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START-UP WISE GUYS
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 20, 2018
WHAT I LEARNED FROM STAN LEE.
AND OTHER UPSTART BRANDING LESSONS
FROM STEVE JOBS AND THE WACHOWSKI SIBLINGS.
Isn't it so that, in any journey forward, you go back,
to find the points where your heart first opened?
And in any journey to know, you must go—
out there, find those that do and spend time with them.
The insights return as a patterning—one inspirational moment leads to another, and yet another, and another: they thread as a garland, where the discoveries appear like recognizably aligned flowers.
We all mourn the passage of Mr. Lee—a persistent lightning strike of invention, starting up dozens of astonishing characters, stories and enlivening perspectives on the hero's journey, the maks of 1000 faces found.
When I think about my learning history: the most powerful moments of sparked discovery, it lies invariably in the momentum of encounters with marvelous people—it's in the live, one-on-one moments of listening, learning and the leaning-in of a hello that can be profoundly life-changing. Most of my education, from New College, to the Evergreen State College, to hanging out as a refugee of learning inside Cooper Union's august halls, meeting correspondences at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, to the profundity of the brilliant crowds at Reed College—I'd find a person, and pursue a direction as in a learning compass, to find my way there.
My opening encounters with Lee's legacy comes from a strategic summit at Paramount Studios, the beginnings of a partnering cross-over between Paramount Studios and the newly-formed Marvel premise of action films, founded on this opening collaborative:
When there is a lesson to be learned, listening makes for
the best course of cumulative action.
Learn and listen, listen and learn.
Watch how it grows.
In my history, it's the leaning-in to experiences on the trail of wisdom and great brand strategies that has taught me the most. And to lean-in is to list, as in — tilting-in to hear better the teaching conversations in play. In our experience, we've had the chance to play into the best of the best in brand development.
Stan Lee?
What this listening comes down to is a transitioning start-up brand strategy of the first bridging of the founding of a cinematic entry of Stan Lee's Marvel Studios and the producing partnership at Paramount. I was tasked by Nancy Goliger, then EVP Theatrical Marketing, on the Lot at Paramount Studios, to enable that bridging—old brands, new brands, new consortium of talent, ideas, history-in-the-making. A GIRVIN, Inc and Paramount theatrical marketing team cooperative,
to support that bridgework—
ever collaborative, that journey.
And what's the kickoff benchmark?
Stan Lee's "Iron Man" ignition—
the first spark to that powder keg of Marvel Studios offerings.
Talking to Stan, it "was a basic hero's journey—and heroes are never perfect."
To support that branding, we go back—
to come forward.
We look to where the concept of the start-up was—its foundational inspirations, and look into the glassy crystal of the future to see where that could be.
Key learnings and listening—in the evocation, the voicing of stories, as a draft, as a finalized reckoning—what you hear is what you are, how you listen shall make you what you be?
That comes to:
— Grasp what you stand for,
where you have come from —
and in building your brand, coming forward —
never forget your points of origination. Or in the words of one sage colleague at an AA meeting, "you can look back, but don't stare."
"There is always the story of where you are, and what you aspire to be, now, in igniting the future—but, as well, there is the story of where you were, and what distances you have come to get to the present state of your telling."
"Any journey will be rough, there will be tumbles and trials, rejuvenations and rejoicing.
Nothing is, nor shall be, perfect—nor you, for that matter."
"Show your story freely to your world."
Polished and unpolished.
Start-Up Circulation — getting the message out.
Final observations on the nature of promulgating the power of your brand? Utilize the core power of storytelling, brand reflectivity [what shines, and what shines back?] and community-sharing to ignite boost your brand's start-up engines in Social environments. Energize socialization in the hybridity of context, experiment and tool-building.
Get Social — first up:
The adage goes, "Content is king." but too many brands adhere too closely to this proposition, forgetting to infuse their brand with voice and personality — and to look towards platforms of storytelling that boost emotionality. Focusing too much on "this is us, here's our product" content is tantamount to interrupting people at parties to yell, "Look what I can do!" before performing a trick and disappearing into the woodwork. No matter how impressive your trick, people are going to get sick of it. Instead engage people in conversation—be on, be available. Build rapport with your audience and they'll be looking for you at the party, and not just to see your trick.
Content should look good
but not too good.
Polished content is going to look like an advertisement and on platforms inundated with "Look what I can do!" brand yells are likely to be lost in the shuffle. Instead shoot and write social posts to portray, as what we recommend: professionally amateur. Content that looks fundamentally attractive, like someone competent made it, but not so good that it looks like another commercial. Contemplate activity: the how and why people use social channels: it's a constant and quick scroll until something catches their eye. A post that doesn't look perfect is actually more likely to be visually compelling than a polished and branded image that would be more at home in an airplane terminal or subway platform. Push for the halfway mark, quick, well-executed, authentically team-built.
You're up against? Your competition isn't who you might think it is. If you make cashmere wool jackets your competition isn't necessarily other companies that make cashmere wool jackets, at least it's not just those companies. You are competing for attention with every man, woman, and child that posts content on social media. That's a lot of people! You can either post a ton of content. More content than seems reasonable. Or you can be respectful of your audience, post content with a goal, a real actionable objective, and people will respond more positively. There's a huge difference between, "Buy our Cashmere Wool jackets!" and "Check out our new line of cool Cashmere Wool jackets!" People appreciate brands that respect their time and they will treat you accordingly.
Steve Jobs and Apple Attitude
Early in my career, I met and worked with Steve Jobs—this, a Reed College crossover.
He said, "Can you come down to Cupertino to see what we're working on?"
And I went down to learn about the Mac. And to experiment with it—the hardware, with him watching near by. From there, I went on to packaging, merchandising, store and web work, then kiosk, college sales systems, 4 years of designing the WWDeveloper's conferences for Apple—then with Steve, onwards to NeXT Computers.
What I learned, in start-up Apple strategy, are the following:
—The longest shadow comes from the top;
Steve set the stage for everything. Leadership means that you're literally "in front," your leadership has to be out there, in front of everything. And in that premise of prowess, the leading edge, the very persona, drive and attitude of leadership set the attitudinal stage for the ring of fire. The character of a brand, start-up especially, has to be clear and top of mind for anyone that works there. It's the drive to being, it's what the brand is—what it stands for, its story of making, the invented innovation that their making defines in well-filled needs— they all come from there.
—Make your promise true, your premise proud.
If your positioning sets a premise, the leadership needs to drive to the promise — the emotional gifting of the offer. It's not just a transaction, it's an emotional reach-back by the brand. As a start up, defining these mechanisms and clarifying that all on the team get it are paramount conclusions.
—Be different.
— A Jobsian proposition [and presentation was the unique spin that made the core product offerings of Apple a new reason for being, working in, presuming personal creativity—it was an invitation. Think about your start-up as having a unique proposition: your distinctivity, that is about the foundation of "think different." That discernment could be that you're offering something that is an unknown and desirable need—it suggests a new state of creative beingness; it says something about your brand, your team, your attitude — and ultimately, the altitude of your reach.
The Wachowski Siblings
This is a different premise of a start-up, that is, a movie [like my opening gesture with Stan Lee's Tony Stark telling,] which—in the beginning and the end—can affect the lives of millions of people; innovatively realized cinematic stories can transmigrate entire worlds of thinking, communities, memes that are created, new ways of visualizing the realm of—in this instance—the spectacular and the fantastical.
And like a brand, and an enterprise, they can employ literally 10s of 1000s of people and render millions of dollars into the start-up investment team's fund rosters.
Build a story thread — what is the core principle?
My start-up story in connection with the Wachowski's comes through the indices of Joel Silver—I'd pitched him on customized identity. He remembered that and asked that I come to Silver Pictures, the next day—to talk about working on a film—with these two dudes, writers, directors and producers on "Bound."
So too, the Wachowski brothers "let's talk"—who, at that point, spoke excitedly about the premise and structure of their story, and the storyboarded worlds they had art-directed and commissioned, then built—a split-coded world. And this cosmological meditation comes to world-view: "what you know, and what lies behind it, defining everything that you see on this side of things," the one—this side, your personal reality as you know your world, and the other side of "The Matrix"—which can be entered and exited like the spark of a transmission.
So—the start-up: defining the principle driver, the core story,
the threading is one element of a start-up postulate.
The other?
Building the BrandCode®
We refer to the visual and messaging code of any brand as the BrandCode®—it's the genetic detailing of your elemental materiality, it's the how and the who of what you are. Leaders and C-team members need to define it, and every member needs to know what it is, means and stands for. A disciplined code could be a patterning, it could be colors, texturing, materiality, it could be a way of speaking—it's the language of, in this instance, The Matrix—and how it looks and feels—the colorations, the voicing, the set styling, the effects work, and how the imaginative telling spools out.
And—as a start-up layering of wisdom learned, starting pre-film, storyboarded, with those two people, the Wachowskis—it does come to how the package of the brand is managed conceptually in the opening, and how it is framed out as a layering of experiential moments, that tally larger impressions and seep into the recesses of memories, mired in complex spectacle. All designed.
What's my start-up story?
Founded my brand in 1976—a string of start-ups: Alphabet, Alphabetica, Elements, Tim Girvin,Inc., and finally—GIRVIN, Inc. and GIRVIN | Strategic Branding. Consistently running—four decades + since those opening days of sign writing, retail decoration and interior merchandising, interior design, building skins and signage and detailing and pin-striping boats, motorcycles and tattooing people. But the play then and the play now is the hand.
Handmade brands is my history, it's my passage, my presence, my futurism.
But that start-up legacy speaks more wholly to curiosity.
How are you going to get somewhere different, if you only know the same?
Back then and in the music of another present era—nowness, too, it's about connecting with people, relationships, friends, clients, prospects and propositions of collaboration as a live-in event—get real, get in, get personal.
Know more.
Go more.
Get out there and get in—
that's my brandcode.®
In that journey of curiosity, small and large: that has lent strategic explorations and expeditionary journeys towards tiny brands, delicately messaged and visualized solutions—like Christi Meshell's Matriarch to giant Lauder's Spellbound; it has been small retail design and packaging to retail retold in a mega-success telling of Nordstrom; it has cycled from experimental film-making efforts as in Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, to star field partnering—personally with Clint Eastwood—in the branding of Oscar® winner's circle, Unforgiven.
I started as one, grew to 90, and continued to morph—moved now to a smaller team—boutique-scaled. We are in Seattle—the Waterfront, supported in NYC—upperWest,
marketed in San Francisco,
and an collaborative design office alliance in Roppongi, Tokyo.
Still, we get around.
HUMAN BRAND DEVELOPMENT | Brands are made by people for people:
https://www.girvin.com/subsites/humanbrands/
Brands, Cool People, Designers, Human brands, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Nov 14, 2018
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Крокусово поле (Крокийская равнина, Крокионская равнина, ,  от  — кро́кус, шафран) — в античной географии плодородная аллювиальная равнина в ахейской Фтиотиде, в юго-восточной Фессалии, на северо-западном и западном побережье залива Пагаситикос Эгейского моря, ныне — равнина Алмироса. По Страбону по Крокусову полю протекала река Амфрис, у которой некоторое время пас быков царя Адмета бог Аполлон.

Название происходит от  — крокус, шафран.

С юга Крокусово поле ограничено горой Отрис. У северного подножия отрога, выступающем от северной вершины Айос-Илиас () горы Отрис, — обильный, солоноватый источник Кефалосис (), который протекает через стены Алоса эллинистического периода и может быть древней рекой Амфрис, о которой писал Страбон.

На холме «Кастро» () в 1,5 километрах к северу от села Микротиве, на месте акрополя Фив Фтиотидских обнаружено поселение среднего неолита.

Область Алоса упоминается Гомером в Каталоге кораблей в «Илиаде», как давшая ополчение на Троянскую войну под предводительством Ахилла. Поблизости от Алоса находилась Фтия, родина Ахилла и резиденция его отца Пелея. Царство Протесилая включало города , Пирас, Фивы Фтиотидские, Итон и . На Крокусовом поле поклонялись Деметре и Персефоне.

По Страбону город Алос (Гал) основал Афамант. Южная часть Крокусова поля называлась Афамантийской долиной (Афамантовым полем, , ) или Афамантией (). С Афамантийской долиной связан миф об аргонавтах. Дети Афаманта, Фрикс и Гелла, изображённые на бронзовых монетах города Алос, летели через земли и моря на златорунном баране на Понт (Чёрное море), чтобы спастись от Ино. На берегу Амфриса , дочь Мирмидона родила Эфалида, герольда аргонавтов.

Крокусово поле расположено на стратегически важной позиции близ Фермопил, на пути в Среднюю Грецию и Фессалию. В V веке до н. э. Алос был одним из важнейших портов Фессалии. В IV веке до н. э. Фивы Фтиотидские представляли собой важнейший и богатейший торговый город Фессалии с хорошей гаванью. Богатство Фив происходило от культивирования плодородной равнины Алмироса, но основной доход приносила гавань — древний Пирас. Впоследствии он потерял часть своего значения вследствие конкуренции Деметриады.

Решительная победа над фокидянами на Крокусовом поле в ходе Третьей Священной войны летом 353 года до н. э., в которой погиб Ономарх, подчинила влиянию царя Филиппа II Фессалию. Ряд исследователей, начиная с немецкого историка Карла Юлиуса Белоха датируют битву 352 годом до н. э.

Равнина Алмироса

Административно равнина Алмироса относится к общинам Алмирос и Волос в периферийной единице Магнисия в периферии Фессалия. Равнину пересекает с юга на север Автострада 1 Пирей — Афины — Салоники — Эвзони, с востока на запад проходит  Волос — Кардица. На равнине находится .

Город Алмирос является важным сельскохозяйственным и торговым центром Магнисии, развивается туризм. На плодородной равнине Алмироса выращивают зерновые культуры, овощи, хлопок, кукурузу, оливки, миндаль и виноград. На побережье находятся пляжи. Близ Алмироса находится смешанный дубовый лес  площадью 120 гектаров, который на основе Земельного декрета 996/1971 получил статус  (). Небольшая часть леса используется как зона отдыха для горожан. 99,86 гектаров входит в сеть природоохранных зон «Натура 2000». Средний возраст деревьев 160 лет. Лес состоит из дубов видов: пушистый, черешчатый и , встречается боярышник однопестичный.

Беженцы из Малой Азии после Малоазийской катастрофы и греко-турецкого обмена населением селились на равнине Алмироса и развивали виноградарство. Основная масса виноградников растёт в области малого города Неа-Анхиалос и сел Микротиве, Айдинион () и . Работают четыре винодельческих предприятия, три из которых производят вино «Анхиалос». Аппелласьон «Анхиалос» () зарегистрирован в 1971 году и отличается низкой холмистостью. Производится марочное белое сухое вино, приготавливаемое из смеси сортов Саватьяно и Родитис, которое относится к винам  — «наименования происхождения высшего качества», занимающим верхнюю ступени «пирамиды» греческой системы контроля качества. Вина  по Регламенту Совета Европейского союза № 479/2008 от 29.04.2008 г. «Об организации общего рынка вина» относятся к винам  — винам «защищённого наименования места происхождения», соответствующим винам  — марочное вино, произведённое в определённом регионе во французской схеме контроля подлинности происхождения (AOC).

См. также
 Виноделие в Греции
 Фессалийская равнина

Примечания

Фтиотида
Равнины Греции
Магнисия

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Q: Build API with redis and hapi I am trying to send the results of a get from redis via hapi, but i just keep getting a 500. How can I send the result from the redis get to the client. Code and error below.
Error
Debug: internal, implementation, error
Error: handler method did not return a value, a promise, or throw an error
{
    statusCode: 500,
    error: "Internal Server Error",
    message: "An internal server error occurred"
}

Code
'use strict';
const Hapi = require('@hapi/hapi');
const redis = require("redis");
const client = redis.createClient();

client.on("error", function (error) {
  console.error(error);
});

const init = async () => {

  const server = Hapi.server({
    port: 3001,
    host: 'localhost'
  });

  server.route({
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/api/v1/key/{id}',
    handler: (request, h) => {
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        if (err) {
          h.response(err)
        } else {
          h.response(res)
        }
      });
    }
  });

  await server.start();
  console.log('Server running on %s', server.info.uri);
};

process.on('unhandledRejection', (err) => {

  console.log(err);
  process.exit(1);
});

init();

A: I figured it out. You can convert the redis module to a promise and return values from there.
'use strict';
const Hapi = require('@hapi/hapi');
const redis = require('redis');
const client = redis.createClient();
const { promisify } = require("util");
const getAsync = promisify(client.get).bind(client);
const setAsync = promisify(client.set).bind(client);

client.on("error", function (error) {
    console.error(error);
});

const init = async () => {

    const server = Hapi.server({
        port: 5000,
        host: 'localhost'
    });

    server.route({
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/api/v1/key/{id}',
        handler: (req, h) => {
            return getAsync(req.params.id).then(res => {
                console.log(res)
                return res
            }).catch(err => {
                console.error(err)
                return err
            });
        }

    })

    server.route({
        method: 'post',
        path: '/api/v1/key',
        handler: (req, h) => {
            return setAsync(req.payload.hash, req.payload.key).then(res => {
                console.log(res)
                return res
            }).catch(err => {
                console.error(err)
                return err
            })
        }

    })

    await server.start();
    console.log('Server running on %s', server.info.uri);
};

process.on('unhandledRejection', (err) => {

    console.log(err);
    process.exit(1);
});

init();

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We received a tip that the half-hearted attempt to inextricably link feminism and anti-semitism, originated on 4chan earlier today, and they've mainly been using #FeminismAgainstJews, although some have been using the #YesAllWomen tag as well. It's almost entertaining.
While the point was to hijack both feminist discourse and the Israel-Palestine conflict (double whammy!) to instigate another misguided social media flame war, right now it's really just a bunch of bros pretending to be ignorant and ragey women. It's essentially an exercise in drag performance, which they should probably just leave to the professionals.
For those of you who are curious, yes, it is a slow news day.
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Hesam Dashti
Instructor In Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Instructor in Medicine in Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Research interest(s):
Cheminformatics
Recent Papers:
Dashti, H., Westler, W.M., Wedell, J.R. et al. "Probabilistic identification of saccharide moieties in biomolecules and their protein complexes." Sci Data 7, 210 (2020).
Sels, D., Dashti, H., Mora, S. et al. Quantum approximate Bayesian computation for NMR model inference. Nat Mach Intell 2, 396–402 (2020).
Hall, Kathryn T., et al. "Historical Controls in Randomized Clinical Trials: Opportunities and Challenges." Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2020).
Dashti, Hesam, et al. "Abstract P280: revisiting CVD risk prediction using machine learning approaches: a case study." Circulation 141.Suppl_1 (2020): AP280-AP280.
Dashti, Hesam, et al. "SARS2 simplified scores to estimate risk of hospitalization and death among patients with COVID-19." medRxiv (2020).
Dashti, Hesamaddin Torabi, et al. "Clinical Characteristics and Severity of COVID-19 Disease in Patients from Boston Area Hospitals." medRxiv (2020).
Demler, Olga, Yanyan Liu, Jeramie Watrous, Heike Gibson, Kim Lagerborg, Hesam Dashti, Mallory Heath et al. "Effects of Marine Omega-3 Supplementation on Fatty Acids and Bioactive Lipids and Associations With Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Secondary Analysis From the Randomized Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL)." Circulation 140, no. Suppl_1 (2019): A13189-A13189.
Markley, John L., Hesam Dashti, Jonathan R. Wedell, William M. Westler, Eldon L. Ulrich, and Hamid R. Eghbalnia. "Approach to Improving the Quality of Open Data in the Universe of Small Molecules." In International Conference on Business Information Systems, pp. 519-530. Springer, Cham, 2019.
Lee, Woonghee, Arash Bahrami, Hesam T. Dashti, Hamid R. Eghbalnia, Marco Tonelli, William M. Westler, and John L. Markley. "I-PINE web server: an integrative probabilistic NMR assignment system for proteins." Journal of biomolecular NMR 73, no. 5 (2019): 213-222.
Dashti, Hesam, Jonathan R. Wedell, William M. Westler, John L. Markley, and Hamid R. Eghbalnia. "Automated evaluation of consistency within the PubChem Compound database." Scientific data 6 (2019): 190023.
Ulrich, Eldon L., Kumaran Baskaran, Hesam Dashti, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Livny, Pedro R. Romero, Dimitri Maziuk et al. "NMR-STAR: comprehensive ontology for representing, archiving and exchanging data from nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic experiments." Journal of biomolecular NMR 73, no. 1-2 (2019): 5-9.
Markley, John L., Hesam Dashti, Jonathan R. Wedell, William M. Westler, and Hamid R. Eghbalnia. "Tools for Enhanced NMR-Based Metabolomics Analysis." In NMR-Based Metabolomics, pp. 413-427. Humana, New York, NY, 2019.

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Enjoy my interesting and entertaining short stories, poems and personal thoughts. Like a woman that has orgasmed for the first time, you will long for more. Welcome to the inner workings of my mind.
Life was a whole lot easier as a kid. No worries, playing around all day with your friends. No strife or hate, no need to worry about tomorrow because you were certain dad and mom would provide everything you needed. One didn't understand certain things and even though you were curious, they never really bothered you. Crying was only necessary when you were beaten by an older person or deprived of something you wanted at the time but even in the midst of that crying, it was easy to make you laugh and forget.
it. You just forgave, you laughed cause you wanted to and felt like it not because you had to.
The Harsh realities of life hit you square in the face and you realize life is not all that simple. You unknowingly pick up habits that either make or mar you later in life. You grow older, you make friends, create and recreate your identity, rebel against your parents mainly because you believe they don't understand you, do not love you enough and because you believe you can make it on your own. Hence, you find and forge your own path but you realize that in no time at all, you are all grown up and you can no longer depend on mom and dad for basic necessities. That's when the hustle begins!
You realize your parents are GOLD because in actuality, it is not easy to survive in the real world, you realize you have been ungrateful for the sacrifices they made and that in as much as they may have sometimes seemed to be the devils sent to hunt you down, their actions stemmed from a kind of love that cannot be bought. It was born out of fear for your future so that you would turn out right.
You get to understand that they are but humans and make mistakes.
So, you forgive, you begin to appreciate them and your love, respect and admiration for them is rekindled and grows to a whole new level. You go back to them for love, advice and to show them that you are thankful for their care and love by caring for them in return. You no longer resent their concerns because you know they want the best for you and when they do not understand your decision but still let you make your mistakes because you are your own person now, you do not argue but empathize.
Truth is, many do not understand this until they eventually have their own children and find themselves making the same mistakes their parents made.
What am I saying in essence? It is this; Life is indeed a vicious cycle. It's better to learn from precepts so as not to make the same mistakes our parents made with us, with our kids. It is inevitable, We will make mistakes but then, let us not be too proud to take corrections when we have erred our children, let us apologize to them when we do them wrong because we will be their number one example on behavior, character and judgment. Our actions will affect their psyche and their perception of adulthood. We should not be Omniknowests with them neither should we be ashamed to learn and try to understand their perspectives.
Our generation can be better parents. Nobody is perfect, we can only hope and work towards being better than our predecessors.
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How do I summarize your being in two lines Gogzy?
Classy diva with a sense of humor and brains for ages sounds just about right.
I'm more than glad I got to meet an amazing person like you in my lifetime.
Saying goodbye is difficult but I know I will see you again Gogzy.
One may stop to wonder at this topic and become naturally prejudiced even before you start reading this article, some may not even stop to read the first line once they have read the heading while others(a select few that are open minded) will be piqued with interest and read on to know what this article has to offer. Whatever category you belong to. I urge you to read on.
The world is constantly changing Things happen and change faster than you can blink One moment, a person is here. The next, he is in Valhalla You can be wealthy today but one decision can catapult you to poverty.
I am a complicated person who likes simple things. I am an open book that is difficult to read.


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A mother will always be a mother — especially Mother Mary
The wedding feast at Cana, created by George Walsh and depicted in stained glass at the Church of the Most Holy Rosary, Tullow, County Carlow, Ireland (Wikimedia Commons/Andreas F. Borchert)
by Nancy Watenga
God spoke through the prophet Isaiah to assure the Israelites of his faithful love for them, using the analogy of a mother, because a mother's love for her child is quite unconditional. For example, Isaiah 49:15-16 and 66:13 — probably the best example of a true love that humans are aware of.
A child starts bonding with the mother for its first nine months in the womb, followed by the infancy stage, all through the adolescence until they are 18 years old. In many countries, that is when one is legally able to live independently from the mother. For all this period, the child learns steadily from her first teacher — the mother, then the father, her siblings and the community. At 18 years, the child leaves the mother.
It is of paramount importance for both government and society to ensure that mothers are of sound mind, character and literacy, for it is upon them that the society depends in raising the future generations, at the very crucial time when the child is grasping and learning so much.
During the child's school life, many mothers participate actively in the children's academic and other school meetings. This leads to both mothers and the children growing together; the mother learns more about the child than the father — who may rarely attend these meetings, if at all.
As the youth becomes an adult, many may find the mother more approachable — for example, to reveal the fiancée — and the mother then talks to the father, the authority in the family.
My own home community is a patriarchal one but surprisingly, many grown men opt to adopt their mother's name as a family name such as "John Mwangi Wanjru" or "Wa Mugure."
From what I have been able to gather from my close friends, what prompts these men to change what is culturally embraced is the active involvement of mothers in their lives. They cite her standing with the children, especially in difficulties, as one major reason. They say even when the dad dies while the children are still young, the mother will sacrifice her own life and relationships in order to care effectively for their children.
This is a love like no other. Only the Son of God was able to leave his glory in heaven for the sake of our redemption. He did that for us; similarly, mothers "die" for their children to some extent.
When Jesus was completing his mission here on earth, he saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved, and said to his mother: "Woman, behold your son." Then he said to his disciple, "Behold your mother" (John 19:26-27). In my personal interpretation, I imagine that our Lord understood very well the role played by a mother, so he ensured that the disciple he loved took care of his own mother, and that she took care of the disciple that he loved.
In all my studies about Mother Mary, my favorite story is the one where Jesus changes water into wine. It has always baffled me that although it was not yet time for Jesus to carry out his ministry, yet through the intercession of his own mother he acted against the eternal plans. Wao! Quite amazing — indeed thrilling!
I first came across this verse in 1982 as a second-year high school student. It was part of the Christian religious education class. Since then, I have had the habit of going to the Son through the Mother, especially at any dire point of need.
For example, in 1986 as I was preparing to join religious life, I shared this desire with my mother — and to say the least — she was not amused. Rather, she exclaimed, "Do you mean you will not give birth and name them after me?"
Sr. Nancy Watenga on her pilgrimage to the Holy Land, at the Church of the Visitation (Courtesy of Nancy Watenga)
I still can't explain my answer, but I told her that I would give birth to so many children that she would have no time for rest as she cares for them — meaning my spiritual children as a Catholic sister.
I never talked about the subject again but I resorted to prayer: Three Hail Marys in front of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima in our parish every day after morning Mass.
After a month, my mother called me and declared; "I surrender, even if the whole six of you want to be sisters, now go with my blessings!" The rest is history. God makes a way where there is no way.
In my bucket list, one of the items had always been a visit to Israel to see for myself where the "gentleman" that "captured" me came from! Recently in 2019, it came to pass, but not without a lesson!
Everything was set and ready, but on the actual traveling day I confused the time. While my colleagues were being screened at the airport, I was still at home thinking the hour was yet to come. The shocking phone call came from the organizing priest, and I could only sit on the bed to contemplate the next right move.
There were three things that were urgent: first the driver to take me to the airport about 25 kilometers away, then the documents and my travel money. I was to pick up the driver about a kilometer away. So when I got in the car — I have a statue of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception on the dashboard — I remember praying and asked her to turn my water into wine.
In a nutshell, I arrived at the airport just after the plane landed. He delayed the plane through the intercession of his Mother. I think I observed a first-class miracle. The journey continued and we had a fruitful, memorable trip!
The third encounter was last year. To give myself a cushion in the aftermath of COVID-19, I looked for a job running a primary school — which may not be as demanding as a secondary school or college — to allow me to re-strategize my work on my bucket list. The lady that owned the school died of COVID-19 in November 2020. As usual, people talked of all sorts of things. For instance, I heard people said that the school collapsed with the death of the lady, who was the real visionary! This traumatized both the chairman and the director, the father and the son respectively.
I prayed through Mother Mary that she may restore the glory of the institution. She did! The school got the highest mean score ever in its history, with all the 31 learners going to national schools in the country. Everybody glorified God and to date many are still witnessing that it was actually God's doing.
In conclusion, a mother will always be a mother!
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In the late 1980s CSIRO scientists achieved what international experts had believed was impossible – the development of a successful classification system for the largest and most complex group of plant viruses, the Potyviridae. Where previous criteria had failed the CSIRO team showed that coat protein and gene sequence data could be used to classify potyviruses into genera, species and strains, a proposal accepted by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses in 1993.
Their findings on the structure of potyvirus particles explained the long-standing problems in potyvirus serology, led to the generation of virus-resistant plants expressing mouse monoclonal antibodies as well as the development of a novel application in vaccine technology using potyvirus particles as antigen carriers. These particles were highly immunogenic and did not require the use of adjuvants.
The potato virus Y family (potyviruses) is the largest and most complex of the plant virus families, comprising approximately 25% of all known plant viruses. It is estimated to collectively account for more losses to the world's crop plants than all of the combined effects of all of the other plant virus families. It contains around 200 distinct virus species which in turn account for thousands of strains which collectively cause serious diseases in major agricultural, pasture, horticultural and ornamental crops of commercial significance world-wide as well as in Australia. Potyviruses are currently reported to infect over 2 026 different plant species from 556 genera of 81 different plant families.
In the 1960s, when only a few potyviruses were known, it was relatively easy to establish whether a new isolate causing disease was a distinct virus species or a related strain of a previously known species. However, by the 1980s as more and more potyviruses were discovered with overlapping host ranges and common symptoms, the problem became very difficult. None of the approaches successfully applied to other viruses, such as serology and biological properties, were capable of giving consistent results with the potyvirus family.
In response to the review the emphasis of the project changed. In the period from 1980 to 1993, Dharma Shukla, Colin Ward and their colleagues conducted a major study on the composition and structure of potyvirus particles. Using protein chemical and gene sequencing studies they determined the complete amino acid sequence (or nucleotide sequence) of the coat protein of 16 strains of eight distinct potyvirus species and the partial coat protein sequences of 102 strains of a further nineteen distinct potyvirus species.
This data showed conclusively that the coat protein and gene sequences could be used to distinguish virus species from strains and to establish evolutionary relationships between sets of distinct potyviruses. Comparisons of coat protein amino acid sequences showed that virus strains were much more closely related than distinct virus species. These findings were not consistent with the 'continuum' hypothesis proposed to explain the unsatisfactory taxonomy of potyviruses at this time. Their observed bimodal distribution of sequence identity frequencies showed a clear demarcation between potyvirus species and strains.
the numerous strains assigned to either sugarcane mosaic virus or maize dwarf virus belong to four distinct virus species – sugarcane mosaic virus, maize dwarf mosaic virus, sorghum mosaic virus and Johnsongrass mosaic virus.
The CSIRO team suggested that the aphid- and non-aphid-transmitted potyviruses should be placed into a single family – the Potyviridae – not two distinct families as proposed by others. Further, they suggested that this single family should be divided into genera, species and strains based on their relative sequence identities. Their proposal was approved by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) at its meeting in Glasgow in August 1993. This concept has now been universally accepted by workers and has led to the development of simpler methodologies for rapid virus identification.
The potyviruses are perhaps the largest of the three largest and most economically important groups of plant viruses – they cause vast amounts of crop damage in all parts of the world, and they are widespread too in wild plants. Despite considerable numbers of studies worldwide in the 1930-80s, they had proved refractory to the traditional methods of characterisation (e.g. serological comparisons of virion proteins, host range studies, etc), and so many had concluded that there might be no clear potyvirus species, just 'mutant clines'.
Ward and Shukla and their group boldly showed that molecular studies could provide unequivocal evidence that there are discrete potyvirus species that can be clearly defined by gene sequence analysis, and they also revealed the molecular basis of the earlier confusion.
Their work was reported to the world in a large series of very well written landmark publications. These studies are now classics and had a great influence on others. Firstly they opened up the study of potyviruses, so that they are now arguably the best studied group of plant viruses. Secondly the results of their studies, together with those of the very few other groups leading the world in the late 80s-early 90s, made others realise the crucial value of gene sequence comparisons as a basis of almost all modern biological studies, whatever their aim. 'The rest', they say, 'is history'.
The team's findings on the structure of the potyvirus particle and the observation that the highly variable N-terminal region of the potyvirus coat protein was exposed on the surface of the virus particle and was immunodominant explained the molecular basis of the long-standing problems of potyvirus serology. The inconsistent and contradictory serological relationships that dogged the field in the past were shown to be due to variable proportions of antibodies targeted to the conserved core region of the coat protein.
These studies on potyvirus serology and particle assembly led to the development of transgenic virus resistant plants which express broadly cross-reactive monoclonal antibodies directed at the conserved coat protein core. This research was done in collaboration with Thomas Joseph Higgins and Paul Chu at CSIRO Plant Industry.
The studies on particle assembly and serology also led to a novel application in the field of vaccine technology where the potyvirus coat protein is used as a self-polymerising core scaffold. Fusion proteins with the antigen of choice at the N-terminus were shown to form virus-like particles displaying the foreign antigen on the surface of the particle and to generate strong immune responses in the absence of adjuvant. These virus-like particles carrying vaccine antigens could be produced readily by bacteria, yeast or mammalian cell fermentation.
In recognition of their contributions to the identification and classification of potyviruses Colin Ward and Dharma Shukla were awarded the CSIRO Chairman's Medal in 1994 and the Australian Medal of Agricultural Science in 1995. They were also elected Fellows of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science in 1995.
Dharma Shukla was Chairman of the International Working Group on Tropical Virology, as well as a member of both the International Working Group on Potyviruses and International Working Group on Legume Viruses.
Colin Ward was elected an Executive Committee Member of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from 1996-2002. He was also elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 1998.


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Facebook Launches Live 360 Video with National Geographic
Facebook rolled out its initial support for 360-degree Live streams, allowing publishers to stream immersive videos directly to News Feed. The first publisher to do so is National Geographic's Facebook Page, which will show scientists emerging from 80 days of isolation in pods at Utah's Mars Desert Research Station and feature footage of the ersatz Mars landscape and interviews with the researchers. Later in the month, Facebook Live 360 broadcasts will be an option in Facebook Live's API.
TechCrunch reports that, "next year, Facebook plans to roll out the immersive, real-time video streaming capability to all Pages and users," but, for now at least, Facebook Live 360 videos won't be viewable with VR headsets. Nor is there support for 4K-resolution video or spatial audio but, says Facebook, "they're things we're thinking about."
In terms of streaming VR content, Facebook recommends using a Nokia OZO, Freedom360 Broadcaster rig with Vahana VR stitching software, or, "for less produced moments," the Giroptic iO, Insta360 Nano or Ricoh Theta S.
With regard to 360-degree video and livestreaming, YouTube is the current leader, since anyone can live-stream 360-degree videos, "but only if they have special encoder software set up on their computer like OBS streaming from a Ricoh Theta S." Facebook's approach, says TechCrunch, is "more user-friendly … aiming to allow normal profiles to be able to easily broadcast from a 360 mobile device without desktop software."
Recode points out that, "Live video has been Facebook's biggest product and marketing push of the year," with the company "paying brands and celebrities … to create live videos," and giving live videos higher priority in News Feed as well as launching "a massive marketing campaign to promote the entire effort, which isn't a common strategy for the social giant."
Platforms that haven't taken the 360-degree video plunge include Twitter, which "doesn't offer any 360 support from Periscope," and Snapchat, which also "notably lacks any 360 features." Video creators are also "still experimenting" with "what will be exciting in 360 live." Facebook also introduced Instagram Live to "everyone in the U.S.," with its disappearing videos differentiating it from Facebook Live clips.
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Both conventional furnaces and high-efficiency furnaces send waste gases outside of the home. The difference with high-efficiency furnaces is that they also capture fresh air from outside the home. The ability for air to move effortlessly is critical to proper and safe operation of a high-efficiency unit.
[Keep|Ensure you have|Maintain]26] a 3-foot/1-meter clearance around your intake and exhaust lines to help keep this from taking place.
While the weather in Moline will probably fluctuate up and down over the last few days of winter, you can't count out the possibility of weather that can alter the performance of your furnace. At J.L. Brady Company LLC in Moline, we are always available to take a look at any areas around your home or answer any of your questions, whether they're in regards to furnace service or purchasing a new system. Keeping you and your family safe and comfortable is our top priority. Give us a call at 309-517-7511 to find out more information.


A Premium Only Plan is a fringe benefit plan, which is authorized under the IRS code Section 125. It is a tax reduction plan, not an insurance plan. A Premium Only Plan allows employees to pay for their portion of benefit plan costs on a before-tax basis.
No. The tax savings are created by the employee's contributions for insurance. As long as the plan does not favor key executives and owners, there is no minimum number of employees necessary in order to have a plan.
Which employees are eligible for the plan?
All employees that you, the employer, declare eligible. If you allow part time employees to participate, you must allow all part time employees to participate. The business owner may also participate if the owner is actually considered an employee by the corporation.
What are the benefits of a Premium Only Plan?
Generally, employers will payroll deduct an employee's portion of the benefit plan costs right out of his or her paycheck. The benefit cost is deducted AFTER taxes have been taken out of the employee's paycheck. What this means is that LESS taxes are taken out of the employee's paycheck. Less taxes means MORE MONEY in the employee's pocket.
In addition, many states require having a Premium Only Plan in place when offering group benefits.
Does the company have to have a certain insurance carrier?
No. It does not matter where or what medical benefits are available to you. It only matters that the employee is paying for some portion of their benefits.
No. Only those employees who have premiums for which they would like to save on taxes should consider participation.


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#HereForDerby – Grounds Maintenance Team
Published: 7 July 2020
The Grounds Maintenance team who have been hard at work keeping the city's green and open spaces in shape during lockdown
As part of our #HereForDerby campaign, we speak to the Grounds Maintenance team who have been hard at work keeping the city's green and open spaces in shape during lockdown.
Whilst many Council colleagues have been working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a small army of colleagues who have been out and about – working hard to maintain parks and green spaces so residents can get outdoors during lockdown.
One of those colleagues is Richard Ruston, a Gardener in the Grounds Maintenance team.
Whilst most of their day-to-day work has continued as normal, changes were made so that teams could work safely and in line with government guidance. For some members of the team, their roles changed completely as they were redeployed.
Richard said:
Some colleagues joined the Refuse teams to provide support with transporting staff on rounds to maintain social distancing in vehicles. This reduced our staff levels which increased the workload of the Gardeners still working on Grounds. Team members have been covering other duties (such as tractor driving) within Grounds while some colleagues have been isolating. At the start of the lockdown we focused on maintaining the Crematorium grounds and emptying litter bins on parks as these were getting very well used due to people visiting their local open spaces to exercise and dog walk. At the start of April we started mowing on parks, verges and other sites.
Although work like planting flowers has been put on hold, other activities like mowing grass has continued. As a Council we must make sure that verges don't block the sight of drivers at junctions and that residents can access open spaces in their local area.
As the weather warmed up through April and May, Richard and the team's focus changed.
The hot weather during April and May meant the dry grass could have become a fire hazard so it's really important that residents don't have barbecues or fires on parks. Mowing the parks gave residents plenty of space to exercise safely. Although, this had a knock-on effect that bins were full every day, and litter which needed clearing before mowing. Due to the good weather during May we were juggling emptying litter bins, litter picking and mowing, sometimes on a daily basis. If the litter bins are full, people are asked to please take their litter home with them.
The team began mowing grass in cemeteries in early May once sites had reopened. Richard said that his team had an uphill battle to get the grass back under control for visitors, after several weeks of not being able to maintain sites, but everything is now looking spick and span.
As a final thought, Richard added:
Teamwork and morale has been good in these difficult and worrying circumstances.
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Anyone know where to find listings of these Mantovani concerts?
Ken Moulton (who runs the current Mantovani orchestra) told me today that he is currently organizing the next tour for the orchestra; but unfortunately, it will be in China. The new tour will include about 8 to 12 concert dates to be held between December 22, 2012 and January 6, 2013. The conductor he will choose to lead the orchestra for the new tour will probably be his usual conductor, Charles Ellis. Unfortunately, there are no current plans under consideration to tour North America. If that should change, however, I will certainly let you know.
By the way, the official website for the orchestra is http://www.themantovaniorchestra.com/. (Please note: the current concert schedule page on the website still shows the 2011 concert tour of China, which, parenthetically, had been cancelled.
Very interesting, Bob. Thanks for sharing.
Also glad to hear it was because of my efforts that you became acquainted with Monty's great music. It's deeply gratifying to know that my goal of introducing his music to new folks is being achieved.
By the way, that 2009 reissue of Monty's first Christmas album that I got released with Collectors' Choice Music is now out of print, but I've been working to get it re-released with Gordon Anderson's new record company, Real Gone Music. In the meantime, new copies are available on Amazon, but they go for big bucks.
Thank you, Chip. I appreciate your comments and including Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. I have become partial to his version of O Come All Ye Faithful, Joy To The World, and I Saw Three Ships from his Christmas Greetings album. The Mike Sammes Singers (I believe...) along with "Monty's" arrangements are really great...IMO.
I appreciate your efforts in working constantly to get some of the truly great artists and Christmas music restored and on CD. I've already given you my suggestions...so I won't take space to do it again!!!
Enjoy the weekend and thanks again for what you do.
By the way, as I'm sure you already know, Monty's absolutely outstanding and magnificent version of O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) is a particular favorite of mine as well. So much so, that (as I'm sure you also know) was the song that I chose to open the new fourth hour that I created for the Yule Log telecast in 2009. For anyone who could possibly not be familiar with it, I'll post it below.


Feel like the time you spend on the internet is bringing you down? If you want to stop yourself from indulging in all the negativity, but don't possess the self-control to do it yourself, perhaps Blissify is for you. It's a free chrome extension that promises to keep an eye on your mood and block any site that give you the sads.
Blissify, which is the work of interactive/conceptual artist Alexander Taylor, mostly exists as satirical commentary. But even so, it's still a very functional project. The extension uses your webcam and a facial-recognition algorithm to assess your state of mind at any given moment. It then matches that up with whatever site you're looking at, and if you spend too long frowning at a given page, it will block it. You can even assess the impact of your browsing habits over time with a little graph of your emotions. (Hovering over any spot will show you what you were looking at.) If that's not detailed enough for you, you also get a running commentary in the form of an emoji that sits in your toolbar and reflects your feeling.
While in theory it sounds like an ideal way to protect yourself from becoming a depressed, bitter citizen, in practice it's not perfect. Given that reading emotions is complicated business, blocking sites like Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail isn't necessarily practical, especially if you rely on them for work.
Still, you can adjust the sensitivity settings and unblock anything you want. and if nothing else, it can serve as a reminder to keep your time in the sad abyss that is the modern news cycle to a minimum and up your daily consumption of cute animal videos. Who knows, maybe it'll even make you a slightly less miserable person. Maybe. No promises.
that promises to keep an eye on your mood and block any site that give you the sads.


At the Malaysian International Junior Championships Michael Zverev of Germany took his first ITF Grade 1 singles title with a win over Britain's Jamie Baker, 6-7(3),6-4,7-5. Montinee Tanghong of Thailand had an easier time in her final match against Thassha Vitayaviroj, also from Thailand, 6-1,6-3. The doubles titles went to Woong-Sun Jun & Sun-Yong Kim and Mari Andersson & Esther Van Londen.
The ITF and the Grand Slam Committee have announced that they will now be giving winners of junior Grand Slams wild cards into the qualifying event of the professional draw the following year at that Grand Slam. For 2003 that means Richard Gasquet will receive qualifying wildcards into the French Open and the US Open; Angelique Widjaja into the French Open; Todd Reid and Ver Douchevina into Wimbledon; and Maria Kirilenko into the US Open. Clement Morel and Barbora Strycova, last year's junior winners, would have received wildcards into the Australian Open had they been needed.
The USTA has named its new coaching staff for USA Tennis High Performance. For the girls team led by Lynne Rolley, Richard Ashby, Jay Berger, Jai DiLouie, Debbie Graham, Ola Malmqvist, Wade McGuire, Ray Ruffels and Katie Schlukebir will be coaching. The boys staff will be led by Rodney Harmon and includes Ricardo Acuna, Steve DeVries, Dean Goldfine, Kelly Jones, Francisco Montana, Mike Sell, Roger Smith and Martin Van Daalen.
Vojislava Lukic picked up her third consecutive ITF circuit title when she took Argentina Bowl with a 6-2,4-6,6-2 win over Marinne Giraud. Federico Gil was the boys winner in that event while doubles titles went to Miles Kasiri/Alijoscha Thron and Megan Moulton-Levy/Katarina Zoricic.


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// (c) Copyright HutongGames, LLC 2010-2016. All rights reserved.

using UnityEngine;

namespace HutongGames.PlayMaker.Actions
{
    [ActionCategory(ActionCategory.Physics2D)]
    [Tooltip("Adds a relative 2d force to a Game Object. Use Vector2 variable and/or Float variables for each axis.")]
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	{
		[RequiredField]
		[CheckForComponent(typeof(Rigidbody2D))]
		[Tooltip("The GameObject to apply the force to.")]
		public FsmOwnerDefault gameObject;

		[Tooltip("Option for applying the force")]
		public ForceMode2D forceMode;

		[UIHint(UIHint.Variable)]
		[Tooltip("A Vector2 force to add. Optionally override any axis with the X, Y parameters.")]
		public FsmVector2 vector;

		[Tooltip("Force along the X axis. To leave unchanged, set to 'None'.")]
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		[Tooltip("Force along the Y axis. To leave unchanged, set to 'None'.")]
		public FsmFloat y;

		[Tooltip("A Vector3 force to add. z is ignored")]
		public FsmVector3 vector3;

		[Tooltip("Repeat every frame while the state is active.")]
		public bool everyFrame;

		public override void Reset()
		{
			gameObject = null;
			forceMode = ForceMode2D.Force;
			vector = null;
			vector3 = new FsmVector3 {UseVariable = true};

			// default axis to variable dropdown with None selected.
			x = new FsmFloat { UseVariable = true };
			y = new FsmFloat { UseVariable = true };

			everyFrame = false;
		}

        public override void OnPreprocess()
        {
            Fsm.HandleFixedUpdate = true;
        }

		public override void OnEnter()
		{
			DoAddRelativeForce();

			if (!everyFrame)
			{
				Finish();
			}
		}

		public override void OnFixedUpdate()
		{
			DoAddRelativeForce();
		}

		void DoAddRelativeForce()
		{
            var go = Fsm.GetOwnerDefaultTarget(gameObject);
            if (!UpdateCache(go))
            {
                return;
            }

			var force = vector.IsNone ? new Vector2(x.Value, y.Value) : vector.Value;

			if (!vector3.IsNone)
			{
				force.x = vector3.Value.x;
				force.y = vector3.Value.y;
			}

			// override any axis

			if (!x.IsNone) force.x = x.Value;
			if (!y.IsNone) force.y = y.Value;

			// apply relative force

			rigidbody2d.AddRelativeForce(force,forceMode);

		}

	}
}

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Heya, been chatting with this canadianwhile waiting for Cabrio. He seems like a real stand-up guy.
Besides we could really use a good strong archer party!
+1 We need 1-2 archers.
As Tealc said, that timezone will be make u play solo mostly all days, or u playing on EU times?
Why did you decide to leave Atoz?


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Tex and Melesha Cox Announce a Birth!
Tex and Melesha Cox will be announced as FMIN Partners next month. Those who were able to attend World Conference in Colorado in June got to meet Tex and be blessed by his kindness and prayers. But before our announcement, they have an announcement of their own!
A new son, Coltan Guerry Cox entered the world on Wednesday, July 22, weighing in at 7 pounds 6 ounces, and measuring 19 inches.
Coltan has two big sisters and a big brother.
Our congratulations to the Cox family on your newest blessing!
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Q: Update the last two digits of a varchar(22 BYTE) I'm trying to figure out how to change a list of numbers that end with 0230. How would I go about just changing only the last two digits.
Example:
254541563200222200230

Into :
254541563200222200228

Example2:
11154561560222200230

Into :
11154561560222200228

I know the select command for finding values that end with those numbers just not how to update them since they all have different beginning numbers. They are all 22 digits in length.
SELECT * from data_table here data = '%0230'.

My best bet was this :
UPDATE data_table SET data = '%0229' where data = '%0230';

A: SUBSTR can do that.
Your 2nd example is shorter than the 1st so I modified sample data a little bit; included y at the end to emphasize 0230 (i.e. the last 4 characters). The 3rd example shouldn't be modified at all as it doesn't end with 0230 (that's what where does).
SQL> with test (col) as
  2    (select '2545415632002222y0230' from dual union all
  3     select 'x111545615602222y0230' from dual union all
  4     select '2412412412412412y1234' from dual
  5    )
  6  select col,
  7    substr(col, 1, length(col) - 2) || '28' result
  8  from test
  9  where substr(col, -4) = '0230';

COL
---------------------
RESULT
----------------------------------------------------------------
2545415632002222y0230
2545415632002222y0228

x111545615602222y0230
x111545615602222y0228

SQL>

As you're updating the column, then:
SQL> create table test as
  2    (select '2545415632002222y0230' col from dual union all
  3     select 'x111545615602222y0230'     from dual union all
  4     select '2412412412412412y1234'     from dual
  5    );

Table created.

SQL> update test set
  2    col = substr(col, 1, length(col) - 2) || '28'
  3  where substr(col, -4) = '0230';

2 rows updated.

SQL> select * From test;

COL
---------------------
2545415632002222y0228
x111545615602222y0228
2412412412412412y1234

SQL>

A:
I'm trying to figure out how to change a list of numbers that end with 0230.

The values are numbers (and you ought to store them as numbers rather than strings), you can use MOD to find the last 4 digits (provided they are all actually numbers, regardless of whether you've stored them as numbers or strings) and then just subtract one from the matching rows:
UPDATE data_table
SET data = data - 1
WHERE MOD( data, 10000 ) = 230;

So for your example data:
CREATE TABLE data_table ( data ) AS
SELECT '254541563200222200230' FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT '11154561560222200230' FROM DUAL;

Then after the update, the values would be:
SELECT * FROM DATA_TABLE;

| DATA                  |
| :-------------------- |
| 254541563200222200229 |
| 11154561560222200229  |

db<>fiddle here


My goal as an educator was not only to educate, but to also nurture self-confidence, self-esteem and a sense of self-worth.
and mind set expressed in her recent speech.
Ms. Pelosi stated how proud she was that her grandson's wish on his birthday was to have "brown skin and brown eyes" to be something other than himself. To laud the desire to be someone else is strange, if not psychotic.
To praise the desire to shed your identity because "the beauty is in the mix" is perverse, if not racist. To illustrate the insidiousness of this mindset, imagine a black grandmother praising her grandson for wishing to be white.
Imagine a Jewish grandmother lauding her grandson for wishing to have blond hair and blue eyes to add beauty to the mix.
Ms. Pelosi has added new parameters for self-loathing: race.


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Q: The expression evaluated to NULL, but a Boolean result is required Below is the error message that I get when I fire the SQl query in Beeline.
The expression evaluated to NULL, but a Boolean result is required. Modify the error row disposition on the output to treat this result as False (Ignore Failure) or to redirect this row to the error output (Redirect Row). The expression results must be Boolean for a Conditional Split.  A NULL expression result is an error.

At the first glance, it seems to be the straight forward issue of NULL values in the data. But below are other details on my observation.
Furthermore:
1) I am using BEELINE for the first time in my dev env. Before that, it was all HIVE CLI.
2) we have brought a table to HIVE through SQOOP, and since we wanted to convert the text format to ORC, so we had created an ORC table with 50 buckets and with the help of INSERT we transfer all the data to newly created ORC HIVE table.
3) there are 4 columns in my original HIVE table. I do not see any error while querying any of the columns. However, after we had pushed the data to the ORC HIVE table and now when I am querying 3 out of those 4 HIVE table I do not see any error. But when I am querying for this problematic column, then only I get the error. Below is the SQL query
select col_name from tbl_name limit 4;

The output of the sql query on this particular table from the original HIVE table has below value

col_id is NULL

And we have also recognized that some of the values for this particular column has 365 chars. Below is the query for that
select max(length(col_name))from tbl_name;
It is a string type in both the HIVE tables.
4) we also created an internal HIVE table with demo data, and then pushed that data to an ORC table in BEELINE.In this case, when we are querying the ORC table we are not getting the issue.
 We are using Spark 2.1 server, and all our Hadoop components are on this server.

Any help/suggestion would be highly appreciated.


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Jayna joined the Commercial Disputes team as an associate in 2015. She was educated at Cardiff University before qualifying as a solicitor in 2007, and prior to joining Wilsons Jayna spent three years in London with a City firm, where she procured a 100% success rate for her lender clients.
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A high number of industries and fields utilize plastic card-printing technology for an equally high number of purposes. Government buildings and corporations print on plastic ID badges for access control and visitor management, schools use them as identity cards for their staff and student body, and financial institutions use them for credit cards.
However, this blog post will cover other, more out-of-the-box ways that a standard ID card printer can be used for marketing purposes and to promote your product.
Wide varieties of theme-specific information can be incorporated onto a wallet-sized card. For example, if you run a construction company or any business that involves calculating measurement conversions, such as carpet sales, you can sell cards with unit conversion information printed on them. These can come in handy for customers who buy your products and need to quickly convert units when placing rugs in their homes or workplace. Other industries that can benefit from unit-conversion cards are bakeries, which often require quick conversions for recipes.
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And who says that business cards need to be limited to being printed on paper cards? Plastic ID cards can contain all the information that a traditional paper business card displays, but are more durable. This can as well include restaurants with hours of operation, web site address to view a menu, and phone number for delivery.
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Published on October 2, 2015 | by LawNews
Prof. Ronald Colombo Publishes Op-Ed on Corporate Constitutional Rights in New York Daily News
Professor Ronald J. Colombo published the op-ed "Liberals, welcome this chicken chain: New York City is actually a perfect home for an outspoken corporate citizen like Chick-fil-A" in the October 2, 2015, edition of the New York Daily News.
Professor Colombo argues that the Citizens United decision "serves as an important bulwark against a form of despotism that should not be lightly cast aside" — discrimination against "businesses that dare to express heterodox perspectives."
Much ink has been spilled regarding the corrupting influence of corporate money on American elections since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision. Many commentators simply see no justification for granting business enterprises some of the same rights enjoyed by individual human beings. "Corporations aren't people," goes the battle cry.
But the abuse that Chick-fil-A has suffered at the hands of some governmental officials after exercising pure political speech rights should prompt a reconsideration of such skepticism.
No fair-minded person wants our government — federal, state or local — to persecute those who espouse views at odds with those in power. Indeed, many who settled the United States did so fleeing exactly such oppression.
However, even in some of our nation's most progressive cities (indeed, primarily in some of our nation's most progressive cities), this fundamental American value of fair and neutral government has seemingly been cast aside.
We see this happen routinely to Walmart. Government resistance to that that company's presence commonly goes beyond the fair play of challenging the way it treats its workers and its effect on nearby small businesses to its support for charter schools and other education reform causes.
That's an attack on speech rights, plain and simple. Imagine if Apple, a famously pro-LGBT company, or companies with a history of support for Planned Parenthood — there are dozens — were routinely blackballed from doing business in red states.
In Chick-fil-A's case, we're not talking about refusal to obey the law of the land. Rather, at issue is simply the completely legal practice of supporting a political cause.
Discriminating against a person on such grounds is unquestionably unconstitutional. And had Citizens United been decided differently, companies would be much more vulnerable to such persecution. Petty politicians across America would be emboldened to do exactly what has been done in Denver, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco: hound and mistreat businesses that dare to express heterodox perspectives.
So, whatever its shortcomings, we should recognize and celebrate that the Citizens United decision serves as an important bulwark against a form of despotism that should not be lightly cast aside.
Read the full op-ed.
Tags: Citizens United, Corpora, Corporate Free Exercise Rights, Corporate Free Speech Rights, General Media Publications, Ronald J. Colombo


Can we save our native bees? Yes, but the answer may surprise you.
At this year's Front Range Eco-Social Solutions event, CU Professor Danielle Melissa Bilot presented an inspiring and unique way for us to save our native bees, while also greening our cities. Bilot taught us that, while there are only about 10 species of honeybees, there are over 4,000 native bee species in the U.S., including over 900 in Colorado alone. These beloved native bees pollinate at an efficiency rate of 91%. That's a gargantuan ecosystem service! In addition, most of them nest underground and don't sting (unless you go digging for trouble). To show our gratitude and save our most precious pollinators, Bilot argues, we should provide year-round, diverse habitat for our native bees. And (get ready) the answer lies in none other than…. our city's parking lots!
Parking lots comprise of at least 10% of the average city's land mass, and Boulder is no exception. Professor Bilot told us that, by installing native plants in every city-owned parking lot, alongside some displays of driftwood for wood-nesting species, bees will have "stepping stone" habitats all around the city. This is important because many bee species can only fly approximately three blocks before they must eat. If they can't find food, the consequence is death. For this reason, she is calling for a shift in our mindset. She asks that we evolve from the question of "If we build the habitat, will they come?" to "If we build the habitat, can they leave?".
Bilot herself has been guided by this question and has begun her work on parking lots across Boulder (look behind the Dushanbe Teahouse!). She says that these installations benefit the city because native plants are lower maintenance than traditional grassy patches. They are aesthetically pleasing, andthey provide habitat for our local bees. She even suggests adding in some small fruit trees for a dual food benefit because, like the bees, we all love a free snack!
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Sweet baby girl Natalie is next up on the blog! I was excited to have another girl after a string of boys. And actually, after Natalie's session, I photographed five boys in a row!! They are yet to be blogged, but you'll see them here soon! 🙂 I swear I get so many baby boys, which is great. But I also REALLY love baby girls, and pulling out the pinks and purples, and the headbands and sweet girl outfits. So… thanks for breaking up my boy streak a little, Natalie! Natalie's Mom requested some purple to match their nursery, so of course I obliged. I hadn't used purple in a while during a session, so it was nice to get to do something different! Natalie was super precious at three weeks young! So dainty and her fuzzy hair was just perfection. I used one of my favorite newborn outfits from Mia Joy on Natalie, and not only did it fit her so nicely, but it looked like it was made just for her! So, let's get to the pictures! Here are some of my favorites from Natalie's Raleigh baby session!
I have a sweet baby boy to share with you all today! His name is Speros, which is a family name, and is SO different and neat. He had a really GREAT photo session! Speros was nine days old when I met him and was a great little sleeper and poser. I absolutely loved him on that dark blue, one of my favorite colors for boys. This sweet baby boy's parents got in for a few shots as well, and they were so adorable. Parent shots are always included in newborn sessions at no extra charge. So be sure to capture these memories that your kids will treasure someday! Here's a look at Speros' newborn photo session in Raleigh, NC.
This is sweet baby Emery! I was excited to see her family again because this is the second baby I've photographed for them! I love when my clients come back to me again and again. It's so fun to see their lives changing and their families expanding! Emery was two weeks old for her newborn session. She had some of the best facial expressions ever. The first photo below, of her sticking her tongue out at me, was just priceless! She was very expressive!! And her session happened back around Christmas, so I used some red and put a gorgeous, festive outfit on her, which was just beautiful. She was so so cute! Here are all of my favorites from her session.
Happy New Year everyone!! Time to feature a sweet newborn boy on the blog! This is baby Avery, who was just about three weeks old for his session. He was just beyond perfection. Such a great little poser, and so squishy! I could have played with him all day, but eventually I had to give him back to his Mommy and Daddy. Bummer for me! Here are aaaaaall my many favorites from Avery's newborn session!
If you're expecting in the Raleigh Wake Forest, North Carolina area and would like some photos of your newborn baby, please contact me! I can be reached through e-mail, or contact me through my contact form on my website (link below) to book your photo session. Thank you so much!
Here are all of the highlights from sweet baby Penelope's Raleigh, NC newborn session!!
Sweet baby Laurel was such a delight! I photographed her in my Wake Forest studio just before my summer break (still catching up on blogging!). She was 10 days old and wide awake for a good chunk of the session. I really love a calm, awake baby for some of the session. The photos with baby's eyes open are always the parent's favorites! And we got quite a few of those with baby Laurel. Some of her expressions were really just priceless!!! She gave me just the right mix of being awake, and then also going to sleep for some poses. She was beautiful! Here's a peek at Laurel's Raleigh newborn photo session!


Reza Ghoochanneijhad and Cameron Devlin scored either side of the break as Sydney FC beat Adelaide United 2-0 in front of a good crowd at Leichhardt Oval.
The result puts the Sky Blues within five points of table-toppers Perth Glory, who play Melbourne City on Sunday.
Despite looking fairly unconvincing in parts this season, Sydney have strung some results together and are still in with a shout in the race for the Premier's Plate.
"You never stop believing that it's possible," Steve Corica said after the match.
It was a resolute performance by Corica's side against Adelaide. Ghoochanneijhad scored his maiden goal for Sydney in a first half display that the Sky Blues thoroughly dominated.
And while they dropped off in the second half, the Sky Blues managed to absorb waves of pressure from Adelaide, before Devlin sealed the win in the 94th minute with his first A-League goal.
Unfortunately, when he went to celebrate with the Cove part of the fence collapsed leaving a security guard needing minor treatment.
Sydney kicked off the match with plenty of attacking intent and it took just 15 minutes for Ghoochanneijhad to get off the mark.
It was a quality team goal, with the Iranian striker capping off some wonderful interplay between himself and Adam Le Fondre.
That partnership already looks a fruitful one, with Le Fondre shouldering the bulk of Sydney's goalscoring responsibility before Ghoochanneijhad's arrival.
It was an excellent first half display from the Sky Blues, with Ghoochanneijhad going on to hit the woodwork.
But the Reds came agonisingly close to snatching an equaliser just before the break when George Blackwood's effort was cleared off the line by Alex Wilkinson.
Adelaide created the better chances in the second half and enjoyed a period of sustained pressure, but they failed to capitalise on it.
The Sky Blues remained resolute at the back, with Ghoochanneijhad a frequent threat on the break and Milos Ninkovic at the heart of Sydney's attack.
For Adelaide, it was a familiar story with Marco Kurz's side unable to put the ball into the back of the net.