CA Technologies is a major publicly-held global software and services vendor, with a long history and several changes of focus and culture over its lifetime. It creates systems software that supports and manages mainframe, distributed computing, virtual machine and cloud computing environments, as well as mobile devices, application delivery, security, and data centre infrastructure. It operates primarily in the B2B space and claims that its customers include the majority of the Forbes Global 2,000 companies.
Agile Designer is an end-to-end test case design and requirements definition tool, which allows users to automatically generate test cases, linked to test data, virtual assets and expected results. As a part of this, it can find and make test data, map requirements to active flowcharts, automatically generate automation frameworks, calculate the cost and complexity of requirements, and quickly manage changes.
The problem for testers is testing the right things, just enough. You don't want to over-test or under-test and you want to test the things that are important. Automation can significantly help with these issues.
Historically, automated test case generation has centred around two major approaches: pairwise testing and cause and effect modelling. The former is limited in its applicability, does not lend itself to collaboration with business users, offers no way to tie it back to the requirements of the application under test, and does not include any mechanisms to support real-world constraints. Cause and effect modelling is much more comprehensive and is requirements-driven. However, it is complex and requires special training to use. Grid-Tools' Agile Designer supports both of these methods, plus constraint modelling, but also introduces a third way.
Agile Designer's third way is based on flow chart modelling. While this isn't as perfect as cause and effect modelling at discovering defects it is significantly better at this than pairwise testing or other methods. Conversely, it is much easier to use than either of the other methods and is easy for business users to understand, which is especially important in agile environments.
Agile Designer integrates with Datamaker and there is a Test Data on Demand application that allows users to expose Datamaker functions to testers.
Grid-Tools is not fussy about who uses Agile Designer and has no particular industry focus although it does, to a certain extent, focus on the Healthcare and banking sectors, where it has had some notable success. Both of these sectors are ones that are heavily regulated and where compliance requirements around the protection of personal information are paramount.
More generically, the company's main emphasis is on companies that agree with its data-driven approach and who appreciate that agile development is as much about the data, and particularly the test data, as it is about the development processes themselves. It would argue, and we would agree, that you can't have a truly agile development process without agile test data to go with it.
In addition to its own teams, the company has an extensive network of partners across the globe, with trained staff in over 18 countries worldwide. These are split between regional resellers that serve the needs of local markets, and global strategic partners, which include CA Technologies, Accenture and HP. Partners in the Americas include Orasi Software and Softworx, while Central and South America is served by Green Light Technology. In Europe, the Middle East and Asia, partners include ANECON GmbH, Blue Turtle Technologies, Cast Info, INFA Partner, Infuse, Lemontree, Sothis Yazlim, Spica Solutions, WSM, MTP, Soflab Technology, and Software AG.
Grid-Tools has had some significant success in the financial sector though none of its major banking clients can be named. Projects range from establishing a new data warehouse to migrations. Government contracts and healthcare are also notable but again unnamed. The company's website provides a number of case studies though none of the named users will be familiar to the man on the Clapham omnibus.
While offering both pairwise testing and cause and effect modelling as options we will concentrate here on those features of Agile Designer that make it unique, in particular its use of flow charts. To begin with, flow charts are directly linked to requirements. If you already have the latter in place using some third party tools (HP ALM, TIBCO Nimbus, Cordys, Critical Logic TMX or VersionOne) then there are facilities to import and reverse engineer those requirements so that they can be presented as a set of flow charts. One of the effects of this process is that you can easily identify ambiguities in the original requirements.
Flow charts are colour-coded so that you can differentiate visually between possible and impossible (constrained) paths and between those paths that have been tested and which have no defects, those that have been tested and which have defects (which are highlighted), and those that have not been tested yet. You can select a sub-flow and work on that element of the overall requirements set and you can also prioritise. In any case, the software will automatically generate all the relevant test cases within a minimal number of test cases, while coverage metrics can be generated to know how much of a system is being tested. The flow charts are very easy to understand and will help collaboration with business users.
Going beyond test case generation itself Agile Designer provides test case management capabilities. These include the ability to import existing test cases that you may have developed so that these can be analysed in a fully managed environment. This allows you to do things such as identifying duplicate and zombie test cases that are no longer required, as well as enabling reuse.
This is particularly useful when managing changing requirements, as it reduces the need to manually update test cases and scripts. Instead, users can simply add or remove functional logic from the flowchart, and Agile Designer will automatically remove or repair broken, redundant or invalid tests, and will automatically generate any new ones required.
When used in conjunction with Grid-Tools' Datamaker the requisite data for each test case can be derived - this can radically reduce the effort required in identifying and accessing the right data to use for any particular test case - and there is a portal (Test Data on Demand) which enables the sharing of both test cases and test data. In addition to working with Datamaker, Agile Designer also works in conjunction with Grid-Tools' (and third party) service virtualisation offering.
Agile Designer also integrates with a number of technologies that companies may already be using to create test cases and automated test scripts, as well as several project management and test case design tools. In this context, Agile Designer serves as an accelerator to existing technologies, allowing users to optimize existing requirements and test cases, automatically generate automation frameworks, calculate cost and complexity, and manage change.
Grid-Tools offers a range of professional services which supplement the company's core product range.
Potential clients can sign up for a free 15 day trial of all of Grid-Tools primary solutions. During this period, they will receive the full support of Grid-Tools' consultants, who will help demonstrate how the solutions can most benefit their development projects.
Once a client has settled on a tool, Grid-Tools aim to help them get the greatest benefit out of it within their organisation. In addition to a full range of consultancy work packages, introductory training courses and workshops for users of all technical ability are offered, and are frequently held in local regions including the UK, USA and India.
For companies wishing to "shift left" testing, Grid-Tools consultants can work closely with an organisations' business analysts, to remove ambiguity from requirements. They can then assist in using Agile Designer to optimize test case design and improve software development.
A one day Agile Designer basics training course is offered, to help users grasp the basics of visual flows and functionality, as well as more advanced functionality such as the HP ALM/QC integration. An Implementing Agile Designer workshop provides bespoke advice, based on existing test case design practices, on how to improve daily processes, and how test cases are stored and managed.
The CA Technologies Application Delivery solution is generally branded CA Lisa. It is, in essence, the CA Technologies take on DevOps, which means the removing of constraints from the software delivery lifecycle, the release and deployment of its outcomes and the capture of defect information and live traffic patterns for regression testing and the creation of simulated environments.
CA sells its products largely through its global direct channel, although it has been developing its partner programs lately. It has, for example, a relationship with SQS Software Quality Systems AG, a leading specialist in software quality and the first German company to list on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market) in London (as well as trading on the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main). SQS is headquartered in Germany and has about 2,800 staff, with offices in Germany, the UK, Egypt, Finland, France, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and the US. This gives CA Technologies access to SQS' client base, including half of the DAX 30, nearly a third of the STOXX 50 and 20 per cent of the FTSE 100 companies.
CA Technologies targets large multinational companies and government organisations such as California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Service virtualisation is about simulating and modeling systems that aren't built yet or unavailable for practical reasons (often because they are committed to the business). This allows testing to begin earlier in the lifecycle (with less demands on infrastructure and software licensing) and enables parallel development and testing, which reduces cycle times and increases IT productivity.
Release automation automates the agile software development, test and production workflows, which promotes continuous application delivery and thus reduces deployment errors and time-to-market. This needs to deal with multi-tier application release deployment across distributed, heterogeneous infrastructures and also provide feedback of management information from the process.
Data Mining, as CA Technologies uses the term, is about rapidly generating automated regression test suites by capturing live traffic during application use; automation of the creation and management of virtual services and the automation and simpliffication of defect capture, reporting and root cause analysis.
The CA Technologies APM (Application Performance Management) approach is end-to-end, ranging from the most modern cloud environments, through distributed systems, to the mainframe applications that often still support enterprises' business and support customer-facing web front-ends. It uses analytics to manage the complexity of many application environments with proactive performance alerts and the identification of root causes.
It claims to back this up with better capacity planning models - running out of storage or processing capacity is, in effect, the ultimate performance issue.
Application Performance Management is an important part of the overall feedback loop that drives DevOps at scale, which is based on the analysis of the business user experience as an input to a continuous design, build and delivery pipeline. If one sees IT Governance as the oversight of a company's investment in business automation technology, in the interests of achieving better business outcomes without waste, performance management and reporting is an enabler for better governance.
CA Technologies sells its products largely through its global direct channel, although it has strengthened its partner programs in recent times.
Networking: Alvaka Networks uses CA Nimsoft Monitor to cut its administrative and maintenance costs and, through proactive troubleshooting and real-time monitoring and alerts, help its customers to achieve highly reliable delivery.
Telecommunications: Arcor, part of the Vodaphone Group, uses CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth Performance Manager to speed up fault resolution through centralised alerting and the capture of performance metrics. It claims to have reduced its IT networking overhead by 20 percent, with a unified systems management approach.
Cloud services: Ativas provides hybrid managed services through both traditional and cloud-based platforms, delivered from a world-class European data centre. It uses a number of CA Technologies' products to support high reliability service delivery through best practice processes and good governance of managed IT services.
Inormation services: DATEV is one of the leading information service providers in Germany, supporting more than 40,000 members and customers globally. It uses APM from CA Technologies to safeguard QoS from some 700-plus online applications monitored on multiple platforms.
Cloud Performance Management - using CA Cloud Monitor and CA Nimsoft Cloud User Experience Monitor for easy SaaS monitoring.
Capacity management, using the data from APM etc. as an input to CA Capacity Management, which allows you to right-size your application delivery environment.
CA Technologies supports a rich set of user communities via MyCA; CA Technologies offers expected enterprise levels of services and support for APM, with global 24x7x365 support if necessary, as well as classroom and web-based training.
On the face of it, CA Chorus helps simplify, automate and streamline the management of a mainframe environment, increases staff productivity, and (with knowledge mining and knowledge transfer techniques) helps address the issues of skill silo-isation and shortage - it claims to be the leading 21st century solution for reducing the cost and complexity of managing mission-critical mainframe operations.
However, the vision is a lot more than this. What CA Chorus does for the mainframe, it could do for all technology, enterprise wide. CA Chorus could be the lens through which you see the entire operational infrastructure, from a business service delivery POV, across hybrid cloud environments, and across mainframe and distributed platforms. In essence, with CA Chorus, someone in a support role doesn't need to know what platform s/he is on or even which tool s/he is in, s/he simply gets the information s/he needs to fix the problem or escalate it to another role. We should note, however, that it is currently still mainframe-focused; although some of the tools it integrates may have distributed-systems capabilities as well.
CA Chorus is a role-based solution and CA Technologies sees building it as an incremental journey, role by role. The first role supported was DB2 database management; followed by security and compliance management, and storage management; and support for other roles (e.g. workload management) is on the roadmap. However, we feel sure the vision is much wider than this and that supported roles will extend beyond mainframe management (to some extent, they already do) - the end-point depends, in part, on the vision and maturity of its customers and their ability to address their own internal silos.
CA sells its mainframe products, including CA Chorus, largely through its global direct channel, although it has opened its partner programs up to mainframe products since mid-2012.
CA Chorus is marketed for large enterprise mainframe customers at present. Fully effective exploitation of CA Chorus needs a reasonably mature enterprise culture, we think. Current customers include EL AL, the Israeli Airline Company.
CA Chorus is an integrated, role-based, collaborative, GUI workspace with knowledge-capture and knowledge-transfer features. As a workspace, it can integrate other tools either via specific integrations built by CA Technologies or via user-driven ad hoc integrations using published APIs. It also enables the automation of management processes. At present, it manages and automates mainframe management but it is built on open (open source) integration technologies and isn't inherently limited to mainframe (or even CA Technologies) applications.
Before developing CA Chorus, CA Technologies hired an established external product design firm that had already helped design Apple products, amongst others. This firm provided basic operations research on how real mainframe managers and support staff went about their operational tasks - and CA Chorus was designed to simplify and automate these real-world operations. It is very fundamentally role-based, rather than technology or product based - it helps people in a specific set of roles carry them out, cutting across technology and product silos; it is also being developed and marketed role-by-role.
CA Technologies offers expected enterprise levels of services and support for CA Chorus, with global 24x7x365 support if necessary, as well as classroom and web-based training. Remember, too, that CA Chorus' knowledge capture and transfer capabilities can make CA Chorus itself into an enabler for in-house training.
Despite its name, CloudMinder is not really about cloud security but about identity and access management. Well known for its on-premise IAM capabilities, CA Technologies is expanding into offering a suite encompassing in-the-cloud, to-the-cloud and from-the-cloud use cases to allow access to internal and external resources for internal and external users.
CA Technologies has a worldwide presence and an active partner program. With a large installed base of enterprise customers for its on-premise products, CA has considerable opportunities for upselling its cloud services to its installed base.
CA Technologies targets large enterprise customers.
CA Technologies has new IAM capabilities in the for-the-cloud arena, for access to cloud-based platforms such as Salesforce. It has a strong focus on the use of social identities for user convenience.
It has a suite of offerings covering many of the IAM bases, but it is new into pure cloud apps and many features are still in development. However, these should be filled out in the next 12-18 months, boosting its competitive position.
CA Technologies offers expected enterprise levels of services and support for its products, with global 24x7x365 support if necessary, as well as classroom and web-based training.
CA Service Virtualization is a service virtualisation solution for both simulating and testing your services. The Enterprise Edition is proprietary and available as either a desktop or web application, while the Community Edition is its freemium counterpart. CA also develops CodeSV, a Java library for enabling service virtualisation that is freely available via GitHub.
"With CA Service Virtualization, applications are tested in an integrated and real environment. Tests are only conducted in isolation. Today, we can ensure the quality and smooth performance of applications with testing scenarios that perfectly simulate the operating environment."
"A team of three was able to build 450 test cases that can now be automatically executed in just a few hours, which would usually have taken a much larger team several days."
"CA Service Virtualization helps us deliver applications that perform on day one."
"CA Service Virtualization allows us to reduce the total amount of time spent on development."
CA Service Virtualization Enterprise Edition allows you to create virtual services either by recording requests and responses to and from your real services, or by importing pre-recorded request/response pairs or design specifications (for example, Swagger files). It supports a wide variety of service types and data protocols that can be extended by building custom handlers through a provided framework. It will automatically choose the correct handler to capture request/response data and can capture this data in either a stateful or stateless fashion. Data can be automatically desensitised during recording based on criteria that you specify. Once recording is finished and your virtual service is active, it will respond to any recorded requests with the appropriate recorded response. Furthermore, the solution's "magic string" and "magic date" capabilities allow it to respond appropriately to requests that contain unrecorded date or string data. In this case, the product will extrapolate from existing patterns in recorded request/response pairs to generate a new response. In addition, Enterprise Edition supports multiple methods for matching responses to requests, including creating your own custom matching script. You can also set a specific response time for your virtual services.
Virtual Services are deployed as Virtual Service Environments (VSEs) that are monitored and controlled through a web dashboard. You can toggle whether your virtual services should intercept requests to your real services, whether they should fall through to your real service if they can't respond to a request, and so on. You can also toggle "learning mode". When a VSE is in learning mode, it will monitor requests and responses to its corresponding real service and update itself accordingly. Moreover, this update can be done either manually (using session tracking) or automatically. Test cases for your virtual services can also be generated automatically and executed through your web browser. They integrate with other CA products such as CA Agile Requirements Designer, as well as Selenium. Load testing is built in and can be executed against both real and virtual services.
CA Service Virtualization Community Edition is the freemium counterpart to Enterprise Edition. As with the latter, it allows you to create virtual services by either recording or importing request/response pairs. It also contains an API explorer that lets you send requests and monitor responses, allowing you to test your virtual services (albeit manually).
Finally, CA also develops CodeSV, a Java library that allows you to create and leverage virtual services from within Java, and in particular, from within your Java unit tests. It can be downloaded freely through GitHub.
Testing is an extremely important part of the software development lifecycle. Continuous testing and test automation have both seen widespread adoption (particularly as part of Agile or DevOps-oriented development pipelines) and have proven very effective at ensuring software quality. Moreover, these technologies promise to dramatically reduce both testing cost and time to market. However, despite the theoretically large reduction in testing time provided by continuous and automated testing, many organisations are still finding themselves bottlenecked by either testing or quality assurance.
There is no silver bullet for this problem. However, it's likely that these bottlenecks can be widened significantly, and, in some cases, even eliminated entirely, by service virtualisation. Many of the delays testing and development teams experience are due to unavailable dependencies and restrictions on the use of third party services. These are the problems that service virtualisation was made to solve. CA Service Virtualization, in particular, promises a 25-50% reduction in dev/test cycle time. In fact, their results speak for themselves, with customer success stories that boast up to an 85% reduction in testing cost and up to a 90% increase in service availability for testing purposes.
CA Service Virtualization Enterprise Edition is an eminently competent, feature rich and complete service virtualisation solution. The Community Edition, while understandably stripped down, still offers basic functionality and does so within an intuitive user interface and an affordable pricing model. If you are in the market for a service virtualisation solution, there is every reason for at least one of these products to be on your shortlist.
Datamaker is Grid-Tools' test data management solution. Most vendors offering test data management either do so as an appendage to software suites that are primarily focused on application testing, or as an extension to archival and information lifecycle management products. Grid-Tools was the first specialist vendor to enter this space and, for a long time, was the only vendor to offer the ability to generate synthetic data as opposed to database subsetting. Many of its major competitors still do not have this ability and Grid-Tools continues to have more advanced capabilities for synthetic data than those that do offer this capability.
It should be noted that Datamaker includes a full suite of data masking capabilities for companies that wish to use the product for database subsetting rather than generate synthetic data. Indeed, Grid-Tools directly markets a data masking solution in its own right.
Datamaker integrates with other Grid-Tools products such as Agile Designer (for automating the generation of test cases) and its service virtualisation capabilities. There is a Test Data on Demand Portal that allows users to share test data and test cases. Datamaker also integrates with third party service virtualisation products as well as testing environments from CA, HP and Bender RBT, amongst others.
Grid-Tools is not fussy about who uses Datamaker and has no particular industry focus although it does, to a certain extent, focus on the Healthcare and banking sectors, where it has had some notable success. Both of these sectors are ones that are heavily regulated and where compliance requirements around the protection of personal information are paramount.
Datamaker can be licensed either as an entire suite or on a modular basis. It runs on Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM i-Series and IBM System z. Note that other products in this space do not typically support system z. There are native drivers for masking for DB2 z/OS, IMS, Oracle, SQL Server and Teradata while the Data Archive module supports DB2, MySQL (Oracle), Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase (SAP). Datamaker as a whole also supports DB2 UDB, DB2 400, Actian (Ingres), PostgreSQL, Sybase (SAP), Informix (IBM) and InterSystems Caché plus various flat file formats including Excel, VSAM/ISAM, CSV, TXT, SQL and fixed definition files. Synthetic data can be generated for HTML files but these cannot be sub-setted or masked. XML files may be created and masked but not sub-setted and this is also true for HIPAA (40-10, 50-10 and X12), EDI and SWIFT files.
Arguably, the company's major strength is that it can support all forms of test data, whether that be a copy of the original data, a subset of that data (which can be generated in various ways to ensure appropriate coverage) or by creating synthetic data that matches the profile of the original but which does not actually use any of the actual data contained within the production database. For obvious reasons, this last approach automatically resolves all data protection issues and it also means, because Datamaker stores this data in its own test data warehouse, that data can be easily and quickly re-generated at any time, without requiring any input from the DBA. As far as we know Datamaker is still the only product on the market that can do this.
This ability to generate synthetic test data explains why Datamaker is modular. If you want to use this facility then you won't need to use the product's data masking capabilities while, on the other hand, if you just want to subset data you will probably want masking (if sensitive data is involved) but not want synthetic data generation. Similarly, you may or may not require the Archival module that forms a part of Datamaker and ditto for the SOA testing module.
In addition to test data management the company also markets data masking solutions (built-in to test data management), service virtualisation (which integrates with test data management), as well as requirements definition, script-less automation and automated test case generation.
One of the strengths of Grid-Tools solutions is their robustness, and in particular their ability to integrate with existing technologies. In addition to supporting all major database types, files, and mainframe formats, Datamaker offers two-way integration with HP ALM/QC. Agile Designer further integrates with several agile project management and virtualization technologies, as well as test case design, automation, and BPM technologies. These include URequire Studio, Critical Logic TMX, VersionOne, as well as BPMN-compliant tools like Cordys and Nimbus, HP ALM/QC and BPT.
With respect to Datamaker in particular Grid-Tools offers strategic advice, training, and support plus free trials of the software, for organizations looking to implement end-to-end test data management. This often involves a period of on-site consulting, advising on technological and procedural improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of software development, while reducing costs.
Grid-Tools offers bespoke consultancy which focus on the key areas of test data management. This includes data management and provisioning, Test Mart and Test Data on Demand packages. Synthetic data generation and data cloning packages are also available. Data security concerns are addressed by masking and subsetting work packages, and a Data Masking Audit is able to assess the effectiveness, cost and consistency of existing practices. A full audit of existing systems is also available, to eliminate "technical debt", while test matching services can be provided to reduce automated test failure.
A two-day Datamaker training course is offered, to guide users from the basics of the tool to more advanced tasks. The course exposes users to how data is organized within Datamaker, providing them with an understanding of its powerful synthetic data creation functions.
Grid-Tools offers two forms of data masking: simple data masking and fast data masking, where the difference is that the former uses generic drivers and the latter uses native drivers as well as native database utilities. The functionality is also richer in GT Fast Data Masker. Both are part of the Datamaker test data management suite but the latter is also marketed as a stand-alone product called GT Fast Data Masker.
GT Fast Data Masker supports all the leading database environments as well as masking for flat files and has an emphasis not just on masking the data and auditing the results (to ensure compliance) but also on the speed of its masking. There are some relevant test results (from a real customer) posted on the company's web site. The product includes facilities to profile the data in advance of masking, to determine what data needs to be masked, as well as a comprehensive range of masking options, including a cross-referencing capability so that you can ensure consistent masking if you are masking multiple systems at the same time.
Grid-Tools is not fussy about who uses Fast Data Masker and has no particular industry focus although it does, to a certain extent, focus on the Healthcare and banking sectors, where it has had some notable success. Both of these sectors are ones that are heavily regulated and where compliance requirements around the protection of personal information are paramount.
Fast Data Masker comes with multiple seed tables, with internationalised versions of these tables where appropriate (such as names) and you can also add your own seed tables. There is multi-column capability so that, for example, state and zip code will match. It also includes cross-reference management so that you can, say, retain the same transformations across runs or databases. You can also define your own functions and there is support for flat file masking. The product can update data directly within the database but you also have the option of extracting data into a staging area, passing it through a masked view and then building shadow tables. Finally, there is also support for updating of primary keys which can be rebuilt automatically as well as data discovery (profiling), version control and difference management, common column discovery to ensure that the same mask is applied to matched columns, and the ability to incorporate sub-setting within the masking process.
It is worth noting the importance of file-based masking, which is often required in conjunction with database masking. For example, you might have scrambled the social security numbers in the target database. However, your input file could now contain non-matching social security numbers and the load will fail. Using the cross reference table, or the hash routines employed by Grid-Tools as a part of the masking process you can ensure that this mismatch doesn't happen.
Finally, it is important for data governance and compliance reasons that you can prove that you have appropriate processes in place to ensure the integrity of personally identifiable information. Grid-Tools provides workflow capabilities that allow you to define relevant procedures with, for example, checked, validated and approved stages to the identification of which data is to be masked. This lets relevant people look at the data profiling information and confirm that the data has correctly been identified as PII data or not as PII data. This provides a very rigorous audit trail of the due diligence taken by you in order to identify which data needs to be masked.
Databases supported by GT Fast Data Masker include Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Ingres (Actian), Sybase (SAP), My SQL (Oracle) and Informix (IBM) as well as ODBC and flat files. In the case of DB2 support is provided for both DB2/400 and DB2 on the mainframe as well as for distributed systems. Indeed, Grid-Tools is unusual in having a product that runs directly on mainframe systems.
In addition to the masking and subsetting work packages, a Data Subset and Data Masking training course equips users with the skills needed to reduce and mask copied data using GT Fast Data Masker and Data Subset. Users of all technical abilities can learn how to generate scripts, and how to build their own masking rules and routines.
Despite appearances mainframes can be agile and can participate in DevOps and continuous delivery.
This paper discusses and evaluates CA Service Virtualization, a service virtualisation solution for both simulating and testing your services.
This report discusses the service virtualisation space and evaluates the products therein.


Finishing 3 Good. Possesses a strong shot.
1v1 Defending 2 Room for improvement.
Ability to Join Attack from Defensive Position 2 Get forward more!
Charlie was a tireless worker. He played mainly as a right back but filled in well at center back as needed. He has a great willingness to learn and improve. Very coachable. Strikes the bal lvery well over distance. Needs to stil improve many other aspects of his game to make an impact at the pro level. Too many easy giveaways. Needs to talk with dellow defenders more and stay connected. He has a chance at the pro level if he is willing to put in the work.
Freshman: Appeared in and started 18 games, 1G 2A, Summit League All-Newcomer Team, Summit League Academic All League Team. Sophomore: Appeared in and started 19 games, 2G 2A, First Team All Summit League, Summit League Defensive MVP, Summit League All Tournament Team, Summit League Tournament MVP, Second Team All Region. Junior: Appeared in and started 19 games, 1G 4A, First Team All Summit League, Summit League All Tournament Team, Summit League Academic All League Team, Second Team All Region. Senior: Appeared in and started 16-18 games, 7G 2A, First Team All Summit League, Summit League Defensive MVP, Summit League All Tournament Team, Lowe's Senior Class Award Top 30 Finalist, NSCAA Scholar First Team All-American.


617 : SAP Frontend Server : The virtual key is not enabled.
I have a script which terminates on a certain users machine with error 617 : SAP Frontend Server : The virtual key is not enabled.
They have encountered this error after nearly 100 previous iterations without error. The data set is functionally identical to previous iterations.
I run in debug & do not encounter the error, & Google isnt helpful so far.
I would try it with a small pause before the special command.
Alas, I misrepresented the issue. The reported error was a red herring as the data was not in fact the same as the previous iterations.
I shouldn't have assumed it was a timing issue.


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A state-of-the-art sports and learning centre in Cambridge features a dramatic space-defining acoustic based on the use of MEDITE PREMIER FR fire rated panels from MEDITE SMARTPLY.
The product was specified by architects Chadwick Dryer Clarke (CDC) for acoustic panelling in the new sports hall for the prestigious Stephen Perse Foundation senior school.
"MEDITE SMARTPLY forms a benchmark for us," explained Mr Mark Clarke, Director at CDC, "and we have no hesitation in specifying their brand for our projects.
"We chose MEDITE PREMIER FR MDF in particular for this project as it achieved the required fire performance, which is paramount for a school building. It is also suitably robust and easily formed to create the perforations required for its acoustic performance. The fact that the product is sustainably produced is also an important factor for us."
The sports hall is part of a complete new building designed by CDC, combining sports facilities with new classrooms and social learning spaces – this mixed use made careful consideration of acoustic performance essential. The decision to use acoustic panelling as a solution then provided the opportunity to create an opulent interior that would not only be functional but inspiring.
Mr Clarke said: "We wanted the panelling to be able perform a dual role: to temper the reverberation times within the large volume of the hall, and provide a high-quality finish that would define the space."
Within the sports hall, approximately 530 MEDITE PREMIER FR panels were installed at high level above a storey-high 'plinth' of concrete blockwork. They were finished in RAL 7044, a silk grey tone, which complemented the treated cross-laminated timber (CLT) finish in other areas. The same product was also used around the building for the creation of architraves, skirtings and window linings.
Within England, Building Bulletin 93 sets out performance standards for acoustics in schools. As building regulations also state that within schools or similar public buildings a Euroclass B or C fire rated panel must be used and MEDITE PREMIER FR offers the perfect solution.
"The FR panels are lined at the rear with a black fleece and glass-wool insulation," Mr Clarke explains. "This 28% open area absorbs sound and reduces the reverberation time, greatly improving the quality of the environment within the space."
A social working environment and a sense of community was central to the project: an important internal space that would become one of the main hubs of activity in the school. The whole school community, including governors, teachers and pupils, was consulted as part of the design development to ensure the right performance and aesthetic could be achieved.
Mr Clarke said: "The eventual design solution sprang from conversations with the client team and a careful analysis of the opportunities of the site. It was like solving a puzzle: many of our projects share this problem-solving ethos. I was a challenge for all involved in its development and construction, but it has been very successful since handover and is proving to provide a highly satisfying new sequence of spaces for the school."
The result is a functional, beautiful building, which uses calming colour and modern shapes to break up and add intriguing interest to the expanse of space within the immense, four-court sports hall.

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The other two (Federer and Nadal) has never hold all four (grand slams) at the same time. 1. this system of playing 5 sets continued till 1998 when Martina Hingis beat Lindsay Davenport 7–5, 6–4, 4–6, 6–2. Q. It should now be clear as to why Venus loves this win but … elia Douglas, Bring me back the delicious Ana Ivanovic and Sharapova. Lindsay Davenport has backed Cori Gauff to win numerous slams after Wimbledon victory 'It's so great to see another champion coming up. I like the city there a lot. ... 6–1. Keeping this in mind, although Serena Williams has won 23 Majors, she still holds the Open Era record for most Slams According to Lindsay Davenport, this is good enough. It lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes, making it the longest women's final at Wimbledon. Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. Kim Clijsters and Lindsay Davenport have backed Serena Williams to return to tennis and win more grand slam titles. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if … The first "open" event was held in Bournemouth, England, followed by the inaugural open Grand Slam event a month later. Lindsay Davenport (44) is a tennis player from USA who has a career-high singles ranking of No. She's going to be a big force in women's tennis,' Davenport, who is an ambassador for HSBC, told Sportsmail. Date of birth: 08/06/1978 Nationality: American Grand slams: US Open 1998; Wimbledon 1999; Australian Open 2000 The 1996 Olympic champion has gone on to win three Grand Slam titles, including Wimbledon in 1999. 'In the future a multiple Grand Slam champion, I think though we've got to be realistic about her age and what she can handle. ... while the victory for Graf formed part of a 'Golden Slam' where she won all four Grand Slams plus Olympic gold in the same year. I remember watching Lindsay Davenport between 94 and 97 thinking that she'll be a decent top 10 player, but no way she'll win multiple Grand Slams and reach number one. The pair meet today with 1999 champion Davenport keeping her fingers crossed that Mauresmo - three times a losing semi-finalist in grand slams - falls short of her best. She further admitted that she is one of the emotional types. She retired from competition in 2011. Kim Clijsters and Lindsay Davenport have backed Serena Williams to return to tennis and win more grand slam titles. Lindsay Davenport, winner of 6 Grand Slams, inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame . It's only same prize money in Grand Slams, where they play at the same venue. January 29, 2017 at 7:18 pm. Lindsay has won 2 Doubles Grand Slams, with Fernandez (96 French) and Novotna (97 US) Go to Index page. In 1991, she made first appearance in Tour qualifying at San Diego. I always seem to have a good time. Lindsay Davenport. Lindsay Davenport (Palos Verdes, Califòrnia, Estats Units, 8 de juny de 1976) és una tennista dels Estats Units d'Amèrica que fou número 1 tant del rànquing individual com del de dobles. LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Probably New York actually. She may not have won as many Grand Slams as she could have (thanks to chronic back injuries and mental issues, some would argue). 1 Lindsay Davenport says that Novak Djokovic wants to break the record for most number of Grand Slam titles won in men's tennis and has his eyes firmly set on beating rivals Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal when it comes to the all-time record. Lindsay Davenport and Kim Clijsters back Serena Williams to win more grand slams Kim Clijsters and Lindsay Davenport have backed Serena Williams to return to tennis and win more grand slam titles. But my personal favorite to watch is/was Lindsay Davenport, now in retirement and a mother of two children. Lindsay Davenport v Venus Williams, 2005. It was a thing of beauty to watch. lindsay davenport: yeah. In terms of playing, it's a little difficult with the US Open site a … Davenport compiled a 26-3 record in singles and a … Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Davenport won three Grand Slams and one Olympic gold medal during her tennis career. Davenport believes the spectacular performance on one of the biggest stages is a sign that Gauff will be a huge success in the future. Lindsay Davenport's tennis career began at age six. She should have won much more Slams (Wimbledon 2004, US Open 2004, Australian Open 2005, Wimbledon 2005), where she was leading with a set and a break in key matches or dominating at the beginning before losing total control. Lindsay Davenport. I've got a lot of friends there. However, many of them were won before 1968. Grand Slams: 98: 97: 96: 95 Austrailian Open: Semi-Finals: 4th Round: 4th Round: Quarter-Finals French Open: Semi-Finals: 4th Round: Quarter-Finals: 4th Round Wimbledon Serena Williams' 24th Grand Slam. Lindsay just kept improving, and in my mind laid the ground work for the smooth, long and powerful strokes you see from tall women like Kvitová and Pliskova. I think with her ball striking talent, Lindsay should have won at least 8 Grand Slams and around 80 titles. Davenport ended 2001 as the number one in the world. It's where your interests connect you with your people. Former World No. M = Missed slams . Click here for a full player profile. Backing Evert, Lindsay Davenport is another person who believes Djokovic can overtake Federer. Madison Keys over the moon with how #KinderGirlWorldDay turned out, from support from @WTA players, branching to other sports, and of course, @shakira . Lindsay Davenport: 3 Grand Slams. LINDSAY DAVENPORT: Just in Grand Slams? Lindsay Davenport is an American former World No.1 in both singles and doubles. Jake says. Robert Van't Hof, who hauled Davenport's career out of an early crisis when he became her coach in December 1995, says: "Lindsay is pretty much what everybody sees. Lindsay Davenport hopes the pressure once again affects Amelie Mauresmo in the heat of a grand slam semi-final. In the Open Era, eight women have won three of the four Grand Slam titles: Lindsay Davenport, Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Justine Henin, Martina Hingis, Angelique Kerber, Hana Mandlikova, Monica Seles and Virginia Wade. The current record for the most Grand Slams is held by Margaret Court who won 24. On top of that, she won Gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and also added a further 38 WTA doubles titles, again including three Grand Slams. She played on the U.S. Fed Cup team for ten years (1993-2000, 2002, 2005, 2008), leading the Americans to titles in 1996, 1999, and 2000. Still miss Lindsay today. Yes. The same applies to Lindsay Davenport in 2001 and 2002, in which Hingis was again the much more successful player in major tournaments. Davenport won the Gold Medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, defeating Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario, 7-6, 6-2. Probably, probably you get a little bit more excited, a little bit more revved up to play, and you don't let your concentration wander at all during grand slams or you can't, I should say, and I haven't done that yet. Her former coach Lindsay Davenport, who is still close to Keys' team, tries to explain how the 24-year-old manages to elevate her game consistently at the Slams. Speaking on the Tennis Channel, the American says, […] She could have had one maybe two more, losing to Serena then Venus in three sets in Grand Slams in 2005. Lindsay Davenport. She had a breakout season in 1993, winning her first title at Lucerne. Lindsay Davenport is a powerful hitter of the ball. Davenport won 55 titles during her career on the WTA Tour, including three at grand slam level. At this point the Williams sisters were dominating and very few were getting a look in. Novak is one slam away from doing it twice." Wimbledon (1): 1999. In that same year she turned pro and had her first Top 10 win at Delray Beach. All-Time Grand Slam Singles Titles Leaders By CAROLYN THORNTON Saturday Jul 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM. Australian Open (1): 2000. "I think so. How wrong I was. WTA legends Chris Evert and Lindsay Davenport believe Novak Djokovic to be the best player the world has ever seen, and have backed him to go on to prove it. Mm mm mmm American tennis legend Lindsay Davenport recently spoke about how she loves to see players winning their maiden Grand Slam. U.S. Open (1): 1998. In the final, Venus faced Lindsay Davenport in one of the greatest matches ever. Djokovic has won the last three Grand Slams in a row, leaving him the French Open away from holding all … The Open Era is the current era of professional tennis.It began in 1968 when the Grand Slam tournaments allowed professional players to compete with amateurs, ending the division that had persisted in men's tennis since the dawn of the sport in the 19th century. In singles, she won a total of 55 WTA titles, including three Grand Slams. While Davenport once again showed up at Grand Slams from 2003 to 2006 and played in two finals in 2005 alone, Hingis did not achieve any notable successes in these years. Fou guanyadora de tres torneigs de Grand Slam en categoria individual i tres en dobles, a més d'aconseguir la medalla d'or individual a les Olimpíades d'Atlanta de l'any 1996. of Serena Williams, who holds the Open Era record with 23 Grand Slam singles titles. But she hit such a clean ball! In the end, it was Williams who came out on top 4-6, 7-6, 9-7.
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> Jakob's Wife (2021) Film Review
Jakob's Wife
Reviewed by: Jennie Kermode
"Stevens uses the Nosferatu framework to tell a story about a marriage." | Photo: Shudder
Vampires seem to be enjoying a bit of a revival lately. Now that the endless teen vampire romances spawned by Twilight have finally burned out, it's once again possible to explore them in different ways, with films like Boy #5 finding fresh contexts in which to situate old myths. One film that's sticking with an older formula is this little gem from Travis Stevens, which revisits the trope of a woman whose personality transforms under the influence of a pointy-toothed master – only rather than a virginal teenager, this is a housewife in her sixties, and she has no intention of going back.
The title, if you know your Bible, recalls a couple of women who relentlessly gave of themselves to support their man, enduring no end of suffering in the process. In this case, Jakob is a minister, charged with looking after the people of a small American town and very comfortable with the authority it gives him. He's played by Larry Fessenden, a master at roles like this, who gives him humanity, warmth and wit where he could easily have been unlikeable – but that doesn't mean he's the world's most attentive husband. Anne (Barbara Crampton), who, according to an old flame, was full of ambition in her youth, is a timid church mouse beside him, wearing minimal make-up and dresses that look like wallpaper, hiding her light to let his shine the brighter.
Everything changes when Anne meets the Master (Bonnie Aarons) – black-cloaked, pointy eared and possessed of an inscrutable agenda. The master has an eye for other women in town but seems to see something special in Anne. When she puts on crimson lipstick, gets a new wardrobe and starts asserting herself, we see it too, and Crampton is every bit as dynamic now as she was in her twenties. Jakob doesn't know what he's seeing, but he's sure it's something to do with sin – and that's before he discovers that she's craving human blood.
Stevens uses the Nosferatu framework to tell a story about a marriage, about two people who have taken their lives for granted and are forced to reckon with one another anew when that life changes. Perhaps their relationship is doomed or perhaps they'll rediscover their original passion. Perhaps they'll learn to love each other in a new way or perhaps one or both of them will end up dead. There's room for lots of contradictory emotions. With great chemistry between the leads, the film uses fantasy to tease out something which feels honest and real.
This is a film with some abrupt tonal shifts, but none especially more so than those naturally precipitated by waking up in middle age and wondering what you've been doing with your life. Some viewers have complained that it lurches from comedy to horror halfway through, but if you're paying attention, the comedy is there from the start. Those boxes of neatly powdered rats, resembling the ones once painted by Werner Herzog, are a clue, and no, you're not meant to take that sweeping black cape seriously. Don't let David Matthews' gorgeous cinematography lull you into thinking that everything here is sincere.
Both leads get to use their abilities to the full in this rich, indulgent piece of work, and they're a delight to watch. The vampire film has grown up, so set aside the garlic and enjoy.
Jakob's Wife will be available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital 10 January from Acorn Media International.
Reviewed on: 04 Sep 2021
The disappearance of a young woman threatens to change the beige and banal lives of Anne Fedder and her pastor husband Jakob Fedder forever.
Director: Travis Stevens
Writer: Travis Stevens, Kathy Charles, Mark Steensland
Starring: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Bonnie Aarons, Mark Kelly, Sarah Lind, Robert Rusler, Nyisha Bell, Phil Brooks
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Madonna Responds to Backlash Over Her Aretha Franklin "Tribute" at the 2018 VMAs
"I could never do her justice in this context or environment."
by Andrea Park
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Madonna, an icon of the MTV Video Music Awards since the very beginning, wasn't exactly well-received at this year's VMAs. She took the stage toward the end of Monday night's ceremony and, before awarding Camila Cabello with Video of the Year, rambled through a speech about her triumphant journey from a working-class neighborhood of Detroit to the VMAs stage. The speech may have been perceived as inspiring and powerful had Madonna not been standing in front of a huge portrait of Aretha Franklin and, therefore, ostensibly tasked with paying tribute to the late Queen of Soul. But, alas, she was, and thus was swiftly met with a flood of backlash from social media users who criticized her for "gentrifying" a tribute to Franklin and making it all about herself, slipping in only a few passing references to the "Respect" singer.
On Tuesday, Madonna attempted to clear the air. In an Instagram post of her own, she first congratulated Cabello, then went on to claim that her assignment hadn't been to formally memorialize Franklin, but rather to simply share a few anecdotes about her. "Just to clarify: I was asked to present video of the year by MTV! And then they asked me to share any anecdotes I had in my career connected to Aretha Franklin! I shared a part of my journey and thanked Aretha for inspiring me along the way. I did not intend to do a tribute to her! That would be impossible in [two] minutes with all the noise and tinsel of an award show. I could never do her justice in this context or environment," she wrote.
"Unfortunately most people have short attention spans, and are so quick to judge. I love Aretha! R.E.S.P.E.C.T.," Madonna continued, then added, "I Love Camilla! Congrats! I LOVE my dress! AND. I love-L O V E!! and there is nothing anyone can say or do that will change that."
That said, the "anecdotes" Madonna did share involving Franklin were few and far between, and had a distinctly more self-congratulatory vibe than one of gratitude toward the late superstar. Still, one has to wonder what MTV and the show producers were thinking by leaving the Franklin tribute in the hands of Madonna alone, and then not even giving her proper directions.
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Jennifer Lawrence, born August 15. Photograph by Tim Walker for W Magazine, October 2012.
Halle Berry, born August 14. Photograph Mario Sorrenti for W Magazine, October 2016.
Madonna, born August 16. Photograph by Steven Klein for W Magazine, March 2009.
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Jennifer Lopez, born July 24. Photograph by Mert and Marcus for W magazine, March 2017.
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Chris Hemsworth, born August 11. Photograph by Francesco Carrozzini for W Magazine, July 2012.
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Devon Aoki, born August 10. Photograph by Juergen Teller for W Magazine, March 2009.
Mick Jagger, born July 26. Photograph by Laurie Sagalyn for W Magazine, February 1983.
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Charlize Theron, born August 7. Photograph by Mert and Marcus for W Magazine, May 2015.
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Ben Affleck, born August 15. Photograph by Juergen Teller for W Magazine, February 2013.
Steven Martin, born August 14. Photograph by Elinor Carucci for W magazine, October 2005.
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Viola Davis, born August 11. Photograph by Mario Sorrenti for W Magazine, October 2012.
Amy Adams, born August 20. Photograph by Juergen Teller for W Magazine, February 2014.
Gina Rodriguez, born July 30. Photograph by Sean Harley and Seng Chee Choong for W Magazine, September 2016.
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Mary-Louise Parker, born August 2. Photograph by Coral Von Zumwalt for W magazine, September 2006.
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Edward Norton, born August 18. Photograph by Tim Walker for W magazine, February 2015.
Mila Kunis, born August 14. Photograph by Craig McDean for W Magazine, March 2011.


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2020 Daily Holidays that fall on May 6, include:
Great American Grump Out - May 6, 2020 (First Wednesday of May)
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Ramadan - Evening of April 23, 2020 - Evening of May 23, 2020
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There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our May page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of May.
The Astrological Sign for May 6 is Taurus.
The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for May are:
The Lily of the Valley - Humility, Chastity and Sweetness - signifies a return to happiness
The Birthstone(s) for May is the Emerald which is a symbol of rebirth and is believed to grant the owner foresight, good fortune, and youth.
1856 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist who was the founding father of psychoanalysis (d. 1939)
1915 - Orson Welles, American actor, screenwriter, director, producer (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds) (d. 1985)
1931 - Willie Mays, American baseball player
1945 - Bob Seger, American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Silver Bullet Band)
1960 - Roma Downey, Irish-American actress, singer, and producer (Touched by an Angel, Son of God)
1961 - George Clooney, American actor, screenwriter, director and producer (ER, Batman, Oceans Eleven)
2019 - The Earl of Dumbarton, child of Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
1862 - Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
1952 - Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator (Montessori schools) (b. 1870)
1987 - William J. Casey, American politician and 13th Director of the C.I.A. from 1981-1987 (b. 1913)
1992 - Marlene Dietrich - German-American actress and singer (The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express) (b. 1901)
1950 - Actress, Elizabeth Taylor marries her 1st husband, hotel heir Conrad Hilton
1960 - English princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones (Lord Snowdon)
1997 - Actor David Duchovny (X-Files) marries actress Tea Leoni
2007 - Singer Amy Lee (Evanescence) marries Josh Hartzler
2007 - Actress Jordana Brewster (Fast and Furious) marries movie producer Andrew Form
Today, May 6, is INTERNATIONAL NO DIET DAY. Today, our Healthy Diet Habit of the Day is to learn about Lifestyle Solutions.
Lifestyle Solutions are the opposite of diets! You take a look at your personal life, what you love to eat, and how you use food in your life. You develop a new way of dealing with food, without deprivation. It is a process that involves learning to eat for health, but keeping your favorite foods in your life in moderation!
It is not a complicated diet menu that you hate, but learning to prepare healthy meals full of more vegetables. You will develop a plan to incorporate healthy diet habits into your life!
Learn more about the Lifestyle Solutions process, from Kerry of Healthy Diet Habits. (link opens in her website)
1536 - King Henry VIII orders Bibles to be placed in every church in England
1833 - John Deere makes the 1st steel plough
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald with a price of 1 cent
1851 - Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco, CA starts
1861 - During the American Civil War, the states of Arkansas & Tennessee becomes the 9th and 10th states to secede from the Union
1882 - The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act and ceases Chinese immigration
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris
1904 - The American Lung Association holds its 1st meeting
1935 - U.S. Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration, which provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression of the U.S.
1937 - The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed. Thirty six people are killed
1940 - Pulitzer prize is awarded to John Steinbeck for his novel The Grapes of Wrath
1955 - West Germany joins NATO
1960 - U.S. President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960
1996 - Eight days after he disappeared, the body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland
1941 - Bob Hope performs his first USO show at March Field in California
1971 - Proud Mary, by Ike and Tina Turner is certified gold
1972 - Elton John releases Rocket Man
1977 - Beatles at Hollywood Bowl is released in the UK
1982 - Diana Ross gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1984 - Hello, by Lionel Richie hits #1
1984 - What's Love Got to Do With It, by Tina Turner is released
1995 - Melissa Etheridge has back to back singles on the Hot 100 for at least 40 weeks - Come to My Window (video below), and I'm the Only One
1844 - The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink opens
1860 - The 1st US athletic club forms in San Francisco, CA - The SF Olympic Club
1903 - The Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against the Detroit Tigers
1954 - Roger Bannister is the 1st person to run the mile in under four minutes
1970 - Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt. Everest
1980 - Gaylor Perry of the Seattle Mariner's becomes the 15th pitcher to win 300 games
1987 - Mario Andretti sets a one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
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Among the twelve precious stones on the breast plate of the high priest, LESHEM לשם is the seventh. No scholar has been able to find any stone or mineral by that name. According to best tradition it appears to be (reddish) amber (see note!). Amber is no mineral, so this precious stone is the only organic gem in the breast plate.
Amber is the fossilized resin from coniferous trees. Resin dripped from or oozed down the sides of trees, as well as filling internal fissures. Resin is exuded by a tree to heal a wound, such as a broken branch, and to protect the tree from disease and injury inflicted by insects and fungi. It possesses odors and tastes which both attract and repel insects, and insects are trapped in the sticky resin. After having come under water for a long time it is washed up as transparent golden amber on the shores of the Baltic Sea, or of Lebanon or Sicily or Spain or Romania, or other coasts of the world. The Greeks called amber elektron — and indeed, amber becomes electrically charged when rubbed with a cloth and can attract small particles.
What is the secret message of this jewel?
What is the name written on LESHEM לשם ?
To me it is very clear that Judah must be first among the tribes of Israel. Not because of Ruben's scandal, for Judah was by no means an example; then rather Joseph ought to take the lead. But because of the election by GOD, for out of Judah comes the Mashiach of YHWH, the Scepter of Israel, the Desire of all nations, the Hope of all creation. Therefore, Judah must be First.
In the Holy Bible there are many lists of the tribes of Israel, with many variations. But only in four lists of the tribes Judah is mentioned first. In Numbers 7 they are listed according to the day each tribe brought its dedication-gift and offerings for the altar; and in Numbers 10 after their march order in the desert. That is very vital, for we must all follow Mashiach the Lamb of GOD to enter into His Promised Land, yea, into heaven! There is NO OTHER WAY. Mashiach Himself said: "I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father unless by me" (John 14:6). And He said to all: "If any one will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me; for whosoever shall desire to save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, he shall save it" (Luke 9:23-24). Indeed, Mashiach has become to all them that obey him, the Author of eternal salvation; addressed by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek" (Hebr. 5:9-10). He is our Forerunner and Originator and Completer of Faith (Hebr. 6:20; 12:2).
According to these two lists of the tribes of Israel the seventh is Ephraim. So we suppose that the name of Ephraim was engraved on the seventh precious stone, the LESHEM לשם.
Ephraim was the second son of Joseph, and before his death Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph. Joseph placed his first born son Manasseh to the right of his father, and Ephraim to the left. But Israel crossed his hands placing his right hand on the head of the younger, Ephraim, and his left on the head of Manasseh. And then he prophesied about Ephraim: "His seed will become the fullness of the nations [הגוים מלא]" (Gen. 48:19).
This reveals the secret plan of GOD, first to take out of the nations a people for His Name! And after that He will return to Israel to save it. It is written!
This very truth is also stated by the Bondman of Yeshua Mashiach James (Jacob), who was a brother of Yeshua according to the flesh. He reveals the marvelous plan of GOD before the council of apostles and elders in Jerusalem, saying: "Brethren, listen to me: Simon has related how GOD first visited to take out of the nations a people for His Name. And with this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written: After these things I will return, and will rebuild the tabernacle of David which is fallen, and will rebuild its ruins, and will set it up, so that the residue of men may seek out the LORD, and all the nations on whom My name is invoked, says the LORD, who does these things known from eternity" (Acts 15:13-18).
Here you have LESHEM, לשם "a people for His Name." On the stone "for His Name" we expect that the name Ephraim was engraved. This prophecy belongs to him.
Isn't it wonderful that Ephraim, which means "double fruitful," is placed as the seventh among the tribes of Israel! For this GOD has revealed: "that they who are of the nations should be joint heirs, and a joint body, and joint partakers of His promise in Mashiach Yeshua by the Glad Tidings" (Eph. 3:6).
Because of the affair with the golden calf, GOD chose all who gathered to Moshe in the gate instead of the first born of all the tribes to do priestly ministry to Him, even the tribe of Levi. And Moshe in the gate is a type of Mashiach on the Cross. Everyone, Jew or not Jew according to the flesh, who stands with Yeshua Mashiach our crucified LORD belongs with Melchizedek to His priesthood.
The apostle Peter writes to the fellowship of Christians: "But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that you might set forth the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness to His wonderful light; who once were not a people, but now GOD'S people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy" (1 Peter 2:9-10 quoting Hosea).
But GOD has NEVER broken His covenant with the twelve tribes of Israel, as He so clearly speaks in Jeremiah 33:19-26: "And the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah, saying, Thus says YHWH: If you can break My covenant in respect of the day, and My covenant in respect of the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season, then shall also My covenant be broken with David My servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David My servant, and the Levites that minister unto Me.
The church is not the successor of Israel as GOD'S chosen people, as the papal church declares, which has persecuted the Apple of GOD'S Eye. NO, NO, NEVER! But GOD has given His little Ruth (a Moabitess) a place in His heart among the tribes of Israel. Tell the story of Ruth! — and of Tamar and of Rahab (Canaanites). They were grafted into the true Olive Tree of GOD'S Israel (Romans 11:17-24), into the tribe of Judah, into the House of David, by the infinite grace of GOD; they are a type of the bride of the Lamb.
Glory, glory to the Holy One! She is His crown. And first our Mashiach-King must have His crown, then He must have His throne, and Jerusalem is the Throne of YHWH (Jer. 3:17; 14:21). So, GOD first takes out from the nations "a people for His Name" LE SHEM, and then He returns and restores the kingdom to Israel, when Yeshua Mashiach is accepted as their King. This is GOD'S wonderful plan of grace! And when Yeshua Mashiach has ascended His throne in Jerusalem, where He was crucified, then He will be the Prince of Peace to all the nations left, and they will all make pilgrimage to Jerusalem to worship the LORD of Glory in Jerusalem, and highly esteem the Jews as His chosen people.
The characteristic of a true Christian is that he loves Israel with Mashiach's love, blessing Israel in His Name. We say this, because there are so many who call themselves "Christians" or "Christ's chosen church," and ARE NOT! Yeshua Mashiach said: "By their fruits you shall know them" (Math. 7:16, 20). "If any one has not the Spirit of Mashiach he is not of Him" (Rom. 8:9). For His love is flaming! (Zech. 1:14-16; 8:2; Is. 49:15-16; 63:9; Jer. 31:3).
Now let us look at the seventh precious stone LESHEM לשם. The (reddish) amber originating from drops of resin from coniferous trees speaks about the drops of Blood from the Tree of Life, Yeshua on the Cross. As amber comes out of water, so we have been buried with Yeshua Mashiach and are raised up with Him as an entirely new creation, like amber, like the transparent gold of the New Jerusalem (2 Cor. 5:17; Rev. 21:18, 21). We are in Him, in His Sabbatical Rest, He is our Aleph and Tau, our One and All. Transparent because you see Him alone — so it should be: "No longer live I, but Mashiach lives in me" (Gal. 2:20).
We are formed out of Mashiach just like Eve was made out of Adam. "And YHWH GOD caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And He took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead. And YHWH GOD built the rib that He had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man. And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man" (Gen. 2:21-23).
Also the side of Yeshua was opened: "The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, for it was the preparation, (for the day of that Sabbath was a great day,) demanded of Pilate that their legs might be broken and they taken away. The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that had been crucified with Him; but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead they did not break His legs, but one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water. And he who saw it bears witness, and his witness is true, and he knows that he says true that you also may believe. For these things took place that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of Him shall be broken. And again another scripture says, They shall look on Him whom they pierced" (John 19:32-37; Zech. 12:10).
Mashiach Himself said: "Even as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish three days and three nights, thus shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights" (Matth. 12:40). When Jonah praised GOD, the fish spewed him out, and so the grave could not keep the body of Yeshua Mashiach, praising His Father (Acts 2:24). And we have been buried and raised up with Him, as Romans 6: 3-6 says: "Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptized unto Mashiach Yeshua, have been baptized unto His death? We have been buried therefore with Him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Mashiach has been raised up from among the dead by the Glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we are become identified with Him in the likeness of His death, so also we shall be of His resurrection; knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin." See also Colossians 2:12; 3:1-4, 9-11. It is just like amber coming out of the water.
The place value P 46 = 2 * 23 is the same as the numerical value of Levi "united to" YHWH. When Levi was born, his mother Leah exclaimed: "Now this time my husband will be united to me" (Gen. 29:34).
LE SHEM לשם = ליהוה קדש "Holiness to YHWH" N 460, begotten by His holy Seed (1 John 3:9; 5:18; John 1:12-13).° Let us be only for HIM, to follow the Lamb wherever He goes. Just to be for Him, to love Him with all our heart, to be a seal on His heart, and a seal on His arm to do His will, to serve Him like Rivka, Rebecca (Gen. 24:14, 17-21). That is the sign of the true bride. And she bears His Name.
"Holiness to YHWH" was engraved on the golden plate on the forehead of the high priest (Ex. 28:36-38). In the Revelation of Yeshua Mashiach 14:1-5 we see such a first fruits out from all the nations bearing Name of the Lamb ישוע and the Name of His Father יהוה on their foreheads. They are standing with the Lamb before the throne of GOD praising Him with a new song which no one can sing but only the Blood-redeemed ones. They are infinitely happy in Him. They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins — the bride of the Lamb, chaste like Joseph. "These are they who follow the Lamb wherever He goes" — even into cruel martyrdom, to be burned alive at the stake. They have been purchased from men with His precious Blood as first fruits to GOD and to the Lamb — לשם — and in their mouth no lie was found; for they are blameless. A beautiful bride to the immaculate Lamb.
What is that new song which they sing? Here you hear its sound: "You, O Lamb of GOD, are worthy to take the scroll [the deed of the kingdom], and to break its seals; because You have been slain, and have purchased for GOD with Your Blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and You have made them to our GOD kings and priests; and they shall reign over the earth" (Rev. 5:9-10). Exulting in His love she sings: "I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine: He feeds [His flock] among the lilies" (Song of Songs 6:3; 2:16; 7:10).
The numerical value N of לשם is 370. 37 is the Passover Lamb (פסח N 4 * 37) on the Cross who prayed: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34), full of mercy and forgiveness.° The high priests who caused this Lamb to be slaughtered shouted at Him: "He saved others, Himself He cannot save. He is King of Israel: let Him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on Him. He trusted in GOD; let Him save him now if He will have Him. For he said, I am Son of God." But He stayed on the Cross, gave His Life, His Blood for them. What a love!
37 * 10 we are His generation, born of Him, and He is in us, and we in Him — just like the priests in the tabernacle were covered by rams' skins dyed red (= the slaughtered Lamb). Under the curtain of goats' hair (= He bore our sins), and under the fine linen interwoven with threads of blue (→ He is our High Priest) and purple (→ our King) and blood-red scarlet — so we are in Mashiach, the slaughtered Lamb of GOD. Over the whole tabernacle there was a covering of dolphins' skins illustrating His resurrection from the dead, like a dolphin jumping out of the water, like amber out of the ocean.
The sum S 416 = 16 * 26 describes the Righteousness of YHWH, the Righteousness by the Cross. For it pleased YHWH to make Him who knew not sin a Sin Offering for us, that we might become GOD'S righteousness in Him (2 Cor. 5:21). His Fruit!
Isaiah prophesied about the fruit of the sacrifice of Yeshua Mashiach: "Yet it pleased YHWH to bruise Him; He hath subjected Him to suffering. When You shall make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see a seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of YHWH shall prosper in His hand. He shall see of the fruit of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shall My righteous Servant instruct many in righteousness; and He shall bear their iniquities" (Is. 53:10-11). Piercing words, piercing His heart.
For His Name is YHWH our Righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6; 33:16).
The difference R 324 = 182 HE IS RISEN! — and we in Him, as the amber washed ashore from the great ocean, like Jonah spewed out of the fish, the dolphin jumping out of the water, as you see on the sky (Delphinus).° So many types of this wonderful truth: we are RISEN WITH MASHIACH — a new creation in Him, HE alone ALL in us. "If any one be in Mashiach, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new" (2 Cor. 5:17).
He arose from the dead and ascended up to heaven, and like the Northern Fish flies up to heaven,° so we shall be caught up with Him to heaven, as it is written: "For the Lord Himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with the trumpet of GOD, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Mashiach shall rise first; then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the LORD in the air; and thus we shall be always with the LORD" (1 Thess. 4:16-18). And again: "Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed" (1 Cor. 15:51-52). From the fig-tree we see that day is very near!!
"And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing upon mount Zion, and with Him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Name and the Name of His Father written upon their foreheads. And I heard a voice out of the heaven as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as of harp-singers harping with their harps; and they sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn that song save the hundred and forty-four thousand who were bought from the earth. These are they who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb wheresoever He goes. These have been bought from men as first-fruits to God and to the Lamb: and in their mouths was no lie found; for they are blameless" (Rev. 14:1-5).
Because she chose to be לשם, For Him alone!


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N37741 at Renton, same neat colours.
C-GMSX at YVR in HYACK AIR titles, at end of lease.
N37741 on the Renton - KRTN ramp.
N37741 getting some work done at Renton.
N37741 with Dean Carroll, up in Alaska.
51-16801 with unusal code markings.
• 51-16801 US Army #1083. L-20A No: 84. Command A-2. Delivered 30-May-1952. Built as L-20A and Re-designated U-6A in 1962.
• 51-16801 For sale @ Coleman Barracks, Mannheim – Sandhofen, Germany. Seen 28-Aug-1972.
Note: Total time 4,900 hours.
• No Regn Bought by B-M Aviation Ltd., Lachute, QC. 01-Apr-1973. (One of the 64 US Army U-6As purchased in Germany in March 1973 by Laurentian Air Services and sold off individually by B-M. Aviation from a bonded compound at Lachute, QC).
• N37741 Kenmore Air Harbour, Seattle, WA.
• N37741 Dean Carroll, Anchorage, AK. Purchased in an "as is" condition.
• N37741 Alaska Travel Air Inc., Anchorage, AK. Circa 1975 – 1978.
Accident. Whittier, AK. 13-Sep-1978. Aircraft flew into blind canyon in adverse weather conditions and crashed into ground in controlled flight. Aircraft substantially damaged. Pilot and five passengers killed. ANC78FA078.
• N37741 Harold J. Hanson, Seattle, WA. Regd Dec-1978.
Entries preceded by date are from Transport of Canada Archive data.
14-Mar-1979 Weight & Balance completed for s/n 269 N37741 by Harold J. Hansen, Seattle, WA.
21-Jul-1980 Lease Agreement; Harold J. Hansen, Seattle, WA., to Hyack Air Ltd., New Westminster, BC, 21-Jul-1980 - open-ended.
24-Jul-1980 Harold Hansen requests to FAA to cancel registration of N37741.
25-Jul-1980 Allotment of registration C-GMSX to DHC-2 s/n 269 for Hyack Air Ltd., BC.
25-Jul-1980 Application for Certificate of Registration by Hyack Air Ltd.
• C-GMSX Imported to Canada & regd 25-Jul-1980.
25-Jul-1980 Provisional Certificate of Registration and Certificate of Airworthiness for test flights within 25 mile radius of Vancouver International Airport.
• C-GMSX Leased to Hyack Air Ltd., New Westminster, BC.
28-Jul-1980 Certificate of Airworthiness issued.
28-Jul-1980 Certificate of Registration issued to Hyack Air Ltd., New Westminster, BC (under lease from Harold J. Jansen).
03-Jun-1981 Certificate of Transfer of Ownership; Hyack Air Ltd., to Burrard Air Ltd.
03-Jun-1981 Lease Agreement; Harold Hansen to Burrard Air Ltd., 12 months.
03-Jun-1981 Application for Certificate of Registration by Burrard Air.
05-Jun-1981 Certificate of Registration issued to Burrard Air Ltd., Port Moody, BC. (under lease from Harold J. Hansen).
• C-GMSX Burrard Air Ltd., Port Moody, BC. Leased 1981.
03-Jun-1982 Lease to Burrard Air expired.
25-Jun-1982 Burrard Air advises Department of Transport that C-GMSX to be returned to USA (Alaska) as N49443.
• C-GMSX. Canx on export 07-Jul-1982.
Total Hours since new as recorded by Department of Transport in Canada.
• N49443 Jul-1982 Details unknown.
Note Shawano Conversion in 1983.
• N3129S Alaska North Flying Service. Anchorage, AK. Date unknown.
• N3129S Peter B. Iverson, Eric H. Akola, Robert J. Forkas, Robert H. Franz & Helmer Directional Drilling Inc., Anchorage, AK. Regd 05-May-1983.
Accident. Iliamna, AK. 20-Aug-1983. During a low level caribou spotting flight, the aircraft got into a downdraft (300ft) and collided with hilly terrain. Pilot and one passenger sustained serious injury. Three passengers received minor injuries. ANC83LA151.
• N3129S Canx "administratively" 15-May-1984.