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Advanced persistent threats (APTs) can remain undetected for several months and cause severe reputational and financial losses to large organizations. Similarly, many times threat actors exploit zero-day vulnerabilities to craft sophisticated attacks. However, all such attacks eventually need access to local files and data. That's where SolarWinds Security Event Manager comes in.
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With numerous cyber assets distributed across several sub-stations, central monitoring becomes a complex challenge.
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Ensuring cloud computing performance on data communications networks Part 3
In this, the third and final installment of the series, the authors highlight some of the issues related to cloud computing performance and some of the work being done to resolve these issues.
In our first two installments of this cloud computing series, we explained how software designers and network architects can use the concept of reference points (RPs) to better understand cloud communications infrastructure (see Part 1) and discussed the challenges of delivering cloud services (see Part 2). In this, the third and final installment of the series, we will highlight some of the issues related to cloud computing performance and some of the work being done to resolve these issues.
Geographically, the communication across the reference points inside or outside the cloud may happen inside a single collocated data center or between data centers across the WAN links. This latter scenario presents the challenge of providing high bandwidth between data center locations; solving this challenge can be expensive.
There are several common communication characteristics for reference points within the cloud. First, communication happens in "service transaction" units that are not associated with the client anymore; therefore, user/client identification is lost. At the same time, requirements for various service transactions may be different. Some service transactions will have real-time characteristics, for example, reading accesses to a database. Other transactions may be non-real-time, like lazy writes from database cache to database storage. The performance of still others may be significantly delayed for low-traffic times, like replications of data to remote servers.
From a quality-of-service (QoS) perspective, communication between reference points is characterized by very high speed and high volume of information exchange, since all services are centralized and running in the same cloud network. The traffic on the link that is used to communicate between two data centers may be separated into several priority classes based on its delay guarantee requirements. Protocols should also provide reliable data delivery with network-based flow control. On the links that are shared by multiple cloud operators and provide communication pipes between multiple data centers, "per-virtual-pipe" guarantees and isolation protocols should be established, while still maintaining priorities within each pipe.
The right protocol for the job
Communication issues within the data center are being addressed by the IEEE 802.1 DCB (Data Center Bridging) initiative, which extends standard Ethernet with several features that partially address the requirements we describe. In particular, DCB adds per-priority, link-level flow control; explicit congestion notification; assignment of bandwidth limit for each traffic priority; and a common protocol through which to exchange those capabilities in the network.
Another significant trend in data center communication today is the consolidation of all communication into pure Layer 2 Ethernet. The result eliminates IP routing, Fibre Channel, and other technologies and confines everything to Ethernet switching. The practical consequence of this consolidation is the SAN is based on the same Ethernet switching technology as the rest of the cloud network. Therefore, some of the distance/latency issues associated with long-distance SAN transmissions are eliminated. In addition, it means that QoS configurations and bandwidth profiles can be consistent network-wide from end to end.
The sophisticated mechanisms for Ethernet link-level multi-priority backpressure and endpoint flow-control congestion notifications are important. They provide efficient and reliable high-speed communication within the cloud and mitigate some of the issues of transport-level protocols like TCP.
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) addresses problems of intra-cloud communication as well. It has defined methods for organizations to build Ethernet virtual circuits (EVCs) with high-capacity pipes and defined rates, while preserving priority handling of traffic within those pipes. It is also important that the MEF service definitions confine all communication to Layer 2 networks. As a result, the endpoint IP addresses may belong to a single large IP network, within which an IP address may be migrated without change from any point to any other network port.
Reference points for the cloud
Applying industry-standard techniques to the reference points we have described in this series can assure cloud network designers and application developers of robust application performance for future cloud network projects.
The reference points are relevant for the new work being done on cloud communications protocols in the IEEE and specifications at the MEF. As cloud networks grow, new separations will occur between and among cloud elements. New cloud elements will arise. New and specialized APIs to connect cloud elements will be developed. These new elements will be integrated into telecommunications networks and Web applications.
However, there is already sufficient bandwidth and there are adequate traffic management techniques to ensure the continued growth of cloud networks. Looking out a few years, it is easy to imagine a time when cloud services become indispensable to business operations and to people's daily lives.
Mannix O'Connor is director of technical marketing at MRV Communications. He was chair of the Access Working Group for the MEF and founding secretary of the IEEE 802.17 Working Group. Mannix is a coauthor of the recent book Delivering Carrier Ethernet, published by McGraw-Hill.
Vladimir Bronstein is an independent consultant and has more than 20 years' experience in telecom and data networking as a systems architect and director of software engineering. His experience encompasses broadband access, optical networking, and wireline and wireless networking as well as cable technologies. He has several patents pending for his networking innovations and has participated in industry standardization activities.


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MYSTORY HAS BEEN REBOOTED! After three years of hiatus i'm finally to try and finish what I started. I've lost alot of sprites over the years so if you if you still want a part than give me your sprites and i'll see what I can do. If you are already in the comic i'd still like your sprites cause I might have lost them. I'll upgrade your character if you have improved him. Cheers. PS. It's official, I lost the contest to Shard. 728 fans...What the fuck...
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Reply jacob the comicmaker, September 11th, 2012, 2:52 pm
Mystory reboot BEGIN!!
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Reply Inferno, September 11th, 2012, 2:59 pm
Wow I looked terrible back then.
Reply jacob the comicmaker, September 11th, 2012, 3:03 pm
i'll accept updates to characters.
Reply Jacob (Guest), September 11th, 2012, 9:11 pm
Is that Goon? I had no idea who that was.
Reply btownboi, September 12th, 2012, 9:03 am
lol The Goon in my avi isn't even Goon I was gone for like two years and don't feel like changing my avi -_____-
Reply jacob the comicmaker, September 12th, 2012, 11:27 am
I actually don't have access to those sprites ( They were some of the lost ones.) If you still have them could you send them to me?
Reply Inferno, September 12th, 2012, 1:16 pm
The Funny thing is that Inferno has been changed so much that the closest version to the one in the comic still would require a different personality.
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h&m dress, lf stores hat, xxi shoes, urban outfitters bag, hk tights
My girlfriend Maria is having her civil wedding tomorrow and the big shabang will take place in the Philippines next year in April. I'll be wearing a similar dress like this only without the tights to cover my bug bite bruises from last month (I can't believe they've lasted this long). Anyway, another velvet piece I like. I actually wore this to the Sara Bareilles concert a few weekends ago. I seriously want to freeze time-- it is slipping by way too fast! On the upside, I am very excited for a gazillion things in the near future, mañana to start with-- can't wait!!


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Thanks for the information on mae sai...By the way....which area of land is available for leasing or for that matter available for purchase? What is the price for a land about half the size of a basketball court? Seriously thinking of relocating to this part of the world in another 10 years time.
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Sinosteel has two metallurgical machinery manufacturing plants, with an annual capacity of 38,000 MT of cast and forged parts, 20,000 MT of structures and equipments. Most of the equipments and spare parts used in steel mills can be produced in these two plants.
Manufacturing plants:
1. Sinosteel Xi'an Machinery Co., Ltd.
2. Sinosteel Hengyang Machinery Co., Ltd.
Main products:
Mining Equipments
1. Blast-hole-drill series
2. Electric shovel series
3. Underground trackless equipment series
4. Crusher series
5. Ball mill series
6. Magnetic separator & dewatering equipment
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1. Blast furnace bell-less top charger
2. Hydraulic clay gun
3. Cover carriage
4. Taphole opening machine
5. Industrial rotary kiln series
6. Sintering machine series
7. Coke dry quenching facility(CDQ)
Steelmaking and Refining Equipment
1. Steelmaking equipment
2. Ladle whole casting equipment
Scrap Processing Equipments
1. Hydraulic pressure cutting machine for steel scraps
2. Hydraulic pressure scrap balling machine
Continuous Casting Equipments
1. Continuous casting machine series
2. Drying installation of continuous casting middle can
3. Preheating installation of continuous casting middle can
4. Electromagnetic mixing machine for continuous casting
Rolling Equipments
1. Rolling mill series
2. Sheet strip and post-processing equipments
3. Continuous bar and wire rolling mill
4. Decoiler & coiler series
Other Equipments
1. Ventilation equipment and filter
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USPTO Finally Gets a Director
The New York Times reports that the U.S. Senate voted this week to confirm Michelle K. Lee as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Prior to her confirmation, Lee served as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO, and has been the acting director of the USPTO during the position's vacancy for the past two years. In her new capacity, Lee is expected to oversee reforms at the agency, most specifically to address the significant backlog of unexamined patent applications, which currently number more than 600,000. Read the full article here. Reposted from The New York Times.


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We've upgraded ScotBlogs to WordPress 2.9.2! Along with some of the other new features available, one that we are most excited about is the 'Trash' feature, which now shows its status for posts, pages, and comments (and includes restore and permanent delete).
In previous versions, WordPress would open the 'View your new post' page in the same window as the administrative panel, which would force users to either 'back up' through the browser or login again through the wp-admin page. Now, View/Preview post opens in a new window from the link in the Saved/Updated message.
For users who have used the plugin "WP Sticky Post" – the sticky feature is now embedded in WordPress without using the plugin, which is why it has been removed from our Plugin offerings. In the publish box to the right of your content window, click the "Edit" button next to "Visibility" and you will see the checkbox for "Stick this post to the front page". Just check it off and hit "Publish" when you are done writing your post, and it will stay at the top of your page regardless of how many posts you create after it.
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Early in the movie, GoodFellas, Ray Liotta's character is a teenage boy working for the neighborhood "wiseguys" or members of the Mafia. When he is arrested for the first time he is greeted as a conquering hero by all the older "made" wiseguys after he walks out of the courtroom. These powerful, rich men now consider him worthy of being a man. He is given money, cheered on, and welcomed to the club of men by older men he idolizes. He is given confidential advice that now makes him an insider of their club. They were very effectively teaching him the value system (good or bad) of their "tribe."
This is what all young men yearn for. The club of men that welcome him can determine the destiny of a man's life. We see it with young men in gangs of all kinds. They yearn for the acceptance, validation, and even affection of a group of older males to teach them how a man lives his life. If those men are good men, he prospers, as does society. If they themselves do not know how a man successfully lives life then the boy and everyone around him suffers.
One of the things men do is they know stuff. They know how to do things and how the world works. They learn from their experiences and from trial and error. Our ministry once held a retreat at a ranch with a big stone fireplace in the great room. One of the young men from the city was asked to light a fire in the fireplace. I noticed he was struggling and casually gave him a few tips on how to start a fire. Soon he had a majestic fire roaring in the fireplace. As people came along and complimented him on his great fire, he was quick to say, "Rick taught me how!" It was as if he was so grateful and proud that a man had taught him something handy that he couldn't wait to let everyone know. That experience built his confidence because he knows he can start a fire if he needs to. Seems like a small thing doesn't it? But being capable is important to our self-esteem as men and boys. If no one shows us how to do something how can we ever learn to be capable? And if we do not feel capable how can we feel good about our manhood?
When boys are brought up to feel that way about themselves they have a much better chance of succeeding at life. When they have men come alongside them and teach them how to succeed in life, they do not have to suffer through the trials of failing which lead to frustration, anger, and often quitting on life.
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The Master Gardeners will be having a gardening workshop at Vacaville Cultural Center Library on Thursday, March 21 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The topic for this month is kokedama. Learn all about "kokedama," the Japanese art of growing plants in a moss-covered ball of soil from Solano Master Gardeners. Individuals of all skill levels in gardening are welcome to attend.
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A few Belated Birthday Pics
I invited a few besties over for tea and homemade cake. And I asked each person to bring a flower or green from their garden for a Friend Bouquet.
Perfect gathering, lovely day, memorable birthday. Virgo Am I.
Due to forking arthritis, and after much research, I put myself on a whole foods plant based diet for its anti-inflammatory benefits. I honestly do enjoy eating this way (I'm about 95% on it) though it takes a bit of work to prep so many veggies ahead of time. Learning to roast trays of veggies a few days ahead. And giving up coffee and wine was not my idea of "living well." But this beauty of a cake was made from the following recipe, from the kitchen of the brilliant Gaz Oakley. I drool over his youtubes. Once you see his finished dessert you won't think mine so pretty! LOL.
And, 6 weeks in (second go round on this anti inflammatory lifestyle) I AM feeling better, significantly so. So I am keeping at it.....
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Capricorn Dec. 22nd - Jan 19th Hey there Capricorns this week the divine is speaking to remind you when you feel as though your entangled in a wearisome situation, meditate to center yourself and seek inner guidance. Re-align yourself with your hearts true desires. There are great rewards, great abundance, and focus ahead for you bringing you comfort, and a new discipline to achieve self-sufficient goals within.
Aquarius Jan 20th – Feb 18th Hey there Aquarius this week the divine is speaking to remind you if things feel off track, take a step back and analyze the situation. Figure out whether a new approach needs to be taken. You will only delay yourself aimlessly and that will only bring overwhelming energy. Be open to all options which bring positive results and new direction for planning your future with a loose focus, always remembering that you can't control any situation which therefore brings an abundance of manifesting ideas along with reaping the rewards.
Pisces Feb 19th – Mar 20th Hey there Pisces this week the divine is speaking to you to remind you and encourages you to embrace your inner happiness, and to share in the celebration with loved ones. Go out and enjoy the company of those you care about, and look forward to many good times ahead filled with pleasures and joys. It's a good week to feel emotionally stable and allow joy, harmony, and blessings from others. Except the outreach from others and be grateful that everyone around you is assisting in helping your dreams come true.
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Scorpio Oct 23rd – Nov 21st Hey there Scorpio this week the divine is speaking to you to remind you take a moment to be filled with the spirit of love and serenity. Be receptive to the timelessness of the soul, move at your own pace that is just right for you. It's ok to say not today to allow you to stay on your path. This week celebrate the creative source within using the elements of both earth and water to create a balanced flow energy in your life. This will bring blessings and allow you to guide and trust your inner visions a little more and more. Tune into your internal feelings and be open to the bounty of emotions within, as these will feed your sense of self-expression.
Sagittarius Nov 22nd – Dec 21st Hey there Sagittarius this week the divine is speaking to remind you that you are a channeler of love, your heart holds a well of deep wisdom. You move through life with the gift of your inner voice to keep balanced in the ebb and flow of emotions. You are a natural healer, and thrive in harmony and peace. Approach all situations this week in a diplomatic manner. It is your nature to care for those around you and intuitively know when someone needs comfort. Love drives your actions. Joy and pleasure are yours for the taking, just as it is for the giving. Submerge into the waters of emotional integrity, and let yourself feel deeply. Feelings born from the pure essence of the heart bring life to yourself and others. Emotional security, peace, compassions and happiness is all here for you this week.
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California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Sues Huntington Park to Keep Its Traffic Problem
On October 18, 2016, the Huntington Park (Los Angeles) City Council voted 4 to 1 to enact a moratorium on establishing new charter schools in its 3-square-mile jurisdiction. The tiny area is already home to 30 schools (12 charters); so many schools in the limited area are posing problems for Huntington Park, including traffic congestion.
Note that it isn't the number of traditional public schools that is expanding; it's the number of charter schools.
Note also that 30 schools in 3 square miles equals an average of ten schools in a single square mile.
The Huntington Park city council's decision to put the establishment of future charter schools on hold for a year was met with displeasure by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA).
So, it should come as little surprise that on November 01, 2016, CCSA decided to sue Huntington Park in an attempt to prevent the moratorium.
Interestingly, the CCSA's central argument is that CCSA provided "unrefuted expert evidence demonstrating that the moratorium would displace charter school development, along with their resulting 'vehicle circulation, parking, and noise'… to neighboring communities.
In other words, CCSA wants California's Superior Court to tell Huntington Park that it will just have to put up with as much traffic and noise as can be packed within its 3-square-mile boundary via the establishment of as many charter schools as CCSA cares to push onto Huntington Park.
CCSA maintains that "CCSA and its member schools are harmed and will continue to suffer injury unless and until this Court grants the requested relief." However, Huntington Park is not shutting down existing charter schools, only putting a year-long hold on establishing new ones. Therefore, no CCSA schools are harmed. On the contrary, existing schools (both charter and traditional public) could be spared the problems of increased traffic congestion from the opening of more than the existing 30 schools within Huntington Park's 3-square-mile area.
CCSA purports that 662 students are on charter school waitlists, and it seems to purport that the waitlist proves that more charters are in order in Huntington Park. However, there is no such animal as a traditional public school waitlist to which to compare the oft-touted charter waitlist; if a student leaves a charter school, that student is immediately admitted into a public school. So, any mention of waitlist should be accompanied by numbers of students exiting the charters to return to traditional public schools.
And CCSA should offer evidence that its waitlist includes no duplicate names or names of students later enrolled, or even that those on the waitlist really care about getting accepted.
CCSA includes percentages of traditional public school enrollment decline (13.8 percent) and charter school enrollment (27.1 percent) over the last five years. However, actual student counts would tell a clearer story, as would actual counts of students who leave the charter schools midyear in order to return to traditional public schools– and details regarding which school gets that "one less dollar allocated to the school district" (as the suit notes) when students leave charters and return to district-run schools.
CCSA tries to paint Huntington Park as "succumb[ing] to such anti-charter school sentiment and political pressure in this election year" in voting on its charter school moratorium. But the reality is that having 30 schools within 3 square miles is ridiculous, and it isn't the district that is currently starting new schools.
Indeed, the suit notes that the district schools suffer from overcrowding and therefore calls the city council's charter school moratorium "inconsistent." However, the city council wants a year to consider a course of action without continuing to open new schools to further crowd its jurisdiction. If so many separate schools were not already in operation in Huntington Park, there would be potentially more room to expand existing schools more efficiently (fewer, larger schools, possibly) and to more efficiently manage traffic. Furthermore, the overcrowding in district schools is likely exacerbated by the limiting effects of funding lost to mushrooming charter schools.
Despite CCSA's crying "anti-charter sentiment," charter school proliferation has an obvious down side: It is inefficient.
According to publicschoolreview.com, Huntington Park has 18,793 students in its 30 schools (both district and charter). Of that number, 3,781 students (20 percent) are enrolled in 11 charter schools (one charter has no enrollment). The remaining 15,012 (80 percent) are enrolled in the 18 district schools.
Even if the charter school waitlist of 662 students is accurate, it only represents 4 percent of the students enrolled in the 18 district schools.
However, given that the charter schools enroll on average 344 students per school (3,781/11) and the district schools, an average of 834 students per school (15,012/18), it takes 2.5 charter schools on average to educate the same number of students as are educated in one district school– which contributes to an absurd number of schools already in such a small city.
But CCSA wants the right to expand that absurd number within Huntington Park based on the argument that Huntington Park has no right to sweep its charter school proliferation problems into neighboring jurisdictions.
California charter school expansion is an equal opportunity burden– so saith CCSA. Still, it is not a given that the Huntington Park moratorium will "force" future charter schools to open in neighboring jurisdictions. Also, the current lawsuit has not been filed by a neighboring jurisdiction, instead being filed by an entity that operates outside of the authority of any local jurisdiction and without the authority to do so on behalf of any local jurisdiction.
The reality is that CCSA needs to kill this local-charter-school-moratorium idea or other California city councils might follow suit with such corporate-reform-threatening, local-control actions.
Local action is bad for privatization. CCSA knows as much.
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Another wrinkle to this: I was at the hearing held to debate the imposition of the moratorium.'
Citizen after citizen from Huntington Park — none of them teachers or teacher union members, none of them people who have "no dog in the whole fight" against school privatization and charter school proliferaion — were irate and vocal in their support of the moratorium. "I really don't care one way or the other about teacher, or their unions, or charter schools or public schools, or whatever kind of schoools," one of them said.
In loud, booming tones that resonated around the City Council chambers, these H.P citizens expressed their outrage that these charter schools were mostly educating children who lived outside — some of them FAR outside— the city boundaries of Huntington Park. Indeed, some of those school had student bodies where the majority, or vast majority of those charter schools' students were from Los Angeles, Bell, Walnut Park, Vernon, Commerce, Maywood, Bell Gardens, Compton, etc.
These citizen of H.P. were upset that the city's geographic land space, and Huntington Park's municipal treasury (the money that they pay in taxes) was being used up taking on the heavy and accompanying burdens — and those other cities and their citizens were being spared all those burdens — of educating so many citizens from these other cities. These burdens included increased traffic, a drain on Huntington Park's resources, and an overall barrier to expand businesses of all kinds (retail, etc.), or the ability to develop green spaces for parks.
They said enough is enough. "Our city's land space is being devoured. and our city's treasury is being bled dry to pay the costs associated with these schools' being located in H.P. Against our will and with ZERO input from us, we citizens of H.P. are being forced to take on the financial and practical burdens that accompany having these schools within our city's boundaries." The charter school companies were taking advantage of, and capitalizing on the fact that there were, as yet, no limits to how much Huntington Park land space, city funds, and other resources they could exploit for their own ends, and at the expense of the citizens whose hard-earned tax money was being milked in the process. Hence, the moratorium was not just appropriate, but long overdue.
… and the room erupted in applause.
Therefore, to frame this as — or exclusively as — a charter school fight is not accurate in the least.
Agree jack..this same community unrest over gentrification and the spending of local taxation for outside interests is rampant in LA and particularly in Highland Park and Boyle Heights which have majority Latino populations.
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Great report and supplements from Jack and Ellen.


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Day 82/365 - On My Why
I'm a pharmacist-turned-herbalist (still in training). People often ask me why I'm choosing to convert from the allopathic Western model of medicine to study more traditional healing modalities. Well, several reasons come to mind.
While studying to become doctor of pharmacy, a seemingly prestigious and lucrative degree, I prided myself by thinking I would play a role in improving the health of my patients, my community and family. But when I started practicing in a local community retail pharmacy, I realized that the whole 'medical' system was flawed. It wasn't about making people healthy, it was about trying to 'treat' disease, and more often than not, only symptomatically. It really became clear to me that we are in a disease-centered model of care, rather than health-centered. Moreover, there wasn't a focus on root-cause of illness nor 'curing' it; rather it was just about keeping symptoms at bay.
Worst of all, I felt powerless in my role as a pharmacist. My suggestions to patients were severely limited by doctors' orders (i.e. Prescriptions) and insurance coverage. I would have an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach for every bag with overflowing medicine bottles that I dispensed to the patient, feeling helpless in a sea of polypharmacy (multiple medications, even for side effects of other medications). I didn't have sufficient time to counsel patients properly on their medications, let alone diet and lifestyle habits, which was my passion.
*To be continued…(on next post)*


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March 10 - Send More Mail, Letter Writing Social
March 10 - Send More Mail, Letter Writing Social
Saturday, March 10 - 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Calling all lovers of snail mail and letter writing! As we find ourselves in a fast-moving age of technology, emails and texts are instant and a handwritten letter is becoming a lost art, we want to be a community where letter writing is not only kept sacred but shared and celebrated amongst like minded individuals. Here at oh, hello friend, we are big advocates of snail mail and sending a handwritten letter! Join us for a morning of letters and snail mail as we purposefully set aside time to write and send cards and letters to loved ones. We'll have a wide selection of letter writing supplies (rubber stamps, wax seal stamps, labels, stickers, tape, and lots more!) that you can use on your letters.
Your ticket will also include fun letter writing supplies. You will go home with your own wax seal stamp + wax, pens, sticker sheets, OHF greeting cards + envelopes, postage stamps to mail off your cards, and some other fun goodies! We can only host 15 spots so space is limited, don't miss this fun letter writing event!


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Campus Resources
Quick Links
Safety and Security
Safety and Security
Oregon Episcopal School is dedicated to maintaining a safe and secure environment for all students, employees, and campus visitors.
The following list describes the major safety programs in place at the school.
- The OES Safety Coordinator monitors health and safety issues throughout the school, making recommendations, as appropriate, to the Head of School and the Administrative Team. The Coordinator also prepares an annual summary of accidents and incidents at the school.
- Most employees have first aid certification and receive CPR training. An administrator is on 24-hour call at all times during the school year.
- Administrators meet regularly to create, practice, and evaluate simulated emergency situations.
- An OES Emergency Procedures Guide is available in every office and classroom, and serves to guide employees in their response to a wide range of emergencies.
- Fire, earthquake, and lock-out drills are conducted regularly throughout the school year.
- OES supplies first aid kits on all trips, and first aid kits and Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are kept in convenient locations throughout the campus.
- Emergency communication and early closure information can also be found in the OES Directory.
Phone numbers for school offices can be found on the Contact Us page. The number for the main school switchboard is 503-246-7771. If you have an emergency need to contact a school administrator after hours, please call the School's answering service at 503-499-5880.
Documents & Forms
All School
General Documents
Forms for All Students
- Allergy Information Form and Action Plan (if applicable)
- Asthma Action Plan Form (if applicable)
- Grandparent Contact Information
- Oregon Certificate of Immunization Status (for all new students & all Kindergarten students)
- Oregon Immunization Requirements (for all new students & all Kindergarten students)
- Student Physical Report (Grade PK - 6) (all new students & rising Kindergarten students)
- Student Physical Report (Grades 7-12) (all new students & rising students to grades 7, 9, and 11)
- Instrument Liability Agreement
Lower School
Middle School
Upper School
Sophomore Backpacking Trip
Ski Team Forms
- Racer and Parents Forms Checklist
- A1 OISRA Racer Application
- Consent for Cognitive Testing and Release of Information
- OES Permission to Administer Medications on Trips
- OES Ski Team Family Information Sheet
- OES Trip Permission & Agreement Form/Agreement of Behavior & Health Expectations
- Packet of Registration Forms for Racer
- Ski Area Releases
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9-29-18 Megan's Run/Walk 14th Annual Race for a Cure! >>>>>>>>>>> Online Registration At – https://register.chronotrack.com/r/39819
September 29, 2018 @ 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Join us for the 14th Annual Race for a Cure!
Proceeds from Megan's Run/Walk help pay medical and household bills for cancer families.
Sign in above to register or click on tabs at the top of the page to sponsor, print an entry form, or see event details.
We hope to see you on Saturday, September 29th at McCarthy Park in Upland!
Megan's Wings was founded in January 2005 in memory of 9 yr old Megan Savage who lost her Leukemia battle on April 2nd, 2003. During Megan's 2 1/2 yr struggle with cancer, the Savage family met other families struggling to cope financially and emotionally. It's often necessary for a parent to cut back hours at work or one parent quit work to care for their sick child. Money eventually runs short to pay the bills & expenses increase such as gas expense for numerous appointments and hospital stays, phone calls to family, meals away from home, increased medical bills. Treatment often stretches into years with relapse, making it difficult to recover financially, even with savings. It is our wish to help ease the financial burden and foster hope through caring so families can concentrate on their sick child.


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Backpack blessings & fall Sunday School kickoff
Backpack blessings
We offer backpack blessings to students and teachers at all services on August 24-25. You don't have to bring a backpack, but it's fun if you do! All students, teachers and school volunteers – whether you're in daycare, preschool, public school, private school, home school, Sunday School, college, or graduate school – you're invited to receive a special blessing! Our congregation will pray for the excitement of learning, scholastic achievement and personal growth as we begin a new school year.
Sunday School program shifts, offering more age-based curricula at 10:30
On August 25, we shift our Sunday School program starting location and age-based breakout! Parents, sign your kids in to our school building's large east parish hall. Teens will learn and share what it means to be a follower of Jesus today, and tackle tough questions about faith. Children ages 3 years through 6th grade will have age-based curricula. All kids will return to church in time for Holy Communion.
Come join us – volunteer!
Consider serving on our Sunday School and teen teams this year! We're looking for people to help children on their journey with God. Will you give a little of your time and use your unique gifts to minister to our young people? It's easy and fun and you won't have to miss out on your own spiritual development! Most Sunday School volunteers serve just once a month. We have opportunities to serve all age levels, so please put this call to ministry in your hearts! It's an awesome way to be engaged and to grow.
For more information and to volunteer contact children's minister Liza Goodner at email@example.com.


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Studying for the MCAT
- Oct 24, 2017
Studying for the MCAT is honestly an experience, and I know this because I'm currently trying to force myself to get into the rhythm of frantically preparing for this nightmarish test while at the same time keeping up with everything else I have to do. Since I am a procrastinator, I will now give you some tips on how to study for the MCAT (or some other admissions test), while avoiding studying for the MCAT. I know, I'm a charm.
- Registration for Jan-June 2018 is now open, so register for a test date and a test site! You can do this via the AAMC website. Spots fill up fast, so get on it if you need to a specific location/date.
- Become familiar with what happens on test day and what's required and expected of you as a tester.
- Ideally, you want to be studying for your MCAT 3-6 months in advance of your test date. Some students go for longer or shorter periods of time, but 3-6 is our recommendation so that you get enough material in your brain and take enough practice tests to feel prepared. Also, check out AAMC's How I Prepared for the MCAT series and their Guide to Creating Your Own MCAT Study Plan.
- GET TEST PREP MATERIAL. I cannot stress this enough. We recommend that you purchase at least some of your test prep material through AAMC, as they are the ones who develop the actual MCAT. If you want to also purchase study packs to review information, you can purchase Barron's Exam Krackers, Princeton Review, etc. That is up to you and your personal preference. MAKE SURE YOU ALSO GET PLENTY OF FULL-LENGTH PRACTICE EXAMS. The test is 7.5 hours, you're going to need to work on your stamina for that!
- Now that you have a test date, and know how long you'll (ideally) be studying for, whip out your schedule (I use Google Calendar, but that's just me) and BLOCK out the times you will be studying for the MCAT. You should also block out days when you will be doing your practice exams, for when it gets closer to your test day.
If you have a hard time studying on your own, and money is not a problem for you, you can sign up for an MCAT review class to keep you on track.
- Start off slow, maybe an hour or two a day, and build up as you go. Take advantage of your weekends and breaks to really get into the mindset of nailing the MCAT. Make sure to stay consistent! It is not helpful to you if you study one day for three hours and then relax for two weeks.
- Set a goal for what kind of score you want on the MCAT.
- Take as many practice exams as you can before you take the MCAT. I recommend that you take one a week in the weeks before your MCAT date. Take these exams seriously! They will tell you what your strong points are and what you need to work on, and they will also give you an idea of what score range you're looking at. Are you at your goal score, below it, above it?
- When taking an MCAT practice exam, MIMIC the setting and time frames of the real MCAT. For example, take the practice exam on a desktop computer in a quiet setting, schedule the time for the different sections the same way it would be for the MCAT, and schedule your breaks the same way, too.
- If you get a practice question wrong in a study book, or on a practice exam, go back and figure out why you got it wrong. Make sure you understand the material you are weak on so that you don't make the same errors on your actual MCAT.
- Look through your scores on your first practice exam. Did you place in the 95th percentile for Soc and Psych, but only 60th on Biology? Consider these results and change your study habits - focus more on the material you did poorly on, rather than the material you did great on. Medical schools want to see that your scores for the different sections are relatively even across the board, so trying to raise your Soc and Psych score while ignoring Biology will not help you.
- Plan out study breaks. Tell yourself you are going to study for an hour, and then take a 15min break, but it's important to stick to a time frame! It is not helpful to you if you study for an hour and then take a break for another hour.
- Eat healthy snacks in between studying, drink plenty of water, and make sure to stand up and stretch every now and then to keep your brain running efficiently and to keep yourself from feeling groggy.
- Make sure that when you are studying, your phone is out of sight and you're only logged onto the online material you need on your computer. Consider site blockers that will block Facebook, Twitter, etc, so that you can concentrate on just studying for your exam.
- If you have stuck to your routine for studying and have done everything you possibly can for the MCAT, try to avoid studying the days leading up to your exam. It will only burn you out and give you unnecessary stress.
- Try to survive, honestly.
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Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is offering an upgrade program to Galaxy Note 7 customers in South Korea who trade in their recalled device for a Galaxy S7 phone, marking its latest bid to hang on to customers.
In a statement, Samsung said customers who trade in their Note 7 phone for either a flat-screen or curved-screen version of the Galaxy S7 can trade up for a Galaxy S8 or Note 8 smartphone launching next year through an upgrade program.
The world's top smartphone maker permanently ended Note 7 sales due to continued reports of fire from the flagship device. Samsung, in addition to offering refunds or exchanges for a Galaxy S7 smartphone, has already offered financial incentives amounting to 100,000 won ($88.39) to affected customers in South Korea.
Users in the upgrade program will need to pay only half the price of a Galaxy S7 device, rather than the full amount, before exchanging to the S8 or the Note 8, Samsung said. In offering the Note 8, Samsung indirectly reinforced previous statements that the Note series will not be discontinued.
Samsung has stepped up marketing and promotion for its Galaxy S smartphones to try to make up for some of the lost sales. The Note 7's collapse is already costing Samsung $5.4 billion won in operating profit between the third quarter of this year and the first quarter of 2017.
Some experts and analysts say Samsung will need to offer incentives to affected customers as part of their efforts to limit long-term damage to its brand and reputation from the Note 7's failure.


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This past week, I published a piece called What (I Think) I Want in a Medium publication named The Coffeelicious. The publication has over 40,000 subscribers who have the chance to see its content, so it's never a surprise when an article in The Coffeelicious trends on Medium and squeaks its way into the site's Top Stories.
It is, however, a surprise when that article is one of mine.
The day after publishing What (I Think) I Want--a piece about what I'm looking for in a person--its traction carried it into Medium's Top 20 Stories for the day. With almost 300 recommends to date, the post has received nearly 3,000 views.
When I first saw my piece gaining traction, I became overwhelmed with notifications and feedback--both on Twitter and Medium. And it was mostly positive (whew). I decided to check out the site's Top Stories and, sure enough, there it was. I watched my story move from #18 to #17, then force its way up to #12, where it eventually peaked.
I have a personal rule that states, "Act like you've been there," so I don't want to seem too excited about this whole ordeal. (Even though it's pretty cool.) However, I do want to continue expanding my audience and getting my name out there.
Now that I have been there, I can focus on how to get back.


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VCSO Looking For Suspect Who Robbed Insight Credit Union In Deltona
Deltona, FL – VCSO is on the lookout for the suspect who robbed Insight Credit Union in Deltona on Friday morning.
Deputies responded to the hold-up alarm at the Insight Credit Union at 1235 Providence Blvd. Unit A around 9:30 AM. Witnesses say the suspect used a note to demand money and implied he was armed.
The suspect has been described as a 6 foot tall 40 to 50 year old man with a thin frame, weighing in at around 170 lbs. He has light brown or dark blonde hair, discolored and crooked teeth, and he hadn't shaved in a few days. At the time of the robbery he was wearing a light green polo shirt with a dark green collar and hem line around the sleeves. He had headphones on and was wearing a black and purple hat with writing on the front and a sticker on the brim.
Deputies think he was driving an older model, dark blue Ford station wagon.
Anyone with information should contact VCSO at 386-860-7030, or Crime Stoppers of Northeast FL, toll-free, at 1-888-277-TIPS. Callers to Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous and can qualify for a reward of up to $5,000.
Photo courtesy VCSO.
Copyright Southern Stone Communications 2016.


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Amber tamblyn and david cross dating
05-Jul-2017 05:58
They were rumored to be dating for at least a year before stepping out in public together.Everything about their relationship seemed normal—Cross proposed after about three years together, they enjoyed the engagement for a year, and then had a quaint little outdoor wedding ceremony in front of family and friends.When asked if it was awkward to "break up" in a show, Cross said, "No, it was great!
And this celebrity couple has no problem talking about it.
"There are 1,000 jokes going through my head right now," she joked, then detailed their first encounter on a connecting flight from Houston to Louisiana.
After what Cross described as "aggressive staring" coming from Tamblyn, they changed seats so that they could sit together and spent the rest of the flight making fun of the Sky Mall catalog.
Instead, the couple shared some intimate (and funny) details of their courtship to a sold-out crowd attending "Running Late With Scott Rogowsky," a live comedy talk show at The People's Improv Theater.
Tamblyn, the 29-year-old actress who starred in the "Joan Of Arcadia" TV series and "The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants" has been with Cross, 48, for over four years; the wedding is in less than six months."He was in the seat next to me and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's David Cross!


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Reiki (ray-key)
Rei = Universal
Ki= Life Force Energy
What is Reiki?
Reiki is Love. Reiki is also a stress-reduction and relaxation technique that promotes health and happiness to the body-mind-spirit. With its origins in Tibetan Buddhism and Shamanic Healing, Reiki is a popular form of holistic health today. Reiki is not a religion and does not require belief in anything for it to work. All that is required for Reiki to work is a sincere desire from the client to invite more peace in their lives.
What does a Reiki session look like?
During a Reiki session, the client rests fully clothed on a massage table. The Reiki practitioner gently places their hands on or above the client's body with the intent for universal Reiki energy to flow. The client becomes very relaxed and at peace. With the increase in the healing energy flow, the client's body-mind-spirit is better able to restore and regenerate itself.
Although each Reiki session is unique, many of my clients will enter a state just before true sleep - a lucid, dream-like state called Theta Brain Waves. In this state, clients often report a feeling of deep peace or a sense of energy flowing throughout their body. My clients have also reported temperature changes, a feeling of being held, and they often will have inner visions or see a variety of beautiful colors in this deeply relaxed state.
It is important to remember that it is the energy that does the healing, not the practitioner. Reiki is always safe, will never do harm and is always adjusting for the individual client's needs.
How Does Reiki Work?
Your body-mind-soul system is a self-healing mechanism. Under prolonged stress and/or trauma, the system gets stuck in a sympathetic nervous system response (fight or flight) and forgets how to maintain this miracle of self-correction. Reiki works by way of reducing stress and increasing the parasympathetic nervous system response (a.k.a. the "Rest and Digest" response). In this deeply relaxed state, powerful self-healing and balance is restored on multiple layers of being - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Who Can Give Reiki Healing?
Everyone has the ability to give Reiki healing. An attunement to the Reiki energy as well as proper training in the subject will greatly enhance your ability to give and connect to Reiki. During Reiki Training, the Master Teacher will "attune" you to the energy and Reiki lineage.
Who Can Benefit from Reiki?
All beings can benefit from Reiki - all people, all ages, animals, plants, food, water, current events and life situations.
What are some benefits of Reiki?
- Stress-relief and relaxation
- Supports the body's natural ability to heal and restore itself
- Increased vitality, confidence and joy
- Supports the organs, glands and their bodily functions
- Emotional support
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Reiki enhances the intuitive awareness of the yoga teacher. Reiki inspires joy, creativity and confidence within the yoga teacher and students, advances yoga hands-on assists and deepens meditative states.
What does Reiki Training Consist of?
There are generally 4 levels of Reiki Training. Here is what you will learn in my Reiki Trainings:
Reiki Level I: Includes the Reiki Level I attunement, how to give a full Reiki Session on others and yourself, Reiki History. There are no prerequisites to Reiki Level I.
Reiki Level II: Includes the Reiki Level II attunement, how to incorporate the Reiki Level II symbols into a Reiki session, how to give Distance Reiki healing, and sending Reiki to the past and future. Reiki Level I is a pre-requisite to Reiki Level II.
Reiki Level III: Includes the Reiki Level III attunement, Reiki Level III symbols, Advanced Aura Clearing Technique, Reiki Crystals and the Crystal Healing and Manifestation Grid, Introduction to Chakra Balancing and use of the pendulum, how to add Reiki Color Therapy and Reiki Sound Healing to your sessions. Reiki Level II is a prerequisite to Reiki Level III.
Reiki Master Teacher Class: Includes the Reiki Level Master attunement, the Reiki Master symbols, instruction in how to pass Reiki Level I, II, III, and Master attunemnets to others, how to organize Reiki classes, and Advanced Reiki Healing attunements. Reiki Level III is a prerequisite to the Reiki Master Teacher Class.
I find that Reiki Level I and II go really well together and Reiki Level III and the Reiki Master Teacher Class go really well together. Most students will take Reiki Level I and II at the same time, and Reiki Level III and the Reiki Master Teacher Class at the same time. The Reiki trainings are set up back to back. You choose how far you want to go at any given time.
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Due to crowd violence at recent rival soccer games at Fenerbahce's stadium, Turkey's soccer association took a new approach. They banned all the men, and let women and children under age 12 attend for free.
On Tuesday, 41,000 women and children attended the game against Mansasipor. Instead of fights throughout the crowd, the visiting team was welcomed with cheers, and both teams threw flowers into the crowd.
This stems from fans storming the field at games, and attacking journalists. Back in July, Fenerbahce had to play two games with no spectators because of this. Only women and children will be allowed certain games with teams that spark fan violence.
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Spring is here and its time to switch it up with your fragrances. Warmer days calls for lighter and fresh scents. A great transition into the summer where we will go even lighter with the notes. Now this is not a mandatory thing but changing perfumes every season is quite fun and it makes a difference on your mood. My two scents. ;)
Here are the top 3 perfumes that are not your typical light scent for Spring but they will attract the right energy.
MAC Cosmetics brings you a new collection of fragrances inspired by their classic (best seller) lipsticks. The top one (for me) is the 'Velvet Teddy' that really stands out from the crowd. It is safe to say that this one reminds me of Tom Ford's 'Tabacco Vanilla'. The sweet and musky notes will leave a lingering feeling.
Made in Spain, the perfume collection from ZARA is truly priceless. The intricate notes and versatility of the fragrances are remarquable. For 100ml you get a lasting perfume and it won't cost you more than 20$, yup this is Zara for you! My favorite one is a powdery vanilla based notes with a hint of chocolate called NIGHT. One splash and you will fall for it and trust that it will last a few hours.
MONSILLAGE Pays Dogon
Canadian perfume house Monsillage launches their 8th perfume inspired by Dogon, West Africa where this area has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The vision for this new fragrance is to create a scent from a mix of the dry land, leather and the exotic wood. Create a mix that will simply take you to West Africa, and it works! For this one, it is all about the journey and not the destination.


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Library of Congress: Becoming Interplanetary
The Library of Congress held a symposium, entitled "Becoming Interplanetary: What Living on Earth Can Teach Us about Living on Mars". "Becoming Interplanetary" featured panel discussions and artistic performances, featuring ONLi Packs CEO/Founder, Jordan 'Dxtr' Homles. The central themes of the symposium were to unpack the ways current space narratives enforce colonialism, to look at what Earth-based narratives/policies/laws imply about human presence in space, and to elevate voices for equity and justice (both here on Earth, and beyond).
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To use the media cliché, it could be that we never know what really happened when George Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin, but as with any case that attracts such widespread publicity, the telling of the story becomes highly selective. In the aftermath of Zimmerman's acquittal, I was reminded of this excellent article from the Washington Post that I read while in the US last month. Dan Zak goes beyond the rhetoric of court room drama to tell a much more complex story in which – inevitably – housing features as part of a wider series of issues that make the Martin case an American parable and a UK warning.
The Martin case became a cause celebre because it presses hard on America's sore spot – 'race', or more precisely, the relationships between 'whites' and 'blacks' (it's an unfortunate consequence of writing about this subject that it entails the use of meaningless labels). All the features are there: colonisation, the Deep South, the legacy of slavery, segregation, poverty, fear, lethal violence – and a housing system that is historically racist and continues to reinforce socio-economic and spatial discrimination.
As the usually not too bad Channel 4 Washington correspondent Matt Frei said last night, the key question that African-Americans and anti-racist campaigners will be asking themselves today is, what would have happened if the positions were reversed and Martin had shot Zimmerman, but actually, we know the answer. The highly disproportionate application of criminal justice in the US, ranging from routine policing to application of the death penalty, means that a young black man accused of killing a 'white' man would almost certainly be convicted, sent to prison and not released for a long time, if ever. The fact that Zimmerman is half Hispanic further complicates the racial badges, but given his assumed status as a righteous protector of private property, the case has not been treated as a 'black on black' crime which, as Zak's article points out, would have elicited a very different response.
But what makes the Washington Post article worth reading is the context it provides to the place where Martin was killed, a town/city deeply inscribed with the separation of people according to skin colour and wealth, embodied by a public housing project, the sum of all fears for many Americans. Dan Zak suggests that the loss of 483 affordable homes has destabilised the local community and contributed to some of the tensions that collided when Martin met Zimmerman, in particular the displacement of public housing tenants who, in an ironic twist, appear to have been rehoused in the type of gated communities that are emblematic of US aspiration, inequality and paranoia, but which have become substantially devalued since the 2008 crash.
In a school-masterish way, I'm hoping that readers are picking up the undertones of similarity between the root causes of the Martin case and the convergence of US and UK housing policy that has long been my lament. The US public housing programme has been decimated in recent years, but like council housing, has been a policy whipping boy for decades, fueling the stigmatisation that might have contributed to Trayvon Martin's death. Pressures on low-income American families, particularly those on welfare, are increasing, leading to a breakdown of family and kinship networks as the search for a decent, affordable, secure home becomes a new trail of tears, exploited by State-sponsored speculative housing investment that nurtures fear and loathing.


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Johannesburg - Former president Jacob Zuma turned 76 on Thursday and former public protector, Thuli Madonsela, was among the people to wish him "happy birthday".
Madonsela was public protector when she launched a probe into state capture, which has snared Zuma's close associates the Gupta brothers who have fled the country amid reports that law enforcement agencies in SA are after them.
Billionaire brothers Ajay, Atul and Tony Gupta are accused of taking control of state entities, where they allegedly exercised undue influence and siphoned off huge amounts of money. They are thought to have fled to Dubai.
"Happy birthday former President Jacob Zuma. Blessings in the year ahead," tweeted Madonsela.
Happy birthday former President Jacob Zuma. Blessings in the year ahead pic.twitter.com/sSRCtFi6xL— Prof Thuli Madonsela (@ThuliMadonsela3) April 12, 2018
Zuma resigned as state president in February. Decade-old corruption charges have since been reinstated against Zuma.
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"If you let me be the only one, you'll never be the lonely one."
You'll have to wait until May 17 to discover whether these hastily scraped lyrics to the Cricket World Cup's as-yet unreleased official song are a) accurate, and b) a fair reflection of the sport's mindset, as it seeks to win over a brand-new generation of devotees.
But one thing is for sure. In managing to launch their official anthem, in a timely and orderly fashion at an upmarket rooftop bar in Southwark on Tuesday afternoon, the CWC organisers have already managed to soar past the subterranean standards set by their forebears at the 1999 event 20 long years ago.
Ah yes, 1999. Let the cultural cringe kick in as we take a journey back in time…
When global event organisers like to tell you "it's the little things that matter", what they are actually referencing are the little things that don't matter, but go so stratospherically and calamitously wrong that they enter folklore as examples of how to make an absolute pig's ear of your event. Those are the things that really and truly matter.
Things such as holding a fireworks display in broad daylight and turning the Lord's outfield from a World Cup opening ceremony into a Civil War Re-Enactment Society gathering. Or delaying the launch of your official World Cup song to the very day after the tournament hosts have been evicted from the party at which they were meant to be dee-jaying.
"I remember the 1999 song vaguely," said Andrew Flintoff, the former England allrounder who was guest of honour at Tuesday's launch. "That World Cup didn't start that well with that first game against Sri Lanka when the ground was just full of smoke. As a player, it was one to forget - we inspired no-one."
And pity poor Dave Stewart - once better known as the half of Eurythmics that wasn't Annie Lennox, now a World Cup quiz question. It wasn't that his song, "All Over The World" was a terrible tune in itself, or even a terrible choice as an anthem - if the evocation of "cheering crowds" and "every nation" is the box-ticking limit of your ambition.
But, like the Sinclair C5 and spandex skirts, Stewart's over-fashionable spectacles and dubious coiffures had at one stage been an improbably significant part of 1980s pop-culture. By 1999, however, his moment had long since passed. In fact, he was about as relevant to the youth of the day as his name-sake, Alec, would prove to be to that World Cup's Super Sixes and knockouts.
Youth of the day such as Greg James - the radio DJ and compere of Tuesday's launch - who would have been an impressionable 13-year-old at the time of the 1999 World Cup, and precisely the sort of kid at whom such a song ought to have been targeted.
Instead, James was so scarred by what the organisers served up that, when he first heard this year's offering, "Stand By" by LORYN featuring Rudimental, he admitted that his overwhelming emotion had been "relief".
"Usually, World Cup songs... they are not that good, are they?" Flintoff added by way of moral support. "Let's be honest... but that's a proper song."
It was gloriously faint praise for LORYN - a Canadian newcomer whose existing knowledge of cricket was such that she had been forced to google Flintoff prior to their joint appearance (and ignore most of the first ream of search terms) - but both observations had been intended as the most fundamental of compliments.
Because, no matter how cloth-eared you may be as a music fan, it was clear from the first airing of "Stand By", that the tune (or "tchoooon", as the CWC organisers hope it will come to be known…) was an admirably self-confident offering, with big bass, phat beats (with a capital PH) and a funky brass section that would be perfectly capable of holding its own had a global tournament not sidled along to offer a leg-up.
As LORYN herself puts it: "There's a million other people here tonight … You should call me before I go, because I've got options, don't think I don't."
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Again, I can't yet vouch for the accuracy of the transcription, but that's what I jotted down from a solitary hearing, so that's the line I'm sticking to - her sentiments are certainly not as inaccurate as assuming that Pavarotti is singing about his love of elephants in Verdi's "Rigoletto", or that "Money's Too Tight" is about Mick Hucknell's unnatural fondness for rabbits.
After all, Rudimental have already shifted more than 2 million albums since 2011 (this in an era when no one apparently pays for music), and have a track record of finding and cultivating up-coming talent. Whatever the fate of this particular project - and death by a thousand montages would be my best guess - they have a contemporary street cred that will crack on regardless (even if most of the kids in my 'hood have long since moved on to the Drill singer, Unknown T, with his baritone underground stylings and a curious love of spinach. One to watch for the 2039 event, maybe ...)
Either way, poor Stewart never had quite the same shelf-life. Instead, after his turkey had been slow-cooked to a highest chart position of 154, his only option was to give the lyrics a subtle repackaging and flog the whole thing to Disney as part of the Phileas Fogg soundtrack.
And even that outcome was perhaps a stroke of luck - presumably my family-friendly paymasters missed the frankly baffling horror-show of a video that accompanied the official release of "All Over The World", a grotesque parody of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, complete with a mass break-out from a mental asylum, a Benny Hill-style pursuit by nurses, and a series of arrests in the midst of a very bad game of cricket.
Because when the little things go wrong, all you end up inspiring is laughter.