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Your Texas Car Accident and Accompanying Traumatic Head Injury
Car Accidents and Head Injuries
Car accidents are closely associated with any number of significant injuries, but head injuries are among the most serious and complicated. Because a head injury typically affects the victim's brain, the results are not only extremely dangerous but are also extremely unpredictable. Head injuries are common to car accidents, and they are complicated by the fact that they can go undetected – until the injury has progressed into something much more serious and difficult to treat. Because early diagnosis often leads to improved prognosis, it is always in your best interest to seek immediate medical attention after a car accident. Further, if another driver leaves you injured, you need the professional legal counsel of an experienced Central Texas personal injury attorney.
The head injuries associated with car accidents are often caused by blunt force trauma to the head or by the head being whipped back and forth on the neck during impact and its aftermath. Concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are often the result. While a concussion is a milder form of TBI, both such injuries can have long-lasting serious physical and emotional consequences with overarching implications for not only the victim but also for his or her very support system, including family and friends.
The Statistics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) forwards several significant statistics related to TBIs:
TBIs play a contributory role in approximately 30 percent of deaths caused by injury in the United States.
In 2013, TBIs played a role in almost 50,000 fatalities.
In 2013, car accidents were the third leading cause of deaths related to TBIs.
In 2013, TBIs were diagnosed in more than 282,000 hospitalizations and 2.5 million visits to the emergency room.
These statistics illustrate how prevalent and serious traumatic brain injuries are.
Because the brain is the body's command center, the damages associated with TBIs are exceedingly difficult to predict. Your brain makes you uniquely you, and even a minor injury can lead to devastating results. TBIs are closely associated with immense physical, emotional, and financial damages. Some sufferers describe the consequences of a TBI as an "altered sense of self," which is naturally extremely difficult with which to contend. Many victims of TBIs experience debilitating anxiety, depression, and withdrawal from friends and family – all of which makes sufferers vulnerable to a diminishing support system.
If You Have Suffered a Head Injury in a Car Accident, Consult with an Experienced Central Texas Personal Injury Attorney Today
If you have suffered a head injury in a car accident that was caused by another driver's negligence, you need experienced legal counsel. Head injuries are not only exceedingly dangerous but are also closely associated with overarching emotional, physical, and financial damages. Head injury claims are complicated, but Attorney Brett H. Pritchard at The Law Office of Brett H. Pritchard in Central Texas has the experience, knowledge, and dedication to aggressively advocate for your rights and your rightful compensation. For more information, please contact or call us at 254-501-4040 today.


As a communications person in your church, you have an important job. Whether you are a volunteer or a full-time professional on staff, you are charged with communicating the mission of your church. Your job is to inspire and challenge people to grow deeper in their walk with Christ through the communications channels of the church.
As children grow up, they learn different things and encounter new experiences as they move from Kindergarten through College and on. The curriculum of each grade level has been carefully planned to build upon their previous learning and compounds to develop your children into adulthood. It is important that the educational system has a plan in place to grow the math skills of your children from grade to grade. If your First Grader is confronted with Algebra, they will be lost, as they don't have the foundation of Elementary Math to think abstractly in dimensional ways. If your Third Grader is asked to develop an English sonnet of their own, they won't understand the grammatical structure itself that defines what makes a sonnet a sonnet. Our experiences grow upon one another and produce growth.
Likewise, your church staff should all be intimately involved in participating in a spiritual growth plan through the design of their ministries. By presenting opportunities in a coordinated way, and communicating these opportunities to the right people at the right stage in their church involvement and place in their personal journey of faith, you're leading them on a spiritual growth plan.
Church ministries and programs should be carefully designed in order to provide the right opportunity at the right time.
A stairway is comprised of steps that lead somewhere. "One step of a time..." Bill Murray reminds himself in the movie What About Bob? Provide clear "baby steps" to newcomers for initial involvement. As relationships grow between your newcomers and those already involved in the mission of the church as members, these newcomers will encounter opportunities for beginning a relationship with Christ and/or growing in their faith. There will be a defined plan for these new attenders to take steps in experiencing Christ and your church, share their faith, and grow spiritually, all through the opportunities that you present them. The right opportunity at the right time.
An initial step for a newcomer would be to attend a social event like a coffee hour or a formation event such as a membership class or a new believers group. These groups will provide a foundation to meet new people, an opportunity to learn about the church and the people who are a part of it, and a way to experience what it means to have a relationship with Christ. These groups should also communicate the vision of the church and the passion of the people who serve in it. They will be able to start casual friendships with others in a comfortable environment.
Have a way to capture the information of inquirers to these groups in a sensitive way that clearly states what your intention is with wanting to connect with them. Connection cards are a great way to connect with people interested in exploring life in your church. Communicate the importance for hosts or leaders in these first-time involvement groups to follow up with the attenders of these groups afterwards. During the course of this initial involvement group, your hosts should invite newcomers to sit with them during a church service the next weekend, go out for lunch with them after a service, or have dinner at their house soon. Even just a phone call afterwards will show these newcomers that you care about them. Also during these opportunities of meeting, invite them to try a second opportunity for involvement. If their experience at the Membership Class or the New Believers Group was great, they'll be excited about the personal invitation to another group.
Ministries designed for people to meet others in their stage of life and life situation is important. These ministry opportunities should be comfortable environments in which true personal connections are made and solidified. Every church differs in their offering of these opportunities. Some smaller churches may simply have an "Adult Formation Hour" between services. Some larger churches may have capacity to sustain a variety of adult groups broken out into life stages: Men's Group, Women's Group, Singles, Young Adults, 30Somethings, 55+Seniors, Single Moms, Divorced, Newly Marrieds, etc. Each ministry should have events that are designed to be great opportunities for newcomers to experience the ministry. New people will shy away from being asked to show up to a big women's group or men's group by themselves. Nobody enjoys being the "new guy" who doesn't know anyone. Instead, a personal invite should be made to accompany those opportunities in the church to an event and there, introduced to others. To have a "wing man" is like a security blanket and those who are in this stage of learning and simply wanting to just participate in the ministries of the church will feel comfortable with attending other ministry events independently. Newcomers lose their title as newcomers and become involved regular attenders and will naturally make stronger connections with others in the church through these groups.
When a visitor comes to your church, communicating the message "Welcome to our church! Please join our 9 month Catechumenate class or volunteer in our children's department!" doesn't work. It's not the right opportunity at the right time. After parishioners have explored opportunities in the church, and learned and participated in low-commitment opportunities, both social events and faith formation opportunities, they are ready to make higher commitments with their time. Now they are ready to explore opportunities to grow in deeper ways, with increased commitment. If you and your spouse/partner already know another couple in the church or you've made some acquaintances through groups previously mentioned as you've participated in church activities, then you'll be more open to accepting an invite into a small group experience, a catechumenate class, or opening up to even more personal encounters like a Men's Retreat or Women's Retreat.
As parishioners have moved from newcomers, to participating in events and opportunities, to deepening in their commitments, they'll have caught the vision of the church and begin to live out the mission of the church. They'll want to start serving! Hopefully the church will empower these new leaders with opportunities to step into. Imagine, you won't be begging for people to volunteer! Church ministries will communicate their opportunities for serving through these life groups or adult formation groups and people will serve together because they want to, not because they were begged to do so. They'll be comfortable and they'll begin to take ownership of the church. It is no longer just the church they attend, but it is now THEIR church--an important distinction. They'll want to invite their friends and they will want to help with introducing newcomers to your church. Your church is thriving because the church's mission is being fulfilled and spiritual growth is occurring throughout the church body.
How Do You Communicate These Engagement Steps, Or Do You?
As a communicator, you are communicating "next steps" to spiritual growth. Be creative in how you brand your individual ministries and be intentional about how these ministries compound upon one another to fulfill the church's vision.
A point to consider is whether or not you should communicate a "spiritual grown plan" in the first place to your church body. Sit down with your first grader and draw out the educational system and create a syllabus to life learning for how they'll first learn addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division, percentages, quadratic equations, algebra, calculus, and trigonometry. They don't care, they'll be lost, and they'll want to go play outside with their friends. In Hebrews 5:12, it says "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food;" It is important that the educational system has a plan in place to grow the math skills of your children from grade to grade.
Again, your church staff should all be intimately involved in participating in a spiritual growth plan through the design of their ministries. By presenting opportunities in a coordinated way, and communicating these opportunities to the right people at the right stage in their church involvement, you're already leading them in spiritual growth. This is a leadership document and is not a plan that is shared widely to visitors/newcomers, members, or the congregation at large. It is a plan for leadership to be intentional about presenting "next step" opportunities; the right opportunities at the right times. Be intentional and honor God with your prayer and consideration of God's leading in how to guide your church body, and follow that call into action.
I'm guessing that you feel that your church is doing way too much stuff. Are your ministries constantly battling for promotional space in the bulletin, on the website, in your newsletters, or in whatever other communication channels you use? Are parishioners so overwhelmed with opportunities to get involved that they just freeze up and don't do anything at all?
First off, there is only so much you can do as a church to communicate "stuff." Imagine your total communications as a pie chart. What percentage gets what? Does your Newcomers Reception get 20% promotion? Where 20% of the time, in any given publication, this first step for newcomers to engage with the church ("explore / attendance" engagement step...low commitment) is promoted? An appeal for joining the adult choir gets another 10% of the church communication. Children's Ministry gets 15%, Outreach gets 20%, The Book Club gets 10%, the Centering Prayer group gets 10%, your church picnics/potlucks/special events get 10%, and the high school youth group gets 5%. That's 100%. Right now, write down your main ministry areas and events and figure out what percentages of current promotions belong to each.
What about the Vacation Bible School for that summer? Or the special marriage seminar for couples? Or the night of worship that your worship team is putting on? Or the Advent Retreat that the diocese has asked you to promote? What other events or groups are asking for promotion? Now the Boy Scout troop that your church hosts wants promotion. So does the Parents of Preschoolers group that meets. Don't forget about Women's Book Club on Tuesdays, and the Seniors Ministry. Whatever group it is, whatever ministry it is, it wants a piece of that pie.
What is most important to the church leadership? If you are a church that is heavily focused on social justice and advocacy, then that piece of the pie might be bigger. If your church is all about Adult Formation, then that piece will be bigger. Whatever piece becomes bigger makes another piece smaller. You have only so much space to promote. Start with your vision and work backwards. Be intentional about creating space for ministries that accomplish your vision.
Focus is the key component in communicating. You're leading people in one direction, hopefully, of where you'd like them to go. But if there is unorganized, unplanned promotion of all events and groups in the church, to an attender it may seem that you're asking them to go in 6 different directions.
Just as your promotional space is limited, so is the time of each of your attenders. How much time can you expect out of your church families to be involved in church activities? More than ever, kids have increasing amounts of homework, parents have jobs that have schedules that are ever-changing, and school activities pile up upon one another. As a church, you're asking people to attend church, serve an hour or two in a ministry in the church, be involved one or two hours a week in a "life group" ministry like a Men's or Women's Ministry, be in faith formation/adult ed group, attend seminars/workshops that will better their lives, help plan a mission trip, etc. Too much! Your people are currently saying "They're asking so many different things of me and I can only commit to church things for a few hours per week. So what is the most important thing?" Mixed messages are being sent when ministries don't realize they are competing for time and involvement of their attenders.
Decide what your pie chart is going to be and stick to it. It should reflect who you are as a church and what you feel are the most important areas to highlight. This pie chart should tell the story of how you plan to move people from your front doors, from warming a pew seat, into an environment which begins or grows their relationship with Christ, into serving and involvement.
Now that you've decided your communications pie, decide how this translates to your different communications channels. Start communicating only a handful of events or groups in your church program/bulletin. If you commit to doing 5 promotions in each bulletin, then you have 260 available spots for the year (5 X 52 weeks of the year). Of these 260, multiply that by the percentage of promotion of how you've divided your pie. For your newsletter, decide that you're only going to promote 10 things weekly, 520 available slots of promotion. Figure out how many promotional slots each ministry gets for the year. You may want to only do this on a monthly schedule—for a ministry that has 20% of the pie, two promotional spots per week in a 10 slot newsletter.
Next, begin a calendar of all your promotions in a spreadsheet. Keep track! You'll be able to plan out well in advance all of your promotions weeks, even months, in advance. You can negotiate with your ministries what they each view as being the most important events in their ministries. The best part is that they're not allowed to have more promotional spots than previously decided upon by the pie chart. Again, more promotion of one ministry equals less promotion of another.
Having a plan makes your job easier. Without it, people perceive that you play favorites as to what ministry you like the best. Their perception is their reality and their approach to your communications leadership becomes difficult. Sometimes, as you may encounter now, they go over your head and try to bring more enforcement to their need. Your church leadership can now say when approached about promotion for a ministry or event, "(Name) has a plan in place. You'll have to speak with them because I'm not sure what other things are scheduled to be promoted at that time. I know they schedule promotions out way ahead of time, but give them a call to talk about future promotion."
Also, we all know the squeaky wheel gets the grease. You may have tried to control overall communication without a plan and it is easier to give in to those that squeak the loudest, just to get them to stop squeaking. You hate to give in, knowing that there are other ministries that have far greater promotional needs, but you do so anyway.
It is all in the power of the pie. Stop saying "No" and stop giving in. Start with the plan!


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MUN Vs BUR Dream 11 Football Team Predictions
Manchester United Vs Burnley FC Fantasy XI
Manchester United Vs Burnley FC football match preview
Dream 11 Closing Time: 7:25 PM (IST), 26th December 2017
English Premier League – 2017 – 2018
EPL – 2017-2018
Tournament – English Premier League 2017 – 2018
Venue- Old Trafford, Manchester, England
Date and Time- 8:25 PM IST on Tuesday, December 26, 2017
MUN Vs BUR Match Stats:
MUN Vs BUR in their last six matches:
MUN – W, W, L, W, W, D
BHA – W, L, W, W, D, L
Game Preview:
Manchester United haven't lost a home league game against Burnley since September 1962 (2-5), winning eight and drawing five since. However, Burnley left Old Trafford with a goalless draw last season, despite facing a total of 38 shots, the highest in a single match in 2016-17. Manchester United have won 19 of their 23 Premier League Boxing Day games, giving them the best win ratio on this day in the competition (83%).
Manchester United are now 13 points behind league leaders Manchester City after only managing a 2-2 draw with Leicester on Saturday – a game they should have won by three or four. Burnley had only conceded three goals at home all season before facing Tottenham on Saturday. That tally doubled after Harry Kane hat-trick and now they travel to Old Trafford where they haven't won since 1962. United's usually tight defence has been leaking goals of late, illustrated by just two clean sheets in their last 12 matches in all competitions. That will give Burnley confidence, but Jose Mourinho will demand a response from his players after watching them throw two points away at the weekend.
MUN Vs BUR Probable Playing 11:
MUN (Probable 11) –
De Gea (GK), Shaw, Rojo, Jones, Lindelof, Pogba, Matic, Rashford, Lingard, Mata, Lukaku
BUR (Probable 11) –
Pope (GK), Lowton, Mee, Long, Taylor, Wells, Defour, Cork, Gudmundsson, Hendrick, Barnes
MUN –
Chris Smalling has added to Jose Mourinho's problems after suffering a groin injury in Manchester United's 2-2 draw with Leicester on Saturday night.
Matteo Darmian missed the draw through injury and remains a doubt for Boxing Day, while Antonio Valencia and Eric Bailly are also sidelined from United's defenders.
Luke Shaw could start at left-back if Mourinho feels Ashley Young needs a rest, while Marcos Rojo should slot in for Smalling against Burnley at Old Trafford.
No changes are expected in attack, although Marcus Rashford may rotate in for Anthony Martial after starting Saturday's draw on the bench.
James Tarkowski serves the second of his three-match ban on Boxing day, meaning Kevin Long should continue at centre-back in his absence.
Chris Wood was forced with injury in the 3-0 defeat at home to Tottenham on Saturday and is not expected to be available for the trip to Old Trafford.
Matthew Lowton was an unused substitute against Spurs and should regain his place in the starting XI at the expense of Phil Bardsley.
Jonathan Walters was also on the bench at the weekend but hasn't featured since August and needs to build up his match fitness from the bench.
Nahki Wells could make his full Premier League debut if Sean Dyche decides he needs to freshen things up.
De Gea (MUN)
Mata (MUN)
Lukaku (MUN)
Pope (BUR)
Mee(BUR)
Gudmundsson (BUR)
We are providing you the MUN Vs BUR football match preview based on our research and understanding. Please choose your own probable playing 11 as these matches are quite risky to predict who will play and who will not get the chance to play.

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The Marvel superhero blockbuster Black Panther generated a respectable U.S.$100 million at the Chinese box office in the two weeks since it opened, making China the film's top overseas market. The movie had a very strong opening in China, earning more than $60 million during its opening weekend, but then dropped off quickly.
The seemingly sharp fall in attendance prompted Western media outlets to write a series of articles that suggested Chinese moviegoers objected to Black Panther because of its all-black leading cast. "A torture for the eyes: Chinese moviegoers think Black Panther is just too black," read Quartz reporter Echo Huang's dismally-sourced story where she relied on online movie review sites, often filled with troll-like comments, as evidence of Chinese racism towards black people. Not surprisingly, Huang's article went viral and sparked a lively discussion on social media about the supposedly pervasive racism in China towards black people.
Robert Castillo, an assistant professor at Ling Nan University in Hong Kong, is one of the leading scholars on the African diaspora in China with a particular focus on African and black media perceptions in the People's Republic of China. He joins Eric and Cobus to discuss the Chinese response to Black Panther and why the Western media continues to misunderstand Chinese racial views towards black people.


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Musings of a Canadian liberal woman about the state of Canadian and US politics.
Mulroney Contradicts MacKay
Ever since Peter MacKay has been under fire about allegations of torture in Afghanistan during the period of 2006-2007, he has repeatedly said in the house that the transfer agreement was changed once the government had credible evidence to back up those claims.
From November 25, 2009, Hansard:
Hon. Peter MacKay (Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, CPC):
Mr. Speaker, when officials at Foreign Affairs and officials at the Department of National Defence were in possession of credible allegations, they acted. Going back two and a half years the action began. The action began to clean up the mess that we had inherited from the party opposite. The action began to rewrite the transfer arrangement, to arrange for more prison visits and to train officials inside the prison.
But, here's what David Mulroney said during his opening statement when he testified in front of the special committee today.
From the video (approximately 7 minutes in)
When I took up my responsibilities at Foreign Affairs in February, 2007, the department was already exploring ways of engaging in monitoring and tracking detainees. At the same time, we had an exchange of letters with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, an organization for which we are a major funder, in which the AIHRC agreed to notify Canada should it learn of any mistreatment of Canadian-transferred detainees. In mid-March, we began detailed work to create a detailed contingency plan, a standard operating procedure in the event of well-founded allegations of mistreatment. We did this not because of confirmed instances of real and substantial risk of torture or mistreatment of Canadian-transferred detainees but because it was clear that what we had in place at the time could and should be further reinforced.
One of these men is lying.
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Added by Andreas Kohlbecker over 6 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.
There is no relation in the api between Role, CdmAuthority and GrantedAuthorityImpl they are connected only via the string representations. But all are GrantedAuthorities and thus should implement the interface and should provide conversion functionality which allows to convert from Role and CdmAuthority to GrantedAuthorityImpl and vice versa.
There is now an enum for roles: @GrantedAuthorityImpl.Role@.
completely merging all classes together seems not to make fully sense. So we decided to provide some conversion functionality which allows to convert from Role and CdmAuthority to GrantedAuthorityImpl and vice versa. Role and CdmAuthority should be in the cdmlib-persistence package.
I am also changing the subject of this ticket accordingly.
Are there still open issues?


Winter gets warmed up in this smoldering editorial at the Wadsworth Mansion. Juxtaposed with that grand, historic venue, bohemian details shine (hello, gorgeous blooms and angular altar!), especially when you add loads of spice thanks to this shoot's so-in-love couple and our slinky, silk-crepe Fiona gown. Styled by Wildflower Events Design, this wedding inspo's free-spirited, sensuous vibe is one that can be applied no matter the weather…although cool nights are made for that cute embroidered jean jacket!
A huge thank you to the three photographers—Cassandra Daye Photography, Keli Photography, and Kortni Marie Photography—who captured every kiss, detail, and moment.


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We celebrate the first birthday of our great inexpensive christmas gifts for wife boy.
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For invitation of adults, when you are a grown up, the concept of gifts tend to become a superficial one and all you truly want is stanford health care gift shop to get together with your friends and have fun.
Were throwing a party for my little boy.Our dear _ is turning one, Please come to join the fun.His friends will come to partake And see his first birthday candle and cake.The presence of our family and friends will do, and make our day special too.It will only lead to an overflow of things that are completely unnecessary.So we invite you to make Bens 1st Birthday the beary, beary best!Our son/daughter only wants you to give them the gift of your hearty blessings.We are teaching our children how to be minimalists and therefore, we do not want you to bring any gifts but if you insist on bringing them something, then a basket of goodies or some homemade delicacies would just be perfect.He has given us a year of smiles and joy.After 50 years, we need nothing more.Recommended posts for you: Different ways to say No Gifts, please.Its time for some fun that you cant miss!So, these were some ways for you to add on the birthday invitations of every age group zumba gift ideas that you would not want your guests to bring any gifts.I really cannot think of anything that I could possibly need more than to spend some quality time with my friends, recalling old times and laughing so hard that my stomach hurts.The very best present, is you at the door!I am working on a invitation design for a wedding anniversary party.Come to my party.There is truly nothing that our kid needs, but if you insist on giving something then we would like you to donate it to a charity, there are many kids out there who might actually be in need of these things.
Still, there are many people who very much insist on giving you gifts or feel awkward about not giving you any, in such a case it would be best for you to accept those gifts politely and thank them for.
Instead of going through the whole tiring process of choosing and buying gifts, you could get the birthday girl/boy movie tickets for the weekend.


Below you will find some history of our vessels from the start in 1950 until today.
Buildt 1977 by Cassens werft in Emden as NB118.
Sold in 2004 after 7 years in company service.
Buildt 1975 by Hugo Peters in Wewelsfleeth as NB557.
Scrapped in 2015 after 24 years in company service.
Buildt 1971 by Hugo Peters in Wewelsfleeth as NB543.
Sold in 1990 after 1 year in company service.
Buildt 1971 by Hugo Peters in Wewelsfleeth as NB548.
Buildt 1971 by N.V. Scheepswerft Appingedam in Appingedam as NB209.
The vessel were in 1984 after just a few voyages rebuildt to self-discharger.
Sold in 1991 after 7 years in company service.
Buildt 1973 by Nordsoverftet in Ringkobing as NB73.
Sold in 1984 after 5 years in company service.
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Sold in 1977 after 7 years in company service.
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Ten Memorable Customer Moments from 10 Years of AWS re:Invent
January 18, 2022 Krista Germano
Amazon Web Services (AWS) celebrated 10 years of AWS re:Invent. During that time, many customers have taken the re:Invent stage to share their stories and details of exciting innovations. To mark the occasion, here's a look back at 10 memorable moments from a decade of re:Invent and what this year's customer keynote speakers shared on the main stage:
Capital One (re:Invent 2015)
At re:Invent 2015, Rob Alexander, CIO for Capital One, discussed the company's plan to use AWS for its critical applications and to move away from its data centers. In November 2020, the company announced it had completed its transition to the AWS cloud, becoming the first U.S. bank to report that it has exited legacy data centers and gone all-in on the public cloud. "We're either using or experimenting with nearly every AWS service," said Alexander. On its journey, Capital One scaled its tech team to 11,000 members to build innovative customer experiences using AWS services and built 80 percent of the nearly 2,000 applications it now runs in the cloud from the ground up. The company has also cut disaster recovery time by 70 percent in tests and reduced the average development environment build time from 3 months to minutes.
NASA JPL (re:Invent 2016)
At re:Invent 2016, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), discussed how the organization uses AWS to find answers to big questions like how we can protect the planet, whether we are alone in the universe, and whether there is life on Mars. JPL's primary function is the construction and operation of planetary robotic spacecraft, and it also conducts Earth-orbit and astronomy missions. The Deep Space Network (DSN) is operated by NASA JPL, which also operates many of the agency's interplanetary robotic space missions.
Siemens (re:Invent 2017)
Siemens first appeared at re:Invent 2017, where Steve Bashada, executive vice president and general manager at Siemens Digital Industries Software (DI SW), demonstrated how Siemens used AWS to help improve its business and how it follows an AWS-first strategy to power its MindSphere industrial Internet of Things (IoT) solution. "We use . . . 40-plus AWS services," said Bashada. "That's a very in-depth use." Our work with Siemens continues to grow since then, and this year's re:Invent, Siemens supported the AWS IoT TwinMaker launch, and announced an expanded collaboration with AWS to facilitate cloud-based digital transformation. With their expertise in Operation Technology (OT), and AWS leading expertise in the IT space, Siemens and AWS will make it easier for industrial customers to use Siemens' comprehensive industrial software and AWS to deliver new manufacturing insights, automation, and connected services. Together, we'll bring OT and IT teams together to implement new cloud-based digital transformation solutions that will help companies of any size address industrial complexity and turn it into competitive advantage.
Epic Games (re:Invent 2018)
Epic Games (Epic) might be best known as the creator of games like Fortnite, but at re:Invent 2018, Chris Dyl, director of platform at Epic, discussed the company's elasticity, analytics, and Unreal Engine—a suite of tools that developers use for creating interactive experiences in 3D game genres and other industries, including film and television. Epic has used AWS analytics solutions, such as a 35 PB data lake that ingests over 125 million events per minute, to power Fortnite and Unreal Engine, using the resulting insights to power business outcomes and increase player engagement. "We're heavily reliant on AWS now," said Dyl. "It's become a critical part of our operations."
GE (re:Invent 2018)
Keith Bigelow, general manager and senior vice president of GE Healthcare, announced at re:Invent 2018 that the global medical technology company is all in on Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed ML service. GE Healthcare provides a broad portfolio of products, solutions, and services used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients and in biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. "We're not here to build one algorithm," said Bigelow. "We're building thousands of algorithms. And in order to do that, we need to ingest petabytes of data, and we need to store it compliantly." The company is using Amazon SageMaker to build, train, and deploy ML models that help healthcare providers identify health issues around the world. Using algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) can help providers detect a critical condition, localize the condition on a scan, and quantify the severity of the condition.
BP (re:Invent 2019)
Global energy business BP is using advanced technologies from AWS to develop new ways to tackle emissions, improve its products, and create new low-carbon businesses. At re:Invent 2019, Stewart Fry, vice president and chief information officer of BP, detailed BP's shift to a cloud-first organization. The company has migrated 32 production SAP environments to AWS including a 16TB strategic global fuels instance. A migrated refinery optimization product was also modernized, which now runs calculations in 4 minutes instead of 7 hours. BP also made a big announcement: "Today, we're pleased to be able to announce that we're going all in [on] AWS to support the exit from our two European mega data centers," said Fry.
Verizon (re:Invent 2019)
An innovator in the 5G space, Verizon offers 5G Mobile and 5G Home Internet. Now it also provides 5G network edge computing using AWS Wavelength, a new service announced during the re:Invent 2019 keynote. AWS Wavelength extends AWS compute and storage services to 5G networks, providing mobile edge computing infrastructure for developing, deploying, and scaling ultra-low-latency applications. "I think that it's just a massive moment for us at Verizon," said Hans Vestberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon.
Volkswagen (re:Invent 2019)
Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen) operates at a massive global scale, manufacturing some 11 million cars—from brands such as Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche—per year and bringing 200 million parts per day into its factories. During re:Invent 2019, Dr. Martin Hofmann, group chief information officer of Volkswagen, discussed using AWS to move 124 factory sites to a single architecture: the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud. "The implementation speed that we are getting from AWS methodologies, the flexibility, and the culture [are] helping us to really accelerate this project," said Hofmann. The company uses AWS ML services—running algorithms using information from shop floor sensors—and AWS Outposts, a fully managed service that offers the same AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and functionality to virtually any data center, collocation space, or on-premises facility for a consistent hybrid experience.
Philips (re:Invent 2020)
Philips, a health technology company that aims to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030, uses AWS for its HealthSuite digital solution. HealthSuite securely consolidates information from patient records, wearables, home-based remote monitoring equipment, insurance companies, and healthcare organizations. At re:Invent 2020, Elad Benjamin, general manager of radiology informatics for Philips, described how the company is using AWS to increase its use of AI and data science to extract new knowledge from health data. "The unlocking of big data using ML and AI tools will support the fundamental shift from volume- to value-based care and to a precise diagnosis for each patient," said Benjamin.
Netflix (re:Invent 2020)
Data science at Netflix goes far beyond eponymous recommendation systems and touches every aspect of the business, from optimizing content delivery to fighting fraud. Netflix's unique culture affords its data scientists extraordinary freedom of choice in tools, which results in an ever-expanding set of machine learning (ML) approaches and systems. In 2019, Netflix open-sourced Metaflow, its human-centric ML platform, designed to leverage the strengths of AWS: elastic compute; high-throughput storage; and dynamic, scalable notebooks. "We at Netflix are extremely pragmatic…when we know that Amazon can provide something it doesn't really make sense often times for us to do it by ourselves…we want to rely on AWS when it comes to scalability and when it comes to storage back-end."
Over the past 10 years, each of these customers dared to do something different using the cloud. Now there are millions of customers in every industry, across every use case, and around the world running their mission-critical applications on AWS. The cloud has become not just another tech revolution, but an enabler of a fundamental shift in how businesses function. At this year's 2021 re:Invent, AWS customers took the stage to share their recent advances, transformations, and innovations. Watch some of this year's pathfinding customers who joined Adam Selipsky, CEO at AWS, during his keynote including United Airlines, DISH, 3M, and Nasdaq.
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Rapp Report episode 210
Welcome to Andrew Rappaport's Rapp Report, where we provide Biblical interpretation and application. The show is a ministry of Striving for Eternity and the Christian Podcast Community. On today's episode, host Andrew Rappaport is joined by friend and Pastor Jim Osman of Kootenai Community Church in Idaho. Unlike our usual episodes, we will be in discussion with another podcast from the Christian Podcast Community, Bitcoin and the Bible, to discuss the issues of money, Bitcoin and the church. Join us for part one of this two-part episode!
To begin, the hosts of Bitcoin and the Bible introduce themselves and their show, the heart of which encourages Christians all around the world with the message that God has provided for us. With the great reset underway and the worldly transitions taking place, it is incumbent upon the church to put ourselves in a position to thrive going forward. Dave, Simon and Will are members of Kootenai Community Church.
Most people have no concept or Biblical understanding of currency, why we have it and how we should view it. At the very beginning, God created Adam and Eve and gave them the job of tending to His garden. Thus, work is built into the human condition as a good and noble thing given by God. The fruit of our labor can be traded amongst one another. It didn't take long for the human population to realize a medium for exchange was needed. Thus, money is a way to facilitate trade and increase the prosperity of a society. Today, Dave explains, money is borrowed into creation and is really just a claim on a debt obligation. We have now found ourselves in a situation in which the debt has spiraled out of control and we are in need of a new monetary system to reset.
In a free market system, mediums of exchange must be divisible and recognizable. The value of currency differs greatly from place to place, depending on the needs of the population. Therefore, money does not have intrinsic value but is dependent on time, society, and circumstance. Money is desired due to its flexibility and allowance of other goods and services from the economy. Some Christians believe that money is inherently evil and vain. However, money is a morally neutral mechanism of storing labor. It is the greed of money that makes it evil. God refers to Abraham, who was rich in cattle, as a righteous man. Thus we are led to believe that He has given us permission to use the money he has allowed us to choose freely in a way that honors and glorifies Him.
The fiat system refers to the present operating system in which the money used is a decree by the government to be used in paying taxes and as the official currency. This money, however, is based solely on debt and is moved in the ether. Already, we are living in a world in which money has been dematerialized and is issued under the promise of its future performance. Bitcoin is likened unto gold in that all of the capital and energy has been invested into it for it to be created.
The concept of cryptocurrency is often a difficult one for people to understand, and Andrew breaks it down in the simplest way possible. Gold is great at storing value over time, while fiat currency is a great medium of exchange over space. Separately, they each have their own fatal flaws. The technological improvement of the fiat standard is the ability to combine the two currencies based on trust. Anyone can look at the situation and determine it is horribly dangerous. There is no interface between the digital and physical worlds. What needed to be done was to design money that exists digitally and also has digital scarcity, which nobody can control. A predefined system with rules but not rulers, which specified its monetary policy in the very beginning, makes it impossible to develop more of the currency and lets everyone monitor, would be a digital system that respects the store value of money. Rather than relying on an auditor, digital signatures verify the transference of said money and it takes real-world energy to effixate the transaction called locks in Bitcoin. Each block builds upon the last one, which provides a consensus on what has been done digitally with something intangible. If you're still confused by this concept, check out Bitcoin and the Bible's third episode of season 1.
The biggest hindrance for people to understand Bitcoin is not understanding computers. Most people don't understand how the internet works, yet they are still able to use it in the most intimate ways. We are very early in the Bitcoin adoption cycle, but the guys predict that soon the entire world will be on a Bitcoin standard. It is crucial that the church begins now to free ourselves of the government's fraud. By creating an exit strategy out of the system right now, we need to take the funds God has given you and put them into a safe system such as Bitcoin. As part one draws to a close, hear how blockchains play a part in keeping Bitcoin secure. Bitcoin was designed with the knowledge that everyone would do anything they could to try to stop it, yet it has emerged unscathed.
Don't miss part two of this conversation, in which we'll advise listeners on how to start up their own Bitcoins and determine why it is the best cryptocurrency.
3:00 – Andrew introduces today's guests and episode topic.
6:12 – David, Simon, and Will of Bitcoin and the Bible introduce themselves.
12:29 – The evolution of currency beginning in Genesis.
17:52 – How can the value of currency be determined?
21:44 – The pitfall of gold as currency.
24:30 – What should be the Christian's view of money?
27:06 – The dematerialization of money and the emergence of Bitcoin.
34:00 – Breaking down Bitcoin.
42:00 – The importance of embracing Bitcoin.
46:11 – How does the blockchain ensure safety?
51:29 – The indestructibility of Bitcoin.
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