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UKZN: Another statue, same revolution?
Defacing colonial-era statues in the name of transformation is not the revolution – it's just a symbol of it. But don't let critics of the student protests that are rocking South Africa persuade you that this part isn't as crucial to revolutionising racial and cultural representation at universities as the other parts are – the debates, the policy changes and the employment of more black academics. Every protest needs a face. The face of this one is all about defacing those made of stone and as rock-hard as the white privilege belief system standing in the way of real change.
And now there is a new defaced face to add to the face of the movement. It belongs to the statue of King George V at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. On Thursday students discovered that someone had thrown white paint on it and attached a sign to it that reads: "end white privilege" on its statue of King George V. This was the ruler of the United Kingdom for more than twenty years until his death in 1936 – the empire that colonised South Africa.
#KingGeorgeMustFall #Ukzn pic.twitter.com/5moz7mZNpl
— sipho mkhize (@Mkhizesipsyd) March 26, 2015
Over the last two weeks social media feeds have been filled with photos of the Cecil John Rhodes statue, which occupies a prime position at the University of Cape Town. The statue's face is covered by black plastic bags, and at the start of the protests over its removal in early March, it dripped with human faeces courtesy of an angry student.
At UCT where students are gathering to march for the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes. #RhodesMustFall pic.twitter.com/5ESDLnrODt
— Jerusha Raath (@JerushaRaath) March 20, 2015
Rhodes University has a less physical face to deface. It is contending with the prospect of calling for its institution to change its clearly colonial-era name. In the meantime, it is making its anger about white privilege known.
#RhodesSoWhite debate heats up, but is it the right platform? http://t.co/5QauI9Xj1M pic.twitter.com/8rGkStFipQ
— TheSouthAfrican.com (@TheSAnews) March 19, 2015
The revolution, as some students refer to it as, has now bled into other universities, and has received very different reactions. What seemed to start as a frenzied throwing of faeces at a statue at UCT, has now turned into a seemingly well-supported and structured movement at the university. Rhodes University has a smaller grouping but has pledged its passionate support for the UCT movement by holding solidarity marches.
But students at UKZN have so far expressed shock and confusion about the defacing of their colonial statue and no one has claimed responsibility for the act. This "revolution" is colourful, layered, and it changes pace almost every day. What we will wait for now is to see how far its blood seeps into other formerly white institutions like Stellenbosch University, for example.
Until then, no statue's face is safe. And maybe it shouldn't be.
Rhodes University
Rhodesmustfall
University Of Kwazulu Natal


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Mindy Solomon Gallery specializes in contemporary emerging and mid-career artists and art advisory services. The gallery represents artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, and video in both narrative and non-objective styles. The gallery program explores the intersection of art and design through an ongoing dialog between two and three-dimensional objects. Utilizing the gallery space as a platform for inventive exhibitions, museum visitations, and public lectures, Solomon invites a sense of community and aesthetic enrichment.


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In the simplest of terms, Reiki is healing using the Universal Life Force Energy that flows around and through all living things. Often visualized as a white or coloured healing energy that flows from the earth (Celtic) and/or the heavens (Usui) through the Root and Crown Chakras and flowing throughout the body along the meridian lines.
The Reiki Practitioner opens themselves to the energy and act as a conduit for that energy, using a system of symbols to strengthen the energy flow. The healing energy flows through them to be received by the recipient of the Reiki session.
The recipient's body knows best how to use the energy. For instance, a person may have pain in their shoulder. The focus of the treatment may be on the shoulder, but after the treatment the shoulder may still be painful. However, the recipient may no longer experience the debilitating migraines that they didn't think could be eliminated and often did not even discuss with the practitioner.
The Reiki Practitioner cannot diagnose a medical condition. Some may get a feeling or impression of some imbalance in a certain area and focus on that area. It remains fact, that the body is indeed the best Healer and chooses best how to use the healing energy brought to it by the practitioner.
Some Reiki Practitioners are also Medical Initiatives.
Reiki has evolved since it was developed by Dr. Mikao Usui. There are now dozens of additional symbols that resonate with people of different ethnicities such as Celtic, Tibetan, and Dolphin etc. regardless of the symbols a practitioner uses all Reiki observes the common traits indicated in the paragraphs above.
Reiki is a healing modality and NOT a religion. Reiki practitioners can observe any number of religous practices completely independent of their Reiki practice. However, what you believe strongly permeates all you do. I believe that the best parts of your religious beliefs will flow through your Reiki.
Dr. Usui discovered Reiki during a mystical experience on Mt. Kurama, a sacred mountain north of Kyoto, Japan in March, 1922. A few months later he started a Reiki organization called the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai which means "Usui Reiki Healing Society." He also opened a Reiki clinic in Harajuku, Aoyama, Tokyo. There he taught classes and gave Reiki treatments. After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 the demand for Reiki was great and it was at this time that Usui began training other teachers.
Celtic Reiki is a version of Usui Reiki, which uses vibrations of the Earth and specific plants to create a healing and manifestation contusive environment. The Reiki energy mimics the frequency of various trees and plants to work in accordance with channelled and Celtic wisdom. An Earth energy Reiki, Celtic Reiki is channelled up, through the root chakra, rather than down through the crown, as with the Usui technique. Celtic Reiki shows results similar to Traditional Reiki, influenced greatly by the energy techniques of the Celts.
The Celtic Reiki Symbols are derived from the ancient Ogham system of symbols associated with trees.
Martyn Pentecost is a Usui Reiki Master who is credited with the development of Celtic Reiki.


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Q: Create persistent multi-line string I would like to assign a multi-line string to a variable in R so that I can call the variable later.
When I try paste("line 1", "line 2", sep = "\n") I get "line 1\nline 2".
When I try cat("line 1", "line 2", sep = "\n"), I get the desired output, but this is output is not persistent (cat() returns an object of type None).  The reason that I'm trying to use a multi-line string is that I need to send query results via a SMTP server (and the package sendmailR) in the message body (not as an attachment).

A: paste("line 1", "line 2", sep = "\n") is the right way, you get what you intended:
> a = paste("line 1", "line 2", sep = "\n")
> cat(a)
line 1
line 2>

Your confusion probably comes from the fact that print escapes the output, so it is printing the string the way it would be expected by the parser:
> print(a)
[1] "line 1\nline 2"

Note the quotes around the string. cat prints the output as-is. In both cases the object is the same, it's only the output format that differs.
Obviously, you could create the string directly without paste:
> a = "line1\nline2"
> cat(a)
line1
line2>

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Q: Joining three different tables with date columns and group by date I'm currently working with three different tables that look like this
user:
user_id|createtime
-----------------------------
001     2016-07-20
002     2016-08-15
003     2016-08-05
004     2016-08-23

object:
objc_id|createtime|user_id
-----------------------------
001     2016-07-20   001
002     2016-07-15   001
003     2016-08-05   002
004     2016-08-23   001
005     2016-08-19   003
006     2016-08-21   004
007     2016-08-22   004

event:
event_id|createtime|objc_id
-----------------------------
001      2016-08-25   001
002      2016-08-26   004
003      2016-08-28   002
004      2016-08-27   005
005      2016-08-30   003

I've already made select statements which tell me how many new users, objects or events were created on a certain date:
select createtime, count(user_id) as new_user from
user where createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days' group by
createtime;

select createtime, count(objc_id) as new_objc from
object createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days' group by createtime;

select createtime, count (event_id) from
event where createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
group by createtime;

Now I want make one select statement, where all the numbers of new objects, users, and events are shown and group them by their creationtime.
However I can't get a solution for this. The goal to achieve would look something like this:
createtime|new_user|new_objc|new_event
---------------------------------------
2016-07-15              1
2016-07-20    1         1
2016-07-22
2016-07-24
2016-08-05    1         1
2016-08-15    1
2016-08-19              1
2016-08-21              1
2016-08-22              1
2016-08-23    1         1
2016-08-25                      1
2016-08-26                      1
2016-08-27                      1
2016-08-28                      1
2016-08-30                      1

... also, of course some dates could appear more than once for one group, so that the count will be 1 or higher.
The goal is to see if marketing increases the number of new users, buying of objects and attending to an event over time (you need the object for the event).
Has anybody a solution for this, or do I have to go with separate result tables?

A: if you don't want to use your queries try this:
SELECT T1.createtime , COUNT(U.user_id) new_user ,
       COUNT(O.objc_id) new_objc , COUNT(E.event_id) new_event
FROM (((SELECT distinct createtime from user
        WHERE createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
        UNION
        SELECT distinct createtime from object
        WHERE createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
        UNION
        SELECT distinct createtime from event
        WHERE createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
        ) as T1
        LEFT JOIN user U ON T1.createtime = U.createtime)
        LEFT JOIN object O ON O.createtime = T1.createtime)
        LEFT JOIN join event E ON E.createtime = T1.createtime)
GROUP BY T1.createtime ORDER BY T1.createtime;

A: SELECT
    Createtime
    ,COUNT(DISTINCT user_id) as new_user
    ,COUNT(DISTINCT objc_id) as new_objc
    ,COUNT(DISTINCT new_event) as new_objc
FROM (
    SELECT Createtime, user_id, CAST(NULL AS INT) as objc_id, CAST(NULL as INT) as event_id
    FROM
       users
    WHERE createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT Createtime, CAST(NULL AS INT) as user_id, objc_id, CAST(NULL as INT) event_id
    FROM
       object
    WHERE createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
    UNION ALL
    SELECT Createtime, CAST(NULL AS INT) as user_id, CAST(NULL AS INT) as objc_id, event_id
    FROM
       event
    WHERE createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
) t
GROUP BY
    Createtime
ORDER BY
    Createtime

When you first look at your question it looks like you need a join but the reality is you need to union all and count().  I am counting DISTINCT which should be redundant because user_id, objc_id, event_id appear to be unique primary keys.

A: Use your three select statements as subqueries in an extended join.
SELECT A.createtime, A.new_user, B.new_objc, C.new_event
FROM (
    select createtime, count(user_id) as new_user from
    user where createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days' group by
    createtime;
) A INNER JOIN (
    select createtime, count(objc_id) as new_objc from
    object createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days' group by createtime;
) B ON A.createtime = B.createtime INNER JOIN (
    select createtime, count (event_id) as new_event from
    event where createtime >= CURRENT_DATE - INTERVAL '30 days'
    group by createtime;
) C ON B.createtime = C.createtime


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At the height of the holiday shopping season, Target finds itself grappling to maintain customers' loyalty in the wake of a breach that exposed data from 40 million debit and credit cards.
Since disclosing the breakdown last week, the second- largest U.S. discount chain has agreed to give some shoppers free credit reporting, assured them they wouldn't be responsible for fraudulent charges and offered a 10 percent discount on purchases last weekend to regain their trust.
"They've been doing everything that they can," Robert Passikoff, president of New York consulting firm Brand Keys, said Tuesday in an interview. Still, "you're going to see, at the wrong time of year, people who are moving to other alternatives until some comfort level comes back."
Target said Dec. 19 that security for the cards may have been breached between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 as they made purchases in stores. While the chain said it had identified and resolved the issue, the compromise occurred during the most important period of the year for retailers and with shoppers already showing reluctance to spend.
Even before the incident, Target had been struggling to boost sales and earnings. The retailer's third-quarter profit trailed analysts' estimates as U.S. shoppers held back and expansion into Canada dragged on earnings, sending net income down 46 percent from a year earlier.
Target fell 0.4 percent to $61.65 at 12:13 p.m. in New York. The shares gained 4.6 percent this year through Monday, trailing the 14 percent advance of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and the 43 percent increase of the Standard & Poor's 500 Retailing Index.
Target said Monday that it has doubled the number of staffers answering inquiries at its call center and has communicated with 17 million customers via e-mail.
It also invited state attorneys general to meet with its general counsel Monday for an update on the breach. Massachusetts is among states probing the security breakdown, and the retailer is already facing a lawsuit from at least one customer, a California resident who seeks to represent a class of other customers.
The retailer also has agreed with New York's attorney general to provide a year of free creditmonitoring to New York victims of the breach.
Security is one of the most important elements of brand loyalty, Passikoff said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
"Although people take it for granted, when it falls apart, it becomes a gaping hole, and that's what happened to them," he said.
Molly Snyder, a Target spokeswoman, didn't immediately respond to phone and e-mail requests for comment.
Target has plenty of company in its quest to attract shoppers as retailers jockey for business in what's expected to be a tepid holiday season. U.S. store visits fell 21 percent in the week to Dec. 22, according to ShopperTrak. The Chicago research firm has predicted a 2.4 percent sales gain for this holiday season, which would be the smallest since 2009.
To lure reluctant shoppers, retailers have ratcheted up discounts to the highest level since 2008, according to Craig Johnson, president of Customer Growth Partners in New Canaan, Connecticut. Even with its 10 percent discount, the number of transactions at Target slipped 3 percent to 4 percent compared with the final weekend before Christmas last year, according to Johnson's firm.
The breach also has shown that security in the U.S. is weaker than in some other countries that now use credit cards with embedded chips that are more secure than magnetic strips to stoer account data, according to Dan Kaminsky, co-founder and chief scientist at White Ops, a cybersecurity firm in New York. The U.S. payments industry has said it will replace magnetic strips by 2020, a deadline that could now be accelerated in the aftermath of the Target breach, Kaminsky said last week.
While card-swiping devices have been hacked in the past, the incidents typically occurred at a single machine or store, not chain-wide, which is why this breach is troubling, Kaminsky said. Targetsaid account numbers, expiration dates, cardholder names and credit verification value, or CVV, had been compromised. That kind of data could be used to make counterfeit credit cards, Kaminsky said.
Given the scope of the Target breakdown, the retailer's efforts so far have been "anemic" and "misplaced," said Rob Frankel, a Los Angeles-based brand consultant.
"They could have put their foot down and said we're going to the European-style credit card for our stuff because it's a lot more secure, and we're proud to be the first ones doing it even though it's more expensive," Frankel said in a telephone interview Tuesday.
The company said it is investigating the breach with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Secret Service, which asked it not to share details of the probe. U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, also has urged the Federal Trade Commission to probe Target's data-security practices after the breakdown.
The retailer's customers have been affected in other ways, too. JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank, had placed spending and withdrawal limits on 2 million customers who used debit cards at Target. The bank had set limits of $100 in cash withdrawals and $300 in purchases and Monday lifted those to $250 in withdrawals and $1,000 in purchases.


I went to the shop yesterday after studying and...oh gosh, I went and studied and read the wrong readings for the wrong week. I hope my professor doesn't mind, but honestly it's not looking too good. Anyway, pushing those troubles out of my mind, I decided to go down to Dreamers Vault after studying.
Apparently they had a Renegade tournament since morning, and the person in charge told me it'll be a monthly affair. I wonder if they will be able to give some of the profits earned from the $20 registration fee to the store. I mean, they're making use of the store as a venue for the tournament, so at least uh...acknowledge that.
But by the Emperor, were those armies fearsome. I saw a Space Marine army, a Tau army with that gigantic 1,200-point Supremacy Suit surrounded by 69 Drones and a few Commanders, an Imperial Guard army with a Shadowsword (woohoo!) and an army with a single Imperial Knight. And then there was an Imperial Guard army with a Valkyrie allied with Primaris Space Marines. Oh, and I saw a bunch of Chaos Daemons allied (yes, allied) with Genestealers and other Tyranid units. What a whacky but monstrous composition.
I really want to play against them, but boy, I want to support the store, and the $20 registration fee was a bit too steep for me. Ouch.
I heard the Tau with the Supremacy suit got 3rd place. I don't know who got first and second place, but I look forward to playing against that thing one day. Not in a tournament, but in a casual environment.
Anyway, so I didn't take part in the Renegade tournament. What did I do? I played with a couple of great and good-natured kids who wanted to play a big game. Apparently they combined their armies together and had a mixed Tau and Dark Angels army at 144 Power Level points. Their army wasn't battle-forged, to be honest. They only had 1 HQ for the Dark Angels, an Interrogator-Chaplain, and an Ethereal for the Tau, but seriously, you can't just take them in the same Detachment. But I let it pass because let's be serious, I just want to play. I don't really care about the Battle Forge and whatever, I wanted to have fun, and these kids also wanted to have fun. So if we have to bend the rules a little, then yeah.
We didn't play the Konor Campaign because it would have been weird. As much as I wanted to play one last battle for the Konor campaign, I don't think that would have been appropriate with a non-battle forged army, and the kids just wanted to kill things instead of playing objectives. Oh well. Fine by me. At least my victories last week and on Monday had some meaning - I hoped they made a difference to the Imperial effort on Loebos! We'll find out the result tomorrow.
The kids combined their Dark Angels army with their Tau army. Hmm, they brought an Ethereal, one squad of 10 Pathfinders, one squad of 10 Fire Warriors (Strike Team, I believe), 3 Crisis Suits, each of them having a bunch of Drones, and 3 Stealth suits who didn't take Drones for some reason. The Dark Angels army consisted of an Interrogator-Chaplain, a Company Veteran Squad of 10 in a Razorback, 3 Tactical squads of 10 Space Marines each, a Devastator squad with plasma cannons (5 dudes), a Rhino that carried one of the tactical squads I mentioned earlier, an assault squad of 5 jump-pack Marines, a Scout squad of 4 snipers and 1 missile launcher, 2 squads of 3 Bikers each, and 1 Land Speeder. Because I had 3 Imperial Knights, they decided to borrow an Imperial Knight as well. So they took a Knight Warden to round out their army. Did I miss anything? That's about all I remember for now.
That added up to a total of 144 power level for their army. I actually only had 124 power level with 3 Imperial Knights, Belisarius Cawl, 4 Kastelan Robots and a Cybernetica Datasmith, and 2 Onager Dunecrawlers (one with neutron laser, the other with Icarus array). So I added another 21 power level points with a Tech-priest Dominus, a 3rd Onager Dunecrawler (this time with neutron laser) and a squad of 10 Skitarii Vanguard with 3 plasma calivers and Omnispex. Cool, eh? I ended up with a 145 power level army.
Then we deployed our units as close to each other as possible. I mean, it's a killing game, so what do you expect? As I finished deploying first because I had less units, I started first, and they failed to seize the initiative.
Okay, this turn was brutal. I wiped out almost half their army on my first turn. The Vanguard opened fire with their Radium Carbines, and I think they failed to do much except kill 1 Drone or something. I then fired on the Crisis Suits with the 3 plasma calivers, overcharging them, and despite the re-rolls Belisarius Cawl provided, I rolled a 2nd one and one of them died. Still, I managed to wipe out 1 Crisis Suit and a bunch of Drones because of the 2 damage of an overcharged plasma caliver. Yay!
Belisarius and the Cybernetica Datasmith fired their Solar Atomiser and gamma pistol at the Razorback and took off 4 wounds or something. The 2 Onager Dunecrawlers fired their neutron lasers at the Imperial Knight and took off a huge chunk of wounds, slowing him down. Their Cognis heavy stubbers fared better than the Vanguard's radium carbines and I killed a bunch of Fire Warriors and all the Drones, bringing them down to 5 Fire Warriors. The Onager Dunecrrawler fired his Icarus array and wiped out the remaining Crisis Suits. The Kastelan Robots erased the Pathfinders and their drones with their heavy phosphor blasters.
And then it was my Knights' turn. The Knight Warden brought the Razorback down to just 1 wound with his meltagun, failing to kill it. Damn. I then killed the first biker squad with his Avenger Gatling cannon and put 4 wounds on the Land Speeder with his twin Icarus autocannons. The Knight Errant and Knight Paladin fired their Stormspear rocket pods at the enemy Knight Warden but I don't think I did much damage, and horrifically I fluffed my shots for my Knight Errant's thermal cannon. I really have bad luck with that thing. Ugh. But funnily enough it was my Knight Paladin's rapid-fire battle cannon that did the most damage, bringing the Knight Warden down to 10 health. Nice. Needless to say, their heavy stubbers did nothing to the Devastator squad in cover. Oh well.
I then charged and blew up the Land Speeder with my Knight Warden, and despite my Knight Errant charging in to kill the enemy Knight Warden, I only dealt 1 wound, which was 6 damage, and brought him down to 4 health. Thankfully, that meant the enemy Knight Warden only swung back on a 5+ and he also took 6 wounds off my poor Knight Errant. My Knight Paladin had better luck than him but worse luck than my Knight Warden, charging and killing only 2 Bikers.
By the end of my turn, almost all the Tau had been wiped out save for 5 Fire Warriors, the Ethereal and 3 Stealth suits who hadn't deep strike yet.
The kids' turn came, and then they had the lone surviving biker fall back, the Razorback retreat and disembarked the Company Veterans from within. The wounded Knight Warden also fell back. The Rhino moved forward and the tactical squad disembarked from it, and the Stealth Suits, Assault Marines and Scout Squad all Deep Striked 9" away from my units.
The Company Veterans, the Interrogator-Chaplain and 1 tactical squad fired on my Knight Warden, and they did absolutely zero damage, or if they did, I made my armor saves. The Fire Warriors and the Assault squad, on the other hand, killed 3 of my Skitarii Vanguard. Ouch. I just realized I made a horrible mistake. My Skitarii Vanguard had Omnispex, and yet I gave the kids the 1+ to their cover save instead of ignoring it. I am so stupid. Never mind, given how I was steamrolling them one-sidedly, I guess I can deal with that handicap. Anyway, the Stealth suits fired on my Onager Dunecrawler, and the fusion blaster got a wound through, only to roll a 1 for damage. Whoops. The scouts did absolutely nothing with their sniper rifles, and instead of aiming for my Tech-priest Dominus or Belisarius Cawl, they took potshots at my Onager Dunecrawler and did absolutely nothing. The missile launcher, on the other hand, did some damage to my Knight Errant.
The 2 tactical squads, Knight Warden, Devastators, Rhino and I think that's it, all fired on my Knight Errant and did lots of damage to him, leaving him with 6 or so wounds. I think. I can't remember. I know the Ethereal charged in and did even more damage, leaving him with 1 or 2 wounds. But the Tactical Squad also charged in and they took off the last wound off my Knight Errant by sheer luck and volume of rolls (I also failed all my saves for that Knight very badly) and he was wrecked. So the kids took out one of my Knights before I could take down their Knight. Nice going! Great job! Too bad I didn't blow up, but I would also have caught my Knight Paladin in the explosion so maybe that's a good thing. Oh, and the company Veterans and Interrogator-Chaplain charged my Knight Warden. It didn't go very well for them, and they failed to wound my Knight while I stomped four of the Company Veterans out of existence, leaving just one survivor and the Interrogator-Chaplain.
Well, so far I only lost 1 Knight Errant and 3 Skitarii Vanguard troopers. And they lost half their army. It was only going to get worse for them. Poor dudes.
I blew up the Razorback with combined shooting from my Cybernetica Datasmith and Belisarius Cawl. Why do both of them have to shoot at a Razorback with only 1 wound left? Well...because they made its 6+ save agaisnt the Cybernetica Datasmith's gamma pistol. Oh well. At least good old Belisarius destroyed it. Anyway, other than that, my first Onager Dunecrawler fired his neutron laser and slew the Knight Warden. Finally. Now I claimed a Knight kill of my own. The other one fired his neutron laser at the Rhino, but amazingly enough the kids made a 2nd 6+ save (because the Rhino was in cover). Oh well.
The Skitarii Vanguard wiped out the assault marines with their radium carbines and plasma calivers. My Onager Dunecrawler with Icarus array fired at the Stealth suits and only killed 2 of them, and then the Kastelan Robots opened up. I had each of the Kastelan Robots target different targets. and I think the first two killed a 10-men tactical squad. The 3rd killed the 5 Fire Warriors, and the 4th took out the last, remaining Stealth Suit. My Knight Warden vaporized the last surviving Company Veteran with his meltagun, then proceeded to kill about 8 or so Space Marines in the tactical squad further down the distance.
My Knight Paladin then killed the Devastators with plasma cannons with his rapid-fire battle cannon, took a few wounds off the Rhino with his Stormspear rocket pod, and then charged and annihilated a 3rd tactical squad in combat with his Titanic Feet.
At the end of my turn, the kids only had a 5-men scout squad, a single Interrogator-Chaplain, a single Biker, a wounded Rhino and 2 Tactical Space Marines left. Oh, and the Ethereal. Don't forget the Ethereal.
They tried a last-ditch attack with their Scouts, Rhino and Space Marines, shooting whatever they could, but none of them wounded my Knight Paladin, and I made whatever saves against the wounds they did get through. With their assault failed, and with so little of their army left on the table, they surrendered. Man, I wanted to see their Ethereal charge my Knight Paladin in combat, but oh well. Poor kids.
I kind of feel bad for crushing them so one-sidedly. I need a more kid-friendly army. Knights aren't exactly kid-friendly. Oh well. But yeah, I wiped out almost 90% of their army, and they only took out one Knight and 3 Skitarii Vanguard. And that lasted all of 2 turns.
At least they had fun! They were so happy when they took out my Knight Errant, and charging him. And they were enjoying themselves with the Deep Strike when their dudes dropped in front of my Skitarii Vanguard and obliterated 3 of them. Heh. Maybe next time I'll let them have the first turn.


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You might not think of McKinsey as being in the behavioral science business; but McKinsey thinks of themselves that way. They claim success in solving public sector problems, improving customer relationships, and kick-starting stalled negotiations through their mastery of neuro- and behavioral science. McKinsey's Jennifer May et. al. say their methodology is "built on an extensive review of neuroscience and behavioral literature from the past decade and is designed to distill the scientific insights most relevant for governments, not-for-profits, and business leaders."
McKinsey is also active in the Change Management/Leadership Management realm, which usually involves organizational, occupational and industrial psychology based on behavioral science. Like most science, all this work presumably involves a good deal of iterating over hypothesis and evidence collection, with hypotheses continually revised in light of interpretations of evidence made possible by sound use of statistics.
Given that, and McKinsey's phenomenal success at securing consulting gigs with the world's biggest firms, you'd think McKinsey would set out spotless epistemic values. A bit has been written about McKinsey's ability to walk proud despite questionable ethics. In his 2013 book The Firm Duff McDonald relates McKinsey's role in creating Enron and sanctioning its accounting practices, and its 2008 endorsement of banks funding their balance sheets with debt, and its promotion of securitizing sub-prime mortgages.
Epistemic and Scientific Values
I'm not talking about those kinds of values. I mean epistemic and scientific values. These are focused on how we acquire knowledge and what counts as data, fact, and information. They are concerned with accuracy, clarity, falsifiability, reliability, testability, and justification – all the things that separate science from pseudoscience.
McKinsey boldly employs the Myers Briggs Type Indicator both internally and externally. They do this despite decades of studies by prominent universities showing MBTI to be essentially worthless from the perspective of survey methodology and statistical analysis. The studies point out that there is no evidence for the binomial distributions inherent in MBTI theory. They note that the standard error of measurement for MBTI's dimensions are unacceptably large, and that its test/re-test reliability is poor. I.e., even in re-test intervals of five weeks, over half the subjects are reclassified. Analysis of MBTI data shows that its JP and SN scales strongly correlate with each other, which is undesirable. Meanwhile MBTI's EI scale correlates with non-MBTI behavioral near-opposites. These findings impugn the basic structure of the Myers Briggs model. (The Big Five model does somewhat better in this realm.)
Five decades of studies show Myers-Briggs to be junk due to low evidential support. Did McKinsey mis-file those reports?
McKinsey's Brussels director, Olivier Sibony, once expressed optimism about a nascent McKinsey collective decision framework, saying that while preliminary results we good, it still fell short of "a standard psychometric tool such as Myers–Briggs." Who finds Myers-Briggs to be such a standard tool? Not psychologists or statisticians. Shouldn't attachment to a psychological test rejected by psychologists, statisticians, and experiment designers offset – if not negate – retrospective judgments by consultancies like McKinsey (Bain is in there too) that MBTI worked for them?
Epistemic values guide us to ask questions like:
What has been the model's track record at predicting the outcome of future events?
How would you know if were working for you?
What would count as evidence that it was not working?
On the first question, McKinsey may agree with Jeffrey Hayes (whose says he's an ENTP), CEO of CPP, owner of the Myers-Briggs® product, who dismisses criticism of MBTI by the many psychologists (thousands, writes Joseph Stromberg) who've deemed it useless. Hayes says, "It's the world's most popular personality assessment largely because people find it useful and empowering […] It is not, and was never intended to be predictive…"
Does Hayes' explanation of MBTI's popularity (people find it useful) defend its efficacy and value in business? It's still less popular than horoscopes, which people find useful, so should McKinsey switch to the higher standards of astrology to characterize its employees and clients?
Granting Hayes, for sake of argument, that popular usage might count toward evidence of MBTI's value (and likewise for astrology), what of his statement that MBTI never was intended to be predictive? Consider the plausibility of a model that is explanatory – perhaps merely descriptive – but not predictive. What role can such a model have in science?
Explanatory but not Predictive?
This question was pursued heavily by epistemologist Karl Popper (who also held a PhD in Psychology) in the mid 20th century. Most of us are at least vaguely familiar with his role in establishing scientific values. He is most famous for popularizing the notion of falsifiability. For Popper, a claim can't be scientific if nothing can ever count as evidence against it. Popper is particularly relevant to the McKinsey/MBTI issue because he took great interest in the methods of psychology.
In his youth Popper followed Freud and Adler's psychological theories, and Einstein's physics. Popper began to see a great contrast between Einstein's science and that of the psychologists. Einstein made bold predictions for which experiments (e.g. Eddington's) could be designed to show the prediction wrong if the theory were wrong. In contrast, Freud and Adler were in the business of explaining things already observed. Contemporaries of Popper, Carl Hempel in particular, also noted that explanation and prediction should be two sides of the same coin. I.e., anything that can explain a phenomenon should be able to be used to predict it. This isn't completely uncontroversial in science; but all agree prediction and explanation are closely related.
Popper observed that Freudians tended to finds confirming evidence everywhere. Popper wrote:
Neither Freud nor Adler excludes any particular person's acting in any particular way, whatever the outward circumstances. Whether a man sacrificed his life to rescue a drowning child (a case of sublimation) or whether he murdered the child by drowning him (a case of repression) could not possibly be predicted or excluded by Freud's theory; the theory was compatible with everything that could happen. (emphasis in original – Replies to My Critics, 1974).
For Popper, Adler's psychoanalytic theory was irrefutable, not because it was true, but because everything counted as evidence for it. On these grounds Popper thought pursuit of disconfirming evidence to be the primary goal of experimentation, not confirming evidence. Most hard science follows Popper on this value. A theory's explanatory success is very little evidence of its worth. And combining Hempel with Popper yields the epistemic principle that even theories with predictive success have limited worth, unless those predictions are bold and can in principle be later found wrong. Horoscopes make countless correct predictions – like that we'll encounter an old friend or narrowly escape an accident sometime in the indefinite future.
Popper brings to mind experiences where I challenged McKinsey consultants on reconciling observed behaviors and self-reported employee preferences with predictions – oh wait, explanations – given by Myers-Briggs. The invocation of sudden strengthening of otherwise mild J (Judging) in light of certain situational factors recalls Popper's accusing Adler of being able to explain both aggression or submission as the consequence of childhood repression. What has priority – the personality theory or the observed behavior? Behavior fitting the model confirms it; and opposite behavior is deemed acting out of character. Sleight of hand saves the theory from evidence.
What's the Attraction?
Many writers see Management Science as more drawn to theory and less to evidence (or counter-evidence) than is the case with the hard sciences – say, more Aristotelian and less Newtonian, more philosophical rationalism and less scientific empiricism. Allowing this possibility, let's try to imagine what elements of Myers-Briggs theory McKinsey leaders find so compelling. The four dimensions of MBTI were, for the record, not based on evidence but on the speculation of Carl Jung. Nothing is wrong with theories based on a wild hunch, if they are born out by evidence and they withstand falsification attempts. Since this isn't the case with Myers-Briggs, as shown by the testing mentioned above, there must be something in it that attracts consultants.
I've struggled with this. The most charitable reading I can make of McKinsey's use of MBTI is that they want a quick predictor (despite Hayes' cagey caution against it) of a person's behavior in collaborative exercises or collective-decision scenarios. They must therefore believe all of the following, since removing any of these from their web of belief renders their practice (re Myers-Briggs) arbitrary or ill-motivated:
that MTBI is a reliable indicator of character and personality type
that personality is immutable and not plastic
that behavior in teams is mostly dependent on personality, not on training or education, not on group mores, and not on corporate rules and behavioral guides
Now that's a dark assessment of humanity. And it conflicts with the last decade's neuro- and behavioral science that McKinsey claims to have incorporated in its offerings. That science suggests our brains, our minds, and our behaviors are mutable, like our bodies. Few today doubt that personality is in some sense real, but the last few decades' work suggest that it's not made of concrete (for insiders, read this as Mischel having regained some ground lost to Kenrick and Funder). It suggests that who we are is somewhat situational. For thousands of years we relied on personality models that explained behaviors as consequences of personalities, which were in turn only discovered through observations of behaviors. For example, we invented types (like the 16 MBTIs) based on behaviors and preferences thought to be perfectly static.
Evidence against static trait theory appears as secondary details in recent neuro- and behavioral science work. Two come to mind from the last week – Carstensen and DeLiema's work at Stanford on the fading of positivity bias with age, and research at the Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences showing the interaction of social affect, cognition and empathy.
Much attention has been given to neuroplasticity in recent years. Sifting through the associated neuro-hype, we do find some clues. Meta-studies on efforts to pair personality traits with genetic markers have come up empty. Neuroscience suggests that the ancient distinction between states and traits is far more complex and fluid than Aristotle, Jung and Adler theorized them to be – without the benefit of scientific investigation, evidence, and sound data analysis. Even if the MBTI categories could map onto reality, they can't do the work asked of them. McKinsey's enduring reliance on MBTI has an air of folk psychology and is at odds with its claims of embracing science. This cannot be – to use a McKinsey phrase – directionally correct.
If personality overwhelmingly governs behavior as McKinsey's use of MBTI would suggest, then Change Management is futile. If personality does not own behavior, why base your customer and employee interactions on it? If immutable personalities control behavior, change is impossible. Why would anyone buy Change Management advice from a group that doesn't believe in change?
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#1 by David on September 15, 2017 - 12:07 am
Thanks for hammering MBTI: I've done it a few times. It felt like rubbish each time; then I started reading about it…yay; I was right. It is rubbish.
#2 by Anonymous on February 20, 2018 - 10:24 am
I worked there. They can hire a lot of smart people and it is more thoughtful than competitors. But still, I didn't find it as truth focused as academia or the military. At the end of the day what matters is clear thinking, not brand names.
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Q: Is Views update after an Insert(or update) into base tables Immediately I have a question about views. Consider we have a view that I insert a record in it's base table. Does my view update after this insert or I should do a SELECT to update?
I think my question obvious - is view just a SELECT or it's result save in database and if it's base table, so when it's updated it then becomes update?

A: Normal Views are not persisted.  If an updateable view is inserted into then selecting from the view (or the affected underlying tables) will show your results.
Not entirely sure what problem you are trying to solve. Views (non-indexed) suffice for most applications.
Have a look at Indexed Views: Improving Performance with SQL Server 2008 Indexed Views:

In the case of a nonindexed view, the portions of the view necessary
  to solve the query are materialized at run time. Any computations such
  as joins or aggregations are done during query execution for each
  query referencing the view. After a unique clustered index is
  created on the view, the view's result set is materialized immediately
  and persisted in physical storage in the database, saving the overhead
  of performing this costly operation at execution time.

The typical use of an indexed view is when you have expensive aggregations to perform.

A: Think of a view as a select statement.  Instead of having to write out the entire select statement, you just select the view and it runs that select statement for you.  So yes, anything you do to the underlying tables will automatically be visible in the view.


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Anthony was born in 1950, educated at Eton, and subsequently qualified as a chartered accountant. One of the first audits he conducted was for The Grand Lodge 250th Anniversary Fund, which sponsors research fellowships at the Royal College of Surgeons. Some 20 years later he became a Trustee of the charity, which is now known as The Freemasons' Fund for Surgical Research.
Initiated into Tuscan Lodge No. 14 in March 1976, Anthony was appointed Deputy Grand Director of Ceremonies in 1997, and served as President of the Committee of General Purposes from 2001 to 2004.
He was appointed President of the Board of General Purposes in March 2004 and was instrumental in reducing the Board to a more manageable size and making it more effective, efficient and fit for purpose. He was promoted to Past Senior Grand Warden in April 2012.
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Pandemic slams job growth
Economists have once again been taken by surprise by lackluster growth in the job market, and the blitzkrieg spread of the Omicron variant may be responsible. Instead of the nearly half-million new jobs economists expected in December, the Labor Department reports that the economy produced only 199,000.
That's even below November's surprisingly low number. Analysts point out that the jobs survey ended in mid-December, before Omicron's spread picked up lightning speed. The unemployment rate, however, declined to 3.9%.
Sectors showing the biggest job gains last month were leisure and hospitality, business and professional services, and manufacturing. There was little to no change in retail trade, information, financial activities, health care, and government.
Fourth shot may be needed, Moderna CEO says
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Q1. Paul, welcome back! Let's start with some basics. What is fungicide resistance and what causes it?
At its simplest it's a heritable change in the fungus that reduces its sensitivity to a fungicide. It arises due to natural variation caused by genetic mutations. The important thing to remember is that it does not necessarily affect disease control in the field. It depends on how strong the resistance is and how frequent it is in the population. That's something for people to remember when they read or hear about fungicide resistance.
Q2. Fungicide performance takes centre stage at AHDB Agronomists' Conference each December. NIAB's Stuart Knight provided us with an update on fungicide performance this year. So what's the picture, when it comes to fungicide sensitivity shifts in the UK pathogen population?
Well despite the fact that disease pressure was generally low in 2018 because of the hot dry summer we still saw a shift in the sensitivity of septoria populations, particularly to SDHIs. The shift was not dramatic but it continues the trend we have seen over the last few years. We can now quite clearly see a shift in the performance of both solo SDHIs and SDHI azole mixtures in our fungicide performance trials, though performance of commercial programmes in 2018 was good. For other diseases with evolving resistance such as net blotch we don't do so much testing, but field performance appeared stable, so any changes that did occur were again not dramatic.
Q3. Let's talk about the new publications now. I understand AHDB has issued two new publications as part of its collaboration with the Fungicide Resistance Action Group UK. Why did you team up and what does the guidance look to do?
The UK FRAG does an excellent job of gathering the latest information on the resistance status of crop pathogens and formulating advice, but it has very limited resources. We knew there was evolving resistance issues in a number of cereal pathogens, plus potential loss of some key actives that could have a big impact on disease management in cereals. So we decided we needed to raise the profile of resistance management and provide clear anti-resistance messages that the industry could agree on. The collaboration does this, it allows us to use AHDBs comms resources to bring industry agreed anti-resistance messages to growers and agronomists.
Q4. The topic of Integrated Pest Management is creating somewhat of a buzz at the moment. Balancing the use of chemical and non-chemical control methods has always been a challenge. This new guidance puts varietal resistance as the foundation of any fungicide programme. Although this sounds like a sensible plan, it's not simple, is it? So, what are the strengths and weaknesses of this approach?
Well Jason, I wouldn't say using varietal resistance is complicated, but historically more resistant varieties had a significant yield penalty and we have also seen the sudden breakdown in variety resistance to rusts from time to time. This tended to put growers off reducing fungicide rates. But the yield penalty is much less in wheat now. The big question still is how far you can cut fungicide use with more resistant varieties and still have good disease control. We have good evidence from research over the last few years that azole plus multisite is sufficient at T1 in the more resistant wheat varieties, but you probably still need an SDHI at T2.You can probably drop T0s as well, but we have not done the research to show this. The issue for some growers is that relying on fungicides for controlling disease has proven a very effective and profitable way of growing in cereals in the past so they are reluctant to change. But I think with new the new varieties with 7s and now even an 8 for septoria on the RL its time to look again at how we manage disease in wheat.
In barley it's a bit different, the breeders are behind wheat in developing varietal resistance, as we've seen with the withdrawal of the RL ramularia ratings, but there are still more and less disease susceptible varieties, giving some flexibility in disease control options.
Q5. Beyond varietal resistance, what are the other key cultural controls?
There a wide range of things growers can do to reduce disease pressure. There are the obvious things like removing the green bridge and trash and diversifying the rotation. But some growers may not realise that delaying wheat drilling to mid October makes a big difference to septoria pressure in the spring and fits well with black-grass and BYDV control. If people want to try something different we know variety mixtures can reduce disease pressure, its used a bit in organic farming, though there are obvious challenges with this approach.
Q6. Farming without chemistry is still a long way away for most of the industry, as it looks to keep up with global demand for cereals. So let's turn from cultural options now, to chemical. What's the latest guidance, in terms of when and when not to treat?
I don't think anyone is going to question the key T1 and T2 fungicide timings in winter wheat and barley. There is a strong yield response in all but the most extreme circumstances. But growers really need to think about the T0 and T3 timings and ask if the disease pressure warrants treatment at these timings, especially in more resistant varieties, as yield response is usually small but selection for resistance still occurs. As for T1.5 or T4, T5 there really shouldn't be need for these treatments. If people are using these on a regular basis I think they need to ask some difficult questions about the way they are managing crops.
Q7. So a treatment decision has been made. What about getting the dose right? And do the rules hold true for both wheat and barley?
Pretty much. Research done over that last five years or has shown that dose has a much smaller effect on selection in fungicides undergoing slow shifting selection, like azoles and septoria, than it does on single step of big step changes, like strtobilurins and septoria or SDHIs and septoria. So what that means in practice is that its safer, from a resistance management point of view to increase the rate of the azole component of a septoria programme than it is to increase the SDHI component. Buts its not always straight forward as that, because until resistance appears and we can characterise it we don't know if its going to be slow shifting or single step, but as a rule of thumb, don't use any higher dose than you need for disease control, both from a resistance point of view, but also an economic, as the dose goes up the economic return gets less.
Q8. Although dwindling, there are still several modes of action out there and they all play a role in protecting efficacy and getting good control. The Fungicide Futures guidance gives to useful information about the pros and cons associated with mixing and alternating them. So what's the best way to balance the fungicide programme?
With the single site acting fungicides, the azoles, SDHIs, strobilurins, morpholines and the like, its about diversity. So for instance in barley, the default can be to go to prothioconazole and the SDHIs, they are very effective, but others including strobilurins, cyprodinil, the morpholines can all contribute to control of the key barley diseases and ease the selection pressure on the SDHIs and azoles. In wheat it's a bit more difficult because for septoria there are limited options, but where rust is the target strobilurins still give god control and are an alternative to azoles, because even if its not the target, if septoria is there you will be selecting for more resistance stains if you use an azole.
Q9. We touched on the use of multi-site chemistry last time we spoke. Why is it so useful and how should multi-sites be best deployed across the spray programme?
Multi-sites can and should be deployed across the programme. They can substitute for single sites in some cases and of course with ramularia in barley, chlorothalonil is the only active left with significant activity. Where used in mixture with single site actives they reduce selection against the single site and they also add useful efficacy, especially against septoria.
Q10. When it comes to planning sprays this season, what do you see as the single most essential 'must-do' for 2019?
In wheat, its multi-sites. They will help slow further selection for resistance to azoles and SDHIs in septoria and add efficacy against septoria. In barley, I'm going to cheat and have two, first its diversity of actives, keep the pathogens guessing, second its chlorothalonil at T2 for ramualria control. Its very low risk for resistance an essential to keep ramualria out.
The Fungicide Futures publications, as well as the latest fungicide performance data, can be accessed via the AHDB website: ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/fungicide-performance
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Annie and I hope that he was worth the wait we know he took a long time but he is finally here.
Have you ever tried doing an illumination in pyrography?
Richard this is pyrography that has been colored if you follow the WIP you will see that it was drawn in pencil first then burned and then Annie colored it.
I was wondering a pyrography with golden leaf,that kind of illumination.
That is my next project I purchased a gold leafing kit and I will be using it in my next project. Right now I am doing my green man in chalk pastels.
By the way,my green knight calligraphy is finished but a bit wonky,shall i still post it?
Of course you should post it. Just remember every one is more critical of their own work.
It is lovely, you can be proud.... is this to keep for yourselves or is it a commission?
This to be up for sale at the Bristle Ren Fair we are doing all of out works for sale at the Ren Fair.
It's lovely, Brian! Good luck with your sales!
Thank you Tess Annie and I have been waiting for your response on this piece I know that you are a very busy lady. So thank you for your kind words.
Annie and I both thank you for your kind words Chris and Annie agrees with you that he is a keeper but we are going to put him up for sale at the Bristle Ren Fair but he will not go cheap we are looking for at least $100 for him, maybe more.


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Q: Fragment not attached to my activity First of all I am using support library (android-support-v4.jar) for using fragments.
I have an activity with layout containing a fragment in it. So when the activity starts it calls onCreateView method of my fragment. In this method I inflated a layout( containing a linearlayout and a listview in it ) and return that inflated view.
So when the activity starts it loads my listview and call a webservice and in response of the webservice loads the data on the listview.
Every thing works perfect as expected. But the problem is when I press the back button and restart the activity then it doesn't attach my fragment to the activity and throws IllegalStateException when I try to call getActivity(). And also throws NullPointerException when I try to call getView() method of my fragment.
One more thing to mention that when i see the view hierarchy from the TraceView tool then it shows my fragment views there.
Please help me!

A: I figured out the problem and hence solved it as well.
I was using the Observer interface to get the response from the web service. So when i started the activity first time then I added(or registered) my fragment activity to the Observable class and received the response but forgot to remove(or de-register) my fragment object when it destroyed. So when the activity and fragment restarts it again add my fragment object to the Observable class so now Observable class now has two instances of fragment first one has been destroyed and the current fragment and web service is called and it first respond with the destroyed fragment and that time it will crash. So i removed the fragment instance from the Observable class in the onDestroy method of fragment and it working now.
So the problem is not with the fragments but with the multiple instances of my fragment.


Produced in Canada, Rolls Batteries offers models in both six and 12 volts. There are conventional wet flooded deep cycle batteries complemented by a high cycling AGM sealed range. Battery capacity ranges from 85Ah to 450Ah are supported by a two year product warranty.
The company also offers a full charger range. The high frequency chargers are designed for professional traction applications in 12v/24v/36v and 48v versions. In an IP30 flame-retardant case they are compact and offer additional safety precautions including reverse battery protection, short circuit protection and overload protection.
All chargers offer eight different charging curves for wet lead acid, AGM and gel battery options. The LED display shows charging current, battery voltage, charging time, charged ampere hours and charging status display.


Put a group of cyclists together for long enough and they will discuss training plans, but eventually the conversation will touch on nutrition at least once. And a good portion of the nutrition conversation will focus on what to eat and drink during a ride so that you can finish without any dips in energy levels.
There once was a time when arsenic was thought to have performance enhancing properties for on the bike fueling. We now seem to be coming full circle back to class one carcinogens as cycling fuel.
In this video I share my opinions on this growing trend. What do you think? Share below.


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The 2007 Teen Choice Awards ceremony was held on August 26, 2007, at the Gibson Amphitheatre, Universal City, California. The event was hosted by Hilary Duff and Nick Cannon with Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Fergie, and Shop Boyz as performers. Justin Timberlake received the Ultimate Choice Award.

Performers
Avril Lavigne – "Girlfriend"
Kelly Clarkson – "Never Again"
Fergie – "Big Girls Don't Cry"
Shop Boyz – "Party Like a Rockstar"

Presenters
Megan Fox and Dwayne Johnson • Presented Choice Comedy TV Actor
Ryan Reynolds and Nikki Blonsky • Presented Choice Breakout Movie Actor
Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus • Presented Choice R&B Track
Sum 41 • Introduced Avril Lavigne
Jared Padalecki • Presented Choice TV Movie
Eve and David Spade • Presented Choice Movie Hissy Fit
Ashley Jensen and America Ferrera • Presented Choice Male Hottie and Choice Female Hottie
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel • Introduced Kelly Clarkson
Michael Cera, Jonah Hill, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse • Presented Ultimate Choice
Jason Lee and Justin Long • Presented Choice Comedian
Apolo Anton Ohno and Jordin Sparks • Presented Choice V-Cast Video
Chingy, Ludacris, and Greg Oden • Presented Choice Comedy Movie Actress
Adrianne Palicki and Taylor Kitsch • Presented Choice Comedy TV Actress
Keke Palmer and Emmy Rossum • Introduced Fergie
Jessica Alba and Dane Cook • Presented Choice Summer Movie: Comedy
Bow Wow and Omarion • Presented Choice Action Movie
Ashlee Simpson • Presented Choice Summer TV Show

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold text.

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Television

Music

Miscellaneous

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2007 in California
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Paint your rolls white or brown. Cut out some tall ears and some paws from card and paint them too.
Once the paint is dry, use glue or sticky tape to fasten the ears and feet in place and add a cotton wool ball for a tail. Adding the feet is important if you're going to fill your rabbit, as they will stop your treats falling out.
Give your rabbits some cute faces. You can paint them on, draw them, or even use googly eyes. We folded over the tips of the ears too, to give the bunnies extra character!
You can make a whole family or burrow full of rabbits and enjoy some imaginary play. If you'd like to make your rabbits a beautiful meadow to live in, hop over to see how we made our flower meadow mural.
I love all the little touches on this craft – we might make it too for Easter.
Oh these are really cute! I love how they all have different characters and love the details!
Very cute. I show some Easter Bunny Eggs on my blog a few days ago.
these are adorable. we always have a collection of toilet paper rolls, so this would be a fun and easy craft!! thanks for the idea.
Very cute! The pom-pom tail or the cotton ball tail is my favorite.
LOVE these, my friend!! they are too cute for words–thank you for sharing on our 'new for us friday link-up!!
Love the idea of filling the tp roll animals with treats!
Hi B Fryman- so do my girls!
Oh they are so cute! Lovely, lovely little faces! Thanks for sharing!
We did these last year, think ones still floating around. Really great, always got plenty of used toilet rolls in our house!
Glad to hear one's still going strong Fiona!
Love these! We'll be making some this weekend, I think!
Thanks for sharing this on Sunday best!
Very cute! Elle could have fun using these for imaginary play! Thanks for sharing!
Those are adorable!!! Thanks for sharing them at For the Kids Friday Link Party!
Thanks Rachel, great to link up with you.
These are just fabulous. I'm so glad you popped them on the RC. Hope to see you back soon with some more of your great ideas!
A pleasure to join in Julia.
Thank you for linking these cute bunny's up to the World Animal Day bloghop!
we just finished four for Easter, very proud!


More than $750,000 in grant funding was awarded across a number of community groups and associations at this month's Ordinary Council Meeting.
A plan which would see the development of a 4-star hotel in Karratha's city centre will be considered by Council following a public submission period.
The City's proposed rate model will see enhanced community services and facilities delivered for a modest increase in rates.
Thousands of residents turned out for a first glimpse inside the new Red Earth Arts Precinct when it opened to the public on Saturday.
The 2018 City of Karratha Community Survey is now complete with feedback from residents highlighting key priorities for Council moving forward.
The Vast Project will return to the City of Karratha next month to present a suite of works created by more than 30 Australian musicians and visual artists in Cossack last year.
Trasan Contracting have been awarded the tender for Stage One of the Point Samson Foreshore Management Project.
The City of Karratha Council has expressed its disappointment at the announcement that WA Police resources will be withdrawn from the community when the North West Water Police, based in Dampier, will be shut down at the end of the month.


At San Juan College, we want to provide our students with class and program revisions in real-time, while being more respectful of our environment. The 2015-16 Academic Catalog is completely online. We understand, however, that there are times when students may need portions of the catalog printed, which will be readily available on the website at www.sanjuancollege.edu. A fully-printed bound version will also be made available for a small fee through the San Juan College Copy Services Department.


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Richard H. Driehaus, a successful investment advisor, made his first public philanthropic gesture in 1983, when he established his eponymous foundation. For the next decade, the Foundation made grants totaling $6,000,000. In 1992 a family board was appointed, an executive director was hired, and giving became more formal and focused. Today the Foundation awards approximately $5,000,000 annually in grants, a portion of which is in partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Driehaus Foundation benefits individuals and communities by supporting the preservation and enhancement of the built and natural environments through historic preservation in neighborhoods throughout Chicago, encouragement of quality architectural and landscape design, and conservation of open space. The Foundation also supports arts and culture, investigative reporting and government accountability, and organizations that provide opportunities for working poor people.
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9 Myths About Pentecostal Christians, Debunked
Like any religion, God is their priority.
Pentecostalism is a form of Christianity that emphasizes the work of the Holy Spirit and the direct experience of the presence of God by the believer. Pentecostals believe that faith must be powerfully experiential and not something found merely through ritual or thinking. Pentecostalism is based on a critical event in the life of early Christians. That event is the baptism of the twelve disciples by the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. Most Pentecostals think that their movement is returning Christianity to a pure and simple form of Christianity that has much in common with the very earliest stage in the life of the Christian church.
Suppose you happened to tune into the Oxygen network's "Preachers of L.A." or National Geographic Channel's "Snake Salvation." In that case, you might believe all Pentecostals are either money-grubbing swindlers or misguided rural bumpkins. However, the truth is never in the media stereotypes. Some think Pentecostals are brainless people who go into uncontrollable fits during religious services. They're surprised to learn Pentecostals have advanced degrees, own businesses, hold public office, and mobilize a lot of the world's charitable work. Here are some common myths about Pentecostal Christians.
"Pentecostals don't attend Pentecostal churches."
Since the 1960s in the United States, there have been growing numbers of Pentecostals in other denominational churches. There are Pentecostal Anglicans, Pentecostal Methodists, Pentecostal Baptists, and Pentecostal Catholics. A Pew Research Center study revealed that Pentecostals and charismatics make up more than a quarter of all Christians today. The leader of all Anglicans, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, once admitted that he speaks in tongues.
"Pentecostals are uneducated."
The idea that Pentecostals are theologically ignorant is silly when you consider that 300 of the world's most well-known Pentecostal scholars previously gathered to present papers. The theologians who participated in the annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies in Springfield, Missouri, represented more than 100 denominations and 200 academic institutions.
"Pentecostals live in poverty."
When the Pentecostal revival began in 1906 in Los Angeles, proponents of the movement were characterized as poor people who worshiped in tents with sawdust floors. But today, a huge percentage of American Pentecostals belong to the middle class, and in developing countries, wealthy Pentecostals are funding ambitious missionary projects. Meanwhile, the owner of Hobby Lobby, David Green, is a Pentecostal worth about $5 billion.
"Pentecostals support the prosperity gospel."
While flamboyant preachers like Clarence McClendon and Noel Jones flaunt their wealth while begging for dollars on Preachers of L.A., the prosperity gospel is not a hit among a majority of Pentecostals. One of the nation's most prominent Pentecostal preachers, Bishop T.D. Jakes of Dallas rebuked the reality show's stars and told his congregation to "pull the plug" on it.
"Pentecostals handle snakes."
Americans became intrigued with the oddity of religious snake handling because of National Geographic Channel's Snake Salvation show. Still, only about 125 churches in this country belong to this strange sect, and the congregations are tiny. Remember, too, that prominent snake-handling pastor Jamie Coots of Middlesboro, Kentucky, died from a snake bite. Pentecostal denominations have condemned snake handling since the practice began around 1910.
"Pentecostals go into a trance when speaking in tongues."
People who speak in tongues pray voluntarily, and they can start and stop their prayers whenever they want. When researchers from the University of Pennsylvania studied the phenomenon of speaking in tongues, they found that it produced a feeling of peace and well-being in people who engaged in the behavior. The New York Times reported in 2006 that a study of Christians in England suggested that those who spoke in tongues "were more emotionally stable" than those who did not.
"Pentecostals are all Republicans."
Sarah Palin has attended a and has former Attorney General John Ashcroft. Still, it is rudely stereotypical to assume that all Pentecostals are white conservatives. Many American Pentecostals are African-American and Hispanic. Studies have shown that Pentecostals and evangelical Christians are the largest voting bloc in the nation. Researchers also believe that former President Barack Obama could not have won the 2008 election without sizable support from this group.
"Pentecostals are racist."
While it is undoubtedly true that racism tainted the early years of Pentecostalism, today, Pentecostal and charismatic churches are more likely to be racially mixed than other denominational groups. This ideal is primarily because the essence of the Pentecostal experience, as described in the Book of Acts, involves breaking down racial and cultural walls by the power of the Holy Spirit.
"Pentecostals are prude."
There was a day when Pentecostals, along with Baptists and holiness groups, preached hard against secular entertainment and anything else that sounded fun. Women couldn't wear pants or makeup, men couldn't play cards, and movies were off-limits. However, this doesn't describe Pentecostals today. Pentecostals have invaded the arts industry. Like David Cunningham, son of Youth With a Mission founder Loren Cunningham, some have become professional filmmakers.
Pentecostalism is not a church in itself but a movement that includes many different churches. It is also a movement of renewal or revival within other denominations. It's not always easy to see if a church is Pentecostal because many Pentecostal denominations don't include the word 'Pentecostal' in their name. Although Pentecostalism is often said to be rooted in experience rather than theology, Pentecostals base their theology on the text of the Bible, which they believe to be the word of God and totally without error.
Like other religions, people have misconceptions about Pentecostal Christians. People believe that they're uneducated, prude individuals who live in poverty while handling snakes. People also believe that Pentecostal Christians are racist and conservative individuals who speak in tongues. However, that's not the case. Pentecostal Christians are God's people who follow God's Word and worship Him every chance they get.
Pentecostal Christians are just like any other Christian denomination that believes in God. Instead of passing judgment about Pentecostal Christians, those unfamiliar with the religion and its practices should attempt to learn more about it. They may realize that they have more in common with Pentecostal Christians than they think.