Natalie Henley enjoys spending time with her family and friends in the Disney parks. Wanting to help others experience the parks has become a passion. She currently owns two Disney-themed websites, TheDisneyMoms.com and MeetTheMagic.com, which help people plan for their vacation to Disney. If you have any questions about your upcoming vacation planning or funding, please find her on her website where she welcomes helping others.
Before you head into one of the Universal Studios Orlando theme parks, you should indulge in a unique dining experience found at the Toothsome Chocolate Emporium. There you will find a full-service restaurant, bar and confectionary. The food options include classic dishes like steak and seafood, as well as an all-day brunch menu featuring crepes and quiches.
A day in the parks includes lots of fun, commotion and attractions. Often where you parked your vehicle is long gone from your memory by the time you leave to return to the parking lot. After trying to find my vehicle once wandering around from isle to isle looking, I decided that I would take other measures.
Why should you visit the Disney World parks during the rain?
Are you thinking that visiting the Disney parks during the rain is not a good idea? Perhaps, I can convince you otherwise!
Disney World and Disneyland – Is Smoking Allowed?
If you have not hears, Disney World has begun making some changes to their policies. Beginning on May 1, 2019, Disney World will eliminate their smoking areas inside both the Walt Disney World and Disneyland theme parks, water parks, ESPN Wide World of Sports, and Downtown Disney in California. For those who do smoke, Disney will keep several designated smoking areas outside the park entrances, at resort hotels, and Disney Springs.
Disney Skyliner gondola system will be operating at the Walt Disney World Resort in fall of 2019. Disney Skyliner will include iconic Disney characters incorporated into their exterior design along the outside of the gondala making it appear as though these Disney pals ares riding along! The characters include the 'Fab Five,' figures from Disney attractions, fan favorites from movies, and more.
Disney has partnered up with Dooney and Bourke and now has their various designs on handbags and wallets. All of the current Disney designs are available here and include designs such as Disney theme parks, Mickey and Minnie and even Mary Poppins! The Dooney and Bourke products are not only very well made but use high quality materials that last for many, many years.
For most people, a Walt Disney World vacation conjures up images of strolling down Main Street USA pushing a stroller or holding the hand of a young child decked out in clothing featuring their favorite character. You think of riding Dumbo with your toddler or introducing your preschooler to her favorite princess.
Disney is known for their outstanding service and helping you celebrate your birthday is right up their alley. While celebrating birthdays with my family we have experienced several 'magical possibilities'…a.k.a. things that might happen when you are celebrating your birthday in the parks. From special birthday treats to cards signed by Mickey and Friends, Cast Members love to spread a little pixie dust on your celebration.
Earlier this week, Disney Parks shared an exciting announcement – Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is opening ahead of schedule!
Are you planning your Walt Disney World trip with toddlers and young children in mind? Then you'll want to know which rides have height requirements and which are suitable for little ones to enjoy.
Disney provided this Height Chart a few years ago, listing any rides/attractions with notable height requirements. Newer Ride height requirements are listed below.
Disney trips in the fall are magical! The changing of the season, the anticipation of costumes and candy treats, the joy of being together as a family on vacation all are heightened when you add a little Disney fun into your Halloween plans.
2019 Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party Dates August 16, 20, 23, 27, 30September 2, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 27, 29October 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 29, 31November 1 My family loves this party! We particularly enjoy seeing the Magic Kingdom decked out with the fall decorations and trick or treating throughout the park. My son always looks forward to collecting the Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom party card too.
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Today, your family can enjoy one of two exciting Walt Disney World® offers, including the popular "Free Dining" offer! The early availability of these offers will make it even easier for you to make your family's Disney vacation dreams a reality in 2019, and help kick off the new year with a bang.


My father and I never had many personal conversations, but I'll never forget the one when I flew across the country to try and change that.
Years earlier in 1967, after returning from the Peace Corps in Nigeria, I had left my parents' home on the East Coast for graduate school in California. Enjoying the West Coast's more open atmosphere, I stayed.
As the Vietnam War exploded amid the civil rights, feminist, and peace movements, I began to question my childhood worldview. Dad was a career military officer, and we struggled to entertain each other's differences. Increasingly, we found ourselves on opposite sides not only of the country, but in our social and political views—until finally, he disowned me.
Eventually, after years of bitterness and anger, I came to see how my rebellion against Dad was sapping my energy and distracting me from my own sense of calling. As a boy, I ran toward him; as an "extended adolescent" I ran away from him. But I had no real sense of who I am because I had never run into the "Father from whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth receives its true name" (Ephes. 3:14,15NIV).
I knew that somehow, in order to enjoy fully a life of my own, I would need to make peace with my father.
Maybe, at least, I could forgive him.
When Mom was alive, Dad and I never seemed to find time to be alone together. A year after she died, however, I knew that time had come; girding my loins, I left my wife and son in California and flew out alone to see him—even as Jacob went down into the river gorge to wrestle with God (Gen 32:22ff.).
One night soon after I arrived, the two of us were sitting quietly beside each other on the couch watching basketball on TV. When the halftime horn blared a halt to the game, silence fell between us.
Glancing uncertain at my father, I saw his face from the side, and was startled to notice his sloping forehead—just like mine! I shifted uneasily on the couch and my shoulder touched his—the very flesh and bone from which I was formed, the genes which infused my own!
Who is this man? I thought—not scornfully as a rebel, but at last humbly, as a son.
Amid the ballgame halftime chatter, I knew the time was at hand. Drawing in a breath, I turned to Dad—and thought to begin with my grandfather, whom he'd told me had died of cancer from factory work when Dad was 21.
Spellbound, I sat speechless. Holding my eyes on Dad's, I waited for him to continue with what he and his father had talked about, as I'd asked him. But he said no more.
Then it struck me: the seize-and-shake story was his answer!
Silently, awkwardly, we held our gaze.
Then fearfully, wonderfully, it happened.
All at once, I burst out in tears. Deep, bottomless anguish erupted from my gut and gushed out of me. Shamelessly, my body shook til my heart broke and generations of dammed-up pain flowed freely at last. Grasping my father's fist, I fell forward choking, convulsing with sobs.
Catching myself, I sat up hastily and wiped my eyes. Confused, Dad and I looked at each other, then turned back to the TV.
Later, after the final buzzer, we said Goodnight and went our separate ways to bed.
Closing the bedroom door behind me, I fell on my knees. Father! I prayed. What just happened out there with Dad and me?
In that moment, I knew. Dad had answered my question clearly: he and his father hadn't talked about anything together. When his dad communicated, mostly it was just via physical force.
That night, as a man, I faced Dad's anger as fierce as ever I had seen it in my childhood. In fact, I stood up to it as I had never before dared. But when I broke out crying and couldn't control my tears, option #1 was gone.
Your dad's awful wounding in his boyhood is indeed something to cry about, especially when no one else on this planet has dared to feel his pain—not even himself. That's what the cross was about–and, as I discovered, what empowered the resurrection.
After that night, in fact, I forgot about forgiving my father. Not because I stuffed the pain of our relationship deeper in my heart, but because at last, I had poured it out to Father God, and thereby let Him remove it altogether.
In my pride, I had vowed to reconcile with my father only if he asked me to forgive him. But all bitterness and judgment was washed out of me by Father God's flood of tears for His two wounded, stubborn, but yes, beloved sons.
To my joy, what remained in my heart after that was a genuine love and appreciation for Dad which I had never before imagined, deeper and more authentic than any heroic boyhood fantasy. In fact, before leaving him on that visit, I asked Dad to forgive me for not appreciating all he sacrificed and overcame in order to give me so much, and for not respecting him as he deserved.
Thankfully, he forgave me on both accounts.
The father of Lies tells a man, "See how your father hurt you. That shows you he didn't love you." More often, however, it just shows how badly he himself was wounded by his own father, and how that wound shut down his heart and kept him from expressing his love for you.
"Honor your father and your mother," as the Commandment declares; "if you do, you shall have a long, prosperous life in the land (the Lord Your God) is giving you" (Deut. 5:16).
A boy cries from his father's pain; Dad hurts you, and you cry. But a real man cries for his father's pain: God shows you Dad's wound and you feel it as your own, even give it at last to Father God. That way, you no longer carry it around in bitterness and anger that shut down your heart and steal your future (see "Hippies, Fathers, and Forgiveness" in Sons of the Father: Healing the Father-Wound in Men Today).
As a man today, I grieve for the awful pain which my male ancestors carried bound and unspoken in their bodies—and too often displaced onto their sons. At times, in fact, I need to feel it yet again, and pour it out in tears to the Father—if only so I don't pass down that wound to my own son.
In that place of grace, you can honor your father, as the Commandment, and receive its promise of a blessed future. You can ask Father God, "Show me my dad the way You see him"—and not only feel the pain of his wounds, but indeed, receive the blessing of his good qualities as your inheritance. What's more, you can respect manhood—even your own—as you respect his (see Galat. 4:1-7).
I must confess here one final, embarrassing detail in my story: when I cried for my dad that night, I was 55 years old.
My brothers, please: don't wait that long. Don't let your anger co-opt your energies and short-circuit your destiny. Release it to your Father God, and let Him wash it away in His love for you both.
African-American Ben Kinchlow, former co-host of The 700 Club, describes in his autobiography his rage at the racism he experienced as a young man.[i] One evening years later, a friendly white minister John Corcoran invited him and his wife to dinner and during their conversation Kinchlow began talking about those experiences.
I clenched my fists in a final spasm of anger and, breathing heavily, stared hard across the table into the face of Corcoran, this nondescript, sandy-haired young preacher with the long nose. He looked into my eyes. I wanted him to feel my hatred, my contempt, my anger, my pain. . . . Several seconds went by, and I found my rage subsiding, like a storm that had blown itself out. . . . Suddenly it dawned on me. John was crying.
He was crying–not because he was embarrassed or angry with me, but because he cared. He cared for me, the angry, overwhelmed, black young American. In that instant I knew somewhere inside that he loved me with a love that exceeded anything I had ever felt for anyone or anything. That man loved me.
Corcoran wept not fearfully, as a child, because Kinchlow's rage had frightened or hurt him, but faithfully, as a mature Christian. That is, he saw with the compassionate eyes of Jesus the terrible pain in his guest that had prompted that rage.
What if Corcoran had chosen to suppress his tears–and instead defended white people, quoted Scriptures on controlling anger, or jumped on the bandwagon by condemning racism in other whites? Clearly, this momentous opportunity to witness the transforming, victorious love of Jesus would've been lost.
I encountered at that dinner the sort of compassion Jesus spoke so much about and that his followers later wrote about in the New Testament. I know now that John was living out Paul the apostle's appeal to the Christians that they "bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" (Gal. 6:2RSV). Although I was not yet a Christian, he actually had taken upon himself my suffering and frustration, thoroughly identifying with me.
Over 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, amid today's yet-racially-troubled times, the call for economic and social justice for people of color perseveres. Reconciliation, however—that is, healing the hearts of both wounder and wounded—struggles to find a clear focus.
That's because only God can do this heart operation, and we His people have not allowed Him to do it.
Civil rights, that is, are necessary to God's justice but not sufficient to His reconciliation. Neither rational understanding, political correctness, nor religious dogma can reconcile human hearts.
In fact, as John the Baptist proclaimed, victory for God's justice and reconciliation in this broken world belongs to those who "Prepare a road for the Lord, make straight a path for him to travel" (Matt. 3:3).
Thus, John Corcoran's surrendered, heartfelt compassion opened the door for Holy Spirit to enter not only his own heart, but Ben Kinchlow's as well. That's how wholly justified anger was transformed into wholly genuine love.
On the Cross, Jesus demonstrated that those who would fight genuinely to alleviate others' suffering must identify genuinely with their pain. But there's the rub: no white person can grasp fully the wounding and shame which people of color endure.
That's why we need Jesus to mediate it for us–as for example, in John Corcoran.
In fact, that's the true meaning of compassion, from the Latin com=together and passio=suffering. It's the hallmark of those who join with Jesus to bring God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
For others who read this and wish, on the other hand, that you could have such compassion and the freedom it bestows, I have Good News: God hears you. In fact, He longs to give that to you and is just waiting for you to ask.
Don't bother worrying whether you can make it happen, because you can't.
But you can get on your knees before the God who has already done it in Jesus, beg Him for mercy, and thereby make a highway for His grace to enter your heart.
Search me and know my heart, as King David prayed, find out if there is any evil in me and lead me in the everlasting way (Ps. 139:23NIV, 24).
Specifically, you can ask God to reveal the racism in your heart and humbly ask Him to forgive you for it. If you've grown up in Western culture, don't waste your time and mine telling me you don't have any. A fish that swims in a polluted stream gets contaminated by the pollution.
Get real with yourself and with God, and as David cried out, let Him "guide (you) on the road to eternal life" (vs 24TLB).
If the thought of such disclosure makes you feel shame, then you understand in some small measure what we white people have displaced onto those of color. If actually doing it makes you cry, then you know how Jesus feels about that.
In any case, the history lesson is clear: if you don't give your shame to Jesus and let Him eliminate it, you're likely to dump it on others and spread it.
Those with faith and courage to be so real will discover that racism is not just a way of thinking, but an evil spirit designed by the enemy of God and humanity to separate you from Him and from others. Take the authority Jesus died to give you and in His name cast that evil spirit out of your heart and into His hands (see Luke 9:1). Ask Father God to replace it with works of His Holy Spirit instead: compassion and respect for your fellow God-created human beings. (see "How Demons Enter—and Leave" in No Small Snakes: A Journey into Spiritual Warfare).
My chapter "Victory over Racism" in Fight like a Man tells the story of how I struggled to face the racism in myself. I learned then that casting out an evil spirit may not stop it from speaking to you, but more important for a mature Christian, it frees you to choose whether to listen to the evil spirit or to God's Holy Spirit.
Meanwhile, our human sin nature means none of us can measure up to God's standard. This universal inadequacy leaves us saddled us with unbearable shame. Jesus died on the cross to bear that shame for us, drop the scales from our self-focused eyes, and let us see ourselves at last as Father God's sons and daughters—and thereby, as brothers and sisters.
While you're at it, therefore, ask God to show you the shame in you which fuels racism. Unmask its "I'm OK, because you're not OK" ploy to fabricate righteousness. Ask Him to forgive you for not letting Him make you OK in Jesus, bind and cast the spirit of shame out of you, then pray for Him to replace it with His grace and the dignity of son/daughtership (see Romans 8:1, :14-16). Such security in your own heart will enable grace in you to see that dignity in others.
This can happen. Not because we're so righteous, but because Jesus has for some unfathomable reason died to save us self-serving posers with a share in His righteousness. It's called grace.
There is no difference at all, as Paul declared; everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence. But by the free gift of God's grace, all are put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free (Rom. 3:22-24).
A THING OF THE PAST–?
If you believe that, my Christian brother or sister, dare to ask a black person—and get ready to listen, not just with your ears but with your heart. In fact, our country and this world yet labor under the heavy yoke of racism—from color-coded neighborhoods and officially sanctioned shootings to deliberate indifference.
Even now, even among us, God is advancing His Kingdom, calling for a change among us not only of law and politics, but of heart—the likes of which John Corcoran displayed, which Ben Kinchlow embraced, and which only God's Spirit can accomplish.
To be sure, racism—as sin—infects human beings of all colors; the devil is an equal opportunity destroyer. As a Christian of European ancestry, however, I would urge others of my faith and racial heritage to own up to this evil among us and go to Jesus to remove it from within us. With that humble honesty and deliberate faith, we can join God's next move against racism from justice to reconciliation.
The Father of us all has done His part. In Jesus, He has issued a manufacturer's recall on our shame-bound human hearts.
I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed, He promises. I'll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you… (Ezek. 26:26,27TMB).
For God's sake, my Christian brothers and sisters, let Him do that in you—indeed, for the sake of your own heart and for others whose hearts and lives have been broken by our racism.
i Ben Kinchlow, Plain Bread (Dallas: Word Books, 1985) 20, 154.
I had enjoyed enough local hospitality to be more puzzled than indignant. President Kennedy himself was an American; without Americans, he would never have existed. Still, others around the world clearly felt that Kennedy had participated so essentially in their identity and aspirations that he belonged to them.
To condemn the Jewish people for the death of Jesus, as many Christians have done over the centuries, is just as baffling. Jesus himself was a Jew; without the Jews, the Messiah would never have existed. Still, non-Jews around the world clearly have felt that Jesus participates so essentially in their identity and aspirations that he belongs to them.
Biblical history records that Jesus' fellow Jews did in fact facilitate his death at Roman hands. Rather than sanitize that fact with politically-correct fabrications, Gentile Christians must dare to ask why that happened—not in order to blame others, but in fact to revitalize our faith at its roots.
If our faith is alive, that is, the Bible stories which include Jesus' rejection and murder are not about some ancient, distant people, but about us. To point a self-righteous Gentile finger is to refuse to identify with the people of the Bible, and therefore, miss its essential message for us all today.
In Jesus' time, Rome had conquered and brutalized Israel. Centurions (Roman police) menaced on every street corner, and even in the sacred temple. For those who protested, Roman law was swift and deadly; well-traveled roads were lined as telephone poles with crucified dissidents.
As resentment simmered, Jesus and his fellow oppressed Jews were approaching the Passover—which recalled for them a similar historical ordeal, when their ancestors were slaves in ancient Egypt. Passover celebrates the God of the Exodus, who intervened miraculously against overwhelming military odds to destroy the Egyptian oppressor and deliver His Chosen People into freedom across the parted Red Sea.
When a hopelessly powerful and viciously ruthless enemy stands in your backyards and even in your sacred temple, all this remembering freedom and your God's saving power stirs not only hostile resentment, but violent reprisal. Passover in Jesus' time would be like celebrating Fourth of July with foreign armies occupying America. It was a virtual mandate for revolution, and the air in Jerusalem was electric with anticipation for yet another dramatic, saving act of God.
Into this hair-trigger atmosphere came a man who promised to set his people free from their fear of death—the very fear which oppressors bank on for their power (see Heb. 2:14,15). This man Jesus preached that death has no power if you trust in the God of the Exodus. If you've lived in the shadow of crosses hanging with your brothers in faith, you know that such radical talk can turn an angry people into a mob ready not to only to kill but to be killed.
"He stirs up the people!" as the chief priests agonized (Luke 23:4).
"So the Pharisees and the chief priests met with the Council," John noted, "and said, 'What shall we do? Look at all the miracles this man is performing! If we let him go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Roman authorities will take action and destroy our temple and our nation!'" (John 11:47-48TEV).
Similarly, Mark records that two days before the Passover festival, the chief priests "were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and put him to death. 'We dare not do it during the festival,' they said, 'or the people might riot'" (Mk. 14:1,2).
Thus, the anguish of Jewish leaders under Roman rule. Yes, Jesus' demonstrated power threatened their authority. But Rome demanded civil order and was prepared to crush the nation to enforce it.
Not only would outward rebellion against Caesar's battalions be suicidal, but in fact, any disturbance or rioting at all among Jews could spark a holocaust. Such fear was no demented paranoia; this very cataclysm had befallen Israel centuries before, at the hands of the Babylonians.
The dilemma was as clear as it was agonizing. If Jesus refused to shut up or get out of town, people would gather, tempers would flare—and the people chosen to reveal God's love and power to this broken world could get wiped out by Caesar's jittery battalions.
If you want your people to survive, as a Jewish leader you must be prepared to compromise your anger, if not your faith itself. Thus the High Priest Caiaphas exclaimed to the other leaders, "What fools you are! Don't you realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people, instead of having the whole nation destroyed?" (John 11:49-50 TEV).
The common sense choice was clear: Jesus must go.
I wish I could say, "If I were a Jewish leader in Jesus' time, I don't know what I would've done." But I do know what I most likely would have done—and it would not have been to risk the life of my entire nation for some carpenter from far-off Nazareth, no matter how impressive his miracles.
Yet Jesus himself excoriated the Pharisees for that very same self-righteousness: "You hypocrites! …You claim that if you had lived during the time of your ancestors, you would not have done what they did and killed the prophets" (Matthew 23:29,30).
The Story says that the people of God chose apparent worldly security over Jesus. Do we? For all the leaders' attempts to save their nation, not long after this in 66 AD, Israel rebelled openly; the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans, and the land was taken from the Jews until 1948, almost 2000 years thereafter.
Christian Gentiles would do well to heed the lessons of history: Insofar as we value our security over the call of Jesus to save a dying world, we will exclude His Holy Spirit from our churches and thereby leave them lifeless.
In fact, when the people of God chose life in this world rather than to risk their lives for Jesus, they abandoned themselves to the powers of death. This is the very real and very terrifying choice facing the followers of Jesus in every country, in every generation—even our own today.
If indeed, the God of the Bible is our God, then His story in the Bible is our story. As Gentiles, therefore, we can never celebrate ourselves as having the whole part in Christ's life while scorning the Jews as having the whole part in his death. After all, the disciples themselves—not just the Pharisees—denied and disowned Jesus (see Mark 14:50, 68-72).
In fact, it was precisely these unfaithful disciples to whom the Risen Lord first returned, and empowered to bear God's forgiveness to an unfaithful world: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained" (John 20:22,23).
Only those who have abandoned Jesus to die can appreciate the awe-full grace in this act—and the responsibility it bears.
That is, only insofar as you have inflicted the pain of Good Friday and thereby know its shame, can you treasure the humbling grace of Easter and thereby know its power.
Whenever I fancy that I don't feel any particular need for repentance, I remember this: when my pagan Gentile ancestors were worshiping blocks of stone, Jews were worshiping the God of Jesus—and likely being murdered for it by my ancestors. In fact, anyone who testifies that "Jesus died for my sin" is thereby an accomplice in his death.
The Good News is that God sent Jesus so we could all participate in His promises to Israel–and thereby, work together to bring His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus. therefore, did not come to make Gentiles out of Jews, but rather, to make Jews out of Gentiles–as He did first with Abraham. Through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, as Paul put it, "You Gentiles (Christians) are a wild olive tree," grafted onto the original (ie, Jewish) tree–"and now you share the strong spiritual life of the Jews" (Rom. 11:17).
To be a Gentile Christian is to know that we, too, handed Jesus over to the Romans to be crucified. If you didn't–if you weren't there at His crucifixion—you can't know the full blessing of His resurrection. That is, if you can't confess times in your life when you've chosen your comfort over Jesus' suffering, then you can't fully appreciate His immeasurable love and wield the power of His victory.
Insofar as you were there, however, you'll fall trembling on your face grateful for His grace—and rise determined to proclaim the life-renewing power of His Spirit among us even today.
That's the blessing of Good Friday–and the promise of Easter.
Not long into our first year of marriage, Mary and I got into it over something—I don't even remember what set us off. After trading shots for some time, however, it became clear we'd gone down a rabbit hole never to return unless some power greater than the two of us entered the fray.
Yes, we're each highly educated, but sometimes that only means our barbs become more intelligently crafted.
Frustrated and scared—how in the world were we going to get out of this dark place together?—I sighed deeply, un-grit my teeth and girded my loins.
"This argument is over," I declared, taking Mary's hand.
In previous generations, this announcement commonly meant that both partners stopped talking and went their separate ways as the man disappeared behind the newspaper. Of course, because everyone was now quiet, peace was restored and everyone lived happily ever after.
They don't call the devil the prince of Darkness for nothing. As the Destroyer of God's work, he thrills to see couples withdraw from communicating and seethe quietly amid thoughts of self-justification and vengeance.
With that, I drew Mary with me into our bedroom and invited her to kneel down beside me at the foot of our bed.
Forgive me if this seems elementary. If you and your spouse do this together all the time, give me some grace. This approach to "conflict resolution" was not in my hard drive before that time. I never saw it done anywhere in the culture—not at home growing up, not between other married friends, not in any Hollywood film, not in my seminary curriculum, nor even in any of the many churches I attended growing up and since.
Today, since our wedding in 1990, I haven't seen anything better.
Indeed, this wasn't the only time Mary and I knelt together. In that first year together, we wore four holes in the carpet.
It's worth noting here that the word "kneel" comes from the root word for "knee." That's the joint between your ankle and your hip. When it bends you get smaller–and that's the idea.
In any case, as the two of us knelt side by side, I took another measured breath and led the way. "O God," I cried out, modeling after King David in Psalm 139, "search my wife's heart, and find out what wickedness there is within her!" (Freely translated from THB–The Husband's Bible).
OK, actually I didn't say that—though I confess the thought did cross my mind. With a nod to David's asking God to "search my heart" for evil, I struggled to give it my best shot.
In spite of my righteous intentions, I confess I knelt there fuming. Come on, Father! I prayed quietly. You're the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. You were there–just tell her the truth! Hopefully, I waited—but heard nothing either from the Father or from Mary.
"Listen to her," Father? I echoed in silent frustration. What do you mean? I've been listening to her for half an hour! You're all-knowing. You know it didn't happen like she says.
Frustrated, nevertheless I'd already exhausted all my intelligent and insightful options. Father,You know I love your Word! I prayed righteously. Please, give me a Scripture to get us out of this mess.
Struggling, I tried another avenue. Please, Father—how about a rhema word of knowledge? Yes, come Holy Spirit!
"Listen to her," I heard yet again.
Exasperated, I cut to the chase. Father, look:You know I'm right. Mary hears from you–just show her that.
I drew up. "Well, of course," I offered–humble Christian that I am—"I don't know if it's from the Lord or not. I mean, you know, it could be just me." After all, the Bible says we see only as 'in a mirror dimly' in this present age—right? (1 Corinth. 13:12).
Apparently the dim mirror was about to become more clear—and uncomfortable. OK, Father! I prayed quietly, walk me through this!
That got Mary's attention. Straightening up, she looked me in the eye, focused and intense.
A tentative squint of Mary's eyes said, Do I dare trust this dude one more time? After a significant pause, however, with measured breath she began talking to me about her being afraid, including something painful that had happened to her before we ever met.
Minutes later, we were in each other's arms, asking forgiveness for hurting each other.
That day, I learned a simple but powerful lesson: There's something better than being right. It's being real–before God and the one you love, trusting Him to draw you back together for His larger purposes.
You just have to give Him a chance to answer.
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And David danced before the Lord with all his might (2 Sam. 6:14RSV).
Other translations note "with great abandon" (TMB), "with all his might to honor the Lord" (TEV), and "whirled with all his might before the Lord" (Judaism: The Tanakh).
Christmas, that is, heralds the return/coming of God's presence among His people in Jesus the Messiah–like the return of the Ark in David's time. Honoring God with joyous abandon in carols and dance would therefore seem natural for those who worship Jesus, the Son of David (Luke 1:32).
It makes you wonder: Whatever might possess Christians (literally) to believe that singing and dancing to honor the Lord is disruptive?
Certainly–like Jesus among the Pharisees and Holy Spirit moving among us unto today–such joyous celebration can pre-empt and disrupt religion's ordered script. You can get crucified for doing things like that.
So why do we balk at that even today?
A major clue for me lies in the ancient songbook lyrics, "Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy" (Psalm 126:5). That is, we modern, well-provided Western Christians simply haven't sown enough tears to beget joy. To us, such emotional display can feel weak, and therefore shameful.
Often out of our own childhood wounding, we've learned not to reveal to anyone our deepest needs, much less to a God called Father. We just don't trust this God will listen to our cries and respond to save us. And so we haven't experienced His overwhelming love, power, and deliverance that would prompt us to dance and sing with all our might.
The best of carols, meanwhile, proclaim the joy of Christmas. They spring from the heart of a Father God who has come in Jesus deliberately to disrupt our most cherished—albeit self-destructive—schemes to control our lives, look good, and save ourselves.
From that perspective, our Western churches still ban caroling—at least, as it was originally defined. Sure, we all sing Christmas carols freely now in church. But how long would we tolerate everyone pouring out of the pews, twirling and dancing mightily with abandon at a chorus of Joy to the World?
Sadly, our largely subdued Western worship betrays the same denial and shame as that of our medieval ancestors. But at least, they were honest about their ordered intentions and kicked the carolers out.
Our modern, more sophisticated sensibilities prefer to eviscerate the experience and domesticate the Spirit who inspires it. We permit the carols, but not the active, heartfelt worship which they, like us, were created to express—and which indeed, defines them.
Who, in fact, can sing with abandon "Joy to the world! The Lord is come! Let earth receive her king!"? Only those who have sown in tears—that is, who have cried out deeply this past year for God's saving presence in their lives. The Good News of Christmas is designed for those who have tried to be king of their own lives, failed miserably, and are now desperate at last to receive the King of kings.
But maybe all this dancing with abandon at Christmas strikes you as unseemly and embarrassing, if not shameful. Maybe this past year you've managed your life quite well by yourself, thank you.
To whatever extent that's so, you'll see the birth of God among us like the Pharisees and our medieval church ancestors, as a disruption rather than a blessing. If you haven't faced your own hopes and fears deeply, you can't know, as the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem declares, that "the hopes and fears of all the years are met" in Jesus even this Christmas, even in you.
I can only tell you that the God revealed at Christmas is a God of resurrection power who promises us "the same as the mighty strength which he used when he raised Christ from death" (Ephes. 1:15-20). He specializes in rekindling dreams that have died and in restoring a "joyful and triumphant" heart, as the carol O Come, All Ye Faithful invites.
Shepherds why this jubilee, Why your joyous songs prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be/Which inspire your heavenly song?
A good way to do that is to find a quiet place and get real there with "the Father from whom all fatherhood in heaven and on earth derives its name" (Ephes. 3:14NIV). Tell God openly about your hopes and fears—like Jesus, with "loud cries and tears" if necessary (Heb. 5:7NIV).
Then wait and listen for your Father to respond.
Just make sure there's room to dance.
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Popular images of Pilgrims and roast turkeys make it easy today to believe that Thanksgiving began at Plymouth Rock in 1621, and is simply about civil etiquette to appreciate the good things we enjoy in this country.
In fact, our American forebears modeled their celebration after a far earlier Thanksgiving—one hosted by another people who were similarly oppressed by a tyrant ruler and fled across a vast emptiness to a new land of abundance, there to establish a nation which would reflect God's ways to other nations.
What's more, these very first pilgrims worshiped the God of Jesus and indeed, were our Hebrew ancestors in faith. They were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt just as the "Americans" had been spiritual slaves to the King of England; they set out across the desert wilderness to Palestine like the "Americans" who crossed the vast and empty Atlantic Ocean, and they understood themselves to be a "light to the nations" (Isa. 49:6), even as the "Americans" sought to be a beacon of religious freedom in an otherwise repressive world.
This definitive biblical Thanksgiving includes three major acts: 1. Give a portion of your harvest/income to the Temple, 2. Tell the story of God's saving acts among your ancestors, and 3. Eat, enjoy, and share freely the rest of your first fruits! (see Deut. 14:22-26). Most of us today have no problem with the eating and enjoying part of #3, and most Christians donate money regularly at church. Few of us, however, take time on Thanksgiving Day to remember our ancestors, much less how God acted among them.
The God of Israel is thereby unique among other gods, Rabbi Rothman emphasized, in that He is revealed not primarily in nature, wise sayings, metaphysical consciousness, or even ritual, but rather, in history.
With our Hebrew ancestors, therefore, we Christians worship the God who acts in human affairs, even intervening decisively—as in Jesus. We testify to His power and goodness primarily not by upholding creeds and theological concepts, but rather, by proclaiming what He has done in our lives.
Faith in a living God is sustained not by correct belief, but rather, by vital memory. "Write down for the coming generation what the Lord has done so that people not yet born will praise Him," as the Psalmist proclaimed (Ps 102:18). "Think of the past, of the time long ago," Moses declared; "ask your fathers to tell you what happened, ask the old men to tell of the past" (Deut 32:7).
To remember God's saving acts in the past is to remind yourself of God's love and power, and thus be reassured that He'll stand with you similarly in future trials.
We don't need fortune tellers; we just need faithful story tellers.
The destiny which God has planned for us, that is, unfolds precisely insofar as we're faithful to what He has done in our past. The biblical faith, as another has noted, moves us into the future much like rowing a boat: facing backwards and gauging direction by sighting along landmarks passed.
In fact, if we don't remember God's work in our past, we can't thank Him for it. Worse, we're easily seduced by our self-centered human nature into believing, "I did it all by myself!" But if you gained what you have entirely by your own efforts, there can't be any Thanksgiving, simply because there's no One to thank.
Thanksgiving requires the humility to admit you needed help; without that, you can't celebrate the fact that you received it.
The Bible therefore urges a "sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord," as in Leviticus 22:29. In order to thank God wholeheartedly, you first need to sacrifice the proud fantasy of your power to the humbling reality of His saving hand.
Thus, the New Testament witness affirms, "For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it" (Eph. 2:8). Thanksgiving is not about what you have, but Who provided it.
For Americans, this is a powerful word of correction today, almost 400 years after our Pilgrim ancestors struggled to survive that first Massachusetts winter of 1621. What began then as dependence upon God for life itself has been corrupted through generations of increasing affluence into a national mania for self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and Looking Out For #1, as that popular best-seller urged.
The gospel of the world proclaims, "You've worked hard, therefore you deserve good things!" The Good News in Jesus, however, is precisely that we don't get what we deserve.
A child of the God revealed on the cross dares not pray, "Lord, give me what I deserve!" For God knows—even if we proudly refuse to accept it—that in our hopelessly sinful nature, we deserve death (see Romans 7:18-8:2). In fact, that's precisely why Jesus came: to save us from the death we deserve for the life God has planned for us. It's called grace.
These texts, and the God of History whom they proclaim, became graphically alive to me at 42, when I visited for the first time my father's hometown just outside Philadelphia (see "Boots for a Working Man," in Healing the Masculine Soul). Though as a Navy brat I never lived there, Dad told me many boyhood stories about it, including how his mother and grandmother had worked long hours in the local fabric mills for as little as $3 a (six-day) week.
And then, wonder of wonders! I stood myself before the very steel workers' house where my grandfather—who quit third grade to work in the mills—had lived with my grandmother after their wedding in 1900. Reverently, I walked up the stairs, by then covered with weeds, to the now dark, soot-stained factory where my grandfather had worked sixty hours a week, coming home at night—as my father told me—with bloody scars on his arms and shoulders from white-hot steel sparks.
What's more, I stood on the platform of the train station, now an antique shop, where my father stood after his factory work, waiting for the train to college night school in the city—the very train, in fact, on which he met the person who introduced him to my mother.
The words you read here almost a hundred years later, are written by the grandson of an illiterate steel worker. Yet I have no burn scars on my arms from factory work.
Before the God of History—even my own history—I can only fall on my knees weeping for those men and women of the past on whose scarred and overworked shoulders I stand today. In that pain, I cry out for God to forgive me for taking so much for granted, and beg Him to show me how I can be faithful in my own life to all that He has done in my past.
I'm thankful that I don't have to work sixty hours a week beside a blazing steel mill furnace and die of factory-induced cancer at 52. Before the God of History, however, I know that I don't have to do it because my grandfather did it.
In fact, I have too often assumed, and in that sense abused the freedom others suffered that I might enjoy.
My eyes do not hold enough tears to embrace all the suffering my ancestors endured–nor to atone for my own failure fully to appreciate it. I'm therefore eternally thankful that I don't have to die for my sin. Before the God of History, in fact, I know that I don't have to do it only because Jesus did it.
In that thankfulness, in fact, I'm freed to live, even in the fullness of God's purposes for me.


Credit: Salzburg Global Seminar/Compass Daniel Levine-Spound, Barbara Medrado Dias Silveira, Natalie McCauley, Elisa Quiroz, and Ryan Rossner represented Harvard Law School among a global cohort of Cutler Fellows. They were joined by faculty representative and program chair Mark Wu (top left), Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, who led a workshop on trade and sustainable development.
The seventh annual Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program brought together 53 students in Washington, D.C. last month, including five from Harvard Law School. Chosen for their academic excellence and strong interest in international and public interest law, Daniel Levine-Spound, Barbara Medrado Dias Silveira, Natalie McCauley, Elisa Quiroz, and Ryan Rossner represented Harvard among an outstanding cohort of Cutler Fellows from around the world. They were joined by faculty representative and program chair Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson professor of law, who led a workshop on trade and sustainable development.
Over two days, February 22-23, Cutler Fellows engaged with leading legal professionals and public servants to discuss the global future of law and governance at a time when the rules-based international order is becoming further challenged. Speakers included Wendy Cutler, vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former diplomat and negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; John Bellinger, former U.S. legal adviser to the Department of State and the National Security Council; and Kathy Ruemmler and C. Boyden Gray, White House counsels to Barack Obama and George H. W. Bush, respectively.
This seventh cohort of Cutler Fellows collectively represented 22 countries, including China, Germany, India, Nigeria, and Venezuela, as well as the U.S. The Fellows also worked with faculty advisors from each of the participating law schools—Columbia University, Duke University, Georgetown University, New York University, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Yale University—to polish their research papers tackling issues in international law. Topics ranged from human rights and armed conflict resolution to trade, technology, and corporate accountability.
Opening the program Friday morning at the United States Institute of Peace, Wendy Cutler discussed her three decades of experience negotiating international trade deals on behalf of the U.S. She charged the Fellows to hone their listening skills, be patient, and build resilience—three traits that have helped her find success across the negotiating table.
Credit: Salzburg Global Seminar/Michelle Dai Zotti Prof. Mark Wu with Wendy Cutler, vice president and managing director of the Washington D.C. Office of the Asia Society Policy Institute. Most recently, she served as acting deputy U.S. trade representative, working on a range of U.S. trade negotiations and initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.
That evening, Gray, Ruemmler, and Bellinger shared their perspectives on the role of the President's legal counsel. Their conversation gave Fellows and guests an inside look at how the White House considers international law when making foreign and domestic decisions. Judge William Webster, the former FBI and CIA director, met with Fellows during the Friday evening program.
Fellows gathered on Saturday at NYU Washington, DC, where program chair Mark Wu and Cutler Fellows co-founder Bill Burke-White led a panel discussion on the intersection of international law and development work.
Students then met with mentors to have candid career conversations. Two mentors, Thomas Weatherall from the U.S. Department of State and Sara Salama from Coptic Orphans, were former Cutler Fellows; they were joined by Gomiluk Otokwala of the International Monetary Fund as well as Adejoké Babington-Ashaye, senior counsel at the World Bank, and Katrin Kuhlmann, president and co-founder of New Markets Lab.
To close this year's program, Stephen L. Salyer, Salzburg Global Seminar president and co-founder of the Lloyd N. Cutler Center for the Rule of Law, highlighted ways for Cutler Fellows to stay engaged with the robust network of Fellows—now over 350-strong—and potential opportunities for students to attend future law-centered programs in Salzburg, Austria, where Salzburg Global Seminar is based.
Speaking afterward, Salyer, said: "We are delighted to welcome a new cohort of Cutler Fellows to the Salzburg Global Fellowship, and rely on them to continue the exchange begun Washington.
"We are grateful to our partner law schools, their extraordinary faculty and to formidable speakers and mentors who donated their time and shared vital insights. We especially salute the true stars of this program, the Cutler Fellows themselves, who presented outstanding papers and who will define the future of public and private international law.


Summer is officially here, and you've probably been busy stocking up on all the essentials like a '90s graphic bathing suit, DIY after-sun lotion, sun hats and an ambitious reading list. All that's left to fill out your tote (and give you an Insta-worthy backdrop) is an awesome beach towel. Whether you're kicking it by the pool or on a tropical beach, here are 17 towels that are begging to be photographed and double-tapped. Whether you're in search of graphic prints, bold stripes, sassy graphics or retro vibes, there's something for everyone here. Arm yourself with one of these towels for all your beach adventures and you'll be the coolest cat on the sand this summer.
1. What on Earth Round Beach Towel ($30): As if you would go to the beach without your favorite sugary treat. You'll get all the jealous looks (and none of the sprinkles on your swimsuit).
3. Modcloth Dry It On for Size Beach Towel ($55): Why pick just one color when you can have them all? Embrace the rainbow with a punchy beach towel in a seriously cool graphic design.
4. Sunnylife Avalon Luxe Beach Towel ($55): Kick back and hit up that summer read on this colorful striped beach towel that gives you the perfect backdrop for all those beach selfies. If you love prints and color as much as you love the sand and the sun, you've met your match.
5. H&M Patterned Beach Towel ($18): This beach towel is almost worthy of Queen Bey herself. Whether you're heading out for a beach day or a picnic in the park, it's all about that lemonade print. Now all that's missing is a big beach umbrella and a bowl of boozy gummy bears.
7. Urban Outfitters Printed Grid Perfect Beach Towel ($29): If you prefer to keep your beach look more subtle, this simple towel fits the bill perfectly. These fast-drying beach towels feature a chic design that won't clash with the rest of your OMG-worthy beach accessories.
8. Forever 21 Flamingo Beach Towel ($11): What says summer better than flocks of pink flamingos? Transport yourself to a tropical paradise even if you're just laying out by your pool.
9. Ruby Mint Hathaway Beach Towel ($78): Don't want a towel that clashes with your swimsuit? Stick with a black and white print to make your day at the beach look totally glam. This tropical palm-inspired print is too chic for its own good.
10. Ruby Mint Colony Beach Towel ($78): Go ahead and add this bold geo beach towel to your vacation packing list. Not only is it stylish enough for your poolside lounging, but you can use it as a cozy blanket when the sun sets and the party really gets started.
11. Ban.do Giant Beach Towel ($38): The beach is the perfect place to bring out your inner child with funny, sassy prints and graphic quotes. Spread this rad towel out on the sand for plenty of fun and no shortage of Instagram-worthy snapshots.
13. Slow Tide Rubik Towel ($40): The only puzzle you've got to solve here is how to keep your BFFs from stealing this awesome towel. On the sand, in a beach tote or around your waist, this towel looks good everywhere.
14. Target Marimekko Beach Towel ($25): Make a splash this summer with this navy blue and black towel that's guaranteed to put you in a vacay state of mind. Whether you're chilling by the pool or catching a game of beach volleyball, you'll want to keep this pretty towel on hand.
15. Ban.do Beach, Please Giant Beach Towel ($38): Even #girlbosses need to take a vacation every now and then. The next time you play hooky from the office, throw down this cheeky towel and send out those vacation vibes loud and clear as you soak up the rays.
16. Urban Outfitters Lady Perfect Beach Towel ($29): These lightweight towels are soft and fast-drying, making them appropriate for the beach and beyond. This design is so pretty, you might be tempted to use it as a bath towel when you're not chilling on the sand.
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See inside Jaguar Land Rover's Solihull factory after bid to make it Covid-19 proof
Thermal imaging equipment to check workers' temperatures and PPE will be part of the 'new normal' when JLR reopens tomorrow
Ben Perrin
A huge step-change is about to take place at Jaguar Land Rover, with random temperature checks using thermal imaging equipment set to become part of working life.
In order to guard against Covid-19, automotive manufacturer bosses have "painstakingly reviewed every process and every area" of the site in order to protect staff as production restarts.
JLR factory workers - known as associates - with two high temperature readings will be sent home and given NHS contact as they could be infected with the virus.
Up to 2,000 JLR workers are returning to work at Solihull
PPE will be worn at certain production line areas, when social distancing cannot be observed. Visors or masks will be made available to every employee if they need them.
Bespoke hand sanitiser has been produced on site in 100ml refillable bottles.
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While safe seats next to screens have been installed in communal areas along with "enhanced" cleaning routines.
Over a thousand signs reminding staff about social distancing have been put up. While 2m markers line floors and one-way system walkways have been introduced around the 300-acre site.
The factory is due to reopen on a single shift with 2,000 employees returning from Monday (May 18).
JLR's message is for associates to "Stay Safe, Be Kind, Stay Well."
Our sister site BirminghamLive has taken an exclusive look at a number of preventative measures undertaken taken by the car giant.
Thermal imaging cameras are being used to ensure workers' temperatures are not high with threat of Covid-19
This is one of 20 thermal imaging cameras currently on site which can read a temperature of a JLR worker almost instantaneously.
Government guidelines currently state that symptoms of coronavirus are a high temperature of 37.8C or above.
Staff will be systematically tested as part of JLR's "overarching approach to protecting employees."
There will be "random testing" at all areas of the site - not just as people enter.
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But the first action for any visitor into reception would also be to scan their temperature.
"The Government suggests people monitor their temperature at home and we're encouraging people to do the same thing as well," said Rich Baker, the corporate affairs manager for Soilhull.
"As a society, as a country, a nation and a global community the only way we're going to beat this virus is if we have a cultural responsibility and accountability.
"We're encouraging all our employees to take ownership that if you're protecting yourself you're protecting others."
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Adrian Price, the trim and final technology manager at Solihull, said if someone did positively test for a high temperate then they would be moved into a safe area and be retested.
If on a second test the associate is still reading a high temp then the employee would be advised to return home to self-isolate.
Help would also be given for NHS contact to ensure they get the best follow-up care should it be needed.
Factory made sanitisers
Sanitiser has been produced at the JLR factory in Solihull following WHO guidelines
"Hundreds of litres" of bespoke hand sanitiser has been produced at the Solihull factory.
It was the combined creation of the estate management team and paint shop.
Refillable bottles will be handed out to employees during and meet and greet sessions by team leaders.
"It's important we provide hand sanitiser to all of our employees as much of it is about additional reassurance for people," said Mr Baker.
"Primarily we are asking people wash their hands, but when it's not possible, for what ever reason, to use sanitiser.
"One of the challenges we faced initially was the supply chain as everyone in the world wanted hand sanitiser at the same time.
"We worked in partnership with our own chief medical officer and followed the guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to produce our own bespoke hand sanitiser.
"It will be given to everyone as they return to work."
The 100ml bottles are deliberately sized so they can fit into people's pockets.
PPE ( Personal Protective Equipment)
Workers will wear face visors when working in close proximity on the production line
Visors will be worn by staff where social distancing cannot be carried out in the assembly halls, body and paint shops.
Up to 4,000 visors will be in place at the Solihull site for a start up in the week ahead.
A three tier system has been implemented to assess PPE use in the factory:
Green processes - Processes that can adhere to social distancing would not require PPE
Amber processes - Processes where changes have been made for social distancing, like the layout or process flow, would not require PPE
Red processes - Processes where 2m social distancing cannot be implemented would be compulsory to wear PPE
Associates would wear a visor for "red processes", however, every worker is being offered PPE by the manufacturer.
"What we're doing is offering every associate the opportunity to have PPE if it makes them feel more reassured in completing their process," said Mr Price.
"We are advising wearing the visor as the best form of PPE. We do have face masks if a preferred option."
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JLR visors have also been produced to support the NHS with production currently ramped up to 15,000 per week.
In the assembly halls there are over 800 different jobs associates carry out, there are 6,000 model combinations going through processes and 2,800 components that would be fitted to each vehicle.
Cleaning of communal areas and handrails has been "enhanced." While doors are now propped open, unless it's a safety door, to mitigate handle transmission risks.
JLR said measures have been "like mobilising a small town, which put people at the centre to both protect and reassure them in what are uncertain and strange times for everybody."
Contractors, suppliers and any visitors will be given PPE at JLR. They will also watch a safety video, which have been updated to include the Covid-19 guidelines before they are escorted around site by staff members.
Over a thousand 2m social distancing signs have been put up at the JLR site in Solihull
There are are 900 MDF dividers which split chairs and tables at rest areas to ensure social distancing is maintained.
Manufacturing manager Nigel Van Ommeren said they have also been painted to allow them to be sanitised.
"There is a physical divider on a table," he said. "Even if you stand up you can't see the associate who is either by you or on the opposite side of you."
JLR have been "resourceful and creative" and used materials they had freely available on site.
"It's a huge undertaking to implement this level of protection of one site, let alone all of them," added Mr Price.
"We try to use materials and resources which are readily available on site rather than spending millions on custom made solutions which we might need to change in a week or two."
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Entrance have 2m distance markers on the ground.
The bottom floor of the JLR multi-storey car park will only be used for a social distance queuing system to the turnstiles.
Yellow crosses marked out on the floor showing distancing in the reception area.
Easily recognisable and memorable signage has been created all over the site to help people remember to all the guidance supplied by the Government.
Certain walkways have also been turned into a one-way system.
JLR have been communicating with their employees in the recent weeks of lockdown.
They have sent surveys to discover the employee's fitness and their ability to return to work, which includes any childcare issues.
"We've done a whole process of identifying employees and selecting them. It is also about health and safety and what they can expect when they return to work," said Mr Baker.
"What their responsibilities are, what our responsibilities are and how we are going to work and learn together to adapt how we work to make things safe for people.
"We want employees to feel safe, help them feel reassured and when they come back to work help them understand that they are working as one team to get JLR started and build great vehicles safely."

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'I've never experienced something that belligerent' – Black student repeatedly called N-word, ape
Mohammed Awal June 24, 2020 at 08:00 am
Screenshot: (YouTube), The white woman who racially attacked and called Graves 'ape'
America has become synonymous with racism and this came to bare Saturday afternoon when a 27-year-old Yale Ph.D. student, Kathryn Graves, was subjected to cruel racist abuse.
A target of a white woman's racist diatribe, Graves, who resides in New Haven, Connecticut narrated her painful experience to NBC News. She said she was accosted by the white woman on 47th Street and Third Avenue at about 5:15 p.m.
Graves was wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt when the woman "got in her face" and repeatedly used the N-word and other profane words including "ape".
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"Obama's f—ing d–k right next to his ape f—ing wife," woman rants in footage of the incident recorded by Graves and posted to Facebook and Instagram.
"What's the matter, you got time to do your f—ing pink a– f—ing hair, you n—er Obama f—ing ape," the woman holding a case of Natural Ice beer added.
Speaking to The Post, Graves said she blocked off how hurtful the words were and thought more pragmatically.
"Before I even started to emotionally process what was going on, I just knew I had to record it" and "try and figure out what to do if she tries to attack me," the psychology student told the outlet.
Graves added: "I recorded her and she just went off … there was nothing on my end that preempted this, other than me being there. I have never [before] had someone just spew hatred in my face."
Stunned by the incident, Graves told NBC News that she had never experienced something that was that "belligerent and blatant." "My mindset was 'Keep recording and brace yourself in case she gets violent.'"
The footage of the worrying incident had already been sent to the NYPD. Officers from the department, The Post reports, had been in touch with Graves and another "potential victim" of the same savage woman.
"You must be actively anti-racist — it's not enough to just not be racist," she said. "If nothing happens, this woman could be dangerous."
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It's time for another round of Amiga Games Awards over at Obligement! Which games will be deemed the best of 2014 in the world of Amiga?
I'm confident that the competition will be tough this year, especially if we consider cool titles such as Tales of Gorluth: The Tear Stone Saga or Ace of Hearts and Voxel Bird from Cherry Darling.
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As an option I though it would be nice to show colour correcting from within Adobe Camera Raw. Of course this method works best with native raw/dng files but by exporting frames as Jpegs at Max (12) quality or Tiffs we can bring them into ACR in supported applications. I used Photoshop in this example. For reference and to keep it simple every shot was graded using this profile (link to download here – HidingPlace_ACR_Grade.xmp http://we.tl/KbamUsbFJj). All I did then was adjust white balance and exposure.
To begin I exported the sequence as Jpegs from Premiere I opened all 3,216 frames into ACR I then blanket graded with the profile and the adjusted shots in groups.
Once saved as frames I then imported as a sequence into Premiere and dropped that onto my existing timeline. Thus keeping all sync on audio or supers.
Once again I exported as ProRes Proxy to upload to Vimeo.
What you do get when working with a fake raw image sequence like Jpegs is a bug in ACR that ramps exposure. It's slight be you do get some flicker sometimes. I don't get this issue when using DNG's so when licences are sorted an BMPCC does have Raw you should be good. I did doubled checked profile. crs:AutoExposure="False" / crs:AutoShadows="False" / crs:AutoBrightness="False" / crs:AutoContrast="False".
Any way here is the result.
Kate Loustau Hiding Place Grade ACR from James Miller on Vimeo.
A quick colour grading guide to achieve what you see below. We do not cover any fancy masking or tracking in this demo, just the basics results you can hope for without leaving Premiere. Colour grading is all about personal taste. Really I have no care if the skins tones fall off and the sky is yellow. Just enjoy yourself.
Hiding Place – Kate Loustau / Graded from James Miller on Vimeo.
Examples above show with and without grading. What you need: For Creative Cloud users these LUT's can be found at: Adobe Photoshop CC/Presets/3DLUTs. They are loaded through Lumetri Looks in Premiere CC. Lumetri presets are again just LUT's that can be loaded in. I just set with anyone of these and then load the desired LUT into that. Kodak 5205 Fuji 3510 (by Adobe).cube filmstock_50.3dl HorrorBlue.3DL Film Convert Pro – AE/PP plugin version 2 – http://www.filmconvert.com Adobe Premiere Pro CC – http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/premiere.html Photoshop CC (for the LUT's) – http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/photoshop.html I have included the download of the Premiere CC grade edit to get you started download here: http://we.tl/aFxHRRI3sE You will have the correct LUT's etc. So really you will need Photoshop too as that's where the 3 LUT's come from. You will also need to download Philips 'Hiding Place' film here. It's Prores and cut into his original edit that was 2:35 in aspect. "This footage is for personal use only. No commercial use is permitted. Credit for Philip Bloom, Kate Loustau is required and if the music is used then The Music Bed Holly Maher "Hiding Place" is also required." Thanks and enjoy playing with the footage! https://philipbloom.wetransfer.com/downloads/7b92c68d915ec31390b74928d833155c20130825094339/538f16f868ea27d2113cfbead26d263d20130825094339/31a2ad Please read 'USAGE TERMS READ FIRST.rtf' doc attached to download.
Getting Started: It's Important to load adjust layers in the right order. Sometimes if you're using too many adjustments, you may cut some weird clipping issues. In this example case of Philip's 'Hiding Place', I started by marking the cuts as I was not working with the native edit. Although I still do lots of grading to locked down edits that have been supplied as Prores masters. It can speed things up if you have at least an XML to load of the cuts points. V1 contains the main ungraded track.
V3 contains another adjustment layer. On the Adjustment layer I used filmstock_50.3dl using Lumetri at a Opacity of 60%. V4 contains another adjustment layer. On the Adjustment layer I used HorrorBlue.3DL using Lumetri at a Opacity of 30%. V5 contains RGB Curves. I pushed the blue highlight to give me yellow highlights and a tiny bit a blue shadows using the bottom left bezier point. Also I pushed the green shadows towards red by a touch.
Some of your best work. Truly stunning. Getting the hang of raw, eh?
James Miller wrote this. You think it was me? If so been shooting raw video for well over 2 years!
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Holding the most MLS Cups victories of any Eastern Conference club – D.C United is historically one of the most successful franchises in Major League Soccer's history. The last few years have seen some inconsistently in the club's performance, but after a stretch of mediocrity D.C United is back in the thick of it in the East. With their return to prominence D.C United lines are ripe for the picking and a popular options for soccer bettors.
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Sun 11 Reg. MD2 DC United 1 - 3 Atlanta United +536 – -175 Odds
Sat 17 Reg. MD3 Houston 2 - 2 DC United +236 – +137 Odds
Sat 24 Reg. MD4 DC United 1 - 3 Columbus +430 – -137 Odds
Sat 31 Reg. MD5 DC United 0 - 1 Sporting KC +603 – -200 Odds
Sat 14 Reg. MD7 Columbus 0 - 1 DC United +153 – +187
Sat 28 Reg. MD9 DC United 2 - 3 Philadelphia +409 – -135
Sat 12 Reg. MD11 DC United 2 - 3 Real Salt Lake +333 – -119
Sat 19 Reg. MD12 DC United 22:30 San Jose – – –
Sat 9 Reg. MD15 DC United 22:00 Seattle – – –
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Sat 30 Reg. MD18 DC United 19:30 New England – – –
Wed 4 Reg. MD19 DC United 22:30 L.A. Galaxy – – –
Sat 14 Reg. MD20 Vancouver 19:00 DC United – – –
Sat 21 Reg. MD21 DC United 15:30 Atlanta United – – –
Wed 25 Reg. MD22 NYRB 19:30 DC United – – –
Sat 28 Reg. MD22 Colorado 19:00 DC United – – –
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Sun 12 Reg. MD24 Orlando City 19:00 DC United – – –
Wed 15 Reg. MD25 Portland 19:30 DC United – – –
Sun 19 Reg. MD25 New England 18:00 DC United – – –
Sun 26 Reg. MD26 DC United 19:00 NYRB – – –
Wed 29 Reg. MD27 Philadelphia 19:30 DC United – – –
Sun 2 Reg. MD27 Atlanta United 17:30 DC United – – –
Sat 8 Reg. MD28 DC United 15:30 New York City FC – – –
Wed 12 Reg. MD29 Minnesota United 19:30 DC United – – –
Sun 16 Reg. MD29 NYRB 13:00 DC United – – –
Sat 29 Reg. MD31 Impact 19:00 DC United – – –
Sun 7 Reg. MD32 Chicago 13:00 DC United – – –
Sat 13 Reg. MD33 FC Dallas 15:30 DC United – – –
Wed 17 Reg. MD34 Toronto 19:30 DC United – – –
Sat 20 Reg. MD34 New York City FC 16:00 DC United – – –
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1 Atlanta United 25 11 8 1 2 25 13 12
2 Sporting KC 23 11 7 2 2 23 12 11
3 Columbus 21 12 6 3 3 17 10 7
4 New York City FC 21 11 6 3 2 21 16 5
5 Orlando City 19 10 6 1 3 20 16 4
6 New York Red Bulls 18 9 6 0 3 23 11 12
7 New England 17 10 5 2 3 18 14 4
8 FC Dallas 16 9 4 4 1 14 9 5
9 Vancouver 15 12 4 3 5 14 22 -8
10 Portland 14 9 4 2 3 14 14 0
11 Real Salt Lake 13 10 4 1 5 13 21 -8
12 Minnesota United 12 11 4 0 7 13 21 -8
13 Houston 12 9 3 3 3 20 15 5
14 Chicago 11 10 3 2 5 13 17 -4
15 Philadelphia 11 10 3 2 5 8 14 -6
16 L.A. Galaxy 10 10 3 1 6 14 19 -5
17 Impact De Montreal 9 11 3 0 8 14 26 -12
18 San Jose 9 10 2 3 5 17 19 -2
19 Colorado 8 9 2 2 5 11 13 -2
20 Seattle 8 9 2 2 5 7 11 -4
21 Toronto 7 9 2 1 6 12 18 -6
22 DC United 5 8 1 2 5 10 16 -6
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The team has seen its success dwindle in the decade after their last Cup victory. They have managed to three times finish atop the East and in 2006 and 2007 they were the top team in the league. Since 2004 though they have twice won the Wooden Spoon – an award given to the worst team in the league – and have yet to return to the finals, even though they were the top team in the East three times.
Currently the United play at RFK Stadium – one of the biggest stadiums in the league with a capacity of over 45,000. The team is expected to move as early as 2018 to a new, smaller stadium – with a capacity of around 25,000. The move will help create a louder, more soccer like environment and the stadium size is more in line with most other MLS clubs.
The biggest rival of D.C United is the New York Red Bulls. As two of the founding members of Major League Soccer and the Eastern Conference, the rivalry has been played for over 20 years with DC winning the Atlantic Cup – their annual rivalry trophy – 13 times. The teams have also met 12 times in the playoffs where DC has 7 victories and the game has ended in a draw twice. D.C United has a growing rivalry with Philadelphia – a club that joined the MLS in 2010.


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About a half hour south-west of London, Ontario, surrounded by golden fields, is a little town called Dutton. Every year, the Friends of Dutton-Dunwich sponsor the John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award. I entered my story "If Wishes Were Pennies" five years ago, and surprisingly made it to the semi-finals. This year that same story was purchased for the anthology, Canadian Creatures. Every year since, I've meant to enter again, but somehow the deadline always snuck past me.
This year, I remembered to check the date, hoping I would be able to write a story for the contest while on vacation. I discovered the deadline was only two days before my vacation and I had a week to write and mail a story if I wanted to enter. Yikes! But I had a great idea, so I spun the story as quickly as I could and sent it.
To my surprise, once again, my story made it to the semi-finals. And then to my greater surprise, I received a delightful note letting me know my story was selected as one of three finalists for the $2000 prize. It is such an honour to know there are people out there reading and liking my work and feeling it worthy of a prize.
So I went to Dutton for the ceremony. I've never been to the London area. It's a three and a half hour drive from my home, but it was made all the more enjoyable by the autumn colours. The evening ceremony included a reading from Galbraith's work by one of his descendants-- clad in the Galbraith tartan. Unfortunately, I didn't come home with the $2000 prize, but I met lots of nice people and I wouldn't mind going next year.
"True Love" appears in the anthology, Alice Unbound, from Exile Editions.
"If Wishes Were Pennies" appears in the anthology, Canadian Creatures.
I have a story in a forthcoming anthology from Dark Dragon Publishing.
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Nike Winter (* 20. November 1989 in Wien) ist eine österreichische Fußballspielerin.

Karriere

Vereine
Winter begann ihre Karriere im August 1996 beim ASV Intersport Eybl Vösendorf und schloss sich im Juli 2004 der Kampfmannschaft des ASK Erlaa an.

2004 begann sie ihre Profikarriere beim ASK Erlaa und wechselte im November 2008 gemeinsam mit Melanie Schurgast zum deutschen Bundesligaaufsteiger FF USV Jena, für den sie am 7. Juni 2009 ihr einziges Profi-Spiel absolvierte. Im August 2009 ging sie nach Österreich zum SK Kelag Kärnten. Anfang 2006 wurde sie von der Kronen Zeitung unter die Top 2 bei der Wahl zur Fußballerin des Jahres 2010 gewählt. Nach zwei Jahren wechselte Winter im Juli 2011 zum FC St. Veit. Im Sommer 2013 nach der Auflösung des FC St. Veit schloss sie sich dessen Nachfolgerverein Carinthians Soccer Women an und war ab August 2013 Mannschaftskapitänin.

Nach dem Abstieg 2013 in die 2. Bundesliga und dem Wiederaufstieg in der Saison 2014/15 wechselte sie im Jänner 2016 zum Ligakonkurrenten SK Sturm Graz.

In der Saison 2015/2016 wurde Winter mit SK Sturm Graz Vizemeister und qualifizierte sich damit direkt für die UEFA Women's Champions League.

Ebenfalls in der Saison 2016/2017 wurde sie mit ihrem Team Vizemeister der ÖFB Frauen-Bundesliga.

Nationalmannschaft
Seit 2006 gehört Winter zum Kreis der österreichischen Fußballnationalmannschaft der Frauen.

Trivia
Im November 2013 sang sie mit ihren Mannschaftskolleginnen der Carinthians Soccer Women, die Vereinshymne Die Kaiser ein. Diese verwendet der Verein als Einlauf-Musik und vertreibt sie als CD und MP3.

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Fußballnationalspieler (Österreich)
Fußballspieler (ASK Erlaa)
Fußballspieler (FF USV Jena)
Fußballspieler (SK Austria Kärnten)
Fußballspieler (FC Alpe Adria)
Fußballspieler (Carinthians Soccer Women)
Fußballspieler (SK Sturm Graz)
Österreicher
Geboren 1989
Frau

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Q: Validating a nullable int using a IValueConverter I'm trying to perform a validation property. We have a nullable property called:
public int? Number
{
    get { return _number; }
    set
    {
        if (_number != value)
        {
            _number = value;
            RaisePropertyChanged("Number");
        }
    }
}

And this property is bound to a textbox. I only want to validate this two escenarios:

*

*Imagine that the user left the textbox empty (textbox.text=""), so Number property must receive null value (instead "" ).

*And if the user inputs "2b", Number property must have a null value (because is an error), but the textbox must still say "2b".

So the implementation for this is:
public class IntConverter : IValueConverter
{
    private static readonly IntConverter defaultInstance = new IntConverter();

    public static IntConverter Default { get { return defaultInstance; } }

    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        if (value is int?)
        {
            int? intValue = (int?)value;
            if (intValue.HasValue)
            {
                return intValue.Value.ToString();
            }
        }

        return Binding.DoNothing;
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture)
    {
        if (value is string)
        {
            int number;
            if (Int32.TryParse((string)value, out number))
            {
                return number;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}

The code above is really working, but just one thing is not doing good. When the user inputs "2b", at this moment, should show the error (red border). How can I fix it?
NOTE: Validations properties are in true.
    <TextBox Text="{Binding Number, UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged,
        ValidatesOnExceptions=True, ValidatesOnDataErrors=True, NotifyOnValidationError=True, TargetNullValue={x:Static sys:String.Empty},
        Converter={x:Static c:IntConverter.Default}}" />

A: Implement the IDataErrorInfo interface in your view model class instead of using the NullableIntValidation class.
There is a nice example here.

A: Why do you need a converter for this, WPF binding is powerful enough to handle this case.

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*First of all if you bind the textBox with int? value and you try to set the string to it (2b), it will automatically show red validation error border around it.

*Second if you want to set the null value in case of Empty string, all you need to set the TargetNullValue for your binding.
This code sample will work for you -
<TextBox Text="{Binding Number, TargetNullValue={x:Static s:String.Empty},
                 UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged}"/>

Make sure you add the namespace system namespace to your xaml -
xmlns:s="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"

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Erazm Ciołek (24 June 1937 – 13 November 2012) was a Polish photojournalist, author of many exhibitions and laureate of various awards. He is considered as the main photographer of the Solidarity movement.

Ciołek was born in Łódź.  In 1957, he enrolled at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Warsaw, but he never graduated. He started to be an active journalist and photographer instead. He worked for Polityka magazine and the Polish Press Agency.

Ciołek was present in the Solidarity movement from its beginning, documenting the tumultuous events of the 1980s in Poland. He had access to the secret meetings of the Solidarity and shot his pictures as the sole photographer there.

He photographed the striking workers at the Gdańsk Shipyard; secretive meeting of the anti-communist opposition during the martial law in Poland; Solidarity demonstrations; John Paul II's pilgrimage to Poland; life in the Parish of St. Stanisław Kostka in Warsaw where the martyr priest Jerzy Popiełuszko worked and the funeral of Grzegorz Przemyk, Polish high school student murdered by the communist security forces in 1983.

After the fall of communism in 1989, Ciołek worked for Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

As well as being a Solidarity photographer, Ciołek took travel photos in Nepal, Nicaragua and Cuba. He was also the first photographer in Poland to cover the subculture of drug addicts.

Ciołek was distinguished for his works with many awards. In 2006, President Lech Kaczyński awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.  He died, aged 75, in Warsaw.

Publications
 Stop, kontrola: Stocznia Gdańska, sierpień 1980, 1981
 Kuba Fidela Castro, 2007
 Polska: sierpień 1980 - sierpień 1989, 1990 and 2010

References

1937 births
2012 deaths
Photographers from Łódź
Polish photojournalists
Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists
Recipients of the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis
Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Recipient of the Meritorious Activist of Culture badge


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Q: Crear url amigable con .htaccess Estoy creando una web personal, en la que voy a tener solo una página indice con diferentes idiomas. Tengo 3 enlaces que me llaman por parámetro al indice pasándole el idioma:

EN

ES

CA

Y estoy creando un archivo .htaccess que segun el idioma que venga por parámetro me añada un /es /en o /ca al final del nombre de la web. Ahora mismo lo que tengo en el archivo .htaccess es esto:
RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^(.)?$ index.php?lang=en [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(es|en)?$ index.php?lang=$1 [L,QSA]

Si introduzco el nombre/es o /en o /ca me redirige bien y me muestra la web en ese idioma, pero si clico en los enlaces de la página me aparece el
index.php?lang=es

No sé si es por estar trabajando en localhost, o es que debo cambiar algo en las reglas pero por más que busco no he conseguido hacerlo funcionar.
Gracias

A: Como he indicado en los comentarios, gracias a @aldanux he solucionado mi problema cambiando las urls de los enlaces a los idiomas dejando solo el valor del parámetro de la url, tal que así:

EN

ES

CA


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package com.vumobile.celeb.ui;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.vumobile.celeb.R;

public class VideoProfileAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter {
    private Context context;

    private int selected;

    public VideoProfileAdapter(Context context, int selected) {
        this.context = context;
        this.selected = selected;
    }

    @Override
    public RecyclerView.ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
        View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.video_profile_item, parent, false);
        // set the view's size, margins, paddings and layout parameters

        ProfileHolder ph = new ProfileHolder(v);
        return ph;
    }

    @Override
    public void onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.ViewHolder holder, int position) {
        String resolution = context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.string_array_resolutions)[position];
        ((ProfileHolder) holder).resolution.setText(resolution);

        String frameRate = context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.string_array_frame_rate)[position];
        ((ProfileHolder) holder).frameRate.setText(frameRate);

        String bitRate = context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.string_array_bit_rate)[position];
        ((ProfileHolder) holder).bitRate.setText(bitRate);

        holder.itemView.setBackgroundResource(position == selected ? R.color.lightColorAccent : android.R.color.transparent);
    }

    @Override
    public int getItemCount() {
        return context.getResources().getStringArray(R.array.string_array_resolutions).length;
    }

    public class ProfileHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
        public TextView resolution;
        public TextView frameRate;
        public TextView bitRate;

        public ProfileHolder(View itemView) {
            super(itemView);

            resolution = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.resolution);
            frameRate = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.frame_rate);
            bitRate = (TextView) itemView.findViewById(R.id.bit_rate);

            itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    selected = getLayoutPosition();
                    notifyDataSetChanged();
                }
            });
        }
    }

    public int getSelected() {
        return selected;
    }
}

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A questionnaire is a research tool used to collect data from a group of people through a series of questions. It is a way to gather information about people's attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences on a particular topic. Questionnaires can be administered in a variety of ways, such as online, by phone, or in person, and can be designed to be completed by individuals or by groups.
There are several types of questions that can be used in a questionnaire, including:
Open-ended questions: These are questions that allow respondents to provide a written response in their own words. They are useful for gathering detailed information and opinions, but can be more time-consuming to analyze.
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Multiple-choice questions: These are questions that provide a list of options for respondents to select from. They can be either open- or closed-ended, depending on whether an "other" or "none of the above" option is included.
Rating scale questions: These are questions that ask respondents to rate something on a scale, such as "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree," or "very satisfied" to "very dissatisfied."
It is important to carefully design a questionnaire to ensure that it is clear, concise, and relevant to the research topic. It is also important to pilot test the questionnaire to ensure that it is understood by the target audience and that it is producing the desired data.
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Sole Bliss
Sole Bliss are a footwear brand that sell elegant and comfortable shoes for women with bunions.
Sole Bliss was built on WordPress utilising the WooCommerce plugin, resulting in a slow back-end and a user experience that left much to be desired. With a slow site speed and the inability to perform certain back-end processes that were necessary to keep the business growing, it became obvious that they needed to re-platform.
Re-platform: to improve the UI & UX
Design: with a new look & feel to suit the growing brand
Integrations: to help with performance and reporting
After working alongside 5874's digital designers, Sole Bliss set their sights on a new and updated website design that represented the brand's unique and elegant offering.
The 5874 team then moved the site onto BigCommerce, which meant that a lot of the previous issues with the back and front-end could be rectified through integrations with various plugins. Search and product filtering were also added to ensure a smooth user experience.
The finished site features a clean and stylish design with an increase in site speed performance, which improves the overall user experience. The back-end also allows for a much easier product and store management process.
Fully-responsive BigCommerce site
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Ongoing web support and updates
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