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There are so many roads that we can travel down, That it may seem daunting at times.
Life can take us on a ride through many different areas of our day, and or night that we just do not know which way to turn.
At some point in our ride through life we need to stop, and listen to what God has for us.
God is our conductor on Life's Railway.
He knows what we need to do to get through the rough spots that we may be going through right at this moment in time.
I have been on a few rides through Life's Railway; That is for sure.
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Hurry, Hurry, scurry, worry! That is what we as christians do through out our day.
We rush around trying to get things done in a timely manner. - We think that we need to get things done faster and faster each day that we go to work, school, or even in our daily lives. That could work out; but We also could stress ourselves out to the point that we collapse and that is not a good thing.
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As we walk amongst the city streets, we observe lots of people who all have different lifestyles. Some may possess riches while others might be poor.
Sometimes, even those with the highest values and standards have to consider their sins, and small things within their lives.
The saying, "Little is much," means a lot to God. The woman who had all she had didn't think at all about the things she gave. – For she gave everything.
there so we went. Too many people so we did not find each other, but, it still turned out to be an interesting day.
There are many factors through out life that could cause us to have to stop, and wait; Waiting can be frustrating to say the least.
When we have to wait for things we just want things to go faster so we can get on in our lives; But there are times when waiting is all we can do.
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Stopping when hearing the sounds of a siren that is coming closer to where you live can be frightening.
and arrest someone for a crime they have committed can be very frustrating.
The waiting and wondering could that have been me is also something that cross's everyone's minds at certain times in our lives as well.
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Jody's parents agreed to have an exchange student live with them. That's when things changed. Flora was from France and she had attended the finest schools.
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Broad support from German NGOs for direct action against coal
Numerous German NGOs have issued a statement in solidarity with the peaceful direct action Ende Gelände from 14-16 August that aims to bring the coal diggers in the Rhineland to a halt.
The declaration signed by 350.org, Friends of the Earth Germany, Oxfam, Campact, urgewald, Attac and many more, refers to the action as an 'awakening signal to phase out a destructive technology' and 'an act of solidarity with people around the world, especially those that are already threatened by climate change today'.
The statement criticises the lack of political action on climate change: "Despite the scale of the threat and strong protests, energy companies continue to produce and burn coal. […]. Even plans for a 'climate levy' on the dirtiest power stations was scrapped following pressure from the coal lobby."
The statement concludes: "In the face of impending climate catastrophe, we understand that people feel moved to take actions of civil disobedience against coal. We stand in solidarity with their peaceful protest."
The full statement is available in German.
For more information about the action and to learn how you can get involved, visit: http://350.org/ende-gelande/

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Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas by Patrick McGrath Muñiz
On August 25, 2022 August 25, 2022 By benebellIn deck review
Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas is one of the most impressive decks I've come across. Often, decks either have beautiful artwork but the substance isn't there, or the substance is there and the art is mediocre. Puerto Rican American artist Patrick McGrath Muñiz has created a deck with delectable esoteric elements, expressing themes of colonialism, consumerism, and climate change, while still producing a tarot deck operable for divination.
Muñiz utilizes classical Renaissance, Baroque and Latin American colonial art styles that blend Christian iconography from colonial Latin America with contemporary consumer media subculture.
Misteriorum Creationis Humani (2018) by Patrick McGrath Muñiz
This will be a review of his Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas, but I strongly urge you to check out his portfolio of art. They're incredible! His style is sociopolitical commentary and satire depicted through the blending of classical European art with alchemical and hermetic symbolism. Take, for instance, his work "Misteriorum Creationis Humani" (2018), oil on canvas.
Muñiz started working on the Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas in December of 2016, a project that then haunted him for years. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the Muñiz family home was devastated, and of what little personal effects they were able to salvage, among them was his very first tarot deck, the 1JJ Swiss Tarot, a deck he acquired back in 1993.
Tarot Neocolonial brings in Muñiz's study of archetypal astrology and alchemy, which he infused into his art. Many of his works address social inequality and consumer culture, all while paying homage to esoteric tarot.
The cards in this deck are rendered in an Old Master painting style, each key telling a chapter in the story of the Americas. The New and Old Worlds collide here.
Muñiz's Card XXI is one of my favorite World cards, featuring the Immaculate Conception as oft depicted in Spanish Colonial art. The icon of Madonna here is absolutely stunning, with symbolism inspired by the Book of Revelation.
Along the four corners? You've got germs in the bottom left to signify measles, chicken pox, and other diseases that colonizers brought to the Americas. The bottom red sphere features guns and firearms. The teal blue sphere features a space satellite, signifying technology and the bald eagle holding a shield with a cross signifies the weapon of religion that the Empire used against the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
The Fool card features a Puerto Rican jibaro, a farmer who tills the countryside. You see that Old and New World collision perfectly in The Magician, featuring a laptop computer while the magician himself is wearing headphones.
The Popess features an Afro-Caribbean priestess while The Empress is the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria. The Emperor is a portrait of Charles V.
Muñiz's work is known for intentional anachronisms, which you find throughout these images. The Devil card, Le Diable, stands on top up of a television set playing Faux News while the astrological glyph for Eris is featured on the devil's belly. The Tower card features Icarus and here, the tower struck by lightning is a symbol of socioeconomic ascent… or descent.
The mythic Melusina is on La Estrella, the Star card, while The Moon card was inspired by mid-century modern artist René Magritte. Key XVIII here is a statement on the consequences of climate change–flooding, rising sea levels, while depicting the Mayan goddess Ixchel.
The 3 de Bastos, or Three of Wands, depicts a migrant wading across a river, carrying a child on his back, the image of Saint Christopher and baby Jesus. The poverty experienced by migrants is juxtaposed with the portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in the 6 de Bastos and Marie Antoinette in a Rococo style for the Queen of Wands.
You'll see the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Cesar Sandino in the Five of Wands, with the five mountains along the horizon representing the five states of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, expressing sociopolitical strife and a dystopian vision of a future civil war.
I love that Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are the Two of Cups, or 2 de Copas. The Three Graces in the Three of Cups are expressed as Europe Supported by America and Africa, inspired by William Blake's 1796 allegorical illustration of the same name. The Three Graces are toasting with coffee from Ethiopia, tea from East Asia, and wine from the Caucasus region to symbolize the Columbian Exchange.
The Six of Cups features the Holy Infant of Atocha, a devotional Child Christ figure popularized across Spain, Latin America, and Southwest United States. The setting is New Mexico. The Nine of Cups syncretizes a satirical depiction of Santa Claus held up by pirates of the Caribbean while Saint Francis of Assisi and Kateri Tekakwitha meet under a rainbow in the Ten of Cups. Tekakwitha was the first Native American to be canonized by the Catholic Church, and the patron saint of ecology and environmentalists.
The anachronistic mash-up you see in 2 de Espadas, the Two of Swords, is iconic of Muñiz's work. Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes is meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma, and La Malinche stands between them as the intermediary. The billboard in the background satirizes the Coca-Cola logo, and instead reads, "Enjoy Colonialism."
In the Three of Swords we see the conquistador Francisco Pizarro apprehending the Incan emperor Atahualpa for refusing to accept the Bible. The secondary storyline here is that of the high incidences of domestic violence and femicide in Peru. The Eight of Swords features Saint Sebastian tied to a pole, and in the background, lab researchers conducting scientific experiments and animal testing on rabbits in the name of corporate profit.
I found this interesting– in the Swords court, the Page equivalent is the Maiden of Swords, but then for the other three suits, are the Knave. The Swords is the only suit where the Page equivalent is feminine presenting. Here, the Maiden of Swords is Saint Barbara while the backdrop features an indigenous rainbow flag met with anti-riot police. This image memorializes the Cochabamba Water War in Bolivia. "We must be prepared to fight," writes Muñiz, "especially if it's against an abusive authority."
The 2 de Oros, or Two of Coins, features Pocahontas being baptized as Rebecca, wearing European attire. Spanish painter Francisco Goya is the focal point in the 3 de Oros, and J. P. Morgan is the Four of Coins neighboring the shirtless beggar in the Five of Coins.
The detailing in Muñiz's art is exquisite. I love that each and every Coin is different. The Seven of Coins is the story of St. Juan Diego, the first indigenous saint of the Americas, receiving an apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is often syncretized with the Aztec mother goddess Tonantzin. You'll also see gas masks and DNA strands floating in the background, an artistic commentary on the use of fertilizers, insecticides, and GMOs in industrialized scale food production.
And finally, George Washington is the Knight of Coins, and inscribed on his coin: In Capital We Trust. The Queen of Coins is Lady Liberty holding an infant who is taking a selfie. The King of Coins is modeled after Andrew Jackson while commenting on American imperialism and the global neo-liberalism of oil and gas corporations.
The companion guidebook goes over and beyond, citing all sources of inspiration, references, and explaining each and every detail in the illustrations. I can't sing enough praises for how well-done this deck set truly is.
Tarot Neocolonial de las Américas is one of those rare decks of beauty and substance that you'll want to acquire for your collection. I was really excited the moment I saw this deck from U.S. Games, and that excitement kept building on itself as I unboxed the cards for my first flip-through, read the guidebook cover to cover, and did readings with the deck– for its richness in cultural specificity, it reads beautifully for any sort of reading you throw at it.
I found resonance in Tarot Neocolonial, even as an Asian American. You can approach Tarot Neocolonial at any level and find exactly the depth of meaning and enrichment you seek. What a wonderful, valuable contribution to the world of tarot!
FTC Disclosure: In accordance with Title 16 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part 255, "Guides Concerning Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising," I received the deck from the publisher for prospective review. Everything I've said here is sincere and accurately reflects my opinion of the deck and book.
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This has been such a great and beautiful review! Thank you very much for writing this! Many blessings your way, dear Benebell ❤🙏❤
Thank you for using your voice to popularize important decks like this.
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The Untold Truth Of Robert Taylor
By Ryan Ariano/Aug. 18, 2021 7:26 pm EST
Robert Taylor has been acting professionally for over 30 years but he's only just reached that big open sky of American stardom by playing the lead role of the stubborn, honorable, old-school Wyoming sheriff in his recent series, "Longmire." Despite the fact that he seems every bit the genuine Western lawman, Taylor's actually another of the Australian tough guys making their way in Hollywood, with a pre-acting history full of actual tough guy jobs.
Before "Longmire," Taylor was the actor you'd see and be like, "Hey isn't that the guy from..." because you definitely saw him in something. If you lived in Australia, you'd seen his guest stints, cameos and a main role or two in a ton of local series and TV movies, so you had a better chance of knowing his name.
Yet Taylor's long journeyman career, with its eventual star turns, only tells part of the story of who the man is. Taylor's also a father and a husband; a gardener and a bit of a recluse by Hollywood standards. Robert Taylor also, as evidenced by his Hollywood roles fighting criminals and mountains and giant prehistoric sharks, has remained every bit the tough guy that he used to be as an Aussie roughneck.
Taylor was a miner and an oil rig worker
Robert Taylor spent his later childhood years with his aunt and uncle in a western Australia mining town after his parents split. He worked for a local company like most kids do. Unlike most kids, though, that local company was a mine. So as a teenager he was, as the Daily Freeman notes, a miner.
After working in the mines, a person would think he'd leave for something easier. But when he did leave the mines, Taylor went for one of the most roughneck jobs a person can take: He worked on an oil rig. As Taylor says in a Dispatch article, "We were three guys covered in crap, in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of nowhere — hotter than hell. You get hit by cyclones."
Dealing with the dirty businesses of mining and oil drilling no doubt got him ready to navigate the tough road to Hollywood stardom. The irony can't be ignored, though, that Walt Longmire has issues with lawless oil field workers. At least it made him believable as a man who's not intimidated by a couple of guys with guns.
Taylor started acting after being shipwrecked
Speaking of that time as an oil roughneck, his time working in resource extraction did, in fact, lead to his acting career. Again according to that Dispatch article, "One time, we sank the biggest ship off the west coast of Australia since World War II. ... I was the youngest guy on board, and we got them all off because we breached the bulkhead to the engine room — and if you do that, you're going down."
Taylor was injured in that crash and the ensuing castaway adventure, ending his harrowing tale of survival in the hospital. Then he saw an ad to audition for a school of dramatic arts.
"I had never met anyone who had a creative thought or an interesting haircut or anything like that," he said. "But I saw this ad in the paper, and I figured I had gotten banged up pretty bad on the ship, so they would be chopping me off, and so I thought I would audition. So I did."
Robert Taylor was an athlete
According to Taylor in an archived interview, before he began acting, he described himself as "sporty."
"Swimming marathons in the ocean, for instance," he recalled. "Being in the ocean for two hours, just going flat-out ... I played Australian rules football, water-polo, I rowed. I competed in surfing and surf life-saving, I was a lifeguard for a long time." As a surfer, Taylor said, "We used to train for hours and hours. All day. In the surf all day."
Most of that was during his teens and early 20s. Unfortunately, after he became an actor, he had to quit some of his athletic endeavors. "I stopped playing football when I became an actor," he said. "You get a broken nose, which happens all the time, and you can't work."
So it seems that Hollywood deprived the world of Robert Taylor, the footballer. Thanks, drama school.
Robert Taylor trained at a music theater school
The drama school Robert Taylor auditioned for was Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, or WAAPA. "If you get in, you don't pay anything; you are on a full scholarship," Taylor told the Dispatch. "I had classical training for three years. I started that in '84 and graduated in '86, so I have done this for a long time."
Graduating from WAAPA put Taylor in the esteemed company of fellow alum Hugh Jackman, who's known for playing the savage Wolverine in the "X-Men" films, but also for being comfortable as a singing and dancing musical star. That makes sense, since WAAPA is known as a top incubator for musical theater.
As a 2014 Sydney Morning Herald article put it, "Talented graduates of the leading performing arts school WAAPA flow into musicals all over the country and world."
Of course, again it does have a program just for actors. And according to the Herald article, "the acting course accepts about 18 students, from 700-800 applicants" — proof that Taylor obviously had some natural acting chops.
Taylor started off playing an Australian cop
Robert Taylor's most famous role to this point is Sheriff Walt Longmire. It isn't a big surprise, though, since he started his career playing cops. His early roles on IMDb read like a police station roll call. The shows and TV movies are unfamiliar to Americans since they're mostly Australian and British, but the characters have names like Constable Hanks, Constable Healy, and Constable Gottlieb. He even had a 7-episode arc as Detective Peter Marenta in "Yellowthread Street." His first big lead was playing David Griffin in a series of TV movies called "The Feds." Even after landing a recurring on a soap opera called "Home and Away," he went back to playing detectives.
Almost as if he was moving up in the police department, Taylor went from parts with the titles "officer" and "constable" to roles like Detective Barry Craig, Detective Sgt. Mick Foley and Detective Constable Porter. Eventually he got the big promotion every cop dreams of and became the sheriff of a whole county. A county with 3 deputies — which wouldn't even equal half the number of lawmen Taylor's played in his career.
His breakout American role was as a virtual agent
Robert Taylor spent years acting in Australian shows and TV movies. But his big Hollywood breakthrough was playing another man of authority, one who serves not so great overlords: Agent Jones in "The Matrix." Yes, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) is the lead antagonist to Neo (Keanu Reeves) in the movie. But Agent Jones has one of the most famous scenes: He's the guy who dodges every one of Neo's bullets before Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) dispatches him point blank with the timeless line, "Dodge this."
"The Matrix" was Robert Taylor's first appearance in front of the big American movie crowd and his strong jaw and authoritarian bearing made him unforgettable, even while playing a faceless virtual agent who doesn't really exist in a way we're familiar with. Other than "Longmire" it's still one of his biggest roles, and was even mentioned as his big credit when he landed "Longmire."
And given the many times Walt Longmire's been shot, I bet he wishes he could dodge bullets like Agent Jones.
His first big international role was on a British-Irish show
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Sure, Robert Taylor has played more cops than Stringer Bell. But his first long-running international TV role had the no-nonsense Australian playing a priest. After "The Matrix," Robert Taylor returned to Hollywood for the climbing drama "Vertical Limit." Then he took a detour to return to TV but no longer in his home country. This time he would join a British drama set in Ireland called "Ballykissangel."
The drama focuses on a small Irish town that revolves around its central church. Robert Taylor joined in the final season as Father Sheahan, who arrives from Australia, bookending how the show started with a priest arriving from England. Given that the show had distribution in Ireland, England, and Australia, it makes sense that they'd bring in some big-name Aussie talent for the last season.
It also showed that he could land top billing on a non-Australian TV series.
Taylor is married and has a kid with a successful Aussie producer
Ayisha Davies is kind of a big deal down under. She's been working in production since 1999 but her big producer credits are for several shorts and a few features. Those features, "Coffin Rock" and "What Lola Wants," coincidentally star — who else? — Robert Taylor.
As with everything else connected to Robert Taylor, details about their private life together are scarce. At least one website claims they've been dating since 2002. Most media sources mentions they have a daughter named Scarlet, and as with all the other details it's tough to find fully confirmed information about her beyond her name.
It can be confirmed that Taylor and Davies were married in 2017, on a ranch in Wyoming. The photo, a simple Facebook post from HF Bar Ranch, shows the Taylors and what looks to be a young girl, presumably their daughter. Based on the fact that she's standing up there, she was likely born before they got married.
But since the Taylors obviously want some privacy, best not to pry too much beyond that.
Taylor runs a community garden
Robert Taylor is a man of many talents and interests, from a youth spent surfing, lifeguarding, playing Australian rules football, and roughnecking to his long and illustrious acting career. He can add one more thing to his CV, however: community garden organizer.
In St. Kilda, Australia, Taylor is president of Veg Out. While this isn't mentioned in much official press for the community gardens organization (lots of references to Rob Taylor), an article in The Age specifically made the connection, describing a place where local farmers had been "transforming a former bowling green in St Kilda into an inner-city oasis called Veg Out."
The article confirmed the actor's role: "Actor Rob Taylor, who is the star of Netflix hit 'Longmire,' is the garden's long-standing president. When he's not playing a sheriff in the US crime drama, Rob can be found strolling down the tanbark paths in Blundstones, with a handful of weeds in his hands. This is where he feels at home."
As Taylor even said in the article, "I couldn't do this in America. Here I'm just Rob in the vegie path."
He only read 2 of the Longmire books
As of this article, author Craig Johnson has written 17 Walt Longmire novels. And there are quite a few differences between the books and the TV series. Yet Robert Taylor's turn as Walt Longmire has been a career-making move so he owes a lot to those books, the stories they tell, and the man who created him.
As the actor says in a Seattle Times article, "I have been waiting for a long time for a show like this. You always work hard to get a part that you want."
As the article also explains, he hasn't read all the Longmire adventures: "Taylor read the first two books when he started the series and realized there were enough differences that he shouldn't continue to read the novels. When the series ends, Taylor plans to read all of the books in the series."
Now that his time is up and "Longmire" is no more, you have to wonder if Taylor has finally cracked the other 15 spines yet.
He got Longmire from a video audition
It's tough for an Aussie actor to audition in America given that the two countries are separated by the Pacific Ocean. But increasingly actors from overseas have auditioned over video, which was perfect for Robert Taylor.
As he explained in a Collider interview, Hollywood sends out creative briefs all over the world to the main acting hubs, including Australia. Taylor was drawn to Walt Longmire so he decided to audition, remotely.
"By virtue of the fact that you're not here, it's easier, in a way. I just got a buddy with a camera and sat down and did it, and he sent it to another guy who's good with computers. It went through my manager in Australia, who sent it to the States," said Taylor in the interview. "So, we sent it over, and then I forgot about it. I remember, after a month or so, I thought, 'Oh, I never heard back. Oh, well, that happens all the time.' And then, that day, I got a call and they said, 'They want you to go to L.A. and do another audition.'"
Apparently video auditioning is Taylor's M.O. "That's the way I like to audition," he confirmed. "I prefer to do it privately and secretly. I've sent stuff to London, and then flown there. One time, I flew over there and went in the room for the final audition and they said, 'Congratulations, you've got the job!'"
Classic Walt Longmire, staying home on the ranch as much as possible.


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Marc Benjamin Puch (* 1977 in Berlin) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler.

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Von 1999 bis 2003 absolvierte Puch seine Ausbildung an der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch" Berlin. Während seiner Studienzeit war er am Studiotheater bat Berlin als Gottschalk in Anna Bergmanns Käthchen-von-Heilbronn-Inszenierung zu sehen. Am Deutschen Theater Berlin spielte er die Rolle des Collodan in Labiches Das Sparschwein (Regie: Patrick Schlösser). Von 2003 bis 2006 war er am Deutschen Nationaltheater Weimar engagiert, wo er als erste Rolle den Osvald Alving in Ibsens Gespenster (Regie: Grażyna Kania) übernommen hat und auch dort bei Anna Bergmann (in Finnisch) spielt. Am DNT ist er seit 2005 als Ferdinand in Schillers Kabale und Liebe zu erleben. 2007 spielte er dort auch  Karl Moor in den Räubern.

Im Fernsehen erlangte er eine größere Bekanntheit durch die Hauptrolle des SET-Führers Gebhard "Geb" Schurlau in der Serie GSG 9 – Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben. Von 2011 bis 2014 war Puch in der Comedy-Serie Knallerfrauen auf Sat.1 zu sehen. 2018/2019 war er in der festen Nebenrolle des Sebastian Knauber in der Serie Jenny – echt gerecht zu sehen. 2020 war er neben Alwara Höfels und Katharina Wackernagel in dem Sat.1-Fernsehfilm Zerrissen – Zwischen zwei Müttern zu sehen.

Filmografie

Kino
 2008: Uferwellen
 2009: Devil's Daughter
 2012: Jesus liebt mich
 2012: Türkisch für Anfänger
 2012: Schuld sind immer die Anderen
 2013: Da geht noch was
 2014: Innenkind
 2016: Lotte
 2019: Sag du es mir

Fernsehen

 2004: Wilhelm Tell
 2006–2008: GSG 9 – Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben (Fernsehserie, 25 Folgen)
 2009: Notruf Hafenkante (Fernsehserie, Folge 3x11)
 2009, 2013: SOKO Wismar (Fernsehserie, Folgen 6x13, 10x04)
 2010: In aller Freundschaft (Fernsehserie, Folge 12x33)
 2010: Callgirl Undercover
 2010: Der Kriminalist (Fernsehserie, Folge 6x01)
 2010, 2013: SOKO Leipzig (Fernsehserie, Folgen 10x13, 12x21)
 2011: Der Bergdoktor (Fernsehserie, Folge 4x09)
 2011: Doctor's Diary (Fernsehserie, 7 Folgen)
 2011–2014: Knallerfrauen (Fernsehserie, 20 Folgen)
 2012: Willkommen im Krieg
 2012: Stolberg (Fernsehserie, Folge 10x01)
 2012: Der Cop und der Snob (Fernsehserie, 6 Folgen)
 2012: Polizeiruf 110 – Eine andere Welt
 2012: Die Draufgänger (Fernsehserie, Folge 1x04)
 2013: Tatort – Die Wahrheit stirbt zuerst
 2013: Der letzte Bulle (Fernsehserie, Folge 4x13)
 2013: Alarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei (Fernsehserie, Folge 34x02)
 2013: Willkommen im Club
 2013: Christine. Perfekt war gestern! (Fernsehserie, Folgen 1x02, 1x06)
 2013: Mein Lover, sein Vater und ich!
 2014: Heldt (Fernsehserie, Folge 2x02)
 2014: SOKO Köln (Fernsehserie, Folge 11x05)
 2014: Herzensbrecher – Vater von vier Söhnen (Fernsehserie, Folge 2x08)
 2014: Heiter bis tödlich: Koslowski & Haferkamp (Fernsehserie, Folge 1x07)
 2014: Dr. Klein (Fernsehserie, Folge 1x01)
 2014: SOKO Stuttgart (Fernsehserie, Folge 6x06)
 2014: Letzte Spur Berlin (Fernsehserie, Folge 3x12)
 2015: Inspektor Jury – Mord im Nebel
 2015: Block B – Unter Arrest (Fernsehserie, 10 Folgen)
 2015: Verliebt, verlobt, vertauscht
 2015: Die Chefin (Fernsehserie, Folge 5x02)
 2015: Lena Lorenz – Willkommen im Leben
 2015: Saboteure im Eis – Operation Schweres Wasser (OT: Kampen om tungtvannet) (Miniserie, 6 Folgen – Major Decker)
 2016: Blaumacher (Fernsehserie, 6 Folgen)
 2016: Morden im Norden (Fernsehserie, Folge Am Limit)
 2017: In aller Freundschaft (Fernsehserie, Folge 20x34)
 2017: Bad Cop – kriminell gut (Krimiserie, Staffel 1, Folge 9/10)
 2017: Der Kommissar und das Kind (Fernsehfilm)
 2018: Der Alte – Folge 415: Fürs Kind allein
 2018–2019: Jenny – echt gerecht (Fernsehserie)
 Seit 2018: Die Martina Hill Show
 2018: Amokspiel
 2020: Ein starkes Team: Parkplatz bitte sauber halten (Fernsehreihe)
 2020: Der Kommissar und die Wut (Fernsehfilm)
 2020: Zerrissen – Zwischen zwei Müttern (Fernsehfilm)
 2020: Ella Schön: Schiffbruch (Fernsehreihe)
 2021: Ella Schön: Land unter (Fernsehreihe)
 2021: Ella Schön: Familienbande (Fernsehreihe)
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Like many businesses in the manufacturing sector, we are experiencing supply chain issues with some components, in particular engines and parts supplied by overseas OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Many of our suppliers vastly reduced their production line capacity through the early part of the pandemic, and that reduced capacity is still feeding through the system affecting many OEMs during 2021.
Whilst the national vaccination program is going well, many countries in our supply chain are behind the UK in vaccinating their populations. We source parts from EU countries, North America and Asia, and the global supply chain is proving slow to recover.
We would like to reassure customers that everything possible is being done to expedite the supply of new equipment but would ask for your continued patience as the recovery continues. Our sales and support teams will always keep you informed of unavoidable extensions to lead times and we now have a better understanding of the possible delays.
A Global Shortage of Semiconductors
A key reason for recent supply chain issues is the global shortage of microchips used in electronic components. Semiconductors are the "brain" in every electronic device and a key component in the manufacture of engines. The slow-down in production during the pandemic, coupled with a huge rise in demand from the tech sector, means the supply of semiconductors has reached a crisis point. For example, vehicle manufacturers such as Ford and Nissan have recently been forced to halt production at some plants due to the shortage of chips.
The boom in tech products during the pandemic has increased competition for a reduced number of chips between OEMs and the big tech companies. Car manufacturers also underestimated the demand for vehicles in the second quarter of 2020, which has further fuelled demand for a diminished number of microchips. Add to this the rising cost of silicon due to the mass production of the COVID-19 vaccines and you have what some would call a perfect storm.
While the global OEM industry buys about $37bn worth of microchips annually, with Nissan alone spending £4bn a year, this is outstripped by tech companies. Worldwide semiconductor sales increased by 6.5% in 2020 and it is claimed that shortages in the car industry are a result of the big players being outbid for diminishing stocks by the tech giants, who are also accused of inventory hoarding along chip production chains.
The knock-on effect is amplified for smaller manufacturers, with delays in supply and production, along with rising prices that they do not want to pass on to consumers. Whilst we maintain strong relationships with our suppliers, and source vehicles, engines and components from across the industry, the shortage of micro-chips has an impact on virtually every aspect of our manufacturing process.
Some believe the shortage could last until 2023, though many experts expect the OEMs to reach full capacity again towards the latter part of this year. As a business, we are currently experiencing an average 10-12 week delay on certain engines and other parts from overseas and will keep you informed of any changes to this schedule.
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The Trump regime will host a social media summit this Thursday that will include "digital leaders," according to the White House, but there are at least two major social media companies that aren't on the guest list. Representatives from Facebook and Twitter haven't been invited to schmooze with President Donald Trump, according to a new report.
The news comes from anonymous sources who spoke with CNN Business, but shouldn't be that surprising to anyone who's been paying attention. President Trump has regularly complained that the largest social media companies are biased against conservatives, despite the fact that Trump is arguably Twitter's most famous user and his presidency probably wouldn't exist without the tech company.
"They make it much harder for me to get out the message," Trump told Fox Business back in June, speaking about Twitter. "These people are all Democrats. It's totally biased toward Democrats. If I announced tomorrow that I'm going to become a nice liberal Democrat, I would pick up five times more followers."
President Trump currently has 61.8 million followers on Twitter. The three most popular Twitter users right now include Katy Perry with 108 million followers, Barack Obama with 107 million followers, and Justin Bieber with 106 million followers. There's no evidence that Twitter is manipulating the follower counts of President Trump or the most popular users, though bots often inflate the number of followers considerably.
The White House hasn't publicly announced who will be visiting on Thursday, but some of the attendees have posted their invitations to social media and they all produce pro-Trump content online, including Twitter users Carpe Donktum, Bill Mitchell, and mad-liberals. Carpe Donktum, whose videos have been tweeted by the president, recently raised money to make his trip to Washington, D.C. and is best known for winning an InfoWars meme contest in 2018.
Invitations have also reportedly gone out to representatives from PragerU, the Heritage Foundation, and the Media Research Center. Founded by conservative talking head Leo Brent Bozell in 1987, the Media Research Center has been a longtime voice of extremism, condemning "the normalization of homosexuality" and denying the existence of trans Americans. The organization also regularly accuses those who criticize Donald Trump of being un-American and there's a fair amount of racism within the organization as well. Bozell famously called President Barack Obama a "skinny ghetto crackhead" on Fox News in December 2011. It's not clear if Bozell will be in attendance at the White House.
Charlie Kirk, the leader of a college-focused conservative group called Turning Point USA, is also slated to attend the White House gathering. Turning Point became the center of controversy after one of its members, Candace Owens, said that Adolf Hitler's actions were "fine" inside of Germany and that "the problem was he had dreams outside of Germany." Democratic Representative Ted Lieu even played the remarks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in April when Owens testified that white nationalism isn't a problem on social media.
But Turning Point's most famous campus action involved conservatives who wore diapers at Kent State University to protest so-called "safe spaces." It could not be confirmed by press time whether Kirk will be diaped up at the White House. It was also unclear whether Kirk's diaper will be fully loaded when he shakes hands with the president.
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Seabird Island is located in British Columbia about 60 miles from the City of Vancouver. The Seabird Island Band exists to promote a healthier, self-sufficient, self-governing, unified and educated community, believing that a healthy community is one that has achieved physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and cultural balance.
Since its inception as a reserve in-common in 1879, through a designation as an independent band in 1959, and into contemporary times, Seabird has been valued by First Nations and Non-First Nations alike for its rich, arable lands and ideal location within transportation corridors. Seabird Island encompasses 200 homes housing 800+ residents. The main population of Seabird Island is clustered around an impressive community center which hosts daycare, pre-school, elementary school, high school, fire hall, health center and Band offices, as well as multiple grass playing fields and multi-purpose buildings. Some of the more than 50 services include Education, Employment & Social Assistance, Fitness & Nutrition, Health & Wellness, Housing, Membership, and Pre-natal & Early Childhood.
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The South Florida Bulls lost seven of their last nine regular season games including a first round loss to UConn in the American Athletic Conference Tournament, but have bounced back with four straight victories in the College Basketball Invitational Tournament. They look to sweep the best-of-three series with the DePaul Blue Demons and increase their already program record in season wins to 24. USF held an 11-point lead in Game 1 down in Tampa with just over 10 minutes to play, but DePaul rallied back to tie it with 16 seconds left, but David Collins' runner down the lane with 1.6 seconds left to give the Bulls a 63-61 win. DePaul had trouble shooting all night until late in the game when they started hitting some 3-pointers, shooting 38.5 percent overall and scoring 17 points below their season average. Should the Blue Demons even the series, the teams would stay right here and play Game 3 on Friday night. South Florida has not only won each of the past nine meetings, but they've covered the spread in every one.
Collins was the hero in Game 1 and is USF's leading scorer at 15.9 points per game and has been deadly from long range during the Bulls' winning streak. Collins hits only 31.9 percent from three-point range on the season, but has converted on 11-of-23 in the past five games after going 4-of-7 on Monday. Sophomore forward Alexis Yetna is third on the team in scoring (12.0) and tops in rebounding (9.6). His eight boards on Monday moved Yetna into second on USF's season rebounds list with 327. Junior guard Laquincy Rideau (12.8 points, 5.3 assists, 3.7 rebounds) moved within six steals of 100 for the season.
The Blue Demons seemed to have missed point guard Devon Gage (8.8 points, 4.0 assists) on Monday after he sat out for a second straight game with a concussion and is questionable for Wednesday. Second-leading scorer Eli Cain (13.4 points, 3.4 assists) led DePaul with 19 points on Monday while Max Strus (19.9 points) contributed 17 on just 8-of-19 shooting, including 1-of-6 from 3-point territory. Strus also averages 6.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 3.2 three-pointers per game. Senior forward Femi Olujobi (12.7 points, 5.4 rebounds) is shooting 61 percent on the season which is second best in school history, but was just 3-of-9 on Monday.
USF has won and covered each of the last nine meetings with DePaul.
I think the Bulls have DePaul right where they want. They really dominated that Game 1 and have a pretty good history in the series. Nine straight wins and nine straight covers. Make it ten – at leas on the cover.
Bulls are 11-2 ATS in their last 13 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
Bulls are 11-2 ATS in their last 13 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
Bulls are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games following three or more consecutive home games.
Bulls are 11-3 ATS in their last 14 road games.
Bulls are 7-2 ATS in their last 9 non-conference games.
Bulls are 16-5 ATS in their last 21 games following a ATS win.
Bulls are 18-6 ATS in their last 24 games following a straight up win.
Bulls are 17-7 ATS in their last 24 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
Bulls are 4-9 ATS in their last 13 games overall.
Bulls are 7-21-1 ATS in their last 29 Wednesday games.
Blue Demons are 2-6 ATS in their last 8 games following a ATS loss.
Blue Demons are 2-7 ATS in their last 9 Wednesday games.
Blue Demons are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
Blue Demons are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 non-conference games.
Blue Demons are 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games overall.
Blue Demons are 1-6 ATS in their last 7 home games vs. a team with a losing road record.
Blue Demons are 0-6 ATS in their last 6 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of less than .400.
Under is 8-1 in Bulls last 9 non-conference games.
Over is 14-3 in Bulls last 17 Wednesday games.
Under is 4-1 in Bulls last 5 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
Under is 4-1 in Bulls last 5 games following a straight up win.
Under is 4-1 in Bulls last 5 road games vs. a team with a home winning % of greater than .600.
Under is 13-6 in Bulls last 19 road games following three or more consecutive home games.
Over is 30-14 in Bulls last 44 road games.
Under is 37-18 in Bulls last 55 vs. Big East.
Over is 4-0 in Blue Demons last 4 Wednesday games.
Over is 5-0 in Blue Demons last 5 home games.
Under is 4-0 in Blue Demons last 4 vs. a team with a winning straight up record.
Over is 7-1 in Blue Demons last 8 overall.
Over is 5-1 in Blue Demons last 6 games vs. a team with a winning % above .600.
Over is 4-1 in Blue Demons last 5 home games vs. a team with a losing road record.
Over is 4-1 in Blue Demons last 5 games following a ATS loss.
Over is 7-2 in Blue Demons last 9 non-conference games.
Over is 6-2 in Blue Demons last 8 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of less than .400.
Bulls are 9-0 ATS in the last 9 meetings.
Bulls are 4-0 ATS in the last 4 meetings in DePaul.


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There are a number of different standards and certifications required for different industries or sectors that are influencing GRC efforts for organisations in the Middle East.
As a developing market, the Middle East in general has not been at the forefront of putting in place standards and regulations to govern organisational management and practices. With many companies still even recently reliant on paper-based processes, the concepts of governance, risk and compliance reporting and monitoring have not been within the scope of any apart from the largest organisations.
As an example, in May 2012 Oracle and Accenture did a survey of companies in the UAE with regard to their ability to close, file and report their financial results accurately and on time. Due to inadequate reporting systems, the majority of businesses reported that they still face significant problems with financial reporting. Ninety-two percent of respondents admitted that they have inadequate visibility of reporting processes as compared with 68% globally, while 80% of finance managers reported that they find it difficult to control the quality of financial data across the course of their reporting, highlighting that additional attention should be paid to performance management.
However, due to several factors, the situation is now changing. More and more companies across various sectors are finding that they are obliged to ensure that practices are governed by set standards, rules and policies, and that IT, as the gatekeeper of corporate data, is required to lead the way in being able to track compliance with those standards, provide proof of adherence to regulations, and sound the alarm if behaviour strays from the set path.
The discipline known as Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) encompasses a range of different areas but generally applies to policies including corporate governance, enterprise risk management (ERM) and corporate compliance with applicable laws and regulations. There is considerable overlap between these functions, and while the discipline generally has to encompass the activities of the organisation as a whole, it is the IT department, legal, and risk management functions that are tending to be given responsibility for management and enforcement of GRC and related policies. From a purely IT perspective, GRC impacts in two areas - namely does the organisation's information technology systems and practices comply with any relevant regulations; and how can IT help track processes across the wider enterprise, to ensure compliance.
There are a number of factors driving adoption of GRC standards and solutions across different verticals. According to Megha Kumar, Research Manager - Software, IDC Middle East and Africa, the finance sector has been a leader in GRC, due to the sensitive nature of its processes, and the international nature of the business and the range of global regulations in place. Telecoms is similarly governed by international ITU regulations.
More generally, she says standards such as ISO gaining ground in sectors like manufacturing and retail.
"A lot of companies want to go with an ISO kind of certification, just so that it puts forward a level of trust, you will see anyone from retailers, to manufacturers to distributors say that they are ISO certified, to show that they have proper processes in place and that they follow international standards. It creates a lot of credibility for them in the market and with customers," she explains.
Dr Tamer Aboualy, CTO IBM Security Services, Middle East and Africa, noted that governments and government organisations are also leading increased attention to GRC issues, in part driven by a desire to apply to higher standards to operations, and in part as a a reaction to security incidents. Local standards for IT security, such as those defined by ADSIC in Abu Dhabi, ISR in Dubai, NICS in Qatar, are emerging as a result.
"Governments are now examining their GRC programs, they have also started to understand risk and quickly work towards mitigation," he says. "Governments are also realising the importance of measuring how industry is managing risk, for example the loss of a sector such as oil & gas, water, or financial services; would negatively impact a countries overall ability to function. It is apparent that a greater engagement and guidance to various verticals should be perused."
In terms of tackling the requirements of GRC, the IT departments role tends to be establishing systems that will monitor processes, alert if activity moves outside of accepted parameters, and carry out discovery/retrieval of stored data to prove compliance or investigate any infractions.
There are a number of vendors that are offering solutions to handle these tasks, both large enterprise IT vendors, and smaller niche players.
Simon Claridge, managing director of Modulo EMEA, which has been offering risk management solutions for 20 years, says the company is seeing "phenomenal" growth in demand for its solutions, particularly in verticals such as banking, oil & gas and transportation. Modulo's Risk Manager solution has been designed as an out-of-the-box GRC solution, to identify, analyse, evaluate and treat risks across the enterprise. Claridge says that its solutions automates key processes related to GRC, and also uses pre-scripted knowledge bases that mean customers can see value delivered within days of implementation.
For larger vendors such as SAP and Oracle, GRC solutions are increasingly becoming integrated with wider enterprise applications, where processes are already automated, and can therefore be monitored under GRC parameters more easily - Paul Devlin, Head of Business Analytics, SAP MENA, says that solutions can be in place in as little as 90 days.
Ease of deployment does not mean that GRC solutions are a straightforward proposition however. There are many factors from the organisational and management side that need to be aligned for successful GRC adoption.
Devlin adds: "Companies need to be clear about what they want to achieve from a GRC solution and its impact across their business. They should work closely with their internal and external auditors and technology partner to define project successes and milestones. Developing in an agile, phased approach with significant business involvement will typically deliver the most benefits. It is best not to drive GRC purely as an IT project. It needs business input."
Companies also need to be clear on what standards they are trying to apply to, especially if they are aiming for compliance with multiple standards across different disciplines. There are other considerations of GRC strategy as well.


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On land that was once an access road and a paved parking lot for over 400 cars, Bridgewater State University created 5 acres of green space, knitting together the two halves of campus. This $1.8 million project, completed in two phases in 2012 and 2013, provides informal lawn area, distinct plaza spaces for congregating, and a meandering contemplative garden path.
In addition, a section of 24 inch diameter drain pipe was removed and the previously buried stream was "daylighted" to create a natural water feature planted with native species that attracts wildlife.
The removal of vehicular traffic from the geographic center of campus has helped create a new identity for the University, which has been aggressively expanding their physical facilities over the past decade.
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Do high-achieving female students underperform in private? The Implications of threatening environments on intellectual processing
This experiment involved highly math-identified women who completed a difficult math test in a room either with two females or two male accomplices of the experimenter who posed as fellow test-takers. Half the women were led to believe that their scores would be shared at the end of the testing session, and half were told that their scores would be anonymous both to the fellow students and the experimenter. Analyses of the math scores showed that women performed more poorly in the presence of the males, and this was true regardless of whether the scores were private or were to be shared. This study shows that stereotype threat can occur even when the behavior under consideration cannot be observed or even known by others.
Inzlicht, M., & Ben-Zeev, T. (2003). Do high-achieving female students underperform in private? The Implications of threatening environments on intellectual processing. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95, 796-805.


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Five arrested in Oxford murder probe after man dies following brawl
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Image caption Police officers found a man in his late 20s with serious injuries at the scene
Five people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died following a fight in Oxford.
The brawl broke out at about 23:00 BST on Thursday in the Jourdain Road area of Blackbird Leys.
Police officers found a man in his late 20s with serious injuries at the scene, and he later died in hospital. His next of kin have been informed.
Three men and a teenager were arrested on Saturday, and another man was taken into custody on Sunday morning.
Det Ch Insp Mike Lynch said: "We continue to appeal for the public's help in investigating this senseless murder of a man in his 20s."
On Saturday afternoon police said they arrested two men aged 19 and one aged 27, then a 16-year-old boy was held during the evening, and a 23-year-old man the following morning.
All the suspects are from Oxford and remain in custody.
Image caption The brawl broke out on Thursday in the Jourdain Road area of Blackbird Leys
Image caption Thames Valley Police said it was "pursuing many lines of inquiry"
Oxford murder probe after man dies following brawl


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August 30-September 2. Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville, OH.
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The last few Lotus headline club shows before we enter summer festival season are just on the horizon, and we have some updates for you.
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July 5 Red Rocks with Umphrey's McGee!
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Codonodes is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1907.

Species
Codonodes louisiada Hampson, 1926
Codonodes rectigramma Hampson, 1907

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La Belgique participe aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1924 à Chamonix en France du 24 janvier au .

L'équipe de Belgique olympique remporte une médaille (de bronze), lors de ces premiers Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1924 à Chamonix, se situant à la 10 place des nations au tableau des médailles.

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Articles connexes

 Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1924
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  Belgique sur le site du Comité international olympique
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SFBC Sound Financial Bancorp dividend history, payout ratio & dates
NASDAQ: SFBC
Sound Financial Bancorp's latest quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share was issued to shareholders on record before Nov 8, 2022. The dividend distribution stands at $0.68 per share annually, which comes to a dividend yield of 1.69%.
SFBC last dividend date: Nov 8, 2022
SFBC next dividend date: Not announced
Peer dividends: UNTY MOFG
SFBC dividend stats
vs. Financial Services sector
What is Sound Financial Bancorp current dividend yield
Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend yield of 1.69% is below the Financial Services sector and the industry average. Compared to its Financial Services sector average of 2.72%, Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend yield is 38% lower. Historically SFBC's dividend yield has averaged at 1.7% in the last 5 years, which is similar to the current yield.
What is SFBC dividend payout history and dates
Sound Financial Bancorp has a dividend history dating as far as 2010, but consistently the company has been paying dividends for the last nine consecutive years. Our records show that SFBC has distributed five dividends in the past year. This includes four regular and one special dividends. The annualized dividend per share has remained the same since twelve months ago. However with the price of the stock down by 6% from a year ago, the dividend yield has an increase of 6%.
Nov 8, 2022 Nov 23, 2022 Oct 25, 2022 $0.17 normal
Aug 8, 2022 Aug 23, 2022 Jul 26, 2022 $0.17 normal
May 9, 2022 May 24, 2022 Apr 26, 2022 $0.17 normal
Feb 9, 2022 Feb 24, 2022 Jan 28, 2022 $0.17 normal
Feb 9, 2022 Feb 24, 2022 Jan 28, 2022 $0.1 special
Nov 9, 2017 Nov 24, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 $0.1 normal
Aug 9, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 Jul 25, 2017 $0.2 special
Aug 9, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 Jul 27, 2017 $0.1 normal
May 10, 2017 May 26, 2017 Apr 25, 2017 $0.1 normal
Sound Financial Bancorp dividend payout ratio
What is Sound Financial Bancorp dividend payout ratio compared to the sector
Sound Financial Bancorp's payout ratio of 22.8% is below the Financial Services sector and the industry average. In comparison with its Financial Services sector average of 31.1%, Sound Financial Bancorp's payout ratio is 27% lower.
SFBC dividend vs peer dividends
How does SFBC dividend compare to its peers' dividends
MOFG MidWestOne Financial Group Inc 3.11% $0.95 25.2%
SFBC Sound Financial Bancorp Inc 1.69% $0.68 22.8%
UNTY Unity Bancorp Inc 1.64% $0.43 11.8%
Does Sound Financial Bancorp pay a dividend?
Yes, Sound Financial Bancorp has paid five dividends in the last twelve months. SFBC has been paying dividends since 2013.
When is Sound Financial Bancorp's next dividend?
SFBC hasn't announced its next dividend date yet, but if we take into consideration its recent dividend history, it is likely that its next dividend will be in February 2023.
When was SFBC's last dividend?
Sound Financial Bancorp's last regular dividend was on Nov 8, 2022 (ex-date) with the amount of $0.17 per share.
How much dividend does Sound Financial Bancorp pay (per share)?
SFBC has paid dividend of $0.68 per share in the last year.
What is Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend yield?
Currently Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend yield is 1.69%.
How often does Sound Financial Bancorp pay dividends?
Sound Financial Bancorp pays dividends quarterly.
What is Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend payout ratio?
Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend payout ratio is 22.8%.
Does Sound Financial Bancorp pay a good dividend?
Sound Financial Bancorp's dividend yield is below the Financial Services sector average.


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{comment Video 1: Sequential search: Random numbered cards with pictures on them. (using numbers from 0 - 31) - SETTING: As if it's a maths group in a class setting}

{comment Video 2: Binary search using numbered cards with pictures on them ranging from 0 - 999.}

{comment Video 3: Linking the "Number Hunt" activities to statistics.}

{image file-path="img/topics/different-sized-haystacks.png" alt="A farmer can easily find a needle in a small haystack, but can't find it in a large haystack."}

Searching for a keyword, a value, or a specific piece of data (information) is the basis of many computing applications, whether it's looking up a bank account balance, using an internet search engine, or searching for a file on your laptop.
Computers deal with a lot of information so we need efficient algorithms for searching.
This unit explores some common algorithms that are used to search for data on computers, with the opportunity to integrate this learning with statistics.

Because computers are often required to find information in collections of data that can be very, very large, using the right algorithm for searching is crucial!
A key idea in computer science that we'll be illustrating with searching algorithms is just how fast an algorithm can be; students might think that if you're searching twice as much data then it should take twice as long, but we'll look at a way to search that takes almost the same amount of time to search 2 million items as it would for 1 million.

We'll also look at the kind of steps that algorithms use to solve the important problem of searching data.
When you're telling a computer how to find exactly what you're looking for you need to remember that computers are simple machines, they can only look at one piece of data at a time, and check if it is what you're searching for.
Imagine if every time a computer had to search for something, it had to compare every single piece of information it contained to the information it was searching for before it found what you were looking for? It would take a very long time to find what you wanted.
That's why computer scientists need to develop quick and efficient ways of doing this.

For computer scientists finding the right algorithm requires analysing the time taken and the amount of memory used.
Some great discussion questions are:

Is it always useful to sort your data so you can complete a binary search?
Let's look at a word processor, you have 100 pages of text and want to find one word.
Why wouldn't the word processor sort your words into order to find the word you are looking for?

A consideration that computer scientists take into account is how many times are you likely to search for something.
If it's only once, then it isn't worth the effort to sort and then find the item.

## Digital Technologies | Algorithms

This unit demonstrates two different search methods: _sequential_ (sometimes called _linear_) search, and _binary_ search.
We'll see that binary search is remarkably fast, and although there are other search algorithms that are can do even better (such as the _hash table_, which is covered in the unit on Data Structures for search algorithms), the step-up from sequential search to binary search demonstrates how much there is to gain there is to be made by applying the right algorithm to the job.

{image file-path="img/topics/computer_searching.png" alt="Cartoon computer looking around with a magnifying glass"}

People expect computers to find information very quickly, and the speed of search algorithms has a big influence on our experience as users.
A search engine typically searches billions of web pages in less than a second, which is the kind of time-frame that humans are used to working in.
We don't like seeing the "wheel of doom" appear while the computer is processing/thinking about what to do, and if an app is too slow then people won't want to use it.

This unit focuses on understanding two simple searching algorithms, and comparing how long they can take to reliably find the correct data (a number or word, for example).

## Vocabulary explained

**Data**: The way information is stored.
Numbers are a type of data you will come across very often (e.g. account numbers, customer numbers, card numbers, serial numbers, product numbers and so on).
It could also be text (such as words that we're searching for), dates, and even images and sound.
You can think of anything stored in a computer's memory as data; it's all pieces of information.

**Raw data**: Raw data means 'unprocessed data' which has been collected from a source, and has not been cleaned up or used yet.
For example, say you had measured the temperature every day of the year, and now you have a bunch of numbers, this could be called your 'unprocessed data'.
If you then divided this data into each month of the year, and averaged it so you had the average temperature for each month, this would be your 'processed data'.

**Sequential search**: A sequential search is when you look at each piece of data, one by one, and don't stop until you find what you are looking for.
You can use a sequential search on any data, whether it is sorted or unsorted (though it would be potentially a slow way to locate what you are looking for if the data is in sorted order!)
However, sequential search is the **only** option you can use when you need to search through data that is **unsorted**.
Say for example you are looking for the word "is" in the following list: "the", "my", "it", "is", "said", "a", "from".
A computer would go to the first word "the" and ask is it the same as "is".
If it is it will stop searching, if it isn't, it will go to the next word and repeat this process until it finds the matching data.
In this case it takes 5 guesses to find the word.
It could have taken up to 7 guesses or just 1 guess, depending on which word you were searching for.

Imagine our detective (below) is programmed to do a sequential search to find the word **"said"**. Here's the process or algorithm he would follow to find it.
Notice he can only compare one word at a time!

Now imagine if he has a million words to search!

{image file-path="img/topics/sequential_detective.gif" alt="A detective looking at words sequentially in a sentence until he finds the word 'said'"}

**Binary search**: An algorithm that tells us how to efficiently find a specific value in an **ordered (sorted)** list.
It is called 'binary' search because each time you look at a value in the list you divide the list into 2 parts, one is discarded and the other is kept.
The word "binary" here just means something that has two parts, such as a binary star system (made of two stars); binary search shouldn't be confused with binary numbers.

Suppose our detective is looking for the word **"said"** from the following list, which is in alphabetical order: "a", "from", "is", "it", "my", "said", "the".
First the computer will go straight to the middle word, "it"  and see if that matches - because it doesn't, the computer doesn't need to check the 3 words to the left.
Now the computer finds the middle word of the right half of the list, which is "said".
Binary search narrows in on the location of the word very quickly.

{image file-path="img/topics/binary_detective.gif" alt="A detective trying to find the word 'said' in a sentence using binary search"}

## Real world implications

We can apply these search strategies ourselves when we are looking to find one thing.
Every time we play games like "guess my number" we can apply the binary search to it.
Likewise if we are searching for a book in the library that hasn't been returned to the correct place, we'll need to do a sequential search to find it.
Searching is everywhere in our lives, from finding a person's address to looking up a phone number in a phone book.
We can apply binary or sequential search methods depending on how the data has been organised to start with.

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# Mathematical links

This unit could be taught within a statistics unit at all curriculum levels to support students' understanding of why particular searching methods are faster than others.

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## Reflection questions

What was most surprising about the learning that happened from the teaching of this unit?

Who were the students who were very systematic in their activities?

Who were the students who were very detailed in their activities?

What would I change in my delivery of this unit?

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Mark Riedl, the director of Georgia Tech's Entertainment Intelligence Lab, remembers when video games of the 1980s used equations to spew out new variations on their algorithm-generated content, rather than trying to store an entire game space in the limited memory of a personal computer. One early example was the 1980s game "Rogue," with its randomly-generated ASCII maps of monster-infested dungeons. This technique evolved into the random maps in later games like "XCOM," "Diablo" and "Civilization."
But decades later, with the more powerful computers of today, the technique is enjoying a resurgence of popularity as a way to produce procedurally-generated mobs, maps, and even entire universes. In an article titled "How Games Are Building Themselves," researcher Mike Cook described it to Rolling Stone as a vast time saver. "It's a bit like leaving your game uncompleted, and teaching the software to finish designing itself while someone is playing."
"Procedural generation gives a small team that's wanting to punch above its weight a big advantage," adds the lead designer of an upcoming horror game called "We Happy Few." The article notes that the technique's been used for more limited effects in other games "an inexhaustible variety of levels in 'Spelunky,' an endless array of bizarre weapons in 'Borderlands,' hordes of zombies appearing out of nowhere in 'Left4Dead.'"
And, of course, "Minecraft," which shifts endlessly, offering a new world each time it's played.
Now some game makers are testing just how far they can push the technology…
Back in 1984, David Braben was just 20 years old when he and developer Ian Bell released the first iteration of their space exploration game. Braben remembers "Elite" as a pioneer not only in 3D graphics, but in "open world" gaming, where players could endlessly explore a primitive rendition of the star-speckled frontiers of outer space. When the game was first released, the whole thing fit into 22K of memory, or "less than a single typical email today," Braben remembered in 2012. But that was only the beginning …
In the 1990s two more sequels were created for the game, and both now ran on 16-bit computers. Now the game could simulate the entire Milky Way galaxy, over 100 billion star systems, with their planets and moons, and was "as scientifically accurate as I could make it," Braben remembered. "We were sick of games with three lives then a new life every 10,000 score; we wanted something new."
Braben is also one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, so he's deeply aware of the power locked inside even the smallest of today's computers. So as Braben watched the growth in computer processing power since 1984, he wanted to apply that to his game series one more time. In 2012 he launched a Kickstarter campaign promising "the richest, largest gaming sandbox ever created, set against a backdrop of raw anarchy, galactic powerplays and intrigue." It ultimately raised nearly $2 million from 25,681 backers, and the game's next evolution was underway.
"If a new planet in 'No Man's Sky' was discovered every second, it would take 584 billion years for them all to be discovered …"
The 2015 game "Elite: Dangerous" boasts a galaxy of 400 billion star systems, as well as planets and moons all orbiting in real time. Even the game progresses in real time, albeit 1,286 years into the future. In the year 3304, players start with their own spaceship and 100 "credits," then try to make more money, either legally — by trading — or illegally, through piracy, bounty hunting, and performing the occasional interplanetary assassination.
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It's still a miracle they were able to generate the entire game for a fraction of what most modern video games cost, a miracle enabled by "artist-directed procedural generation." (And crowdfunding also let them bypass traditional game publishers.) In a video on Kickstarter, Braben describes procedural generation as "one of those techniques that I think is not used as much as it could be … a piece of magic whereby a vast amount of rich content can be created which would otherwise take a long time to make."
The fear, of course, is always whether such a universe will feel "same-y," but Braben argues that's not a foregone conclusion. "It depends on how you use it … What the artists are doing is providing the ingredients, and if the ingredients are varied enough, then so is the end result."
It's also a video game-shaped testament to how much technology has improved, as well as how long our fascination with space-based games has endured. The Commodore 64 version even had a primitive musical score that's still fondly remembered. "I'd listen to the game's simple but beautiful rendition of the Blue Danube as my craft spiraled delicately toward the space station entrance," wrote a reviewer for The Guardian.
It's commemorated in the new game with a gorgeous symphonic rendition of the same piece when your spaceship triggers its auto-docking sequence.
The game now supports virtual reality headsets, for an immersive traveling-through-space experience. "One of the things that I really wanted to get across — and hopefully we have — is just the vast scale of our galaxy," Braben told one interviewer. The game even features abandoned outposts from space pioneers who didn't survive the immense journey.
But it's not the only game using procedural generation to create vast new virtual worlds …
Soon Cloud Imperium Games will release "Star Citizen," a space battle game set in the 30th century that features a star-studded cast of geek-friendly voice actors, including Gary Oldman, Mark Hamill and Gillian Anderson. The game's director, Chris Roberts, directed the popular game "Wing Commander" back in 1990, and describes "Star Citizen" as "an epic first-person experience spanning hundreds of solar systems, where players can fly highly-detailed spaceships, battle on foot through massive space stations, explore life-sized planets, and discover adventure in an ever-expanding and changing galaxy."
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The game was also crowdfunded. By last month, its total haul had reached $145 million, making it the second largest crowdfunding campaign in history. "It's not just a single-player game or something you'll finish in a week," Roberts told CNBC. "We're building a universe you can live inside."
The company has released some play-testing content for gamers who purchase special memberships. And at this year's SXSW, the game's developers applauded the involvement of their community, which had already posted 4.5 million comments on their forum for the yet-to-be-released game.
After three years of development, "No Man's Sky" was released this August, offering 18 quintillion (1.8 x 1019) planets scattered throughout its own virtual star systems, each populated with its own ecosystem consisting of plants, animals and, of course, aliens. Players mine for resources and embellish their home bases in another vast and detailed universe.
Rolling Stone explained that not every procedurally-generated planet would have aliens. "Most are too close or too far from their suns to support life, but those that exist in the sweet spot will have their own unique biomes with weather systems and landscapes — craggy mountains, lush forests, arid deserts, and churning oceans."
But its scale is immense. "The universe is being built in an old two-story building, in the town of Guildford, half an hour by train from London," joked The New Yorker last May. "About a dozen people are working on it. They sit at computer terminals in three rows on the building's first floor and, primarily by manipulating lines of code, they make mathematical rules that will determine the age and arrangement of virtual stars, the clustering of asteroid belts and moons and planets, the physics of gravity, the arc of orbits, the density and composition of atmospheres — rain, clear skies, overcast."
Ironically, two weeks later, an overflowing river flooded their earth-bound studio with waist-high water, destroying "tens of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment".
Witnessing the magical formula in action, the New Yorker wrote about how "No Man's Sky" Chief Architect Sean Murray "pointed to a rocky overhang, which looked like desert geology sculpted by harsh erosion. 'This is quite naturalistic,' he said. He added more noise to the formula, rotated the shapes it made, played with their scale, buried them beneath the planet surface. This is effectively more turbulence entering the maths …'"
The persistent universe allow players to name the worlds they've discovered. One player chose the name "Planet McPlantey Face 6."
And apparently there's some story elements scattered throughout the explorations, with a kind of resolution hidden somewhere at the center of the universe.
But not everyone was thrilled with the results, according to Ars Technica. "The game's repetitive, grind-heavy survival experience across a near-infinite number of vaguely interesting (though beautiful) worlds hasn't been at all well received by a community that anticipated it as the last game they'd ever need."
"It lets you explore the universe in a spaceship," CNBC chimed in "That's pretty much it."
To be fair, the game continues to add features — a new update was released in March. And it represents a pretty impressive technical accomplishment. CNBC points out there were just 12 developers at the company, versus the hundreds of developers that normally work on a popular title. To explore it all, Murray told CNBC, it would take millions and millions of lifetimes.
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"If a new planet in 'No Man's Sky' was discovered every second, it would take 584 billion years for them all to be discovered … In terms of beating the game, it's not really an option unless you're going to hand it down from generation to generation."
It attracted a curious fan base. In the game's first 24 hours, players discovered over 10 million species of alien — before the PC version had even been released.
For instance over night we hit 10 million species discovered in NMS… that's more than has been discovered on earth.
WHAT IS GOING ON!!!
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 10, 2016
It is a testament to how amazing our network coders are that Discoveries are still working at all.
And it will always be a part of the conversation about the viability of procedurally-generated worlds.
"I don't know if it will necessarily be the future of games," Murray told CNBC, "but it will definitely be part of that."
But is it fun to play? A headline in The Guardian described "No Man's Sky" as "'Elite' for the 21st century, adding "Pointless? Maybe — but also sublime."
The site Thumbsticks complained that "No Man's Sky" was just a procedurally-generated universe with a game attached:
"It's like one of those children's games where you can jumble up the face, legs and torso of different characters to produce some comical results, but on a bewilderingly large scale … Yes, there's a hell of a lot more variables, and yes, the results are a hell of a lot stranger than anything we're used to — and the created universe is still unimaginably large and entirely unfeasible to even comprehend — but it's still just procedural generation."
In response, one reader left a comment lauding "No Man's Sky: as "one of the technical achievements of the century," but also asking what's perhaps the ultimate question. "isn't the universe itself, the one we live in, just the result of a kind of maths and procedural generation? Aren't the only differences, really, that the supercomputer made to create it was far more advanced than anything we currently possess …"
It's a thought echoed by The Guardian's reviewer, who suggested some of the backlash was a result of the game's life-like recreation of the real world, with its own lack of direction. He reaches a nuanced conclusion that "as a product the game falls short in many practically understood ways. As an experience it can be utterly transcendental." But he also asks if today's gamers just lacked the patience that the 1980s game required.
"Is it a wider sociocultural phenomenon — that we have been taught to expect some sort of cogent journey, some carefully scripted satisfaction, from every single thing we engage with?"
"I guess I'm old, that's the thing: I've learned how much moments matter, and how, when the context fades, the joy often remains, like a pinprick of light in the blackest sky."
Feature image: Screenshot from "Elite: Dangerous" trailer on Kickstarter.


Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen - involved with a troubled young priest; Norm, sixteen - hotheaded and idealistic; and Benjy, twelve - isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth only he knows about Duvall. Among a fascinating cast of characters we meet the children's alcoholic father, Sam Fermoyle, now living with his senile mother and embittered sister; Sam's meek brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his ailing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who - in complete contrast to the Fermoyles - live an orderly life in the perfect house next door. An Oprah Winfrey Book Club pick.
Well ... might be me but it seemed like the same old same old , sooo many troubles Typical Oprah recommendation .
Too many minor characters that were thrust in in the middle of a storyline, not fully developed and then not resolved. Spent too much time on characters not central to the plot and did not fully resolve the stories for the main characters of the book.


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