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Love Is Ever Seeking and Never Satisfied
Love Is Ever Seeking and Never Satisfied
Pope John Paul II
At the general audience in St Peter's Square, on Wednesday morning, 6 June, Pope John Paul II continued his analysis of the Song of Songs in connection with his catechesis on the theology of human love in the divine plan.
1. Again today we will reflect on the Song of Songs, with the aim of better understanding the sacramental sign of marriage.
The truth about love, proclaimed by the Song of Songs, cannot be separated from the language of the body. The truth about love enables the same language of the body to be reread in truth. This is also the truth about the progressive approach of the spouses which increases through love. The nearness means also the initiation into the mystery of the person, without, however, implying its violation (cf. Sg 1:13-14, 16).
The truth about the increasing nearness of the spouses through love is developed in the subjective dimension "of the heart," of affection and sentiment. This dimension allows one to discover in itself the other as a gift and, in a certain sense, to "taste it" in itself (cf. Sg 2:3-6).
Through this nearness the groom more fully lives the experience of that gift which on the part of the female "I" is united with the spousal expression and meaning of the body. The man's words (cf. Sg 7:1-8) do not only contain a poetic description of his beloved, of her feminine beauty on which his senses dwell, but they speak of the gift and the self-giving of the person.
The bride knows that the groom's longing is for her and she goes to meet him with the quickness of the gift of herself (cf. Sg 7:9-13) because the love that unites them is at one and the same time of a spiritual and a sensual nature. It is also on the basis of this love that the rereading of the significance of the body in the truth comes to pass, since the man and woman must together constitute that sign of the mutual gift of self, which puts the seal on their whole life.
2. In the Song of Songs the language of the body becomes a part of the single process of the mutual attraction of the man and woman. This attraction is expressed in the frequent refrains that speak of the search that is full of nostalgia, of affectionate solicitude (cf. Sg 2:7) and of the spouses' mutual rediscovery (cf. Sg 5:2). This brings them joy and calm, and seems to lead them to a continual search. One has the impression that in meeting each other, in reaching each other, in experiencing one's nearness, they ceaselessly continue to tend toward something. They yield to the call of something that dominates the content of the moment and surpasses the limits of the eros, limits that are reread in the words of the mutual language of the body (cf. Sg 1:7-8; 2:17). This search has its interior dimension: "the heart is awake" even in sleep. This aspiration, born of love on the basis of the language of the body, is a search for integral beauty, for purity that is free of all stain. It is a search for perfection that contains, I would say, the synthesis of human beauty, beauty of soul and body.
In the Song of Songs the human eros reveals the countenance of love ever in search and, as it were, never satisfied. The echo of this restlessness runs through the strophes of the poem:
"I opened to my lover—but my lover had departed, gone.
I sought him but I did not find him;
I called to him but he did not answer me" (Sg 5:6).
"I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my lover—
What shall you tell him?
that I am faint with love" (Sg 5:9).
3. So then some strophes of the Song of Songs present the eros as the form of human love in which the energies of desire are at work. In them, the awareness or the subjective certainty of the mutual, faithful and exclusive belonging is rooted. At the same time, however, many other strophes of the poem lead us to reflect on the cause of the search and the restlessness that accompanies the awareness of belonging to each other. Is this restlessness also part of the nature of the eros? If it were, this restlessness would indicate also the need for self-control. The truth about love is expressed in the awareness of mutual belonging, the fruit of the aspiration and search for each other, and in the need for the aspiration and the search, the outcome of mutual belonging.
In this interior necessity, in this dynamic of love, there is indirectly revealed the near impossibility of one person's being appropriated and mastered by the other. The person is someone who surpasses all measures of appropriation and domination, of possession and gratification, which emerge from the same language of the body. If the groom and the bride reread this language in the full truth about the person and about love, they arrive at the ever deeper conviction that the fullness of their belonging constitutes that mutual gift in which love is revealed as "stern as death," that is, it goes to the furthest limits of the language of the body in order to exceed them. The truth about interior love and the truth about the mutual gift in a certain sense continually call the groom and the bride—through the means of expressing the mutual belonging, and even by breaking away from those means—to arrive at what constitutes the very nucleus of the gift from person to person.
Following the paths of the words marked out by the strophes of the Song of Songs, it seems that we are therefore approaching the dimension in which the eros seeks to be integrated, through still another truth about love. Centuries later, in the light of the death and resurrection of Christ, Paul of Tarsus will proclaim this truth in the words of his Letter to the Corinthians:
"Love is patient; love is kind.
Love is not jealous; it does not put on airs; it is not snobbish.
Love is never rude; it is not self-seeking; it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries.
Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth.
There is no limit to love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to endure.
Love never fails" (1 Cor 13:4-8).
Is the truth about love, expressed in the strophes of the Song of Songs, confirmed in the light of these words of Paul? In the Song we read, as an example of love, that its "jealousy" is "relentless as the nether world" (Sg 8:6). In the Pauline letter we read that "love is not jealous." What relationship do both of these expressions about love have? What relationship does the love that is "stern as death," according to the Song of Songs, have with the love that "never fails," according to the Pauline letter? We will not multiply these questions; we will not open the comparative analysis. Nevertheless, it seems that love opens up before us here in two perspectives. It is as though that in which the human eros closes its horizon is still opened, through Paul's words, to another horizon of love that speaks another language, the love that seems to emerge from another dimension of the person, and which calls, invites, to another communion. This love has been called "agape" and agape brings the eros to completion by purifying it.
So we have concluded these brief meditations on the Song of Songs, intended to further examine the theme of the language of the body. In this framework, the Song of Songs has a totally singular meaning.
Taken from:
L'Osservatore Romano
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11 June 1984, page 9
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The acupuncturist is the expert who performs acupuncture. He or she may employ needles or other devices, depending on the type, to achieve harmony and balance in the body.
Before you can proceed, you must first answer a few questions. Following that, a physical exam will be performed to check your pulse and evaluate the shape, color, and coating of your tongue. The color and texture of your skin, as well as your posture, will be checked as these will reveal clues to your health.
Only then will you be told to lie down on a padded examination table and have needles inserted into your skin. This needle differs in that it twirls and jiggles when it is inserted deeper into the body.
You may not notice the needles at all, or if you do, it will be a brief twitch. They will be left in place for 15 to 30 minutes, which may cause you to feel pretty calm and tired, even to the point of nodding off. When the session is over, the needles are removed and you are free to leave.
In certain cases, acupuncture is more effective when the needles are heated beforehand. This practice is known as moxibustion. A little bunch of the dried herb known as moxa or mugwort is ignited and placed over the needles by the acupuncturist. The herb, which burns slowly and creates a light smoke as well as a pleasant, incense-like odor, will never come into contact with your skin.
Acupuncture with electricity is another option. A weak current runs through the needles via electrical connections, causing no or little sensation.
To ensure the success of your therapy, the acupuncturist may also prescribe herbs.
When searching for an acupuncturist, make sure they are fully qualified. Before receiving one, he or she must first complete three years of training at a recognized oriental medicine university.
There are a few questions you should ask an acupuncturist other than their credentials. You should be knowledgeable about the many styles of acupuncture, as some do not use needles to treat patients.
Despite the fact that no studies have been undertaken to show that one technique is preferable to the other, some patients prefer one over the other.
Another question you should ask and further explore is how long the treatment will last. Patients with chronic illnesses will need to be treated for months before any obvious improvements can be seen. This will help you plan your schedule because you must visit the clinic 2 to 3 times every week.
Acupuncturists, like doctors, are there to make you feel better. If you are not making progress with this expert, you may need to seek the help of another specialist.
Types of Acupuncture
Acupuncture is available in a variety of formats. Whatever you select, the goal is the same: to alleviate pain or treat specific illnesses.
TCM-based acupuncture is the first type. To establish physical harmony, it employs eight notions of complementary opposites. Yin/yang, internal/external, excess/deficiency, and hot/cold are a few examples.
French energetic acupuncture is the next type of acupuncture. This is widely used by MD acupuncturists. Meridian patterns are highlighted here, notably yin-yang pairs of main meridians.
Another type of acupuncture is Korean hand acupuncture, which practitioners believe has qi concentrations in the hands and feet and that inserting acupuncture needles into these areas is beneficial to the entire body.
Auricular acupuncture is also used since the ear is regarded to be a microcosm of the body. To treat certain addiction disorders, acupuncture needles are inserted into specific sites on the ear.
Myofascial-based acupuncture is widely used by physical therapists since it involves feeling the meridian lines for uncomfortable places before providing needles because this is where aberrant energy flows.
In diagnosis, Japanese acupuncture treatments known as "meridian therapy" lay a stronger emphasis on the needling technique and perceiving meridians.
Electromagnetic energy impulses can also be exploited since the body produces tiny electrical discharges that affect the function, growth, and maturity of specific cell types. By inserting needles into specific areas of the body, neurotransmitters are stimulated and changed, allowing the patient to feel better after therapy. This is also used for diagnostic and testing purposes at times.
Acupuncture is also possible without the use of needles. To treat a patient, sonopuncture, for example, uses ultrasound equipment to deliver sound waves to specific places on the body. Some practitioners utilize a tuning fork or other vibrating devices.
Acupressure is another option. In this scenario, the specialist will relieve the discomfort with their hands. This can be used alone or in combination with other manual healing treatments.
The number of treatments required is determined by the condition of the patient. On average, this might be 10 to 5 treatments each month, 2 to 3 times per week. The price also fluctuates, with estimates ranging from £40 to £150. Some insurance companies now cover it entirely or partially, so check your policy to see if this is covered.
Which type of acupuncture should you try? That is all up to you. All of them are successful, so consult with your doctor and do some research so you know what you're getting yourself into. Each of these operations is painless, so simply relax and leave the rest to the pros.
As with traditional medicine, don't anticipate immediate results; it takes time, so keep an open mind.
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Making a custom made piece of furniture is easier than you may think; normally following one of two options – either a reproduction piece or a custom design. For reproduction pieces the artist along with the customer will do the required research needed to build the furniture to the exact original specification.
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Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison to soil loss. So why don't we talk about it?
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th March 2015
Imagine a wonderful world, a planet on which there was no threat of climate breakdown, no loss of freshwater, no antibiotic resistance, no obesity crisis, no terrorism, no war. Surely, then, we would be out of major danger? Sorry. Even if everything else were miraculously fixed, we're knackered if we don't address an issue considered so marginal and irrelevant that you can go for months without seeing it in a newspaper.
It's literally and – it seems – metaphorically, beneath us. To judge by its absence from the media, most journalists treat it as unworthy of consideration. But all human life depends on it. We knew this long ago, but somehow it has been forgotten. As a Sanscrit text written in around 1500 BC noted, "Upon this handful of soil our survival depends. Husband it and it will grow our food, our fuel, and our shelter and surround us with beauty. Abuse it and the soil will collapse and die, taking humanity with it".
The issue hasn't changed, but we have. Landowners around the world are now engaged in an orgy of soil destruction – so intense that, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, the world, on average, has just 60 more years of growing crops. Even in Britain, which is spared the tropical downpours that so quickly strip exposed soil from the land, Farmers' Weekly reports that we have "only 100 harvests left".
To keep up with global food demand, the UN estimates, 6 million hectares of new farmland will be needed every year. Instead, 12 million hectares a year are lost through soil degradation. We wreck it, then move on, trashing rainforests and other precious habitats as we go. Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters, making them available to plants. That handful the Vedic master showed his disciples contains more micro-organisms than all the people who have ever lived on Earth. Yet we treat it like, well, dirt.
The techniques that were supposed to feed the world threaten us with starvation. A paper just published in the journal Anthropocene analyses the undisturbed sediments in an 11th century French lake. It shows that the intensification of farming over the last century has increased the rate of soil erosion 60-fold.
Another paper, by researchers in the UK, shows that soil in allotments – the small patches in towns and cities that people cultivate by hand – contains a third more organic carbon than agricultural soil and 25% more nitrogen. This is one of the reasons why allotment holders produce between four and 11 times more food per hectare than do farmers.
Whenever I mention this issue, people ask, "but surely farmers have an interest in looking after their soil?". They do, and there are many excellent cultivators who seek to keep their soil on the land. There are also some terrible farmers, often absentees, who allow contractors to rip their fields to shreds for the sake of a quick profit. Even the good ones are hampered by an economic and political system that could scarcely be better designed to frustrate them.
This is the International Year of Soils, but if you've missed it you're not the only one. In January the Westminster government published a new set of soil standards, marginally better than those they replaced, but wholly unmatched to the scale of the problem. There are no penalities for compromising our survival except a partial witholding of public subsidies.
Yet even these pathetic standards are considered intolerable by the National Farmers' Union, that greeted them with bitter complaints. Sometimes the NFU seems to me to exist to champion bad practice and block any possibility of positive change. Few sights are as gruesome as the glee with which it celebrated the death last year of the European Soil Framework Directive. This was the only measure that had the potential to arrest our soil erosion crisis, yet the NFU, supported by successive British governments, fought for eight years to destroy it, then crowed like a shedful of cockerels when it won. Looking back on this episode, we will see it as a parable of our times.
Soon after that, the business minister, Matthew Hancock, announced that he was putting "business in charge of driving reform": trade associations would be able "to review enforcement of regulation in their sectors." The NFU was one the first two bodies granted this privilege. Hancock explained that this "is all part of our unambiguously pro-business agenda to increase the financial security of the British people." But it doesn't increase our security, financial or otherwise. It undermines it.
The government's Deregulation Bill, that has now almost completed its passage through parliament, will force regulators – including those charged with protecting the fabric of the land – to "have regard to the desirability of promoting economic growth." But short-term growth at the expense of public protection compromises long-term survival. This "unambiguously pro-business agenda" is deregulating us to death.
There's no longer even an appetite for studying the problem. Just one university – Aberdeen – now offers a degree in soil science. All the rest have been closed down.
This is what topples civilisations. War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything else goes with it.
Now globalisation ensures that this disaster is reproduced everywhere. In its early stages, globalisation enhances resilience: people are no longer dependent on the vagaries of local production. But as it proceeds, spreading the same destructive processes to all corners of the Earth, it undermines resilience, as it threatens to bring down systems everywhere.
Almost all other issues are superficial by comparison. What appear to be great crises are slight and evanescent when held up against the steady but unremarked trickling away of our subsistence.
The avoidance of this issue is perhaps the greatest social silence of all. Our insulation from the forces of nature has encouraged a belief in the dematerialisation of our lives, as if we no longer subsist on food and water, but on bits and bytes. This is a belief that can be entertained only by people who have never experienced serious hardship, and who are therefore unaware of the contingency of existence.
It's not as if we are short of solutions. While it now seems that ploughing of any kind is incompatible with the protection of the soil, there are plenty of means of farming without it. Independently, in several parts of the world, farmers have been experimenting with zero-tillage (also known as conservation agriculture), often with extraordinary results. There are dozens of ways of doing it: we need never see bare soil again. But in the UK, as in most rich nations, we have scarcely begun to experiment with the technique, despite the best efforts of the magazine Practical Farm Ideas and other innovators.
Even better are some of the methods that fall under the heading of permaculture, that means working with complex natural systems, rather than seeking to simplify or replace them. Pioneers like Sepp Holzer and Geoff Lawton have achieved remarkable yields of fruit and vegetables in places that seemed unfarmable: 1100m above sea level in the Austrian Alps, for example, or in the salt-shrivelled Jordanian desert. But, though every year the Westminster government spends £450m on research and development for agriculture – much of it on techniques that wreck our soils – there is not one mention of permaculture either on the websites of the two major funding bodies (NERC and BBSRC) or anywhere in the government's entire web presence.
The macho commitment to destructive short-termism appears to resist all evidence and all logic. Never mind life on Earth; we'll plough on regardless.


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To keep your house smelling clean and fresh, use these common household items to destroy bacteria and germs that cause odors.
Lemon juice oxidizes and destroys bacteria that cause odors in the microwave.
How to use it: Put a thick slice of lemon on a paper towel and microwave for one to two minutes.
Chlorine bleach breaks chemical bonds and removes mildew odors from your washing machine.
How to use it: Remove all clothing from your washing machine and run a hot cycle with ½ cup of bleach.
Lavender oil contains a natural antiseptic and deodorizer that freshens up your home.
How to use it: Sprinkle a mixture of lavender oil and borax over carpet, let sit for a few minutes, and then vacuum.
Baking soda helps eliminate pet odors by neutralizing the acids that cause the smells.
How to use it: Sprinkle baking soda anywhere that pets like to sit, leave for half an hour and then vacuum up.


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std::regex_traits<CharT>::transform_primary (3) - Linux Manuals
std::regex_traits<CharT>::transform_primary: std::regex_traits<CharT>::transform_primary
std::regex_traits<CharT>::transform_primary - std::regex_traits<CharT>::transform_primary
template< class ForwardIt >
string_type transform_primary( ForwardIt first, ForwardIt last ) const;
For the character sequence [first, last), obtains the primary sort key in the imbued locale's collating order, that is, the sort key that is based on the positions of the letters and collation units in the national alphabet, ignoring case, diacritics, variants, etc. If a primary sort key compares less than another primary sort key with operator<, then the character sequence that produced the first sort key comes before the character sequence that produced the second sort key, in the currently imbued locale's primary collation order.
The regex library uses this trait to match characters against equivalence classes. For example, the regex [[=a=]] is equivalent to the character c1 if traits.transform_primary(c1) is equivalent to traits.transform_primary("a") (which is true for any c1 from "AÀÁÂÃÄÅaàáâãäå" in the U.S. English locale). Note that transform_primary() takes a character sequence argument because equivalence classes may be multicharacter, such as [[=ch=]] in Czech or [[=dzs=]] in Hungarian.
There is no portable way to define primary sort key in terms of std::locale since the conversion from the collation key returned by std::collate::transform() to the primary equivalence key is locale-specific, and if the user replaces the std::collate facet, that conversion is no longer known to the standard library's std::regex_traits. Standard library specializations of std::regex_traits return an empty string unless the std::collate facet of the currently-imbued locale was not replaced by the user, and still matches the system-supplied std::collate facet), in which case std::collate_byname<charT>::transform(first, last) is executed and the sort key it produces is converted to the expected primary sort key using a locale-specific conversion.
first, last - a pair of iterators which determines the sequence of characters to compare
Type requirements
ForwardIt must meet the requirements of LegacyForwardIterator.
Return value
The primary sort key for the character sequence [first, last) in the currently imbued locale, ignoring case, variant, diacritics, etc.
Demonstrates the regex feature that works through transform_primary()
// Run this code
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We hope you will enjoy your membership of the Royal Copenhagen Collector's Club.
ROYAL COPENHAGEN EXCLUSIVESThe name of Blue Palmette is derived from the artistic motif of palm leaves, palmettos, hand painted onto the porcelain. Fragments of the classic Blue Fluted Plain pattern are also present along with a nod to the three waves of the Royal Copenhagen trademark, formed in relief on the edges of Blue Palmette. Created in 2004.Blue Palmette is part of Royal Copenhagen Exclusives; handpicked collections sold exclusively in our own stores and on royalcopenhagen.com
Blue Palmette was inspired by Asian cooking and serving traditions, which is why several pieces are interpreting the sizes and shapes of traditional pieces like rice bowls and noodle bowls and classic ornaments like a small frog on a lid, which has special meaning in many countries.
Blue Palmette stands out with a delicate relief of Royal Copenhagen's three wavy lines, which can be found on plates and dishes. The eye-catching 70 cl teapot has a steel handle, while a charming seashell adorns the lid. Set a tea table using the minimalist cups, hand painted in graphic, floral patterns and add the beautiful dishes or rhombus-shaped bowls filled with cake and other sweets. The graphic 26 cm and 28.5 cm bowls are also ideal to be used for servings of salad, vegetables and other side dishes. The plates are designed with a slightly curved rim, creating a visual depth and surprising style in a combination with other Royal Copenhagen collections. The smallest 10 cm plate, which can also be bought in an exclusive gift set of five, is perfect as a small dessert plate, while the 20 cm and 26 cm plates are ideal to be used as lunch plates and dinner plates.
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Here's a fun little experiment from Hidden Pineapple, the minds behind Windows Phone and Windows 8 Twitter client Rowi. It's called mytil.es and is simply a place to share your Windows Phone 8 home screens.The site allows you to:
- See the latest screenshots posted
- Sign in with Facebook or Twitter and upload your own
- E-mail your screenshots to a specific e-mail address to upload them
- View details about each screenshot
- Download the full size screenshot
- Facebook Like or Tweet a screenshot
They are doing a soft launch and just seeing if there is any interest for projects like this. Be sure to report any bugs and leave feedback for the team. For me personally, it's fun to see little projects like this for the Windows Phone community. I'm looking forward to seeing how other people organize their start screen. So, what apps occupy your home screen "above the fold"? Share them in the comments below!
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The leader of Thailand's onetime opposition, who led mass anti-government demonstration in the run-up to last month's military coup, has acknowledged for the first time that he acted as an adviser to the army general who seized power.
Suthep Thaugsuban, whose "yellow shirt" movement sought to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra before her government was ousted in last month's coup, told a group of supporters in Bangkok on Monday that he'd been offering advice to army Chief Prayuth Chan-ocha for four years on how to root out the influence of Thailand's "red shirt" movement, The Bangkok Post reports.
In his remarks, Suthep made it clear that as leader of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee, he closely cooperated with the coup leaders well before they launched their May 22 putsch.
"Before martial law was declared, Gen Prayuth told me 'Khun Suthep and your masses of PDRC supporters are too exhausted. It's now the duty of the army to take over the task,' " Suthep was quoted by the Post as saying.
Suthep, who as deputy prime minister in 2010 ordered a bloody crackdown on the red shirts in the capital, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges related to the incident, which resulted in the deaths of about 90 protesters.
Yingluck's brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was swept to power in a landslide promising populist measures that garnered the votes of many of the country's poor, rural rice farmers — a result that angered many among Thailand's establishment elites.
Thaksin was ousted in a coup in 2006. Yingluck was elected four years later and again earlier this year in an election boycotted by the opposition. She was forced to step down after losing a court case just days before last month's coup.
As we reported in December, months before the coup Suthep acknowledged at a rally of his supporters that he'd met with Prayuth, sparking concern at the time that a coup might be in the works. Days later, Prayuth himself helped fuel speculation.
Update at 5:40 p.m. ET. Prayuth Denies Communication With Suthep:
"Gen Prayuth insisted he had never talked or exchanged messages in private with Mr. Suthep," junta spokesman Col. Winthai was quoted by the Post as saying.
The spokesman said that as chief of a security force it would have been illegal for Prayuth to have communicated with Suthep on such matters.
The Post, quoting unnamed sources, said the junta leader was "very upset" over the opposition leader's remarks.
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Alabama State Equine Statute |
TITLE 6. CIVIL PRACTICE CHAPTER 5. ACTIONS ARTICLE 18. EXEMPTIONS FROM LIABILITY Code of Ala. § 6-5-337 (1994) § 6-5-337. Immunity of those involved in equine activities. (a) The legislature recognizes that persons who participate in equine activities may incur injuries as a result of the risks involved in those activities. The legislature also finds that the state and its citizens derive numerous economic and personal benefits from equine activities. The legislature finds, determines, and declares that for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, and to encourage equine activities, this legislation is to limit the civil liability of those involved in equine activities. (b) As used in this section, the following words shall mean the following unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) Engages in an equine activity. Riding, training, providing, or assisting in providing medical treatment of, driving, or being a passenger upon an equine, whether mounted or unmounted, or any person assisting a participant or show management in equine activities. The term does not include being a spectator at an equine activity, except in cases where the spectator places himself or herself in an unauthorized area and in immediate proximity to the equine activity. (2) Equine. A horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny. (3) Equine activity. Any of the following: a. Equine shows, fairs, competitions, performances, or parades that involve any or all breeds of equines and any of the equine disciplines, including, but not limited to: dressage, hunter and jumper horse shows, grand prix jumping, three-day events, combined training, rodeos, driving, pulling, cutting, polo, steeplechasing, English and western performance riding, endurance trail riding and western games, and hunting. b. Equine training or teaching activities, or both. c. Boarding equines. d. Riding, inspecting, or evaluating an equine belonging to another, whether or not the owner has received some monetary consideration or other thing of value for the use of the equine or is permitting a prospective purchaser of the equine to ride, inspect, or evaluate the equine. e. Rides, trips, hunts, or other equine activities of any type, however informal or impromptu, that are sponsored by an equine-activity sponsor. f. Placing or replacing horseshoes on an equine. g. Examining or administering medical treatment to an equine by a veterinarian. (4) Equine activity sponsor. An individual, group, club, partnership, or corporation, whether or not the sponsor is operating for profit or nonprofit, which sponsors, organizes, or provides the facilities for an equine activity, including, but not limited to: pony clubs, 4-H clubs, hunt clubs, riding clubs, school and college sponsored classes, programs, and activities, therapeutic riding programs, and operators, instructors, and promoters of equine facilities, including, but not limited to, stables, clubhouses, ponyride strings, fairs, and arenas at which the activity is held. (5) Equine professional. A person engaged for compensation in: a. Instructing a participant or renting to a participant an equine for the purpose of riding, driving, or being a passenger upon the equine. b. Renting equipment or tack to a participant. c. Examining or administering medical treatment to an equine as a veterinarian. (6) Inherent risks of equine activities. Those dangers or conditions which are an integral part of equine activities, including, but not limited to: a. The propensity of an equine to behave in ways that may result in injury, harm, or death to persons on or around them. b. The unpredictability of the reaction of an equine to sounds, sudden movement, and unfamiliar objects, persons, or other animals. c. Certain hazards such as surface and subsurface conditions. d. Collisions with other equines or objects. e. The potential of a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to injury to the participant or others, such as failing to maintain control over the animal or not acting within his or her ability. (7) Participant. Any person, whether amateur or professional, who engages in an equine activity, whether or not a fee is paid to participate in the equine activity. (c) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (c)(2) and (c)(3), an equine activity sponsor, an equine professional, or any other person, which shall include a corporation or partnership, shall not be liable for an injury to or the death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of equine activities and, except as provided in subdivisions (c)(2) and (c)(3), no participant or representative of a participant shall make any claim against, maintain an action against, or recover from an equine-activity sponsor, an equine professional, or any other person for injury, loss, damage, or death of the participant resulting from any of the inherent risks of equine activities. (2) Nothing in subdivision (c)(1) shall prevent or limit the liability of an equine-activity sponsor, an equine professional, or any other person if the equine-activity sponsor, equine professional, or person: a. Provided the equipment or tack, and knew or should have known that the equipment or tack was faulty, and the equipment or tack was faulty to the extent that it did cause the injury. b. Provided the equine and failed to make reasonable and prudent efforts to determine the ability of the participant to engage safely in the equine activity and to safely manage the particular equine based on the participant's representations of his or her ability. c. Owns, leases, rents, or otherwise is in lawful possession and control of the land or facilities upon which the participant sustained injuries because of a dangerous latent condition which was known or should have been known to the equine-activity sponsor, equine professional, or person and for which warning signs have not been conspicuously posted. d. Commits an act or omission that constitutes willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant, and that act or omission caused the injury. e. Intentionally injures the participant. (3) Nothing in subdivision (c)(1), shall prevent or limit the liability of an equine activity sponsor or an equine professional under liability provisions as set forth in the products liability laws. (d) (1) Every equine professional and every equine- activity sponsor shall post and maintain signs which contain the warning notice specified in subdivision (d)(2). Signs shall be placed in a clearly visible location on or near stables, corrals, or areas where the equine professional or the equine-activity sponsor conducts equine activities. The warning notice specified in subdivision (d)(2) shall appear on the sign in black letters, with each letter to be a minimum of one inch in height. Every written contract entered into by an equine professional or by an equine- activity sponsor for the providing of professional services, instruction, or the rental of equipment or tack or an equine to a participant, whether or not the contract involves equine activities on or off the location or site of the equine professional's or the equine-activity sponsor's business, shall contain in clearly readable print the warning notice specified in subdivision (d)(2). (2) The signs and contracts described in subdivision (d)(1) shall contain the following warning notice:
(3) Failure to comply with the requirements concerning warning signs and notices provided in this section shall prevent an equine-activity sponsor or equine professional from invoking the privileges of immunity provided by this section.
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Marvell Announces ThunderX3: 96 Cores & 384 Thread 3rd Gen Arm Server Processor
by Andrei Frumusanu on March 16, 2020 8:30 AM EST- Posted in
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The Arm server ecosystem is well alive and thriving, finally getting into serious motion after several years of false-start attempts. Among the original pioneers in this space was Cavium, which went on to be acquired by Marvell in 2018. Among the company's server CPU products is the ThunderX line; while the first generation ThunderX left quite a lot to be desired, the ThunderX2 was the first Arm server silicon that we deemed viable and competitive against Intel and AMD products. Since then, the ecosystem has accelerated quite a lot, and only last week we saw how impressive the new Amazon Graviton2 with the N1 chips ended up. Marvell didn't stop at the ThunderX2, and had big ambitions for its newly acquired CPU division, and today is announcing the new ThunderX3.
The ThunderX3 is a continuation and successor to then-Cavium's custom microarchitecture found in the TX2, adopting a lot of the key characteristics, most notably the capability of 4-way SMT. Adopting a new microarchitecture with higher IPC capabilities, the new TX3 also ups the clock frequencies, and now hosts up to a whopping 96 CPU cores, allowing the chip to scale up to 384 threads in a single socket.
Marvell sees the ecosystem shifting in terms of workloads as more and more applications are shifting to the cloud, and applications are changing in their nature, with more customers employing their own custom software stacks and scaling out these applications. This means that workloads aren't necessarily focused just on single-threaded performance, but rather on the total throughput available in the system, at which point power efficiency also comes into play.
Like many other Arm vendors, Marvell sees a window of opportunity in the lack of execution of the x86 incumbents, very much calling out Intel's stumbling in process leadership over the past few years, and in general x86 designs being higher power. Marvell describes that part of the problem is that the current systems by the x86 players were designed with a wide range of deployment targets ranging from consumer client devices to the actual server machines, never actually achieving the best results in either workloads. In contrast, the ThunderX line-up is reportedly designed specifically with server workloads in mind, being able to achieve higher power efficiency and thus also achieving higher total throughput in a system.
We've known that ThunderX3 has been coming for quite a while now, admittedly expecting it towards the latter half of 2019. We don't know the behind-the-scenes timeline, but now Marvell is finally ready to talk about the new chip. Marvell's CPU roadmap is on a 2-year cadence, and the chip company here explains that this is a practical timeline, allowing customers time to actually adopt a generation and get good return on investment on the platform before possibly switching over to the next one. Of course, this also gives the design team more time to bring to market larger performance jumps once the new generations are ready.
The ThunderX3 - 96 Cores and 384 Threads in Arm v8.3+
So, what is the new ThunderX3? It's a ambitious design hosting up to 96 Arm v8.3+ custom cores running at up to frequencies of up to 3GHz all-core, at TDPs ranging from 100 to 240W depending on the SKU.
Marvell isn't quite ready to go into much details of the new CPU microarchitecture just yet, saying that they'll divulge a deeper disclosure of the TX3 cores later in the year (They're aiming for Hotchips), but they do say that one key characteristic is that it now features 4 128-bit SIMD execution units, matching the vector execution throughput of AMD and Intel's cores. When fully using these units, clock frequencies for all-core drop between 2.2 and 2.6GHz, limited by the thermal and power headroom available to the chip.
Having SMT4, the 96-core SKU is able to scale up to 384 threads in a socket, which is by far the highest thread count of any current and upcoming server CPU in the market, a big differentiating factor for the ThunderX3.
Marvell doesn't go into details of the topology of the chip or its packaging technology, only alluding that it'll have monolithic latencies between the CPU cores. The design comes in either 1 or 2 socket configurations, and the inter-socket communication uses CCPI (Cavium Cache Coherent Interconnect) in its 3rd generation, with 24 lanes at 28Gbit/s each, between the two sockets.
External connectivity is handled by 64 lanes of PCIe 4.0 with 16 controllers per socket, meaning up to 16 4x devices, with the choice of multiplexing them for higher bandwidth connectivity for 8x or 16x devices.
Memory capabilities of the chip is in line with current generation standards, featuring 8 DDR4-3200 memory controllers.
Marvell plans several SKUs, scaling the core count and memory controllers, in TDP targets ranging from 100W to 240W. These will all be based on the same silicon design, and binning the chips.
Large Generational Performance Improvements
In a comparison to the previous generation ThunderX2, the TX3 lists some impressive performance increases. IPC is said to have increased by a minimum of 25% in workloads, with total single-threaded performance going up to at least 60% when combined with the clock frequency increases. If we use the TX2 figures we have at hand, this would mean the new chip would land slightly ahead of Neoverse-N1 systems such as the Graviton2, and match more aggressively clocked designs such as the Ampere Altra.
Socket-level integer performance has at least increased by 3-fold, both thanks to the more capable cores as well as their vastly increased core number to up to 96 cores. Because the new CPU has now more SIMD execution units, floating point performance is even higher, increasing to up to 5x.
Because the chip comes with SMT4 and it's been designed with cloud workloads, it is able to extract more throughput out of the silicon compared to other non-SMT or SMT2 designs. Cloud workloads here essentially means data-plane bound workloads in which the CPU has to wait on data from a more distant source, and SMT helps in such designs in that the idle execution clocks between data accesses is simply filled by a different thread, doing long latency accesses itself.
ThunderX3 Performance Claims Against the Competition
Using this advantage, the ThunderX3 is said to have significant throughput advantages compared to the incumbent x86 players, vastly exceeding the performance of anything that Intel has currently to offer, and also beating AMD's Rome systems in extremely data-plane bound workloads thanks to the SMT4 and higher core counts.
More execution and compute bound workloads will see the least advantages here, as the SMT4 advantages greatly diminishes.
Yet for HPC and in particular floating-point workloads, the ThunderX3 is said to also be able to showcase its strengths thanks to the increased SIMD units as well as the overall power efficiency of the system, allowing for significant higher performance in such calculations. Memory bandwidth is also higher than a comparative AMD Rome based system because the lower latencies the TX3 is able to achieve. It's to be noted that the ThunderX3 will be coming to market later in the year, by which time they'll have to compete with AMD's newer Milan server CPU.
Marvell says that Arm in the cloud is gaining a lot of traction, and the company is already the market leader in terms of deployments of its ThunderX2 system among companies and hyperscalers (Microsoft Azure currently being the one publicly disclosed, but it's said that there are more). I don't really know if having a extremely high number of virtual machines being hosted on a single chip is actually an advantage (because of SMT4, per-VM performance might be quite bad), but Marvell does state that they'd be the leader in this metric with the ThunderX3, thanks to be able to host up to 384 threads.
Finally, the company claims a 30% perf/W advantage over AMD's Rome platform across an average of different workloads, thanks to the more targeted microarchitecture design. The more interesting comparison here would have been a showcase or estimate of how the ThunderX3 would fare against Neoverse-N1 systems such as the Graviton2 or the Altra, as undoubtedly the latter system would pose the closest competitor to the new Marvell offering. Given that the Altra isn't available yet, we don't know for sure how the systems will compete against each other, but I do suspect that the ThunderX3 to do better in at least FP workloads, and of course it has an indisputable advantage in data-plane workloads thanks to the SMT4 capability.
More Information at Hotchips 2020
Marvell hasn't yet disclosed much about the cache configuration or any other specifics of the system, for example what kind of interconnect the cores will be using or what kind of CPU topology they will be arranged in. The ThunderX3's success seemingly will depend on how it's able to scale performance across all of its 96 cores and the 384 threads – but at least as an initial impression, it seems that it might do quite well.
Today is just the initial announcement of the TX3, and Marvell will be revealing more details and information about the new CPU and the product line-up over the following months till the eventual availability later in the year.
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RallJ - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
Just marketing fluff no real info. Far behind the N1. This is DOA. -
eek2121 - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
My favorite part is they claim x86 has "low memory bandwidth" yet they have the exact same bandwidth as EPYC Rome. I will continue to be skeptical until they offer something concrete and testable. -
ProDigit - Sunday, April 26, 2020 - link
AMD Ryzen series, does have quite some latency, due to their auto frequency settings with xmp timings and infinity fabric and core auto overboost; much more than Intel, which is why AMD absolutely NEEDS fast memory to perform.
This latency can lead up to several seconds, before auto config has stabilized, and the system runs pretty optimal and lag-free.
It doesn't affect compute by much, save for the beginning load times, but it does affect VMs, and adds to the latency of cloud interactions.
I guess they're saying that this will not be the case with thunderx3. -
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Dug - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
Interesting read by Linus Torvalds. https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=1834...\
Basically why it hasn't taken off is nobody is developing on those systems. Any benefit that ARM provides is negated by the fact that you need to change everything that is already developed, so there is no cost benefit. People will pay more for an x86 box simply because it's what they developed their load on. He points to example of why RISC vendors died off.
Same on software side. There was no cross-development. It's too costly and relatively painful. And developers go to where the hardware and software already exit and is easily develop on. -
The_Assimilator - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
Yup. People keep going on and on about how Arm hardware is so much cheaper, when hardware is only a portion - often small - of the TCO. x86 is entrenched and the inertia to overcome that entrenchment is massive. Hence why the only companies that are actually interested in Arm servers are the companies that don't have to pay that massive software debt - i.e. hosting providers like Amazon. -
webdoctors - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
This has been known for more than 10 yrs.
I think the idea was the platform provider would port the entire toolchain, back when AMD bought SuperMICRO. The platform providers need to port the entire platform to ARM. Like the OS, the database software, the entire software ecosystem so when folks are selling SAAS, it doesnt matter what the CPU type is, because the customer doesn't care.
Look at Android SW development, you dont know what the base CPU Type is. The linker deals with it. -
rahvin - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
AMD never purchased supermicro. AMD did buy a company called SeaMicro that develops large mainframe style computers. -
questionlp - Monday, March 16, 2020 - link
SeaMicro had built ultra-dense micro servers, not mainframe-style computers. They were shut down by AMD a couple of years ago, I think. -
rahvin - Tuesday, March 17, 2020 - link
Ultra dense with high IO is mainframe IMO. The mainframe space has blurred a lot over the last decade with many new companies entering the market with these ultra dense x86 servers that behave very similar to mainframes of the past. Maybe the IO isn't quite high enough to qualify as mainframe but they are close enough I wouldn't qualify it.


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First, my thanks as always to those who came to listen and witness musicking in real-time collisions. It was great to see so many old friends and new faces; to hear from so many of how you made your way into this music. My heartfelt thanks to you for embarking on the journey with us!
I am so very grateful to all our hosts: a big, big, big thanks to Jazz em Agosto for making all this possible. My deepest gratitude to Rui Neves for first inviting this unruly trio to perform at the festival, and to his unerring belief in the necessity of difficult music. Thanks also to the super-professional sound and stage team; to Petra Cvelbar for the awesome photography; to João Brilhante for all the media work; and to the unshakable patience and enthusiasm of Inês Nunes who got this trio from A-to-B and back again (I expect big things in all your future endeavors).
Warmest thanks everyone at The Vortex for their generosity and enthusiasm—what a true community! In particular, thanks to the amazing Kathianne Hingwan for her kindness and generosity, to Kim Macari for the invitation to perform, and to our fantastic sound engineer Ali Ward for the faster-than-light energy. (And of course Nutmeg for greeting the band!)
Thanks to everyone behind the scenes at the Dublin event: to Note Productions (to Matthew Nolan for putting together the program), and to Improvise Music Company (to Aoife Concannon, Adam Nolan, Kenneth Killeen, and, in particular for the Question & Answer, to Caitríona O'Mahony). Thanks also to Zeropunkt (Fergus Cullen, Jamie Davis and Damien Lennon) for graciously sharing the stage with us.
Kudos, Sean Woodlock, mastermind behind Hackney Road Studios for the smoothest, quickest, most professional of setups, and for creating the most musically, technically, logistically and acoustically satisfying studio recording experience I've ever had. Truly, if anyone needs a recording, hit Sean up. (And thanks to Colin Webster for recommending the studio.)
Thanks to Laurent Carrier and everyone Colore for handling all the paperwork, and to the tireless Lee Paterson who helped negotiate the details, and guided this musician carefully through the whole paperwork process. You were just above-and-beyond, Lee! (And thanks to Ingrid Laubrock for introducing me to Lee, and to Alex Hawkins and Charles Hayward for BTS consultations.)
Kudos to Paul Acquaro and everyone at Free Jazz, to Mike Borella at Avant Music News, to Dave Foxall at a Jazz Noise, and Tim Owen of _____on Sound for their continued support, and help getting the word out about our music and these performances.
Last, but certainly not least, thanks go to my travel companions, both in musical and geographical space (and in hypothetical lived simulations and dream states). A big thanks to Catherine for the big note, the moments of harmonic serendipity, and the unexpectedly expected interjections; and to Nick for the super-critical noise, the human-controlled virtual reverb chamber, and for the dreamy soundscapes (or is that the sound dreamscapes). Thank you both for observing and noting the synchronicity in our travels (of foxes, of tango, of almost forgotten ancestors, of frozen assets). As we discussed on multiple occasions on the tour, the ensemble is the composition, and it was a pleasure to study this composition more fully with each performance: experiencing the music of changes from energetic play of weight and light (Vortex, London), high-risk explorations of the outer reaches of idiom (Hackney Road, London), games of serendipity and of disjunction (Lisbon), and music of counterpoint and real harmony (Dublin).
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Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (saxophone) and Nick Didkovsky (guitar).
Track listing: Therianthropy I (≥ 3:43), Therianthropy II (8:56), Therianthropy III (3:55), Therianthropy IV (6:30), Adaptive Radiation I (6:44), Adaptive Radiation II (8:48), Adaptive Radiation III (5:54), Universal Greebly (10:58), Hypnagogia I (8:03), Hypnagogia II (4:45). Total duration ≥ 68:25.
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Personnel: Han-earl Park (guitar), Catherine Sikora (tenor and soprano saxophones), Nick Didkovsky (guitar; tracks 1 and 5), and Josh Sinton (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet; tracks 2–4).
Track listing: Monopod (27:19), Pleonasm (Metis 9) (17:08), Flying Rods (Metis 9) (7:41), Hydraphon (7:34), StopCock (10:54). Total duration: 70:33.
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Judge: 5 other accusers can testify at Bill Cosby's retrial
Judge: 5 other accusers can testify at Bill Cosby's retrial By MICHAEL R. SISAK, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A judge agreed Thursday to let five additional Bill Cosby accusers testify at his April 2 retrial for an alleged 2004 sexual assault, giving prosecutors a chance to portray the man once known as "America's Dad" as a serial predator who made a sadistic habit of drugging and molesting women. Judge Steven O'Neill said prosecutors could choose the witnesses from a list of eight women with allegations dating as far back as the early 1980s. They include model Janice Dickinson, who said Cosby knocked her out with pills and raped her during a 1982 trip to Lake Tahoe.
Prosecutors, eager to expand the scope of the underlying he-said-she-said case, had pushed to let jurors hear from as many as 19 of the dozens of women who say Cosby assaulted them over a five-decade span. "We are reviewing the judge's order and will be making some determinations," District Attorney Kevin Steele said.
Cosby's retooled legal team, led by former Michael Jackson lawyer Tom Mesereau, went to court last week to block any additional accusers from testifying.
Cosby's lawyers argued prosecutors are trying to bolster an otherwise weak case with "ancient allegations" that would confuse, distract and prejudice the jury against the 80-year-old comedian.
"It just shows how desperate they are and that this is a very weak case," Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said after O'Neill's ruling. "Mr. Cosby is innocent of these charges."
Cosby has pleaded not guilty to charges he drugged and molested former Temple University women's basketball official Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home in January 2004. He remains free on bail.
O'Neill has yet to rule on whether Cosby's lawyers can tell jurors about his 2006 settlement with Constand. Mesereau said in court March 6 that jurors would learn "just how greedy" Constand was when they hear details about how much money she demanded from Cosby and what the star wound up paying her. Allowing additional accusers to testify is sure to keep Cosby in court longer than his first trial, which ended in a hung jury last year after six days of testimony and five days of deliberations.
Mesereau said prospective jurors should expect a monthlong trial. Jury selection begins March 29. Pennsylvania allows prosecutors to present evidence of alleged past misdeeds if they demonstrate the defendant engaged in a signature pattern of crime.
Prosecutors argue Cosby used his power and appeal as a beloved entertainer to befriend younger women and then plied them with drugs or alcohol before assaulting them.
Prosecutors tried to have 13 additional accusers testify at Cosby's first trial last year, but O'Neill limited them to just one and barred any mention of about 60 others who have come forward to accuse Cosby in recent years.
Kelly Johnson, who worked for Cosby's agent, testified Cosby knocked her out with a pill during a 1996 meeting at the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles. She said she woke up to find her dress disheveled, her breasts exposed and Cosby forcing her to touch his genitals.
The only other hints jurors got of Cosby's past came from deposition excerpts from 2005 and 2006 in which he admitted getting quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with.
For prosecutors, having several accusers tell similar stories about Cosby would give them a chance to smooth over issues with Constand's credibility and insulate her from attacks from his lawyers, who've already indicated they're likely to paint her as a money-grubbing liar.
Dave Zuckerman, a former prosecutor who practices criminal defense in the Pittsburgh area, said that "might help put the case over the edge in favor of the prosecution."
"Now it becomes more than just one accuser against Bill Cosby," he said. "Now you have a pattern of multiple women."
Also Thursday, Dickinson's defamation lawsuit against Cosby was allowed to move forward after the California Supreme Court refused his appeal. Dickinson sued Cosby after he and his representatives said her allegations were false.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Constand and Dickinson have done.


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A Swift Code is the standard format for Business Identifier Codes (BIC) and it's a unique identificationcode for banks and financial institutions globally. These codes are used when transferring money between banks,in particular for international wire transfers or SEPA payments.
SWIFT code, BIC code, SWIFT ID or SWIFT - BIC (ISO 9362) is a standard format of Business Identifier Codes approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It is a unique identification code for both financial and non-financial institutions. The acronym SWIFT stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. When assigned to a non-financial institution, the code may also be known as a Business Entity Identifier or BEI. These codes are used when transferring money between banks, particularly for international wire transfers, and also for the exchange of other messages between banks. The codes can sometimes be found on account statements.
The overlapping issue between ISO 9362 and ISO 13616 is discussed in the article International Bank Account Number (also called IBAN). The SWIFT network does not require a specific format for the transaction so the identification of accounts and transaction types is left to agreements of the transaction partners. In the process of the Single Euro Payments Area the European central banks have agreed on a common format based on IBAN and BIC including an XML-based transmission format for standardized transactions; the TARGET2 is a joint gross clearing system in the European Union that does not require the SWIFT network for transmission (see EBICS). The TARGET-directory lists all the BICs of the banks that are attached to the TARGET2-network being a subset of the SWIFT-directory of BICs.
The Swift code can be either 8 or 11 characters long, and 8 digits code refers to the primary office. The code consists of 4 separate section, and the format arrange in the following manner;
- The first 4 characters ("AAAA") specify the institution. Only letters.
- The next 2 characters ("BB") specify the country where the instituions located. The code follows the format of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
- The next 2 characters ("CC") specify the instiution's location. Can be letters and digits. Passive participants will have "1" in the second character,
- The last 3 characters ("DDD") specify the institution's branch. This section is an optional. A 'XXX' refers to a primary office. Can be letters and digits.
There are 2 types of Swift Codes, namely Live & Passive Codes. The Live Codes are for institutions who are actively connected to the Swift Network while Passive Codes are used for manual transactions.
Swift Code registrations and management are the responsibility of "Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication" ("SWIFT") which is located in La Hulpe, Belgium.
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When you install the Service on your device and register with Matok Live, personally identifiable information about you may be collected during the download process for the Service (as requested from you during the download process) when you register with us. For registration through Matok Live, you are required to provide your mobile phone number or your email address, city location, gender, name, depending on the device(s) you are using on the Service. You may also provide personally identifiable information, but that is optional. When you log in using your Facebook account, we may collect additional information you make available to us (see "Your User Profile") below. In addition, when you install the Service on your device and register with Matok Live, you may will be asked to allow us access to your address book. If you consent, we will have access to contact information in your address book on the devices you use for the Service (names, numbers, emails, and Facebook ID, but not notes or other personal information in your address book) and we will store it on our servers and use it to help you use the Service, for example, by synchronizing your Matok Live contacts between different devices you may want to use with the Service. If you do not want Matok Live to store this information, you may opt-out through your account settings in the Matok Live application at any time. However we may not be able to offer some of the features that require this information. Matok Live may also collect and gather non-personally identifiable information, such as certain profile information including country of residence and preferences. In addition, Matok Live may collect and store information about your and others' usage of and interaction with the Service and our websites, including matches, numbers of matches made by members, match durations, text messages, usage by geographies, device and connection information, IP address, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views, network type and traffic to and from our websites. Matok Live allows you to share text messages, photos, screenshots, videos and other communications in the Matok Live application with other users, and if you choose to do so your text messages, photos, screenshots, videos and other communications will be stored on our servers. In addition, if you choose to share these items with other Matok Live users, we may not be able to remove them from our servers or make them unavailable to anyone you have shared them with. Sending and sharing text messages, photos, screenshots, videos or other communications in the Matok Live application is your decision. By choosing to share that information, you should understand that you may no longer be able to control how that information is used and that it may become publicly available (depending in part on your actions or the actions of others with whom you have shared the information). Matok Live is not responsible for any use or misuse of information you share. Matok Live may also collect and gather user contents (e.g., photos, screenshots, comments, and other materials) that you create on the Service. Your photo can be taken by other users on the Matok Live, and If they use capturing function provided by the Matok Live, those photos can be stored and used for Matok Live and 3rd party's service(eg, Facebook, etc.). You can change sharing option of 3rd party on the Matok Live settings. If you do not agree with all the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not use the Service. To complete a commerce transaction on Matok Live item shop, you will be requested to provide your payment information, including your credit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address. In that event, we will transmit your information securely directly to a third party vendor or merchant who will collect such information in order to process and fulfill your purchase. Matok Live does not process or store your payment information. However, we may store other information about your purchases made on the Service, which may include the merchant's name, the date, time and amount of the transaction and other behavioral information. We also collect error-reporting information if the Service crashes or hangs up so that we can investigate the error and improve the stability of the Service for future releases. In general these reports do not contain personally identifiable information, or only incidentally. As part of these error reports, we receive information about the type and version of your device, the device identifier, the time the error occurred, the feature being used and the state of the application when the error occurred. We do not use this information for any purpose other than investigating and fixing the error.Sharing of your information
We will not rent or sell your information to third parties (or the group of companies of which Matok Live is a part) without your consent, except as noted in this Policy.
Parties with whom we may share your information:● We may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that Matok Live is part of, or that become part of that group ("Affiliates"). Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including by providing analytics) and Affiliates' own services (including by providing you with better and more relevant experiences). But these Affiliates will honor the choices you make about who can see your contents.
● We also may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you ("Service Providers"). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.
● We may also share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of users our app receives. This information does not contain any personal or personally identifiable information, and is used to develop content and services that we hope you will find of interest.
● We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.
Parties with whom you may choose to share your User Content:
● Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service, such as User Content, becomes available to the public. With this feature, Matok Live can be protected from exhibitionism. Once you have shared User Content or made it public, that User Content may be re-shared by others.
● If you remove information and contents(eg. Screenshots, etc.) that you created on the Service, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users or third parties have copied or saved that information.(eg. Facebook, etc.)
How we use information we collect
We use or may disclose your personal information only as follows:
● To verify your identity;
● To connect you with others as enabled by the Service;
● To share your Profile with others on the Service;
● To allow your use of certain features of the Service that may be offered from time to time (such as Premium Services (see our Terms of Use), etc.);
● To show you the names of persons you communicate with and to show your name to persons you communicate with on the Service;
● To deliver to you any administrative notices, alerts and communications relevant to your use of the Service;
● To provide you with relevant content that you requested, using information that you allow us to collect from you or that you provide to a social media provider with which your Matok Live account is connected, such as information regarding your and your Matok Live contacts' respective locations;
● To contact you via email, SMS or otherwise for the purpose of informing you about new products, services or promotions offered by Matok Live (you can opt-out of such emails or SMSs by sending an email to email@example.com);
● For internal operations, including troubleshooting problems, data analysis, testing, research, improvements to the Service, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other illegal activity;
● When we have a good faith belief that the law, any legal process, law enforcement, national security or issue of public importance requires disclosure;
● To protect and defend our rights or property (including to enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements); or
● In connection with a corporate transaction involving Matok Live, such as the purchase or sale of a business unit, an acquisition, merger, sale of assets, or other similar event.


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By Denise Bedell
Companies—and their banks—are increasingly mindful of how regulatory changes, such as the introduction of Basel III, will affect their corporate banking activities and the cost of banking services.
Wholesale banking activities—in particular, straight lending—are being affected by several regulatory changes, such as the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III. New capital requirements will undoubtedly restrict or reduce bank lending, and banks will focus more on their key clients as a result. The cost of capital will rise, and companies will once again be looking to improve their liquidity management and adjusting to a new norm in terms of the lending environment.
"The cost to banks of new capital requirements is significant, and it will drive up the cost of lending"
"Consequently, they will charge more for loans, even to their best customers" – Mark Webster, Treasury Alliance Group
Gareth Lodge, a senior analyst at consultancy Celent, believes this is creating uncertainty over the implementation and the unintended consequences. One thing is clear, however: The increased capital requirements will drive costs up and banks will have to charge more to cover their increased cost of capital. For major banks that could be quite significant.
Mark Webster, a partner at consultant Treasury Alliance Group, says that new capital requirements could see banks holding as much as 8% or 9% in Tier 1 capital. "The cost of that is not negligible, and it will drive up the cost of lending." At the same time, banks will have to look more closely at risk and be more restrictive about who they lend to. Webster says: "Consequently, they will charge more for loans, even to their best customers."
Andreas Bohn, head of asset and liability management, global transaction banking, Deutsche Bank, notes: "There is a stronger distinction between short-term and long-term lending." He says that lending for longer than a year requires banks to maintain a higher proportion of stable funding, so lending will tighten as a result. Short-term trade finance loans should see less of an impact.
Questions Remain
How trade finance is viewed under Basel III is still in question. The fear is that trade finance will be 100% risk-weighted and be treated the same as on-balance-sheet financing. How that plays out will be closely watched as the summer progresses and the Basel Committee provides greater clarity on the issue.
The increased reserves will effectively set a limit to how much banks can leverage their balance sheets, which will lower credit, market and liquidity risks but also negatively affect the ability of banks to generate profit. "This would suggest that banks will need to rely on those business lines that generate fees—for example, cash management—or pay less for their retail deposits, if possible," says John Jay, senior analyst at consultancy Aite Group.
"Unless corporate clients can access the capital markets directly for their financing needs, they will continue to need bank financing services and may therefore remain captive clients to an expected increasing cost structure," Jay says. "It is not inconceivable that banks will exit corporate banking business lines if those business lines do not meet minimum profitability targets."
Bohn at Deutsche Bank agrees. He cites interbank wholesale funding, which will likely play a lesser role going forward, while clearing, cash management and custody activity will grow in importance as they are seen as more stable sources of funding. Bohn says: "It is probable that we will see greater competition in this area."


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There's lots of insanely bad behavior online, but even more insanely good behavior. In particular, the gushing praise and encouragement people offer just about any creative effort posted online. Yes, there are trolls and savage critics, but far more people are kind than cruel. It's no indication of quality, but it is very sweet.


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ACLS Provider Certification (01/23/20)
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Course Date and Time: Thursday, January 23, 2020, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Location: Dale Mabry Campus MAP
- 4001 W Tampa Bay Blvd, Tampa, FL 33614
- Room: DTECH362 (Links to an external site.)
- Instructor(s): R. Torres
Who should attend? ACLS training is intended for healthcare providers who either direct or participate in the resuscitation of a patient, whether in or out of the hospital, including:
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Emergency Medical Technicians
- Paramedics
- Staff in intensive care units and emergency or critical care departments
- Other professionals who may respond to a cardiovascular emergency
NOTE: You must pass the ACLS pre-course assessment to be able to take this course. Go to https://ahainstructornetwork.americanheart.org/AHAECC/ecc.jsp?pid=ahaecc.studentlanding and use the code (located at the bottom of page ii.) in the current ACLS Provider manual to begin. You must bring a copy of your certificate showing that you passed this test. If you do not pass, or need additional training in EKG, Advanced Airway, and Pharmacology, you can take our ACLS/PALS prep course. https://catalog.tampatraining.com/browse/alliedhealth.
The ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This advanced course highlights the importance of team dynamics and communication, systems of care, and immediate post-cardiac arrest care. To be successful in any ACLS course, students should be able to identify ECG rhythms and should know pharmacology specific to cardiopulmonary arrest and other cardiopulmonary emergencies before beginning the course.
*You must purchase the American Heart Association Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Provider Manual for this course..
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The ACLS course covers:
- ACLS algorithms
- Immediate post-cardiac-arrest care
- Airway management
- Rhythm recognition
- High-quality CPR
- 1-rescuer CPR AED
- Effective resuscitation team dynamics
- Science overview (update course)
- BLS and ACLS surveys
- Megacode treatment
- Identification and initial care of other life-threatening clinical situations (such as stroke).
Refunds, Cancellations & Substitutions
If you find it necessary to cancel your registration, call the ICCE office immediately at (813) 259-6010.
Notify us first by phone and then follow-up your cancellation by written notification using U.S. Mail, fax, e-mail (email@example.com), or hand delivery. Written notice must be received 2 business days prior to the program date to be eligible for a refund. Please be advised that refunds may take up to three (3) weeks from the point at which a class is cancelled or a student's written notification of cancellation is received. Refunds will not be made after the start of any program. Participants may substitute another individual at any time. However, CEU credit will not be awarded for substitutions after any program has begun. We reserve the right to cancel activities that do not meet minimum enrollment levels or for other good cause. Activities cancelled by the College will have refunds processed in-full.
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Merriam-Webster defines the word censor thus:
: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable <censor the news>; also : to suppress or delete as objectionable <censor out indecent passages>
For censorship of expression to occur, therefore, two things must be present. The expression must be examined for objectionability. The expression then must be deleted or suppressed, which is to say that it must be prevented from being made. Merriam-Webster gives this as the relevant definition of suppress:
: to keep from public knowledge: as b: to stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of <suppress the test results>
It is not enough to simply discourage an expression, but rather it must be prevented entirely.
Recent headlines have been making hay over a request of the government of Afghanistan. By way of background, it is well known that Afghanistan is going through a period of relative instability as it comes under attack from various factions and terrorist elements. These disruptive elements within (and to some extent without) Afghan society attempt to use force to bring about political, social, and cultural changes, through suicide bombings, military attacks, and other violent tactics. These actions compel Afghanistan to consider actions other nations may never even need to consider, in the interests of furthering what stability is possible now and in the future.
On Thursday Afghanistan will elect its chief executive, the president, in one of the finest traditions of democratic society. This occasion will naturally draw violence in an attempt to influence voting: recall the 2004 Madrid train bombings which occurred three days before Spain's general elections, which undoubtedly strongly affected voting and which very possibly may have changed the outcome entirely. Yet note: election-time violence will directly affect only a few dozens or hundreds, but reports of that violence will indirectly affect several orders of magnitude more people.
Given this, and given that Afghanistan at the moment cannot control election violence nearly as well as most other nations, it is clear that when Afghanistan sees actions can be taken that will reduce the impact of violence, it is reasonable to consider taking them. In particular, Afghanistan has called on domestic and foreign media not to cover election-day violence to avoid such reports potentially driving away voters. Some denounce this request as "an attempt to censor the reporting of violence". But is it really censorship as is claimed?
Recall the definition of "censor" given above. First, the expression must be examined for objectionability. Assuming that we admit as "examination" consideration of future expression based on past expression upon similar topics in similar situations, we indeed have this: Afghanistan has evaluated coverage surrounding election day and determined that election-day coverage of violence, during voting hours, may do more harm than good. Now, however, consider the second arm of the censorship test: the expression must be prevented from being made. On this point Afghanistan's actions do not conform to the requirements of censorship. Afghanistan's government has made a request that media not cover election-day violence; it has not used its democratically-permissible monopoly on force to prohibit such coverage. While a request may under certain circumstances be to some extent a prohibition, as when the request constitutes an implicit threat of future sanctions, nothing of the sort is suggested in the article to which I link. Therefore, Afghanistan's actions, despite the inveighings of such groups as Human Rights Watch, do not constitute censorship.
A further three points are worth noting. First, the request extends only from 06:00 to 20:00, the period when polls are open in Afghanistan. The request in no way asks that coverage be diminished outside (and most particularly, after) this period, neither of then-present violence nor of violence which occurred during polling hours on election day. Reports of violence would not be "[kept] from public knowledge", except temporarily, and only in case of voluntary restraint by individual media organizations — not by power of the government of Afghanistan. Second, the request extends only to the particular topic of violence and to no other topic. While this may certainly exclude much newsworthy information, it is limited in scope to that which gives clear cause for concern. Third, note that the request is of both "domestic and foreign media". Afghanistan cannot censor foreign media because the responsibility for the actions of such organizations lies outside its national borders and sphere of influence (meager as that perhaps may be). The government of Afghanistan might (I have no knowledge of the limits or extent of Afghan government authority, and I only suggest a plausible possibility) have the power to censor domestic media if it chose to do so in light of current circumstances (in the same way that, in case of rebellion, the writ of habeas corpus may be suspended in the United States by the government), but it has not exercised that power, if even such a power exists. A government may have claim to extensive power in theory, but it is the extent to which excessive power is not exercised when it might have been that makes that government worthy of the consent of the governed.
Accepting, then, that media organizations may choose to honor or not honor the request, should they honor the request? Here the issue is not nearly so clear, and strong arguments may be made for either choice. I am inclined to believe that voluntary restraint with respect to a specific topic, for fourteen hours during a singularly important political event with clear cause to do so, ending completely upon its termination and in no way restricting publication of coverage from those fourteen hours after their conclusion, is likely the best choice for most organizations. Media organizations should not allow insurgents and terrorists to wield their coverage as part of an Afghan suicide pact.
One fact, however, remains clear: that organizations have a choice as to whether they will allow themselves to be used in this manner demonstrates that the government of Afghanistan is not engaging in censorship.


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In the future men will mine the moon to harvest the precious deuterium to fuel our fusion reactors. All sane-thinking people agree on this. Also, most scientists agree that there will be space elevators and a resurgence of steam trains. I've have produced an artist's impression of what a moon-mining base might look like:
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i think you need a category of lies too! liemaker
good picture though :DApril 17, 2009 @ 1:19 am


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Welcome to the LivePrayer Church, the world's online church. I want to welcome you to this 21st century church that brings together people from all over the world every week to worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I pray that through the weekly worship service, the incredible resources we make available to our members, that you will have your Spirit fed, grow in your faith, find strength in your time of need, and be encouraged and challenged to allow God to use your life to serve Him. We are here to serve you and be a blessing to you and your family, so please don't hesitate to contact us. May the Lord bless you richly as you fellowship with people from around the world here at the LivePrayer church. Bill Keller, Evangelist
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A rare donkey-zebra hybrid was born on an animal reserve in Florence, Italy last Saturday – and his name is Ippo. According to the owner of the reserve, Serena Aglietti, "Ippo is the only one of his kind in Italy."
ANSA reports that the breeding of Ippo was unintentional – at least in the eyes of his caretakers. The reserve built a fence to separate his parents, but that didn't stop the pair from mating. The male zebra climbed over the fence to canoodle with the donkey, and a few months later Ippo was born. According to the Daily News, Ippo's father is a zebra that was rescued from a failing zoo and his mother came from a breed of endangered donkeys.
It's unlikely that Ippo will sire more zonkeys. As noted in Wikipedia, "they are generally genetically unable to breed, due to an odd number of chromosomes disrupting meiosis."
Although Ippo is the first zebra-donkey hybrid to be born in Italy, another zonkey was born in the United States in 2010, and there are reportedly a few zonkeys in Germany and China as well.


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Changes to Hootsuite's Terms of Service
Article published May 24, 2018
Thanks for stopping by. We hope that this article assists with questions you may have in relation to the recent refresh of our Terms of Service and Privacy Notice.
What has been refreshed and when?
In May 2018 we refreshed our Terms of Service as well as our Privacy Notice for all users. We have also included all of these documents in one easy to find Legal Centre.
Why have the Terms of Service and Privacy Notice been refreshed?
We have updated our Terms of Service to make them clearer, easier to understand, and more simple. We have simplified the terms to adapt to our customer's evolving needs.
Our Privacy Notice has been rewritten to be easier for our users to understand what information we collect and why we collect it, but also to comply with the requirements of the GDPR, a new European privacy regulation which goes live on May 25th. Nothing is changing in the way we collect, use or process our user's data.
Does this refresh apply to me and/or my organization?
This refresh applies to all users of the Hootsuite platform who are subject to Hootsuite's online terms of service. If you are an Enterprise customer and you are not sure how this change applies to your organization, please check your Authorization Form, or reach out to your Customer Success representative.
Do I need to do anything because of this change?
No, the changes automatically apply to you. Please review them so as to make sure that you understand them.
What are some of the key changes?
the language has been simplified and terms shortened. Our new Privacy Notice also makes it easier for our users to understand what information we collect and why we collect it.
Customer Requests
: We took stock, listened to our customers and have adapted our terms so as to address common questions. For example, our Enterprise Terms now include a security schedule which sets out our security commitments to our Enterprise Customers.
our privacy notice has been updated to incorporate new GDPR requirements that are coming into force May 25th
Who do I contact if I have any more questions?
Reach out to the Hootsuite help desk if you have any additional questions, or if you are an Enterprise customer, feel free to reach out to your customer success representative.
Thank you for being part of the Hootsuite community.