Father Joseph M. Scerbo, S.A.
This is the official site of the Junipero Serra Franciscan Center for Mercy and Reconciliation birthed at Mission San Juan Capistrano in 2002. Known as the "jewel" of the 21 Missions, Mission San Juan Capistrano, was founded by Blessed Junipero Serra, O.F.M., S.T.D., on November 1, 1776. Padre Serra is the Founding Father of California.
As I meditate on how to pray my "good-byes", I was moved by the Spirit of God to write as maybe St Paul felt he should. I don't know why exactly but I am moved so. I want to leave behind some wisdoms I have used practically in my life over the years.
When I first arrived at St. Paschal Baylon on Thanksgiving Day, November, 2007, I was filled with joy and that is why I chose " to land" that day! I knew Fr. Dave over the years. I remember those weekly meetings with Fr. Dave and several other priests. Jesu Caritas the support movement is called.
Another motive for coming North from Mission San Juan Capistrano (seven years assigned there! another great assignment) rested in the call to complete a project given to me by my Community to co author a book on Conflict Transformation. We Franciscan Friars of the Atonement are a community of men who are called to use our time, talent, substance and opportunity to work for Christian Unity and serve in various ministries of reconciliation.
Our congregation used to be much larger. used to be much larger. Now we are only 80 men. Half of our fraternity are ordained priests like myself. We place Brotherhood at the top of our value list. From the Brotherhood we have in the Heart of Jesus the gifts flow, especially ordination. Others of us who are not ordained assume whatever the Community calls us to do, much like the Franciscan Friar St. Paschal Baylon OFM. My gosh. He had so many different jobs. Cook, sewer of Habits, porter, kitchen cleaner, house maintainance, and garden cultivation to name a few. And then he became a French diplomat and defending Catholic doctrine against the heresies of his day.
I am glad I got to know St. Paschal because before this, I had not the foggiest idea of who he was. So when I found out he was a sheep herder and Fr. Dave told me Thousand Oaks was a "sheep town" I found an owner who lent me one of her sheep and I brought it up the main aisle at the 10:45 AM Mass! Were you there? Imagine the old old days of T.O. Sheep going up and down on Moorpark! Imagine! I bet quite a few sheep would get a police ticket. Beware, the police patrol that street – good pickin's for the unaware.
When I came here I was told that "my" signature for this parish would be the Prayer of the Obedient Heart. "My" signature !?
Lord Jesus, open the doors You want opened.
Lord Jesus, close all the doors You do not want opened.
Place me at the Center of Your Perfect Will.
What an honor to offer this prayer now placed in stone outside the Adoration Chapel into your heart now and as (eventually) my parting gift when the good Lord takes me all the way "Home".
And thank you Teo Zeolla for the loving work you did in placing those words in granite. What a great stone. The quartz in it shines in the daylight. Beautiful ! Thank you Teo for your love for this parish and the Adoration Chapel.
Good people, Again, as I pray for you over the Adoration Chapel, remember how special you are to my heart and I thank you for all your prayer for my strength, and recovery. A prophetic word came to me from some of our charismatic Hispanics months after I was diagnosed with 4th stage cancer. She told me that the Lord was going to extend my life; when my time comes to go home, I will fall into His Arms.
So thank you. My star in my window shines in the night. God speaks to us in the darkness and in the light.
I want to share with you this spiritual inventory that I have used on past retreats and right now is particularly relevant as I continue to face this grave illness with the love of God and the intercession of the saints! And pray that the many elements I want to do for the work of becoming healthier and wiser grow each day!
Who have I been all this time ?
How have I used my gift of a human life ?
What do I need to "clear up" or "let go" in order to be more peaceful ?
What have I learned about courage, power and faith?
What have I learned of the human condition and how great was my compassion?
How am I handling suffering?
How can I best share what I have learned?
What helps me to open my heart and empty my mind and experience the presence of the Holy Spirit?
What will give me strength as I die?
What is the relationship with that which will give me strength as I die?
If I remembered that my breaths were numbered, what would my relationship be to this breath right now?
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My very first ever auxiliary lens, which I bought on the road in 1991. My then-girlfriend and I were on our way from San Diego to Seattle and then points east and southeast, and I knew I needed more from my brand new Pentax P30t kit than the 50mm normal lens I had just bought in San Francisco. Like the Pentax MX I didn't buy before we left, I had priced other lenses and picked the Albinar at a store called Best to be the long lens for me. Now, the Best store in San Diego didn't have the MX by the time I screwed myself up to go get it (I didn't know it had been discontinued), which is why I ended up in San Francisco without a camera at all. See the P30t page for the rest of that story. Anyway, it turns out that there was a Best in Eugene, Oregon, not too far from where I lived for a time, and I insisted we stop and buy my little present to myself. And as it happens Best was next to a GI Joe's where we ended up getting some additional camping gear for that leg of the trip…yet another story….
I don't know much about Albinar the company, except that they made lenses for Pentax, Canon, and Minolta (and possibly Nikon as well), as well as 2x converters and flashes. Come to think of it, I don't even know what the ADG stands for. Albinar Design Group? They were probably a contract company that had other OEMs do the actual manufacturing, like Vivitar and Kalimar did. I do know that it was made in Japan but that's about it. They no longer exist as far as I can tell.
No built in shade like on some lenses, I do recommend one as the front element is pretty flat. Standard 49mm thread. Also, the dot next to the 4.5 is the 5.6 setting.


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Man Jumps Into Car Feet-First to Stop Dangerous Driver in Dramatic Video
By Seren Morris On 4/26/21 at 11:36 AM EDT
World Albania Car Video Viral
A man jumped through a car window feet-first to stop a dangerous driver who had driven into a pedestrianized square in Albania. The incident occurred on Sunday when a general election was taking place in the country.
The 32-year-old, who is suspected by Albanian police to have been driving under the influence of drugs, drove into Skanderbeg Square in the capital city of Tirana. At the time, many people had been lining up to be vaccinated in tents in the square.
As seen in a video of the incident, the car drove erratically with the front end of the car hanging off. A group of people tried to stop the driver by reaching into the car's open door, but the suspect continued to drive wildly.
Dropkick guy in Albania said "not today, bestie". 🥰 pic.twitter.com/e5TeeAADzR
— Eurisa Rukovci (@eurisaru) April 25, 2021
The driver was only stopped when a passerby jumped through the car window feet-first. He appeared to hold onto the roof of the car and kick the driver repeatedly until the car was then surrounded and the driver was stopped.
Tirana Times reported that nobody was injured in the incident, while Reuters reported that the man had previously crashed three other cars in other parts of the city. According to ABC Albania, the suspect stands accused of attempted murder in qualifying circumstances, production and sale of narcotics, and driving illegally.
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The passerby who jumped through the window has since been identified as 22-year-old Klodian Elqeni, who reportedly said that he thought the driver was aiming for the crowd in a possible terrorist attack.
Klodian Elqeni told ABC News Albania: "I was pushed by the lives of innocent people, no one deserves to die in Skanderbeg Square for no reason.
"I fell with both feet on his face and he lay down then they caught him."
The President of Albania, Ilir Meta, thanked Elqeni on Facebook, saying: "Thank you and deepest gratitude to Klodian's heroic act, which saved the lives of dozens of citizens today and prevented a very serious event in Skanderbeg Square.
"Today on the Day of Sovereign, Democracy and Citizenship, his act is an inspiring example for all!"
Meanwhile, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama invited Elqeni to a meeting and shared a photo of them both on Facebook and called him a hero.
A video of the incident was shared on Twitter by Eurisa Rukovci who said "Dropkick guy in Albania said 'not today, bestie.'"
The video amassed more than 130,000 views and was shared by journalist Aleksandar Brezar, who said: "On election day in Albania, a man tries to cause an incident by pummeling his car through Tirana's [Skanderbeg Square].
"A bystander saves the day with an outstanding flying kick and grabs the man through the open door of a moving car. Bravo Klodian Elqeni!"
This aerial photograph taken on April 24, 2021, shows pedestrians walking on Tirana's Skanderbeg Square. On April 25, 2021, a man drove onto the square but was stopped by a passerby who jumped through the car window feet-first. Gent Shkullaku/AFP/Getty

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Hello, bonjour! Je m'appelle Crystal.
I'm getting pretty used to saying that now. "Bonjour." Seems like it was a lifetime ago when we decided to uproot our Canadian family and move to Paris! What a week that was… Monday: find out I'm unexpectedly (though not unwelcomingly) pregnant with our third (and last! haha…) child, Tuesday: turn 30 years old, and Wednesday: find out that James's company is shutting the doors on it's Edmonton engineering office and that they were offering him a transfer to Clamart. "Where's that?!" I asked, praying it wasn't in some God-forsaken frozen wasteland that's worse than an Alberta winter. Or equally as unappealing to me, a sub-saharan or equatorial humid, sweat-inducing locale. "Paris" was his reply. Done. Fast forward about 9 months (and many heartbreaking conversations with family and friends… "Hey, guess what! We're pregnant!" "YAY!!!!" "Oh, yeah, and we're moving to France….") and here we are!
I'm currently a stay at home mom to my 3 awesome kids, Hunter (6), Taigen (4) and Bennett (almost 2 months), and to my fur-baby Coda. Before moving to Paris and doing the stay at home mom thing, I earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a Bachelor of Education degree in Secondary Education, which allowed me to teach junior and senior high school science and math, and…..preschool/pre-kindergarten for a year.
When given the opportunity to move to Europe, with the exception of being so far away from the family that we are so close with, the decision wasn't all that difficult. We thought how amazing it would be to be able to travel more easily, experience another culture, and to give our children experiences that very few other people get to have. Our kids are young and would adapt readily, so it was more of a "why not?" than a "why." So now we are here, and we are going through the same learning curve that all ex-pats must have to. Ordering food in a foreign language at a restaurant, making doctor's appointments, grocery shopping, filling prescriptions, using public transportation, and adjusting to new laws and customs, all while attempting to maintain some semblance of normalcy for my family are some of the things that I like to write about. My kids are intelligent and hilarious, and provide me with hours of amusement and will likely be the stars of many of my posts. And while I am usually quite organized, quite level headed, and quite pulled together, like every Mom (and especially, I assume, an ex-pat mom in a strange country), there are instances where I go off the deep end. Luckily, I can usually see the humour and silver lining in any situation, and therefore I've decided that I'm a "Mostly Together" Mom.
Really, when it comes down to it, we are just a very normal family from small-town Alberta (that's in Canada. No, it's not close to Toronto. Yes, closer to Vancouver, but not "close" to Vancouver. No, we don't speak French already….other side of Canada) that is just trying to survive and thrive in a foreign city that is halfway around the world from our families. Happy reading, I hope that you enjoy following my family and I on this adventure!
Taigen and Hunter, ready for their first day of International School!
Family selfie, taken by "he with the long arms." If it was up to me to take it, there would only be 2 people in it.
My good dog Coda. Seriously, the best dog ever.
Love To hear of your adventures !
Thank goodness for social media my dear! Keeps you all close to us.
Love your blog, have a great adventure.
Most enjoyable reading, dear FN (definitely my Favorite European Niece)! Thank you for sharing your adventures and your amazing photos. Bonsoir!
Love your story keep up the wounderfull adventures you have with us.
Hi Crystal! I was contacted today by another blogger, she told me about a TrailingSpouseStory Blog Crawl they're doing. Every month a 'TrailingSpouse' blogger can participate by writing a post on a given subject. They'd like to include any TrailingSpouse willing to join. Would you be interested? I can email you the details if you want.
You must be the bravest mommy I know. Although I may fantasize of such an amazing adventure, I just don't know. I have traveled to Paris with my husband before we had children and I loved it!! You are my hero for being so courageous!! I look forward to you blog and reading of your adventure. It sounds like you have the right attitude. Your family is beautiful!!!!!


This is part 2 of the full article discussing ways to understand and raise a low FICO score. You should check the Free FICO Repair Workshop Guide – Part 1 before continuing here.
One must be very wary of any lender raising credit limits so high that the potential for "maxing out" these lines is a possibility. If one should utilize all of the credit available, this adds stress on the borrower's ability to repay and on one's income.
Many lenders are now using risk based pricing to determine mortgage limits and rates to determine the maximum credit available to a borrower, especially in regard to credit card limits. This is because, especially in this economy, many borrowers are using their credit cards to pay for basic necessities like food, prescription medications and the like. One way to thwart and possibly stop this from happening is to, should the credit card lender offer an increase in credit, is to refuse the increase.
The single most detrimental factor in obtaining a mortgage is to obtain new credit during the processing of a mortgage loan. In short, do NOT buy cars, boats, obtain new credit cards or do anything that would give the lender reason to believe that one is maxing out their credit.
The amount of debt load one carries is always a problem for a lender and is directly tied to the paragraph you just read. If one's debt load exceeds what a one's income can support, the loan request in all likelihood will be declined. Active lines of credit (with balances and monthly payment histories) are important in determine one's FICO score, but they can be a detriment to obtaining a mortgage because the ratios that are used to determine total expenses versus income can be out of compliance with underwriting guidelines as well.
Showing a track history of being responsible with a credit line that is paid on time and in full (paying as agreed), helps raise one's FICO score. With the buyouts of many banks one may have established a credit card with one's bank with the account being transfered many times. One must show the lender this pattern.
Firstly, by doing so, the ratios will be lowered so the same payment is not used twice in determining ratios and credit limits and secondly the lender will be less likely believe that one is constantly shopping for credit.
What is a negative credit line? A negative credit line on one's credit file is any information that reflects poorly on you, the prospective borrower. Examples of this are unpaid taxes, tax liens; unpaid child support, charge offs, judgments, and any late or slow pays to other creditors ESPECIALLY mortgage companies. Mortgages must be defined.
A mortgage is any loan or instrument held against a property as collateral as a guaranty for payment. On one's credit file, there are various codes one should be somewhat familiar with. Mtg, H/I,H/E, HELOC…all of these are mortgages and unless they are being paid off are not only calculated into the debt to income ratio but have an impact on one's FICO score.
Please be aware that if one does not pay any governmental debts, the loan WILL be declined and any loan officer worth his salt, will quickly pick up on this long before he writes the 1003 or attempts to send a package to the borrower for signature. With the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the opportunity for a loan officer to make such an "error" has been curtailed and the ability for a loan officer to throw a file against the wall to see if it sticks and is approved, has become a thing of the past, by and large.
My best advise is to take care of any and all negative information on the credit file before one applies for a loan. Keep in mind that one could pay off a loan that was in default or in charge off status, but that won't be reflected in the FICO score for 30 to 90 days. It takes some lenders that long to change the information and as a result it could take that long for the scores to re-populate and change.
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THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We've had a tremendous success right here, and — come on over, folks. Please. Brian, come on over.
We've had a tremendous construction success in Florida. This is Lake Okeechobee, which I've known for a long time. Lake Okeechobee. It's an incredible lake, but it's had a lot of problems and it wasn't properly funded for years.
I want to introduce some of the folks here. We all know Governor DeSantis and Mrs. DeSantis. Thank you very much for being here. You've done a fantastic job. And Ron took over from a governor that a couple of you know — Rick Scott — who's been bugging me about getting this done for a long time. And no sooner did Rick go to the Senate that Ron started bugging me the same way and we got it done. We have the funding and we're doing.
I want to just thank the Army Corps of Engineers, who's been fantastic. I said, "Let's go. We need a wall also on the border." You know that, right? I'm looking at all these walls; I'm saying, "Southern border, too. Don't forget our southern border." And we're right now building a lot of wall in the southern border.
I want to thank Senator Marco Rubio, who's been very involved in this. Marco, thank you very much. It's great. Been very, very involved in it and very important.
REPRESENTATIVE DIAZ-BALART: Over here, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Where are you, Mario? Fantastic job, my friend.
REPRESENTATIVE DIAZ-BALART: Good to see you.
THE PRESIDENT: Congressman Brian Mast. Brian, fantastic job.
REPRESENTATIVE MAST: Thank you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Fantastic job. We're proud of you, Brian.
Francis Rooney. Where is Francis?
REPRESENTATIVE ROONEY: Right here, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: What a job — what a job you do. You know so much about it. And a young, new congressman who has done really well, Greg Steube. Where are you, Greg? Come. Greg Steube.
So I just want to thank everybody for being here. We have something that's very important. It's important in terms of safety.
Our Secretary, as you know, David Bernhardt, is with us. He's been really doing something very special for Interior. Everybody respects him. Everybody likes him. He's right now up, so I hope you guys can help him get his approvals, if you don't mind. Okay? But he's Acting, but soon he'll be, hopefully, permanent. He's going through a process, and I hear David is doing very well.
And maybe I think it might be appropriate if I start with the Governor. We'll have — everybody can say a few words about what we're doing. But what we're doing is very, very important. It was very dangerous and it's a big project. But it's a great project for Florida. And Florida is a state that's a phenomenal state. A very important project.
So if I could ask our Governor to start, and then we'll go around the horn. Thank you very much.
GOVERNOR DESANTIS: Mr. President, thank you for your support for Florida, and not just with this but with the hurricanes and other things that we're working on. We really appreciate it.
Really, if you look at what we need to do — you have Okeechobee, and this goes all the way down, really, to Florida Bay, the Everglades, and our estuaries. This is an important part, the EAA Reservoir, which the President is committed to supporting. And obviously, at the state level, Governor Scott got that on line. We're going to push forward on that to get that done. We're going to try to get the additional funds from the federal government to raise the Tamiami Trail.
And then our state legislature, in this session, is out answering my call for historic support for water resources and water quality. So I think it's great that we have so many of our local officials, state government, and the federal government really seem to be singing the same tune right now. So, Mr. President, thanks for helping us out.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. And I will say — and I think I have to say, because it's really to the credit of all of us together: This project was dying until we got involved. This was really dying.
And, you know, in 1928, over 5,000 people died here. Everything broke and they had a problem. And the Corps was just explaining — in 1928, they had a problem that turned out to be a total catastrophe. And we're making it stronger than it would ever have been. And it's really in great shape.
So, Marco, do you want to say a few words?
SENATOR RUBIO: Well, we just want to thank you. This is a — the most important issue in Florida is water right now. And it's actually the algae blooms and all that that are destroying property values and economically threaten communities, where people come to have access to the water, and they can't go in the water for three or four months a year because of the algae blooms. This actually is related to that.
And your administration deserves credit. You helped pull forward money — used disaster relief money to finish this, which meant that now that money gets freed up for the rest of the Everglades. And you have a chance, Mr. President, and your administration, to go down in history as the Everglades President — as the person who helped save and restore the Everglades. And we're going to be very proud to be a part of that.
THE PRESIDENT: We have a chance to go down as many things. (Laughter.) But the Everglades is very important and very important to me.
SENATOR SCOTT: Sure. Well, first off, my first years as governor, I kept asking the Obama administration for the money to fix the dike. If you look at the risk here, just remember Irma. We thought, at one time, Irma was going to come right across this lake. The odds are we would have had a lot of problems south of the lake. Anywhere that it burst would have been a big problem. We've got locals here. We've got the mayor of Clewiston here. And it would have been a big issue.
So we started bugging — I started bugging the President as soon as he got elected that we had to get the dike fixed, and he came through. He worked with Congress, and we got the money. This dike will be done by 2022. It would not have happened but for what President Trump did and the fact that he took charge of this. He said, "This is an important issue." He went to Congress and made sure we got the money. And everybody up here that's been involved federally has done a great job making sure we have the money.
We're not done. We got a lot more work to do. And I know the President is going to continue to be a big supporter.
THE PRESIDENT: I will be. Absolutely. David, could you say a few words, please?
ACTING SECRETARY BERNHARDT: Well, I think the one thing, Mr. President, that resonates here as an important issue is, first off, this is an incredible partnership of a split between the state and federal government. And that's everybody pulling their fair share. And then, you know, if you're a recreationist, want to be in the outdoors, this project fundamentally, long term, is a critical component to Florida lifestyle.
THE PRESIDENT: You're doing great. Thank you. Thank you very much, on behalf of a lot of people.
Congressman, would you like to say a couple of words?
REPRESENTATIVE STEUBE: I just want to thank you for your commitment to Florida. You know, water is the lifeblood to Florida, both to Florida agriculture and our tourism industry. So I just want to thank you for your commitment to Floridians.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Appreciate it. My honor.
REPRESENTATIVE MAST: Sir, this is Florida's kidneys. Unfortunately, we only have one of them, so we can't sacrifice it. It means a great deal to everybody that you took the time to be here, present, to fund the projects, to pay attention to them. And it means a lot to the entire state. Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you very much, Brian. Appreciate it. Great job you're doing.
REPRESENTATIVE ROONEY: Mr. President, I just want to thank you for this and for a lot of other things you've done to show when a businessperson gets involved in government, good things can happen. And you are going to save the Everglades. We're doing as much in three years, because of you, than we've done in the preceding 13 years. So thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: In a lot of ways — really, a lot of other locations too. We're doing a lot. Thank you very much, Francis.
REPRESENTATIVE DIAZ-BALART: Mr. President, just to reiterate that you have the mayor of Clewiston here. You have state officials. You have federal officials. But it doesn't happen without your leadership. It doesn't happen without you stepping forward, saying that this is important; putting, in essence, your effort, your leadership. And all of us are here working together, but in particular to thank you because it would not have happened. And what Francis says is right: You have done more for the environment, for Lake Okeechobee — in essence, for Everglades restoration — in your two years than we have seen in decades. So thank you, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. And, you know, despite all of that, I saw the General, and I said, "General, tell me about this in a minute. How are we doing on the southern border?" And here he is, anyway. Come on, General. Say a few words about this place.
MAJOR GENERAL SPELLMON: Sir, thank you. I shared with the President, down by the water, that it took us 13 years, with the funding that we had, to get this project to the halfway point. And with his leadership and all the elected leadership here from the state of Florida, it'll only take us three years to get the remaining 50 percent. And we have a great, strong relationship and partners here, sir. So, thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. You're doing a great job.
Okay, folks, thank you very much.
Q Any comment on Linda McMahon, sir? Any comment on Linda McMahon?
THE PRESIDENT: She's great. We're going to have a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, I think at 4 o'clock, about Linda.
Q What about more money for the Everglades restoration?
THE PRESIDENT: We're going to be doing more. We're going to be doing more.
THE PRESIDENT: Soon. A lot. More than you would ever believe.
Q What about the healthcare ruling yesterday?
THE PRESIDENT: Healthcare is going well. Healthcare is going well. We are going to have a plan that's so much better than Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster. We're going to have a plan that is so much better than Obamacare. So the healthcare is going very well.
And we're going to take care of — we're going to always take care of preexisting conditions. Just remember that. Always preexisting conditions.
But Obamacare is too costly for people. They can't afford it. And the deductible, which averages more than $7,000, meaning, unless somebody has got really big problems, can't even use it.
Obamacare is a disaster. Right now it's losing in court. Right now, in the Texas court, as you know, probably ends up in the Supreme Court. But we're plan- — we're doing something that is going to be much less expensive than Obamacare for the people. I'm not saying government; I'm saying for the people.
And we're going to have preexisting conditions, and we'll have a much lower deductible. So — and I've been saying it: The Republicans are going to end up being the party of healthcare.


Why are analysts reluctant to make bold calls? In hindsight, recent negative market surprises could have been predicted based on the data. So the question is asked as to why analysts did not make the right calls a priori for events that were discernible from the data. A crude oil producers' fight for market share is now palpable with hindsight. The costs of a Euro peg post-ECB QE are now clearer with hindsight. It leaves one wondering what other black swans lay in plain sight that may become conveniently obvious with hindsight. What are our current assumptions? We have to question them otherwise these negative surprises would continue to confound us; before hindsight provides clarity of course. It is unbelievably amazing how intelligent everyone seems to be – without exception – with the benefit of hindsight. After the events, the analysts are articulate and the reports? Very elegant! What then is the utility of analysts if all we do is tell people what they already know? Surely, if they wanted just news, they could simply switch on the television or read the papers.
So, why do analysts get it wrong when it really matters? A major factor is the fear of being wrong when the consensus turns out to be right; which often is the case until the rare negative surprise occurs. Group-think is a well-researched psychological phenomenon. In light of the recurring failure of analysts to get it right when it really matters the most, it is clearly a continuing problem. Analysts achieve prestige based on the number of calls they get right. So naturally, they are reluctant to make "risky" calls the higher the likelihood they might be wrong. Also, there is comfort in numbers. Bold calls are extremely lonely. When you start hearing colleagues telling you: "That is a very bold view!", it is not a compliment. Resentment and jealousy usually follow when you get it right; especially if you turn out to be more than just a "one right call wonder". And when you do get it wrong – as you would and must – the derision is monumental. Thus, it is a dilemma. Another factor is how analysts are compensated. Analysts are paid by the month. As a call discernible from the data may take a long time to instigate a market-impacting event, it could be career-limiting to stick your neck out too early. So, most analysts are forced to strike a balancing act. That way, they keep their jobs. The real losers in all of these are their employers.
There is also a tendency to overly focus on the elegance of a report at the expense of utility. What market participants really want are answers; what you discern from the data, what you can infer from comments made by officials, et cetera. Sometimes, the data trend and official commentary are at variance. The data suggests one thing and the official commentary suggests another. The one commonality amongst all these is the human factor. Officials and analysts are human beings. We dither and procrastinate. We look for evidence to confirm our views. We seek comfort in the majority. We try to manage worsening situations. We try to avoid facing reality. Until of course, the costs become too overwhelming and we are forced to do the sensible thing. This problem applies to fund managers as well. The successful ones have been those with permanent capital. Because if you are relying on proper research to make investment decisions, then what you can be reasonably sure of, is the event and its likely triggers. No one, however, knows when such events would happen. That is the major constraint. If your compensation – whether you are an analyst or fund manager – is not aligned with the lead times it takes for a research-based view to be vindicated or proved wrong, it is unlikely the analyst would be willing to make the kind of bold calls that could potentially be hugely rewarding for both parties: the analyst and his or her employers. Companies have to produce annual financial statements, however. The only financial institutions that have been able to get around this problem are probably private equity firms. Even they are now becoming increasingly constrained as some have gone public with the attendant short-term financial reporting requirements.
So what should an analyst do? Follow the data. And for the potential timing of an event, look to history. Yes, there would be wrong calls. But if an analyst objectively interprets the data, questions the motivations behind statements by officials and looks to history for how long it took before events vindicated trends discernible from the data, it is not likely the analyst would be wrong most of the time. Employers may also need to place a higher priority on utility over elegance. Research reports are not decorations and opportunities to show-off erudition. They are meant to provide answers and direction when it matters, before the fact. Not after. So even though the consensus is comforting, the analyst cannot afford such luxuries. Ironically, the personality traits of analysts with such independent streaks tend to be converse to the expectations of most corporate cultures. Thus, the analyst may find following the consensus to be quite rewarding and career-advancing. Well, that may not continue for long. Machines are replacing humans on trading floors. They may make inroads into research as well if analysts and institutions continue to be blind-sighted by their biases. Machines may actually not be immune from these biases as well. After all, they'd be analyzing the data as well; which includes statements made by human beings. For instance, how would a machine be able to discern a misleading statement from a human being, say an official? As the analyst who would succeed requires cognitive intelligence to analyze the data correctly, emotional intelligence to discern deception from actors within the respective eco-systems and the ability to manage his or her own biases, a machine invasion of the research profession is still way off. But even when the human analyst succeeds in doing all these, his or her employers must structure compensation and working conditions to make it conducive for such bold but evidence-based calls to be made. Thus, research houses may need to take a cue from Silicon Valley. In any case, the analyst should follow the data to wherever it leads, investigate the motivations of the various actors when their comments are at variance with what the data is saying, and make the call. In so far as the analyst follows this process to make an objective call, bold or otherwise, it should matter little whether his or her call is vindicated (actually it does matter; promotions and bonuses dah!). But then only God can see the future.
Opinions expressed are mine and not that of any institution I may be affiliated with.
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The Colombian soccer team will kick off its World Cup qualifying campaign Tuesday night, taking on Bolivia in La Paz.
In a shock move new coach Leonel Alvarez has announced he is to leave star striker Radamel Falcao Garcia on the bench, with Teofilo Gutierrez to lead the attack.
Gutierrez impressed fans on the recent friendly tour of the U.S, netting three times in two games. His inclusion ahead of the $57 million Atletico Madrid striker suggests Alvarez will play the unusual 4 -1- 4 -1 formation recently employed by Colombian team.
Bolivia will be keen to get their campaign back on track after losing 4-2 away to Uruguay in their first qualifier on Friday.
The Bolivians have a record of springing upsets against stronger teams at home in La Paz, as visitors struggle to acclimatise to playing at 11,800 feet above sea level. However, the Colombians should fare better than teams like Argentina and Brazil, who lost 6-1 and 2-1 respectively in the last round of World Cup qualifiers, as the "Cafeteros" are at least used to playing at 8,600 feet in Bogota.
Pablo Armero, Colombian defender with Italian team Udinese, said he expected the Bolivians to try and take advantage of the altitude by starting the game at a frenetic pace in the hope of rapidly tiring out their opponents.
Bolivian coach Gustavo Quinteros has confirmed he will be fielding a much more attack minded team than the one that lost in Uruguay in an attempt to make the most of their home advantage and get the "Greens'" campaign back on track.
The two teams last met in the Copa America last July, when Colombia won 2-0 thanks to a brace from Falcao.
Nine South American teams will be competing for four automatic World Cup qualifying spots, while the fifth placed team will face a two leg play-off against the fifth placed team from Asia for the right to play in Brazil in 2014.
Kick-off is scheduled to start at 2PM, Colombian time.


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This is for CloudFlare DNS API webhook. How can one extract the value of "success" only and display "true" on browser and not the entire string?
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A few months after we moved away from Berkeley Eric read a little blurb about a new yarn and fabric store there and sent it my way. I was so sorry I'd missed it! My mom had heard it talked up at her knitting club in Memphis too, so we had to make a visit. The store is called, charmingly, A Verb for Keeping Warm.
They do an amazing range of their own work there–they spin wool, they dye fabrics, and they dye all of their yarns right out back. Awesome. That's my mom, checking everything out.
They also have a wide selection of quilting fabrics (squee!), and they have classes for just about everything: dyeing, felting, knitting, sewing, weaving, quilting, spinning. It's a little paradise. If you are in the Bay area, you should definitely check it out!
I think it's so much fun to go to local art and craft stores when I'm traveling, and this is one I'll definitely go back to. Ah, those quilt squares. They are the stuff of dreams!
And if you need any further convincing…this is their next-door neighbor!


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Here's a fun new way to help your clients learn and remember key nutrition lessons.
Everyone gets so confused about how to eat healthfully. In today's society, proper nutrition comes from following MyPlate, reading food labels, and eating the best options from each of the food groups. The Nutrition at a Glance poster shows key nutrition lessons in three easy steps. Plus, each step has an exciting visual of food!
Step 1: Let macronutrients put their best food forward! Think lean, high fiber, and nutrient dense!
Step 2: Get your vitamins and minerals from food! Follow MyPlate and get a varied diet with all of the food groups.
Step 3: Learn how to read food labels so you can make the best choices that are lower in added fat, sugar, and salt (sodium).
This poster makes a fun visual for any room or event! It is even perfect for Nutrition Month celebrations!
To celebrate this fun new resource, I want to give you the handout that comes with it, for free!
There are 3 different types of macronutrients — the nutrients in your eating pattern that make up the bulk of what you consume each day. Those 3 macronutrients are carbohydrates, fats, and protein.
Protein is important for the creation and maintenance of your bones, skin, and muscles. Carbohydrates are the source of most of your energy. Fat helps your body absorb nutrients and also provides energy.
Choose high-fiber carbohydrates, lean protein, and heart-healthy fats (you can find them in plants and fish). This will help you get the 3 major macronutrients from healthful food sources.
Balance your meals using MyPlate and its 5 food groups: vegetables, fruit, protein, grains, and dairy.
That way, you will eat a varied diet with adequate nutrients in the calories allotted.
Added sugars, excess sodium, and both trans and saturated fat have been linked to elevated risk of chronic disease.
Minimizing these will help you keep your body in tip-top shape!
Here's a printable PDF copy of the handout!
And here are a few fun nutrition resources from the Nutrition Education Store!
I've just launched a few new MyPlate plates, and I couldn't wait another moment for you to see them!
These MyPlate plates have been favorites of health and nutrition educators since I first came up with the idea a few years ago. After all, who wouldn't want an actual plate to use while learning and teaching the key lessons of MyPlate?
These new designs for portion control and kids highlight the importance of balancing eating patterns with physical activity, and there are great options for both adults and kids. In addition to being wonderful teaching tools, these plates are also perfect for prizes, cooking demonstrations, displays, presentations, and much more!
As a treat today, I'd like to share a MyPlate activity that you could do with any of these plates or even a paper plate. Are you ready?
Assemble your group, pass out the plates, and make sure everyone has access to the scissors and magazines. Explain that they are going to cut out pictures of food and then sort them into the appropriate areas of MyPlate.
Kids MyPlate Activity Placemat - Pack of 50 - 8.5"X14"
I've been having so much fun designing new floor stickers for the Nutrition Education Store!
As you know, every floor sticker comes with a free printable handout, and today I'd like to share one of the most popular ones with you.
These floor stickers are perfect for cafeterias, break rooms, wellness fair booths, and even presentations. And handouts are as versatile as they come. The combination of both is one of my favorites because it appeals to a variety of learning styles and presentation formats. This can help make lessons more meaningful and easier to remember.
Anyway, back to today's free handout.
This handout covers the basics of MyPlate and was designed to go with the MyPlate Floor Sticker. I'll copy the text of the handout below so that you can preview it, then, if you like what you see, keep scrolling for your very own PDF copy.
Meet the USDA's guide to balanced eating!
Fruits may be fresh, canned, frozen, or dried, and may be whole, cut-up, or pureed. Fruit and 100% juice both count, though whole fruit has more fiber than juice.
Vegetables may be raw or cooked; fresh, frozen, canned, or dried. They may be whole, sliced, or mashed.
Grain foods are made from wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley, or another cereal grain. Choose whole grains instead of refined grains whenever you can.
Foods like meat, poultry, seafood, beans, peas, eggs, soy, nuts, and seeds are all part of the protein group.
Dairy foods include yogurt, milk, cheese, and calcium-fortified foods. Choose skim when possible and limit options with added sugar.
MyPlate advises people to fill half their plates with fruits and vegetables at each meal.
Make at least half of all the grains you eat whole grains, every day.
Variety is the key to the protein food group. Choose options that are low in saturated fat whenever you can.
For the most nutrients with the fewest empty calories, choose fat-free and low-fat dairy foods.
The balance of foods on MyPlate will help people get all the nutrients that they need in a day. How can you make your plate look more like MyPlate?
For more information, visit MyPlate's home website, http://www.choosemyplate.gov.
What do you think? Will this handout be good for your clients? Here's a printable copy of the free MyPlate handout!
And here are some more MyPlate resources, fresh from the Nutrition Education Store!
Balance your cart for a balanced plate!
The food you buy has a huge impact on your eating habits. Make sure that the choices you make are healthful and balanced, starting at the grocery store.
Well, since MyPlate advises you to fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables at each meal, roughly half your cart should be full of fruits and vegetables in the store. Make lean protein choices, and select dairy foods that are low in saturated fat and added sugars. When it comes to grain foods, make sure that at least half of all the grains you're eating are whole grains. Skip those processed grains whenever you can.
My Plate advises people to "Compare sodium content for similar foods, using the Nutrition Facts label to select brands lower in sodium." The next time you're in the store, grab a couple of different options for an ingredient and compare the sodium content. Choose one of the options with lower numbers.
Here's a printable MyPlate handout that you can use however you see fit!
And here are even more MyPlate educational materials, fresh from the Nutrition Education Store!


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The low-code and no-code development tools that make up Microsoft's Power Platform are increasingly important to the company and to enterprises around the world. It's a trend accelerated by the sudden digital transformations forced by a global pandemic and the resulting shifts in working patterns. Today's spotlight is on the enterprise app gap, where lack of development resources has left staff resorting to workarounds for outdated business processes.
It's no wonder that low-code tools have become a key element of the modern enterprise toolkit. At one end of the scale, we have user-focused tools like Access and Excel that deliver desktop and web applications built around simple formula languages. At the other end is the classic Visual Basic which simplifies building form-based user interfaces to line-of-business software. With a mix of process and user interface tools, you can think of the Power Platform as the next generation of business software development tools, and Microsoft is relying on its decades of experience building out the Power Platform. This 2022 release is the fifth major update.
I was able to talk to Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president, Business Apps & Platform and the Power Platform's lead, in advance of Build 2022 to get a feel for what this new release brings to developers. Microsoft has been extending its low-code tools to support the full software development life cycle, supporting repositories such as GitHub, adding the Power FX functional programming language, and providing round-trip access to tools such as Visual Studio Code.
There's a lot in the new release, with major updates to the Power Virtual Agents conversational bot tools, as well as automated scaling for process automation tools building on Azure's serverless features. Perhaps the biggest new feature in this Power Platform update is Power Pages.
Power Pages: rapid web app development
Building on the existing Power Apps Portals, Power Pages is designed to rapidly build data-driven web applications that replace the old Access-based tools. By taking advantage of the cloud-hosted Dataverse environment, Power Pages works with existing data models, both in the Power Platform and in the wider Dynamics 365 line-of-business environment.
Applications are built using a web-based visual designer that allows you to pick and edit common layouts, applying customizations and adding links to data services. A built-in data workspace helps you design and test queries before adding them to your site. There's even a quick way to test the mobile version of Power Pages sites; a QR code provides a link to a private mobile preview.
You're not limited to the Power Pages designer as there's support for round-tripping code into Visual Studio Code. This gives you access to the full set of Edge debugging tools and allows you to add additional JavaScript and CSS beyond the built-in tools. Sites can be quickly built by users and then modified by the development team to add features like alternative authentication without breaking the design view in the Power Pages service.
Lamanna noted that the Power Pages tools have been tested by several large customers. One interesting example comes from the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment which used Power Pages and other Power Platform tools to quickly roll out a reboot of a struggling immigration application site as the country began to emerge from one of the strictest COVID-19 isolations, opening up to the world after two years. The new service used Power Pages to collect user data, a Power App to handle approvals, and a set of Power Automate flows to deliver notifications. The resulting site processed more than 100,000 applications on its launch day whereas its traditionally developed predecessor used to crash when presented with more than 5,000 applications.
Exploring the Dataverse on the web
Using Dataverse avoids many of the pitfalls that came with using Access. Instead of silos of data on desktops and file servers, you have access to cloud-hosted corporate data that spans the entire organization. There's an additional benefit as the Power Platform is built on the same Azure Active Directory-based authentication platform as Dataverse. This allows you to apply simple role-based access controls to data to ensure that users only get to work with the data they need, and only the users who need to change and update data get more than read access.
The combination of Power Pages and Dataverse allows you to build web-based process automation tools using the Power Automate Dataverse connectors to monitor for changes and to respond, feeding new data where it's needed and triggering actions in connected applications. Lamanna describes it as an "opportunity for consistent and repeatable development with low-code tools."
One interesting feature is automatic support for Progressive Web Applications. Your Power Pages applications are ready for use offline, and because they automatically deliver responsive designs, they run on both desktop and mobile devices.
Power Apps Express Design: an AI-powered UI builder
There's another important role for the Power Platform we often overlook; it's an important tool for application prototyping. It's long been a truism that the most widely used wireframing tool is PowerPoint; its hyperlinking tools turn presentations into visual prototypes with active buttons. With the launch of the new Power Apps Express Design, Microsoft is taking this approach a step further, going from design images directly to working application user interfaces.
Power Apps Express Design builds on one of the biggest developments of the last year, Power Apps Ideas, which added machine-learning-based tools to go from an English expression to Power FX code. This used the GPT-3 natural language models from OpenAI (which are being released to Azure users today as well) to write code for you, as well as programming-by-example techniques to build and test queries and output pages.
The new tools use similar techniques to analyze images and generate a working user interface from them. You'll need a labeled sketch to start with, which can be delivered using tools like Figma or extracted from a PDF. You can even use a photograph of a sketch on a meeting room whiteboard. Microsoft's machine learning tools can go from rough sketches to accurate layouts, generating shapes from hand-drawn lines. Customers in the early access program have gone even further, using screenshots of old Visual Basic or Access apps to quickly modernize aging legacy code, duplicating existing user interfaces in the new platform.
Although the feature hasn't been extended to tools like Whiteboard yet, it's easy to see how this could form the basis of a collaborative design tool for rapid prototyping. A hybrid team working in an office and at home could use a shared Whiteboard space on large-screen devices in a meeting room and on personal PCs inside Teams to sketch out a UI and go straight to a working prototype prior to refining the design for production. This model fits well with the cross-disciplinary fusion teams approach Microsoft suggests for Power Platform development, mixing professional developers, designers, users, and stakeholders to manage the low-code application life cycle.
Welcome to the AI-mediated future of development
As Lamanna says, this points to a new future of application development: "I think that's the future we're going to. How do you make application authoring more collaborative between humans, as well as with an AI which helps you go faster?" With the Power Platform and concepts like fusion teams, we've built tools to help developers collaborate with each other and with users. Now we're providing ways to help everyone code more quickly and more effectively, building on a body of enterprise code that's now generations deep.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that it makes application development more human. Lamanna suggests it's going to be an attractive way to work "because you can stay in the human language land of drawings, examples, and natural language, as opposed to having to be in the highly sterile nature of a programming language." With AI assistance like this, he hopes to make us more productive developers. It's an intriguing prospect for new ways of both building code and development teams.
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    //I get error for this
    //aSP[pos] = min( (dfs(i)+pow(i-pos,2)) , aSP[pos] );

    //Then I replace the above code with the following codes, and then it worked
    int a = (dfs(i)+pow(i-pos,2));
    int b = aSP[pos];
    aSP[pos] = min(a,b);
}

But they are the same right? Why am I getting error from Eclipse?
It says

Description    Resource    Path    Location    Type
  Invalid arguments '
  Candidates are:
  const #0 & min(const #0 &, const #0 &)
Description   Resource    Path    Location    Type no matching function for call
  to 'min(__gnu_cxx::__promote_2::__type,
  int&)'    ColorfulRoad.h  /colorfulroad-c++   line 53 C/C++ Problem

and some other information as well, like conflicting type for parameters, template argument deduction/substitution failed..

A: The error message means that in this function call
aSP[pos] = min( (dfs(i)+pow(i-pos,2)) , aSP[pos] );

the first and the second arguments have different types. So the compiler can not deduce the type of the template parameter.
You could help the compiler specifying explicitly the template argument. For example
aSP[pos] = min<int>( (dfs(i)+pow(i-pos,2)) , aSP[pos] );

In the second call of the function the both arguments have type int. So the template parameter is deduced to int.

A: It is easier to understand if you have GCC error instead:
error: no matching function for call to 'min(double, int)'
     std::min(2.0, 3);
                    ^

Just cast first argument to int.


• AS a regular traveller on routes 38 and 56, I note with interest the letter from JE Kirby (Idling buses, August 31).
When Transport for London instigated Countdown it probably thought it could, in some way, guarantee that a bus would be at a particular stop at a particular time whatever the prevailing traffic situation.
Yes, Countdown has its uses, as in "wait or walk", but evening out of the service has led, it seems, to situations such as the increased number of "Not in service" buses, running empty to the end of the route and turning round.
This, coupled with lights at pedestrian crossings turning red when no one wants to cross the road and thoughtless parking merely add to the mess. Don't expect driver-less buses any time soon.


This is basically where we talk about our friends. Why are you friends with them? Are you soulmates or completely different? Is there anything that you'd like to change about your friends?
well while i was in high school, my friends and i were very very close. it was about 12 of us (girls and guys ), and we called ourselves dudesTM and dudettesTM. (yes with trademark signs! hahahaha) we used to go out together all the time, and in school everyone knew us as the dudes and dudettes! haha! we always went to someone's house and hung out to watch movies, joke around, drink (the ones old enough), etc.
unfortunately when we got to college everyone drifted apart. i talk with some, others with others, and some we hardly ever see anymore. but those were the best days of my high school years!
I have maybe two friends? Then I have a few friends online. Everyone else is intolerable.
My irl friends are Claudia and Lindsey and we're in a band. Claudia's really fun and kind and Lindsey has awesome taste in music and loves the same TV shows I do.
but awwwww!!! my best friend is my mom, my brother, and my boyfriend!
Well, let's see. I'm happy to say that I have good friends!
My other 3 close friends are Vicky, Lily and Ian. Vicky and Lily I have also known 6 years but there was a while we all drifted apart but now we are close again. Vicky is a little crazy and very indepedent and is moving to London where she is orginally from and Lily is very loyal and loving and is moving about an hour away for uni. Ian I have known only 2 years but he is a great friend, very reliable and sweet and he is also moving away for uni.
I have six best friends. Their names are Joey, Phoebe, Monica, Chandler, Ross and Rachel. They've gotten me through the hardest times and they've always given me a lot of laughs. I love these people more than anything.
Me too! These 6 are gonna be our true Friends forever, that's for sure!!!
It's so nice to read your posts about your friends guys!
Well, mine best two are my mom and this guy right above me They're my whole world.


Environmental Protection Act 1990 governs issues to do with waste such as collection, management and disposal. The waste is categorized into domestic, commercial and industrial. Most local authorities are responsible for waste management in their areas.
Other than the usual residential waste that is collected on a weekly basis, there is also bulk waste that can come from domestic activities such as gardening or renovations. It is the responsibility of the local authority to routinely collect waste from residential properties and this service should not be charged since the council tax already caters for such services. The only service that the council can charge for is the special request for collection of the bulk waste.
Local authorities usually outsource their services, both routine and special collections from private contractors. When this happens, the service by the contractor is to the local authority and not the individuals and the charges made should be to the authority.
Among the things that the authority can charge for include specialized dustbins or rubbish bags that are specially marked.
This is waste from all commercial premises and other non-private facilities like the hospitals, palaces and prisons. Similar to the domestic refuse, the local authority has a responsibility to make arrangements to collect the waste.
There is no routine obligation to collect such refuse but they should be in a position to collect it when called upon. The services are usually charged, except for situations which the charges are waivered. Charges for these services are covered under Section 41A of the VAT Act.
Local authorities are sometimes called upon to collect refuse that is beyond their area of operation. This is commonly referred to as 'out of area' collection and they are not covered by the Special Legal Regime and are therefore charged a standard fee.
This kind of waste is usually controlled, mostly because of the potential impact it has on the environment. Collection and movement of such waste is licensed by the disposal authority and the charges for these licenses are set by the Secretary of State.
There are not many authorities that are able to handle industrial waste and therefore, it is given to specialized private companies who charge a standard fee.
The specific way in which collections are categorized will determine how VAT will be charged on clinical refuse. Under normal circumstances, it is treated as industrial waste and therefore a standard rate is charged.
However, there are situations where clinical waste it categorized as either commercial or residential waste, both of which are outside the scope of VAT.


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January 19, 2021 Topic: Technology Region: Americas Blog Brand: Techland: When Great Power Competition Meets a Digital World Tags: HBO MaxDisney+EntertainmentHollywoodStreaming
The streaming hub Reelgood this week put out a new report called Q4 2020 VOD Streaming Report, which was based on what the company called its "VOD Viewing Insights," which come from thirty-two million interactions from two million users.
by Stephen Silver
The year 2020 was, without a doubt, a breakthrough for streaming, the pandemic keeping large numbers of people home for a lot more time than usual. In addition, new services arrived in 2020, including HBO Max and Peacock, while Disney+ and Apple TV+ built up their offerings throughout the year after debuting in late 2019. Netflix, meanwhile, had a string of huge hits throughout 2020, from Tiger King to The Queen's Gambit.
The report measured the "streaming activity" of the major services and found that in the fourth quarter of 2020, Netflix had 22 percent of the activity, compared to 25 percent the year before. Amazon Prime at 20 percent (compared to 22 in the fourth quarter of 2019.) Hulu had 15 percent, level with the year before, while HBO Max had 12 percent of the activity, while Disney+ grew to 6 percent.
The report also found that Wonder Woman 1984, which debuted on HBO Max on Christmas Day, was the "strongest SVOD opening weekend performance" in the last three months of the year. Disney+'s Soul, which arrived in early December, was second, followed by Amazon Prime's October release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. The Hulu holiday comedy Happiest Season was fourth, while Netflix's Hubie Halloween came in fifth. HBO Max's The Witches was sixth, Hulu's Run was seventh, and the top ten was rounded out by a trio of Netflix Oscar-bait movies: Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Hillbilly Elegy.
Of all of the VOD streaming that took place in the fourth quarter, about 50 percent was SVOD (subscription video on demand), while another 27 percent was AVOD, or free ad-supported streaming. TV Everywhere marked an additional 8 percent, while TV on demand—meaning renting or buying content on-demand—took 15 percent. None of those numbers moved by more than a percentage point from the same time the year before. Tubi is the leading service for AVOD, the report said.
"As people around the world continue to deal with the ongoing pandemic and all of its implications, streaming remains one of the few industries that continue to flourish and thrive," Reelgood said in the release. "In this report, new data from Reelgood's VOD Viewing Insights product shows how consumers in the United States responded to unprecedented growth in the number of streaming services out in the market and the rise of PVOD in Q4 2020.
Stephen Silver, a technology writer for the National Interest, is a journalist, essayist and film critic, who is also a contributor to Philly Voice, Philadelphia Weekly, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Living Life Fearless, Backstage magazine, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenSilver.


No real self means that in single, present moments of awareness, no nameable, definable object can be "I." Sensations occur to no one but an impersonal awareness that isn't seperate from the sensations themselves.
I understand no-self intellectually and have had a handful of satori and several years of spiritual terminology in my mind, yet still striving for some certainty and finality about this experience. I have seen and felt what a conflicted mind does and want to understand its relationship to no-self better.
I want an honest, firm direction without distractions or pitfalls. I will do my part to answer with complete honesty and allow for mistakes and misunderstandings to drop. I am excited and relieved at the same time of this hope for a direct pointing instruction, as I've never meet any teachers outside of books or online videos; having a direct contact seems a lot more intimate.
I have seen many talk about non-self and non-duality with such a clear precision and intelligence about such an incomprehensible subject which got me interested and lead me to buddhism, and lately Dzogchen. I have read many of the masters and understand their work intellectually without too many flaws, but have yet to have a final experience myself. I feel I have benifitted from the teachings so far and wish to teach others, but dont want to be hypocritcal and want to be able to speak from my own direct experience.
My name is Kay and I am happy to assist you with exploring the concept of the separate self. My role is to point by using exercises and questions. You don't actually have to do anything other than to LOOK at what is being pointed at to see you are already seeing and always have been seeing what actually is. This simple seeing also notices that there is no self here - there's just what is going on, that this is already going on for everyone right now but the mind comes in and makes it complicated and says it's difficult and out of reach. My job as a guide is to help you see that this basic awareness/seeing is always here and always has been.
My name is Anthony, I have read the disclaimers and faq. I look forward to our discussion, thank you very much for your willingness. I am sorry about the late reply, I haven't been able to get around a computer lately. I'll do my best to stay on top of it now.
Thank you for reading the links, including the disclaimer and how to use the quote function.
Life will go on as it always does, but with increased acceptance and understanding of reality.
The body will do its thing I will still need to work and survive, but there will be no "I" running the show.
My understanding of the relationship between direct observation of what is and conceptual labelling.
I'm personally quite satisfied with my life, but I want to understand reality without a self empirically and then go forth to help others.
The questions were a means to seeing what expectations you have about what this exploration will give you and how life will look 'after'. Expectations compare what is happening now to an imagined future happening, and if the current happening does not match the imagined, this is then labelled as 'liberated' or 'not liberated and can blindside the fact that the realisation that there is no separate self has happened. When desired expectations are not met, fear, anger, resistance, frustration can arise, so be aware of this also. There is nothing to be done with expectations other than to be aware of them and any others that appear as we move through this exploration.
Yep, life goes on as it always has. What changes is the perception of life and what it all means.
This seems to point to the idea that there is a 'you' who resides in the body but who is just a puppet who is needing to survive! What "I" is that exactly?
What is the expectation that this understanding will give/bring you? What will life look like then and what will change for you then?
What exactly is it that is "personally satisfied with my life"?
I have read many of the masters and understand their work intellectually without too many flaws, but have yet to have a final experience myself. I feel I have benifitted from the teachings so far and wish to teach others, but dont want to be hypocritcal and want to be able to speak from my own direct experience.
I would like you to put aside all this intellectual knowledge…because this will be a hindrance. I would like you to be here with openness and curiosity…like that of a child who is only just seeing now what life is.
Are you always in your head? Do you have a busy mind…always thinking?
I guess I've never really examined it before. It seems like there is the body and it's physical functions and needs like food and whatnot, and a witness behind these functions. But then even the idea of a body is just an idea that comes and goes, and the idea of a separate witness witnessing thoughts is another thought taking place in another moment.
I suppose this understanding will make everything fit right in the world, make it make sense, calm it down and lower the stress. There is a subtle hope that it will change feelings of self-worth and give me confidence to talk and guide others about no-self.
I looked around the room and had a feeling of contentment then the thought "satisfaction" came in. And the idea of the whole of my life and what I've been through was also thrown under the label "satisfied." However, there seems to be nothing concrete, not boy or mind, that is "satisfied with its life," there was just a momentary emotion and then thought abut that emotion that occurred.
Not exactly, it seems a mixed bag. I can sit with direct experience and have no thoughts whatsoever for periods of time and other moments there will be thoughts but it is seen to not alter the experience at all, so they just arise and pass. Then there are the "normal" moments when there are thoughts of awkward interactions and feelings of insecurity which are more frequent than other types of thinking.
idea of a separate witness witnessing thoughts is another thought taking place in another moment.
Thank you! It's best to be 100% upfront throughout this exploration and not give seeming ideal/right answers.
There has NEVER been a separate self. There wasn't one yesterday, there isn't one now who is reading this, and there won't be one tomorrow. Did anything, other than perception change when it was seen the Santa Claus was simply a story character? Change may or may not happen, but it is not happening to a 'you'!
Nice looking, Anthony. Yes…if you look at the current experience, what is actually appearing now you will soon see what actually is as opposed to what thought says is.
Okay, you seem to be aware of AE, but we begin as we mean to go on! So we become aware of actual experience (AE) and what LOOKING is. The term 'actual experience' (AE) is used to refer to experience 'right now,' and noticing the thought stories about them...so 'looking' is just plain looking at what is here right now ie image/colour, sound, smell, sensation, taste and the simple knowing of thought at face value. It is no different to looking for your car keys when you think you have misplaced them but instead of looking for car keys, you are looking at AE - raw experience and noticing the labels and thoughts ABOUT the raw experience. The key to this exploration is the careful LOOKING. Why? Because it's the act of actually LOOKING and not finding an "I" that brings about the realisation of there being no separate self.
There is no apple, only the sight of the apple and thoughts like, "apple, red, healthy"
No apple can be found, only a conceptual abstraction which is sort of weaved through the senses and then labeled an apple.
There is a feeling of an apple in hand, the is the sight of its color and shape, there is the sound of a crunch, there is a taste, and thoughts about it, yet no apple exists outside of the mental label "apple." It seems to be a very convient referential label for communication, but not actually found in actual experience. What an odd yet releiving thing, looking around a room and seeing things as they are without the label. Its almost stripped down to direct perceiving, perhaps like how an animal would see things.
You have already started to look around you and see things, noticing the labels and thoughts about them…so continue this as many times throughout the day as you can. Label daily activities simply colour/image, sound, smell, taste, sensation, thought.
The sound of trucks labeled noise verses the music labeled "music" or pleasant was interesting to note. Theres actually no difference in sound in AE, its all a constant flow of near infinite sounds, yet thoughts label some as noise and some as music even though there is no pleasantness or unpleasantness in the direct experience of sound itself.
I do not know if anyone "enjoyed" the warmth of the sun, that was just a thought placed upon the sensation of warmth. "Enjoying" is just a thought, the sun is just a thought, beauty is just a thought, warmth is just a thought, yet the sensations are experienced, as is the thought.
So let's have a look at thought.
When there are no thoughts, there simply aren't any thoughts. There's no set destination for them to go to and come from, as that would only be another thought.
Not at all, I can sit still and hear a bird and the thought "bird" comes in almost by itself, just as the actual sound came in "by itself" for lack of a better term.
No, the thought that is there has to be thought, just as the sound of the bird is heard exactly when it is.
No, each thought arises and is cognized exactly as it appears.
No, the thought that is thought is the only one that is there, there is no range, there is only a single present thought.
No, there is no middle of a thought, thoughts are done being thought when there are no more thoughts.
No logic behind it, from commentary, memories, to imagination and a song I haven't heard in years, thoughts have no order at all.
Right...moving along..let's look at control/choice/decisions.
It sort of just happens, really. Its not controlled by anything conceivable.
All a thought can do is attempt to explain, describe, and comment, it has no real control over actions at all.
No, at first the thought "the body" came in but then left my hand alone to flip up and down hahaha.
"How" almost seems superfluous. It is directly occurring in actual experience, it's concrete, it IS. Any thought about a previous decision seems unnecessary and transparent.
It is not even the hand itself or body or brain that has control over it, those are just thoughts. I've got no explanation or description for it at all actually hahaha. Its quite funny more than anything.
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The 13-track, 2 LP-set features the lead single quot;Wall to Wallquot; and boasts guests appearances from the likes of Wu-Tang cohort Ghostface Killah, A$AP Rocky, French Montana, Busta Rhymes, 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross. The Chef himself proclaimed to Noisey that Fly International Luxurious Art, quot;... is a masterpiece man. Period. It's a good project, and I worked hard on it. I have a lot of good friends that showed up for it, and I am looking forward to seeing what the fans think.quot;F.I.L.A. aka Fly International Luxurious Art is the years-in-the-making sixth solo album from rapper and Wu-Tang Clan mainstay Raekwon and the highly anticipated follow-up to 2011's Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang. The 13-track, 2 LP-set features the lead single "Wall to Wall" and boasts guests appearances from the likes of Wu-Tang cohort Ghostface Killah, A$AP Rocky, French Montana, Busta Rhymes, 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg and Rick Ross. The Chef himself proclaimed to Noisey that Fly International Luxurious Art, "... is a masterpiece man. Period. It's a good project, and I worked hard on it. I have a lot of good friends that showed up for it, and I am looking forward to seeing what the fans think."


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Kenton County man gets 23 years for multiple offenses including rape, sexual assault of a minor
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A Kenton County man was sentenced to 23 years in prison for sexual assault of an Erlanger youth that began when she was just 9 years old.
Micah Schoettle was arrested in 2016 on several charges, including Rape in the First Degree, Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, and Sodomy in the First Degree.
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The case was called for trial in May and included a Daubert hearing, in which the Commonwealth presented evidence regarding the behavioral patterns of children who have been sexually abused.
The hearing was the first of its kind in the Commonwealth and allowed testimony to be presented at trial regarding delayed disclosure in cases of child sexual abuse.
The trial included testimony from the victim. Schoettle also testified on his own behalf and called several witnesses in what prosecutors say was an attempt to discredit the victim.
The jury deliberated for seven hours before finding Schoettle guilty and recommending a 23-year sentence.
On July 24, at formal sentencing, Kenton Circuit Judge Patricia M. Summe followed the jury's recommendation.
The Kenton Commonwealth's Attorney's office provided the following summary of events that led to Schoettle's conviction:
On September 14, 2016, officers from the Erlanger Police Department received a report from a middle school student that Micah Schoettle had repeatedly sexually assaulted her beginning when she was 9 years old.
Detective Trisha Blake of the Erlanger Police Department was assigned to investigate. The victim was interviewed at the Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center where she described in detail the sexual assaults she endured at the hands of Schoettle.
After additional investigation the allegations were presented to the Kenton County Grand Jury on Nov. 17, 2016. The Grand Jury indicted Schoettle for multiple sexual offenses against a minor including Rape in the First Degree, Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, and Sodomy in the First Degree.
The case was called for trial in the Fourth Division of the Kenton Circuit Court on May 29, 2018. The Commonwealth was represented by Assistant Commonwealth's Attorneys Maria Schletker and Lawrence Hilton. The victim testified at the trial and described how the Schoettle sexually assaulted her.
The other witnesses called by the Commonwealth included school resource officer Kevin Schwartz to whom the victim had originally disclosed, the victim's mother, and Detective Blake. The Commonwealth also called Dr. Kathi Makoroff from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Dr. Stuart Bassman, who specializes in the psychology of sexual assault.
Prior to Bassman's testimony, a Daubert hearing was conducted in which the Commonwealth presented evidence regarding the behavioral patterns of children who have been sexually abused. The hearing was the first of its kind in the Commonwealth and allowed testimony to be presented at trial regarding delayed disclosure in cases of child sexual abuse.
After the Commonwealth rested its case the Defendant testified on his own behalf and called numerous witnesses in an attempt to discredit the child victim. The jury deliberated approximately 7 hours before finding Schoettle guilty of multiple sexual offenses including Rape in the First Degree, Sodomy in the First Degree, and Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. The jury recommended a sentence of 23 years in prison.
On July 24, 2018, the case was called for formal, final sentencing. Kenton Circuit Judge Patricia M. Summe heard arguments from the Commonwealth and the Defendant before ultimately following the jury's recommendation and imposing a sentence of 23 years.
Commonwealth's Attorney Rob Sanders applauded the work of jurors, police, and prosecutors to bring another sexual offender to justice, but also recognized the trial judge saying, "It's incredibly important to have a judge who isn't afraid to make difficult rulings and Judge Summe is one of the best in Kentucky."
Sanders said certain behavioral patterns by child survivors of sexual abuse are well known but, until now, had not been presented by experts in Kentucky courts.
"I'm proud to employ prosecutors who are willing to use every legal tool available to fight for abused children," Sanders said, "And Kenton County will continue to lead the way in Kentucky."
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It would be useful to have a national conversation about how to help low-income Singaporeans who find themselves "without opportunities, unable to pull themselves up", said Education Minister (Higher Education and Skills) Ong Ye Kung yesterday.
He made this call for companies, institutions and schools to "try our best" and come up with ideas on how to address this issue, in response to questions on social inequality at a youth forum organised by clan association Singapore Chin Kang Huay Kuan and partners.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also attended the clan's 100th anniversary gala dinner, where he paid tribute to Singapore's early migrants who contributed to the nation.