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Everlasting Place
Sadie Sparrow
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All Things Are Ready
Here's another terrific message from Chris Carrillo, delivered on Sunday to a large audience of residents and rehab patients at Care-age of Brookfield. The subject: Matthew 22's parable of the marriage feast, in which the King extends His invitation to the ultimate banquet. Don't forget to RSVP!
Want to hear more from Chris? Check out these messages:
The Heart of a Leper
The Donuts
Man Overboard!
The Wrong Side of Fear
The Spiritual GPS
God's Only Forgotten Son
The Big Shoulders of God
The Chosin Few
A Call to Holiness
The Lesson of the Mulberry Trees
Why sin is eternally tragic
I had a discussion the other day with a very intelligent and thoughtful seeker of truth – a woman who believes in God, but not necessarily the God who has revealed Himself in the Bible.
"I just can't believe He would object to two people loving each other, no matter the gender," said she – let's call her Nancy, in a nod to detective extraordinaire Nancy Drew. "If He is love, how could He condemn a loving, committed, monogamous relationship?"
I totally get the question; I asked it myself early on in my Christian walk. In fact, I studied it out years ago, concluding that the Bible undoubtedly condemns sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman; you really have to twist it to come to any other conclusion.
I tried to answer Nancy's question, drawing upon various scriptural truths to do so, and attempting to explain how such anti-biblical lifestyles (and here I include the "free love" heterosexual lifestyle that my generation pioneered back in the '60s) prevent us from even turning to the word of God, let alone accepting and obeying it, and blah blah blah.
I don't think she was convinced. No surprise there: I was relying on my fuzzy recall of a subject I'd studied in some depth, but long ago. But she was gracious, and said she'd think about it.
Fast forward to last night, as I continued an Old Testament study of 1 Kings. Imagine my surprise to encounter a passage that answered Nancy's question in just ten words – one I'd read a dozen times before without once having an "aha!" moment.
This particular passage cites the Lord's command to the children of Israel to refrain from intermarrying with other nations, for one very simple reason:
"Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods." (1 Kings 11:2b)
We go on to learn that this is precisely what happened to Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived: He wound up with 700 wives and princesses and 300 concubines, clinging "to these in love."
The modern mind asks how God could object to this behavior, as long as Solomon loved these women.
The answer begins in verse 4: "For it was so, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods: and his heart was not loyal to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David." We learn further that he "did evil in the sight of God," building for his wives temples to worship "abominations" from Chemosh to Molech. And we learn that this was why the Lord later divided the nation of Israel into northern and southern kingdoms, ultimately leading to many centuries of national dormancy.
There you go: sexual sin, like all the rest, turns our hearts away from the living God. And there are consequences, both temporal and eternal.
As Ray Comfort said in his comment on this passage, "Solomon had incredible wisdom and yet lust turned his head from God to women, and then (predictably) to idolatry to accommodate his sin" (The Evidence Bible, p. 456).
In other words, when we give ourselves over to our rebellions of choice, we invariably design for ourselves a god who approves of them.
This is a devastating problem on so many levels.
For instance, from the viewpoint of this life, most of us know, in our heart of hearts, when we are rebelling against God. After all, He has written His law on our hearts. And until our hearts become too hardened to hear, our consciences nag us relentlessly whenever we break that law; our imaginary gods don't really fool us. But rather than turning to the true God in repentance, most of us instead try to drown our consciences in alcohol or drugs, or work or hobbies or interests that dominate our thoughts every waking hour.
Bottom line: we harden our hearts by turning to everyone and everything but the living God, and so find no true peace in this life. The only comfort we find is in silencing our consciences.
Worse, we find no forgiveness for our sin, and no salvation – which is why embracing sin and idolatry is eternally tragic. It's not that the Lord is some sort of cosmic, prudish killjoy; it's that pursuing sin causes us to turn from Him. And the Bible makes it clear: Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6).
No Jesus, no heaven. And according to the demonstrably true Bible, there's only one alternative.
It's not that we have to clean up our acts to gain entry into heaven; we cannot. Thankfully, Jesus did it for us; He paid the penalty for our sins on the cross, so that anyone who repents and trusts in His sacrifice is given His righteousness, and will spend eternity in heaven with Him.
So here's the very simple answer I should have given Nancy when she asked how God could object to monogamous marital sex, whatever the genders may be: God objects because "Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods."
Why are we so crazy about fantasy?
I'm sure a psychiatrist could tell us what it is about fantasy literature that so captivates us as children, and well into adulthood. I'm personally an Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass freak. But there are certainly many other irresistible stories to choose from, from The Wizard of Oz to Peter Pan, The Chronicles of Narnia to The Hobbit.
There's no sign of America's love affair with such stories winding down. As recently as 2014, according to Publishers Weekly, sales of printed juvenile science fiction/ fantasy/ magic books grew by an astounding 38% – more than twice what the next most successful genre could muster.
What gives? Why do we devote so much of our pleasure-reading time to the most unrealistic of genres, especially when we're young and have an entire world stretched out before us? Is this world not exciting enough for us?
It's no surprise that we can find the answers to these questions by consulting the word of God.
For instance, King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, tells us that our Creator has written eternity in our hearts (see Ecclesiastes 3:11). Deep down inside, we know that this limited life is not all there is; we know that there is more.
And somehow we know that this more will not be found on the earth we now occupy. As Hebrews 13:14 reminds us, this world is not our permanent home.
What's more, the Bible teaches that our lives beyond these earthly senses will, at least for some, represent a vast improvement over the world we see today. For instance, referring to heroes of the faith from Abel, Enoch and Noah to Abraham and Sarah, the writer of Hebrews tells us:
"These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them." (Hebrews 11:13-16).
So we know these things instinctively, even if we've spent years burying that knowledge beneath layers of earthly pleasures and concerns. We know that we will live forever. And we hunger to know what it will be like.
Unfortunately, many of us simply ignore what the Bible has to say on this overwhelmingly important topic – even though it's our only demonstrably authoritative source of truth.
Perhaps that's understandable: We want to be able to define eternity, to say who gets in, under what circumstances, for what purposes. And we want our arrivals to be celebrated because of the stellar character and extraordinary benevolence we demonstrated on earth.
But creating such a world is hard work. It takes a lot of thought and effort and planning and recording of our ideas to invent a world that's everything we want it to be. So the vast majority of us leave that to professional writers, limiting our involvement to selecting, reading about, and contemplating the fictional fantasies that best suit our tastes.
How bewildering that so many of us turn to fiction when we could go straight to the Bible for the truth about everlasting life. And how eternally tragic that so many embrace fictional "entrance requirements," rather than consulting God's word to find out what it really takes to ensure oneself of a heavenly forever.
If you are not sure of these things yourself, I hope you'll decide today to find out what the Bible has to say. How foolish it would be to trust eternity to the imaginings of a writer who has simply created the kind of world he'd like to explore.
The most dangerous opinion leaders
It's bad enough when so-called experts teach us lies about everything from economics to the environment. But when they start telling us what we ought to believe about eternity, look out!
Consider what has been said about heaven and hell by those who are highly revered in our culture. Just a handful of examples:
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." -- Mark Twain
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." -- Stephen Hawking
"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." -- Isaac Asimov
"I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth." -- Marianne Faithfull
"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves -- or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." -- Ayn Rand
Why in the world do we revere these people, and mock those with an accurate -- which is to say, biblical -- view of heaven and hell?
Fortunately, we have a completely reliable source of truth on this most important matter -- Jesus Christ Himself. "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also." (John 14:1-3)
Just as important, in His word He tells us precisely how to get there. If we don't, we'll have only ourselves to blame.
Dreaming of heaven
I do have some ideas about people and places and things I hope will be in heaven. And the Wilhelm Tell restaurant in Munich is one of them.
It was on our second trip to Europe together in the 1970s that Mom and I discovered the Wilhelm Tell.
Instead of the grand old hotels we had stayed in on our Caravan tour the previous year, we were staying in cheap places that were just a step above pensions – all humble but clean, all featuring a bathroom down the hall that we shared with other guests. The name of our Munich hotel is lost to history – and here I never thought I'd forget these details – but it had the typical stucco exterior, painted a pale salmon pink, and our room was stark white and very austere.
The Wilhelm Tell was a tavern just down the street and around the corner from our hotel. It was dark and smelled of beer and cigarettes and a roast in the oven and we loved it. Although we really weren't all that fond of German food generally, we ate lavishly here, feasting on pan-fried pork chops and carrot salad with a vinaigrette dressing and quite possibly the best French fries in the world. (The Germans really know their way around a potato.) And it was cheap to boot, especially for Americans in those days of favorable exchange rates.
This was no tourist spot; the neighborhood was pretty far from Munich's major attractions. It was noisy and not exactly spotless, but the waiters were friendly and smiled encouragingly as we spoke in broken German (delivered with a Polish accent, one insisted), making us feel like part of the crowd.
I think we stayed in Munich three nights on that trip, and ate all three of our dinners right there at the Wilhelm Tell. I suppose, in retrospect, that Mom might have been bored with that, or, for that matter, less than thrilled with our accommodations. After all, she had traveled through Europe extensively with my dad on his business trips, staying at luxurious hotels and dining at some of the finest restaurants. But if she was either, she never let on. In fact, she seemed to thrive on rubbing shoulders with the locals, laughing along with them as she explained in her floundering German that her husband had been in Deutschland geboren and that we had beloved freunden in Siegen.
My mother had her dreams of heaven, dreams that included the "strange and lovely" streets of Salzburg and a crisp October morning and a 10 a.m. glass of beer.
I have mine, too, and one of the best takes place in a dark little restaurant called the Wilhelm Tell.
(From Heaven Without Her, pages 244-246)
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Leftists Turn on Pelosi, Demand She Leave Office Over 'Corporate Interests'
By Emily Zanotti
Even Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is not safe from the "cancelation" mobs, it turns out, as she discovered this weekend when she became the target of a progressive effort to oust her from her long-held seat in the House of Representatives.
Pelosi is the target of an attack from the left and will face Shahid Buttar in the general election in November. Buttar is, like many left-leaning insurgent candidates, a Democratic socialist with, as Townhall notes, a resume of progressive bona fides, including several trips to Burning Man, and plenty of "socially conscious music" and poetry available for free on SoundCloud. He is also an immigrant and a Muslim and wears his hair in a "man-bun."
"Buttar finished second in the primary and represents Pelosi's first general election challenger from within the Democratic Party in 30 years," Townhall reports.
Unlike Pelosi, Buttar supports the Green New Deal, single-payer health care (or, in the alternative, the more "realistic" "Medicare for All" plan proposed during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)), the edicts of "intersectional feminism," a significant hike in the national minimum wage, and fully open borders.
Pelosi has, despite her position as a leading Congressional opponent to President Donald Trump, been a top target of Justice Democrats and Democratic socialists. In 2016, her office was the first stop for then-newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who joined a Green New Deal protest outside the Speaker's front door rather than step in for an appointment. Since then, progressives like Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have challenged Pelosi to censure or otherwise punish them for statements made about far-left policies.
On Saturday, Buttar's campaign organized and deployed a social media campaign targeting Pelosi directly with a hashtag, "#PelosiMustGo," in order to force the Speaker to debate Buttar publicly.
"Nancy Pelosi stands in the way of progress and has done so for decades. That's why #PelosiMustGo. My name is Shahid Buttar, and I approve this message," Buttar's campaign tweeted.
Pelosi's progressive critics focused on Pelosi's wealth and time in Congress, noting that she herself is a millionaire and has taken from corporate campaign funders.
"t's pretty simple," tweeted one. "There's going to be Nancy Pelosi and Shahid Buttar on the ballot in CA-12, two Democratic candidates. So your choices are someone who'll fight for $100 millionaires like herself or someone who'll fight for you on issues like Medicare-for-all."
The hashtag met with pushback from more practical Democrats, but the progressives would not be deterred.
"I actually understand why liberals and centrists are lashing out at the #PelosiMustGo hashtag because I used to be them. I used to think all Democrats had our best interests at heart. I had no idea corporate Democrats like @SpeakerPelosi were putting corporations over people," tweeted one organizer.
"Nancy Pelosi first ran for congress in 1987 against Harry Britt, an openly gay socialist & activist during the civil rights movement. She has single-handedly undermined the working class ever since, working endlessly to protect the power of the wealthy," noted another.
Pelosi, based on polls, is not in danger of losing her seat, although the Justice Democrats are targeting a number of Pelosi allies who are more vulnerable.
Author: Emily Zanotti
Source: Daily Wire: 'Pelosi Must Go': Speaker Blasted From The Left Over 'Corporate Interests'

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ESA Science & Technology - Star Clusters and Circumnuclear Ring in the Centre of NGC 2903 (NICMOS)
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Star Clusters and Circumnuclear Ring in the Centre of NGC 2903 (NICMOS)
Depicts: NGC 2903, IRAS 09293+2143
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This image was obtained with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph (NICMOS) onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It shows the region around the core of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2903. Several bright star clusters (white knots) are seen as well as the circumnuclear ring around the core. The reddish areas are regions of ionised hydrogen and regions where large amounts of dust partly obscure our view. The image was constructed from two infrared NICMOS exposures: 704 seconds through an 1870 nm filter (shown as red) and 192 seconds through a 1600 nm filter (shown as blue). The green colour in the image is a combination of these two exposures. Acknowledgement: The data that went into this Hubble image were originally obtained by William Sparks (Space Telescope Science Institute).
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Region of the sky around HD 106906 b
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Contrast Security Honored as Gold Stevie Award Winner in 2017 American Business
ByMark Hodgson, Vice President of Marketing May 9, 2017
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Contrast Security was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the New Product or Service of the Year - Software Development Solution category in the 15th Annual American Business Awards. Details about The American Business Awards and the list of 2017 Stevie winners are available at www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.
The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
Nicknamed the "Stevies" for the Greek word meaning "crowned," the awards will be presented to winners at a gala ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York on Tuesday, June 20.
More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories, including Startup of the Year, Executive of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Marketing Campaign of the Year, Live Event of the Year, and App of the Year, among others.
More than 190 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners.
"Each year the judges find the quality and variety of the nominations to be greater than the year before. The 2017 competition was intense and every organization that has won should be proud," said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.
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Through a major digitization effort from one of the field's preeminent researchers and Cornell University Library, a snapshot of dozens of progressive cities at a crucial moment in American history is online for the world to see.
Developed with Professor Emeritus Pierre Clavel from the Department of City and Regional Planning, the library's new digital collection — materials from the Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies — provides a glimpse into the minds of progressive advocates at a seminal moment in the mid-1970s.
The current project features "readers" — bound packets of documents ranging from scholarly journal articles and government documents to newspaper stories and even private letters — created for national and regional meetings. Now, volumes from conferences in Madison, Wisconsin in 1975, and Austin, Texas in 1976, are available online as a digital collection.
"So many different topics, like energy, health, jobs, and economies are compiled into a single, coherent source with these readers," said Evan Earle, collections specialist in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, who spearheaded the project at the library.
Subsequent experiences in cities like Berkeley, Boston, Burlington, Chicago, Cleveland, Hartford, Madison, and Santa Monica, as well as international cities, drew on the kinds of city-planning issues first presented at the conferences.
Physical materials from those cities are included in the library's larger archival collection, "Progressive Cities and Neighborhood Planning," which is available in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. The library hosts a set of more than 200 collections of city and regional planning materials that tie into subjects taught at AAP; enthusiasm about the current project could lead to additional funding to digitize more physical materials.


TUSCALOOSA | In yet another music-legend announcement, Neil Young and Crazy Horse will play the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater on Oct. 25, with opening act the Alabama Shakes.
Red Mountain Entertainment, which books the amphitheater, also announced the addition of a concert by Alan Jackson for 7:30 p.m. Sept. 13.
Jackson has had numerous No. 1 country hits, including "Don't Rock the Jukebox," "Chattahoochee" and "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere," a duet with Jimmy Buffett. He's won two Grammys and 16 CMA awards, and is a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Jackson last played Tuscaloosa in a University of Alabama homecoming concert in 1998.
Young follows his sometime collaborators in Crosby, Stills and Nash, who played the Amp earlier this month.
Young last played Tuscaloosa on Feb. 2, 1973. He has remained vital and creative in the music scene, winning Grammys, selling records and filling concert halls, although less prone to performing a medley of hits created dozens of years ago.
Crazy Horse is the band he started as a side project from Crosby, Stills Nash and Young. The first disc credited to Neil Young With Crazy Horse was 1969's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere," which familiarized many with Young's strained tenor, mournful lyrics and gritty extended guitar jams on songs such as "Cinnamon Girl," "Down By the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand." He's toured and recorded with the band on and off ever since.
In June, Young released "Americana," an album of folk standards by writers such as Woody Guthrie and Stephen Foster, backed by Crazy Horse. The tour that begins in October will be the first in nine years for Young with bass player Billy Talbot, drummer Ralph Molina and guitarist Frank "Poncho" Sampedro. Sampedro replaced guitarist Danny Whitten in 1975, after Whitten's death; the rest are original members.
That last one led to a misunderstanding with Ronnie Van Zant that caused the Lynyrd Skynyrd singer to write "I heard Mr. Young sing about her/I heard ol' Neil put her down/I hope Neil Young will remember/a Southern man don't need him 'round anyhow" in "Sweet Home Alabama." The two later met and professed mutual admiration. Van Zant often wore a Neil Young "Tonight's the Night" T-shirt while performing, and Young has occasionally played "Sweet Home Alabama" in concert.
Blues-soul-rock band the Alabama Shakes has been the hottest buzz band of the past year, roaring out of tiny Athens and climbing from gigs at local bar Egan's to appearances on "Conan" and "Late Night with David Letterman," catching the attention of critics and fans internationally.
Tickets for Neil Young and Crazy Horse with The Alabama Shakes go on sale at 10 a.m. July 27, at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater box office, online at www.ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 800-745-3000. Prices will be $43.75, $73.75 and $134.25. The show will start at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets for the Alan Jackson concert will go on sale at noon July 27, at the same outlets above. Prices will be $27, $51.50 and $65.50.


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Ліндсі () — селище () в США, в окрузі Сендаскі штату Огайо. Населення — 446 осіб (2010).

Географія
Ліндсі розташоване за координатами  (41.421683, -83.220994).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році селище мало площу 4,04 км², уся площа — суходіл.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкало 446 осіб у 187 домогосподарствах у складі 139 родин. Густота населення становила 110 осіб/км².  Було 209 помешкань (52/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 2,9 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 11,4 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 23,8 % — особи молодші 18 років, 61,0 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 15,2 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 41,0 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 92,2 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 93,2 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  доларів США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  долари (медіана — ). За межею бідності перебувало 8,4 % осіб, у тому числі 0,8 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 2,0 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 275 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 29,8 %, виробництво — 23,3 %, транспорт — 12,4 %, роздрібна торгівля — 9,8 %.

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Thiel CS3.6 and Aragon 8008BB combo?
Not too long ago I created a thread asking what amp would best drive Thiel CS3.6's for on an extreme budget. One of the amps suggested was the Aragon 8002. Well, I am in the process of purchasing an Aragon 8008BB.
Do any of you have experience with this pairing?
Is the amp too bright for the speakers?
Will the Aragon be able to handle this tough a load?
IMHO, good but not great.
The load of the speakers will certainly not be a problem for this amp. It has a very solid power supply indicated by doubling down into 4 ohms. This is a powerful amp!
You got the question wrong about the brightness, you should ask will the speakers reveal the amps shortcomings?
The Theil's will reveal everything in the amplification chain.
I used this amp with Vandersteen's with no problems. The amp is powerful with excellent low end control. Its issues start with detail and upper mids into the highs where it is not as good as some more recent (more expensive) amps. Lacking in ultimate transparency, it still throws a good sonic picture.
On the cheap, it's an excellent choice and one you should be able to easily live with.
I buy will be the end all, but I doubt it!
I drove my CS3.6's with an 8008BB for nine years, and although it did a good job, I found that the sound was not as refined as it could have been. Four years ago, I replaced it with a pair of Rowland 201 monoblocks, which made a significant improvement.
I think you'll find that the Aragon will give you good service and drive your Thiels for as long as you own it. It is good value; improving on it will cost you significantly more money.
Good luck, and happy listening!
I have never owned Thiels but do own a Aragon 8008bb that I bought here on Audiogon. It's dual mono design and 200 watts pc ame it as big tee says a very powerful amp. Runs in class A for the first 30 or so watts as well. I know there are better but I'm very happy with this amp and will not be replacing any time soon.


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Dale Jr. gets a fitting honor that allows him to help others
With Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s retirement came a vast array of tribute's, but the one he received Wednesday evening could be one of the most special.
At the annual National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) Myers Brothers Awards, Earnhardt was given the Chevrolet Lifetime Achievement for the success he's had on the track over the past 17 season, according to popularspeed.com.
In addition to his 26 wins at the sports' highest level of competition, he's also won two Daytona 500's and Most Popular Driver 15 times. His charitable efforts through his Dale Jr. Foundation were also noted.
RELATED: Why did Dale Earnhardt Jr. mean so much to NASCAR?
Chevy awarded the driver a trophy, as well as a 2018 Corvette to put towards auction initiatives for his foundation in 2018.
"I don't know how many years now they've done that for the foundation, but we've raised $350,000 this year with just that raffle alone," said Earnhardt in regards to the car raffle. "It's been a real pleasure growing up in a Chevy family, I drive Chevys because of my dad obviously, and have always driven Chevys, and we couldn't of had more fun."
"We'll keep on driving them, so thanks for having me as part of the family and appreciate the acknowledgement today," added Earnhardt.


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Q: MP charts RTL not working android I am working with in a multilingual application where I am using MP charts(charting library) for statistics display. But in Rtl layouts its not mirroring to Rtl direction. Is there way I may get it working for Rtl layout?

A: It cannot be done but there is a way to implement that by inversing your values like add higher values first e.g if you are making graph on x-axis of values 1,2,3,4 just reverse the order add 4 on first index and 1 on last index. By doing this it will draw from left to right but it looks like from left to right also disable left axis and enable right axis so graph looks like it.

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Feng-Chang Lin, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
E : flin@bios.unc.edu
2nd floor, Brinkhous-Bullitt Building
CB #7064
Serving as a biostatistician in the Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (TraCS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Lin is heavily engaged in collaborative research in biomedical fields.
His primary area of research lies in the development of novel statistical methods for modeling recurrent events that frequently appear in biomedical studies. These methodologies aim to assist physicians and healthcare providers in better understanding the natural history of a disease and its risk factors.
Teaching Innovation Award
2018-2019, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Study Abroad Scholarship
2005-2006, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
Representative Courses
Dr. Lin is a biostatistician in the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), home of the UNC-CH Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA). His research interests include:
Generalized linear model
Longitudinal analysis
Hypertension and blood pressure monitoring
Prevention clinical trials
Statistics Editor:
Genetics in Medicine (2012-2018)
Referee Service:
Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (JRSSB)
Statistics in Medicine
Practice Activities
From 2011 - 2013, Dr. Lin served as the principal, then the vice principal, of the North Carolina Raleigh Chinese Language School, a registered nonprofit organization founded in 1977. The school originally specialized in teaching Mandarin and traditional Chinese characters, but now offers 20 language classes and 12 culture classes for 200 students.
Health Policy and Management News


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Constantin Misici (n. 25 mai 1878, Lipova, județul Arad – d. 31 iulie 1921, Brașov, județul Brașov) a fost un deputat în Marea Adunare Națională de la Alba Iulia, organismul legislativ reprezentativ al "tuturor românilor din Transilvania, Banat și Țara Ungurească", cel care a adoptat hotărârea privind Unirea Transilvaniei cu România, la 1 decembrie 1918 .

Biografie
Născut la Lipova în 14 mai 1878, urmează școala primară în orașul natal, iar mai apoi liceul la Lugoj. În timpul liceului primește o bursă de la fundația "Emanoil Gojdu". Mai târziu se înscrie la Facultatea de Drept a Universității din Budapesta, în anul 1895, unde îl avea coleg pe Traian Vuia, cu care împărțea locuința.
În anul 1895 renaște Societatea Studențească Română "Petru Maior" din Budapesta și din această societate face parte și Constantin Missici. Un an mai târziu face parte din cei ce organizează adunările generale ale "Astrei" la Lugoj.

În 1901, Missici locuia la Budapesta și se pregătea de doctorat, pe care îl obține în 1904. La 5 august 1905 se căsătorește cu Valeria Braniște la Brașov. Fratele soției sale era Valeriu Braniște, redactor la ziarul Dreptatea din Lugoj.

După 1918 a fost numit secretar general la Resortul de alimentare al Consiliului Dirigent din Sibiu, rămânând aici până în octombrie 1919. A murit la Brașov la 31 mai 1921 și este înmormântat în capela familiei din Lipova.

Activitate politică
În noiembrie 1918, dr. Constantin Missici a fost ales printre cei cinci delegați ai cercului electoral Lipova din partea populației române, având ca scop participarea la hotărârea sorții națiunii române la 1 decembrie 1918, în cadrul Marii Adunării Naționale de la Alba Iulia .

Dr. Constantin Missici a fost ales printre cei 23 de reprezentanți ai județului în Marele Sfat Național .

Note

Bibliografie
 Ioan I. Șerban, Dorin Giurgiu, Ionela Mircea, Nicolae Josan, Dicționarul personalităților Unirii. Trimișii românilor transilvăneni la Marea Adunare Națională de la Alba Iulia, Muzeul Național al Unirii, Alba Iulia, 2003, ISBN 973-8141-90-7.
 http://www.timisoaraexpress.ro/documentar/cinei-mai-stie-pe-senatorii-si-deputatii-banatului-alesi-in-primul-parlament-al-romaniei-mari_19455?print
 Vasile Popeangă, Ardealul, centru politic al luptei naționale din perioada dualismului, 1978, p. 196
 Mihai Szabo, Școala românească din Lipova și dascălii ei, 2004, p. 59
 Victor Bleahu, Monografia orașului Lipova, 2001

Lectură suplimentară
 Gelu Neamțu, Mircea Vaida-Voevod, 1 decembrie 1918. Mărturii ale participanților, vol. I-II, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2005, ISBN 973-27-1258-9 (vol. I); ISBN 973-27-1264-3 (vol. II).
 Daniela Comșa, Eugenia Glodariu, Maria M. Jude, Clujenii și Marea Unire, Muzeul Național Transilvania, Cluj-Napoca, 1998.
 Florea Marin, Medicii și Marea Unire, Editura Tipomur, Târgu Mureș, 1993.
 Silviu Borș, Alexiu Tatu, Bogdan Andriescu, (coord.), Participanți din localități sibiene la Marea Adunare Națională de la Alba Iulia din 1 decembrie 1918, Editura Armanis, Sibiu, 2015.

Legături externe
  Membrii de drept ai Marii Adunării Naționale de la Alba-Iulia din 1 decembrie 1918, lista publicată în "Gazeta Oficială", Sibiu, nr. 1, 1/14 decembrie 1918
 1 decembrie 1918, Marea Unire de la Alba Iulia. Mărturii, documente și semnificații

Vezi și
 Lista delegaților la Marea Adunare Națională de la Alba Iulia

Nașteri în 1878
Decese în 1921
Delegați la Marea Adunare Națională de la Alba Iulia
Membri ai Marelui Sfat Național Român


Thank you for posting this 'nugget of truth'. All of my abusers are so secretive. The true colors are becoming apparent to others. One of my abusers told me that what they don't like about me is that I know too much about them. They don't want others to know their secrets and fear I may tell.
healinginhim, what you shared is stunning – and reveals every abuser's heart. Their strategies only succeed if they can remain under the cover of darkness!
"Done ever talk about me! Gossip is a sin!" Yeah, right. I've had this nonsense laid on me before too. Very guilting if you don't understand what it really is.
I'm slowly starting to understand that there really is a difference between telling the truth about someone to protect someone else or share your story, and gossip and smear campaigns. The intent does matter.


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Are You Screening? Podcast
Movie review podcast by BFCA critic Marc Eastman and co-host Shane Leonard.
Men In Black International Review
The return to certain franchises is often a longshot, especially when we're looking at large gaps between releases, but Men in Black International takes this to a whole new level. The best-case scenario for expectations seems questionable when you're after a franchise no one has mentioned in a decade.
But, stranger things have turned into solid films. Does this one have anything to pull you in, even if that may only be a small bite of popcorn fun? We'll let you know if this one is worth your time.
Dark Phoenix Review
The X-Men franchise hasn't had the success one might hope in this era of superhero/comic book films, and heading into Dark Phoenix, fans had to wonder if they were going to get something that was truly following Apocalypse or a branch that looked more like Logan.
We'll let you know if you need to see this one in theaters, or at all, and if it adds life to a franchise that might be looking to reboot.
We're also going to run through a few films heading your way soon, and the odd summer approaching.
Booksmart Review - What the Hype?
We're covering Booksmart this week and with all the social media attention this one is getting you may be planning to fit this one into your schedule. Despite a box office showing that isn't anything to cheer about, critics are loving this one. But, does it live up to the hype it's now getting?
We'll let you know if this one is worth your time at all and/or if you need to get to theaters before it gets pushed out by bigger releases.
John Wick 3 Review
John Wick was a surprisingly solid effort and pulled in enough fans that we're now on the third film, with the release date for the next installment already confirmed. But, the second film was a little rough and didn't so much end as spend its last half hour hoping to convince you a third was a good idea.
Tune in and we'll let you know if the wait pays off and if John Wick 3 stays true to its own world in order to set the stage for the upcoming TV series focusing on The Continental.
We also couldn't avoid taking a few shots at the Game of Thrones finale, so there's that.
Long Shot Review
It's the sort of thing that you don't want to let a title get away with, but this Long Shot might just surprise a lot of people. You may not get exactly what you think, based on trailers, but Theron has proven that she can make just about anything work.
Give us a listen, and we'll let you know if you need to get to this one while you have the chance.
It's finally here, and as you may recall, we were split on the last installment of The Avengers. Where will that leave us with this one?
It's probably not that hard to guess.
It's going to be the biggest movie in many years and we'll let you know how many times you need to see it.
Captain Marvel Review
It seems like a bizarre move to introduce a character who may be pivotal to Avengers: Endgame a couple of weeks before what is likely to be the biggest blockbuster ever, but is there more going on here than whipping out a new character to resolve our plot, or is this going to end up a rush job with little going for it?
We'll let you know what we think, and you may be a bit surprised by this film that shows off a female star in the Marvel Universe while taking us back in time.
Worst Movies of the Year Lists & Oscars Coverage
It's everyone's favorite time of year, the day we tear apart all the horrible films the year produced... again... in list form. This was a strange year for films and while our best lists were hard to put together, our worst were especially easy. Well, they weren't easy to order, but there were a lot of bad movies.
We're also going to be addressing some of the fallout from the Oscars this year, which were instantly raked by the critics and fans across the internet, and even more instantly by Spike Lee.
Alita: Battle Angel & Best of the Year Lists
It's that time again, and we're letting you in on our picks for the Best of the Year. Of course, we're also taking a look at Alita: Battle Angel, which surprised us a bit, perhaps both in good and bad ways.
It's been a weird year, and especially when it comes to trying to figure out the best film of the year. While the awards have largely gone to films like Green Book and Roma... we didn't really love those, so tune in and figure out what... well, what you should really be checking out... according to us.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Review
The first Lego Movie took us by surprise, but does the sequel have what it takes to deliver on the expectations we have now?
We'll let you know if this one is worth your time, and we're going to catch you up on some more movies you need to know about as we head into the end of awards season.


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These two grateful Manville families escaped Ida's wrath, but the anxiety persists
Ken Burlew, seen here with his son, Ethan, 18, describes how they accepted a Blue Acres program buyout to move from the flood-prone Lost Valley section of Manville to another area of town five years ago. They escaped devastating property losses from Tropical Storm Ida. Manville, Sept. 3, 2021Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Susan K. Livio | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Tropical Storm Ida triggered a sewer backup inside the Burlew family home in Manville Wednesday night. It also appears to have damaged the electrical system of their car after water rushed inside.
But Ken Burlew is not complaining. He said he considers himself "blessed."
In 2015, he and his wife, Letty, and three children received a buyout from FEMA for flood-prone homes and escaped the Lost Valley, a neighborhood in the borough they loved but could no longer tolerate.
After their house was wrecked by Hurricane Irene in 2011, they lived in a friend's basement apartment for months while it underwent extensive repairs. Aside from two doors upstairs, they replaced everything, from the heater to the walls, to the siding and the porch, he said.
Where they live now, about a mile away from the Lost Valley, the Burlews do not even have to buy flood insurance.
"Getting the buyout was great," Burlew said, sitting on his porch with his 18-year-old son, Ethan. "This flood would have been as bad as Irene, if not worse."
Ken Burlew accepted a Blue Acres program buyout to move from the flood-prone Lost Valley section of Manville to another area of town. Manville, Sept. 3, 2021Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Parts of Manville have experienced severe flooding in past years and many residents in this blue-collar, Somerset County community once began the painfully familiar process of cleaning up and rebuilding their homes and businesses late last week. On Tuesday, President Biden is coming to the borough to review the latest round of damage.
NJ Advance Media spoke on Friday with two families — the Burlews and the Selodys — who are among the more than 150 Manville families to have received "Blue Acres" buyout funds over the years to move to higher ground.
Both families said they felt a mix of relief and gratitude for being able to dodge the worst of the storm. But that did not stop the waves of anxiety from overwhelming them as 10 inches of rain fell in Manville Wednesday night.
Traci Selody, whose family fled their grand Dukes Parkway home seven years ago after living through Hurricane Irene and at least three other flooding events, said she was shocked to see the water rising up through their floor Wednesday night. She and her husband, Todd, and their son and daughter vacuumed and pumped water for about five hours, she said.
"As inconvenient as it all is, compared to some people, we had a walk in the park," she said, noting how fires erupted around town, including the Saffron Banquet Hall on South Main Street.
"Even though we weren't really affected, everything that has happened in town gives you anxiety. You feel like you are living in a disaster movie in a way," she said.
Traci and Todd Selody took a buyout for their home on Dukes Parkway in Manville seven years ago and moved a mile within the borough, out of the flood-prone areas. They pumped water out of their home for hours Wednesday but escaped unscathed. "As inconvenient as it all is, compared to some people, we had a walk in the park," she said. Andre Malok | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Burlew said he didn't sleep Wednesday night as he wait for the water to recede from his driveway and front yard. He watched as cars stalled out and bobbed in the water on his block.
"Your brain can sit here and say, 'I'm safe.' I slept in my own bed, I never lost power. I never lost water. I had a little mess in the bathroom. We lost next to nothing," Burlew said. "But the one thing that really kinda surprised me – for lack of a better word — was the PTSD."
The Burlews were the focus of a Star-Ledger and NJ.com documentary after Irene in September 2011 destroyed their home on Boesel Avenue in the Lost Valley — so named because of its isolation, situated between the Millstone River and railroad tracks. They were passed over for a buyout and endured another storm in 2014 before they qualified for the Blue Acres program.
Ethan Burlew, then 9 years old, described the kind of dread he and his family grew accustomed to living in the Lost Valley. "When you hear someone say there is a big band of rain comings you always have to keep your eye on the computer screen, on the weather," he said.
Ethan Burlew, seen here in this image from a 2012 Star-Ledger/NJ.com documentary about flood-prone properties in Manville, describes what it's like dreading the weather report. His family relocated to a drier spot in the Somerset County borough five years ago.
Now 18, Ethan Burlew said he "was definitely happy to leave" his old neighborhood.
"I have anxiety problems because of the floods," he said. "Seeing the water up as high as it was...it definitely brought back some memories."
Both Ken Burlew and the Selodys said they hoped more buyouts would be made available for Manville residents. Ida's devastation makes the need obvious, they said. They feel badly for their former neighbors who did not have that opportunity.
"When I see the old neighborhood, because I still have friends over there, I feel bad," Todd Selody said. "If we were still in that house, we probably would have had five feet of water on the main floor. It was good not to be there."
But the buyout program is controversial. Because the homes are demolished, it diminishes the municipality's tax base. Burlew said he wondered why some homes weren't elevated instead of torn down.
And not everyone is offered a buyout or can afford to accept the price the government is willing to spend to acquire their properties. Although Superstorm Sandy in 2012 was not catastrophic in Manville, the buyout money was released in its aftermath, Todd Selody said.
When it came time to assess property values, "Manville's housing values were still in shambles from Irene," he said. "People who had bought their houses three years prior and spent $300,000 on them they were getting $150,000, so they couldn't take that."
Fortunately, the Selodys received enough for their 4,000-square foot home to buy another house outright, although they downsized to 1,200-square feet, he said.
The Blue Acres program does not require recipients to remain in the same community. But neither family wanted to leave Manville.
"We wanted to stay for our kids," Ken Burlew said. Ethan just graduated from Manville High School and was able to remain on the wrestling team, scoring higher than any other senior, he said.
Staying made financial sense for the Selodys, but it also brought them comfort.
"It would be so easy for everyone to leave. And yet they stay because it is still a really great community and people care about each other. Neighbors help each other," she said. "They had so many donations at the VFW for the shelter, they had to say no more. The outpouring is amazing."
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NJ Advance Media Multi-Media Specialist Andre Malok contributed to this report.
Susan K. Livio may be reached at slivio@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @SusanKLivio.


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a simple "git config" interface for golang with set/get/unset and global support

## Example

```golang
package main

import(
	"github.com/trusch/gogitconfig"
	"log"
)

func main() {
	configValue := gogitconfig.New("test.value")
	v, err := configValue.Get()
	if err != nil {
		log.Println("error in Get:", err.Error())
		err := configValue.Set("foobar")
		if err != nil {
			log.Println("error in Set:", err.Error())
		}
	} else {
		log.Println("value: ", v)
		err = configValue.Unset()
		if err != nil {
			log.Println("error in Unset:", err.Error())
		}
	}
}
```

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La fondation Robert Wood Johnson est une association caritative des États-Unis.

Créée en 1972 par Robert Wood Johnson II, fils de Robert Wood Johnson, cette association a pour mission d'améliorer la santé et les soins de santé de tous les Américains. Le but est d'aider les citoyens américains à améliorer leurs conditions de vie par l'accès aux soins de santé. Fonds privés utilisés dans l'intérêt public. L'association a choisi de s'intéresser à un groupe de maladies grandissantes : l'obésité chez les enfants, la santé publique, l'information auprès du public…

Notes et références

Liens externes

Fondation aux États-Unis


Son of the legend, Eubank Jnr has certainly inherited his father's confidence. Although yet to prove he can reach the heights Eubank Snr did, he certainly has the tools to add interest to a division stacked with talent.
POLL James DeGale vs Chris Eubank Jnr - who wins and how?


My production date was in 1951; My expiration date is know only to GOD.
My family has been in Georgia since the days of Oglethorpe.
Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook.
The movie 'Idiocracy' was supposed to be a comedy, not a documentary.


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Senate Seal
On July 4, 1776, immediately after declaring the United States independent of Great Britain, the Continental Congress established a committee to design an official seal for the new nation. The resulting Great Seal of 1782 became a principal symbol of American sovereignty and independence.
Meeting in Philadelphia in the 1790s, members of the early Senate so admired the visually appealing Great Seal that they had it reproduced on a carpet woven for their chamber. They also selected a similar design for the first official Senate seal.
The earliest surviving impression from the first Senate seal appears on a 1798 impeachment trial summons. It displays a German imperial eagle, with a shield at its breast, its talons clutching arrows and an olive branch. Rays of light burst from clouds above the eagle, symbolizing the emergence of the new nation.
In 1830, the Senate commissioned a replacement seal. Following the then-popular neoclassical style, that device featured three goddesses symbolizing justice, liberty, and strength. A chain of twenty-four links, representing the existing number of states, formed an encircling border. That second seal appears among the official documents of President Andrew Johnson's 1868 impeachment trial.
The nation's 1876 centennial renewed interest in such national symbols and prompted a redesign of the Great Seal. On March 31, 1885, the Senate took notice of that redesign and ordered an updating of its own. Heavily used during an 1876 impeachment trial, the old seal had been left in poor condition in a Capitol basement. As the Senate approached its one-hundredth anniversary, it paid a Philadelphia engraver $35 to design a third version featuring a liberty cap above a central shield, emblazoned with thirteen stars and an equal number of vertical stripes.
Today, that seal—first used in 1886—remains in the custody of the Secretary of the Senate. Measuring one-and-a-half inches in diameter, it is used on impeachment and treaty documents, and on presentation copies of Senate resolutions recognizing appointments, commendations, and notable achievements.
In the mid 1980s, designers of the Senate's first official flag debated which color best symbolizes the Senate: dark blue or deep red. Although they settled on blue for the flag's background, they had no doubts about the best choice for that banner's centerpiece: the Senate seal. Today, this once obscure symbol of Senate power and prerogatives is now easily visible in every senator's office and above the dais of the Hart Building's central hearing room.
Biographical Directory
The Directory provides information about former and current senators.


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<?php

namespace App\Authentication\Adapter\Db;

use App\Authentication\Adapter\AbstractAdapter;
use App\Authentication\Result as AuthenticationResult;

/**
 * Authentication adapter.
 */
class EloAdapter extends AbstractAdapter
{
    /**
     * @var \PDO
     */
    private $db;

    /**
     * @var string the table name to check
     */
    private $tableName;

    /**
     * @var string the column to use as the identity
     */
    private $identityColumn;

    /**
     * @var string column to be used as the credential
     */
    private $credentialColumn;

    /**
     * @var array Result info
     */
    protected $resultInfo = array();

    /**
     * Public constructor.
     * @param \PDO                       $pdo
     * @param string                     $tableName
     * @param string                     $identityColumn
     * @param string                     $credentialColumn
     */
    public function __construct($pdo, $tableName, $identityColumn, $credentialColumn ) {
        $this->db = $pdo;
        $this->tableName = $tableName;
        $this->identityColumn = $identityColumn;
        $this->credentialColumn = $credentialColumn;
    }

    /**
     * Performs authentication.
     *
     * @return AuthenticationResult Authentication result
     */
    public function authenticate()
    {
        $user = $this->findUser();

        if ($user === false) {
            return new AuthenticationResult(
                AuthenticationResult::FAILURE_IDENTITY_NOT_FOUND,
                array(),
                array('User not found.')
            );
        }

        $validationResult = $this->isPasswordValid(
            $this->credential, $user[$this->credentialColumn]
        );

        if ($validationResult->isValid()) {
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            return new AuthenticationResult(AuthenticationResult::SUCCESS, $user, array());
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    protected function isPasswordValid( $password, $passwordHash )
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        $this->resultInfo = array(
            'code' => AuthenticationResult::FAILURE_CREDENTIAL_INVALID,
            'password' => null,
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        $isValid = password_verify($password, $passwordHash);

        if ($isValid === true) {
            $this->resultInfo['code'] = AuthenticationResult::SUCCESS;
        }

        return new AuthenticationResult(
            $this->resultInfo['code'],
            $this->resultInfo['password']
        );
    }

    /**
     * Finds user to authenticate.
     *
     * @return array|null Array of user data, null if no user found
     */
    private function findUser()
    {
        $sql = sprintf(
            'SELECT * FROM %s WHERE %s = :identity',
            $this->getTableName(),
            $this->getIdentityColumn()
        );
        $stmt = $this->db->prepare($sql);
        $stmt->execute(array('identity' => $this->getIdentity()));

        // Explicitly setting fetch mode fixes
        // https://github.com/jeremykendall/slim-auth/issues/13
        return $stmt->fetch(\PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    }

    /**
     * Get tableName.
     *
     * @return string tableName
     */
    public function getTableName()
    {
        return $this->tableName;
    }

    /**
     * Get identityColumn.
     *
     * @return string identityColumn
     */
    public function getIdentityColumn()
    {
        return $this->identityColumn;
    }

    /**
     * Get credentialColumn.
     *
     * @return string credentialColumn
     */
    public function getCredentialColumn()
    {
        return $this->credentialColumn;
    }
}


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There is a study out, entitled The Best and The Rest: Revisiting the Norm of Normality of Individual Performance, written by two business school professors, that has been bothering me recently. I'll explain why soon, but first a thought experiment.
Imagine a group of people competing for something. They're all driven, talented people, who have put serious resources into getting good at this particular thing. They've also all had help of some form, and encouragement from their community to compete in this arena. At the very least they have to have deep confidence in their own abilities to even compete in this particular area.
At the end of the competition, that particular one, these people are ranked according to how they've done. By luck, by skill, depending on previous practice, resources, or direct support from external advisors, some of them have achieved impressively high rankings, while others, in spite of their hard work and efforts, are falling behind.
Next, there's a community feedback element. This group of people are not done – they're hoping to become famous worldwide, or at least in this arena, for being highly ranked, maybe even the best. And the community has direct influence on what happens next, in future rounds of competition. So, individuals can vote for certain people to win, or directly give them more time or resources to do so, or even help them in their next round.
In subsequent rounds, the ranking gets more defined and the community becomes increasingly certain that the winners deserve to be there and that they are truly fabulous at this particular skill, even though the original native differences in talent are not enormous. Luck, resources, and self-confidence were all important indicators of success in that first round, some just as important as native skill.
This continues for years. At retirement, the highly ranked individuals have produced a massive amount compared to the ones that did poorly in the early rounds. In fact, the distribution is highly skewed, and seems to serve as proof that the original ranking was warranted.
I didn't specify what field the above story took place in, so let me suggest a few that might work. First, there's the music industry. Lots of would-be rock stars vie to be the next Taylor Swift. Heck, even Taylor Swift vied, once upon a time, to become herself. Of course, it helped that she was able to persuade her wealthy parents to move to Nashville when she was 14 to pursue her career. And – not to say she isn't talented, because she most definitely is – we all know that once you have a hit, your career is much more likely to go well after that, with contracts, money, support, and great musicians flocking to you.
Or, it could be academics. If you stand out as an undergrad, especially at the right college, you get into a good grad school, and if you have enough confidence, determination, and the good luck to get a nice thesis problem, you might have a thesis that stands out, which leads to NSF grants, reduced teaching loads, opportunities to speak at conferences, semesters off of teaching to pursue research, and a host of co-authors who are increasingly willing to do the work to write up joint results. Again, none of this happens without determination, drive, and talent, but it definitely happens more and faster with the help of a supportive community. It's all about the feedback loop of success.
Or, here's another arena: sales. If you are known as a successful salesman, if you have a slightly better reputation than the next salesperson, then you'll get the dibs on the jobs in a typical organization. That means you can be choosy, and take the easy pickings, and pass over the harder jobs. Over time your likability and personal network grows, and you become the go-to person in the organization for success, partly because of your hard work ethic, but partly because of the way success breeds success.
Or how about basketball? All professional basketball players are amazingly good at what they do. How much better does one have to be to get more playing time? Which leads, of course, to more points, more double doubles, or what have you.
Now to the paper. It talks about the distribution of performance, and notes that in arenas above, performance, which they equate with output of songs for musicians, or papers for academics, or sales figures for salesmen, are distributed more as a power law probability distribution than as a bell curve. Of course, that is true, and I think we know why, from above. It even has a name: the Matthew Effect, which is even referred to in the paper, on page 112.
Before I go on, let me mention that their examples are restricted to researchers, entertainers, politicians, and amateur and professional athletes. They never mention secretaries, computer programmers, marketers, cashiers, or data analysts. In fact most of the people who work at regular jobs are completely excluded from this study.
So it's really more accurate to say that the primary goal of the paper is to redefine the word "performance". They switch from one definition to the other without explanation, so their studies on pro athletes somehow magically refer to average workers.
That brings us to the second goal of this paper. Namely, the conclusion that we should use this "performance isn't normally distributed" rule to focus even more on elite actors.
Leadership theories that avoid how best to manage elite workers will likely fail to influence the total productivity of the followers in a meaningful way. Thus, greater attention should be paid to the tremendous impact of the few vital individuals. Despite their small numbers, slight percentage increases in the output of top performers far outweigh moderate increases of the many. New theory is needed to address the identification and motivation of elite performers.
If you think back to our original thought experiment, there is actually very little difference between good candidates at the beginning. Second, this "we absolutely need to keep our talent" mentality is exactly the argument we see time and time again excusing pay raises for CEO's. And now there's a "mathematical" reason for it.
Likewise, compensation systems such as pay for performance and CEO compensation are an especially divisive issue, with many claiming that disproportionate pay is an indicator of unfair practices (Walsh, 2008). Such differences are seen as unfair because if performance is normally distributed then pay should be normally distributed as well.
Let me rephrase: since "performance" isn't normally distributed, there's no way pay should be either, when we define it for everyone. So let's just go ahead and overpay CEO's.
It might be a good moment to remind people that even in academics, the top performers don't make 100 times what the lower performers get. Compare that to McDonalds, where the burger flippers would have to work 1 million hours to get one year of CEO pay.
In pop music and pro sports, there is a crazy pay differential, but that's not something to be proud of or something we want to replicate.
It occurred to me reading your post that people have a tendency to do something similar with standardized tests like SATs or IQ tests: taking them as "measurements" of some static property of people instead of considering the dynamics of the measurement process where instrument and subject are interacting in complex ways.
If one isn't bothered by pesky stuff like what one is studying, how it works, what one is trying to learn about it, then it's much easier to get papers written (or to make policy, if victims of the policy are politically weak).
If one identifies a pattern that applies to everything, then everyone will want to talk about your analysis.
The competition you talk about at the top fits absolutely perfectly with the world of competitive tournament chess. The ranking system used is the Elo system, in which performance is presumed to vary normally about one's "real" strength, or close to that. The renumeration can be huge (well, not Golf or Baseball huge, but millions a year) but only at the extreme top end.
Being in the top 1% gets you a "master" title but virtually no money. Being a standard distribution better than 1% gets you an international title (generally "Grand Master") and may allow you to earn a decent living playing the game or teaching it. The big money starts when you reach the top ten in the world which is a whole standard deviation higher than the merely internationaly titled players.
Only the top two or three in the earn really good money, with the World Champion title being good enough to earn you a few million a year these days.
Robert Merton, also a sociologist, identified the Matthew Effect, which is compatible with the law of small numbers because it described the benefits of having ties to "stars" in whatever field you care to name. Remuneration is a variable that depends on the particular network involved.
What this is getting into is wealth stratification, and why Proudhon was so totally wrong about the benefits of the Industrial Revolution leading to leisure for everyone. The distribution of wealth is also controlled by networks, and their cultural elements.
… written by two business school professors. The whole puzzle of the wrongness is answered right there. I didn't read the paper, I don't have access, but from what is here about the talent vs pay distributions, can be easily answered.
Q1: what happens to the organization if nobody is willing to work for less than [some cutoff, say] 10% of CEO's pay.
Q2: What if they quit? I assume the obvious answer – the organization collapses.
Q3: if they raise the pay scale so they don't have to quit? I assume that the organization again collapses as it can't be profitable.
Q3: If they adjust the pay scale so that the cutoff is satisfied and the company remains profitable. Obviously, this is possible short term. Long term obstacle is that the talent will leave the one company. Assuming, that the outcome is otherwise desirable, this could be easily dealt with income tax policy.
My conclusion is that a social norm for pay per performance could be easily implemented. Is it desirable? There we are in religious territory.
Even looking at the data on their terms, while they do seem to care about power laws specifically, not just skewed distributions, they didn't provide any comparison to, say, a lognormal. If the performance data fits a lognormal distribution, they couldn't really make strong claims about how performance works against an alternative explanation of just needing to log transform their performance measure.
Since Aaron Clauset & Cosma Shalizi have shown most claimed 'power law' examples fit a lognormal at least as well as a power law, and have provided free software to do the relevant tests, this isn't just being picky.
Somehow i'm confused by all this. I agree with you that there is something fishy about the definition of performance. Actually, the article doesn't seem to be measuring "performance" as much as it it measuring "success", which is only a potential manifestation of performance. The feedback loop you describe also refers to success.
So, success is not normally distributed. That's not big news, really. It's essentially a cultural choice going back to ancient Greece. We love role models and inspiring stories. Isn't that largely the promise of the American dream, the "happy few" as Shakespeare called them?
An interesting question – to me at least – is whether we want to, as a community, encourage and support those happy few, i.e. keep feeding the success loop. It would surely take quite some effort to break the loop, but to a large extent, the masses are choosing this. OK, maybe not in the case of the CEO's pay, but that's why we also need regulators.
Another interesting question is how performance is linked to success. It's probably hard to have any intrinsic measure of performance, and I expect the answer to be something along the lines of "performance (in the sense of raw talent) leads to success when combined with hard work ethics, self promotion capabilities, and a favorable environment (the feedback loop)". You can probably make this more refine or even quantifiable, but am not sure there's anything new here either.
I wonder how this would work for artists: it would be really hard to have an objective definition of performance that is not linked to success. How many "artistic geniuses" have never been "understood" (read successful)? Actually, there's a highly praised book written on this topic called "Blockbuster", by… a harvard b-school teacher 😉 I should probably read it.
I think this is yet another example of the distinction between process and outcome, which are easy to mix up.
One might perform well in many different ways, and yet never have success in getting a good outcome, let alone in an outcome that happens to be measured.
Or one might have a lucky success in a measured outcome, without performing well much of the time one engages in an activity.
But in a world of continuous measurement of everything humans do, it is easy to imagine that every form of good performance has a corresponding successful outcome, and that this success is measured.
Continuous measurement is itself an outcome of networks, and locally determined (i.e., never continuous everywhere). Social network topologies make it impossible to imagine good performances and successes in any way other than being local affairs, with local metrics.
Consider the sixties when (to grossly simplify) every other young man and quite a few young women had guitars; and there were coffeehouses or park benches sprinkled throughout the city. There was an explosion of creativity, providing modest, often merely supplemental, income to many.
Record corporations, and stadium corporations, and megaconcert corporations, gathered the "best" musicians to themselves. Along with the millions of fans. Along with the millions of fans modest budgets. Rents were monopolized by a few musicians and corporations, and creativity was starved out.
A few "high performers" were rewarded. A few parasites were rewarded. Most regular people were completely excluded.


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FERC Needs To Act On Resilience – Part 3
"FERC had put out a resilience [proposal] some time ago, but there's been nothing since." Andrew L Ott, President and CEO of PJM[i]
The continuing retirement of fuel-secure electricity sources may be making the grid less resilient to major disturbances that could interrupt electricity for prolonged periods of time. Fuel security — ensuring that fuel is always available to generate electricity — enables the grid to absorb and recover quickly from manmade or natural disturbances that otherwise could have severe, possibly catastrophic, consequences.
The coal fleet provides more fuel security than the fastest growing sources of electricity that are replacing coal — namely, natural gas, wind and solar. Natural gas is considered a just-in-time fuel source, and wind and solar provide no fuel security. By contrast, large quantities of coal are stockpiled on site at coal-fired power plants. Over the past five years, coal stockpiles have averaged 75 days of burn for plants using subbituminous coal and 81 days of burn for plants using bituminous coal.[ii] These stockpiles mean that the average coal-fired power plant could operate, if necessary, for more than two months if fuel deliveries were interrupted. Despite its contribution to fuel security, an alarming 40 percent of the nation's coal fleet has retired or has announced plans to retire.[iii] Nationwide, some 26,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired generation are expected to retire over the next three years.[iv]
Pretty much everyone agrees that the electricity grid needs to be resilient, but not everyone agrees on the exact meaning of resilience or what criteria (or metrics) should be used to determine whether the grid is resilient. Reliability is important, which is why we have criteria for measuring it. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation has objective standards for reliability.[v] On the other hand, resilience is also important, but we don't have any criteria or standards for resilience.
Last September, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposed a rule for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that was intended to improve grid resilience by supporting electricity sources that are fuel secure.[vi] FERC rejected the DOE proposal, but the commission at least started collecting information about resilience from the nation's grid operators.[vii] Except for ISO-NE and PJM, grid operators seemed uninterested in doing anything new to address resilience in their regions.[viii] FERC collected the information more than six months ago but has given little indication what it plans to do next. Mr. Ott's quote at the beginning of this blog ("nothing since" then) sums up the situation.
PJM is taking steps to address resilience in its 13-state footprint by conducting a fuel security analysis. This is important because more than 32,000 MW of coal-fired generating capacity in PJM will have retired by 2020, more than any other ISO/RTO.[ix] According to PJM's Independent Market Monitor, more than two-thirds of these retirements will occur because coal-fired power plants are unable to recover sufficient costs to operate.[x] Valuing fuel security would provide a revenue stream that could prevent some of these retirements. However, Mr. Ott's testimony noted, "PJM cannot do this alone … we proposed 10 specific recommendations to FERC of concrete steps that can be taken to provide critical guidance [on resilience]. We respectfully await their action on those initiatives and other related issues." He went on to urge, "We need action [from FERC] … especially [on] this issue of fuel security."
We recognize that resilience and fuel security are complicated issues that cannot be resolved overnight, but there are a few simple things that FERC can do now that would be helpful:
Roadmap The easiest thing FERC can do is lay out milestones and a plan (i.e., a roadmap) for completing its review of grid resilience.
"Resilience" FERC should establish a uniform definition for resilience based on public comments submitted to the commission several months ago. This would provide a better indication of how the commission views grid resilience.
Analysis FERC could direct RTOs and ISOs to conduct analysis to determine whether their grids are resilient to high impact low frequency events. Moreover, the commission could provide guidance regarding scenarios and assumptions. For example, as part of its fuel security initiative, PJM is modeling 12 scenarios to evaluate the potential effects of fuel disruptions. Such analysis by grid operators could help the commission determine the extent to which the ISO/RTO grids are, or are not, resilient.
Last, it is imperative that the Senate confirm Mr. McNamee so that FERC can address resilience and fuel security with a full complement of commissioners.
[i] "Testimony of Andrew L. Ott, President & CEO PJM Interconnection, L.L.C., before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, October 11, 2018." PJM operates the largest bulk power system in the U.S.
[ii] EIA, "Electricity Monthly Update with data for May 2018, July 24, 2018."
[iii] ACCCE, "Retirement of Coal-Fired Electric Generating Units, Status as of September 26, 2018."
[iv] Ibid.
[v] Transmission security and resource adequacy are both measures of grid reliability. Transmission security refers to planning and operating the transmission system in a way that anticipates the possibility of failure of key system elements in order to minimize the loss of service to large groups of customers, to not cause any area of the interconnected system to become unstable and lose its integrity, and to not cause generation or transmission equipment to operate outside their normal limits. Resource adequacy refers to the amount of capacity needed to serve a forecasted peak load while meeting the required loss of load expectation (LOLE) criterion. The LOLE criterion defines the adequacy of capacity that ensures load cannot exceed available capacity, on average, more than one day in 10 years.
[vi] Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule, 82 Fed. Reg. 46,940 (Oct. 10, 2017).
[vii] FERC, Grid Resilience in Regional Transmission Organizations and Independent System Operators, Docket No. AD18-7-000, January 8, 2018.
[viii] MISO, SPP and ERCOT said, in so many words, that their grids are resilient. However, there is no universally agreed-on definition of resilience, nor are there any criteria or metrics for determining whether the grid is resilient.
[ix] ACCCE, "Retirement of Coal-Fired Electric Generating Units, Status as of September 26, 2018."
[x] PJM State of the Market Report 2017, p. 309. ("In 2017, most units did not achieve full recovery of avoidable costs through net revenue from energy markets alone … There are between 38 and 46 coal units, with between 17,302 MW and 21,039 MW, at risk [of retirement]."


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