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This speaks so deeply to my heart and soul, thank you Sarah!!!!
Making Sense of Embodiment
Dear Fellow Empaths and Spiritual Seekers,
I know it's difficult for some empaths and spiritual seekers to make sense of embodiment. We often feel that our physicality gets in the way of our spiritual light and freedom.
I've struggled with this from the very moment I birthed onto this planet. The heaviness, the weight and sluggishness, and the inability to fly off into the heavens were all particularly frustrating. But what I missed the most was the overwhelming pure love of the higher realms. My body ached, my mind lost clarity, and my emotions became untethered without immersion in divine love and light.
Since the very moment of my first breath, I was desperate to return to the expansive realm of light and love. My consciousness learned quickly to leave my body and journey back to the familiar dimensions of the disembodied state. I yearned to return every moment; being present wasn't an option.
It turns out I had no context for my physical journey. There was no spiritual ceremony to greet my entrance into the world. No vision of my spiritual source, my soul identity, or my life purpose was identified and acknowledged by my parents or grandparents. I was not "known" or "seen" as a soul on the journey of a lifetime.
Did I choose to live in an earth body without anyone recognizing my soul? What would possess any being to choose such a path?
Without a common gathering place for our souls to meet and recognize each other, there was no reference point for our mutual Oneness.
As a result, I was easily confused, and that confusion followed me for a long time. It was so easy for life to get messy without Oneness and Light as the landscape. I kept looking for someone to "see" me, to know me as I knew myself; to feel the Oneness I felt and to honor our individuality as a form of Oneness.
It seems I chose to be an empath this lifetime in addition to someone who was not seen from a soul level. I wanted to be seen… the same way I saw others. As an empath, I knew others from the inside out. I knew the needs, yearnings, and gifts of those around me. But no one seemed to know me the way I knew them. I could love them with a universal love that they often interpreted as personal love. I could see their light and rejoice, but they misinterpreted my joy for over-personal involvement. I couldn't deny the love I experienced, so I had to reshape my reality to match my heart's reality.
I had to figure out a new context for embodiment, one that would make sense from soul to cell and that would make sense of my life purpose, too. Figuring out how to be "here", on this planet, without closing off my sensitivities to and awareness of the subtle realms became my goal. I was not willing to sacrifice any aspect of my being, to limit it to a secular perspective or a disembodied experience. I wanted the fullest human experience possible. I wanted a wingspan that stretched from the beyond to the now.
I realized I couldn't be separated from my higher being and make sense of life. Embodiment only made sense when I connected to my higher nature and the Oneness and Love that exists in that realm of consciousness. The mind and soul split of western culture was not working for me at all, but a spirituality that allowed for full spectrum multi-dimensional consciousness did.
I listened to my heart, to Mother Earth, Father Sky, and to seen and unseen spiritual teachers and teachings. Through an awkward and zig-zagging process, I arrived at a new awareness. I learned I could be simultaneously aware of my higher being and my physical body. There is no separation, only nested realities of the One Truth.
It makes sense to me that my physical body is a fractal or an expression of my higher being. With that understanding, sensing the alignment and harmony between my physical reality and spiritual reality, there is no split or break. I am the hologram that physicists and mystics describe as the nature of our existence. This is the only way embodiment makes sense to me.
To live in this consciousness, I had to grow beyond where my culture thought I should be. It is not easy shedding the common social thought forms and expectations. As an empath, it was excruciatingly painful. I couldn't shut off the telepathic senses that allowed me to feel and hear the judgments of those closest to me and yet, I could not shut down the guidance of my heart and soul. I had to learn to see myself as I wished others saw me. I had to substantiate and validate myself with little support from others. I had to learn to listen and respond to my inner guidance, disregarding the pulls and pushes of my dominant culture.
Each day, as my resolve strengthened, intuition and guidance came to my aid. I learned that life in the present moment doesn't mean feeling limited by physical consciousness. Presence is multi-dimensional, spacious, loving and filled with light and inspiration. It becomes limited when I submit to one-dimensional thinking.
Knowing my body is the direct expression of spirit, of my higher being, infuses the sacred into the physical. Feeling the warmth of the living rays of the divine guiding my actions, thoughts, and feelings makes living more mysterious and exciting. Embodiment is the journey I have chosen. I can accept this as long as the sacred surrounds and informs my every moment. I can remember where I came from and where I am going and enjoy the journey from here to there.
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Nicky Gant↓
Andrea Schlenkerman
For years I've slowly awakened to this shedding one layer at a time. As I've said so many times and again thanks for the path of light your courage and steadfastnessness has blazed for us all🙏🙏🙏↓
Carla Kramer
Thank you Sarah for the profound gift of yourself. Your journey illuminates the path I am now taking and, as Penny said so well above, helps me to understand that it CAN be done. Thank you sharing the gift of You and for showing us the path of our journey. Such deep gratitude to have you present in my life.↓
Barb Parsons
Thanks for this! It was the validation I have needed to hear today. Thanks for your
Unselfish sharing!↓
Angela Hassenpflug
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. This has been one of my big, if not the biggest questions, and your insight is a wonderful "pointer" in the right direction for my own journey.
Penny Shemo
Profoundly impacted by your presence and this sharing of your life experience, I can only express my deepest gratitude for your hard won lessons. As a student of your Spiritual Rigor I am affected and abundantly blessed by the integrity of your journey in Love and Light. I can embrace the fullness of my own experience because you bravely did it first.↓
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Continuing an early-administration priority of restoring relations with key allies, the POTUS pulled out all the stops Monday for the first meeting to the White House by an Egyptian leader since 2009:
Was the meeting a success?
Here are three core principles to keep in mind.
#1 – Allies will act as good allies IF they believe they are considered genuine allies
Bottom line: The only way the US gets the benefits of an alliance with a country like Egypt, is if it's a strong relationship and one where the junior partner truly feels valued.
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"Egypt will give the US the metaphorical finger and do what it wantsas part of a classic Egyptian desire to demonstrate a certain spunk and 'independence.'"
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Provide the ability for the developer to configure the grid so that the Group By box appears _below_ the CommandItem
If the user's browser supports html5 local storage, I'd like for the RadGrid to be able to save/load its settings from there for things like page size, column order, sorting, etc. Other controls may be able to do this as well.
When doing batch edits on a grid if you delete a row, the row is no longer visible in the grid but it is not actually deleted until users click the 'Save' button. This has led to some confusion for our users who delete the rows then navigate off the page w/o pressing save. They think they successfully deleted the rows but when they return to the grid the rows are still present. We have added logic when navigating away from the page that checks and prompts users if there are unsaved batch edit changes, but in case of deleted rows, when they look at the grid, there is no indication about the deleted rows so they are unaware that the rows were not actually deleted. We like the idea of not deleting the rows until the user presses the save button, but maybe the delete action should not remove the row from the grid and instead simply strike it out, or put a 'marked for deletion' flag or do something visual to keep the row on the grid but make it obvious that it has been marked for deletion. This way users will not be confused and will know that they must click the Save for the change to take effect.
Hello, I would like to have the group footer display the total items count in that particular group but the way the radgrid is designed it almost seems impossible and it is requirement for us. I would also appreciate if you would consider adding the aggregate for the entire group in the group footer and the entire grid in the grid footer. Thanks Chaitanya Vemulapalli
It will be interesting if the literals "From" and "To" in the filter area of the GridDatetimecolumn take their values from resources, as all other controls inside RadGrid. This way will be easier to localize the grid.
Add support for custom paging in the RadGrid Virtualization functionality. The idea is to enable the retrieval of part of the data from the source of data instead of retrieving all of the data every time. Without this feature the optimization technique is to cache the data source. Example is available at http://www.telerik.com/support/kb/aspnet-ajax/grid/details/virtualization-and-custom-paging
Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index
This error seems to happen if there is a GridTemplateColumn that has the Exportable property set to False.
Having Paging enabled, the Column Aggregates should be calculated based on the data from all of the group's items, even if the group is spread over several pages. Currently, only the data from the visible items on the current page are calculated.
Hi, RadWindow has a property as "KeepInScreenBounds", on setting of which the radwindow can not be moved out of screen area. Lets have the similar or kind of property on Edit Popup of RadGrid with Editmode=Popup? The expectation is, edit popup of radgrid should not be moved outside of screen area that is visible to the user. This is perfectly achieved by for radwindows with "KeepInScreenBounds" property. Ticket url: http://www.telerik.com/account/support-tickets/view-ticket.aspx?threadid=953219 Thanks, Sunil
Expose the MinValue and MaxValue properties from the GridNumericColumn RadNumericTextBox editor control, directly to the GridNumericColumn.
I would like to suggest that a more intuitive clear filter option be used on the Filtering columns in the RadGrid. Currently, I have to select "No Filter" from the Filter list of options. Instead, I believe the Filter should be provided to be more intuitive similar to other applications such as Microsoft Access, Excel or Google Search. In Microsoft Access or Excel, I simply unselect the Filter icon to remove the Filter. In Google Search, I simply click the X icon next to my search criteria to remove my search text. Either of these methods should be adopted so that the overall end user experience is more pleasant and comparable to filter capabilities in other tools and products.
Hello, Pls find attached file mentioning expected display for responsive radgrid behaviour Thanks, Milind


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Patti LaBelle has some words of wisdom for up and coming music stars!
The music legend stopped by Busy Tonight Thursday to chat about her iconic career and of course host Busy Philipps had to ask the "If You Only Knew" singer what advice she has for young female singers in 2019.
"I hate saying this but...keep your clothes on," LaBelle said. "That's all. You know, that talent will show if it's in, you don't have to do this and do that to show that."
"I talk to a lot of young girls too. I've been a mentor to so many," LaBelle continued. "Beyoncé, Mary J [Blige], God so many."
One person who has definitely learned a lot from LaBelle? Mariah Carey.
"Mariah is my goddaughter. I had to slap her every now and then," LaBella revealed. "She's so phenomenal and so good, she doesn't need to be slapped anymore. That's my baby."


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The highway to here
By Monica Prendergast, September 2014
The Belfry's production of "The Rez Sisters."
I moved to Saskatchewan from England in 1969 at the age of eight. My knowledge of Canada's First Nations was close to nil, at best the stereotype of an "Eskimo" in an igloo. Growing up in Regina did not correct this ignorance. My home and school were in the middle to upper-middle class southern end of the city. Everyone in this neighbourhood knew that the northern end was where most Indigenous people lived, not that we ever went there. Nor were Aboriginal culture and history featured in my classroom instruction. In fact, my first significant lesson about Canadian Aboriginal people came from the theatre.
Louis Riel's reputation was revised in the 1970s. His Northwest Rebellion was recast as an admirable act of defiance against colonialism. Of course, for many people, Riel's rebellion was long considered a justifiable revolt against an oppressive government. But after that government put down the revolt, a century had to pass for the historic event to be retold in something closer to the truth. Theatre proved to be a great medium in this regard. For many years, the staging of The Trial of Louis Riel was a popular summer tourist attraction in Regina. My father appeared in it more than once as Riel's nemesis, General Middleton, so it became part of my whole family's perspective to admire Riel's struggle.
But it was another play that made an even stronger mark on my awakening point of view. In 1973, when I was 12, Regina's Globe Theatre mounted George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, one of the first plays to present an honest portrayal of the contemporary lives of Native Canadians. A poetic drama about the degradation endured by a young Indigenous woman who leaves the reservation for the city only to be murdered there, this tragedy had a huge impact on me. I had one of those rare empathetic encounters with an artwork that literally changed me, raising my social consciousness.
Quite a few years would pass before I had another theatrical experience that educated me further about the lives of Indigenous people. By now I was living in Toronto. Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters premiered there in 1986, produced by Native Earth Performing Arts. The show received rave reviews and so I went to see it. Clearly inspired in part by Quebecois playwright Michele Tremblay's great 1969 play Les Belles Soeurs (The Beautiful Sisters), the seven sisters in Highway's play gather together to complain about their lives and to dream of better things, especially the promise of winning big at Bingo! Like Tremblay, Highway used humour as an effective way to present difficult material, including stories of poverty, abuse, rape and death.
The toughest stuff. Yet the play was very joyful. Even though the portrayal of these women's lives on the reserve was harsh and bleak, their dignity was strong.
I remember thinking this was another great Canadian play, to sit alongside Ryga and Tremblay as testament to both womanhood and Aboriginal survival. It was rightly nominated for the Governor General's Award. Highway wrote a 1989 companion play, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, and has gone on to write acclaimed novels, children's books, and opera libretti. No doubt his work has inspired the generation of Indigenous writers who have followed him, including those who have created works for the theatre: Cliff Cardinal, Marie Clements, Drew Hayden Taylor and Kevin Loring. Canadian culture is all the richer for the work of these artists and their collaborators.
Meanwhile, The Rez Sisters has been remounted occasionally over the intervening decades and it appears to be making a resurgence these days. In 2011 it was staged with colour-blind casting including both Indigenous and non-Indigenous actors at Factory Theatre in Toronto. And this fall, the Belfry Theatre is producing The Rez Sisters from September 16 through October 19. Acclaimed director Peter Hinton will lead a stellar cast of Native women actors, including Tantoo Cardinal in the role of Pelajia Patchnose.
Cardinal is probably best known for her role in Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, but she has appeared in many other films such as Black Robe, Legends of the Fall and Smoke Signals. Her more recent film work includes an adaptation of playwright Marie Clements' The Unnatural and Accidental Women, directed by Carl Bessai and released in 2006. This play and its filmed version tell the story of a young woman trying to find her mother (Cardinal) in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. What she discovers is the horror of a serial killer intentionally poisoning First Nations women with alcohol overdoses. Cardinal has never shied away from challenging roles and has earned her reputation as one of Canada's leading ladies of stage and screen. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 2009. No doubt, her work and the production as a whole will be worth the visit to Fernwood.
I, for one, will definitely be in the audience. Because I am still working on my own understanding when it comes to living as a settler in peace and equity with First Nations—and theatre-going still helps me understand. This was the case when I saw Cliff Cardinal's Huff at Intrepid Theatre's UNO Festival last year here in Victoria. A punch to the collective stomach about life on a Northern reserve, Cardinal's one-man play also includes doses of dark wit to leaven the terrible topics of endless deprivation, neglect and abuse. As with The Rez Sisters character of Nanabush, Cardinal's play features a trickster figure that watches and perhaps controls what happens. In Huff it is Raven who loves to play cruel pranks on everyone for his own enjoyment. The play left a privileged white audience member like me pushed back in my seat, challenged in the best way: What can I do to end this appalling situation in Canada?
In wanting to overcome separateness from Aboriginal peoples, my most healing experience (so far!) happened two years ago; admittedly, not at the theatre. I had the chance to teach a graduate course to a cohort of teachers in Port Hardy. I had never been to the north end of Vancouver Island, even after living here for 15 years, so was thrilled to go. Almost half the students in my class had First Nations heritage and all of them, whatever background, were working in hugely dedicated ways to improving the educational lives of Indigenous children and young people. On the weekend, I went down to the annual summer festival. Gathered in the park by the water were many dozens of locals, all having a good time with music playing, face-painting for children, and food and crafts for sale. I joined in the fun and then paused to reflect on all the people around me. First Nations and settlers, friends and neighbours, together in a way that had not been part of my upbringing. It was a real community that made me hopeful. I am grateful for that.
Monica's most recent book, Applied Drama (co-authored with Juliana Saxton), was the recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.


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With all the breaches in the news as of late there's been a lot of chatter about the shifting threat landscape. I saw a post on social earlier in the week that got me thinking; if the threat landscape is shifting – why is it that and how does the collective industry slow things down so we can catch our breach and be proactive with security. The one piece of security tech I rarely see folks using is deception technology, but maybe the value of the tech is overlooked.
The idea of evolution and Darwinism is pretty established at this point. Whether you be believe in creation or evolution it doesn't matter too much but what I want to dial into is the concept of natural selection, if you aren't familiar with term it's the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. Charles Darwin's idea of natural selection is generally created as an evolutionist theory BUT the point I want to highlight is I think we can all agree is the common thread here whether you're a evolutionist of creationist is…mutation. As we, collectively, evolve as species and as all species we mutate we migrate and create a sense of genetic drift from the original DNA strains. But at the most fundamental level genetic drift occurs from testing. We test food, if it poisons us we die. We test our living environments, if it makes us sick we have a lower chance of procreation. If we're dispositioned to reckless habits it could limit our ability to pass on our genetics and or lessons to the next generation if we're dead.
Foundationally speaking this is a very long term testing effort as a species but, what happens if we couldn't test. What happens if the test results were random. I mean truly random. What is something was gaming us all like something out of the Hunger Games? Two people with the same genetic make up, eat the same berries – one gets poisoned and dies and the other doesn't. What happens those same two people with the same genetic make up live in an environment that makes one sick but not the other. If this was the case, it would be incredibly hard to "test" and evolve. Now, what happens if that same idea applied to castle defenses?
The idea of attacking castles is well documented over time and there's a long history or action and reaction. An attacker storms the front gate and gets in, the defenders react and build a moat if they have a next time. The defenders build the walls higher, the attackers build a siege tower to easily get soldiers over the walls. The defenders build defense in depth and attackers create the Trojan horse. But what would happen if attack results were truly random, sometimes you go through the front gate…sometimes you didn't. Sometimes the moat was a problem, sometimes it wasn't. Sometimes you "thought" you got the Trojan horse in, but you actually didn't. What would have happened if the attackers thought they were exploiting castle defense but were just wasting time and were delayed until the point they were killed. If this scenario was true – then it's safe to assume that the evolution of attacker techniques would be slowed…because let's be honest, they don't know what does or doesn't work. If this scenario were true – it's also safe to assume the intellectual cultivation of castle siege and defense tactics and overall "investment" in new attack or defense would be slowed because attackers truly don't have a relative sample size to test their hypothesis since the results are random and not based on scientific fact.
If you agree with those ideas, the environment in medieval times didn't exist to create random results but the technology exists today. It's called deception technology and it's generally an underdeveloped technology because it's not widely adopted in the security industry. At a high level, a deception technology create a series of honey pots and lures in your technology environment. The idea is that attackers are diverted like a trout following a fishing lure to "fake" and "virtual" environments that are purposefully vulnerable. While the attackers are exploiting fake environments with fake data, the attackers are actually being monitored, contained, and in some cases counter-attacked.
BUT lets play this out for this out for a moment, what happens if everyone had deception technology. Would the development of attack vectors develop as fast? Would a market exist for the vast array of security technology point solutions? Would we still be struggling to train our cyber defenders if their skills weren't outdated in a week? Would the threat landscape being shifting daily if we limited the attackers to random test results.
My personal opinion is no. I think it would materially change the security landscape and change the velocity of investment into our industry. I also think, for once, we'd have a population of folks who can talk and evalgelize the merits of security with out having to peddle fear uncertainty and doubt.
Lastly, as a PSA – I have no affiliation with any deception players in the market.


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You know looking back my life has turned out nothing like I thought it would. Let me just say right away, "Thank Goodness!" I imagined myself single. Living in some large city living it up being an interior designer. Drinking at all those glamorous parties and living for my work. Now if this is you then that is awesome because this would still be an amazing way to live! Just not the way I would want my life to be anymore.
I live for moments wrapped up and smothered in kisses from my boys. Sitting with my husband on the couch watching a movie and sharing a bowl of ice cream. Chasing my wild puppy around my house trying to get her back inside when she has slipped out before I can get her leash on her. These moments I now realize are what give me life. I live on the crazy chaos. The baseball games and late nights. The homemade cookies and sloppy kisses. Baiting the fishing lines for my boys and taking the fish off the line that they just reeling in. YES, you read that right. I touch the slimy worms and the fish! Never in a million years did I dream I would be a boy mom. But her I am a mom to three super busy boys and I am killing it! I mean most of the time. I still go Bat shit crazy on the regular and must pray for grace ALL the time. If I didn't would I even be human? Lol
Here is the thing though. This messy life is just what God knew I needed. He knew I wasn't made for the life I had made up in my mind so very long ago. He knew I needed wild, rambunctious and free-thinking. It has taken me a long time to realize or accept that God knew just what he was doing when he placed my husband in my life; and then placed these three amazing boys in my life with each personalities being created so they are so different and yet so much alike. How is it that we think we know what is best for us, but then we can be so wrong?
I am thankful I was wrong. It may not always be what I expect, but I am glad someone far wiser than myself seen something so wonderful in me that he chose this life for me. I look forward to sharing this crazy journey with you and hope you stick around and stay tuned. It's always a wild ride. Make sure to hold on tight!
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- Upgraded to free VC++ 2008 Express compiler. It is easier to install than previous (2005) free compiler. Please use wxFaceEd-90.sln from now on.
- Upgraded to wxWidgets 2.8.7
- Upgraded to xerces-c 2.8.0 (x86-windows-vc_8_0)
If you are interested in development progress/details, you might want to check developer blogs here and notes here.
Rossana Baptista Queiroz, who is working with eye animation and expressiveness as her graduation project submitted a patch to fix the problems (which were on our todo list forever) in eye motion in MPEG-4 FAP mode. Her work also is inserted in a research project named Virtus, in her university, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos -http://www.unisinos.br -- São Leopoldo, Brazil), where the Cromos Lab works mainly with crowd simulation. Thanks for her timesaving help and contribution to Xface.
Our poster submission for DECALOG 2007 workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue named "Enhancing System Communication through Synthetic Characters" is available online.
Our joint paper named "A Multimodal 3D Healthcare Communication System" is accepted for 3DTV conference special session: "3D Multimodal Interfaces: Applications on Edutainment, Medicine and Disabled".
New release for Xface Toolkit v0.94 is available.
Now, we support external wav file in speech tags of SMIL-Agent with this release. At the moment, only one wav file per script is supported, soon it will be unlimited.
Jose Gonzalez from Universidad de Malaga has successfully ported Xface to Linux platform. His contribution is very welcome, we are in the process of releasing an official Linux version now. Here is a screenshot of XfaceEd from Linux.
XfaceEd and Alice appeared in GALA 2006 event at IVA conference. Here is the GALA finalists gallery.
New release for Xface Toolkit v0.85 is available. A better support for SMIL-Agent scripting language, keyframe based animation, no dependency for playback (no need to find external tools for FAP generation), lots of bug fixes and new features. Check the downloads page!
Presented two papers one about XfaceEd, named "XfaceEd: Authoring Tool for Embodied Conversational Agents" and one about SMIL-Agent scripting language, named "Synthetic Characters as Multichannel Interfaces" at ICMI 2005, held in Trento, Italy, between 4-6 October.
[XfaceEd Paper] [SMIL-Agent Paper]
Presented a paper named "Xface: Open Source Toolkit for Creating 3d Faces of an Embodied Conversational Agent" at SmartGraphics 2005 , held near Munich, Germany, between 22-24 August.
new version release 0.7; Now you can download only one setup file for the whole Xface Toolkit and install the components that you want. Also released a source code zip from the subversion server for people interested in stable snapshots. Check downloads page here or in SourceForge.
As of today, we moved all the source control to our new Subversion server in our institute. We still plan to update the Sourceforge CVS repository for some time, however it won't be so frequent. For a daily snapshot of Xface please connect to http://xfacesvn.fbk.eu/svn using a client of Subversion. You can also browse the repository using your web browser from the same address.
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Xface is in SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/xface/ .
Presented a paper named "Xface: MPEG-4 based open source toolkit for 3d facial animation" at AVI04, Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, held in Gallipoli, Italy, between 25-28 May.
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When it comes to measuring an an institution's financial resilience, capital is key. It works as a buffer against losses and as protection for depositors when a bank is struggling financially. When it comes to safety and soundness, more capital is better.
On our test to measure the adequacy of a bank's capital, MRV Banks received a score of 6 out of a possible 30 points, failing to reach the national average of 13.13.
One widely used measure of this buffer is a bank's Tier 1 capital ratio. MRV Banks's Tier 1 capital ratio was 10.35 percent, exceeding the 6 percent level considered adequate by regulators, but lower than the national average of 25.65 percent. The higher the capital ratio, the better the bank will be able to stand up to financial challenges.
Overall, MRV Banks held equity amounting to 7.86 percent of its assets, which was lower than the national average of 12.03 percent.
This test is intended to estimate how the bank's loan loss reserves and overall capitalization could be affected by problem assets, such as unpaid loans.
A bank with lots of these kinds of assets could eventually be required to use capital to absorb losses, shrinking its equity buffer. Many of those assets are also likely to be in non-accrual status and no longer earning money, resulting in lower earnings and potentially more risk of a failure in the future.
On Bankrate's test of asset quality, MRV Banks scored 40 out of a possible 40 points, better than the national average of 37.49 points.
The percentage of problem assets a bank holds compared to its total assets is a helpful indicator of asset quality.As of December 31, 2017, none of MRV Banks's loans were noncurrent, meaning they were more than 90 days past due or were in non-accrual status. That's below the national average of 1.01 percent.
Banks keep a reserve known as an "allowance for loan and lease losses" to deal with problem assets . Comparing the reserve's size to the total amount of problematic loans can be a helpful indicator when evaluating a bank's ability to manage problem assets. Unfortunately, the FDIC did not provide information on MRV Banks's loan loss allowance in its most recent filings.
How profitable a bank is affects its long-term survivability. Earnings may be retained by the bank, increasing its capital cushion, or be used to deal with problematic loans, potentially making the bank more resilient in times of trouble. However, banks that are losing money are less able to do those things.
On Bankrate's test of earnings, MRV Banks scored 20 out of a possible 30, beating out the national average of 15.12.
Return on equity, calculated by dividing net income (essentially, profit) by total equity, is one important way to measure a bank's earnings. MRV Banks's most recent annualized quarterly return on equity was 11.49 percent, above the national average of 8.10 percent.
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2017, the bank recorded net income of $2.4 million on total equity of $24.1 million. The bank reported an annualized return on average assets, or ROA, of 0.99 percent, below the 1 percent deemed satisfactory in accordance with industry standards and below the average for U.S. banks of 1.00 percent.
Bankrate.com's Safe & Sound Ratings provide a star rating system to evaluate the current financial status of financial institutions. The information gathered about banks, credit unions and thrifts is updated as set forth in the Terms of Use of Safe & Sound Ratings and Reports. The Safe & Sound Ratings information is grouped by categories of banks, thrifts and credit unions.
Bankrate.com evaluates the financial condition of institutions and assigns a one- to five-star rating for each with five stars representing the highest rating. Institutions with satisfactory performance will generally receive a rating of three or more stars. The majority of institutions fall into the three- to four-star range. An institution with an "NR" rating may be too new to rate or may have limited the publicly available information in their regulatory filings. The "NR" is not an indication of financial strength or weakness. The Safe & Sound rating is believed to be reliable, but the information is not guaranteed. In addition, events since the information was collected may have altered the institution's financial condition.


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I'm all about putting principles into action, so I especially appreciate Kyle's thoughts on what it might look like if, one day, we were to relegate the oxymoronic policy of forced compassion to the ash heap. I completely agree that we cannot wait around until the state abandons this mindset.
If I am right about compassion being a love response (and I am), I think it follows that people (both recipients and providers) will find it an extraordinarily attractive alternative to the ersatz version the state has been championing for so many years. There's something moving about finding out someone actually cares about you; and cares enough to help.
The church should be leading the charge in restoring compassion to its proper place. But it has been letting the state eat its lunch. No . . . that doesn't quite capture it. A large segment of the church has prepared the lunch, personally walked it to the state's offices, set the table, and invited the government to feast. This is tragic. Not just in the sense that it ought to be otherwise. More in the sense that it makes one want to weep in frustration, or anger, or just heart-emptying sadness. Here's why.
It is the church's glory to care for the poor and the widow and the helpless. It's not a burden. It's not a chore. And it's not something that can be satisfied by posting the 3-figure balance of the "deacon's fund" on the back page of the church bulletin.
Jesus didn't leave the church many mandates. It's not like the New Testament is an ancient version of the Code of Federal Regulations, stuffed from cover to back with endless and mind-numbing directives on what he expects of us.
It's so simple. Love God. Love your neighbors. How simple is that? Simple enough that when a lawyer thought to excuse himself from its simplicity by quibbling over the second command, Jesus slapped him down (lovingly, to be sure) with the Good Samaritan.
Being the Good Samaritan should be the church's central organizing principle, not a peripheral program. We say we want to bear witness to God's unmerited favor and teach people of his love. But then we outsource to the state (the state, of all things) the best, highest, and sweetest way to bring his love to others.
There are those who accuse me of favoring too much the life of the mind. There's some truth to that – I get a thrill out of searching for and discovering principles that I can build into arguments, arguments I can arrange into structures, and structures that can order my affairs. But you can't live life only in your mind. And so, sometimes, sometimes, I ache to see God's love. To see it, in the light of day with my waking eyes, not just know of it. If I, already a Christian, long for this, how much more those who do not know of that love at all?
Compassion is what love looks like – gathering a fallen stranger into your arms and dressing his wounds while the dirt of the road soils your clothes. Not metaphorically – really. Compassion meets physical needs, and in meeting those physical needs reaches deep into that void that unknowingly craves the Creator's love.
The church cheats the world to the extent its face, its heart, its pulse, becomes something other than compassion. And when it allows (or worse, encourages) the state to steal its glory, it bears witness that it has forgotten what it is. Small wonder so many people think the church frivolous and irrelevant.
We talk and sing of God's love with no end. Our fellow Americans, however, are waiting to see it. So, naturally, we send them to the local welfare office to find it. What disgrace, what shame.


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Julestue 2018
Throughout December you can find the most cosy - hyggelige - julestue in Studenterhus Aarhus. Here you can listen to christmas lectures and music, watch christmas movies and play games and get a much needed break from the darkness outside and your exams. Julestuen is open all days from 10-18 to both international and danish students, and everyday at 17:45 you can see that days episode of "The Julekalender" with your fellow students. Follow Studenterhus Aarhus' facebook site and look up the many christmassy events taking place in the "hyggeligste" julestue in Aarhus!
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Noble cold stacks another semi-sub rig
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has decided to cold stack another one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs amid challenging drilling market.
In its latest fleet status report for a period between November 23 until December 20, 2016, the driller said on Tuesday that the 1980-built drilling rig Noble Max Smith was cold stacked. The rig, of a Noble EVA 4000 design, has seen service in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.
It is currently located at a shipyard in Singapore. The semi-sub, capable of operating in water depths of up to 7,000 feet, previously worked for Shell offshore Brazil under a contract that started in 2013. After the contract with Shell ended, the rig was moved from Brazil to a shipyard in Singapore with the semi-submersible heavy lift ship Dockwise Vanguard.
Noble Max Smith was operational during 2015 but was off contract during 2016.
The offshore driller currently has nine stacked rigs, five cold stacked and four available and warm stacked.
In related news, Noble recently agreed with the oil major Shell to amend the pair's existing long-term contracts on three ultra-deepwater drillships, Noble Globetrotter I, Noble Globetrotter II, and Noble Bully II. The amendments included idling of two of those drillships in 2017.
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