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This episode starts with Mindy and Ben in couples therapy, where the Johnsons' nosy – & at times racist – neighbour (heyyyy Black-ish reference) is trying to get them to work together to save their marriage. She's scolding Mindy for not taking therapy seriously and for trying to bullshit her way out of it but also because she's in love with Ben and doesn't understand how anyone wouldn't be delighted to be married to him.
Feeling frustrated, Min turns to her colleagues and asks if she's a good wife; everyone says yes except for Jody who, in a rare moment of wisdom and clarity, tells her that she's always putting her comforts and needs ahead of Ben's and that her "compromises" are not actually what's best for them as a couple. (Like if she wants Chinese food and he wants Indian food, she suggests that they both eat separately and then meet up to watch her favourite show – which is great for Mindy and great for Ben, but not great for Mindy & Ben.)
Because he's an emotionally mature adult (sarcasm), Ben decides to test Mindy by inventing a head nurse position in Philadelphia and telling her he really wants it. She encourages him to interview and says they'll work it out – WHICH IS THE CORRECT RESPONSE FYI – but he takes it as her not caring about their lives together. When she calls him after the "interview" she suggests that if this is his dream job he should take it and that he can move to Philly and they can take turns visiting each other – less of a correct answer.
Morgan was jealous of this job in Philadelphia and butthurt that he wasn't called in so he decides to go to the hospital and ask for an interview. When he shows up, he learns that there is not job opening (well there is one, but for a janitor, and Morgan takes it anyway…)
While Mindy is dealing with the decline of her marriage, Anna & Jeremy have chosen to romantically decouple, much to the chagrin of everyone in the office, who believed in love again because of them. For once, we see Anna show some actual human emotion and we can finally confirm she's not a robot. Anna invites all her "women colleagues" to a night of "alcohol drinking & camaraderie in a bar." to help her deal with the feelings she's having and to help her get back out there. The women on these show rarely get to be together, and this outing doesn't exactly pass the Bechdel test, but at least there are no dudes on screen for a solid minute. A blonde neo-nazi looking guy sends over four drinks to the girls, and they're all for Anna, because he wasn't sure what she'd like. They invite him over so he can chat with Anna but when he puts his hand on her shoulder, she ~literally~ crushes his windpipe. The AMBULANCE has to be called.
The girls make a break for it and go outside, Anna realizing that she has a violent reaction whenever anyone but Jeremy touches her and that she might actually love him and he might be the one and goes to his apartment. Tamra hears all this and realizes she has feelings for Morgan and also leaves to find him. That leaves Beverly and Mindy, who suggests they use Bev's senior discount at a diner, but Beverly is not down so she just leaves Mindy there alone to ponder why she doesn't want to go home.
Anna makes it to Jeremy's, ready to pour her hear out, but he's already having meaningless casual sex with someone whose name was something along the lines of Slutvana…Anna quickly shifts gears and says she came by to get the bust of Queen Elizabeth back because she holds sentimental value.
Tamra has more luck, waiting for Morgan by his apartment and basically jumping him when he gets back and says there's no job in Philly and that he's not moving. They go inside with his 40 dogs and presumably get it on. I think Tamra can do better but if she's happy I'm happy.
When Mindy makes it home, Morgan is there waiting for her, having broken her toilet. He tells her that there is no job in Philly and Mindy's mind starts racing as to why her husband would have lied to her. They hear Ben's keys in the door and Morgan hides behind the curtains. Mindy is ready to play along and confront him but Ben confesses the minute he makes it through the door.
He says that he created a real challenge in their relationship to see how they would handle it and spoiler alert they did not do it well. She says she was just being supportive, Danny told her not to follow her dreams and that's what ended their relationship, she was just trying to not do that to Ben. He tells her that she's in love with the idea of marriage but not with him, that she jumped into this because she loved Lindsay and he was good with Leo. (Let's not forget she also jumped into this because he was on the verge of proposing an ultimatum but whatever…) Ben asks for a divorce and Mindy says okay without taking so much as a beat. She knew this was coming, and maybe she's still processing his request, but it's a little cold, like she's only going through the motions.
Random sidebars:
Beverly mentions that she's killed more people than Anna has dated and everyone sort of blows past this as if it isn't news.
LEO TALKS NOW? Wasn't he like just born? Those seems like perfect complete sentences he spoke to Mindy…how old does that make him? Is he 12…because we all know time means nothing on this show.
Mindy goes to CLIFF and asks him to be her divorce attorney, girl moves quick, also like why Cliff, of all the people?
I love Bryan Greenberg and he deserved better.
A new episode of The Mindy Project is now streaming, only on Hulu.


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In 2018, Jason Seife's solo exhibition Nucleus took place at the Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates. Since then, Seife has been building towards A Small Spark vs a Great Forest. After undertaking a personal and artistic journey through Iran, Syria and Turkey, Seife will present his first solo exhibition with Unit London.
At the heart of A Small Spark vs a Great Forest is an understanding of the collective nature of humanity: in Seife's mind we are all trees in the same forest.
Whether from North or South, East or West we are, in essence, cut from the same cloth. This kind of ubiquitous humanity has been emphasised by the Coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19 has no concern for the borders that humankind have drawn; it spreads indiscriminately, irrespective of race, nationality, gender or religion, one more wildfire in our burning world. Jason Seife looks to take this renewed appreciation and understanding of cultural equality and explore it by connecting with his Middle-Eastern heritage. By studying the skills of craftsmen from different cultures and adapting these aesthetics, Seife is striving to find a way of making these processes relevant to new generations. Embedded in this process is the desire to absolve people from the anxiety associated with an uncertain identity; just as the pandemic was a great leveler, so too is art.
'Seeing three years of work come together in this show makes it one of the most personal bodies of work I've made.'
Seife's process is tripartite: travelling from hand to machine, and then back to hand. He begins by sketching an 'outline design' inspired by carpet makers in the Middle-East, these often include byzantine arabesques and the intricate intertwining of floral shapes.
This hand-drawn foundation is then rendered in 3D using computer software that manipulates colour and light, producing a reference image that has a sense of relief. This software also allows for the introduction of negative space in the reference image, conveying a poignant sense of decay. Seife then zooms in on certain sections of this digital work – certain segments of his forest – and begins to meticulously hand paint these areas without the aid of any technology.
This physical-digital-physical process not only allows Seife to induce a more affecting visual experience in the viewer, it also stresses the notion that craftsmanship in art is given power by the physical expression of an artist's actions. Although these ideas are evolving and there are numerous contemporary artists that have never picked up a brush, A Small Spark vs a Great Forest is a testament to the past ideals of both the artistic process, and the effect it can have on anybody in the world.
Art Historian and Curator, Vali Mahlouji, on Jason Seife:
"Intentionally abstract, Jason Seife's current show at Unit London has an intriguing title, A Small Spark vs a Great Forest. The body of works showcases the artist's first use of concrete – his own signature mortar mix – as his surface for paint. The artist creates a formula for his own kind of mortar, which he prepares, mixes, pours and manipulates to create his own paint surface in some of the works instead of the traditional canvas. The wet viscous mortar becomes less forgiving, rigid and unyielding as it sets which the artist considers as integral to the process. Its porosity absorbs the first layers of applied paint which enhances a particular matt quality to the finished paint surface. Once the paint has dried, it is not possible to utilise that porosity – the accumulation of paint and overpainting blocks and seals the surface texture. That quality is further exploited where Seife accentuates and experiments with various painterly surfaces.
The self-made mortar lends a subtext to the work. It references building and dwelling materials utilised in various cities from Damascus to Sharjah, where Seife studied various forms of urban demolition and decay. Urban fabrics and traces of histories are systematically destroyed, erased or altered, as a result of the paradoxical marriage of forces. There are the devastating waves of conflict whose indiscriminate hostilities scar the human and material landscapes. The detritus left behind in their destructive wake linger as monuments to violence. And there are the grand tides of urban development projects, posturing as benignant inevitabilities of progress, which aggressively erase urban fabrics and memories alike. In the context of Damascus, where Jason Seife has family roots, concrete or mortar slabs are bitterly and painfully reminiscent of the specific human and material destruction that has devastated Syria.
The appropriation of concrete as material here may speak to the temporality of cities, the breakdown of architecture, the crumbling of defences, and the very fragility of our human existence in succumbing to military or political conflict, violence, fragmentation and annihilation. At the same time, it may directly reference the establishment of military bunkers, bases, shelters and military defences built up. Either way, the mortar seeks to make claim to actual and historical territorial space. In referencing a functional construction material, like concrete, Seife intends to draw attention to histories, memories, cultural biographies and human adventures embedded in the fabric of the material itself. In remembrance or in defiance, through trial and error, Seife creates his own formula for mortar as his base material through which he meditates on the process of irreparable loss.
While Seife owns his own surface, he intends to write new meaning onto the material and its socially contracted and assigned application. His process partially appropriates and emancipates the material from its former definition and original context, and alters its meaning and purpose by transforming it into a material and a surface for art. The artwork is at once also a fragmentary monument, preserved where it cannot be touched or affected, frozen, memorialised as a fragment of otherwise, lost history. The very alchemical and transformational process of creation, curing and creatively manipulating the malleable- while-wet mortar base is integral to Seife's artistic drive and practice. In his own words, Seife claims, "The mortar allows me to create my own eroded artefact of history"."
Click here to read Vali Mahlouji's essay on Jason Seife in full.
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Municipal Waste, Napalm Death & Exhumed – 2012 tour dates
by Fred Pessaro // BBG
Napalm Death at Maryland Deathfest 2012 (more by Fred Pessaro // BBG)
Municipal Waste, Napalm Death and Exhumed will team up for a US tour together (!), calling on a rotating support cast of Vektor (who just played Saint Vitus), Dayglo Abortions, Attitude Adjustment, Speedwolf, Repulsion (who will play POTR East) and Dwarves.
Look for them to hit Fun Fun Fun Fest along the way, and NYC is in the crosshairs for this mammoth tour, hitting Gramercy Theater on October 27 with Vektor on board as support. Tickets are on sale, and tour flyer and all listed tour dates are at the bottom of this post.
Municipal Waste released The Fatal Feast earlier this year, while Napalm Death released Utilitarian. I interviewed "Barney" of Napalm Death earlier this year if you missed it as well.
Meanwhile, Blag Dahlia of Dwarves will be in NYC very soon.
All dates and the MWaste tour flyer are below.
10/26 Springfield, VA @ Empire*
10/27 New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater*
10/28 New London, CT @ El N Gee*
10/29 Boston, MA @ Middle East*
10/31 Montreal, QC @ Les Foufounas Electriques*
11/01 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House*
11/02 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest (No Exhumed)*
11/03 Chicago, IL @ Reggie's (no MWaste)*
11/04 St. Paul, MN @ Station*
11/05 Winnipeg, MB @ Osborne Village Inn^
11/06 Regina, SK @ Riddell Center^
11/07 Edmonton, AB @ The Pawn Shop^
11/09 Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theater^
11/10 Seattle, WA @ Neumo's$
11/11 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater$
11/13 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge$
11/14 Santa Ana, CA @ Observatory$
11/15 Hollywood, Ca @ House of Blues$
11/16 Tempe, AZ @ Rocky Point$
11/17 El Paso, TX @ House of Rock
11/18 Ft. Worth, TX @ Rail Club%
11/20 Nashville, TN @ Exit In%
11/23 Richmond, VA @ Kingdom%
11/24 Charlotte, NC @ The Casbah%
11/25 Knoxville, TN @ Valarium%
11/26 Birmingham, AL @ Zydeco%
11/27 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia%
11/30 Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West%
12/01 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum%
12/02 Miami, FL @ Grand Central
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^ w/Dayglo Abortions
$ w/Attitude Adjustment
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Index to Creationist Claims
edited by Mark Isaak, Copyright © 2004
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Claim CA240:
Ockham's Razor says the simplest explanation should be preferred. That explanation is creation.
Morris, John D., 1999 (15 Sep., 10:00-11:00 PDT), "Forum", KQED radio.
Ockham's Razor does not say that the simplest explanation should be favored. It says that entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity (
non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem
). In other words, new principles should not be invoked if existing principles already provide an explanation. If, however, the simpler explanation does not cover all the details, then additional "entities" are necessary.
Creationism is not an explanation. An explanation tells why something is one way instead of an alternative way. But creationism does not rule out any alternatives, since a creator God could have done anything. Because of this, creationism adds nothing to any argument. Thus, creationism is an unnecessary entity and, by Ockham's Razor, should be eliminated.
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Astonishing Splashes of Colour (Kobo eBook)
Taking its title from a description of Peter Pan's Neverland, Astonishing Splashes of Colour follows the life of Kitty, a woman who, in a sense, has never grown up. As her moods swing dramatically from high to low, they are illuminated by an unusual ability to interpret people and emotions through colour.
Kitty struggles to come to terms with her life, including the loss of her mother, a miscarriage, and an unconventional marriage to her husband, who lives in the apartment next door. And when her father and brothers reveal a family secret long hidden, it overwhelms Kitty's tenuous hold on reality and propels her on an impetuous journey to the brink of madness.
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Charles Leiter teaches on the wrath of God in the only right way: with urgency in his voice and even some tears in his eyes. He begins by explaining that, though God is not illogical, He is incomprehensible, and that His wrath is the same way; we may not fully understand it, but God's wrath is real. He then discusses the fact, meaning, and manifestation of God's wrath. To prove the fact of God's wrath, he reads Nahum 1:1-8 and several other passages, and he expresses just how often the Bible describes God's anger and hatred. Secondly, on the meaning of God's wrath, he explains that God's wrath is not like our own, sinful anger. Rather, it is God's just, holy, good, and beautiful response to sin. Thirdly, Charles shows from Scripture that the wrath of God will not only be revealed in the future, on the day of judgment and in Hell, but it is also revealed presently in the troubles of the world and man's descent into greater sin. By way of application, he says that we Christians should worship God more due to this teaching and also preach the wrath of God to others, lest we be like the false prophets who refused to do so. As for non-Christians, they should flee to Christ from the wrath of God. Every modern Christian needs to hear teaching like this, due to the great lack of it in our churches.
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Master swordsmith Tony Swatton of AWE me recreates an epic weapon from video games, movies, and television every week.
This time, he built the Blades of Chaos from God of War wielded by Kratos. Even though he scaled it down, the giant sword is still fit for a giant.
After all the hard work, he and his team naturally tested it out by slicing and smashing stuff.


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I recently received an enormous amount of fresh peaches from a friend. I made good use of them when I prepared a jam recipe that I'll share soon, but there were still plenty of leftovers. I could have just made another variation of peach jam, but instead I looked for something unique. I thought of making a peach sauce, just like an apple sauce. I figured it would probably be just as delicious as the apple version. After pouring through multiple recipes for inspiration, I came across the perfect idea: Peach Butter. The difference between the sauce and butter concepts is that the butter takes on a thicker texture, making it more like a spread. The consistency of the butter is be perfect as a topper on a nice piece of steak. During the summer months, I really enjoy my meat with the addition of something sweet and fruity.
There seems to be this misconception that making jam, spreads and anything that is required to go through a jarring process is both time consuming and difficult, but it's not, just like I mentioned in my recent marinated beets recipe. In fact, just in the last few weeks I've made multiple jarred goods, as it just so happens to be that time of year. I guess the hardest part of it all is that the majority of things you would preserve are ready to harvest in the same month or two of the year. Peaches, beets, cucumbers, tomatoes, just to name a few. I guess after all this, the process feels quite redundant, but at least you become a pro at doing it upon the first few batches. You also need to remember that if you're anything like me, you'll probably prepare enough for a whole year anyway, so it's just a sacrifice to be made once a year. I like to turn it into something fun and get friends and family involved. Pick a weekend to have everyone over and the whole process becomes much more enjoyable.
This recipe for peach butter is quite similar to that of a peach jam. This is mainly due to the fact that a lot of the same spices are used. You will actually notice this no matter what jam recipe you choose to prepare. All the spices are mostly the same because there are the very ones that compliment peaches the best. There is usually only one or two ingredients that will differentiate one peach jam from the next. In somes cases, fresh vanilla is used, but I have seen rum used, as well as lavender. You can think of the peach butter as the same, but without this special ingredient, as well as the fact that it does not include any additional sweetener than the fruit itself. By eliminating the sweetener, you are not simply adjusting the taste, but also the consistency of the mixture. When adding honey to jam, you get a softer texture, but by leaving it out, your mixture becomes much thicker. This, as well as the fact that you cook the butter much longer than you would the jam. This allows more time for the liquids to evaporate.
Even though this recipe doesn't contain any additional sweetener than the fruits themselves, it's still quite sweet and high in sugar so this peach butter should be consumed in moderation and used as a condiment to add flavor to savory dishes.
The spice blend used here with the nutmeg, cardamon, ginger, cinnamon and cloves really compliments the peaches to create a rich, hearty and deep taste.
Peach Butter Recipe
Makes 12 regular sized jars
Protein: 4g / %
Carbs: 42g / %
Fat: 1g / %
Values are per portion. These are for information only & are not meant to be exact calculations.
- 15 lbs peaches;
- 3 tbsp ground cinnamon;
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg;
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves;
- 1/4 tsp ground cardamom;
- Cube the peaches and remove the pits. The peel can stay on.
- In separate batches, purée the peaches in a blender or food processor. Once pureed, pour the puree into a very large stock pot over a medium-low heat. Add all the spices to the pot and stir well. Allow the mixture to cook for 60 minutes, uncovered, being sure to stir frequently. Over time, you should notice the mixture getting thicker.
- If you haven't already done so, use this time to sterilize the jars and lids. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and place all parts of the jars in separate pieces in the boiling water. Leave them in for at least 10 minutes. This is necessary to kill of any bacteria on the jars. Remove and place to dry in a sterile place. You should be able to find canning tools like jar lifters and magnetic lid lifters at your local grocery store. These tools are useful to handle the hot jars without having to touch them.
- Remove the peach butter from the stove and immediately pour it into the sterile jars. Place the disc top onto each jar and screw on the seal. Since the butter is still hot upon putting into the jars, they should seal themselves without having to do so in a water bath.


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Galilee offers a variety of programs throughout the year for all ages. Each of our programs is carefully planned to create a welcoming community where participants have opportunities to step away from regular life and create new relationships, challenge themselves, learn more about themselves and the world around them, and enjoy the beauty of God's creation. Camp Galilee is a safe and sacred space where all are welcome no matter their race, religion, gender, gender identity, or sexuality.
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Our summer program for youth provides a meaningful and adventure-filled experience for campers ages 8 to 16. One-week sessions are offered from the end of June through early August.
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Dinner: Campers help with hosting several meals during the week.
Community Gathering: Each day ends with singing around the campfire, as well as a time of reflection at Point Prayer.


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China is building a digital dictatorship to exert control over its 1.4 billion citizens. For some, "social credit" will bring privileges — for others, punishment.
Dandan Fan is very much the modern Chinese woman.
A marketing professional, she's diligent and prosperous — in many ways she's a model Chinese citizen.
But Dandan is being watched 24 hours a day.
A vast network of 200 million CCTV cameras across China ensures there's no dark corner in which to hide.
Every step she takes, every one of her actions big or small — even what she thinks — can be tracked and judged.
And Dandan says that's fine with her.
What may sound like a dystopian vision of the future is already happening in China. And it's making and breaking lives.
The Communist Party calls it "social credit" and says it will be fully operational by 2020.
Within years, an official Party outline claims, it will "allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step".
Social credit is like a personal scorecard for each of China's 1.4 billion citizens.
In one pilot program already in place, each citizen has been assigned a score out of 800. In other programs it's 900.
Those, like Dandan, with top "citizen scores" get VIP treatment at hotels and airports, cheap loans and a fast track to the best universities and jobs.
"It will allow the trustworthy to roam freely under heaven while making it hard for the discredited to take a single step."
Those at the bottom can be locked out of society and banned from travel, or barred from getting credit or government jobs.
The system will be enforced by the latest in high-tech surveillance systems as China pushes to become the world leader in artificial intelligence.
Surveillance cameras will be equipped with facial recognition, body scanning and geo-tracking to cast a constant gaze over every citizen.
Smartphone apps will also be used to collect data and monitor online behaviour on a day-to-day basis.
Then, big data from more traditional sources like government records, including educational and medical, state security assessments and financial records, will be fed into individual scores.
Trial social credit systems are now in various stages of development in at least a dozen cities across China.
Several companies are working with the state to nationalise the system, co-ordinate and configure the technology, and finalise the algorithms that will determine the national citizen score.
It's probably the largest social engineering project ever attempted, a way to control and coerce more than a billion people.


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Ok fine, so I am having a strange moment here. So what?! Here is the issue … I have a Nokia 6630 which has been acting up because the guys at the Nokia repair centre didn't load the upgrades properly and I find myself wondering whether it is time to move away from Nokia to some other platform like Windows Mobile or Palm (not that there is going to be much of a distinction there soon) and then I realise that none of the other platforms really have much more to offer.
I have decided to switch to an Apple iBook as soon as I have the cash to buy one and I'd like to have a smartphone that synch's properly and completely with OSX down the line. Are there any feature packed devices that aren't underpowered and which really show us how connected the world really is? Or am I just expecting too much at this time?


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22 Oct AMVER Awards Ceremony
AMVER Awards Ceremony 2018
Speech of the President of the International Propeller Club of the United States, International Port of Piraeus, Mr. George Xiradakis:
"Dear Vice Minister of Shipping and Island Policy, Mr. Nektarios Santorinios,
- Dear US Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic and Honorable President of Propeller Club of Piraeus, Mr. Geoffrey R. Pyatt,
- Dear Deputy for Operations, Policy, and Capabilities of the US Coast Guard, Rear Admiral Meredith Austin,
- Dear Commandant of the Hellenic Coast Guard, Vice Admiral Stamatis Raptis,
- Dear Chief of Hellenic Navy Fleet, Vice Admiral Ioannis Pavlopoulos,
- Dear Secretary General of the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy, Mr. Dionyssis Temponeras,
- Dear Rear Admiral Joel Whitehead, President of International Propeller Club,
- Dear President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping Mr. George Pateras,
- Your excellences Ambassadors of Maritime Nations from Cyprus, Panama, Liberia and Ireland,
- Dear Representatives of the Union of Greek Shipowners,
- Dear Executives of U.S Embassy Athens and of USCG, of the Hellenic Armed Forces,
- Dear Presidents and Representatives of the Hellenic Shipping Cluster, General Secretariat of Ports Policy, Association of Banking and Financial Executives of Hellenic Shipping, HELMEPA, OLP, Short Sea Shipping, Passenger Shipping, Hellenic Shipbrokers Association, Hellenic Professional Yacht Owners Association, WISTA Hellas, Ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki,
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Ladies and gentlemen,
For the sixth time in a row, I welcome you to the annual AMVER awards event organized by the Propeller Club – Port of Piraeus in collaboration with the US Embassy and the US Coast Guard.
Once again, shipowners, bankers, lawyers, financiers, insurers, captains, sailors, scientists, shipping executives, entrepreneurs, brokers, port organizations, professors, military and friends honor us with your presence, making the Propeller Club of Piraeus an important entity in the Greek maritime cluster, a goal that was set years ago.
Your participation in tonight's event exceeds all previous ones, while the number of Sponsors, without the support of which our social responsibility task would not have been possible, has reached a record number also. Thank you very much!
The seamanship is in the DNA of Greeks, who have proven it by being ranked first in the list of the top world shipowners. However, we cannot overlook the fact that the maritime community experiences an era of great challenges and opportunities. Our country ranks 7th in the list of the major shipping nations in the world, according to a survey by DNV GL and Menon Economics, a position we must improve. The research is based on four parameters such as shipping, shipping technology, maritime finance and legislation, and port and logistics services. These are parameters that need to be exploited by our DNA. Dedication, Navigation, Acceleration.
Today we award 220 Greek shipping companies having 1,800 vessels under their management, which voluntarily enroll to the AMVER reporting system, aiming at rescuing people and fortune in distress at sea globally. This means that 33,000 people / seafarers of all specialties compose an army of people serving the global community. The crew of these ships managed for another year to rescue human lives under unfavorable conditions.
Thousands of ships from hundreds of nations participate in AMVER. Over 7,000 ships are involved daily in emergency rescue events, while 3.500 human lives have been rescued by ships participating in AMVER since 2000. The 2017 data are impressive. 153 people were rescued, out of which 110 came from Greek ships which were at risk.
We call on all Greek companies to enroll their vessels at the AMVER system, to become members of the rescue chain, proving that shipping business is a concept that goes far beyond the purely economic scope of action. It is human virtue to use expertise, talent and skills to solve problems in order to improve the quality of life and standard of living of his fellow human beings and himself.
During the last 6 years I have the honor to lead the Propeller Club of Piraeus, I had the opportunity to meet with members from other Propeller ports, all focusing on the human factor as a pillar of integrated marine development, which can provide benefits to humanity. I share this experience with our newest members, who will spearhead the new challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Digital Revolution.
I would like to sincerely thank you all, for your presence tonight, your continuous support to the Board of Governors and the Propeller Club – Port of Piraeus and for supporting us in furthering our mission.
Last but not least, I would like to share with you our joy and fortune working with a wonderful group of people from the American Embassy in Greece and above all with Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, who has honored with his friendship both the entire family of Propeller Club Piraeus and myself. A man who is working hard since his arrival in our country, uses the three circle Venn diagram having, in one circle North Africa, in another the Eastern Mediterranean, and in a third the Black Sea region. The Ambassador believes that the place where that Venn diagram comes together is Greece, claiming that this sort of strategic element of the relationship will remain important. He is the one who feels complimented when called undiplomatic at times and who declares that our democratic values cannot be taken for granted. A man who admires Greek seamanship and considers Greece a global shipping center.
We have prepared a program, inspired by the values we are dedicated, which will travel you to the beauty of Greek shipping and its people and we hope that we will become the springboard for accelerating your efforts for a better life. We wish you a pleasant evening!"


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I've dusted the Christmas post from the past. But the message is still the same and I wanted to present our pastor's illustration at the Cantata '08. It has a very good message.
Christmas of 2013 is here and those of us at Lee's Birdwatching Adventures; Lee, Dan, A J, Ian and all the guest writers would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. We are busy doing things for the special day when we celebrate the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ. We will be seeing our relatives again this year and will enjoy our time together. Tonight, Christmas Eve, we will be sharing the Candlelight Service with all of our friends at church. We hope your Christmas Day and week are just as enjoyable as ours will be.
During all the festivities, pause to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. We enjoy our birdwatching adventures throughout the year, and try to write and photograph our friends the birds, but our goal is to show God's magnificent creation and point you to Him. We do not worship nature, but we do worship the Lord who created it all.
Please watch the video of my pastor, Nathan Osborne, III, as he gave an excellent illustration about birds out in the cold and snow. It helps to explain the true meaning of Christmas. (Part of our Christmas cantata, "From the Manger to the Cross")
He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:11-14 KJV)


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Our pal Kit hits us up with some more Kick Ass Stories You Should Really Check Out!
"What do we do when we're threatened by something totally alien, unable to combat it? We freak the fuck out. There's little else we can do if one is to take the nihilistic view that humans are worth very little in the grand scheme of the universe…." Norm Sherman
That's right. This time the article starts with a quote. Because I.
Before we get started, going forward please post any suggestions you have for themes for me to select stories for. Also, if you want some recommendations on themes or ideas you want to see explored, I'll see what I can find for you!
Anyway, we're on two stories this week, as they're both pretty heavy in content and intensity. We're looking at agency this time, There are many stories, from the Matrix to Bioshock Infinite out there where these ideas are explored, containing plot twists where it turns out everything was planned out from the start, or tiny choices made at the beginning of a story matter much more than we would think.
The first story this week looks at how control over the future can be a burden, and that there may not be a right answer to a question. On top of that, the universe doesn't actually care which option we pick. The second story looks at the other side, asking if we really control you own life.
The Cold Equations
"I didn't do anything to die for… I didn't do anything…"
This story presents us with a surprisingly unique and haunting antagonist, as two strangers face up against the fact that, to the universe, you are completely insignificant. The story begins with the pilot of a cargo spaceship transporting medical supplies to an outreach planet on the frontier of human occupied space. Six people will die without these supplies, but due to limited resources, and the remoteness of the destination, the ship carries just enough air and fuel reserves for the trip, specifically calculated for one pilot alone to make the trip successfully (with a very small amount extra in case of calculation error). Half way through this journey, the pilot notices one of the gauges on his dashboard ticking. He is not alone, as someone has stowed away on his spaceship. There is not enough fuel or air for both of them, and, unless something changes, they will soon be dead, eternally drifting through space in a metal coffin.
At this point, you'd think a quick air lock later and boom, problem solved, stowaway dies in the vacuum of space. Except the stowaway is an innocent teenage girl, who snuck abroad the ship hoping to visit her brother on the outreach planet. She has no idea about the fuel situation on the shuttle. We go from there.
Agency here is shown by the pilot facing an impossible choice. Whilst he technically has multiple options there is only one that will save both his life and the men dependant on him. There are times in our lives where we'll be in a situation where there is no right thing to do. Even worse, it isn't because something evil is making us do it, nor do we gain anything by doing it. This story makes us face up to not only that, but also the universe's complete apathy towards us. The universe runs on a series of equations (maybe just one very complex equation if Stephen Hawking gets his way!) where we are nothing more than an X to be. Sometimes, the X is too large and the equation doesn't balance. In this case, the only option is to reduce X and take something away before the calculation is done.
You really feel for both the pilot and the girl. She has made a simple mistake, based on a misunderstanding. The sort of mistake we all make while we're growing up and do something we know we probably shouldn't but think we can deal with the consequences. He is a man faced with an impossible choice he has to make. He'll have to live with whatever decision he makes for the rest of his life. Agency is something he really doesn't want. If something made the call and executed it for him then he wouldn't be responsible for the consequences, but no, it's his call to make and he has to make it. Sometimes control over our own destiny might be the last thing we want in the moment.
Listen to the end and you'll find out the alternate ending to this story, personally I massively prefer the one they kept.
This story is chilling, reminding you of your own insignificance in the grand scheme of things and that, sometimes, we have to make truly horrible choices. And I love it. This story is fantastic and well worth the time.
Author: Tom Godwin
Link: http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/07/15/drabblecast-289-the-cold-equations/
Hollow as the World
"…Joshua had never existed. All the interesting things in his life had come at someone else's behest. His whole life had been a game, and not even a particularly well-designed one. Another scared teenager. Selfish. Passive. Predictable."
Were you ever a socially awkward teenager, self-hating, with no idea how to deal with your emotions towards your romantic interest, and maybe even with a love for videogames? I was! If you were as well, then a warning: the main character in this story will be very relatable, and not in a way you may feel comfortable with.
This is a modern horror story, making use of modern culture, even videogames. You'll find Portal in this and Not-Minecraft, also known as Stonehewn (and even a reference to My Little Pony… of course…). It's similar to the use of televisions in The Ring, and I'm sure there's many a metaphor to be found about our relationship with videogames in modern society. Luckily, It handles it very well. I named the second game Not-Minecraft because Stonehewn is Minecraft on steroids. It is the same game, but with perfectly realistic graphics, the function for your character to play itself and a load of other… interesting features.
As mentioned before, this is a story about an awkward, slightly self-loathing teenager named Joshua. He is in love with his best friend Lydia, and they're both videogame addicts. It isn't the case that he's been 'friendzoned'. He has no clue how to handle his feelings towards her, and is completely afraid to act on them, despite her signals that he should (this hit a little close to home when I think back on me 10 or so years ago). After trying Stonehewn, Lydia vanishes for a week, becoming a total addict to it (I may have done something like this myself on Minecraft when trying to build a floating airship on Survival mode). One week later she dies. She has left him a note, reading 'Joshua: a dangerous mirror. This reveals Truth.'
Joshua picks up her old computer and boots up her copy of Stonehewn. He decides to break it, blaming it for her death. This story really makes you think about the control we think we have over our lives. It raises the question about whether or not the decisions we make our really our own, or if the games we play and the movies we watch really control us, instead of us controlling them. Games and other art do that affect the way we feel and the things we think. Therefore, while we may make in-game decisions, these have no real impact outside the game. The only way they may do is the affect they have on us internally, as they alter how we think and behave.
That's at least one way to read into the story. You may take something else away from it. In my case I think it is a cool way to look at things, but actually so what? When it comes down to it life is actually pretty damn awesome.
Author: Ferrett Steinmetz
Link: http://www.drabblecast.org/2013/08/14/drabblecast-292-hollow-as-the-world/
Thank you for reading! As I said before, please suggest any ideas you may have for themes and I'll try to pick two or three stories that fit! If you want a recommendation, I'll try to give it!


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What Do Behavioral Targeters Know About You?
While relevant advertising is the only kind that's useful, it's creepy to see behavioral ads following you around the web, advertising that trip to Hawaii you'd researched last week when you're just trying to read the news. But perhaps it would be a lot less creepy if you knew when and where you were sharing your data, and when and why you're being targeted by ads.
To that end, you can find out exactly what cookies BlueKai — which says it's the largest U.S. behavioral data provider, and just raised a third round of $21 million while kicking off its third year of existence — has on you. Head over to BlueKai's registry and you can see, item by item, recent categories you've been slotted into based on your browsing history.
Here's what Bluekai says it knows about me:
* A bunch about my travel preferences from recent trips I've researched (including the proverbial one to Hawaii), including what day I wanted to depart on, how far in advance of the trip it was, and my departure and arrival points. Also something more vague — that I'm "looking for sunshine." (It's like they're peering into my soul!)
* Some information about my job that's not terrifically accurate — I'm in information technology (true) and hospitality (false), I'm at a company with 100+ employees (false).
* My gender, age range and geographic area.
Though the categorical information is perhaps a bit jargony — aka "In-market > Travel > Air travel > By destination > Domestic destinations" — I can go through and remove any one aspect that I think is incorrect or invasive.
The idea here, said BlueKai CEO Omar Tawakol in a telephone interview, is to show consumers what's known about them so they don't get freaked out and opt out of behavioral ads entirely. It's also meant to fend off the threat of consumer privacy legislation that could potentially cut off the whole industry. A pure opt-out system, along the lines of the Do Not Call Registry, could be a huge blow to the emerging behavioral marketing industry, which was worth $1 billion last year.
"The ultimate solution is to raise the bar high enough that we do it for ourselves instead of waiting for legislation," Tawakol said. "The industry deserves what it gets if the bar's too low."
BlueKai's is just one early attempt to get on consumer's good sides — though I can't imagine that many people will actually go in and adjust their data for just a single cookie-tracking company. The IAB and a group called the Network Advertising Initiative are trying to create broader industry standards.
Because BlueKai doesn't actually target ads itself, just buy and sell data about users, it depends on its customers doing a better job of exposing what they're doing. Here's Tawakol's proposal:
"In my mind morality always precedes legality. Here's where I will be happy. If every page that collects data has a simple link in English that tells you what data it has and what it knows about you. And if every ad says this ad was targeted anonymously, click here and we'll show you what we used."
Image via Flickr user Editor B.
Related research from GigaOM Pro (sub. req'd):
Smartphone Privacy Concerns Sure to Heat Up Even When They're Unwarranted
Who Owns Your Data in the Cloud


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Which country emits the most carbon dioxide? With climate change a massive political, environmental and business issue it's worth taking a look at who emits the most CO2 in the world.
See our big news page for complete coverage of climate change issues.
The following slideshow looks at the world's biggest polluters. The data, preliminary numbers from 2010, is taken from the U.S. government's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Centre.
Not surprisingly, the world's largest economies, those in the G8, figure prominently in the list. See the slideshow below:


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" Powerful Healer " 12"x24"
This beauty is made for healing purposes, insiryee with raw amethyst points and quartz crystals.
Amethyst helps clear the mind, while the quartz amplified its abilities. This art needs to be put by the window during full moons to recharge the art
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The National Commission for Women (NCW) had earlier asked Kerala MLA PC George to appear before it on Thursday. But, his counsel came on his behalf and stated that the MLA could not present himself due to an unavoidable circumstance.
New Delhi: The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Thursday for the third time summoned Kerala MLA PC George, asking him to appear before it on November 13 for allegedly using abusive language against a nun, who has accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of sexual assault.
The NCW had earlier asked George to appear before it on Thursday. However, his representative counsel came on his behalf and stated that the MLA could not present himself due to an unavoidable circumstance.
During the meeting, the counsel representing the MLA requested for all necessary information and documents of the statements made by George from the commission.
NCW Chairperson Rekha Sharma informed him that all media reports related to George's objectionable remarks about the nun are available on the internet/print/electronic media.
The commission has taken serious note of the fact that George did not appear before the NCW even though he had sought for another date in his letter dated September 19.
The commission heard the counsel and has allowed time to submit the reply. It has directed George to appear before the NCW in person on November 13.
George, the lone Independent MLA in the Kerala assembly, had demanded that the nun disclose the reason for not reporting the incident earlier. He had also made some other "objectionable" remarks against her.
Terming the language used by the MLA as "deeply disturbing", NCW Chairperson Sharma said the commission seriously condemns "such objectionable and derogatory statements made by a person who occupies responsible position in the society".
George didn't appear before the commission on September 20 as well, saying he received the communication on September 17 and wouldn't be able to come.
In her complaint to the Kottayam Police in June, the nun had alleged that Roman Catholic Bishop Franco Mulakkal raped her at a guest house in Kuravilangad in May 2014 and later sexually exploited her on several occasions.
The nun said she had to approach the police as church authorities did not act on her repeated complaints against the clergyman. However, the bishop has denied the charges.
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San Francisco's top Catholic official, Archbishop George Niederauer, is under fire from Catholic leaders because two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence received communion from him on October 7 at the Holy Redeemer Church in the Castro.
The service was videotaped and posted on the internet, where it caught the attention of Bill O'Reilly, who was happy to fan the flames.
O'Reilly wrote: "Last Sunday, at the Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, Archbishop George Niederauer was celebrating mass. As part of that ritual, holy communion is given to Catholics by the celebrants. Two gay militants in bizarre dress took communion from the archbishop in an attempt to mock the mass and the man. — The people who did this are members of a militant homosexual group that runs around San Francisco dressed as nuns. All city officials are aware of the group because in the past they have publicly demeaned Christianity. The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, has refused to comment. The District Attorney, Kamala Harris, says she is waiting for a complaint to be filed. The Catholic Church says it will do its own investigation and doesn't want the police involved at this point. The archbishop has apologized, saying he's embarrassed and sorry he gave communion to people committing sacrilege."
Now, Niederauer has written a letter of apology to "Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and to Catholics at large" according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
It reads, in part: "At Communion time, toward the end of the line, two strangely dressed persons came to receive Communion. As I recall, one of them wore a large flowered hat or garland. These two people have long made a practice of mocking the Catholic Church in general and religious women in particular. Someone who dresses in a mock religious habit to attend Mass does so to make a point (that) was intended as a provocative gesture."
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom responded: "This debate really is about San Francisco values. The Bill O'Reillys of the world are threatened by San Francisco because we value diversity, universal health care and civil rights for all. They will exploit any controversy to attack our values."
More on the Sisters here.


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If I took a look in your kitchen right now, would I find some recipe books? How about in your hobby closet. Would I find knitting or sewing patterns? And in the garage? I bet I'll find a maintenance schedule in your car.
We rely on these kinds of instructions every single day, and with good reason. Following a step-by-step plan makes us more efficient, wastes less time and money, and helps make sure dinner tastes good and the car keeps running.
But if I took a peek behind the curtain of your business, would I find clear instructions? Or would you say, "Oh, I just know what I need to do and I do it"?
Stop Everything Right Now and Get Your Business Processes Documented
Sound scary and over-dramatic? It's really not, and here's why.
You'll save hours of work every week. Seriously. When you no longer have to spend 3 days waiting for your website designer to tell you the hex codes for your logo colors, or wait 20 minutes for that password reset email to show up (again), you'll appreciate the time-saving benefits of business documentation.
Documentation also provides a better customer experience. A simple checklist can prevent embarrassing mistakes like sales page buttons that don't work, coupons with the wrong expiration date, email links that go nowhere, and any number of other things frustrate your customers.
Maybe the biggest benefit of a properly documented business, though, is the peace of mind you get. What if you couldn't work for several days or more? Could you easily hand off mission-critical tasks to someone else? Unless you have documentation in place, the answer to that is a clear no.
Why do we resist getting this crucial business task done, then? Maybe because we've made it out to be more difficult than it truly is.
Documentation is Easy if You Let it Be
In a past life (pre-internet), part of my job was ISO 9001 compliance. In plain English, that means I was responsible for maintaining all the policies, procedures manuals, and work instruction documentation for the small factory where I worked.
We had thousands of pages of checklists with unique identification numbers and related worksheets and required training documents. They all lived in a complex series of nested folders several levels deep, which felt really organized, but navigation was a chore.
When I started my own business, I knew I needed to document my systems. I saw the benefits of that, but I thought good workflows meant creating complicated document control systems like I'd learned in the corporate world.
Don't do that to yourself.
You're (probably) not making automotive air bags or antiviral medications or anything else with life-or-death consequences, so there's no need to get hung up on things like revision control. It will just add another level of resistance with little to no value.
What you want instead is to create a system that:
- Makes sense for the way you work. If you love Wunderlist or Evernote or Asana, then adapt your documentation to those tools. Don't force yourself to learn a whole new system, because you likely won't do it.
- Is easy to share with a team, because if you don't already have an assistant (or two or three) then you will someday, right? Documentation that exists only in handwritten form in a notebook on your desk is not shareable. Put those checklists and worksheets into pixel form and get them in the cloud where your team can access them, too.
- Makes your job easier and more efficient. Clicking through 17 levels of folders in your Dropbox is not a good use of your time, and trust me when I say, you won't do it. Documentation should save time, not make more work for you.
Make it a Habit to Use Your Documentation
With all that said, simply creating systems won't win you any entrepreneurial kudos. You have to actually use the documents you create.
It is super easy to fall into the trap of thinking, "I've done this a thousand times, I don't need no stinkin' checklist."
Before you know it, your blog post formatting is chaotic and off-brand, you accidentally overpaid your team because you were looking at last month's numbers, and no one can buy your latest training because you didn't add the link to the sales page.
If you outsource, make sure your all your team members have access to the documentation they need as well. It will save time and frustration for everyone, and make for a far better customer experience as well.
How to Create Business Documentation
Keep it simple. Think about your day-to-day business tasks, such as:
- Uploading a video to YouTube
- Writing and formatting a blog post
- Paying your contractors or affiliates
- Responding to customer support requests
- Sending an email to your subscribers
As you perform each task, jot down the steps you take on a Word document, in Google drive, Evernote, Wunderlist or anywhere else you can add a simple checklist.
Viola! You've just documented your first business system! Wasn't that easy?
What about the things you aren't so familiar with, though? Here's two easy ways to handle that:
Option 1: Outsource it. If you already have a team member who is responsible for performing those tasks, make it his or her job to also create the documentation.
Option 2: Start with a done-for-you template like this one from Cindy Bidar. These 24 online business marketing & operations checklists + 8 documentation templates, and the bonus business operations manual template is the perfect start for your Standard Operating Procedures manual, and you can have it set up in minutes.
Get your copy here, and save $10 when you use promo code PIGGYPERKS in the cart.


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What Is Cryptography?
Until the advent of computers, cryptography was a discipline that dealt with encryption. Now, cryptography is primarily concerned with security within computer systems. Encryption methods have gotten more complex, and the field is a critical part of huge portions of the tech industry. Modern cryptography lies at the intersection of mathematics and computer science. You find modern cryptography in things you use every day, including chip-based payment cards and computer passwords. The field is much bigger, however. With blockchain changing how we approach traditional systems like finance and deep learning accessing mind-boggling amounts of data, encryption for privacy is at the forefront. You may have written secret codes in the past, but it's time to apply that basic principle to the theory of everything.
What Do Cryptographers Do?
Cryptographers use encryption methods to seal private data and protect personal autonomy. Privacy is no longer the ability to remain hidden. Instead, retaining agency over your data is the benchmark. Cryptographers create systems that protect your data and allow you to move safely through cyberspace. Cryptographic algorithms verify your identity and then protect it even as you interact with millions of bits of data, and that data is collected. It's a key component of cybersecurity. Encryption algorithms allow a user to purchase something online without giving away their sensitive information. It will enable companies to provide network security to clients. Everyone from your neighbor to the US government is at the mercy of quality encryption methods.
Learn Cryptography
Ciphers aren't the same as those mystery novels you read as a kid, but they have evolved from those simple methods. Mastering foundations like symmetric-key cryptography, stream ciphers, sha-1 hash algorithms, public-key cryptography, and block ciphers help you build the next generation of data security. Big data is transforming business and organizational operations, but maintaining data integrity is crucial to providing deep learning frameworks quality data that can produce results. There's even an entire subsection of the US Chamber of Commerce, NIST, with labor dedicated to cybersecurity.
Cryptography Courses
Blockchain is arguably the most prominent section of cybersecurity at the moment, and the Linux Foundation has a course in Blockchain uses and implications. IT will discuss encryption methods inherent in the public ledger model of blockchain and how to maintain the integrity of the ledger. For example, Bitcoin, arguably the most famous case of blockchain operates on hash functions for security. CalTech and Delft Univerity of Technology have a course in Quantum Cryptography to build foundational skills in the newest area of cybersecurity. You'll understand quantum protocols including key management distribution and how to test for secure communication in unsecured channels. These encryption keys open cybersecurity to solutions previously unavailable with classical models. Data encryption is the forefront of cyberspace. Businesses and organizations need digital signature authentication and message authentication to validate data, and customer-facing applications must use modes of operation that protect sensitive information. And with the US government employing advanced encryption standards to our most sensitive data on the federal level, now is the time to jump on modern cryptography.


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This excerpt from Working Smarter for Mac Users, a new eBook by Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus, appears in Chapter 5: The Cure for Email Overload— Guaranteed! It has been republished verbatim, with permission.
It takes time to read the subject line of a message, and it takes more time to open a message and scan its contents. So when you get mail from a commercial entity, a list, store, or group, you should ask yourself, "do I ever read these?" If the answer is "no," or even "maybe," look for the unsubscribe link (usually at or near the end of the message) and click it.
Here's what some typical unsubscribe links in my email in look like:
I can't remember where I read this tip, but when I began unsubscribing to mail I didn't care about, I reduced my overall incoming email load by at least 15% in just a few weeks.
For those who are stingy about providing an email address to commercial entities or mailing lists, this tip won't be much use. But if, like me, you receive dozens or hundreds of list-based messages every day, start unsubscribing now. Remember, just because you once opted to receive mail from a list it doesn't mean you're obligated to keep reading it forever. If you don't love it, get rid of it now.
Remember you can always resubscribe if you miss it. But my experience has been that if I was uninterested enough to unsubscribe, I'm unlikely to resubscribe. My goal these days is to see less mail in my inbox each day, not more; unsubscribing from lists I'm no longer interested in has helped a lot.
And, though it should go without saying, I am much more particular about the lists I sign up for these days. I only sign up for things that really interest me and that I'm willing to make time to read.
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jumping mouse
jumping mouse, rodent slightly larger than the common mouse, found in North America and N Asia, also called the kangaroo mouse. Its long hind legs and tail enable it to leap distances up to 12 ft (3.7 m). Jumping mice have gray to brown fur and are white underneath. They can scurry as well as leap and are good swimmers. Solitary, nocturnal animals, they are found in marshes and on stream banks in coniferous and deciduous forests of both coasts of North America and also in fields and pastures. Two genera, Zapus and Napaeozapus, are North American, ranging from the Arctic Circle S to New Mexico and Tennessee; a related genus, with one species, Eozapus setchuanus, the Szechuan jumping mouse, is native to China. Jumping mice feed on a diet of grass seeds, fruit, and insect larvae. They gain weight in autumn and hibernate in fur-lined burrows during winter. Litters, containing from three to six young, are born in late spring. Jumping mice are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Rodentia, family Zapodidae.
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Bringing new perspective to science, technology, education and the arts.
Esports Comes to Kent State: An Interview with Maria Hawkins
Maria Hawkins is the project manager of the eSports program at Kent State University. Esports is multiplayer online video gaming competition played for spectators - either in person or on streaming sites such as Twitch.
The Kent State varsity eSports team plays on four different platforms: Overwatch, League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Rocket League. As new games become popular, the university will consider adding them as competitive platforms.


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The Third Claw Of God, the second novel in Adam-Troy Castro's Andrea Cort novels, confirms this series really is something special: the story of a hard-assed former child war criminal who flies around the galaxy solving crimes committed in exotic megastructures. But it's even better than that sounds. Spoilers ahead!
In Adam-Troy Castro's novels, Andrea Cort was born on a colony world where humans and the native aliens lived in total harmony – until one day, everyone in their community went mad and killed each other. The only survivor, Cort was eight years old, but she was still branded a war criminal, which makes it harder for the grown-up Cort to travel around investigating murders in extreme environments in space.
Part of the fun of these novels seems to be where Castro will put Cort next: the first book, Emissaries From The Dead, takes place in a weird tube-shaped habitat where some humans live in the upper branches, at constant risk of falling hundreds of miles into toxic atmosphere. The second, The Third Claw Of God, takes place on a space elevator, which stalls out just outside a planet's atmosphere. People are constantly accusing Cort of being a monster, and she half believes it herself.
Cort's a counselor with the human Diplomatic Corps, but in the first novel she becomes a secret agent of the godlike artificial intelligences that run the universe, the AISource. The AIsource is searching for a way to die, a plan which a splinter group of AIs opposes bitterly, and Cort has promised to help the AIs die because she hates them and blames them for her problems.
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Meanwhile, Andrea Cort has one of the most fascinating romantic relationships in science fiction. In the first novel, Emissaries From The Dead, she met the Porrinyards, a man and a woman whose consciousnesses were linked cybernetically, making them one person with two bodies. The Porrinyards and Andrea fell in love, and in the second novel, they're a couple – or a threesome, depending on how you look at it. The Porrinyards may have a single mind, but they're also capable of being in two places at once, and concentrating on different things at the same time. Oh, and it doesn't hurt that both their bodies are shockingly attractive. In one of the novel's hottest scenes, the Porrinyards wake from cryo-sleep extremely horny – apparently it's one of the main side effects of interstellar travel – and they have a hot threeway with Andrea in the shower. She loses track of which one of her hot lovers is doing what to her, after a while – but it doesn't matter anyway, since they're only one person.
I think that's the main reason I enjoyed the second Cort novel, The Third Claw Of God, even more than the first. Castro spent a lot of time setting up Cort's situation in the first novel, and now that it's in place, he can have a lot more fun with it. We get to see how, in practice, a relationship with a linked pair would work out – especially as the Porrinyards help Andrea investigate a particularly sticky murder. The Porrinyards want Andrea to join them and become a third linked mind in their gestalt entity, but they're content, for now, to love her as a separate entity. And they're a huge help to anyone investigating a murder, because they can be in different rooms and still know everything the other knows. They're the perfect Watson to Cort's Holmes. Unfortunately, one of Andrea's main modes of thought is rage and paranoia, so she's constantly accusing her lover(s) of hiding something from her. And we also see how complicated her life as an agent of the AISource is really going to be.
I already loved the first book, Emissaries From The Dead, for its crazy setting, the weird interactions with AIs and our first meeting with the Porrinyards. But the second book has fully sucked me in – for one thing, it's clear this isn't just going to be one of those series where Cort goes around having stand-alone adventures and investigating locked-room murders in weird space stations or whatnot. The second book moves forward the story of Cort's life as an AI secret agent in a meaningful way, and also gives us a totally new spin on Cort's situation. It's not quite that everything we thought we knew was wrong, more like we're seeing it all from a totally new perspective as we learn a bunch of new facts.
So what's the murder mystery this time around? As I mentioned, it takes place on a space elevator on its way down to the planet Xana, which is owned and operated by the evil Bettelhine family, a clan of weapon-makers, whose influence goes back centuries. They've invited Cort to their planet to talk about a business proposition, of sorts, but before she even makes it down to the planet, murder strikes. An elderly scholar, who just happens to be from the planet where Cort was branded as a war criminal, gets murdered with a 15,000 year old weapon, the Claw Of God, which liquefies you from the inside out.
For a good chunk of the novel, the space elevator turns into the Orient Express, with Cort interviewing suspect after suspect inside its luxurious but limited confines. And in the tradition of all murder mysteries, she uncovers a lot of facts that appear unrelated to the case, but which prove that the Bettelines are even worse than she'd realized. Bad enough that they are responsible for wiping out tons of civilizations in their drive to provide newer and deadlier weapons to all contenders. But it turns out there are actually worse things than weapons of mass destruction, and the Bettelhines are up to their necks in all of it. And then we learn that the Bettelhines have more of a tie to Cort's past, and to her possible future as the slayer of the godlike AIs, than we'd realized.
As with the first novel, The Third Claw Of God becomes much less about "whodunnit" and more about other issues, so that by the time you find out who the murderer is, you're already caught up in larger issues. (And the identity of the murderer might be a slight letdown, but only if you're not already fascinated by the bigger picture of AI civil war, criminal families with deadly secrets, and weird weapons that can do more than kill you — they can enslave you.)
In the end, Andrea Cort has to ask new questions about who she is as a person, as well as where she comes from and what she stands for. And her answers to those questions may end up helping to shape the future of the human race, although — as the AIs wryly tell her — that doesn't mean she should get an inflated sense of her own importance. She's stilll just a pawn, only in this case she's a pawn that's in a crucial spot.
I feel like I should rave more about these books, because they haven't been getting as much buzz as they deserve and I love them. The Andrea Cort novels are almost a guilty pleasure, except that in between all of the great derring do, detection and romance with the psychically linked pair, Castro manages to ask some really interesting questions about the nature of humanity and how far you'd be willing to go to stop the galaxy from being filled with lethal weapons. These books are compulsively readable space mysteries, but they're also hiding little packets of cleverness and substance under the surface. Highly recommended.


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Pery Burge died in February of 2013. She was a gifted artist/scientist.
Our collaborative works are on YouTube.
This piece is entitled "Cosmological".
I wrote and performed the music.
Pery created the visuals in the Thermofluids Lab of Exeter University, in the UK.
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So wonderful that you commemerate Pery here. The work you both did goes to the next level and she had so much more to give. Though I'd not seen her for many years I miss her not being amongst us. She will surely be creating now with all that cosmological energy surrounding her! I do beleive in a spiritual realm and her delight feels palpable at the legacy your collarborations left us here. Thank you Tullio. As with Pery, your art says more than can be said with words.


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The University of Arkansas Community College at Hope is pleased to announce the endowment of a scholarship established by Blevins High School alumni. The idea for this scholarship began during a reunion of the 1954 Class of Blevins Hornets in 2009. During the class reunion, the Class of '54 decided to expand outside their high school class to include all Blevins alum to raise funds for a scholarship at UACCH. This scholarship has been awarded to a student each semester since the fall of 2009 as an annual scholarship, and the Blevins alumni have continued to contribute funds to get it to the minimum endowed level of $10,000. The scholarship is awarded to a student pursuing a degree at UACCH with a preference given to an applicant from Blevins.
Martha Sutton Maple, a member of the Class of 1954, said, "I am pleased to be able to help a student from Blevins further his or her education. I am so thankful that my friend and classmate Adell Campbell, now of Prescott, encouraged me to consider helping organize our classmates and high school alumni to establish this Blevins High School Alumni Endowed Scholarship. We have had a great response from our classmates and other Blevins Alumni. I am so thankful that support for this scholarship has continued, allowing us to raise enough funds to endow this scholarship. As an endowed scholarship it will continue to be awarded to a student from this community that we love and cherish as a part of our childhood."
Since June of 2009, the Blevins High Alumni have worked to grow the scholarship balance, through additional donations, from a starting balance of $2,000 to a current balance of over $10,000. UACCH is grateful for the support it receives from communities like Blevins, helping an expanding number of students from these communities to realize that an affordable quality education can be received at UACCH.
Chris Thomason, Chancellor at UACCH commented, "This act of generosity by the Blevins High School Alumni is the perfect reflection of the value that all of Arkansas receives from our rural school districts. Communities like Blevins have been providing our children with wonderful educations for years. Now those same children are adults who are continuing the commitment they were taught at Blevins High to help those who follow them to achieve their educational dreams at UACCH."
PICTURED: Left to Right seated: Martha Sutton Maple, Adell Campbell, standing Jimmy Long, Don Worthy, Chancellor Chris Thomason, Mike Stephens, and Dr. Bill Loe gather for a check presentation announcing the endowment of the Blevins Alumni Scholarship.


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Jeremy Lin has earned more trust from Coach Clifford with 28 min and 29 min in the past 2 games.
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- Will we see more Batum to play with JLin in Q3-Q4?
- Will we also see JLin close the 2nd quarter to give him consistent minutes of 25-28? Let's hope JLin regain his shooting touch as he would still need to exert his energy playing team defense to help with the rebounding by committee effort that Coach Clifford stated. JLin and Kemba contributed with 9 and 7 rebounds in the Nets game.
- With Hairson and Zeller possibly out, would Clifford experiment with Hansbrough to give more rebounding edge? It's highly doubtful since Clifford likes to stick to 9-10 player rotation but sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two Polish brothers were jailed under Britain's modern slavery laws for six years each on Monday for stealing wages of around 18 other Poles they tricked with promises of work in the UK, prosecutors said.
Erwin and Krystian Markowski were found guilty to charges of conspiracy to arrange travel with a view to exploitation and conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation between 2015 and 2016, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The Markowskis identified victims in their native Poland — often jobless and in need of money — and offered them travel, work and accommodation in Britain, it said.
The victims lived in squalid conditions in Nottingham, central England, and worked at the Sports Direct warehouse in nearby Derbyshire, the CPS said.
The brothers seized their travel documents, credit cards and most of their wages and — by sometimes threatening violence — exerted total control over them, the CPS said.
"The Markowskis preyed on vulnerable people in Poland and promised them accommodation and a tempting wage in order to lure them to the UK," Janine Smith, Chief Crown Prosecutor of CPS East Midlands, said in a statement.
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In September, Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to use 33.5 million pounds ($41.8 million) from the foreign aid budget to focus on combating slavery in countries that are the source of proven trafficking routes to Britain.
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The Russian cruiser Varyag is one of the most exciting and remarkable battleships concerning construction and armament, serving the USSR Navy during the Cold War.
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