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The Jacob Prasch Files No.10: Inglorious Praschtards And The Handbook For Decapitators of Gay Nazis
November 18, 2020 December 27, 2020 by powerplaypause
In 2019 I uncovered 8 startling articles about Jacob Prasch and the formation of his cult in Australia from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Now, nearly a year later I've found a couple more, one from the late 1990s, and today's tenth one that is pure lunatic.
The 9th article revolved around Prasch's involvement in Hectorville Christian Community Church in a suburb of Adelaide, Australia in the second half of the 1990s, where he took already hurting people and medicated them with his idiotic half-baked half-Jewish teachings of extreme separationism and Midrash, poisoning them fatally with his own concoction of Hebrew Roots. The once 200 member church was reduced the way any community gets reduced in number when it gets widely poisoned. The 9th file gave an overview of the apparent result of the longterm exposure to an idiot like Prasch, and with the near collapse of the church I'm pretty certain Prasch would have explained it to not be the result of his poisonous teaching but, with his Midrash-tinted glasses on, he'd have interpreted it as evidence they were merely Jesus's "remnant" and the smaller it got then the more evidence that was of their chosen remnant nature, such is Prasch's ability to interpret literally anything to his advantage. In other words, as a quack physician, Prasch would present the malady as the cure, and the greater power of the malady was evidence the cure was 'working'.
With the near collapse of Hectorville Christian Community Church in the early 2000s, I thought I'd research what happened to it in the years following Prasch's fool involvement, and lo and behold, according to old issues of Prasch's magazine Moriel Quarterly, Prasch and his mates still frequented the remnants of Hectorville Christian Community Church in 2008, 2010, and 2017:
Bickle outside Court in 2011 facing contempt of court proceedings
The pastor now of Hectorville is Kevin Bickle, with the group now called a 'Fellowship' rather than a 'Church', probably due to small numbers. What is certain, unfortunately, is this 'remnant' are basically the people who couldn't be driven away or killed off by Prasch's poison and have become hardened in their askew worldview, imbued with an indestructible ignorance as seen in all Prasch's Ultra cult members. How do I conclude this? Well……that's because Hectorville's current pastor and long-term associate of Prasch, Kevin Bickle, has, like Prasch, become infamous in Australia. He gads around as The Adelaide Street Preacher, and produces deliberately incendiary 'Christian' tracts. On 21st July 2017 it was reported by BuzzFeed News that Kevin Bickle had the week earlier commissioned postal service The Australia Post to deliver 60,000 flyers equating homosexuals to….Nazis:
Australia post unknowingly handed out anti-gay flyers with nazi imagery
By LAne Sainty, BuzzfEEd news reporter, Australia
Australia Post unwittingly delivered anti-gay flyers with Nazi imagery to homes in Victoria, before realising what was inside the envelopes and urgently pulling the delivery.
The flyer, titled The Death Of Reason…and the rainbow walk to insanity!, shows a digitally-altered image of rainbow flags in Sydney's Taylor Square merged with a building displaying Nazi swastika flags.
It was distributed in white envelopes titled "The Rainbow of Reason" to houses in Melbourne's St Kilda, and the regional Victorian town Shepparton – both home to a substantive and vocal LGBTI community.
The lengthy text on the flyer makes several comparisons between Nazi propaganda and the LGBTI community, rails against consumerism and invasions of privacy, and ends with a call to God.
"So Hitler's invasion of the personal privacy of children in the 1930's [sic] is the same totalitarian invasive influence of today," the flyer reads.
"He used the same means, only now the pornography of power that is state propaganda has morphed from Nazi political perversion into perverted gay activism for abnormal 'marriage' equality."
An Australia Post spokesperson told BuzzFeed News: "As soon as we became aware of the contents of this flyer, we immediately withdrew it from distribution from our delivery network because it is against our terms and conditions."
The flyer directs readers to a website that claims to be a "handbook for Christian radicals". It contains several downloadable flyers and posters on various topics, including LGBTI rights, the internet, Israel, Charles Darwin and atheism.
The man behind the flyer is Adelaide street preacher Kevin Bickle, who runs the website along with other street preachers. He told BuzzFeed News the flyers were a "personal effort" rather than the work of an organisation.
"We weren't trying to be controversial, but we knew it wouldn't be popular," he said.
Bickle said he originally commissioned Australia Post to deliver 60,000 of the flyers last week, but was contacted earlier this week saying they wouldn't be delivered anymore. He declined to comment on how much he had spent on the flyers.
It is understood the flyers were delivered as part of the Unaddressed Mail Service (UMS) through which people and organisations pay to have unaddressed material delivered to homes in a certain area.
The UMS terms of services require all text and images in the items delivered to meet "acceptable community standards of reasonableness, honesty and decency".
Australia Post reserves the right to refuse to deliver anything which doesn't meet those standards or that is defamatory or offensive.
Bickle told BuzzFeed News: "We're talking against homosexuality, but not against the homosexuals."
"The tract is not a simile between LGBT people and Naziism. I would never do that. It's just a look at the means by which consumerism promotes things through mass media that extrapolates the effects in our day and age."
"You actually have to read it. You have to spend 15 minutes reading it and soaking it up. It's not by any means a quick look at and say 'this is unsuitable'. You have to actually read it and let it sink in."
"To be honest with you, I could not see any other way of making it simplified."
Bickle said St Kilda and Shepparton were not targeted for their LGBTI presence, and the flyer is also slated for distribution in "at least four other areas". He declined to name the suburbs or towns.
Chair of the Jewish civil rights group the Anti-Defamation Commission, Dvir Abramovich, told BuzzFeed News he had been contacted by Australia Post with an apology on Friday after he spoke out publicly against the flyers.
In an email to Abramovich seen by BuzzFeed News, an Australia Post staff member wrote that that the content of the flyers had initially gone unnoticed as they were inside envelopes.
"It shocks the conscience that such virulently anti-gay rhetoric has invaded the homes of residents in Melbourne, promoting its message of hate and exploiting the Holocaust to demonise the LGBTQI community and those supporting marriage equality," Abramovich said.
"Imagine the fear and intimidation a young person will feel after being confronted with such repulsive slurs."
Damien Stevens, a Shepparton resident and publicity officer for local LGBTI group Goulburn Valley Pride, told BuzzFeed News he received one of the "appalling" flyers in his letterbox earlier this week.
"The content is shocking, the content is appalling, it's disgusting, it's hateful, it's inaccurate," he said. "The very small amount of people who will take the time to read it will hopefully see the information for the rubbish that it is."
Stevens said he'd spoken to people in Shepparton who had also received the mail directly from the postman, or in with their normal mail – as opposed to a regular "junk mail" drop.
"The feel is that it was an Australia Post delivery, not junk mail," he said.
Stevens added that such flyers only served to invigorate Shepparton's vibrant LGBTI community.
"Shepparton has worked so hard for 20 years to ensure we have an inclusive, supporting, caring community. We're very proud of what's happening here and this kind of material only continues to inspire our efforts."
Lane Sainty is the editor of BuzzFeed News in Australia and is based in Sydney.
The Prasch connection
Apparently Kevin Bickle had arranged the mass propaganda flyer drop to coincide with the aforementioned Prasch visit, because in Prasch's Moriel Quarterly second quarter issue from 2017, Prasch had stated he'd be in Australia from "mid-July":
Moreover, on an archive of Prasch's formerly cluttered website moriel.org, Prasch had given the exact timing of his visit to Bickle's Hectorville Christian Fellowship as 24th July:
What is flat out insane about Kevin Bickle's deliberately inflammatory tracts is their inflammatory content can be sourced directly back to Bickle's visiting minister and associate Jacob Prasch. Here is the website of Bickle's referenced in the BuzzFeed News article:
The website is called Goliath's Sword (goliaths-sword.com) and states "WELCOME TO GOLIATH'S SWORD AND HOW TO DEFEAT THE 'BEAST' OR 'SYSTEM OF UNBELIEF' IN YOUR WORLD:
"You can bring sinners to Christ with the Gospel, that's not a problem, but you have to cut off the head of the 'Beast' with its own sword to defeat the 'system' that enslaves them."
And after a long gallery of the the 'Christian' tracts on offer, it reiterates the brutality of its Islam-like belief system that requires "Christians" engage in "dismembering":
That language is directly from Prasch's teaching on David & Goliath, a particularly notorious segment I've referenced multiple times as evidence of Prasch's fool ability to interpret himself into anything in the Bible via looking at the Bible through his Midrash-tinted glasses. Here is the segment snippet from Prasch's idiot teaching on David & Goliath from what appears to be the 1990s and was produced for Moriel Australia (the video below should start mid-video, but if not skip it to Prasch's lunatic statements found between 49:00 and 52:30):
Kevin Bickle has built his ministry and therefore life upon Prasch's utterly idiotic interpretation of David & Goliath that one must use the enemy's sword (books, etc) to "dismember" and "defeat the system that enslaves them", an interpretation that is itself internally contradictory since if someone comes to Christ they are no longer 'enslaved' to a 'system' so have no need to "decapitate" that system. However the fool belief perfectly sums up where Prasch has gone wrong: he isn't satisfied with the Gospel, he wants bloodletting and revenge and power. The very notion that Prasch and his followers are to go around 'decapitating' things, and grandstand over the corpses is pure Hammer Horror, yet being aware that Prasch takes in those who have been hurt by false Christian movements—the thing Hectorville was founded upon—it makes perfect sense that he'd put into those people's mind the notion that Christianity is about revenge and bloodletting and destroying people, because hurting people are primed to want to hear that.
On Bickle's website there are other references to Prasch, where he has taken Prasch's audio and turned it into snippets to blast on unsuspecting civilians in public places as a means of attacking them:
So basically Kevin Bickle has an Ark of the Covenant ghetto blaster and inside it is Prasch's pronouncements that, when unleashed, will destroy people:
Some of the tracts Bickle has produced in his echoing of the lunatic cult leader Prasch are so low quality that they could be taken as parody or "shitposting", such as this Santa Claus one, the file of which reveals it is indeed authored by Bickle:
So to Kevin Bickle, not only are gays to be lumped in with Nazis, also jolly ol' St. Nicholas is found quoting Satan in the Temptation of Christ! Like, what good are these tracts meant to do? Is a child meant to realise, 'Oh, when I wrote that letter to Santa I was actually writing to Lucifer! I'd better cancel that Christmas order!', or 'If I'm gay that means I'm actually a Nazi! I'd better reform!"?? These tracts are only any good for the people handing them out as they are doing damage to people they are given to so the deliverer can experience some of that desired revenge/carnage involved in the fool belief he/they are decapitating Goliath's head. What type of a Christian witness is that? Well that's the Prasch Cult's 'Christian' witness; it is the lying about and demeaning of various targets as a means to satiate the cult members' desire for blood and revenge.
The header for Goliaths-Sword.com is the claim the Prasch-sourced material available on it is "A Handbook for Christian Radicals" who are "Fighting For The Faith":
A more appropriate description would be The Handbook For Decapitators of Gay Nazis, who are Fighting To Satiate Their Bloodlust.
Prasch himself has a history of declaring his opponents as Nazis, as the Diakrisis team in Australia found a few years ago, when those Christian authors made the dread mistake of….disagreeing with Prasch. He made a couple of efforts to kill them off over the years to satiate his bloodlust.
Due to Prasch's thirst to spill Australian blood compared to Bickle's, it's no surprise to find that Prasch in 2008 had Kevin Bickle on the Moriel Australia council (alongside Peter Danzey whom Prasch years later attacked in one of his many witch-hunts on Bill Randles):
It's not like now Prasch can attempt to distance himself from Kevin Bickle and Goliath's Sword because 2 years after widespread reporting on Bickle's tracts, Prasch was back to visiting Bickle, with Bickle arranging one of the stops on Prasch's infamous Fall World Tour I made the 5 minute warning film about the days before it started in 2019:
As Bickle's deliberately offensive and widely reported and ridiculed tracts are pretty much the end result of accepting wholesale the idiot theology and fool methodology of Jacob Prasch, I speculate it's partly the reason why Prasch rages so intensely against apologists and evangelists who manage to deal with difficult topics like homosexuality and transgenderism in a graceful way, such as Dr. Michael Brown (who has authored books on the topics), and Dr. James White (who has debated on the topics), for whilst the doctors can sit in conversation with those who disagree with them as they freely debate and reason through things, Prasch's system is to demean, ridicule and violently DECAPITATE those who disagree with him. And it was likely because of these type of extremist beliefs spewed by Prasch from the mid 1990s to as recently as September 2019 in Adelaide, that led to Prasch, his Moriel group and his followers being added by Brisbane's Cult Information Service to their list of "Extremist Groups — Destructive and Manipulative Sects — Cults — High Pressure Groups" from at least 2003.
To learn more about the lunatic cult Jacob Prasch has created, begin wading through the flood of information I have chronicled:
David Pawson's 1998 Report on Prasch's Behaviour
Prasch Damns His Own Chosen Arbiter David Pawson!
Prasch the "Malevolent and Breathtakingly Ungrateful Thug"
Moriel Australia Inc. & Prasch's "List of Imaginary JW Supporters and Heretics"
"Head-kicking" Benny Hinn, and "Culling" Moriel's "Aunt Maybel" Subscribers
Prasch: Pastor or Predator?
Prasch: "Women Are Vulnerable to Spiritual Seduction More Than Men Are"
Australian Cult Information Service Places Moriel on List of Possible "Extremist Groups/Destructive and Manipulative Sects/Cults/High Pressure Groups"
Half-Jewish Poison Comes To Hectorville
Inglorious Praschtards And The Handbook For Decapitators of Gay Nazis
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Tim Wirth says:
I'm no fan of Michael Brown most of all since he has declared there is no NAR (which he is a part of). But concerning this post "Shades of Jack Chick".
powerplaypause says:
The irony of the Prasch Cult claiming rivals are Nazis is they themselves have quite a few similarities, what with their dictatorial führer, the cultic fervour surrounding that führer, their propaganda, their assault against innocents, their Police hunting down rivals, their obsession with the Jews, their scapegoating of people to blame for calamity, their false Jesus, their mystecism, their refusal to surrender, their scorched earth policy, and their Ultra members who cannot see their sin as sin.
Yea so I guess that makes James a brown shirt and Amos a brown nose.
Amos getting word he's being accurately described online again:
That ought to drum up some comments. Wait. Still waiting for Amos to prove he was ever behind a drum kit. Hope he teaches James A Prasch how to do a paradiddle the correct way.
Amos Farrell's as-yet unsubstantiated claim:
Makes me wonder if there's more than just one Walter Mitty in the Prasch Cult.
I think that Amos and James just have a double straw for Jack Daniels. And Prasch will talk about being road manager for Blondie and Lister working fo Elvis. These guys lie so much they have no real grasp on the truth
Seriously about Blondie??!!
Also Prasch claims to have known all The Ramones (all conveniently dead), and met John Lennon (conveniently dead), sent a book to George Harrison (conveniently dead), partied with Mick Jagger at Mick's birthday in NYC (giving two differing locations in his two retellings), and there's his boast of having slept with one of the wives of The Rolling Stones:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZZFxfgEToMpe/
I was in a band that toured and opened for the Ramones (Marky was on the drums at that time). I have the pics to prove it. Prasch never mentioned that one to me. He supposedly was in the hospital room with George Harrison when he gave a CS Lewis book to George and had the book thrown at him. The story and book changed so much I just stopped listening. The guys a habitual liar. Come on Amos show us the pictures. lol. Sounds a little like they both have a touch of delusion
I've compiled the recorded claims about Prasch's music connections. Additionally I've called out Amos to provide evidence to back up his wild claims. Also a certain third individual has to hand himself into the Police in Memphis: https://powerplaypause.blog/2020/11/22/james-jacob-gump-the-man-who-killed-elvis/
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Андраш Шике (;  , Егер, Угорська Народна Республіка) — угорський борець греко-римського стилю, дворазовий бронзовий призер чемпіонатів світу, срібний та бронзовий призер чемпіонатів Європи, чемпіон Олімпійських ігор.

Біографія

Боротьбою почав займатися з 1975 року. У 1983 році став бронзовим призером чемпіонату світу серед молоді. У 1984 — став другим на європейській молодіжній першості. Виступав за борцівський клуб з Будапешта «Ferencvárosi Torna Club-Müfémszer».

За першу команду Угорщини почав виступати з 1985 року. До 1988-го особливих успіхів не мав, найкращі досягнення на континентальних і світових першостях: 4 місце — на чемпіонаті Європи 1987 року і 16 місце — на чемпіонаті світу того ж року.

На чемпіонаті Європи 1988 року виграв свою першу медаль на турнірах найвищого рівня — бронзову, а через чотири місяці на Олімпіаді в Сеулі став чемпіоном, подолавши у фіналі представника Болгарії Стояна Балова.

Наступного року вперше став бронзовим призером світової першості, а ще через рік здобув срібну нагороду на чемпіонаті Європи 1990, поступившись у фіналі турніру Патрісу Мур'є з Франції.

У 1991 на європейській першості став п'ятим, а на чемпіонаті світу здобув свою другу бронзу. Ця нагорода стала останньою у спортивній кар'єрі Андраша Шике.

У 1992 він взяв участь у другій своїй Олімпіаді, але на змаганнях, що проходили в Барселоні, став лише десятим, програвши два поєдинки, в тому числі представнику Німеччини турецького походження Рифату Їлдізу, у якого виграв на попередній Олімпіаді.

Після цього у 1993 знову став п'ятим на чемпіонаті Європи, а на двох наступних континентальних першостях посів чотирнадцяте і сімнадцяте місця, після чого завершив кар'єру борця.

Після завершення активних виступів на борцівському килимі перейшов на тренерську роботу. У 2015 році призначений головним тренером збірної Угорщини з греко-римської боротьби.

Спортивні результати

Виступи на Олімпіадах

Виступи на Чемпіонатах світу

Виступи на Чемпіонатах Європи

Виступи на Кубках світу

Виступи на інших змаганнях

Вшанування

Спортивна школа боротьби в рідному місті Андраша Шике Егері була названа на його честь.

Примітки

Посилання

 Профіль на сайті wrestling.ncp.ru ,
 Олімпійський профіль на сайті sport.references.com

Уродженці Егера
Угорські борці греко-римського стилю
Олімпійські чемпіони з греко-римської боротьби
Угорські олімпійські чемпіони
Чемпіони літніх Олімпійських ігор 1988
Борці греко-римського стилю на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1988
Борці греко-римського стилю на літніх Олімпійських іграх 1992
Угорські тренери з боротьби
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"ANTI" Album Review
by Al Chin February 4, 2016
There's a dreaded thing that can happen to works of art that are long overdue. The eagerness and excitement felt by the artist's audience can, during a slow-burning wait, transform into restlessness and doubt. The abstract concept of "hype", is not merely an escalating incline that seems to have no end, but a large wave that overtime, can go back down into nothingness from leaving fans hungry for too long a time. Rihanna's 8th album, "ANTI", has shown that her delayed hesitated uniquely-timed delivery has not only exceeded the original hype, but cements her as an artist of this generation for its ability to stay within the scope of Rihanna's unique style.
After numerous delays, rumors, and three singles (none of which are on the album), ANTI finally released this past Friday for exclusive streaming on Tidal (with mass distribution coming next week). The first three tracks (especially "Consideration"), set a well-defined feel for an album that will remind listeners that Rihanna is going to do things exactly the way she wants to do them, whether people like it or not. ANTI's introduction captures the energy she's projected publicly over the past few years and will keep you enwrapped in her character throughout the rest of large, 16-song project, as it goes through well-crafted highs and lows. This idea of varying levels of energy section-by-section is a quality much too forgotten in today's market dominated by radio singles, and is certainly a welcomed feeling.
In terms of tone and subject matter, ANTI defines the musician who created it and nothing more; being a major pro with an understandable con. The way Rihanna aggressively sings about sex in the Timbaland produced track, "Yeah I Said It", or how she pays dues to her West Indian roots in the dancehall love song "Work" (featuring Drake), all stays defined in Rihanna, herself. There's no larger picture that lets us hold up some kind of imaginary mirror to the face of music, telling us where music is going, or what that says about society. But if ANTI tried to do that, would it really project the, "I do me and nothing else" persona Rihanna fans have come to treasure her for? Not a chance in hell.
ANTI isn't an album that will define the current generation, but rather, is a dynamically introspective piece defining a top artist of the current generation. Making it pretty damn valuable in its own right.
Royal Blue Rating: 4.5/5


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Newark, New Jersey: One of New Jersey's only television stations will be hosting events in Essex County soon.
News 12 New Jersey's weekly 'On the Road' feature will be filmed on Friday, July 29th in Newark and Friday, August 5th in West Orange, according to the Edison-based station. News anchor Della Crews and Meteorologist Dave Curren will report live from the Lincoln Park Music Festival as part of the Newark 350 celebration, and Curren will join reporter Vanessa Freeman the following week at the Turtle Back Zoo.
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AI and DAM: A Pick 'n' Mix Approach To Automated Metadata?
July 26, 2018 By Charles Russell in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is here to stay; much like the way blockchain technology has been hijacked and eclipsed by the frantic rise and fall of cryptocurrency, so too has AI been prematurely blasted from the over-zealous scattergun of emergent technology and hyped as the next big thing before it has reached …
Resurrecting The Advanced Search: A Boolean Visualisation Tool
July 20, 2018 By Charles Russell in Enterprise Search
Whilst wandering through the once vibrant and bustling ghost town of DAM innovation, I recently came across an interesting little nugget caught amongst the tumbleweeds. Strangely familiar, yet subtly different from its common predecessors, 2dSearch is a project that's aiming to resurrect the mother of unused features – the …
AI & DAM – The Value Of Process And Data Accuracy To Enhance Contextual Awareness
July 4, 2018 By Charles Russell in Artificial Intelligence
Peter Flood, CEO of AIDA Content Management, has recently published an article on LinkedIn entitled The Value of Accurate and Precise In-Frame Metadata or Dealing with the Current Impenetrable Fog of AI, in which he ponders the current state of AI within DAM and the possible negative effect …
UK Government's Archive To Investigate Blockchain Technology
June 8, 2018 By Charles Russell in Blockchain
For the more imaginative, concepts such as mistrust in government, document tampering and questionable provenance might conjure up scenes from The Ipcress Files, JFK or tales of cold war espionage and conspiracy. However, amidst the saturation of our information channels with fake news and a growing trend towards truth by …
Blockchain Adoption – Overcoming Immutable Caution
April 27, 2018 By Charles Russell in Blockchain
Against the backdrop of hype, promise and innovation, real-world adoption of blockchain technology has been markedly slow. While many businesses and organisations have shown a willingness to learn more about distributed ledger technology (DLT), the overwhelming array of available options (many of which appear to offer the same thing), has …
DAM Apocalypse – Brandfolder Integration Swells The Horde
April 27, 2018 By Charles Russell in Vendors
A genre that's become as tenacious as its undead agitators, the zombie movie has been with us for over half a century now. In comparison, innovation within the DAM sector appears to have already reached the rigor mortis stage and the whiff of decomposing imagination is beginning to wrinkle the …
File-Sharing Versus DAM: A Narrowing Of Widen's Vision?
Nora Gehin, from Digital Asset Management vendor Widen has recently published an article pitting file-sharing platforms such as Dropbox and Google Drive against dedicated DAM systems. It's an argument that – aside from being overcooked – consistently manages to over-simplify the comparison and fails to identify the core underlying differences …
Bytom Blockchain Tech: Bridging The Atomic And Byte Worlds
Crypto news website CryptoSlate have recently published an article 'Introduction to Bytom (BTM) – A Digital Asset Layer Protocol'. Bytom's mission statement, outlined in their whitepaper, is "to bridge the atomic world and the byte world, to build a decentralized network where various byte assets and atomic …
Aprimo Presents New Tools For Content Marketing, Creatives And DAM
March 27, 2018 By Charles Russell in Vendors
Marketing and asset management outfit Aprimo have recently announced a couple of innovations for content marketers and creatives: a rather unimaginatively named ideation tool called 'Idea Lab', and the Article Editor, which 'enables content marketers to support text-based content along with rich media content in one single, easy-to-use interface'.
Aprimo's …
IPV Announces Launch Of Curator 2.0
Media solutions outfit IPV has just announced the release of a new version of its asset management system. Presented as an all-in-one media asset management suite, Curator 2.0 is due to be showcased at the 2018 NAB show in Las Vegas.
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A Glimpse Into The Future Of Blockchain Technology
March 6, 2018 By Charles Russell in Blockchain
An interesting little nugget has recently appeared on the Coindesk blog, entitled 'In 10 Years We Won't Have Blockchains'. Its author, and Vice President for blockchain at Talla.com, Will Murphy, posits that the term 'blockchain' will no longer be meaningful in the future. He begins by summarising the …
Evolphin Announce Zoom 7 Media Asset Management Software
February 1, 2018 By Charles Russell in Vendors
Evolphin have recently published a press release outlining a new version of their Zoom Media Asset Management (MAM) solution. Now in its seventh year, this latest release represents a comprehensive and mature platform equally suited to content creators, marketing departments and publishing outfits, and aims to manage the total lifecycle …
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package org.apache.causeway.core.security.authentication.standard;

import org.apache.causeway.core.security.authentication.Authenticator;
import org.apache.causeway.core.security.authentication.manager.RegistrationDetails;

public interface Registrar extends Authenticator {

    /**
     * Whether the provided {@link RegistrationDetails} is recognized by this
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    boolean canRegister(Class<? extends RegistrationDetails> registrationDetailsClass);

    boolean register(RegistrationDetails registrationDetails);

}

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Featuring the incredible song-writing and vocal talent of Detroit's Diviniti, this new release on Universe Music is a true modern classic and essential listening for the warmer months ahead.
With timeless Rhodes and organ jams driving the percussive rhythm, silky guitar licks swirling through the mix and a devastating one-minute piano solo, Diviniti's vocal talents lift the whole composition into the heavens and provide a track that's sure to be a massive hit for the funkier, sun-drenched floors this summer.
Remixes come courtesy of the ever-present M&S, Italy's Jonathan Meyer and label-mate Echofusion, bringing their own unique touch to the party. But for me, it's all about the original. Essential.


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The plaque is in Gandy Street, Exeter, EX4 3LF.
Gandy Street was the childhood home of both Colonel David COLLINS RM first Judge Advocate of New South Wales (1788-96) and first Lieut. Governor of Tasmania (1804-10) and George P HARRIS first Deputy Surveyor General of Tasmania (1804-10) and previously with Col. Collins at Port Phillip.
Erected 1999 by the Exeter Civic Society, the Royal Overseas League and the Collins Site Committee in Australia.
Plaque unveiled 24 March 1999 by Mr David Ritchie, Deputy High Commissioner for Australia.
Reminiscing one evening in a tent at the convict settlement in South Australia, the two men discovered they had grown up in the same Exeter street.
The Tasmanian "devil" (top) and "Tasmanian" tiger, engraved after drawings by George Harris.


Headbangers is a 5 track Street Fighter remix EP by A_Rival, award winner game composer and competitive Street Fighter player. Headbangers features remixes of five iconic Street Fighter character themes, Ryu, Chun Li, Cammy, Balrog, and Vega. EDM and Game Music fans are in for a treat with some of finest production quality heard on this franchise.
HeadBangers is out now on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play and more.
A_Rival is a music producer, DJ, and competitive fighting game player who's built a reputation in the Video Game Music and Fighting Game Community for a dedication to his craft.
With video game remixes dating back to the year 2000, Luke Alex Esquivel has contributed to fan projects and official game music. He's DJ'd at Evo, one of the largest fighting game tournaments in the world, and has produced music for countless promotions and events with his band Super Square.


Gilbertsville – A.D. Moyer Lumber – voted as the Tri-County area's #1 Window Dealer for 11 consecutive years, #1 Home Improvement Store four consecutive years, and #1 Contractor Supply Dealer in 2013 – is celebrating its 75th year of supplying lumber and building materials to southeastern Pennsylvania builders, businesses and homeowners.
"We are proud and honored to be celebrating 75 years in business," said Scott Moyer who co-owns and operates the company with his cousin, Terry. "As third generation owners, we grew up in the business and have toiled through a multitude of peaks and valleys along the way. It gives us great pride to welcome the fourth generation of family into the business and help them set up for success as our fathers did for us.
In 1939 the late Amandus D. Moyer purchased and disassembled the famed wooden roller coaster at the Sanatoga Amusement Park, followed by a coal cracker from the Pennsylvania coal region, and hauled the lumber to his home in Gilbertsville to be sold to his customers. That home became the present location of the company's Gilbertsville headquarters, and so the legacy of A.D. Moyer Lumber began.
Today, A.D. Moyer continues to be a viable contributor to the growth rates and economies of the communities it serves with employees that average more than 17 years experience each in the industry. The company is eternally dedicated to providing knowledgeable and reliable service, and remaining on the leading edge of incorporating the latest technologies of the industry into its business.
A.D. Moyer Lumber & Hardware, Inc. is a family-owned and operated business with locations in Gilbertsville and Pottstown that has been serving the Tri-County area of Southeastern Pennsylvania with quality building materials since 1939. A.D Moyer continues to be one of the few companies still offering free delivery on most items. Over the decades A.D. Moyer has built a solid reputation as a building-materials leader and generous contributor to area benefits, charities, organizations, and the scholastic and athletic endeavors of the area's youth. For more information, visit www.admoyer.com or call (610) 367-2036.


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US Health Group Toxicology laboratory is a premier provider of comprehensive clinical qualitative and quantitative urine drug testing, medication monitoring and support services. With 12 lab locations and plans to continue adding several new locations each year, USHG faced reporting and communication challenges that made it difficult for the organization to assess overall performance in addition to the status of specific clients.
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We, my curious potential backer, are [BeetleMilk]. We are a small indie collective operating out of Nashville, TN.
We originally were founded in Los Angeles, CA. That was four years ago, when we were still in college. Our lineup consists of myself, Devin McCrea (I go by Delta Green online), my wife Tatiana (Citrus Longhorn), and Brian Melgar (Scarab). We originally started out doing comics, but eventually branched out to other merchandise and art.
We are a successfully KickStarted company, with one of our comics, The RoadKill Club, getting fully funded in just over six hours.
We hope that you'll enjoy this KS and that you'll check us out - we are a very well established company that ships out products to customers daily. Check out www.BeetleMilk.com for more info!
If there's anything we love here at [BeetleMilk], it's beetles and junk food!
We believe that beetles get a bad rap, and not nearly enough credit for being the industrious, fascinating, and yes, cute, creatures they are.
To that end, we have created this set of enamel pins. Voted on by our fans, they were the most popular set out of three choices (You can find the other two sets here!).
The pins themselves will be beautiful. Around two inches each, They will be constructed of polished, hard enamel. They will be copper plated, and come with a lovely backing board for display. They will have www.BeetleMilk.com stamped on the back.
Cool! So, what can I get?
The initial offering will consist of the five pins, and at the highest tier, a TBA KickStarter exclusive pin. There will be a sticker set made of them, as well as patches. It's going to be amazing.
We have already run one of the designs, the Beetle Cake, as a proof of concept piece. Check it out!
The best part is that you don't have to get the whole set if you just want one or two. Just select your tier and we will get with you about which ones you want!
Those are some pretty sweet designs! But what if I want to get them later?
The first thing that has to be brought up is that this KS Campaign exists for a reason - Enamel pins are incredibly costly (ie, risky!) to make. The goal that we are aiming for includes the production of the pins, estimated shipping, and packaging. It ain't cheap, Bucko.
With that said, presuming success for this campaign, the remaining pins that don't go to backers will be available our website. We decided to do something interesting for this campaign, though - we made them much cheaper as a thank you for believing in the project. When they go on sale on www.beetlemilk.com, they will not feature the deep discount they do here. So I'd jump on it!
You mentioned stickers and patches earlier - how do I get those?
All you have to do is add it to your pledge and let us know which ones you want, and we'll make sure you get them. Reach out at beetlemilk27@gmail.com for additional info, or with questions!
I'm sold! Anything else I should know before backing?
Only that we love your face. We are glad to live in a time where potential buyers don't have to have corporations tell them what they like - they can, and do, decide for themselves. It's the ultimate expression of freedom and we are glad to be contributing to the indie scene that is flourishing today. We hope that you'll decide to back us, but even if you don't, you still rule in our eyes. Keep supporting the things that matter to you, and they will live on.
Enamel pins are very expensive to produce, and time consuming as well. Each design requires it's own unique mold. This is not much of an issue, but the possibility (although doubtful) exists that the enamel pins will come back to us incorrect. To make room for such an issue, we budgeted an extra two months after the close of the campaign to adjust. We will not send you an inferior product. Being in the indie space, we can't afford to cut corners and will not. These are going to be lovely.
As far as the stickers and patches go, we are working with a company that we know and trust, and don't foresee any problems. As a bonus, the turnaround time for stickers and patches is MUCH faster than enamel pins - we will be ready to do a video demo of them before the enamel pins come back.
All of this to say that we believe we have this process locked in. We budgeted extra time to be sure, but provided the rewards come back correct we will be sending everything off before the deadline. We also will do periodic updates, via KS message and video Q&A's. If you need to get ahold of us, it's easy! Our email is beetlemilk27@gmail.com!
Every dollar counts! Thank you for helping us make this awesome set happen!
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Events from the year 1813 in Ireland.

Events
26 July – Battle of Garvagh, County Londonderry: Four hundred Catholic Ribbonmen attempt to destroy a tavern in Garvagh where the Orange Lodge meet and are repelled by Protestants with muskets. This was commemorated in the song "The Battle of Garvagh".
10 September – the largest meteorite ever to fall on the British Isles lands at Adare, County Limerick. Now held in the Limerick Museum

Arts and literature
"Poetical Attempts by Hugh Porter, a County of Down weaver" published in Belfast.
The Patron, or The Festival of Saint Kevin at the Seven Churches, Glendalough painted by Joseph Peacock.

Births
6 January – Charles Lanyon, architect (born in England; died 1889).
3 February – Thomas Mellon, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge founder of Mellon Bank (died 1908).
2 June – Daniel Pollen, politician, ninth Premier of New Zealand (died 1876).
7 June – Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet, landowner and politician (died 1875).
6 September – Isaac Butt, Irish Conservative Party MP and founder of the Home Rule League (died 1879).
10 November – Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (died 1896).
14 November – Benjamin Lett, bomber and arsonist in America and Canada (died 1858).
19 December – Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist (died 1885).
Undated
Margaret Haughery, baker and philanthropist in New Orleans (died 1882).
John Skipton Mulvany, architect (died 1870).

Deaths
28 May – Edmund Garvey, painter (born 1740).
18 August – Friedrich Bridgetower, composer and cellist, brother of George Bridgetower, in Newry.
Autumn – Henrietta Battier, poet, satirist and actress (born c. 1751).

References

Years of the 19th century in Ireland
1810s in Ireland
Ireland
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In the United States, preserving potentially relevant information for litigation is the law of the land. With this focus on eDiscovery obligations, courts are typically less than forgiving when parties and their counsel withhold documents on the basis of data protection. Relying on foreign statutes to excuse the failure to produce data has often raised not only eyebrows but also suspicions about the withholding party's underlying motives.
But the recent, well-publicized implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives European data subjects far-reaching control over their personal data—a broad category that encompasses not just a person's name and birthdate but also demographic background, biometric data, health information, computer IP address and much more. Now, anticipating some pushback from U.S. judges, parties litigating cross-border matters must take steps to remediate the privacy issue before they appear in court.


on its acquisition of National Jet Italia for £30.7m, by way of a reverse takeover to gain admission to AIM. National Jet Italia advised by Denton Wilde Sapte and Linklaters & Alliance.
National Australia Group (NAG) has finally set up its first panel of preferred law firms for its European group following a protracted 18-month tender process.


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Hofamt Priel is a municipality  in the district of Melk in the Austrian state of Lower Austria north of the river Danube.

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The NSA Has The Master Key To Unlock Your Phone's Secure Messages
Kate Knibbs
Feb 20, 2015, 10:45am
According to top-secret documents given to The Intercept by Edward Snowden, British and American spies stole encryption keys from the largest SIM card manufacturer in the world. This is a huge deal because it means it could be way, way easier for the NSA to conduct widespread surveillance of encrypted communications without ever asking permission or even letting on that it's doing so.
With these stolen keys, the NSA and GCHQ (the British equivalent) have the ability to conduct surveillance on our phones without getting warrants or asking permission from telecom companies or foreign governments. The SIM card manufacturer, Gemalto, sells to over 450 wireless carriers worldwide, so the theft gives spies a tool to unlock an untold number of encrypted communications.
It's a hell of a heist, documented by The Intercept's team in highly disturbing detail:
Leading privacy advocates and security experts say that the theft of encryption keys from major wireless network providers is tantamount to a thief obtaining the master ring of a building superintendent who holds the keys to every apartment. "Once you have the keys, decrypting traffic is trivial," says Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union. "The news of this key theft will send a shock wave through the security community."
This is bad news for pretty much anyone with a phone, since it's highly likely that your phone contains a Gemalto-manufactured SIM card, and that means any attempts on your part to encrypt communications is futile. It's also bad news for governments other than the US and UK, since these encryption keys give them an easy way to spy in foreign countries without asking permission (that they'd never get). And it's really bad news for Gemalto, since the NSA and GCHQ cyberstalked and hacked its employees to obtain the keys.
Obama has been talking the talk about curbing abuses of power when it comes to surveillance, but reports like these highlight how broad and unfettered the NSA's spying missions are, and how thoroughly they shit on any notion of a reasonable expectation of privacy. This needs to end. [The Intercept]


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Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017)
Author: Brett Gallman
Submitted by: Brett Gallman Date : 2017-10-20 23:07
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Written and Directed by: Tyler Perry
Starring: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely
Reviewed by: Brett Gallman (@brettgallman)
You better not be trickin' again.
When Tyler Perry took his wildly popular Madea character trick or treating in last year's Boo!, I couldn't help but tip my cap towards the man: his style of humor isn't exactly my speed, but it's hard not to respect a guy who is very much doing his own thing, smuggling his own bizarre preoccupations and worldview right through the studio system—all while appealing to a marginalized audience that's typically overlooked by Hollywood. If nothing else, Perry's appeal can't be ignored, no matter how much he seems to operate at the fringes of the mainstream. However, with the release of the hastily-produced Boo 2!, I'm wondering if maybe someone shouldn't stage some sort of intervention and pull him back from whatever mean-spirited abyss inspired this follow-up. While most of Perry's films provide a glimpse into a mind that can be generously described as "askew," Boo 2! feels like an exercise in pure sociopathy. Considering the trash I have enjoyed and championed over the years, I am clearly in no real position to judge, but even I find myself taken aback by how dreadfully unfunny and downright mean this one is.
Set exactly a year after the events of the previous year, Boo 2! opens with Brian (Perry) "surprising" his daughter Tiffany (Diamond White) at school—just like he has for the past 12 years. Now an 18-year-old senior, Tiffany has grown tired of her lame dad, who had to gall not to give her a car on account of her irresponsibility; no worries, though, as her mom (Taja V. Simpson) and stepfather (Akende Munalula) toss her the keys to her own new vehicle, much to Brian's consternation. It's especially humiliating for him when his extended family (led by ringleader Madea) catches wind and chastises him for being such a feckless wuss. To make matters worse, Tiffany—looking to make amends for last year's debacle—decides she's going to attend this year's Halloween fraternity bash at a nearby lake where dozens of people were recently murdered.
Naturally, Madea and her crew try to intervene to disastrous results in more ways than one. Obviously, it leads to a madcap night full of over-the-top inanity, but it's also something of a cinematic debacle. Given how quickly this one was put into production, it's no surprise that the seams are evident, from some weirdly dubbed (and even flubbed) lines to the ramshackle plot—if, indeed, it can even be considered to have a plot. Not that the first Boo! was exactly a paragon in this respect, but this one feels virtually improvised, as jokes are recycled repeatedly and certain gags go on for far too long. It's never a good sign when a film grates within the first fifteen minutes or so like this one does: by the time you've watched Madea and company roast the hell out of her poor nephew, you'll catch the generally unpleasant vibe on display throughout as Perry takes every opportunity to sling around his brand of juvenile insult comedy.
Obviously, that has its appeal for some, and even I can recall being somewhat charmed (or maybe bludgeoned) by a handful of moments in the first Boo! Here, however, those charms are nowhere to be found. Diminishing returns (how funny can a joke be the second time around?) and uninspired gags conspire to create a pretty miserable experience. To gauge your tolerance for this second round of Madea Halloween madness, you'll need to figure out just how many times you'll want to endure Joe (Perry's old man alter-ego) uncomfortably hitting on young girls and making cracks about how Madea is actually a man. This isn't among the absolute worst Boo 2! has to offer, but the sheer number of times Perry draws from this toxic wells speaks to the dearth of imagination on display throughout the film. Like a class clown that got a couple of cheap laughs early in the semester, Perry mercilessly resorts to the same tired cracks without a hint of a setup or punchline—seriously, Joe continuously insisting that Madea "looks like a dude" is what counts as an entire joke here at least a dozen times.
Also considered to be a joke in Perry's comic sensibilities: pure, unfiltered misogyny. Look, I'm not going to act like the first Boo! (or, hell, any Perry effort) is high-brow comedy—if you'll recall, a large chunk of that film made light of child abuse and featured at least one scene where Madea insulted an overweight trick-or-treater. Some chuckles—however uncomfortable and wrongheaded they might be—can be gleaned from the sheer audacity of essentially daring the audience to laugh at it. Such is not the case here since the unseemly depiction of women—and the jokes directed towards them—are despicably unfunny. Not only are there "jokes" about how one should treat certain promiscuous women, but every woman character is a wildly dumb caricature.
If Brian's wife isn't being a shrew, then his daughter is being an ungrateful brat (thus undermining the entire point of the previous movie). One of the college girls only exists to be a maniacal stalker who's obsessed with meat-headed (but luxuriously maned) frat boy Horse, while Tiffany's best friend—the good Christian girl of the group trying to ward off his horndogs/sexual predators—is depicted as a total buzzkill. Madea's companions Bam (Cassi Davis) and Hattie (Patrice Lovely) don't fare much better: the former is defined by her weak bladder, while the latter is supposed to draw jokes from her speech impediment and perpetual horniness. These aren't characters—they're twisted vessels onto which Perry projects some pretty unseemly "humor" as he crafts an anarchic, almost amoral display of abject cruelty masquerading as a comedy.
Ironically enough, it takes aim at (or at least half-assed feigns at) sending up slasher movies, a genre that has invited critical bile and contempt for decades. If Perry can be commended for anything here, it's his willingness to at least try out a different mode this time out, even if he flubs the details, particularly when it pertains to the lore established here. It's typical backwoods hicks stuff—something about a pair of brothers slaughtering some teenagers some years back—but I swear these killers have at least three different names. At one point, everyone keeps talking about a singular Derrick, even though it's been established there are clearly two "killers," leading me to believe Perry cranked his out rather quickly. Either that or he knows his audience doesn't give a shit, especially since no one could reasonably believe this to be an actual slasher movie, what with all the "deaths" occurring off-screen and the shenanigans from the previous movie.
So no matter how much you'd really like to see some backwoods maniacs butcher this obnoxious collection of testosterone-soaked frat boys and their vapid companions, you know it's not meant to be. In fact, just about the only overt horror elements here involve a couple of goofs on The Ring (which feels straight out of a Friedberg/Seltzer atrocity from 2003) and Get Out (where the implications are…interesting, to say the least), plus some Halloween decorations at the lakeside party. Otherwise, it's much like its predecessor in the sense that it's mostly just a Madea movie with holiday trimming, only it's even been shorn of Perry's brand of incongruent moralizing. If Boo 2! carries any message at all, it's the awful, noxious insistence that men need to keep women in their place, whether it's their ex-wives or their daughters. I'd say we should be doing much better than this in 2017, but that would sadly be unfounded optimism given the current state of affairs.
But, then again, this is the sort of film that climaxes with a guy threatening to braid another dude's hair (?!) before it quite literally quits. Seriously, Boo 2! "ends" with a non-joke that segues directly into a blooper reel that doesn't even have the decency to play over the end credits. You sit there, waiting to be freed from its clutches, only to endure another five minutes or so of dumb outtakes that are supposed to serve as an ending. Honestly, I'm not sure if I should really be that mad about Boo 2! not even bothering to have a proper ending when the bloopers are pretty much indistinguishable from the movie itself. What's most important is that it does indeed end, albeit with the sinking feeling that I'll be sitting here a year from now talking about Boo 3.
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Somedays you just want to stay home and look pretty. I had no plans for this Sunday but I felt like doing my makeup and taking these shots to show you all this simple stay at home look.
The weather was perfect for the beach but like I said home was were my heart wanted to be. But to be honest who needs the beach when your surroundings look like this. If I really wanted to get a tan all I would need are my pair of shades and my beach towel to lay on.
Thank you for sharing Cassandra. I want to get back into reading as well. When you post your look make sure to share it with me.
Love the relaxed look! Your hair looks great!
I love love love your hairstyle. Did you braid your to get it curly or ??
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In Altered Beast enter a time when men were warriors and Gods ruled the world. A time of good against evil, a place of danger. Summoned by Zeus to rescue Athena, you will infiltrate the Underworld with the power to transform into mythical creatures with supernatural strength. Level 1: Become a savage Werewolf and use teeth and nails to shred your enemies to pieces. Capture 3 of the elusive Spirit Balls and you'll be transformed into a ferocious, fireball throwing Werewolf. Levels 2 & 3: Take flight as Weredragon and use fiery force to fry the followers of Neff. Creep across slippery crevasses inside a deep cavern as the crafty Werebear. Levels 4 & 5: Stalk the gates of the Underworld fortress as a man-eating Weretiger, a predator with no pity. Inside the inner sanctum call on Golden Werewolf's might to demolish Neff the demon - forever!
The graph below charts the compatibility with Altered Beast since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
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Wired - Chris Lattner (MS '02, PhD '05), creator of LLVM and Swift, described as "a rock star among software engineers," is one of several former Apple employees joining Tesla Motors.
TechCrunch - Chris Lattner (MS '02, PhD '05), creator of LLVM and Swift, has joined Tesla Motors as Vice President of Autopilot Software.
How secure are our airports?
CNN - In the wake of the Ft. Lauderdale shooting, CS Professor Sheldon H. Jacobson's op-ed explains why airports will continue to be targets.
Forbes - Former CS student Cory Levy, co-founder and COO of After School, was named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Chicago Inno - HackIllinois is heading into its fourth year this February. But this year, students are trying something a little different, and unique among collegiate hackathons--they're challenging participants to create sustainable open source projects.
Smile Politely - University of Illinois Research Park startup Veriflow Systems is expanding to One Main Plaza in downtown Champaign. Veriflow was co-founded by CS Professors Brighten Godfrey & Matthew Caesar and Dr. Ahmed Khurshid (PhD CS '15).
Chicago Inno - Illinois ranks 3rd in the US, and 14th in the world, for best student coders, according to a new list from HackerRank.
Chicago Tribune - A study from CS Professor Sheldon Jacobson shows that making PreCheck free for all travelers could save the TSA millions of dollars.
These 19-Year-Old Engineering Students Predicted Trump's Win. Here's How.
Chicago Inno- In June, Tweetsense, an Illinois startup by Cody Pawlowski (attended CS) and William Widjaja (ECE), correctly predicted Brexit. They also correctly predicted Donald Trump's win.
The News-Gazette - CS Prof. Sheldon Jacobson talked about the aftermath of the presidential election. A near-total swing in undecided voters to Trump was 1 of 21 scenarios laid out at the Election Analytics website, but most analysts discounted it.
WCIA News - With just days until the election, Trump is gaining in the polls, but Election Analytics, led by Professor Sheldon Jacobson, still has Clinton leading in the Electoral College.
The New York Times - Researchers are turning to more efficient algorithms as chipmakers approach the physical limits of silicon. CS Professor Marc Snir and collaborators at Argonne National Lab look to trade precision for efficiency to realize energy savings in supercomputing, while Ali Farhadi (PhD CS '11) leads work on efficient neural networks.
Los Angeles Times - Therese Tucker (BS Math & CS '84) is the founder and CEO of BlackLine, Inc., a cloud-based accounting software company, which went public on October 28 and is now valued at over $1.1 billion.
Fox Illinois - CS Professor Brighten Godfrey discussed a massive Denial of Service attack that took down hundreds of popular websites. "The scale of the attacks is increasing, and it's increasing rather quickly. DNS defenses haven't kept pace," Godrey said. "We need to limit the sources of the attacks directly."
Quartz - According to CS alumnus Max Levchin (BS CS '97), that the key quality that made PayPal successful was trust. "What made PayPal different was that in the crucible of a really difficult moment we'd say, 'you're the best in finance, you're the best in engineering. We're going to completely trust your opinion..."
WILL - "The U of I's Election Analytics show the state of Illinois comfortably in the Democrats' column in the races for both president and U-S Senate."
USA Today College - CS Professor Sheldon Jacobson's Election Analtyics website "doesn't predict the future; instead, the analytic tool provides a snapshot of the 2016 presidential election if it were held today."
The Daily Illini - "RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight are similar websites but the University's group believes it can actually predict the election better than these giants. The site's goal is to provide a clear idea of which candidate is statistically ahead, said Sheldon Jacobson, a computer science professor who created the website before the 2008 election. 'We're nonpartisan; we don't have any biases,' Jacobson said. 'We don't blog about it; we simply give you the facts.'"


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Голланд () — місто () в США, в окрузі Ла-Кросс штату Вісконсин. Населення —  особа (2010).

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у місті мешкала  особа в  домогосподарствах у складі  родин. Було 1346 помешкань

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,6 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 0,6 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 28,3 % — особи молодші 18 років, 63,4 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 8,3 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 39,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у місті припадало 107,8 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 107,5 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  долар для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 3,2 % осіб, у тому числі 0,6 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 5,9 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило  осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 29,2 %, роздрібна торгівля — 14,2 %, виробництво — 12,2 %.

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Feock Parish Council
FEOCK TRAILS
COMMUNITY/YOUR CHOICE
Feock Trails - History Information
The Carrick Roads and creeks
The Fal Oyster Fishery
The Fal oyster has been harvested from time immemorial and, in common with those of other estuarine fisheries in the UK, provided a staple food throughout the ages. During the 1840s oysters from the estuaries in the east of England became very scarce for a number of reasons and prices rocketed giving the Falmouth oyster industry a dramatic boost. At this time of bonanza, from 150 to 200 boats might have been seen on a fine day engaged in the fishery with minor fortunes being made as a consequence. In the following years, intensive commercial interests prevailed and large scale industrial boats were attracted from across the country prompting fears that the fishery would become exhausted. It was not until 1868 however that the current bylaws were introduced, by the Truro Corporation, which regulated the fishery to the non-mechanised techniques only. This action uniquely provided enforced stability and sustainability to the fishery and also provided a focus for the design and building of craft we now call the Falmouth Working Boats.
The picture below shows a Working Boat returning upriver after the days work.
In the later decades of the 1800s Pill Creek was the centre of the oyster fishery on the Fal, with Pill or Feock men holding over half the licenses. Whilst the oyster boats are now commonly called Falmouth Working Boats they might more fitingly be named after Pill or Restronguet as the best known traditional builders; Ferris, Hitchens and Brabyn hailed from shipyards in these creeks.
Frank Hitchens took over the yard at Pill in the 1870s, later moving to Yard Point near Penpoll. Whilst building a number of schooners of near 100 tons, he also launched several oyster boats, many of which survive today. Shadow was built in 1886 and is still working at Mylor, Victory, with her distinctive yellow and blue colours is a famous race winner despite the name change from the Royal Oak. Evelyn was built in 1896 and is now owned and raced by a Roseland syndicate.
William (Foreman) Ferris built a number of oyster boats also at Pill and Yard Point. Florence was built in 1895 and survives in the ownership of a St Mawes syndicate.
The fishery is also worked by the smaller Oyster Punts which are managed by oar. They are also called Tow Punts because they dredge over the stern while being towed by windless (called a Wink) towards an anchor dropped from the bow. William Ferris built a famous punt, The Green Parrot, which was so fast in its day that everyone wanted to row her in the many regattas. She has been lovingly restored by Geoff Trebilcock, William's great grandson, and is still gracing the waters of the Fal, as you can see in the picture below of her relaunch.
The relaunch of the Green Parrot after its recent restoration.
A pair of Tow Punts at Mylor
Written by Phil Allen


Digital Scotland's Brenda Conway with the Scottish Youth Parliament's Emily Davies; Year of Young People project worker Rebecca McQuaker; and Celebr '18's Hannah Birse.
Thanks to the programme, more than 890,000 premises are able to connect to the new network, which has now arrived in Dundrennan for the first time. Other areas to receive further deployment include Newton Stewart, Moffat, Beattock, Thornhill and Sanquhar. Each week the programme, one of the largest broadband infrastructure projects in Europe, reaches more remote and rural areas.
Local people need to sign up for the new, faster services with an internet service provider, as upgrades are not automatic. To help promote the fact that fibre is widely available in Dumfries and Galloway, the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband team were out in Lochmaben and Dalbeattie this week.
As part of the local rollout in Dumfries and Galloway some ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology is being deployed. FTTP sees fibre connected directly from the exchange to the premise and is capable of carrying speeds of up to 1Gbps2.
FTTP is being deployed by the programme in only a handful of areas where it is the best technical solution for the area. Some properties in places like Cummertrees, Collin, Gatehouse, Kirkgunzeon, Kirkcudbright, Newton Stewart and Lochmaben are among those to benefit.
"Many of these latest lines have been converted from a format once thought incompatible with high-speed fibre broadband, and we're also increasingly using ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) to deliver the network directly into individual dwellings.
"Finally, we are still bringing fibre to small communities like Dundrennan for the first time.


Following our tradition of working with and building long term, industry partnerships, the Professional Mountain Bike Instructor Association (PMBIA) is proud to announce official relationships with Whistler Mountain Bike Park, IMBA Canada and the Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors (CASI). After 11 years of PMBI Courses, the PMBI Association has been working tirelessly to increase the standards, consistency, and availability of mountain bike instructors courses, worldwide. These partnerships and collaborations further solidify the PMBIA's position as the industry leading standard, as we continue to develop and build our internationally available programs, with the best people in the mountain bike and instructor training industries.
While the PMBIA has been offering its Level 1 Instructor Courses in the Whistler Valley for many years, 2017 will see all courses also offered in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park, as the PMBIA becomes the official mountain bike instructor certification for Whistler Blackcomb.
"Over the years, PMBIA has developed an excellent curriculum that aligns well with the needs of our Bike School. We're excited to work with the PMBIA as our official certification provider for the mountain bike school and look forward to the potential this relationship brings to the Whistler Mountain Bike Park." Rob McSkimming, Whistler Blackcomb Vice President, Business Development.
Paul Howard, PMBIA Technical Director, during a level two Course in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park. The course covers extensive training for instructors to develop the technical skills of advanced riders.
"Since we began offering PMBI courses in Whistler over ten years ago, our goal has always been to help unite the mountain bike instructor training industry with a stronger, more relevant and professional, global certification. Higher quality training, more consistent instructor standards and worldwide availability. Signing with Whistler Mountain Bike Park, the best bike park in the world, is a natural fit for the world's leading mtb instructor certification.
As the PMBIA continually develops its programs and course content through its Advisory Committee, Course Conductors and Board of Directors, this relationship with Whistler Mountain Bike Park provides us with another superior resource to draw from, to ensure our programs are as strong and effective as possible." Paul Howard, Technical Director, PMBI Association.
Darren Butler, PMBIA Assistant Technical Director, training candidates on a Level 1 course in the North Shore.
"It is very exciting to be partnering the PMBIA and the global leader, Whistler Mountain Bike Park. PMBIA's long time goal of building an industry-wide standard for Instructor Certifications around the world reaches a new milestone with this relationship. For over ten years, we have been working tirelessly to get all of the bike parks, commercial operators and associations to come on board and support this cause and vision and Whistler Mountain Bike Park signing a partnership agreement with the PMBIA, is another big step. In conjunction with our recent partnership with IMBA Canada, this is a sign of great things to come in Canada and around the world!" Darren Butler, Assistant Technical Director, PMBI Association.
Whistler Mountain Bike Park's network of green and blue trails, along with their skills centres, provide the ideal environment to learn how to mountain bike for the first time, or for any rider to push their skills to the next level. Naturally, this also provides a perfect environment to train prospective instructors and guides.
"Having PMBIA as the official certification body for Whistler Mountain Bike Park is a natural progression for the Association. PMBIA is the clear leader in MTB certification courses in Canada and beyond; what better match for the number one MTB destination in the world. The PMBIA product is a comprehensive and streamlined approach to teaching mountain biking to the public; all the years of tweaking the content has produced a product that simply works every time, with riders of all abilities." Luc Belanger, Manager, Snow School and Summer Programming, Blue Mountain Resorts LP, Ontario.
PMBIA level one courses are offered almost every weekend in Whistler Valley through May and June, and throughout the season. Level one courses will now also be available in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.
"Whistler Mountain Bike Park is the most talked about and ridden bike park in the world. This relationship with PMBIA will undoubtedly benefit both parties. It's been great to see the success of PMBIA in Australia and New Zealand since they starting running courses here over six years ago. Combined with the fact that there's so many Aussies and Kiwis living in Whistler each summer, this new partnership will help further cement PMBIA's position in the Southern Hemisphere, as the leading instructor certification." Shannon Rademaker, Owner, Head Coach, Oz Gravity, Australia.
A great group on a PMBIA level one in Queenstown, New Zealand, in 2013. Other PMBIA locations in New Zealand include Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington, and Rotorua, in addition to multiple locations throughout Australia.
The team behind the PMBIA have enjoyed many conversations with IMBA Canada about all things mountain biking, for over a decade. Both organizations share a mutual respect and passion for building mountain biking in Canada. In 2016, IMBA Canada was proud to announce the establishment of an integral partnership with the Professional Mountain Bike Instructor Association as its recognized Instructor, Guide, and Ride Leader training partner.
The PMBIA Level 2 course in Whistler Mountain Bike Park, training the likes of World Cup Legends, Chris Kovarik and Claire Buchar in 2011. All PMBIA Courses will be available in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park for 2017.
A Memorandum of Understanding has been developed between the Canadian Association of Snowboard Instructors (CASI) and the Professional Mountain Bike Instructor Association (PMBIA) in the interest of exploring opportunities to share and collaborate on common initiatives related to instructor education, training, and certification. Through strategic dialogue, these organizations will consider opportunities for future collaboration that will contribute and support each other's mission and mandate.
"CASI is known as the largest and finest snowboard instructor training body in the world, so the PMBIA is proud and honoured to be officially collaborating with them. It was incredibly encouraging to see there were many fundamental similarities between some of our materials when I began working with CASI, all those years ago. CASI has been around for over twenty years, so the organization has a depth of knowledge and experience that we don't have yet in the mountain bike industry. Being able to draw from this knowledge while also being able to return the favour with our experiences and expertise in the mountain bike industry, is a win-win for both organizations." Paul Howard, PMBIA Technical Director.
Jeff's the National Technical Coordinator of CASI and also a past BC Bike Race Competitor. PMBIA and CASI collaborating together is great news for both snowboarding and mountain biking.
An excerpt from the 2016 PMBIA Reference Guide looking at the movements behind active Pressure Control when pumping.
The PMBIA Member-Based Pro-Deal Program is an industry first, and we're excited to be adding new Pro-Deal Partners for 2017, with EVOC and Transition Bikes joining the program. EVOC packs will be available exclusively to PMBIA members on our secure Members Store from May, this year. Transition Bikes Pro-Deals will be available to Level 2 Instructors only and upon approval of a Transition Bike Company representative. Details to apply will be in our PMBIA Members Area. Other Pro-Deal partners include Five Ten, MRP (available to PMBIA members, worldwide), Troy Lee Designs and Vorsprung Suspension.
PMBIA would like to thank all our Pro-Deal partners in providing our members with the support they need to perform their jobs of teaching and guiding, to the best of their abilities, with the best equipment available.
Another international group visiting PMBIA in Whistler for their Level 1 course. Fun times with great people!
The PMBI Association is the not-for-profit, governing body for mountain bike Instructor certification courses, within the mountain bike industry. The PMBI Association trains and certifies mountain bike instructors and guides to effectively teach mountain bike riding skills in both cross country and downhill environments, while guiding students safely on varying degrees of technical terrain.The PMBI Certifications are the most widely available and recognized certifications courses in the world today.