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Cisco Repositions the Network as the Platform
Barcelona event shows off ingredients for growth
CCS Insight's enterprise research team — Bola Rotibi, Angela Ashenden and Nick McQuire — reflect on reasons for bullish optimism at Cisco.
At its recent Cisco Live event in Barcelona, Cisco Systems showcased a strategy that, while grounded in its network hardware heritage, embraces a software-driven approach to support greater levels of automation and programmability in its products and solutions.
The strategy recognizes the need for simplicity in the face of the complexity inherent in a technology-laden, hybrid IT landscape. Equally, it's a savvy repositioning of a portfolio once centred on proprietary technologies and siloed products to the use of more open and common software standards and practices. The result, Cisco hopes, is a broader reach and greater appeal to prospective clients.
The Cisco Live event drew an audience of nearly 20,000 customers and partners; it saw several important announcements in networking, applications, security and collaboration. Here we lay out our impressions of the event and what it means for Cisco and the wider market.
Major Themes
The dynamic nature of the technology market, a challenging macroeconomic climate and the need to raise revenue growth mean all organizations need better support to navigate various technologies and infrastructures. During the keynote presentations at Cisco Live, the company emphasized the strength of its capabilities and the integrated solutions and services it offers to help its customers transform, innovate, improve experiences and raise productivity for their employees, partners and clients.
Specific focus was placed on:
The business model for innovation, transformation and delivering exceptional experiences
Trust, a de facto requirement for technology-enabled operations
Effective control and management of change stemming from new technology requirements
Security and data privacy as the ways of sharing information broadens
The importance of social responsibility to people and communities
At the event, Cisco showcased its differentiation in a market characterized by a breadth of technologies that offer value to businesses but create a vortex of disruption.
Areas of Competitive Differentiation
The measure of a software supplier in a climate of overwhelming technology change is less about how well it can articulate a story of capability, but how good it is at demonstrating the relevance and value of its portfolio and partner ecosystem in the context of the challenges facing its prospective clients.
In this regard, Cisco's differentiation emerges in the way that it has transformed the narrative so that the network is now a more integrated secure platform for centralizing and expanding operational control right out to an organization's edge connections. Interaction and data collection at the edge is a new frontier for delivering business and operational value.
Software-driven operations that allow for greater programmability of networks are the foundations of Cisco's software-defined network products. They underpin the company's own transformation into a more IT-focused organization. This is recognized by many of its partners, particularly those looking to support Cisco in building up a more convincing strategy and portfolio for assisting the convergence of the IT and operational technology environments of many industrial organizations. The network presents a common information and connectivity layer and therefore an obvious mutual point of visibility and control.
The string of announcements and product releases at the Cisco Live event build on many of the strategic initiatives set by Cisco's leadership team over the past three years. They reinforce the company's central message that it is the bridge to all things transformative and possible through IT and its supporting infrastructure. This message is especially pertinent to its offerings for sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and education, and to customers such as Rakuten, which has worked with Cisco and other suppliers to build a fully virtualized and automated cloud-native mobile network optimized for 5G.
Beyond the focus on cementing its intent-based networking portfolio, the event presented a more integrated view of the core products in its portfolio that Cisco believes will help organizations achieve the business outcomes they seek.
AppDynamics Gets a Visibility Boost
AppDynamics, an industry-leading application performance monitoring solution that Cisco acquired in 2017, headlined the company's ongoing move to provide sharp visibility into the infrastructure systems and software code components that underpin front-end business transactions. Cisco made three important announcements that allow precise impact analysis of business transaction operations. All three products will become available in the second quarter of 2020.
AppDynamics Experience Journey Map automatically provides visual representations of the most important user experience journeys in mission-critical applications. By focusing specifically on business metrics and app experiences, it offers a single correlated view of business performance, user experience and application performance.
Cisco Intersight Workload Optimizer offers workload and cost optimization facilities that work on hybrid application architectures and take performance, cost and compliance constraints into consideration. Together, AppDynamics and Intersight Workload Optimizer provide an impressive tag-and-trace capability that works on multiple domains, on-premises and in the cloud, and for all connected assets and applications within the network and data centre. Importantly, the combination of both products identifies and aligns key performance indicators to better correlate the true performance of business transactions and pinpoint corresponding issues in back-end systems, offering a level of visibility that is so often missing.
Cisco HyperFlex Application is an integrated container-as-a-service product that offers the obligatory ease of provisioning, operating and managing Kubernetes containers across all domains, end to end.
Cisco has long claimed an ability to deliver greater depth of visibility into the infrastructure supporting application workloads through its command of the network layer. However, the steps that it is taking in expanding AppDynamics reach into front-end applications and mapping the user journey more comprehensively, help raise Cisco's profile in areas outside its network origins.
Its foray into territories more associated with established e-commerce platform providers and front-end application suppliers presents an opportunity for an ecosystem to deliver a more integrated, comprehensive visibility mapping infused with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning that many customers and their IT organizations will welcome. Cisco working with partners to showcase the potential of an integrated, end-to-end collaboration will send a powerful signal that demonstrates the effectiveness of its solution and its pivotal role in workflows.
Security and Beyond
Another major area that stood out is Cisco's position on security and trust. In her opening keynote presentation, Wendy Mars, president of Cisco's Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia region, stated that customers continue to push Cisco on security, privacy and transparency for their workforces, workplaces and workloads (see below). It was also a timely reminder of one Cisco's areas of advantage.
Wendy Mars at Cisco Live 2020, Barcelona
Data security is now the biggest concern for most organizations, as highlighted in CCS Insight's IT Decision-Maker Workplace Technology Survey 2019. It therefore came as no surprise that Cisco made security a major theme of the event. The company announced a new security architecture for industrial applications of the Internet of things (IoT) that uses Cisco's monitoring and visibility capabilities to detect transgressions and vulnerabilities quickly and remediate them automatically. Given the increased attack surface created by digitization and broader and more-open connectivity, customers will welcome the maturity of Cisco's portfolio to display greater levels of support for automation and best practices recommended by AI and machine learning.
Security is a key strength for Cisco. Past security announcements highlight the company's ability to recognize the operational signatures of connected products and systems and test for vulnerabilities and risks in encrypted traffic without the overhead of decryption. The addition of a more comprehensive security architecture for industrial IoT demonstrates the firm's correct approach in pursuing the principle of security by design.
Additionally, the breadth of its products in security, from firewalls, gateways and cloud access security brokers to identity and multifactor authentication and threat response, are all solid foundations for it to capitalize on the trends of "zero trust" architectures, supplier consolidation and product integration in security. According to our decision-maker survey, for example, 70% of organizations plan to reduce the number of security suppliers in the coming year.
Ramping Up the Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration
In collaboration, the headline announcement was the launch of Webex Meeting Assistant, which provides AI- and voice-enabled features for capturing notes and actions during meetings, as well as closed captioning and transcription services. The news builds on the Webex Assistant capabilities that Cisco launched for Webex Rooms in November 2017 and marks the first phase of the integration of Voicea, which it acquired in September 2019.
This is an important move for Cisco, which faces strong competition in the online meetings and video calling space from the likes of Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Other collaboration announcements at the event included expanded data residency options for Webex Teams to allow all content, metadata and encryption keys to be stored within a specified region; only US and Europe regions are supported so far. Cisco also announced the Webex Room USB, a new meeting room device designed for small organizations and priced less than $1,000.
Once the de facto standard for online meetings, Cisco Webex is now under pressure to better differentiate itself in a noisy market where competitors like Microsoft are exploiting their considerable weight in AI to augment and enrich their meetings technology. Cisco has made several acquisitions in this area in addition to Voicea, such as conversational AI player MindMeld in 2017 and relationship intelligence supplier Accompany in 2018, which have collectively fuelled Cisco's "cognitive collaboration" initiative. The latest Webex Assistant announcement builds on these activities, but there is still more to do if Cisco is to move ahead of the competition.
Cisco also needs to improve its product strategy for Webex Teams. Though it is positioned as a team collaboration tool and a competitor to Microsoft Teams and Slack, in practice it remains largely a traditional instant messaging product and an extension of Webex Meetings, with limited emphasis on team productivity, automation and project-based work. Cisco needs to move quickly to avoid falling too far behind here; its announcement at Cisco Live Europe about integrating Webex Meeting and Calling with Microsoft Teams simply serves to highlight where the market momentum is in this area.
Cisco announced several enhancements to its range of contact centre products, including the launch of Webex Experience Management following the company's acquisition of CloudCherry in October 2019. The contact centre is a growing area of focus for Cisco, which has been building out its capabilities and profile here since acquiring BroadSoft in February 2018. Cisco also signalled its expansion into the large enterprise market with the general availability of Webex Contact Center Enterprise, which scales to tens of thousands of agents.
DevNet Certification Formalizes Career Progression
In our view, Cisco DevNet is one of the most important offerings to emerge from the company, and as valuable as the transition to software-defined and intent-based networking. Cisco DevNet is a development programme that supports developers, IT and network professionals and engineers to understand and learn the full extent of network programmability. More importantly, it opens up the capacity for driving transformative network automation, enabling flexible, integrated operation and innovation at the network layer. There is much to explore about DevNet; we intend to cover the programme in future blog posts and reports.
At Cisco Live 2020 in Barcelona, the company launched the Cisco DevNet Certification programme. First announced at Cisco Live in San Diego in June 2019, it provides a structured way for companies to recognize and reward the DevNet learning process at the same time as providing a tangible and shared career path, and investment for the network and development community. Aligned to Cisco's well-established and highly prized networking certification process, DevNet certification could mark a tipping point that raises the profile and capacity of the network beyond its traditional audience.
Conclusion: The Right Ingredients for Growth
On 12 February 2020, Cisco's results for its fiscal 2Q20 revealed a 4% decline in revenue. The dip highlighted the cautiousness that continues to exist within organizations wary of a global economic climate beset by uncertainties and the prospect of low growth in key regions such as China. Firms are holding back spending on infrastructure renewals and investing in transformation programmes that implement the latest technological advances.
However, Cisco has developed a portfolio of solutions and services together with improvements in how it engages with its partner ecosystem to allow for more enriched and beneficial interactions. Crucially, the company has travelled some way from its heritage as a provider of network hardware, embracing a future that will need more-intelligent software-defined network connectivity with the flexibility to reach to all edges of corporate operations. As the role of a CIO shifts from being a builder of systems to a broker of systems, Cisco's transition to the delivery of a simplified and integrated portfolio, backed by core values of trust and social awareness and greater support of its ecosystem, should appeal.
The company is clearly stepping up to serve the new generation of application demands in myriad industry sectors. It is also expanding its support of technical and social change in emerging and developed markets through its Country Digital Acceleration programming.
Importantly, Cisco has gone to considerable lengths in developing a broader partner ecosystem. However, the pursuit of hybrid, multiplatform support entails greater demand for open integration and interoperability across multiple systems and applications. Cisco must do more to demonstrate the strength and breadth of its cross-platform support if it is to reverse perceptions of a siloed portfolio and realize the value of its software-driven operations and control in a hybrid landscape.
The company operates in a highly competitive market with pressure coming from network operators, hyperscale cloud providers and other purveyors of infrastructure solutions and services. All promote similar value propositions to an audience often overwhelmed by what's on offer and the skills needed. Cisco is not always the obvious choice of supplier or partner when selection requirements go beyond the network plane, so the company must work hard to differentiate its story and products.
That said, there is much to commend Cisco's drive to support organizations looking to reimagine their applications, reinforce IoT cybersecurity and secure data. The network as a platform positions Cisco well. It offers a tangible foundation for transforming infrastructure and teams, raising the visibility into a hybrid IT estate, and so measuring the true impact on business transactions.
Written by: Bola Rotibi and Angela Ashenden and Nick McQuire
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What's up with the names of Bronx neighborhoods?
Feb.February 19, 2017 12:36 PM
The history of New York City neighborhoods often reveals long forgotten historical curiosities — just look at Brooklyn. But these days the Bronx is getting a lot of attention, so here is a look at how some of the Bronx's neighborhoods got their names via Forgotten NY.
The origin of Riverdale is pretty straightforward. It was a dale (a valley) with a river. Although that is a bit of an exaggeration, really. When 19th century developers named the area, it was a fairly hilly area with a few streams.
Spuyten Duyvil
This neighborhood has had quite a few names over the years, according to Forgotten NY, including Speight den Duyvil, Spike & Devil, Spitting Devil, Spilling Devil, Spiten Debill and Spouting Devil. Depending on its pronunciation in Dutch it can mean "devil's whirlpool" or "spite the devil."
Washington Irving claims it got the name when a Dutch bugler attempted to swim the rough waters of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek in "spite of the devil."
Pelham Gardens
Another fairly straightforward naming. The area was once owned by English physician Thomas Pell. In 1654 he acquired a tract of over 9,000 acres from the local Siwanoy Indians. Today, the town of Pelham in Westchester County, Pelham Parkway, Pelham Bay Park and Pelham Cemetery in City Island are all named for Thomas Pell.
Fort Schuyler was named for Revolutionary War general and U.S. Senator Philip Schuyler. And by the way, it's pronounced SKY-ler.
Throgs Neck
Throgs Neck was named for a early British settler, John Throckmorton. He arrived near Fort Schuyler in 1642. Neck describes the geography of the area, a peninsula, and Throg (sometimes Throgg) is an abbreviation of Throckmorton. See more explanations on Forgotten NY. —Christopher Cameron
Prana pays Related $36M in Bronx multifamily play
Private developer's NYCHA project in Mott Haven lands $79M in financing
Maddd Equities, Joy Construction score $64M for massive Bronx project
Bronx councilman snuffs out another de Blasio rezoning
South Bronx office building lands $85M refi
David Kramer on outer-borough development in the 2010s
Altmark partnership plans 135-unit South Bronx high-rise
Blackstone buys Bronx warehouse for $29M from controversial carter

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(b Boskovice, 19 Jan 1984).Czech composer and performer (voice, accordion, and tap dance). She studied the accordion (2004–10) and composition (2007–8) at the Brno Conservatory, and composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts (with martin smolka and Peter Graham[1]). She also studied as an exchange student at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the California Institute of the Arts (with michael pisaro), the Universität der Künste Berlin (with Marc Sabat), and Columbia University (with george e. lewis).
While she often works with elements outside of music, there is almost always an intense engagement with direct listening, often arrived at through intense focus on very limited material. Sources for her work include Morse code, maps of garments which she turns into scores (Shirt for Harp, Oboe, and Accordion; Jacket for Ensemble), field recordings which she notates descriptively and then asks musicians to interpret the notation (...
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Megan E. Hill
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(b Cayce, MS, March 27, 1917; d Memphis, TN, Dec 15, 2001). American singer, songwriter, dancer, comedian, and radio announcer. One of Thomas's earliest gigs was as part of the dance team Rufus and Johnny with the legendary Rabbit Foot Minstrels. He later forged a distinguished career as a comic (in the duo "Rufus and Bones") and master of ceremonies at all of the important black theaters in Memphis. In the early 1950s Thomas hosted the daily "Sepia Swing Club" and "Hoot 'n' Holler" shows on local black appeal radio station WDIA. Beginning in 1949, Thomas recorded for Star Talent, Meteor, Chess, and, most notably, Memphis' Sun Records before signing with Satellite (soon-to-be Stax) Records in 1960. His most successful recording pre-Stax was an answer song conceived as a response to Big Mama Thornton's R&B hit "Hound Dog." Titled "Bear Cat" and released in 1953, the record was Sun's first bona-fide hit, peaking at number three on ...
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Mary Jo Lodge
(b Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec 8, 1939). American director, choreographer, and performer. Trained in classical ballet at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Daniele became a professional dancer at age 14. She performed for several years with ballet companies in South America and Europe and came to the United States in 1964 to learn American-style jazz dance. She made her Broadway debut in the musical What Makes Sammy Run? that same year, which led to several more Broadway roles. She first assisted prominent Broadway director/choreographers Michael Bennett and Bob Fosse before taking the helm herself on numerous shows, first as a choreographer and then adding the director's role. She choreographed major Broadway productions as The Pirates of Penzance (1981), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985), and Ragtime (1998), and three Woody Allen films, including Mighty Aphrodite (1995). Daniele's first Broadway production as a director/choreographer was ...
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Kate Van Winkle Keller
(b Paris, France, c1762; d Washington, DC, April 11, 1841). American dancing master, choreographer, and composer of dance music. He was born into a family named Landrin with close connections to the court of Louis XVI. He was a pupil of Maximilien Gardel (1741–87), and for six years he was dancing master for the Paris Opéra. He left Paris three days after the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and arrived in Philadelphia in mid-1790. He changed his name, placing advertisements for his dancing schools as Mr. De Duport. Chiefly a choreographer and teacher of social dancing, Duport blended amateur and professional dancing with theatrical standards of content and performance. He wrote music and created hornpipes and other solo dances for his students, as well as duos such as figured minuets, allemandes, and waltzes; group dances, including complex French contredanses, cotillions, and English country dances; and ballets for his classes to perform at recitals. A music copybook in Duport's hand traces his creative career from ...
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(b Statesboro, GA, March 18, 1975). American performer. Embodying the "triple-threat" performance model of singer, actor, and dancer, Sutton Foster enjoyed a rapid rise to musical theater stardom. Foster debuted on Broadway in 1993 as a chorus member and understudy for Eponine in Les Misérables (opened 1987), then played Sandy Dumbrowski in Grease (1994). She appeared in Annie (1997) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997). Foster created the role of Thoroughly Modern Millie's Millie Dillmount in California tryouts in 2000. Despite being little-known, she was cast for the show's Broadway (2002) opening; her performance earned Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress in a Musical, and an Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer. Subsequently, Foster created the roles of Jo in Little Women (2005), Janet Van De Graaff in The Drowsy Chaperone (...
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(b Itají, Bahia, Brazil, Jan 15, 1933). Brazilian teacher and master practitioner of capoeira angola. After migrating from rural Bahia to Salvador, he learned capoeira in the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola under the legendary mestre Vicente Ferreira Pastinha. Influenced also by such veteran practitioners as Cobrinha Verde and Barbosa, he became a widely respected capoeirista, adept at the art's movements, songs, and instrumental music, especially that of the berimbau, a musical bow. João Grande and three other students accompanied Pastinha to Senegal for the first World Festival of Black Arts in 1966. He later joined Viva Bahia, a folk dance troupe directed by Emília Biancardi, touring Europe in 1976 and was publicly recognized as a successor by Pastinha. In 1990 he moved to New York, where he established the Capoeira Angola Center of João Grande. He has received a medal from the Brazilian ministry of sports (...
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I have tinkering a little and built from 2 IKEA Detolf showcases a new one with wireless LED lighting.
So, when are you available to come over and build this for me?
I made the base and lid of a new wooden board from a internet shop. The 2 old planks stick together was not an option for me. The rear glass panels have a 10mm gap, but it also goes without gap. Just need to look at the doors can still be opened.
johntheo95 (3 år siden) #3964630Simply ingenious.Man that is brilliant well done.
How did the back worked out?Did you used the same pieces and have a little gap or had one big made?
The blue glassy-stone like things made it even better?Where can i find them?
Simply ingenious.Man that is brilliant well done.
You can find a tutorial here (www.j-junk.de/a...). My version is similar, only bigger with IKEA Dioder LED strips. So I could continue to use many of the bars and they made a nicer light.
I actually mean your display in total! ;3 (I already know how that wireless LED lightning thing works :3) but thx!!
I bought at a local glazier 3 new display shelves. With 6mm strength for 80€ cost therefore more expensive than 2 Detolf showcases. The light fixture was made from alu profiles from the local trade.
grizzen (3 år siden) #3949875Pretty sweet! Did you have a glass fab shop make your new longer shelves? And where did you get the light fixtures?
Pretty sweet! Did you have a glass fab shop make your new longer shelves? And where did you get the light fixtures?
Thank you. Yes, I've been through the missing partitions now space for 4-6 more figures.
But the cost and the workload would stand in no relation to the price of 2 Detolf showcases.
shinhawk (3 år siden) #3949216Wow, very interesting modded detolfs there! Looks like you're getting a lot more display space out of it.


The G7 meeting is about to drop the ball, possibly in a terminal way.
The "poor" bits of the world have asked it to SERIOUSLY rethink its attitude to the problems, loopholes etc in the "western" bit of the global equation.
Facing what the UKs minister has called a crisis as big as that of the "great depression" - with requests from all quarters to TOTALLY overhaul the logistical infrastructure of the world from a multiple loopholed cash-laundry with betting-shop-rake-offs to something that is adequate to the purposes of the worlds needs - it is all too possible that it might miss the fact that this is a sort of "pre-World War moment" when we might avoid the disasters we are on track for, or sleepwalk into them.
Opinion influencers, each administrations functionaries, columnists, lazy "news" commentators - the entire gamut of informal "you scratch my back, I scratch yours" types, with all their mutually reinforcing group unthink, with or without open "bungs", is a serious weight on free thought.
Global credit crunch is SUCH a euphemism. The flaws in the current system are often put there, then kept there, for the sake of a few quiet, actual criminal scams, or to launder the cash from them, with tax havens etc playing their roles too - but the other way this global idiocy is sustained is with the complicity of little kickbacks, retirement promises, the over-rated threat that all could either get the torture or persecution that occurs to a few if they criticise, or that all SERIOUS alteration to the "systems" to take the criminal scams, waste, thoughtlessness or stupidity out of the situation mean that they end up with the new horrendous administration throwing them out into the streets or putting them to work in paper suits ploughing up the soil with their fingers . . . .
WW2 saw serious, fast alterations to the logistics of this nation to get ammunition where there was a need . . . . without "ifs" or "buts".
Post WW2 there were serious attempts to re-examine global infrastructure - but disruptions of a "heating up" cold war stymied most of them - or diminished them to "titles" with actual serious backing denied them. Its worth looking at the sabotage then smear of the INITIAL "League of Nations" ideas in the USA as mentioned in one or two of the "remember each eleventh" campaigns reclamations of histories in these newswires. . . . but it IS about time we all wised up to the "little" tail-wag-dog disruptrions of those in the "court" - past, present, future - if we are to have much of the latter at all.
The world IS a "house of cards" - but with a difference. Alterations that are "total" - ie global - that affect ALL nations, corporations, stocks, shares, etc ARE MUCH THE SAFEST way to affect things.
30 nations have stopped exports of basic foods in the last few weeks, rice prices have doubled in weeks . . . . much of the poorest peoples of the world spend 60-80 % of their income on food . . . . trying to blame bio-diesel is pathetic. (the largest market for it is europe, at a mere 5bn each year) So is trying to pretend that it is due to governments are too "in favour of farmers(!!!!) in a city/rural split, without a mention of middlemen or speculators, etc". The world trade bodies FORCED farmers to uproot food crops to put in cash crops.
. . . . pause for thought about negligence, logic-jumps, etc.
The "magic" of the marketplace upped these prices in weeks - it takes years to "re-tool" farms, in fact, when "the market" - as it is - dictates these alterations in crops we most often end up with gluts in the short term, then poorer farmers, suicides etc.
Check the number of farmers in, say, India, that chose suicide when the idiocy of this market "magic" hit them. Last week, India stopped its exports of rice as it was running out.
Triple A credit ratings for the "securities" of mortgages poor people in the west were "snake-oil-charmed" into taking out by dodgy cheap mesmerist types . . . . credit crunch . . . . government support to the "institutions" that whose decisions to accept these as worthy causes the disaster, then cheaper interest rates paid for by the nation - that arent passed onto the customers, that are also fleeced with higher mortgage payments, all costs passed onto the poorest most . . . . auctions of homes that end up as buy-to-let short-term crowded houses for scores of cheap guest-workers without unions or voices, to cheapen all the rest of us into asking less questions about worse jobs for less pay with less safety for all of us . . . . but more stress.
Worse, its all quite easy to sort. It is 2008, progress has actually meant we COULD dispense with the machination of scarcity - but out of a sort of half-arsed denial that certain scams exist, with the short-sightedness of a few peoples increasingly stressed, increasingly scrambled thoughts that it is all for their self-interest that these "opinion influencers" distort societies ideas of itself, or the facts about the world - or the need for re-opening SERIOUS enquiries.
We all DO need discussions that dont throw out the ideas that "sound" radical when those are what work, when those are what causes most happiness, fastest - for all - with the least turbulence for all.


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Gerard Butler Net Worth: Gerard Butler is a Scottish actor who has a net worth of $40 million. Although Gerard initially studied law, he gravitated towards acting and eventually became one of the most recognizable figures in Hollywood. After a string of smaller roles throughout the 90s, he began to break through with films such as "Reign of Fire" and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life" in the early 2000s.
Today, he is perhaps most famous for playing the Spartan King Leonidas in the film "300." This performance won the actor many awards and honors. Gerard subsequently gained widespread recognition for his starring role in the film "Olympus Has Fallen" and its spin-offs. In addition to these accomplishments, Butler is an established voice actor and a producer.
Early Life: Gerard James Butler was born on November 13th of 1969 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Raised alongside two siblings in a Catholic household, Gerard relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada with his family when he was just six months old. However, Butler didn't get to experience Canada for very long before his parents separated and his mother brought him back to Scotland when he was still just 18 months old.
After excelling during secondary school, Butler was admitted into the University of Glasgow School of Law. During this period, he became involved with theatre and reunited with his father for the first time as a 16-year-old. During his years in university, Gerard became president of the school's law society and joined a rock band. When he was just 22, his father passed away from cancer. This shook Gerard to his core.
Perhaps reeling from the loss of his father, Butler took a year off from university before completing his final year of law school. He moved to California, living on Venice Beach, working odd jobs, and drinking heavily throughout. Things reached a climax when he was arrested for disorderly conduct after becoming completely inebriated. Despite the fact that he was, by his own admission, "out of control," Butler returned to Scotland after one year to complete law school.
Career: Despite having the potential for a successful law career, Butler's options seemed limited after he was fired for drinking heavily and missing work due to late nights of partying. At that point, he was still just a trainee lawyer, which meant that he never actually qualified to work professionally.
Instead of trying his hand at law once again, Butler took a U-turn and moved to London in an effort to become famous. No, he didn't necessarily want to become a successful actor – his main goal, according to later interviews, was simply to become famous by whatever means possible. Like his effort to become a lawyer, his acting career also stalled early on. However, this time things would pan out for Butler. He reconnected with an old pal from his days in Scotland Youth Theatre who was now a casting director. This gave him the connections he needed to book his first theatre role in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus."
Further theatre work came with a stage adaptation of "Trainspotting." He then booked film roles in movies like "Mrs Brown," "Tomorrow Never Dies," and "Tale of the Mummy." At around this time, Butler decided to move to Los Angeles. Once in the United States, he booked roles in a number of additional projects, although his main breakthrough roles came with the miniseries "Attila" and the film "Dracula 2000."
Another important moment for Butler came when he was cast in 2002's "Reign of Fire." Gerard appeared alongside Matthew McConaughey, and although the film failed both critically and commercially, it helped put Gerard on the map. "Reign of Fire" later became a cult favorite among some circles.
Throughout the next few years, Butler booked roles in movies like "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life," "Timeline," and "Phantom of the Opera." After appearing in films like "Dear Frankie," "The Game of Their Lives," and "Beowulf & Grendel," Butler took another major step forward when he booked a starring role in the film "300." A string of additional roles soon followed before Gerard voiced Stoick in the animated film "How to Train Your Dragon."
In 2013, Butler began playing Mike Banning, starting with the thriller "Olympus Has Fallen." He reprised his earlier role with spin-offs such as "London Has Fallen" and "Angel Has Fallen." Along with "300," these films became some of his best-known projects.
Real Estate: In 2015, it was reported that Butler had purchased a property in Glasgow, Scotland. He spent 582,000 pounds on the residence, which features three bedrooms and a private balcony. One year later in 2016, it was reported that Butler had listed his home in Los Feliz for a cool $4.4 million. He had originally acquired the residence in 2008 for $3.25 million, and Butler was also renting the property out at the time for $15,000 per month. The 4,500-square-foot home features a pool and a spa. As of 2020, Gerard still hadn't managed to find a buyer – although he did increase the rental cost to $17,500 per month.
In addition, Gerard owns a 3,300-square-foot duplex loft in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, which he purchased in 2004 for $2.57 million. After completely transforming the duplex with a number of renovations, Butler listed the property in 2017 for about $6 million. The chic space includes 11-foot mahogany doors, a home theater, and many chandeliers. As of 2020, he still hasn't managed to find a buyer.
In 2019, it was reported that Gerard was spending $65,000 on the initial reconstruction process after his home had been seriously damaged by fires in California. The Malibu home was deemed a "heartbreaking loss," and Butler admitted that it had been partially destroyed. He originally spent $6.45 million on the mansion, which sits on 1.67 acres of land. Butler was one of many celebrities who had their homes destroyed during this period.
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Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus)
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Global warming consequences
Asian mosquitos go West – and tropical diseases come along
Rising temperatures due to global warming are creating a permanent habitat in Europe for mosquitos from Asia. The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), or Aedes japonicas, are important vectors for the transmission of pathogens previously only found in tropical regions.
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Professor Egbert Tannich is a specialist in medical microbiology and Professor of Tropical Diseases at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
Source: Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin, BNI
However, at this point there is no reason to panic: the Asian tiger mosquito, when detected early on, can easily be eliminated.
Professor Egbert Tannich, Chairman of the Board of Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, sees no imminent danger of an outbreak of dengue fever or any other tropical disease. 'There are certain infections that are not imported by travellers – their source is in Europe. Cases of locally acquired dengue fever were reported in Greece and Croatia, several hundred cases of West Nile fever per year are seen in Eastern Europe, and there were several outbreaks of the Chikungunya virus in Italy and France in the past few years – with all of these the underlying cause is the change in mosquito population,' Tannich explains.
Our local, i.e. European mosquitos usually cannot be the vector for these viruses, but the warmer our climate gets, the higher the probability that the viruses can propagate in the new mosquitos. Permanent temperatures of more than 25°C are ideal for these pathogens to breed. The Asian tiger mosquito plays a key role in this scenario: globalisation over the past 30 years has carried it around the world. The mosquito eggs can survive for months in crevices of a tyre or in a plant container. Once disembarked, the larva hatches and the mosquito is on its way. That's how the mosquito came to Europe, with Genoa its first port of call.
Asian mosquitos hitched a ride over the alps
The Alps turned out not to be an insurmountable barrier for the Asian mosquito. Left to its own devices it can only travel about 300 miles per year, thus it simply hitchhiked a car or slipped onto a train to move up North. During the summer, Aedes albopictus has become quite a common guest in motorway rest areas and freight train terminals along the Upper Rhine. Some of these have even negotiated the congested German Autobahn A5 to visit Freiburg and Heidelberg.
The anti-mosquito strategy is successful – so far
If we fail to take these measures early, the mosquitos will spread over central Europe the way they have already done in Italy, Spain and France
Egbert Tannich
'The good news is that we can eliminate the mosquitos, as long as they have not spread all over the place yet and have not yet formed large populations,' Professor Tannich says. So far, the anti-mosquito strategy has been successful, as Tinnich relates: 'We managed to eliminate the Asian tiger mosquito at all sites where we found it during a Germany-wide mosquito monitoring project covering the past three years. We destroyed their breeding grounds, such as vases or rainwater tanks. If we fail to take these measures early, the mosquitos will spread over central Europe the way they have already done in Italy, Spain and France. In Southern Europe, you can only try to reduce the population in order to prevent larger outbreaks of dengue and Chikungunya fever.'
In high-security insectariums, the scientists at Bernhard Nocht Institute find out which mosquitos are able to act as transmission vectors for tropical diseases.
The team at Bernhard Nocht Institute wants to find out more about the so-called vector or transmission competency of our local mosquitos. In Germany, there are about 50 mosquito species, in Europe about 200. 'We have high-security insectariums, where we offer Italian and German mosquitos a range of tropical viruses. After two weeks we check the climate chamber to see whether the viruses are present in the saliva. We found out that the Chikungunya virus, unlike other tropical viruses, can propagate well at 18°C in the Asian tiger mosquito. Therefore,' Tannich explains, 'it's important to establish an early warning system to find and eliminate these mosquitos as quickly as possible to prevent a disease outbreak in Germany.'
Professor Egbert Tannich is a specialist in medical microbiology and Professor of Tropical Diseases at University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. He is also Director of the National Reference Centre for Tropical Pathogens. As Head of CuliFo, Tannich also coordinates a large multi-party mosquito research project in Germany.
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Real Madrid want Rafael Leao to replace Benzema
Emma BowmanNovember 20, 2022
The summer transfer window is closed for the big leagues in Europe. But looking ahead to January, there are a lot of rumors circulating about who is moving where. Transfer Talk brings you the latest in rumours, rumours, comings, goings and of course deals done!
TOP STORY: Real Madrid want to replace injured Karim Benzema with Rafael Leao to compete for LaLiga
According to Sport, Real Madrid believe they need a replacement for Karim Benzema to be able to challenge Barcelona for the LaLiga title this season.
Carlo Ancelotti has reportedly convinced Florentino Perez to bring in attacking reinforcements this January as he believes it would be difficult for his side to compete with Barcelona without a replacement for Benzema, Sport reports.
The 34-year-old France international has been eliminated from the World Cup after suffering a hamstring injury in training.
The 2022 Ballon d'Or winner has struggled with injuries and managed just four Champions League games this season. The Catalan side currently sit two points clear at the top of the LaLiga table and head into the World Cup break as the Italy coach searches for a backup striker.
Los Blancos Rafael is reportedly considering Leao as the 23-year-old is unwilling to sign a new contract with AC Milan.
The Portuguese international's contract expires in the summer of 2024 and he is about to move to Bayern Munich Rossoneri reluctant to lose him on a free transfer.
It's reported that Internazionale's Lautaro Martinez is also considered an option.
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– Kim Minjae will not leave Napoli in January, reports Fabrizio Romano. The 26-year-old centre-back, who is out of contract this summer, will end the season with the Azzurri. The Serie A leaders are preparing a new deal for the South Korea international along with the 21-year-old winger Khvicha Kvaracheliawith both set to get a new deal in 2023.
– AC Milan are considering Lyons Houssem Auar, after Calciomercato. That Rossoneri is said to be interested in signing the 24-year-old midfielder on a free transfer this summer as the France international decided not to renew his contract Les Gones. He has started in Ligue 1 in his six appearances for Laurent Blanc's side.
– Juventus are preparing for the move Cher Ndour, reports Gazzetta dello Sport. The 18-year-old midfielder is out of contract with Benfica this summer Bianconeri hope that his idol Paul Pogba will lure a move to Turin. It is reported that the Serie A side see Italy U20 as the heir of the 29-year-old midfielder.
– AC Milan have their eye on the highly rated Fenerbahce teenager Arda Guler, after Rudy Galetti. The 17-year-old midfielder is reportedly admired by top European clubs, particularly in Germany and Spain. However, it is understood that the Süper Lig side have no intention of letting the Turkey international go and it would take a sizeable bid to lure the teenager away from Istanbul.
– Sporting CP is interested in Botafogo's Patrick from Paula, to Ekrem Konur. The Portuguese are eyeing the 23-year-old midfielder, who is the Brazilian club's club record following his €6m move from Palmerias in March.
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The announcement is supported by multiple agreements including a global service partner agreement, as well as a broad reseller agreement. The parties have also agreed to discuss FRAND policies and enter a licensing agreement for their respective patent portfolios.
As a result of the partnership, Ericsson will extend its addressable market and is expected to generate USD 1 billion or more of additional sales by 2018. The extended addressable market is primarily in professional services, software and resell of Cisco products. The additional sales are expected to be accretive to operating income already in 2016. The partnership is expected to generate full-year effect from synergies, primarily in expenses of SEK 1 billion in 2018.


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Justification and excuse are different defenses in a criminal case. Both defenses admit that the defendant committed an act proscribed by law. The proscribed act has justification if the act had positive effects that outweigh its negative effects, or is not wrong or blameworthy. The proscribed act is excused if the defendant's violation was not entirely voluntary, such as if they acted under duress or under a false belief. Martin v. Ohio (1986) established that states may make justification an affirmative defense, placing the burden of proof on defendant. Patterson v. New York (1977) established that states may make excuses, such as involving mental state, an affirmative defense, rather than part of the mens rea element the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

"Conduct... may be either justified... or excused... A defense of justification is the product of society's determination that the actual existence of certain circumstances will operate to make proper and legal what otherwise would be criminal conduct. A defense of excuse, contrarily, does not make legal and proper conduct which ordinarily would result in criminal liability; instead, it openly recognizes the criminality of the conduct but excuses it because the actor believed that circumstances actually existed which would justify his conduct when in fact they did not. In short, had the facts been as he supposed them to be, the actor's conduct would have been justified rather than excused..."

An example is that breaking into someone's home during a fire in order to rescue a child inside, is justified. If the same act is done in the belief that there was a fire, when in fact there was no fire, then the act is excused if the false belief was reasonable.

What is justified under a utilitarian perspective might be excused under a retributivist standpoint, and vice versa. The American Law Institute Model Penal Code expresses "skepticism that any fine line can be drawn states a fine line between justification and excuse can sensibly be drawn... To say someone's conduct is 'justified' ordinarily connotes that the conduct is thought to be right, or at least not undesirable; to say that someone's conduct is 'excused' ordinarily connotes that the conduct is thought to be undesirable but for some reason the actor is not to be blamed for it."

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Labor votes against bill to protect CFA volunteers
Labor MPs have voted down the Liberals and Nationals' efforts to introduce a bill into Parliament to protect the rights of CFA volunteers.
The Country Fire Authority Amendment (Protecting CFA Volunteers) Bill sought to enshrine the rights of Victorian firefighters' in legislation, as promised by the two parties.
"The bill would have compelled the CFA and the board the Premier has hand-picked to comply with the volunteers' charter," Ms Ryan said.
"This would have stopped the CFA from entering into any agreement or arrangement that could have an adverse effect on the interests of volunteer officers and members under the volunteers' charter."
Ms Ryan said the UFU had tried to bully the CFA into signing a common law deed that would force through key clauses in the proposed enterprise bargaining agreement.
Labor MPs continued to make slurs against volunteers and the VFBV in the last Question Time for the year today where Daniel Andrews would not rule out doing a side deal with the UFU to give them precedence over volunteers.
"Daniel Andrews has left the door open on doing a side deal with the UFU during the summer months. When he was asked in Question Time to rule out any such arrangement he refused to do so."
Ms Ryan said The Nationals in a future Coalition Government would not honour any deeds which harmed CFA volunteers.
"We have given the government fair warning that if they seek to sign deeds that harm volunteers, we will not honour them if we are elected to government," Ms Ryan said.
"It is a blatant move to avoid the scrutiny of both Commonwealth and Victorian law."
Ms Ryan said it the Andrews Labor Government's attack on volunteers had left the CFA heading into a dangerous summer fire season with the dispute still unresolved.
"When Daniel Andrews sacked the board 176 days ago he said that he had ended the dispute. Clearly that was a lie," Ms Ryan said.
"I have full faith in our local brigades that they will do their utmost to defend our communities but they should not have to go into a dangerous summer fire season with this dispute hanging over their heads because the government does not respect or value their work."


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20 iconic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe
Categories: Exhibition
By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/en/article/20-iconic-photographs-by-robert-mapplethorpe
Once the famous critic Lyudmila Lunina wrote about Robert Mapplethorpe: "It would be wonderful to bring his exhibition here. Then we would understand more clearly who is worth what."
In memory of the legendary American photographer, we have selected several of his striking works.
Robert Mapplethorpe is one of the most famous and talented photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. In a sense, he was a follower of Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham. It was from them that he adopted the erotic manner of shooting flowers and an interest in the image of male nudity, although his photos are much more explicit.
Self-portrait, 1980.
Mapplethorpe was born on November 4, 1946 in a suburb of New York. He grew up in a family of zealous Catholics who provided their six children with a calm and joyful childhood. Apparently already at that time Robert was a rebel; in any case, he recalled the first years of his life without much enthusiasm:
So he did, moving to Brooklyn at the age of 16 and returning to his native Queens only for his own funeral 27 years later…
Mapplethorpe was mainly a studio photographer. He often photographed flowers-mostly orchids.
He also created a series of interesting photo portraits (Andy Warhol, Richard Gere, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many others).
1976. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Deborah Harry (cult band Blondie) in 1978 and a famous rocker, as well as a close friend of Robert — Patti Smith in 1986
Isabella Rosellini, 1986
Photo by Peter Gabriel for the cover of the new album, 1986
Iggy Pop, 1981.
Portrait of Andy Warhol in 1987.
At Christie's auction in 2006, the picture was sold for a record 643,200 US dollars, becoming one of the most expensive in the history of photography.
However, Robert Mapplethorpe became widely known thanks to his erotic photographs. They are visually similar to the images of sculptures, while some retain a powerful human energy.
"Derrick Cross", photo from 1982.
Robert Mapplethorpe said this about his work:
A picture from 1987.
The photographer arranged the light and composition in such a way as to emphasize the aloofness, coldness, almost lifelessness of the depicted. Even from a naked body, Robert Mapplethorpe managed to create a still life ("dead nature").
"Sonya and Tracy", 1988.
The last portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe's work, depicting the head of the US Department of Health, Everett Koop, was published in Time magazine less than two months before the artist's death on March 9, 1989.
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I look around at everything these days... media, my community, our nation, humanity and think, "Could it get any worse? Is this the worst it's ever been?"
I mean really! Should I be prepared for more?
...Then I read Judges 2 this morning, about the Israelites forgetting their miracle working God, and a new generation coming up not really knowing or even believing in Him at all. Sound familiar? Then, the Israelites start turning to their own ways. Idol worship (remember that can be anything put before God and also literal other man-made objects), following foreign gods (and these aren't like out-of-towners, these are false deities), and practicing rituals of sacrifice, sacred prostitution, etc.
hmm... yea that sounds pretty bad to me.
But then I look at where we are today. Have we learned anything from them? I mean really. Do Christians even know these Old Testament stories about the Israelites? I didn't. Not really.
I've chosen (and the Lord has pushed me) over the past two years to read through the Bible book by book, and in two years I am only in Judges, but the Lord has been TEACHING ME. Really teaching me.
Reading some (a lot) of it has felt like spending 40 years in the wilderness myself...the repetition in phrasing, the reminders of who God is, the pillars or monuments setup to remind Israel of their miracle working God...it all seemed SO redundant. I even asked God, why? Why so much of the same? I get it already! Don't they get it already?
So then I sat back and thought... this! This is why, Lord, you repeated yourself. Why you told them time and time again. Why you provided the 10 commandments. Why you specifically instructed them on entering the Promised Land. Why you told them to annihilate wicked cities. Why you wanted them to rid themselves of ALL those people. Not just the ones that looked mean...all of them... those people didn't know You, and You knew they would influence and blind the Israelites. You knew those people would cause them to stumble, fall into temptations, and FORGET You.
But as I read in Judges 2 this morning, you sent an angel (pre-incarnate Jesus) to remind them of Your faithfulness to them. To remind them of their deliverance out of Egypt, the wilderness, and into the Promised Land. And to remind them that You will never break Your covenant with them (Judges 2:1)...but because of their, the Israelites, disobedience to You, they would forfeit, throw away blessings, and even trade them for troubles.
Lord, I didn't know for the longest time why I should even read the Old Testament. I didn't see its relevance to me, to our generation...I was so mistaken. I needed to read it to learn, so that I could remember Your goodness and faithfulness to Israel...I am not an Israelite, but, man, I sure look a lot like them. I sure act a lot like them. But my prayer this morning is that I don't keep forgetting like them. Like they did. My prayer is for the generation of my children to know You and remember You because of what You alone have used the Israelites to teach me. So that I might help them to not forget...so that no one may ever look back and say of my children and their generation, "they forgot."
Ok… you might be a mom to littles if your first thought was Frozen! Am I right? That was mine!
I have been reading through 1 Samuel for the last couple of weeks and it has been great. I have previously heard several of the stories, but to read it as a collective book has been so impactful!
Two things: 1) she refers to herself repeatedly as a maidservant to show her humility and dependence on God and 2) she asks specifically (we need to pray more specifically) for a MALE to perpetuate the name of her husband.
Fast forward- God answers her prayer, and boom there's Samuel! …And then Hannah had additional children after that as well, because God does things BIG.
Ok-back to coronation day. In Samuel's day up until this point there had been judges who upheld the law and prophets who were regarded very highly as they were given direct words from God. But guess what? The Israelites were over it. They were over judges. They wanted a king. Why did they want a king? Because eeeeeverybody else had one.
Now doesn't THAT sound familiar? They wanted something because everyone else had it. Here's where I started my questioning cycle with the Lord…Are we still so much the same? Yes! We do the same thing. Our kids do the same thing. This WORLD does the same thing!
We want what everybody else has, because we think it will be sooo much better than what we currently have. For the Israelites, it was a king.
Now-something to understand… switching from judges to a king would COMPLETELY change their form of government. Completely. Did they know that? Yep! In 1 Samuel 8, Samuel even says to them, ok you want a king? It's gonna be crazy, and you're gonna be dealing with a whole new system. Your best will now be HIS (the king's) best. Your best food, animals, property, men, women, etc. So you still want a king?
THESE PEOPLE! They were even warned and yet, there they were singing the "give us a king" song all day long.
…but there was more to it than that. See, they already had a king. The Lord, the God of Israel who brought them out of Egypt, He was their king. But they didn't get that. They wanted a king who they could see, hear, smell, touch…they weren't satisfied with the King of all Kings, nope. They needed a man.
Again- doesn't this sound so familiar? We do that same thing. We as Christians have access and direct communication to the source of all things and yet, often times, it's not enough. Ouch! As I type that it hurts me to even think we are (I am) like that, but we are (I am). Forgive us, Father. Help us to not want our own way so badly that we seek the things and the people who will fail us and fade away.
OK- fast forward a bit more and we have Saul who God told Samuel to appoint as king. Samuel tells Saul and it's finally coronation day! You would think that Samuel would give this elaborate, special speech to send Saul off into his kingship, but instead, he addresses (reprimands) Israel one more time. Samuel reminds them of their history and all the Lord has done for them and the ways in which they have been wicked, even in desiring this king. Saul is literally becoming king and Samuel is declaring it a form of rebellion against God! He is insuring the Israelites that if they and their king serve and obey the Lord, they will find favor. But if they turn to their own ways, His hand will be against them. Seems like a basic concept, right? …it is! But how many times had they been told this same story? Sheesh. Lots. Samuel closes by telling them that he will continue to pray for them and teach them the way that is right.
Like I said, this story could preeeeetty much be taken out and put into today's society and measure up pretty well. We still do so much of this today. Especially in politics. (yikes!) We live in a world that is rejecting the one true God and following after other "gods" or idols much like in Samuel's day. So if we are like the Israelite people in desiring things we don't really need and then begging and promising to do whatever is required in order to get what we want but don't really need…who are the Samuels? Are you a Samuel? Are you sold out to obedience, speaking truth, and praying for those who make unwise decisions? It's an interesting thought. It's an important thought. Cause guess what? God's grace and mercy are still the same and they're still available to all people, but not all people know that. We, as Samuels, can be the speakers of truth, the examples of obedience, and the extension of God's grace to those who need it most. Think about it!


The Museum of Italian Resurgence or in Italian Museo Centrale del Risorgimento is a museum located inside the Vittoriano monument on Piazza Venezia in Rome. It occupies several rooms inside the famous monument built out of white marble. Even though Vittoriano monument is a quite visited tourist attraction that offers a magnificent view on Rome, it is not that popular, mainly because people are not aware of its existence. However, tourists interested in Italian history and the events that led to the final unification of the Italian lands can find this museum very interesting.
This museum is located inside the Vittoriano monument in Piazza Venezia. After the death of Vittorio Emanuele II, the first King of unified Italy, the parliament decided to build this colossal monument in his honor, therefore the name - Vittoriano.
In the museum you will be able to see: paintings, letters and diaries, sculptures, army uniforms, flags and arms that evoke the struggle for independence of Italy and testify to political, cultural and social changes of this very important period of Italian history. Therefore, tourist interested in Italian history and the events that led to the final unification of the Italian lands can find this museum a very interesting one.
Regular ticket price is: 5 Euros (€).
Reduced ticket price is: 2.5 Euros (€).
Free: First Sunday of every month.
Free: Citizens of European Union younger than 18; disabled individuals that are citizens of the European Union.
Reduced price: Citizens of European Union between 18 and 25 years old.
We advise you to check ticket prices and working hours before visiting – check the official website of the Museum of Italian Resurgence in Rome.
From Monday to Sunday working hours of the museum are: 9:30-18:30h.


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Oversea-Chinese Banking Lends $89Mln Against Manhattan's Element New York Times Square West Hotel
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3650 REIT Funds $1.45Bln of Loans in 2021
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Below are some pictures of King Salmon, caught in NY. Lake Ontario and it's tributaries are just loaded with them. These fish can be caught out on the lake during the spring and summer and again in the tributaries during the fall, when they come into the rivers to spawn.
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Perfect location (very private and we felt one with nature), the hot tub was great...complimentary breakfast and wine were lovely. It was fantastic and we will be visiting again :) Thank you for making us feel at home.
The water garden was out of this world. A waterfall outside your room and the most incredible looking bathroom, simply perfection. Everything was wonderful right down to the little details. I just want to stay at all the different cottages. One of the best hotels I have ever stayed at. Also, the cottage smelt incredible! The coffee machine, chocolates, wine, amazing food for breakfast, music to walk into and candles were fantastic! Thank you so much to the host!
When you want to have a quiet relaxing few days not too far from Melbourne, Forget Me Not Cottages should be on your list of places to book. Quiet, comfortable and clean considering open wooden beams in the cottage and the large amount of trees that could have left the place looking less well kept. The private spa and bbq area was exactly what I needed to hide away and escape real life for a few days. Wish I could have stayed longer. I have no doubt I will book Forget Me Not Cottages for my next escape.
Excellent Facilities, with all appliances working well!. Fridge equipped with more than enough food to last for 3 breakfasts although we only stayed for 2 nights. Wonderful service from the staff who waited and guided us to our cottage. Thank you.
Everything you need and then some 😁 What a beautiful spot and a great little cabin with everything you need for a short stay. We stayed two nights but wish we could have had at least one more night to enjoy this relaxing peaceful accommodation. The special touches were great like the port and chocolates, games, movies, books and breakfast provisions. We definitely hope to return one day and thank the owners for their hospitality.
Very basic, run down and extremely outdated cottage. Cottage was clean and receptionist was nice, also recieved complementary wine and chocolates and the fridge was fully stocked for breakfast which was nice but everything was old and definitly not worth the price paid. Definitly not a "luxury" cottage. The hot tub was probably the highlight. It wasn't a bad stay but I wouldn't recommend as your paying wayyy to much for what your getting.
After 3 nights in Melbourne, my boyfriend and i came here for 2 nights. Little touches like complimentary port were great, but the place itself blew us away. Lovely little fireplace (with the click of a button), incredible interiors... i couldnt imagine a way it could be more perfect. Warburton itself is a sleepy town built around a little river (great for picnics). Rent a bike! Would definitely be back.
Nice coffee machine, good supply of breakfast! Nice and modern design.