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Insects are among the organisms that will react most rapidly to climate change. They have a short generation span, they are very mobile, and their rate of development is directly impacted by temperature. This means that the development from egg to adult insect is much quicker when temperatures rise – a fact that may bode bad news for forestry.
These are species which currently cause considerable damage in Norway, and may cause even more damage in the future. One prominent example is the spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus).
The insects in this category already occur in Norway and can react very quickly to climate change. However, their response will not necessarily be gradual – the insects may only react to climate changes once these have reached a certain threshold. In such an event, we may experience sudden, so-called non-linear changes.
One example of such sudden changes is the generation span of the spruce bark beetle. When the total warmth during the summer remains under a certain limit, the spruce bark beetle will only be able to complete one generation per year. This is due to the fact that only adult spruce bark beetles are able to survive a winter season, while larvae and pupae freeze to death.
Any second generation of beetles that is not completed before the winter arrives is therefore doomed to fail. However, once the total summer warmth exceeds a certain limit, the beetles will be able to complete two generations in one summer. This could have a substantial impact on forestry, as there would then be two periods of beetle attacks on live trees per summer.
"The wolves in sheep's clothing"
These are species currently found in Norway which do not cause any significant damage, but which do cause damage in other parts of Europe. For some of these species, you do not have to travel farther than to South Sweden or Finland to find incidents of destructive impact on forests.
Examples of such species are nun moth (Lymantria monacha), bordered white (Bupalus piniaria), pine tree lappet (Dendrolimus pini), pine beauty (Panolis flammea) and common pine sawfly (Diprion pini).
These are species which do not occur in Norway but which cause substantial damage farther south in Europe.
Examples include species on oak and other trees with a more southerly distribution area in Europe. As the habitat of these insects would first have to move north, it would take a long time before they could cause any damage in Norway.
These are species which do not occur in Norway but which may arrive and establish if the climate grows warmer. These are the unpredictable wild cards – species which may come to Norway as stowaways with timber, wood chips, and other imported goods.
Examples are the Siberian moth (Dendrolimus superans) and insect vectors of the pine wood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus), both of which can attack pine and spruce. Other candidates are North American bark beetles, such as the dreaded mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae), which has caused enormous damage to the pine forests in British Columbia.


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Posted on December 2, 2022 December 4, 2022 by minjan88
At some point, I'm going to use this website again. I know I'm blogging on Substack, but I still like the idea of having a website. So I'm keeping it.
What's on my mind today is the UFC's gambling issue. I am not a gambler, and there is nothing compelling to me about gambling on sporting events. This doesn't mean I'm against people having fun; if your idea of fun is gambling, go for it.
But it's a vice. It's a very serious vice where an undisciplined person can get into a lot of trouble. James Krause found out.
Suspicious betting patterns and misguided bravado from Krause himself led the feds directly to his doorstep.
This man is on the hot seat. Investigation ongoing.
What makes fighters go on Ariel Helwani's show bragging about their income streams? If you're selling 10,000 shirts a month, great. These nosy people don't need to know what's in your pockets. If you're selling naked pics and feet pics on OnlyFans, that's your business, too. But I guess the tendency is to brag about it.
Who's next to get caught up in the financial dragnet? Fighters visiting Chechnya? Those placing public wagers with each other? Those making public donations to each other's charity? All suspect.
If you and a friend want to place a bet on the Wonderboy fight this weekend, would you go on Twitter to ask your friend to accept your bet? Let's say I live in Los Angeles and I knew someone in Atlanta who is well known and tweeted at him, "hey let's place a bet on the Dodgers vs Braves." He's not connected to the Braves and I'm not connected to the Dodgers, so it's all good.
But what if two fighters place a bet on the Wonderboy fight and discuss it on Twitter? That's suspicious. How much inside information do they have? And why so public?
I'm not even going to repeat my concerns about those charitable contributions. Again, suspicious.
Will he sign again with UFC? I'm talking about Francis Ngannou. The baddest man on the planet still complaining to fans about his contract. I wish he'd leave. We all know at this point how UFC operates, but we can't escape this sorry story. Yes, he can make lots in the boxing ring, but it's a risk. He should take that risk and get 3-4 fights. If it works out, great. If not, he can always go to PFL or Bellator. But I am not sure Dana allows him to walk away, as the heavyweight division is a shambles without him.
I don't have patience for people crying about money while the country is in a recession, we are funding a proxy war in Ukraine, inflation rising like crazy, EU and UK in a cost of living crisis with energy costs sky high. That's real stuff we're all dealing with and some man is complaining that he only made $600k for his last fight and turned down $7m.
He's an athlete, sure. But I am sorry I can't listen to stuff like this. He's very fortunate to be in his position. He risked everything just to get to the US to train in combat sports, and now he's the heavyweight champ. It's a fantastic story. But in these times of severe financial stress, he should keep the details to himself and let the negotiation process play out between his representatives and the UFC.
And with that – have a good night.
I think I might start posting my random thoughts here and keep post-event wraps on Substack.
Posted on December 11, 2021 by minjan88
Two belts on the line tonight.
The early prelims are a fun beginning to the rest of the violence on this card. It would be easier to predict the number of decisions we're going to see.
Robertson vs Cachoeira – Can Cachoeira give us another KO? If not, Robertson by decision.
Hall vs Minner – Can Hall deliver the sub? If not, Minner by decision.
Maverick vs Blanchfield – Decision Maverick.
Muniz vs Anders – Decision Muniz.
Late Prelims
Sakai vs Tuivasa – This should be a banger and I don't know who gets it. Let's go in: Sakai by KO.
Munhoz vs Cruz – Unless something very bizarre happens, Munhoz will get the stoppage win.
Main Card – You guys should know by now how I pick:
Paiva vs O'Malley – Paiva. I am tired of O'Malley. If he's talented, give him a chance to prove it by getting better opponents. Until then, I can't be bothered.
Kara-France vs Garbrandt – Kara-France. I think Garbrandt might be the better fighter at this point in his career, but he is moving down for the reasons I discussed previously. This is a great win for Kara-France if he can get it done.
Neal vs Ponzinibbio – Ponzinibbio. Unlucky for Ponz to get KO'd by my guy Li Jingliang, but he gets the W tonight.
Nunes vs Pena – Pena. I like Nunes, but it is time for her to commit to featherweight and make the bantamweights fun again. MBFA, if you will.
Oliveira vs Poirier – Oliveira. Strangely, Poirier stated that he doesn't want to be an active champ if he wins this fight. Usually, that's exactly what all new champs say when they win – that they are ready and want to be active – because they want to maximize their income. But Poirier has had two McG fights and is flush with cash at the moment. There is no need to fight so often. Here's the reality of the fight game: If you have nothing to prove and don't need the money, why put yourself out there if you don't have to?
If he wins and that is his stance, all it will take is an exciting fighter or a viral fight sequence to emerge before Dana creates an interim belt while Poirier is on vacation.
Ain't no love in this sport. I hope Charlie gets the win – there will be fewer opportunities for drama if he keeps his belt.
But UFC likes drama, so we will see.
What's next for Kevin Lee?
Posted on December 1, 2021 December 11, 2021 by minjan88
I've said so many times before – I like Kevin Lee. But unfortunately, he has the wrong attitude for this business. The first time I noticed this about him, he was sulking in the cage after he lost the interim title to Tony Ferguson. Sulking, pouting, like a teenager. He seems very immature.
I feel bad for him on a personal level.
I wrote back in June 2019: I like Kevin Lee. I'm a fan. The way he acts annoys people, but it doesn't bother me. The way he responds to losses breaks my heart a little bit. He takes it very seriously, very personally, and I don't know if that's the right way to think about losing. If he were my little brother, I'd tell him to use these losses as motivation. Heal up, get back to training, and don't be so hard so yourself. Also, you lost to RDA, not some scrub, and he was a lot stronger than you tonight, bro.
But he's not my little brother and here's the deal: He's having a hard time making 155 and always talking about a 165lb weight class. As that is not happening, he decided to move up to 170 and promptly ran into RDA. There were obvious problems, and examples are right in front of your face regarding these types of matchups.
Lee has a lot to think about moving forward. He should stay at welterweight if he believes his wrestling is strong enough to compete with Usman, Colby and Woodley. He's young. Hopefully Dana gives him time to develop. At lightweight.
Fans should remember that UFC is a fighting and entertainment company. If they don't see any value add in Kevin Lee, welp …
And that was before he started confessing about being drunk all the time, and more recently, the ADHD medication fiasco. He failed to ask for a therapeutic use exemption for this medication, which led to a positive test and thousands of dollars in fines. And now he's cut. In hindsight, he thinks he should have picked his opponents:
"Don't take these tough fights. I ain't going to lie to you, don't do it. Cherry pick. That's what they really want to see," Lee warned up-and-coming fighters on The MMA Hour (transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti). "Man, they're going to be your best friend when they want you to take the fight, they'll damn near get on their hands and knees. But then afterward they'll kick you to the curb. People told me that going into the UFC too. They told me that same thing. I didn't really listen, I just kept trying to give them what they want. But don't even do that. Cherry pick. Cherry pick like a MF'er. You'll get further that way."
I wrote previously that Conor's skills suffered due to his cherry-picking opponents, and I stand by that. You get ahead in this sport by going through the fire. You cannot deny Dustin Poirier, Tony Ferguson, Eddie Alvarez, Nick Diaz, and so many others have been through IT. Of course, you must be strategic during negotiations, but in general, picking opponents does not guarantee success.
And now this: He received notice of his release via email – It was dated Nov. 17, and it didn't come from any member of the UFC's top brass – not president Dana White, not chief legal officer Hunter Campbell, not even matchmaker Sean Shelby.
"That was kind of the worst part about it," Lee said Wednesday on "The MMA Hour." "Didn't really have the proper notice or even get a phone call about it. … Honestly, that's what pisses me off the most – the lack of respect."
Ridiculous. It became clear to the organization that Mr. Lee is struggling with several issues. Issues they don't want to deal with in the future.
From my observation, they will give a fighter time to deal with personal issues if he/she happens to be very talented or very popular. Kevin Lee is talented and they kept him in the organization for quite some time. He kept his place during all his injuries, his change in camp, his losses. The positive drugs test and revelation of mismanaged adult ADHD, along with his admission of a drinking problem was much too much. He seems to be spiraling downward.
Good luck to him.
Posted on November 29, 2021 by minjan88
As it turns out, I did not lose my old content. Great news for me as I can link to previous blog posts.
My archive is here. More recent posts are on Substack. From now on I will post in both places.
Old School vs New
Posted on November 29, 2021 December 11, 2021 by minjan88
I said I wanted to talk about Miesha later. I'm a big Miesha Tate fan. I was thrilled when she won the title off Holly Holm, because she's one of those veterans who has paid dues in this sport. I'll always be happy when that happens (Glover!). But her title reign was cut short. Cut short by a young woman who was bigger, stronger, faster than Miesha. This is the evolution of sport. And as we saw last weekend, history repeats.
There is something I notice while watching these fights: there is a group of fighters, the veterans, who have a particular style of fighting. They dominated when that was the prevailing style, but they are left behind as training and nutrition evolve. Lots of active fighters have this old style, and the matchmaking process will not usually expose them until necessary.
I won't name names, but if you're still foot stomping and head locking in 2021…
Also, there is the issue of size. To succeed in this sport, at the very basic level you must be able to overpower your opponent. Being the bigger person in the cage helps, and it will help you implement the lay and pray strategy, if you're so inclined. That is the basic step one – be one of those fighters the commentary team says is "big for the weight class." That helps. Step two of the basic rules is to know how to cut weight and rehydrate. You already know step three.
The basic rules aren't really that simple. It might work for a few fights, but it catches up sooner rather than later. Strategic weight misses happen. Guys start rethinking their weight class. Welterweights and Lightweights get caught up in this a lot.
Small guys with that old style who used to fight at 155 have to cut down to 145 to continue competing. Feathers become Bantams – that's just the way it is.
Even the heavyweights are not immune to this pressure. If you want to do the research, you might find that the older HWs were shorter. There are some outliers in the group as well (Volkov, Struve), but in general they also get bigger as the sport evolves. And there's not a whole lot of cutting down to LHW, as that would entail a fighter lose 50lbs or more. DC, who I had GOATed when he held both belts, was able to do this successfully. Which is why he's still my GOAT.
But back to Miesha. Why did they match her with a young, bigger, stronger fighter? Were they trying to derail her title shot hopes? Did they think Miesha's skillset had evolved after 5 years out of the sport? Did she? Maybe it was just one of those things, kinda like the unexpected Glover win?
My view is that Francis and Glover won't hold their belts for long. Francis operates by brute force; a skilled fighter knows how to exploit this. Glover is my guy, but we know a young man is on tap to snatch that belt.
Izzy will hold on for a few more defenses. Whether a worthy competitor emerges is entirely dependent on the internal analytics.
The rise of Khabib's guys will take over 155 and 170, but in due time. In time.
If Miesha was serious about reinventing herself she would have made a comeback at flyweight. I'm not saying she would beat Valentina, but she would have had a smoother ride to the top.
Day 1. Again
I made some changes to my website, which resulted in all my content being erased. Unintentionally. No worries. I still have my blog archive. And I might reuse it – or just revisit it – just to see how I currently feel about events from the past.
There is something very liberating about starting fresh. We go again.
Vieira vs Tate
Posted on November 23, 2021 November 23, 2021 by minjan88
Last weekend was the Vieira vs Tate card, and I want to talk about that and a few other topics:
Advice from DC
Advice from Chael
"He'll never be one of us again."
I read this week that DC is urging fighters to chase the belt, not money fights. Tip to readers: advice from DC, Chael, or Bisping is purely propaganda and not intended to advance the interests of the fighters. They are fight promoters, trying to push whatever narrative.
Mr. Cormier says – "As an organization, you'd always want that belt to be the grand prize. You don't want a McGregor fight to be the ultimate prize for the competitor. The prize needs to stay the championship and it seems like right now things are changing. Things are changing all around the world in terms of sport right? The money is changing everything across the board in all sports and I think the same thing is happening in the UFC."
The rise of Conor McGregor has led to his opponents experiencing an incredible increase in pay when facing him in the cage. Therefore, there is never a shortage of fighters calling out McGregor for a fight, any given day of the week. Everyone wants the money fight. But DC asks fighters to chase the belt.
We have seen examples of fighters starting Go Fund Me campaigns to pay for their training, giving interviews saying they only have $17 in the bank, or begging for bonuses. But DC says don't chase money fights.
Chasing the belt is a fool's errand. Chasing the belt is insanity when someone else has the power to deny you the fight to get to the belt. Chasing the belt is impossible when a fighter can refuse to fight. Being unpopular can also hinder your title hopes. A fighter can say in interviews that he/she wants the belt, but in reality, they can't chase the belt. It's out of their hands.
Now, sometimes the MMA gods provide us with a little treat. Glover Teixiera won the belt off Jan Blachowicz. Glover's strong grappling game overpowered the Legendary Polish Power. And if you've been reading my blog, you'd know I predicted this.
Clearly, Chael has seen the analytics on social media chatter about Khamzat Chimaev vs Gilbert Burns. He plays matchmaker and sees Neil Magny getting that fight, not Gilbert. Of course. Can't derail the hype train just yet. In the meantime, Usman will get more fights to defend his belt. The moment he passes GSP is when he will get a new challenge.
This is comical. Back just a little while ago, it was important to become champ. As I said before, the rise of Conor is what ushered in the money fight era. Mr. Smith is saying that Conor is so rich now, he's out of touch:
Anthony Smith: "This is the second time that Conor's come at me, and this one is not even my fault, and I don't give a sh*t what Conor thinks about me, but I don't know why he's taken aim at me twice," Smith said on SiriusXM's Fight Nation, which he co-hosts with R.J. Clifford. "But as I thought about it, I think I figured it out. Conor has been uber, uber successful. He's made more money than he could ever spend. He's made true, like, generational wealth. Like, his kids' kids' kids' kids are going to be just fine because of the things that Conor's accomplished. What Conor can never get back, is he'll never be one of us again, and it drives him absolutely crazy.
"He used to be one of us. I found myself sitting at the desk wondering, like, does Conor miss what it felt like to be in the gym and just be one of the guys? Because he's alienated himself from everybody. Like, I've been around him a little bit. I don't know him. But I've been around him, and he was one of the guys, and he kind of sold out, and he starts taking shots at people, and he kind of sold his soul for all that money. And that's fine if that's what you want to do."
Two things to unpack there: Conor has sold his soul for money, and he's not one of the guys and it drives him crazy.
Conor is taking shots at people because he's on the losing end for a change. He's the biggest draw in the organization and he just took 2 Ls from Dustin Poirier – the 2nd included a leg break followed by a humiliating meltdown in the cage. The first was after an agreement with Poirier to make a donation to his charitable foundation. Conor loses that fight and Poirier started asking for his money. Shady business.
Mr. Smith suggests McG's wealth is a bad thing. Evil. Sold his soul. Remember the belt/money conversation? Chasing money, fighters started saying, "I'm a prizefighter," in order to signal the U turn. A fighting career does not last long and you need to secure the bag while you can. Now you have DC and Anthony Smith acting like money should be a secondary motivation. I understand DC's reason for saying this – he's a company man and feels this approach is detrimental to the company – but not Smith.
I want to talk about Miesha's fight later.
First day of the season
Posted on August 13, 2021 by minjan88
Today was the first day of the new Premier League season. First match up was Arsenal vs Brentford and the Arsenal lost 2-0. It was sad. Also, my take on the McG drama.
Troopz:
"Arteta is ruining this club" pic.twitter.com/u6pMn41Jh3
— Back Again W/Troopz Podcast (@backagain) August 13, 2021
And another one:
Arteta is the problem, sold Martinez, sold Willock, insisted on signing Willian, negative sideways backwards build up. He's useless https://t.co/gBDSgmThrc
— Parker🇬🇧 (@EarlswoodWarw) August 13, 2021
I kinda agree with the Arteta Out crowd.
Ongoing: Conor McGregor is currently recovering from a broken leg, but still getting all the press.
He is getting roasted for all his remarks/tweets about Daniel Cormier and his alleged drunkenness and overweight issues. All I can do is shake my head. I believe Mr. Cormier has reached untouchable status because once again, the MMA Twitter community is stepping up to defend him. The last time the community rallied for Cormier was during his battles with Jon Jones.
I think the rallying around Cormier is not because he's so beloved, but due to the villain storyline around Conor and Jones. Honestly, I'm hoping for Conor to make a complete recovery and schedule a trilogy fight with Nate – and retire.
You'll miss him when he's gone.
Emotional weekend of sports
Posted on July 12, 2021 by minjan88
Being a fan is an emotional experience. We really go through it all while watching our favorites. And yes, sometimes, we get pleasure in watching heels lose in dramatic fashion.
Let's start with the dramatics. The main card of UFC 264 featured 2 heels and a nice guy, who just might be a bit too nice.
I won't mention anything about Sean O'Malley or Yana Kunitskaya. Wake me up when they book Yana vs Amanda or O'Malley vs The Funkmaster.
Stephen Thompson losing to Gilbert Burns should be the end of Mr. Thompson's title shot hopes for now. Strange things happen in MMA though – a short notice step in might change his life. So Wonderboy, stay ready. For now, however, he's 38 and much too nice for this game.
Tai Tuivasa vs Greg Hardy was what we paid our money to see! The heavyweights really know how to shut the lights off and that's exactly what Mr. Tuivasa did. He did what needed to be done and left Mr. Hardy sleeping in the Octagon. Then he climbed on top of the cage wall and did a shooey! Good times.
The main event featuring Conor McGregor vs Dustin Poirier was such a disappointing fight – I am still feeling somewhat sad about the outcome.
I admit, I am not a big fan of either guy, but I tune in to McG fights for the spectacle. Everyone turns out for his fights and this one was no exception. The UFC hype machine was working overtime on this one and it showed. But after one round, it was over. The fight was stopped due to a doctor stoppage, as Mr. McGregor suffered a broken leg.
Then — Conor pretty much had a meltdown, Poirier's wife was throwing up the birds, there were death threats, somebody slidin' in the DMs, etc.
I'm going to be honest: The promise of a $500,000 donation put the rematch under a cloud. It should have never happened. You want to donate to a charity, fine. Do it later. Talk about it later. Don't promote a fight based on a charitable donation to your opponent's foundation.
And let's just leave it at that.
Saturday night left me in a state of embarrassment for Conor. Sitting on the floor of the cage, shouting, "We don't give a bollocks!" isn't a good look.
Sunday took the biscuit.
There I was minding my business, watching the European Championship finals and the match went into extra time. Nobody scored so on to the shootout.
You all know by now what happened: England missed the last 3 penalty kicks and it was all over. There were tears.
Everyone's blaming someone for the debacle, but for me it's a few things:
The Premier League has the best talent in the world. You gotta make those shots.
Poor Saka. Yes, he's young, but he's made it to the big leagues now. He was shook, for sure, but you gotta make those shots.
Rashford & Sancho – SMH. Do I have to say it again? You gotta make those shots.
I'm not from England, but I am a big fan of the League. The Three Lions had a great tournament, but sadly, this was a choke.
263 Debrief
Posted on June 14, 2021 by minjan88
I really thought there would be something interesting to write about after UFC 263, but there wasn't.
The excitement comes from the unexpected. Not watching an Amanda or Valentina KO in yet another mismatch.
Who cares if Izzy beats Vittori? I'm sure he and his family/team are thrilled, but it doesn't excite me as a fight fan.
Let's take a look at my picks before the main card started – all picked for the excitement factor: Paul Craig, Demian Maia, Nate Diaz and Marvin Vittori.
Of course Paul Craig was going to win his fight. He came through with that nasty ground game and dislocated his opponent's arm while the referee was just watching the action.
Demian Maia lost, but he is at that advanced age as well as at the end of his UFC contract. I don't rate Belal as that great of a fighter, but give him credit, he was able to defend against the takedowns and get off a bit of offense. Is this Demian's last fight? Dana White says yes.
Nate Diaz won that fight. He lost the battle but the war was won years ago. It was a great fight. Leon sliced Nate up for 4 whole rounds – then he got lazy in the 5th. That Leon was doing the stanky leg at the end told us something: Nate wasn't in there to take away Leon's 3, he was there to test himself against the best. And I think Dana wanted to give Leon a bit of shine, as he's been very unlucky lately.
I hope he gets his title shot before he goes out like Tony.
Adesanya beats Vittori in what was probably the worse fight on the card. Belal followed the blueprint to beating Maia, while Vittori was unable to implement the wrestling heavy game plan to beat Izzy. It turned out to be another mismatch.
Fights to make –
Adesanya vs Whittaker
Brandon Moreno vs Fig 3 (or does Joey B or Triple C slide in here?)
Usman vs Edwards (please!)

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By The Careers Team on Nov 12 2018 4:00pm
Osborne Clarke lawyers discuss the big commercial awareness question of the moment
Left to right: Ashley Hurst, Eleanor Locke and Catherine Hammon
The digital revolution has given us tech giants with vast businesses and global impact, but it's also impacting on non-tech businesses across all sectors, which are shaping digital strategies to position themselves for the future.
Retail is a good example of a sector experiencing technological change. The 'Amazon effect' means national retailers are having to refocus their business models, have less physical sites, more 'click + collect' services, and use technology in store to reduce margins and create an enhanced shopping experience for customers. Also on retailers' agendas is more sophisticated use of data to better understand their customers — of which more later.
This sort of upheaval generates plenty of cross-sector legal work for full-service global law firms with digital expertise like Osborne Clarke, whose teams of commercial and technology lawyers work alongside sector specialists to help bring to life their clients' new digital strategies.
"Our expertise in digital business is often how we go to market in all of our sectors, not just the tech sector," said Osborne Clarke partner Ashley Hurst, speaking at Legal Cheek's recent student event with the firm, 'How technology is changing business'.
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When preparing for interviews, be smart with your research: identify the legal problems facing clients and use sector knowledge to provide a practical solution, says Osborne Clarke Trainee Recruitment partner Ashley Hurst
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Beware of the blockchain trap in interviews
Law firms must not only advise on current disruption but also need to understand where the next wave is coming from. With that in mind Osborne Clarke is keeping a close eye on blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underpinning cryptocurrencies that is now being trialled more widely. Osborne Clarke digital revolution knowledge lawyer Catherine Hammon describes blockchain as "a new way of sharing and securing data", adding: "the combination of locking down data so that you can't change it and its wide visibility is valuable".
Currently blockchain is still making the biggest waves in finance. Hammon notes that more than half of the financial products being tested in the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) experimental sandbox scheme are blockchain-based. But the technology could also be a big deal for global supply chains where there are lots of people and paper involved. As shipments move all around the world, they have to go through customs, obtain stamps of authorisation, and make sure insurance is in place — lots of paperwork means it can get lost, forgotten or mislaid. But if this data is locked down onto a blockchain, it's secure and visible — everyone can see it, it won't get lost and it can't be tampered with.
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But beware of the blockchain trap in interviews. Hurst warned the audience of 90 students: "Be ready to explain in simple English what blockchain actually is… it's the first question I would fire back to anybody asking about it." Beneath the blockchain hype clients are struggling with this too. "Businesses are asking that very question — does it add enough value, in terms of efficiency and costs-savings, to go through the horrible complication of understanding blockchain and implementing it?"
Hurst gave some further interview direction: "Everyone is talking about AI and blockchain, but I think if you spend all your time worrying about blockchain you'll miss some of the other issues that businesses are dealing with right now — such as moving to the cloud, GDPR, making their businesses more efficient through other simpler technologies… connectivity and what 5G is going to do in terms of making the internet quicker, broadening the capacity of the internet and making it more reliable is going to be huge for businesses… In addition to discussing the exciting technology innovation clients' businesses are facing, I would also discuss some of the day-to-day issues they are facing now".
GDP-aaarghhhh!
One such issue is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU's data protection directive, created partly in response to concerns about big tech companies' use of mass data, that gives the public a "right to an explanation" for algorithmic decisions, and a "right to be forgotten" for privacy.
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In Hurst's view, it's "a massive force against innovation, I think it went too far". But he also noted that GDPR presents some opportunities for business, with some companies using it as a way to make transparency a virtue, gain their users' trust and build a culture of compliance.
"What we're also seeing in practice", he continued, "is people using these laws to cause problems to businesses to gain leverage in litigation or to bring a complaint". The big tech players may have the legal firepower to head off such challenges, but younger innovative business trying new things in new areas such as the 'Internet of Things' could be badly hit by GDPR.
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Future lawyers will be working more remotely and using less paper, says Osborne Clarke Trainee Recruitment senior associate Eleanor Locke
Posted by Legal Cheek on Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Hurst and Hammon's fellow panellist, technology and privacy law associate director, Eleanor Locke, elaborated:
"GDPR is difficult to interpret and understand and that is really going to hit those small, innovative start-ups much harder, particularly where the GDPR is actually very difficult to comply with when you're looking at new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). You may have to engage with regulators and it's going to take time to get comfortable with what you're doing in terms of that technology and small start-up businesses aren't necessarily going to have the resources within Europe to do that. So, I think the pace of change with those technologies in terms of getting products to market may be slower."
Hurst noted that GDPR was emblematic of the "constant tension between law and regulation", with young businesses in a broad sense often trying to "get out there to innovate quickly enough to try new things" before regulation puts its foot down.
There are plenty of examples of Silicon Valley businesses that have expanded fast internationally and achieved a very high valuation by being willing to disrupt and take some risks on regulation. Once businesses have achieved that growth and have deep pockets it's much easier to conform to a regulatory challenge. On the other hand, businesses suffer when they "start off terrified of regulation, are not prepared to stretch the boundaries of the law and try new things — they get so bogged down that they won't make money and get the investment," says Hurst.
Pace of change
But in heavily regulated sectors like finance it is not easy to move so quickly. Fintech start-ups face barriers to entry such as regulatory obligations, capital requirements and compliance hurdles that make it impossible for them to become banks overnight.
On top of that, because they are handling people's money, they need to win trust. "They're competing against the big high street banks with their beautiful buildings that have been around for decades and decades," says Hurst. They display a "we're reliable, we're compliant, you can trust us" grandeur about them — despite some damage to their reputations from the 2008 financial crisis.
In this sense some of the up and coming players remain stuck in Wild West territory. "They've got some amazing technologies but they've got to get over that compliance hurdle to demonstrate to the regulator and to their customers, partners and investors that they're in the compliant category," Hurst adds.
There is good reason for this regulation. Casting a shadow over innovation is the threat of cyber criminals, with fear that the more we collect data through internet-enabled applications the more opportunities are created for data theft, scams and malware. "There's a massive arms race — the cyber criminals are every bit as sophisticated if not more so than the armies of cyber firms trying to combat them — so we're always trying to keep up with the criminals," says Hurst.
Keep a questioning mind, says Osborne Clarke's Digital Revolution Knowledge Lawyer Catherine Hammon
Keep a questioning mind – especially when it comes to AI, says Osborne Clarke Trainee Recruitment's Digital Revolution Knowledge Lawyer Catherine Hammon
Posted by Legal Cheek on Thursday, 15 November 2018
Lawyers of tomorrow should keep all this in mind as they build their commercial awareness. "Be tech-curious, digitally literate and take an interest in this stuff," urged Hammon as the session drew to a close. "Read read read, watch those YouTube videos and learn about it as much as you can, with an eye to where the world is going."
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For MLK weekend, Leo and I made a quick trip to LA. My primary reason was to conduct a quick site survey of Anaheim for fwd:cloudsec 2023. I bribed Leo to come along by promising a day at Disneyland.
This is the story of how I spent $2621 to ride Rise of the Resistance.
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We had a Delta Companion Pass that would expire at the end of the month, so Leo's airline ticket cost me $29. My flight was $628. We got lucky and got a Delta Comfort+ upgrade on the way out, so we got to sit in Delta Premium Select seats. That helped make the two hours stuck on the runway in Atlanta because Delta had to "load cargo" somewhat more palatable. That said, unless it's a live organ for transplant or a fallen service member, there is no excuse to make a plane full of passengers wait for some Delta Dash. Do better, Delta.
I've flown in and out of LAX many times over the last 20 years; however, this time, everything was different. I'm not sure whatever happened to Ford's bar and the really awesome Bacon Bloody Mary, but there was no sign of it near the Delta terminal anymore.
Because I was planning to drive around a bit, I got a car. I hate getting a car at LAX. I hated it when I would fly out to visit Warner Bros., and it's still a crap experience. I went with Hertz, and it took about 45 minutes for the Hertz bus to arrive. Plenty of Avis and Enterprise buses, just no Hertz. Getting from Terminal 2 to the car rental was another 30 minutes of traffic as the bus stopped at all the other terminals. I can't fault Hertz for that, but I do fault LAX. It's been 20 years, and they're finally working on a light rail to get to the rental car lots.
When we finally get to the lot, they don't have any F%$#*ng cars! Yup, We waited another 20 minutes to get a car and then to get a car seat that wasn't sopping wet! I'm not saying I'm never using Hertz again. I am saying I'm never using Hertz at LAX again. My next trip will be fwd:cloudsec and AWS re:Inforce, so it will be Uber's the whole trip.
We got to the hotel at 11 pm PT, which was way too late for Leo and not awesome for me either.
Anaheim.
I don't have much to say about Anaheim. We went on the weekend when LA was getting biblical (for them) floods, and I think other parts of CA were getting washed out to sea. Other than visiting three hotels as possible venues for fwd:cloudsec, we chilled out at the hotel. I will call out NOVA Kitchen & Bar as a great place to get Sushi (which, amazingly, Leo likes).
Other than arriving at the hotel at 2 am ET, we mostly stayed on eastern time. Which was good because we were up at 5:30 PT on Sunday to get breakfast and head to Disneyland. We (and by that, I mean I) had a plan:
Be the first one in the park
Immediately by a Lightning Lane pass for Rise of the Resistance
Figure out everything else after that.
Everyone I know who went to do Rise has done it at Disney World. Like many concerts, I was told it sells out each day at 7 am. I didn't fly across the country and spend an absurd amount of money on tickets to miss this.
Anaheim has a bus service that costs $6 per day per person. It had a stop right outside our hotel, so it made sense to do that rather than pay for parking.
Having only a single data point, I cannot tell if it was just the differences between Disneyland and Disney World, or if it was the rain or the time of the year, or what, but the park wasn't that crowded, and we got a 10 am Lightning Lane pass.
Arrived at the park at about 6:30 am.
Got through security: 7:21 am.
Got into the park: 7:30 am PT.
Booked Rise: 7:31 am PT.
Disney's crazy booking system.
There are a few ways to avoid the lines at their parks. Above and beyond their $165 park fees, you can also buy the "Genie+" service, which allows you to do "call ahead seating" for one ride with an hour's arrival window. Genie+ doesn't work for Rise, so I had to buy another $50 upcharge to get a reservation.
Anyway, when we got our Lightning Lane for Rise, we then booked a Genie for the Smuggler's Run. We rode that twice (once reserved and once as a standby), then booked it over to Rise.
Interior of the Falcon while waiting for Smuggler's run
Exterior of the Falcon while waiting for Smuggler's run
Rise of the Resistance
It was an impressively immersive experience. You start on a transport. You then end up "getting captured" and end up in Imperial/First Order custody. The cast members queuing the passengers were doing a great job of being both friendly Disney people and mean First Order officers. The FX on the second part were very impressive - the ride wasn't wild, but it had its moments as your "escape ship" was fired on, force captured by Kylo Ren, and eventually crash-landed on a friendly planet. In between, they got the cast of the last three movies to record their parts. I couldn't help but wonder what Disney paid to get Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, and Domhnall Gleeson to don their costumes and record half a dozen lines.
Leo and I thought it was an awesome ride, but it was not worth waiting 90 minutes to ride it again.
Leo captured by the First Order. I had to leave him, but he'll enjoy being a Sith
The rest of Disneyland
I'm not sure any of the other rides were super memorable. Surprisingly, Leo wanted to do the Haunted Mansion, so we did a Genie for that. I guess he didn't remember doing it in 2017 at Disney World. Apparently, Disney owns the rights to Nightmare before Christmas and shuts the ride down twice a year to make it a Haunted Mansion Holiday. I objected to the alteration of this classic. Get off my lawn.
We did a few more rides, looked at buying some overpriced Lightsaber replicas, and then wandered over to a very dated Tomorrowland to ride Space Mountain and Star Tours. Note to parents with bad memories: Space Mountain is not the tame sciencey ride from Epcot Center. It's an indoor, lights-out rollercoaster. It was also Leo's second most traumatic event of the day.
I like what the 1960s thought today would be like
Disneyland is actually two parks: Disneyland Park is the older one that has the traditional stuff and the new Galaxy's Edge Star Wars area, and then Disney California Adventure Park, which has a few other rides, and the Marvel / Avengers campus. A ticket to one is not a ticket to another unless you pay another $65 per ticket to get a Park Hopper pass. Which, of course, I did.
We rode three rides at California Adventure. We got a Genie pass for the Guardians of the Galaxy ride (which I heard was very popular). We also got lucky and got in a reasonably short standby line for the WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure ride.
Guardians of the Galaxy ride
Leo really enjoyed that, and it was one of two standby lines he was willing to stand in.
The other ride we did in the Avengers Campus was Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT This was Leo's most traumatic experience of the day, and frankly, for me too. To say "Big Drops" is to understate this ride. As best I can tell you're catapulted 5-6 stories up to freefall back down several times. Not knowing what to expect (because, as I said, I didn't plan anything after Rise), we both panicked at the first free fall, and I again must apologize to the person next to me whose leg I grabbed looking for the oh-shit handle next to me.
After Guardians, we took a break, got some sugary stuff, and rested. Our last Genie of the day was about an hour after Guardians, so we walked the park. The last ride was pretty tame but very immersive - Soarin' Around the World. It took a lot of coaxing to get Leo to trust me that this ride was fine.
We left the park at about 4:30 pm PT, returned to the hotel, relaxed for a bit, then had an Outback Steak dinner (his choice) and an incredible Italian Ice from Joe's Italian Ice & Ice Cream. I will be visiting them again when I return in June.
Our flight was at 8 am. Anaheim was at least an hour away from LAX, and after the cluster-f–k that Hertz was, I wanted to leave plenty of time before boarding. So we were up at 4:15 am PT, ate some leftover pizza I stashed in the hotel fridge, and got on the road. Hertz was again a total cluster. This time they had too many cars and didn't have space to put them. We managed to get the last bus that would be able to navigate the parking lot and got to Terminal 3 in a reasonable amount of time.
Since our plane flew in from Sydney the day before, it was at one of the new international gates. Either I navigated LAX poorly, or these gates aren't well connected, because we ended up going what looked like a side maintenance door, down to the tarmac, to get on a bus, to get delivered to another part of LAX that looked like a scene from The Langoliers. Luckily, once we got upstairs, there were a few open stores, and I was able to secure coffee.
We did not get upgraded on the flight home, and because I booked this whole thing after we got home from Morocco, the only seats we could find were in the back of the plane. I almost always get at least a Comfort+ upgrade or can sit in the exit row, so this was the first time in a while I had to sit in a tiny seat. I timed it too. Sitting in the second to last row on the plane's right side, I clocked exactly 16 minutes from the seat-belts sign getting switched off to getting off the plane.
What it all cost
Airfare $627.80
Companion Pass Fees $29.80
Disneyland Tickets (1-Day Tier 5 Park Hopper with Disney Genie+ Service) $518.00
Delta Snack Box $12.00
Dinner: Nova Kitchen & Bar $92.00
Anaheim Transit $12.00
Disney - Ice Cream $12.91
Disney - Popcorn $5.50
Post-traumatic ride refresher - Pym Tasting Lab $27.47
Disney - Lunch (Turkey leg & drinks) $25.18
Rise of the Resistance Lightening Lane $50.00
Joe's Italian Ice $14.70
Dinner: Outback $58.64
ATL Airport Parking $48.00
Hotel (3 nights) $801.83
Hertz Car Rental $264.60
LAX - Coffee $5.48
20% In-Flight Savings for Delta SkyMiles (Snack box) -$2.40
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Q: How do I use a single javascript properties.js file to set variables in multiple HTML files?
Update: this turned out to be a memory cache issue where both Firefox and Chrome were pulling the properties.js file from memory cache on each page refresh instead of downloading a fresh version from the server.  The Network tab tip from below comments allowed me to see this behavior. Thanks for that!
Using meta tagging in the HTML files as follows did not help at all:
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I am developing a UI dashboard with multiple HTML5 pages that show values that change every few minutes. The values come from APIs that I parse with JQ and then use bash to update a properties.js file.  The multiple HTML5 pages src this properties.js file to assign values to JavaScript variables in the HTML5 pages.
The problem is, this works for the 1st HTML5 page but the 2nd HTML5 page is not getting the values. If I comment out the 1st page's "src" line, the 2nd page gets the values.  Seems the way I am doing this is only good for populating values into a single HTML5 page.  I would rather not clone the properties file for each HTML page. I am trying to find a way to make all HTML5 pages populate the values from a single properties.js file.
[FILE1.HTML]

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In page1.html the src line is going down 1 level as such:

In page2.html the src line is going to the same level:

A: Try to store variables in local storage that you want to access across other pages. Local storage allow to save key/value pairs in a web browser, so when variable is updated by one page it will be also available to another page.

A: You normally don't use . in the path of linking to script files, try

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It really makes no sense that it works for a different file name, but not the same one.

A: This appears to be a browser cache issue. I need to figure out how to force both Chrome and Firefox to download the properties.js file freshly on every page refresh instead of getting from cache.

A: Something I tent to do when I want to prevent my scripts from being cached is to add a parameter at the end of the file path like so: scripts.js?v=0001 or in my php projects, I use npm to add a uuid to the end of the file name everytime it is updated.
You can checkout more here: How to Prevent Caching of Javascript
Just trying to point you in the right direction! Hope this helps.

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In 1936, Alvarez was awarded with a PhD degree from University of Chicago.
Alvarez worked for University of California in Berkeley at Radiation Laboratory under Ernest Lawrence.
Alvarez used cyclotron to generate tritium. The magnetic moment of neutron was also measured on the experiment of Alvarez and Felix Bloch.
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12 Essential Steps for GDPR Compliant Mobile App
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The new GDPR regulation, which was enacted in May 2018, will completely change the way companies use and manage personal data of their users. For organizations that operate in Europe or gather personal data of EU citizens residing in any part of the world, this means reviewing the technical implication that these updated laws will have on their web applications or online operations. How do you implement an application that's compliant with the EU directive that provides complete control of personal data to users? Here are 12 guidelines:
1. t12 Essential Steps for GDPR Compliant Mobile App 12 Essential Steps for GDPR Compliant Mobile App
2. What is GDPR? The new GDPR regulation, which was enacted in May 2018, will completely change the way companies use and manage personal data of their users. For organizations that operate in Europe or gather personal data of EU citizens residing in any part of the world, this means reviewing the technical implication that these updated laws will have on their web applications or online operations.
3. Consequences of non- compliance with GDPR Organizations that fail to implement GDPR risk being levied huge fines in the range of €1 million or 2% of the global turnover, or €2 million or 4% of the global turnover, depending on the sensitivity of the data.
4. Four Most Important Aspects of the Law 1. Easier Access to Your Own Data 2. A Right to Data Portability 3. A Clarified Right to be Forgotten 4. The Right to Know When Your Data Has Been Hacked
5. How do you implement an application that's compliant with the EU directive that provides complete control of personal data to users? Here are 12 guidelines
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7. All personal data should be encrypted, and users informed about it If an application needs to save personal information, this data should be encrypted using reliable and strong encryption algorithms, such as hashing. 2.
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House votes to repeal military authorizations dating to Gulf War, Cold War
By Karoun Demirjian
June 29, 2021 at 7:20 p.m. EDT
U.S. military personnel march across Arlington Memorial Bridge during a victory parade on June 8, 1991. (Doug Mills/AP)
The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to repeal two decades-old measures authorizing American military action in the Middle East, in a rare bipartisan gesture of what one senior Democrat called "good legislative housekeeping."
Congress needs "to take seriously its responsibility over war and peace" and "recall and repeal authorities when their usefulness has passed, " Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said during a floor debate this week.
The top Republican on the panel, Rep. Michael McCaul (Tex.), agreed. "This is an example of how we can work together to clean up these old AUMFs," he said, using the shorthand for authorization for use of military force. McCaul said there was "no reason" to leave such fully defunct authorizations "on the books."
The first authorization was passed in 1957 to help the president confront communism in the Middle East. The second was passed in 1991 to pave the way for the Persian Gulf War. Neither has been referenced as a justification for a military campaign in decades.
The vote was 366 to 46, with only Republicans opposed. Yet the enthusiasm for repealing two "relic" authorizations, as lawmakers referred to them, is expected to do little to bridge the deep divide that remains between Democrats and most of the GOP over whether to repeal more-recent military authorizations.
House votes to repeal 2002 authorization for military force with strong bipartisan support and a White House endorsement
Those particularly at issue are the 2001 measure that greenlighted the U.S. government's campaign in Afghanistan to pursue the perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2002 measure that enabled the Iraq War. Democrats and some Republicans have argued that those measures have been contorted beyond recognition by successive presidents to justify operations against new threats that Congress never envisioned or approved.
Even as he cheered the repeal of the 1957 and 1991 measures, McCaul warned that discussions about removing the more recent authorizations are "very different."
The House passed a repeal of the 2002 measure this month, with the support of 49 Republicans — far more than backed an attempt to do the same just last year. The Biden administration also backs the repeal of that authorization, which has not been used as the sole justification for a military campaign for more than a decade.
But most Republicans remain strongly opposed to the repeal, warning that it could compromise the United States' ability to respond to future terrorist threats and instability in the Middle East. In the Senate, efforts to advance parallel legislation ran aground this month when Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee objected, demanding briefings from the country's top diplomats, military leaders and intelligence officials before voting on the repeal.
The process of repealing the 2001 authorization promises to be more complicated. Critics and supporters of that authorization agree it must be updated or replaced so as not to compromise ongoing operations against terrorist groups.


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"Do you like Tennis?" A friend of mine asked me a few weeks back. I flashed back to when I was in middle school and had a really weak serve, and thus my dreams of being the next Roger Federer were squashed instantly. Thankfully, my friend was referring to the husband and wife synth-pop duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley who just so happened to be playing Asbury Lanes.
Admittedly, before walking into their show, I hadn't heard any of Tennis' music or knew much of their background. However, upon seeing them perform live at the recently renovated Asbury Lanes, it was hard to not feel a little entranced by them. Before the duo took the stage, the New Jersey band known as Lyons warmed up the crowd and set the mood. Lyons, an all-female five-piece, came out with full intensity giving the sound system a good workout in the process. Their vibe is garage band style indie rock mixed with some of the 80's synth-pop aesthetic shared by Tennis. Overall, their set was high-energy and vibrant and complemented and contrasted the headlining act quite nicely.
When it finally came time for Tennis to perform, I was curious about how they would make their entrance and what experience I was about to have. As the lights came back on again and the sound system cued up once more, I was pleasantly surprised. The duo instantly set the mood with their atmospheric yet lush keyboards courtesy of Moore while Riley gamely provided support on guitar. Lead singer Moore was decked out in a sequin top embodying a 70's/80's aesthetic that was wonderfully sustained throughout the set. What made watching Tennis perform so engaging was the chemistry the husband and wife duo exhibited on stage together. That may seem like an obvious observation, but during each song, the two played off of each other seamlessly, and their interactions brought out an exuberance that elevated the impact of their songs. During a number titled "Matrimony" dedicated to her husband, Moore was purely uninhibited, dancing and shimmying on stage and giving off a radiant energy that proved hard to ignore.
The most refreshing aspect of Tennis's set had to be how well-rounded and cohesive the song selections were. There were upbeat dance numbers that got the crowd moving. There were also mood pieces that gave off pure atmosphere and songs that were so breathtakingly intimate they could've been prom anthems. From song to song, Moore was charming, open and funny; it almost felt like sharing an evening with a friend if your friend just happened to be in a really artsy indie group. As they closed out their set, Tennis undoubtedly left an impression upon me, showcasing how a small-scale group can achieve the same level of attention as any big-name act could muster. I may not still know all there is to know about Tennis, but I can say judging off of their performance, the ball is definitely in their court.


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Misplaced 2,000 Year Old Ring From Second Temple Period Discovered In Jerusalem's City Of David On Pilgrim's Path To Temple Mount
In a statement released by the City of David, archaeologists Szanton, Moran Hajbi, Ari Levy, and Dr. Joe Uziel said, "Just like today, it would appear that in the past, rings and jewelry were removed before bathing, and sometimes forgotten. This phenomenon, perhaps, is behind the discovery of the ring in what appears to be a ritual bath." The ring is a very human reminder of the people who ascended the path prior to the temple's destruction, said the archaeologists.
by	Geoffrey Grider	December 25, 2018
Some 2,000 years ago, a Jewish penitent misplaced a bronze ring during his climb of a 2,000 foot-long pilgrims' thoroughfare leading to the Temple Mount. While the recently recovered ring is today heavily corroded, its central blue semi-precious stone still sparkles.
Fascinating archaeological discoveries from bible times are happening so rapidly now, we have devoted an entire section of our site to bringing them to your attention. We highly recommend you check it out. The Bible in both Testaments is a true and trustworthy Book, and I love it when God lets us uncover more evidence showing we can trust His Book wholeheartedly.
"For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter 1:21 (KJV)
What a contrast this is to books like the Book of Mormon where nothing from it has ever been discovered, and no location it uniquely mentions ever found. That's because the Bible from Genesis to Revelation was written by the Holy Spirit, and the Book of Mormon by the demon Moroni.
One of the great things about all these discoveries is that archaeology demonstrates for us proof-positive the unbreakable tie between Jerusalem, the nation of Israel and the Jewish people.
2,000-year-old ring discovered in Jerusalem's City of David
FROM TIMES OF ISRAEL: The ring was recently discovered at the City of David's Sifting Project in Emek HaTsurim, in a bucket of dirt excavated from a structure on the side of the broad 7.5-meter (24-feet) -wide road that is thought to have housed a ritual bath, or mikveh. According to City of David archaeologists, the worshiper likely lost the ring when fresh from ritual purification prior to his ascent to the Temple Mount.
For the past seven years at the City of David National Park in Jerusalem, archaeologists have been excavating a now-subterranean stairway that once served as a main artery to the Temple Mount, beginning at the intersection of the Kidron and Ben Hinnom Valleys.
"Every step on this street brought the pilgrims closer to the Temple," said City of David archaeologist Nahshon Szanton, in a recent video tour of the site. "Imagine to yourselves the joy, the songs, the prayers, the spiritual journey that these people experience when they know they are just meters away from reaching the gates of the Temple," he added, while climbing the monumental staircase.
The pilgrims' road, which ascends from the Pool of Siloam to the Jewish Temple, dates to no earlier than 30-31 CE, during the time of the notorious Roman governor Pontius Pilate. In the short video, Szanton emphasized that this was the period when Jesus was sentenced to death.
"It's incredible to think that this beautiful ring sat at the bottom of a mikveh on the ancient Pilgrimage Road for 2,000 years, until it was uncovered by archaeologists in the City of David. It is yet another piece in the puzzle that is ancient Jerusalem," said Doron Spielman, vice president of the City of David Foundation, an entity which oversees the national park. source
According to the City of David, the Herodian road was lined with shops and businesses to serve the thousands of pilgrims to Jerusalem on the major holidays.
The broad road is a monumental achievement: Szanton estimates that some 10 tons of quarried rock was used in its construction. The road was built above a complex drainage system, which rebels hid in 40 years after the Pilgrims' Path's construction as the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. READ MORE
Archaeological Remains from the Temple Mount
Check out the work taking place with the City of David Sifting Project, fascinating stuff.
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Serious long term condition will not stop Sheffield teenager from following her chosen career
A teenage cystic fibrosis is not letting her condition get in the way of her pursuing her dream career as a make-up artist.
By Rochelle Barrand
Thursday, 11 April, 2019, 13:51
Lucy Mountain, aged 17,goes to Sheffield Childrens Hospital for two weeks at a time, every ten weeks, for intensive treatment for cystic fibrosis. At the hospital, she juggles her hours of treatment with attending college to study hair and media make-up. She hopes to become a professional make-up artist.
Lucy Mountain, aged 17, goes to Sheffield Children's Hospital for two weeks at a time, every ten weeks, for intensive treatment.
At the hospital, she juggles her hours of treatment with attending college to study hair and media make-up.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disorder that causes a build-up of thick mucus in the lungs and the digestive system.
This can cause breathing problems and increases the risk of lung infections, whilst also clogging the pancreas making digestion difficult.
Lucy also has diabetes as well as her CF, so her trips to Sheffield Children's are important for her to keep on top of both conditions, receive IV antibiotics and oxygen when needed, and be closely monitored by specialist staff.
Lucy said: "Coming to Sheffield Children's is like a second home for me. I have been coming here for as long as I can remember.
"I can bring my own pillow, blanket, laptop and everything I need for college and get help with my physiotherapy and other treatment for my CF and diabetes.
"It's really important for me to come here because it keeps me on track to look after myself. It's difficult to keep up with the amount of physio, nebulisers and other care for CF, so the support from the hospital keeps me going."
Noreen West, Consultant CF Paediatrician at Sheffield Children's said: "Lucy is proof that you can have a lifelong condition and still study, follow your career aspirations and enjoy life to the full.
"Cystic fibrosis is a complex and time consuming condition. For many children with CF this can mean one to two hours a day to perform chest physiotherapy and take multiple nebulised drugs, as well taking over 50 tablets a day for someone of Lucy's age.
"Despite this they will often require prolonged admissions to hospital requiring two weeks on intravenous antibiotics for lung infections and assistance to clear their airways, as well as maximising their nutrition.
"Both the Sheffield Children's CF team and I feel privileged to look after children like Lucy from diagnosis soon after birth until they successfully move onto adult care.
"Having an environment which feels welcoming and comfortable, working with a great team who respect and know them well, helps to make children and young adults cope with a rigorous and intrusive regime."
Holly-Rae Smith, Youth Empowerment Officer at the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, said: "It's fantastic that Lucy is able to follow her passion with the support of her Cystic Fibrosis team at Sheffield Children's.
"Being a teenager is difficult for everyone but deciding what you want to do while managing a condition like cystic fibrosis can be particularly hard.
"At the Trust we run regular courses on topics like applying to university or starting work. These can help young people with the disease to develop their skills and help them achieve their goals."
Visit www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk and search for Building Brighter Futures if you'd like to find out more.
Sheffield Children's Hospital is one of just 13 cystic fibrosis specialist centres in the UK. Find out more about the service at www.sheffieldchildrens.nhs.uk/services/cystic-fibrosis.


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import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.app.DialogFragment;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.os.Bundle;

/**
 * @author darko.grozdanovski
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public class AlertDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

  private static final String KEY_MESSAGE = "key_message";
  public static final String TAG = AlertDialogFragment.class.getSimpleName();

  private DialogInterface.OnClickListener okListener;
  private DialogInterface.OnClickListener cancelListener;
  private int positiveButtonRes = android.R.string.ok;

  public void setOkListener(DialogInterface.OnClickListener okListener) {
    this.okListener = okListener;
  }

  public void setCancelListener(DialogInterface.OnClickListener cancelListener) {
    this.cancelListener = cancelListener;
  }

  public void setPositiveButtonRes(int positiveButtonRes) {
    this.positiveButtonRes = positiveButtonRes;
  }

  public static AlertDialogFragment newInstance(final Context context,
                                                final int resMessage) {
    return newInstance(context.getString(resMessage));
  }

  public static AlertDialogFragment newInstance(final String message,
                                                boolean cancelable) {
    AlertDialogFragment pd = newInstance(message);
    pd.setCancelable(cancelable);
    return pd;
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  public static AlertDialogFragment newInstance(final String message) {
    final AlertDialogFragment progressDialogFragment = new AlertDialogFragment();
    progressDialogFragment.setShowsDialog(true);
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    b.putString(KEY_MESSAGE, message);
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              public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int id) {
                if (okListener != null) {
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            }
        );
    if (cancelListener != null) {
      builder.setNegativeButton(android.R.string.cancel, cancelListener);
    }
    return builder.create();
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}

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We met with one of the doctors tonight, it was very informative. Takeaways are that I'm done (for the time being) with ECT, I'm supposed to go back in 3 weeks to check in on how I'm doing. I had 7 ECT treatments, the normal is 10-12 but sometimes they go up to 14. If I seem to dip back down in the next couple weeks they may schedule another treatment and re-evaluate. But for now I'm done with ECT. I will start taking another medication by the end of the week, I'm not used to having to take so many different medications. But all of them have their different purposes.
My mom says I should start journaling so I can have a record of my mood/symptoms. That's probably a good idea, but I'm terrible at keeping paper journals. Maybe I'll just keep track on here as well, at least for a little while to reference while I need to evaluate how my medications/treatments are working. Y'all could probably care less, but it'll be good to have for my own record.
Today's mood/symptoms: I'm a 7. Very forgetful. I had memory issues (normal side effect of ECT, though the doctor did say my memory loss is more severe than normal). I can't seem to think very hard - my mind goes kinda blank after too much effort. And sometimes when I try to remember things it's like that part of my brain just can't be accessed at all or is missing. I'm met with nothing and my brain shuts off - I can't keep thinking or trying to remember for very long. But overall my mood is good and lighter. I'm extremely less anxious than I'm accustomed to. Very tired today. I also had very strange dizzy/head warpy symptoms throughout the day, hard to describe.
Today I started on Wasatch loop intending to do 6 miles. I got 1.25 in and my IT band was tight and I was getting some knee pain. I stopped and tried to massage out my IT band, it helped me to run without too much pain for a little bit, then I decided to turn at 2 miles because I didn't think I could make it the full 6. Stopped a couple more times to massage again, it made it bearable to run. But now I'm nervous because I bruised my leg massaging it (go me) and my knee has sharp pain with different things. My foam roller is in Cedar so that blows. Idk what to do. Maybe I'll try to make a makeshift roller or something. Stinking IT band.
I talked a long time with my mom tonight and one of the things that she said that surprised me (I didn't know) was that I was diagnosed with mild depression in high school, but my running helped me manage it. I remember my dad asking me if I was depressed (a lot a lot) and me being a teenager that didn't want anything to be wrong with me I got mad at him a lot for asking and insisted that I wasn't. I guess I convinced myself I was fine, enough to block out the memory of being diagnosed with mild depression... cause I don't remember that lol.
Anyways, my mom said that with hormonal changes and stress from college (and other things) it probably pushed my depression over the edge and running no longer was enough to manage it. I was (self reported in hindsight) moderately depressed my freshman year, then left on my mission and two or three months in I was diagnosed with severe depression. A few months later I came home early because I could hardly get out of bed it was so bad. And now this, about 2 years later. I'm grateful to have finally found something that works. My mom says I'll likely have relapses back into depression, but that now I'll be able to better manage it with medication, a great therapist I already met with once in Cedar that I like, with running and, if it comes to it, more ECT treatments.
Next doctors appointment is in 3 weeks to get blood drawn and check for toxicity from my medications. I'll be monitored like this and have a doctors appointment once a month when I go back to Cedar to make sure things are still good.
Today's mood level was a 7 or 8. Only had that weird dizzy feeling twice today, as compared with 30+ yesterday. So hopefully I'll have none tomorrow? Memory did better today, but still struggled on a few things. I also still get surprised with how much lighter I feel. I felt like a zombie the last few months in Cedar, but now I'm back to my old self, being more chatty and joking and upbeat than I have been in I don't know how long.
I found a metal water bottle and used it as a makeshift roller and rolled out my IT band, which helped ease my knee pain. I'm probably going to have a bruise for a while, lol. Didn't feel too great to roll out but in the end it was worth it.
Started with Wasatch loop intending to do the shorter loop, but decided to go a slower pace to see if I could go farther like Sasha suggested :) I was surprised at how good I felt, going slow is so much nicer haha. Maybe for the next little bit I won't worry about pace and just run, then once I've built up enough of a base I can start bringing my pace down.
I decided to go the longer loop because I felt good enough. I was surprised that my knee/IT band didn't give me any issues, but I'm grateful for it :) it tired me out to go longer, but that's good. 8 miles, 7:58 average. I was surprised it was under 8:00 pace. Also it was snowing and it's April? What is this Utah weather?
I got a call from SUU saying my withdrawal has been completed and they asked, since I went to the hospital and my doctor has recommended I withdraw, if I wanted to emergency withdraw which will make it so it's as if I never enrolled in this semester and take all the W's off my transcript. I was confused why they didn't know that was what I wanted in the first place, but I'm glad it's all going to work out. Now I just have to do a bunch of paperwork to get it processed and have it finalized.
I was exhausted today. I wanted to cut it short at 4, but I forced myself to go farther. I did VA loop and dropped to the cemetery. When I got home, I didn't have the willpower to finish to 6. I know I was just a quarter mile short, but I was so tired. 8:00 average.
My mood's a 7 today.
I did Wasatch loop but cut it a little short. 7:48 average. I was really tired. I also still feel a need to watch my pace, but I should probably let that go for the time being and just focus on miles. But I'm really tired. I prefer this sleepy tired to the depressed tired, though.
My mood's a 6. I'm not sure if being super tired is from not getting enough sleep or if it's from my medications. I think it's the latter, but we'll see if it continues. 7 hours of sleep is still decent, right? The doctor put me back on Lithium last week and upped the dose from what Dixie had put me on. He said that the dose I was prescribed at Dixie was the smallest dose you could get and would have done hardly anything to help. He said Lithium can cause fatigue so I should watch out for that and we'd re-evaluate at our next appointment. If my tiredness doesn't go away, it's probably the Lithium and I'll tell my doctor when we next meet.
Ran to Sugarhouse, a couple laps around then back home. 8:09 average, felt really slow but I was exhausted. It's gotta be my medication because I shouldn't be this tired. I went to bed at 7 last night intending to just take an hour long nap because I was really, really tired and Olivia had invited me over for a movie night at 8, but I accidentally slept until 10:30. Then I felt really, really bad (I slept through the alarm I'd set!), but it's ok we're going to do something today. Anyways, then I had a bowl of cereal because I hadn't had dinner (lol) and went back to bed. Didn't fall asleep until around midnight but slept until 10am and only woke up because my sister Hattie came and woke me up because she wanted me to try the crepes she made. Haha I love her. Anyways, I'm still really tired and want to take a nap but I probably shouldn't.
Mood's a 6 or 7.


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Q: When to use element.style selector in css?
The following list of selector types is by increasing specificity:

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*Universal selectors (i.e., *).

*Type selectors (e.g., h1) and pseudo-elements (e.g., :before).

*Class selectors (e.g., .example), attributes selectors (e.g., >>[type="radio"]) and pseudo-classes (e.g., :hover).

*ID selectors (e.g., #example).

In addition to above selectors, there is a default selector called,

When do we prefer using this selector?
How the CSS specificity rule applies to this selector?

A: Here's the specificity value
Selector                          Specificity         Specificity in large base
inline-style                      1 0 0 0             1000
id selector                       0 1 0 0              100
class,pseudo,attribute selector   0 0 1 0               10
type selector and pseudo elements 0 0 0 1                1

Copied from this answer but this question is specifically for specificity so answered here.


Prepared by MSCI in association with BNP Paribas Real Estate, the report has now reached its 19th year.
The rent-weighted lease length declined by half a year during the first six months of 2017 – the largest decline since 2009.
As at 2016, only about a third of leases were renewed by tenants at expiry.
The proportion of leases with a break clause continued to rise, reaching its highest level in the series' sixteen year history at 40.3%.