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When is a "Special Envoy" not a Special Envoy?
The decision of the British Government to appoint a. "Northern Ireland Special Envoy" to the US" without the agreement of the government in north has raised more questions than answers in the US. Here a take on the issues from Neil F. Cosgrove, National AOH Political Action Chair which was first published in the Irish Echo.
On June 6th, no doubt timed to coincide with the anniversary of the D-Day landing and the alleged "special relationship" between the U.S. and the U.K., the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Brandon Lewis, announced the appointment of Trevor Ringland to a position he described as a "Northern Ireland Special Envoy."
Per Secretary Lewis, Mr. Ringland's mission is to "represent the U.K. Government in Northern Ireland, working to support its best interests in the United States."
Before his appointment, Mr. Ringland was best known as a star rugby player who made 31 competitive appearances for Ireland, scoring nine tries.
Since he retired from sport, he has been a solicitor, community activist, and former vice chairman of the Northern Ireland wing of the conservative party. Mr. Ringland is a Northern Ireland voice whose views should be heard with parity of esteem.
The problem with the announcement of Mr. Ringland as a "Northern Ireland Special Envoy" is not the man but the packaging.
The usage of the term "Northern Ireland Special Envoy to the United States" is cynical marketing spin to give Mr. Ringland's role a legitimacy and equivalence to the U.S. Special Envoy that America has appointed for the past two decades; a role that has the prestige of having facilitated the signing of the Good Friday Agreement which helped end thirty years of violence.
One might ask, "What's in a name?" However, the misnomer of calling Mr. Ringland a "Northern Ireland Special Envoy" is analogous to calling an Ox a Bull. On the surface, there is a resemblance, but it does not stand up to close scrutiny; the differences upon inspection are glaringly apparent.
The American Special Envoy to Northern Ireland is a representative of the American people to the people of Northern Ireland. The U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland is appointed by the democratically elected President of the United States; he carries the mandate of the American people, the people whose name is in his title.
Mr. Ringland, by contrast, is an appointee of the Secretary of State of Northern Ireland, who himself is an appointee of the British Prime Minister. He is an appointee of an appointee who has no mandate from the devolved Northern Ireland government nor the broader Northern Ireland community.
Rejected at the Ballot Box and but appointed to represent the people?
His political party, the Northern Ireland Conservatives, currently do not hold a single seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly. As "Special Envoy," he is not a representative of the community of Northern Ireland but of the British Northern Ireland Office which appointed him.
Despite his title, Mr. Ringland is not an envoy but a lobbyist for the British government.
With full respect to Mr. Ringland as an individual, calling his position a "Northern Ireland Special Envoy" violates the Trades Description Act. It is a textbook example of the marketing practice called "Astroturfing," the deceptive practice of a sponsor masking their involvement in a message to make it appear as though it originates from grassroots participants.
It is more of the type of hokum and spin upon which the Brexit referendum was built, resulting in today's buyers' regret among Unionists in Northern Ireland. We can not afford to be so taken in when it comes to discussing the peace in Northern Ireland.
If only the U.K. expended as much energy in fulfilling its commitments under international treaty as it does in marketing to justify its failures to do so. Instead of attempting to justify and mask failures in Washington, the U.K. should be fulfilling its commitments under international treaty in Belfast.
Neil F. Cosgrove
National AOH Political Action Chai


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Cass Business School releases first Spanish lending study.
- Spanish senior secured real estate debt is priced at 1.80 per cent - 2.50 per cent achieving similar returns as UK commercial real estate debt at low risk
- Diversification of lenders is continuing with debt funds and insurance companies entering the market
- Alternative lenders are increasingly pursuing more sophisticated financing (e.g. niches, operator-run properties, foreign investments, value-add investments and project developments)
Cass Business School releases the first commercial real estate lending study for the Spanish market which is authored by Dr Nicole Lux. The volume of new business has been increasing from 2013 onwards and Spanish has developed from the primary seller of NPL's to a stable, more sophisticated lending market.
While lending margins have been falling over the last five years banks have adopted conservative lending strategies with low loan-to-value ranges of 55 per cent – 60 per cent for senior loans, which has given room to market diversification. Insurance companies and debt funds are providing slightly higher loan-to-value lending at higher price levels.
In a persistently low interest-rate environment, many Spanish banks continue to attempt to keep their real estate business stable and in some cases to expand it. The pressure of competition, in particular in the case of investments in existing properties, remains high with French and German banks increasing their activities as well, driving pricing levels down. Overall, the Spanish real estate debt market is smaller than the UK or German market and competition for larger loan sizes €50 – €100m is high, average loan sizes are €30 - €60m.
Report author Dr Nicole Lux said:
"After the sale of major NPL portfolios a new niche that is opening up for international debt investors is in new constructions, commercial/logistics as well as residential, where bank lending is more restricted. However, it is important to find the right project and development partner. Student housing development is also one of the areas of increasing interest and developers are looking to find sizable projects."
The report includes a historic analysis starting from 2002 to 2018 showing especially the changes over the last five years. The study includes data collected from 25 financial institutions via public balance sheet information, personal interviews and individual loan book data.
To support the researchers to expand their research, the report can be purchased here.


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Deep Inside Hollywood
Samira Wiley and Fortune Feimster are F***ing People
Near the top of our list of lesbians we love – yes, we keep a list, we like to be organized -– is the hilariously funny stand-up comic Fortune Feimster (Chelsea Lately) and the super chill Samira Wiley (Orange is the New Black). And because there's magically exponential power when lesbians team up for a project, we're very excited to hear that they've appeared together in an upcoming film. It's called F***ing People, which will be fun to say out loud at a box office, and it's from filmmaker Theresa Bennett, making her narrative feature directorial debut about a young woman who's single, broke, stoned a lot, and, to make it even less stable, falling in love with a married man. The film stars Aya Cash (You're The Worst), Carly Chaikin (Mr. Robot) and Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), as well as the cool lesbians that caught our attention in the first place. It's all in what's known as "post production" right now so be on the lookout for the title you can't say in front of your mom coming sometime – probably in 2018 – to an indie film fest or arthouse or streaming platform near you.
Angela Robinson meets Strangers
The thing you hear a lot in Hollywood is that nothing gets you work like already having work. Which means Angela Robinson, the lesbian for whom we stan forever because of D.E.B.S., who also just premiered her latest film, the Luke Evans/Bella Heathcote-starring Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, at the Toronto International Film Festival, is on a roll. She just announced her next project, an adaptation of the acclaimed Terry Moore graphic novel, Strangers in Paradise. A young adult girl/girl/boy bisexual love triangle fuels the plot, as does the mystery of a missing near-million dollars in mob money, and those are stories we can always get behind. There's no cast yet, no shooting schedule, no anything really – just a deal for now. We'll be anxiously waiting for casting news on this one.
Angels returns to America
Maybe you're not old enough to remember 25 years back when Tony Kushner's thunderous, epic, theatrical masterpiece Angels In America swept the stage, picking up awards (Tonys, Pulitzers) and acclaim. It was at the height of the AIDS crisis and Kushner's funny, furious, political, galvanizing work stopped audiences in their tracks. And then, of course, it was an HBO movie, and now, perhaps you've heard, it's wowing audiences again in London, where it made star Andrew Garfield wish he were gay for a moment. Well, here's your chance to see it again or for the first time, because it's returning to Broadway, with Garfield and co-star Nathan Lane. The Neil Simon Theater will house the revival for 18 weeks in spring of 2018, directed by Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time), so jump on those limited-time tickets now and be sure to set aside two nights for the experience. Oh, you didn't know about its durational qualities? Well, just bring a nice cushion to sit on.
And now for a Madonna rumor about RuPaul's Drag Race…
Normally, we like facts. We're reporters of truth, after all. But it appears that RuPaul can barely stand keeping this tea to himself, so here goes. At the Primetime Emmy Awards, Miss Ru – having just won another Emmy and then appearing in full Emmy Statue drag with host Stephen Colbert – was asked about how Drag Race might top having Lady Gaga appear last season as a challenge-starter and judge. Mr. Charles responded with, "It is kinda tough to top her. But I think we've done it. I really do." Now, you know and we know that there's only one woman standing between Gaga and the top of the heap and that's Madonna. Asked if that meant Madge was going to be hopping into a judge's seat, RuPaul's answer was, "I can't saaaaay."
So, basically, we're running with the story that Madonna is going to go on this show and shred those queens if they "fuck it up," that is until someone in charge officially tells us otherwise. Your move, fact checkers and rumor squashers at VH1/Logo/Viacom.
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Industry Proposes Its FDA Guidance Priorities, Reforms
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
After FDA published its annual lists of guidance priorities, industry has responded by stating what guidances companies would like to see. Meanwhile, the push for broader reforms to the guidance-development process continues.
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CDRH Sets Performance Goals To Reduce Draft Guidance Ambiguity
The device center has committed to metrics for draft guidance documents, trying to address complaints that policies linger too long in the draft stage and create regulatory confusion. CDRH also highlighted recent website upgrades intended to better distinguish between draft and final guidance documents.
Draft Guidance Docs Should Be Transitory, Industry Insists
Device industry advocates stressed to CDRH during a meeting last week that draft-guidance documents need to more routinely be finalized or withdrawn in an expedited manner, and that agency staffers must resist using the out-for-comment document as if they are settled policy.
CDRH Looks For Input On Guidance-Development Practices
FDA's device center will seek feedback on its guidance development process and best practices at a June 5 workshop.


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In Case You Missed It.
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Puxatawny Phil did see his shadow yesterday which hopefully means six more weeks of winter and not six more weeks of lockdown.
The White House is considering stopping intelligence briefings that are commonly offered to former Presidents to former President Trump.
The SpaceX Starship rocket exploded during a landing attempt in launch experiments in Texas.
A woman accused of participating in the Capitol riots asked the judge in her case if she could take a vacation in Mexico and the judge granted her request.
Thousands of people in Japan are protesting the military coup in Myanmar.
Elon Musk says he is going off Twitter for a while. We love how people take to Twitter to say this rather than simply going off Twitter.
Coronavirus Update: Total confirmed U.S. cases as of 2 p.m. ET Tuesday: 26,349,627 — Total deaths: 444,336 — Total tests: 306,049,697
The Lead: Stimulus Moves Ahead
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Republicans better run for cover because a Democratic steamroller is coming for them. Senate Democrats took the first step Tuesday toward passing a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill without Republican support.
Democrats were toying with the idea of bipartisanship until Republicans floated a half-baked $600 billion package that reduced monies in just about every category.
Now that the kumbaya time has passed, Dems are trying to pass Biden's first major legislative effort with a 50-50 Senate. With that tight of a margin, Democrats have no room for error, including Senator Joe Manchin, who opposes raising the minimum wage to $15.
"We must address the urgency of the Covid-19 crisis," Manchin said in a statement. "But let me be clear — and these are words I shared with President Biden — our focus must be targeted on the Covid-19 crisis and Americans who have been most impacted by this pandemic."
Despite his reservations on the minimum wage, Manchin did agree to move forward with the $1.9 trillion dollar Biden package.
With an impending impeachment trial and expiring unemployment benefits, Democrats are facing strong headwinds. The current unemployment benefits expire in mid-March and that means they need to pass a bill by March 7 to prevent a lapse in coverage.
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Bezos Looks To The Future
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Jeff Bezos is stepping down as the CEO of Amazon. Andy Jassy, the current CEO of Amazon Web Services, will take his place.
Bezos says that his current role at Amazon is "consuming" and he has found it "hard to put attention on anything else." He will stay on as executive chair of the board so that he can focus on his environmental fund, his space exploration company Blue Origin, and The Washington Post, which he purchased in 2013.
Bezos will stay on until Q3 of this year and after that, we'll sure he'll be just fine without his day job. He has an estimated net worth of $180 billion.
Fish Populations Suffer Vitamin Deficiency
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Fish have been found to be deficient in vitamin B and this is seriously threatening various species. A vitamin B deficiency is known to be dangerous to humans but researchers are finding it in wildlife too.
Scientists found that some fish populations were disoriented, miscolored, and unable to swim properly. Some were dying. This is happening in several species across the globe. Scientists are able to help by giving the fish vitamin B supplements but they are concerned about why this is needed. Fish should be able to get vitamin B from their diet but it seems to be missing from natural habitats. Scientists are pretty sure this is related to human behavior. Somehow we have sapped nutrients from the ecosystem, perhaps by contributing to rising ocean temperatures.
"It's very eye-opening that the lack of a simple vitamin can cause complete collapse of populations in vast areas," Donald Tillitt, an environmental toxicologist with the U.S. Geological Survey told The Atlantic. He has studied thiamine deficiency in fish in the Great Lakes for over 20 years.
News By The Numbers
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220 million years. That is the approximate age of a perfectly preserved dinosaur footprint that was discovered in Wales by a four year old girl.
$3.8 million. That is how much Google will pay in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor over claims that the company discriminated against female and Asian engineers by hiring them less often and paying them less.
11,000. That is how many people moved from Hong Kong to Taiwan in 2020, partially due to new security laws in Hong Kong. That is double the amount of people that made this move in 2019.
$13 million. That is how much Keith Gill lost when GameStop stock plummeted this week. He is the Reddit user who helped inspire the buy-up last week that caused hedge fund managers who were shorting the stock to lose the farm.
Charging Ahead
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Electric vehicle charging stations need to be installed about five times quicker than the current rate if the world is really going to move to electric cars. This is the estimation of a research firm called Policy Exchange.
In the UK, sales of new gas-powered cars will be banned by 2030. This means that electric vehicles will be the standard in short order and the UK will need about 400,000 charging stations to support them. Currently, about 7,000 stations are built per year but that needs to jump to 35,000 per year. Already EV adoption was up to 17% of the market in 2020, up from 3% in 2019.
Russia Cracks Down on Dissent
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Protests continue over the arrest of Alexei Navalny in Russia. The opposition leader was sentenced to prison for two and a half years on Tuesday.
Over 10,000 people have been arrested in protests after Navalny was arrested upon his return to Russia in December. The pretense of his arrest is that he had violated his parole while he was in Germany. To be clear, he was in Germany because he was poisoned by the Russian state while on a flight and the plane was diverted to Berlin where he was hospitalized. The parole in question was for a charge that a European court has already found bogus and ordered Russia to pay him reparations. Now the Russian government will send him to a penal colony where they can keep him from opposing President Vladmir Putin.
What are the chances he is safe in that penal colony for two years? And can protests do anything to change this? Can they keep this steam up for two and a half years? Global leaders have condemned the Russian state for this but it doesn't seem to have made a difference.
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Erreur 1401: vous avez dépassé votre nombre maximal d'imprimantes sous licence
A user printed to the printer \\MMF159\MMFPR114 (from a print server) instead of MMFPR114 directly. A license is therefore taken for 7 days
Or impossible to print directly because message "Error 1401: you have exceeded your maximum number of licensed printers"
I would like to be able to remove the use of this license to allow printing on the live one.
Is there a delete or reset procedure?
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Hello Mickael,
Thank you for reaching us via our Community Forums!
This error message is usually linked to the duplication or overuse of the printers licensed by your BarTender Licensing Server. We recommend you review this article on Error 1401 so you can learn how to prevent this error in the future.
If you navigate to "BarTender Administration Console > Licensing > Printer Usage" on your BarTender Administration Console, you should be able to view your printer usage and the licenses assigned to different printers:
Can you see any duplicated printers in the Printers Used in the Last 7 Days table? If so, we might be facing a duplicated printer issue. Please follow the steps detailed on the link I referenced earlier in this post in order to correct the issue (in my experience, most of the time, it's just a printer being named differently in multiple machines using BarTender and installing them using the same naming convention and installation method usually fixes the issue).
That being said, we would need to wait for the assigned licenses to return back to the license pool in order to reassign them. BarTender's licensing method is printer-based, when used, its printers get a license assigned to them, these will expire and return to the license pool after a week of inactivity so other printers can pick them up and use them.
We recommend you review our white paper on Printer-Based Licensing.
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Hello Xabier,
Thank you for your quick support.
There is only one solution to solve my issue, it is to wait 7 days (without activity on the printer) for the license to be available again0
That is an option; however, if you have an active Maintenance and Support agreement with us, I would also suggest opening a ticket with our expert technicians, as depending on the configuration, they could offer some additional help.
You can reach us via the Get Support tab. Please, input your Support Number (located on BarTender Designer's Help > About menu) so all avenues of support are available to you.
However, as previously stated, this option would be Maintenance and Support dependent.
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Research of characteristics of nanomodified dry building mixes
The constraint of successful development of building business is deficiency of domestic building materials, in particular, dry building mixes, competitive in comparison with foreign analogs. Use industrial dry building mixes has changed shape of civil works all over the world thanks to intensive studying of influence of nanomodification on concrete properties.
In Western Europe manufacture and application of dry mixes in building has mass character. On one inhabitant the manufacture of dry mixes in Germany is about 30 kg a year, and in Finland and Sweden about 20 kg; in Poland this figure makes about 23 kg. In Russia volume of consumption of dry mixes is much more low – a little more than 2 kg a year. Modern manufacture of dry mixes in Russia is in a formation stage, but certain successes are already reached.
Perspective direction of the solution of an actual problem of competitive building materials release is use of nanomodification process of dry building mixes on a cement-sandy basis. In the given work the building materials received in the course of two-phasic nanomodification were investigated: at the first stage the basic components were exposed mechanical activation (crushing). At the second stage in a mix the carbon nanostructures were added (fullerenes, nanotubes, amorphous carbon).


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Staying far away from my significant other is part of being a student at Carnegie Mellon. When stepping onto a bus or a plane back to Pittsburgh, I can feel the fine threads connecting our hearts begin to wind out and stretch. My heart lies in his chest, when I spool out our connecting thread to cover the miles between us, the emptier my chest is. That thread has never broken, but sometimes it feels as thin as gossamer, like a harsh breath could whither it.
We're choosing wedding rings this week. Plain gold bands, no troubling diamonds, no scratchy patterns. Simple. I was trying to remember why I wanted a ring at all–shopping for rings when living two states apart is lonesome-making. Looking at another elegant sliver of connection, I realized what the ring is to me. My wedding ring is that thin thread made solid. Even when we live together, it will be a reminder of the strength we spun into our relationship by living apart for our first five years.
With this in mind, I can see myself washing gardening dirt out from under my wedding ring, or rubbing lotion around it, or spinning it with my thumb during a meeting. Knowing the ring is a symbol for something which feels unique to my dear and I, it has a place in my future.
Now, to buy the darned thing.
Inspirational Quote:
"Shall we compare our hearts to a garden –
with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,
swooping birds and sunshine, rain –
and most importantly, seeds."
–Grey Livingston


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My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do. Votes: 13
Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you. Votes: 11
Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decision to sit down and start watching TV. Every other time slot is a time slot that happens after someone's watching something else. Votes: 10
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories. Votes: 10
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie. Votes: 10
I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass. Votes: 8
I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing. Votes: 8
I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me. Votes: 8
I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that. Votes: 7
When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy. Votes: 6
Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy. Votes: 6
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job. Votes: 6
The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it. Votes: 6
I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death. Votes: 6
I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing. Votes: 6
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. Votes: 6
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do. Votes: 6
I surround myself with loyalists and people that I would die for. I just would rather die than make bad stuff for people because I'm a terrible dishwasher and a terrible lover and a terrible pet owner. Votes: 5
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas. Votes: 5
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive. Votes: 4
I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists. Votes: 3
I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people. Votes: 2
When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere. Votes: 1
My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me realize people and dogs are the crazy ones. Votes: 1
I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching. Votes: 1
Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're invited to parties, and everybody likes you. Votes: 0
People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it. Votes: 0
I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women. Votes: 0
I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy. Votes: 0
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do. Votes: 0
When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot. Votes: 0
There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up. Votes: 0
Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself. Votes: 0
Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever. Votes: 0
Audiences, as they get smaller, can intensify their relationship with the product, and so can the creative relationship with the people that you are serving. The good news is that, the more shows there are, the less the conglomerates have to gain by breaking the will of each individual creative. Votes: 0
There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one. Votes: 0
The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too. Votes: 0
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end. Votes: 0
I'd just love to sit at home, wake up at 10AM, go to my own office with my dog, and write a movie. I don't know if I'm capable of doing that though. I think I'll just end up playing Minecraft and self-destructing. Votes: 0
The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy. Votes: 0
You have people saying two things that seem to contradict each other. One, that we live in a golden age of TV. The other, that television is dying. There's a reason for that. What we mean when we say it's dying is that it's already way past being fragmented into little chunks. Now it's being polarized into an aerosol mist. Votes: 0
It's so difficult to write good music. It's also really difficult to think about how to do it without violating the sanctity of the fourth wall. Votes: 0
Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead. Votes: 0
Wake up in the morning and say, 'I refuse to be a hack,' and see what happens by the end of the day. Votes: 0
I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose. Votes: 0
I was raised on NBC television. Votes: 0
I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves. Votes: 0
Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of⦠meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting. Votes: 0
The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes. Votes: 0
I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even. Votes: 0
I say what's in my head, and I'm on honest ground. That is worth so much, and I think it does make my job, as a writer, easier. It makes it possible for me to give people stuff that they like. Votes: 0
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesnât make you good. Writing badly does. Votes: 0
You'll be perfect when you're dead Votes: 0
I think thoughts in my head bounce around in my skull and, if they keep bouncing around in my skull, they get worse and worse. When they come out of my mouth, they make people happy. Votes: 0
'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug. Votes: 0
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system. Votes: 0
If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television. Votes: 0
I really like performing for people. Votes: 0
I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge. Votes: 0
With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons. Votes: 0
If somebody's cat happens to turn on the TV, my numbers can double. It's almost unrelated to what's really happening. Votes: 0
I became part of a little study group in community college and started caring about strangers. It gave me insight into what an asshole I was. I saw that I had only lived half of a life. Votes: 0


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Children of God: An Our Daily Bread Devotional Video
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The color of your skin, where you come from, and other people's misconceptions about you don't matter. Jesus died for you; and when you believe this truth, God welcomes you with open arms into His family. You are accepted by God, and you are His child.


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Amazon's Fallout series casts Walton Goggins in a lead role – Destructoid
Goggins' character will reportedly be based on the ghouls of Fallout
Amazon Prime's Fallout TV series has cast a lead role. Walton Goggins will be playing a lead in the streaming service's adaptation of the video game series.
Official details are scarce on who Goggins will be playing. Amazon's Fallout series still seems to take place in the general setting of the game series, where people try to survive in an America ravaged by nuclear war.
According to Variety, Goggins' character will be based on the ghouls of Fallout. Ghouls, if you're unfamiliar, are humans who have been morphed and mutated by radiation exposure. These ghouls are also immune to radiation, and un-ghouled humans tend to look down upon them as well.
Walton Goggins is set as a lead in #Fallout, Prime Video's series adaptation of the bestselling game franchise, which comes from Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's Kilter Films, with Nolan set to direct the premiere https://t.co/aZzMp2C5sz pic.twitter.com/wFr7HpxSUh
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) February 18, 2022
Goggins is currently appearing in HBO's The Righteous Gemstones, and has had notable roles in series like Justified, The Shield, and Sons of Anarchy. Aside from his TV work, Goggins also played some great roles in Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight and Django Unchained.
The Fallout series is set to go into production this year. Westworld co-creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy are on the project, with the former directing the season premiere. Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner are showrunners for the Amazon series.
Video game adaptations are pretty darn popular these days. It seems like we're seeing more and more get greenlit and spin up production, and they're running the gamut from big Hollywood blockbusters to prestige streaming service series. Goggins is a pretty good lead-off choice for this cast, especially in a potentially ghoulish role. We'll see what else Amazon has in store for the world of Fallout as they announce more castings.


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For his directorial debut, the upcoming surreal fantasy How to Catch a Monster, Ryan Gosling (who also wrote the film) hired a dream analyst to advise his actors. Let that soak in for a minute: Ryan Gosling had his cast consult with a dream analyst. It's an eccentric move, even for a guy as eccentric (and dreamy) as Gosling. But, as with all things Quirky Gosling, it's pretty fantastic as well. According to Saoirse Ronan, who stars in the film alongside Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, and Matt Smith, the analyst was a woman named Greta. She had the actors write themselves letters each night — something along the lines of, "Dear inner self, if it is your will, reveal to me in a dream tonight what my character's relationship is to this other character," Ronan told Vulture. Then they let their subconscious provide the answers.
"We would come in the next day to discuss our dreams with each other, and act them out," says Ronan, who stars in this weekend's new Wes Anderson film, The Grand Budapest Hotel. "I'd tell Greta, 'Listen, I don't know what this is, but I was doing this last night, and then this person popped up [in my dream]' and she'd make sense out of it. And that was our rehearsal." By sharing their dreams — recurring dreams in Hendricks's case — "it made us become very close," Ronan said. "It was a very new method for me, because all of a sudden, Ryan was encouraging us to incorporate our own personalities into our characters, how you feel about things, what your anxieties are, and things like that."
Ronan plays a girl called Rat in the movie. (Because "she kind of lives like a rat," Ronan explains.) "She lives in this house with her grandmother, and her grandmother's a hoarder, and there's lots of man-made tunnels within the house, because there's so much memorabilia that the grandmother's collected over the years. And I had a pet rat, Nick. Ryan had shown me photos, and he said, 'So these are the rats we can choose from.' And there was this beautiful white Siberian rat, like a Russian rat, or something like that, and he had beautiful eyes, and I thought, Oh! He's really nice. And Ryan was like, 'Oh! I think we're going to go with a sewer rat. The mousey, brown-gray sewer rat.'" But by and large, Gosling was the expert collaborator you'd expect him to be, allowing for improvisation, and getting everyone psyched to shoot the same scene in different locations. "It kind of felt like a guerrilla-style filmmaking experience," Ronan said. "We'd learn our scenes the night before, and then he'd tell us to just forget about that, and just chat. I found it very brave, for him to have so much trust in his cast."
The Grand Budapest Hotel was a much more structured proposition, it being a Wes Anderson production and all. Ronan plays Agatha, a bakery employee who makes a popular dessert, Courtesans au chocolat. (Anderson dreamt up this goodie, but Anemone Müller-Grossman, a pastry chef in Görlitz, Germany, where the movie was filmed, actually created it.) The pastry, like everything in Grand Budapest, was carefully prepared in advance; Anderson knew exactly what he wanted. "His script was like reading a storybook. Everything was extremely specific. He puts all these storyboards together, and he uses animatics to show what the film is going to look like, almost every single shot." Anderson also created voices for all the characters, and before a take, he would demonstrate what he wanted from an actor by playing the audio he'd created on his iPad mini. "I feel like there's a part of Wes in every one of his characters," Ronan said. "In the way they speak, the way they communicate, their hand gestures. They're all distinctly Wes."
One distinct perk for Ronan: working with Ralph Fiennes, who plays the movie's legendary hotel concierge. You see, she's a huge Harry Potter fan. "I forgot that I was working with Voldemort [at the time]. But every time I think about it, I pinch myself." Coincidentally, she's working with another Potter villain, Jason Isaacs, in the film she's now shooting, Stockholm, Pennsylvania. One magical encounter continues to elude her, though: "I want to work with Harry Potter, do you know what I mean? I want to work with the Boy Who Lived. I wanted to marry [Daniel Radcliffe] when I was 7. I don't anymore, but … we'll see how things go!"


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Consultant: 'Traditional cereal companies fooled themselves for years'
New Nutrition Business has published its annual 12 key trends in food, nutrition and health that include weight wellness, permission to indulge, slow energy and the snackification of everything, among others.
Healthy foods consultant and director of New Nutrition Business Julian Mellentin said that the latter has gained most traction in the breakfast area.
"The snackification of everything is going to go running on through next year, and probably into the end of our working careers… Breakfast at the moment is the segment where it's happening furthest," Mellentin told BakeryandSnacks.com.
"Traditional cereal companies fooled themselves for years. They decided to believe that people were happy every day to have cereal with milk poured on it. But people are eating toast, bagels, fruit and other on-the-go options," he said.
In the US alone, cereal consumption has dropped by around 1% each year for the last decade, according to Rabobank data.
'Belvita recognized what was happening'
"The biggest killer of innovation is senior management because they're highly risk averse"
Mondelez was the first major company to recognize this shift in breakfast consumption habits, Mellentin said, with the launch of its Belvita breakfast biscuits that have since done tremendously well.
"Only now, with the trend established for about 15 years, and after Belvita, are cereal companies rushing to catch up," he said.
Traditional cereal sales will continue to decline because consumer preferences have moved on, he said; therefore cereal companies need to re-design their business.
"Certainly if you're a traditional cereal manufacturer, you have to accept there's a huge segmentation of the market. Breakfast is not just cereal; it's Starbucks, smoothies, fruit. Manufacturers should find all the segments to compete in – it requires a diversification of your product portfolio. Portfolios will have to become highly fragmented," he said.
Overcoming the fear of 'risk'
Cereal companies are playing catch up on the snackification trend because of a fear of change, Mellentin said.
"Senior management are often locked into a paradigm of business that made sense when they started, and it takes a lot of courage to change."
However, companies succeeding – with the sales figures to back it – are those innovating and changing in the marketplace, he said.
"It's riskier to stay with something old than trying something new. The fear of risk is actually riskier than going ahead and doing it… You have to look at the markets as they are, not as you'd like them to be."
Changes must be taken before competitors or other businesses from different categories.
"Existing management will always lose to outsiders unless they change their thinking… The biggest killer of innovation is senior management because they're highly risk averse," Mellentin said.


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Painting kitchen cabinets is often recommended as a quick and inexpensive way to update or improve your kitchen. I've seen some kitchens ruined by paint, I have also painted cabinets for customers in the past (though I no longer provide that service) and have had very good results.
So how do you know if you're going to improve or ruin you cabinets with paint?
The main benefit to painting kitchen cabinets is cost. Especially if you do it yourself. If you're going to pay a qualified professional to it then the cost becomes less of a benefit. If you are going to paint your cabinets yourself I would offer these tips:
Go to a paint store (we happen to like Benjamin Moore and PPG) and tell them what you are painting. They will ask a few questions and then recommend to you the best product for your application. You will pay more for the paint but only by a few dollars and your will get a much better result
Plan for the project to take 3 to 4 days. This is not a weekend project if you want to do it correctly. Even if you have lots of help paint must dry over night between coats and before your reinstall you hinges and pulls. You can keep using your kitchen to cook dinner etc… but you have to be real careful not spill anything on the new paint.
You'll need a lot of room to layout your cabinet doors. You can only paint one side of your cabinet doors at time and need to let them dry overnight before you flip them.
Painting your cabinets properly is mostly about setting expectations. Plan for enough time and follow the steps above and you should be OK. Most people though will make a mistake or three that can ruin the whole project. Here are some don'ts:
Paint is soft, goes on thick and is not very durable on hard surfaces like wood. Lacquer goes on in thin coats and is a hard, durable surface.
When most people, even professionals, see a solid color on a cabinet they call it "paint". What you are usually looking at though is called tinted lacquer. Lacquer is a harder more durable surface than paint and is a superior product for cabinets and furniture. It is however hard to apply, requires proper safety gear and a must be sprayed on for a smooth finish, it's not really DIY friendly.
Lacquer also smells pretty bad and should not be breathed in as it contains VOCs (volitile organic compounds). That makes it difficult to spray lacquer in an occupied home.
There are water based lacquers with much lower VOC content (all of our finishes are water based) and they are much better but still I wouldn't spray them in your home unless you hire someone with a lot of experience in work area containment and can control the spray.
That's why most people recommend paint for DIYers. But paint is soft and not ideally suited for cabinets.
Expect your painted cabinets to have a 5 year lifespan. Then you should consider replacing or refacing your cabinets.
Cabinet refacing is the process of customizing your cabinets by replacing your doors and drawer fronts with new, custom made doors and drawers. Your face frames and end panels are covered in a 1/4 solid core plywood skin that is color matched to your doors and drawers.Click Here to Learn More
Low Cost if DIY
Medium Cost if hire a pro
Can look good
short lifespan – 5 – 7 years
Not highly valued for resale
Door style doesn't change
hinge style stays the same
Disruptive – can't use kitchen for several days
Medium cost
Looks amazing
Keep using your kitchen
Keep your counter tops
Change door style
Upgrade hinges
Some customization possible
Limited ability to change kitchen layout
Cabinet boxes must be in good shape
All new cabinets
Also looks amazing
Change style, hinges etc…
Change layout
New Cabinets Cons
Highest Costs
Disruptive – can't use kitchen for 2 weeks or more
Also need new counter tops
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For any organization, the overriding objective is a term that refers to the "raison d'être", the main reason that the organization even exists. It is critical that the entire senior management team be in consensus on what this is. And while that may sound obvious, the fact is, most senior managers tend to have different interpretations of what the overriding objective is.
In the private sector, the overriding objective must be (either directly or indirectly) tied to return on investment. Michael Porter, the famous strategist, said it himself: "Start with the right goal: superior long term return on investment." When asked why they exist, many senior managers in private sector companies claim it's about "employees", "customers", "quality", or something else that sounds much more noble than profits. It is simply not true. While we can all agree that employees and customers must be treated well, we are talking about the overriding objective here, which is always return on investment. This sets the table for establishing a strong financial perspective in both the strategy map and the balanced scorecard.
In the public and not-for-profit sectors, the overriding objective deals with something other than profits. Not to suggest money isn't important; as the saying goes, "No cash flow, no vision". Money and profits may certainly be critical; however, they are not the raise on that for these industries. Some social contribution is. It is important that the overriding objective be framed to discuss what that social contribution is, perhaps what the ideal outcomes might be. In this way, the customer perspective (sometimes called the stakeholder perspective) can be focused and understood.
Choosing an overriding objective is the first step in strategy mapping, which technically makes it the first step in building a balanced scorecard. Getting it right, and gaining consensus on it, is a critical early step. Whether or not an organization uses strategy maps, it's strategic planning should place early emphasis on this important step. With a great beginning and a sharpened focus, strategy execution and achievement of strategic objectives (including alignment) become much more likely.
This short video quickly walks you through all of the steps involved in building a strategy map.
#strategymapping, #balanced scorecard, #strategicplanning, #strategicalignment


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SG Arts: Undertone Exhibition @ iPreciation Gallery
Yesterday saw the conclusion of Undertone, an exhibition at the iPreciation gallery of 3 emerging artists from Singapore: Yeo Tze Yang, Bess Chan, and Goh Jian Hong. As an aspiring creator myself – albeit of a different medium – I wanted to witness the efforts of these artists, two of whom are younger than me. Their works share a liminal quality, perhaps reflective of Singapore's uncertain position. I feature below one work apiece of the trio:
Alas, the trio's exhibition is a small one, and thankfully burnished with, in particular, the exploits of Lee Wen a.k.a. Yellow Man. While the young artists play tricks on our eyes, the Yellow Man makes it hard for me to believe my eyes. His two photos here are in truth among the least provocative; some others are showcased on iPreciation's website. It's not complete, though, so hopefully his exhibits are still up shall you decide to make your way to this cosy gallery at 50 Cuscaden Road!


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Bathroom Under $30,000
Gold Award
Westhill Construction Co., Los Gatos, Calif.
Project location: Los Gatos, Calif.
Sq. ft. before and after: 64
Project cost: $28,500
Oftentimes the best remodeling design arises from the challenge of a modest budget or from working within the confines of a small space. In this case, a wonderfully transformed bathroom resulted from both circumstances.
The clients sought a spa-like retreat that connected to their patio and pool beyond. At the same time, they sought to keep the same footprint. The solution was to keep all of the major fixtures in roughly the same places. To meet the patio connection objective, they replaced a tall window with a new full-light door to the patio. But the real creativity involved the finishes and colors.
A stacked stone wall was created for the shower area. Travertine marble was laid on the floor in a French pattern, and body sprays as well as niches for shampoos and soaps were added to make the shower as spa-like as possible.
A grand total of 2 sq. ft. were added to the shower space, which allowed for the addition of a small bench and a pony wall to create some privacy for the toilet area.
Remarkably the same vanity — original to the house in 1965 — was reused in this remodel. Westhill Construction commissioned new doors and drawers to be built to replace the existing — adding a great deal of visual interest to the room in the process. Excellent trim carpentry played an important role via a rich crown molding, beautiful casing around the door, and a nicely proportioned baseboard.
Looking at the before and after shots of this 64 sq. ft. bathroom, it is hard to believe it is the same space.
To see which products we used and the other winners, please click here!


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The holidays can make keeping to a set training and eating plan challenging to say the least and many take the New Year as a time to start fresh.
Eat mindfully; eat away from the computer and TV and avoid multi-tasking to prevent unnecessary extra energy intake, it is easy to finish a whole packet of cookies while watching your favorite show on Netflix's.
Set realistic expectations; start by focusing on one meal/day as mindful eating.
Try to avoid snacking on the run; consume meals sitting at the table with no distractions
Eat slowly; appreciate the food presentation, chew adequately and put down cutlery between mouthfuls
Choose high quality ingredients when preparing your meals; you may find that you are satisfied with smaller amounts of good quality food versus large portions of poor quantity food
Keep a food diary to record your food and beverage intake
Be aware of the energy content of hot and cold beverages
Get back on track with your training or set a small, realistic physical activity goal
Remember an average of 50kcal/d in surplus of your needs over the course of a year equates to an overall weight gain of ~2.4kg!!


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Under data protection laws, organisations should not transfer data outside of the EEA or the UK to a country or recipient where the GDPR does not apply, except in very limited circumstances. The restriction applies no matter who you are and no matter how much personal data is being transferred or type of personal data being transferred.
After the Brexit transition period, when the UK officially leaves the EU, the UK will become a "third country" for the purposes of the GDPR. This means that any data transfers from the EEA to the UK will also be restricted. There are some exceptions to this restriction and one of those is by using the Standard Contractual Clauses.
To facilitate ex-EEA transfers of personal data, the European Commission has approved a set of standard contractual provisions called the Standard Contractual Clauses ("SCCs") that ensure parties properly protect personal data that is transferred outside of the EEA. There are SCCs that cover controller to controller and controller to processor transfers. If there is a transfer of personal data outside of the EEA (including to the UK), you should consider whether or not the SCCs should be implemented between the parties.


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Registration is open now through May 1st, 2020.
Please see the links at the top of this page to register for either a video or live presentation
Please prepare your students by giving them guidance on the type of presentation you expect them to give, tips on how to give a presentation without an audience in the room, and ideas for effective visual aids in the virtual space. You can also encourage them to attend one of OSCAR's presentation workshops, the dates for which are listed at the top of this page.
Please feel free to direct them to our resources document as well.


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Armed with extremely brutal melee weapons, these Veterans are ready to leap into combat, chain blades ready to rip and tear at any foe they find.
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This year's traditional Huntington Beach Cruise-In was our 10th anniversary, and as such, it was featured prominently in ReinCarNation Magazine by our good friend Steve Temple. Steve writes for the magazine, and has been a fixture in the replica industry since the 90s. The magazine is the only one that chronologs the happenings in the replica business exclusively. This Huntington Beach Feature is 6 pages with a bunch of photos from the event. Click here to subscribe to ReinCarNation Magazine.
Click here to read our full recap of the 2017 Huntington Beach Cruise-In.
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The dog chews were distributed in the U.S. and Canada. Here's what to look for.
Dogs who ate the treats are turning up sick, and vets think they know why: While the products are from the U.S., all of the ingredients may not be.
For years, people have claimed that Beneful has caused severe illness and death in dogs. A class-action suit has been filed in an effort to prove it.
An Oklahoma woman sells homemade treats as an alternative to ones from China, but will this really solve the complex problem of dogs getting sick?
Finally, retailers are removing jerky treats made in China, which have been responsible for thousands of pet deaths over the years.
Health officials in New Hampshire are pointing to the dog treat as the culprit behind the outbreak of Salmonella.
The dog-food giant issues a "voluntary retrieval" of turkey and lamb Shakeables.
Salmonella fears affect dry food under the labels California Natural, Healthwise, Evo, and Innova.
The move is not related to the ongoing jerky-treat scandal. Milo's Kitchen also recalls jerky treats.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Active3 User Manual & Review – This tablet with the Samsung name code SM-T575 is known to already support the MIL-STD 810H certificate on tablet battery life with a capacity of 5,050 mAh. Galaxy Tab Active3 is also equipped with an IP68 dust/waterproof feature.
Reportedly, Samsung Galaxy Tab Active3 will be available in two storage configurations, namely 64GB and 128GB combined with 4GB of RAM. As for the look, this latest tablet uses an 8-inch PLS TFT display with a resolution of 1920×1200 pixels.
Like most Samsung-made tablets, the Galaxy Tab Active 3 is also equipped with an S Pen digital pen and Bluetooth 5.0 connectivity. For the camera sector, the Galaxy Tab Active 3 is supported by a 13-megapixel main camera, plus AF, while the front camera is 5-megapixels.
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Screen size, 8.0 inches
Touchscreen, Yes, Multi-Touch
Resolution, 1.200 x 1.920 pixels
Screen type, PLS TFT
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Chipset, Exynos 9810 <10 nm>
OS Android, v10
Storage space, 64GB/128 GB
MicroSD, Yes
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The main camera, 13MP
Features, panorama, HDR, LED flash
The front camera, 5-megapixel
- Connectivity
Bluetooth, Yes, 5.0, A2DP
Wi-Fi, Yes
GPS, Yes
USB, Yes, USB Type-C 3.1
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According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk donated 5,044,000 Tesla shares from Nov. 19 to Nov. 29. The donation was valued at $5.7 billion and was done when the company share price was above $1,000. The filing doesn't name the charity and shows an unidentified trust was involved in the transaction. The donation value is similar to the one mentioned at the time by the director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), Eli David, when criticising Tesla's CEO regarding his ability to solve world hunger with a $6B donation. However, it is not confirmed that Musk donated with this purpose.
Responding to this tweet, Musk said "If WFP (World Food Program) can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it."
The donation came during a sold of $16.4 billion worth in shares after polling Twitter users about offloading 10% of his stake in the electric-car maker in early November for Tax purposes. Musk paid more than $11 billion in taxes in 2021 due to his exercise of stock options set to expire this year.
According to CNN, Musk has established a foundation that makes grants in support of causes including pediatric research and science education, but there are few details available on its bare-bones website.


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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which has partnered with Google Cloud for many years in the agency's worldwide mission, quickly tapped cloud-driven capabilities to render quick assistance last year to Afghanis fleeing their country for haven in the United States.
Zecharia Kahn, division chief for IT Operations at USAID, said the agency was first on the ground when thousands of Afghan refugees began arriving at Dulles International Airport in August 2021 as part of a U.S. airlift operation that transported more than 75,000 people out of the country.
"[We] built on the fly a system for tracking all of the refugees coming in," Khan said at the Google Government Summit on Nov. 15.
Using Google Cloud, his team was able to immediately scale up the tracking tool up and share information with other Federal agencies so the refugees could access the aid they needed.
Khan told the packed room the story about a deaf teenager who had lost the rest of his family during the commotion to escape Kabul and fly to America. Because of the agency's partnership with Google, they were able to come together and leverage technology to quickly reunite the boy with his parents in the U.S.
We were able to unite them with "no problem," Khan said, because we had the tools holding all the refugees' information. "It was something really interesting that shows two sides to that technology," he said.
Over the decade-plus that USAID has been using cloud services, the agency has been diversifying around it to meet more customer needs. The cloud service meets and brings value that the agency and its customers can "really see and feel," Khan said.
"We invested in cloud solutions across the board," he continued. "It really is something that has provided . . . scalability, usability, and quality that you can control."
Kahn said that Google was already putting their resources into artificial intelligence and machine learning to do things like spam control and building it into their tools, which are key to implementing workforce readiness and meeting USAID's mission.
"Readiness is one of the most essential things. The reason that we've done a lot of the cloud things we've done is meeting our mission in over 90 countries with people all around the world," Khan said. "The last couple years we've dealt with unprecedented incidents and events – whether that be in Ukraine or Afghanistan or Haiti – where we've had to have people ready."
"When it came to the pandemic, we were already fully cloud ready and we had all the mobile devices. We had already been working for years and years and years on providing information to people wherever they are, whatever they needed," Khan said.


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Revelation 17
Apparently, St. John forgot the rock and roll.
I mean, the sex and drugs (alcohol) are here, so where's the rock and roll to complete the unholy trinity?
I could spend my day (and days) trying to decipher the prophetic meanings of the Beast, the Harlot, Babylon, and other apocalyptic delicacies. But I won't. I want to get right to the meaning for me today. Because I've already meditated on these other meanings and have come to the conclusion that Revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ, first to the first century world of John's audience, and second to the rest of history, I don't need to dwell on exotic esoteric extrapolations.
But the Harlot surely seems to be first-century Judaism, which was the Bride of God and who was portrayed by previous prophets to be a whore. She is the one drunk with the blood of the saints and martyrs, and if we follow the symbolic logic of John we can see that the apocalyptic event he was revealing was the destruction of the Old Covenant and the revelation of the New.
The revolutionary nature of God's transmutation of the Old into the New is John's theme, and it is a grand one indeed. Only such shocking, prophetic, poetic language could do justice to the enormity of the change that God was bringing upon the world in the first century.
But so enormous is the scope of John's theme and the continuing battle of Satan and his allies against God that it reverberates down to our own day. More than reverberating, it is being perpetuated in our own day, and therefore we should look for signs of similar evil in our own lives.
Which brings me back to sex and drugs and rock and roll.
When I was a kid and we visited other people's houses, they always had the coolest games. They were the ones with the Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Twister, and Mystery Date. What? You don't remember Mystery Date? You don't remember wondering whether behind the door you would find a "dream" or a "dud"? Countless girls across America were disappointed when they had their eyes on the Dream but ended up with the Dud.
In fact, that scenario is being played out across America even as we speak. Countless girls are dating and marrying guys who look like dreams but will end up being revealed as duds.
Even more ominously, across the globe today countless people are opening the doors of their souls and letting in Mystery Dates. They think they're only dating for fun but find out that who you date determines your life.
I'm no longer talking primarily about romantic dating but about the ways in which we connect ourselves with all sorts of people, places, things, and ideas that seem like harmless fun but who will seduce us away from God given a chance. Alive and kicking here on planet Earth is Mystery Babylon, and she's out to get you.
In John's day, the Mediterranean world of the first century Roman Empire, Mystery Babylon looked like this: she committed fornication with the inhabitants of earth and made them drunk with the wine of her fornication. She was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. In her hand was a golden cup that appeared to be the choicest wine but inside was full of abomination and filth.
But she's changed with the times. Just as Barbie has had to change her wardrobe and have plastic surgery, Mystery Babylon has had an extreme makeover, the better to seduce you with. You've seen her before, in a supermarket in California and gyrating on your boob tube. She announces herself to you as you stand in line at WalMart, taking the form of many women so that in the supermarket of supermarkets you can have your pick.
She floats and whispers in your head as you listen to your Ipod or TV or someone else's. She insinuates herself into our music so that she becomes ubiquitous. Her voice is breathless and orgiastic, and she likes not only gold and silver but also silicon. She is employed at the bathing suit manufacturers, insuring that no decent bathing suit will be sold in the U.S. this year, and she inhabits the "safe" chick flicks that have only a little smut and a lot of smile but secretly invite you to take a step closer into her intoxicating world.
She stands walking the avenues of the Internet, waiting to catch your eye with a pop up ad that suggests and allures. She stands and waits because she knows that the men (and now the women) will come. She knows that (supposedly) 50 percent of men viewed pornography within one week of attending a Promise Keepers stadium event.
She commits incredibly lewd, public acts, at least in part so that less dramatic wickedness becomes permissible.
And that's just the sensual side of her. She has many ways of catching a man's (or woman's) eye, and greed works as well as sex. She will chain you with silky manacles or she'll enslave you with a buffet of choice, for she knows that once you're addicted to choice you'll want nothing more but more. If you don't like your job, you can quit and look for another one. When your toys are broken, you don't need to fix the old ones because now there's something shinier to buy. Your technology is out of date and obsolete, even when it works fine for free. Relationships, too, are fungible, and another one is always available, courtesy of Mystery Babylon. And (just in case you didn't know) she's got a catalog of deities, including Christian ones, that you can choose from: just select the features you want!
If you were to transport people from previous eras (though not all) to contemporary America, "Surely", they would think, "I am in Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlots!" And they'd be right, for she inhabits every age and every culture. She is not only back there in the first century Mediterranean world but also right here and over there.
So don't think that as you safely speculate about who Mystery Babylon may have been or who she will be, concern yourself instead with who she is and where she is. And therefore never send to know for whom Mystery Babylon is coming: she comes for thee!
Prayer: When the enemy comes in a'roarin' like a flood,
Coveting the kingdom and hungering for blood,
The Lord will raise a standard up and lead His people on,
The Lord of Hosts will go before defeating every foe;
Defeating every foe.
For the Lord is our defense, Jesus defend us,
For the Lord is our defense, Jesu defend.
Some men trust in chariots, some trust in the horse,
But we will depend upon the Name of Christ our Lord,
The Lord has made my hands to war and my fingers to fight.
The Lord lays low our enemies, but He raises us upright;
He raises us upright.
For the Lord is our defense, Jesus defend us,
For the Lord is our defense, Jesu defend.
A thousand fall on my left hand, ten thousand to the right,
But He will defend us from the arrow in the night.
Protect us from the terrors of the teeth of the devourer,
Embue us with Your Spirit, Lord, emcompass us with power;
Encompass us with power.
For the Lord is our defense, Jesus defend us,
For the Lord is our defense, Jesu defend.
Amen. (King Alfred's War Song)
Lord God Almighty, shaper and ruler of all creatures, guide me to Thy will, to the need of my soul, better than I can myself. Steadfast my mind towards Thy will and to my soul's need. Strengthen me against the temptations of the devil, and put far from me every unrighteousness. Shield me against my foes, seen and unseen; and teach me to do Thy will, that I may inwardly love Thee before all things with a clean mind and clean body. For Thou art my maker and my redeemer, my help, my comfort, my trust, and my hope. Praise and glory be to Thee now, ever and ever, world without end. Amen. (King Alfred [edited])
Points for Meditation:
- In what ways does Mystery Babylon offer herself to you in your life?
- What are some of the subtle ways that our culture is seducing you away from God?
Resolution: I resolve to identify one area in my life where I am being seduced and vow to fast from it for a specified period of time.
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Empty, mocked-up shells of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, may help explain how well the virus stands up to heat, humidity and other environmental changes.
The research, just launched by physicists at The University of Utah, is designed to help public health officials understand how the new coronavirus will react as the seasons change. One major question about the virus, which causes a disease called COVID-19, is whether summer will do anything to slow the spread.
"Coronavirus spreads similarly to the influenza virus — as small mucus droplets suspended in the air … Viruses lose infectivity because the particles lose structural integrity," University of Utah physicist Saveez Saffarian said in a statement. "The physics of how the droplets evolve in different temperature and humidity conditions affect how infectious it is."
Along with physicist Michael Vershinin, Saffarian has just received a nearly $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study how the virus's protective outer shell responds to changes in heat and humidity. Viruses are not able to "do anything" on their own, as they are simply shells with genetic instructions tucked inside; when a virus invades a host's cells, it uses that cell's machinery to replicate itself, over and over again.
The research involves working with dummy versions of the virus's protective outer shell. Using the sequenced genome of SARS-CoV-2, the researchers are building synthetic versions of these shells, with no viral genomes inside. This makes the shells uninfectious and safe to work with.
"We're making a faithful replica of the virus packaging that holds everything together," Vershinin said in the statement. "The idea is to figure out what makes this virus fall apart, what makes it tick, what makes it die."
To manipulate the nano-sized dummy particles, Vershinin's lab uses a tool called optical tweezers — essentially, focused beams of light. The light's energy can be directed to move and probe individual molecules. Saffarian studies RNA viruses on a broader scale and is an expert in lab techniques that can track individual viral particles.
The researchers said they hope to find out how well the virus will transmit in different conditions, from outdoors in summer heat to indoors in air-conditioned offices. This could influence how long social distancing and lockdown policies will need to be in place.
"This is not a vaccine," Vershinin said. "It won't solve the crisis, but it will hopefully inform policy decisions going forward."
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UniTs research group wins Leonardo challenge
Leonardo S.p.a. has announced the winners of the first challenges promoted on Solvers Wanted, the innovation scouting platform. Thus Leonardo expands its ecosystem for encouraging research and innovation processes with Open Innovation initiatives, involving the academic world and start-ups, enlarging the network of organisations sharing the same vision.
Leonardo selected three of the many projects received for these first challenges, among them, the UniTs Bassi research group with the proposal "Noisy quantum algorithms". The winners were awarded a contract of collaboration with Leonardo to implement their respective solutions, and they will have the chance to join the Leonardo Team for Innovation network, adding the network brand to their logos.
"Collaboration with research centres, universities and start-ups is an accelerator driving innovation and the company's competitiveness", emphasised Franco Ongaro, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of Leonardo. "Solvers Wanted is a further tool supporting Leonardo's open innovation strategy to fuel the innovation supply chain in Italy".
The purpose of the project, based on the researches and findings of TEQ, is to generalize the Noise-Gate approach also to measurement-based quantum computing. The mathematical formalism remains the same but will be adapted to the case of photonic platforms.
Leonardo S.p.a. develops multi-domain capabilities in the Aerospace, Defence and Security sector. The company plays a prominent role in major international strategic programmes and is a trusted technological partner of governments, defence agencies, institutions and enterprises. Innovation, continuous research, digital manufacturing and sustainability are the cornerstones of Leonardo's business worldwide.


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The Mahindra Scorpio facelift has been testing vigorously as it approaches its D-Day. From the the numerous earlier spyshots it's clear that the updated SUV gets a comprehensive makeover to its front fascia.
IAB reader Mr. J Senthil Kumar has managed to click the headlamp cluster of the new Scorpio which houses a projector element. The shape of the new headlamp is edgy and features a tinted finish. The refreshed SUV sports dual barrel headlamp units (one projector and one halogen) with turn indicators at the bottom but LED daytime running lights are absent.
Apart from the reworked front fascia, the 2015 Scorpio has also been given a slightly revised rear bumper, tailgate and new LED taillights. Inside, the dashboard is redesigned and borrows its steering wheel from the XUV500.
Given that the current Scopio still manages to clock a monthly average of 4,411 units, the refreshed model is expected to leave the undercarriage untouched. The 2.2-litre mHawk diesel engine and the entry level 2.5-litre m2 DiCR diesel engine would soldier on without major changes.
The Mahindra Scorpio facelift should be here in the festive season, or early next year.
Competitors: Renault Duster, Nissan Terrano, Tata Safari Storme
Expected Price: INR 8.5-13 lakhs, ex-showroom


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30 Mar Boulder At Center of Colorado Justice Reform Bill In Wake Of Shooting
As the City of Boulder, Colorado mourns the victims of yet another mass shooting, the state legislature is considering a justice reform bill that would effectively end cash bail and dramatically reduce arrests. The bill has backing from the ACLU, and lobbyists say it is likely to pass. But it is not without its detractors.
What's inside SB21-062?
Senate Bill 21-062 has two main components. The first relates to an issue that is picking up steam around the country — ending cash bail. Under the bill, cash bail would all but go away. Courts would be prohibited from issuing a monetary bond for most crimes. That includes most felonies in addition to misdemeanors. It does, however, provide leeway for prosecutors. The bill states that monetary bail can be imposed if the court has significant reason to believe that the defendant will flee or is a danger to other people.
The other component of the bill relates to arrest procedures. It would prohibit police from arresting people for low-level crimes, including many felonies. Instead of taking people into custody, police would issue a municipal summons. The bill makes exceptions for some crimes, including DUIs, sex offenses or violations of protection orders. It also allows police to arrest repeat offenders if they can document that the suspect does not intend to comply or poses a danger to the public.
Some local business owners have expressed concern about the bill.
The justice reform bill has its fair share of detractors in Colorado, and many of them are in Boulder. So many, in fact, that Denise Maes, public policy director of the ACLU's Colorado chapter, acknowledged as much to reporter Shay Castle. "We look at Boulder as ground zero. That's where the most vocal opponents are."
Many of those opponents come from Boulder's small-business community. Part of the opposition is due to a rise in property crime over the last year. There was a 160% increase in robberies from 2019 to 2020 in Boulder. Property destruction also increased 64% during that period. This has coincided with a period in which COVID-19-related jail closures have allowed many who would usually be incarcerated to be released. Before the pandemic, jails in Colorado were operating at an average of 81% capacity. Since the closures began, the average occupancy is down to 47%.
The ACLU contends that this is attributable to correlation and not causation. But some business owners are still fighting the bill. The CEO of Downtown Boulder Partnership who simply goes by "Chip" testified against SB21-062. In his testimony, he expressed some of the dissatisfaction felt by members of the small business community.
"Businesses are really frustrated, and it's not based on nothing," said Chip, referring to the uptick in property crime. "Businesses are looking for some help, and this bill seems to be moving in a different direction."
Law enforcement was initially opposed to the bill.
In addition to Boulder's small business owners, law enforcement agencies were also initially hesitant about the bill.
"Personally, I just think that this is not the right time to explore that bill," said Police Cheif Maris Herold. "I don't think it's in the best interest of Boulder at this time. … (There is) community harm I think we'll be looking at if the bill is passed the way it is written now."
Some felt that the justice reform bill gives officers in Colorado too much discretion. The notion of whether or not someone is a threat to public safety or likely to continue to break the law is a subjective one. Historic racial, gender and sexual identity disparities in policing show where this could be problematic. To that effect, one councilman, Mark Wallach said that the bill could pose a "litigation nightmare."
But others felt that the bill was too lenient with people who break laws or fail to appear in court. Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle is one of them.
"We have people out in the community right now (with) 15-16 failures to appear," he said. "They're getting notices to go to court and just not going."
Councilmembers worked together with law enforcement and others to suggest amendments to SB21-062.
As a result, several members of the city council voted to amend the bill, rather than approve or oppose it. They worked together with Sheriff Pelle and others to refine the language in the bill. After deliberation, they came up with several proposed changes.
These amendments request that suspects could be arrested after one failure to appear, rather than three as is in the original bill. The amendments also seek to allow for an arrest for all crimes committed with any weapon, whereas the current language only specifies firearms. The amendments also look to add more felonies to the list of offenses warranting arrest.
Since the amendments were proposed, the County Sheriffs of Colorado and the Colorado District Attorneys' Council have changed their positions on the justice reform bill from "opposed" to "neutral."
What does SB21-062 mean for the future of justice reform in Colorado?
In an article published Mar. 20, SB21-062 was described as likely to pass. But that was two days before a gunman walked into a grocery store in Boulder and opened fire, killing 10 people. To be certain, nothing in SB21-062 would have changed that outcome. Nor would it have stopped police from arresting the shooter. Murder, manslaughter and serious assault all warrant arrest under the bill.
But that says nothing about the public perception of "soft on crime" policies and how events like the Mar. 22 shooting shape those perceptions. Lawmakers may indeed feel reluctant to sign a bill of that nature in the aftermath of a violent tragedy. Doing so could provide easy fodder for their opponents in forthcoming elections, especially in some of Colorado's more competitive districts.
The changes SB21-062 would make to policing and incarceration are monumental. Reducing arrests and cutting down on imprisonment would, in theory, save money and resources. It could also reduce the impact that an arrest has on an individual and the people around them. People wouldn't lose jobs for missing work because they can't afford bail for low-level allegations. It may also help cut down on the number of jail suicides, which occur at nearly five times the rate of those in state prisons and nearly nine times the rate of the general population.
But in light of recent events, lawmakers may be understandably apprehensive about shifting to a less punitive, more humane approach to policing and incarceration. The decision to vote "yea" or "nay" on SB21-062 may end up being a political one, rather than a practical or ethical one.


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01Feb03b Next USA madness...
USA: 14th January 2001, Press message
DA prosecutes mom who gave teen son condoms
You find out your teenage son is having sex. So what do you do? Do you try to stop him? Do you protect him by buying him condoms? Do you talk to him about it? Do you tell a priest? Guidance counselors? The police?
A 33-year-old Baraboo mother bought her son condoms, and could face up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine because Sauk County prosecutors think she made the wrong decision.
Because she told police she did not stop her 13-year-old son from having oral sex and sexual intercourse with his 15-year-old girlfriend, prosecutors allege, the mother failed to prevent her child from being sexually abused - and that's a felony.
Prosecutors and the mother's attorneys have until February to finish filing briefs before Sauk County Judge Guy Reynolds in the case, and a court date probably will be set then if the case is not dismissed.
Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett said no one in her office would comment on the case. But the mother's attorney, Derek Horkan of Reedsburg, argues that talking to your child about sex is constitutionally protected speech that can't be restricted by state laws.
"The prosecutor in this case, what her position is, is taking the statute beyond its intended meaning," said Horkan, who said his research has not turned up a similar case that went to trial in Wisconsin.