of first impressions is important if you want to find funky furniture to refinish. Luckily, the biggest problems are easy to fix with a bit of glue, a couple of tiny nails and some stripper.
When it came to this buffet, all the outdated hardware was removed, and the trim was reapplied with glue and small nails.
This dentil molding is typical of these little pieces of furniture, and I love it. Two coats of my favorite interior velvet finish latex paint gives it good coverage over the purple.
The drawers were taken out and lubricated with soap to stop them from sticking.
Used in combination with the upcycled day bed, this forms the head board part of it, and is valuable added storage.
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I’d lived in and around Chicago for nearly 15 years by the time September 11, 2001 came about. I worked in healthcare, managing a series of community health programs for a local chapter of a national nonprofit, all of them concentrated in the Hispanic and multicultural neighborhoods of Chicago’s west side. Most of my program’s clients were Latino, but Chicago being the cultural microcosm that it is, we experienced a much broader ethnic mix than just Puerto Rican and Mexican. We had blacks, some Polish kids, a smattering of Asians, and even a Palestinian teacher. I loved this cultural stew I found myself in, and I felt I was finally experiencing the real Chicago.
Dave and I lived in a large condo building in Berwyn, a west side suburb adjacent to Chicago, at the time of September 11, 2001. Berwyn is a working class neighborhood with a larger percentage of Mexican immigrants, but there are other groups that live and work there as well. Every morning I’d walk to the gas station next to our building and buy a Chicago Tribune to start my day. The gas station was owned and run by a couple Middle Eastern men. They were efficient, kept the place clean and orderly, and quietly dispensed change to me and standard pleasantries on my daily trips to their business. I never asked them where they were from. It never seemed necessary. They blended in with the rest of my experience.
I began to wonder about the two men after September 11 and hearing reports of incidents of harassment of people locally who looked Muslim. It concerned me that regardless of the atrocities in New York we would indiscriminantly turn on others just because they appeared to be Muslim. A few mornings later, as I handed my money through the safety window at the gas station to one of the Arabic men, I asked him if anyone had given him any trouble. He looked at me ,perhaps a little startled, and said,” Pray for me.”
I told him I would and wished him good day.
He and his partner left several weeks after that, turning the gas station over to someone else. I never heard of what had happened, why they left. But I still pray for him, and all of us, that we look beyond appearances and seek out what lies within each others’ hearts.
Title: “Pray For Me”
Medium: Watercolor on paper
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Most Webware.com readers who use Windows are familiar with two kinds of software: applications that run within the Windows framework, and Web-based applications. Using the former requires access to your own computer; using the latter requires password management and an Internet connection.
Now, the growing availability of software that runs off portable devices makes schlepping your laptop home for the holidays less of a necessity. PortableApps Standard Suite turns your memory device--iPod, Darth Vader Flash drive or even your digital camera's memory card--into a software and personal file manager.
Here's how to get started: Grab the PortableApps suite and run the installation file. Be sure to point the installation to your portable device, otherwise you'll have the suite on your hard drive, which is impractical for carrying to Grandma's house. The device should have at least 512 MB free for the Standard Edition, or 128 MB available for the Lite Edition. Then run the executable, which will load the red panel in the screenshot.
From there, it takes only one click to run any of the programs listed on the left, or to manage your files from the column on the right. There's a useful backup feature, so you can make temporary copies to the hard drive you're working with. The Standard Edition of Portable Apps comes with the OpenOffice.org office management suite, which includes a word processor, spreadsheet, drawing app and calculator, among others. There's also a Sudoku game, an instant-message manager, a virus scanner, and three programs from Mozilla--the Sunbird calendar, Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail client. The Lite Edition substitutes the AbiWord Portable word processor for OpenOffice.org.
Both suites include a link to the PortableApps Web site that lists the software that can work within the framework, so you can add or drop programs as you need them. The bottom of the panel has a memory bar that keeps you informed of how much room is left on your device.
The installation process takes a long time, but since you're getting a veritable plethora of applications, it's more than worth the wait. In the future, it'd be nice if there was a feature that allowed one-click synchronization between your home hard drive and your Portable Apps files and configurations, but I can forgive that for the flexibility and versatility that the suite provides.
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By Andrew Preimesberger
Palo Alto Online Sports
Seniors Payton Smith and Sonia Abuel-Saud combined for 29 kills to lead host Sacred Heart Prep to a 3-2 West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) girls' volleyball win over neighborhood rival Menlo School on Thursday night in a battle between unbeaten teams.
Smith had 15 kills plus four blocks while Abuel-Saud finished with 14 kills and 21 digs as the Gators prevailed, 25-17, 22-25, 25-20, 19-25, 15-11, while winning their seventh straight to remain alone in first place at 5-0 (20-2 overall). Menlo fell to 4-1 (15-6 overall) and into second place in the division at the halfway point of the league season.
"This game meant a lot to us," said Shannon. "This is always the biggest game of the year for us and to end it like we did tonight was huge."
The first game was controlled by the Gators on kills led by sophomore Victoria Garrick and Abuel-Saud. The duel combined for eight and rallied Sacred Heart to the win in Game 1. Garrick finished with 13 kills and 23 digs.
Menlo made a comeback in Game 2 when junior outside hitter Maddie Huber had six kills and led a 7-2 run giving the Knights the 25-22 edge and tying the match. Huber had a strong game as she finished with 29 kills and 15 digs.
"She played very aggressive and smart," Menlo coach Atlee Hubbard said.
Menlo sophomore setter Elisa Merten contributed 58 assists, three aces, 18 digs, and five blocks.
After the Gators won Game 3, Menlo was down 13-10 and stepped up for a 15-5 rally giving the Knights a Game 4 win and forcing a fifth. The Knights' charge was led by junior Sarah Bruml, who had four kills in the game and had 10 total.
SHP senior Payton Smith was clutch in Game 5 as she five points -- two off serves. Garrick had back-to-back aces that were just inside the line putting Sacred Heart up 14-10. Senior setter Cammie Merten set up Smith for the spike that hit off Bruml and sealed the win for the Gators.
The Gators' defense in Game 5 was huge as they held Huber scoreless. Smith finished with 11 kills and four blocks, Merten contributed 38 assists and Helen Gannon added 31 digs as the Gators had another all-around effort to overcome Huber's big offensive night.
"The rest of our offense struggled a little and our serve-receive was shaky most of the match," Hubbard said. "Sacred Heart beat us in serve-receive tonight. Still, it was a close match and for us to keep fighting with the loud student section . . . I am proud of our effort tonight."
The teams will meet again on Nov. 1 at Menlo.
Elsewhere in the WBAL:
Castilleja finally got its first division victory as the Gators rolled to a 25-19, 25-21, 25-23 win over visiting Notre Dame-San Jose (0-5, 9-11). Senior Lucy Tashman led the Gators (1-4, 12-12) with 15 kills, 16 digs and four aces. Katya Scocimara added eight kills and three aces, Jen DiSanto finished with 19 digs and Hannah Hsieh contributed 30 assists to the victory.
In San Francisco, Priory suffered a tough road loss to Mercy-San Francisco, 23-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-17, 15-9. The Panthers fell to 2-3 (15-6).
"Although the girls played hard, they didn't have a good night offensively," said Priory coach Dustin Moore. "Contributing to that was the solid defensive play of Mercy."
In the PAL Bay Division, junior Pauli King had 11 kills and 13 digs to help spark Menlo-Atherton to a 25-18, 25-13, 25-13 victory over visiting San Mateo. The Bears improved their first-place standing at 8-0 (14-5 overall). Kaitlin Tavarez added 37 assists while Katelyn Doherty finished with 24 assists, 11 kills and eight digs and Virginia Lane had 15 digs.
In the SCVAL De Anza Division, Gunn posted a 25-23, 25-17, 25-22 victory over host Lynbrook. Lena Latour led the Titans (3-5, 11-10) with 13 kills.
At Palo Alto, the host Vikings bounced back from their first division loss after 21 straight wins with a very big 27-25, 25-12, 25-22 triumph over Homestead. The win moved Paly (7-1, 18-4) out of a tie for second place with the Mustangs and kept the Vikings a game behind first-place Los Gatos.
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Student loan borrowers of color disproportionately bear the brunt of America’s student debt crisis, and sadly, the extraordinary levels of delinquency and default across these communities is preventable. The most vulnerable student loan borrowers have a right under federal law to make affordable student loan payments—a powerful protection that should make student loan defaults extremely rare. However, mounting evidence shows that borrowers of color continue to experience extremely high rates of delinquency and default, particularly when compared to their white peers. This evidence suggests that the consumer finance companies responsible for administering these protections—student loan servicers—have failed millions of African American and Latino student loan borrowers.
June 3, 2019
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Front Discs Specification: Vented - Studs 5 Disc diameter 310.0mm Disc thickness 24.0mm Overall height 77.1mm Centre diameter 79.0mm Minimum thickness 22.4mm. Rear Discs Specification: Vented - Studs 5 Disc diameter 320.0mm Disc thickness 20.0mm Overall height 63.5mm Centre diameter 75.0mm Minimum thickness 18.4mm. Please note: Some models have a 324mm front disc option, please ensure you require the 310mm option before ordering. Mintex front and rear pads. This set will fit: BMW 5 Series Touring [E61] 520d 09/05- BMW 5 Series Touring [E61] 520i 04/03-04/04 BMW 5 Series Touring [E61] 523i 03/05- BMW 5 Series Touring [E61] 525d 04/03- BMW 5 Series Touring [E61] 525i 04/03.If your fitment is not listed, check our other items in our shop. During checkout please include a current telephone in case we need to contact you.
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Straight swap for your old standard discs! Best results will be seen with premium branded pads, although these discs are fully compatible with budget pad types.We can also supply Mintex Redbox pads. Motorsport Tuning & Engineering Company established in 2004. We are a UK based company that specialise in the manufacturing and supply of performance brake discs and brake pads. Our discs are machined using state of the art CNC machines which ensure all designs are cut with precision. IV, HS, KA27-28, KW, PA20-49, PA60-78, PH17-26, PH30-44, PH49-50, ZE, TR21-25. | <urn:uuid:062cc996-0975-4cda-a80a-109865c71470> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://reardiscbrake.com/e61_touring_520d_520i_523i_525d_525i_front_rear_brake_discs_pads_drilled_grooved.htm | 2023-10-03T14:12:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511106.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003124522-20231003154522-00237.warc.gz | en | 0.868582 | 481 |
Sinclair Arts delivers cultural communications for arts organisations across Asia. Our team of dedicated consultants deliver award-winning PR, social media and experiential arts communications campaigns with a strategic focus that inspires real impact and results. With local insight and global perspective, our integrated solutions ensure consistent and professional messaging across borders and cultures.
A good conversation is an art form. It takes passion and energy get things moving and keep people interested. Fortunately, our people are the best conversationalists in the business, and know how to keep people talking.
Integrating art into PR strategy can: increase your brand’s relatability to consumers, contribute to the well-being and culture of a community, widen the target audience or tap into a market trend, among other benefits.
The proliferation of social media platforms and the rising interest in cultural activities in China requires international arts institutions to consider a broader approach to marketing on social media.
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There's something distinctly American about the rugged individualism associated with off-road recreation; it's just you, your vehicle and your own path through the wilds of nature. There is also something painfully ironic about a sport that prizes the beauty of untouched wilderness while running it over with huge knobby tires.
As off-roading -- a sport that includes ATVs, off-highway motorcycles, snowmobiles and four-wheel-drive vehicles like Jeeps and pickup trucks -- becomes more and more popular, it poses more of a threat to the health of remote natural habitats.
But off-roaders aren't the only culprits. The truth is that all outdoor recreation presents a risk to fragile ecosystems. If campers leave food and trash at a campsite, it can attract bears and clog streams with debris. Overfishing can deplete endangered marine populations into extinction. Even hikers can disturb the natural balance of a forest by tromping through sensitive breeding areas.
Experienced outdoor enthusiasts know that the future of their favorite activities relies on increased awareness of ethical recreation practices and active stewardship of the land on which they play.
In 1985, the U.S. Forestry Service launched the Tread Lightly! program to address the impact of outdoor recreation -- and off-road driving in particular -- on the great outdoors itself. In 1990, Tread Lightly! moved to the private sector, where it's now managed as a non-profit. The organization has become a powerful advocate for outdoor education and sustainable land management.
Tread Lightly! works closely with the public by training thousands of ordinary citizens to be Tread Trainers that promote the program's message in their communities. The organization also partners with industry leaders like Goodyear, Yamaha and Jeep to promote the ethical outdoor use of their products.
Keep reading to learn more about the mission and founding principles of Tread Lightly! and how you can get involved. | <urn:uuid:32cb471b-a7af-4708-a72b-2550717e1b69> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/outdoor-activities/clubs-networks/tread-lightly.htm | 2022-10-03T07:46:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337404.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003070342-20221003100342-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.944608 | 399 |
Vintage Aries Suncatcher Necklace
We found a few of these vintage suncatcher necklaces from the 80's lying around in an old warehouse - aren't they adorable? Quirky and unique, only one of this style is available, so get yours now!
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Let us know if you need it! We reorder based on community feedback and demand, so your voice is very important. We'll email you if we can bring it back. | <urn:uuid:44ab24a4-4d0c-430a-b2cd-3db2ad4514fd> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://www.modcloth.com/shop/vintage/vintage-aries-suncatcher-necklace | 2015-01-31T21:16:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115865430.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161105-00212-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942347 | 110 |
Port Authority - EZCotton Long Sleeve Polo. K8000LS.
It wasn’t easy making EZCotton better, but we did. Still made of soft, smooth, durable 100% cotton pique, our new EZCotton Polo boasts an updated fit and a collar that resists curling. It also resists shrinking, wrinkling, pilling and fading with ease.
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There was a big win for African-Americans on Election Day even as tight election races appeared to minimized the anticipated Black wave.
Florida voters approved Amendment 4, which automatically restores voting rights for people who served their time in prison for felony convictions.
“The passage of Amendment 4 tonight in Florida is a victory for democracy. An estimated 1.4 million people will now have a second chance and be able to exercise their right to vote, having paid their debt to society by completing their sentences. We applaud the people of Florida for making the right choice tonight,” People For the American Way said.
Florida, which banned more felons from voting than any other state, was blocking 21.5 percent of African Americans from casting ballots, achieving the goals of felony disenfranchisement laws that were historically intended to reduce Black voting power.
Looking ahead to the 2020 elections, there’s plenty of reason for Republicans to stay awake at night worrying about the potential political impact of Amendment 4. With voting rights restored, an estimated 258,060 felons would likely register as Democrats and just 46,920 would join the Republican Party, according to a study reported by the Sentencing Project.
In the purple state, where presidential elections and statewide races are usually razor thin, this could swing elections in favor of Democrats. President Donald Trump won just 1.3 percent more votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016. | <urn:uuid:c2d0259f-1b08-4619-b7bc-e000149e003e> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://defendernetwork.com/news/national/voting-rights-restored-to-florida-ex-felons/ | 2020-12-02T03:52:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141686635.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20201202021743-20201202051743-00203.warc.gz | en | 0.970146 | 283 |
School isn’t great for free thinking, but a student debate is. Free minds and engage learners by holding a classroom discussion in 6 steps!
As educators strive to involve students in the learning process more directly with active learning, this means more interactive activities into the classroom. By incorporating interactive elements into your lessons, you can drastically improve the performance of your students. Besides, it is always more fun to work with students when they are enthusiastic!
To aid you with your class, in this blog, we will show you 7 ideas for easy interactive activities with AhaSlides live polls. | <urn:uuid:7bee5797-a881-417f-9ccb-ca4dcde504b9> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://ahaslides.com/blog/tag/classroom-interaction/ | 2021-07-31T19:04:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154099.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731172305-20210731202305-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.930019 | 120 |
An Unforgettable Dinner Party
"Planning events, especially dinner parties, comes naturally to me. My mom was a gourmet cook and baker and my parents loved to host parties especially during the holidays. Between family and friends, it was always a huge turnout and it was something I was very accustomed to. While I love to dine out with friends, I prefer to host something at home. I enjoy making a lot of food (I love leftovers), a great tablescape, and creating a fun and convivial vibe. No pretentiousness but just good ol' fun.
My most memorable dinner party was when we hosted a "Friendsgiving" many years ago in our home in L.A. When we first got married, many of our friends were unable to return home for the holiday so they came to our house. Thanksgiving dinner was another great success and after everyone left and the house was cleaned, my water broke...right when I was about to go to bed! I wasn't due for another two weeks! My daughter was born the following day. It's definitely a Thanksgiving I will always remember."
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A 46-year-old man turned himself in to police today in connection with the burglary of his neighbor's home on the North Shore.
Police said about 8 p.m. yesterday a man at 59-420 Pupukea Road opened the door after hearing yelling outside. He saw one man with his neighbor.
The neighbor's accomplice, 40-year-old Waialua man, struck the victim with a pipe, police said. When the victim ran back into his home, the man smashed the window, went in, and attacked the victim again, police said. The neighbor then entered the home.
A struggle ensued and the pipe was taken from the first man that entered the home.
Both suspects fled, but the Waialua man returned and damaged a second victim's vehicle and threatened a victim with a knife, police said.
Police arrested the Waialua man at the scene about 9 p.m. on suspicion of terroristic threatening, first-degree burglary, and criminal property damage.
The Pupukea neighbor turned himself in at the Wahiawa police station about 2:10 p.m. today. He was booked on suspicion of first-degree burglary and second-degree unlawful imprisonment. | <urn:uuid:0022616a-2a93-47c7-baed-bcff90090d00> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/106815483.html | 2014-10-22T23:27:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507447819.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005727-00112-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968495 | 290 |
The Top Ten Tuesday from the Broke and the Bookish – top ten authors you own the most books from is more like – once did own. I have a short list of important things in my life that constantly go missing. You must understand, it’s not because I don’t love them. I do. Maybe too much.
With my socks, I love them too much. I wear them too much, and wear them out too much. My sister has a theory that the fluff that builds up in the drier is actually decomposed socks. Likely. I also lose books. Maybe I sleep walk and set them on fire. More likely I give them out, demanding that other people love them like I love them. Maybe they love them too much and never give them back. Anyway. Once upon a time, in a land where I still have all of my books, this is who I own the most from.
1. Emily Rodda
This list is going to be kindof swayed from my childhood. When I only read two to three authors. Ever. When I was knee high to a grasshopper I had an almighty obsession with Deltora Quest – and subsequent Deltora series… And the Rowan of Rin series. When I moved out of home I discovered they made it into an anime series.
2. J.K Rowling
I assume every single other person has this on their list as well. What kind of psychopath doesn’t own all the Harry Potter books? What kind of psychopath doesn’t reread them all once every two or three years? Or at least the last one… Oh the feels are all coming back. Fred… nooooo!
3. Christopher Paolini
When I was younger (read: when I was exactly the same age as I am now) I loved dragons. I was a weirdo little twelve year old who collected skulls and dragons and crystal balls. I had a belief I wasn’t meant for this world. I was meant for Alagaesia. I was meant to ride dragons – despite my crippling fear of falling.
4. Cassandra Clare
The Mortal Instruments was my last obsession. If you look to your right (on a computer), you may even see a picture of myself and two other girls dressing up as shadow hunters. Fun fact – you will not get into night clubs if you have runes on your neck. It scares the bouncers. Fair enough, we looked bad ass.
5. Richelle Mead
This is my most current obsession, So… I’m about to own a lot more of Mead I have a strong feeling. I went all wanky and read Bloodlines before I had read the first series: Vampire Academy. Silly girl. No matter – there was no turning back. I read The Golden Lily and The Indigo Spell in quick succession. I cant quite finish the series because it hasn’t exactly been written yet. But there is something very reassuring knowing I still have Vampire Academy to go (Literally in the post on it’s way to me now).
6. George R.R. Martin
This was one of those – not sleeping for a week and a bit series. I struggled my face off with the fist few chapters and the bazillion (not overestimating) characters and info-dumping. But I got the hang of my new kingdom, and I became Jaime, Sansa, and Tyrion for the next two weeks of my life. Amy was no more.
7. J.R.R. Tolkien
Tell me, do you have to have two middle names both starting with R to become an epic fantasy writer? Though I’ll just say it now – the movies were better. Cringe. I know. But it is crazy true. There are just too many songs and poems throughout the novels and I stated noticing weird things. Like this Tom charater who spoke in third person was exactly the same as another Tom character in the Deltora Quest series who also spoke in third person. Eugh. It was just unsettling.
8. Scott Westerfeld
I went through an ‘Uglies’ phase in highschool. There is something about getting a complete beautification surgery at the age of 16 that really appealed to 13 year old me. I read them over and over wanting to just step into that world and be one of those docile Pretties, hoverboarding and drinking champagne. I also owned ‘Midnighters’. Everytime I think of ‘Midnighters’ I feel like de-constructed tacos…
9. Philip Pullman
Fair enough I only have three of his books. But you know what, even some of my favourite authors only have two books! And I am yet to get on this Rainbow’s (is that seriously her name?) band wagon. That is an August job. Actually nooo. No. I have August reading plans… Anyway Phillip Pullman is one such Author. He didn’t need to prove it to me a million times over.
10. John Marsden
Tomorrow When the War Began may just well be my favourite dystopian series ever. It’s Australian – which for a start is odd. It isn’t fantasy – which for me is odd. And there is 7 + 3 books to the first and second series. So that alone pumps up my authorial ownership. At the present time on my bookshelf, I can only see two of his books…. I should really hunt this shit down.
For the benefit of understanding this gif to it’s full perfection:
Situation: Snake in sleeping bag.
Ellie: shake it!
Homer shakes what his mama gave him.
Ellie: The bag, Beyonce
Confession: I actually have about seventy thousand Percy Jackson books on my bookshelf also. But I haven’t read them… and they’re my sisters. I promise I’ll get to them Cassie! One day.
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The Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic is located on the 4th floor of Tulane Medical Center and provides psychiatric services to individuals and families who are in need of ongoing psychiatric treatment at the least restrictive level of care. Services include psychiatric evaluations, psychological evaluations, medication management, and individual and family psychotherapies.
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For more information, visit the Tulane Medical Center Behavioral Health Clinic web site.
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Another day goes by and I find I need to put some filler into it, as it isn’t filled with nearly enough activity. So as usual I fire up some popcorn get a cold beverage and watch a movie. This time The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is the starring title. By the way, I use starring very loosely.
For this review I’m going to be quick and blunt and spare you, the would-be viewer, any pain. And dread, like a buffet feels when it sees a bus full of fat fuckers pull up. And fear, like visting a dentist for a cleaning and then learning you need to have several root canals performed. And sorrow, like walking into a bedroom to find your best friend ass fucking your turtle.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is worst fucking movie you will EVER see. Okay, maybe not the worst (there are some Japanese race-boys who may argue), but anyone with a clear head and at least a 7th grade education will agree. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is a terrible movie. Acting sucked. The plot has no consistency to it. I’m sure it was supposed to, but I couldn’t find any (I even looked under a few rocks).
But for the sake of allowing me to vent my aggravation, let’s dive into the movie. By the way, spoiler alert — if you even care.
We have an asshole, tough guy, high school student who loves to race so much he gets kicked out of multiple schools and turns his mother’s life inside out. So after his latest racing adventure (I’m supposed to believe his hunk of shit car will beat a Viper?) he is shipped to Japan to avoid going to jail (I am supposed to believe our court system works this way?) to live with his super strict, military father. So guess what happens? Day one, where his father gives him a curfew and tells him no racing, the kid races and comes home late. Shocker! And to top it off the kid gets mixed up with the yakuza — the Japanese mafia. It’s great to see the kid got his priorities straight and that his father is fine with it all. Shit, later after all the gun play and accidents on city streets, his dear old dad actually gives him a car to race in! I actually sat and shook my head at all the completely fucked up shit going on. Completely and utterly un-fucking-believable.
However, there is almost a bright spot! I found myself entranced by the soundtrack. Many of it is Japanese house/trance beats which I found myself paying more attention to than the movie. Oh yeah, if you like street racing, I suppose the “drifting” scenes aren’t too bad. However, the racing wasn’t up to par with the previous movies and I found most of them boring after watching the first race or two. Even with that minor glimmer of light this should be no surprise. | <urn:uuid:4ec06ef0-b54f-404c-b6a3-c6c663e83287> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://thecriticalcritics.com/reviews/the-fast-and-the-furious-tokyo-drift/ | 2021-07-26T14:23:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046152129.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210726120442-20210726150442-00409.warc.gz | en | 0.972351 | 636 |
LeftieBiker wrote:95% capacity is very good. If I were offered a loaded '15 with that SOH, I'd probably buy it.
Switched to L2 charging, after having an outlet installed and using an EVSE Upgrade(d) unit. Went from 94.47 SOH at purchase to 95.3 last week to 96.42% this morning. AHr at purchase was 58.6658. Last week, it rose to 59.16 AHr. This morning it was up to 59.8768.
I haven't yet calculated the time cut off to charge just to 80%, and I'm not yet convinced it matters that much. I don't charge every night unless I'm down to below 50%. My commute is <5 miles, so most of my battery goes for heat and defrost. | <urn:uuid:69f3b6d3-838c-4357-aefe-580c4f8e8a18> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | http://mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=17459&sid=81ce423231508ce75cc9dec82f585628&start=780 | 2018-10-19T08:48:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512382.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20181019082959-20181019104459-00237.warc.gz | en | 0.98194 | 172 |
Daytona Bike Week, March 9-18, 2018
The Daytona Beach area is comprised of a number of cities most of which permit Temporary Promotional Activity (TPA) and itinerant retail vending during major event periods, such as Bike Week and Biketoberfest®. While vending is normally allowed only on private property, some public properties (such as rentable facilities and event locations) may also be available for exhibits, parking and performing arts demonstrations.
Please note that, in order to sell or "vend" your retail items, you must make arrangements with local property owners and/or property lessors at the location within the city or area you're interested in first. To assist you in locating private property to vend your product on, we have included a contact list, which follows four locations throughout the Daytona Beach area. Please feel free to personally contact anyone on this list for specific vending opportunities.
Next, the property owners/lessors must confirm you as a vendor on their property by requesting approval from their appropriate authority. Each business owner's request is then reviewed and approved based on individual city policies for TPA/itinerant vending. Certain cities require vending approvals in a public meeting of the city commission prior to the event. Once you've applied, you will be notified by the local property owner/lessor once you are approved to vend at their location. Prior to selling during Bike Week and Biketoberfest® you will also be required to purchase an itinerant vendor license and/or other license as indicated by the City or county area in which you have contracted to vend.
Food vendors must purchase additional state licenses that are currently $91.00 for 1-3 days and $105.00 for 4-30 days. Contact the Florida Department of Business for a temporary food service permit at (850) 487-1395. NOTE: They do not accept cash.
Food vendors who are setting up at a site licensed by the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) must call (386) 274-0694 for a temporary food event application. Locations approved for food vendors are noted with an asterisk on the following contact list.
Countywide, property owners/lessors are aware of their specific guidelines, rules and costs for event vending on their property. Please work with them to determine the best location for your needs -- and read the attached information from the County of Volusia, to know more about "outdoor entertainment and vending." | <urn:uuid:10806f4f-8b65-427a-817d-25b4e7c40f55> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.daytonabeach.com/bikerbeach/vendors/ | 2019-02-16T16:30:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480622.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216145907-20190216171907-00101.warc.gz | en | 0.954996 | 505 |
|Publication number||US7899894 B2|
|Application number||US 11/468,352|
|Publication date||1 Mar 2011|
|Filing date||30 Aug 2006|
|Priority date||30 Aug 2006|
|Also published as||EP2057765A1, EP2057765B1, US20080059655, WO2008025760A1|
|Publication number||11468352, 468352, US 7899894 B2, US 7899894B2, US-B2-7899894, US7899894 B2, US7899894B2|
|Inventors||Scott M. Carlson, Donald Crabtree, Dennis J. Dahlen, Noshir R. Dhondy, David A. Elko, Michel H. T. Hack, Georgette Kurdt, Denise M. Sevigny, Ronald M. Smith, Sr., David E. Whitney, Judith A. Wierbowski|
|Original Assignee||International Business Machines Corporation|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
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The present invention is generally directed to the problem of time synchronization within and across a network of data processing systems. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a method for handling failures in communications between parts of the data processing network for which time synchronization is desired. Even more particularly, the present invention is directed to a method for coordinating the updating of information associated with synchronization within a network of data processing systems. It is thus a process which is ancillary to synchronization but which is not itself a time synchronization process.
It is important to coordinate time related information across time-synchronized data processing systems in an effort to maintain synchronization of this information across all systems in a timing network without requiring dedicated connections amongst systems with those connections being used exclusively for timing. This time related information includes things such as: a Coordinated Time Network Identifier (CTN Id—this specifies the network in which synchronization is occurring), a Primary Reference Time (PRT) Source Identifier (which identifies the time source within the network), Leap Seconds Offset value, local time Information such as Time Zone (TZ) offset and Daylight Savings Time (DST) offset, and timing network configuration information. The present invention provides a means to accomplish this in an improved fashion when compared to current solutions.
In today's data processing network environments, it is extremely desirable to be able to make changes to any of this time related information at the same “instant” on all of the systems in a timing network. In order to maintain the coordination of these time parameters across the network, current solutions do not provide a means for a timing network node to lose communication with a clock source temporarily and to still guarantee that the timing system parameter information is still valid.
One of the systems that is used to provide timing synchronization and coordination of timing parameters used in synchronization is the IBM 9037 Sysplex Timer or ETR (External Time Reference). In this system the data processing systems in the network have a dedicated direct connection to the 9037 Sysplex Timer for the sole purpose of forwarding timing information to that system. In this system, directly attached data processing components continually monitor each individual timing related information field to determine if it has been updated. This involves the consumption of additional processing power at each node in the network to detect changes in the timing parameters. The timing information includes an ETR network identifier, the leap seconds offset and the total time offset, which is the sum of the time zone and daylight savings time offsets. Scheduled updates are viewed at the ETR console and not at each individual system in the timing network. Lastly, if a node loses all communication with the ETR, the parameter data is considered to be invalid at that point in time.
Another known approach to timing in networked systems is provided by the standard Network Timing Protocol (NTP) defined in RFC 1305. In general, except for a network identifier, the leap seconds offset, and a time source identifier, additional network parameter information is propagated throughout the network in specialized control messages that are separate from the actual time synchronization messages. Because the update is broadcast throughout the network once it has happened, the synchronization of when the updates occur across the network is subject to network delays which increase with distance between network nodes. Furthermore, the Network Timing Protocol is generic in that it is intended to be independent of the hardware on which it is employed.
In accordance with one of the embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for updating timing parameters in a synchronized fashion in a networked data processing system having at least two servers. The method comprises the steps of selecting, at a first server in the network, at least one timing parameter to change. An information response packet is then constructed and it includes the parameter and a time at which it is to be changed. The packet is then broadcast to at least one other server in the network. It is then determined at the receiving servers whether it is in communication with a clock source. If it is determined that it isn't in communication, the server waits for a predetermined time and if the result is still negative, the server declares its timing parameters to be invalid.
In a further embodiment, a computer readable medium containing instructions thereon for carrying out the following steps in a networked data processing system having at least two servers is provided: selecting, at a first server in said network, at least one timing parameter to change; constructing an information response packet, at a first server, which packet includes said at least one timing parameter and a time at which it is to be changed; broadcasting the packet to at least one other server in the network; determining if said at least one other server is in communication with a clock source; and if the determining step produces a negative result, waiting for a predetermined time and if the result is still negative, declaring timing parameters at the at least one other server to be invalid.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a process by which timing parameters are synchronized in spite of a temporary loss of communications with one of the nodes in a networked data processing system.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide synchronization of timing parameters to servers (nodes) in a data processing network without the need for a dedicated signal line for the transmission of these values.
It is yet another object of the present invention to be able to provide for the situation in which communication with a server is lost for only a relatively brief period of time.
It is therefore a further object of the present invention to render more flexible the use of servers which are capable of rapid self repair and the use of data communications links which are likewise capable of recovery operations.
It is thus an additional object of the present invention to reduce the occurrences in which the loss of communications between servers results in the declaration of invalidity with respect to these timing parameters.
Lastly, but not limited hereto, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method step in which two independent, secure processing units are enabled to establish initial conditions for subsequent time parameter coordination.
The recitation herein of a list of desirable objects which are met by various embodiments of the present invention is not meant to imply or suggest that any or all of these objects are present as essential features, either individually or collectively, in the most general embodiment of the present invention or in any of its more specific embodiments.
The subject matter which is regarded as the invention is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. The invention, however, both as to organization and method of practice, together with the further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:
The Coordinated Timing Network (CTN) parameter update procedure defines a method for updating the CTN parameters simultaneously in a timing network. The procedure uses timing message responses to broadcast the information throughout the timing network over existing system to system links. The information is broadcast from the stratum 1 server, that is, the server which is providing the source of time to the network. The procedure is typically initiated after hardening CTN parameter updates to handle situations where the stratum 1 server goes down after receiving a request to handle an update. The stratum 1 server initiates the procedure by sending the appropriate message format response to all connected systems in its timing network. This server identifies a CTN Parameter Key field as a quick means to determine if any changes to the CTN parameters were made by attached systems, as opposed to monitoring individual data fields continually for changes that occur. Since these changes are typically infrequent, this saves processing power on each timing message. Secondary servers then broadcast this same information to subsequent servers also using timing message responses.
Within specific control blocks that define the parameter to be changed is an additional field that holds a time value as to when the actual change is to occur. Because each system in the timing network now has the information available to it for a scheduled change, it is viewable by a user at each system in the network. The parameter update is actually made at each server at the scheduled time. The scheduled changes are packaged with the same messages used for time synchronization and are propagated to connected servers for a specified amount of time called the “CTN Maximum Freewheel Interval” (see below for this definition), so that if communication with the clock source is temporarily lost, the server can guarantee the validity of these parameter values for that freewheel period. If this period expires, the protocol utilizes an initialization procedure (Read CTN Parameters) to reestablish the value of these parameters and any scheduled changes that have been previously planned. In addition, if an immediate change is desired, it is treated as a scheduled change where the scheduled time is set to a small delta beyond the CTN Maximum Freewheel Interval, in order to obtain the synchronization of the change across the network by making sure each time a synchronized server (even those several hops away from the stratum 1 server which originates the change) receives the indication for the change prior to it actually occurring.
The description of the method is further provided in greater detail below under the section titled “CTN Parameter Update Procedure” and the subsequent sections titled “Format-0 Update,” “Format-1 Update,” and “Format-2 Update.” The format of the data is specified below in the section titled “XTP Message Response Definitions.” Control block contents/layout are also be found below and in the drawings listed above and discussed below in their relevant contexts. The description of the “CTN Maximum Freewheel Interval” is an important concept in best appreciating the operation and advantages of the present invention.
A secondary server enters freewheel mode when the attached server it has selected as its clock source stops providing timekeeping data. The server remains in freewheel mode until the server selects another attached server as its clock source or until the server enters the no-usable-clock-source state.
A server that is in freewheel mode is said to be “freewheeling.” The specific time at which a server enters freewheel mode is referred to as the freewheel-start time.
While in the freewheel mode, the CST dispersion increases at a rate equal to the maximum skew rate for the server. The server freewheel interval is the period of time that a server can be in freewheel mode. The total amount of time that a server can freewheel is based on the synchronization threshold, CST dispersion, CST offset and maximum skew rate and can be calculated as follows:
Server freewheel interval=(sync check threshold−CST dispersion−|CST offset|)/maximum skew rate
In the above, the vertical bars represent absolute value.
The server maximum-freewheel interval (SMFI) is equal the maximum possible amount of time a secondary-time server can be in freewheel mode. The value is calculated assuming a CST dispersion and CST offset of zero and is equal to the synchronization-threshold value divided by the maximum-skew rate for the server.
The CTN maximum-freewheel interval (CMXFI) is equal to the maximum SMFI of any server in the CTN. The CMXFI dictates the minimum amount of time that a CTN parameter update must be broadcast by the stratum-1 server.
The CTN minimum-freewheel interval (CMNFI) is equal to the minimum SMFI of any server in the CTN.
CTN parameters are set and read by an operator via an STP console interface. CTN parameters include: server connectivity, local time information, such as time zone and daylight savings time, and the leap seconds offset. The console itself is any element that provides an operator interface to display and set CTN parameters, and that has the capability to communicate with the STP facility using the console interface. The console also provides read and write access to non-volatile disk storage. Console disk storage provides the means for the STP facility to initialize configuration and timing parameters, and to save changes to the parameters such that they are preserved through a power-on-reset (POR).
STP (Server Time Protocol) messages are transmitted over STP paths between two servers in the form of a message command and a message response. A message command is sent from a server to an attached server; an XTP message response is sent from a server to an attached server in response to a message command received from the attached server. The message response is sent to the attached server on the link that the message command was received.
The server sending a message command is referred to as the message originator; the server receiving a message command is referred to as the message recipient.
A message command contains a 2-byte message command code that indicates the type of message being transmitted. As indicated above, the following STP message command codes are supported:
Exchange Time Parameters (XTP) message: X‘1001’
STP Control (STC) message: X‘1002’
The Exchange Time Parameters (XTP) message is used to exchange timestamps, timekeeping information and CTN-parameter information between two directly attached servers. The information in the message response is used by the message originator to calculate the roundtrip delay, offset, and dispersion values that are used by STP clock filtering and selection algorithms to select a clock source. It is also used to set CTN timekeeping parameters, which is the aspect of this exchange which is relevant to the present invention.
The XTP-transmit procedures are used to transmit XTP message commands and the XTP-receive procedures are used to receive XTP messages.
The STP facility at the server sending an XTP message command sets all fields in the message command except for the message-command-receive timestamp field. The message-command-receive-timestamp field is set by the server receiving the message command at the time the message is received. All other fields are set by the STP facility at the server originating the message at the time the message is sent. Certain parameters are obtained from the attached-server state information associated with the attached server that is to receive the XTP message command. The XTP Message Command Format is illustrated in
Message Header: Words 0-3 contain information that is dependent on the type of data link that is used to implement the STP link.
Command Code (CC): Bytes 0-1 of word 4 contain X‘1001’ to indicate an XTP message command.
Reserved: Byte 2 of word 1, words 5, 9-13 and 18-19 are reserved and are set to zero.
XTP Format: Byte 3 of word 4 contains an 8-bit value that specifies the format of the format-dependent-area in the message command. The value is set to zero for message commands.
CTN ID: Words 6-8 are set to the CTN ID of the server sending the message command.
Message Command Xmit Timestamp: Words 14-15 are set from the time-of-day (TOD) clock at the server at the time the message is transmitted over the STP path by the server.
Message Command Receive Timestamp: Words 16-17 are set to the time at which the message command was received by the attached server. The field is set from the TOD clock at the attached server when the message command is received. At the time the message command is transmitted, the field is undefined.
Format Dependent Data: Set to zeros.
The STP facility at the server originating the XTP message response sets up all message fields described below except for the message-response-receive timestamp field. The message-response-receive-timestamp field is set by the receiving server when the message response is received. All other fields are set up by the STP facility at the server originating the message response at the time the message is sent. Certain parameters are obtained from the attached-server state information associated with the attached server that is to receive the XTP message response. Three formats are defined for XTP message responses:
Format-0 XTP Message Response: the format-0 message response is used to deliver the following general CTN parameter information:
New CTN ID;
PRT Correction Steering Information Block;
Leap Second Offset Information Block;
Format-1 XTP Message Response: the format-1 message response is used to deliver a new stratum-1-configuration and, if specified, a new CTN ID.
Format-2 XTP Message Response: the format-2 message response is used to deliver the following time control parameter information:
The format used for an XTP-message response by a primary-time server is dependent on whether a CTN-parameter update is in progress. If an update is in progress, the primary-time server uses the format that contains the parameter being updated. When a CTN-parameter update is not in progress, the format-0 XTP message response is used in all responses.
The format used for an XTP-message response by a secondary-time server is dependent on whether the server has a clock source. When the server has a clock source, it uses the same format as that provided in the last valid response from the clock source. When the server does not have a clock source, it uses the format-0 response.
The XTP message response format is illustrated in detail in
Message Header: Words 0-3 contain information that is dependent on the type of data link that is used to implement STP links.
Response Code (RC): Byte 0 of word 4 is a 1-byte binary integer that describes the results of the attempt to execute the message response. The valid codes are defined in the table below:
Successful: the message command was successfully performed.
STP Not Enabled: the STP facility is installed but not enabled
at the attached server.
Configuration error: the message command contains a mismatched
Path Not Established: the path is not established at the attached
CF Response: the response codes indicate that the STP facility
is not supported at the attached server.
Reserved: Bytes 1-2 of word 5, byte 3 and bits 25-31 of word 5 are reserved and set to zero.
XTP Format: Byte 1 of word 4 specifies the format of the format-dependent-area in the message response. Valid values are 0, 1 and 2.
CTN Parameter Key (CPK): Bytes 2-3 of word 4 contain a 2-byte unsigned integer that is used to indicate whether the contents of the format-dependent data have changed. The active-stratum-1 server increments the CPK whenever it changes the format used in XTP-message responses or when it changes any value in the data sent in the format-dependent-data area. A secondary-time server sets the CPK to the CPK value it received in the last XTP-message response from its current clock source or, if it does not have a clock source, to the same value it sent in its last XTP-message response. The initialized value is zero and the field wraps to zero.
Stratum: Byte 0 of word 5 is set to the stratum level of the server sending the message response.
CTN ID: Words 6-8 are set to the CTN ID of the server sending the message response.
Message Command Xmit Timestamp: Words 10-11 are set to the incoming-message-command transmit timestamp.
Message Command Receive Timestamp: Words 12-13 are set to the incoming-message-command-received timestamp.
Message Response Xmit Timestamp: Words 14-15 are set from the TOD clock of the server sending the message response at the time the message is transmitted.
Message Response Receive Timestamp: Words 16-17 contain the timestamp of the time at which the message response was received by the attached server. The field is set from the TOD clock at the server receiving the message response when the message response is received.
Reference Identifier: Words 24-31 are set to the CST-reference ID at the server sending the message response.
Message Response Format Dependent Data: Words 34-63 are set based on the format field as described below
Message Response Format-0 Data: See
Message Response Format-1 Data: See
Message Response Format-2 Data: See
The Read CTN Parameters function is used to initialize the local server to the “current” system parameters of the network so that it may join the network. Because the amount of data is larger than can be obtained in one packet, multiple requests are raised to gather the information. A loop through all of the parameters is performed.
On the first request, the CTN Parameter key is stored; and when the last packet is obtained, its CTN Parameter key is compared with that of the first request. If the keys are not equal, a parameter was changed during this procedure and it is started again. If the keys are equal, then the “current” system parameter is valid and the server may now join the network.
The read-CTN-parameters operation reads CTN parameters from the attached server. The CTN parameters that are to be returned are specified in byte 0 in the message command operation-dependent area.
CTN Parameter Code: byte 0 of word 0 specifies the CTN parameters to be returned in the message response as defined below:
Read general CTN parameters.
Read new stratum-1 configuration information.
Read time zone info.
Read current stratum-1 configuration information.
The valid response codes for the operations are as follows:
Successful: the message command was successfully performed.
STP Not Enabled: the STP facility is installed but not enabled
at the attached server.
Busy: the message command cannot be performed at this time
due to busy conditions or resource contention.
Invalid operation parameters: the message command contains
Configuration error: the message command contains a mismatched
Path Not Established: the path is not established at the
CF Response: the response codes indicate that the STP facility is
not supported at the attached server.
When a response code of X‘01’ is returned, the operation-dependent area of the message response block has the format shown in
CTN Parameter Code: byte 0 of word 0 of the message-response operation-dependent area specifies the CTN parameters that are provided in the message response as defined below:
General CTN parameters provided in the
New Stratum-1 configuration information
block provided in the message response.
TCPIB provided in the message response.
Current Stratum-1 configuration information
block provided in the message response.
CTN Parameter Key: bytes 2-3 of word 0 contain the CTN-parameter key for the server.
CTN Parameter Data Area: the content of CTN-parameter data area depend on the CTN parameter code in the message response and are as shown below. All unspecified words in the operation dependent data area are undefined. The structure of the General CTN Parameters Data Area is shown in
PRT Correction Steering Information Block (PCSIB): words 0-15 contain the PCSIB for the server.
New CTN ID Information Block (NCIIB): words 16-21 contain the new CIIB for the server.
Reserved: Words 22-23 are reserved and set to zero.
Leap Second Offset Information Block (LSOIB): Words 24-27 contain the LSOIB for the server.
New Stratum-1 Configuration Block: Words 0-29 contain the new-stratum-1-configuration block for the server
Timezone-Control Parameter Information Block (TCPIB): words 0-23 contain the TCPIB for the server.
Stratum-1 Configuration Block: words 0-26 contain the stratum-1-configuration information block for the server.
The XTP-transmit procedures are used to transmit an XTP-message command or an XTP-message response as defined below.
The XTP-message-command-transmit procedure is used to transmit the Exchange Time Parameters (XTP) message command to a specified attached server. The STP path that is used to transmit the message is determined using a model-dependent STP-path-selection procedure.
Initiative to issue an XTP-message command is established when the message-interval timer for an attached server expires. The message-interval parameter for the attached server specifies the rate at which XTP-message commands are sent to the attached server.
The XTP-message-command-transmit procedure builds the message header, sets the message command code equal to the XTP-command code and builds the remainder of the XTP-message command. Immediately prior to sending the message, the message-command-transmit timestamp in the message command is set equal to the current TOD clock and the command is transmitted over the selected STP path.
The message-response transmit procedure is used to transmit an XTP-message response following receipt of an XTP-message command. The procedure builds the message-response header, sets the message-response code and builds the remainder of the XTP-message response. Immediately prior to sending the message, the message-response-xmit timestamp in the message response is set equal to the current TOD value and the response is transmitted on the STP path over which the message command was received.
The XTP-receive procedures are used to receive an XTP-message command or an XTP-message response as defined below.
The XTP-message-response receive procedure is invoked each time an XTP message response is received on an STP path. If the server is in the synchronized state, the data in the format-dependent data of the most recent valid timekeeping message response is checked for updates and, if detected, the data is used to update the server's CTN parameters. It is noted, however, that the data from the most recent valid timekeeping message response are used to update the server's CTN parameters only if the responding server—that is, the server that returned the message response—is this server's clock source.
The XTP-message-command receive procedure is invoked each time an XTP message command is received on an STP path. The procedure checks for STP path errors and if an error is detected, error-recovery procedures are invoked. If no STP path errors are detected, the procedure stores the incoming-message-command timestamp data from the message command into the timestamp data for the attached server and performs the XTP-message-response transmit procedure to send a message response.
The CTN-parameter-update procedure is used to update CTN parameters at all servers in a CTN. The procedure makes use of XTP message responses to broadcast the information throughout the CTN.
In an STP-only CTN, only the server designated as the active-stratum-1 server initiates the CTN-parameter update procedure. A secondary-time server requests that the active-stratum-1 server initiate a CTN parameter update by sending an update-request control message to the active-stratum-1 server.
In a mixed CTN, all stratum-1 servers may initiate the CTN-parameter-update procedure.
A stratum-1 server initiates the update-procedure only after the server has updated its local CTN parameters and has stored the update parameters onto console disk storage.
A CTN-parameter update is not performed for parameters that already have a scheduled update and the update time is within the CTN maximum-freewheel interval of the current time. A busy response is returned to console commands requesting a CTN-parameter update that occur during this period.
Three types of CTN-parameter updates formats are defined:
Format-0 update—data described for the format-0 XTP message response is to be updated.
Format-1 update—data described for the format-1 XTP message response is to be updated.
Format-2 update—data described for the format-2 XTP message response is to be updated.
A server initiates the procedure by sending the XTP-message-response format corresponding to the CTN-parameter update to all received XTP-message commands for a period equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval. In an STP-only CTN, the server increments the CTN-parameter-key field by one prior to sending the first response for the update. In a mixed CTN, the CTN-parameter-key is meaningless and is not modified by the server.
A secondary-time server sends XTP-message responses in the same format as the format of the most recent, valid XTP message response received from the server selected as the current clock source. A secondary-time server updates its local CTN parameters using information received in XTP message responses from the server selected as its clock source.
A secondary server that receives a message response containing a new scheduled CTN-parameter update stores the scheduled update parameters onto console disk storage. Additionally, when the scheduled CTN-parameter update becomes current at a server, the server stores the updated CTN parameters to console disk storage. An update is current when the timestamp specifying the time that the update is to take place is less than to or equal to the TOD clock.
A format-0 update is performed by issuing the format-0 XTP-message responses to all XTP-message-commands for a period equal to or greater than CTN maximum-freewheel interval (See above for definition). The format-0 data in the XTP message response contain the CTN-parameter update information. The update is considered complete at the end of the format-0-update interval. The update is considered to be in progress until the update completes.
While a format-0 update is in progress, other format updates cannot be performed. A busy condition is reported to console commands that attempt to a modify a CTN parameter that requires a different XTP format.
While a format-0 update is in progress, format-0 updates can continue to be performed. When a format-0 update is initiated while a format-0 update is in progress, the format-0-update interval is set to a value equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval.
When the CTN-parameter update is for a CTN ID update, the procedure sets the CTN-ID-update time in the new-CTN-ID block to the current time plus a value equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval. The update time ensures that all servers in the CTN perform the CTN-ID update at the same time.
When the CTN-parameter update is for a leap-seconds-offset update in a mixed CTN, the procedure sets the LSO-update time in the leap-seconds-offset-information block to the current time to indicate the update is to take effect immediately.
A format-1 update is performed by issuing the format-1 XTP-message response to all to all XTP-message commands for a period equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval. The format-1 data in the XTP message response contain the CTN-parameter update information. The update is considered complete at the end of the format-1-update interval. The update is considered to be in progress until the update completes.
While a format-1 update is in progress, other format updates cannot be performed. A busy condition is reported to console commands that attempt to a modify a CTN parameter that requires a different XTP format. In a mixed CTN, if a format-0 update for a TTO or LSO change is required while a format-1 update is in progress, the format-0 update is held pending until the format-1 update completes.
While a format-1 update is in progress, format-1 updates can continue to be performed. When a format-1 update is initiated while a format-1 update is in progress, the format-1-update interval is set to a value equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval.
The update time in the new-stratum-1-configuration block is set to the current time plus a value equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval. The update time ensures that all servers in the CTN perform the stratum-1-configuration update at the same time.
A format-2 update is performed by issuing the format-2 XTP-message response to all XTP-message-commands for a period equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval. The format-2 data in the XTP message response contain the CTN-parameter update information. The update is considered complete at the end of the format-2-update interval. The update is considered to be in progress until the update completes.
While a format-2 update is in progress, other format updates cannot be performed. A busy condition is reported to console commands that attempt to a modify a CTN parameter that requires a different XTP format.
While a format-2 update is in progress, format-2 updates can continue to be performed. When a format-2 update is initiated while a format-2 update is in progress, the format-2-update interval is set to a value equal to or greater than the CTN maximum-freewheel interval.
A local CTN-ID update procedure is provided in Applicants' assignee's system but is not relevant to the present invention which deals with global changes.
A global-CTN-ID update occurs at a server at the CTN-ID-update time specified in the new-CTN-ID block. The server makes the change to its CTN ID at the specified update time. Following the change, the server does not recognize CTN-ID-mismatch errors that occur as the result of mismatch between the new-CTN-ID and the former CTN-ID values for a period equal to the sync-check threshold. CTN-ID-mismatch errors that occur as the result of a mismatch other than between the new-CTN-ID and the old CTN-ID values are not ignored during this period. A configuration-change machine check condition is generated when the CTN-ID change occurs.
The active-stratum-1 server issues a configuration-change notification console command after making a CTN ID update that occurs as the result of a global-CTN-ID update.
A stratum-1-configuration update occurs at a server at the stratum-1-configuration-update time specified in the new-stratum-1-configuration block. The server makes the change to its stratum-1-configuration block at the specified update time. If the stratum-1-configuration block specifies a new active-stratum-1 server, the server specified as the new active-stratum-1 server sets its stratum level to one and the former stratum-1 attempts to find a clock source to operate as a secondary-time server. A configuration-change machine check condition is generated when the stratum-1-configuration change occurs.
The active-stratum-1 server issues a configuration-change notification console command after making a stratum-1-configuration update. When the stratum-1-configuration change includes a change in the active-stratum-1 server, the new active-stratum-1 server issues the command.
From the above, it is therefore seen that the present invention provides facilities which permit temporary loss of communication with a node in the network without losing timing synchronization parameters. Additionally, it is also seen that present invention allows a user to view “scheduled” events that indicate a change to a specific parameter is going to happen at a future time within any system in the timing network.
While the invention has been described in detail herein in accordance with certain preferred embodiments thereof, many modifications and changes therein may be effected by those skilled in the art. Accordingly, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such modifications and changes as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
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In this course, Jeff Struecker outlines the foundational elements of the chaplaincy and how to discern if it is right for you. Learn about the responsibilities and requirements of this calling and the unique settings that chaplains serve in, such as the military, health care, disaster relief, and more. Struecker then turns to Scripture for leadership training, looking at ten key figures, including Abraham, David, Esther, Paul, and Jesus. He identifies a list of leadership and shepherding qualities to help you lead and care for others as Christ leads and cares for you.
Jeff spent most of his Army career serving in special operations units and was deployed to combat in Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He holds many awards and decorations for his military service, including the Bronze Star Medal with the “V” device for valor. His service in the Battle of Mogadishu was depicted in the popular film Black Hawk Down.
While on active duty, Jeff earned an undergraduate degree at Troy University in Alabama. After earning his MDiv from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2000, he was commissioned as a US Army chaplain in 2001. Jeff completed more than 10 years as a chaplain before retiring from the Army in 2011. He is currently completing his PhD work at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina.
With experience as a youth pastor and associate pastor, Jeff now serves as the lead pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Columbus, Georgia. He is also a competitive long-distance runner and author or coauthor of several books of fiction and nonfiction, and he and his former high school sweetheart—now his wife—Dawn are the proud parents of Aaron, Jacob, Joseph, Abigail, and Lydia.
Logos Mobile Education is a highly effective cross-platform learning environment that integrates world class teaching with the powerful study tools and theological libraries available in Logos Bible Software. Every course provides links to additional resources and suggested readings that supplement the lecture material at the end of every transcript segment.
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Pencils are sharpened, school shoes are gleaming and bags are packed for the first day of the new school year. The grade one learners at a Johannesburg school are particularly thrilled to begin their schooling careers. Their parents and the grandparents are just as thrilled. They are the ones who buy the school uniform and pack the lunches and wake up early to prepare the children for the commute to school. The Daily Vox spoke to grade one learners and their relatives about this exciting new journey.
Sihle Nkumane, 29, self-employed, Soweto
I had to wake up at half past four, so I could prepare myself, and prepare him for everything that he has to do today. I was crying, tears of joy. I’m just so happy and excited. He’s growing up.
Isabel Zikalala, 57, bank clerk, Soweto
I’m so happy that my grandson is starting school today, I can’t even explain it. The way I’m so excited about him!
Tokollo Nkumane, 6
I feel fine about my first day of school. I can already spell my name, I’m going to make lots of friends. When I’m older I’m going to work so hard and spend money.
Refilwe Ramaisa, 34, personal assistant, Johannesburg CBD
I’m nervous about the first day of school but at the same time I’m excited seeing the attitudes of my niece and daughter. I can see they are not crying and nervous so it’s quite a nice moment. When I leave for work I know they’ll be fine, but as for me I think I’m going to cry.
Lerato Ntshangase, 6
I’m excited for my first day of school, I don’t know why. I’m not going to be naughty. I want to be doctor.
Kabelo Ramaisa, 6
I’m also excited. Today I’m going to play with my friends, meet my teacher. I want to be a teacher.
Segomotso Kgaladi, 33, administrator, Soweto
All through December my daughter asked me when school was opening. I had to buy uniforms and stationery. The school holidays were long but we have not been sleeping. Every day Oratile asked what day is today, when am I going to school? I had to be patient. I am excited but not that excited because of the homework.
Keabetswe Kgaladi, 8
I’m happy that my sister will be at school with me, I’m going to be her friend.
Oratile Kgaladi, 6
Today I’m going to write with a pencil, no more colouring, and make friends. When I grow up I’m going to be a dentist and fix teeth.
Sarah Ditlhobolo, 30, IT administrator, Carletonville
We got up by four this morning and left home by half past five because we’re all the way from Tembisa. I’m proud and excited at the same time. I cannot believe that I made it this far. I’m very grateful. It was hectic preparing for this day – it needed time, money, love and passion but in the end it was worth it.
Botshelo Ditlhobolo, 6
I’m happy and excited that I have a new school. I’m going to learn and play and one day I’m going to be a doctor.
Khanyisile Chokoe 45, customer services, Soweto
I am over the moon, I’m so happy that she’s now in grade one. I wanted to come with her for the first day of school. Her brother is in grade 10 but Olebogeng is the baby. She was so excited for today, she couldn’t sleep. She told me to wake her up at three in the morning!
Olebogeng Chokoe, 6
I feel so nice to learn at school so I can be a doctor and help the people.
Maxwell Chongo, 47, operations manager, Rosebank
I feel great. I was here at the school last year when my son started grade R. During the holidays we had to make sure we had all the stationery and school uniforms ready and we were practicing numbers and alphabets. We were making sure that he could write his name.
Azukile Chongo, 6
I’m very excited because I already have friends. I want to be a firefighter when I grow up because I’m a brave boy.
Thenjiwe Thauzeni, 30, sales representative, Johannesburg CBD
It’s exciting, it’s making me feel so grown that my child is in grade one. I’m so excited for her, it’s a day I couldn’t wait for. I was up at half past five to prepare breakfast for Angel and to take a taxi. Angel was so excited, she was the one who woke me up this morning.
Angel Thauzeni, 6
It feels nice to be in grade one, I have so many friends. I want to be a doctor because I like doctors.
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There are many reasons why, in 2012, a large number of individuals prefer online banking in the US over dealing with a local bank. Online banking offers some outstanding services which attract clients who are busy with their family obligations and neck deep in work responsibilities.
Unlike the local bank there are no fixed working hours with online banking. Online banking in the US can help save a lot of time, since going to the bank for every small transaction is not required. The online banking service caters to almost all the banking needs of a client. All payments and bills can also be cleared using this service.
Since it is easily accessible online banking simplifies the complete banking process. Bank accounts can be accessed from anywhere in the world at anytime and the statements can be viewed online. Online banking in the US allows fund transfers with just a click of a button. Transactions done online are both quick and secure and are a hassle free way of managing finances. It is possible to avail all the services a bank offers through online banking.
For the benefit of the client new services are attached with online banking which provides updates on new interest rates, mutual funds, stock quotes and other similar tools that can be of help in fund management. A large number of banks are using sophisticated technology with which clients can download their financial statements in different formats.
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The chef, 52, told Us Weekly exclusively that he was “good” with the size of his family on February 6 at Tapout Fitness in Woodland Hills, where he teaches a boxing class, but went on to admit, “We have so many kids that we have now to enjoy, but I look at [Spelling], and she has this gleam in her eyes, like, ‘I can do more.’”
The Beverly Hills, 90210 alum, 45, added: “We’re happy with our big brood, and they love on each other so much. … It’s so great we have the enjoyment of every age.”
That’s because the actress and her husband share Liam, 11, Stella, 10, Hattie, 7, Finn, 6, and Beau, 23 months. The Gourmet Dad author also shares 21-year-old son, Jack, with his ex-wife Mary Jo Eustace.
In May 2018, the mother of five told Us Weekly exclusively that she and McDermott aren’t quite on the same page when it comes to growing their family.
“I like even numbers [and my kids] keep asking,” the Spelling it Like it Is author revealed at the time. “They all want one more because they want a little baby sister now. But I can’t imagine dad being sane if we have one more. It would push dad over the edge. He’s doing the best he can!”
The couple are doing just fine with five for now. “It’s going amazing,” Spelling said. “You know, we had four kind of back-to-back. I was pregnant for years, and then there was a little break, so now that we have started over basically, Dean always says we got … all of them self-sufficient and then started all over again with Beau. But Beau is going to be the happiest, [most] well-adjusted baby ever because he has four doting brothers and sisters.”
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Groupon Inc. has stopped all current and future gun-related deals, bowing to customer pressure a month after the deadly mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.
The Chicago company said Monday it has cancelled existing and planned discounts for shooting ranges, conceal-and-carry and clay shooting.
The statement didn’t specify the company’s motives or when it would resume such deals, other than to say that the “category is under review following recent customer and merchant feedback.”
It said it plans to review its international standards for these deals while they’re on hold.
The move has come under fire from some businesses who say their deals were cancelled abruptly due to the change in policy. Some media outlets cited a Texas gun shop owner who is calling for a Groupon boycott after he said the site scrapped his deal for a concealed handgun training course.
Several other companies have distanced themselves from gun makers and related businesses since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 students and six adults were killed. Dick’s Sporting Goods stopped selling guns in its store nearest to the school’s location in Newtown, Conn. and stopped selling certain semi-automatic rifles in its stores nationwide.
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What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.
But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.
While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.
In 2016, Ben Shapiro spoke at UC Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required from 10 UC campuses across the state to protect his speech, which was -- ironically -- about the necessity for free speech and rational debate.
He came to argue that Western Civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas. Our freedoms are built upon the twin notions that every human being is made in God’s image and that human beings were created with reason capable of exploring God’s world.
We can thank these values for the birth of science, the dream of progress, human rights, prosperity, peace, and artistic beauty. Jerusalem and Athens built America, ended slavery, defeated the Nazis and the Communists, lifted billions from poverty and gave billions spiritual purpose. Jerusalem and Athens were the foundations of the Magna Carta and the Treaty of Westphalia; they were the foundations of Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Civilizations that rejected Jerusalem and Athens have collapsed into dust. The USSR rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, substituting a new utopian vision of “social justice” – and they starved and slaughtered tens of millions of human beings. The Nazis rejected Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and they shoved children into gas chambers. Venezuela rejects Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, and citizens of their oil-rich nation have been reduced to eating dogs.
We are in the process of abandoning Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law, favoring instead moral subjectivism and the rule of passion. And we are watching our civilization collapse into age-old tribalism, individualistic hedonism, and moral subjectivism. We believe we can reject Judeo-Christian values and Greek natural law and satisfy ourselves with intersectionality, or scientific materialism, or progressive politics, or authoritarian governance, or nationalistic solidarity.
The West is special, and in The Right Side of History, Ben Shapiro bravely explains that it’s because too many of us have lost sight of the moral purpose that drives us each to be better, or the sacred duty to work together for the greater good, or both. A stark warning, and a call to spiritual arms, this book may be the first step in getting our civilization back on track.
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
Even as Virginia’s Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley’s all-black “West Computing” group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
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Alexander N. Gorban
General H-theorem and Entropies that Violate the Second Law
ABSTRACT. $H$-theorem states that the entropy production is nonnegative and, therefore, the entropy of a closed system should monotonically change in time. In information processing, the entropy production is positive for random transformation of signals (the information processing lemma). Originally, the $H$-theorem and the information processing lemma were proved for the classical Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon entropy and for the correspondent divergence (the relative entropy). Many new entropies and divergences have been proposed during last decades and for all of them the $H$-theorem is needed. This note proposes a simple and general criterion to check whether the $H$-theorem is valid for a convex divergence $H$ and demonstrates that some of the popular divergences obey no $H$-theorem. We consider systems with $n$ states $A_i$ that obey first order kinetics (master equation). A convex function $H$ is a Lyapunov function for all master equations with given equilibrium if and only if its conditional minima properly describe the equilibria of pair transitions $A_i
ightleftharpoons A_j$. This theorem does not depend on the principle of detailed balance and is valid for general Markov kinetics. Elementary analysis of pair equilibria demonstrates that the popular Bregman divergences like Euclidean distance or Itakura-Saito distance in the space of distribution cannot be the universal Lyapunov functions for the first-order kinetics and can increase in Markov processes. Therefore, they violate the second law and the information
processing lemma. In particular, for these measures of information (divergences) random manipulation with data may add information to data. The main results are extended to nonlinear generalized mass action law kinetic equations. In Appendix, a new family of the universal Lyapunov functions for the generalized mass action law kinetics is described. There appear, naturally, non-convex but directionally quasiconvex Lyapunov functions. A universal "peeling" procedure is developed to find the maximal forward-invariand subset of a given set. | <urn:uuid:6a32d185-a6f0-4abe-b146-a244f3958b7f> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://kleine.mat.uniroma3.it/mp_arc-bin/mpa?yn=14-55 | 2017-09-19T22:29:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818686043.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170919221032-20170920001032-00251.warc.gz | en | 0.867245 | 504 |
Megillah 3b-4a, continued.
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi emerges as the star of this amud, as we look at eight of his statements about walled cities and Purim and related topics, starting with a repeat of what he said on the previous daf: 1) the walled city and everything connected to it and everything seen with it are considered part of the walled city. Seen even if not connected, e.g. on a hill, and connected even if not seen, e.g. in a valley. (No one has answered my questions about today's Jerusalem! When I lived in Jerusalem, my office was in Malcha/Manhat, far away from anything that has ever been walled, and we were off on 15 Adar. 14 Adar was a regular business day, or as "regular" as it can be when you're going to the funeral of a colleague who was killed in a drive-by shooting.)
2) A city that was populated and then later surrounded by a wall is treated as an unwalled village.
Here we're not talking about the status of walled vs. unwalled for the purpose of when the city observes Purim, since as we all know by now, that is determined solely by a single snapshot in time (Joshua's time) without regard to any prior or subsequent municipal history. We're talking about the reversion of land to its original owners during the jubilee year, a provision from which walled cities are exempt (Leviticus 25:29-30), possibly due to their influential lobbyists. Because verse 25:29 specifies "beit moshav 'ir chomah" (a dwelling house in a walled city), RYbL interprets this to mean that it only counts if the city was walled at the time it was settled.
3) A walled city that doesn't have 10 unemployed people (the definition of a "large city" in the next mishnah) is treated as an unwalled village.
Yeah, we're all uncomfortable with using unemployment as the official measure of urbanization, so Rashi tries to spin it positively: these batlanim are people whose job it is to hang out in the synagogue and be on call to make a minyan whenever needed.
But anyway, duh! We knew that from the Mishnah, so what is RYbL coming to tell us? You might have thought that walled cities (the metropolises of their time) were exempt from the requirement of 10 batlanim, since all roads lead there, and people are coming in from all over, but no.
4) A walled city that is destroyed and then rebuilt is treated as a walled city.
Meaning that the walls were destroyed and rebuilt? But Rabbi Eliezer bar Yosei says in a baraita that if there were once walls and they were destroyed (regardless of whether they were rebuilt), it maintains the status of a walled city. He gets this by playing with "asher lo chomah" in Leviticus 25:30 -- lo is spelled with an aleph in the ketiv and a vav in the k'ri, with opposite meanings of "doesn't have a wall" and "has a wall".
Ok, so what's RYbL talking about? The case where the population of batlanim went below 10 ("destroyed" of 10 batlanim) and then went back above 10.
5) The cities of Lod, Ono, and Gei Haharashim were walled from the time of Joshua.
So if you're stuck at Ben-Gurion Airport on Purim, you should be observing Purim on 15 Adar.
But wait, we have to solve a mystery: Joshua didn't built those cities, Elpa'al did! (See I Chronicles 8:12) Also, Asa was the one who built fortified cities in Judah (see II Chronicles 14:5). R. Elazar has the answer: the cities were originally walled at the time of Joshua, then destroyed during the catastrophic episode of the concubine at Giv'ah, then rebuilt by Elpa'al, then destroyed again, then rebuilt by Asa. After all, Asa says "Let's build these cities" -- how could there be a "these cities" to talk about if they hadn't already existed in the past?
6) Women are obligated in the reading of the megillah, because they, too, were present in the miracle.
Even though megillah is positive and timebound, which would make it only incumbent on men in the rabbis' mind, here it applies to women too. And the Talmud has no comment on this, it just moves right on. But Tosafot doesn't want to stop there; it states explicitly that women may motzi others' obligations in megillah. Since I'm using MR's copy of the Gemara, I am utterly shocked that this line wasn't underlined.
7) When Purim falls on Shabbat, the topic of the day should be expounded.
Why specifically Purim? According to a baraita, Moses enacted that the specifics of a holiday (any holiday, including the ones that existed at Moses's time) should be expounded on that holiday. But Purim is different, because megillah isn't read on Shabbat (due to Rabbah's decree so that you don't carry it 4 amot in the public domain, just like for shofar and lulav), and the megillah reading is moved to another day, so you might think that the Shabbat of 14 Adar wasn't Purim at all, so there is a particular need to recognize that day as Purim even if all the Purim practices are moved to other days.
With our present calendar, 14 Adar can never fall in Shabbat. However, 15 Adar can (and did this year), so this affects cities like Jerusalem and Ono. Even though megillah is not read on Shabbat, and other things like matanot la'evyonim and mishloach manot are also moved to weekdays, Al hanisim is said in the Amidah on Shabbat 15 Adar. The Torah reading for Purim is read as the maftir on that Shabbat, and the haftarah for Zachor is read for the second week in a row. (Ari Brodsky says "There is one other situation where the same haftara can be read on two consecutive Shabbatot. Figure out what it is." I'm stumped. Anyone?)
8) A person is required to read the megillah at night and repeat it during the day.
This is the practice to this day, but the prooftexts are particularly weak. It's based either on Psalm 22:3 (so megillah is supposed to be about God not answering us?), or Psalm 30:13 (so "not be silent" means "say it twice"?). I'm sure they could have come up with something better. Any takers?
There was an amusing episode when people misunderstood the word lishnot ("to repeat") in RYbL's statement, and thought it meant "to learn Mishnah", so they would read the megillah at night, and then learn the mishnayot of Masechet Megillah during the day. Rabbi Yirmiyah set them straight. | <urn:uuid:e601a8b4-8303-41c9-8e76-0751d70d5348> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2005/09/be-my-yoko-ono.html | 2018-01-17T21:59:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886979.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20180117212700-20180117232700-00060.warc.gz | en | 0.976985 | 1,575 |
On the night of April 8, 2004, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Chris Bain was ecstatic.
Early that morning, on a routine mission, Bain had run into his twin brother. He had had no idea that Kim Bain, a member of the California National Guard, was also in Iraq.
The brothers had a birthday coming up and promised to see each other in a few days.
“If anything happens to you, don’t close your eyes, and don’t give up,” Kim told his brother before they parted.
It was a strange thing for him to say, Bain recalled.
Without warning, the interpreter shot a puff of smoke in the air. It marked Bain a target.
The first mortar round landed 100 meters in front of Bain, sending everyone under cover.
Bain jumped under a vehicle, mortar raining down all around.
The second blast blew him back 20 feet. Bain was hit twice in the back.
He could hear things blowing up all around and he could see his men waving him on.
“Everything was moving half a mile a second,” Bain said.
He began going in and out. Then he was shot. He lost 4½ pints of blood.
THREE YEARS AT WALTER REED
Bain lowers the left side of his jeans over his left buttock to reveal the outline of an electronic battery pack embedded just under the skin of his left bum cheek.
The battery, roughly the size of a small cellphone, attaches to four nerve stems on his spinal cord. It sends a continuous electrical charge to the left side of his body, keeping the left arm from withering — doing the job the damaged nerves no longer do.
“Stick your finger in a light socket, that’s me,” Bain said. “If I had a special adapter, I could jump my car.”
After 18 surgeries, Bain can lift and lower his arm, but that’s about it. He has no use of the hand and fingers, and he has use of only three fingers on the right hand.
Bain spent three years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
Doctors reattached Bain’s left ring finger but eventually told him they would have to amputate the left arm. The only thing that could save it was an experimental procedure.
“Don’t you want to do your job?” Bain remembers taunting the doctors.
In April 2007, Bain appeared on the cover of U.S. News & World Report as part of a story on the investigation that revealed the dilapidated hospital was infested with mice, mold and cockroaches.
“You are probably the most lonely in your whole life when you are sitting in a hospital bed,” Bain said. “Even if there are 15 people in the room with you, you are still the most lonely person because nobody can really understand except for your buddy on your left and your right. They walk the same footsteps you have. Your injuries are different, but we are all going through the same thing upstairs.”
Asking for help was the hardest part.
Bain had to learn to feed and dress himself, write and even leave a room. He could walk, but once he got to the door he couldn’t turn the knob.
“I couldn’t hold my razor to shave,” he said. “I had to learn how to wipe my own self. I couldn’t feel my hand, didn’t even know if I was doing it, until you look over and it’s all over your hand. It’s tough. It’s embarrassing. It’s humiliating. But it’s humbling after you learn because you humble yourself. You say, ‘Wow, I can still do it. I can still fit in this society. I can still be Chris Bain.”
His recovery would not have been possible without the support of his wife, Misty, whom he met in the Army.
“She’s my hero. She’s been there through the roughest times of my life,” Bain said.
TAKING CARE OF VETERANS
Two years after he was injured, Bain found out the Taliban had threatened to kill the wife and children of his interpreter if he did not deliver them a leader in the U.S. Army.
“I would’ve did the same thing if I was in his shoes,” Bain said. “I don’t blame him at all. He knows I forgive him.”
A volunteer for the Wounded Warrior Project, Bain tells the men and women he mentors to not give up.
“It’s probably impossible to forget,” Bain said. “Can you move on from it? Of course you can. I’ve proven that. Tons of us have. We need to go out there and pick other guys up. Some guys need a little more help. That’s OK. That’s what we do for each other. Veterans taking care of veterans.”
Bain, who has testified in Washington four times, has committed to run for State Representative office in the 83rd District. Media reports about the former conditions at Walter Reed triggered an overhaul of the medical system.
Bain needs one more surgery, and he’s already worn out two battery packs, mostly from working out.
Last year, Bain won a silver medal in the Adaptive Snowboard World Championships, beating out competitors half his age.
He says his disability will likely worsen as he ages.
“I always have the option to cut it off,” Bain said of his arm. “The day I can’t use it anymore and hurts to much to live with, I’ll come in have it cut it off. It’s not like it’s going to stop me from doing what I want to do.” | <urn:uuid:7db68b9b-8c93-431a-b78d-7382ecb64c94> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/01/wounded_veterans_us_army_staff.html | 2015-08-28T00:33:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644060103.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025420-00178-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980588 | 1,280 |
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One of the most visible pieces of equipment carried by a yacht is its tender. It is therefore no surprise that many owners are eschewing production tender models and opting for more custom designs to complement their yacht. So are custom tenders becoming the norm?
Vripack agrees that bespoke tenders are a growing trend. “Our customers are highly influenced by their fast moving environment,” they say. “New techniques result in disruptive innovations which form standards that not only challenge our industry but also the industries around us. The need for personalisation or the increase in custom design demands is just a logical result of these developments.”
Hodgdon Yachts, which built the two 8.5 metre custom tenders for the 62 metre Feadship Sea Owl, believe that the growing numbers of custom tenders is having a snowball effect. “As more custom tenders appear on the scene more owners and their teams are more aware of the benefits of a custom build,” said Ed Roberts, Head of Sales and Marketing for Hodgdon Yachts.
Many tender clients are working with the designer of their yacht to ensure complementary styling between the two vessels. One example is Andrew Winch Yacht Design, which designed both Sea Owl and her accompanying tenders. “In recent years, the market is moving more towards custom made tenders,” says the Andrew Winch yacht design team. “Clients want unique designs to complement their superyacht.”
Gunnar Vikungar, Managing Director of Vikal, is well placed to comment on the custom tender market, with Vikal having delivered 54 custom builds over the last 24 years. Vikungar is cautious about the increasing use of the custom label, believing that there are still very few fully custom tender projects. “I do not think the overall tender market is moving in a custom direction; custom is a loose and much abused term,” he explains. ”My personal view is that a custom tender is a one off built from from original bespoke moulds, although a production builder who modifies his tenders to suit a client may also call his tenders 'custom'.”
How involved clients are in the design of a custom tender can vary. “Our clients are from a broad church and their involvement varies greatly, from the client trusting his advisors to take care of business to intimate involvement in every stage of design,’ says Vikungar. But regardless, “with tenders increasingly being seen as ‘mini yachts’, they [owners] want to ensure the design of the exterior and interior is unique,” says the Andrew Winch yacht design team.
When dealing with custom requests, a key challenge for designers is to marry form and function.“Often it becomes a very involved process to make reality of an idea that looks good in a rendering,” says Roberts. “Tenders have to do more than function; they have to fit into the mothership,” says the Andrew Winch yacht design team. “They are the showpiece of a yacht at dock side: the first point of boarding the mothership and they have to fit into the dock.”
If the functionality of the tender is too neglected the end result may be a tender that is wholly impractical. “An owner may be pleased to have his tastes truthfully represented in the tender but the crew charged with daily operations will quietly resent the builder,” says Vikungar. “They will look for ways to use the tender as little as possible and on large yachts where they will have a number of tenders at their disposal they quietly vote with their feet.”
One positive effect of the increased importance of tenders to the overall look of the yacht is that the tender design is increasingly being addressed much more early on in yacht build programs. “In the old days the tender was often an afterthought,” says Roberts. “Now it is more common that we get called in early to collaborate on the size, capacity and configuration of the tender bay; we wish more programs would recognise the importance of involving us early in the process.”
Perhaps the best way to answer the question of whether the tender market is moving towards customisation is that while truly custom tender projects are still in the minority we are certainly seeing increased customisation of tenders. And with the tender such an important part of the overall yacht, the positive side effects of early design involvement and keener consideration from owners and their build team can only be a good thing.
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I spent it all on clothes by the looks of things...
Pub Lunch. Short walk. Pub Garden. Stand by wall, ask child to take photo. Home. Pretty much the perfect Sunday. It was sunny so I wore all black .
T Shirt (old) @zara
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May 13th, 2018
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The UK’s economy shrank by 19.1% in the three months to May, as the full impact of lockdown was felt, the Office for National Statistics has said.
The economy actually grew by 1.8% in May, but this was not enough to make up for the fall of 6.9% in March and the record 20.4% decline in April.
Manufacturing and house building showed signs of recovery in May as some businesses saw staff return to work.
Despite this, most of the economy was “in the doldrums”, the ONS said.
“The economy was still a quarter smaller in May than in February, before the full effects of the pandemic struck,” said Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS.
“In the important services sector, we saw some pick-up in retail, which saw record online sales. However, with lockdown restrictions remaining in place, many other services remained in the doldrums, with a number of areas seeing further declines.”
Mr Athow told the BBC’s Today programme that there could be signs of improvement in next month’s release of figures.
“Some of the survey data we’re seeing suggests that as more of the economy reopened and as some of the restrictions were eased, we did see stronger performance in June, but it’s really early,” he said.
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May’s modest month-on-month expansion was less than the 5% or so that economists had expected.
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“Today’s figures underline the scale of the challenge we face,” said Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
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A quarter of the economy’s output was lost under lockdown in March and April, and May’s figures show even firms who are back in business may be struggling to get on track.
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As job losses mount, it clear that even some firms who qualify for government help, are faltering. Some won’t have made it as far.
The Bank of England’s own chief economist is among those who’ve voiced hopes for a “V-shaped” recovery; a swift and full bounce back in activity.
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The British Chambers of Commerce said May’s “modest rally” in economic growth did little to alter “the UK’s historically downbeat growth trajectory”.
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|YOUR OPINION IS SHIT BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I LIKE, YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF!! -SIMPLY DAD|
|Simply "Dad" Okami|
|Given Name(s) Tim Aguilar, Daddy, White Nigger||Possibly Drama-Whore and Nice Guy?|
|Residence||Uncertain; possibly on JewTube?|
Simply Okami (Now known as Simply Dad) Powerword: Tim Aguilar is a drama whore, meme spouting, SMT Fag who wastes away his life away constantly sperging out on YouTube. He is known for giving out shitty-ass critiques on Deviantart and is a total Nice Guy to the ladytards over there. Little did they know that the fuck has his charms and ways to get manipulative over people and uses them to his advantage. He's also a huge hypocrite when it comes to his critics and likings.
- 1 His videos
- 2 How to Become Daddy's Fantard For Dummies
- 3 His "friends"
- 4 Moar like "Simply Stealing", amirite?
- 5 Daddy's Response to ED
- 6 Vandalism
- 7 Beating Off A Dead Horse
- 8 Stealing other peoples work
- 9 His views on FilthyFrankTV, IdubbbzTV and LeafyIsHere (Fanbases)
- 10 Second Video on Filthy Frank/Joji
- 11 Daddy's Critic Skillz
- 12 Daddy's New Bitch
- 13 Daddy EXPOSED
- 14 Gallery
- 15 External Links
- 16 See also
These videos are a fucking cancer fest, they vary from bitching about people he doesn't like or shitposting in a desperate plea to gain attention from any poor bastard unfortunate enough to lurk around his channel. All of his "content" consists of the following series:
- Terrible Channels - A painfully amateur and futile attempt at being an "internet critic"; where he bitches and complains about people/things he doesn't like, following in the footsteps of other infamous buttmad JewTubers, only to fall flat on his fucking face. Trust us, it's puke in digital form. He even uses a fucking Text-to-Speech tool to narrate his videos because he's too much of a fucking autist to use a microphone.
Drama w/ Kitsune Goddess
Last Thursday, he got into a slapfight with Kitsune Goddess a disgusting, degenerate furfag artist who draws vile shit as a means of expressing it's severe autism. It has since been revealed that Kitsune Goddess is ONLY A FUCKING KID.
How to Become Daddy's Fantard For Dummies
Moar like "Simply Stealing", amirite?
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Did He Improve?
It seems like he gave fucking credit to the original person who he got gameplay from, in one example, the user he stole content from went by the username "davidramons". The name he assigned to that video? "DavidRS".
Daddy's Response to ED
Simply Dad or a fantard found the ED page and decided to do some good ol' vandlism. An account by the name of "Modalman".
Beating Off A Dead Horse
Simply Faggot made fun of the people who made the DJ KEEMSTAR "(DANIEL KEEM)" FUCKING EXPOSED!!!1 videos. Yeah, joke's on him because he still thinks Keemstar is hot shit months after the entire internet found out about his cyberbullying schemes and sociopathy.
Stealing other peoples work
As you can see here, he has stolen the Jack Frost design from the person who created it. Instead of making it a original design he stole someone else design and got a lot of Jew bucks because of it on RedBubble, someone should call the fucking Reportfag Squad and get this shit pinned for copyright infringement. He also stole the Demonica design and put a label that says "MegaTen", same thing with the Asura design but under the character.
Up until recently someone has contacted Redbubble and reported him, this will surely make him understand the use of the fucking copyright system and not steal artwork form Atlus. Lesson
learned, when making something that's not yours and selling just to get shekels DON'T! Or you'll get fucked over.
His views on FilthyFrankTV, IdubbbzTV and LeafyIsHere (Fanbases)
Simply Nigger recently made a call-out video addressing how Papa Franku, Idubbbz, and LeafyIsQueer's entire fanbases are shit; all the while acting like the most retarded Social Justice Wanker in documented history (he acts like an SJW because he doesn't understand what satire is). He went as far as to say that these JewTubers hate there fans, and that they only plaster their channels with Dead Meme Storage. He even mentions the fucking Time Magazine screaming "OMG THESE GUIZ FANBASES ARE HATEFUL BIGOTS!!!". It's not like his fanbase is any better than those three. Yet he also says "faggot" which is totally not homophobic and he uses the word autistic against people.
In a nutshell, he is saying "THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!!".
Second Video on Filthy Frank/Joji
Still wanting to get moar views, Simply "Dead beat" Dad made a another video about Filthy Frank/Joji. But instead of saying of how there content is shit, he instead makes useless points in the video about how Joji is an asshole for making fun shitty rappers for the lulz, and how his fanbase is toxic, he also goes off topic for a second to talk about how someone is getting his private photos on twitter and discord. There are moar dislikes than likes on his video, just showing how much of a fucking idiot this massive fag he is.
Daddy's Critic Skillz
Simply Dad has a way of criticizing a tartlet's artwork when it comes to posting on the shitty site named Deviantart. He handpicks artists who have zero experience of artist talent and then shits on them harshly because they are so easy to fuck with. Ever since then he has received multiple warnings and lectures about criticizing art but does he take them into consideration? OH HELL NO.
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Confused Artist is Confused
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I'm Doctor Who that's who
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No. Just no.
Daddy's New Bitch
In the month of March 2017, Simply Nigger ditched his last slut and met a Sanic furfag named Viscerotonictsf (An infamous bitch who traces art and has the copyright system as her shield) and instantly he fell in love of how edgy and emo she is. In reality however, he's currently manipulating her to get popular from her Vistards who see him being mentioned on every porno Vis-Bitch has made. In return, the faggot seduces her with his persona and charms, flirting with her nonstop until he gets what he wants: that sweet Edgy pussy. He pretends that he doesn't know her situation however, and still tries to flirt with other ladytards to this day. (Remember kids This what we call a pedophile since Simply nigger is 18 and Vis is
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3 days later, Vis-Bitch went up to the gay man and suggested him his next victim on his cringy videos;(The fat fuck who roasted Vis on a rant 9 mins flat.) If he did this for her then he would have full access to every inch of her furry body. Convinced by this, he started stalking SavDraws for a mere "two weeks" and finally jumped into the cancerous bandwagon of making SavDraws rants. Most of the ignorant tartlets agreed with him because of the fucking puppy imagery (to distract the tarts from hearing his insults, making him seem like he's making a point, unaware of his ED page) and because of his "handsome" persona. However, some tartlets saw through his manipulative schemes and tried to call him out for it, in which he replies with the same attitude that he still has for over 2 years now. He never changes really.
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A tartlet interrupts the conversation in curiosity
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Oh boy! Here comes the walls of text!
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- Savdraw insult 6.PNG
That last comment was a meme.
Niggers Are Sexist
- - His shitty channel.
- black friend who somehow evolved past swinging around trees 'n' picking out flees to open up a YouTube channel. - His
- - His Deviantart account.
- A discord chat he goes to troll hard!
- His Facebook, say hi! Archive, encase he deletes it again:
- His ask.fm acccount.
- Snapchat: not-okami
- https://www.reddit.com/user/SimplyDad - His reddit account, you'll mostly see him sperg out there
- http://steamcommunity.com/id/simplydad - His steam profile
- - His Twitter. It's really cringey.
His redbubble accountBALEETED due to copyright infringement!
- He make's lists, complaining on other videos, etc.
- His event hubs page (Tourneyfag alert!)
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