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Christopher Henze was born September 23, 1975 in Milbank, SD and took his own life in Austin, TX on March 25th, 2013.
Chris grew up in Milbank, SD and went to Milbank High School. He graduated in 1994 and joined the Army with his lifelong friend Chris Berg (who is now an SF Major). Chris was an accomplished musician, he played guitar, bass, upright bass, drums and pretty much anything you put in front of him.
Chris had a lust for life and didn't let the grass grow when it came to looking for his next adventure. He joined the Army as an infantryman in 1994. He was deployed from Germany to Kosovo in 1999. In 2002 he separated from the Army and did many other things such as, welding, blacksmithing, rodeoing, he played Rugby. He worked in Qatar as private armed security and also in Galveston after Hurricane Ike. In 2009 he joined 19th Group Special Forces in Colorado. He loved to train and to shoot and was an expert marksman. He had a way of bringing his ideas to life. When he was a kid, he acted out the movie "The Temple of Doom" with the neighborhood kids one afternoon. They ended up playing it for days and still talk about it now.
One Saturday afternoon he had a "Tournament of Machismo" in our front yard with his rugby team. It included an anvil run, anvil toss, sword fighting, and a little beer drinking. He loved to invent games to play with his sons Dakota (born in 1996) and Dustin (2005) and loved them more than anything.
He was quick with a joke and everyone who knew him loved his quick wit. He was wildly intelligent and seemed to know everything about everything.
SGT Christopher Henze is still loved and missed beyond comprehension.
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Q: Detect Escape on keyPress I want to detect Escape on a field in C# to add '_'. I tested e.KeyCode == Keys.Escape, but it's not working. Have you an idea?
private void tbxLibelle_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Escape)
    {
        tbxNomimage.Text += '_';
    }
    else
    {
        tbxNomimage.Text = tbxLibelle.Text;
    }
}

A: You can't get KeyCode from KeyPress event, KeyPressEventArgs provide only the KeyChar property. KeyCode can get from the KeyDown event. System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs has the required KeyCode property:
        private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if(e.KeyCode == Keys.Escape)
            {
                tbxNomimage.Text += '_';
            }
            else
            {
                tbxNomimage.Text = tbxLibelle.Text;
            }
        }

If the KeyDown event is not suit, you can save the KeyCode in global private field.
        private Keys key_Code;
        private void textBox1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
        {
            if (this.key_Code == Keys.Escape)
            {
                tbxNomimage.Text += '_';
            }
            else
            {
                tbxNomimage.Text = tbxLibelle.Text;
            }
        }

        private void textBox1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            this.key_Code = e.KeyCode;
        }

Key events occur in the following order:

*

*KeyDown

*KeyPress

*KeyUp

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.control.keypress?view=windowsdesktop-6.0

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Beasley Allen awarded Tyner Helms the 2022 "Chad Stewart Award," named after Beasley Allen lawyer Chad Stewart, who passed away unexpectedly in 2014 at the young age of 41. The award honors Chad's spirit of service to God, his family, and the practice of law. Beasley Allen presents the award each year to a lawyer within the firm who best exemplifies the qualities Chad demonstrated in his life and law practice.
As Christians, we are encouraged to look for signs from God of how he can use us to glorify him by helping. Tyner took this mission to heart and performed one of the most selfless acts someone can do for another person. He is an ideal candidate for the Chad Stewart Award.
Last summer, while many people were vacationing, Tyner was recovering from surgery to save a stranger's life. A few months earlier, during a small group study at the church Tyner and his wife Caitlin attend, another member asked the group to pray for his father, Birmingham lawyer Ernie Cory. Ernie had overcome Hodgkin's lymphoma years earlier, but the cancer treatment damaged his kidneys. He was on dialysis and in dire need of a kidney transplant.
Ernie's plight especially touched Tyner's wife and, after finding out she wasn't a donor match, encouraged Tyner to get tested. He did and discovered he was a suitable match. He knew the message God was sending him.
A few weeks later, on July 8, Tyner underwent surgery to have one of his kidneys removed and placed in Ernie's body. Tyner recovered quickly from surgery, and Ernie's health slowly improved. Within a few weeks, Ernie had regained enough strength to return to work and, most importantly, walk his daughter down the aisle at her wedding in October.
Donating a kidney isn't something to take lightly, but Tyner felt safe in God's hands. He returned to work a new man. Tyner said:
In this day and age, under the right circumstances, people can literally give an organ and save someone's life, and that's an incredible thing.
Tyner works in Beasley Allen's Fraud Section. He handles primarily litigation related to Fiat Chrysler emission cheating software and class action litigation against Voya Financial.
He has received many accolades for his professional work, as well. The National Trial Lawyers recently named Tyner an Alabama Top 40 Under 40 Civil Plaintiff Trial Lawyer, an honor only given to a select group of lawyers for their superior skills and qualifications in the field. He was also selected to the Mid-South Super Lawyers "Rising Stars" list in 2022.
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Create the family home of your dreams on this large corner lot property in the highly sought after Milam Elementary school area. Plenty of room in this 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 living area space. The kitchen has been recently remodeled creating an open concept to the family room. It features granite counter tops, updated appliances and fabulous pull-out drawers in the cabinets. The family room is cozy and warm with its terrazzo tile floors and exposed brick wall. Newer windows in the home and vinyl siding recently placed on exterior surfaces. The back yard has a large wrap around covered patio and newer storage shed. The sturdy brick fence features beautiful paintings by the homeowner.


Dear Friend, for some people with clutter problems it can be a big or even an emotional issue to have someone come to their house to 'organize it'.
But the FEELING they get AFTER being organized is something special! You can hear RELIEF in their voices.
Once you're there just click on any one of the PLAY buttons and listen to our clients explain HOW they FELT after getting organized.
Some of our Clutterbuster clients have ADD or OCD. On the web page if you listen to Alice from DC, she tells you she has both ADD & OCD and how we have helped her.
Next time I'll follow up with some more suggestions & tips.


Political opponents asked ethics commissioner Mary Dawson to look into the sales of millions of dollars worth of shares in Morneau Shepell Inc. in late 2015 by Morneau and his father — a sale that came just days before a major tax announcement that critics say triggered a dip in the stock market.
They argued that Morneau's December 2015 announcement raising income taxes on the highest earners had a wide-reaching market impact, because it encouraged wealthier shareholders to sell off some their stock before the changes came into effect on Jan. 1, 2016.
In a letter to Morneau, Dawson said no privileged information was used because the tax increase was first announced publicly as early as Nov. 4, 2015 — "well in advance" of the stock sale.
"With respect to the sale of Morneau Shepell Inc. shares in the fall of 2015, I am of the view that you did not benefit from insider information," Dawson wrote to Morneau in the letter, dated Jan. 5.
In a separate review, Dawson also cleared Morneau of allegations that he was involved in the Bank of Canada's renewal of its contract with Morneau Shepell to manage its employee pension plan. The Bank of Canada renewed its contract with the company for four years in February 2017.
"I am satisfied that, as minister of finance, you had no involvement in the Bank of Canada's decision of the renewal of the Morneau Shepell Inc. contract," she wrote.
A spokeswoman for Morneau said Monday that his office is "pleased with the outcome" of the commissioner's examination.
The ethics commissioner still has another formal examination underway related to Morneau's connection to Morneau Shepell.
The review was launched amid conflict-of-interest allegations over proposed pension reform spearheaded by Morneau. Opponents say the legislation would have brought him personal financial benefit.
He has also faced intense political pressure over how he handled his personal financial arrangements after coming to office. The questions have focused on his shares in Morneau Shepell, for which he was executive chairman until his election win.


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When you think about home paint you don't really think of groundbreaking marketing campaigns. Instead, images come up of dirty overalls, messy houses, and just a whole lot of work.
However, that is exactly what Dutch Boy paint did. They created a groundbreaking marketing campaign and I bet it's nothing like what you're imagining at the moment.
About 15 years ago something dramatic occurred in the business world. The marketing game changed fundamentally.
Bring in more money from sales than you spent on TV ads.
Here's the problem. That doesn't work anymore, and believe it or not almost two decades later some people still haven't figured that out.
This playbook, invented by the big brands, was so lucrative and "easy" to use that everyone wanted a piece of it. Every brand knew that all they had to do was get on TV and have enough eyeballs take in their offer they would make it.
The thing is those eyeballs didn't know where to look anymore.
There were so many ads, advertising so many similar things, to the same people, that those people simply closed their eyes.
That combined with the emergence of social media (a much better attention grabber) meant that people were just not paying attention to TV anymore. And even if they were, they didn't care about your ads.
To be honest, I have never heard of Dutch Boy Paint before.
I am not what you would call a "frequent" paint buyer. I am not a homeowner, and I've never before had to paint a room.
However, I am already a Dutch Boy Paint fan, and when I do buy my first home and have to get to painting I will most definitely be buying their paint.
When I look at a "can" of Dutch Boy paint next to any other paint can now I can't see why they were ever designed the way they were. It's a terrible way to use paint, and frankly just lazy in terms of problem-solving!
If you are at this point wondering why you are reading about paint and what that has to do with marketing today vs marketing 20 years ago, think about that sentence.
20 years ago a company like Behr would have taken a few million dollars and put them to use on a 30-second ad spot in the middle of an episode of Friends.
The idea being, that there are enough people watching that some of them are bound to need to buy paint and it might as well be Behr.
Today, you are reading a blog post about a paint can because Dutch Boy took the paint can looked at it from the user's perfective and said "how can we make this AMAZING?" and went out and did it.
They put an easier to use handle on it. They added an easy to open and close lid. And finally, they add a spout that would make sure that you don't have to clean up paint off the floor.
Dutch Boy did such a good job that we are now talking about it. I am so impressed with their thoughtfulness that I am writing a blog post about it that will be read by thousands of people.
They built the marketing in the product!
Remember the video commercial from a few lines up. Did you notice how good it was? That's becuase it's easy to make a really great commercial, when the product has already done the work!
A product shouldn't be handed over to the marketing team after it's already designed, it should be created with the help of the marketing team.
This is what Dutch Boy did. They worked with their marketing team to figure out how they can make painting, and the paint can, better for the user.
The marketing team went out there and did what they do best. They spoke with consumers, understood their problems and desires, and addressed them. However, in this case, these problems and desires weren't addressed in a TV ad, they were addressed in the product itself.
To channel your inner Dutch Boy next time you are coming up with a new product or service get together with your marketing team beforehand. Explain the goal of the product or service and let the marketers do what they do…find what people really want and what will sell!
Next, build the product or service with the findings of your marketing department in mind. If you do this and create a truly groundbreaking product, that makes your customers experience 100 times better, you won't need to have millions of dollars for a TV ad.
People who care will write blogs, make social media posts, tell their friends and family, and shout from the rooftops about your products. Those people will try out your new product or service because they trust their friends, fall in love themselves, and in turn tell even more people.
This is how Dutch Boy Paint won the marketing game and why they don't have to spend tons of money on advertising. They built the marketing of their product into the product itself.


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'' although sir' address rtjy- nrinhnallv 'inter situation toaay, coieniaj. j1w..m wimamsourgs me uii corps -and atmosphere restored old vh-jinia. capitbl lent air nostalgia to; remarks. the' ambassador ''said today's international' conflicts, ( disagreements govern- mentsi reflect part t-ontinuing ctriiffffle "restraint lldon power governments over., individual goes back only to-.the stuarts (british ruling family) magna aria7 ,, 750th anniversary celebrating twp weeks". ht:. tif- paks favour plebiscite -in-jammu, kashmir' ". karachi, 30. 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'eaeh-. dad afghanistan.' members, 'high-ranking civil military officials, editors, dignitaries and'' members present. iraqi 'newspapers carried special articles baghdad :!-telvision broadcast' "special nmnrummes ;m occasion- 4v afghanistan's day- -1 -tehran', broadcast- spa- ciaf' -thursday; afternoon featuring struggle-- independence,"' services late nadir shah, hero (contd. page 4) ': rishtiya receives un stamps, lkm hf fitt itcues all a-lu--- v- "united nations fund yas vtesv vesterday finance s.k.-ftishtya alf s-anlicting chief united technical, aslbta-ee mission director af ehanistan. w.v-rj- --'' '.'j.- j: '-'- '.xhe album presented behalf hoffmann, ue-tor-generl fund. -i (left) seen nere syrdahl looking stamps. imcdn rebel spokesmah ges junta shot- civil. nnt. ritbf vvr.'jpn?ted nations; viia'y. 3slp) u?tbrileh5' ?otomi:-ebel spokesman itll itili places dominican republic., ,rrt xr aistriuted jottin cury had told him tele-- dhof). .that -c v--.. xie sam or. riti;,. qiuiuuary, executions without .trial. had..taken place home warns undeestilnataff, british strenirth 'yi riz raua cntam op- j" vve parry leader former prime. today gave warning under-estimatmg britain, r, "we irnmonml 4- meeting norwegian conservatives. :..,,, ,:a ve "oe rhat taken accou"t strength we trouble ecc- into ib overseas -mrui,, run into-hsaia 0f miuioas pounds," oir. aiec britain "-o -ikk-t '--load western defence than -any hr. rrenat centol ia -xcepr states pe-i'iliy b-lahfte 61! p-yill-lili. u'iui -u viirh less strain. "but do want dp, that, there much still done secure freedom promote' expansion," -he said. as, sure shall go under." ..!' -'.: ..- wall khan ;'" ', restrigted peshawar fiom r. .3mw a-, report peshawar, central occupied pakhtunistan, says mohammad. wali ..leader khudai khidmatgars, recently released serving ...tani- pakistani -iail been: ordered byj v.pakistani restrict h's move ments teciry. mmcihdrativc stomps; eastern brovin barahona. ..sari trkr!i. ie fities 'rancieco de macoris., anrt cnn.; balleros, cemetery northern santo domingo brache signing iurasefujj "th government." "-tl sututibnal senta' ccmplamt this effect tto president th. wif -requests.- immediate action' the-uoitml "f grave situation." .,' lms earlipr aii; :. "e wiui reporter curv k; -uxu wp snoot- w- "ep-one friday. quoiea urv .;- .k ere witnew ;, cirv "f"ag?- cabled "'"r" wi.ucn rresiaent kamani nf .-. -"aj,m weanesdav r,nclculated p"v3tely tothf; councd th-j. investigate. fjlt-7 .? z, deals only" interested charges, -ntsine' -'-' secretary -investigate usj matter hnself "' 'wouta surprised"- council -meeting soon subject.'-however ramani said.. nobody asked sucn meeting. also far as. .knew, councu na not. -. giy en mayobre authority make investigations.;. thant appointed '"mayobre under resolution' asking serd representative "for purpose ;on pre-.' seat ;sitaon" -the' repube.-"'',i'"-4' s'' i'11-1 "!''. herat developed '5-year plan'1 fe- 'kabul,.- .30. master. pla,for being: .by department of; town. construction '.- and. ,housing, ministry pf ,public works. plan afghanis- -tan's second largest city, population"' -90,000' bs de- veloped ove'r'a period' 5. years. "of '"depart- meht; abdullah 'brishnff,;v.'ho justf jetttrned: herali; rarfcms. tmjvineesi; said' drelimii nary ptudies pa water, resources population growth, electricity req- uirements etc. already -been k -conducted ..herat;-to estimate future .needs city. '. drawing dp the.'plan'jeports pre-; pared "'united experfe" '-will br totiiised. 'v' hev plan-wvisages a' modern adequate every respects" proper mar kets, sports. rrounos ana oinn facilities, vit .'al'v "!' wfter approval by:h; author, ties concefned. plan, v.'lt ;..e;v impiepfiented ip -i-urse, .y 25 years.-x-thejj will-i able meet-the nees 'a diur, latibn .150,000. ;..'."' fa'badghisbrishri- -j' ted'kalae' nail,-, -the- uiiiviuciar -capital -which "isafeo rt- built wpanded. feald" -plans -are -being' drawn up develop kalae nau, prr"'i small town, sizable administrative centre.
Full-text the weather it a tty tt ,t rrn. ' w ,resteraay8temperatar max. 27c. minimum j news stalls -kabul times is available at: khyber ; restaurant; ,. kabul hotel; 1 uha-e-naw itnmu park cinema; inter, national airport. " mjuay at nn sim .. 4 . tr wiuurraw tomorrows outlook; cleai -j''; - p8-cia2 7 nsw feifc fcirft hi sixra t .ml , m mm l jmmr.mmv ! i -a ii tv '-vui'; .a vx visit beg t-rik-ii? it'' jheir majesties king ucgm tore royal couple arrived here yesterday and were greeted by m. louis joxe, minister of-state. no offiqial programme has been! 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Car-truck crash victims identified as UConn students
Monday, September 21, 2015 12:22 AM EDT
(AP) - Two people killed when a car collided with a tractor trailer have been identified as University of Connecticut students.
UConn spokeswoman Stephanie Reitz said Sunday the victims were sophomores Alana Ferrente and Ryan Meegan. She said both "were held in the highest regard by all who knew them."
The crash happened Friday afternoon in Columbia, a few miles from UConn's campus in Storrs. Reitz said a third UConn student was injured, but did not release details.
Ferrente was a pre-kinesiology major who recently transferred from Central Connecticut State University. Meegan was a pre-teaching major and a mentor in UConn's First Year Experience program.
Reitz said UConn extends "our deepest sympathies" to their families and friends.


Ten years before it happened, things would have been completely hopeless. But when the American president was shot, there was a new medical technology that could potentially save his life. The year was 1901 and the president was William McKinley. He had been shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He had been shot twice at close range. The doctors were able to remove one bullet, but they just couldn't find the second. And time was running out. McKinley was conscious and he requested that a new piece of medical technology be used to find it. Thomas Edison had recently invented an x-ray machine that could be used for medical purposes. However, despite the hope it offered, President McKinley's doctors were reluctant to use it for fear of unknown side effects. He went into septic shock and died from his wounds on September 14, 1901. The x-ray machine might have saved his life, but it was never used. However, in the years following, the technology was proven to be safe and it has saved countless lives. Finally, we had something that could expose what was hidden within the human body without surgery.
The Word reveals what lives in your heart.
The parable of the Sower precedes this passage and it's all about hearing. The seed sown was the Word and the different soil types are different kinds of people who hear the Word. The message of the Parable is to be the good soil that hears the Word, accepts it and produces a crop. That parable teaches that the Word should be heard and accepted immediately, deeply, and exclusively.
It's that context that we need to keep in mind as we look at verses 21-25. Though at first glance it may not seem to be the case, the Lord Jesus is speaking about the same thing in this passage. Notice that he mentions hearing again in verses 23 and 24. That's a strong hint that this text is about hearing, just like the one before it. Hearing what? Of course, it's going to be about hearing the Word, the Word preached by Jesus, and then later his apostles, and then the church down to the present day.
That's probably the most obvious connection between our passage and the first 20 verses of chapter 4. But there is another connection. Let's draw this out by first looking carefully at verses 21 and 22. Christ is still speaking to his inner circle of disciples, the twelve and some others, and he speaks about a lamp. "Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don't you put it on a stand?" I think we all know what a lamp is, it's simply an ancient version of a light. However, there was one major difference in that lamps were typically only used when it was dark. We might have our lights on during the day, just to make things brighter. But in Jesus' day, oil was expensive and you wouldn't waste it by lighting your lamp during the day. Lamps were for at night.
Moreover, a lamp belongs in a certain place in the house. It makes no sense to put it somewhere it's light can't shine, like under a bowl or under a bed. Instead, you put it where it can shed light everywhere in the house. That's its natural place.
And when the lamp is lit and burning, it gives light to the dark house. It exposes whatever is hidden and concealed in the darkness. You light the lamp and then you see the chair you might otherwise have tripped over. You light the lamp and then you see the toys the kids left on the floor. The lamp exposes what is in the dark house.
That's where there is another connection to the Parable of the Sower. As the sower went about his work, he didn't know that there was only one inch of soil in certain places. He didn't know that the rock was just underneath the surface. As the farmer sowed, he didn't see the roots of the thorns waiting to choke out some of the seed. All of those things about the soil were hidden. They only became revealed later after the seed was sown and it started growing. The seed revealed the different soil types. According to Christ, the seed stood for the Word.
Now it's true that there are other places in the gospels where the Lord Jesus uses this image of the lamp or the light and then he uses it to speak about the believer. "Let your light so shine before men," and so on. But here the context demands that we see the lamp as the Word of God that reveals something, that opens something up which has been previously hidden. And this is confirmed when the Lord Jesus says in verse 23, "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear." He's repeating what he said in verse 9 after he told the Parable of the Sower. So, this has to do again with the hearing of the Word.
The message of this passage builds on that of the Parable of the Sower. The Parable of the Sower told us to be the good soil. This passage tells us that the Word, like a lamp, exposes what lives in our hearts and recognizing that is supposed to bring about a certain response – we'll get to what that response is in a moment.
For now consider that this revealing light of the Word was set on a lampstand in Christ's day and it still is. The Word must be publicly proclaimed. It's not designed to be hidden but to shine! That's how it will do its work.
Furthermore, this lamp is not weak. It's not going to burn out or fade away. The light of the Word is intense, we're talking about thousands of candlepower. And this house where the light shines intensely, it's a special house, it's the house of God's covenant. Remember: Christ was speaking to God's covenant people at this moment. The light powerfully penetrates into the darkness and exposes the reality of who each person is. Hebrews 4:12-13 uses a different image, but the message is exactly the same: "For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account." You see, as a child of the covenant, it's impossible to hide from the lamp of God's Word. That's reality.
That reality existed in the days of our Lord Jesus. He brought his preaching to the covenant people of his day. That preaching exposed people for who they really were. There were some like the disciples who received the Word in faith. But there were others, many others in fact, who were more like the poor types of soil.
The reality of what God's Word does still exists today. Today we still hear the preaching of the Word. It continues to function as a lamp or an x-ray. Loved ones, most of us were born into God's covenant. Others among us were brought in at later stages. Whatever the case may be, you cannot hide from this intense light shining into your heart. The light is still burning and it still discriminates, it still distinguishes the good soil from the bad. It shows what really hides in our hearts.
We've come to verses 24 and 25. The Lord says, "Consider carefully what you hear." In the parallel passage in Luke, we hear him saying, "Consider carefully how you hear." In Mark it almost sounds as if Christ is focused on the variety of things you could hear, and saying that it's important for believers to pick the right things to hear. That's possible, but given the parallel and given the context, I don't think it's likely. We could paraphrase what Christ is saying here by putting it this way, "Consider carefully what it is you are hearing at this moment." Consider carefully that what you are hearing is indeed the Word of God.
I suspect that none of us have a problem with Christ's preaching being the Word of God, being on exactly the same level as the Word of God written in the Old or New Testament. But what about preaching today? Is the preaching of the Word of God the Word of God? Well, consider what Paul said to the church at Ephesus. So far as we know, the Lord Jesus had never been to Ephesus. Ephesus is in Asia Minor and the Lord Jesus spent his ministry years in Palestine. But in Ephesians 2:17 we read that Christ "came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near." But Jesus Christ never visited Ephesus! How can it be that he preached there? It was through the preaching of Paul. Paul's preaching was Christ's preaching. Paul's words were the Word of God to the Ephesian believers. And while Paul's words in the letter to the Ephesians were inspired by the Holy Spirit, we have no indication that every word which Paul spoke was of that same character, as if every utterance of an apostle was infallible and inspired. But yet Paul's preaching was Christ's preaching. We find more such passages in the New Testament to tell us that when the Bible is preached faithfully by one of God's servants it is the Word of God. If you want one more example, consider Hebrews 13:7 which speaks about those who had spoken the Word of God to the early Christians. So, consider carefully that what you are hearing when you listen to faithful preaching is indeed the Word of God and not the mere words or opinions of a man.
The Lord Jesus goes on to say that "with the measure you use, it will be measured to you – and even more." Here again Christ uses these same words elsewhere in a different context. Here they don't have anything to do with judging others. Rather, here it has to do with how we regard the Word of God. If we hear the Word and judge it to be the Word of God that has authority and power in our lives, there will be blessings for us in great abundance. However, if we hear the Word and judge it to be the opinions of a man that we can take or leave, we will not receive blessings, but rather the opposite and in great abundance. Another way of saying this is that you will get out of it what you put it into it. If you put faith in it, it will bless you. If you regard it with disbelief or contempt, nothing good will come from that.
Christ builds on this with what he says in verse 25, "Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." Let's take this piece by piece. First, "whoever has will be given more." That means that when a covenant member hears the preaching of the Word and by God's grace embraces it and accepts it, then he will be richly blessed. There's good news: tremendously rich blessings are in store for the covenant people who respond in faith to the preaching of Christ. Perhaps when he said this our Saviour was thinking about the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the church. How could any believer not regard that as being given more? Today we too have the Holy Spirit of Christ living in us and what a blessing that is! Christ guides us with his Word and Spirit and blesses us richly in this way. But there are also many other blessings.
When we speak about these blessings, it's not about the superficial, external things. It's about the things that really matter. Things that matter for eternity. When you have faith in Christ and receive the Word like good soil, you have pardon for your sins. You have been forgiven much! Savour that thought for a moment. Find delight in the fact that all your sins, not just a part, but the whole has been erased with the blood of Jesus. Your sins were nailed to the cross. As if that weren't enough, you have the blessing of being declared positively right with God. All of Christ's perfect righteousness is yours! You have peace and reconciliation. You're adopted into God's family. You have a Father who loves you and has a healthy, good relationship with you. Wonderful, isn't it? You have the guarantee that the Father who created you also knew your name and chose you, you!, before the foundation of the world. You have holiness, joy, assurance, confidence that you can approach your Father with all your needs. And you have the blessing of knowing that he will respond in the way that's best for you. You have the blessing of knowing that nothing can separate you from the love of God in Christ. When you have trials on this earth, you can know that even these will be turned for your good somehow, some way. You have the promise of a glorified body with no aches and pains, no more grief, no more sorrow. You can look forward to life eternal in the new heavens and new earth. All these things will be added unto you when the preaching of the Word reveals faith in your heart. Loved ones, to be blessed like this, repent and believe the gospel as often as you hear it. Hear the Word and accept it with joy immediately, deeply and exclusively.
Yes, wonderful blessings are there. There's plenty of good news. But our Saviour also speaks about bad news, about a curse for whoever does not have: "…whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." This is a serious warning that we all need to hear. It means that when a covenant member hears the preaching of the Word and by his own fault rejects it, he is in a world of trouble. If he does not have faith, any blessings that God has graciously given him in his life will in due time be completely removed. A covenant member who rejects the promises and rejects the Lord may have earthly riches in this life. God will take them all away when he dies and he will have nothing. An apostate covenant member may have good health in this life, he may live to be 80 or 90. He will die and when he does, God will take away any notion of good health in the hereafter. He will suffer eternally. A person born in the covenant who rejects Christ for salvation may have a fairly happy family life or a successful business. God will take it all away in due time and he will be left with nothing but God-forsakenness and brokenness.
Look at the example of the Jews of Christ's day. They were covenant people who had been given wonderful promises. But without Christ and without faith in him, those promises were nothing. In fact, the lack of faith led to negative consequences, to a hardening of their hearts and to curses. They could not reject Christ and his preaching with immunity. Judgment came upon Israel for her disbelief. In 70 A.D., God's wrath was poured out when the Romans sacked Jerusalem and the Jews were dispersed all over the Roman empire. That happened because the lamp of Christ's preaching, the x-ray exposed their hearts for what they really were.
And this means that the church today could be the most dangerous place on earth for you to be. If we think that we're safe here or that we're on neutral ground if we go on rejecting the preaching of the Word, not living out of faith in Christ, if we treat the proclamation of God's Word with contempt, and we think that's okay, then we're dead wrong. If that's the way we think, the church is not a sanctuary or a refuge for us, rather it's the place where the sword of God's judgment hangs precariously over our heads. That sounds negative and it is, but that is exactly the message that the Lord Jesus was giving here in Mark 4. Loved ones, listen to his message. See how rich we are with God's promises. Do you want a good summary of what he's promised you in the Bible? Look at the Form for Baptism. The Triune God richly promises us so much in his Word. Pay attention to this warning against covenant breaking and ensure that the Word exposes faith in your heart. Fix your eyes on Christ your Saviour and be saved from the wrath which is to come.
The lamp of the Word of God continues to shine and it results in either judgment or salvation. Therefore, beloved, consider carefully how you listen. Let me urge you, don't be foolish and unbelieving. Don't be a hypocrite. If you choose that route, there will be nothing but curses and eternal misery for you. Instead, let's be that soil that God's light reveals to be, by his own grace, deep and rich. Let's be careful to receive God's Word with faith as it's preached each Sunday. Looking to Christ, we will receive the strength to do that. He will more and more fill us with his Spirit so that we delight in the Word, that we find it sweet for our souls.
Your Word is not only a lamp for our feet, it is also a light shining into our souls. We pray Lord God that your Word would find faith in each of our hearts. We pray that the shining of your Word would be salvation for each one of us your people. Father, we ask that the Word would not expose unbelief and lead to judgment. We thank you for your covenant promises signed and sealed to each one of us in our baptism. As we hear those promises proclaimed each Sunday, help us to accept them and believe them freshly and with joy each time and again. Father, guard us young and old in your truth and in your ways. Help us always to fix our eyes on Christ our Saviour. We pray in his name, AMEN.


This movie is about Santa Claus, Jack Frost, The Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman in a war against the Boogeyman. That's all that needs to be said about it and it's exactly what you'd expect it to be like.
The boogeyman is a villain that never gets redeemed. At one point he asks Jack, the Guardian of Fun, to team up with him, but that doesn't really go anywhere. They could have had an angle where Jack makes him realize that scary things can be kind of fun, and he'd actually be accepted and LIKED, with halloween as his main day to shine. It's about the sense of adventure exploring the unknown and overcoming dread. It's kind of a necessary element, when you think about it. When there isn't a small dose of fear and trauma in life, what's the point of all the good stuff?
But it doesn't go down like that. Boogey just... loses. Kind of a missed opportunity.
What's with all the silly accents? Russian Santa? Australian Easter Bunny? In a way I kind of like it, but it feels out of character for the established mythic figures they're based on.
I thought it was about owls.
That's Legend of the Guardians...I definitely thought that was the movie being discussed when I read the thread title.
That's odd, since I only know the books (the ones about owls, that is), I automatically think of them as The Owls of Ga'hoole, not something with Guardians in the title.
All in all this is an awesome movie. Easter Kangaroo FTW.
So I'm the only one who thought of Decree of the Skree 3 when reading the title?
Who of the what now?
I've never gotten around to playing any of that trilogy, though tentatively they're on my to-do list along with every other Keen mod I've never played or completed.
We need a keen mod about alien holiday owls.


One of Bach's finest works for violin and continuo; live video from the Voices of Music Concert featuring Carla Moore, baroque violin, William Skeen, baroque cello, Hanneke van Proosdij, organ, and David Tayler, archlute.
Organist Sean Jackson plays Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor. This is the 8th in a series of monthly performances. See Dr. Jackson's Blog at seanjacksonmusic.com/blog for the other performances in this series.
What Would Bach's Music Look Like in 1950s Neon?
►J.S.Bach-Suite No1.In G Major BWV 1007 /Arr for Guitar by Nigel Bradford.


Big sounds, musical depth and standing ovations rang out in Uihlein Hall Saturday night during Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's program of music by Bartok, Tchaikovsky and Still.
Shaham gave a commanding, powerful performance of the Bartok concerto, playing with a big, warm sound that was full of sometimes-bold and sometimes-subtle shifts in timbre and color.
Her performance was about more than just power and sound. Shaham brought emotional depth to the piece, from soaring first-movement statements and glowing energy in the final movement, to exquisitely voiced and shaped phrases in a deeply expressive second movement.
Weilerstein and the orchestra responded to her expressive, sonically rich interpretation as though engaging in a heartfelt conversation. Frequently looking over his shoulder at Shaham's hands, Weilerstein created a seamless performance that brought the audience to its feet.
The themes of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique") may be etched in the minds of music lovers, but somehow that familiarity makes hearing the piece in a live performance something to be anticipated rather than taken for granted.
From heavy sighs in the strings, delivered in the thick, plaintive sounds that are part of Tchaikovsky's musical signature, to strong, rousing brass lines, fluid solos from various instruments and audience-enveloping full-orchestra sounds, this was an engaging, exciting performance.
Weilerstein and the orchestra played with precision and superb communication, both between podium and players and between individuals and sections.
They brought elegance and grace to Tchaikovsky's long, achingly beautiful phrases, crackling energy built of taut playing and brisk tempos to more strident, martial sections and artful, soulful expression to solo passages.
The evening ended with a standing, cheering ovation.
The evening opened with a riveting performance of William Grant Still's 1944 "Poem for Orchestra." Weilerstein and the Milwaukee Symphony gave a taut, well-balanced performance of the expressive, cinematic piece.


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Q: MPI crash with unblocking send and recv I have written a solver with MPI but it crashes or hang on when the number of tasks is larger than 80 on a cluster. Sometimes, it crashes and sometimes it hangon with the changing of the testing code and with the changing of the task number. At first I thought there might be some memory leak before the failing point which result in the failure. But After some testing, I found that even I only do a simple data transfer at the beginning of the solver, it also crashes. This time it only crashes without hang on.
My question is:

*

*Is there any mistake in the subroutine TestMPI() which results in the crash?

*If the answer to the first question is no, what is the possible reason of this crash?
Thanks!
I attached the solver as following, the function of the data transfer is:
void TestMPI()
{
    int check = 1;
    MPI_Bcast(&check, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);

    int N_region = 0;
    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &N_region);
    int mpi_Rank=0;
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mpi_Rank);

    MPI_Request * reqSend_test = new MPI_Request [N_region];
    MPI_Request * reqRecv_test = new MPI_Request [N_region];
    MPI_Status * status_test = new MPI_Status [N_region];

    MPI_Status statRecv;

    int cnt_test(0);
    double * Read_test = new double[N_region];
    double * Send_test = new double[N_region];
    for (int ii=0; ii<N_region; ii++)
    {
        if (ii == mpi_Rank)
            continue;
        int tag = (ii) * N_region + mpi_Rank;
        MPI_Irecv(&Read_test[ii],1,MPI_DOUBLE,ii,tag,MPI_COMM_WORLD,&reqRecv_test[ii]);
        cnt_test++;
    }

    cnt_test = 0;
    for (int ii=0; ii<N_region; ii++)
    {
        if (ii == mpi_Rank)
            continue;

        Send_test[ii] = mpi_Rank;
        int tag = (mpi_Rank)*N_region + ii;
        MPI_Isend(&Send_test[ii],1,MPI_DOUBLE,ii,tag,MPI_COMM_WORLD,&reqSend_test[ii]);
        cnt_test++;
    }

    //MPI_Waitall(N_region-1, reqSend_test, status_test);

    char fname [80];
    sprintf(fname, "TestMPI_result%d", mpi_Rank);
    FILE * stream = fopen(fname,"w");

    fprintf(stream, "After MPI_Waitall send\n");
    fflush(stream);

    for (int ii=0; ii<N_region; ii++)
    {
        if (ii == mpi_Rank)
            continue;
        MPI_Wait(&reqSend_test[ii], &statRecv);
        fprintf(stream, "After Wait Send %d\n", ii);
        fflush(stream);
    }

    for (int ii=0; ii<N_region; ii++)
    {
        if (ii == mpi_Rank)
            continue;
        MPI_Wait(&reqRecv_test[ii], &statRecv);
        fprintf(stream, "After Wait Recv %d\n", ii);
        fflush(stream);
    }

    fprintf(stream, "After Start Test\n");
    fflush(stream);

    //MPI_Waitall(N_region-1, reqRecv_test, status_test);

    MPI_Bcast(&check, 1, MPI_INT, 0, MPI_COMM_WORLD);

    fprintf(stream, "After MPI_Bcast\n");
    fflush(stream);

    fclose(stream);
}

The main function calling this data transfer function is ( The code before calling the TestMPI() is to create the simulation folder for slave tasks. )
    int main(int argc, char* argv[])
    {

        int ISV_LIC = 17143112; // For Platform Computing mpi initialization
        MPI_Initialized(&ISV_LIC);

        int threadingUsed = 0;
        MPI_Init_thread(&argc, &argv, MPI_THREAD_MULTIPLE, &threadingUsed);

        int mpi_Rank=0;
        MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mpi_Rank);

        if (mpi_Rank == 0)
        {
            std::cerr << "solverok" << std::endl;
            std::cerr.flush();
            AnsDebug(ACHAR("3dtds-main"), 1, ACHAR("After solverok\n"));
        }

        AString simulationDir_master;
        AString simulationDir;
        AString tempDir;

        simulationDir_master=argv[argc-3];
        ANSOFT_CHDIR(simulationDir_master.ANS_ANSI().Str()); //simulationDir_master;

        mpi_BcastEnvVariables();

        bool no_temp_dir_override;
        no_temp_dir_override = false;
        for (int ii=0; ii<argc; ii++)
        {
            if (strcmp(argv[ii], "no_temp_dir_override") == 0)
            {
                no_temp_dir_override = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        AString Dbname;
        Dbname=argv[5];

        AString versionedProductName;
        versionedProductName = argv[argc-4];

        AString InstallDir;
        char InstallDir_c[MAX_PATH];
        ANSOFT_GETCWD(InstallDir_c, MAX_PATH);
        InstallDir=AString(InstallDir_c);

        if (mpi_Rank != 0)
        {
            if (!no_temp_dir_override)
            {
                tempDir=argv[argc-1];
            }else{
                RegistryAccessNgMaxwell reg;
                tempDir = reg.GetTempDirectory_Reg(versionedProductName,InstallDir);
                tempDir =  tempDir.Left(tempDir.size()-1);
            }

    #ifndef NDEBUG
                tempDir = "E:/temp";
    #endif
            CreateSimulationDir(mpi_Rank, tempDir, Dbname, ACHAR("maxwell"), simulationDir);
            ANSOFT_CHDIR(simulationDir.ANS_ANSI().Str());
        }

        char fname [80];
        sprintf(fname, "RecordMPI%d",mpi_Rank);
        FILE * stream = fopen(fname,"w");

        fprintf(stream, "Before testMPI\n");
        fflush(stream);

        TestMPI();

        fprintf(stream, "After testMPI\n");
        fflush(stream);

        fclose(stream);

        MPI_Finalize();
    }

The output files of task 79 is the following which shows the crashing point.
    After MPI_Waitall send
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Pregnancy Hepatitis B Antibody Screening and Vaccination
For a study, researchers sought to assess the cost-effectiveness of universal screening and immunization for hepatitis B immunity among pregnant women in the United States. They created a decision-analytic model to assess the outcomes, costs, and cost-effectiveness of universal hepatitis B virus (HBV) immune screening during pregnancy with vaccination of susceptible people versus no screening. A national cohort of 3.6 million women was chosen, which is roughly the number of live births in the United States each year. In addition to cost and quality-adjusted life-years, outcomes included HBV cases, hepatocellular cancer, decompensated cirrhosis, liver transplant, and mortality (QALYs). The model's inputs were drawn from the literature, and the willingness-to-pay threshold was set at $50,000 per QALY. The robustness of the data was assessed using univariate sensitivity analysis and Monte Carlo simulation models.
In a hypothetical cohort of 3.6 million women, universal HBV immunity screening and vaccination led to 1,702 fewer instances of HBV, 7 fewer cases of decompensated cirrhosis, four fewer liver transplants, and 11 fewer deaths throughout a woman's postpartum life expectancy. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for universal screening and immunization was determined to be $1,890 per QALY. Sensitivity evaluations revealed that the model was resilient even when HBV immunity was prevalent and the yearly probability of HBV acquisition was low. In the United States, universal HBV immunity screening and vaccination of vulnerable individuals was more cost-efficient than not screening and vaccinating pregnant women.
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The tragic midair crash over the Hudson River that killed nine people last Saturday was caught on a chilling home video.
The video, shot by a tourist aboard a boat on the Hudson and obtained exclusively by NBC News, captures the moments before and the stunning impact when small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter shortly after noon that fateful day.
Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected to impose tighter visual flight regulations in the Hudson River corridor.
Ray LaHood, secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, said today that an FAA working group will deliver recommendations within two weeks based on past suggestions from the National Transportation Safety Board.
"We're gonna speak loudly. We know there are some things we can do immediately," LaHood said. "But I can't prejudge (the working group). We're gonna get it right."
The video, which is sure to provide clues to the NTSB, came to light as it was revealed that the air traffic controller handling the small plane was chatting with his girlfriend on the phone at the time of the incident.
What's worse, according to the FAA, is the controller's supervisor was not present in the Teterboro Airport tower at the time of the accident either. Yet, both trangressions are not believed to have played a role in the collision, according to officials.
"While we have no reason to believe at this time that these actions contributed to the accident, this kind of conduct is unacceptable and we have placed the employees on administrative leave and have begun disciplinary proceedings," the FAA said in a statement.
The NTSB, however, objects to the FAA's statement that the controllers' actions didn't contribute to the crash.
"The role that air traffic control might have played in this accident will be determined to the NTSB," the agency said in a statement.
The disturbing video appears to show the plane making a desperate, last second attempt to turn to the right to avoid hitting the climbing chopper. The plane then appears to rear end the helicopter. The video shows the plane's left wing striking the chopper's main rotor blades. The left wing then breaks away as the plane flips over and over.
The chopper, with its main passenger compartment appearing intact, then plunges into the water like a rock. Nine people died in the crash; six aboard the chopper and three who were on the plane.
After the impact, gasps, shrieks and cries of "mamma mia" can be heard aboard the tour boat before the shooter puts the camera down.
While still on the phone, the controller handed off the Piper to the control tower at Newark Liberty International Airport, which monitors low-flying air traffic over the Hudson but doesn't actively try to keep aircraft separated, they said. When the plane departed Teterboro, there were several other aircraft in its vicinity, NBC News has learned. But the Teterboro controller had already switched the plane to Newark frequency.
By the time Newark controllers contacted the Teterboro controller to tell him to warn the pilot about traffic in the area, it was too late. The Teterboro controller tried to radio the pilot but got no response. Remember, he'd already told the pilot to switch frequencies to Newark control.
The controller was still on the phone when the accident occurred. Both towers got an automated warning of impending collision at 11:52:54 a.m. Neither of the controllers remember seeing the alert. The crash occured 20 seconds later. The entire sequence of events lasted only a few minutes.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association released a statement saying, "We support that any such allegation is fully investigated before there is a rush to judgment about the behavior of controller."


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Camel Corps Forming Square to Receive Enemy's Attack. "Sketch by our special artist, Mr. Melton Price." Source: The Illustrated London News 86 (7 February 1885): 163. Click on image to enlarge it.
Using the Square Formation in Combat — From the Battle of Abou Klea, 17 January 1885
It was bravely decided to go out and engage the enemy at close quarters. At two p.m. the force was to march out in square, carrying nothing except ammunition and stretchers. Each man was to take a hundred rounds and to have his water-bottle full. Every thing was put into thorough readiness for this enterprise. Lord Charles Beresford, with Major Barrow, remained in command of the inclosure, or zereba, containing the animals and stores. They had under them the Naval Contingent, the 19th Hussars, a party of Royal Engineers, and Captain Norton's detachment of Royal Artillery, with three screw-guns, and details from regiments and men of the Commissariat and Transport Corps.
"It was nearly three o'clock before the square started, Sir Charles Wilson in command, and Colonel Boscawen acting as Executive Officer. Lord Airlie, who had been slightly wounded at Abou Klea, and again on the 19th, together with Major Wardroper, served upon Sir Charles's staff, as they had done upon General Stewart's. The square was formed to the east of our inclosed defence, the troops lying down as they were assigned their stations. The Guards formed the front, with the Marines on the right front corner, the Heavies on the right and right rear, the Sussex in the rear, and the Mounted Infantry on the left rear and left flank. Colonel Talbot led the Heavies; Major Barrow, the Hussars; Colonel Rowley, the Guards ; Major Poé, the Marines; and Major Sunder land, the Sussex Regiment. Captain Werner, of the Rifle Brigade, was told off to direct the square in its march towards the river. When the order was given for the square to rise and advance, it moved off to the west to clear the outlying work.
"The instant the Arabs detected the forward movement on our part, they opened a terrific rifle-fire upon the square from the scrub on all sides. In the first few minutes many of our men were hit and fell. The wounded were with difficulty picked up and carried. When the square slowly marched, as if upon parade, down into the grass and scrub-covered hollow, intervening between the works we had constructed and the line of bare rising desert that bounded our view towards the south and east—shutting out of sight the river and the fertile border slopes—all felt the critical movement had come.
"Steadily the square descended into the valley. Gaps were made in our force by the enemy's fire. As man after man starvered and fell, these gaps were doggedly closed; and, without quickening the pace by one beat, onward our soldiers went. All were resolved to sell their lives dearly. Every now and again the square would halt, and the men would lie down, firing at their foes hidden in the valley. Those sheltered behind the desert crest were too safely screened to waste ammunition upon at that stage. Wheeling to the right and swinging to the left our men fought like gladiators, without unnecessarily wasting strength or dealing a blow too many. A more glorious spectacle was never seem than this little band in broad daylight, on an open plain, seeking hand-to-hand conflict with the courageous, savage, and fanatical foe, who out numbered us by twelve to one.
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Camel Corps Forming Square to Receive Enemy's Attack
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O hameau de la Reine é um anexo do Petit Trianon localizado nos terrenos do Palácio de Versalhes, em Yvelines, França. Esta agradável aldeia foi encomendada durante o inverno de 1782 - 1783 pela rainha Maria Antonieta que queria fugir dos constrangimentos da corte de Versalhes, com a nostalgia de uma vida mais rústica, num cenário natural inspirado nos escritos de Rousseau, um pequeno paraíso onde o teatro e a festa a fariam esquecer sua condição de rainha. Este lugar rural, que também era uma fazenda, marcou a influência das ideias dos fisiocratas e filósofos do Iluminismo na aristocracia da época. A construção foi confiada ao arquiteto Richard Mique por inspiração da aldeia de Chantilly e os desenhos do pintor Hubert Robert.

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St Edmund's Church, Fenny Bentley is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Fenny Bentley, Derbyshire.

History

The church dates from around 1300. It was restored between 1847 and 1850 by Henry Isaac Stevens and Frederick Josias Robinson. The west tower was rebuilt in 1864. New stained glass windows were installed in 1892 by Edward Reginald Frampton. It contains a 16th-century stone screen and the Elizabethan tombs of Thomas Beresford (died 1473) and his wife, upon which the effigies are shown bundled up in shrouds, possibly because the sculptor had no likeness to work from.

Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with
St Michael and All Angels' Church, Alsop-en-le-Dale
St Peter's Church, Parwich
St Leonard's Church, Thorpe
St Mary's Church, Tissington

Memorials
Richard Fitzherbert (d. 1790)
Thomas Beresford (d. 1473)

Organ

The church contains a pipe organ by Brindley & Foster. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

See also
Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire Dales
Listed buildings in Fenny Bentley

References

Church of England church buildings in Derbyshire
Grade II* listed churches in Derbyshire


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Georgia results
Around the world, election results sometimes take time to call
An Indonesian election worker prepares ballot boxes to be distributed to polling places in Jakarta in April 2019. (Tatan Syuflana/AP)
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Assistant Editor, Foreign desk
November 4, 2020 at 5:13 p.m. UTC
Around the world, especially in wealthy democracies, voters are used to seeing a candidate declare victory in major national elections, and the opposition concede, soon after polls close. But in some countries, official counts, and in certain cases results, can take longer to solidify.
"It is not at all unusual for election counting results to take a little longer," said David Carroll, director of the Atlanta-based Carter Center's democracy program. The center, which typically monitors elections in developing countries, deployed to monitor the U.S. election for the first time this year. "The time frame that's required for elections can vary widely depending upon how complicated the terrain is, logistically speaking, to get election results back to headquarters, the communication system to get that information back, and how close and contested the results are."
In Brazil, a federal election body releases a tally on election night. In many other countries, including the United States, every last vote takes longer to count. But a clear winner often emerges on election night, nonetheless, or the next day at the latest. French President Emmanuel Macron accepted victory with a rousing speech the night of the May 7, 2017, presidential election. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson addressed his country the morning after general elections Dec. 12, 2019, in which his party saw a landslide win.
What is unique about the United States is its reliance on a decentralized electoral system for choosing the president, compared with some form of a central election administration common in other countries, Carroll said. "All other countries have a system where there is a central [election] office and sub-offices," he said. "In our country it is run, overseen and counted at a state level."
Washington Post reporters asked people around the world who would be better for their country, Joe Biden or President Trump. (The Washington Post)
Sometimes, though, as the United States saw Tuesday in its presidential election, the margins of votes counted are too close to call a victor. Although no Election Day in the United States has ended with all the votes tallied — and the boom in voting by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic has posed new challenges for states struggling to keep up — President Trump has used the delayed results to sow doubts about the legitimacy of the vote, without evidence.
"Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted," he tweeted Wednesday morning, while votes in the United States were still being tallied and the election remained undecided.
The Trump administration has not taken a similar line on elections abroad. In a statement on October parliamentary elections in the country of Georgia, U.S. officials praised the "high voter turnout" and urged voters to be "patient and allow the process to be conducted in a calm, peaceful, and respectful manner in accordance with Georgian law and international standards and practices."
Not all countries expect an election-night winner, either. In some countries, including Afghanistan and Iraq, votes take weeks or months to count in response to corruption claims. In other places, such as Israel and Sweden, high turnout or complicated processes can drive a longer results timeline.
Here are examples of elections around the world in which a clear victor did not emerge right away.
On April 17, 2019, Indonesia held the world's largest same-day direct presidential election, in which more than 192 million people were eligible to vote. It wasn't until more than a month later that the winner, Joko Widodo, was announced — on May 21, one day ahead of schedule.
The country's voting process is a monumental democratic undertaking, with 800,000 polling stations and 6 million election workers. Unlike in the United States, the count is conducted largely in public and by hand.
It took days for Swedes to learn the results of general elections in September 2018. The country of about 10 million people saw its highest turnout that year since 1985, with more than 6.5 million votes cast for the election held Sept. 9.
The count was not finished until Sept. 14, with officials citing the unusually high turnout and the close result. After all the votes were tallied, the country remained in political deadlock for longer as parliamentary parties jockeyed over seats, with no clear majority in sight.
For many countries with parliamentary systems, a vote total sometimes looks more like the beginning of the election process than the end, as factions wrangle to form a new government.
Israel's citizens vote for national political parties, which are allotted seats in the legislature based on the percentage of votes received. The leader of the party with the most votes then ideally forms a ruling coalition. But on the night of elections, when initial exit polls are released, analysts remain cautious: They have repeatedly proved tenuous as counting continues and the percentage of allocated seats in parliaments shifts, sometimes decisively.
That was the case in April 2019, during Israel's first of three elections within the past year. On election night, opposition candidate Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party declared victory after election polls from two of the three main Israeli television channels showed his side ahead. Soon after, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did the same, citing another exit poll. As more votes continued to be counted, the balance of votes and seats shifted conclusively in favor of Netanyahu's bloc of right-wing parties. Gantz conceded defeat the following day.
Afghanistan held elections Sept. 28, 2019, amid spikes in Taliban violence, with low turnout and widespread accusations of fraud and misconduct. Logistically, there were concerns over new biometric devices to collect voter data, but the public was also on edge after a disputed presidential election in 2014 nearly tore the country apart. The results were slated to be announced Oct. 17 but were delayed by recounts, and it was only in February that an official winner, President Ashraf Ghani, was named.
Ghani and his opponent, Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, both declared victory. After a further impasse, they signed a power-sharing agreement in May.
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Carp's slam leads Cards in opener, but Cubs grab twinbill split
Cardinals open four-gameseries with Reds Thursday
Andrew Seligman AP Sports Writer
Published 8:14 pm CDT, Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Cardinals third baseman Max Schrock (55) tags out Cubs' Nico Hoerner (2) at third base in the seventh inning of Game 2 of Wedcnesday's doubleheader in Chicago.
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CHICAGO — David Bote hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the seventh and final inning, Adbert Alzolay pitched five solid innings in his first start of the season, and the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Wednesday night to split a doubleheader.
St. Louis' Brad Miller hit a tying RBI single in the bottom of the sixth against Jeremy Jeffress (2-1). But the Cubs quickly answered.
Playing as the visitor in the nightcap because the game was a makeup from a postponed series in St. Louis from earlier this month, the Cubs loaded the bases against Andrew Miller (0-1) on singles by Kyle Schwarber, Willson Contreras and Nico Hoerner with one out. Bote, whose pinch-hit, hit three-run homer won the second game of Monday's doubleheader, then lined a single to center against Giovanny Gallegos, making it 4-2 and propelling the Cubs to their third win in four games.
Craig Kimbrel, who lost the closer's job after a shaky start to the season, worked the seventh for his first save. He struck out Kolten Wong after hitting Tommy Edman with two out to close out an unusual five-game, three-day series.
In the opener, Matt Carpenter belted a first-inning grand slam and the Cardinals beat the Cubs 9-3. St. Louis held Chicago to two hits in the seven-inning game even though shaky starter Jack Flaherty only recorded five outs.
Alzolay gave the Cubs what they were looking for in his third major league start, holding the reigning division champions to an unearned run and two hits. The 25-year-old right-hander struck out six and walked one after being called up from Chicago's alternate site in South Bend, Indiana.
Johan Oviedo went five innings for St. Louis in his major league debut, giving up two runs and two hits.
Flaherty gave up a leadoff homer to Ian Happ in the first game, his first start since a season-opening win over Pittsburgh.
The right-hander struggled to locate his fastball and issued what he described as "pretty out-of-character walks." But he got plenty of help.
Carpenter drove a rope to center in the first against Alec Mills (2-2) for his second career grand slam. Tommy Edman had three hits and Kolten Wong scored four runs.
Flaherty threw 41 pitches, walked two and exited with the bases loaded after hitting Nico Hoerner with an 0-2 pitch. Austin Gomber struck out Happ to end that threat and escaped another bases-loaded jam in the third when Jason Kipnis grounded out.
Tyler Webb (1-1) got four outs for the Game 1 win. Baseball's seven-inning doubleheader format, implemented this season to help teams push through a frequently disrupted 60-game schedule, allowed St. Louis to use four relievers for 1 1/3 innings apiece after Flaherty's exit. No team has been more disrupted than the Cardinals, who were sidelined for more than two weeks by a COVID-19 outbreak.
John Gant and Ricardo Sánchez finished the game for the Cardinals, with Sánchez allowing the Cubs' only other hit — Josh Phegley's two-run homer in the seventh.
Mills lasted lasted 3 2/3 innings, allowing six runs and seven hits.
"Just one of those days where I didn't have the feel for much out there," Mills said. "I wasn't able to throw many pitches for strikes today. Fastball command wasn't as good as it has been. Made the wrong pitch to Carpenter. He just hit it out of the yard. He did what he was supposed to, so not good."
Cardinals: Manger Mike Shildt expects C Yadier Molina to return soon, while INF Paul DeJong might need more time. Both players, along with INF Rangel Ravelo and RHP Kodi Whitley, have been working out after being cleared by Major League Baseball. All four were sidelined by COVID-19. Shildt said Molina was asymptomatic. … LF Tyler O'Neill started both games after being scratched Tuesday with a hand issue.
Cubs: 3B Kris Bryant missed his third consecutive game after getting an injection Tuesday for his ailing left wrist. The 2016 NL MVP was hurt on a diving attempt on César Hernández's flare to left field in the fifth inning of a 7-2 victory at Cleveland last week. … LHP José Quintana (thumb surgery) is scheduled to throw a simulated game on Friday.
GOMBER ACTIVATED
The Cardinals activated LHP Gomber from the injured list prior to Game 1 and optioned RHP Ryan Meisinger to their alternate training site. Gomber was placed on the IL because of a potential concern in contact tracing, though he did not test positive for the coronavirus.
Cardinals: The Cardinals open a four-game series against Cincinnati on Thursday, with RHP Adam Wainwright (2-0, 1.64 ERA) going against RHP Sonny Gray (4-1, 2.05). Wainwright got the win in the opener of Saturday's doubleheader against the White Sox — the Cardinals' first game since July 29.
Cubs: LHP Jon Lester (2-0, 2.74) gets the ball as the Cubs open a three-game series against the crosstown White Sox at Wrigley Field on Friday. LHP Dallas Keuchel (3-2, 3.07) starts for the South Siders.


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Blackham expands Matilda to 1.4Moz
September 20, 2012 /in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally Graham
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Blackham Resources (ASX:BLK) has reported a Resource Estimate for the M3 deposit at the company's Matilda gold project.
The M3 deposit is estimated to contain 755,000 tonnes at 1.7 grams per tonne gold for a total of 42,000 ounces of gold.
The combined Matilda project estimate has grown to 23 million tonnes at 1.9g/t gold for 1.4 million ounces of gold.
"The M3 deposit is crucial to unlocking the value of the Matilda project due to its strategic position between the larger deposits of M1 and M4," Blackham Resources explained in its ASX announcement.
Blackham's revised gold resources at the Matilda Gold Project are summarised below:
Source: Company announcement
Resources at the Matilda Mining Centre have now reached 682,500 ounces of gold, which Blackham claims has consolidated its position as the largest gold endowment within the Matilda project.
The company expects to be able to increase this further expected when the M8 deposit and other prospects are estimated.
The completion of the M3 resource has also highlighted that lodes from M1, M2, M3, M4 & M5 deposits are part of a large mineralised system (Figure 1).
Matilda Mining Centre showing combined resource models and drilling targets. Source: Company announcement
"Within this system there are a number of areas with little or no drilling that if tests prove successful, may provide additional resources as well as a positive impact on the mining economics around these deposits," Blackham said.
"As the company shifts its focus towards development, priority will be given to improving the confidence of resources and ultimately converting resources into reserves."
Blackham will commence a 3,000 metres RC drill program next week to focus on infill and extension zones around the M1, M3 and M4 deposits.
The company and the drilling contractor have agreed 50 per cent the drilling contract will be paid in Blackham shares.
"The company is delighted with the recent growth of the Matilda project," Blackham said.
"In less than 12 months the resources have grown over 350 per cent.
"The Resource base is now sufficient to consider development options which would see the company become a producer in the near-term."
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