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President Donald Trump, with Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo during UN global call to protect religious freedom meeting at UN Headquarters, NY., September 2019. (Lev Radin/Shutterstock)
Iran attack may be next in Trump's farewell bag of tricks
New clues indicate the worst, and if true then it's folly, and an obvious attempt to obstruct the incoming White House.
Trita Parsi
No one thought President Donald Trump would leave quietly. But would he go so far as to start a military confrontation with Iran on his way out?
Recent military movements by the Pentagon in the Middle East (ostensibly to deter Iran from attacking American troops on the anniversary of the assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani), combined with Israeli media reports that Saudi Arabi and Israel are pressing Trump to bomb Iran before he leaves office, has fueled speculation that Trump may be planning his biggest — and likely most disastrous — stunt yet.
Trump has made more threats of war against Iran than any other country during his four years as President. As late as last month, he ordered the military to prepare options against Iranian nuclear facilities. Though the New York Times reported that Trump's aides derailed those plans, U.S. troop movements in the past few weeks may suggest otherwise.
Since October, the Pentagon has deployed 2,000 additional troops as well as an extra squadron of fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. It has also sent B-52 bombers on missions in the Persian Gulf three times, kept the USS Nimitz close to Iran, and announced that it is sending a Tomahawk-firing submarine just outside of Iranian waters. Moreover, Israel — whose officials have confirmed to several U.S. newspapers that it was behind the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last month — has sent a nuclear-equipped submarine to the Persian Gulf.
Officially, all of these military maneuvers are aimed at "deterring" Iran, even though Israel assassinated an Iranian official in Iran and not the other way around. "The United States continues to deploy combat-ready capabilities into the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to deter any potential adversary, and make clear that we are ready and able to respond to any aggression directed at Americans or our interests," said Marine Gen. Kenneth "Frank" McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Command, according to the Washington Post.
Not surprisingly, Tehran has interpreted the measures as threats and provocations, similar to how the United States would perceive Iranian warships posturing off Florida's coast.
What has further raised fears of an imminent military confrontation is the Trump administration's reported refusal to allow the Biden transition team to meet with defense intelligence agencies. The move has not only caused furor in the Biden team but also raised eyebrows internationally.
Tobias Ellwood, Conservative British MP and Chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, speculated on Twitter that Trump was blocking Biden's intelligence briefings "because he has a couple of significant operations up his sleeve which may get the green light before 20 Jan."
Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden, found Trump's conduct "strange," and asked if there had been "recent changes related to planned or possible imminent operations?"
What makes matters worse, and suggests that rather than seeking to deter Iran, Trump may be setting the stage for a war of choice, are statements by senior Pentagon officials asserting that the Iran threat is exaggerated. One senior defense official with direct involvement in this issue told CNN that there is "not a single piece of corroborating intel" suggesting an attack by Iran may be imminent.
If Trump is seeking a confrontation with Iran during his last weeks of his Presidency, what could be his motivation? Two things need to be made clear first: Whatever his reason, he is likely miscalculating. His entire Iran policy has been a disastrous failure and he has shown no ability to learn from his mistakes during these past four years. Secondly, his track record suggests that the more desperate he gets, the more reckless he becomes. Desperately seeking to cling on to power, he is exploring all ways to overturn the elections, even toying with the idea of calling for martial law. The disgraced General Michael Flynn, who Trump pardoned this month, has even suggested that Trump should deploy the military in 'swing states' to 'rerun' the election.
Could Trump seek to start a military confrontation with Iran in hopes of creating enough chaos as to prevent Joe Biden from taking office in January? There is no reason to believe such a gambit would work, yet the insanity of the idea is not a convincing reason as to why a desperate Trump wouldn't try it.
At a minimum, he would have the backing of large sways of Evangelical Chistians who view confrontation with Iran as the fulfillment of the prophecy of the End Times in the biblical book of Revelations, as well as that of the GOP's biggest financial backer, Sheldon Adelson. Trump has already acquiesced to every request of Adelson (except war with Iran) — from moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, to accepting Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, to the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who flew to Israel this week on Adelson's private jet. The AP described his release as the "latest in a long line of diplomatic gifts given to Netanyahu by President Donald Trump."
Even if confrontation with Iran won't prevent Biden from becoming President, Trump may calculate that it will kill the Iran nuclear deal once and for all, and ensure continued support for Trump by Adelson and the Evangelicals, which in turn can help Trump strengthen his grip over the GOP even after his presidency. Israeli and Arab media reported today that Saudi Arabia and Israel has been pressuring Trump to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities before he leaves office precisely to prevent Biden from returning to the JCPOA.
Whatever his calculation may be, there is clearly a risk that the last three weeks of Trump's presidency may be the most perilous.
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Not much in life registered higher on the creepy scale than staring a corpse in the face. Except maybe when it was someone she loved. Someone with secrets.
Abigail Bridges took in the orange tint of her grandmother's skin, trying her best to ignore the nose-wrinkling scent of mothballs and fresh flowers lingering in the air. It wasn't every day you buried someone you loved. And it wasn't every day you got a letter from the grave.
Reaching into the pocket of her black pants, she fingered the edges of the folded stationary she discovered in her grandmother's old jewelry box, tucked beneath her freshwater pearls like buried treasure.
Ten years ago, I discovered a family secret, one that could very much change our lives… The words burned themselves in Abby's skull, marring this goodbye with an unexpected ambiguity.
Since the moment her grandmother died, Abby dreamt of hearing from her again, dreamt of seeing the familiar crease of her aged skin spread with the curl of her smile, those sparkling blue eyes set off by a shock of thick, white hair. Only four days had passed since her death, and the ache in her chest reminded her of the loss every day. They were days of numbness and disbelief, but of all the things Abby hoped to hear in the wake of her passing, this wasn't it.
"Abby, you ready?" A hand came down over her shoulder. She turned to the sound of her mother's voice.
Puffy, bloodshot eyes stared back at her as her mother nodded toward the exit of the funeral home. It was time to leave. Her final goodbye had passed her by, and all she could think about was the letter in her pocket.
Abby glanced at her grandmother one last time and couldn't help but feel she had gained no amount of closure from this farewell.
By the time she arrived back home and retreated to the comfort of her bedroom, alone with nothing but her thoughts, the weight of the letter in her pocket nearly crippled her, outweighing her grief by a thousand to one.
Sliding her hand into her pocket, she removed the letter and unfolded it. She imagined GG writing it—pressing pen to paper, her brow furrowed in concentration.
Swallowing over the rock-sized lump in her throat, Abby pushed down the swell of anxiety wreaking havoc in her chest. The thump of her pulse strummed a rhythmic beat in her ears, drowning out the sound of her mother's sobs coming from the next room, as she sunk down onto her bed, everything else forgotten as she read her grandmother's words with fresh eyes.
Ten years ago, I discovered a family secret, one that could very much change our lives forever. Up until that point, I thought myself to be a strong woman. I prided myself on living my life without fear. I thought I'd be brave in the face of adversity, but when faced with difficulty, often times, we react differently than imagined. It's these moments, the choices we make when faced with a critical decision, that determine true strength and character.
I'm afraid I took the easy route. I'm afraid I failed.
If you're reading this, I'm gone from this world—off to a better place—somewhere I hope I won't be punished for turning the other cheek. You see, over ten years ago, I stumbled upon a lie. This lie turned into secrets. And secrets into more lies.
I should've pushed, questioned, and revealed what I knew, allowing the truth to uncover itself, but I didn't. Instead, I buried what I learned, making excuses for myself and hiding behind my denial. The mind is a powerful thing. Tell yourself something enough and you believe it.
Combining with denial was my lack of concrete proof. I won't go into detail now, but I had speculation, a hypothesis if you will, and little else. By the time an opportunity for more information presented itself, it was too late. I had already locked the secrets away, and the one person who knew of my search for answers was silenced.
My darling, I am sorry to say in my final moments on this earth, I regret my choices. Now, the burden of proof is on you.
Only one other person knew about this. To my knowledge, he had the missing pieces to the puzzle. He harbored the proof you will need to be believed. Unfortunately, you will receive no answers from him now.
But the answers are out there somewhere. Waiting to be found. I am sure of it. If only I had the time to find them now, maybe I could right this wrong.
My hope is for your curiosity and your love for me to be a driving force in your motivation to uncover our family's past, our history. But if it's not, I have left you a trust fund. There is a substantial amount of money sitting in a bank account in your name, enough to pay for college and start a new life for yourself upon graduation.
As my cancer worsened and my time drew near, I gave my lawyer implicit instructions. One was to release the trust to you, but not until you have received all of my letters and unraveled the truth. Another, was that on the night of my funeral, he was to arrange a special meeting. Be at Myer's Community Park at ten o'clock tonight. There, you will receive your first clue.
Be brave, my Abby. This secret is our past. Revealing it will be your future.
Abby clutched the letter in her hands, turning to the clock on her nightstand. It was seven o'clock. Three hours before she was supposed to be at the park, and she had no idea what to do.
This was her grandmother, she told herself. Trust fund aside—because she didn't care about the money—she only cared about what was clearly her grandmother's dying wish.
Of course, she should go. Shouldn't she?
Her stomach clenched as she mulled over her decision. The fact the request had come from GG was of little consolation. She hadn't known this woman with secrets. She only knew the one who played dolls with her as a child, baked her favorite cookies, and laughed with her over a game of cards.
What would happen if she went? What would happen if she didn't?
More importantly, her grandmother was dead, so who would be waiting for her when she got there?


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Back in November, The Wall Street Journal took a look at how Tim Cook was putting his stamp on Apple just two months after officially being elevated to the position on Chief Executive Officer. But with Cook now having been on the job for nine months, Fortune examines in a lengthy profile how the company and its culture have continued to evolve under his leadership.
A 14-year veteran of the company, Cook is maintaining, by words and actions, most of Apple's unique corporate culture. But shifts of behavior and tone are absolutely apparent; some of them affect the core of Apple's critical product-development process. In general, Apple has become slightly more open and considerably more corporate. In some cases Cook is taking action that Apple sorely needed and employees badly wanted. It's almost as if he is working his way through a to-do list of long-overdue repairs the previous occupant (Jobs) refused to address for no reason other than obstinacy.
Calling Tim Cook "the master of operational efficiency", the report notes that Cook continues to spur Apple to both streamline and innovate with its manufacturing processes, bankrolling purchases of equipment and other infrastructure with its own money to allow its supply chain and assembly partners to improve efficiency and output.
But that operational efficiency has led to the belief that Apple is becoming more traditional and conservative, becoming an "execution engine" driven by business-oriented managers with MBAs and less dependent on its design and technical expertise to lead the way.
It looks like it has become a more conservative execution engine rather than a pushing-the-envelope engineering engine," says Max Paley, a former engineering vice president who worked at Apple for 14 years until late 2011. "I've been told that any meeting of significance is now always populated by project management and global-supply management," he says. "When I was there, engineering decided what we wanted, and it was the job of product management and supply management to go get it. It shows a shift in priority."
The entire profile is an interesting look at how Apple is changing under Tim Cook, also highlighting his own evolution in becoming the face of Apple and how he differs from Steve Jobs, from his quiet nature to his willingness to listen to investors to sitting down to eat with random employees in the Apple cafeteria.
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macrumors 6502a
Good on Cook, good for Apple.
Northgrove
macrumors 65816
On one hand it sounds all good, but on the other hand, the added hierarchy of decisions at the meetings reminds me of what I've heard by exworkers from a certain competitor with a stagnant stock that aren't doing nearly as well as Apple these days. :\ Hopefully it's not quite as bad as over there though. People have left the company for it.
Skika
Its over Apple is finished!1
dethmaShine
Into the lungs of Hell
In all honesty, I'm sure people have more faith in Tim Cook than Late Steve Jobs. A company needs to be more open, more answerable for its actions to its users. Staying silent (always) is not the best way and hurts credibility over time. I'm not saying that people would stop buying Apple products; but they definitely feel that someone is being ignorant of their issues and problems. Its simply normal human behaviour and psychology.
Also, the idea of being more generous to the people @Apple and external is favourable for the greater good. We just don't live to create customers, great products and help fight epidemic or other issues – we also live to sustain ourselves, our families and most importantly our kids which are the catalyst for future generations. In my opinion, Steve Jobs didn't particularly understand to what level a person needs to be generous to sustain his own personal and mental life.
I'm sure Tim Cook will go along way and introduce humanitarian principles @Apple and the external world.
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Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Whether you want to be or not, is anyone else really uncomfortable with all this? :/
Duckypoos
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and what has been released in the days post-Jobs ?? a re-hashed iPad2 ...
WWDC = Make or break for shareholders ( i.e something HUGE simply has to happen )
just my 2 cents ....
It's just too soon.
Apple is still going under SJ guidelines. Tim Cook's decisions will start counting in the near future, but not just yet.
Skika said:
If a 7 inch iPad or a 4 inch iPhone is released then yes, it is all over. Apple then becomes just another OEM racing to the bottom.
zhivkom
Cook's leadership is yet to be seen. Everything we saw and we're going to see in near future (1-2 years) is done by Steve.
Small White Car
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Comparisons to the past are hard because it's almost impossible to visualize just how much Apple has grown.
Are new things different because Cook is in charge? Or are they different because Apple is so incredibly larger than it used to be? With that kind of growth certain things would have to change no matter who was in charge. It's hard to separate the peanut butter from the jelly sometimes.
Wildog27
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So if Apple doesn't release something that impresses YOU at WWDC, you are declaring that Apple's run at the top of the consumer electronics world is over.
rei101
You can tell it is more about sales than inspiration. Apple was jobs company, and Cook is an employee.
bobob
Apple's Cooked.
Negritude
I'm happy for the changes. Steve Jobs was a brilliant visionary, but he was also a mean ******* who didn't listen to anybody, including customers.
Frankly, to say that Apple meetings were previously led by engineers is something of a lie. They were led by *design* engineers, but the way Apple has often cheated end-users on tech, it means that other types of engineers couldn't have been in charge.
In my youth, I wanted to own a Sun or Silicon Graphics workstation. I was poor, so that was out of the question. Then along came OS X. Finally, regular people could afford a powerful UNIX workstation (I cut my teeth on SunOS and Solaris, e.g., BSD UNIX, so GNU/Linux would just not do). Over time, Apple moved away from providing powerful scientific/engineering computing devices, and shifted it's focus to portable consumer products.
I pray that someday, maybe not now, but within the next five years, Apple gets back to providing tools that professionals in the scientific, engineering, and other specialized technical fields can be proud of. It certainly would not have happened under Steve Jobs' watch, as he had thrown us under the bus and then driven over our bodies multiple times. Maybe Tim Cook will throw us a lifeline.
RafaelT
"I've been told that any meeting of significance is now always populated by project management and global-supply management," he says. "When I was there, engineering decided what we wanted, and it was the job of product management and supply management to go get it. It shows a shift in priority."
I don't think that has much to do with Cook. Apple has gotten so big and ships so many devices you have to included those people. Logistics is of major importance to Apple.
maviso5
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Give the guy a chance. I agree with the points made of a comparison to an overdue "to do list".
Being head of any company can not be easy let alone a very successful one taking over from someone like SJ.
Jobs wasn't perfect (though a brilliant innovator), and Cook isn't either, we're all human and all have different ideas.
(Sir) Jonny is still there and he has some great ideas, hopefully we will see whatever it is he says is so important in the near future.
Apple's best days are probably behind it, and everyone will downvote this because no one wants to believe it
Mad Mac Maniac
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A little bit of here and a little bit of there.
yup. The "re-hashed iPad 2" was built in the 4 months leading up to it's announcment. It was completely Tim Cook's baby. Steve Jobs had nothing to do with it.
I hate to break it to you, but the things we see at WWDC will be mostly Steve Jobs' output. We won't be seeing Tim Cook primary creations for at least another year.
basesloaded190
I don't understand the negativity towards Tim. He's not Steve. Never was, and never will be. I'm glad he has started changing things up a little bit. He has done nothing to negatively impact the company so to complain about changes seem unwarranted.
applesith
Apple seems to be moving towards a more conservative and traditional organization. I hope they keep the shiny factor with their product introductions. It will take some time, but hopefully they do not let stuff leak early and lose everyone's attention.
deftdrummer
This is an interesting topic and I hope it doesn't go into a flame war and taking sides because it's not productive and not very spirited intelligent discussion either.
That aside, I think it's cool people are starting to key in on even the minute details of slight changes in leadership.
The quote from Mat Paley was especially interesting, because this guy if anyone would have his finger on the culture and changes at Apple. After all he worked there as recently as last year in a very important role. Can't say the same for Woz every time he chimes in on something Apple.
You gotta figure everyone has at least some dislikes about the people in their lives. Parents, girlfriends, co-workers all have tics that make them who they are and how they work.
I am more than certain Tim Cook had his own management style road map inside his head, based on how people responded to some of Jobs' more obtuse approaches.
MrNomNoms
One could draw parallels with Sun Microsystems with Steve Jobs and Scott McNealy - both of them were larger than life characters who were not shrinking violets when it came to lambasting competition but with one difference. The difference between Sun Microsystems and Apple is that Apple had a viable replacement for the CEO where as Sun Microsystems appointed a geek with little in the way of real world business experience, contact with the enterprise world, focus on what needed to be done to take the organisation from being a 'rebel' to an established player aka IBM.
Sun Microsystems spent its whole life proving itself to be the 'anti-IBM' and look what has happened as a result. Compare that series of events to Apple where there was a smooth transition from Steve Jobs to Tim Cook who have taken a 'rebellious teenager company' into a 'mature IT business' that stands side by side next to Microsoft, IBM and Adobe. Some here might call him 'boring' but investors, large customers and everyday consumers see Apple now being run by a stable pair of hands. It is one thing to innovate but you gain nothing out of it if it is just innovation for the sake of innovation - when nothing in the end is gained by the consumer having said feature.
I swear some people here suffer from distractive personalities who can't handle the idea that maybe movement forward doesn't have to involve burning down every single bridge in the process.
Edit: Typical scumbags on this forum, less than a few minutes some scumbag deducts a point but is too cowardly to actually provide a reasonable critique of where they disagree. Once again this forum is showing its true colours - filled with illiterate morons more interested in 'teh flashy' than whether or not the damn product actually works as it was sold.
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Lusaka, Zambia(If you know where it is)
hey, I've got confidence in Tim Cook. Steve jobs seemed like he could judge character, and picked Tim for a reason
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The Umbrella Movement (also recognized as the Umbrella Revolution) was a series of sit-in street protests organized by pro-democracy students in Hong Kong from September to December 2014. The Umbrella Movement arose in response to reforms of the Hong Kong electoral system, which were viewed as restrictive.
Hong Kong is a semi-autonomous territory south of Mainland China that is treated as a Special Administrative Region. Although I personally view the Hong Kong SAR as a unique nation of its own, politics there are influenced by the Communist Party of China. The CPC has exerted control over Hong Kong by pre-screening candidates in the SAR's political elections, rooting out those who advocate total independence or policies that would disadvantage Mainland China.
Western media outlets and people viewed the Umbrella Movement as heroic, and the group's activities were widely reported. Umbrella Movement activists had taken over parts of the city - Admiralty in Hong Kong Island's central business district, Causeway Bay in the built-up Wan Chai district of the island, and Mong Kok across the bay in Kowloon.
I visited the Admiralty protest site on October 29, 2014, the day of the Umbrella Ultra Marathon. The marathon involved 150 runners and covered a total distance of 114.9 kilometers. Seen on a map, the route was in the shape of an umbrella. I captured the following photos during my tour of the Admiralty "campsite."
Umbrella Movement protesters in Admiralty set-up a sprawling tent city on Harcourt Road and on numerous connecting streets. The protests were peaceful, until police forces began to clear the streets with force in November and December. The coordinated effort among the three Umbrella Movement "areas" was much larger than similar mass demonstrations seen in the United States, notably the 2011-2012 "Occupy Wall Street" movement.
One of the most common posters on display read, "Right of Public Assembly Shall Not Be Infringed." As an American, I often take my First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly for granted. Those rights do not exist in the same way elsewhere.
Pro-democracy protestors held up umbrellas to protect themselves from the pepper spray used by police. The umbrella thus became the symbol of the movement. The photo above depicts a beautiful piece of art - a collection of umbrellas connected together and strung between two footbridges.
Social media was important to the movement. Pictures and reports shared from the protest sites gained support for the Umbrella Movement around the world. I sent a few tweets myself with the #UmbrellaMovement hashtag.
"A SOCIETY THAT EXCLUDES IT'S OWN CITIZENS THROUGH THE USE OF FORCE IS A SOCIETY HEADING NOWHERE!"
While I was personally supportive of the Umbrella Movement's cries for freedom, the occupation of major parts of the city had to end at some point. Still, support for the movement had grown substantially, as this wall of post-it notes demonstrates.
Every surface that could be covered with political posters, messages or cartoons was. This drawing was one of the most creative and my favorite. The influence exerted by the Chinese government and thus the national Communist Party was seen by the movement as oppressive.
🎵 "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one" 🎵
John Lennon's song "Imagine" was widely quoted on the posters and banners decorating the Umbrella Movement protest sites. The song became one of the anthems of the movement.
The tent city at Admiralty was very much a community. As I toured the area, passionate conversations were occurring all around me. I spotted several "democracy classrooms," like the one pictured above.
Other community resources included medical tents, bathrooms, showers, charging stations and a food dispensary.
I had followed the #UmbrellaMovement Twitter feeds with interest and curiosity before my trip to Hong Kong. The hashtag #janposuen appeared with photos of this graffiti'd car. I was excited to find it at Admiralty.
One of my favorite messages written on the car was, "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." In my opinion, that statement was very reflective of the Umbrella Movement itself. While they practiced civil disobedience, they did not aim to be destructive of anything but the political status quo.
To prove I was there, I took a selfie with a cardboard cut-out of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was hilariously holding a yellow umbrella and was adorned with Umbrella Movement ribbons.
While the mega demonstrations of the Umbrella Movement are over (for now), they were successful in at least bringing attention to the struggle for democracy - not only in Hong Kong, but in other areas of the world where people do not have a voice.
In an area of the world where accessibility is questionable at best, I was grateful to have an opportunity to move throughout the city of Hong Kong and the Umbrella Movement's tent city in Admiralty. To learn more about my time in Asia's very own NYC, read my Hong Kong wheelchair accessible travel guide.
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What Do You Really Think About Biglaw?
Many people who choose the law as their career fantasize about working for the large, prestigious firms located in large cities throughout the country. They envision the luxuriant conference rooms where they will make powerhouse deals and the never-ending fast pace of being a rising star in the legal profession. They may realize that they might not start with the large corner office and private paraprofessional staff, but they assume it will one day be part of their rise to success.
All of the above, and more, are a part of what it is like to practice law in the largest and most exclusive firms. However, it isn't the whole story. Most of the reality of practicing Biglaw is the time spent between the corral of first-year associates and the march up the ladder to the coveted corner office. What is that time like, and is it worth the sacrifices you will have to make?
The appeal of Biglaw to attorneys
Mega-firms employ the most well-paid attorneys in the industry, and that is a massive draw for those who have chosen to make a career of practicing law. It is about more than just the number of zeros on your annual salary, though. Attorneys who are drawn to the concept of practicing Biglaw are also drawn to the prestige of working alongside the biggest names in the legal industry. There is an inherent draw to work in sleek, glamorous firms that draw some of the most challenging cases.
Attorneys also want the intellectual stimulation of working on the most challenging aspects of law, putting every ounce of their education and intelligence to the test. Though the practice of law does require education, skill, and training, much of the work can be mundane and tedious. Those seeking to practice in large firms hope they will eventually be able to delegate the more mundane tasks to those below them on the ladder, allowing them to focus on the areas of practice that hold the most appeal.
Striving to be recruited by the big names in law can also be part of a familial expectation, as the practice of law has strong generational ties. One study found that the children of lawyers are seventeen times more likely to become lawyers than those whose parents were not part of the legal profession.
Why attorneys stay in Biglaw
Large law firms offer access to mentorship programs, where young attorneys are paired with someone much further up the ladder of success, gaining knowledge and valuable insight into what it is like to practice law in the firm on a long-term basis. These mentorship programs have often been around for years, meaning they are well established, and the kinks have been worked out. These mentors often become friends, as well as valuable resources, as a new attorney progresses along their career path.
Biglaw firms have the resources to offer extensive ongoing training to associates and access to the most technologically up-to-date resources. Technology has grown in leaps and bounds and has had a profound impact on the practice of law. Artificial intelligence has revolutionized both document management and legal research, making both much less tedious, making the mundane parts of being an attorney much more efficient.
Attorneys in large, successful firms, almost always have another carrot before them. There is continuous room for growth and promotion, which are enormous motivators for those who are genuinely ambitious. Ambition lures attorneys into the practice of Biglaw and is one of the primary means of retaining top-talent in the firm.
Biglaw firms offer a diverse range of experiences for attorneys who may not have decided on an exact niche. The chance to work on parts of complex, high-profile cases, is exciting and helps attorneys gain a range of experience in a shorter time. While having a niche is becoming the norm in the practice of law, it can be detrimental to have too narrow a range of experience.
The darker side of Biglaw
For all the reasons attorneys are drawn to practice big law, there is an equal number of reasons to avoid it. Big firms, who employ over fifty attorneys, make up a tiny percentage of the career opportunities for lawyers. Mega firms, who employ over 100 attorneys, make up less than one percent of the practice of law.
Mega firms are highly selective in their hiring process, often choosing only top-tier students from the most prestigious law firms as new associates. Some firms go a step further, and only hire top students from a specific law school. These narrow standards make it exceptionally hard to break into the field of Biglaw. As a result, firms can have a significant lack of diversity among their associates.
The lack of a diverse and inclusive culture can be a deal-breaker for some of the best and brightest young legal minds. Large law firms are notorious for their stiff, formal culture that demands new associates not only to work insanely long hours but also to spend time networking and socializing within the firm. In firms where there is an utter lack of diversity, the unspoken requirement to spend social time with others from the firm can become tedious.
The lack of diversity often has a profound negative impact on the firm's culture, and many attorneys are choosing to avoid the practice of Biglaw because the culture of the firm does not fit their values. Large firms are notorious for being inflexible, and many have archaic expectations of how new associates will conduct themselves. Though these attitudes are slowly changing in some firms, there remains little doubt that these firms are not the best fit for those who value flexibility, diversity, and the freedom to do things differently.
Though many attorneys might be passionate about the practice of law, more and more are realizing that they also desire a life outside of work. Biglaw is notorious for leaving little room for a healthy work-life balance. Sixty to eighty-hour workweeks are not uncommon, work hours can be irregular depending on the needs of the firm, and newer associates are expected to be available at the drop of a hat. Little regard is given for vacation time or weekends, and some firms may unofficially penalize associates who take time off.
Success is no longer narrowly defined by a paycheck, the name of the firm you work for, or the material possessions you have. Success is better described as the meaningfulness of and passion for the work you do and the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. As large and mega firms desperately hold on to the idea that your climb to partnership narrowly defines success, they are losing some of their best people to the desire to live a balanced life.
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More and more people are waking up to the realisation that there is huge discrepancy between the world they are presented with via the mouths of their "leaders" via Mass Media channels, and the real world in the streets and peoples lounges.
Scared of being castigated by mediaslaves and political mouthpieces for standing up for their own native rights.
In France, UK, Sweden, Denmark and to some extent Netherlands and even Belgium, if you are identified as having old conservative principles, which are now referred to as far right, you are shunned and accused of being anything from racist to xenophobe. If you do not blindly accept the Multinational driven political media narrative of unquestioningly accepting the Inevitable Brown Future simply because the Elite says so, you are treated as pariah.
Not so in Old European countries like Hungary and Poland. Countries who have already been through what Western Europe and USA is about to go through: the oppression from a Communist, Collectivist, Marxist regime who has no conscience because it has no belief in a higher authority.
Lenin said he cares not if two thirds of the population die, as long as the remaining third are communists. Sounds liek Hollande, Merkel, Cameron and Obama in chorus saying We care not if citizens of white countries become extinct, as long as those that survive work in the factories and offices of our MultiNational sponsors and obediently accept subservience in the One World State and do and believe what we tell them to do and believe.
The speech's other key themes included the need to turn Hungary into a "family-friendly country," demographic aging/immigration as a threat to European civilization, the fact that this threat is insufficiently discussed by European elites, the censorship imposed by political correctness and media pressure against those speaking out, and the need to renew not just Hungary but Europe as a whole.
The Budapest event included Hungarian, Italian, Russian, French, Polish, Irish, and Spanish speakers, often from elite institutions (Oxford University, the Sorbonne . . .). Really, if we lived in a healthy culture (or even merely a non-insane one), meetings of this kind with senior politicians, academics, and civil society leaders would be held every day.
Instead, our media and politicians endlessly engage in moralizing prattle about climate change, "equality," multiculturalism, and how to (allegedly) extract a few more shekels out of the global economy through "free trade." The result, as Roman Bernard recently pointed out at the Washington conference of the National Policy Institute, is endless failure, because the globalists ignore (or pretend to ignore) demographic and national realities. Instead, there is ever-more inequality and social alienation, and endless economic strife (weak growth, financial crises, government deficits, bloated welfare states, mass unemployment . . .).
And the brainwashed liberal nincompoops cry: "Why, oh why is there so much inequality?" Cue our modern-day Two Minutes of Hate, during which (Zionist-dominated) liberal media (e.g. The Daily Show, Vox, Paul Krugman . . .) explain that of course ethnocentric Whites ("rednecks," conservatives, Christians, nationalists . . .) and "White privilege" are to blame, and that the (final?) solution is to physically replace them with coloreds.
It seems that liberals are getting more bitter and more intolerant in their search for (White) scapegoats to hate and blame for the oh-so-mysterious persistence and even steady increase in inequality and ethnic strife. That's a neat dialectic: Exploit frustration at inequality and atomization caused by White decline to agitate for yet more White decline. Yes indeed, the enemies of our people are very clever, far too clever for their own good.
I sincerely hope that, with your dedication and support, more and more European leaders will have the courage to endorse the need for family-friendly European policy.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's unbridled and critical speech during the Monday's plenary session of Parliament, after Friday's Islamic terror attacks in Paris that killed over 130 people.
PM Orbán calls for a complete restructuring of European politics and lists four commandments. Central to his policies are the protection of EU borders and the security of European citizens.
Orbán also recently gave a speech at the World Science Forum — a U.N.-style conference organized biannually in Budapest — in which he also decided to warn about immigration, despite the topic being far less directly relevant to the attendees. He evidently thinks the subject is so existentially-important as to warn all those he can about it.
We must confront a flood of people pouring out of the countries of the Middle East, and meanwhile the depth of Africa has been set in motion. Millions of people are preparing to set out. [. . .] [T]he most precise definition of this is "invasion". Yes, Europe is under invasion. [. . .] We are living in crazy times; we are blindly racing towards an uncertain outcome.
Orbán's reference to Europeans' "floundering in a net of ideologies" seems to fit in very nicely with Professor Kevin MacDonald's account in The Culture of Critique: Westerners are today morally paralyzed by pseudo-universalist ideologies that spuriously delegitimize any European ethnic self-assertion or even self-defense.
Now I am sure some people will want to poo-poo Orbán for couching his opposition to immigration and his support for European fertility in broad cultural and civilizational terms rather than explicit racial-ethnic ones. I personally do work and hope for the day when our leaders will explicitly defend our ethnic-genetic interests as well as our civilizational ones, but I will never talk down to anyone who is taking more risks and is more effective than myself.
Orbán is not writing in the columns of one of dissident online journals, which for all their excellent quality must necessarily and proudly be on the margins of a degenerate mainstream pseudo culture. Rather, the Hungarian Prime Minister is speaking from the bully-pulpit of a sovereign European nation. And we should not forget that Hungary is physically a small nation in a world of much greater powers — the United States, Russia, Germany . . . — who range from indifferent to intensely-hostile to ethnic European interests. Achieving something politically is not the same thing as drawing up a perfect world on a blackboard.
That said, Orbán's words do not mean we should not speak out for ethnic European interests and we must continue work to make our views mainstream (by changing the mainstream, not our views). We like to hope that, perhaps even in a not-so-distance future, Zsolt Bayer, Thilo Sarrazin, and Kevin MacDonald will be invited to speak at official high-level conferences like the Budapest Demographic Forum, to share their wisdom with the mass of unenlightened journalists and politicians. Perhaps in a few years Orbán, rather than deporting a Richard Spencer, will be inviting him to co-organize such events . . . Hey, every achievement, before being realized, is first born as a dream!
 So people do not think I am being cute (and to spare you reading hundreds of pages of the misleading pseudo-egalitarians Paul Krugman and Thomas Piketty), I will be explicit and say there are essentially two causes to the growth in economic inequality over the past 40 years: 1) Borderless globalized capitalism which necessarily imports world inequality into every nation and gives oligarchs enormous opportunities to concentrate their wealth. 2) Average ethnic differences in social and educational behavior, leading to differences in economic outcomes.
 And I do think it is worth occasionally emphasizing that our civilization should be as sacred to us as our blood. Of course our genes are the necessary prerequisite to our civilization, but that it is the latter (e.g. science) which will ultimately enable us to reach ever-higher formers, including through the improvement of our blood. We do not simply venerate the idea of our own inbred gene pool as a be-all and end-all. We are not pious Jews of the Abe Foxman type after all.
 I have no particular insight as to why the Orbán government – and it was certainly a ministerial-level decision – deported Richard Spencer for attempting to organize a pro-European conference in Budapest in October 2014. I continue to think that it is most likely that "the Prince" Orbán decided he would rather see the conference shut down than risk his regime losing political capital by association with marginal (to him) "American racists and Russian imperialists." Admittedly, given all the things Orbán has done and been attacked for by Western elites over the years, this seems a very petty, even irrationally niggardly calculation. Given that Zsolt Bayer, Orbán's close friend and co-founder of his political party, has explicitly defended White racial interests in the context of the migration crisis, one is tempted to think that if Orbán shut down a conference out of fear with association with White Nationalists, it may well because, as the media insinuates, he is in fact "guilty" of harboring similar ideas . . .
Also Read: Wake up, Europe: Russia is not the Enemy, your EU Leader's Obedience to US Foreign Policy is!
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What we continue to see is as Christ Jesus goes about His ministry, He is rejected more and more by the religious leaders, His "enemies". They swarm Him bringing their "questions" and their "test" and their foolish attempts to "trap" Him.
What does Christ use to silence them? Just as with Satan in the temptation, Christ Jesus uses the Pure, Holy, Word of God. These things bring forth many opportunities to teach the disciples then and now.
As we continue our work in the Book of Matthew, we get a closer look at a group of people known as the "scribes".
In the days of Jesus and prior to those days of Jesus there was a great demand for the Law, the Word of God given to Moses. This created a high demand for any who could, "read", "write" and "interpret" that Law.
They served as secretaries. chroniclers, and even taught in the schools and synagogues. Some would even settle legal matters about the Word of God and the Law in a court of law.
Many of these "scribes" [enemies] went on to become Pharisees. It was the Pharisees that took it upon themselves to keep all the Law and all the Jewish traditions which came from the "oral law" passed down from generation to generation.
Scribes were at times called teacher or Rabbi. Only the "scribes" [enemies] that belonged to the Pharisees(also enemies) in the Sanhedrin [the Supreme Court of the Jews] be involved in judicial decisions.
At this time most all these were "enemies of Christ Jesus.
The very first thing we should see is that the fact that these scribes and Pharisees traveled all the way from Jerusalem indicates the seriousness of their agenda which was to turn the people against Jesus Christ and to rid the world of Him.
We should ask ourselves another question. Where do we find these oral laws or traditions?
The book known as the Mishna is considered to be the cornerstone of Judaism. Its 62 divisions provide the background for every subject of Jewish law (Halacha) found in the Oral Torah.
The Gemara which literally means, "[to] study" or "learning by tradition") is the component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah. After the Mishnah was published by Rabbi (Judah the Prince about 200 CE), the work was studied exhaustively by generation after generation of rabbis in Babylonia and the Land of Israel. Their discussions were written down in a series of books that became the Gemara, which when combined with the Mishnah constituted the Talmud.
The teachings transmitted by the rabbis in the centuries following the destruction of the Second Temple formed the core of what has come to be known as rabbinic Judaism, which still provides the framework for the various types of Judaism practiced today. The most widely studied of these rabbinic teachings are known collectively as the Talmud, which has two parts: Mishnah and Gemara.
The Mishnah is the earlier work, compiled from the teachings of sages living at the end of the Second Temple period and in the century following the destruction of the Temple.
A study book of laws and value statements that express the classical rabbis' vision of Judaism, the Mishnah's preoccupation is promotion of a religious and legal tradition both continuous with the past and practical for life in the post-destruction Diaspora. The Mishnah contains multiple opinions on many laws and does not often suggest which is the most authoritative. The plurality of Jewish practice is preserved in the text.
According to the written Word of God given to Moses, God's written Word will supercede all oral word and traditions.
In other words the covenant God made with Israel is dependant on His Written Word!
There is nothing specifically written about the washing of the hands in the entire Old Testament but in the eyes of these scribes and Pharisees. unclean meats and unclean drinks were permitted as long as you washed your hands for it was the washing of the hands that made what you eat or drink clean. This is not what the Word of God said to the Jew in their dietary laws written in the Bible.
Mar 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
Notice that this attack was aimed at the disciples and not directly at Christ Jesus except for the fact it was Christ who was the teacher and they the students. By making this accusation they were trying to force Christ Jesus to deal with the foundations of Judaism. If Christ Jesus rejected this "Oral Law" then He was certainly a heretic in their eyes.
YOU CANNOT TRAP MY LORD WITH YOUR TRADITIONS NOR WITH MAN'S LAWS!
What we can see is that the disciples were not questioned about conforming to the law of Moses, the written Word of God, they were only questioned about the "oral law" that was added by man. What we see is that Christ Jesus did not even respond to the charges made of these scribes against the disciples. Jesus did not defend nor justify what the disciples had done and Jesus did not apologize for the actions of the disciples.
As proof Christ Jesus referred to the tradition of "Corban".
Mar 7:11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
A precept is: any commandment or order intended as an authoritative rule of action.
Man's word can never be allowed to over rule the Word of God in any age!
Knowing that God's Word is settled in Heaven is all we need to know.
Tradition is something "external" while God's truth is from the heart and "internal".
There are many "man made" teachings in the modern day Church that are considered to be authority even though they contradict the Pure Undefiled Word Of God.
Rom 10:10 [For with the heart] man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Mat 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God [with all thy heart], and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, [singing with grace in your hearts] to the Lord.
Rom 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have [obeyed from the heart] that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
2Co 9:7 [Every man according as he purposeth in his heart], so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Psa 51:10 [Create in me a clean heart, O God]; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psa 51:13 [Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee].
Without a heart that has been plowed deep with the "truth" of the Word of God, we will never be of much use to Our Father who is in Heaven.
Christ Jesus "turned away" from these false teachers and "toward" the multitudes using this opportunity to teach them what was uncleanness in the sight of God. Jesus declared to the multitudes that sin comes from the heart, not from any diet.
Joh 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, [Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God].
Joh 3:6 [That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit].
Mar 7:19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
When evilness continuously comes out from anyone we can be sure it is produced from his evil heart and is not from God. These evils from the inside reveal that a man is still unclean. These Pharisees and scribes, the enemies of God, only concerned them selves with external tradition and rituals to rid themselves of uncleanness which it could never do.
When we think we our works of righteousness are enough to get us into Heaven, then we have made the Word of God to no effect and there was no need for Christ Jesus to ever get on that cross.
They decided they had no need of such righteousness and insisted that their ceremonial cleansings were enough to make them clean and acceptable to God, thus becoming the enemies of God.
Mat 15:39 And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.
The "enemies" of Christ Jesus had become intense but not only did Christ teach that it was not the foods that were unclean but He showed that going among the Gentiles would not defile you or make you unclean. We can see the ministry of Christ Jesus making a big turn here. The Gentiles were referred to as "dogs" by these Jews.
Aren't you glad God does not show partiality and every one is on equal standing with the Lord.
Act 10:35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
Mar 7:24 And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: [but he could not be hid].
We must watch as Jesus shows how faith is revealed even in a Gentile. This woman was not willing to let Christ Jesus out of her life at any cost.
This woman approached Christ Jesus as the "Son of David". To the Gentile, Jesus was not the Son of David but, He is our Savior. She was exclaiming her faith to Him as the Messiah of God. The Lord would not respond to this woman as King of the Jew but He would respond to her faith as her Savior.
The disciples were impatient with this woman and did show compassion but not our Lord. He will always be touch by our infirmities when we respond in "faith.
When we can say "Lord help me", it is then that we know we cannot help our selves and are in need of "The Savior".
This woman could not be denied and never will anyone that calls on the Lord Jesus Christ in a like manner!
Jesus Christ again healed this Gentile from a distance thus showing in "type" that the Gentiles were "afar off" until Mount Calvary and the Cross.
Christ then departed this region and went into Decapolis. At this time this a league of ten cities who were allowed to mint their own coins, run their own courts, and have their own armies. They were most all Gentiles.
We can see that these Gentiles brought all types of the sick in need of healing and unlike the Jews, they glorified the God of Israel in the person of Jesus Christ.
The Jewish cities had not repented yet these Gentile cities believed.
Christ Jesus had fed the Jews through a miracle and He now would feed the Gentiles through a miracle.
This multitude had been with Christ for three days and surely had used all their own food supplies. These people had already seen the miracles of Christ and had believed now Christ would demonstrate how He would meet their needs. They had already heard His sermons and witnessed the healings. Another more important purpose of this miracle was to teach the twelve disciples.
Again this miracle took place in the hands of Jesus. Christ broke the bread and it multiplied. Everyone ate and the leftovers were gathered. The gifts of God should never be wasted.
1.) It is usually the religious crowd that are more the enemies of The Lord Jesus Christ. We can know that Satan uses religion to blind the eyes to God's simple plan of salvation.
2.) We must be aware of all those that would twist and misuse the Pure Word of God.
3.) We must always worship from the heart and not just give lip service.
4.) True holiness comes from the inner man.
5.) We must break free of traditions and lean of the "Grace" of God through faith.
6.) Christ Jesus is a whosoever Savior and is not limited to any one nation or people.


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Vendor lock-in is a situation in which a customer using a product or service cannot easily transition to a competitor's product or service. Vendor lock-in is usually the result of proprietary technologies that are incompatible with those of competitors. However, it can also be caused by inefficient processes or contract constraints, among other things.
The fear of vendor lock-in is often cited as a major impediment to cloud service adoption. The complexities of cloud service migration mean that many customers stay with a provider that doesn't meet their needs, just to avoid the cumbersome process. To move data from one provider's cloud environment to another, for example, it's often necessary to first move the data back to the customer's site and then move it to the new provider's environment. Furthermore, the data may have been altered for compatibility with the original provider's system so that what is returned to the customer needs to be returned to its former state before it can be moved again.
Read the fine print of each provider's policies, and if necessary, ask them directly how they facilitate moving customer data out of their cloud storage repository.
Ask the provider whether they offer data migration tools or services to facilitate the movement of large amounts of data.
Choose providers that have pledged to support emerging industry standards, such as the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) standard created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
The Linux Information Project covers vendor lock-in.
Can someone tells me that whether vendor lock in or data lock in are the same things or there is any difference?


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Denna artikel handlar om den amerikanska TV-såpaserien. Se också Våra bästa år (film 1973) och Våra bästa år (musikalbum).

Våra bästa år, engelsk originaltitel: Days of Our Lives, är en amerikansk såpopera som har spelats in i över 13 000 avsnitt sedan 8 november 1965. Serien visades med svensk textning i Sverige på TV 3 till den 31 december 2014. Nu visas den på Viafree. Varje måndag klockan nio läggs det ut 5 nya avsnitt. Våra bästa år utspelas i den fiktiva staden Salem. Handlingen kretsar kring de två familjerna Horton och Brady, deras vänner och fiender (bland annat familjen DiMera) och intrigerna är fulla av romantik, äventyr, mystik, glädje, hat, drama och passion.

Upphovsmän
 Ted Corday
 Betty Corday
 Irna Phillips

Regissörer
 Herb Stein
 Phil Sogard
 Randy J. Robbins
 Albert Alarr
 Roger W. Inman
 Roy B. Steinberg
 Mary Madeiras
 Stephen Wyman

Produktionsbolag
 Corday Productions

Producenter
 Ken Corday, Albert Alarr & Greg Meng [2015 - ]
 Ken Corday, Lisa de Cazotte & Greg Meng [2011 - 2015]
 Ken Corday, Noel Maxam & Greg Meng [2011 - 2012]
 Ken Corday & Gary Tomlin [2008 - 2011]
 Ken Corday & Edward Scott [2007 - 2008]
 Ken Corday & Stephen Wyman [2002 - 2007]
 Ken Corday & Tom Langan [1991 - 2002]

Utgivare
 NBC

Medverkande

Nuvarande

Återkommande

Kommande

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Referenser

Externa länkar
 Days.nu, svensk sida om Våra bästa år

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I just completed my first round of Maintenance Releases, starting with my Ludum Dare Games.
As described previously, I intended these maintenance releases to be simple and quick updates taking no more than a few hours to finish. Unfortunately I ran into some complications which got me rethinking my plan for keeping old projects up to date. But maybe now that the initial update is over, future updates won't be so painful. We shall see.
LD23 – Be Tiny, World!
I already updated Be Tiny, World! a couple months ago, so I didn't do anything with this project at this time. I also don't usually think of this game as a Ludum Dare entry since I've worked on it so much since the original Ludum Dare jam. But it does have its origins in Ludum Dare 23, so I'm writing about it here for the sake of completeness. The next maintenance release for Be Tiny, World! is planned for next year sometime. . . if I'm still doing maintenance releases then.
LD29 – It Came From… Beneath!
I had some major problems with this project. When I tried to upgrade it, Unity warned me to make a backup of the project in case anything broke. I confidently ignored that warning because I use version control software which lets me revert the project back to any previous state I want to. But when things inevitably broke and I tried to revert the project to try a different approach to upgrading things, I found that my version control repository was corrupted. And for some reason I had never pushed my repository to BitBucket like I have for literally every other project I've created in the past 8 years or so. So I don't have another, non-corrupt repository.
This means that the project is currently in a broken state. I can't revert it back to a working state, and it was taking me too much time and effort to try to figure out how to fix things. So this project didn't get updated, and it probably will never be updated. The project is kind of dead now, due to its broken state.
I probably shouldn't feel as much of a loss for it as I do, considering it was created in a single weekend within 72 hours. I could just recreate it if I really wanted to. Nevertheless, I'm dispirited and demoralized by this turn of events.
I spent quite a few hours on Planetary Devourers, getting everything functional and working with Unity 2017.2. I even fixed a bug or two that I found on one of the levels. I had the builds all ready to go and was just testing out the WebGL build to make sure everything worked, when I discovered a big problem: I used USFXR to create all the sound effects in Planetary Devourers, and it seems that USFXR doesn't work in the latest version of Unity's WebGL builds. Maybe it never did work in WebGL builds. But since the primary purpose of doing these updates was to get the game playable in WebGL, and the WebGL version works but is missing all the sounds, I felt it was pointless to continue with the update.
I suppose I could use a known-working version of SFXR and generate the sounds and export them as WAV files and import them into the project and change all the code to use the WAV files instead of USFXR… But I'd already spent more time than I wanted to getting the project to where it was. Maybe next year if I attempt to upgrade the project to Unity 2018 I'll have few enough compatibility fixes to worry about that I can devote the time to changing the sounds over. But for now, there is no update released for Planetary Devourers this year.
It seems Unity's physics system has changed in a way that fundamentally alters the way collision detection works since whatever version of Unity I used to make Worm Wars originally. It took me quite some time to get the collision detection back into a mostly workable state, but this update actually introduces some bugs into the gameplay. Consequently I didn't make new, buggy desktop builds since the old ones are technically superior. I only made a new WebGL build since I figured a mostly working but slightly buggy WebGL build was better than no web-playable version at all.
You can play Worm Wars in the browser here.
Again, something about the physics seems different from the old version. This leads to a strange effect where you sometimes get pushed up into the air when the enemy robots touch you, and you can get away from them, instead of them killing you and ending the game. Also it seems something broke with the animation of the robots, so now it looks like they're limping on a gimpy leg. Weird. But the good news is that I finally added proper keyboard & mouse controls to the game. So it's much more playable that way instead of practically requiring a gamepad to play. Hooray for that.
You can play Time Bomb in the browser here. Updated downloads are available on Itch.io.
I'm unhappy with the results. Upgrading LD29 and LD30 was a complete failure, and upgrading LD31 and LD32 resulted in buggy versions which are arguably worse than the original releases. At this point in time I'm not sure I want to bother with updating any of my other older projects. Only time will tell what happens in that regard.


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Anatomy of a Psycho
Anatomy of a Psycho (1961) is an American film directed by Boris Petroff (as Brooke L. Peters). Ed Wood reportedly contributed to Jane Mann's screenplay as Larry Lee. The film uses music originally used for Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). Ronnie Burns, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, plays the lead.
Boris Petroff (as Brooke L. Peters)
Boris Petroff (producer)
Jane Mann
Don Devlin
Edward D. Wood, Jr. (as Larry Lee)
Michael Terr
Joel Colman
Ed Spiegel
Plot summaryEdit
After his brother is sentenced to death at a trial, teenager Chet increasingly experiences paranoia and psychosis, which not even his sister, best friend or girlfriend can relieve. Ultimately losing touch with surrounding reality, he assaults the son of the prosecuting attorney. However, Lieutenant Mac, a local police officer, discovers Chet's involvement and hunts him down, leading to a tragic denouement.
Ronnie Burns as Mickey
Pamela Lincoln as Pat
Darrell Howe as Chet
Judy Howard as Sandy
Michael Granger as Lt. Mac
Frank Killmond as Bobbie
Russ Bender as Frank
Don Devlin as Moe
William Salzwedel as Duke
Robert Stabler as Defense Attorney
John B. Lee as District Attorney
Pat McMahon as Arthur (uncredited)
DVD releaseEdit
The film was released on DVD in 2001.[1]
Ed Wood filmography
^ Anatomy of a Psycho/Hatchet For the Honeymoon (1974), Amazon.com. Retrieved on 24 February 2010.
The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1996), documentary film directed by Brett Thompson
Rudolph Grey, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1992) ISBN 978-0-922915-24-8
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2019 European Darts Grand Prix – Tournament Outright Betting Preview
TOPICS:BettingDartsEuropean Darts Grand PrixEuropean TourGerwyn PriceTipsTournament Outright Betting Preview
Posted By: Kevin 11th May 2019
The European Tour circuit is quite a busy one at the minute and another tournament takes place this weekend when the European Darts Grand Prix is played out inside the Glaspalast in Sindelfingen out in Germany.
Michael van Gerwen has been dominating the European scene so far this season and he will be looking for a successful title defence here having beaten James Wade in the final last year. A decent field oppose him this weekend which should make for a good event.
Recent Winners
2018 – Michael van Gerwen
2017 – Peter Wright
2015 – Kim Huybrechts
2014 – Mervyn King
We are using the same format as last season for these tournaments which means that the last 32 of the tournament is played over two sessions of action on Saturday, with the last 16 on Sunday afternoon and the quarter finals on Sunday night. They are all the best-of-11 legs with the semi-finals also on Sunday evening. They are the best-of-13 and then the final in the same session is the best-of-15 legs. The draw has been pre-determined and is played in a straight knockout format.
Top Half
Once again the halves have been switched to avoid a clash in monotony which means that we have Gerwyn Price as the main seed in the top half of the draw. Ian White has been beaten in the final of the last two European Tour events and he is in this half of the draw with Mensur Suljovic, Michael Smith, Rob Cross, Ricky Evans and Darren Webster the rest of the seeded players in the top half. James Wade was meant to be seeded here but the beaten finalist of last year pulled out on the eve of the tournament.
There are some tasty qualifiers in this section of the draw as well not least the Premier League contenders Dimitri Van den Bergh and Jeffrey de Zwaan while Krzysztof Ratajski is also in this top half of the draw. The other qualifiers are Keegan Brown, Steve Beaton, Gavin Carlin and Vincent van der Voort while Ryan Searle is a qualifier in this section which will go straight through to the last 16 after his seeded opponent pulled out in James Wade.
Bottom Half
This is where Michael van Gerwen will attempt to defend his title from. He has had to come through a few battles in recent weeks and he could have some more to deal with here with Daryl Gurney seeded to be his big danger. Adrian Lewis, Mervyn King, Jonny Clayton, Peter Wright, Joe Cullen and Max Hopp are the other seeds in this part of the draw where all will be hoping MVG has an off weekend.
There are also some decent names in the qualifiers in the bottom half of the draw as well, not least the UK Open champion Nathan Aspinall and the Premier League contender Chris Dobey. Former BDO number one Mark McGeeney is in the field this week as are Jamie Hughes, Ross Smith, Brendan Dolan, James Richardson and Niels Zonneveld.
I'm convinced that Gerwyn Price is on the cusp of winning one of these things and with James Wade pulling out of his section I think this is the right weekend to stick with him. He might have a point to prove and get his head down after the shenanigans in the Premier League the other night. I mentioned last week how close he has gone to winning one of these and he was unlucky to lose to Wade in the quarter final.
On the face of it his quarter looks a whole lot easier without Wade in it and while Mensur Suljovic would rank as a tricky opponent in this part of the world, I don't think it is beyond Price to make it to the semi-final and from there anything can happen as we all know. If Wade was in the quarter I wouldn't bother with the Welshman at 20/1 but his absence makes Price the value here.
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Alter Bridge stake their claim to greatness
by Frank Ralph. Published Tue 17 Dec 2019 13:29
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It wasn't until Shinedown took the stage that the venue had started to fill up properly.
Those guys know how to put on a show. A mashup of intro clips and flashing lights introduced them to the stage, Brent shook hands with the photographers and fired t-shirts into the crowd before joining them himself to get them all jumping around all within the first three songs.
Unlike when many other bands say they love this city, it genuinely feels like they love their visits to Manchester and the musical history it has created. Yet again we get a singalong through Don't Look Back in Anger, as we have on the last few visits, but it would be nice to hear them delve deeper and maybe give us their take on a Joy Division or New Order track.
Their whole set felt like a headliner show, with bags of energy, a great light show and some absolute beasts filling the space.
As far as Alter Bridge go, they have absolutely everything in their arsenal to stake a valid claim for a Download headline slot in the future. A back catalogue that is as strong as it could possibly be, a frontman and a guitarist that are both show stealers in their own rights and most importantly an adoring audience.
The show at the Manchester Arena in support of their latest album Walk the Sky gave us a big chunk of new material which was all welcomed like old favourites. The claustrophobic Wouldn't you Rather opening the set makes great use of the humungous lighting rig they have behind and above them. It's as epic as their music is.
Their blend of metal and classic rock certainly packs a punch, but it's the other moments littered throughout the set that make it magical. The acoustic In Loving Memory with a constellation of mobile phones held aloft, the 8-minute epic that is Blackbird is introduced with The Beatles track of the same name or My Champion being added to the set at the behest of a fan. Tremonti also gives away his guitar as an early Christmas present to a lucky fan.
This band are truly on the top of their game at the moment and are truly capable of taking that next step on the journey.
For a full set of photos from the show click here
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Answering the food security colonial conundrum?	7, November 2009
Posted by thegulfblog.com in Africa, Qatar, The Gulf.
Tags: Food security, Land grab, Neo-colonialism, Qatar, Sudan
In international relations the security discourse is often monopolised by those with a myopic view of security as focusing disproportionately on military matters. Other factors be they economic, social or environmental, whilst perhaps considered important, have a tendency of being relegated firmly to the second tier of concerns ahead of the simple, brutish realities of the military balance. This kind of position is taken by those known as classical realists. However, even the staunchest realist might pause for thought if they were to hear that by some estimates the State of Qatar imports around 95% of its food from abroad. This is an exceedingly high figure and highlights the critical level of dependence that Qatar has on its food importers. This situation is repeated to varying degrees across the Arabian Peninsula.
In recent years, states such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have sought to rectify this situation by buying often huge swathes of land in (usually) developing countries. Billions of dollars and millions of hectares of land have changed hands in countries ranging from Indonesia to Ethiopia and from Pakistan to Cambodia and countless others besides.
Yet it is not just arid, rich Gulf countries that are buying up land abroad. Countries with burgeoning populations such as India, Egypt and China as well as Western private investment banks and institutions are also significantly entering the fray.
Unsurprisingly, there has been a vociferous reaction to these practices. The buying of land to produce foodstuffs primarily (and usually exclusively) for exporting from impoverished countries can be seen as anything from unfair to wrong or even immoral and has been widely dubbed as neo-colonialism. The most egregious example of this occurred when in 2008 Daewoo, a conglomerate from South Korea (GDP per capita $27,000), bought roughly half of the arable land in Madagascar (GDP per capita $1000). This decision contributed to a change in leadership in the African island state and the cancellation of the deal in March this year.
Now it appears that one of the former 'neo-colonialist' states, Qatar, has heeded this backlash and is looking to pursue its food security in a different manner. The Qatari Investment Authority has established Hassad Foods with an endowment of $100m to invest in or buy up agricultural companies around the world instead of buying the land. Aside from appearing less 'neo-colonial', there are other advantages to this type of programme. By buying up established companies the set-up costs will be less than starting from scratch. Also, from Hassad's point of view, with the world markets still struggling at the moment, there ought to be some bargains around and, given that food will only ever be needed to a greater degree in the longer term, such investments would appear to be sound.
So far, Hassad has entered into a $68.5m joint venture with an Omani poultry firm and has signed an agreement with Russian grain processing firm PAVA to cultivate land in Sudan. After a modest start, there is potential for the Sudanese joint venture to expand to cultivate up to a quarter of a million acres of land.
Yet one must ask if arrangements such as these are really that much better. Like in the 'neo-colonial' arrangement the transport infrastructure and/or the port where the goods will be exported from will be renovated by the importing country. This is, of course, a good thing for the host country. Yet, one must not forget that the foodstuffs produced will still be exported. The international market can and will offer a better price than the domestic one and that is the price at which the food will be sold. It seems unlikely, therefore, that the host country will benefit in terms of food production from this arrangement unless there is some kind of stipulation embedded into the contracts stating that a percentage must be sold domestically.
Indeed, it seems likely that in the newer type of deal (a post-neo-colonial deal?) instead of South Korea or Qatar paying Sudan or Cambodia money directly for their land it will instead go to a private company. Also, could it not be argued that when the deal is at a governmental level there is more scope for provisions for less profitable domestic sales to be included than with two companies both looking to their profit margins as the be all and end all?
Overall, aside from thorny questions to do with territorial rights or sovereignty of the land in question, it appears, therefore, as if there is precious little difference between the neo-colonial and the post-neo-colonial deals.
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