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Under 17s are the new London Cup champions
Congratulations to Ryan FC's Under 17's side who have won this season's London Cup Final.
The under 17's beat Cockfosters in the final at Fisher Athletic, winning the match 3-1.
This is the third trophy which the team have won this season having already secured the EJA Cup along with the Southern Floodlight Trophy too.
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WalterFedy was honoured today with a Hamilton Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Business Achievement Award in the category of Large Business. This award celebrates the achievements of a local business with over 50 employees in the areas of entrepreneurship, employee relations, promotion of Hamilton, community relations, and product innovation over the past year.
WalterFedy has called Hamilton home since 2015, when we opened our second Ontario office in the Hamilton Port Authority building. Just four years later we moved into a new home in the heart of downtown Hamilton, where we are surrounded by big-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry trailblazers. The culture of innovation and artistic expression in this city inspires the work that we do. We are excited to be part of Hamilton's transformation from an industrial haven, into a vibrant business and cultural hub in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). We look forward to being a part of this community and bolstering its success for many years to come.
Congratulations to this year's winners and all those nominated who continue to make Hamilton a great place to live and work.
Small Business: Laser Spa Group
Mid-Sized Business: Eccles Auto Service
Not-for-Profit: Amity Goodwill Industries
Young Entrepreneur & Professional: Lohifa Pogoson Acker
Accessibility Award: TownePlace Suites Hamilton
COVID Champion: Good Shepherd
Century Award: YWCA Hamilton and YMCA Hamilton Burlington Brantford and
Citizen of the Year: Paul Johnson and Dr. Elizabeth Richardson
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ATS is an industry-leading automation solutions provider for many of the world's most successful companies. Since the Waterloo Region is known as the "Silicon Valley of Canada", ATS is following suit and continuing to promote innovation within our community.
We had the privilege of providing architectural services, structural, mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering, with support from GSP Group who provided landscaping and site plan application for ATS's new Cambridge plant and corporate office space. ATS required additional manufacturing space for their life sciences department, a research and development (R & D) innovation lab, a new corporate office space, collaborative spaces (such as kitchenettes), and a cafeteria for up to 400 people. The total area of the project was 120,000 SF.
"ATS has a strong focus and knowledge within automation project management and quality control," says Will Pentesco, Project Manager. "They showed great interest in the finer details of this project. This gave our team many opportunities to have in-depth design meetings and collaborate using renderings from our 3D modeling programs."
ATS needed an innovation lab that had a functional layout. Underneath this minimalistic design, though, there were highly intricate designs requiring a lot of mechanical, electrical, and structural coordination. Our team's goal was to keep this complicated technical layout as simple looking as possible.
This functional style was carried over into the corporate office space as well. ATS wanted to ensure they had a modern and tech-savvy space for their offices, which included a variety of touchdown and collaborative spaces throughout. During the design development, ATS decided that two floors wouldn't fulfill the office staff needs, and decided to add a third floor. Our design team showcased the 3D design models via renderings and by utilizing Virtual Reality (VR), which allowed us to showcase and provide an immersive look into the complex details of the whole project. VR also allowed us to reveal the building designs to staff focus groups so they could experience what their new workspaces would feel like.
"ATS enjoyed the close relationship with our design team while using VR," says Will. "It allowed them to fine-tune finish selections for the staff amenity spaces, such as the touchdown kitchenettes on each floor, and the main cafeteria. We did a series of iterative floor plans, so we could find the right balance for the total number of seats that could fit into the floor plan. It also provided architectural opportunities to showcase their innovative product designs."
A key architectural feature was a grand swooping "A" framing the main entrance. This accent on the façade is reminiscent of the typography used in their corporate logo. It scales the three-stories, peaking at the rooftop. Inside the main lobby, the "A" creates a grand three-story atrium showcasing a prominent staircase, views into the research and development (R&D) innovation lab, as well as a view right into the main cafeteria.
This innovative building, completed in the Fall of 2020, can be seen right off the 401 while driving through Cambridge.
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Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Walmart, Snowflake, Fisker and more
May 18, 2021 May 28, 2021 by admin 0 Comments
A banner for Snowflake is displayed on its IPO day at the New York Stock Exchange on September 16, 2020. It was the largest software IPO in history and was one of eight CNBC 2020 Disruptor 50 companies to go public, and more Disruptor deals are coming soon.
Brendan McDermid | Reuters
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.
Walmart — Shares of the big box retailer rose about 2.5% after Walmart reported first-quarter earnings that surged past Wall Street's estimates. Walmart reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.69, versus $1.21 expected per Refinitiv. The company reported strong grocery sales and e-commerce growth and raised its outlook for the year.
Snowflake — Snowflake jumped more than 6% following a bullish call from Rosenblatt Securities. The firm upgraded the data storage company to a buy rating ahead of Snowflake's quarterly report on May 26. "Snowflake … is uniquely positioned as the leading independent Cloud data platform provider that should continue to grow rapidly as enterprises shift more of their IT workloads to the cloud," the firm said.
Fisker — Fisker shares rose just shy of 10% in midday trading after the electric-vehicle company announced an agreement to deliver up to 700 cars to Onto, a U.K.-based EV subscription service. Fisker equity had come under pressure in extended trading Monday evening after it reported a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss.
MGM Resorts — The casino stock jumped more than 4% after JPMorgan upgraded the stock to overweight from neutral. The investment firm said in a note to clients that foot traffic in Las Vegas was increasing and the rebound should continue later in the year as restrictions are further lifted.
Palo Alto Networks — The cybersecurity company's shares advanced more than 2% after Raymond James upgraded the stock to an outperform rating. The firm said that while the stock has "underperformed significantly" this year, the company can "enter into a period of healthy growth and incremental profitability that are hallmarks of outperforming stocks in this space." Raymond James also established a $400 price target, which is 19% above where shares closed on Monday.
Twilio — Twilio rose 3% on news that it plans to acquire business-texting platform Zipwhip for $850 million in a blend of cash and stock. Stifel analyst J. Parker Lane said the deal will leverage Zipwhip to text-enable landlines and toll-free telephone numbers.
Baidu — Shares of Baidu rose more than 1% in midday trading after reporting better-than-expected earnings. Baidu made 28.13 billion yuan ($4.3 billion) in revenue during the first quarter, up 25% from the year-ago period.
Altice USA — The cable television provider's shares fell about 1% after Bank of America downgraded the stock from "neutral" to "underperform" Tuesday. Bank of America said it saw stronger opportunities elsewhere in its coverage.
Home Depot — Shares of Home Depot ticked nearly 1% lower in midday trading despite beating on the top and bottom lines of its quarterly results. The home improvement retailer earned $3.86 per share on revenue of $37.5 billon. Analysts expected earnings of $3.08 per share on revenue of $34.96 billion, according to Refinitiv. Same-store sales topped estimates as well. Home Depot, however, did not provide guidance.
Hostess Brands — The food company's share price ticked 1.6% higher after Stephens reiterated the stocks as overweight. Stephens said it should benefit from the economy reopening.
Macy's — Shares of the department store crept up 0.1% following a surprise first-quarter profit. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of 39 cents compared to a loss of 41 cents expected per Refinitiv. Macy's also raised its full-year forecast, saying it's seeing momentum as consumers head to its shops and go online to buy new outfits for weddings, travel and other special occasions.
— with reporting from CNBC's Yun Li, Pippa Stevens, Tom Franck, Hannah Miao and Jesse Pound.
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As an adjunct to the National Evaluation of On Track the Home Office Commissioned this qualitative research addressing the question of citizenship. The study included on children and young people from 7-15 years old, exploring their understandings of social and moral responsibility, community involvement, and political literacy. These works demonstrated the sophisticated reasoning and understanding of young children, the importance to them of perceived unfairness in the enforcement of rules, somewhere safe to play or 'hang out', and their cynicism about national and local politics. The results were published as a Home Office Development and Practice Report.
Citation : Hine, J. (2004) Children and citizenship.


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import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
import org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.ui.IImportWizard;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbench;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.core.CoreMessages;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.model.runtime.DBRProgressMonitor;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.model.struct.DBSObject;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.ui.UIUtils;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.utils.GeneralUtils;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Collection;

public abstract class AbstractScriptExecuteWizard<BASE_OBJECT extends DBSObject, PROCESS_ARG>
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{
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    @Override
    protected boolean isMergeProcessStreams()
    {
        return true;
    }

    protected String getInputCharset() {
        return GeneralUtils.UTF8_ENCODING;
    }

    protected String getOutputCharset() {
        return GeneralUtils.UTF8_ENCODING;
    }

}


The compact internal filter system Comline Riverpack 605 has been developed especially for fresh-water aquariums from 200 to 600 litres (52 to 158 USgal.). It is ready-to-mount with magnet holder and storage container finding enough space in almost every aquarium. It consists of a mechanical quick-run filter fitted with Turbelle® e-jet 1605, Osmolator 3155, Bio-Hydro-Reactor 3179 and a fill of Granovit. Comline Riverpack 605 ensures direct removal of pollution from the aquarium water circulation through an efficient quick-run filtration, complemented with biological oxidation and reduction to permit a breakdown of nitrate, enabling primarily stable and perfect water values.
FILTRATION: Comline Filter 3166 combines bottom and surface suction with modern cartridge technology. The filter cartridge can be washed out, but the system also comes with five spare cartridges.
BIO HYDRO REACTOR: Part of the purified water is diverted from the quick-run filter and is irrigated over the two-zone Bio-Hydro-Reactor 3179 with a fill of Granovit. Thus, nitrogens, such as ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, are degraded without any special effort. Used as a hydroponics reactor, it also relieves the aquarium water, which is especially important when keeping Cichlidae, for example.
WATER CIRCULATION: Turbelle® e-jet 1605 with 1,600 l/h (422.7 USgal./h) integrated in the filter.
HOLDING DEVICE: Magnet Holder 6200.50 up to a glass thickness of 15 mm (.59 in.). POWER CONSUMPTION: Only 12 W per hour, 230 V/50 Hz (115 V/60 Hz). DELIVERY CONDITION: Completely ready for mounting with holding device, storage tank and filter cartridges. Dimensions: L 225 x W 135 x H 300 mm (L 8.8 x W 5.3 x H 11.8 in.).


Portable (29 kg) primary test system suited for testing of current transformers, voltage transformers, power transformers, power lines, HV cables, grounding systems, switchgear and circuit breakers, protection relays and more. Tests to 800A (extended to 2000A with CP CB2) over frequency range 15Hz to 400Hz, or to 400A DC. Laptop included, preloaded with CPC 100 Toolset. Optional accessories: OMI,CPCU1 (with or without OMI,CPSTEP) OMI,CPSB1 OMI,CP-TD1 OMI,CPCB2.
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Category: Glasshouse Tales 🎧
Audio stories from around the world.
Stories from the Biomes: Moving the Ericaceous Collection
While the Edinburgh Biomes Project involves the more noticeable decanting of both Victorian Palm Houses and the Front Range Glasshouses, there are several research collections going through an equally significant change behind the scenes.
A particularly exquisite Rhododendron
It will be of no surprise that an attractive plant has been found in this particular genus. One in which has been so highly regarded by the garden,…
A Dark Tale
Tony Bonning tells the a dark tale from a tropical forest.
The Mouse Deer & Tiger
Tony Bonning tells the tale of the Mouse Deer and the Tiger.
The Rain Maker
Tony Bonning tells the story of the Rain Maker.
The Beautiful Garden
Tony Bonning tells a moral tale about the beautiful garden.
Tortoise & the Wisdom of the World
Tony Bonning tells a story about the how a tortoise who wants to be wise.
Touching the Moon
Tony Bonning tells a story about a woman who wants to touch the moon.
The King of the Forest
Tony Bonning tells a story about how the king of the forest was chosen.
The Story of the Caged Tiger
Tony Bonning tells a story about another use for Bamboo – for a cage.
Rushing the Coconuts to Market
Tony Bonning tells a story about rushing coconuts to market.


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Precept Rebrands as McGriff Insurance Services
PR Newswire January 15, 2020
New name builds on more than 130 years of brand equity
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- McGriff Insurance Services, a subsidiary of BB&T Insurance Holdings, today announced a rebranding for its California-based employee benefits firm, Precept.
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Precept began doing business today as "McGriff Insurance Services." The rebranding follows the same name change for the former BB&T Insurance Services and BB&T Insurance Services of California in the past 18 months.
The McGriff name, with long-standing recognition in the insurance industry, comes from affiliate McGriff, Seibels & Williams.
"This is a name that goes back to 1886, and we're excited to build on the brand equity and recognition associated with this industry leader – now across all business units in California and the 16 states where we operate," said Rick Ulmer, president and chief executive officer of the Retail Insurance Division for BB&T Insurance Holdings.
Precept has a 30-year history of providing employee benefits consulting and benefits administration services. With offices in Irvine and San Ramon, it specializes in health engagement through innovative technology, wellness programs, and clinical management and data to develop Fortune 100-quality programs nationwide. The name change does not include affiliate Precept Advisory Group.
McGriff Insurance Services operates California agencies in San Diego, Pleasanton, Irvine, San Ramon, San Jose, Anaheim and San Francisco.
The brand transition includes a new logo with an updated version of the McGriff name, as well as an updated color palette, fonts and other design elements.
About BB&T Insurance Holdings
BB&T Insurance Holdings, the sixth largest insurance broker in the world, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Truist Bank. BB&T Insurance Holdings operates more than 200 offices including subsidiaries McGriff Insurance Services; McGriff, Seibels & Williams; CRC Insurance Services; Crump Life Insurance Services; and AmRisc, LLC.
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PLESK_ERROR: Error: You have entered incorrect username or password.
# mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow` -Dpsa -e "select mail_name, domains.name as domain from accounts, mail,domains where dom_id = domains.id and mail.account_id = accounts.id and type='crypt'"
PLAIN authentication to the mail server itself works without issues, only Plesk GUI login does not work.
This is a bug with ID PPPM-1405 which is planned to be fixed in future Plesk updates.
Change the password for all users retrieved from the list in Domains > example.com > Email Addresses > mailbox name.
Note: This fix below will resolve the issue for encrypted passwords which starts with "$1$".
Note: For Plesk 12.5 the custom fix can be applied without password changing.


Superficially, priests vary wildly with their culture and faith. They range from total pacifists who literally would not hurt a fly to folk who will skin you alive as a sacrifice to their god. They believe completely different things, dress wildly differently, speak and read ancient and esoteric tongues (or at least use some obscure vocabulary), dress in all sorts of (often elaborate) ways, and more. There are warrior-priests, scholar-priests, pantheistic priests, monotheistic priests, weird cultists, and a thousand other variants.
Fortunately, being a priest is pretty simple. It boils down to a few simple but essential items.
Believes in a supernatural entity or group of entities. If they don't believe they may be scholars of myths or religious con artists – but they're not priests.
Believes that said entity or group of entities is both aware of, and exerts influence on, the mortal world – although the extent of that awareness and influence may be open to discussion. If they don't believe that the entities they believe in and study actually affect the world, they're philosophers, not priests.
Practices rituals, behaviors, and taboos* that he or she believes can influence the action of that entity or group of entities – whether through simply getting them to provide information (through vague divinations, prophecies, and oracular pronouncements) or through outright supernatural intervention. After all, if all you can do is catalog the activities of impersonal forces that you can't influence, you're a scientist, not a priest.
Sees himself or herself as having a pretty decent social status. After all, if supernatural entities exist, and powerfully influence the world, then few things are going to be more important than keeping them happy. Ergo, the advice of an appropriate priest was a pretty vital part of virtually any undertaking – often more important than most of the secular considerations.
Has made a fairly extensive study of that entity or group of entities. If someone hasn't studied the entities they believe in, they may be a prophet, shaman, or madman – but they are not a priest.
*On some occasions such practices have practical effects as well as religious ones. A fair number of religious rules serve valuable health, nutritional, or social-justice-and-stability purposes. Why? Because a rule that actually helps tends to encourage the survival and growth of the people who follow it tends to spread with the population applying it, while harmful rules hinder that spread – and so tend to be overwhelmed by competing traditions. Regardless of the source of such rules, faiths evolve.
With the Classical Priest it wasn't so much a calling (that was reserved for the people who had visions and heard voices without doing anything to provoke them) as a job. People came to you when they wanted something – an explanation for something weird, a bit of divination, advice as to how to influence the gods, or a religious ritual – and you did it for them. You became a priest by serving under a parental priest, by paying someone to train you, or by setting up on your own – and it was a pretty good job.
Given that, a few other things wound up being associated with classical priests.
Being a priest wasn't much use unless people knew you were a priest – so you wore special clothing, practiced private rituals, and spoke in strange and mysterious ways.
You gathered in groups to keep down the competition. You can take a look at the organization of any classical guild to see how that worked.
You made your places of worship as impressive as possible. That not only brought in business, but it encouraged people to pay higher prices (by tithing or sacrificing more).
After all, there was no fighting what every one could see – and, classically, it was obvious to everyone that here were many gods and that they didn't agree on much. Otherwise the world would be a lot more stable.
Just as importantly, it was equally obvious that most supernatural entities only influenced a limited range of events. Otherwise, fortune in all matters would be consistent. As it was, when you did marvelously well on a trading expedition but came home to find that a couple of your kids had died of some disease, the explanation was quite simple; the god of trade had favored you, the god of disease had not.
Thus most people went from priest to priest as their needs changed. After all, there was no use in trying to get Poseidon to help with a childbirth. That was easy though; a Classical Priest didn't usually claim any great moral authority, or that their god or gods was the one-and-only god or set of gods, or usually even that the gods has specifically chosen them – and so they had no objections to people visiting priests of other gods when they needed to. It wasn't like any of the priests had vast magical powers to bring to bear.
Eventually, however, the archetype started to change as the world saw the growth of monotheism.
Unfortunately, to take a look at that, we're going to have to take a look at religion.
Religion is always a touchy subject – but it's hard to avoid thinking about religion when you're discussing the "Priest" archetype. Fortunately, there's one thing that virtually all religions agree on; most of the others are wrong. Ergo, we can safely take a look at how all the ones that are wrong grow, maintain themselves, change over time, and fail – and we can go ahead and presume that those faiths stole most of their social "techniques" from the one true faith.
In the beginning, there was shamanism, as is discussed at length HERE.
Now shamanism is probably the worlds only agnostic, personalized, faith. It's only when a shaman comes up with an organized body of lore about the spirit world and starts passing it on as "truth" – rather than as their own personal relationship with the greater universe – that they turn into priest.
But once you have some stabilized, consistent, notions about the supernatural entities at play around you, you have to answer a few questions about "what they're like".
Some are scary. When it comes to deities, the "propitiate the deity, and keep it from doing nasty things" routine is an easy one to start – and may well be the oldest form of organized worship; If the population is reasonably contented, they worry about things going wrong. Assuage that worry, and you can pull in the offerings. If something goes wrong anyway, then obviously there were not ENOUGH offerings or someone did something to upset the gods – explanation and scapegoat in one easy package.
Of course, the weakness here is when the populace notices that the neighbors aren't paying any attention to the boogeyman and nothing is happening to them. Then the protection-racket deities go downhill until something really nasty DOES happen to the unbelievers.
Given that nasty things happen all the time, something will happen that you can point at eventually – but sometimes the peace and quiet goes on too long, the frightening deity gets forgotten, and another protection-racket faith winds up in the great dustbin of forgotten historical curiosities.
Nobody bothers with truly indifferent deities. There's no point. You can try for a vague sense of gratitude to a creator god – but unless he or she does something for people NOW, he or she is going to be just a footnote in very short order.
Some deities are helpful. The "worship the deity and it will help us" approach tends to do best in hard times, when people really need help. If and when things get better, the deity gets the credit. If things aren't better yet, obviously you haven't worshiped hard enough yet – and if you get wiped out, well, there are always more desperate groups out there who will be willing to listen to anything that might help them out.
The problem with this sort of theology is threefold. When times are good, people tend to get lazy and to forget about things until they go downhill again. Worse, when times are good for the neighbors who aren't worshipping the deity, people start wondering if their worship is actually doing them any good. Worst of all is when the neighbors are doing well and the faithful are NOT – which is when the helpful deity tends to wind up being forgotten in favor of belief systems that, at least at the moment, seem to work.
Polytheistic faiths are easy. They can easily account for all the randomness in the world; the gods are of limited power, squabble a lot, and make mistakes. They're often selfish brats as well. Who's going to make them grow up?
Monotheism had to wait for some explanations to be invented.
The first step towards monotheism was to combine "scary" and "helpful" in one deity – and to make that deity somewhat capricious. There's always SOMETHING that makes each particular case a little different to use as an excuse.
So, if you had angered the god, sometimes his wrath would fall upon you. Other times, it would fall on your children, or grandchildren, or relatives, or something you liked. Perhaps something else entirely would be destroyed, or invaders would be sent. Perhaps you'd have a chance to make up for your error, and disaster would not fall!
After all, there are few easier "miracles" for a priest to produce than to have some really unlikely disaster not happen.
If you had pleased the god, good things would presumably happen – to somebody.
That wasn't quite good enough of course. It gave your god appeal in both good and bad times, but it still didn't cover why things didn't always go right for you if you knew so much or why people got good luck in one field simultaneously with bad luck in another.
The next religious advance was the creation of a complex body of theology and sacred writings. You needed a mass of requirements and taboos (some reasonable, and some purely arbitrary), a selection of vague "prophecies" that could be interpreted in a hundred different ways, and (all too soon) a selection of after-the-fact "predictions". That way most people could make a good effort to live up to what the god expected, and could usually feel like they were doing a pretty good job at it (even if they weren't) – but there was always room for doubt, and the priests could justify, or claim to have predicted, pretty much anything that happened.
Now you had an explanation for good fortune in one field coupled with ill fortune in another. That just meant that the god was levying specific punishments for specific infringements, while rewarding the things that pleased him, her, or it.
As a side-benefit, those inventions put even kings, mighty warriors, and the very, very, rich within the reach of effective priestly condemnation. Things went wrong for any dynasty or combatant eventually. That was the price of making yourself a target – and a good AND bad times religion could afford to wait.
That made monotheism workable – and monotheism had major advantages. Monotheism kept ALL the offerings, and attention, and followers coming your way. By claiming that all other beliefs were mere ignorant errors, you discouraged people from leaving, or shopping around at the temples of speciality gods. You could give your deity the credit for anything and everything, including the creation of the entire universe – and it was hard to get more impressive than THAT.
That left only one problem; sometimes even a complex body of doctrine and intricate reasoning couldn't convince people that some outcomes made any sense. Someone opposed the faith, did everything it opposed, and fulfilled none of its commandments, pulled off a lifetime of successes against the faithful, and saw his or her children and grandchildren do well? Now that was a tough one.
The addition of a detailed afterlife, filled with gruesome punishments for the unworthy and great rewards for the worthy, sufficed to explain away that problem – and the promise of eternal bliss now belonged exclusively to your particular faith.
With a tight body of doctrine, you needed a tight hierarchy to expound upon that doctrine and to supervise additions to it – which also let you incite a hatred of heretics and rival faiths and imbue your faithful with a fierce desire to convert the rest of the world.
With those key inventions added to its religious arsenal, a monotheistic faith could easily sweep over polytheistic realms, easily driving out loosely-organized polytheistic priests and absorbing any beliefs that were too deeply-embedded to easily eliminate as folk traditions.
Which takes us to the Modern Priest – an archetype which places less value on rituals, taboos, and study and a great deal more on fervent belief, dedication to the faith, and striking out against every other belief that challenges that faith. How can you have spiritual warriors without spiritual enemies?
The Modern Priest may specialize in debate, in rooting out cults and heretics, in spreading the faith, in setting a good example (according to the precepts of his or her faith), or even in literal spiritual warfare, confronting whatever supernatural opponents of the faith his or her beliefs include – but those are sufficiently minor as variations that no one sees much of a problem with the same fictional character shifting from role to role as the author and the situation demands.
Now there is one major problem with including either major version of the Priest archetype in a setting. If you intend for them to play a major role, they usually need to have actual powers over and above moral suasion and the backing of a religious hierarchy. Even if they can call in a few ecclesiastical troops, that won't help them much when the swords and guns come out.
Worse, if you go with the kind of miraculous powers reported for various faiths in reality, you'll have to drastically tone them down (to avoid the "A deity smites you. You lose" aspect of such interventions), make them a LOT more common (so as to give the priest something to do), and use a pantheon (so as to avoid the "There's no argument! Everyone knows that this is what god wants! Problem).
Which pretty much takes us back to… giving your priests at least one pantheon to draw power from and a selection of reasonably reliable, moderately-scaled, and fairly readily accessible miracles.
In other words, a speciality spellcaster working for a far-less-than-perfect and certainly not all-powerful member of a pantheistic faith.
That sounds familiar somehow. A LOT of games work in priests like that.
It's easy enough to see that the Classical Priest works pretty well in most game systems. It's just that – unlike the real world – they generally have no doubts about what their deity approves and disapproves of and have personal power to go with their social influence.
The Modern Priest, however, has problems. Unless you just establish that "They're right, and there isn't much objection to that obvious fact outside of by-definition supernatural foes", they just don't fit in well with most settings. That doesn't mean that you can't make it work – but it does mean that either the entire world is going to fall under the "one true way" syndrome or that you're going to have a demonstrably polytheistic world filled with priests who are, rather absurdly, trying to pretend otherwise.
Actually, that does sound rather like fun.


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Florida's Great Python Challenge Is Over; Not Many Are Caught
By Korva Coleman
Published February 16, 2013 at 10:41 AM MST
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Bill Booth stretches out a dead Burmese python caught during Florida's "Python Challenge" on Jan. 19.
After all the hoopla and news of people buying tools to catch Burmese pythons invading Florida, the state's monthlong hunt for them is over. Hunters caught 68 pythons. That's right, 68, according to The Associated Press, even though 1,600 people signed up with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission to search for them.
Well, the whole point isn't really to kill thousands of snakes, although it's estimated there could be as many as 150,000 of them slithering about in the Florida underbrush. The point is to raise public awareness, according to Professor Frank Mazziotti of the University of Florida, who told NPR's Talk of the Nation that many pythons were former pets whose owners released them.
That sets up a problem, he warns: "They're an invasive species, and the danger that they cause is really to the ecosystem. And they're a top predator and, you know, so much has been spoken about the importance of top predators in nature shows and their role. Well, this isn't top predator; it's like an invader who is coming to a system that completely lacks defenses against it."
In other words, once freed in the wild, they grow to enormous lengths and there's nothing, especially in the Everglades, that can kill them. Try this on for size: NPR's Greg Allen reports scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey nabbed the largest Burmese python ever in the Everglades last year. It was 17 feet, 7 inches. Oh, and it was a female, carrying 87 eggs.
Although not many of the snakes were caught, a successful few hunters will win cash prizes, such as $1,500 for the most pythons taken and $1,000 for the longest python captured.
Humorist Dave Barry took an interest in the Python Challenge's success; the Miami resident recently described his most frightening herpetological moment to NPR's All Things Considered:
"But several years ago, I was in my office, which is next to our swimming pool, and I reached for my diet soda and there was — I heard a hissing sound. And there was a snake that at the time I would've estimated at probably 30 to 40 feet.
"It was probably actually, really, in real life about 2 feet long, but it was a snake right next to my soda can. And so I made a really un-masculine — I made a sound like a recently castrated Teletubby. And I jumped out and ran out onto the patio and got the first weapon I came across, which was barbecue tongs ... so I go running out with this thing riding at the end of my barbecue tongs and dropped it. And as it happened, it fell into the swimming pool. It made a rookie snake error, which is it swam into the filter basket."
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Will Florida Pythons Slither To Rest Of The U.S.?
Researchers from the University of Florida, National Geographic and other groups say Burmese pythons may not be as likely to spread across the Southeast U.S. as previous researchers have warned. Cold weather may beat them back.
Florida's Biggest Python So Far Measured 17 Feet, 7 Inches; Had 87 Eggs
The giant was captured in Everglades National Park, where managers are struggling to control a booming population of the Southeast Asian species.
Animal Magnetism: How Salmon Find Their Way Back Home
Sarah Zielinski
When salmon are ready to leave the ocean and go back to their birthplace, they use magnetism to find their home river. But scientists fear fish born in hatcheries might have a poor sense of direction if they're raised in places surrounded by man-made objects that drown out the planet's natural magnetic field.


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What do you think when you get the message "buy this product now" 4 times from your store's live chat app? First I thought the person sending it was nuts. Then I realized they expected the chat to have a bot-assistan.
Reviewing the chat messages from the past year for my client, I realized more than 50% of the requests were made in the hopes of reaching a chatbot. The other 25% could be easily answered with an automatic response.
It was time to graduate from the current chat app and upgrade it to something more intelligent. Seeing how many options were out there, I limited my research just to the Shopify App Store.
Ten minutes later I got 3 apps shortlisted. Now it is time to test them!
If possible, I'd like to compare the apps on the site of my client, evaluate which one fits the needs of his visitors the best and not break the functionality of the existing app that currently working ok.
Installing a new chat app just showed a new chat widget next to the old one. On all themes. Published and unpublished. And there is no way to turn that off so that I don't confuse the people on the site right now.
Why Store Owners Feel Unease With New Apps?
My job is to understand merchants and their customers. Having an app drop on your live store directly is unacceptable from both sides—as a store owner you wouldn't put a half-baked, unconfigured solution live in front of your traffic, especially when you have an alternative one running. As a site visitor you would be confused the least. When your message gets lost you'll be annoyed.
High–trafficked stores always have people live and browsing. On such a store you don't play with the published theme—that's insane and it is costing you money. Coincidentally, high-trafficked stores could easily justify paying for an app, compared to small stores where the stakes of working on the live theme are less.
Yet, the initial experience of most apps is designed for stores with low to non-existing traffic.
Implementing changes should be done on a staging theme, away from visitors' eyes until you are ready to publish the feature.
If I were a store owner, I wouldn't want visitors to see a broken store with two chat apps at the same time! I don't want to have to put the site into "maintenance mode" just so I can test a new app.
What happens if a visitor uses one of the two chat apps while I'm playing with its settings and end up uninstalling it in desperation 10 minutes later? The message will be lost. The sale will be lost. The customer will be gone. There—the app is costing me money before it makes me any.
That's one thing I would be extra careful about. Broken store functionality hurts the perception of my brand. An app may change the store and make it look broken even if it isn't—just by showing up at the wrong time.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could not only test-drive an app but restrict it to unpublished themes only? Have the time and attention to look at app settings in context, set them up to our liking and then deploy on the live site?
Shopify Admin Panel Themes' section does it right – you can customize and preview themes before you publish. Why can't we have this with apps, too?
Shopify App Developers—I believe in you!
As an app developer myself, I know it is possible. I know you can do it. Don't blame it on the Shopify platform, please!
Building an on/off switch in your app is faster than waiting for Shopify to implement this globally.
Harder than doing nothing, I know.
Lower in priority than adding a new shiny feature to the app, I know.
But this would help more people safely test, compare and fall in love with your app. Especially merchants with big stores.
So, please, just let me hide your app for a while (at least from the live theme)! Is that too much to ask?


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San Marino Boys, Girls Win Rio Hondo League Crowns
The San Marino High School boys' and girls' swimming teams defeated South Pasadena and won the Rio Hondo League regular season titles. The teams, guided by Casey Holcomb and Mark Barr, include Agatha Augustynski, Sarah Broderick, Tzu-Yi Chan, Ellie Chen, Jasmine Chen, Kevin Chen, Rebecca Chen, Claire Chiu, Kyle Day, Jan Estandarte, Caitlin Hernandez, Matthew Hoo, Adrian Huang, Taylor Hughes, Zephanie Koh, Water Lam, Devin Lee, Megan Lien, Jill Lin, Maxwell Lin, Tristan Lin, Kyle Mauser, Jordan Ng, Alicia Ogawa, Nicholas Oo, Kurtis Tsai, Patrick Tulaphorn, John Van, Kalissa Villaluna, Ashley Wang, Serena Wang, Darren Wong, Kyle Wong, Preston Wong and Taylor Yang.
The San Marino High School varsity boys' and girls' swimming teams defeated visiting rival South Pasadena last week to claim the regular season Rio Hondo League championships for the second consecutive year.
The boys, guided by head coach Casey Holcomb, concluded the regular season defeating the Tigers, 121-49, and a perfect 9-0 record, including a 5-0 record against Rio Hondo League opponents.
The girls, guided by head coach Mark Barr, dominated the Rio Hondo League meet against South Pasadena with a 109-59 win. The Titans (6-3 overall record) finished league play with a perfect 5-0 record.
Both teams will compete in the Rio Hondo League finals at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center this Friday, May 5, at noon.
Signing Day at San Marino High School
San Marino High School standouts Jadyn Torres, Tommy Hannan, Alessio Brunochelli, Kyle Day and Mason Chiu signed letters of intent last Friday and committed to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level. Torres, who was an All-CIF basketball player this year, will attend Luther College in Iowa; Tommy Hannan will play baseball at MIT; Alessio Brunochelli, an All-CIF water polo athlete, will be going to Loyola; Kyle Day will swim at NYU; and Mark Chiu will continue to golf at Claremont McKenna College.
Groundbreaking for Athletic Complex Set for June
The San Marino Unified School District will break ground on its long-awaited Barth Athletic Complex at a ceremony scheduled for 4 p.m. on Monday, June 5.
The ceremony will be at the track and field behind the currently existing gym building at Huntington Middle School. The athletic complex will replace that building to give HMS its first true multipurpose athletic facility.
The $14 million project has garnered substantial donations from residents, most prominently an initial $3.5 million offering from the Barth family, who earned naming rights for the sum. They later pitched in another $2 million toward the project's debt service if SMUSD does not pay off its financing by 2021.
The Sloan family added a half-million-dollar donation. The Barger family kicked in a $250,000 donation. Other donations include $50,000 from the Weiss family, $50,000 from the William Hurt Foundation and $25,000 from the Fletcher Jones Foundation on behalf of Pat Haden.
SMUSD has committed $2 million of its own money to the project and anticipates it will use $1.5 million in developer's fees to pay toward debt service.
The ceremony is expected to last about an hour.
Project Scientist Founder Wins Women of Influence Award
Sandy Marshall
Project Scientist Founder Sandy Marshall is the 2017 winner of the Orange County Women of Influence President's Award sponsored by the Connected Women of Influence. The President's Award recognizes a woman CEO, president or owner who has demonstrated success, growth and achievement in her business enterprise.
Marshall was chosen from nine finalists who were acknowledged at the awards luncheon held at the Radisson Hotel in Newport Beach. The finalists received a certificate of recognition by state Sen. John M. W. Moorlach.
"It's such an honor and privilege to receive this award," said Marshall. "Our mission at Project Scientist is to educate, coach and advocate for girls with an aptitude, talent and passion for science, technology, engineering and math. We hope to dispel the stereotypes around girls in STEM and winning this award gives us another platform to inspire girls to become women of influence in fields that are predominantly male dominated."
While funding national STEM initiatives through the NASCAR Foundation (that Marshall also founded), she learned of the disadvantages that girls and women have in STEM majors and careers, and became committed to doing what she could to make a difference. As a mother of two young girls with a passion for science, Marshall remains committed to changing the status quo for her girls as well as girls across the country.
Project Scientist is now on four university campuses serving more than 1,000 girls annually. For more information about upcoming Project Scientist Summer Academy, visit ProjectScientist.org.
Colburn School Gala Honors Williamson
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Alyce Williamson (left), who received the prestigious Richard D. Colburn Award recently, is pictured with Colburn School Gala co-chair Bea Bennett.
Alyce Williamson was honored at Colburn School's annual gala at Walt Disney Concert Hall. She, along with acclaimed dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, each received the Richard D. Colburn Award.
"Ms. Williamson is a steadfast champion of cultural organizations up and down Grand Avenue and throughout Los Angeles," said Colburn School President and CEO Sel Kardan. "She is a consummate role model for leaders and philanthropists, and a tireless ambassador for the performing arts and arts education. It is with honor that we dedicate this gala to her and her legacy."
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Assemblyman Chau Holds Workshop for Nonprofits
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Assemblyman Ed Chau speaks at the nonprofit workshop he hosted in Monterey Park last week.
Assemblyman Ed Chau hosted a workshop recently to provide local service-oriented nonprofits with some tips on Federal and California laws surrounding fundraising and reporting requirements.
"The nonprofit sector plays a critical role in serving the needs of our communities," said Chau. "Many of the organizations in attendance today benefited from discussions regarding industry trends, best practices and were given an opportunity to network."
The workshop, which was at the Barnes Park Service Clubhouse in Monterey Park, included presentations by Nancy Berlin, policy director for the California Association of Non-Profits; Patrick Anderson, Community Development project attorney at Public Counsel; and Audrey Rowe, Program Specialist, at the Franchise Tax Board, Exempt Organizations Unit.
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Pacific Clinics' Fiesta Brunch is May 21
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Paulette and Terry Chapman were among those who attended Pacific Clinics' Fiesta Brunch last year. This year's annual fundraiser will be held on Sunday, May 21, at Pasadena's Brookside Golf Club, and will be emceed by ABC-7 Eyewitness News anchor Ellen Leyva. Pacific Clinics' signature fundraiser will help them provide mental health services, substance abuse treatment, vocational and employment assistance, supportive housing services, and Head Start and Early Head Start programs to more than 24,000 children each year. To learn more about the Fiesta Brunch, including sponsorship and ticket information, visit pacificclinics.org.
Pacific Clinics CEO James Balla, emcee Ellen Leyva, Greg Bowman and Tony Gronroos were among those who attended Pacific Clinics' Fiesta Brunch last year. This year's signature event will be held on Sunday, May 21, at Pasadena's Brookside Golf Club, and will be emceed once again by Leyva, an ABC-7 Eyewitness News anchor. Pacific Clinics' annual fundraiser will assist the organization in providing mental health services, substance abuse treatment, vocational and employment assistance, supportive housing services, and Head Start and Early Head Start programs to more than 24,000 children each year. To learn more about the Fiesta Brunch, including sponsorship and ticket information, visit pacificclinics.org.
Successful Stroll & Roll Raises Funds for AbilityFirst
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Pasadena resident Christine Young (with Jaclyn Smith) works at the AbilityFirst Lawrence L. Frank work center in Pasadena.
More than 2,400 walkers, strollers and rollers joined together recently to raise money. Celebrity champion Lauren Potter, best known for her role as Becky on the TV show "Glee," alongside longtime honorary chairs Jaclyn Smith of "Charlie's Angels," Lee Meriwether and special guest Heather Langenkamp from "A Nightmare Before Elm Street," joined the Stroll & Roll at the backlot at Universal Studios.
AbilityFirst held the annual fundraising event in support of its mission of serving children and adults with disabilities. The funds raised benefit the 2,000 people and their families served by AbilityFirst each year. AbilityFirst helps children and adults with disabilities achieve their personal best by focusing on the successful transition from childhood to adult life; employment and employment preparation; building social connections and independence; and offering participants and their families an opportunity to refresh and recharge. Each year, this event helps AbilityFirst to raise money for the 91-year-old organization's programs, including Camp Paivika, its 70-year-old summer camp located in the San Bernardino mountains.
Pasadena resident J.C. Asprer
"We are thrilled with this year's Stroll & Roll," said Chief Development Officer Josh Chan. "We experienced one of the largest, most successful, events in our 91-year history with more than 11,000 transactions online. All our staff, participants, their families, corporate teams and sponsors came together in support of AbilityFirst programs in the community."
Fundraising for Stroll & Roll will continue through May 31 with a matching grant from the AS&F Foundation up to $75,000. Supporters can make their donation by visiting strollandroll.org.
Los Angeles Children's Chorus Spring Concerts May 14
"Breathe in Hope" composed by Dale Trumbore will have its world premiere during the Pasadena-based Los Angeles Children's Chorus spring concerts Sundays, May 7 and 14, at 7 p.m. at Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
The choral work, commissioned by LACC, is set to text found on social media that implores people not to quickly forget recent clashes between African Americans and police.
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As far as prizes go, first, second and third place winners will receive a cash prize of an undisclosed amount.
On the day of the event, check in and sign ups will be held from 12:15 to 12:30 and the actual event will begin at 1:00 p.m. Participants can sign up on either the day of the RA challenge or through their RAs anytime before-hand.
RA Challenge is a campus wide event and will be held in various areas around campus depending on the event, but sign ups and the beginning of the RA Challenge will be taking place at the quad in the middle of all the residence halls.
Come out, show off your skills, and support your building at Lynn's 25th annual RA Challenge.


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Daniel Zabdiel Ramírez Carranza (born 21 December 1992) is a Mexican swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

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The University of Tsukuba (筑波大学, Tsukuba daigaku), located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, is one of the oldest national universities (established by Japanese Government) and one of the most comprehensive research universities in Japan. The university has 28 college clusters and schools with around 16,500 students (as of 2014). The main Tsukuba campus covers an area of 258 hectares (636 acres), making it the second largest single campus in Japan. The branch campus is in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, which offers graduate programs for working adults in the capital and manages K-12 schools in Tokyo that are attached to the university.
The university's academic strength is in STEMM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine), physical education, and related interdisciplinary fields. It is by taking located in Tsukuba Science City which has more than 300 research institutions. The university has had three Nobel laureates (two in Physics and one in Chemistry, see also "History"), and about 70 athletes, their students and alumni, have participated in the Olympic Games.
It has established interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs in Human Biology and Empowerment Informatics, and the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine, which were created through the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's competitive funding projects.
Its Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences is represented on the national Coordinating Committee for Earthquake Prediction.
Their founding philosophy states the University of Tsukuba is "a university which is open to all within and outside of Japan." The university is also known for its internationalization efforts. It has won Japanese government funding projects for internationalization of Japanese universities, including the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Global 30" Project and the "Super Global University Project" (formally known as "Top Global University Project"). In the Super Global University Project, University of Tsukuba won Type A funding, which is for 13 elite Japanese universities to be ranked in the top 100 in global university rankings by 2023. Their initiative includes expanding the number of courses and degree programs taught in English only, sharing faculty members with partner institutions such as National Taiwan University, University of Bordeaux, and University of California, Irvine to promote education and research collaboration, and establishing so-called "Course Jukebox System" which enables their and partner institutions' students to take partner institutions' courses as if they are at their original institution.
In 2004, the university established the Alliance for Research on North Africa (ARENA) as an academic research center with the purpose of promoting comprehensive research concerning the North African Region through integration of humanities and sciences. Since then, ARENA has been expanding its research fields, and the university established a branch office in Tunis, Tunisia in 2006. The University of Tsukuba is also accepting African students through the ABE initiative, which was initiated by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and is bringing 1,000 African graduate students to Japanese universities in five years from 2014. The University of Tsukuba is planning and leading Japan-Africa Academic Network (JAAN) initiative to bring together all the Japanese universities' resources for Africa and to deepen the academic relationship between Japan and Africa.
In May 2008, the Tokyo International Conference on African Development became an opportunity for the African Development Bank (AfDB) and universities in Japan to promote partnership on higher education, science and technology. Donald Kaberuka, the president of the AfDB, and the president of University of Tsukuba signed a memorandum of understanding during the three-day event. In 2009, the University of Tsukuba participated in the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization's (SEAMEO) affiliated member, and it has been cooperating in the development of education in the ASEAN region. The university is a member of AIMS program, which is to promote regional student mobility among the ASEAN and participated countries including Japan.
As of August 2015, the university has over 300 international inter-university agreements and 13 overseas offices in 12 countries, located in Brazil, China, Germany, France, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Tunisia, Taiwan, United States, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
The university was established in October 1973. A forerunner was Tokyo University of Education (東京教育大学, Tōkyō kyōiku daigaku) which was founded in 1872. It was one of the oldest universities in Japan, Tokyo Higher Normal School (東京師範学校, Tōkyō Shihan Gakkō). In October 2002, the University of Tsukuba merged with the University of Library and Information Science (ULIS, 図書館情報大学, Toshokan jōhō daigaku). The School of Library and Information Science and the Graduate School of Library and Information – Media Studies were established. It has provided several Nobel Prize winners, such as Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga. Dr. Satoshi Ōmura was an auditor at Tokyo University of Education.
University of Tsukuba is one of the most prestigious universities in Japan.
Tsukuba is one of the leading research institutions in Japan. According to Thomson Reuters, Tsukuba is the 10th best research institutions among all the universities and non-educational research institutions in Japan.
Weekly Diamond [ja] reported that Tsukuba has the 27th highest research standard in Japan in research fundings per researchers in COE Program. In the same article, it's ranked 11th in the quality of education by GP (in Japanese) funds per student.
It has a good research standard in Economics, as Research Papers in Economics ranked Tsukuba as the eighth best Economics research university in January 2011.
Tsukuba's law school was ranked 19th in 2010 for its passing rate of the Japanese bar examination.
Eduniversal ranked Tsukuba as seventh in the rankings of "Excellent Business Schools nationally strong and/or with continental links" in Japan.
According to the Weekly Economist's 2010 rankings, graduates from Tsukuba have the 64th best employment rate in 400 major companies in Japan. By contrast, the alumni of Tsukuba's average salary is very high with the 8th best in Japan, according to PRESIDENT, Inc.
Given its high ranking in Japan, the entrance examination to University of Tsukuba is highly competitive. Overall difficulty is currently graded as "A1" or two on a 10-point scale.
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Васил Стоянов Стоин е музикален фолклорист и автор на редица сборници с български народни песни, професор. Баща на фолклористката Елена Стоин (1915 – 2012).

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Роден е на 5 декември 1880 г. в Самоков. Завършва Самоковската духовна семинария, а през 1910 г. Консерваторията в Брюксел. В периодите 1897 – 1907 и 1911 – 1922 г. е гимназиален учител в Търново, Пловдив, Самоков, София. От 1925 до 1927 г. е лектор, а през 1927 – 1931 г. – професор в Държавната музикална академия в София. В периода 1926 – 1938 г. е ръководител на отдела за народна музика в Народния етнографски музей в София. През 1931 г. е ректор на Консерваторията. От 1931 до 1938 г. е председател на Българския музикален съюз.

Стоин активно изследва българския музикален фолклор. Записва около 14 000 песни от различни части на страната. Около 8000 песни са публикувани в сборниците "Народни песни от Тимок до Вита" (1928), "Народна песнопойка" (1930), "Народни песни от Средна Северна България" (1931), "Родопски песни" (1934, съвместно с Ангел Букурещлиев и Райна Кацарова), "Български народни песни от Източна и Западна Тракия" (1939, посм.). Подготвя за печат сборниците "Народни песни от Западните покрайнини" (1959, посм.) и "Народни песни от Самоков и Самоковско" (1975, посм.).

Не е известно какво е станало с другите записани и нотирани песни.

Източници

 Профил на Васил Стоин във Фолклор БГ
 "Самоковски силуети" – Христо Христов
 Енциклопедия "България", том 6, 1988 г., БАН

Български фолклористи
Български учители
Български музикални педагози
Преподаватели в Националната музикална академия
Почетни граждани на Самоков
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Opening of Moncus Park delayed to add new features
Moncus Park opening delayed
Originally anticipated to open this spring, Moncus Park's grand opening is now being delayed until the end of the year.
The park recently secured more donations, so the plan is now to add more features.
Instead of opening in the spring and closing again for construction, the team decided to delay the grand opening.
Among the new features will be a treehouse designed by "Treehouse Master" Pete Nelson.
"We have a treehouse being built by Treehouse Masters, playground, splashpad. Lots of donors came to the table in the last two years that we wanted to get these projects done so that when we do open the park later, we will actually have so many more things for this community to enjoy," explained E.B. Brooks, Executive Director at the park.
"After many discussions within the community and with our benefactors, the board of directors felt as though adding additional features as soon as possible will make Moncus Park's Grand Opening even more 'grand'," said Lenny Lemoine, chairman of the board. "Having these important play and entertainment spaces in place will make it an even more exciting destination for our region."
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Chris Hicks: New DVDs offer a few gems
By Deseret News Oct 18, 2007, 12:02am MDT
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Angelina Jolie gives a stellar performance as Mariane Pearl in Paramount's "A Might Heart."
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There are a few good films among this week's DVD releases, though you may have to dig for them. Best are "A Mighty Heart," recently in theaters, and the 2001 TV movie "And Never Let Her Go."
Recent films
• "A Mighty Heart" (Paramount, 2007; R for language; $29.99). This is the true story of journalist Mariane Pearl's agony over her missing journalist husband, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and later executed in Pakistan. As Marianne, Angelina Jolie gives an excellent performance, reminding us that she is a fine actress, whatever one may think of her personal exploits. Of course, we know the outcome going in, but the film still manages to be fairly gripping.
Extras: Widescreen, featurettes
• "The Hoax" (Miramax, 2007; R for language; $29.99). Richard Gere is good, albeit completely unlikable, in this interesting but off-putting true story of Clifford Irving, who pretended to have Howard Hughes on the hook in the '70s for an autobiography. Nice support from Alfred Molina, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis and Stanley Tucci.
Extras: Widescreen, deleted/extended scene, audio commentaries, featurettes
• "Planet Terror" (Dimension/Genius, 2007, two discs, $29.95). Way over the top sci-fi action from Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City"), with Rose McGowan as a woman with a machine gun for a leg who battles flesh-eating zombies. Bruce Willis makes an appearance in this film, which was originally part of the "Grindhouse" double-bill in theaters.
Extras: Widescreen, extended/unrated version, audio commentary, featurettes, poster gallery, trailers
• "The Reaping" (Warner, 2007; R for violence, sex, language; $28.98). Double Oscar-winner Hilary Swank is slumming in this pretentious tale of a nonbeliever encountering biblical plagues in Louisiana.
Extras: Widescreen/full-frame options, featurettes
• "The Invisible" (Hollywood/Spyglass, 2007, PG-13, $29.99). Dreadful supernatural yarn about a high school kid who is "killed" and whose spirit tries to solve his own murder.
Extras: Widescreen, deleted scenes, audio commentaries, music videos
• "My Best Friend" (Genius, 2007, PG-13, $24.95). Daniel Auteuil stars as a self-centered antique dealer with no friends who scrambles to win a bet by hiring a cabbie to be his pal. Interesting French comedy never quite builds a head of steam.
Extras: Widescreen, in French with English subtitles, featurette, trailer
• "And Never Let Her Go" (Genius/RHI, 2001, $14.95). This Hallmark two-part movie (nearly three hours here) is a true-story chiller, dominated by Mark Harmon's expert return to Ted Bundy territory as he oozes lethal charm. (He played Bundy similarly in the 1986 TV movie "Deliberate Stranger") He's a married powerhouse lawyer who takes delight in dominating fragile women, his primary victim being an insecure Kathryn Morris (TV's "Cold Case"), with Rachel Ward as an older woman he leads on for nearly 20 years.
Extras: Full frame
• "In the Lake of the Woods" (Genius/RHI, 1996, $14.95). This confused, unfocused Hallmark thriller stars Peter Strauss as a politician with a dark past who is suspected of killing his loyal wife (Kathleen Quinlan).
• "Mary Higgins Clark's Remember Me" (Genius/RHI, 1995, $14.95). Overplotted, lightweight Hallmark thriller with Kelly McGillis as a writer who feels guilt over the death of her young son, and who may or may not be going crazy in a rented seaside home with a haunted history. (Clark makes a cameo appearance.)
DVD reissues
• "Jingle All the Way: Family Fun Edition" (Fox, 1996, PG, $19.99). The Arnold Schwarzenegger holiday comedy. This reissued DVD boasts (if that's the word) an extra 20 minutes of footage.
Extras: Widescreen, extended director's cut, featurettes, interactive games
• "Hollow Man: Director's Cut" (Columbia, 2000, $19.94). "The Invisible Man," exploitative Paul Verhoeven-style (he's the guy who gave us "Basic Instinct," among others; 'nuff said). Kevin Bacon stars.
Straight to DVD
• "Believers" (Warner, 2007, $24.98)
• "Killer Wave" (Genius/RHI, 2007, $19.95)
• "Kings of South Beach" (Sony, 2007, $24.96)
• "The Last Sentinal" (Echo Bridge, 2007; R for violence; $26.99)
• "Murder Party" (Magnet, 2007, $26.98)
• "Return to House on Haunted Hill" (Warner, 2007, $27.99)
• "Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion" (Genius/RHI, 2003, $12.95)
• "The Woods Have Eyes" (Echo Bridge, 2007, $26.99)
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Two ducks have arrived at the pond. In years past I've chased them off, not wanting the mess they bring. This year I watch, wondering where they will choose to build their nest.
Tonight, my daughters and I may be having our last dinner together in this house I built 11 years ago in the middle of my divorce from their mother when they would have been about 12, maybe 13. Close enough.
They may not be feeling this as I do, and I've not decided if it's fair that I share my sense of loss with them. For Kasturi, who is leaving on Friday for a new life in Portland, this is the start of her life as an adult. She never seemed as "attached" to people as her sister. I don't doubt her love, but she's more capable of letting go.
Sabitri is more sensitive. If the significance comes up tonight, she will shed tears. She's the one who cried for many hours in my arms when brought from the orphanage in the highlands of India 24 years ago. Her move will be around the beginning of June, destination as yet unknown.
But tonight, I'll fight back tears as this moment I've aimed at for a long time, the fledging of my babies, arrives with a heavy load of sadness. It's just one more tonight, I'll tell them. You'll be back, I'll say. Words aimed at my own heart more than theirs. They will never be back to this house as children.
By coincidence, if there is such a thing, I've been talking to others recently about loss. Buddha, and Epictetus the Greek, said suffering comes from attachment. Detachment is all well and good, and letting go in order to appreciate, but it's sometimes hardest to let go of that which we wish not to hold.
Loss. I'd like to let go of this sense of loss. I want to see my daughters free and flying, but not have this sense of loss. I used to say that God was unfair to women, giving them maternal instinct without giving them an "off switch." Fathers suffer, too, I find.
The ducks paddle around, seemingly content, but always moving, searching. I discovered ordinary ducks can fly under water, disappearing and popping up as far as ten feet away.
I've often wondered how the trauma of losing their mother five days after they were born, then the adoption and loss of their loving caregiver, and the trauma of riding down from the central highlands of India in a noisy car with huge white strangers, affected the twins.
They seem like happy, healthy adults, not too different than their peers. That they were living with their parents at age 25 is not that abnormal now, I'm told.
That neither has had a date that I know of is perhaps less normal. Did the tumult of the divorce, or that of my relationships following, cause dysfunction? Social exclusion during middle and high school? Or maybe they just don't share everything with Dad.
K.C. has been living in her mother's home, Sabitri in mine, for the last several months. I'd pushed to separate them, believing that their dynamic as twin sisters kept them from maturing into their separate "selves." And they are very different.
They blossom, now. They seem to be facing life without huge fear, certainly without the damage many others have suffered. If they're a little closed, even to each other, perhaps that's health, not evidence of harm.
The ducks leave during the day. I don't think there's enough growth in the pond to feed them, let alone a brood. Spring grasses have not perked above the soil, and there's not much cover or safety from coyotes.
After dinner tonight, K.C.will head back to her mom's to keep preparing for Friday's move. I told her last night she should pack up things from her bedroom here, as well. She told me she had planned to that today, since she was coming over for dinner anyway.
It's obvious dinner tonight will be more significant for me than for her, and maybe for her sister. Their lives stretch out before them. I can easily see that at my age and given my adventures, this dinner could be our last. As they separate from each other and leave this home, I can easily believe it will be for the last time.
It will be, at least, the last time in this life as it is, as it was, as it has been.
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Illinois won't have to travel very far for the Big Ten Tournament in 2020. The Illini's home diamond, Eichelberger Field, is set to host the Big Ten Tournament for the first time in program history this spring, Illinois' Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Tuesday. "We are excited...
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Just weeks after finishing her collegiate softball career, former Illini Carly Thomas is preparing for a softball-filled summer with the Cleveland Comets of the National Pro Fastpitch league. The Comets are now affiliated with Team Mexico for the 2019 NPF season as they announced their new partnersh...
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On Wednesday, 1,824 students were named to the spring Big Ten Academic All-Conference team, eligibility determined by varsity-team status, full-time student status and a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.0. From the University, a total of 73 spring student-athletes were selected. Baseball David Craan Casey D...
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Following its second loss to No. 22 Virginia Tech Hokies in the NCAA tournament, the Illinois softball team finished its 20th season with a 33-25 record including a 9-14 conference record. Illinois was selected for the Lexington Regional, hosted by No. 14 Kentucky. After dropping their first game to ...
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After a tough conference stretch, the Illinois softball team ended the regular season in the win column with a sweep at home against Big Ten opponent Purdue. The Illini showcased their offensive power in the series with wins of 7-2, 11-9 and 12-4. Illinois made comeback efforts Friday and Saturday to s...
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The Illinois softball team claimed a win on its home turf on Tuesday, beating DePaul 7-0. This week's matchup marked the team's first return home to Urbana after being swept by Michigan during a home series in April. The Illini's win this weekend breaks a seven-game losing streak, as the team has stru...
Illini hopes for third Big Ten win
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With just three regular season games left, the Illinois softball team is looking to earn its third Big Ten series win this weekend. The Purdue Boilermakers will travel to Champaign this weekend for a three-game series, which will also mark their last regular-season series. Illinois will come into the series off a mid...
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Illini in the field With a little under two weeks left until the Big Ten Tournament, the Illinois softball team (27-20) sits at the back half of the conference rankings. As of Thursday, a conference record of 6-11 leaves Illinois tied for seventh in the Big Ten alongside Indiana, Purdue,and Penn Sta...
Illini softball swept by Northwestern Wildcats
Illinois softball lost both games in its doubleheader to No. 21 Northwestern, 8-0 and 4-2. After looking to rebound off a tough weekend against Michigan, Illinois adds to its five-game losing streak. During the first matchup of the day, the Illini were shut out following a frustrating offensive pe...


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Toys 'R' Us Pension Members Win Better Restructuring Deal
Britain's Pension Protection Fund has fought for improved terms for the toy retailer's pension plan members as its U.K. unit navigates insolvency.
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The U.K.'s £30 billion ($40 billion) Pension Protection Fund has pushed Toys "R" Us to make a £9.8 million cash injection into the beleaguered retailer's defined benefit retirement plan under a revised restructuring agreement.
The PPF, which provides a safety net to plan members when their employers go bust, has taken a tough stance in the restructuring negotiations between creditors and Toys "R" Us, the Wayne, New Jersey-based retailer that filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. in September. The pension plan provided by the insolvent U.K. unit of Toy "R" Us has a deficit of more than £25 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Under the revised agreement, the U.K. unit will make a £3.8 million pension payment into the scheme in 2018 plus £6 million over the following two years, according to Malcolm Weir, director of restructuring and insolvency at the PPF. That's up from a total £9 million cash injection under the previous restructuring proposal.
Weir said the revised deficit-recovery plan has been shortened to 10 years, with additional support from the U.S.-based toy retailer to shore up the pension funding shortfall. The agreement was approved by about 98 percent of creditors, the person familiar with the matter said, adding that 26 of the 105 Toy "R" US stores in the U.K. will be closed under the deal.
With the PPF's support of the revised agreement secured, the U.K. unit of Toys "R" Us is now set to be placed into a so-called company voluntary arrangement, or CVA, which gives troubled businesses a chance to pay creditors over a longer period of time or on renegotiated terms. To succeed, a CVA needs to be approved by parties who hold at least 75 percent of the debt.
"We have been working closely with Toys "R" Us and their advisers in the run up to the CVA vote," Weir said in a statement Thursday. "We can confirm that an agreement has now been reached and we will now be voting in favor of the proposals at the CVA meeting today."
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Trustees of the Toys "R" Us pension scheme have expressed their appreciation of the favorable impact the CVA will have on the retailer's employees under the new deal.
"We are pleased that agreement has been reached for the PPF to vote for the CVA," Graham Barker, chair of the trustees and Tom Lukic, a director with Dalriada Trustees who was appointed to act as professional trustee to the Toy "R" Us pension plan, said in a joint statement. "We will be writing to update all scheme members as soon as the result of the vote is known."
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Meet the Brokers of Live Water – Tate Jarry
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Four guys in a car driving from Vail, Colorado, to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in the Fall of 1997, what could go wrong? They pitched tents on the outskirts of a campground, north of Jackson in Kelly Campground, where they woke up to an early alarm clock, "bear!" Little did these fellas know that it was a rutting bull moose that got its antlers tangled in their tent's rainfly and ran around camp waking up everyone else. This was Tate Jarry's first introduction to the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area, which he has called home for the past two decades.
Tate's story began in Lebanon, New Hampshire, a quaint New England town largely known for Dartmouth College. As the "black sheep" of the family, Tate found himself always outside as a toddler. His grandfather and father strapped his feet to skis by the age of two and pushed him down hills in their backyards. Before Tate knew it, he was hooked on alpine skiing. "If I didn't have a ride to WhaleBack or Storrs Hill, I would walk there with my skis." Tate competed Nordic Ski Jumping in the Bill Koch Youth Ski League until the end of middle school. When the ice on the ski runs of New England were not intact, he found himself canoeing on ponds trolling for trout or stalking brook trout in the local streams. Those summers months became more favorable when he became older when his interest turned to the baseball diamond. Tate played for Legion Post 26 in Hartford, Vermont, and is proud of their 1991 State Championship. Upon graduating from Lebanon High School Tate attended the University of New Hampshire, studying Political Science and Business.
His four years as a Wildcat were enjoyed to the fullest and at graduation his mother gifted him five round trip tickets on Northwest Airlines to anywhere in the lower 48. Tate took advantage of this and moved to Vail, Colorado, in the summer after he walked with his tassel and gown. The "fellas" that Tate met up with decided to move to the Cowboy State only a month after he arrived.
In 2002, Tate passed his Broker's exam and met someone named Alex Maher who had recently started Live Water Properties. Tate was hired onto the Live Water team mentored by Alex; Tate was the "right-hand man" for his first two years. "My goal was simple, educate myself as fast as I could in the business and have hands on training with every deal that came across Alex's desk. Alex and Tate did a number of deals together and in 2006, Tate became an Associate Broker for Live Water Properties. He has been with LWP for a healthy 16 years. When he began, LWP had five employees and one office. Tate has been along for the ride as the company grew from this to a 31-person firm across 12 states.
In those 16 years with LWP, Tate has averaged six deals per year and has completed over 80 property transactions. Two properties come to mind when he recalls his favorites. The Flat Creek Ranch in Thayne, Wyoming, sticks out to Tate, "it was a natural spring creek that held large fish in a meadow setting. You could walk the creek in the fall and see the brown trout on their spawning beds." The other being, Hartman Ranch, "which was a true sportsman paradise: an elk herd called it home, Crow Creek ran through it and had ponds that attracted ducks." Tate has truly enjoyed meeting the people who can afford these discretionary properties and learning their stories. A lot of things in life don't happen by chance, there is a reason why they have become this successful.
In 2009, Tate was set up on a blind date with a young lady named Laurel. They hit it off that year and decided to marry in 2010. They have three children Arianna, Quinn and Thea. If three children are not enough, they also support four horses, three cats, two rescue dogs, four chickens and three ducks.
Outside of the office Tate can be found bow hunting in the woods and angling the river bottoms that surround the Teton Valley area. He has loved passing along his passion for hunting and angling to his kids. Quinn, this past summer came up one shy on the Wyoming Cut Slam. In 2017, Tate took over as the President for Cutthroat Youth Hockey in Teton County, Idaho. He can be found at their outdoor rink slinging slap shots at the young goalies. In life, Tate likes to live by the motto: "If someone offers, say yes – carpe diem."
Growing up in New England and calling the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem home for the better part of his adult life, these harsh climates can take a toll on a person. His bucket list item is to become a snowbird. One day he hopes to own land in Arizona or New Mexico where Laurel can ride her horse and Tate can explore new hunting and fishing opportunities in the warmer hemisphere.
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AMD withdraws from high-density server business
The company is ditching a business it formed by acquiring SeaMicro three years ago
James Niccolai (IDG News Service) 17 April, 2015 07:02
AMD has pulled out of the market for high-density servers, reversing a strategy it embarked on three years ago with its acquisition of SeaMicro.
AMD delivered the news as it announced financial results for the quarter. Its revenue slumped 26 per cent from this time last year to $US1.03 billion, and its net loss increased to $US180 million, the company said.
AMD paid $US334 million to buy SeaMicro, which had developed a new type of high-density server aimed at large-scale cloud and Internet service providers.
The purchase was made under former CEO Rory Read, and has now been reversed by Lisa Su, who took over the CEO job last October.
AMD said the move is part of its effort to "simplify and sharpen" its investment focus. As a result, it is taking a charge of $US75 million.
The news sent its stock down 8 per cent in after hours trading, to $US2.63.
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and villages across the entire district.
next Council Tax Bill arrives of approximately 10p per week, or £5 per annum.
Current Financials will be published on this page once approved.
Council when your next Council Tax Bill arrives.
budgets that are already under pressure financially.
A table showing the last 5 years budgets, and the forecast for 2018-19 is attached here.
villages across the entire district.