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Rushing through the Snoopers' Charter will put our security at risk
By Silkie Carlo
Last month, three cross-party parliamentary committees published lengthy reports on the draft investigatory powers bill – the government's landmark surveillance legislation. Between them, they came in at more than 250 pages and included 123 major recommendations for change.
The Science and Technology Committee called it "confusing". The Intelligence and Security Committee said it failed to "provide clarity and assurance". The Joint Committee on the draft bill concluded that the case for the bulk surveillance powers it contained, hadn't been made – and that those powers had the potential to breach human rights.
In short, they called for a complete overhaul. The home secretary responded by insisting the government would "carefully consider" the committees' conclusions: "This is vital legislation, and we are absolutely determined to get it right," she said.
But yesterday – less than three weeks after the Joint Committee gave the draft its third pasting in a fortnight – the investigatory powers bill was published. And unbelievably, it is even worse than before.
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So much for scrutiny. To claim that the many valid concerns of parliamentarians, campaigners and technology and legal experts could have been given more than a cursory glance in that time is absurd.
The Home Office hasn't even taken the time to give the bill a proper facelift. In an attempt to answer to the Intelligence and Security Committee's damning criticism of the weak and 'inconsistent' privacy protections, Part 1 of the bill, formerly known as 'General Protections' has been renamed 'General Privacy Protections'.
Adding the word 'Privacy' to a title is not a substantial revision. Despite the three Committees' conclusion that the powers in the draft bill were too broad, safeguards too few, and crucial investigatory powers entirely missing – these issues simply haven't been addressed.
To continue to rush through such important and complex legislation at this breakneck pace, disregarding the hard work of cross-party MPs, doesn't just show contempt for parliamentary scrutiny, public debate and democracy – it puts Britain's security at risk.
This legislation will affect every single person in the country and has the potential to fundamentally change the relationship between the individual and the state. The powers it contains – mass interception, mass hacking, mass acquisition of communications data, the collection and retention of all our web browsing histories, retention and linking of huge databases containing innocent people's most sensitive information – come with huge risks for every person's privacy and security.
Beyond all that, the government has yet to address the elephant in the room – is mass surveillance actually the route down which our country should keep hurtling? Is the collection and retention of data on every single person in the country – not just those suspected of serious crime – necessary and will it actually help our agencies and police keep people safe?
All the home secretary could come up with for the Joint Committee was 16 pages of anecdotal evidence, much of which actually made the case for targeted – not bulk – surveillance.
Collecting everything and then trying to work out what it all means later, results in data on millions of innocent people being hauled into the system every minute of every day. It leaves intelligence analysts drowning in information. GCHQ's 'Karma Police' system, for example, creates a profile of every internet user in the country based on their browsing habits. GCHQ documents revealed by Edward Snowden show this collects around 1,000 records for every person living in the UK – about 64 billion – every day. Even as the biggest employer in Gloucestershire, GCHQ's staff face an impossible task in analysing that volume of information.
This approach is counterproductive and, in the long run, dangerous. It means the agencies are bound to miss vital leads in all the noise – and they have, time and time again. The terrorists who planned the 9/11, 7/7, Paris, and countless other attacks were known to the security services. Spying on every innocent citizen, just in case they might do something wrong, did not stop them.
But there is a better way. By using targeted surveillance methods to keep a close eye on the communications data of known suspects and their social networks, as well as on visitors of certain websites and those based in certain geographical areas, our intelligence agencies would find it easier to keep us safe.
As we all know, thanks to whistleblowers like Snowden, and subsequent legal challenges from Liberty and others, our government has been practising – and investing time and vast resources – in mass surveillance methods for years. Faced with the option of conducting the thorough evidence-based re-draft the investigatory powers bill needs, or simply cramming their fingers in their ears and pretending their plans are perfect, it has taken the easy route.
This legislation is once-in-a-generation. It's the UK's chance to become world leaders in effectively tackling terrorism and serious crime in our increasingly digital world, setting out robust safeguards for our privacy and security alongside effective surveillance measures targeted at those under suspicion.
This bill doesn't need a facelift – it needs an entire overhaul. Luckily, many MPs and peers from all parties understand the importance of getting this bill right, to make the important work of our agencies and police transparent, proportionate, effective and targeted. If the government expects a smooth passage through Parliament for this majorly flawed legislation, it should think again.
Silkie Carlo is a policy officer at Liberty
The opinions in Politics.co.uk's Comment and Analysis section are those of the author and are no reflection of the views of the website or its owners.


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The Coronavirus Diary. Volume 1, Day 1, Friday the 13th: Clouds on the Horizon
We ate well. I ate in two shifts: the first with two colleagues, the second with good friends and The Food Gal®.
Lunch turned into dinner at Soho Japanese Kitchen where I tapped out after a few courses. (Seven straight hours of eating and drinking will do that to you.)
Crowds were smaller at both places; you could feel the clouds of contagion building. Everyone knew fear and layoffs were in the air. We just didn't know how soon and how severe it would be.
Our waiter Vincenzo looked around the Cipriani dining room and said he was worried for both of his jobs (there and at Giada). Like many in the Vegas hospitality trade, he holds down two gigs — lunch and dinner — often at two very different spots. Vincenzo is as Italian as Pavarotti, with a twinkly charm underneath his sing-song-y accent, and he fits an Italian restaurant like parm on pasta. Three days later he will be out of both jobs.
Day 2, March 14: Canary, Meet Coal Mine
The Bellagio announces it is closing all restaurants except Sadelle's and Prime.
Day 3, March 15: Reality Looms
Beware the Ides of March, Caesar was told. He ignored the warning; the rest of Las Vegas took it to heart. Within five days of the announced severity of the coronavirus, MGM uses today to let the hammer drop on all of its venues. Some hotels, like Caesars and Venetian/Palazzo stand firm and act like they can weather the storm.
Because of this, for about two days, locals feel restaurants and bars will still be functioning, albeit with far fewer customers. Still, it's obvious the virus has mushroomed into society-wide panic. Most media outlets are claiming the virus is "sweeping the nation," even though the number of Americans actually infected with Covid_19 amounts to .00016% of the American populace.
"We'll figure out a way to keep the doors open," Venetian and Caesars say. Silly them.
I spend the afternoon getting drunk on expensive hooch on my patio, and eating some tasty cheese I had flown in from The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills — because eating and drinking well is to me what swinging a golf club is to Tiger Woods.
Day 4, March 16: Support Your Local Chinatown
Hotels and Strip restaurants closing left and right. Local joints girding their loins but seem safe. I make a show of going to Every Grain for lunch (it's mostly empty), and China Mama for dinner (ditto). And I'm not shy about letting social media know what I think about all of this viral hysteria and how it will devastate the hospitality industry. For this I get called everything from Typhoid Mary to the worst thing since Hep C.
I also get into one of those Facebook commenting wars with someone named Emily Jillette, who's married to someone named Penn Jillette, who calls me everything from a joke to an asshole. It's really quite amusing to have her (try to) insult me by telling me how she's "friends with lots of chefs" who "universally hate me." Emily hates me (apparently) because I'm eating in restaurants and encouraging others to support these businesses in a time of crisis.
She's not the only one who hates me for thinking this whole quarantine-thing is a huge overreaction, but she's definitely the most profanely entertaining of the bunch.
Day 5, March 17, Goodbye to all That:
In less than 24 hours, every bar and restaurant is being told to close or serve customers by take-out only. This results in my having to drink my coffee outside of my favorite coffee bar — Vesta Coffee Roasters — in downtown Las Vegas. I do not like being told I have to drink my coffee on a grab-and-go basis. My lack of amusement at this ridiculous restriction will be made more than apparent in the coming days.
This is when reality really starts to sink in. By noon everyone knows the Governor is going to order the shutdown of all "non-essential businesses." The Governor of the State of Nevada does not realize that for many of us, restaurants, coffee bars are just as essential as a warm bed.
For these reasons, we hunker down on Tuesday and eat leftovers (yummy) from China Mama for lunch as we await the governor's proclamation. It is Saint Patrick's Day and no one seems to notice.
That night we eat at Edo Tapas & Wine to show our support, and as good as the food is, the place feels like we're administering its last rites. No way will a chef-centric, highly-tuned restaurant like Edo be able to survive on take-out trade. Someone should tell our clueless Gubenator this, but he's too busy listening to the hysterics.
Day 6, March 18, The Day the Music Died:
Last night the Gubenator shut down the Strip (which he has the power to do). He also "ordered" all "non-essential businesses" to close, which, technically, he does not have the power to do. (At least it's debatable in some quarters.)
Regardless, he's a politician and politicians pander to the majority and the majority of people are screaming for government to "do something" about a virus that's infected .000017% of the American population. So order away he does.
And everyone complies. Everyone complies because, 1) they're scared not to comply; and 2) they know everyone will hate them if they don't comply. (I know 1 and 2 are basically the same thing, but I'm trying to make a point here.
In support of our Chinese-American restaurants — who, after all, have been doing to-go food better than anyone for 170 years — we order take-out from Kung Fu Thai-Chinese. (Las Vegas oldest – since 1973 – Chinese restaurant.) I've never been quite sure whether Kung Fu is a Chinese restaurant that serves Thai food or a Thai restaurant with a Chinese menu, but it doesn't matter these days. It always does a solid job, and it's been years since I've been. so there's a silver lining to the unfortunate circumstances that bring me here.
The Food Gal® picks up our huge order ($66 + $10 tip) we gorge ourselves on Yen Ta Fo, Todd Munn, Pad Thai and Spicy Chicken. We have enough food to last for days.
I announce on Twitter that no one's getting a bad review while we try to weather this economic body blow, and I mean it.
Day 7, Thursday, March 19, Pastries and Steaks:
I wake up at 4:00 am with an idea(s): 1) to start this diary; and 2) not to let this craziness defeat me. Restaurants are as much a part of the American cultural identity as football and gas-guzzling cars. It's sort of amazing how quickly sports dried up (and how no one seems to miss them all that much), but restaurants are where we sustain life and enrich it. Methinks people are going to be screaming for food to return to normalcy a lot faster than begging to see if Andrew Bogut dunks on Miles Plumlee.
I've also decided to stick with my normal routines as much as possible. And by "stick with my routines as much as possible" I mean start my morning with good French pastry.
This part is easy. Food serving operations like Delices Gourmands French Bakery & Cafe are not being shut down, you simply can't stay and sit to enjoy your morning brioche. Mr. Curtas is very fond of his morning brioche, and will therefore pick-up, take it to his office, and enjoy it there.
These pastries taste to him both of butter, dough and normalcy, so, for fleeting seconds he can pretend his world is not crumbling around him.
As he's munching and pretending with his Danish, Mr. Curtas wonders just how fucked is the American restaurant industry?
Answer: Very. 15 million people are out of work in less than three days to combat a virus that will never infect even 1.0% of our population. A virus that all medical experts say 80% of adults will recover from without any medical intervention.
As Mr. Curtas ponders these statistics, he decides to do two things: 1) refer to himself solely in the third person til this thing blows over; and 2) eat steak for lunch. Good steak. Steak directly from the Capital Grille meat locker.
With the help of Manager Drew Weintraub, we get a tour of the locker and get to pick out an entire strip loin to be bandsaw'd into individual steaks. This costs $250, but we get eight, restaurant-quality strip steaks (and a porterhouse)out of the deal.
We take them home, and with the help of our comrades-in-epicurean arms the Tollefson's, we cook up the porterhouse — heavily-seasoned (above), seared on both sides, finished under the broiler). It was damn tasty, and half the cost it would've been at the restaurant. But let's face it, great steaks lose some luster when nibbled on your kitchen counter.
Sounds pretty okay, doesn't it? Super steaks and expensive wines for lunch?
It's not. It's bloody awful. As he's chewing his steak and quaffing his wine, Curtas can't stop the emptiness from grabbing his stomach, like a clouded mood settling permanently into his gut. Fears and fatalism sickening in their ubiquity, unquenchable by food or drink. And now they are upon him. The world has lost its fucking mind. And things are about to get worse.


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Apple Cupcakes
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
4 tsp baking powder
4 tsp cinnamon
Mix these together, then add:
1 cup oil
4 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
4 cups apples (about 3-4 big apples)
1 tsp salt
Pour the mixture into lined cupcake tins and bake at 350 degrees for 15-20min. Makes about 24 cupcakes.
Adapted from Mom
I kept my daughter busy prepping the apples with my Pampered Chef corer, peeler, slicer. She loved it. She wanted to keep going, but I only needed 4 apples.
I love the simplicity of this recipe. No fooling around, straight to the point. Easy, peasy! And the cupcakes are so moist. Really they taste quite good on their own. But if you are like me, you know it's not a cupcake unless it has frosting. Every little bit of sweet helps.
Apple Spice Buttercream Frosting
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened
1 tsp vanilla extract
4-5 cups confectioner's sugar
2 tbsp milk
2 tbsp unsweetened applesauce
2 tsp cinnamon (or to taste)
In large bowl, cream shortening and butter with electric mixer. Add vanilla, applesauce and cinnamon. Gradually add sugar, one cup at a time, beating well on medium speed. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl often. Add milk and beat at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add more sugar if needed.
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New GLEE Album Tracks Revealed
Attention Gleeks: Salvation awaits you on March 8th. Glee: The Music Volume 5 is set to continue breaking every conceivable record be released in just a few weeks.
The tracklist, for your reading pleasure:
1. Thriller / Heads Will Roll
2. Need You Now
3. She's Not There
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
6. Firework
7. Baby
8. Somebody To Love
9. Take Me Or Leave Me
10. Sing
11. Don't You Want Me
12. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
13. Kiss
14. Landslide
15. Get It Right
16. Loser Like Me
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Games Workshop have a great many skirmish level rule systems on the market, but one of the most popular amongst competitive players is Warhammer Underworlds.
Warhammer Underworlds is a game of battling Warbands where the results of each game have a knock-on effect for the next. Designed with a 'season' of combat in mind, this is a campaign-driven system wherein a series of linked battles are fought, deep in a realm beneath the earth. The enemy combatants aren't the only threat though, as the very battlefield itself is 'alive' with hazards. The latest supplement for this game is Beastgrave, which introduces two new Warbands and a number of new rules.
Lifting the lid of the typically sturdy box, we come upon three punchboards of tokens and hazard markers. These are double-sided and cover all the possible needs for gameplay. One of the new items from the rulebook is the Guard token. This is used to place the members of a Warband on guard 'duty' around a key area or feature on the gameboard.
The two folding double-sided game boards are the next item in the box. These are made from durable, heavy gauge card, which may be placed side by side to produce a number of gaming locations. These locations correspond to the potential layouts detailed in the main rulebook, a series of subterranean areas which are marked with hexes for movement and can be 'dressed' with suitable markers and tokens.
Beneath the board comes the softback 39-page rulebook, which adds additional material to the background behind the Underworlds 'saga', before taking you through the main rules system and the use of the various card decks, how to set-up and use the battlefields, the various phases, different action choices, the use of magic and some alternative rules for matched and ladder campaign play. Although this is a supplement or add-on to the Warhammer Underworlds game system, Beastgrave is a complete game in its own right, so players can pick up this boxed set and play through the scenarios presented.
In addition to the full rulebook, the game comes with an 8-page 'Learn to Play' booklet, a 'quick start' guide to get you started and aid with gameplay in the future. As if that wasn't enough, further support materials are included, a double-sided assembly guide for the miniatures included with the set.
The frames of miniatures come next, suggesting that the layout of the box has been considered as you make each discovery. There are two plastic frames of miniatures, representing the two Warbands. The frames are molded in two different colours, with the Grashrak's Despoilers Beastmen in brown and the Skaeth's Wild Hunt Aelves. Both are multi-part figures in need of some assembly, but this isn't too much of a trial due to the ease of assembly that is an integral part of the 'GW Way'. The Skaeth's Wild Hunt are a new addition to the world of Warhammer Underworlds, representing the remnants of the noble Wood Elves prior to the Age of Chaos and the tearing asunder of the Old World.
The character and game play cards are next. Part of the process of the game comes from a certain amount of 'deck building', offering another facet to the gameplay. The cards are clearly laid out and easy to use, with just the right amount of information without being crowded. The artwork and other imagery on the cards is also nicely evocative of the setting. The last couple of component groups in the box are the 6-sided combat dice, with symbols rather than numbers, and, a nice touch, a number of Ziploc bags designed to hold the tokens and other game materials during storage.
The quantity and quality of gaming materials in this product put other companies to shame. Everything you need is here, and this stand-alone game also enables expansion to the core and no doubt future releases for the Warhammer Underworlds system. Once again, GW sets a standard that others struggle to emulate.
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"No reasonable officer — knowing, seeing and hearing what Officer Yanez did at the time — would have used deadly force under these circumstances." — Ramsey County attorney, John J. Choi
St. PAUL —Nov. 16, 2016. The suburban police officer who fatally shot Philando Castile, the black driver whose last moments this summer were streamed live on Facebook, was charged with second-degree manslaughter and accused of escalating a mundane roadside exchange into a needlessly violent episode.
In outlining the case against Officer Jeronimo Yanez, prosecutors described a traffic stop on July 6 that spiraled out of control when Officer Yanez overreacted to the presence of Mr. Castile's lawfully carried gun and shot him despite pleas that he was not reaching for the weapon.
Ramsey county Attorney, John Choi said Officer Yanez spotted Mr. Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria worker, driving along a stretch of road near the state fairgrounds with his girlfriend and her young daughter. Officer Yanez believed Mr. Castile matched the description of a suspect in a nearby armed robbery from a few days earlier, radioing a colleague that Mr. Castile's "wide-set nose" seemed to match the surveillance video from that case. But when Officer Yanez pulled Mr. Castile over in the tiny suburb of Falcon Heights, the conversation described by prosecutors started out as ordinary, with no mention of the robbery and no discussion of the smell of marijuana that Officer Yanez would later recount to investigators. (Mr. Choi said that Mr. Castile was not a suspect in the armed robbery case.)
Mr. Castile, who had been pulled over dozens of times before, seemed to know the routine: He kept his seatbelt fastened, greeted Officer Yanez and handed over his insurance card, according to prosecutors' version of events. Then, before his girlfriend said he reached for the wallet that contained his driver's license and permit to carry a pistol, Mr. Castile said, "Sir, I have to tell you that I do have a firearm on me."
Within seconds, Officer Yanez, of the St. Anthony police, had shouted, "Don't pull it out," and Mr. Castile and his girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, tried to assure him that he was not grabbing the gun. But Officer Yanez quickly fired seven rounds, fatally wounding Mr. Castile just 62 seconds after the traffic stop began. "His dying words were in protest that he wasn't reaching for his gun," Mr. Choi said.
Mr. Castile's death is among the highest-profile cases of the countless police interactions with black men that have roiled the country, and especially Minnesota, in the last two years. The case drew international attention, largely because Ms. Reynolds streamed the aftermath on Facebook Live, calmly but firmly recounting her version of events and disputing Officer Yanez's narrative as blood soaked through Mr. Castile's white T-shirt.


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ایمان سلامت ہر کوئی منگے عِشق سلامت کوئی ھُو
منگن ایمان شرماون عشقوں، دِل نوں غیرت ہوئی ھُو
جس منزل نوں عِشق پچاوے، ایمان نوں خبر نہ کوئی ھُو
میرا عشق سلامت رکھیں باھُوؒ ایمانوں دیاں دھروئی ھُو
Everyone prays for faith, but only few seek infatuation (Ishq) - Hoo,
Asking for faith and shying away from inspiration my heart regrets - Hoo,
Ishq attains destinations that faith even does not know - Hoo,
'O' Bahoo, keep my "Ishq" alive, I am not much concerned about faith - Hoo.
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Everyone is pleading for the protection of the basic faith (Iman) and are content with it whereas some are pleading for the safety of Ardent love (Ishq). In faith there is five pillars in Islam, but in Ardent love you negate yourself and strive to please Allah for his pleasure and not for heavens or hourie, slaves and other luxuries. Asking for faith and remaining there, my heartfelt as an stranger because the level ardent love takes you faith does not have any awareness because ardent love remains in progression in towards Divine essence whereas faith remains at the door of King of the kings. Sultan Bahoo is requesting for the security of their ardent love and they have moved on from the basic faith towards enamour/ Ardent love.
The faith is a belief in Allah's commands while Ishq is absolute and complete surrender to the Will of Allah (SWT).


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Spoken Wood Podcast No. 64
Today's episode was written and recorded by Brian Gilstrap of the "Woodworking on the Fringe" weblog. It's titled "Blame it on The Schwarz" and was originally posted June 16, 2010.
To read more of Brian's posts at his weblog "Woodworking on the Fringe" visit his website at www.woodworkingonthefringe.blogspot.com.
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That was very entertaining. I can relate entirely, even down to the job in software.
Another great short story, keep them coming.


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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. (WTVD) -- A Brunswick County man displaced by Hurricane Florence has been arrested after police said he raped a woman in her apartment.
Around 11 p.m. Monday, Southern Pines police were called to the victim's home after she said a man sexually assaulted her while she slept.
Officers said 37-year-old Freeman Ireland was displaced as a result of damage from Florence and was trying to relocate to Moore County.
Police said Ireland was on "supervised release" by the North Carolina Division of Adult Correction after serving 20 years for second-degree murder and armed robbery.
He was arrested and charged with second-degree forcible rape.
He was booked into the Moore County Detention Center under a $500,000 secured.
Chief Temme released the following statement on Facebook after the incident:
"There is no place in our community for predators, sexual or otherwise. I have worked closely with our law enforcement partners at the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Division of Adult Correction, to ensure that an additional arrest warrant was issued for Freeman Scott Ireland to further provide the highest level of safety possible, not only for the victim in this case, but for the entire community as well."


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§ 42. Born late and uglyOctober 12, 1999
The secret of success of the internet, or more precisely, the Web, is (unexpected as it may seem) the possibility of placing links. Computer networks and hypertext had lived for quite a while but never met. Their ultimate meeting wrought a miracle: plenty of grownups lost their minds because of the result of this merger. Before neither networks, nor hyperlinks had any sway over the masses.
The pioneers of the internet made their personal pages that were far from perfection. But there was one thing they understood very well: to encourage internet development and keep folks amused, one has to place links. Which everyone did in surprisingly versatile ways: some folks placed links to web pages of their college buddies, some collected an astrophysics subject directory. The main thing was that no one ever doubted the importance of placing as many links as possible.
All the most popular Russian web resources in 1995 (when 50 hits per day was a mind-boggling breakthru) also featured links to the whole nine yards of things. And that was a huge boon for all those wired to the Net at that time.
The Western internet quickly caught the eye of people with big money. Large investors started to take interest in the Net and pumped billions into it. Home pages rapidly became accidental, while the most comprehensive collections of links evolved into corporations (as did Yahoo!).
At the outset of the Russian internet (Runet) it followed in the Western peers tracks, but didnt particularly cotton to the trailblazers ideas about links.
Todays scenarios may be as follows:
Housekeeping tip
The 88×31 button format was invented by Netscape. The first picture made under this format looked like this:
Microsoft followed suit and produced a similar button to advertise its Explorer browser. As soon as Microsoft joined the trend, people felt relieved and started to churn out buttons in unspeakable quantities. This was how one of the most stupid formats became widespread worldwidebetwixt and between.
Still, most site owners are afraid of placing links. Those who got over their fear start writing letters like Would you be as kind as to permit us to place a link to your website.
The availability of a large number of sites sporting many links to a variety of different resources is a solid basis for proper education and good taste on the internet. Lack of links leads to closed clubs and the imminent standstill. Button links do nothing but make a website look like a raggle-taggle bunch of banners, but for some reason appear to be the only way of placing a link on the Runet nowadays.
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I mean seriously! I wonder what could have happened!
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So, yeah. I plead the 5th. Mom thought I was channelling my great brother Zimmie. That thought made her smile and she gave me kisses and stuff. I'm pretty sure Zim would be proud -- and like he taught me, "If Mom is taking pictures, we aren't in trouble."
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Competition is fun, but sometimes just going out and having a good time is even better (with some made up competition included)
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Although people believe the recipe for success in gymnastics requires merely 2 ingredients: talent, and practice, there's one crucial spice they often forget - confidence. A gymnast can be very talented and practice hard, but if they aren't confident they won't realize their full potential. And while talent is innate and practice depends on the coaches, building confidence is something you as a parent can help with.
However, you have to learn how to boost your young gymnast's confidence without interfering with their competence, and we can help you strike the balance!
You probably remember what we said in our last blog post. It's important to be your kid's loudest cheerleader. But it's also important to know the difference between cheering and praising. And while there's a thin line between them, once you've read this article all the blurriness will become clear.
Over-praising = lowering the bar
There are three variables that make up the equation that is self-esteem. Love, security, and competence. But more often than not, gymnastics parents leave competence out of the equation. Whenever you tell your gymnast she is the best or her bars routine is perfect, you're actually lowering the bar for her. Translation: you're saying she no longer needs to push herself and she'll end up stagnating. Competence is the art of becoming good at something and no kind words can make up for the practice and sweat needed to achieve it.
Perfection vs. striving for perfection
Don't tell your gymnasts they are perfect, rather teach them to strive for perfection. The centuries-old saying "nobody is perfect" didn't endure for so long in vain. Trying to be a better version of oneself is the engine behind success, and this is exactly what your kid needs to know.
Inaccurate praise might lead to your gymnasts believing they are perfect. This way you are shaping a self-centered person who believes her not-so-good vault routine is a Yurchenko.
Sometimes being a big fish in a small pond is enough
We all want to see our gymnast advance a level. But what's really important is for them to feel secure where they are. In other words, you should make sure your gymnast's goals are within reach and not push them too hard. If they feel comfortable in level 3, where he/she is the star, pushing him/her to enter level 4 where they are the weakest link might do more harm than good. Naturally, this doesn't mean the gymnast should stay in one level forever. Simply give them enough time to enjoy the fruits of their labor before going for more.
Do offer appropriate praise
Of course, we are not saying you should avoid praising your child altogether. It's misuse of praise that is bad, but when earned, praise is an invaluable part of building confidence. What you as a parent must know, is you have to be specific and focus on praising your gymnast's effort. Merely saying great "great routine" is not enough. Instead, be more specific and say that her round off was amazing, or that her aerial cartwheel was the best one thus far. This not only builds gymnasts' self-esteem but also shows them you really care about what they do.
"Overheard" praise is the best
Indirect praise can have a great impact on your gymnast. If they overhear you boasting, they'll know the praise is genuine since they weren't supposed to hear you. When you're on the phone, or having a friend over for coffee, spot the chance and say something like "The coach said Megan is practicing hard" or "I was watching my baby practice the other day, she's becoming better day in day out." Nothing would make your kid happier than knowing you are not "just saying it", but you really mean it.
Show your gymnast you are 100% behind them
Unconditional love is the key to everything, including building confidence. This, however, doesn't mean you should make your gymnast believe they are the best, rather make them feel loved even when they fail. A simple "Pick yourself up and dust yourself off" is what every athlete, including gymnasts, should hear. Explain to your young gymnast that failure is normal, it's something they should learn from. You can even go as far as to tell them a story on how failure taught you something. This way gymnasts won't feel pressured and will have the courage to take risks.
Don't forget the house chores
What do house chores have to do with building confidence? Well, young children need to feel valued, they need to feel they are contributing in one way or another. And when they know their parents depend on them for certain things, this makes them feel more grown up (read more confident). Confidence in everyday life is a prerequisite for confidence in the gym.
Spot the reason behind low self-esteem
Definitely, prevention is better than a cure. But if your gymnast is already expressing a lack of confidence, don't just assume you know the reason behind it. It might be anything, from an injury, to fear of letting someone down. It might be even something as simple as not having the cutest leotard. The important thing is to pin down the specific reason for the lack of confidence, so you'd be closer to finding a solution for it.
So what's the takeaway then? Boosting confidence has little to do with praising. You can help your gymnasts by making them feel loved and appreciated. They need to enjoy gymnastics without feeling pressured or afraid. And most important, gymnasts need to know failure is OK, and that you won't love them less for it.


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Happy Birthday Jessie-Girl!
It was my niece's third birthday and she decided to have a tea party! My favourite cakes to make are always the cakes for the kids....from hot tubs to sleep over parties, to swimming pools, the cakes are always fun and I get to let my creativity flow! Plus, no one could have bigger fans that I have in my family. It's nice to enjoy the Ooohhhs and the Aaahhhh during the party, not just at the door when I drop the cake off. The cake and cupcakes are devil's food chocolate with vanilla icing. All of the little treats are made out of fondant (though in retrospect it would have been easier to just buy the mini cookies) and everything is 100% edible.
I already had a lot on my plate with Anna Maria and Sean's wedding, but when I got an email from my first bride asking for a baby shower cake, I couldn't resist! Not only was it a chance to catch up and say hello, but also to welcome a new life with many birthdays to come! I love that this job lets me start and build relationships with people so that I get to enjoy all the happy milestones in their lives. From weddings, to baby showers, then birthdays and who knows, maybe one day a second generation of weddings! That has to be my new favourite part of this job. For the cake, my client raved about how everyone loved the wedding cake so she asked for cupcakes with the same flavour combinations as her wedding cake - chocolate and mocha. The cake is a vanilla cake with yellow buttercream (we don't know what the baby is yet). This particular client isn't a fan of fondant, so this cake (like her wedding cake) had to be decorated in buttercream (which I find more challenging). The baby bottle accents are fondant, and were made by my assistant.
I baked my first cookie at the age of 5, and have been in love ever since. The smiles on people's faces when they taste my creations is what keeps my passion alive!
February 2019


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Plugins for content sliders are a dime a dozen, fish in the sea, you name it. Fewer, but still many are supporting CSS3 transitions and working responsively. Anyway "Sequence.js" is something special. This JavaScript does not only support animations on the transition of slides as a whole. Instead all of the content of a slide, be it headlines or images, can be animated individually. Being a top-notch web tool, "Sequence.js" even supports gesture control to be intuitively usable on smartphones and tablets as well. Now tell me, doesn't this set that responsive content slider far enough apart to justify a closer look?
Sequence.js: Instantly Ready for Prime Time due to Ready-made Themes
Starting with "Sequence.js" is fairly easy. The download package contains several ready-made themes to give you a head start. All the themes require jQuery which comes prebundled and embedded with any theme. You might have guessed that "Sequence.js" itself will have to be embedded too. Once done we can call the plugin and attach it to an element.
In our example we chose the element with the ID "slider" and added the function "sequence()" to it. Additionally we could define a set of parameters. In our example we integrated buttons to navigate back and forth. The documentation explains more parameters. You can also change the look and behaviour by the use of parameters. The themes have been designed to call the plugin and its parameters via an external JavaScript file.
One of the Free Themes of "Sequence.js"
Besides the JavaScript each theme comes with a stylesheet defining the design and the animated transitions of each slide and its contents.
Sequence.js: Animating Individual Slide Contents
Using CSS we are able to fine tune the ways individual slide contents are animated in. Each element to be animated gets equipped with two states, defined via CSS. The first state defines the look before the animation starts and the second state shows the element after the animation finished. The second state is defines by attaching the class "animate-in" to it.
In our example we render an image invisible by setting "opacity" to zero. As soon as the slide containing that image is called the class "animate-in" gets attached. The image element will then CSS3 transition to the second state. Parallel to that the image is moved 100 pixels to the right. Imagine what kind of animations you are able to define that way.
The HTML of the container comprises of a container carrying an unordered list. The individual "<li>" elements contain one slide each.
The example creates a slider with three "<li>" elements. With the first slide directly carrying "animate-in" it will be visible from the start. On calling the second slide, the class is passed to that one. State changes happen via CSS3 transitions.
Navigation elements are also defined in a slide container.
Make sure to choose and attach the proper classes ("sequence-next" and "sequence-prev") for navigation. Only this way "Sequence.js" is able to access these elements and add the necessary functionality.
Should You Rely on Ready-made Themes or Create Your Own?
I already mentioned that you'll find a set of pre-made themes inside the download package. These serve as agood foundation to build upon them and get going with Sequence.js. The project website offers more themes which you can buy for nine dollars each.
One of the Paid Themes
Once you know your ways around "Sequence.js" you'll no longer need themes and will in´stead be able to create your very own sliders quickly. All the configuration parameters are added during the plugin call. Everything else is not more than a little HTML and CSS3.
Browser Support and License
"Sequence.js" runs in all modern browsers. With a limited feature set it even runs in older browsers. These will display it as a simple content slider without all the gee whiz. All slides will be animated, yet individual slide contents will not be animated individually. Anyway Sequence.js does a decent job sporting a decent look from Internet Explorer 7, despite its limited feature set.
"Sequence.js" is published under the terms of the MIT license. This means that you can use and modify it freely for private and commercial projects alike. An elaborate and throughly crafted documentation gets you going as fast as possible.


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You sleep on the bonnet of your car.
You dream that the walking's too far.
It follows and you're never alone.
In the sky there's a dog with no bone.
Pass it on, make it quick,
there's a cracked walking-stick
by the door and handle is spinning.
The thorns have a rose
that you or I never chose
and the sandman's shoulder
is damp with their tears.
Light a cigarette, stumped,
let them come, send it up to
the ribbons of stars that
penetrate the wide open sky.


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GTT has acquired Custom Connect, an Amsterdam-headquartered provider of high-speed network connectivity serving multinational enterprises and financial trading firms. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Custom Connect, which was founded by Olav van Doorn and Jan Willem Meijer, operates a carrier-neutral MPLS/IP network that integrates SD-WAN and public and private clouds alongside existing data centers, offices, and branches. Its range of services includes low-latency connectivity to major financial exchanges, trading desks, and banks via SD-WAN integration with other carriers.
"The acquisition of Custom Connect extends GTT's network and strengthens our service offerings in high growth financial markets," said Rick Calder, GTT president and CEO. "These enhanced capabilities reinforce GTT's market leadership in cloud networking and our commitment to connecting people – across organizations and around the world."
- In 2017, GTT acquired Global Capacity, a provider of enterprise network connectivity solutions, for $100 million in cash and 1.85 million shares of GTT common stock, to be issued to the sellers at closing. Global Capacity, which was based in Waltham, Mass., specialized in a range of enterprise network issues including difficulty in load sharing traffic across a mix of access connections, complex, static and manual network configurations that inhibit mapping to business requirements and lack of application visibility and control over connections.


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Whether my client is an established financial institution or a small mom and pop shop, they need and deserve legal representation customized to achieve the best possible result. Accordingly, my approach is different for each client and each matter. I always make sure to discuss with my client the strengths and weaknesses of their case in order to form a strategy that will provide them with the best outcome.
Stephanie Hand-Cannane represents a wide range of financial institutions in a variety of litigated matters. She defends lending and servicing clients against alleged violations of a number of regulatory statutes, including Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). She also represents corporations and small businesses in corporate, transactional, real estate, and commercial liability matters. From clients ranging from small limited liability companies to large multistate corporations, she provides guidance on complex matters such as commercial contract negotiations, corporate governance, real estate development, and mergers and acquisitions.
Stephanie partners with her clients to form an approach that's a unique hybrid of practicality and sensitivity. With respect to the former, she analyzes each matter in a no-nonsense way. She counsels clients with a focus on identifying and pursuing practical, business-minded positions while still zealously representing their interests.
She is also skilled at sizing up and evaluating the personalities engaged in a dispute, and the specific legal positions of each, and crafting workable solutions based on them. In emotionally loaded situations, Stephanie's patience, tact, and sensitivity will produce a first-rate outcome.
Regardless of the approach or the situation, Stephanie's attention to detail combined with her resourceful attitude enable her to devise successful plans of action for each client. Stephanie's goal is unchanging: the best possible result for her clients.


text: Sacramento artists Kelly O'Connell and Ben Ehrmann will take part in the anniversary celebration for Beatnik Studios in Sacramento. For seven years, the studio has uplifted artistic experimentation. The event takes place June 5. O'Connell and Ehrmann will talk about the show titled, "Lights Are On, Nobody's Home," on Insight.


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Reversing its recent slump, Greenwich Village gained in popularity among prospective renters across Manhattan last week, according to apartment listings website Zumper.
The neighborhood nevertheless failed to crack the top five, led by the Upper West Side. The next four in line were the Upper East Side, West Village, Hell's Kitchen and Chelsea. The priciest inquiry was for a three-bedroom apartment in Chelsea seeking $6,500 per month. The cheapest was for a Central Harlem studio that be rented for $1,100 per month.
Two-bedrooms rose to having one-third of the leads, with a median inquiry of $2,700. One- and two-bedrooms trailed with 28 percent and 27 percent, respectively. Three-bedrooms, which saw a rare surge in popularity to 33 percent the previous week, is back to its old tricks. The apartment size had 12 percent of the leads.
Methodology: Zumper determined the rankings by using a representative sample of emails and phone calls from renters interested in its Manhattan listings available for the week ending July 6. — Mark Maurer