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- "This is my first time having fun around tanks."
- ―Miho Nishizumi
Episode 3 "I'll Join the Fight!" "Shiai, Yarimasu!" (試合、やります !) is the third episode of Girls und Panzer, and it originally aired on October 23, 2012.
The episode begins with the last scene of the previous episode: with the Panzer IV escaping its attackers, and Miho standing and looking out from the turret, only to see an apparently asleep girl laying on the grass with a book on her face. As she screams to get her attention, the girl rises, and as the Panzer comes near, she jumps on it, although she ends up tripping. Miho recognizes her as the girl she helped earlier that day, and as Saori peeks out of the cupola, she recognizes the girl as well, calling her Mako. She tells Miho that they are childhood friends, then, when asking Mako what she is doing there as she is supposed to be in class, is exasperated when she eludes her question. A near miss alerts them that the match is still ongoing, and Miho tells the new arrival to get in the tank as well.
As the tank continues to run, Mako is shown to have low blood pressure, which explains why Miho had to help her during Episode 2, getting late in the process. Miho takes a look outside the turret again, to see that they are nearing a suspended bridge over a river; she jumps down and goes forward to guide Hana, knowing that they have some time before their opponents can fire again. As the Panzer IV cautiously begins to roll forwards, it goes too far to the left, causing a cable to snap and the tank to begin tilting on its side. The StuG III fires again, hitting the Panzer IV straight in its rear armor, but doesn't knock it out (because it's sitting on the bridge). After a moment of shock, the crew has another nasty surprise, since Hana was knocked out and they are unable to move. Realizing this, both the StuG III and the Type 89B move in for the kill.
As Miho places the unconscious Hana in the radio operator seat, Mako is staring at the driver's place; just as the former says that she'll have to step in as driver, even though she's not very good at it, the Panzer suddenly moves again, and flawlessly rights itself up. Mako is sitting on the driver's seat, the manual before her, and replies to the other's surprise that she "taught herself how to drive just now". However, the situation is still serious: the StuG and the Type 89B are pressing from behind, the other two Ooarai tanks, the Panzer 38(t) and the M3 Lee, are coming from the front. As the Panzer IV begins to move once more, both the history-buffs and the Volleyball club members fire again, but they miss.
After Hana has regained consciousness, Miho tells Yukari to turn the turret, to return fire; as soon as the turret has fully rotated, the Panzer stops and Miho orders to fire, with the shot hitting the StuG III head-on and knocking it out. The girls, save for Miho, are left speechless by the sensation. On the observation tower, Ami announces that Team C is out of the match, commenting to herself that "they're good". Miho orders the girls to get the Type 89B next; the other tank fires first but its shoot goes wide, while Yukari's hits perfectly and scores another kill. The Student Council advances with its own tank to take on the Panzer IV, but despite it being an easy target, Momo misses it by a mile, while again the Panzer IV defeats its opponent. The freshmen, scared by the "Nishizumi style", try to run away, but their eagerness causes their tank to get stuck in the mud and, after a track snaps and the engine fails, it is declared immobilized, thus giving the victory to Team A (much to Yukari's rejoice and Mako's indifference).
The scene changes to a bathouse, where the five girls (Mako separated from the others, though) are relaxing in the hot water, exchanging their comments about such an experience. Saori says that she believes that Miho should be in command, to which both Hana and Yukari agree; Miho is still resistant to this, but when they insist, she gets up her courage and accepts. The conversation then turns towards the other crew positions: Saori eagerly accepts the position of radio operator, as Miho tells her that she has no problem comunicating with other people (even though Yukari points out, when she mentions it, that it does not matter how fast she writes text messages); Hana explicitly volunteers to be the gunner, remarking that it might help her become stronger, and when that is accepted, Yukari jumps at the loader position. This leaves an opening for the driver, which everyone is convinced should be Mako, but she refuses despite their encouragements and leave; losing patience, Saori yells at her that sensha-dō is the only way she can get enough credits to counter her chronic lateness and not repeat the grade, to which an irritated Mako relents and joins the team.
To Saori's urging, they go shopping, and immediately Saori (joined to a point by Hana) begins to make proposals to make the tank a better ride, i.e. adding cushions, air fresheners, etc. to Yukari's horrified reaction and Miho's surprise. Things come to a head the next day, when it is revealed that the other teams have customized their tanks too: the Type 89B has slogans painted on it (to "make it easier to distinguish"), the StuG III has been painted red, light blue and white and is now sporting flags (to "make it look cool"), the M3 Lee is now a bright pink (to "make it look cute"), and the Panzer 38(t) is now covered in gold paint.
As the Student Council plots something about a real match, Saori grumbles about not having repainted the Panzer IV too, while Yukari cannot believe the others did it in the first place; at first stunned, Miho then begins to laugh, saying that she never thought someone could do such a thing, and for the first time she is having fun around tanks.
In a building where some girls are having breakfast, one of them receives the news that Ooarai's Sensha-dō Team has been resurrected, and accepts a proposal, declaring that they never refuse a challenge. Then we see the Ooarai teams having a training session, first by having some firing practice, then by going through the basics of tank tactics (i.e. never stir up too much dust, how to use cover, never cross a ridge carelessly, and so on). As the practice is over, the Student Council announces that the next Sunday they'll have a training match against St. Gloriana Girls College (to Miho's and Yukari's worry, as St. Gloriana has a strong Sensha-dō Team capable of being the national runner-up). When however they mention that the match will begin early, Mako abruptly announces that she quits, because she is not a morning person; despite the others' pleadings, she refuses to accept having to get up so early, but when Saori mentions that her grandmother would be mad if she had to repeat the grade, a scared Mako finally crumbles.
Later, Momo is explaining to the various teams' commanders that St. Gloriana relies on a good defense and excellent coordination, and that, since they mostly use Matilda tanks, they can't just slug it out with them; instead, she puts forward a baiting strategy to lure the opponent into a kill zone, much to everyone's excitement; but when Miho, pressed by Anzu, objects that such a strategy is pretty transparent, Momo has a fit, daring her to take over command if she believes to be so smart. Anzu intervenes to calm her down, but declares that she is perfect to be the overall commander. She tells her that if they win she'll receive an amazing gift (which is revealed to be dried potatoes, of course), but when asked about what will happen if they lose, she admits that Miho will have to perform the Anglerfish Dance. The scene changes to the promenade; this news shocks Saori, Yukari and Hana, whose reaction makes it clear that it is an incredibly embarrassing dance; but even though they declare that they'll have to win, the three make it clear that if they lose they'll perform the dance together with her, much to her gratitude.
On Sunday morning, Miho receives a call from Saori, who is failing to get Mako out of her bed; Yukari arrives to sound "Reveille", and Miho and Hana arrive with the Panzer IV and fire a blank to definitely wake her up. As they go towards the landing site (since the battle will take place on land), and Mako gets dressed up, people take notice and encourage the girls to do their best, to which Miho replies that they will. As the Panzer IV and the other tanks are disembarking, the St. Gloriana school carrier (much larger than Ooarai's) arrives, while Ooarai city on the mainland is being evacuated to make room for the match. The Ooarai team arrives at the match grounds, where they are soon joines by the St. Gloriana tanks: four Matildas and a single Churchill tank, from which steps out the team's commander. With only an oblique comment on the appearance of Ooarai's tanks, the greetings are rather formal, before the two teams head towards their starting point.
As the match is about to begin, the Student Council again tells Miho that they're counting on her. A moment later, the signal is given, and Ooarai's tanks begin to roll forward.
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| Episode 2
"I'll Board the Tank!"
| Episode 4
"I'll Do My Best as Commander!"
Characters Introduced
- Noriko Isobe
- Taeko Kondou
- Shinobu Kawanishi
- Akebi Sasaki
- Erwin
- Caesar
- Saemonza
- Oryou
- Azusa Sawa
- Ayumi Yamagou
- Saki Maruyama
- Karina Sakaguchi
- Yuuki Utsugi
- Aya Oono
- Darjeeling
- Assam
- Orange Pekoe
- Kanon Sasagawa (Seen on screen, not named)
- Remi Takashima (Seen on screen, not named)
- Hibiki Inatomi (Seen on screen, not named)
Tanks Appearing
Main Events
- The practice match ends with the victory of Team A.
- Mako Reizei joins the sensha-dō club, becoming Team A's driver.
- The Sensha-dō Team of Ooarai Girls Academy challenges St. Gloriana Girls College to a friendly match.
- Despite Yukari's reaction, Saori's skill at text messaging and calling with her cellphone will turn out to be useful in the match against Saunders as depicted in Episode 5 and 6.
- The M3 Lee is one of only three tanks in the series to be immobilised by a technical fault. (The others are the KV-2, which shows the white flag after it is tipped over by its top-heavy turret, and the Tiger (P) during the match against the All-Stars University Team when Leopon Team overpowers their engine by cranking up the motor speed, in order to catch up to Pershings and providing a slipstream to Tiger II and T-34/85; the tank engine broke down and catches fire). Anzio's tankettes remain operational even when flipped over.
- The ending sequence features Turtle Team in their Panzer 38(t).
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HHS Extends Stage 2 Deadline for Early Adopters
Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced changes to the timeline of the meaningful use EHR incentive program that will give providers who adopt EHRs in 2011 an extra year to progress to stage 2 of the program.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Captain of the Pole-Star
Dion Fortune, The Scented Poppies (1926)
Seabury Quinn, The Dust of Egypt (1930)
R. Wakefield, The Red Lodge
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NIRD Hyderabad Distance Education Courses 2019: The National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD-PR) Hyderabad has invited application from the eligible applicants for admission to Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Rural Development (PGDSRD) 11th Batch (2019) and Post Graduate Diploma in Tribal Development Management (PGDTDM) Seventh Batch (2019) in Distance Mode for the commencing from January 01st 2019.
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Located 273.5km (170mi) from Florida you will find the Abaco Beach Resort & Boat Harbour located on the Island Abaco, the Bahamas. This marina is the largest full service marina in the Bahamas and accommodates 190 vessels in the southern east shore of Marsh Harbour, protected by off shore cays and providing dockage for vessels up to up to 61m (200ft) in length with a max. draught of 2.7m (9ft.) maximum width 10m (33ft.)Services this marina offers are: free wifi, Cable tv, phone hook up and water at each slip, electricity, refueling, showers and restrooms, laundry facility as well as pump out. There are 2 grocery stores within a walking distance and you will find a bar and a restaurant on site, this all under 24-hour security.
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Simple Plan was one of the bigger bands on The Warped Tour this year…at least that we were familiar with. They took the stage at 5:45 and brought the house down. I'm not going to lie, at just over 30 years of age, I felt a little out of place at the entire show…lots of young people. At one point during Simple Plans set front man Pierre Bouvier asked anybody in the crowd to raise their hands if this was their first Simple Plan show and at least half of the crowd hand their hands up (myself included).
At Warped Tour the sets are really short, especially for a band the caliber of Simple Plan, but they made the most of their time with a high energy, tight set that in many ways stole the show for many fans. They played new songs as well as some of their older hits, it was a great mix for a band with a catalogue like Simple Plan.
With such reasonable ticket prices, if you just wanted to catch one band, it'd be worth it to watch them play, head over to their merch tent, meet the band and then go home and not catch any other bands. This was definitely happening through out the day, but outside of the very end of the day, the most people I saw leave at one time was after Simple Plans set…Simple Plan was one of the main reasons to check out this years Warped Tour. Check out our sit down with front man Pierre Bouvier.
Zoiks! How did you get involved with The Warped Tour?
Pierre Bouvier: We've been playing The Warped Tour, well the first time I played it was with my other band in 1995 I think, so I've been involved in the Warped Tour for sixteen years, so it's been pretty amazing. We played with Simple Plan about six times and it's been a great place to connect with our fans. It's very laid back, we get to play a short set, meet with our fans, do signings. I think if you come to Warped Tour you can almost expect to meet the band you want to meet."
Z!: How do you prepare for the Warped Tour show compared to a Simple Plan headlining show?
PB: You prepare for like dirty hot, lots of sunscreen…we brought dirt bikes this time around. Its kind of fun…like you're going to summer camp. You've got to dress lightly. Everyone here is wearing tank tops and shorts and it's very laid back. Yeah prepare to get dirty, hot and sweaty.
Z!: How has Simple Plan's music evolved and grown since you guys first started?
PB: I think we've always kept our sound true to what we've started with, but I think we've evolved just naturally over the years and each record has a little more different sound to it. If anything I think our last album ("Simple Plan") was the one that we really stretched out and really kind of did stuff that was out of the ordinary for us. We ventured out with different producers, sounds and instruments we hadn't used before. This one ("Get Your Heart On!") we wanted to take it back to the roots, real fast, energetic, upbeat music, kind of throw back to our first few records, but being that this is our fourth record, I think there is stuff that we did on this album that we couldn't have written, 8 to 10 years ago. Songwriting, I think we just got better at it. I think it's an evolution, but a throw back at the same time.
Z!: Are any of the songs off the new album making the set list?
PB: Yeah, we're playing two new songs. We're playing "You Suck at Love" which we started playing last year. It's the first song on the record, it gives a good tone as to what's on the record and a song called "Can't Keep Our Hands Off You" which we did a video for recently. It features Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, obviously he's not here on tour with us…we sing his part (laughs). Yeah, two songs.
Z!: How are they translating live?
PB: Great, the record just come out two weeks ago, but a lot of our fans have been loyal and got the record and already know the songs. It's been great, of course people always want to hear the old classics and we won't disappoint in that area.
Z!: Being veterans of The Warped Tour, how do you keep things fresh and different each time?
PB: I think it just stays fresh naturally. We have new songs that we're playing. Even though we've been around for a long time we still have new fans that haven't seen us yet. Every show we ask our fans during our show to raise their hands if it's their first Simple Plan concert and a lot of people always raise their hands. It's funny because a lot of these kids…last time we played in the US was a fair amount of time ago, except for Bamboozle last summer, maybe some of these kids were too young to come to a concert, maybe they were 11 or 12, now they're 16 and they're all into concerts now. It stays fresh in that way, but for us I think there is something about the new album that as reenergized the band and got us excited about playing again, not that we weren't before, but there is something about this album that is really fresh and it's going really well already, people have been digging it, the reviews have been awesome, so I think just naturally because of all of that we feel revived.
Z!: What is the bands song writing process, do you write as a band, or have a designated song writer?
PB: I'm the singer; Chuck and me the drummer have always been the main songwriters. We sort of start everything up, build the main skeleton of the songs together, then the band chips in and adds their parts and then we work on it from there. It's definitely a group effort, but to start it off it's me and Chuck. We always write the lyrics together and its worked well for us.
Z!: What are some of the bands you're excited about seeing this year on the tour?
PB: There are a lot of screaming bands on this tour, which I'm not crazy about all screaming, I need a little bit of melody. A Day to Remember has screaming, but it also has a lot of melody parts. There is a new band called Shut Up and Deal that are pretty cool. I saw this band that's not on tour any more, but they're called Freshman 15. They were on the tour for the first week. They're a young band, really cool, kind of reminded me of Blink 182. Who else is good on tour…Unwritten Law, an old classic, Less Than Jake have always been amazing. I haven't really gotten into A Devil Wears Prada yet, I know they scream a lot, which I find it a little difficult to enjoy for a long period of time, but I'd like to check them out for sure.
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Simple Plan at the Warped Tour – Interview/Live Review
Simple Plan was one of the bigger bands on The Warped Tour this year…at least that we were familiar with. They took the stage at 5:45 and brought the house down. I'm not going to lie, at just over 30 years of age, I felt a little out of place at the entire show…lots of young people. At one point during Simple Plans set front man Pierre Bouvier asked anybody in the crowd to raise their hands if this was their first Simple Plan show and at least half of the crowd hand their hands up (myself included).


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Well if ever there was a case of posting too soon…. After the last post on Friday everything went spectacularly awful. I went from OK to TOTALLY tired out. Although my daughter had friends over I HAD to go to bed and then spent 48 hours sleeping on and off.
I am much better now but the weekend was like torture:
Joint aches and pains, sore throat, sweats, finger ends sensitive so putting out pills hurts, loss of sense of taste, stomach ache.
The loss of taste was the worst. In fact it wasn't so much of a loss but a change. Everything tasted like bilge water. Even plain water. Drinking and eating was painful and disgusting. Sunday night normal taste started to come back and I went out with friends last night and had a bland meal but it tasted OK.
One of the upsides of this treatment is that I know it is temporary and I just have to hang on in there.
Energy levels have improved so I am going for a short walk in a while and see how I feel. I have long list of jobs, most that can be done sitting. I hope to start the walking again but have only been able to do about half a mile a day for the last 5 days. I won't be reaching my target of 85 miles this month but I am happy to have achieved 20 miles so far. I will just keep going as best I can until I get to my target, hopefully bu the middle of February.


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To stand with the Empire
John Redmond's eve of war speech in the House of Commons turned into a gamble gone wrong, rather than a masterstroke
John Redmond MP – portrait by artist Henry Jones Thaddeus. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland
John Redmond presents a flag to the Irish Volunteers. And recruitments posters for the British Army. Courtesy, National Library of Ireland
'The life of a politician, especially of an Irish politician," a weary and disheartened John Redmond reflected as his life was drawing to a close, "is one long series of postponements and compromises and disappointments and disillusions."
Never was this better exemplified for Redmond than in the official response to the defining act of his political career: the impromptu speech he made in the House of Commons on the eve of Britain's declaration of war against Germany in August 1914.
What initially seemed a political masterstroke by the Irish Parliamentary Party leader soon took on the appearance of a gamble that had gone wrong, resulting in his authority in Ireland being undermined – in the long run, fatally – by the actions of both the War Office in London and his supposed allies, the Liberal Party government.
Redmond hadn't intended to speak in response to the sombre announcement on August 3rd by foreign secretary Edward Grey to the effect that Britain was mobilising for war. But something Grey said in the course of his hour-long speech – that the "one bright spot in the very dreadful situation is Ireland", though in reality, the home rule crisis in Ireland was far from resolved – moved him to respond.
Redmond told the government it could safely take its troops out of Ireland for the duration of the war, and the Irish Volunteers in the South would "join arms" with their Ulster counterparts to defend the coasts of Ireland. "Is it too much to hope that out of this situation there may spring a result which will be good not merely for the Empire, but good for the future welfare and integrity of the Irish nation?" he asked in conclusion, to prolonged cheers from all sides of the house.
It was an astonishingly daring intervention by Redmond, given that anti-British sentiment in Ireland had been roused to its highest level in many years by events arising from the Howth gun-running incident of eight days previous, which had culminated in soldiers from the King's Own Scottish Borderers shooting dead three civilians and injuring 38 others on Bachelor's Walk.
Redmond was unsure what the reaction would be at home, but in the event, his intervention was warmly welcomed in the following day's nationalist press. By acting so swiftly and decisively, he was seen to have boldly retaken the initiative from Edward Carson and the Ulster unionists, whose opposition to the planned introduction of home rule had brought the country to the brink of civil war.
But the benefits from his triumph were short-lived, and over the following weeks and months, the failure of the Liberal government, and in particular prime minister Herbert Asquith, to match his gesture, and to deliver on specific commitments, left the Irish leader cruelly exposed.
The unspoken quid pro quo in Redmond's offer was that the government would immediately enact the Home Rule Bill, which had passed all stages but remained off the statute book because of the unresolved "Ulster question".
The second part of the bargain that Redmond sought to obtain from his grand gesture of support for Britain, was official recognition of and support for the Irish Volunteers. He had the rather optimistic idea that if the Volunteers could be established on a formal footing to work in common cause for the duration of the war with the Ulster Volunteer Force, which had been established to resist home rule by force, then the two factions would never turn their guns on each other at war's end. Not only that, but the makings of a united, all-Ireland army would by then be in place.
Disagreement within the cabinet
By the end of August, Asquith, who had other matters on his mind with Britain now at war, was thoroughly fed up with the home rule controversy. In a letter to his young confidante, Venetia Stanley, on August 31st, he wrote: "The Irish (both sets) are giving me a lot of trouble, just at a difficult moment. I sometimes wish we could submerge the whole lot of them, & their island, for say 10 years, under the waves of the Atlantic …"
A commentary in the Westmeath Examiner of September 4th summed up the general discontent at the delay: "The long drawn-out agony of waiting, to which the Irish people have been subjected over the enactment of the Bill, has done incalculable harm. It seems that Home Rule is to follow every other measure of justice for which Ireland has had to contend, in that its final concession will have been made in such a fashion as to rob it of all grace, and to evoke no feeling of gratitude or enthusiasm."
Emotional scenes
The frustrations experienced by Redmond in getting the Home Rule Bill made law were compounded by the at-times farcical obstacles put in his way in securing official support for the Irish Volunteers. Redmond believed that if the Volunteers were to be organised and equipped as a defence force for Ireland, this would provoke "a wave of enthusiasm" among Irishmen in support of the British war effort.
With the Home Rule Act finally secured, he felt able to go further than the offer to defend Ireland's shores that he had made in his August 3rd speech, and promote all-out Irish support for what he believed to be just war "for the defence and sacred rights and liberties of small nations".
In a manifesto issued on September 15th, he said Ireland had a right "to claim that Irish recruits for the Expeditionary Force should be kept together as a unit, officered as far as possible by Irishmen, composed, if possible, by county battalions, to form, in fact, an 'Irish Brigade', so that Ireland may gain national credit for her deeds, and feel, like other communities of the Empire, that she too has contributed an army bearing her name in this historic struggle".
The unionist-dominated British War Office, however, was wholly uninterested in helping the Irish nationalist leader realise his vision of an Irish brigade fighting for the honour and glory of their country, regardless of how much it might have boosted the recruitment effort in Ireland.
Its refusal to entertain Redmond's proposals was shown in its true light when Edward Carson announced that approval had been granted for the establishment of an Ulster Division made up entirely of the Ulster volunteers.
Rather than being discouraged by this development, Redmond believed it strengthened the case for similar treatment for the volunteers from the South. After the Irish Volunteers split over his support for the war – with the vast majority of the 170,000-odd movement backing Redmond – he secured the support of Asquith for his campaign for the establishment of an Irish formation.
In a speech on September 25th in the Mansion House in Dublin, met by prolonged cheers from an enthusiastic audience, the prime minister said: "I should like to see, and we all want to see, an Irish brigade – or better still, an Irish army corps." Five days later, he turned this aspiration into a commitment, in a letter to Redmond in which he said: "I have spoken to [secretary of state for war] Lord Kitchener on the subject of your letter, and he will have the announcement made that the War Office has sanctioned the formation of an Irish Army Corps." With this explicit undertaking secured, Redmond stepped up his efforts in support of recruitment. But the promised announcement never came.
Breakthrough arrivedSir Lawrence Parsons
Parsons wrote that the 16th was composed of three essentially Irish brigades and that almost all of its officers were Irishmen, and he hoped it was deemed "worthy of acknowledgement as the 'Irish Division'", though of course the 10th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) divisions had also been formed to fight in the war.
Redmond was greatly encouraged by this development, but – as related in detail in Denis Gwynn's The Life of John Redmond – it proved to be the beginning of a deeply frustrating and at times absurd series of exchanges between the two men. Parsons, it transpired, had an opposing view to that of Redmond on almost every matter the nationalist leader raised with him. He consistently rejected candidates recommended by Redmond for a commission, and when it was suggested to him that thousands of Irishmen in Britain were anxious to join the division, he said he did not want to fill his ranks "with Liverpool, and Glasgow, and Cardiff Irish, who are slum-birds that we don't want".
While this correspondence was taking place, Redmond felt forced to publicly reject suggestions that Ireland was not "doing its bit" in providing recruits for the war effort. But he believed enthusiasm would be greater if the War Office acted on his advice to establish a distinctive Irish division, with its own colours and badge. In a memorandum to the government in November and a follow-on meeting with the War Office, he also pressed the case for an increase in Catholic chaplains and for Irishmen who had enlisted in Britain to be allowed to transfer to the 16th Division.
His subsequent correspondence with Parsons on the badge issue alone epitomised his difficulties. Redmond had secured approval from the War Office for the men of the 16th to wear a distinctively Irish badge on their caps; his suggestion was a harp.
Parsons wrote, however, to say he was opposed to any special badge for the regiments of his division. "That the Ulster Division has a special badge is no reason that we should have one, as I think it was wrong to give them one, as it was wrong to form that division at all," he said with typical forthrightness. And if the division must have a badge, he added, "I would not recommend a harp … I would prefer a plain sprig of shamrock on an Irish cross".
The correspondence between the two men on the badge continued into the new year. Parsons held to his position but he reluctantly agreed to allow a committee to draw up a design for the badge for consideration by the War Office. Its suggestion of an emblem incorporating the four Irish provinces, however, was rejected by Kitchener, who considered it too complicated, and sent word back to Redmond that he would prefer something simple, such as a shamrock – or a harp!
Perhaps most exasperating of all for Redmond was a comment made by Parsons in one letter in which he said he did not mind seeing Irish soldiers dispersed to regiments in England, Scotland and Wales. "They act as leaven on dough," he said. "In my 30 years' regimental service I always had the leavened dough in my battery and it was very good." This comment more than any other demonstrated to Redmond the extent to which the two men had been at cross purposes from the very beginning.
Difficulties cost political capital
To what extent this contributed to his ultimate downfall, when the Irish Parliamentary Party was swept from power by the revolutionary Sinn Féin movement, is open to question. The Liberals' former Irish secretary Augustine Birrell, however, certainly considered it significant.
In an appreciation published in the London Times after Redmond's death, Birrell wrote: "He felt to the very end, bitterly and intensely, the stupidity of the War Office. Had he been allowed to deflect the routine indifference and suspicion of the War Office from its old ruts into the deep-cut channels of Irish feelings and sentiments, he might have carried his countrymen with him, but he jumped first and tried to make his bargain afterwards and failed accordingly."


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Tai chi is a "soft" Chinese martial art that dates back to 1000–2000 BC. The emphasis of the practice is on slow, flowing movements that emphasize precision and force. The goal is to create relaxation and meditation and is primarily practiced for dealing with tension and stress.
The principle benefit of Tai Chi is improved balance and body awareness. Tai Chi has been shown to reduce the risk of falls in older people that contribute to fractures. In a 1996 journal of the American Geriatric Society, one study found that older adults participating in a 15-week Tai Chi program reduced their risk of falling by 47.5%. Another study in the journal showed that a continued program of tai chi can help preserve improvements in strength from other exercise programs. The journal noted that relatively "low tech" approaches "should not be overlooked in the search for ways to prevent disability and maintain physical performance in late life."
Studies on benefits other than balance improvement from Tai Chi have not been conclusive. Researchers examined 35 reviews[i] to evaluate whether there was any improvement of medical conditions or symptoms using Tai Chi. They looked at studies on muscle strength, flexibility, bone mineral density, fall prevention and balance. They found clear evidence that Tai Chi is effective for fall prevention and balance, as well as improving psychological health; but the evidence for other benefits was contradictory.
Tai Chi classes are available in many senior centers and YMCAs around the country. Check for one in your neighborhood.
[i] Lee MS, MH Pittler, B-C Shin, E Ernst. Tai chi for osteoporosis: a systematic review…evidence from controlled clinical trials testing the effectiveness of tai chi for osteoporosis. Osteoporosis International, 2008, Volume 19, Number 2, Pages 139-146.
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Renwick, Margaret E. L.
The Phonetics and Phonology of Contrast
The Case of the Romanian Vowel System
Series:Phonology and Phonetics [PP] 19
- eBook (PDF)
- Publication Date:
- September 2014
- Copyright year:
- 2014
- 978-3-11-036277-0
- New data on Romanian vowels
- Synchronic and historical approaches to language
- Acoustic, and perceptual, and type-frequency studies
Aims and Scope
This book proposes that phonological contrast, in particular the robustness of a phonemic contrast, does not depend solely on the presence of minimal pairs, but is instead affected by a set of phonetic, usage-based, and systemic factors. This perspective opens phonology to a more direct interpretation through phonetic analysis, undertaken in a series of case studies on the Romanian vowel system. Both the synchronic phonetics and morpho-phonological alternations are studied, to understand the forces that have historically shaped and now maintain the phonemic system of Romanian. A corpus study of phoneme type frequency in Romanian reveals marginal contrasts among vowels, in which a sharp distinction between allophones and phonemes fails to capture relationships among sounds. An investigation of Romanian /Ɨ/ provides insight into the historical roots of marginal contrast, and a large acoustic study of Romanian vowels and diphthongs is a backdrop for evaluating the phonetic and perceptual realization of marginal contrast. The results provide impetus for a model in which phonology, phonetics, morphology and perception interact in a multidimensional way.
Supplementary Information
- xii, 201 pages
- Language:
- English
- Type of Publication:
- Monograph
- Keyword(s):
- Phonetics; Phonology; Romanian; Vowels
- Subjects
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Levels of Linguistic Analysis > Phonetics
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Levels of Linguistic Analysis > Phonology
- Linguistics and Semiotics > Romance Languages > Romance Languages, other


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romp ba ba bomp bom
You may be thinking I have ADD, no, I don't, but the weather does! It was fall last week and I was posting about sweaters and coats and getting excited for scarves and boots (nevermind that I've managed to wear my beloved scarves most of the summer {cool evenings you guys!}) and this week it's mid 70's. I love summer, we had a brilliant love relationship this year but I've moved on. I've. moved. on. Yet, it keeps calling me, sending me notes, flirting, sending me this romper over the internet. FINE. I love it. Maybe I need it for next summer? Or maybe you do? Or maybe mother nature needs some ritalin and i should go to sleep?
- Cupcake said...
Yeah I hear ya. I kinda want it to get cool already. 30 degrees!
Your blog looks amazingballs lady! Luving the new format.
- September 27, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- Christianna said...
Hahahahaha, the weather is like that here too! One day it's so cold at night that you have to bundle up and the next day/night it's about 80 degrees. Effing cut it out weather.
By the way, that romper is too cute! You should totally get it!
- September 27, 2011 at 11:08 PM
- Diana said...
When you pee outside as much as I do, a romper is just not a practical clothing option.
- September 27, 2011 at 11:08 PM
- ellie said...
Oh..you can always put on black leggings or stockings..and put on a sweater with it..this can go all year long.
- September 27, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- ivy's closet said...
You might get in a few outings in it or, just something for around the house.
- September 27, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- mazzy may said...
So cute. I love the dark color. I'd use it for winter. Just think whimsical.
- September 27, 2011 at 11:15 PM
- Hollie said...
fall here is the mid 70's lol! It's been in the 90's still here. Lame-o.
- September 27, 2011 at 11:22 PM
- jeanette from everton terrace said...
If you simply must wear it, come visit me here in Phoenix, it's still very much summer weather here :)
- September 27, 2011 at 11:36 PM
- Ashley said...
dork :P
get. a. life.
nahhhh, I think it's cute too :)
- September 27, 2011 at 11:38 PM
- Mary Jo at TrustYourStyle said...
I think even temperate southern california - warm all year save for a few days is having crazy weather too--cold and rainy one day. Sunny today. Looks like we all have to buy clothes that can work for both hot and cold these days.
xo Mary Jo
- September 27, 2011 at 11:45 PM
- Fashion Cappuccino said...
Very cute! I hope the weather gives you a reason to wear it soon! xoxoxoo
- September 28, 2011 at 12:33 AM
- Kavery said...
And here too - it's all up and down. Which place has perfect weather I wonder? LA?
- September 28, 2011 at 12:53 AM
- Jamie said...
This time of year I jump back and forth clothes wise too, never knowingnwhat today will bring.
- September 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- Dancing Branflake said...
Ha! It's been hovering 100 degrees over here. Ridiculous!
True story: I once danced with a girl who lived in a jumper and ever since then I've always wanted one for rehearsal.
- September 28, 2011 at 1:59 AM
- Mimi said...
this romper is making me feel thankful that it's still quite hot this week. ;)
<3, Mimi
Stages of Beauty Giveaway :)
- September 28, 2011 at 2:06 AM
- katie said...
lol your hilarious! and i know what ya mean, i was loving scarves and sweaters last week, but loved that i could still wear flip flops today!
- September 28, 2011 at 2:56 AM
- Josie said...
You're too funny. I've been seeing summer sales and am so tempted but it's freezing!
xo Josie
- September 28, 2011 at 3:46 AM
- Mo Pie, Please said...
I think mother nature needs ritalin, but I'm not sure. That romper is pretty cute. But I'd say, save your money, because you never know how you'll feel about rompers next year :)
- September 28, 2011 at 4:30 AM
- Alena: Oh, It's Just Perfect! said...
Umm...yep, you need it. And when you are sick of it, you can send it to me ;) xx
- September 28, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- Robots in Trouble said...
I agree with the weather having some form of ADD. but cute romper!
-robots in trouble
- September 28, 2011 at 5:46 AM
- Diana said...
Its been the same over here too! I have moved on and I want to wear my jeans and my new fav cardigan...but this humidity wont let me!! Love this romper...dont know how I would look in one being so tall and curvy...but they def are cute!
- September 28, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- Tine said...
Oh this romper is very cute! I'm still wearing my summer clothes and I love it.
- September 28, 2011 at 8:26 AM
- illustration poetry said...
this dress makes me want to lose weight!!!! :D
hahaha silly me x(
- September 28, 2011 at 10:51 AM
- illustration poetry said...
yea i think I. Should. Go. To. Sleep.
- September 28, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- this free bird said...
Just get it. Wear it with a coat and some tights. done.
- September 28, 2011 at 11:32 AM
- t said...
Nice romper!
- September 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- versus said...
Drôle de découverte de chez Krystyn ArtEco..
- September 28, 2011 at 2:36 PM
Love the romper and you could probably get a wear or two out of it before you would have to retire it for next year.
- September 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM
- I V Y said...
such a cute romper! love the simple pattern. perfect for summer <3
xo zebra and meerkat
- September 28, 2011 at 2:58 PM
- Silver Strands said...
hahaha! I love the idea that the weather has ADD ... and I believe it!
Love the romper.
- September 28, 2011 at 3:41 PM
- design traveller said...
Warm or cool, you can still wear it, just add some weather-adequate acessories.
- September 28, 2011 at 3:53 PM
- brittany said...
oh i feel this. weather is so ADD and summer is so flirty! i need a weather ADD-proof romp!
- September 28, 2011 at 4:57 PM
- Rita J. said...
nice dress!!
Kiss from Portugal
- September 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM
- Bella @Bellgetsreal said...
We had the worse summer ever and as soon as it is officially fall the sun decides to pokes its little head out and shine upon us. So frustrating...like today. Wearing scarf and trench and turns out to be 70 degrees.
- September 29, 2011 at 5:13 AM
- Aquí said...
I couldn't agree more. Scorching one minute and then rainy and windy the next! I can't get it figured out! I love that romper, it is quite a tease isn't it! p.s. I just noticed your comment message (which I love) about the weirdos who say follow me and I'll follow you. I've had it with them! grrr
- September 29, 2011 at 7:00 AM
- Diana Mieczan said...
Hahah..you are funny! The weather is playing tricks with us too. Kisses and hugs, sunshine.
- September 29, 2011 at 5:19 PM
- LyddieGal said...
I love it, and I love summer - I'd be ever so happy for more warm sunny days!
- September 29, 2011 at 9:12 PM
- Mumbles said...
Ahahaha funny post,
the same thing is happening here, a week or so ago it was really cold and now I'm wearing shorts again...
I want to wear fall clothes, come on!
By the way, that rumper is gorgeous
- October 1, 2011 at 1:48 AM
- Poppies and Sunshine said...
This is so cute! The weather has been playing tricks on me here. So hot then kinda cold...then perfect. I never know what to wear!
- October 1, 2011 at 6:26 AM
- Djewelr said...
I love this one...
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The Suites Apartment & Residence Phuket
- Free WiFi
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No reception and tour operators can't find the hotel easily.
The apartment is new and well furnished. The staff is excellent and super nice that they…
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- Bangla Road (5-minute walk)
- Patong Beach (8-minute walk)
- Karon Beach (3.2 mi / 5.1 km)
- Chalong Temple (4.1 mi / 6.5 km)
- Big Buddha (4.4 mi / 7.1 km)
- Phuket Fantasea (4.7 mi / 7.6 km)
- Promthep Cape (9 mi / 14.6 km)
- Phuket Aquarium (9.6 mi / 15.5 km)
Getting around
- Phuket (HKT-Phuket Intl.) - 59 min drive
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
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Key facts
- 9 apartments
- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
- Check-out time is noon
If you are planning to arrive after midnight please contact the property in advance using the information on the booking confirmation.
24-hour airport shuttle service is available on request. Fees may apply. Contact the property in advance to make arrangements.
Required at check-in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- No parking
- Free nearby parking
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At the aparthotel
- Scuba diving nearby
- Nightclub
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Luggage storage
- Elevator
- Designated smoking areas
- Terrace
- Wheelchair accessible
- English
In the apartment
- Air conditioning
- Slippers
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Separate dining area
- Separate sitting area
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Flat-screen TV
- Satellite TV channels
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Kitchenette
- Free bottled water
- Weekly housekeeping provided
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- Suites Apartment Phuket Patong
- Suites Apartment Phuket
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- The Suites & Phuket Patong
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- The Suites Apartment & Residence Phuket Aparthotel
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For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
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You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
Cash deposit: THB 2000.00 per stay
- Resort fee: THB 0.0
Optional extras
Weekly housekeeping is provided; additional cleaning is offered for an extra charge of THB 1000 per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of THB 1600.00 per vehicle (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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I am a professional aviator. This place was exceptional, from start to finish, everything with a smile. The apartment I had was exactly as specified and pictured. Comfy Bed and more importantly the pillows were great, soft in my case. (subjective of course). Shower is good with plenty of hot water. I have been travelling for the last 2 months and by far the best place I have stayed in. IMO Equivalent to a 4* Crowne Plaza, without the hotel services of course. I would have liked an Iron and Board. TRhank you all at the suites, I will be back if I can get a room!
Very nice place in a decent location, but the bed is extremely hard. There a re no irons or steamers to use in the building for your clothes, nor a drying rack for washing.
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Police in Lilongwe are this morning 26th October, 2018, interrogating the famous Reverend Chimwemwe Mhango over allegations that he was having sex, going out with a lady Shupie Mkandawire which has led to collapse of marriage between Shupie and Haswel Mkandawire.
Both Haswel and Shupie are prominent members of Chimwemwe Mhango new church Redeemed Presbyterian Church (RPC). Mhango broke away from Livingstonia Church to form his own church.
The news has sent shock waves to church members of the new church. Rumours have been there since 2017 that Mhango is having an adulterous relationship with Shupie Mkandawire. Reports say there are also several families which are following up on various rumours concerning Mhango.
The new Marriage, Divorce and Family Act under section 112(a)(d) makes an offense for a third party to use his influence to cause breakdown of marriage or make marriage deteriorate. Reverend Chimwemwe Mhango is alleged to have used his position of influence as a pastor to be a counselor to the family but later was caught to be going out with Shupie.
An audio of telephone conversation between Mhango and Shupie was intercepted where they are heard saying 'I love you! I love you!' and Shupie saying 'mwakhuta kale za kwanuko, simungafune zakuno.' Reports indicate more evidence has been obtained through call logs where Mhango and Shupie talk several times in a day.
If police are convinced that Mhango committed an offense under new Marriage, Divorce and Family Relations Act, they can prosecute him and he may be jailed up to 1 year for disturbing a lawful marriage as third party.
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Moonlight State: The honest cop who helped blow the whistle on Australia's most corrupt police force
It was an unusual assignment, and Australian Federal Police officer Dave Moore wasn't happy about it.
"I had a call to go and visit the assistant commissioner," he recounted.
"He asked me to keep a lookout for a bloke by the name of Chris Masters from Four Corners."
To Mr Moore, babysitting a journalist was not part of his remit.
"I'll be honest, I told [my assistant commissioner] I didn't want to do the job," he said.
But an order was an order.
It was 1987, and the AFP hierarchy had information that Masters was in danger.
He wasn't at risk from the criminal underworld, but from the corrupt members of the Queensland police.
"It was made very clear that they were concerned for Chris's safety," said Mr Moore, speaking for the first time about the AFP's secret role in protecting the Four Corners reporter.
"So we put the resources of the AFP, discreetly, behind keeping a lookout for Chris."
'We were being watched and shadowed'
Masters was getting too close to a brotherhood of bent cops and their network of graft and corruption, an arrangement known as "the Joke".
What was the Joke?The Joke was a vast system of graft and protection involving illegal gambling, starting price bookmakers, brothels and massage parlours that stretched back decades in Queensland.
The dirty money flowed to the police, particularly to several senior members of the infamous Licensing Branch, who in exchange for regular cash payments turned a blind eye to vice.
In its later and most lucrative form, the Joke was administered by Jack Herbert, who, by the time it all came crashing down, was passing on nearly $60,000 a month in protection money to police.
Herbert was estimated to have received more than $3 million in payments.
In early 1987 The Courier-Mail ran a series of articles about unchallenged vice in Brisbane.
Then in May, The Moonlight State program was broadcast on Four Corners, revealing that police were being bribed to protect vice in Queensland.
The next day the acting premier Bill Gunn called a judicial inquiry.
The Fitzgerald Inquiry would run for two years and hear from more than 300 witnesses.
Evidence from the inquiry would lead to four government ministers and police commissioner Terry Lewis being jailed.
Other police would go to prison, while senior officers — including the assistant commissioner Graeme Parker — would give evidence in exchange for indemnity from prosecution.
The Fitzgerald Inquiry would also lead to the establishment of Queensland's first anti-corruption body.
Stretching back several decades, the Joke was a system of protection payments that flowed from brothel owners, SP bookies and illegal gaming operators into the hands of corrupt police.
It was worth millions, and the Joke's tentacles reached right to the top of the Queensland force.
In late 1986, early 1987, Masters had been sniffing around Brisbane's red light district of Fortitude Valley for weeks talking to pimps, prostitutes and disgruntled police.
His inquiries were making the brotherhood nervous.
"We were being watched and shadowed," Masters recalled.
"I didn't really know that until Dave started to point out people who were surveilling me."
Mr Moore says he first met Masters "up at the Tower Mill [Hotel]".
"It became quite apparent to me that there was someone paying quite a lot of attention to Chris across the road," he said.
"We later found out it was a hired vehicle which was being used by officers of the [Queensland] Police Force."
The plan to frame Chris Masters
As Masters got closer to cracking the Joke, the police brotherhood knew it had to destroy the Four Corners reporter before he destroyed them.
"They took him extremely seriously, to the point where they were on the brink of literally setting him up," said Matthew Condon, the author of a three-book series on police corruption in Queensland.
"The plan was that they would plant an underage boy in Masters' hotel room in the city and ultimately, whether they could prove it or not, the mud would have been thrown against Masters to discredit him."
Masters would only be told of the plan to stitch him up many months later, after The Moonlight State had gone to air.
"I learnt of it through [former rugby league player] Tommy Raudonikis. He'd heard of it from a police mate and he then tipped off my brother Roy who told me," Masters said.
"But when it was all supposed to happen I wasn't in Brisbane, I was back in Sydney."
The plan revealed the lengths the corrupt Queensland police brotherhood was prepared to go to protect the Joke.
It had flourished for years under the stewardship of a man known as "the Bagman".
Jack Herbert was a former police Licensing Branch detective who for years was the conduit between the crooks and the cops.
He doled out hundreds of thousands in bribes to corrupt police.
Masters travelled the state speaking to and interviewing people about the Joke.
On May 11, 1987, The Moonlight State went to air on Four Corners.
"The pivotal thing about The Moonlight State and why it caused an earthquake was that for the first time, what Masters achieved, was a link between criminal figures, the underworld and corruption and police," Condon said.
"That's what caused so much drama and why it was an astonishing piece of television journalism."
For Masters, the day after The Moonlight State would bring fresh drama.
"I wake up to the sounds of my own heartbeat," he said.
"These are scary moments, sometimes the worst moments because you've done your best, you're pretty much exhausted, but then a whole new battle begins."
That battle would become the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
It would run for two years, hear from 339 witnesses and see the police commissioner, Sir Terence Lewis, jailed and stripped of his knighthood.
Also convicted were senior police and Valley kingpin, Gerry Bellino, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for paying bribes.
As for Jack "the Bagman" Herbert, he escaped jail by rolling over and telling all to the inquiry.
Watch Four Corners' Breaking the Brotherhood on iview.
The Moonlight State, the 1987 report that prompted the Fitzgerald Inquiry, can be viewed in full on the Four Corners website.
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Though brokers say cybersecurity is one of their top priorities, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. says it still sees a lot of problematic practices at firms.
To help them improve, Finra on Thursday updated a 2015 report on cybersecurity that details best practices for broker-dealers.
The "Report on Selected Cybersecurity Practices – 2018" covers five topics addressing the evolving threat of cybercrime and the most frequent findings from its examination program.
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"Securities firms rate cybersecurity as one of their top operational risks, and our new report addresses areas that firms tend to find most challenging," David Kelley, surveillance director of member supervision in Finra's Kansas City office, said in a statement.
The topics include cybersecurity controls in branch offices; methods of limiting "phishing" attacks; identifying and mitigating insider threats; elements of a strong penetration-testing program; and establishing and maintain controls on mobile devices.
The report addresses several critical issues firms are often unfamiliar with, said Bart McDonough, CEO and founder of Agio, a hybrid cybersecurity and managed IT firm. For example, Finra describes the best way of contacting the FBI in the event of a breach.
However, Mr. McDonough said the report could have been presented by simply to increase understanding, especially for firms who don't have a cybersecurity expert who can decipher technical language.
"The report misses an opportunity to highlight the critical need for threat intelligence, where firms have insight into what's happening at other, similar companies," Mr. McDonough said in an email.
"Another shortcoming of the report is that it buries the importance of executive leadership and management support in the middle of the analysis. That has to be a starting point and a tone-setter for the entire firm."
The updated report goes into greater depth and detail than the 2015 report. Finra describes more than 30 specific practices for branch controls that cover written supervisory procedures, asset inventories, technical controls and branch review programs.
Mark Brown, president of cybersecurity compliance firm Advisor Armor, said firms with a "hub and spoke" structure are of particular interest to Finra and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the additional detail on branch office cybersecurity isn't surprising.
(More: SEC adds cybersecurity bite to its bark)
"Finra and [broker/dealers] have been late to this, and registered reps are in a tug a war with who pays for it," Mr. Brown said in an email. "But in the end, the right controls, evidence and auditing of cybersecurity need to be in place."
Finra also highlights how firms can detect phishing attacks, even if they appear to come from trusted sources.
The report includes an appendix covering core cybersecurity controls for small firms, which, in addition to the "Small Firm Cybersecurity Checklist," can help smaller businesses identify possible cybersecurity controls.
"There is no 'one-size-fits-all' approach to cybersecurity, so Finra has made a priority of providing firms with reports and other tools to help them determine the right set of practices for their individual business," said Steven Polansky, senior director of member supervision in Finra's Washington office.
(More: LPL providing credit monitoring, identity protection to investors exposed by data breach)
Shan Dagli, head of intermediary solutions at Envision, an IT provider, suspects the increased guidance means Finra's 2018 exams revealed a wide disparity in what firms were doing from a cybersecurity standpoint.
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Meditation on Psalm 119:65-72 Teth
Psa 119:65 Teth. You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word.
Psa 119:66 Teach me good discernment and knowledge, For I believe in Your commandments.
Psa 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word.
Psa 119:68 You are good and do good; Teach me Your statutes.
Psa 119:69 The arrogant have forged a lie against me; With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.
Psa 119:70 Their heart is covered with fat, But I delight in Your law.
Psa 119:71 It is good for me that I was afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes.
Psa 119:72 The law of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Great Redeeming Creator, God of Abraham, help me to see that YOU have dealt with me in great compassion, mercy, kindness, and grace. Allow me to see YOU have kept every promise and principle of YOUR WORD to me. You are trustworthy.
Teach me to be able to see reality for what it is. Take from me delusions. Show me the naked facts of what actually is the condition of my life. Help me to believe YOUR revelation as the ultimate TRUTH.
YOU have had mercy on me and afflicted me with YOUR chastising love and now I am better equipped to guard YOUR WORD in my daily life.
Even when abused I will live by YOUR truth. Lord give me grace to do this.
Help my heart be sensitive to YOU even when others are hard towards YOUR love and ways.
I am glad that I have suffered, for in that pain there was gain and I have grown in my understanding of YOU.
Help me value YOUR revelation to me as more valuable than money, possession, power, and status.
Lord grant me the ability to see reality and adapt to reality. Amen
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Published Sep 01, 2009"Friends don't let friends bang each other's soul mate" is an odd piece of advice but when you're Hank Moody, a once successful novelist struggling with writer's block and trying to win back the hand of the mother of your child, it's fitting and even a little touching. The second season of Californication finds Moody (played by real-life sex addict David Duchovny) paying dearly for all the fucking around he did in the Showtime series' first run. Having won back Karen (Natascha McElhone), everything finally seems to be going his way. He's even commissioned to write the biography of superstar record produce Lew Ashby (played by Battlestar Galactica alum Callum Keith Rennie) but things quickly head south when Hank discovers a woman he slept with while apart from Karen is pregnant, most likely with his child, causing Karen to once again kick Hank to the curb. He moves into Ashby's mansion and soon finds a kindred spirit in debauchery and broken hearts. Meanwhile, Hank's agent Charlie (Sex and the City's Evan Handler) is struggling with his demons. Having been caught masturbating at work, he's forced to strike out on his own, signing a fledging porn star and landing her a part in Vaginatown, while his wife Marcy (Pamela Adlon) falls prey to her cocaine habit. Like the previous season, season two is well written and often hilarious but the whole thing feels superficial and inessential. Showtime has been quietly eating away at HBO's one-time monopoly on original cable TV series but where HBO's dominance relied on multi-layered programs filled with allegory and allusion, Showtime has settled for the profane: a sex-addicted writer, a homicidal police officer (Dexter) and a pot-dealing soccer mom (Weeds). While all are extremely well executed and far superior to anything on regular television there's just not enough depth to push these programs to the heights of The Sopranos or Six Feet Under. (Paramount)


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Authorities announced Wednesday that they'd charged both the accused gunman and his alleged wheelman in a drive-by Paterson shooting that left one man dead and two injured this past summer.
Jordany Santana, 19, opened fire on a crowd outside the Riverview Terrace high-rise complex on Presidential Boulevard the night of Aug. 22, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a brief release.
Driving, they said, was Nasiera Jones, for whom they didn't disclose an age or town.
The pair ditched the car they were using and fled in another vehicle, the release says.
Both men are charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder and weapons counts, including being convicted felons in possession of firearms, it says.
The announcement was the first time that Valdes and Oswald disclosed that an arrest had been made in the two-month old shooting – and that Santana was the accused gunman.
The picture is muddled further by their announcement a week ago that Santana had been charged with weapons offenses in connection with a June 12 incident that they didn't explain.
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Like Santana, Jones was already in custody when the murder charges were drawn – although, again, neither Valdes nor Oswald said why, other than to cite "unrelated matters."
Both remain held in the Passaic County Jail, they said.
All three victims were taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center after the Aug. 22 shooting at 125 Presidential Boulevard.
Two of them -- Santos Lantigua, 38, of Jersey City and 19-year-old Shadire Scott of Paterson – eventually were released after treatment.
However, Xavier McCray, 25, of Paterson died two hours after the 7 p.m. shooting, authorities said.
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Wikipedia C++11 article suggests that C++03 throw specifiers are deprecated.
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