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Everything about our grand trip to the Eastern Hemisphere is an adventure. I mean, it's not every day you leave a comfortable home and a good job to go wandering around the world. But our trip to the Great Barrier Reef was the first part of our journey that really felt like an adventure. Until then we'd been mainly sightseeing and getting used to living in a foreign country. But September 13, 2015 was the first day of our two day live-aboard dive cruise on the Reef Encounter.
We'd never done a live-aboard before, and had only dived on day trips from the shore, which are a lot less expensive. But since we may only get to the Great Barrier Reef once, we decided to splurge. Besides, with the exchange rate in our favor, doing a liveaboard in Australia is a lot easier financially than in America.
The trip actually started Saturday night, in some regard. We could only take a small overnight bag onto the boat with us. Our little cabin on the boat wouldn't hold my giant yellow suitcase anyhow. So the trip started with us packing only the minimum into our little day packs, and then dragging our suitcases about 3/4 of a mile through town to the dive company office. Fortunately they stay open until 9pm.
Sunday morning, we got up early and with only a minimum of prep walked down to the wharf where we checked in for the boat ride. This dive operation has an interesting approach. They have one smaller boat called Reef Experience that goes back and forth from the Cairns wharf to the reef every day. People who sign up for a day trip just stay on that boat, but the people who are staying overnight at the live-aboard use that first boat as a transfer. That way the bigger boat, Reef Encounter, can just stay on the reef all day and all night, and passengers — and even the captain and crew — are ferried on and off. That allows them the flexibility to offer overnight live-aboard experiences for any number of days. We just signed up for one night, but other people we were there with were doing two or three or even four nights.
As an aside, the bigger boat with the cabins has a big crew, as you can imagine. There's the captain, who doubles as mechanic, I guess. But then there are nearly a dozen other staff members who are dive instructors, dive leaders, cooks, etc. And a couple of the people are essentially interns. In exchange for washing dishes, they get to dive for free. But back to my story.
Beth was diving, but due to my ear problems I can only snorkel anymore. There are three locations this company dives. They are, from north to south, Norman Reef, Saxon Reef, and Hastings Reef. The first two stops of the day were at the middle location. The first session was just to get our feet wet, no pun intended. Beth and I both snorkeled around, got used to swimming in the ocean again, etc. There were a lot of fish, but no huge ones.
For the second session of the day, Beth dived with the diving group and I snorkeled, using a "noodle" for extra buoyancy. After that, the crew moved the boat while we rested. Our third session was then at a place they call "Playground" in the Norman Reef.
The boat was parked far enough away from the fingers of the reef that we had to swim a ways over a deep sandy bottom to get to anything that was interesting. But while I was swimming over there, I did see a shark on the bottom. I couldn't tell you what kind of shark, since it was about 10 meters below me and the visibility wasn't great. Plus, what do I know about shark species? Once I got to the coral areas, I found it had lots of fish, and more interesting the fish were bigger. I saw some one surprisingly big parrotfish.
I've gotta talk about what a luxurious diving experience this was. I don't mean "luxurious" compared to staying in a fancy hotel where everything's clean and nice, but luxurious as far as diving goes. Having your own personal stateroom, even if it's small, is nice. After a dive, we could take off our gear and stow it outside, then come into our private bathroom and enjoy a (quick) warm shower to get the salt water off. The interior of the dive boat was air conditioned, too, which made it feel very nice (and probably reduces the chances of seasickness on warm days in rolling seas). Plus, we didn't have to worry about where to go for dinner, because the cooks were making hot meals and snacks for us, only about 50 feet from the dive platform and 50 feet from our beds. The liveaboard boat is heavily used because of the non-stop stream of divers and snorkelers coming and going, but the experience and service were great.
That night I slept on a boat for the first time. It was windy, and so the boat rocked some. I didn't sleep all that well. But it was reasonably comfortable, and when I couldn't sleep I went topside to look at the stars for as long as I could stand the cold wind, which wasn't really all that long. The boat's running lights stay on all night, and they attract tons of fish in the dark.
Day two could have started with an insanely early "water session" but we decided to sleep in a little. We had three more dive/snorkel sessions that day, with hot meals and snacks and warm showers in between. Then we transferred back onto the Reef Experience, and took a very bumpy trip back to shore.
After only a couple days at sea, I felt like my body was still swaying with the ocean as I walked around, and also when I went to bed that night. The next day, I felt a lot more stable. I don't know if this happens to everyone, or if it's just a side-effect of my slightly wonky inner ears.
Beth and I talked about the experience later. We both had fun, but neither of us is anxious to rush right back and do more snorkeling and diving. We'll have a couple opportunities later in our journey, but I don't know if we'll take them.
If you want to see more photos of our dive trip, I created a Flickr photo album of the 74 best shots (out of about 650) that I took with my GoPro. Check it out right here.


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For all those "Black Hatters" out there cloaking Google by User Agent (heh heh) we have one new UA to add to your list. Michael Gray reports that Google is now using yet one more user agent string for it's AdWords Quality Checker. So, if you are a cloaker and have been using UA strings like these:
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Googlebot/1.0 (firstname.lastname@example.com http://googlebot.com/)
Googlebot/2.0 beta (email@example.com)
Googlebot/2.0 (+http://googlebot.com/bot.html)
Googlebot/1.0 (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Googlebot/2.1w (+http://googlebot.com/bot.html)
Googlebot-w/2.1 (+http://googlebot.com/bot.html)
Google WAP Proxy/1.0
Nokia-WAPToolkit/1.2 googlebot(at)googlebot.com
you now have one more to add:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
My my my, what has the world come to.
DISCLAIMER: Well, for some reason I feel I must save the newbie from getting misled by my tongue in cheek posts around here. First, it is always a bad idea to cloak based on User Agent. Anybody can spoof that from their own browser and reveal your deception. Also, Google can control UA as it wants, thus detecting your deception. The consequences of cloaking are said to be serious (I would not know :-)
It has been said for years that Google sends stealth bots out without UA strings, from non-Google IPs as a test for cloaking. I always believed it, but never tested it. Why should I? I know UA cloaking is easy to defeat, so why use it? Well now Mr. Gray shows pretty solid evidence that Google is more than willing to cloak for competitive gain. Proof. There ya go.
This post of mine jokingly suggests you add that generic IE UA string to your cloaking list… that would be stupid. It's a basic UA string used by versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. You'd be cloaking a large percentage of your users. Don't do that, ok? Don't be stupid. The point (if your head doesn't already have one) is that you can't effectively cloak by UA. See?

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Mark out a 4 x 4 yard shooting zone inside the D on the edge of the 18 yard box. Two servers with a supply of balls stand either side of the goal, where the 6-yard box meets the goal line. Position an attacker inside the shooting zone.
A server fizzes the ball into the feet of the attacker standing inside the shooting zone. The attacker has two touches: one touch to control, then another to finish, staying inside the shooting zone at all times. Once the attacker has shot, the next pass comes in from the second server.
More after the break
To progress the drill instruct the servers to vary the height of their deliveries, challenging the attacker to control the ball with either their chest, knee or head. You can also reduce the size of shooting zone, testing the attacker's ability to kill the ball dead in a tight space.
"Make sure you're body is in the right position to receive the pass and you're facing goal ready to shoot, with your knees slightly bent. Then it's about your first touch, that sets up the rest of the drill."
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For the month of July, Rachelle Bernard-Elony was selected as our Employee of the Month. Rachelle has been an LPN for 13 years and has been bringing her amazing attitude and clinical skills to Woodbriar for the last two. When you ask Rachelle what she likes most about her job here, her humble answer is "Working with the patients and staff." Honestly, that's why WE LOVE working with Rachelle! When she's not covering our Andover unit, Rachelle spends time with her adorable 2 year old daughter and her husband. Rachelle loves to dance so be on the look-out for Woodbriar's Dancing Employee of the Month, Rachelle Bernard-Elony!
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Joey Beecher bio
Joey Beecher was born on March 16, 1973, to Frank and Ethel Beecher. His parents were too busy to offer much in the way of emotional support or encouragement. Frank worked two jobs to feed, clothe, and house the family, and Ethel was overextended as a homemaker even before she began working part-time as a maid.
The youngest of five boys, Joey quickly learned to rely on his fists to protect himself and his meager possessions from the many hands of his older brothers.
After high school, Joey worked a series of menial jobs, always leaving just because. He mostly stayed out of trouble, and employers said he was a good worker who did what needed to be done.
While a mechanic's helper at an auto body shop, Joey met and dated Stacy McCracken, a waitress at a nearby diner. Three months later, they eloped and moved into Joey's small apartment. They appeared reasonably happy and always paid their rent on time.
After a long succession of jobs, Joey became the general handyman at the Fontaine Manor and pronounced himself satisfied. He said the working conditions were good and he genuinely respected Mr. Fontaine for what he'd accomplished with his life.
Joey had permission to purchase and charge materials to the Fontaine accounts. He solved plumbing and electrical problems, built cabinets, and repaired the many vehicles on the property. He came and went at will.
According to some sources, Joey also provided extra-legal services to Mr. Fontaine in support of his employer's development business. Joey is thought to be responsible for several small fires, industrial accidents, and vandalism intended to sway public support for or against a project. However, he has never been arrested or charged with a crime.
He has also been known to intercede—at Philip or Ashley's behest—to get Philip Fontaine's youngest son Grant out of difficult situations. Joey has said he does it out of loyalty to Philip Fontaine, but he has also voiced his total disgust with Grant.
Joey always keeps an eye on the Fontaine home, on the lookout for suspicious individuals that might be Grant's associates who might break into the place or sell drugs to Grant. Joey has been known to run these people off the property, and then anonymously call the police and have them arrested.
Joey gets along well with Ashley Fontaine and the maid/housekeeper Raquel Santos, even though he has had several confrontations with Raquel's live-in boyfriend Benito Flores. On Raquel's strong recommendation, Joey hired Benny to help him around the Fontaine property, but had to fire him in less than a month.
Since then, Joey has reportedly caught Benito selling drugs to Grant numerous times and has chased him away each time. He knows that this makes him Grant's least favorite person, after Grant's father, but he doesn't care.
Stacy believes Fontaine should pay Joey more money, but Joey always says, "It doesn't make sense to bite the hand that feeds you, not when the fingers can close into a fist and knock out your teeth."
Neighbors report that the Beechers stay mostly to themselves and never cause any problems. If they fight, they do so privately.
Joey is proud to call himself a survivor. "Whatever else changes in this slippery world," he says, "I can always count on myself."


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Scheduling even the simplest activity is fraught with difficulty. "When are you going to clear all of your bloody crap out of the garage so I can park my car in it ?" asks your nearest and dearest, simmering nicely on the border between vexation and outright physical violence. You consider the task, the customer, your available manpower, any other commitments and the likely risks and issues. "Errr … the bank holiday." you offer. "I'll take the Tuesday off too. Borrow Dan's trailer. Sort it. Yeah." May Day comes and goes, as does Whitsun, Easter and the summer. One carload of absolute junk has been driven to the tip and two suitcases of valuable heirlooms (old copies of Private Eye and the N.M.E., respectively) moved into the loft. The garage remains stubbornly full of bikes, bits of bikes, unnecessary furniture, electrical equipment in diverse states of disrepair and cardboard boxes of long-forgotten content and provenance. With the autumn leaves you promised to sweep up last weekend lying thickly on the ground and your missed deadline fully five months past, you offer a revised plan to your Sponsor. "Yeah … I should be able to do it before the weather gets too bad. Between Christmas and New Year, eh ? Should be fine."
Getting round to getting rid of 20 cubic metres of accumulated bloke rubbish does not present a chap with any notable intellectual challenge. However, as illustrated, it can take far far far longer than those involved anticipate, both on the client and supplier side of the fence. Writing software is a fair bit harder than clearing out a garage. Producing a great big chunky software system across a team of a dozen people over many months is harder still. Planning that work, and figuring out what might go wrong and delay it, is even less straightforward. Ergo, estimating when the job will finish is almost impossible to get right.
But in the world of IT Shambles, we do not wish to get it right. We want in fact to make a spectacular arse of it and come up with an end date so insane that even if you had Linus Torvalds, the two lads from Google, Alan Turing, Mr. Spock, Doctor Who, Deep Thought and Jesus on your team, you'd be knackered. To get it wrong drastically and consistently will require a meticulous, scientific approach, and this will necessitate significant study, analysis and investigation. But before we proceed to more advanced topics, may I offer a quick and dirty short cut to shambolic scheduling.
Just as Eccles had the time writted down 'ere on a piece of paper, so you too can have an instant delivery date at your fingertips. The answer you give for everything is "Two Weeks". As bald and as brainless as that; simplicity and genius are often two cheeks of the same arse. Two weeks is both near enough to put off complaint, and far enough away to be just plausible, the first couple of times you use it. How long till the credit checking module is ready ? Two weeks. When will Single Sign On be fixed ? Two weeks. Building the Aswan Dam ? Rome ? The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway ? Two weeks again, chief. No worries.
You may doubt that the Eccles Instant Estimation Technique can survive in the wild for any length of time, but I can offer first-hand evidence. It was deployed for over a year without deviation or hesitation by a Development Manager of my acquaintance. So tenacious was he in his adherence to the technique that he was referred to by the entire office as Graham Two-Weeks. People had to check his email signature to remember his actual surname. I can't in point of fact remember it now. Depending on the vagaries and scale of your particular racket, you can vary the time period for your own personalised piece of paper. Three Months. Six Months. A week on Tuesday. It's a very flexible algorithm.
So flexible, in fact, that it can be employed even on the largest IT programmes. I was once employed by a firm which had just been purchased by a Really Big Serious Bank. Our new owner was based in the northern part of Britain, and purported to have links to the monarchy. Hint hint. At that time, it appeared to be extremely successful, with profits in the multi-billions every single year. It had grown quickly through a series of aggressive acquisitions, and was hubristically convinced of its world-leading ability to absorb the companies it acquired rapidly and efficiently. A particular strength the Really Big Serious Bank believed it possessed was for amalgamation of all the different systems it picked up on its endless shopping spree. It was, to quote its own hype, Good at Technology Integration. They'd done loads of it. Superbly well. Time after time. It was a solved problem. So, having bought us, they bought the other main player in our field in Europe, and decided to stick the two of us together. Same sort of business, same sort of kit, same continent, everyone spoke English, and slightly less than four hundred staff across the two outfits. Small beer. A breeze, relatively speaking, for a Blue Chip with a best-in-class, market-leading, proven aptitude for Technology Integration. So we were all assembled in front of the MD for him to give us the good news. Senior Management were fired up, buoyed and pumped with enthusiasm, so it was all going to be fantastic. The best of it was that it wasn't going to take that long. It "felt like an 18-month programme," to lift a direct quote. The stock phrases that later became obvious as hyperbole, self-delusion and historical falsification were trotted out to us for the first time, and fairly convincingly at that. We (the Large Bank) had done lots of Technology Integrations before. We (the Large Bank) were good at Technology Integrations. We (the Large Bank) had done many Technology Integrations in the past that were fatter, heavier, more complex and riskier than this one. It'd be a cinch. 18 months. Maybe two years, tops.
With sickening inevitability, the estimate pulled from a back pocket turned out to have all the worth of a crumpled bus ticket. 18 months passed, two years passed, and the end was nowhere in sight. Fifty-odd techies had expended 100 man-years of effort on this supposed turkey shoot, and not one of us thought we were even near to completion. There were serious performance problems, all the chunks of coding had been more painful than expected, lots of essentials had been forgotten, lots of pointless detours had been followed and there was bitter internecine strife between the various camps involved in the project. At about the 30 month mark we were called upstairs for another school assembly led by the MD. We'd had some troubles, he admitted, but lessons had been learned and key points of concern addressed. We were now back on track and he could assure us that we would achieve platform integration by Easter with "a confidence level of 99%". Those of us in the know sighed, giggled into our hands or exchanged significant looks. That Easter passed, and the next one, and finally we were done the following September, 4 ½ years after we started. Or 200% late against baseline, if you prefer. Eccles and Bluebottle could conceivably have made a better fist of it.
But these are examples of ad-hoc, amateur foolishness. What we are shooting for is laser-guided, precision idiocy. For this, we need to understand all the steps that should be taken to produce a realistic, credible estimate. And then, with an intoxicating mixture of arrogance, wild optimism and ignorance at each point, make a calculated bollocks of every one. This will be the topic of our next lecture.


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Glasgow's Mitchell Library, which not only hosts the library but also Glasgow City Archives, is about to be refurbished with a £3.4m upgrade, with work commencing next Thursday 14th November.
As well as improvements to its fire detection and lighting set-ups, and new lifts, there will also be a new and improved family history centre. I recently spoke to archivist Irene O'Brien, and she told me that the plan was for the current Glasgow Genealogy Centre (which has access to ScotlandsPeople), the library's own genealogy facility and the archive (as well as the local health archive) to all be located on the same floor.
There will inevitably be some disruption as work continues, most notably with the closure of levels four and five until March 2014, though facilities currently available there can be requested for consultation.
The Herald newspaper has more on the upgrade at www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/mitchell-library-to-be-refurbished.22635669
My latest book, Discover Scottish Civil Registration Records, is now available from http://www.gould.com.au (print) and http://www.gen-ebooks.com/unlock-the-past.html (ebook), whilst Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet is available at http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Tracing-Your-Irish-History-on-the-Internet/p/3889/. My next Pharos Scottish course, Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the OPRs, starts Nov 13th - see http://pharostutors.com.
The GENES Blog (GEnealogy News and EventS): Top news stories and features concerning ancestral research in Scotland, Ireland, the rest of the UK, and their diasporas, from genealogist, author and tutor Chris Paton. Feel free to quote from this blog, but please credit The GENES Blog if you do. I'm on Twitter @genesblog - to contact me please email chrismpaton @ outlook.com.
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Glasgow's Mitchell Library to be refurbished
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Issue Description
Marketo creating duplicate Lead records when a Contact record is already synced.
Issue Resolution
This happens when a Smart Campaign using the Sync Person to SFDC flow step qualifies a SFDC Contact record and attempts to assign the record to a Queue in Salesforce. When a SFDC Contact runs through the Sync Person to SFDC flow step, since Salesforce does not allow "Contacts" to be assigned to Lead Queues, Marketo will create an intentional duplicate "Lead" record in Salesforce and add the new Lead record to the queue.
If you want to prevent this behavior in your Smart Campaigns, add the filter "SFDC Type is not Contact" to the Smart List. This will disqualify SFDC Contact records from the campaign.
Another option: Add Choice options for the Sync Person to SFDC flow step and have the first choice be SFDC Type is Contact Do Nothing. This will cause SFDC Contact records to Do Nothing for the flow step but Lead or Marketo only records will process normally.
Who This Solution Applies To
Customers integrated with Salesforce
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Tammy J. St. Gelais, Executive Director
Tammy has been with the Bond Bank since August 2000. During this time, she has worked closely with dozens of New Hampshire communities in the issuance of bonds and bond anticipation notes. Prior to this, she was employed by the New Hampshire Municipal Association, American Bankers Life Insurance Company, and Northeast Delta Dental. Tammy is the Training Committee Chairperson for the NH Government Finance Officers Association and is also on the New England States Government Finance Officers Association Board. Tammy received her Associates Degree in Accounting from Franklin Pierce University and is currently attending Granite State College for her Bachelor's Degree in Business Management . Tammy is a graduate of the Leadership Greater Concord Program, class of 2017.
Gail Egounis, Assistant Director
Gail joined the Bond Bank in March 2017. She has been working in governmental accounting for the past 20 years. Previously, she worked for the Town of Boscawen, the Pembroke School District, and most recently at the Bow School District. Gail also serves as the Treasurer for the Town of Boscawen.
Jill McNeil, Program Administrator
Jill has been with the Bond Bank since May 2015. Prior to this, she worked for New Hampshire Federal Credit Union and Citizens Bank. She currently serves as Treasurer for the Pembroke School District as well as Deputy Treasurer and Recording Secretary for the Town of Pembroke. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Health Promotions with a minor in Accounting from Southern New Hampshire University.
Keith Quinton, Chairman, Board of Directors
Mr. Quinton, a resident of Hanover, NH had 30+ years in the investment industry before retiring from Fidelity Investments in 2014. Prior to joining Fidelity, Mr. Quinton was a vice president and quantitative analyst at MFS Investment Management from 2000 to 2001. From 1997 to 2000, he was a senior quantitative analyst at Santander Global Advisors and from 1995 to 1997 Mr. Quinton was senior vice president in the quantitative equity research department at Putnam Investments. From 1988 to 1989, he was an equity strategist for Eberstadt Fleming and from 1989 to 1995 served as a vice president at Falconwood Securities Corporation, where he was responsible for all aspects of investment management for a $100 million trust fund. Mr. Quinton began his career in the investment industry as a senior quantitative analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1983. Born in 1958, Mr. Quinton earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian from Dartmouth College in 1980 and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in 1982. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
James P. Gerry, Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors
Mr. Gerry, a resident of Bedford, NH, has been a public professional for over 30 years. He began his career in 1986 as a municipal bond analyst for Shearson Lehman Brothers in New York City. Most of Mr. Gerry's career has been spent in the financial guaranty industry. Here, he would underwrite insurance policies guarantying the principal and interest for municipal bonds in both the United States and internationally, From 1991 to 1997, he served as a Vice President and manager of the tax-backed group of MBIA, the leading municipal bond insurance company, located in Armonk, NY. In 1998, Mr. Gerry was a founding employee and the Managing Director of RAM Reinsurance company in Hamilton, Bermuda. At Ram Re, he headed the Public Finance group where he approved the firm's guaranty of thousands of municipal bond issues. Mr. Gerry is currently a Board Member and Treasurer for Back In The Saddle Equine Therapy Center (BITS) in Hopkinton, NH. BITS provides equine therapy for adults and children with disabilities and military veterans suffering with PTSD. Mr. Gerry holds a BA from Syracuse University and a Master in Public Administration ( State and Local Government Financial Analysis and Management) from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Mark Decoteau, Treasurer, Board of Directors
Mr. Decoteau, a resident of Thornton, NH, brings over twenty years of experience in municipal finance and administration to the Bank. In 1995, Mr. Decoteau began his municipal career in NH as the Town Administrator for the Town of Farmington, NH. He was the Finance Director for the City of Rochester, NH, for three years and since December 2001 has served as the Town Manager for the Town of Waterville Valley, NH. In addition, Mr. Decoteau currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee and the Training Committee for the NH Government Finance Officers Association (NHGFOA). He is also a past president of the NHGFOA. Mr. Decoteau holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY and a Masters in Public Administration from John Jay College, New York City.
Paul Mansour, Board of Directors
Mr. Mansour served as a Managing Director and Head of Municipal Credit Research for Conning Asset Management in Hartford, CT from 2006 through 2019. Mr. Mansour came to Conning to establish a municipal credit research process and team. Previously, Mr. Mansour was employed by MBIA Corporation as a Managing Director and business leader for revenue producing units where he prepared and approved municipal credit reports while also supervising credit analysts for 23 years. Mr. Mansour started his career at the New York State Power Authority serving four years as a revenue and power forecasting analyst. He is a graduate of Colgate University with a degree in economics and earned an MBA from Pace University. He is a member of the Municipal Analyst Group of New York and the Municipal Bond Club of New York.
William Dwyer, State of New Hampshire Treasurer, Ex Officio
Mr. Dwyer was elected State Treasurer on December 3, 2014. He previously served as commissioner of the New Hampshire State Treasury, with responsibility for over $300 million of daily liquidity, over $1 billion of general obligation bonding, and all Treasury financial management activities (including the Division of Abandoned Property), as well as participation on several statutory commissions. Mr. Dwyer has been with the State Treasury since 2010 and served as Deputy State Treasurer prior to being appointed Commissioner in March 2014. He has over 30 years of experience in accounting, banking, finance, capital markets, strategic planning and commercial real estate tax consulting. He earned an MBA in finance with concentration in the management of financial services from Boston University and a BS in accounting and business administration from Atlantic Union College. Mr. Dwyer also serves on the Board of Directors of Nashua Children's Home.
Professional Team
The Bond Bank receives professional support from our financial advisors at Hilltop Securities (Boston), bond counsel at Locke Lord, LLP (Boston), auditors at Baker Newman Noyes (Portland, ME), and corporate trustee at U.S. Bank (Hartford, CT). The Bond Bank is managed by a five-member Board of Directors appointed by the Governor and Council, including the State Treasurer, and there is a full-time staff of three.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Interfaith debates
In Catholic/Evangelical debates, Eastern Orthodoxy is generally sidelined. Also, a Catholic apologist will try sof-tpeddle intra-Catholic debates involving dissidents on both far left and far right ends of the spectrum.
In Catholic/Orthodox, or Evangelical/Orthodox debates, the Oriental Orthodox churches are generally sidelined.
This selectivity arbitrarily limits the range of actual options, leaving the misleading impression that there are only two sides to every debate, so that if we knock out our immediate opponent, then we win by default. But the options are more diverse.
Take Eastern Orthodoxy. For convenience, we may refer to The Orthodox Church in the singular. But, of course, there is no such thing as The Orthodox Church. It never existed.
What we have, instead, is a loose affiliation of autocephalous churches that share some historical and theological commonalities. But being national churches, they have also branched out over time, undergoing varying degrees of internal development and dissension.
As a result, you have both intra-Orthodox and inter-Orthodox dissensions. Who speaks for Greek Orthodoxy? Cyril of Alexandria or Theodore of Mopsuestia? Doesn't Constantinople outrank Alexandria?
Who speaks for Russian Orthodoxy? The Old Believers? The hierarchy under the Bolsheviks? Or the expatriate church?
Going back the Oriental Orthodox, in Evangelical/Orthodox debates this tradition is generally ignored because Evangelicals are ordinarily opposed to Monophysitism, and so the Oriental Orthodox are summarily excluded.
But this is misleading, and gives the Eastern Orthodox an unfair advantage. And that's because Evangelicals don't necessarily oppose Monophysitism for same reasons as the Eastern Orthodox. We oppose it because it's unscriptural.
But the Eastern Orthodox oppose it because it's contra-conciliar. And that, in turn, is bound up with a high-church polity and apostolic succession.
Yet if you grant high-church assumptions, then the Oriental Orthodox have just as good or poor a claim to apostolic succession as the Eastern Orthodox. So we shouldn't be giving the Eastern Orthodox a free pass on this issue. They need to fight and win on more than one front. They need to beat the Oriental Orthodox at their own game before they're in any position to mount an attack on Evangelicalism, or some particular tradition thereof.
They also need to explain who speaks for Eastern Orthodox, and why.
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Steve asked:ReplyDelete
They also need to explain who speaks for Eastern Orthodox, and why.
You mean it's not Orthodox?!?! :-o
- hostus twinkius5/30/2007 11:51 AM
C'mon Steve, just ask an Orthodox priest. It's simple.ReplyDelete
Unless the Orthodox priest disagrees with the Orthodox layman who has been trying to defend the EOC here in the combox. Then, well, it gets complicated.
Besides, you're not Eastern Orthodox and you just don't understand anyway...
"Besides, you're not Eastern Orthodox and you just don't understand anyway..."ReplyDelete
Heh, that's one of the reasons people like James White have not debated Eastern Orthodoxy. It's hard to define, and most of its proponents would rather talk about "the prayers and liturgy" and "mystery" rather than exegete a passage.
What an excellent post, if just for the comment about the Oriental Orthodox. Very presuppositional.ReplyDelete
If we grant their high-church presuppositions, how can we decide between the two?
I definately see the point you are trying to get at. There might be a problem with Orthodoxy for this reason.ReplyDelete
I don't mean to sound inflammatory, (which is how questions like these sometimes sound...) but doesn't your argument cut both ways? Can't I even use your argument to point out the vagueness of Christianity in general? So for instance I could ask this: who speaks for Christians?
Again, Im not trying to sound like a jerk. But I do want to know why these kinds of questions don't put all Christians in an equal amount of trouble.
Thanks for the interesting post.
- Lucian5/31/2007 4:09 AM
Who speaks for Greek Orthodoxy? Cyril of Alexandria or Theodore of Mopsuestia?ReplyDelete
Actually, none.
- Lucian5/31/2007 4:13 AM
there is no such thing as The Orthodox Church. It never existed.ReplyDelete
This reminds me of that very short, 20-something word story of Arthur C. Clarke (or was it Isaac Asimov?). It ends in "Cancel program. It never HAD existed".
Strange posting. Who speaks for a particular Orthodox Church? Each church speaks on things that they want to speak on. Who speaks for Steve? Maybe Steve? What is the point?ReplyDelete
Oriental Orthodox: Meetings between the Oriental Orthodox and other churches, protestant, reformed, Catholic and Orthodox, a consensus seems to be emerging that the Oriental Orthodox now consider the whole split to be a misunderstanding. e.g.
"Now the misunderstanding that happened during the Council of Chalcedon is being removed and Christological agreements are being reached among Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches."
So I don't see a great deal of comfort coming to protestants from the Chalcedonian split. And if there is any free pass going on with this split, then there are ten thousand free passes in protestantism with all their splits.
orthodox said:ReplyDelete
"Who speaks for a particular Orthodox Church? Each church speaks on things that they want to speak on."
Which confirms my original point: there is no such thing as the Orthodox Church, only Orthodox churches.
" a consensus seems to be emerging that the Oriental Orthodox now consider the whole split to be a misunderstanding."
A 1500+ year old "misunderstanding"? So what possible confidence can there be in having a true understanding?


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A national economy underpinned by the extraction and export of Alberta's oilsands.
A Canadian mission, the nexus of which, six CF-18 fighter jets, contributes two percent of all sorties, to the global fight against the Islamic State.
The former disintegrating steadily, and piercing every region across Canada, as the price of oil plumbs depths not seen in a generation or two.
The latter, the public flagpole upon which many fly their security blanket.
As if something as complex as a national economy or response to a group of barbaric thugs intent on recreating a caliphate in a region of mistrusting and murdering factions, can be whittled down to one variable.
One narrow element that will act as a sole pillar on which governments define, plan, and act, as Stephen Harper's government did, from 2006-2015.
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Rep Green To Bring Trump Impeachment – Claims No Actual Crime Necessary
Rep Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, was also the president of the Houston NAACP before being elected to Congress. He's also a lawyer, although his contorted logic for his latest actions disguise any legal knowledge quite well.
Green has previously called for the impeachment of President Trump on the House Floor in a laughable, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee type of idiotic rant. Now he's ignoring and twisting the words of the Constitution to make his weak, make believe case.
Section II, Section 4 of the Constitution states, "The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery and other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."
Those are the standards under the Constitution. There's nothing in there about impeachment for having hurt anyone's feelings, not being communist enough, enforcing our immigration and other laws or demanding respect for America, as much as Democrats might like to imagine that there is.
Rep Green gave his imagination an extra workout in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM Urban View's "The Black Eagle," when he announced his intention to bring articles of impeachment to the House floor next week. His action will be based upon President Trump's supposed and quite subjective "behavior that impacts society negatively."
This is the kind of moron that is produced at Tuskegee and Texas Southern University? Did he complete his thesis in Crayola? How is it he was able to sit for 26 years as a Harris County Justice of the Peace? There must be a wealth of questionable "Al's Law" decisions in that district.
The anti-American Green focused, while at the NAACP, on increasing minority hiring in Texas and forming alliances with Hispanic groups. Representing subsets of society based upon race is not uniting, it's that dividing that they love to accuse President Trump of, the projection used by both the NAACP and their sister organization, the communist Democrat Party.
Green stated on-air, "The one thing that I hope I can get through on this call, is that impeachment does not require a crime to be committed." The host is surprised, responding, "Really, cause that's what most people think?"
Green continues, saying, "I know, that's what some of these constitutional scholars have been confusing people with because they're talking about what Mr. Mueller is doing and he is investigating a crime." Actually, he's not investigating a crime, Green, he's looking around to see if he can find anything to charge anyone with on any basis. It's called a witch hunt. There is no crime and no evidence to indicate one.
Green isn't allowing himself to be confused by those constitutional scholars or the simple language of the Constitution, he's twisting it to meet his needs, saying, "Impeachment is a political remedy and it simply means removal from office." There has to be a reason for the removal, Rep Einstein, and that is the crime that you are admitting you can't find, likely won't find and therefore are going now claim you don't really need.
The Democrats are getting desperate. This guy is now writing his own communist "Al's Constitution." Maybe he's concerned about his own impeachment prospects once the truth about Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and his own complicity with a Pakistani foreign spy is exposed. His Wikipedia page identifies him as a member of the Congressional Pakistan Caucus. Who even knew there was such a thing?
In a world where this guy can make up his own grounds for impeachment and will actually introduce them on the House floor any level of idiocy or treachery is possible. This country is under attack.
"Impeachment does not require a crime to be committed," @RepAlGreen told @MadisonSiriusXM sharing his plan to impeach Trump. pic.twitter.com/L0MHTjflS8
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The Village of Schaumburg's Woodfield Trolley will expand its service to run daily beginning Friday, November 29 through Wednesday, January 1.
Additional trolleys will also be in service during the holidays which will reduce wait times in between trolleys to approximately every 15-20 minutes, making this transportation mode more convenient for the public.
The Woodfield Trolley is free and provides front door service to various stops in the village including Woodfield Mall, Streets of Woodfield, Woodfield Village Green, IKEA and the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel.
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It's quite a common situation that you have a bunch of files, most or all of them committed in svn, and need to make a release of this so that it can be reused with the Maven's dependency mechanism.
There are several ways how to accomplish that:
- use maven-assembly-plugin
- use maven-antrun-plugin to build and build-helper-maven-plugin to attach
- create custom plugin that handles both packaging and attaching
Each of them has its advantages in some situations, but my favorite is the second option for most cases.
Real life example - artifact with various svn output files
In some of my projects, I need to check that the code works properly with xml output files from Subversion. I could easily put such files among test resources, but the it would be there many times, and I would always have to check if it is "representative" enough etc.
So I decided to create a module, which will create the data during its build (see the maven-antrun-plugin).
These data are packaged into a zip file which is then marked as output artifact with type "zip" (see the build-helper-maven-plugin).
Look at this pom excerpt (complete pom.xml is available here):
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <groupId>net.sf.buildbox.testdata</groupId> <artifactId>svn-mvn-testdata</artifactId> <version>1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> ... <build> <outputDirectory>target/output</outputDirectory> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.3</version> <executions> <execution> ... phase=package, goal=run <configuration> <tasks> <mkdir dir="${project.build.outputDirectory}"/> <exec executable="svn" failonerror="true" dir="${project.build.outputDirectory}" taskname="svn-checkout"> ... </exec> ... <zip destfile="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.zip"> ... </zip> </tasks> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId> <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> <executions> ... phase=package, goal=attach-artifact <configuration> <artifacts> <artifact> <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.zip</file> <type>zip</type> </artifact> </artifacts> </configuration> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
What are the advantages over other mentioned alternatives ?
- extensibility - the "generator" part is straightforward, so, as long as ant is enough for us it costs just a few lines of ant code
- compactness - we could reach similar result with several invocations of exec-maven-plugin for preparing data, plus maven-assembly-plugin to pack and attach it, but that would be far far more verbose and harder to maintain
Just for completenes, it's good to say when using the other approaches is more relevant:
- custom maven plugin - when the algorithm for generating data is too complex to be written in ant, or needs other sources that are not reachable from antrun, like dependencies
- maven-assembly-plugin - when we need to control file permissions in tgz/gz packages while running the build on windows
Do you have experience in this area ? Then please post your comments...


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It's Valentine's Day, we hope you've been snowed under with cards. Today is also the day Craig Sheridan's love song Nitewish comes out, almost like it was planned or something. See what Craig has to say about being signed, Nitewish, love, videos and his music in general.
Nitewish is your first single since becoming signed, how as being signed changed the way you approach and make music?
Being signed enables me to relax a little knowing I have a team behind me as passionate about what I do as I am. It also enables me to concentrate on writing more. Which is what I'm all about; and making music for others to enjoy and relate too.
The themes in Nitewish are clear, what inspired you to make such a love themed song?
My girlfriend …. Monica…. that simple ….. It's about meeting someone who's a soulmate after many years of thinking or not being fully happy or in love. She is also the theme behind Crashgate's B.O.B. song along with parts of it written about my nephew in wales.
Nitewish speaks about love and closeness, whats the most touching or unlikely place you've seen this?
The most touching thing is when you see an old couple still holding hands like they were in they're teens again!!
You've written an ideal soundtrack to Valentine's Day. Have you ever felt the urge in the past to write anti-Valentine's Day songs?
Not really; I have written a very dark , angry song called Deal With It for Crashgate's new album. Listen to the words. I wont need to tell you who its about ………… but someone who used to be in my life but isn't anymore, ( take a guess ) after you listen to it.
How was it filming the video for Nitewish? What's it like to see someone else interpret your track creatively?
Honestly I feel really uncomfortable filming, it's just not me at all ( lol ) but i know Matt Barker from Mosh Motion Movies. his work is very good. He plans meticulously and is very passionate about his work. He works alongside me and asked were the images were when I wrote the song. We worked on a story board and the video was born.
Nitewish is part of the album As I Am, whats next for you musically?
Next it's to continue writing for my next acoustic album due out at the start of 2014, at my pace and not to push too hard and to let it flow whilst giving Crashgate all I can. To try and give it and the boys the best shot at the title so to speak!
Where can people find Nitewish?
On iTunes and most download sites. I'm also releasing a special edition CD single in a special presentation metal case with a bonus track from my first album, Red On Maroon, as well.
Describe Nitewish in three words.
David Horn
Related Posts:
Release Review: Craig Sheridan – Nitewish
Release Review: Crashgate – B.O.B
Live Review: Wild Child and Crashgate – The E.P Launch at The Walmer Castle, Deal : 04/10/12


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so i recently finished braillemon, and i captured mu two.
but, i don't know how to catch mu in braillemon.
if any buddy knows, please help.
#1 2019-07-10 13:24:21
#2 2019-07-10 14:53:03
How were you able to finish braillamon? Last time I tried I was stuck on the way out of Safron city.
Drew Barrymore
#3 2019-07-11 03:12:51
i think that is an issue with agarchive's braillemon, but i found two versions of braillemon here including old and the new version. some times, i used that.
and, i was able to complete it fine although some errors came, but that was no problem for me at least.
#4 2019-07-11 03:22:19
You finished it? I thought the move Strength always failed and wouldn't let you beat the game because you had to move bolders or something? Yeh, shows how I know almost nothing about Pokemon. If that's possible, guess it's back to trying to beat my rival's stupid level 35 Alakazam! Psychic, Psychic, Recover, Recover, Recover, Reflect, 3 more Psychics and Psybeams and my team goes down. Maybe I should just start over again. From what I remember, I have:
Vennasaur (32)
Pidgeotto (31
Nidoqueen (30)
Lapras (30)
Machoke (30)
Hypno (31).
About moves, I know that I taught Thunder Punch to Nidoqueen for electric damage, and Lapras is an Ice type so it can use Surf or I think that's what it is, some water move that you need to advance the game.
#5 2019-07-11 11:27:29
many people think that the tapping sound is of a bolder, but they are wrong.
those are only the rocks, and those are destroyed by rock smash.
#6 2019-07-11 11:30:07
and i worn you that don't use strength except when the no/yes dialog pops up when you press enter.
it will create an error, and you will be gone for good, if you haven't saved your game.
#7 2019-07-11 11:40:19
sorry for triple posting.
there is a rock at the left of the pokimon center in lavender town.
many, many people use strength on it, and their game produces an error.
then,, they think that we can't destroy bolders and they stop playing.
those are only rocks there, if you destroy them, you get tm something attract.
but, i must say, that the later areas starting from the power plant are very, very pain!
i mean, the maps of those areas are very complicated.
i got a headake, while i was exploring the power plant.
so, good luck in later areas.
by the way, in which area are you in, boy?
#8 2019-07-11 13:26:13
I'm in the Silph building, the last part ware you have to fight Blue with his team of high leveled Pokemon. So, you're saying that you don't use Strength at all to move the bolders, you use Rock Smash to destroy them?
#9 2019-07-11 15:08:21
no, i was saying that there is a confusion to the people that the rocks are bolders, but rocks are different, and the bolders are different.
you use strength to move the bolders, and you can use rock smash to destroy the rocks, which you get when you defeat the final stadium leader, jivani.
#10 2019-07-11 21:42:55
OK, understood. I think I'll just start a new game and see if I can beat Blue's Alakazam. What was your team when you beat the game?
#11 2019-07-12 08:54:40
when i defeated my champian rival, my teem was around lvl 55.
i had charizad, zap doze, alakizam, gyarados, and, aerrodaktal
#12 2019-07-12 16:15:52
Hi guys,
So, I did play braillamon as I said but I was stuck at the safron city. I had defeated Errica and couldn't go out from their. I think the path to go out was on the left side of the city.
Someone later told me that to complete the game you have to play an older version of it. So if it's true then can you provide me the link for that?
Drew Barrymore
#13 2019-07-12 16:24:03
hi vaibhav
it is true, that the braillemon needs to be changed from new version to the older version, but when you reach sinaber island.
i had the link, but unfortunately, i lost it. could you post the link of it boy?
#14 2019-07-12 23:31:34
This is a zip containing both versions.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h52d9bhcflls7 … 0.zip?dl=0
#15 2019-07-13 09:42:41 (edited by vaibhavbhandari 2019-07-13 10:03:37)
Thanks. I'll try it.
Drew Barrymore
#16 2019-07-13 14:06:42
after defeating braillemon, when you try to go out of your house, professor oak will increase your memory of your pokidex, you may have guessed what i mean, ummm, i need to shut up for a while now!
#17 2019-07-13 14:46:29 (edited by boy 2019-07-13 14:47:18)
OK, I've just started a new game and am thinking of trying either Starmi or Slowpoke, to have both water and psychic in one Pokemon. So far, I have Nidorina, Pidgeotto, Ivasaur and Pikachu. Also, one of the websites I saw says that Pikachu gets Thunder Bolt. Does it, or is it just Thundershock? One of the audio playthroughs of Pokemon red or Blue on Youtube says that Thunder Bolt has like 95 power and 100 accuracy, wich seems like it will be good for flying and water types.
#18 2019-07-13 16:23:49
it gets thunder punch, which is a good attack, but when you beet l.t serge, he will give you thunder bolt, which is lot better than thunder punch.
later on in this game, you will pick up a tm called thunder, which has 120 bass power, zap doze uses it very effectively.
and, more later on, you will pick up another tm which is zap cannon, which has also 120 bass power, but has an accuressy of 50, but the advantage of this move is that it will always paralyze the aponent when it hits.
#19 2019-07-13 16:30:29
When I started the game, I could only catch those magicarps. That was annoying I tell you! But then how did you catch Starmy?
Drew Barrymore
#20 2019-07-13 20:26:31 (edited by boy 2019-07-13 21:22:28)
I didn't catch Starmi, but I know you can catch it using the super rod. When I beat LT Surge in my previous game, he gave me the TM for Thunder Punch. Also, their's a website that lists what moves each Pokemon gets, and it says that Pikachu gets Thunderbolt at level 26.
#21 2019-07-13 23:20:57
speaking of braillemon, help
I get this when ever I press enter on the exe file.
C:\Users\user11\Downloads\Compressed\Braillemon1400\Braillemon1400\MSVCP100.dll is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0xc000035a.
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#22 2019-07-13 23:33:39
Sounds like you don't have one of the DLL files on your computer. I've never gotten that error when running the game.
#23 2019-07-14 06:24:11
yep, you need to install the visual basic runtime libraries and microsoft visual redestributable packages to get it to work.
this problem is likely to be in windows 7
#24 2019-07-14 12:28:12
So, do I nead to play the old version or 1400 to finish the game? I have both of them.
#25 2019-07-14 12:43:28
Depending on what you're doing, you need to copy your save sometimes. For example, say you're playing 1400. Since I've never gotten this far, I don't know if this actually happens, but I heard this does. You're in front of the Sinabar gym You save your game, enter the gym and get a code error. You copy your save to the old version, beat the gym, save outside of it and move your save back to 1400.


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A dentist typically sees over twenty patients per day whilst managing a enterprise and offering clinical care to individuals. I stayed with dentist for 20 years who didn't seem all that great, but I liked a lot about him. In medicine and dentistry this may possibly be likened to flow chart decision producing, or to one thing called proof primarily based science. As soon as kids get to be over two and can spit it out following brushing, you can use a pea sized amount. The problem with dentistry and medicine is that there is constantly a lot of data that is not knowable, that is missing or not timely. Sooner or later, although, I created a partnership with one young dentist and managed to schedule my appointments with her. I consider the general public has no true thought how much totally free service dentists give away each and every year, occasionally not by selection, -but I will not get into that right here. The dentist membership costs can price $1,500us or far more per year for some internet sites.
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Ravens rookie running back Bernard Pierce didn't run like a man dealing with a sore knee Sunday night at Gillette Stadium.
Despite a bone bruise in his right knee that hampered him a week ago against the Denver Broncos, Pierce was able to run hard and elude defenders during a 28-13 AFC championship game victory over the New England Patriots.
Although listed as questionable on the injury report heading into Sunday, Pierce had insisted all along that he would play. And he played well even though dealing with some pain, averaging 5.8 yards per carry.
"I think I played well," said Pierce, adding that he didn't aggravate the injury. "I had a couple nice runs, I had a couple nice blocks. I wanted to make sure I helped my team in any possible way I could.
"I was fine. I pushed through it, that's all that matters. And we're in the Super Bowl."
Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice rushed for 48 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries.
And Rice was impressed with Pierce's contribution as the Ravens grinded out 121 yards on 33 carries.
"He's the toughest man on earth," Rice said. "That's my man. We knew it would be tough sledding. They always do a great job against the run, but we just had to execute. Having a dual threat really helps out."


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CARLSBAD — On Sept. 22, 2010, at approximately 1:20 p.m. hours, the Carlsbad Police Department received a 911 call that a green Honda Accord was traveling
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Officers located the Honda on northbound I-5, approaching Cannon Road. The officers activated their emergency lights and siren and the vehicle appeared as if it was going to exit onto Tamarack Avenue. The Honda passed Tamarack Avenue, slowed down with its turn signal on, indicating it was going to exit the freeway at the next off ramp.
The Honda exited I-5 at Carlsbad Village Drive. While on the off-ramp, the
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Above is Carrie Fishers dog Gary sitting in the directors chair. She tweeted it from the set.
Last week they started filming Episode 8 and this week a working title was revealed, "Space Bear." Of course like Return of the Jedi the name could be changed before the release. Episode 6 was originally referred to Revenge of the Jedi because writer Lawrence Kasdan thought Return of the Jedi was a weak name.
The other tidbit of good news is that they moved the release date to December 15, 2017 after the $1 Billion success of Force Awakens. It's good thinking that yearly Star Wars Christmas time installments will become a cultural phenomenon that the world will come to expect.
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Hi Josselin, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:57:59AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > What is your stance on disruptive members in the committee? I would prefer TC to work with each other constructively, but I also recognise that this isn't always possible when it comes to a controversial decision. One person's disruptive is another's reasonable concern. > Do you think it applies to some of the behaviors observed during the > past year? I'm going out on a limb here and say that you're commenting about Ian. I know Ian fairly well, and am convinced that he has the best interests of the project at heart. There is a genuine issue around the way the discussion took place, and the different approaches that members of the committee took, and the values that different members placed on different aspects of the decision. However, to then take the step to say that someone was deliberatley disruptive is worrying for me. > How do you intend to enforce it if necessary? For information, I sent a number of private messages to more then one ctte member over this issue, ranging from personal suggestions to take a step back to re-considering various actions. I think that this is an important role of the DPL, and I'd hopefully be able to bring my personal interations with a wide range of people in Debian to help that. > Similarly, what is your stance on conflicts of interest in decision > bodies? This affects the CTTE, but also, the FTP masters, list masters, > the DPL himself, etc. > How do you intend to enforce it? > When I was a Councillor, there was the concepts of prejudicial and non-prejudicial conflicts of interest[0]. The question was if a decision would have a material effect, or be seen to have a material effect on the outcome of a decison. Importantly, it's for the individual person to make that decison. There must be an understanding that people can, and *should* make decisions where they are professionally involved, but should also be able to make decisions which they remove their personal interests. When someone feels unable to do so, then they should recuse themselves. I'm sorry for this technical answer, but it's quite difficult to give a quick yes/no answer to this. Neil [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudicial_interest
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Every day, we assess and manage risk. If we are crossing a road, we look for oncoming traffic in both directions, before deciding when it is safe to step off the pavement. We look in the fridge and decide whether or not to something cooked yesterday or which is a day past its use by date is safe to eat.
Some of us are more prudent than others: the canny will consider available income before splashing out on a desired item. The rest of us tend to just close our eyes and hope that as a result of our splurge, we don't run out of money before the month's end.
Of course, some love the thrill of taking a risk. Hence, the willingness of so many to take on seemingly impossible and/or foolhardy activities, pitting themselves against nature in scaling sheer precipices, ski-ing off piste or throwing themselves out of a plane with only a parachute for company. Frankly, if we were to assess the risk of every activity properly and fully, some of us would never bother getting out of bed.
Which is one reason why assessing and managing risk in organisations and businesses is a discipline requiring highly qualified individuals with a seemingly endless enthusiasm for spreadsheets and jargon. It is also in many areas, a required activity in law and in practice. Failure to do so adequately can result in regulatory reprimand: where the risk is of a suitably serious nature it can shut down operations and worse, result in tragedy.
But what leads to tragedies like the death of Keane Wallis-Bennett is not the failure to assess and manage risk but the failure to address it. Doing the former has become a multi-million pound business: like most local authorities in Scotland, Edinburgh City will have a team of people and a slew of software, processes and procedures which generate a highly detailed and complex register, requiring regular reports to key personnel. The annual cost of all this activity across all public sector bodies? Tens of millions.
Yet, the management of risk is not, by itself, an exact science. Judgements on the likelihood of risks together with their likely impact/consequence and whether or not they are likely to happen are subjective. Human nature is an influence: the risks adults face and the consequences of not managing or addressing those risks will feature more frequently simply because it is adults who make the decisions. Financial considerations play a role, as do politics, even if at a sub-conscious level: elected members being lobbied by vociferous local communities for improved street lighting, pothole filling or dog poo bins will feel the dread prospect of votes lost if they fail to act. And the cost of addressing such risks will also be pretty small beer – making straitened budgets go further is always a consideration. Especially if that council has had to settle eye-watering compensation claims for vehicles damaged by poor local roads in recent years.
Then there is the absurdity of the current financial approach. There is an annual ritual of roadworks in the last two months of every financial year as local authorities rush to spend out capital allocations before they disappear. Partly this is because the process from identifying budgets, agreeing spending priorities, tendering for work, committing funds to contracts and timetabling activity can, and does, takes months. But it also results from underspend arising from such programmes, particularly winter maintenance revenue budgets, and the dread silo approach, where few councils insist on taking all repairs and maintenance budgets back into the centre to determine on council-wide rather than department-focussed priorities. Ultimately, there is a pressure each and every year to spend out rather than save up.
This maelstrom of competing factors and considerations helps to determine which risks need to be mitigated by action. Sitting looking over the shoulder of it all is health and safety law, which many have developed into a reason to prevent things from happening. Too often, health and safety law provides lazy and lame excuses for disallowing activity which is considered too hard to make happen. Thus, some councils might ban the visiting of farms by young school-children on the grounds of risk to health, yet those same councils will allow those same children every day in life to use toilets which lack hot water, contain cracked sanitary ware and are not cleaned (in some cases) every day.
In the public sector, the burgeoning of risk assessment and management across organisations neatly highlights some of the key arguments for reform. Millions are spent at not making issues go away and on producing nothing very useful to citizens but white collar jobs, infrastructure and systems are invested in and sustained in order to enable and feed all this circular activity. The financial framework drives short-termism so that strategic analysis of the failure to address risk over the long term is often absent. And those with little voice, those furthest from power and influence, find that the risks to their well-being are the ones least likely to be addressed.
For if none of that were so, top of any local authority's risk register would be the need to invest in providing every child in Scotland with a high quality space in which to learn and to spend the 30 or so hours a week they are entrusted to the council's care. They would not have to suffer sitting in classrooms draughty through metal window frames long past their replacement date; they would not have to eat in shifts, or corridors or in some cases, outside; they would not have to listen to the constant plunk of dripping water into buckets from leaky roofs, upsetting their ability to concentrate; they would not have to take in their own drinking water because water fountains are broken or considered to be germ factories; we would not have disabled children being changed on floors because of a lack of accessible facilities; we would not have parents fundraising furiously to make playgrounds fit for playing in; we would not have children suffering back problems due to a lack of locker space.
We would not have any of this if we applied the same rigorous requirements to schools as we apply to our own, adult work spaces. And if we did, we would have spaces which encourage and enable children to learn and to flourish, resulting in improved educational attainment and enhanced life chances for all. Given what we know about the influence of environmental factors on performance, why is a high quality learning place for every child not the highest priority for all councils? Take a look at any local authority risk register and the potential for our children to fail in life as a result of a crumbling school will not feature as a risk. And I doubt if the likelihood of a school in a poor state of repair and condition to cause the injury or death of a child is probably at the top of the register either.
Because if it was, we would not have poor conditions in any of our schools. And even if we did still have wobbly walls in gyms, we would not wait until a young life is tragically, needlessly lost before requiring them to be fixed.