FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA--(Marketwire - Sep 19, 2012) - CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc. (GIB)(GIB.A), announced today that its Health and Compliance Programs Business Unit (BU) has achieved the Software Engineering Institute''s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Development Maturity Level 5, the highest rating possible.
CGI Federal is the 10th company in the United States to receive the Level 5 rating for CMMI Development, version 1.3, which notes the BU''s success in establishing a culture based on continuous improvement of robust, standardized, and well-defined software development processes. Level 5 is the highest level an organization can attain in the CMMI framework. The appraisal, performed by A1 Independent Consulting, rated the BU as performing at an "optimizing" level.
"CGI has always performed at a very high level, with a strong commitment to doing things right and for the right reasons," said Norm Hammock, SEI Certified High Maturity Lead Appraiser, A1 Independent Consulting. "Having led many appraisals at Maturity Level 5 at some of the top companies in the world, I would place the Health & Compliance BU at the very top of organizations for productivity and quality. They demonstrated this with very strong statistics and quantitative methods as required in a Maturity Level 5 appraisal."
"For government clients who need reliable solutions that deliver the value promised, attention to quality and process improvement is key," said Donna Ryan, President, CGI Federal. "CGI''s commitment to quality is a hallmark of our client delivery approach, so I am proud of our Health and Compliance BU for reaching Level 5 in pursuit of excellence for our clients."
"CMMI Level 5 is the gold standard, so this is a tremendous achievement for the organization," said Cheryl Campbell, Senior Vice-President for Health and Compliance Programs BU at CGI. "In the fast-evolving healthcare market, our clients face complex challenges to fulfill their strategic goals under tight budgets. Through the statistical control and discipline of CMMI Level 5, our teams have greater predictive insight into outcomes, schedule, cost and quality. This creates more time to innovate and provide our clients with well-managed delivery services that can more readily adapt to their evolving technology needs while containing their costs."
The SEI is a U.S. Department of Defense federally-funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University. The SEI helps organizations make measured improvements in their software engineering capabilities by providing technical leadership to advance the practice of software engineering. For more information about the SEI, visit www.sei.cmu.edu.
CGI Federal Inc. is a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group Inc., dedicated to partnering with federal agencies to provide solutions for defense, civilian, and intelligence missions. Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is the sixth largest independent information technology and business process services firm in the world. With approximately 72,000 professionals located in offices and global delivery centers in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, CGI offers a comprehensive portfolio of services including high-end business and IT consulting, systems integration, application development and maintenance, infrastructure management as well as more than 100 proprietary solutions. Further to the recent completion of the Logica acquisition, CGI''s annualized revenue is approximately $10.4 billion, with an estimated order backlog of approximately $17.7 billion, CGI''s shares are listed on the NYSE (GIB) and the TSX (GIB.A) and are included in the FTSE4Good Index. Website: www.cgi.com/usfederal.


Guide to Talvalkoski parish, Finland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.
Taivalkoski is a municipality of Finland located in the Province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region.
The municipality is unillingually Finnish and neighbouring municipalities are Kuusamo, Posio, Pudasjärvi and Suomussalmi.


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Camaguán est le chef-lieu de la municipalité de Camaguán dans l'État de Guárico au Venezuela.

Histoire
La ville est fondée par le frère capucin Tomás de Castro le  sur la rive gauche du río Portuguesa, fondation confirmée par acte de Diego Antonio Díez Madroñero (1714-1769), évêque de Caracas depuis 1756.

Géographie

Faune et flore
La réserve faunique de Esteros de Camaguán (« Estuaires de Camaguán ») est protégée depuis le . La zone couvre une superficie de  sur les municipalités de Camaguán et de Sebastián Francisco de Miranda et présente une végétation caractéristique des zones marécageuses.

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Localité dans l'État de Guárico

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Q: Why is my callback firing before my for loop completes? learner here...I have used the callback technique I've learned here to try to get my alert to fire after I have appended my HTML. No matter what I do, my alert fires first, then my my HTML is appended. Based on what I've read, this shouldn't be happening. What am I missing here?  I'd like my HTML to paint completely (by appending) before the alert fires. I appreciate any insight you may have!

$(document).ready(function() {
  let data = {
    d: {
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A: Using alert() is a poor debugging tool. It stops anything else from happening including repainting the document. Logging things to a console (F12 in browser) is much better
I've added some logging inside the loop and in the callback and you can see the order is as you expect. All else is the same

var data = {d:{results:[{Title:'Item 1'},{Title:'Item 2'}]}};

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function createHTML(data,callback){
    var tabOneWrap = $('.tabOneWrap');
    var arr = data.d.results;
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        tabOneWrap.append(
            '
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        );
    }
    console.log('Before callback')
    callback();
}

function callback(){
    console.log("aloha");
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A: Really, there is no good answer to this, because it is how the browser/js runtime is built to operate. The quick and dirty solution is to wrap your callback in a setTimeout or, better yet, requestAnimationFrame:
// setTimeout(callback, 0);
requestAnimationFrame(callback);

This will ensure that the event loop can "wrap around," do some painting, and then execute your callback.
As long as synchronous code is being executed, the other pieces of the runtime machinery will just be waiting their turn. It is not until an asynchronous operation happens (like a setTimeout or RAF), that the browser will say, "Ok, nothing else to do, let's paint the screen with any changes and have a look in the queue for any other JS that is ready for execution."
Here is my favorite talk on the topic. It might be a little deep if you're new to the craft, but it will give you a leg up going forward if you pay close attention.
https://youtu.be/cCOL7MC4Pl0

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Q: Form Validation And Redirecting In Flask Without Extensions (WTForms, etc) I've been searching and reading dozens of posts and yet to find an answer.
I'm looking for a way to validate a form, stay on the same page and present error upon failure, or render the next html page if successful.
My current try: Sending the form to flask, validating and redirecting. The hidden frame is so the page won't refresh if validation fails. For some reason render_template doesn't work and err won't show.
Python and Html (simplified):

@app.route("/", methods=['POST'])
def validate_form():
    print
    if (format(request.form['q1']) != '1' or format(request.form['q2']) != '2 ):
        return render_template("index.html",err = "One of your answers are incorrect. Please check again.")
    else:
        return render_template("next_page.html")

                <form name ="quiz" method="post" action="/" target="hiddenFrame">

Who likes carrots?

                    <input type="radio" name="q1" value="1" checked>bunny

                    <input type="radio" name="q1" value="2">rabbit

                    <input type="radio" name="q1" value="3">beyonce

what is 1+1?

                    <input type="radio" name="q2" value="1" checked>10

                    <input type="radio" name="q2" value="2">1.

                    <input type="radio" name="q2" value="3">2

                * {{err}}

                <input class="button" name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" >
                </form>

Edit: My HTML page is divided into 3-4 sub-contents, where you click on "next" and "prev" buttons to move across them. When the user submits the form, I need it to stay on the same sub-content, so I used a hidden frame to redirect back to it via html. I belive that some solution that I did is not working properly in terms of letting the page render itself..

A: First thing, you'll want to wrap your current if statements in an overarching
if flask.request.method == POST:

This will activate the code when it's posted.
Next you'll want to use flashes for messages being displayed if information isn't correct. Give it a quick google and you should be able to find a quick template to use.


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Republican governors call on Biden to prioritize U.S. oil and gas production
By Bethany Blankley
North Dakota can produce enough crude oil to offset dependence on Russian imports, but the Biden administration is prohibiting it from doing so, the state's governor and U.S. senators argue.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and 24 Republican governors have called on President Joe Biden to prioritize U.S. oil and gas production and restore American energy independence. They did so as crude oil hit $120 a barrel and is expected to surpass $200 a barrel, causing gas prices, and everything that depends on gasoline for transport, to skyrocket.
The market went into a correction on Monday, after the U.S. already entered into a 40-year inflationary high. Both are expected to push the U.S. toward a volatile recession.
This was totally avoidable, Burgum said.
"From the unsecured southern border to the underutilized oil fields of North Dakota, President Biden's misguided policies continue to put U.S. citizens at risk and hold America back," he said.
"The Biden administration has again failed to meet its obligation to hold a federal oil lease sale, [which] is further proof that this administration isn't serious about U.S. energy security. The President needs to reverse his anti-oil policies and unleash American energy production to protect U.S. consumers and return our nation to a position where we can sell energy to our friends and allies instead of importing it from adversaries like Russia."
The Biden administration argues that its restrictions on oil and gas production are necessary to combat climate change and that there are enough untapped permits for drilling on federal land that the industry could increase production if it wanted to.
North Dakota produces more than 1.13 million barrels of crude a day and 2,990,340 MCF (thousand cubic feet) of natural gas a day.
Crude oil production from North Dakota alone would easily offset the imports from Russia, the governor argues.
In Biden's first year in office, he halted and restricted oil and gas leases on federal lands, stopped construction of the Keystone Pipeline, and redirected U.S. policy to import more oil from Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia (OPEC+) instead of bolstering American oil and gas exploration and production.
While U.S. production on federal lands was stifled in 2021, the U.S. imported 8.47 million barrels per day of crude oil and refined products, of which 672,000 barrels per day (8%) came from Russia, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency. The U.S. also imported 6.10 million barrels per day of crude oil, of which 199,000 barrels per day (3%) came from Russia.
The U.S. has been importing about 473,000 barrels per day of refined products from Russia, Andrew Lipow of Houston-based Lipow Oil Associates LLC, told The Center Square in an email. Of this, 354,000 barrels a day is unfished oils, which means they need to be upgraded in refineries in the U.S. – mostly on the Gulf Coast, because the Russian refineries aren't unable to upgrade them.
The U.S. also imports 697,000 barrels a day of gasoline blendstocks, of which 50,000 barrels a day (7%) came from Russia, Lipow said. This mainly goes to states on the East Coast.
The U.S. also imports 287,000 barrels a day of distillate, of which 23,000 barrels a day (8%) come from Russia. This also mainly goes to states on the East Coast, he said.
The 25 governors in their joint statement to Biden called on him "to reverse his policies and restore America's energy independence for our citizens as well as our allies abroad.
"By removing his bans on new oil and gas development on federal lands, building the Keystone XL pipeline, and reinstating regulatory reforms to streamline energy permitting, we can protect our national energy security and sell to our friends rather than buy from our enemies – specifically Russia."
Governors from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming signed the letter.
North Dakota's two Republican U.S. senators, John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, along with seven other cosponsors, also introduced the American Energy Independence from Russia Act in the U.S. Senate.
The bill would require the Biden administration to submit an energy independence plan to Congress within 30 days that provides an energy security evaluation and risk assessment, and plans to leverage America's oil and gas resources.
It would authorize the construction and operation of the Keystone XL pipeline, which Biden shut down when he entered office, and remove regulatory hurdles to increase liquefied natural gas exports.
It also would prohibit any presidential moratoria on new federal leases and require the U.S. Department of Interior to hold a minimum of four oil and natural gas lease sales in fiscal year 2022 in each state that has federal land available for leasing. It also would prohibit the U.S. Energy Department Secretary from drawing down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the Secretary of the Interior issues a plan to increase oil and gas production on federal lands and waters.

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All the latest from hampshire fare
Rick Stein comes to Chewton Glen with Pop-up Picture House
This summer heralds the launch of the Pop-Up Picture Company, creators of unique food and film experiences, all set in stunning locations - with chef Rick Stein headlining its first installment of movie nights.
The cinema will pop up at Chewton Glen Hotel in Hampshire from 9th July. Located on the edge of the New Forest, Chewton Glen was built in the eighteenth century and has over 139 acres of stunning parkland, woodland and gardens and is only a stone's throw from the beautiful Solent coast.
The gastronomic film nights follow the winter sell-out success of the Pop-Up Picture House's run of movie screenings within the Old Town Hall building in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The hit event ran from December 1st 2016 to February 5th 2017 with two-courses of indulgent comfort food created by two Michelin-starred chef, Tom Kerridge served to cinemagoers throughout the movie, plus a mouth-watering treat of The Hand and Flowers' ice cream.
In the grounds of Chewton Glen, guests can expect a suitably summery menu of seafood dishes curated by Rick Stein. The menu will use the finest seafood and produce, sourced from Rick's trusted suppliers and the local area where possible and will include diverse tasty menus featuring lamb, a vegetarian option and plenty of Rick's signature seafood dishes.
Rick added: "I've always loved going to the cinema, but sometimes I just love making myself something delicious to eat, putting on a great movie andsettling down for the evening. The Pop-Up Picture Company is a perfect combination of all these elements–that great cinema atmosphere, with dinner served to the comfort of your sofa and the added bonus of simply stunning locations. I'm really looking forward to the summer!"
With a different classic film to be screened each evening, both venues will provide an idyllic backdrop for a unique, al fresco summer evening of fun, food and film, to be shared in comfort with family and friends.
Tom Kerridge, one of the four friends that initially came up with the Pop-Up Picture House concept, is delighted the culinary movie experiences are continuing. To celebrate his on going involvement in the project, Tom's famous ice cream will be served 'usherette style' at each screening, carrying on the tradition from the Pop-Up Picture House.
He explains: "We were absolutely blown away by the demand for the event in Marlow and now want to share this with people in more unique and diverse venues. Rick is one of my all-time food heroes and to have him on board for the summer launch is phenomenal. What a great way to make a special occasion out of a trip to the cinema."
Following Rick Stein's Sunset Cinema, the Pop-Up Picture Company is gearing up for an eclectic programme of events held in various locations across the UK with more top chefs.
To find out more about the Pop-Up Picture Company events and to access priority bookings to the screenings, register at www.popuppicturecompany.co.uk
See film schedule here.


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Q: Does a switch need to be debounced when opened? Suppose that an input on a microcontroller has a pullup resistor to 5V and a switch to ground (normally open) connected to it. I know that a switch should be debounced (in my case, in software) when closed, but is debouncing when a switch is opened necessary?

A: Yeah I would use one, the mechanism is basically the same.  As you are breaking the contact you will have points in time where the switch is making good electrical contact as well as not making good electrical contact.   The same as when you are making the contact.

A: Yes, debouncing in both directions is necessary if you want a guaranteed single edge each time the switch changes state.
Fortunately, you don't need any additional hardware for debouncing if the switch is connected to a microcontroller.  If the micro has a internal pullup, which many do, you need nothing more externally than the switch between the micro pin and ground.
I find 50 ms is a good debounce time.  Most switches bounce for well less than that, but a few can be nearly that long.  But, 50 ms will still feel instantaneous to a human user, so you might as well be extra reliable.  The only difference is the number you count to in the firmware, so no extra cost there.  I usually have a 1 ms periodic interrupt for other reasons anyway, so if the switch is in the same state 50 times in a row in that interrupt, then you declare it debounced to the new state.
Details on debounce logic in response to comment:
Generally you will have a global bit that indicates the official debounced state of the switch.  This is what any logic that needs to know which way the switch is set uses.  The only additional state you need is a counter, usually a single byte, in the interrupt routine.  Let's say the interrupt is every 1 ms and the debounce time is 50 ms.  For each interrupt:
If instananeous state matches debounced state:
  Reset counter to 50
  Done

If instantaneous state differs from debounced state:
  Decrement counter
  If counter reaches 0:
    Declare the new debounced state
    Reset counter to 50
  Done

A: In general, yes. Mechanical switches can produce electrical noise (bouncing) on both close and open.

A: Generally, yes, but it always depends on what you're doing with the digital input.  I've had a few systems that absolutely had no need to be debounced in either direction.
If you're driving an interrupt, though, most likely you should debounce.


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Does Toy Fair Buzz Guarantee a Toy's Success?
If you´re looking for the can´t-miss toy for 2004, you´re not alone. Every year at the American International Toy Fair in New York City, retailers sift through thousands of products looking for the next big hit. In some cases, the buzz surrounding a new toy translates into consumer excitement and a retail bonanza. Other times, the buzz might not leave the showroom floor of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
"In the end, it is the consumers who are ultimately responsible for making a toy a hit—they buy the toy and spread word of mouth about its appeal," said Diane Cardinale, the public information manager for the Toy Industry Association, Inc. (TIA). "Cabbage Patch Kids didn´t have big buzz when unveiled at Toy Fair, but look at their success. In this case, the buyers who first saw the dolls in February did not expect consumers to respond so tremendously."
There are, however, toys that never live up to their Toy Fair billing. American Specialty Toy Retailers Association President, Joanne Farrugia, recalls the buzz generated around a line of toys from the Jay Jay the Jet Plane children´s show.
"There was a bit of a bust," she recalled. "I just didn´t love it so I didn´t bring it in. I heard a lot of people saying they were going to wait and see how it does, and if you hear that, it usually means it isn´t going to do well."
So how do you know what will be a hit and what will be a miss? Industry observers say unfortunately there isn´t a magic solution for predicting the success of a line of toys.
"If there was an exact formula, I would be long retired," said Tony Laferra, co-president of the United League Toy Representatives Association. "There are far too many factors that go into making a toy a success. The buzz can help but is not always the determining factor. There are many intangibles."
Unfortunately, the industry hasn´t found a runaway success in recent years.
"I´m one who likes to capture something that´s hot, because if it´s hot, people like to buy it wherever they see it," said Farrugia, who runs three specialty toy stores in the New Jersey area. "Knowing how long it´s going to last is the trick."
But in the absence of a single big score, Toy Fair is still crucial for producing valuable product introduction and promotion.
"A homerun product can help boost sluggish sales at retail, as it drives consumers into the stores where they purchase other items besides the hot seller," said Cardinale. "But better than one homerun is a group of singles, doubles and triples: several good-selling items rather than just one megahit."
In the end, though, Cardinale believes the success or failure of a product is ultimately based on its value as a play thing.
· The Talk of the Trade Show
· The Forecast for Specialty Toy Retailers


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Highlight	· Singapore
Want to Do Good? Then Join These Upcoming Singapore Charity Runs
by Eva Natalia On Jun 23, 2017
http://runso.co/2sXxFQV
You love running. You want to do good for the less-fortunate people but are too occupied with work, family and running commitments. Here's a solution: join charity runs. Not only will you be benefited physically from the workout, your heart will feel content knowing that you have made a difference in someone else's life.
With so many charity runs in the second half of 2017, you are truly spoilt for choice. Here is the line-up of charity runs, sorted chronologically.
1. Unlabelled Run 2017
Photo Credit: The New Charis Mission
Date: 8 July 2017 (Sunday)
Time: 6 a.m.
Venue: Punggol Waterway Park
Distance: 5km and 10km
Unlabelled Run is about tearing off the labels that society put on ex-offenders. It's about recognising that ex-offenders have transformed beyond their pasts to become contributors of the society. Come support these changed men and their works by joining either a 5km fun run or 10km competitive run.
2. World Vision's Race For Relief 2017
Date: 15 July 2017 (Sunday)
Time: 5 p.m.
Venue: Stadium Riverside Walk
More than 20 million of people in East Africa are in a fragile balance between life and death due to drought and conflict. Families are running to seek food, water and shelter. World Vision's Race For Relief allows you to run so that they don't have to anymore. Join this family-friendly run by choosing a team: Drought Relief, Hunger Relief or War Relief. The proceeds from this race will help to bring emergency humanitarian relief to the vulnerable families.
3. Run For Good Durian 5KM Run 2017
Venue: Ci Yuan Community Club
Run for Good Durian is a unique themed run where participants run for 5km while carrying durian. At the end of the run, runners get to enjoy the fruit of their labour and be rewarded with a medal and coconut. Proceeds from the run will go to Ang Mo Kio-Hougang CCC Community Development and Welfare Fund.
4. Singtel-Singapore Cancer Society Race Against Cancer 2017
Venue: Angsana Green (East Coast Park)
Distance: 5km, 10km and 15km
Statistics show that 37 cancer cases are diagnosed every day. Moreover, 1 in 3 patients loses the battle each year. Organised by Singapore Cancer Society (SCS), the Singtel-Singapore Cancer Society Race Against Cancer race aims to raise funds to fight against cancer. Let's join the movement!
5. Ground Zero Run For Humanity 2017
Date: 13 August 2017 (Sunday)
Venue: Casuarina Grove, East Coast Park
Distance: 1km, 5km and 10km
The Ground Zero Run challenges participants with the simulated experience of a survivor's journey from ground zero – the disaster site – to collect urgent supplies needed in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Participants will take on a similar challenge as they carry a relief pack weighing 5-7kg for their choice of 1km (for kids and parent), 5km or 10km. All relief packs from the event will be distributed to local families in need to mark Mercy Relief's observance of World Humanitarian Day.
6. Frost & Sullivan Corporate Challenge 2017
Date: 19 August 2017 (Saturday)
Venue: MacRitchie Reservoir Park
Singapore is facing a rapidly ageing population. This year's Frost the Trail seeks to raise not just proceeds, but also promote awareness about the challenges in Dignified Ageing. All proceeds from the event will go to the Bright Hill Evergreen Home and PEACE-Connect. Your participation will help improve the quality of life for the elderly.
7. Metta Charity Run 2017
Venue: Singapore Sports Hub
Distance: 1.5km, 5km and 10km
The Metta Charity Run is an annual community event organised by Metta Welfare Association (Metta) to raise funds for the disability care, medical care, special education and early intervention programmes that Metta provides in aid of some 1,000 beneficiaries from across various races and religions. Assemble your squad and choose from 3 categories: Dynamic Duo 1.5km Parent & Child Fun Run, Powerful 5km or Legendary 10km.
8. SPD Ability Walk 2017
Venue: Chinese Garden
SPD Ability Walk 2017 aims to raise funds to provide programmes and services that enable and empower people with disabilities to be independent and self-reliant. The Walk itself provides an opportunity for everyone of different abilities to walk together and serves to promote inclusion and raise awareness of disabilities.
9. Race For Charity 2017
Date: 10 September 2017 (Sunday)
Venue: Ang Mo Kio Central Stage
Distance: 7 game stations
Form a team to compete in the race and learn about our country's unique heritage while discovering interesting places in Singapore at the Race For Charity 2017. Race against time and solve clues for a good cause all in one day! The race aims to raise funds for the patients of Bright Vision Hospital.
10. Believe B60 Charity Run 2017
Date: 16 September 2017 (Saturday)
Distance: 60mins Fun Run or Walk, 31.5km B60 Tribe Team Relay
Believe B60 Charity Run invites people to join in without having to pay a registration fee but to make a minimum donation. 100% of donation raised will go to the beneficiaries of CCSS (Care Community Services Society) directly. Join B60 as they put smiles back into lives of under-privileged by demonstrating that we believe in them, and that they too can live empowered lives and fulfil their dreams and hopes.
11. Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2017
Venue: SAF Field, Farnborough Road (near Changi Village)
Every year, over 9,000 ex-offenders complete their imprisonment and are released from the various prisons and drug rehabilitation centres (DRCs). Often, they find themselves literally stepping into a second prison, the one with invisible bars, of suspicion, mistrust and discrimination. The Yellow Ribbon Project hopes to promote a more accepting society, one that is willing to give ex-offenders a second chance at making good. Join the Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 5km Walk, 5km Team Run, or 10km Competitive Run to support the Yellow Ribbon Project.
12. Let's Take A Walk 2017
Photo Credit: Norman Ng
Date: 23 – 24 September 2017 (Saturday – Sunday)
Venue: To be announced
Distance: 10km, 50km and 100km
Let's Take A Walk is a non-profit endurance walking event. It is an activity that is simple, attainable by most and yet challenging given the distance to be covered and the amount of time spent on one's feet. All proceeds (less operating costs) will be donated to Caregivers Alliance Limited (CAL), a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving lives of caregivers of persons with mental illnesses.
13. Light Of Hope Run 2017
Venue: Gardens by the Bay (East)
Distance: 3.5km and 7km
The Light of Hope Run was originally called the Make A Difference Race in 2015 and 2016. The race aims to raise public awareness and fight the social stigma related to depression and mental health. The event features a 7km competitive run and a 3.5km buddy fun run/walk.
14. Pink Ribbon Walk 2017
Date: 7 October 2017 (Saturday)
Venue: Event Square @ Waterfront Promenade
Distance: 3.5km walk and 5km run
With 1,850 women being diagnosed each year, breast cancer remains as Singapore's most common cancer among women. Show your support to the women affected by breast cancer by taking part in the Pink Ribbon Walk 3.5km walk or 5km fun run.
15. SIA Charity Run 2017
Date: 8 October 2017 (Sunday)
Time: To be announced
Venue: The Float @ Marina Bay
The SIA Charity Run is one of the charity activities Singapore Airlines is holding as part of our 70th Anniversary celebration. Through these activities, SIA will be raising funds for Community Chest of Singapore. Participants get to enjoy a picturesque run by joining 5km Fun Run or 10km Competitive Run, as well as 10km Corporate Challenge. A 3km Wheelathon is being introduced this year as a special category to encourage inclusiveness.
16. The Urgent Run Singapore 2017
Date: 28 October 2017 (Saturday)
The mission of Urgent Run is to provide clean toilets and sanitation conditions for everyone. People from all walks of life are welcome to come together and advocate for sanitation rights worldwide. Take part to help solve the global sanitation crisis now!
17. Run & Raisin' 2017
Date: 5 November 2017 (Sunday)
Venue: OCBC Square (outside Stadium MRT Station)
Distance: 800m, 5km and 10km
Started in 2011, Run & Raisin' is an annual charity run and carnival organised by TOUCH Young Arrows (TYA). This year, it aims to raise $250,000 to benefit some 570 needy children and families of TYA, increase public awareness of TYA's work in the community, as well as promote family bonding and a healthy lifestyle. Support this meaningful cause by signing up for the 800m Family Run, 5km Fun Run, 10km Competitive Run, or joining in the fun at the carnival!
18. SGX Bull Charge Charity Run 2017
Date: 17 November 2017 (Friday)
Venue: F1 Pit Building
Distance: 3km and 5km
Every year, SGX Bull Charge Charity Run attracts more participants than any other corporate charity race in Singapore. Not only will you be running for a good cause, but the event will be a good opportunity for team bonding as CEOs race alongside employees to do their part for charity. This race welcomes corporate participation with 3 categories to choose from: 3km Chief Challenge, 5km Mass Run, or 5km Obstacle Team Challenge.
Have you joined any charity run before? How did you feel better running a charity run compared to a non-charity run?
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Q: DWM messages constant values I searched on internet, but I couldnt find what I am intersted in...
I am trying to find the value of
private const int DWMCOMPOSITIONCHANGED;

Thanks in advance!

A: You probably can't find it because the real name is WM_DWMCOMPOSITIONCHANGED.  You find it by searching through the files in the Windows SDK's Include directory on your machine.
You'd find WinUser.h, the value is 0x31e.


Many times, I'll offer advice in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, and the reply will indicate the confusion.
Here's a screenshot of my settings - I can't see a problem!
I just got my registrar to setup the DNS addresses, as you gave me. Surely, they are right?
But we diagnose the problem, and find that the addresses are still wrong.
I have a diverse assortment of online tools, which I use for diagnosing custom domain publishing problems. Here are three (as always, in alphabetical order), which I use to examine and verify DNS addresses.
Name.com Dig / Who.Is Lookup.
Each tool complements the other two - none of them are a replacement for the other two.
Lets you copy and paste the output, easily.
Lets you Dig the domain root, or any specific aliases.
Lets you select what host to perform the Dig.
Lets you check results promptly, not waiting for TTL to expire.
Lets you reference the result using an included URL.
Lets you do a Who Is lookup, to complement the Dig.
When you make changes to the DNS addresses, you will want to check your results, promptly - waiting for DNS cache to expire, varying according to TTL, causes confusion. The Name.com Dig accesses the domain master server, so you can generally see results promptly. To cross check the Name.com Dig, you can use the Kloth Dig - and reference the domain master server, explicitly.
All Domain Hosts Must Be Verified.
When you make changes to a Non Root Virtual Host, you'll need to Dig the results. Both Kloth and WebMaster Toolkit let you specify the host name, to target in the Dig, so you can target any host - not just the domain root and "www" aliases.
Ability To Copy And Paste Results Is Useful.
It is useful to copy and paste the results from any Dig transaction. Both Kloth and WebMaster Toolkit Digs provide results that are not table bound, and can be easily copied and pasted.
Ability To Reference The Result In The URL Is Useful.
It is useful to save a one click link to check Dig results, to avoid having to repeatedly paste or type a domain URL to be checked. Both Name.com and WebMaster Toolkit provide results that can be checked by clicking on a link, which you can bookmark.
Many times, the domain status, examined using a WhoIs lookup, provides an essential clue. Both when a domain purchase is unsuccessful, and when a domain registration has expired, a Name.com Who.Is Lookup will lead to the problem diagnosis.
Each of these tools provide vital details and features, that the others do not provide. And each of these tools, used properly, can help somebody to avoid posting in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, frantically asking for help.
I`ve successfully switching to a new custom domain about 5 moth ago but the problem of duplicate url in search engine is still exist, I mean both my blogspot and new domain are still in search result. So ShouldI delete the blogspot from google web master tool? please give some good advise. thanks.
I'd like to discuss this with you - do you have an open discussion in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?? It's much easier to use a Google Forum for such activity.


The agencies offering security guard services are involved in various applications these days. The rising crime rate in all parts of the world has left residential, commercial and industrial areas insecure. Professional security guards include security practices and technology to ensure that threats and dangers are assessed and prevented and security issues are settled.
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Another function of security guard services through using provide monthly security reports to clientele. In addition, they could make suggestions to upgrade the present security measures if they sense each and every threat.
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Searching for Safety, Finding a Savior: A journey through sexual brokenness
polymath 0 January 14, 2014
Laura, a Harvest USA intern, has a compelling story about God's relentless grace that rescued her from sexual brokenness. Like all real stories, it's still not finished, and there are broken paths along the way.
You can also read it in our blog, "Sex, Lies, and God's Design," if you want to give Laura a comment or two. You can find our blog link on the front page of our website.
I've been learning the imperative nature of two words in the Bible. Without these two words, we are so dead and odorous in our sins, much like Lazarus was when Christ raised him from the dead. In fact, the fate of all humanity hinges on these words: "But God…"
Paul wrote in Ephesians, "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins…carrying out the inclinations of your flesh and thoughts and by nature were children under wrath…But God who is abundant in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us, made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. By grace you are saved!" (Ephesians 2:1, ESV).
My story involves a long stretch of spiritual death—my wandering as a child under God's displeasure. It's a journey that involved a series of unholy sexual relationships with women and a long stretch of hopelessness that felt like my only companion. But God (!) was not content to leave me there. He used his earthly kingdom, the body of Christ, to bring me to a knowledge of himself and of the love he has for me—a love that would allow the death of his Son to reverse the death I was living.
I was a part of a large family by today's standards. I was the second oldest of six children (one boy and five girls). It was just me and my brother for the first eight years of my life. I grew up a tomboy. My parents then had a string of four more daughters to make up for my own lack of girliness. The six of us vied for my parents' attention and stretched them to the limits to provide for us. Materially, we always had enough, but emotionally it often felt as though the fount had run dry. Mom and Dad loved me, but there were often disconnects in the ways they showed it and the ways in which I could understand it.
My parents expressed their love for me in many ways. They were the first to step up and defend me, when there were outside threats—school bullies, teacher bullies, friend issues. But the internal threats went unnoticed—particularly my sense of their lack of affection and my misguided attempts to seek out that affection from other women. I found myself on the receiving end of derogatory words and expressions ("faggot") that would be tossed around to gauge my reaction on the issue of same-sex attraction. Instead of coming to me with intentional questions to get a read on where my heart was—a move which would have been most invited if done in love!—my parents drove me away with malicious words and cold distance. It ultimately made me feel worthless instead of valuable.
I wanted so much to be loved for who I was. I was delighted to see my parents show up for my violin and ballet recitals, but how much more it would have meant for them to support me in the things I loved: writing, soccer, softball, and mountains. Their failure to show up in these areas—and the way they were critical of my interest in them—really widened a chasm in our relationship which over the years I would fill with anger and bitterness.
After being homeschooled, I entered a private Christian school in the sixth grade. My experience in that school was like watching the movie Saved (the 2004 flick starring Mandy Moore and Macaulay Culkin), except that I was actually in the movie. It was difficult to spend the next six years in an environment of legalism. The legalistic environment affirmed my frenzied attempts to keep up the appearance of what Christianity should look like by today's standards, at the expense of searching out my own heart.
There was particularly no grace to be observed in the area of same-sex struggle. A good friend of mine was kicked out after a letter she wrote to another girl that expressed her affection for her was discovered. I could have easily been in her shoes—expelled for writing a similar letter that wasn't confiscated by a teacher. At the end of my senior year of high school, while serving as class chaplain, captain of our soccer team, and juggling all the science courses that would make me a first-class applicant for pre-med programs, I was also actively engaged in my very first same-sex sexual relationship with another student from my school. But no one found out, because God had other plans. If I had been expelled, I most likely would not have ended up at the small Christian college where my life began to unravel and then turn around.
By the end of high school, I had become so tired of doing all the right things, making all of the right choices and the good grades, and never feeling like I was getting anywhere in terms of my relationship with my parents, whose affections I could not seem to buy for any price. I also felt my school slighted me for every honor imaginable. I felt that both my parents and my school offered nothing but derision in communicating with me at my deepest area of need. I decided that if all Christianity had to offer was back-breaking, law-keeping labor without any pay-off (or even a little bit of a break in the area of temptation and struggle every now and then), then what was the point? I could never be good enough.
Of course I was right in thinking like this! But I had no idea of the implications of what I was thinking, and I had no idea how what I was feeling would actually impact my relationship with Christ. I did not even know that my relationship with him could be a real relationship—I just took that for Christian jargon. Through all the struggles, God had intentionally primed me for my college experience. I was about to experience grace for the first time. I was going to know it when I saw it because it would be so drastically different from everything else I had experienced.
Grove City College is located roughly thirteen hours from where I grew up. This was good news for me in many ways, but particularly, it meant a geographical severing of the same-sex relationship I had begun in my last year of high school. The environment of grace at this school began turning the tide of doubt in my mind. I saw grace in action there from the faculty and staff. Of course, there was a rule book. It was called The Crimson. Included inside were visitation rules, the plagiarism policy, and alcohol abstinence regulations. It also laid out procedures for punishing the breaking of all of these rules. My expectations of how a Christian institution operated remained unchallenged.
However, in my first few months as a Grover, the lessons of grace I saw would shake the ground of all my "Christian" assumptions. One of my dearest friends was caught drinking on campus. I knew that this was an offense punishable by expulsion. I grieved the inevitable loss of one of the healthy female relationships God had blessed me with in my freshman year, but I grieved prematurely. She came back after her talk with an administrator of the school and told me a story that seemed unfathomable at the time. She said that after sharing the story of her family's difficult situation on top of her own emotional turbulence adjusting to a new school and environment, she had been granted a second chance. I rejoiced with her but I did not really understand what was happening. I certainly did not see this as the first step in the revolutionizing of my own understanding of grace. Little did I know that what was revolutionary to me as an observer of grace would become painfully glorious as I had the opportunity to experience it firsthand.
My RA found me in violation of a rule that met the requirements for "grounds for expulsion" as stated in The Crimson. My mind again prematurely raced to thoughts of what will I tell my friends? My parents? Where will I apply to school? How will I ever live down the shame? But after running the gamut of the entire chain of command, the dean of students granted me what at the time felt like nothing less than a stay of execution. As I sat in her office, she started asking me questions. It seemed like she was trying to get to know me. "What is this about?" My mind again raced toward what I saw as the inevitable conclusion. "Just hurry up and dismiss me. Stop making this more painful," I kept thinking. But about five minutes into our chat, I started wondering whether my dismissal was actually the intended end-point of the conversation. We continued talking and the conversation concluded with me agreeing to see the school's counselor and her agreeing to let me stay. I was dumbfounded. They knew all the details of my situation, but I still felt like I had somehow pulled the wool over the school's eyes, like if they really really knew me they would do the wise thing: pack my bags and ship me out. That would be Christian protocol, right? What do you do with a messy life? Deal out discipline, get rid of the leprosy; whatever it takes to clean the sin infection. As long as you don't get dirty taking care of the problem, you're okay. But that is not what this woman did. She rolled up her sleeves and intentionally dug into the mess of my life. In that moment, I experienced palpable grace for the first time in my life, and I was undone.
Following that experience of grace, of being set free from a judgment and punishment that I deserved, I was primed to hear it from the pulpit. But before that time would come, I would have other impactful encounters in the church.
There were two situations within my home church growing up that shook my identity and, along with my family and school experiences, loomed like a large cloud of doom over my concept of Christianity. When I was a teenager, a young man in our church who was gifted musically and could dress better than the majority of the males in his class was consistently picked on and labeled "gay" by his peers. I do not know all of the influences surrounding his decision to embrace a "gay" identity. I do know that after doing so, he and his family were excommunicated from the church. Another young man had confessed to having homosexual desires (I don't know to what extent they had been expressed), and his family's solution, after prayerful consideration with church members, was to send him to live with family members in another state. This young man never returned home and eventually died of AIDS.
What this communicated to me, regardless of the realities that I did not hear or see, was that 1) the church is not safe, and it can be threatening (and thus I concluded that I would never share my struggle); 2) my sin is unforgivable. If people are being cut off and sent away over the same sins I struggled with, then apparently it is incurable and unforgivable; and 3) this led to the final conclusion that my temptation in and of itself is unforgivable. Because the line between sin and temptation was indistinguishable for me at that point, the temptation in and of itself was condemnable. This compounded the feeling already beginning to form within my mind, that I was a victim in this whole mess. I never asked for this struggle; I never wanted to be like this! It also went a long way in cementing same-sex attraction as my identity.
Healing within the church body began after I transferred from Grove City College to attend the school where I thought I would eventually go to medical school. I began attending Reformed University Fellowship. The pastor there, David, was engaging and personal. He wanted to hang out one-on-one with all the new students who showed up for large group, so I thought I would give it a shot, tell him my story. The worst that could happen would be the end of a relationship that hadn't really even begun. I wasn't attached to the ministry, so I figured it would be no skin off my nose. We sat down. I told him my story, and he listened. He was the first man, and really only the second person, I had told my story to, and as I sat there, at times almost provoking him in order to get him to show disgust or the vacant I-don't-know- what-to-do- with-this-information stare, he listened. Just listened.
This interaction opened the door for future discussions with the pastor of the church I was attending at the time. In comparison to my voluntary, albeit provocative, confession to David, I was more coerced into speaking with John. I signed up for a trip to China with Mission to the World. Their application includes a twenty-something page packet that basically lists every sin known to man and then requests you to fill out your degree of struggle in each area. My response to the question inquiring about struggles with homosexuality was, understandably, cause for a follow-up.
They requested that I get in touch with my pastor to talk with him about a potentially dangerous relationship with another woman in the church that I was attempting to navigate. We talked for over an hour, but the thing that stands out to me most about that conversation was when he told me, "Laura, I've never seen such a beautiful picture of the way the body of Christ is supposed to work. This is what the church is supposed to look like. I'm so proud of you." Much more was said, but as I left there was a tangible feeling surrounding me that can best be described as safe. I could not have asked for a sweeter outcome. It was the security I had longed for all my life and I found it in the place I least expected it, in the church, in my new home.
In later conversations, I told John how terrified I was at the thought of becoming a member of the church. The Christianity I knew growing up was always about rigid rule-keeping. Everything I had heard of and seen second-hand concerning church discipline told me that if I did become a member, the inevitable outcome would be my excommunication. If I struggled again, I would be gone. If, God forbid, I got into another same-sex relationship, I might even be sent off to another state. I expressed these concerns and got this response, "If you were to run away and commit yourself to a relationship with another woman, I would come after you. But not to hunt you down, not to crucify you —to bring you back where you belong, back with your family who dearly loves you." I was rendered speechless by grace yet again.
David and John, along with other men and women in the church whom I eventually started opening up to, hugely impacted my life by laying out the truths of Scripture—what it really looks like to pursue the "least of these" as Jesus did and then actually inviting me, the leper, into their midst. A true test of the gospel mettle for my community came in the form of my fall back into sexual sin two nights after presenting my testimony to my congregation (take note on the reality of spiritual warfare so obviously at play here!). I was on the phone the next morning, first with my mentors in the church, then elders and my pastor. They were immediately there to drive me back into the fold with both stern warnings and assurance of pardon.
As I continue to receive grace in big and small ways from my Christian brothers and sisters, my relationships continually transform into the way they will eventually look when the whole earth is made new. This is true for my family relationships and my friendships as well as those relationships in which I feel my same-sex struggles creep in. Both the gracious healing and the nagging pains in these relationships point me to my future hope – and keep me longing for it. Therefore, I do not lose hope. Even as I struggle day by day against sin and suffering, I know my true hope is secured for me by Christ—through his death—and in Christ—through my relationship with him. That relationship transforms every other relationship I have. It motivates me to live a life that pleases Christ so that I may move ever closer to him. I'm so thankful to know he is my hope! I'm also thankful for the people God put in my life to point me to that truth.
In an article that John and I worked on awhile back, he wrote, "I think it is important to say that nothing I have learned about ministering to my friend who struggles with same-sex attraction is new or innovative. All I had to do was decide to reach out, to love and minister to this unique person created in the image of God, who struggles with sin just like I do and who struggles to live in a posture of repentance and faith in Jesus just like I do."
It is this understanding of the Christian obligation to love that reaps the eternal reward of souls won to the kingdom. The more embedded I become in the local church and in the body of Christ in every sphere, the more confident I become that getting personal in the mess of people's lives is a Christian mandate. This was the heart of Christ's ministry; see John 4 for the account of Jesus' radical approach to the woman at the well, or Matthew 8 for accounts of multiple "getting personal" stories, including the healing of lepers and getting rid of demons. It is inevitable that it should be the heart of ours as well.
It does not take perfect people to transform hearts and lives. It takes hearts and minds that understand the depth of their own unworthiness, their own shared status among "the least of these," going out and sharing the good news of the transforming power of a relationship with Christ. Remember that you are a suffering sinner dependent on the turn of a phrase, "But God!" Now, go share the good news!
Updated 4.14.17


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Abilene City Council to weigh adding municipal court, allowing beer sales at Rose Park
Laura Gutschke
Adding a second municipal court and allowing beer sales at a Rose Park baseball field for a proposed semi-pro team are among the agenda items for Thursday's evening Abilene City Council meeting.
The council also will consider an economic development agreement with the Abilene Improvement Corporation for the purchase of property at 101 Cypress St. and 1250 N. First St., which are owned by Gannett, the parent company of the Abilene Reporter-News.
In a Monday media briefing on the council meeting agenda, City Manager Robert Hanna said he could not discuss further details on the purchase, including planned usage and timeline, because the council was going to address those first in executive session.
The city council will convene at City Hall, 555 Walnut, beginning with an executive session at 4:30 p.m. and an open session at 5:30 p.m.
A second court
Judge Keith Barton presides over Municipal Court, which handles class C misdemeanors such as traffic violations and is located at 4575 S. First St.
In anticipation of Barton retiring later this year, the city council will consider creating a second court to "facilitate a smooth transition," Hanna said.
The city's Municipal Court also has experienced a backlog of cases during the COVID-19 pandemic with delayed hearings and more defendants requesting a jury trial, Hanna said.
Time will tell whether the city needs to operate two courts permanently, or if one court will suffice once the backlog is addressed, Hanna said.
If the council approves the second court, they will consider hiring Assistant City Attorney Chace Craig as judge.
"He has a very calm demeanor and a good temperament to be a judge and magistrate," Hanna said.
Spaces for a second court and judge's office were planned when the Municipal Court moved to its current location, the former Kmart shopping center, in 2019.
Abilene Sports and Entertainment wants to bring a minor league baseball team to Big League Field at Rose Park and believes alcohol sales is necessary to make the venture financially viable, Hanna said.
Because city ordinance bars consumption of alcohol at Rose Park, the council will consider a proposal to allow an exception under a lease agreement with the group.
"There's been an assorted history of semi-pro sports teams in Abilene, Texas, and none of them have really ever seemed to succeed. And, the common thought behind that is that they've not been able to sell alcohol," Hanna said.
The group is not requesting city funds for the proposal, but plans to fund field improvements through private donations and corporate sponsorships, according to information supplied by the city.
If an agreement can be reached, the group hopes to have games start in May 2023.
The Parks and Recreation Board has recommended that the council approve the proposal to allow alcohol consumption at the Rose Park baseball field.
In other business ..
The council Thursday will consider:
► Renewing an agreement with the Abilene Zoological Society. The agreement that the city has maintained for 10 years has helped with fundraising and the betterment of the zoo, Hanna said.
That agreement is up for renewal and will better define reporting structure of the staff and the funding for zoo operations and donations.
"In the past, they had relationships where they would own the animals and they would feed them private food and that kind of stuff. This agreement changes some of that and really puts them more into the fundraising role and support for the zoo, from special events to solicitation of funds for donations and those sorts of things," Hanna said.
► Parking lot improvements at North Sixth and Cypress streets. The council will consider awarding a $101,000 contract to Epic Construction for the parking lot, which will be used by the proposed downtown hotel and First Financial Bank.
► A South 27th Street reconstruction project. Street maintenance funds are proposed to be used for the $1.5 million repaving of a stretch of the road that runs from Barrow Street to Sayles Boulevard.
► A voluntary annexation request. HSH Ventures LLC has requested annexation of about 27 acres southeast of the intersection of Hardison Lane and Maple Street and apply a zoning that allows residential development, which is in keeping with the housing neighborhood on the adjacent property.
Laura Gutschke is a general assignment reporter and food columnist and manages online content for the Reporter-News. If you appreciate locally driven news, you can support local journalists with a digital subscription to ReporterNews.com.


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Benefits "Bentonite clay carries a strong negative charge which bonds to the positive charge in many toxins. When it comes in contact with a toxin, chemical, or heavy metal, the clay will absorb the toxin and release it's minerals for the body to use.
One of those ways is doing an "Apple Cider Rinse" and the second is using a bentonite clay. If you are in Ghana, bentonite is what we call "Shile or Ayilo or Hyile". For my friends in other parts of the world, just google the clay and it should tell how is called in your country.
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Ayilo/Shile aka Bentonite Clay for Hair October 10, 2016 · by ghcurls · in African hair, Ghanaian hair, Hair, Haircare · 1 Comment Ayilo or Shile is not a new product in Ghana and in most parts of Africa.
Bentonite clay (hyile/ayilo) can be taken in the morning and evening for its cleansing mechanism to decalcify your pineal gland for telepathic abilities and other abilities discussed above. Knowledge is the only energy that separate the slaves from the slave masters.
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La vaselina, emboquillada, palanca, sombrero, picadita, clareada, globito, charro o pique es, en el ámbito del fútbol, una técnica de disparo suave y a la vez no tan despacio en el contexto de la longitud con trayectoria muy curva, con un ángulo que sea lo estrictamente necesario para hacer volar el balón por encima de uno o varios jugadores contrarios o sobre el portero y convertir un gol.

Los goles realizados haciendo que el balón suba por encima del portero y baje antes de entrar a portería son muy elegantes. Este tipo de regate fue popularizado por el brasileño Pelé durante toda su carrera, siendo probablemente el más famoso el que realizó y terminó en gol en la final de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol de 1958, en Suecia. Posteriormente, el futbolista neerlandés Dennis Bergkamp perfeccionó este método, y es también característico de los brasileños Romário y Ronaldinho, de los argentinos Lionel Messi y Ariel Ortega, del paraguayo Ricardo Ismael Rojas, del uruguayo Sebastián Abreu, del colombiano Radamel Falcao García, del español Raúl, y de los italianos Alessandro Del Piero, Roberto Baggio y Francesco Totti.

Una variante del tiro es la cuchara o cucharita, en la que el jugador arrastra el balón con el pie en vez de darle un golpe seco y la pasa por encima del portero.

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Q: how to identify different user on twitter if i want to tweet on behalf of them using a single script through api? i have an application which tweet on behalf of a user when user grant permission. but i want that user can schedule their tweet for future. For that i use cron job to run my script every minute. But i don't understand how to identify different user when script run and post? what credential is parmanently identify a user when making a api call?
this is my code segment to understand what i am doing:
    $twitteroauth = new TwitterOAuth('inBAC5z1EiCt8k6z32dqw','s8IK3HT8cWReb2YUSV8kTQvf3qANXwKZhCZORw5XAVg', $_SESSION['oauth_token'], $_SESSION['oauth_secret']);
    $twitteroauth->post('statuses/update', array('status' =>$status));

A: Save $_SESSION['oauth_token'] and $_SESSION['oauth_secret'] in a database and use the database values in your cron job.


The Dow dipped 0.6%, and the S&P500 declined 0.7%. Transports declined 1.7%, while the Utilities surged 2.6% to a new record high. The Morgan Stanley Cyclical index declined 0.6%, and the Morgan Stanley Consumer index fell 0.9%. The broader market was volatile but ended the week little changed. The small cap Russell 2000 dipped 0.3%, while the S&P400 Mid-Caps were up 0.3% (up 5.1% y-t-d). The NASDAQ100 declined 0.7%, while the Morgan Stanley High Tech index added 0.6%. The Semiconductors fell 0.7%. The Street.com Internet Index declined 0.5%, while the NASDSAQ Telecommunications index rose 1.5%. The Biotechs dipped 0.4%. Subprime mortgage problems weighed on financial stocks. The Broker/Dealers fell 2.1%, and the Banks declined 0.3%. With bullion jumping $19, the HUI gold index rallied 2.3%.
Interest-rate markets were also volatile. Two-year government yields dipped 3 bps to 4.90%. Five and 10-year Treasury yields declined 4 bps to 4.78%. Long-bond yields fell 6 bps to 4.87%. The 2yr/10yr spread ended the week inverted 12 bps. The implied yield on 3-month December '07 Eurodollars dipped one basis point to 5.14%. Benchmark Fannie Mae MBS yields declined 4 bps to 5.83%, this week performing in line with Treasuries. The spread on Fannie's 5 1/4% 2016 note widened 2 to 33, and the spread on Freddie's 5 1/2% 2016 note widened one to 32. The 10-year dollar swap spread increased 2 to 51.75. Corporate bond spreads were little changed, with junk spreads narrowing this week.
Investment grade issuers included Goldman Sachs $2.75 billion, GE Capital $2.0 billion, CIT Group $2.0 billion, Bank of America $2.0 billion, Citigroup $2.6 billion, International Lease Finance $500 million, Ace INA Holdings $500 million, Monument Global $850 million, AMBAC $400 million, Anheuser Busch $300 million, Berkley $250 million, Norbord Delware $200 million, and Northern Natural Gas $150 million.
Junk issuers included Level 3 $1.0 billion, Jarden $550 million, Terrestar Network $500 million, Seitel Acquisition Corp $400 million, Davita $400 million, PGS Solutions $190 million, Invacare $175 million, PNA Intermed $170 million, Calfrac Holdings $135 million, Ameripath $125 million, and Claymont Steel $105 million.
Convert issuers included Suntech Power $425 million, ArvinMeritor $175 million, Invacare $125 million, and Conceptus $75 million.
International issuers included Indonesia $1.5 billion, Totta Ireland $1.5 billion, Caixa Catalunya $1.2 billion, C8 Capital $750 million, Manitoba $600 million, Pampa Calichera $250 million, Minerva Overseas $200 million, GC Impsat $225 million, and Great Canadian Gaming $170 million.
Japanese 10-year "JGB" yields dipped 3 bps this week to 1.69%. The Nikkei 225 declined 0.2% (up 1.6% y-t-d). German 10-year bund yields gained 3 bps to 4.09%. Emerging debt markets performed well and equities were mixed. Brazil's benchmark dollar bond yields dropped 6 bps this week to 5.98%. Brazil's Bovespa equities index declined 1.6% (down 0.4% y-t-d). The Mexican Bolsa added 0.2% (up 5.5% y-t-d). Mexico's 10-year $ yields fell 5 bps to 5.71%. Russia's 10-year Eurodollar yields declined 2 bps to 6.75%. India's Sensex equities index rose 0.9% to a new record (up 5.5% y-t-d). China's Shanghai Composite index rallied 2.1% (up 2.1% y-t-d gains).
Freddie Mac posted 30-year fixed mortgage rates declined 6 bps last week to 6.28% (up 4 bps y-o-y). Fifteen-year fixed mortgage rates fell 4 bps to 6.02% (up 19 bps y-o-y). And one-year adjustable rates dropped 5 bps to 5.49% (up 15 bps y-o-y). The Mortgage Bankers Association Purchase Applications Index dipped 0.8% this week. Purchase Applications were down 5.6% from one year ago, with dollar volume slipping 3.2%. Refi applications were little changed. The average new Purchase mortgage increased to $238,400 (up 2.5% y-o-y), and the average ARM declined to $380,300 (up 12.2% y-o-y).
Bank Credit jumped $18.2 billion (week of 1/31) to a record $8.330 TN. Bank Credit expanded $742 billion, or 9.8%, over 52 weeks. For the week, Securities Credit expanded $13.8 billion. Loans & Leases rose $4.4 billion to a record $6.109 TN. Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Loans expanded 10.7% over the past year. For the week, C&I loans dipped $2.7 billion, while Real Estate loans rose $8.1 billion. Bank Real Estate loans expanded 14.4% over the past year. For the week, Consumer loans declined $3.1 billion, while Securities loans jumped $11.2 billion. Other loans fell $8.9 billion. On the liability side, (previous M3) Large Time Deposits declined $3.2 billion.
M2 (narrow) "money" jumped $9.4 billion to a record $7.093 TN (week of 1/29). Narrow "money" expanded $368 billion, or 5.5%, over the past year. M2 has expanded at an 8.2% pace during the past 20 weeks. For the week, Currency dipped $0.3 billion, while Demand & Checkable Deposits rose $4.5 billion. Savings Deposits dipped $2.0 billion, while Small Denominated Deposits added $2.4 billion. Retail Money Fund assets gained $4.9 billion.
Total Money Market Fund Assets (reported by the Investment Company Institute) jumped $23.5 billion last week to $2.384 Trillion. Money Fund Assets inflated $343 billion over 52 weeks, or 16.8%. Money Fund Assets have expanded at an 18.4% rate over the past 20 weeks.
Total Commercial Paper jumped $16.3 billion last week to a record $2.011 Trillion, with a y-t-d gain of $36.8 billion (16.2% annualized). CP has increased $318 billion, or 18.7%, over the past 52 weeks. CP has expanded at an 18% pace over the past 20 weeks.
Asset-backed Securities (ABS) issuance increased this week to $15 billion. Year-to-date total ABS issuance of $61 billion (tallied by JPMorgan) is running behind the $69 billion from comparable 2006. Year-to-date CDO issuance of $15 billion is running behind last year's $21 billion.
Fed Foreign Holdings of Treasury, Agency Debt jumped $7.5 billion last week (ended 2/7) to a record $1.798 Trillion, with a 6-week gain of $45.6 billion. "Custody" holdings were up $254 billion y-o-y, or 16.4%. Federal Reserve Credit last week declined $2.7 billion to $841.5 billion. Fed Credit was up $32.4 billion y-o-y, or 4.0%.
International reserve assets (excluding gold) - as accumulated by Bloomberg's Alex Tanzi – were up $809 billion y-o-y (19.4%) to a record $4.975 Trillion.
The dollar index was little changed this week at 84.75. On the upside, the Thai baht increased 2.5%, the Iceland krona 0.9%, the Swedish krona 0.9%, the Canadian dollar 0.9%, and the Russian ruble 0.7%. On the downside, the Japanese yen declined 1.1%, the Mexican peso 0.8%, the Brazilian real 0.7%, the Turkish lira 0.6%, and the British pound 0.6%.
For the week, Gold jumped 2.9% to $666.85 and Silver 3.9% to $13.895. Copper rallied 3.9%. March crude rose 70 cents to $59.72. February Gasoline rose 2.6% and February Natural Gas 4.0%. For the week, the CRB index gained 1.3% (down 0.7% y-t-d), and the Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI) rose 1.9% (up 0.4% y-t-d).
I've long argued that Unlimited Finance is the Bane of Free-Market Capitalism. Of course, such a notion sounds absurd as the world frolics in a Sea of Global Credit and Liquidity Excess. To most, "bull markets" and various other asset inflations are proof positive of the economic system's underlying soundness.
The subprime mortgage space is only the latest example of the perils of profligate finance. Remembering back to the tech/telecom Bubble, it was a case of massive liquidity excess (certainly including speculative flows) promoting over/mal-investment, profligacy, chicanery and fraud. Yet latent fragility was allowed to compound as an onslaught of late-cycle speculative finance artificially inflated industry profits and cash-flows. The eventual bursting of the speculative technology Bubble then abruptly and radically altered industry liquidity, profits and Credit standing. A system that had so carelessly nurtured companies' dependency to easy access to marketplace finance summarily cut off the lifeline.
Dynamics within the Expansive Mortgage Finance Bubble are thus far – and not surprisingly - following a different course, a topic certainly worthy of further attention after this week's announcements from HSBC and New Century Financial. My focus will remain the "big picture" (broader Credit, market and economic impacts), a luxury I'm content with knowing that others (certainly including the great Jim Grant) are doing a most admirable job covering subprime industry developments.
The "blow-off" stage of the Mortgage Finance Bubble led to unprecedented excesses, no doubt about that. Scores of uninformed borrowers with meager incomes and little savings were enticed into the responsibilities of homeownership by a combination of surging home price inflation and offers of ultra-low "teaser" and/or adjustable-rate mortgages with minimal down-payments (compliments of the Greenspan Fed). Many loan originators were enticed into lending to poor Credits for the easy profits garnered by selling these loans to Wall Street (for pooling and securitizing). These pool operators were attracted to these suspect mortgages because of the insatiable demand for higher-yielding "structured" products.
Bubble dynamics were driven by the Fed, borrower, originator, Wall Street financial "alchemist," and the speculator/investor community. And I would further argue that the massive recycling of U.S. Current Account Deficits and global dollar liquidity flows back into Treasuries, agencies and investment-grade securities played a decisive role in distorting securities prices and returns, squeezing the speculator community into a self-reinforcing (and ongoing) Bubble in risky Credits.
In the context of Credit system blunders, 2006 was a historic doozy. After several years of increasingly egregious excess, the mortgage industry proceeded to open its arms extra wide. The marketplace welcomed millions to refinance problematic mortgages that were in process of payments resets, in many cases significantly higher. Never have so many atrocious Credit risks been offered such a handsome opportunity (to refinance and/or take out second mortgages). Clearly, many slipshod originators catered to these suspect Credits, and this dynamic helps explain why an extraordinarily large number of these ("bottom of the barrel") new mortgages – "Vintage 2006" – have quickly turned delinquent or fallen into default.
Last year's extreme mortgage Credit system largesse can be explained by a multitude of "Unlimited Finance"-related factors including massive mortgage industry overcapacity, the enormous scope of the leveraged speculating community, overzealousness throughout "structured finance," marketplace mispricing of mortgage risk and, certainly, perceptions that the Bernanke Fed would hastily initiate an easing cycle come the onset of housing market weakness.
I found yesterday's market's reaction to the HSBC and New Century subprime bombshells intriguing. Outside of the subprime lenders and the broader financial sector, the market brushed off the news. Goldman Sachs even traded up on the day, while the Morgan Stanley Retail index closed at an all-time record high. The Bank index was down only slightly from Wednesday's record high. The Utilities closed at a record high, and the Cyclicals were down only fractionally from Wednesday's record. The small caps and midcaps closed at a all-time highs, while the S&P500 settled only slightly off its six-year high. Tech stocks posted decent gains during the session.
I think I follow the basis for marketplace complacency. The subprime market is only a small segment of a huge mortgage market, and there is as yet little indication of serious impending mortgage problems outside of the riskiest Credits. And I do agree that there are some key company and industry "specific" issues. For one, subprime had degenerated into the Ultimate Credit Cesspool.
A strapped subprime borrower with payments about to reset higher (and with minimal or negative home equity) is at the mercy of the marketplace to refinance and stay afloat. Akin to the leveraged telecom company in 2001/02, the marketplace closing the loan window is immediately catastrophic for the subprime borrower. Again corresponding to the telecom debt bust, tightening Credit conditions quickly lead to escalating Credit losses and only further Credit tightening and losses.
At the same time, however, the vast majority of the mortgage market operates with risk essentially nationalized (through GSE and govt. guaranties). Notably, benchmark GSE MBS spreads barely budged yesterday from quite narrow levels and ended the week little changed. Employment is strong and incomes are growing robustly, underpinning the capacity of existing borrowers to make payments and new borrowers to sustain inflated home prices. In contrast to subprime, most "prime" mortgage borrowers are not today at the mercy of the marketplace. The vast majority have not fallen behind on their payments; Credit conditions have not been forced tighter; new "prime" mortgage finance remains readily available; and the mortgage market continues to abound with cheap ("unlimited") finance. For a large portion of the mortgage market, things haven't been much better.
Interestingly, the markets weren't as cavalier today. With Fed Presidents Poole, Pianalto, and Fisher all sporting rather hawkish demeanors and warning of the possibility that the Fed has more work to do, the marketplace was on edge. The specter of heightened consumer Credit and lender problems (on the margin) coupled with upward pressure on market yields is unsettling. This is not the bullish scenario envisioned, but neither is it the conventional bearish view.
The trend that emerged last year – trouble at the fringe of housing and mortgages actually promoting heightened excess in Corporate Credits – is still in play. Junk bond spreads narrowed yesterday and for the week, while risk premiums outside of lower-tier mortgages generally remain near historic lows. Importantly, mortgage developments so far have been a non-event with regard to general marketplace liquidity. Combined total mortgage, corporate, financial sector and global debt growth remain more than adequate – that is as long as the unfolding subprime crisis doesn't significantly escalate.
Subsequent to this week's developments, the markets should begin to demonstrate heightened concern for the financial ramifications of imploding subprime lenders. To this point, failures have been small players with minimal market impact. If major operators find themselves confronting the traditional subprime liquidity squeeze, this so far isolated Credit event could pose unknown contagion risk. One or more major failures would likely prove a meaningful blow to the ABS and Credit derivatives market. Additional uncertainty with respect to the degree of leveraged speculator exposure to subprime Credits, Credit indices and other derivatives might also be expected to weigh on the markets. Any general tightening in the CDO market would likely mark a key inflection point in marketplace liquidity, with major systemic ramifications.
The bottom line is that the markets are now likely facing a bout of heightened uncertainty. The Credit default swap, CDO, and "credit arbitrage" markets have grown tremendously since the last bout of liquidity ambiguity. How these markets will operate in the event of some general financial sector tumult is all too unclear. That the "liquidity" markets are these days extraordinarily bifurcated between the loose corporate and "prime" mortgage arena and the increasingly tight "non-prime" creates significant uncertainty.
The expectation has been that tightened mortgage Credit conditions would sway the Fed into easing. But today's comments from Fed officials certainly lead one to believe that they are content to focus more on upside liquidity risks, while allowing subprime excesses to, in the words of Mr. Poole, "come home to roost." Hopefully the Fed demonstrates resolve, as the most problematic systemic fragilities are being exacerbated by ongoing Unlimited Finance available throughout markets in corporate Credits, securities leveraging, and for (over)financing asset markets globally.


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Putin softens pensions reform after his popularity ratings slip
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking on state television from the Kremlin about the pension changes Credit: Alexei Druzhinin/Pool Sputnik Kremlin
Daria Litvinova, Moscow
29 August 2018 • 8:41pm
Daria Litvinova
Vladimir Putin has backtracked on pension reforms in Russia that included hikes to the retirement age for men and women and caused an outcry across the country, even hitting his personal approval ratings.
The Russian president toned down the controversial proposals in a special address to the nation on Wednesday. He said women would be able to retire and claim their pensions at 60 instead of 63, as originally proposed - still a leap from the current age of 55.
He also outlined several other concessions on the reform, although the changes to the retirement age for men, which will go from 60 to 65 in the new proposals, were unaltered.
In a rare u-turn, Mr Putin told the nation: "For many years I was cautious and even suspicious about any proposals to change the pension system. Sometimes I reacted harshly to them.
"But the trends that we're seeing in demographics and labor market, objective analysis of the situation show that we can't put it off any longer. However, our decisions must be fair, balanced and take interests of the people into account."
The reform was first announced by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in mid-June, on the first day of the World Cup. The move elicited criticism that the Kremlin was trying to bury bad news. In July, protests erupted all over the country over the reforms, with both opposition politicians and ordinary people voicing their discontent with the change.
Critics argued that hundreds of thousands of people will not live long enough to see their pensions, or much of them. Average life expectancies in Russia are relatively low - 66.5 years for men and 76.9 years for women, according to the World Bank.
Despite the cabinet being at the forefront of the reform and the Kremlin distancing itself from it, Russia's independent pollster Levada Center reported Mr Putin's approvals dropping to 67 percent in July in response to the plan - the lowest since January 2014, although it quickly skyrocketed at that point to 88 percent following the annexation of Crimea.
The president first commented on the reforms only in late July, saying he "didn't like" either of the options discussed by the Russian parliament.
In his address, Putin announced keeping many of the social benefits pensioners are entitled to in place. He also said mothers of three or more children would be allowed to retire earlier - at between 50 and 57 years of age - depending on the number of children they had, and proposed prosecuting employers for firing people within the five years before their retirement age.
He also suggested doubling the amount of unemployment benefits for people of "pre-pension" age.
According to Russia's finance minister Anton Siluanov, the measures announced by Mr Putin will cost an additional 500 billion rubles (£5.6 billion) over the next six years.


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