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Who Will Take Home The Hardware At The Canadian Videogame Awards
Tonight's the night when we will all find out which game has been chosen as the Canadian Game of the Year as the Canadian Videogame Awards kicks of its inaugural celebration at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Finalists for Game of the Year are: Assassin's Creed II; Dawn of War II; Dragon Age: Origins; FIFA 10 and Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. As you can imagine, making a choice in this category was extremely difficult, and now we're wondering which Village Gamer resident picked the winner.
Welcome to Vancouver, Canon! Canon Canada has expanded its Vancouver presence, and will be celebrating the opening of its new Business Division Western Regional Sales Office on May 11th. According to a report on Business In Vancouver, Mayor Robertson and Olympic Gold Medalist Maelle Ricker will be in attendance at the official opening ceremonies.
Ever wanted to have a professional review of your website, landing page, or paid campaign? Then you're in luck, because Search Engine Strategies Toronto has announced the inclusion of site clinics to their programme. In these two 1-hour, hands on, classroom style sessions top consultants will deconstruct and reconstruct your website offering critiques – free of charge. SES Toronto takes place this June 9 -11. Be sure to get there early, because the clinics are first-come first-served sessions with limited attendance.
Audiokinetic has announced bundle discount pricing for their wide range of production software. Purchasing two products will net you a 5% discount, three will get you 10%, four earns 15% and the Power Bundle of five or more products will get you a 20% discount.
Autodesk has announced their 2011 Education Suites. Need help getting started? Are you a teacher with students who are interested in digital design careers? Check out the Autodesk Education Community to see how you can help someone get started. If you're a commercial designer, please visit our friends over at AnnexPro (a major sponsor of Women in Games Vancouver) to see how they can help you with all of your Autodesk software needs.
From May 4 to 17, you can vote online for your favourite short among the finalists of the 6th NFB Short Film Contest – Cannes 2010. Now in its sixth year, the contest is organized by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the Cannes Short Film Corner and in association with YouTube. It features ten short films from Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Iran, the United States, the Czech Republic, Algeria and Italy, selected from the numerous Short Film Corner entries. The Short Film Corner is the meeting place for young creators at the Cannes Film Festival, attracting entries from around the world. The ten films from last year's contest were viewed close to 180,000 times on the NFB's English and French YouTube channels.
The NFB contest is your chance to join in the fun and frenzy of Cannes by voting online for your favourite short. The winning film – determined by the number of Likes chalked up on YouTube – will be announced during the Short Film Corner Happy Hour, in Cannes, on May 20. The winning filmmaker will receive a digital camera/HD video camera and a laptop computer.
Short film expert Danny Lennon has assembled a fascinating selection this year. The finalists are The Technician, by Simon-Olivier Fecteau (Canada), Love & Theft, by Andreas Hykade (Germany), The Story of My Life, by Pierre Ferrière (France), Crash! Bang! Wallow?, by Jon Dunleavy (United Kingdom), Crash! Bang! Wallow?, by Emma Lazenby (United Kingdom), Forbidden Tree, by Banafsheh Modaressi (Iran), Annie Goes Boating, by Noel Paul (United States), Awake, by Thaid Dhi (Czech Republic), The Last Passenger, by Mounes Khammar (Algeria), and The Report Card, by Alessandro Celli (Italy).
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is also honouring the memory of André Lamy, former NFB commissioner and independent producer, who passed away at the age of 77.
Lamy served as Government Film Commissioner and NFB Chairperson from 1975 to 1979, following a term as Assistant Commissioner under Sydney Newman from 1970 to 1975.
Only the second francophone NFB Commissioner, Lamy played a key role in strengthening the NFB's ties to the Quebec film sector. He also ensured the release of the then-controversial NFB French program films On est au coton, 24 heures ou plus and Cap d'espoir. He was Commissioner during the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics and was involved in the creation of the official Olympics film, Games of the XXI Olympiad.
"I was fortunate enough to be able to get to know André Lamy better during the filming of The Commissioners, a short documentary by Philippe Baylaucq created to mark the NFB's 70th anniversary. It was clear that André Lamy was not well during the filming, but he was determined to take part, and his commitment to the NFB, to filmmaking and, in particular, Quebec cinema, was undiminished. Everyone at the NFB is deeply saddened by his passing," said Tom Perlmutter, Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the NFB.
After his term as NFB Commissioner, Lamy served as head of the Canadian Film Development Corporation, now Telefilm Canada, from 1980 to 1985, before moving to the private sector as an award-winning producer with Galafilm.
Prior to joining the NFB, Lamy was a producer at Onyx Films from 1964 to 1970, during which time he was involved in several major feature productions. During this period, he also produced television commercials and industrial films for a wide variety of companies. From 1962 to 1964, he was the director of sales and a producer with Niagara Films of Montreal. Born in Montreal on July 19, 1932, Lamy was educated at the Université de Montréal and McGill University.
OMDC is now accepting applications for 2010/11cycle of the OMDC Export Fund – Interactive Digital Media. This program provides eligible Ontario interactive digital media content producers with funding to participate in export development activities that correspond to a strategy for company growth. Primary activities supported are market event attendance and targeted sales trips that relate to the strategy.
For the 2010/11 cycle of this program, applications must be submitted via the OMDC Online Application Portal (OAP). This is a new application process and all applicants are strongly encouraged to commence their applications early to allow for enough time should technical difficulties arise and/or assistance be required. Prior to commencing an application, your company's corporate information must be registered. If this has not already been done, you should register as soon as possible. There will also be an OAP information session, following the program information session that interested applicants are encouraged to attend. Complete Guidelines are posted on the OMDC website.
Information Session Details:
Date: May 26, 2010
Time: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm (10:30 am – 11:30 am Program Information Session; followed by an OAP Information Session 11:30 am – 12:30 pm with time available for questions)
Location: Conference Centre – 175 Bloor Street East, North Tower, Third Floor, Toronto
If you are interested in attending this session please sign up. Registration will close at 5:00pm on May 25, 2010. Unregistered guests will only be accepted if space permits.
Tungle Corp. has announced a new version of its Tungle.me meeting scheduling application, designed to put Tungle into the social graph and simplify the process of finding and connecting with friends and colleagues. Tungle.me 2.0 extends the application's social networking features with the addition of a public directory, search functionality, and group meeting capabilities.
"Since the launch of Tungle.me in June of 2009, we've added personalization and integration with many social networking applications, such as Plancast and LinkedIn," said Marc Gingras, CEO and founder of Tungle Corporation. "By allowing users to easily find who they want to meet, we are opening up our service and evolving into the last mile in connecting with your social graph, tying together intention, location, and groups to connect business professionals and friends in the real world."
Tungle.me users can now opt-in to be included in a public directory, making it easier for others to find their personal scheduling page, view their availability and schedule meetings with them without signing up. Visitors can search for users by name or company name, either from the new Tungle.me home page or from within meeting invitations—without needing to upload contacts or create new friend lists.
"Since we've built the Tungle.me directory, we are seeing 85% participation by Tungle.me users," said Jonathan Levitt, Tungle's vice president of marketing. "It's a staggering figure and we're attributing this high conversion to both people's interest in making themselves more available to meet, but also on account of our stringent and flexible privacy settings. We're opening up while still providing users with control over their data. In today's open world, this is something that we (and users) take very seriously."
The new Group functionality for Tungle.me allows users to create and name private or public groups, browse public groups in the directory, and save group aliases to contact lists. Non-users can also schedule meetings with public groups without having to register for accounts. Scheduling meetings with large groups has been made even simpler with the ability to overlay calendars of group members to see common availability. Groups can be created for associations, organizations, committees, departments, conferences, and more; making it easier to view others' availability and schedule meetings between members.
A new mobile transportation dispatcher now becomes a reality for millions of commuters, carpoolers, ridesharers and casual hitch-hikers around the world. Today, PickupPal Inc., operators of the very popular and growing rideshare service, announce the release of their free iPhone® app.
This new app will immediately allow members to use PickupPal on their iPhone and iPod touch® devices. This release incorporates many of the features of PickupPal's wired site and leverages the iPhone's GPS, mapping and texting capabilities through an intuitive user interface. Users can now find instantaneous matches based on their current location and trip request while on the go.
"This iPhone app is fundamentally going to change the immediacy of ridesharing and unleash PickupPal's full matching potential," comments John Stewart, CEO of PickupPal. "By its very nature, PickupPal needs to be able to provide instant matching based on a dynamic and ever changing mobile location and offer immediate communication between members – with the iPhone it's all here and more," adds Stewart.
"With so many music fans using smartphones on a daily basis, it is essential that services like ridesharing be offered, with ease, through a mobile platform," comments Adam Gardner, long-time PickupPal partner and co-director of Reverb, an organization dedicated to greening music tours and conducting grassroots environmental outreach. "We're psyched that fans can connect with each other for these large-scale events and be empowered to reduce CO2 by finding a matched ride with PickupPal's mobile app," adds Mr. Gardner.
PickupPal has been able to deliver this app to the market quickly through a key technology partnership with Intelliware Development based in Toronto. "We created this partnership because of PickupPal's leadership position in the social networking, eco-friendly ridesharing space," comments Glen Johnson, SVP Intelliware. "We knew we could make a significant impact on their business by quickly building them a high quality mobile app. We've invested in PickupPal through our Product Ventures business as part of this effort, which speaks to our excitement and commitment to this green project."
In the future, PickupPal plans to add several other popular mobile platforms to its roster of supported devices – with the iPad™, Blackberry® and Android™ next on the list.
Open Text Corporation has announced Rights Management Services (RMS) for the Open Text ECM Suite which allows enterprises to safeguard confidential and sensitive information from unauthorized uses for content even after it leaves the secure vault of the content repository.
High-profile public and private sector cases of information misuse, IP theft and privacy leaks over the past few years have been due in part to the ease of distributing electronic information via email, flash drives and other means. Even though the content may be stored in a secure repository, once users have the right to read a document and save it on their local drives, the content becomes vulnerable. Open Text Rights Management Services lets organizations augment their security strategies by providing persistent protection that remains with information no matter where it goes. Rights Management Services gives users control over who accesses their content and how, and ensures that the right version is being used.
"With the speed that information travels, it's all too easy for sensitive documents to get forwarded or downloaded to a USB drive and land in the wrong hands," said Lubor Ptacek, Vice President of Product Marketing at Open Text. "Permissions-based security in an enterprise repository alone is not sufficient. By integrating Rights Management Services into the ECM Suite we are making it easy for customers to layer persistent content-based security on top of their current protection policies and procedures."
Rights Management Services works by enforcing content protection constraints for documents and other content based on business rules such as "do not email," "do not print" or "do not save locally." The application then encrypts the content and the publishing license together. The content and rights remain encrypted during transport, extending security to wherever the content travels. When a recipient opens rights-protected content, a request goes to a rights management server to validate the user's credentials and usage rights. Round-trip scenarios are also supported allowing editing and uploading of new versions that retain the rights management constraints.
Full integration with the Open Text ECM Suite allows organizations to quickly deploy Rights Management Services and easily protect any content asset stored in the Open Text Enterprise Library, or map file access policies to existing security levels. As a shared service in the ECM Suite, Rights Management Services are also available to any content application in the organization.
Protection spans Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 applications as well as virtually all other file formats, including PDF, HTML, engineering drawing file formats, image files, ZIP, archives and more. Users can also read and protect content viewed on BlackBerry smartphones. As a result, organizations can secure and control their content no matter where it resides and more fully comply with regulatory requirements that mandate information protection, such as the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and similar regulations around the world.
The Open Text RMS solution takes advantage of the widely used Active Directory Rights Management Service from Microsoft, the industry's leading technology platform for rights management available with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
"More and more organizations are seeing rights management as a critical part of their information protection strategies to protect against leaks and theft of confidential information. That's why we build this capability directly into our server platform," said John Chirapurath, Senior Director in the Identity and Security Business Group at Microsoft. "Open Text is providing advanced solutions on top of Active Directory Rights Management Services to help customers build what we call Business Ready Security into their enterprise content management and collaboration initiatives."
Open Text is also partnering with both GigaTrust and Liquid Machines, leaders in extending the Microsoft RMS platform, to add support for specialty content types such as computer-aided design (CAD) files, Visio, Adobe PDF, graphic files, and many other file formats, plus rights management support for documents available via BlackBerry devices.
"With the addition of GigaTrust's Protector for the Open Text platform, information control can be applied and managed in a variety of ways to meet the needs of different industries or different business functions that use varied file formats no matter where the content travels," said Darryl Worsham, Vice President of Business Development and Partner Products at GigaTrust.
"Liquid Machines and Open Text are providing customers with a solution that covers the majority of file types in an enterprise. With the integrated solution, our joint customers can persistently protect their most critical intellectual property in electronic form, regardless of where it travels. Rights management policies can be applied automatically and consistently to all types of enterprise content throughout its lifecycle," said Ed Gaudet, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing of Liquid Machines, Inc.
Open Text Rights Management Services for the Open Text ECM Suite is available now. Partner offerings are also available now directly through the partners.


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Bomb Kills 7 Pakistani Soldiers
By VOA News
31 October 2009
Pakistani officials say a roadside bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers in the northwest Saturday, as the army pushed forward with its offensive against Taliban militants.
Officials say the bomb attack occurred in the Khyber tribal area, home to the Khyber Pass, the main route for moving supplies to international forces fighting in Afghanistan.
The attack came as Pakistani warplanes bombed Taliban bases in the tribal regions. The army said troops killed 33 militants in the latest operations. It said forces are closing in on key Taliban strongholds in the South Waziristan region, where it launched its offensive two weeks ago.
The military's latest report comes a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her confrontational visit to Pakistan.
During her three-day trip, Clinton questioned why the country has not captured al-Qaida leaders, saying "somebody, somewhere in Pakistan" must know where they are.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.
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Tyson Hohenecker gets a courtside view to NBA games as a team assistant for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
By Judd Martinson
Free shoes. Signed memorabilia. Courtside view. And all Bethel University freshman Tyson Hohenecker has to do is give star NBA players water in paper Gatorade cups.
Hohenecker got a team assistant job for the Minnesota Timberwolves through his dad working for former Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders.
"Flip said, 'Hey, would Tyson want to come and be a ball kid," Bill Hohenecker, Tyson's dad said.
Hohenecker's dad worked first for the Timberwolves as a radio producer and then as a travel and facilities manager reporting to former Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders.
"My dad was the glue that held a lot of the organization together because he knew how to coordinate with people," Hohenecker said.
Hohenecker's dad currently works for Kevin Garnett. The two became friends while Garnett played for Minnesota. Bill Hohenecker said Garnett became a mentor figure for Tyson. Garnett was the first person in the Wolves' locker room to hold Tyson as a baby. Even now that Garnett retired from playing in the NBA, he still keeps in touch with Tyson. Last summer, Tyson and his dad visited Garnett in California, where Garnett met Tyson for breakfast.
While working for the Wolves, Hohenecker's dad also became friends with Flip Saunders.
"My dad and Flip were so close," Hohenecker said.
Hohenecker and his family went to Saunders' cabin every Fourth of July. Saunders asked if Hohenecker wanted to work as a team assistant for the Timberwolves.
"I was at the hospital when he (Saunders) died," Hohenecker said.
Saunders died on Oct. 25, 2015. The next Timberwolves home game was on Nov. 2, 2015 and the team played a 10 minute video tribute to Saunders.
"That's the only time I've broken down in that arena, but it was hard to watch that." Hohenecker said. "I always think of him before games."
During a typical shift for the Timberwolves, Hohenecker arrives at Target Center at 4 p.m. and sets up water carts for about 20 minutes. He places the court mops and towels by the benches, and then rebounds for either the Timberwolves or their opposing team for two hours.
Tyus Jones is Hohenecker's favorite NBA player.
"We always do some one-on-ones," said Hohenecker about rebounding for Jones.
After rebounding, he typically works filling waters for the away team during the game, but might mop the court or work a bench handing out towels or warm up gear if another assistant is gone.
"He (Hohenecker) does a great job here… he's natural at it," Target Center security guard Phillip Clausell said.
Hohenecker reads players during the game to know when they need something.
"If they're kind of mad about how the game is going and how they're playing and why they're out – not the best time to go up and tap them on the shoulder with their water bottle," Hohenecker said.
In one game against the Houston Rockets, James Harden wanted to use Hohenecker as a stretching crutch. Harden's height is about 6 feet 5 inches, while Hohenecker is about 5 feet 6 inches tall.
"He raised himself up on my shoulder… and just kind of wanted to use me for balance," Hohenecker said.
While Hohenecker respects the Houston Rockets, sometimes other players act entitled.
"There's no star player that I've had that's been rude to me… It's more of like the 13th through 15th player on the team – they're benchwarmers, but yet they think that they're allstars," Hohenecker said.
One Memphis Grizzlies player wanted two hot packs every time he came out. During one situation, Hohenecker only gave the player one hot pack.
"It was the worst experience I've ever had at the Wolves. He took the hotpack, chucked it up in the air and threw it down on the ground really hard," Hohenecker said.
When the player gave Hohenecker a hard time for the mistake, he said he told the player to calm down and apologised.
Another time Hohenecker misunderstood a team's assistant coach who had a Russian accent. It sounded like he was asking Hohenecker for sugar. Hohenecker asked him two times to clarify, but heard the same reply.
"I tell one of my coworkers, Jason, 'please go back and get some sugar… this player development guy wants it,'" Hohenecker said.
Hohenecker gave the coach some sugar, and he replied asking what it was.
"He pulled my arm, and he goes, 'no, no, no, shoe grip,'" Hohenecker said.
He was asking for shoe grip, but the Wolves' staff knows it as court grip.
"It's in the cart, it's like an inch from him. So I get it, and I was so embarrassed," Hohenecker said.
When the games are over, Hohenecker gathers towels and is done in about 10 minutes. However, the team assistants rotate doing a late night shift cleaning up the referees' locker room and loading the away team's equipment onto a truck.
If the Timberwolves get crushed by their opponent, Hohenecker mentioned the games dragging on for the staff.
"In all those games I've never been over on the Wolves' side,"
I've been over to the visitors side, and I've even heard them (the players) complain like, 'ref stop making these calls so we can just get out of here we're already winning by 20,'" Hohenecker said.
Some players on the Timberwolves don't care about big losses. Other players get angry because they work hard, but not everybody on the team works as hard as them. Still others get angry, but don't want to do anything about it.
"All three of those are on the Wolves, which I think is why we struggle as we do," Hohenecker said.
Despite working close to the the Timberwolves, Hohenecker gets some insight on the NBA from his dad, but he also checks ESPN like other sports fans. He doesn't follow the NBA on social media, but watches games on TNT when he can since he likes the halftime commentators including Shaquille O'neal and Charles Barkley.
"I don't actually watch basketball games until the playoffs because I feel as if I'm always watching them," Hohenecker said.
Hohenecker said he enjoys being a part of something he will remember for a while, but he doesn't need to follow the NBA constantly. However, he has some souvenirs to help him cherish the memories he makes.
"Jimmy Butler, last year, he gave us three pairs of Jordans. This year before he left he gave us two pairs," Hohenecker said.
One player gave Hohenecker a $200 Visa gift card. He has also received signed shoes and a ball from Karl Anthony Towns and more signed shoes from Andrew Wiggins.
Next time the Wolves play at home, watch for Hohenecker on TV wearing a navy blue Nike Timberwolves shirt filling up Gatorade cups or mopping the floor when a sweaty player slips and sitting next to the visiting team's bench at Target Center.


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Roster size — go to even or stay odd?
First of a four-part series
Although it's America's longest running women's pro league, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is still seen by too many as below major league status. The MSR talked about this and related issues with coaches, players, analysts, fans and league officials throughout the league's 17th season; their insights are included in this multi-part series on the WNBA.
Injuries perhaps hurt the WNBA more than any other pro league. Each WNBA club has 11-player rosters, and unlike other leagues they do not have an injured reserve list.
Indiana this season began the year with only eight healthy bodies due to injuries. San Antonio lost the services of their starting point guard for the season but couldn't replace her on the roster. Two of Seattle's players were out for the entire 2013 season.
The Minnesota Lynx a few years ago kept Seimone Augustus on the roster despite the fact that she couldn't play for most of it because of a knee injury. But because there isn't an injured reserve, the team either had to keep Augustus, which they did, or waive her if they wanted to fill her spot on the roster.
Will the league ever return to 12-player rosters as the NBA has maintained for decades? Perhaps even add a three-player reserve or "inactive" list as do their male counterparts?
"Every year the topic of our roster size comes up, and every year we evaluate it," admits WNBA President Laurel Richie. "We have discussed it in the past in our competition committee and I'm sure we will discuss it again this year."
It should be seriously discussed and seriously considered when the competition committee folk get together later this year. The league isn't AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) — it's pro basketball. WNBA team rosters should be restored back to
"I think everybody would like that — players, coaches, fans, players who aren't in the league," noted Seattle Coach Brian Agler when asked about expanding rosters.
"All coaches would like more players, but that's not something we have any control of," adds Washington Coach Mike Thibault. "It's between the players and the league when they have the collective bargaining agreement. Coaches basically stay out of that."
Speaking of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the WNBA players and the league, it expired October 1. Richie said during the Finals earlier this month that she expects a new CBA be in place for the 2014 season next year.
"I look forward to where we have a new agreement that bodes well for the future of the WNBA," says the third-year president.
Next week: How good or how poor was media coverage of the WNBA this season?
They, not us, said it
"A few of them asked me how I felt being famous, and I said, 'I don't know if I'm famous," said Lynx guard Seimone Augustus at a recent youth health awareness camp for local middle-school children of color. "They just wanted to touch us. It was like a thrill."
"I believe when we are sitting down at the end of the season, we will have more teams operating in the black than we did at the end of last season," said WNBA President Laurel Richie on more than a couple of league clubs showing a profit.
"It wasn't anything that happened overnight. If they needed someone to be more vocal, I'm someone they will listen to," said Minnesota forward Rebekkah Brunson when asked to be a more vocal team leader this season. "I have no problem taking on that role."
They're gone
Three teams — Phoenix, Tulsa and Atlanta — currently have coaching vacancies. Unfortunately, two of the teams formerly employed Black coaches: Corey Gaines in Phoenix and Greg Williams, who led Atlanta this season to a league runners-up finish.
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All Sin Is Disgusting
In my post about St. Anthony wet house, the homeless shelter which allows clients to drink, several commenters reminded us that alcoholism is an especially disgusting, shameful sin—a selfish one, one which destroys lives and displays in the sinner a brutish, willful resistance against grace.
I got the same reaction to an interview I did with a homosexual Catholic man: Most commenters were gracious, but a few were openly revolted at the very subject, and said they couldn't stand to hear any more about this perverse and unnatural condition.
They're all right, of course. What kind of man would choose alcohol over family, work, and even his own health? What kind of man is willing to admit that, at the very core of who he is, there is something profoundly distasteful and unnatural?
What I am going to say next is going to sound like false humility, but here goes: What kind of person would do these things? A person like every other person in the world, except for two. A person exactly like you and me—not with some passing, analogous resemblance, when squinted at through a pious lens—but exactly like you and me. Because all sin is disgusting. All of it.
When I think about an alcoholic, I am astonished that someone would choose so much sin and ugliness over everything that is good in the world. But I do this every single day. Every single hour of every single day. I've been going to confession for 30 years, and I confess the same damn things every single time. If that's not an addiction, I don't know what is. It's simply my good fortune that the sins I am addicted to aren't very public, or very far-reaching. When I sin, I don't get arrested for it, or lose my children because of it, or ruin my organs, or lose my chance at having a normal marriage. I'm lucky, and very grateful, that my sins don't affect very many people.
Or do they? If you want a truly Lenten experience, then pray earnestly that the Holy Spirit will reveal to you the damage that your sins have done. And then hold onto your butts, because it's going to be a horrible ride. Don't forget to pray for hope and healing at the same time, nothing hurts more than looking your own guilt in the face.
"Well," you may say, "Sure, I'm addicted to my sins, and I'm sure that even the venial sins I commit do hurt people in ways that I don't fully realize. But if my sins were public, or illegal, or had obvious, catastrophic consequences, then surely I would be more motivated to give them up! These alcoholics, these public sinners are still worse than I am, because they don't change their lives even when the consequences are so obviously terrible!"
All right. But if my sins are so small in comparison—shouldn't that make them easier to give up? I'm not responsible for changing the pattern of sin in my life because they are minor and easy to change—does that make any sense? Face it: We are all addicts. We are all spiritual criminals. We are all monsters of selfishness. Our sins are disgusting—all of them, mortal, venial, thought, word, and deed. Venial sin isn't trivial or separate from mortal sin: It is what makes mortal sin possible, bearing it up and supporting it like a rotten ship on an ocean of sewage. We belong to a Communion of Sinners, and every little sin contributes to the whole hellish chorus of protest against God.
The passion and death of our Lord wasn't mostly for the alcoholics and the gays and the drug addicts, and then a little bit for the venial crowd, like you and me. He died for my sins. He would have died for my sins only, because they are that bad.
Don't be fooled by the false hierarchy of sins that we learn from the law, or even the false hierarchy of guilt that human consequences seem to reveal. Some people are worse than others, and some sins are worse than others. But at the last judgment, we will see clearly that all of us are so far—so very, very far away from what God wants—that the distinctions we make between this sin and that sin will seem almost meaningless.
We sin: He died. That's what matters. God have mercy.


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ATLANTA�DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics and Sound Devices have announced that Sound Summit Atlanta is scheduled to take place Sunday, Oct. 4 at the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees headquarters in Atlanta. This is the third regional event hosted by the trio of companies across the U.S.
These Sound Summit events are designed as discussions on the best practices of the audio community. Local mixers Whit Norris and Chris Durfy will assist with Sound Summit Atlanta, which will include presentations, networking and Q&A opportunities.
Among the presenters will be DPA�s Global Sales Manager Bo Brinck to discuss polar patterns, frequency response and optimum placement for lavalier and shotgun microphones. Karl Winkler, Lectrosonic vice president of sales/services, will demonstrate gain structure, antenna optimization and RF frequency coordination. Jon Tatooles, co-founder and chief business development officer of Sound Devices, will also be on hand to discuss multi-track audio recording, time synchronization and file management for location sound mixers.
For more information, or to register for Sound Summit Atlanta, click here.�


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You Can Get Free Taco Bell for a Good Cause
Want to eat Taco Bell? Want to feel good about eating Taco Bell -- even better than you normally do while diving face first into your $5 Chalupa box? Want to get free Taco Bell for feeling good about eating Taco Bell because you are doing good? Tired of my rhetorical questions? Then here's some pleasant news for you: Taco Bell is giving out free tacos for a good cause.
Here's the deal: T-Bell will give you a coupon for a free Crunchy Taco or a medium drink if you round up your order total to the nearest dollar to support the Taco Bell Foundation from now through October 31. You can round up as little as 10 cents or even tack on a few extra dollars to your total if you're feeling generous, the company said. After rounding up your order and receiving your coupon, you can redeem your free taco or medium drink any time between November 1-15. Let's face it -- the coupon is another excuse to get you back to the Bell (and we're not mad about it).
The concept of Round Up, which launched in January, has already raised millions of dollars to support the Live Más Scholarship, an initiative that donates between $5,000 to $25,000 to individual students pursuing educational goals.
And if you're interested in applying for a scholarship, which is open to students aged 16 to 24, then get camera-ready because applications are based on a two-minute video describing your passions and educational pursuits, rather than focusing on your grades or athletic abilities. Taco Bell said applications will open soon and the chain is committed to awarding $21 million by 2021. Now that's a lot of crunchy tacos.
Want More Free Food?Here's our huuuuuuuge running list of all the free food you can get right now, as well as the best reward programs, birthday freebies, and gift card deals you'll find. If you want a little more than, say a free taco, we also have you covered with a long list of meals you can get at fast food chains under $5. You're welcome.
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Apple's next big thing is off to a solid start, according to pre-order projections from Slice Intelligence, a firm that tracks and projects US consumer spending through e-commerce email receipts.
Apple received watch pre-orders from almost one million Americans on Friday, April 10, its first day of accepting orders, according to Slice's projections, based on receipts from 9,080 online shoppers.
- Almost two-thirds of pre-orders were for the less expensive, aluminum Sport line, which starts at $349. About one-third of pre-orders were for the stainless-steel Apple Watch collection, which starts at $549. The gold "Edition" series, which starts at $10,000, didn't represent enough US pre-orders to show up in Slice's report.
- The average selling price per watch was about $504. The average order was for 1.3 watches, suggesting orders for more than 1 million units.
- The most popular color is Apple's "space gray" aluminum case—40% of pre-orders—followed by stainless steel (34%), silver aluminum (23%), and "space black" steel (3%).
- The black sport band was the most popular band among all buyers, representing almost half of all orders.
- Some 71% of pre-orders were for the larger, 42mm watch size.
- Among Apple Watch pre-order customers tracked by Slice, 72% had previously ordered an Apple product in the past two years.
- Apple also started selling its new MacBook laptop on April 10. Some 43% of those ordering a MacBook also bought an Apple Watch, according to Slice.
To be sure, this is a projection based on one company's data. (Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its accuracy.) And this only reflects US pre-orders. It's entirely possible—if not likely—that order profiles were different in other countries. Apple has also put itself in the position to reveal very little about watch sales: It has said that it will not report them in quarterly earnings reports as a specific category, but will bundle them in with other products.
Actual Apple Watch sales begin on April 24 in nine countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, and the US. It's not clear how much inventory Apple will have at its stores. The company has encouraged pre-orders, which seem to have quickly sold out: Availability timing for US pre-orders is now mostly in May or June, depending on the model.


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The beach of Stoupa is within 900 m. and the bakery within 500m. Wireless internet is provided. Towels and sheets are changed once per week.
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- Armonia 1 (60m²) is a villa for two-four people. One bedroom and two sofa beds in the living room, a bathroom (shower), a fully equipped ceramic kitchen. There is also a flat screen TV with USB connection. Accessible for disabled people. There is also central heating, a fan in the bedroom, a big balcony, parking for a car and a lovely little private terrace in the back, airco in the whole house.
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DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1881
* President James Garfield shot
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Page 4 has a report headed: "A Terrible Deed--Attempt to Assassinate President Garfield" which begins: "Not having issued a paper last week the Watchman is consequently somewhat late with the news of the attempted assassination of President Garfield at Washington...This sad event took place in the depot of the Baltimore & Potomac railroad office..." with further particulars. This article, along with "Retrospective" which is on Garfield as well, take two columns.
But the prime feature of this issue is the broadsheet headed: "SUPPLEMENT---EXTRA" which has the entire front page taken up with reports on the assassination, with first column heads: "THE PRESIDENT SHOT" "LAID LOW BY AN ASSASSIN'S BULLET" "The Assassin Captured" "The Stricken President Conveyed to the White House" "A NATION'S SORROW" "How the Terrible Deed Was Done, and the Man Who Did It" "Full Details of the Horrifying Crime". This is a single sheet "Extra" which is larger than the regular issue. Both the Extra and the regular issue are in very nice, clean condition.
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A present from God----a child with Down syndrome
When we initially learned that Jonathan had Down syndrome, we did not foresee that we would receive such a blessing and grace.
Welcome to the Blessed Assurance site! So good to have you here. 歡迎到有福的確據網站!很高興遇見您!
We believe everyone has a unique story about how they encountered Jesus and became Christian and how they walk with God in their faith journey. These stories need to be told. We believe your story is not yours only but deserves to be shared so it will encourage others in their faith journey and draw them closer to God. This is the reason for building this platform.
Drop us a note if you have a story to share! 如果您願意分享您的故事,請留言喔!


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LONDON – LONDON (AP) — John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.
Kris McCarty and colleagues at Northumbria University and the University of Gottingen in Germany asked 19 men aged 18 to 35 who were not professional dancers to dance in a laboratory for one minute to a basic drum rhythm. They filmed the men's movements with a dozen cameras, and then turned those movements into computer-generated avatars so the study could focus on moves, not appearances.
Scientists then showed the dancing avatars to 37 women, who rated their skills on a scale of 1 to 7. According to the women, the best dancers were those who had a wide range of dance moves and focused on the head, neck and torso.
The research was published this week in the journal, Biology Letters, a publication of Britain's Royal Society. It was paid for by Northumbria University.
"In principle, it is possible to break down the motion patterns that are informative and attractive to women," said Rufus Johnstone, a reader in the evolution of animal behavior at Cambridge University. He was not connected to the research.
Johnstone said there were similarities between animal mating rituals and what happens in modern dance clubs.
"There are lots of cues females use when choosing a mate, like a peacock puffing out its tail," he said. "Dancing for humans could signal whether a male is fit because it requires the expenditure of a lot of energy."
Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist at Northumbria University and one of the study's co-authors, said women may subconsciously judge how fit a man is by the fluidity of his dancing. He said their research was likely subjective and different cultures would have different measures for what constitutes good dancing.
Neave advised bad dancers to improve their core body moves.
"The movements around the head, neck and trunk were the most important," he said. "The good dancers had lots of different movements and used them with flair and creativity."
Johnstone said men who are bad dancers shouldn't despair.
"Among animals, courtship rituals are very important when there are very obvious physical displays," he said. "In humans, I suspect it is much more complicated and may come down to more than whether or not a man is a good dancer."


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|George Back, (1796-1878)
That first winter at Fort Reliance was one of extreme hardship. In late 1833, unseasonably warm weather had kept game out on the tundra, and the Denesoline and Yellowknives Dene in the region had great difficulty surviving. Many weak and invalid First Nations wasted away at Fort Reliance, and the pemmican supply ran very low.
|Back's Chimneys at Old Fort Reliance.
"April 20th [1834] – For the last fifteen days our habitation had been rendered more cheerful by the presence of two ravens, which having, by my express directions, been left unmolested, had become so tame as scarcely to move ten paces when any one passed them; they were the only living things that held communion with us, and it was a pleasure to see them gambol in their glossy plumage on the white snow.
A party of men had arrived over night, and amongst them an Iroquois, who, perceiving the birds together, and being ignorant of my wishes could not resist the temptation of a double shot, and so killed them both. In any other situation such an event, would, perhaps have seemed too trifling to be noticed; but in our case, the ravens were the only link between us and the dreary solitude without, and their loss therefore was painfully felt. Moreover, there seemed a sort of treachery in the act, for the poor birds had been taught to look upon us as friends: their petty thefts were licensed; and their sharp croaking was welcome, as breaking the monotony of silence. When they were gone, I felt more lonely, and the moaning wind seemed as if complaining of the barbarity."
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Delta strengthens into Category 3 hurricane as it approaches Mexican resorts
Hurricane Delta has rapidly intensified into a Category 3 hurricane with 115mph winds on a course to hammer south-eastern Mexico and then grow to a potentially catastrophic Category 4 storm on approach to the US Gulf coast.
The immediate worst impacts are expected along the resort-studded north-eastern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where hurricane conditions are expected on Tuesday night and landfall early on Wednesday.
From Tulum to Cancun, tourism-dependent communities still being soaked by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gamma could bear the brunt of the storm.
Mexico began evacuating tourists and residents from coastal areas along its Riviera Maya on Tuesday.
Quintana Roo governor Carlos Joaquin said buses were already carrying people off Holbox Island and all of the hotels in Puerto Morelos were bussing their guests inland to government shelters.
Cancun hotels had already been told of their designated shelters and were transporting their guests. Some hotels that had exemptions because their structures were rated for major hurricanes were preparing to shelter guests in place.
Cancun mayor Mara Lezama Espinosa said the city had opened more shelters than usual to give people more space in recognition of the Covid-19 pandemic. She urged people to move to shelters.
State tourism minister Marisol Vanegas said there are 40,900 tourists in Quintana Roo, a fraction of what it would normally be due to the pandemic.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said 5,000 federal troops and emergency personnel are being made available in Quintana Roo to aid the storm efforts.
The state's airports remained open on Tuesday morning, but beaches were closed.
"I honestly don't see much that will stop it until it reaches Yucatan, due to low vertical wind shear, high deep-layer moisture, and the very warm and deep waters of the north-western Caribbean," National Hurricane Centre forecaster Eric Blake said.
Cuba's westernmost province and the Cayman Islands are under tropical storm warnings as Delta shifted west.
Data from a US Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter plane indicates that Delta will continue to strengthen as its forward speed increases, the Hurricane Centre said.
It is expected to hit the Yucatan as a major hurricane, with an extremely dangerous storm surge raising water levels by as much as 6ft to 9ft in the Yucatan, accompanied by large and dangerous waves and flash flooding inland.
Once it moves on from Mexico, Delta is expected to become even stronger over the Gulf of Mexico, sustaining winds up to 130mph as it approaches the US Gulf Coast, where landfall around Friday would be followed by heavy rain across the south-eastern US.
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Alabama FB/HB Jalston Folwer reminds me of Atlanta Falcons' underrated 'tweener Jason Snelling, only Fowler is a better ball carrier.
The eye in the sky doesn't lie. It's a pithy football cliché. But the eyes in our heads can fool us.
It happens to everyone while watching a football game and play-by-play commentary can reinforce inaccurate depictions of what's happening on the field. If you're a casual viewer this is nitpicking criticism. If you're focusing on a player it's important to forget what you saw on the couch with your buds and ignore what you heard during the game.
A good example is what I heard from announcer Brent Musberger's during Alabama's 2012 opener against Michigan when he described Crimson Tide fullback/halfback (and H-back) 'tweener Jalston Fowler "hammering away" at the Wolverine front. I thought I saw the same thing from the 250-lb. Fowler. However, when I studied his performance last month, what I saw on repeat views was a big man making defenders miss.
If what you see below didn't fool you upon first viewing, good for you. You have truthful eyes today. Congratulations, you're a football analysis god. Now go away.
Whether Fowler returns to Alabama this year or leaves for the NFL (and I believe he's staying), he is the type of prospect who heightens my interest as a talent evaluator because he has been a supporting actor on a stage that has included leading men Trent Richardson, Eddie Lacy, and T.J. Yeldon. If Folwer makes an NFL roster and develops into a contributor along the lines of Snelling, Mike Tolbert, or ascends to a lead role, it wouldn't be the first time a runner in a collegiate supporting role earns a greater opportunity as a ball carrier as a pro.
William Andrews was a fullback for Joe Cribbs. Terrell Davis was backing up Garrison Hearst. Priest Holmes took a backseat to Ricky Williams. And Willie Parker knew every grain and knot of the pine where he sat at UNC.
These examples and others are often personnel decisions that factor scheme fit in addition to talent. In the case of Fowler, a four-star prospect as a running back at the prep level, it was an embarrassment of riches in Tuscaloosa.
Here's an introduction to those unfamiliar with Fowler as a ball carrier.
Footwork in the Hole
Fowler is the single back on 2nd and 10 with 5:37 in the first quarter from a 21 personnel weak side twin, strong side I-formation set at the 33 of Alabama. Michigan is in a 4-3 with the free safety in the box at linebacker depth over right defensive end. This is a zone run with the right guard collapsing the defensive tackle inside and the center working to the middle linebacker.
Fowler works behind the right guard to reach the line of scrimmage, entering the hole with low pad level as the outside linebacker from the left side pursues inside. At 6'1″, Fowler is a tall runner but his pad level is excellent and I'm impressed with his ability to change direction running from this crouched position. He dips outside that linebacker's reach two yards down field and turns up the left hash for another eight.
Then Fowler bends inside the cornerback coming from the left hash at the first down marker maintaining that strong pad level with the ball high and tight under his right arm. The Alabama runner finishes the play dropping his pads into the safety 13 yards down field gains another four yards for a total of 17.
This finish warrants Musberger's characterization, but it's Fowler's maneuvering around these blocks untouched for three-quarters of this carry that is most noteworthy.
Feature Back Agility
This 2nd-and-10 gain of four with 2:11 in the first quarter isn't a display of Lesean McCoy's skill at cutting against the grain, but it reveals that Fowler has the agility to execute NFL-caliber, press-and-cuts down hill at the line of scrimmage. This is a 12 personnel weak side twin set versus a 4-3 with the Michigan strong safety outside the wing back on the unbalanced strong side. Alabama runs a zone blocking play to the strong side.
Fowler presses the run towards the end and then cuts the play downhill. He cuts inside his left tackle and then bends the run under his left guard. I have the 49ers-Panthers Divisional Playoff game on as I'm writing this and I just watched Frank Gore execute the same press and cut – Fowler's was no different.
Alabama's big back bursts through the line of scrimmage for a gain of four before the defensive back hits Fowler in the legs. This is when 250 lbs. of north-south burst and pad level does it's job: Fowler keeps his legs moving and earns another four on the play, carrying two more defenders on his back.
This 1st-and-10 wind back play from a 12-personnel weak side twin set at the 43 of Alabama is good display of quick, economical feet that transitions well to the NFL.
The left guard and center do a good job with their double team to the middle linebacker. Combined with the tight end's effort on the edge, there's a huge lane to the left side of the line of scrimmage. However the outside linebacker manages to shoot this gap unblocked straight for Fowler.
The runner executes a nifty cut inside the attempt, reaches the line of scrimmage, and runs through the arms of the next defender. Fowler maintains his balance for another five yards down field and then out runs a wrap attempt eight yards past the line of scrimmage, splits the safety and cornerback with strong pad level and falls forward for a gain of 12. The replay does an even better job of showing the footwork.
Mature Decision Maker
Fowler may have good feet, but he's not a big back with a little back's mindset like Lendale White or Marc Tyler. If a large crease doesn't open, Fowler makes the most of what's ahead. This 12 wind back play from a 12 personnel weak side twin set with 9:58 in the game isn't a big gain, but it's a mature decision.
At the snap, the wing back works across the formation to the weak side end as Fowler takes the exchange. Fowler spots the right defensive end working across the face of the runner's edge block to penetrate the middle of the line. Fowler dips to the left for three yards, gaining all three after contact at the line of scrimmage when there was no crease.
With Richardson and Lacy the marquee backs while Fowler was an underclassman and Yeldon and Derrick Henry as the present and future of the Alabama backfield, Fowler isn't a name the public will know. But whether it's this year or next, Fowler is a player I expect to make an NFL roster as a special teams contributor who will develop into a factor in a pro offense.
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With a new planting season approaching I am planning on continuing my crusade to replace the invasive species with native, mostly indigenous, plants. I have another round of brush clearing to do this winter, especially the removal of some Autumn Olive tree/shrubs. I am also looking to reduce the number of Butterfly bushes and Forsythia on the property and replace them with higher value native shrubs.
Over Christmas I took the time to finish reading Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East, by Carolyn Summers. The chapter on 'showy substitutes for invasive plants' was very inspirational in making up my plant list for this season. This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in designing native plant gardens. There is sound reasoning behind each of the recommendations in this book. I found this to be much more useful than just a list of what should or should not be done when designing a garden or landscape. To enhance the wildlife value of our property I am trying to use a combination of plants that have something in bloom throughout the season for the pollinators as well as berries and fruits for the birds and small mammals.
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Pussy Willow, Salix discolor. I was surprised that this is a native species. I is used so commonly in early spring decor that I figured it had to be imported. The catkins swell in very early spring, first as white, silky buds, then opening to reveal either yellow (male) or greenish (female) flowers. Pussy Willows are dioecous, male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. My plan is to use the pussy willows as replacements for Forsythia. The color intensity will be much less, but the wildlife value will be so much higher with the willow. For all its flowers, I have seen very few bees visiting a forsythia in bloom. Pussy Willows like full to part sun and prefer moist soils but will tolerate some dryness. They are larval hosts for Viceroy and Mourning Cloak butterflies and they tolerate deer.
I took this photo of a shrubby willow at the Arnold Arboretum about 5 years ago. I did not record the name at the time. As I was trying to find out more info about it, I went to the arboretum's web site and found that they have actually made an Internet accessible map of their plantings. Using that map and my memory of where I took the photo, the willow in question is either the native Bebb's Willow, S. bebbiana, or an introduced Black Willow, S. gracilistyla 'Melanostachys'. Based on the light color of the catkins, I guess that it's the former.
Another substitute for Forsythia is Spicebush, Lindera benzoin. Its flowers impart a yellow haze to the forest understory about the same time as the Forsythia are in bloom. It grows better in shadier situations than either Pussy Willow or Forsythia.
For a partly shady area I would like to try replacing the Forsythia with Red Osier Dogwood, Cornus sericea. This plant is in bloom from mid-late May and follows up with nutritious berries in mid-late summer. Besides the flowers and fruits this dogwood also has purplish fall foliage and red-colored stems in winter, features definitely lacking in the one-trick pony, Forsythia. Species plants can get large (6-10') but there are compact cultivars like 'Isanti' and 'Arctic Fire'. A big problem with dogwood is that deer find most of the plant pretty tasty, but I have seen large plantings doing well along the roadsides. This dogwood serves as the larval host for the Spring Azure butterfly.
|This 'Isanti' cultivar is in full bloom at the end of May and should grow to about 6 feet.
Cutting back the older growth each year will keep the size down
and give more new red stems in the winter.
As far as replacing the Butterfly Bushes, Buddleia davidii, a multi-shrub approach may be needed. Butterfly Bush has a long period of bloom and is very attractive to pollinators. But it's like candy. The plant does not act as a host for any native insects. Thus, as it displaces native species, it excludes useful host plants, and degrades the habitat value of the garden.
|The seed heads of Sumac make them easy to spot. Not sure which species this is.
The stems of R. glabra are smooth, while those of R. typhina are hairy.
For the second part of the season I will put in some American Elder, Sambucas nigra ssp. canadensis (often S. canadensis). American Elder likes medium to moist soils and part to full sunshine. I have seen this growing in roadside ditches covered with white umbels in the middle of summer. Dark, palatable berries follow in early fall. This shrub does not have a neat compact form, but neither do most forms of Butterfly Bush. I am somewhat concerned about deer browsing on the young plants, so some protection will be needed.
|This native Spiraea blooms throughout the summer
and is a magnet for bees.
Other shrubs that provide mid and late summer flowers which I put in last year include dense St. John's Wort, Hypericum densiflorum, and Meadowsweet, Spiraea alba var. latifolia (this one blooms all summer long).
In the areas where I have cut down the Autumn Olive, Elaeagnus umbellata, I am looking for native plants to provide lots of mid-summer flowers, a large crop of fruits, and fairly dense branching to provide cover for birds. Cockspur Hawthorn, Crataegus crus-galli, looks to be a good fit. It blooms through mid-June and has lots of berries from late summer into winter. It has dense horizontal branching and long thorn that provide a lot of protection for birds. (For use closer to people there is a naturally thornless variety, var. inermis.)
I would also consider Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana, while blooming earlier, it is faster growing and has fewer disease problems. Chokecherry lacks the thorns of Hawthorn, but can form a thicket-like colony. Looking in Douglas Tallamy's book Bringing Nature Home, the cherries are near the top of the list as far as their ability to support butterfly species. Hawthorns come in 12th, both way ahead of an invasive species like Elaeagnus.
|'Blue Muffin' is noted for it's sapphire berries,
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"My role is to bring out the confidence in Rahul that he is the best in the competition."
Channel 4 aired its brand new series of Child Genius on 14th August 2017. A programme in which super smart children tackle a series of challenges, to see who will become deemed as the UK's smartest child and win the top prize.
Among the contestants this year includes 12-year-old Rahul, who lives in London with his parents and younger sister.
With an IQ of 162, he has impressed viewers with his outstanding skills in spelling and maths.
However, despite the children showcasing their high intelligence, controversy has arisen. In particular, how some of the parents train their youngsters for the programme. Of who include Rahul's father and mother, Manish and Komal.
But with some describing the show as "child abuse" and calls for ChildLine to intervene, is the public right to dismiss Rahul's parents as pushy? Or are they simply typical Indians?
The controversy arisen shortly after the programme began airing. On social media, many deemed the training Rahul and the other children received from their parents as "verging on child abuse" and described Manish and Komal as "pushy parents".
I hope Rahul when a love grows up to be happy, just to annoy his pushy parents #childgenius #childline
— Lol Williams (@lollywould) August 14, 2017
#ChildGenius Can't believe this is on again. Some of what they showed last series was bordering on child abuse. Too young for that pressure.
— Ash (@AshtheTabbyCat) August 14, 2017
However, despite these thoughts on Twitter, one can argue that Rahul's parents are acting as typical Indians. Throughout the British Asian community, as well as in India, many would relate to the pressure Manish and Komal place on their smart son.
Cruel to be Kind?
In an everyday Indian household, parents can usually expect their children to achieve their potential and even go beyond.
A lot of British Asians will have grown up with certain academic pressures from their parents. It follows the belief that becoming the best can feel like the only option to succeed.
Many of these parents, when they were younger, would have faced a difficult time themselves. With limited opportunities out there and little information available, they may not have had the chance to achieve their own potential or realise their dreams.
As one can naturally understand, these Indian parents would want a better life for their children.
And particularly in this modern time, when going to university has become the norm and job prospects increasingly difficult, Indian parents will worry for their children's livelihoods. This means that the pressure placed on them comes from good intentions.
Not regarding it as child abuse, they would see it more as a benefit for their child. An enriching time where they can excel in their intelligence, meaning better prospects overall for both university and employment later in life.
In the case of Rahul's parents in Child Genius, this certainly suggests the case. Manish explains that the training he gives his son isn't simply just make to him achieve his maximum potential. He says:
"My role is to bring out the confidence in Rahul that he is the best in the competition. He'll say maybe. But the 'maybe' has to become: 'Yes I will win.'"
In addition, Manish also explains how the whole family aim to continually self-improve in their lives, saying: "We're all achievers." Meaning that Indian parents may also strive to improve their own prospects, as well as their children's.
He also added: "We're always trying to better ourselves. It's about taking the next step."
Overall, many on social media may have over exaggerated their claims of "pushy parents" and "child abuse". Even Child Genius' Rahul himself has explained that he enjoys learning, saying: "Most kids want immediate gratification but I also want long term gratification.
"If I could play my X-Box now, I'd be really happy now but I'll be sad later on because I haven't revised for my test."
Placing focus on achievement may seem harsh to some. But one can argue it follows the 'cruel to be kind' thought.
It seems then, Manish and Komal are acting as typical Indian parents. Only wanting the best for their son; to achieve his potential and dreams.


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EARTH HARVEST is an online bible based book of apologetics or a presentation of the beliefs and proofs of the Christian faith and their defense against theological corruption.
Looking for answers to questions like: Is there a god? Who is god? Is Jesus Christ the Son of God? Was I created by god or evolved? What does the bible say about witches, witchcraft, and the occult? How does Islam differ from Christianity? How do New Age practices like yoga and meditation fit in with Christianity? the answers are here on this Christian Apologetics Website, EARTH HARVEST. The purpose of this web site is to explore and answer eternal questions such as: Is there a God? Who is God? What is the nature of God? Is Jesus Christ the Son of God and as such God incarnate? Offering proof that god does exist and exploring from a Christian perspective: the issue of trust (faith), the Trinity, mystical experiences, witches and witchcraft, yoga, how New Age mysticism has crept into Christianity, the lure of the New Age, signs and wonders, the spirit of delusion, hearing from God, recognizing the Spirit of God, being born again, acquiring new eternal bodies after death, and what death holds for those who believe in Christ and those who don't. Christianity's greatest proof, the resurrection of Jesus the Christ, will be analyzed, as well as the numerous Messianic prophecies which Jesus fulfilled and the odds of such prophecies being realized by chance. The resurrection and these prophecies evidence the existence of a God outside the dimensions of space and time. Finally and most importantly, you will be shown how you can establish a personal relationship with God. A comparison of creation and evolution is made and the validity of the theory of evolution is investigated.This web site is a work of apologetics or a presentation of the beliefs and proofs of the Christian faith and their defense against theological corruption. Extensive reference is made to Mere Christianity, written by C.S. Lewis, professor of classics at Cambridge University, former agnostic, and prolific writer and Christian apologist, who had a unique gift of explaining important issues simply and clearly.Earth Harvest by: Sherif Michael


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Ten years ago the Spanish island of La Palma was declared a "Starlight Reserve" to protect its astronomical observatories from light pollution and guarantee a dark sky for everyone. The measures implemented to protect the night seem to have worked.
What makes the perfect site for a professional astronomical observatory? Many clear nights and a stable atmosphere that ensures good seeing, for sure. A location not too close to the equator but far enough away from Earth's poles to provide usable nights all year long. Accessibility and good infrastructure. And, perhaps most importantly: a population dedicated to protecting its dark skies from light pollution.
In this respect, La Palma, one of the smaller islands of the Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic, is an astronomer's paradise. Its observatories sit on the island's highest mountain, the 2,400-meter Roque de los Muchachos, protected by law against air and light pollution since the late 1980s.
In April 2007 members of UNESCO, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and the Instituto Astrofísico de Canaries (IAC) signed the "Declaration in Defence of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight", called the "La Palma Declaration" for short. It proclaims, "An unpolluted night sky should be considered an inalienable right of humankind."
Ten years later I attended a conference held in the island's capital, Santa Cruz, to commemorate this event, and assess how efforts to preserve the night sky have worked out. A look at the recently released "New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness" (book available online), compiled by Italian researcher Fabio Falchi and others, proves that La Palma's skies are indeed quite dark compared to the neighboring (and more populated) islands Tenerife and Gran Canaria. Satellite data recorded since the 1990s show that night brightness on La Palma has evolved differently compared to other Canaries and, for that matter, most of the world. Since 2000 nightly illumination has remained stable and the northern regions, where the observatories are located, are still pitch-dark.
The very strict anti-light pollution regulations on La Palma seem to have done the job. All street lights must have an upper light output ratio (ULOR) of 0%, which allows only full-cut-off housings that direct all light to the ground. All ornamental lights have to be switched off at midnight. The regulations also require that streetlights be dimmed by 50% between midnight and dawn. La Palma also specifies maximum levels of light flux, while the rest of Europe limits only minimum levels. The "minimum utilance factor," which describes the amount of light of a fixture directed to the area that is actually to be illuminated, has to be 50% or more.
As in the rest of the world, sodium-vapor lamps are being changed out for LEDs, but authorities are planning, as of 2018, to restrict emission with wavelengths below 500 nanometers. Blue light is scattered in the atmosphere and contributes to skyglow more than light at longer wavelengths. So instead of blue-rich white LEDs, La Palma will use phosphor-converted (PC) LEDs, whose amber light resembles the orange glow of the sodium-vapor lamps.
But regulations only work if they are implemented. In northern Chile, for example, similar regulations exist but are not fully enforced. Fortunately, on La Palma, astronomers can count on the continuous support of the local administration and population of the island — this may be the island's most important advantage.
While astronomy in general, and professional observatories in particular, may have been a bit detached from the island's everyday life in the past, today's La Palma is redefining itself as "Stars Island." The local government strongly promotes the emerging industry of astro-tourism, and the island is a prime destination for amateurs fleeing the oft-clouded and light-polluted skies of the European continent. Even the reluctance of the Instituto Astrofísico de Canaries to welcome visitors has waned: A visitors' center atop the Roque is nearing completion. The island's new self-image is perhaps best seen in its network of astronomical viewpoints, areas well-suited to stargazing and outfitted with information placards, scattered over the island.
La Palma's hospitality towards astronomers extends to new professional facilities. In March the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) consortium signed an agreement with the IAC to build on the Roque should the original site on Hawai'i's Mauna Kea prove infeasible. At the Santa Cruz conference, TMT's Christophe Dumas explained that both sites are equally excellent with respect to usable nights and seeing conditions, with one important caveat: The Roque is about 2,000 meters lower than Mauna Kea. This lower altitude means more water vapor in the atmosphere above the telescope, which limits observing at near-infrared wavelengths. For this reason, Hawai'i remains the preferred site for the TMT — but it's good to know that there's a backup site waiting with open arms.


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Mr Dave Simpson (the Chair) with poster prize winner Mr Eric Chang
A good learning atmosphere – commented a delegate about Euroscicon's Biosimilars to Biobetters – the paths forward event, which took place in May, this year. This cosy meeting was expertly chaired by Dave Simpson. Delegates liked the talks and found them relevant to their subject areas.
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European Business in China Business Confidence Survey 2019 - 中国欧盟商会商业信心调查2019 Go back »
Published on:2019-05-20
This year's Business Confidence Survey contrasts China's lagging regulatory reform and remnants of its former economic model with the increasingly firm commitment that European companies hold toward the mature and vibrant Chinese market.
While a few areas saw progress, China's reform agenda has failed to proceed at a pace that will meet the expectations of European business. A large majority of members expect regulatory obstacles to, at worst, increase significantly over the next five years or, at best, remain the same. Meanwhile, State-owned enterprises are present in more than two-thirds of the economy, and are dominant in key sectors. Furthermore, a fifth of members report feeling compelled to transfer technology as a condition for market access, with many of these transfers having taken place in 2018.
These difficult conditions are hardly welcoming for European companies in China. However, in spite of such challenges, European firms still saw revenue growth and strong EBIT, all while further boosting their competitiveness. European commitment to the market remains high with a healthy majority reporting that China remains a top three destination for investment, in no small part as a result of the vibrant and innovative private sector.
Eager to improve the business environment in which they operate, European companies are redoubling their advocacy efforts. It is imperative that China accelerate its reform agenda and reduce the regulatory burden while providing a level playing field for all companies. This is especially important to achieve now, as the rise of macro-economic challenges like the global and Chinese slowdowns intersect with the consequences of the US-China Trade War. These burdens can be offset by creating an open, fair and well-regulated market that will attract further investment and give companies the room to navigate the challenging waters ahead.


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Hello October!
I can't believe it's already October, I always feel like October will magically bring some cooler weather and less sweaty days but each year I'm left disappointed. We have been having a great week; Mason has been a little tired but playing hard feeling good. Around 4pm he will say, "My battery is wearing down I have to rest". We have been working hard in school and really finding our rhythm for learning, which has been fun. This is just a glimpse at what learning something new looks like for Mason; we learn about a new topic, he asks questions and soaks it in then immediately looks to Freya who is sitting by his chair and tells her the highlights of this topic. She intently listens and looks at him as if she's committing this conversation to memory, seriously could we have possibly found a better Bear Wolf! I think not!
Mason's Perspective
Our yard is so haunted even the beetles can be ghosts. They are everywhere and nowhere all at once. Just when you think you're standing on safe ground, they will come out of the dirt and try to get on your feet. Wearing shoes would help, but I am not made to wear shoes, I'm a warrior and warriors fight without shoes on. These ghost beetles aren't bad they actually are a way to tell if more ghosts are coming to our way. When you start to see the ghost beetles moving everywhere and crawling on trees and coming out of their holes, that means the bad ghosts are getting close. I use the ghost beetles like a compass, then I can be ready to battle the bad ones. Freya and I have been guarding our yard for like 49 hours now. We have a course we run and although it looks like we are running for fun, we are actually looking for ghosts to fight. Sometimes she will fight one all by herself, that's how big she is now. She always comes to help me in a battle because she actually protects me from all bad things.
Freya's Perspective
Freya is Bear Wolf. She is a natural performer and loves to enthusiastically perform tricks while the kids cheer her on. In fact, any amount of cheering just amps her up and wakes up that intense drive she naturally has. Simply put she is fun and she knows it. She is rocking obedience school and her sense of awareness when it comes to our surroundings has really blossomed. She's on guard and scans everything as we walk through the parking lot leaving obedience school.
My Perspective
With so many aspects of our lives being uncertain, Freya is not one of them. I adore the relationship Mason and Scarlett have with Freya, and what she has done for him. I still can't believe it's been 150 days. 150 days of sleeping at night, not chewing his nails and just in general being happy and bright. Mason is currently designing his and Freya's Halloween costumes! Until next time.


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This American Life's Ira Glass, who oversees what we journalists think is one of the last great hopes for "long-form journalism" (as it is so haughtily called), doesn't necessarily call what he does journalism at all. From a Times Q&A leading up to his new Showtime video version of the show:
Q: How do you think your work differs from traditional journalism?
A; We're taking the tools of journalism and applying them to people whom you wouldn't normally apply them to — people who aren't famous, people who aren't powerful, people just like you and me.
Q; What are you talking about? Journalism has always had human-interest stories.
A; But a newspaper probably wouldn't run an article where a cop remembers one weird incident with a squirrel when he was a rookie. That's too far from any kind of normal news hook.
I'd say that's false journalistic modesty. If journalists are storytellers, Glass & Co. are the masters of the craft.


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Friend or Foe
"I want those who get to know me to become admirers or my enemies." – "Friend or Foe", Adam Ant
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OOC: This week I'd like to share some updates on my pirate alt, favorite images from Tash-Murkon so far, and a couple of community highlights.
For those that don't know or haven't figured it out yet, my alt Stray has become a noob pirate. I've joined the ranks of Stay Frosty and have to say I'm enjoying the experience so far. The corp contains a great group of folks, helpful, patient, and understanding of my silly questions. Kind of the opposite of what you'd expect from a group of pirates, huh? Yulp. To help you get into the spirit of things, this You Tube video was linked for our message of the day this last week. Alestorm – You Are a Pirate!
It'll be eleven years of playing EVE Online next month and would you believe I've never once PvP'd? Only once was blown-up and podded and that was by choice nearly six years ago, I think it was. (That's a funny story I'll have to share some time.) Yes, that's right, HighSec carebear all of those years dabbling in just about everything except PvP. Granted, I've never been fearful of traveling into LowSec, but NullSec I've rarely jumped into. That'll be changing soon too as Katia's exploration will be done with Empire space as she continues her journey exploring New Eden one system at a time.
Now, I have a -0.1 security status for the first time ever and Stray is on a killboard. Yarr! The negative status actually came about from my first Stay Frosty fleet as we shot up a POCO's (Player Owned Customs Office) in our home system on our Corp birthday. I really wasn't ready yet as I had just started training on the character, but how could I resist beginning my pirate career on the corp birthday. Afterwards, we went out on a romp in newbie ships for fun, but didn't catch anything. Switched up to frigates and only had one catch for the day, which by the time I could even target them, they were destroyed. I've not had a chance to get back into action since, so I've mainly been skilling up, getting my overview setup, and acquiring/fitting 50 Tristans. Yesterday, Crossing Zebra's was hosting a FFA (Free For All) in Hysera so I got 12 of my ships over there and had my first real PvP fun.
And fun it was, lol. Learned a great deal. Like it's a good idea to launch your drones for more damage. I forgot a couple of times! Also, I learned real quick that "Escape" tab I setup was very useful for getting my pod out quickly. Only lost one pod out of the 12 ships I lost. Got down to 12 structure on another pod, but got out just in time. Whew! Not that it really hurt losing the pod, as I'm still under 900,000 skill points. All in all, I learned how to read my overview, find targets, and I did get better and faster targeting, launching drones, pod escaping, etc. In particular, this fight was my favorite, because it started 1 on 1, was fun, I was losing but that was alright, then the destroyer came in and popped both of us. 🙁 Still, I got top damage dealer and it was a blast. No pun intended.
Alright, enough pirate talk, so let's move onto a couple of community spotlights. First up, I'd like to introduce "Into the Ether – The many lives of Motoko Rei". Motoko has been blogging for almost a year now and was recently inspired by my New Eden Cemetery post. He's gone and explored the site as well and posted about his experience. Check it out, I think there's an explorer's heart there for sure and look forward to reading more about his journey through the cluster.
Also recently returned to New Eden and someone who's taken a turn to exploration is Mynxee and her blog, "Outlaw Insouciant". I was just starting to follow her blog several years ago when she was a pirate, shortly before she took an extended break from EVE. Now she's returned and has taken up exploration and is sharing her talent to document the experience via a Moleskine journal using pencil, ultra-fine Sharpie, and watercolors. Absolutely amazing and a talent that I wish I shared. I think this is going to be an excellent exploration blog with some pirating on the side. 😉
Coming up, next week I hope to post my first in a series entitled, "The Regions" where I will share favorite images, lore, stats, sites to see, and anything else I can come up with on each region I've explored so far in New Eden. That means The Forge will be highlighted first. I've also got 7 other New Eden Explorer interviews lined up, including myself (I guess, lol).
Until then, fly smart, fly safe!


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