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I've had October 8, 2011, circled on my calendar for more than a year. That's how long I've known that the little-known Draconid meteor shower is predicted to put on an over-the-top performance.Usually this shower delivers no more than 10 to 20 meteors per hour at its peak. However, as I mentioned last October, meteor specialists estimate that this year's Draconid rates could top 600 per hour — that's 10 per minute — under ideal viewing conditions. A recap of the various predictions is here. Click here to learn more about the Draconids and their checkered history.
These meteors are caused when Earth collides with bits of debris shed by periodic comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (and that's why this shower used to be called the Giacobinids). The comet has a 6½-year-long orbit that periodically carries it near Jupiter. Ordinarily, celestial dynamicists would expect the planet's powerful gravity to scatter anything in its vicinity into varying and unpredictable orbits. But they believe that a a stream of particles, ejected in 1900, is still largely intact, and Earth will sideswipe that river of rubble on Saturday.
In fact, the prospects for a really big show are good enough that international teams of scientists will take to the sky aboard two Falcon 20 aircraft to record the event. On one, the observers will be coordinated by Jérémie Vaubaillon of Paris Observatory's Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides (IMCCE). The other will carry a research team led by Pavel Koten (Ondrejov Observatory). These are the first such airborne campaigns organized by European scientists."The idea is to have the two aircraft fly together over Scandinavia (mainly Finland), separated by 100 km," Vaubaillon explains on his website. "We will put as many cameras as possible (and allowed) in each plane and measure the flux of particles, the orbit of the meteoroids (in order to derive their specific origin), and meteor spectra (in order to know their chemical composition). Much is expected from such a unique campaign!"
Meanwhile, weather permitting down below, Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Michael Gerding of the Leibniz Institute for Atmospheric Physics will observe the Draconids with a resonant potassium lidar from Kühlungsborn, Germany. Japanese researchers plan to watch the sky show from Maidanak Observatory in Uzbekistan.
Best guess is that the dramatic peak will last only a few hours, centered at about 20h Universal Time. Those of you handy with time conversion can see that this peak is poorly timed (4 p.m. EDT, 1 p.m. PDT) for North Americans. European observers definitely have the best seats, despite interference from a waxing gibbous Moon.Still, Jenniskens encourages you to look anyway during the day on Saturday. "Use binoculars looking 10° to 40° elevation away from the Sun (toward north) to spot bright Draconids from 19h to 21h UT," he suggests. "In the hours after the shower, telescopic observers might find it interesting to watch for possible lunar impacts in the sliver of darkness on the Moon near the north pole." (Make sure you identify which pole is which in your eyepiece.)
Coincidentally, the International Observe the Moon Night also falls on October 8th.
Jenniskens has assembled a rich array of details and plans on his team's website. If you've got time, check out the live (but intermittent) webcast planned for a few hours before, during, and after the shower's peak.


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Devouring a bar of chocolate may make you forget your sorrows for those sweet moments it takes to melt on your tongue. But the mood-boosting benefits of chocolate pass as quickly as the experience of eating it, a new study has found.
In an effort to assess chocolate's supposed antidepressant qualities, the study, published online in March in the Journal of Affective Disorders, reviewed all the research findings ever produced on the relationship between chocolate and mood.
Temporary relief may come from eating chocolate, according to the study, led by Gordon Parker, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia. But that fleeting solace is no greater than the emotional lift from eating any carbohydrate, such as cake or potato chips. There is no evidence that eating chocolate removes feelings of depression, the scientists found.
Finally, while people crave chocolate, chocolate cannot cause the type of chemical addictions that alcohol, cigarettes or drugs do, the report determined.
Janet Polivy, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, conducted a chocolate-craving study published last year in the International Journal of Eating Disorders. She deprived patients of either chocolate or vanilla. Those deprived of chocolate had a much harder time.
"Chocolate is the most craved food," she said. "It does seem to be something special. But there is little evidence that it alters neurotransmitters or mood."
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Looking for a scenic state park? You don't have to travel far if you live in Missouri or Kansas.
The region was well-represented on the list of "36 Stunning U.S. State Parks" that The Active Times recently released.
In fact, the two states accounted for one-sixth of the listings, three from each state.
Kanopolis State Park in central Kansas ranked 14th, the highest rating in the two-state area. It was recognized for its hiking trails through canyons, prairies and wooded creek bottoms.
Lake Scott State Park in western Kansas ranked 23rd and Wilson State Park in the north-central part of the state was 34th.
In Missouri, the Katy Trail State Park that runs across much of the state was the top pick, ranking 28th. The former rail line that was converted to a long trail was recognized for its beautiful views from a biking and hiking path that runs along the Missouri River.
Ha Ha Tonka State Park at Lake of the Ozarks was the 30th choice, and Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park in southeastern Missouri ranked 35th.
High Point State Park in New Jersey was the top pick, recognized for its scenic views atop Kittatinny Ridge, the highest point in the state.Kansas crappie fishing
The crappies in Kansas reservoirs are finally coming to the shore.
The erratic weather delayed the much-awaited moment when the big panfish move to the shallows to spawn. But it appears that it's finally here.
Good numbers of crappies are being caught along spawning banks at Pomona, Perry, Clinton, Hillsdale and Tuttle Creek lakes. This spring's spawn may be short-lived because it is relatively late. But expect good fishing for the next week or two.A winged gala
If you're a bird lover, plan on attending "Wings Over Weston."
The celebration of birds and butterflies will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Weston Bend State Park, 1660 Missouri 45, near Weston.
The free event will feature live birds on display, nature exhibits, guided hikes and children's activities. Live eagle shows will be put on by the Dickerson Park Zoo, there will be banding demonstrations by the Missouri River Bird Observatory, and rescued birds from Operation Wildlife will be on display.
Falconry demonstrations, the sale of native plants and live music will be included.
The event also is a celebration of Platte County's 175th anniversary. Those attending will vote on a selection for the official bird of the county.
"Wings Over Weston" is co-sponsored by the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Burroughs Audubon Society, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Platte County Parks and Recreation and other public and private organizations.Politically correct carp
A bill in the Minnesota Senate recently proposed changing the name of Asian carp to "invasive carp."
The reason? Bill sponsor John Hoffman said the term Asian carp "casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light."


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A closer look at the capabilities and risks of iPhone X face mapping
On Friday Apple fans were queuing to get their hands on the newly released iPhone X: The flagship smartphone that Apple deemed a big enough update to skip a numeral. RIP iPhone 9.
The shiny new hardware includes a front-facing sensor module housed in the now infamous 'notch' which takes an unsightly but necessary bite out of the top of an otherwise (near) edge-to-edge display and thereby enables the smartphone to sense and map depth — including facial features.
So the iPhone X knows it's your face looking at it and can act accordingly, e.g. by displaying the full content of notifications on the lock screen vs just a generic notice if someone else is looking. So hello contextual computing. And also hey there additional barriers to sharing a device.
Face ID has already generated a lot of excitement but the switch to a facial biometric does raise privacy concerns — given that the human face is naturally an expression-rich medium which, inevitably, communicates a lot of information about its owner without them necessarily realizing it.
You can't argue that a face tells rather more stories over time than a mere digit can. So it pays to take a closer look at what Apple is (and isn't doing here) as the iPhone X starts arriving in its first buyers' hands…
Face ID
The core use for the iPhone X's front-facing sensor module — aka the TrueDepth camera system, as Apple calls it — is to power a new authentication mechanism based on a facial biometric. Apple's brand name for this is Face ID.
To use Face ID iPhone X owners register their facial biometric by tilting their face in front of the TrueDepth camera.
The face biometric system replaces the Touch ID fingerprint biometric which is still in use on other iPhones (including on the new iPhone 8/8 Plus).
Only one face can be enrolled for Face ID per iPhone X — vs multiple fingerprints being allowed for Touch ID. Hence sharing a device being less easy, though you can still share your passcode.
As we've covered off in detail before Apple does not have access to the depth-mapped facial blueprints that users enroll when they register for Face ID. A mathematical model of the iPhone X user's face is encrypted and stored locally on the device in a Secure Enclave.
Face ID also learns over time and some additional mathematical representations of the user's face may also be created and stored in the Secure Enclave during day to day use — i.e. after a successful unlock — if the system deems them useful to "augment future matchingâ€, as Apple's white paper on Face ID puts it. This is so Face ID can adapt if you put on glasses, grow a bear, change your hair style, and so on.
The key point here is that Face ID data never leaves the user's phone (or indeed the Secure Enclave). And any iOS app developers wanting to incorporate Face ID authentication into their apps do not gain access to it either. Rather authentication happens via a dedicated authentication API that only returns a positive or negative response after comparing the input signal with the Face ID data stored in the Secure Enclave.
Senator Al Franken wrote to Apple asking for reassurance on exactly these sorts of question. Apple's response letter also confirmed that it does not generally retain face images during day-to-day unlocking of the device — beyond the sporadic Face ID augmentations noted above.
"Face images captured during normal unlock operations aren't saved, but are instead immediately discarded once the mathematical representation is calculated for comparison to the enrolled Face ID data,†Apple told Franken.
Apple's white paper further fleshes out how Face ID functions — noting, for example, that the TrueDepth camera's dot projector module "projects and reads over 30,000 infrared dots to form a depth map of an attentive face†when someone tries to unlock the iPhone X (the system tracks gaze as well which means the user has to be actively looking at the face of the phone to activate Face ID), as well as grabbing a 2D infrared image (via the module's infrared camera). This also allows Face ID to function in the dark.
"This data is used to create a sequence of 2D images and depth maps, which are digitally signed and sent to the Secure Enclave,†the white paper continues. "To counter both digital and physical spoofs, the TrueDepth camera randomizes the sequence of 2D images and depth map captures, and projects a device-specific random pattern. A portion of the A11 Bionic processor's neural engine — protected within the Secure Enclave — transforms this data into a mathematical representation and compares that representation to the enrolled facial data. This enrolled facial data is itself a mathematical representation of your face captured across a variety of poses.â€
So as long as you have confidence in the calibre of Apple's security and engineering, Face ID's architecture should given you confidence that the core encrypted facial blueprint to unlock your device and authenticate your identity in all sorts of apps is never being shared anywhere.
But Face ID is really just the tip of the tech being enabled by the iPhone X's TrueDepth camera module.
Face-tracking via ARKit
Apple is also intending the depth sensing module to enable flashy and infectious consumer experiences for iPhone X users by enabling developers to track their facial expressions, and especially for face-tracking augmented reality. AR generally being a huge new area of focus for Apple — which revealed its ARKit support framework for developers to build augmented reality apps at its WWDC event this summer.
And while ARKit is not limited to the iPhone X, ARKit for face-tracking via the front-facing camera is. So that's a big new capability incoming to Apple's new flagship smartphone.
"ARKit and iPhone X enable a revolutionary capability for robust face tracking in AR apps. See how your app can detect the position, topology, and expression of the user's face, all with high accuracy and in real time,†writes Apple on its developer website, going on to flag up some potential uses for the API — such as for applying "live selfie effects†or having users' facial expressions "drive a 3D characterâ€.
The consumer showcase of what's possible here is of course Apple's new animoji. Aka the animated emoji characters which were demoed on stage when Apple announced the iPhone X and which enable users to virtually wear an emoji character as if was a mask, and then record themselves saying (and facially expressing) something.
So an iPhone X user can automagically 'put on' the alien emoji. Or the pig. The fox. Or indeed the 3D poop.
But again, that's just the beginning. With the iPhone X developers can access ARKit for face-tracking to power their own face-augmenting experiences — such as the already showcased face-masks in the Snap app.
"This new ability enables robust face detection and positional tracking in six degrees of freedom. Facial expressions are also tracked in real-time, and your apps provided with a fitted triangle mesh and weighted parameters representing over 50 specific muscle movements of the detected face,†writes Apple.
Now it's worth emphasizing that developers using this API are not getting access to every datapoint the TrueDepth camera system can capture. This is also not literally recreating the Face ID model that's locked up in the Secure Enclave — and which Apple touts as being accurate enough to have a failure rate as small as one in one million times.
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But developers are clearly being given access to some pretty detailed face maps. Enough for them to build powerful user experiences — such as Snap's fancy face masks that really do seem to be stuck to people's skin like facepaint…
And enough, potentially, for them to read some of what a person's facial expressions are saying — about how they feel, what they like or don't like.
(Another API on the iPhone X provides for AV capture via the TrueDepth camera — which Apple says "returns a capture device representing the full capabilities of the TrueDepth cameraâ€, suggesting the API returns photo + video + depth data (though not, presumably, at the full resolution that Apple is using for Face ID) — likely aimed at supporting additional visual special effects, such as background blur for a photo app.)
Now here we get to the fine line around what Apple is doing. Yes it's protecting the mathematical models of your face it uses the iPhone X's depth-sensing hardware to generate and which — via Face ID — become the key to unlocking your smartphone and authenticating your identity.
But it is also normalizing and encouraging the use of face mapping and facial tracking for all sorts of other purposes.
Entertaining ones, sure, like animoji and selfie lenses. And even neat stuff like helping people virtually try on accessories (see: Warby Parker for a first mover there). Or accessibility-geared interfaces powered by facial gestures. (One iOS developer we spoke to, James Thomson — maker of calculator app PCalc — said he's curious "whether you could use the face tracking as an accessibility tool, for people who might not have good (or no) motor control, as an alternative control methodâ€, for example.)
Yet it doesn't take much imagination to think what else certain companies and developers might really want to use real-time tracking of facial expressions for: Hyper sensitive expression-targeted advertising and thus even more granular user profiling for ads/marketing purposes. Which would of course be another tech-enabled blow to privacy.
It's clear that Apple is well aware of the potential risks here. Clauses in its App Store Review Guidelines specify that developers must have "secure user consent†for collecting "depth of facial mapping informationâ€, and also expressly prohibit developers from using data gathered via the TrueDepth camera system for advertising or marketing purposes.
In clause 5.1.2 (iii) of the developer guidelines, Apple writes:
Data gathered from the HomeKit API or from depth and/or facial mapping tools (e.g. ARKit, Camera APIs, or Photo APIs) may not be used for advertising or other use-based data mining, including by third parties.
It also forbids developers from using the iPhone X's depth sensing module to try to create user profiles for the purpose of identifying and tracking anonymous users of the phone — writing in 5.1.2 (i):
You may not attempt, facilitate, or encourage others to identify anonymous users or reconstruct user profiles based on data collected from depth and/or facial mapping tools (e.g. ARKit, Camera APIs, or Photo APIs), or data that you say has been collected in an "anonymized,†"aggregated,†or otherwise non-identifiable way.
While another clause (2.5.13) in the policy requires developers not to use the TrueDepth camera system's facial mapping capabilities for account authentication purposes.
Rather developers are required to stick to using the dedicated API Apple provides for interfacing with Face ID (and/or other iOS authentication mechanisms). So basically, devs can't use the iPhone X's sensor hardware to try and build their own version of 'Face ID' and deploy it on the iPhone X (as you'd expect).
They're also barred from letting kids younger than 13 authenticate using facial recognition.
Apps using facial recognition for account authentication must use LocalAuthentication (and not ARKit or other facial recognition technology), and must use an alternate authentication method for users under 13 years old.
The sensitivity of facial data hardly needs to be stated. So Apple is clearly aiming to set parameters that narrow (if not entirely defuse) concerns about potential misuse of the depth and face tracking tools that its flagship hardware now provides. Both by controlling access to the key sensor hardware (via APIs), and by policies that its developers must abide by or risk being shut out of its App Store and barred from being able to monetize their apps.
"Protecting user privacy is paramount in the Apple ecosystem, and you should use care when handling personal data to ensure you've complied with applicable laws and the terms of the Apple Developer Program License Agreement, not to mention customer expectations,†Apple writes in its developer guidelines.
The wider question is how well the tech giant will be able to police each and every iOS app developer to ensure they and their apps stick to its rules. (We asked Apple for an interview on this topic but at the time of writing it had not provided a spokesperson.)
Depth data being provided by Apple to iOS developers — which was only previously available to these devs in even lower resolution on the iPhone 7 Plus, thanks to that device's dual cameras — arguably makes facial tracking applications a whole lot easier to build now, thanks to the additional sensor hardware in the iPhone X.
Though developers aren't yet being widely incentivized by Apple on this front — as the depth sensing capabilities remain limited to a minority of iPhone models for now.
Although it's also true that any iOS app granted access to iPhone camera hardware in the past could potentially have been using a video feed from the front-facing camera, say, to try to algorithmically track facial expressions (i.e by inferring depth).
So privacy risks around face data and iPhones aren't entirely new, just maybe a little better defined thanks to the fancier hardware on tap via the iPhone X.
Questions over consent
On the consent front, it's worth noting that users do also have to actively give a particular app access to the camera in order for it to be able to access iOS' face mapping and/or depth data APIs.
"Your app description should let people know what types of access (e.g. location, contacts, calendar, etc.) are requested by your app, and what aspects of the app won't work if the user doesn't grant permission,†Apple instructs developers.
Apps also can't pull data from the APIs in the background. So even after a user has consented for an app to access the camera, they have to be actively using the app for it to be able to pull facial mapping and/or depth data. So it should not be possible for apps to continuously facially track users — unless a user continues to use their app.
Although it's also fair to say that users failing to read and/or properly understand T&Cs for digital services remains a perennial problem. (And Apple has sometimes granted additional permissions to certain apps — such as when it temporarily gave Uber the ability to record the iPhone user's screen even when the app was in the background. But that is an exception, not the rule.)
Add to that, certain popular apps that make use of the camera as part of their core proposition — say, the likes of social sharing apps like Facebook, Snap, Instagram etc — are likely going to able to require the user gives access to the TrueDepth API if they want to use the app at all.
So the 'choice' for a user may be between being facially tracked by their favorite app or foregoing using the app entirely…
One iOS developer we spoke to played down any expansion of privacy concerns related to the additional sensor hardware in the TrueDepth module, arguing: "To a certain extent, you could do things already with the 2D front facing camera if the user gives access to it — the added depth data doesn't really change things.â€
Another suggested the resolution of the depth data that Apple supplies via the new API is still "relatively low†— while also being "slightly higher res data†than the iPhone 7 Plus depth data. Though this developer had yet to test out the TrueDepth API to prove out their supposition.
"I've worked with the iOS 11 depth data APIs (the ones introduced at WWDC; before TrueDepth) a bit, and the data they supply at least with the iPhone 7 Plus is pretty low res (<1MP),†they told us.
Most of the iOS devs we contacted were still waiting to get their hands on an iPhone X to be able to start playing around with the API and seeing what's possible.
Ultimately, though, it will be up to individual iPhone X users to decide whether they trust a particular company/app developer to give it access to the camera and thus also access to the facial tracking and facial mapping toolkit that Apple is placing in developers' hands with the iPhone X.
The issue of user consent is a potentially thorny one, though, especially given incoming tighter regulations in the European Union around how companies handle and process personal data.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes into force across the 28 Member States of the EU in May next year, and sets new responsibilities and liabilities for companies processing EU citizens' personal data — including by expanding the definition of what personal data is.
And since US tech giants have many EU users, the new rules in Europe are effectively poised to drive up privacy standards for major apps — thanks to the risk of far steeper fines for companies found violating the bloc's rules.
Liabilities under GDPR can also extend to any third party entities a company engages to process personal data on its behalf — though it's not entirely clear, in the case of Apple, whether it will be at risk of being in any way liable for how iOS developers process their app users' personal data given its own business relationship with those developers. Or whether all the risk and responsibility pertaining to a particular app will lie with its developer (and any of their own sub-processors).
The EU regulation is undoubtedly already informing how Apple shapes its own contractual arrangements with app developers — such as stating developers must get appropriate consents from users so that it can demonstrate it's taken appropriate contractual steps to safeguard user data. And also by setting limits on what developers can do with the data, as the clauses detailed above show.
Although, again, Apple is also creating risk by making it easier for developers to map and track users' faces at scale. "Every time you introduce a new player into the ecosystem by definition you create vulnerability,†agrees Scott Vernick a partner and privacy and cybersecurity expert at law firm Fox Rothschild. "Because it's a question of… how can you police all of those app developers?â€
One thing is clear: The level of consent that app developers will need to obtain to process EU users' personal data — and facial data is absolutely personal data — is going to step up sharply next year.
So the sort of generic wording that Snap, for example, is currently showing to iPhone X users when it asks them for camera permissions (see screengrabs below) is unlikely to meet Europe's incoming standard on consent next year — since it's not even specifying what it's using the camera access for. Nor saying whether it's engaging in facial tracking. A vague ref to "and more†probably won't suffice in future…
Snap access the camera notification on iPhone X
GDPR also gives EU citizens the right to ask what personal data a company holds on them and the right to request their personal data be deleted — which requires companies to have processes in place to A) know exactly what personal data they are holding on each user and B) have systems in place capable of deleting specific user data on demand.
Vernick believes GDPR will likely have a big impact when it comes to a feature like iPhone X-enabled facial tracking — saying developers making use of Apple's tools will need to be sure they have "proper disclosures†and "proper consent†from users or they could risk being in breach of the incoming law.
"That issue of the disclosure and the consent just becomes incredibly magnified on the EU side in view of the fact that GDPR comes into place in May 2018,†he says. "I think you will see a fair amount of interest on the EU side about exactly what information third parties are getting. Because they'll want to make sure the appropriate consents are in place — but also that the appropriate technical issues around deletion of the data, and so forth.â€
What does an appropriate consent look like under GDPR when facial mapping and tracking comes into play? Could an app just say it wants to use the camera — as Snap is — without specifying it might be tracking your expressions, for example?
The consent will have to be open and notorious in order for it to satisfy the GDPR.
"If you just look at it from the perspective of GDPR I think that there will have to be a very notorious and outright disclosure,†responds Vernick. "I haven't quite thought through whether the consent comes from Facebook or whether it comes from the application developer itself or the application but in any event, regardless of who's responsible for the consent, as we would say here in the States the consent will have to be open and notorious in order for it to satisfy the GDPR.â€
"Start with the premise that the GDPR is designed to, as a default, establish that the data is the consumer's data. It's not the technology company's data or the app developer's data,†he continues. "The premise of GDPR is that every country controlling or processing data of EU citizens will have to get specific consents with respect to every use that's intended by the application, product or service. And you will have to give EU citizens also the right to delete that information. Or otherwise reclaim it and move it. So those general rules will apply here with equal force but even more so.â€
Asked whether he thinks the GDPR will effectively raise privacy standards for US users of digital services as well as for EU users, Vernick says: "It will depend on the company, obviously, and how much of their business is tied to the EU vs how much of it is really just based in the US but I actually think that as a regulatory matter you will see much of this converge.â€
"There will be less of a regulatory divide or less of a regulatory separateness between the EU and the States,†he adds. "I don't think it will happen immediately but it would not surprise me at all if the kinds of things that are very much present and top of mind for EU regulations, and the GDPR, if you don't see those morph their way over to the States… [Maybe] it just becomes technically more efficient to just have one standard so you don't have to keep track of two schemes.
"I think that the regulatory climate will hew if you will towards standards being set by the EU.â€
In the GDPR context, Apple's own decision to encrypt and only locally store users' sensitive facial biometric data makes perfect sense — helping it minimize its own risk and liabilities.
"If you start with the premise that it's encrypted and stored locally, that's great. If the app developers move away from that premise, even in a partial manner, even if they don't have the entire [facial] mapping and all of the co-ordinates, again that produces a risk if in fact there's unlawful access to it. In terms of the same risk of getting hold of any other personally identifiable information,†says Vernick.
"Every time you collect data you expose yourself to law enforcement, in that law enforcement generally wants a piece of it at some point,†he adds. "Now Apple seems to have head that off by saying it can't give over what it doesn't have because the information is not stored at Apple, it's stored on the device… But if there's any erosion to that principle by whatever means, or by the app developers, you sort of become targets for that kind of thing — and that will raise a whole host of questions about what exactly is law enforcement looking for and why is it looking for it, and so forth and so on.
"At a minimum those are some of the legal challenges that facial recognition poses.â€


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A Spoonful of Sugar Will Make Disney's New Mary Poppins Musical Go Down
In every remake that must be done, there is an element of fun.
In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. For Disney executives whose job it is to dream up new versions of the company's classic films, "fun" looks like a new Mary Poppins musical from Rob Marshall, with Smash's Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman writing the songs. EW reports that the musical will be based on the later novels in P.L. Travers's Poppins series, but that the project is "decidedly not being developed as a sequel," whatever that means. Regardless, it looks like Tom Hanks was more convincing than we thought.


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Lord Break Me! (Unabridged)
by William MacDonald
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In Lord, Break Me!, William MacDonald explains that God puts a premium on broken things - especially on broken people. That is why we read such verses as: "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit" (Psalm 34:18). "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise" (Psalm 51:17). God knows how to resist the proud and haughty, but he cannot resist a person who is humble and contrite. God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). There is something in our brokenness that appeals to his compassion and power. And so part of his wonderful purpose for our lives is that we should be broken - broken in heart, broken in spirit, and broken even in body. Think what it would mean in our individual lives, in our homes, in the local church, and in the business world if we were all broken as we should be. What is meant by true brokenness? How does it manifest itself in a believer's life? The daily prayer of the submissive saint is reflected in the words of the hymn: Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter; I am the clay. Mould me and make me after thy will, While I am waiting, yielded and still. A word about the author: William MacDonald (1917-2007) was born in Massachusetts. His parents were from the Isle of Lewis and when he was six years old, his family moved to Stornoway, Scotland, later moving back to Massachusetts. A commended worker for 60 years, a teacher, preacher, mentor, and author of 84 books, including the Believer's Bible Commentary, William MacDonald was a man who said and wrote much. Yet, for those who knew him well, it was his life that left the greatest impression.
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- Published: 2017
- Category: Religion & Spirituality
- Provider: Words by the Wayside
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"On January 15, 1981, our research group began receiving a communication
from the social memory complex, Ra. From this communication
precipitated the Law of One and some of the distortions of the Law of One."
"RA: I am Ra. The identity of the vibration Ra is our identity."
RA: "In truth there is no right or wrong."
a. A set of principles of right conduct.
b. A theory or a system of moral values:
No, this isn't an article about the "black pope" (at least not directly). People who qualify as Men In Black are people whose official outfit is all black, like Judges and Priests (…both wear black robes; people stand when either of them enters the room…be it the congregation or the courtroom and jurors. In both a church and a courtroom, the judge/priest will be separated from the people by a little wood fence with a brass gate. Both look down upon the people from an elevated alter or bench…there are more similarities, but that is not the direction I'm going here), many times you will see in a college graduation ceremony, the graduates wear all black (by the way, when you graduate, you wear a [Masonic] square mortar board on top of your head…this is a dramatization of certain African tribes who strapped wood boards to their heads and wore them for years as their heads grew… thus flattening the tops of their heads. It is a symbol for a cut off point to your learning…it says, "My [occult/mystic] education goes to 'this' level and no higher", whereas the pope wears a huge hat, his knowledge into the occult and the goings on behind the scenes goes pretty deep. His huge hat says the same thing that a Navaho Chief's huge headband of feathers says: "I'm into some really deep things that would blow your flat little mind, go back to your alcohol and amusement…pay no attention to me and my giant hat, you wouldn't understand…that's why you don't have a hat like this, because it's Over your head!"…or something like that.). I digress. Hitler was a man in all black as well…the "bad guy" always wears (a) black (cowboy hat).
Throughout antiquity, each planet was assigned a color…earth is the blue planet, Mars is red, Venus is green…Saturn is the black planet. All of the elders who worshiped Saturn wore black robes. They worshipped El, which was there word for Saturn. In Sumerian, Saturn was referred to as The Black Sun (an obvious reference to an eclipse, more on that in moment)…The Gestapo, wearing all black, was once called The Order of the Black Sun. The word Satan and the word Saturn have the same "DNA" so to speak. These men in black who worship this black planet are on the Dark side, with the all black Darth Vader. Darth Vader by the way was in the Empire Strikes Back…New York is the Empire State, it's the hub of America, it is the State of the new world Empire. What would this Empire State be striking back against? How about Rome? Remember, England broke away from the old York or the old world order (Rome) and made a New York here in America.
Until a soul learns to strive for positivity and love, they simply do not progress!
I don't follow RA, or any entity that is still a part of this Universe, this Hollographic School, but only my own inner knowing, my Higher Self, my inner truths, my soul memories, and my absolute Love and Appreciation for the Family of Light, all of our Higher Selves, and Love, Goodness, and Lending A Helping Hand.
We need to wake up to all the traps, there are many. And for those who are aware renounce the codings in the languages, religions, court documents, court houses, birth ceritificates, etc etc. Even the games our children play, the online ones, music, movies, news, media, etc etc all Saturn coded as an attempt to create a willing negative harvest.
Lets shine our lights and reveal it.
There is Life and Death. There are things that lead to each.
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Bohemians and Dundalk meet for the third time in eight days and the sixth time this season when they go head to head in Tuesday's FAI Cup quarter-final replay at Dalymount Park.
Bohemians followed their 3-1 league success with a hard fought draw at Oriel Park on Friday night.
Two years ago the sides drew 0-0 in Oriel Park and after a red card for both teams, a half-hour of extra time and still no goals in Dalymount it went to penalties, which Bohemians won 4-2.
With a busy schedule ahead, both sides will be keen to avoid a repeat of their 2009 quarter final clash which also finished goal less at Oriel before 130 minutes of football failed to separate the sides, Bohemians eventually winning on penalties.
Bohemian's manager Pat Fenlon, he has a nearly complete squad to choose from and he may start with Christy Fagan, who started Friday's game on the bench.
While Stephen Traynor could start as he continues his comeback following injury however Ollie Cahill looks set to miss out.
Meanwhile for Dundalk 27 year old Peter Cherrie will make his 100th appearance however manager Ian Foster will again be without long-term injury victims Eoghan Osborne (fractured tibia), Stephen Maher (fractured metatarsal) and now Colin Hawkins (knee), the latter ruled out for at least another month.
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ETNA (KDKA) — Crews spent much of the evening repairing a water main that burst in Etna late Thursday afternoon.
They had to dig a large trench along Locust Street.
The break sent water gushing into the basement of 106 Locust.
The Hampton-Shaler Water Authority says nearly 70 homes were without service for a couple of hours, but they got it restored around 8 p.m.
Crews brought in heavy equipment and blocked off the street while they also fixed the service line to one of the homes.
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Nurses at the University of Kansas Hospital picketed the hospital on Tuesday in connection with a rejected contract offer that would have involved pay cuts.
The nurses are represented by the Kansas University Nurses Association, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.
Union leaders said in a statement the pay cuts would be unfair at a time when the hospital's patient revenue "has grown by leaps and bounds, and its financial outlook is strong."
Hospital chief executive Bob Page said the hospital was trying to be more efficient and "take costs out of the system" in an "even-handed way across the organization" without having staff reductions that other hospitals have had.
The hospital offered a 2 percent pay raise but reduced the premium differential, a pay add-on for those who commit to working a night or weekend shift for all shifts.
Emily Harvey, president of the nurses' association, said the union represents about 1,400 registered nurses and licensed practical nurses at KU Hospital. The union has been bargaining with the hospital since July. Representatives said the proposed pay cuts would lower the hospital's standards of care and attractiveness to nursing staff.
The hospital said 252 nurses voted among about 450 dues-paying members eligible to vote. It said 1,414 nurses are represented by the union among 2,400 total nurses working at the hospital.
Page said contract negotiations haven't been as productive as under previous union leadership. He said he was disappointed that picketing was chosen as a disruptive tactic.
A declaration of impasse was filed with the Kansas Public Employee Relations Board, and mediation is a likely outcome.
The nurses are barred by law from striking.


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The main thing any hitter does is make outs. Take one of my favorite hitters of all-time, Tony Gywnn; Tony had 9,288 at-bats and 3,141 hits. If I did the math right, that means this Hall of Fame hitter made 6,147 outs. Gywnn's 162-game average is 617 at-bats per year, so if you put all his unsuccessful at-bats together, one of the best hitters in the history of the game spent about a decade doing nothing but making outs.
The main thing a hitter does is make outs, so smart hitters—and smart teams—learn to makeproductive
Take the third inning of Friday night's game against the Mariners: Alcides Escobar singled, then stole second base. Nori Aoki made a productive out by sac bunting Escobar to third. Then, with one out, Eric Hosmer made a productive out by hitting a sacrifice fly to left field; Escobar tagged up and scored.
In the first inning with nobody out Billy Butler got lucky—it should have been a double play—and made a productive out with Nori Aoki on third; Billy's groundball allowed Aoki to score. Something similar happened in the sixth inning: Billy Butler was on second and Salvador Perez was on first. Alex Gordon made a productive out when he hit a fly ball deep enough to allow Butler to tag and make it to third base with one down. Gordon's productive out paid off when Johnny Giavotella made another productive out, a groundball that allowed Butler to score.
Productive outs come in several categories: sacrifice bunts, sacrifice fly balls, hitting the ball to the right side with a runner on second and nobody out, long at-bats—anything that helps your team win. The main thing a hitter does is make outs, smart hitters makeproductive
Thanks to some productive outs, the Royals beat the Mariners, 6-1.
Vargas turns his back on the hitters
Seven innings pitched, three hits, 0 runs. If you wonder how a guy whose fastball tops out at about 90 miles an hour throws it past people, you could start withhis
start; Jason Vargas' windup has an inward turn that puts his back to the hitter. I've never faced Jason—thank, God—but I'm guessing that inward turn hides the ball from the hitter for a long time. When a pitcher does that, the ball seems to jump out at you—you don't see it, you don't see it and then suddenly it's there.
Game notes
First inning:
Go back to that Billy Butler grounder to Mariners third baseman Willie Bloomquist; Eric Hosmer was on first base and Willie threw to second to start a double play. The throw was wide, but Robinson Cano managed to catch the ball and stay on the bag—barely.
When middle infielders approach second base as the pivot man in a double play, they're encouraged to shorten their strides and take short, choppy steps. That way, if the throw is off-target, they can react quickly. Take long steps and it's like a first baseman stretching for the ball too soon; you're in a bad position to react to a bad throw. (That bit of wisdom came from former Royals utility infielder, Greg Pryor. A long time ago, he was trying to teach me to play second base—it didn't work. Good teacher, bad student.)
Second inning:
Johnny Giavotella hit a ball to right field and that's good. The Royals want Johnny to go to the opposite field and keep the ball out of the air. When you see Giavotella pull the ball or hit fly balls; that's not part of the game plan.
Third inning:
Eric Hosmer's sacrifice fly to Dustin Ackley scored Alcides Escobar from third base. One of the key factors in the play was what Ackley had to do to catch Hosmer's fly ball—Ackley moved sideways. Lateral movement meant the throw to home plate would be weak. If an outfielder can get behind the ball and catch it while moving forward, the throw will be stronger. Pay attention to the outfielder's movement while catching a fly ball with a runner tagging—it often decides what happens next.
In the bottom of the inning Royals fans got another example of why Jason Vargas is a successful pitcher: In a 2-1 fastball count, Vargas threw Dustin Ackley a changeup. That pitch locked Ackley up and he took it for a called strike. Then, with the count 2-2, Vargas threw Ackley an 87-MPH two-seam fastball. That pitch got in on Ackley and he lined out softly to left fielder Alex Gordon. Reverse the two pitches—throw Ackley the fastball when he's looking fastball—and the results might be different. With two strikes a hitter is trying to wait on the ball, so a well-located fastball is that much more effective.
Fourth inning:
With two runners on and nobody out, Johnny Giavotella did not bunt—he swung away. The Royals got lucky and avoided a double play when Mariners shortstop, Brad Miller, threw the ball away. That error led to two runs; if Seattle had turned two there, Salvador Perez wouldn't have scored and Lorenzo Cain's double play ball would have ended the inning; instead it scored another run.
Sixth inning:
That productive out Johnny Giavotella made in the sixth scored a run, but Johnny's approach at the plate left something to be desired. With one down and runners at first and third, a hitter's main job is staying out of an inning-ending double play. That means getting a ball up in the zone; hit a fly ball to the outfield and the runner on third might be able to tag and score. Giavotella chased two sliders down in the zone, put the second one in play and got lucky when his groundball did not result in a double play.
Eighth inning and ninth innings:
Aaron Crow threw the eighth and Tim Collins threw the ninth. Even though both pitchers had a sizeable lead, both pitchers issued walks—not good. But if the Royals still won; no harm, no foul—right?
Not really.
Collin's struggles in the ninth forced Greg Holland to get up and throw in the bullpen. Even though he never came in the game, warming up means Holland was throwing pitches on a day when he should get to rest.
A small thing, but it could have an effect in the next two games.
How to win Jason Kendall's catcher's mask
Here's the deal: click on the link below and it takes you to a landing page for the new book "Throwback." St. Martin's Press is encouraging readers to help spread the word about the book and if you do, we send you a signed bookplate—essentially an autographed sticker that goes into your copy of the book. You also get a chance to win an autographed Jason Kendall catcher's mask.
When St. Martin's first brought up this idea they had to explain the terms "landing page" and "bookplate." They wanted Jason to donate some autographed item and we thought a catcher's mask was something different. We also got stuck signing 2,500 bookplates. You'll be happy to know my autograph is becoming as illegible as any big league ballplayer's; when you have to sign a lot of stuff, you learn to do it quickly. Anyway, check out the landing page and you might wind up with a very cool piece of memorabilia.
"Throwback: A Big League Catcher Tells How the Game Is Really Played" is an inside look at our national pastime, co-authored by Jason Kendall and Lee Judge. The book will be in stores on May 13th, but can be pre-ordered right now.


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The New Superfood Grab & Go: Navitas Power Snacks
Cacao-Goji and Citrus-Chia Power Snack Varieties Offer "Bite-Sized Goodness" Made from the Most Nutrient-Dense Organic Functional Foods
Aug 04, 2011, 07:00 ET
NOVATO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthy snacking has never been this easy and indulgent. Navitas Naturals has launched a new line of Navitas Power Snacks that feature a combination of the most nutrient-dense superfoods and organic seeds, fruits and nuts. The first two varieties in the line, Cacao Goji and Citrus Chia, are flavorful grab-and-go functional foods that use only certified organic and raw ingredients.
"This is a breakthrough superfood product," says CEO Zach Adelman, whom founded Navitas Naturals in 2003. "Navitas Power Snacks are a simple and delicious way to introduce people to organic superfoods from around the world, or to provide experienced superfoodies with a fun new format to enjoy."
Offered in an 8-ounce re-sealable and recyclable pouch for $8.99, Navitas Power Snacks are chewy, bite-sized nuggets that provide robust flavor. It is a healthy bonus that they contain no refined sugar, and are gluten-free and dairy-free. Navitas Power Snacks and other Navitas products are available throughout North America including Whole Foods Markets, Wegmans and HEB, and at many online stores such as Amazon.com and NavitasNaturals.com.
In addition to the premium raw cacao powder and goji powder that Navitas are famous for, the Cacao Goji Power Snack features exotic organic superfoods from South America - maca, chia seeds, camu-camu and lucuma powder, as well as other wholesome raw foods such as date paste, raisins, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds. The Citrus Chia Power Snack contains organic maca, chia seeds, camu-camu and lucuma, as well as apricots, raisins, cashews and coconut flakes.
About Navitas Naturals - Quality, Integrity & Food Safety
Navitas Naturals' mission is to provide premium organic superfoods that increase energy and enhance health. Nutrient-rich whole foods are best when they are produced via organic agriculture and minimal processing methods. That's why all Navitas products are certified organic, and use methods such as freeze-drying to ensure maximum nutrition. Food safety is very important to Navitas Naturals, which is demonstrated by the rigorous third-party testing of their superfoods. Since its founding in 2003, Navitas Naturals has been committed to socially responsible business. Their direct purchasing partnerships expand fair trade opportunities for farmers around the world. www.navitasnaturals.com.
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By Richard Weizel
MILFORD, Connecticut (Reuters) - Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel, who has spent the past 11 years in prison for the 1975 murder of a teenage neighbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a step closer to being released on bail while awaiting a new trial.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Bishop, who two weeks ago overturned Skakel's 2002 murder conviction for bludgeoning to death Martha Moxley with a golf club, decided Wednesday to allow the 53-year-old nephew of slain U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy to make a case for his bail release.
Bishop said, however, the request had to be made in the criminal court that initially convicted him, a blow to Skakel's defense, which had hoped Bishop would set bail immediately at Wednesday's hearing.
Bishop's decision to lift the stay that had prevented Skakel from seeking bail earlier will take effect after 10 days to allow for challenges from prosecutors, who are already appealing Bishop's decision to overturn the conviction.
Bishop last month issued his 135-page decision overturning the conviction, saying Skakel had an inadequate defense at his trial and criticizing Skakel's former lawyer, Michael Sherman, for his "glaring ineffectiveness."
Skakel and Moxley were both 15 when she was beaten to death with a golf club and her body found on her parents' lawn. Skakel, who has maintained his innocence, was arrested in 2000 and was unsuccessful in his bid to be tried as a juvenile.
He appeared relaxed in court on Wednesday, smiling often and waving back to friends and relatives. He has served about half of a 20-years-to-life sentence.
Skakel's attorney Hubert Santos said during the hearing that Bishop's decision not to immediately set bail could cause the process to free Skakel to "drag on for an excessive period of time." Santos had argued in court papers that keeping Skakel behind bars violates his client's constitutional rights.
"A bond determination should be made by viewing the petitioner as an innocent defendant awaiting a possible re-trial and not as a guilty defendant," Santos said in court papers. He said his client is not a flight risk.
Prosecutors, however, have contended the judge cannot even consider granting bail while his decision to overturn Skakel's conviction and set a new trial is being appealed.
"In my 30 years as a prosecutor I have rarely seen evidence that includes multiple confessions by the defendant," Susan Gill, assistant state's attorney told the judge.
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For the wet jerk seasoning: To a blender, add the onion, garlic, ginger, thyme, Scotch bonnet, black pepper, brown sugar, salt, allspice, cayenne and 1 1/2 cups water. Blend well.
For the oxtails: Place the lima beans in a bowl and cover with enough water to soak; set aside.
Place the oxtails in large mixing bowl, add the wet jerk seasoning, and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or preferably overnight.
Heat the vegetable oil in a wide pot or skillet. As the oxtails and 3 cups water. Braise, uncovered, for approximately 1 hour, turning the oxtails often.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Transfer the oxtails to deep baking dish and cover with foil; reserve the pan juices in the braising pot. Bake for 1 hour, until very tender (see Cook's Note).
Meanwhile, place the braising pot over medium-low heat. Add the onion, carrot, browning sauce, soy sauce, tomato sauce and butter to the reserved pan juices. Drain and add the lima beans, and simmer for 30 minutes.
While the vegetables are simmering (and meat is still in the oven), make dumplings (spinners): In a small bowl, mix the flour with enough water to make a bread-like dough. With floured hands, shape the dough into small, oblong dumplings, about 2 inches long.
Add the dumplings to the pot. Then remove the oxtails from the oven and add to the pot, along with the bell pepper and scallion. Simmer until the dumplings are cooked through and the vegetables and lime beans are tender, another 30 minutes.
Check the oxtails for tenderness coming out of the oven; the smaller pieces actually take longer to cook.
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Recipe courtesy of Cool Runnings Jamaican Grill, Houston, TX
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Kristen Stewart Shops At Robert Pattinson's Favorite Guitar Store
Did she buy Rob a present? Kristen stopped by Norman's Rare Guitars — the same place she used to shop with ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson — on July 16, and HollywoodLife.com has all the exclusive details on her visit!
Kristen Stewart may still be suffering over her breakup with Robert Pattinson, but that doesn't mean she's avoiding their old hangouts — in fact, it seems to be just the opposite. Kristen's still a regular at Rob's favorite guitar shop, Norman's Rare Guitars, in Tarzana.
Kristen Stewart Guitar Shopping For Robert Pattinson? — Fan Pic
Kristen, 23, posed with a fan at the store on July 16, as she looked to be in good spirits.
A source at the star powered vintage guitar shop spoke exclusively to HollywoodLife.com about Kristen's most recent visit, and revealed that it was Rob who first brought her there.
"Rob was the one to introduce Kristen to our store. He came here a few years ago and bought some guitars and then he brought her and she's been shopping here ever since. He still shops here too, but they haven't come in together in a while. This time Kristen came in by herself. Usually, she comes in with friends or her dad, but today she was alone. She's always friendly, she was extremely quiet this time, and as far as we could tell she was in a good mood. Last year, she was here buying a vintage guitar for Robert and she brought four friends in with her to help her decide, but today she didn't have anyone with her."
So what exactly was Kristen doing at this guitar shop alone?
Kristen Stewart: Was She Buying Rob A Gift?
Kristen was having three of her guitars repaired! According to our source, she has a collection of vintage guitars and she can really play!
"Kristen was here to pick up three guitars that she was having repaired and adjusted, a Fender tellecaster, a Fender stratocaster and a Gibson melody maker – all really beautiful vintage guitars. I haven't heard her playing and singing. I've only heard her play when she's trying out a guitar or checking to see if it's tuned right, but she can definitely play and so can Robert. Kristen loves vintage guitars. She pops in here once in a while to check stuff out, but she doesn't always buy something. Robert even signed some guitars to help raise money for a charity we work with called the Midnight Mission. It's a charity that helps the homeless in downtown LA and Robert was happy to help out — it was so nice of him, he's just so great. They both are."
Rob, 27, and Kristen aren't the only celebrities that shop at Norman's Rare Guitars! "We have a lot of famous people that shop here, Dave Grohl, Bruno Mars, Tom Petty, Jeff Daniels, the list is endless," the source tells us.
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do you think Kristen should be visiting Rob's favorite places?
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- Kristen Stewart: How She's Coping With Not Seeing Robert Pattinson


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...a package then display them where I want on the ShowPackageDetails page. Files that will need to be modified in Modernbill: lib-themes/xpreloaded/app-modernbill-client/templates/packages/[se connecter pour voir l'URL] app-modernbill-client/include/lib-action/packages/[se connecter pour voir l'URL] Attributes that are trying to be recalled: I&...
I am looking for someone with previous ModernBill v5 development experience to develop a module to integrate with my existing VoIP Softswitch. The VoIP Softswitch has well defined web APIs. Also I need a module to be developed for ExtendASP control panel so we can do a billing in modern bill of Hosted Exchange accounts. In addition to the modules
I am looking for someone with previous ModernBill v5 development experience to develop a module to integrate with my existing VoIP Softswitch. The VoIP Softswitch has well defined web APIs. Also I need a module to be developed for ExtendASP control panel so we can do a billing in modern bill of Hosted Exchange accounts. In addition to the modules
I currently own a reseller hosting account. I would like to hire someone to create a website that will allow clients to signup for my webhosting/domain services via the web. This website should be complete to the point that I will not need to have any contact with clients, they are able to signup / pay / renew all services online. Products that will need to be configured / setup: *W...
Hello, I am looking for a programmer to construct a range of scripts using regex in PHP to parse HTML for information. If you know / have worked with modernbill 4.x this would be a major advantage.


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So, we've defined a basic container: It's a lightweight distributed app that runs on a compatible Linux OS. It's grown somewhat more confusing via the emergence of Docker, both as a company and an open-source project, which provides a management platform as well as a specific runtime and OS system for Linux containers.
But why are containers suddenly hot now? It's been interesting to watch how a somewhat mysterious and wonky technology such as containers developed slowly for more than decade, originating in the open source software community, and then suddenly took off.
From Solaris to Docker
Early versions of the container concept included FreeBSD Jails and Oracle Solaris "Zones." As mentioned, Google took major steps with container technology beginning around 2006 and developed Kubernetes. Docker was first introduced as an open source environment for building containerized microservices in 2013.
Perhaps the table was set for container technology with virtualization and cloud. Now that server virtualization has penetrated the market and many large companies are comfortable building applications in the cloud, container technology makes sense. Because containers are another form of virtualization, some IT experts are looking at the technology in cases in which it is more efficient than VMs – for example, it's more efficient to run many instances of software on a single OS.


text: We believe it is vital for children to understand how important our natural environment is and to know of Florida's deep history and past cultures. Florida State Parks offer excellent programs that every child can benefit from but many school districts are unable to pay the field trip transportation costs to bus the children to the parks.Yellow Buses in the Parks Project goal is, first, get these kids into the parks and, second, make sure the parks are equipped with microscopes, hand lenses, binoculars, etc. to ensure the children have a high quality and memorable learning experience.You can help by making a donation here. Be sure to specify Yellow Buses in the Parks Project. Thank you!To apply for a Yellow Buses in the Parks grant please contact Paula Russo, President, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Lily of the Valley--Bracket Winner!
August 21, 2013 | Michelle
Thank you to everyone who voted in our CYS Flower Bracket Game. Lily of the Valley was our big winner! Yea! If you want more information on our fragrant and beautiful winner, along with the many other flowers you can plant here in the mitten state, be sure to check out our gardening collection in both the children's and adult departments. Enjoy the rest of your summer and when you see a Lily of the Valley, think of us!


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eN.Blaze End Ap3x Streak
Thu, 29 May 2014, 10:49 am
by Jon Parsons, Do Gaming Journalist
Tags: Telkom, DGL, Do Gaming League, Winter Leg, Ghosts, PC, Call of Duty, Groups, Fixtures, Premier Division
In a nervy start to the 2014 Telkom Do Gaming League (DGL) Ghosts PC Winter Leg Premier Division, Summer Leg victors eN.Blaze scraped past a testing `uNk|Ap3x line-up, to bring an end to their remarkable undefeated streak.
The two teams met on Sunday, 25 May with Blaze managing their only win of the series, 13-10 on Tremor before back-to-back 12-12 draws on Warhawk and Octane respectively, condemned `uNk|Ap3x to their first loss in nine league matchups.
Team Immersion succumb to a difficult defeat
Sunday, 1 June
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If you've finally decided to part with that mould-prone shower curtain, then the 4 Panel Straight Folding Bath Screen from Infinity is a stylish choice.
It has a versatile, reversible design which allows you to fit it to either end of your bath. This screen will also fit corner, offset and straight baths. Once installed, it will transform your standard straight bath into a convenient shower bath.
Practical Folding Doors:
Folding Bath Screens are incredibly practical as each screen folds-in with a concertina effect, allowing it to be long when required, but discrete when not in use.
This will make entry and exit particularly easy, perfect for families with small children as bath time can often be difficult when faced with a fixed screen.
Strong Seals to Prevent Leaks:
This shower screen is practical as well as stylish, as it has continuous wiper bottom seal to prevent any unwanted water going through the hinge profile and leaking onto your floor.
Glass shower screens, therefore, offer a practical solution to the shower curtain which gave little protection against water spilling.
Suitable for Power Showers:
What's more, as it has a generous four separate screens which is operated by an inter-linking 360° cog assembly, it will be suitable for use with power showers and it will leave your bathroom floor free from water.
Fitting your Bath Screen:
This shower screen comes with a generous 10mm adjustment to help with out of true walls and has concealed fixings for a clean and tidy finish.
It comes complete with all the fittings to attach it to a solid wall but if you have the relevant fittings, you may also be able to attach it to a stud wall.
Made from 5mm toughened safety glass, and coming with a lifetime guarantee, this bath screen will be ideal for any family bathroom.


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Graffiti in Barcelona.
In Barcelona.
In an office in Madrid, Spain. I am afraid I work in an office too, at least its my onw office.
I just attended the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona for a couple of days. My hotel in the Barcelona old town (barrio gotico) was around the corner that spot.
Mallorca in winter is quite nice – especially for cycling. Still warm enough, only a few tourists and empty beaches.
We spent some time visiting friends in Barcelona where we came across this little fella.
Two friends talk in the tube in Barcelona. It's easy to see they are nice.
From 2004. Reminds me on this: Self Portrait 1969 by Francis Bacon
There are some street performers in Barcelona. This is a picture was taken at Las Ramblas in the most exciting city of the world.
This picture was taken in Barcelona, I had lots of furious comments in regards to their ethnic origin. They are Romani and are an ethnic group living mostly in Europe, who trace their origins to medieval India. The Romani are widely dispersed, with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe and Anatolia. Deported …
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New Year, New Stuff To Do
From tutoring to hockey, skiing to brew tours
If one New Year's resolution is to do more good deeds, get started by volunteering at 826 Boston, a center that helps kids learn to express themselves by writing. The nonprofit 826 has locations in other cities as well. A get-together on Tuesday, January 5, offers basic information about volunteering, and if you like what you hear about anything from tutoring to helping on the Web site, you can stay for an hourlong training session.
826 Boston is at 3035 Washington St., Roxbury. The information session on January 5 begins at 5:30 p.m. Directions are available here; the center is accessible by MBTA: Orange Line to either Jackson Square or Stony Brook.
Unless you live in an off-campus cave, you're aware of the BU v. BC Hockey Game at Fenway Park on Friday, January 8. Tickets are long gone, but you can attend the official watch party at Tequila Rain, right across the street from Fenway; $10 gets you admission to Tequila Rain, a free drink, appetizers, and a souvenir. And then, who knows, you might get lucky and bump into someone with an extra ticket.
Tequila Rain is at 145 Ipswich St., Boston. The event begins at 5:30; you can RSVP here. Preregistration for the 21-plus event is required.
Next New Year's resolution: exercise more. So go skiing! Ski Market offers bus trips to some of the best mountains in New England. On Sunday, January 10, it's organized a trip to Sugarbush in Vermont. Tickets are $79 for the roundtrip bus ride and lift ticket.
The bus leaves at 5:30 a.m. from Ski Market, 808 Commonwealth Ave., and reservations are recommended. To make reservations, call 617-731-6100 and have a valid credit card ready.
A German law in 1516 required that beer have only four ingredients: water, yeast, malt, and hops. The more complex beers of today (Dogfish's 90 Minute IPA, anyone?) may add some additional items, but the basics haven't changed. To find out more, go on a brewery tour at Samuel Adams Brewery or Harpoon Brewery. Both offer daily tours and tastings, and while visitors don't have to be over 21 to attend, they must be 21 to take part in the best part of all: sampling the product.
The Samuel Adams Brewery is located at 30 Germania St., Jamaica Plain. More information and directions are available here or call 617-368-5256. By MBTA, take the Orange Line to the Stony Brook station. Harpoon Brewery is at 306 Northern Ave., Boston. Information and directions are available here. By MBTA, take the Silver Line bus to the Harbor Street stop.
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Smaller parcels like this are in demand and this property is ready to make your own. There is electric on sight as well as a Mound Septic System rated for a 3-bedroom home and a drilled well. An older 70'x14' mobile home is on sight and would make a great hunting get away or make this property your own and build a hobby farm on it, raise some...31.31 Acres : $84,900
Hunting Or Hobby Farm Property
Neillsville : Clark County : WI
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Résumé? Check. Cover letter? Check. Now you're ready to begin that job search, right? Wrong. There may be some very important things you're forgetting about that could dramatically enhance your job search.
Brand consistency: Make sure your profile is professional and reflects the job you're looking for across all social media platforms. Ensure your privacy settings are secure (especially on Facebook). On LinkedIn, make sure your profile is complete including skills and recommendations. On Twitter, link to your website, blog or online resume. And don't forget Pinterest, YouTube, Google+ and Foursquare.
Know your audience: Your audience in Facebook is different from your audience in Twitter or LinkedIn. Make sure your updates reflect that. On LinkedIn, share articles and blogs on industry-related topics. On Facebook, post more personal (but not too detailed) updates to remind your friends that you're in the job market.
Be proactive: Use social media to connect with recruiters, employers and employees of companies you'd like to work for. Join < and participate in < organizations, groups and blogs in your industry or alumni groups. Become an industry expert or thought leader.
Research: Use social media to create your target list of companies, then research those companies and their employees. Use hashtags on Twitter to find jobs.
Network online: Expand your network and engage others with similar interests by posting, sharing/forwarding, tweeting and retweeting relevant articles and blogs. This raises your online profile, and encourages others to do the same for you. Twitter works well for this.
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-* Know your online profile. Google yourself and make sure what you see is what you want it to be. Go to Klout.com so you can see your Œklout' score, which reports how influential and engaged you are across platforms. Another great site is wefollow.com, a Twitter directory organized by shared interests or categories. Users can add themselves to the categories that best fit their interests.
Today, employers use LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other social media to identify, recruit and check out new employees. The Internet has helped level the job search playing field by offering access to resources that enable you to identify and prepare for career opportunities. But it's also offered employers access to more talented job candidates. A smart social media strategy can help you stand out and land the job you seek
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From the dark edges of the 'galaxy of different'(April 24, 2016)
It has long been said that 'new is easy different is difficult', it's certainly a favourite phrase of mine and I've used it here on more than one occasion. Now however, an increasing number of artists, facing the difficulties of 'different' have decided to go for just plain weird rather than different. In my humble opinion, different doesn't mean coming at your music from a point so 'left field' that people are either completely bemused or feel compelled to hail it as a work of genius for fear of being regarded as slightly dim. Perhaps similar overtones here of a large amount of so-called visual art, which is patently weird for the sake of weird, while critics applaud because they dare not do otherwise.
Naturally, there are always those artists that appear to come from the dark edges of the 'galaxy of different', and do 'different' superbly well – love it or hate it there's a line between acceptance and derision that includes, "Not for me but I can appreciate what you're driving at." For example, some avant-garde jazz and ultra-progressive rock touches me not one jot but I can see where artists are coming from, while other examples appear to me to be nothing more than sheets of noise. That said, some artists leap into something so entirely bizarre that most people find it hard to even relate or attempt to grasp at a straw of understanding.
Folk in all its facets is not immune from this strangeness. We see an increasing tide of music with the 'folk' word added that could easily have any other noun you might choose coupled to it. Different as a goal can be a dangerous quest when you simply don't have it in your musical soul to be different. The scope of too many of these abortive attempts to be 'different' either generate something that sounds like a drunken mates singing out of tune in a session, which should never have found its way onto a recording, or doom-laden pastoral mutterings more akin to the ramblings of the inebriated, or something bearing a startling resemblance to heated piano wire struck with lead pipe while roasted cats are slowly strangled.
Now, before you blow a min fuse, let me con firm that I understand 'expression' and should you choose to inflict such parodies of expression on the world, that's entirely your prerogative. However, should your perceived 'magnum opus' receive a poor review or indeed no review, please don't send me an electric snot-o-gram demanding to know why my mind is 'a closed vessel' and berating this site as 'pandering to the middle road'. Neither is true.


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Justin Obriecht thought he had it all.
"I had a good life," said Obriecht recently at Hope Covenant Church. "I had enough money, I didn't have a lot of stress. Things were really good for me as an atheist."
Starting with his first restaurant opening in Tinley Park in 2001, Obriecht went on to open Culver's locations in Orland Park, Tinley Park, Frankfort, Homewood and Matteson. But he later found something was missing.


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Chris Christie's no-bid "Sandy" contract
State Senator Barbara Buono, Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey, exposed GOP Governor Chris "Hurricane Sandy" Christie for rewarding a lucrative no-bid contract to AshBritt whose lobbyist, former GOP Mississippi Governor Hayley Barbour, privately influenced Christie to award the contract in exchange for a fundraiser and donations to the Republican Governors Association.
At hearings investigating the contracts Senator Buono got AshBritt's CEO to admit that other contractors could have done the same job for less money, and then the CEO launched a personal attack against the Senator by implying she was biased because she's running for Governor against Christie. Later he had to apologize for his lack of temper and proper decorum at the hearing.


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If You're In a Clothing Jam...
From lost luggage to last-minute invite, these shops can solve any fashion emergency.
You may not find any bargains north of the border -- clothing prices are close to par with the U.S. -- but there's no shortage of stylish designer duds. Hop into any cab and say one word: Yorkville. Bloor Street West between Avenue Road and Yonge Street in Toronto's Yorkville shopping district is the "Mink Mile," lined with such stores as Gucci, Prada and Chanel. And, if you're looking for more, check out these hotspots:
50 Bloor Street West // 416-922-2333
A perfect destination to find a showstopper for TIFF's opening gala or an emergency pair of Jimmy Choos, this upscale department store is Canada's answer to Barneys New York. It showcases such top labels as Armani, Hugo Boss and Marchesa and offers a complimentary personal-shopping service.
87 Avenue Road // 416-975-1810
This young and hip two-level boutique in Yorkville's Hazelton Lanes has attracted the likes of Robert Pattinson and Jessica Biel. It offers on-trend separates such as Balmain blazers and Helmut Lang skinny pants that transition seamlessly from daytime press conferences and photocalls to studio dinners.
62 Bathurst St. // 416-260-9696
Across from festival hotspot The Thompson Hotel, this men's boutique stocks sharply tailored suits by Ted Baker and Tiger of Sweden ($810 to $1,010 USD) plus Italian lace-ups and pocket squares. After shopping, you can unwind with a one-hour hot-towel shave ($65 USD) inside the store's barbershop, where an antique butcher table doubles as the wash counter. Another perk: Alterations are fast. Says marketing manager Charlotte Jenkins, "If you're late for an event, hems can be done on the spot."
585 Queen Street West // 416-361-6342
Recently catching the eye of Sarah Jessica Parker, this Canadian brand is synonymous with cheap and chic. Pop into Toronto's flagship store located on the trendy strip of Queen Street West for layering basics if you get chilly between screenings. -- KATE FRANK


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Michigan went to its bench to take a 36-25 halftime lead on Syracuse in the Final Four.
The Wolverines got 16 points from its non-starters, including four three-pointers. Michael Albrecht and Caris LeVert each had two, as Michigan fired away over the Orange's tight 2-3 zone.
Point guard Trey Burke, who has collected several national player of the year honors at the Final Four, had only three, but the bucket was a dagger: a deep three-pointer from about the spot he delivered overtime in the Wolverines' Sweet 16 victory over Kansas.
The shot provided the halftime margin and was Michigan's largest lead of the half.
Michigan had steamrolled some of the college game's best defenses during the NCAA Tournament, and it succeeded against the team that's on record pace for scoring defense in the tournament with opponents about 46 points.
But with Burke getting Michigan into its half-court sets, shooters knocking down jumpers and the Wolverines able to get the ball at the rim, the offense flowed.
Mitch McGary, who has become a force throughout the NCAA Tournament, had six points and seven rebounds.
C.J. Fair was the Syracuse's early spark with nine first-half points. But he was getting little help. Point guard Michael Carter-Williams had two points and one assist.


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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, David Dorward wrote: > On 20 Apr 2004, at 15:32, Martin Salo wrote: > > What do you think about an idea to develop a validator that validates > > whole sites, not only pages. It could search for links in pages and > > when a link is in the same domain (a subsection of the page) it > > validates it. It should be limited (to about 200 pages or so) to avoid > > abuse. > > Such a validator already exists, > <http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/>, although its limit is 50 > pages (a fact which, last week, led me to finally getting around to > setting up the w3c validator locally). I just raised the limit to 100 pages. (We recently moved to a new host with cheaper bandwidth, so I was planning on raising the limit soon.) > I have some concerns about the load this would cause on the w3c server; > it has a rather higher profile then the WDG. What is the load > (bandwidth / CPU) like at present (assuming there are no issues with > making that information public)? The load depends a lot on the server that handles it. On our old, underpowered server, we had trouble with badly-behaved robots overloading the server with too many CGI requests (sometimes involving the Validator, but often other parts of the site as well). I've changed the limit on number of pages a few times in the past, but the reason for lowering the limit was always to compensate for the extra bandwidth needed to handle Microsoft mass-mailing worms at our mail server. -- Liam QuinnReceived on Tuesday, 20 April 2004 14:35:42 UTC
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