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Peter Thiel Prefers Google Inc (GOOG) Stock Over Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Debates on which stocks to invest in over others, are continuous processes that keep investors and businessmen updated about where to put their money. And the latest one has been triggered by Peter Thiel, an iconic investor and the co-founder of Paypal Inc. In a comprehensive interview with CNBC, who is an earlier investor in Facebook Inc., said that he would rather invest in Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) over Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). This interview comes after Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) released iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
Thiel's comments also come at a time when there is growing concern in Europe over U.S. data surveillance activities that compromise the privacy of Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) search engine users. On this Thiel says that the "antitrust" in Europe is also giving firms and advocacy bodies the momentum to seek court declarations to cut off Google search from the region or to compel the company to change some search algorithms relating to Europe. This is however a debate that has been around for a while and the Google Inc. is working round the clock to cool the tempers.
So why does Thiel think that investing in Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is better than investing in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) in the long run?
According to Thiel, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) stock is better placed to rise over the next ten years compared to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). In his analysis, Thiel argues that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) might lose to existing or new devices that are fairly priced. He even went ahead to say that the premium smartphone producer cannot rely on Apple Pay, the new payment system available on iPhone 6, and iWatch to continue giving it a hold on the market.
"Even the iPad wasn't enough to move the dial," he said. "Maybe if they reinvent television sets, which is a thing they've been talking about for a long time, that might be a vertical that would be big enough."
This revelation comes after Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) launched the affordably priced Android One in New Delhi, India, looking to bring in billions of new users from the developed world. With more than 70% of handhelds running on Android, Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) is strategically working to capture the developing world with fairly priced gadgets to beat premium smartphones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhones. This is besides the company's premium devices that are targeting markets with higher spending power.
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A critical piece of any online presence, these days, is to start a blog. Having a successful blog can open up new opportunities you had never dreamed of. If you have a small business, a blog can help it thrive. You can even get paid for just voicing an opinion of something on a blog. Read on to find out how to blog for fun or profit.
Be sure that your blog has search engine optimization techniques built into it. Your goal, of course, is to get people to your site. Most will likely have to get there through the search engines, so ranking is very important. Choose specific, popular keywords to use in both your blog title and throughout the entry itself so that you will attract more readers.
Do not rely to heavily on keywords, Adsense ads, plug-ins, or images. This will only cause you to get flagged by search engines and make it harder to find you. Your writing tone should be natural, and the words should flow smoothly.
Comment on other's blogs in order to generate more interest in yours. If you have a Google Reader account, create a folder for blogs in your niche that provide high-quality content. Continually comment with interesting remarks.
To garner more interest in your blog, a great idea is to comment on other blogs. This can be done simply on sites like Facebook, in blogging communities like Blogspot or via programs like Google Reader. Visit these sites regularly and, when you do, leave comments.
Post content on a regular basis. A common mistake among new bloggers is creating a blog, but updating it infrequently. People who were interested in the blog at first will soon become bored, as they wait for updated content. A great idea is to make a new blog update weekly and update your readers by email.
Make sure to have frequent updates. If you make a concerted effort to produce new content regularly, your audience will not only return, but they will recommend your blogs to others. Try to post at least daily, if possible. If there is nothing new to read, there is no incentive for visitors to come back to view your blog. You should make an attempt to do a new blog post daily.
Make sure that you add to your blog on a regular basis. If you want to grow your readership, it is necessary to inject fresh content regularly. If new content appears infrequently, visitors won't be motivated to come back to your blog. A general rule of thumb is to post new content no less than once, daily.
TIP! You should purchase your own domain site instead of using a free hosting site when developing your blog. Though there will be some initial expense involved, your blog will have a professional appearance.
A good blog can increase your notoriety, fill your bank account, or boost your business. With the advice you've just read, you should be better equipped to build an effective blog. Carefully read the material that is presented above. Reread it if necessary. It should go a long way towards helping you achieve your blog posting goals.


The PAN4620 is Panasonic's Internet of Things dual mode module comprising NXP's Kinetis KW41Z SoC - a 2.4 GHz 802.15.4 and Bluetooth® Low Energy wireless radio microcontroller based on an ARM® CortexM0+ core.
To provide maximum flexibility, the module can be operated in standalone and hosted mode. With 512 kB flash memory and 128 kB SRAM the PAN4620 can easily be used as a standalone controller in very small and low power applications eliminating the need for an external processor, saving complexity, space and cost. But also the integration of 802.15.4 and/or BLE connectivity into existing applications can easily be achieved when using the PAN4620 in hosted mode.
Using the PAN4620 with a TX power consumption of 6.8 mA and an RX power consumption of 6.1 mA in combination with NXP's certified Thread® stack, BLE stack or a combination of both for concurrent operation allows to meet IoT application requirements without the need for a gateway. Since Thread® does not define an application layer, various application layers can be used, such as dotdot, IoTivity, OpenDOF and others.


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A Study to Assess Vamorolone in Boys Ages 2 to <4 Years and 7 to <18 Years With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Clinical Trial
A Phase II Open-Label, Multiple Dose Study to Assess the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Exploratory Efficacy of Vamorolone in Boys Ages 2 to <4 Years and 7 to <18 Years With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Status Not yet recruiting
This Phase II study is an open-label, multiple dose study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK, PD, clinical efficacy, behavior and neuropsychology, and physical functioning vamorolone over a treatment period of 12 weeks in steroid-naïve boys ages 2 to <4 years, and glucocorticoid-treated and currently untreated boys ages 7 to <18 years with DMD.
This Phase II study is an open-label, multiple dose study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK, PD, clinical efficacy, behavior and neuropsychology, and physical functioning of vamorolone administered orally at daily doses of 2.0 mg/kg and 6.0 mg/kg over a treatment period of 3 months in steroid-naïve boys ages 2 to <4, and glucocorticoid-treated and currently untreated boys ages 7 to <18 years with DMD. The study is comprised of a 5-week Pretreatment Screening Period; a 1-day Pretreatment Baseline Period; a 3-month open-label Treatment Period (Weeks 1-12); and a 4-week open-label Dose-tapering Period (Weeks 13-16) for subjects who will not transition directly to further vamorolone or standard of care (SoC) glucocorticoid treatment at the end of the study. Subjects will be enrolled into the study at the Screening Visit, at the time written informed consent is obtained. Within the 2 to <4 years age group, the initial 10 eligible subjects will be assigned to the 2.0 mg/kg/day treatment group at the Baseline Day -1 Visit. The subsequent 10 eligible subjects will be assigned to the 6.0 mg/kg/day treatment group at the Baseline Day -1 Visit. Within the 7 to <18 years age group, both corticosteroid-treated and untreated, the initial 12 eligible subjects will be assigned to the 2.0 mg/kg/day treatment group at the Baseline Day -1 Visit. The subsequent 12 eligible subjects will be assigned to the 6.0 mg/kg/day treatment group at the Baseline Day -1 Visit. The first 6 subjects in each age group at 2 mg/kg will serve as the PK/safety run-in cohorts. PK assessments will be performed at week 2 and together with the safety assessment during the first 4 weeks of treatment this will be the basis to confirm whether 2 and 6 mg/kg/day will be used in the subsequent patients or if a dose adjustment is needed to avoid over or under-exposure in patients for any of the two age groups. Glucocorticoid-treated subjects in the 7 to <18 years age group will take their final dose of SoC glucocorticoid therapy for DMD on Baseline Day -1, within 24 hours prior to administration of the first dose of vamorolone study medication. All subjects in both age groups will begin their assigned vamorolone treatment on Treatment Period Day 1, and will continue to receive their assigned vamorolone treatment throughout the duration of the 3 month Treatment Period (Weeks 1-12). At the end of the 3-month Treatment Period (Week 12), subjects will be given the option to receive vamorolone in an expanded access or compassionate use program, if possible, or to transition to SoC treatment for DMD (may include glucocorticoids). Subjects completing VBP15-006 and enrolling directly into the expanded access or compassionate use program or transitioning directly to SoC glucocorticoid treatment will not need to taper their vamorolone dose prior to participation in the expanded access or compassionate use program or initiation of SoC glucocorticoid treatment. All subjects who will not transition directly to further vamorolone or SoC glucocorticoid treatment will begin a 4 week open label Dose tapering Period during which the dose of study medication will be progressively reduced and discontinued. ;
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne
Source ReveraGen BioPharma, Inc.
Contact Eric P Hoffman, Ph.D.
Phase Phase 2
Start date January 2022
Completion date December 2022
Terminated NCT03907072 - Efficacy and Safety Study of WVE-210201 (Suvodirsen) With Open-label Extension in Ambulatory Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 2/Phase 3
Recruiting NCT04906460 - Open-label Study of WVE-N531 in Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 1/Phase 2
Recruiting NCT02500381 - Study of SRP-4045 and SRP-4053 in Participants With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Phase 3
Recruiting NCT03067831 - Bone Marrow-Derived Autologous Stem Cells for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 1/Phase 2
Recruiting NCT01834040 - Study Safety and Efficacy of BMMNC for the Patient With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 1/Phase 2
Completed NCT02246478 - A Study of TAS-205 for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 1
Active, not recruiting NCT01772043 - Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Tissue Bank for Exon Skipping N/A
Terminated NCT01168908 - Revatio for Heart Disease in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Becker Muscular Dystrophy Phase 2
Completed NCT00758225 - Long-term Safety, Tolerability and Efficacy of Idebenone in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DELPHI Extension) Phase 2
Completed NCT03680365 - Your Voice; Impact of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) on the Lives of Families
Recruiting NCT03513367 - The Validation Process for Confirmation of the French Version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory :PedsQLTM.
Recruiting NCT01484678 - Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Biomarkers for Muscular Dystrophy
Completed NCT03319030 - Aerobic Exercise in Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Terminated NCT01753804 - A Prospective Natural History Study of Progression of Subjects With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. N/A
Completed NCT02530905 - Dose-Titration and Open-label Extension Study of SRP-4045 in Advanced Stage Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Patients Phase 1
Terminated NCT04708314 - An Open-Label Study of Golodirsen in Non-Ambulant Patients With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 4
Withdrawn NCT03642145 - A Study of Deflazacort (Emflaza®) in Participants With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Phase 3
Recruiting NCT05096221 - A Gene Transfer Therapy Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of SRP-9001 in Participants With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Phase 3
Completed NCT00159250 - Safety and Efficacy Study of Antisense Oligonucleotides in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Phase 1/Phase 2
Enrolling by invitation NCT03373968 - Givinostat in Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy Long-term Safety and Tolerability Study Phase 2/Phase 3
I found this clinical trial for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at http://inclinicaltrials.com

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The Real Smart City
We are right to remain suspicious of techno-utopian urban fantasies—especially when they come to us through corporate interests.
By Sam Jacob - March 4, 2015
The Smart City is a huge, vague and ubiquitous idea. The phrase—so insistent yet so slippery—suggests a way we can understand how cities work and how we might get them to work better. But deep down it raises serious questions of what we think cities are and what they could or should be. And the idea that it suggests—of the relationship between the physical and digital attributes of the city—is far too important to outsource to corporate providers.
Every age has its own idealized image of the city. From the ancient Athenian polis that invented the notion that we are citizens of a political and social framework, through the 19th-century vision of the city-as-body that gave us the "circulation" of traffic as if it were blood, to the 20th-century conception of the city as fabric of the welfare state, these ideas and metaphors have shaped, first, how we understand the city, and then helped make the city in that image.
The Smart City is our own era's idealized image of the city. It imagines the city as an ecosystem of data, nature and culture. The image it suggests is of information gently collected as we cycle through a park, the soft whirr of a sensory device embedded in the fabric of the city tracking us. Smartness suggests the city itself gaining a kind of intelligence, an intelligence that is responsive and interactive with its citizens.
It's the kind of benign techno-utopian fantasy that we're well familiar with, sharing as it does so mush of the optimism of early Internet culture. Indeed, the Smart City is a post-digital phenomenon. It's the city as framed by the digital—the physical fabric of the city plus all the flows, velocities, trajectories, systems and networks that pulse through it.
Early Internet culture promised to evolve new, brick-less, pixelated, virtual worlds that would liberate us from traditional hierarchies, power structures and societal definitions. But now digital culture is part of the physical world: Bricks and pixels are tightly interwoven.
Brickstarter used digital platforms to develop a suite of new participative municipal strategies
The promise of the Smart City is of efficiencies, of data collection and number crunching, of algorithms performing dexterous maneuvers. It promises, too, to re-negotiate our individual relationship to the city, offering new forms of interaction with services that suggest a new kind of city-democracy. The examples of this are myriad: apps that allow citizens to "adopt" city property like trees and fire hydrants; dynamic touchscreen kiosks distributed throughout a metropolis; Brickstarter, developed by Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, which used social media and digital platforms to develop a suite of new participative municipal strategies, legislative frameworks and political structures. All these alongside the out-and-out commercial apps like Uber and Airbnb that interface with traditional city services. In the immediate postwar period, if you were really smart and wanted to change the world, you'd apply to work for municipal planning departments. Now, the smartest urban-aware minds are more likely to be developing apps. It's software and interfaces with the city—rather than the hardware of traditional urban planning—that's now the frontier where it seems the city might be reimagined.
But just like all of those early promises of the Internet—of the dissolution of traditional boundaries, the disruption of vested interests, the freedom of inventing new paradigms—we are right to remain suspicious. In part, precisely because of the failures of digital culture to deliver on those freedoms. Instead, the Internet has increasingly become the domain of gigantic corporations whose morality and sense of duty has often been called into question, on everything from issues of tax "efficiency" to privacy.
The Smart City comes to us through these corporate interests. It comes hand in hand with the privatization of public space and the privatization of public services that once were the responsibility of municipal government. It comes as a solution to the shrinking capabilities of municipal power and the decline of local governments' own ability or willingness to administrate or provide services.
In the UK, the joke goes that whomever you vote into City Hall, you'll get Serco—or one of the other outsourcing companies providing everything from public and private transport and traffic control to aviation, military weapons, detention centers, prisons and schools. Many of the things a city once did—or things we still thought it did—are now contracted out to the private sector. As Serco explains on its website: "With rising service expectations, finite resources and budget deficits ... Serco helps governments and corporations across the world deliver better services for less."
From a Cisco interactive graphic showing how smart-city technologies could be deployed in Songdo, South Korea
An IBM infographic from 2013—part of its Smarter Cities initiative
As the conception of the municipal authorities are broken up and privatized, and their tax revenues reduced, a new raft of companies are positioning themselves to take on these roles. Companies such as Serco, Cisco and Siemens offer cities and their mayors a range of services, from infrastructure "solutions" to urban planning. The demand for these services is huge. But that is also because cities right now have nowhere else to go.
The Smart City is the gloss that's applied to this fundamental shift in the nature of the city. It's a way of describing these changes without having to acknowledge the failure of the late-20th-century model of the social-democratic city, and without having to declare the market-oriented ideology of the 21st-century city.
And that is the biggest danger of the Smart City. Of course, we'd all like our cities to be cleaner, smarter, greener—even more "livable," if that is something one can still say without conjuring the image of bland city-ranking surveys. And, of course, new technology, big data and interactivity are ways of helping to rethink the city.
The Smart City is a way of describing these changes without having to acknowledge the failure of the late-20th-century model of the social-democratic city, and without having to declare the market-oriented ideology of the 21st-century city.
But the only way we can really achieve "smarter" cities is to stay smart to the fact that cities are political and social entities as much as they are technical problems to be solved. Really being smart would mean articulating a clearer idea of what contemporary cities actually are. For that we need to draw on the thousands of years of urban culture, on the history, theory and practice of the city itself. We need to draw on the expertise of the old roles of city-making—of architect, planner, developer, municipal authority and politician, roles that are increasingly eclipsed by the corporate logos of Smart City consultancies. Instead, they should be joined at the table by coders, software developers, data wranglers and a whole host of new roles that can weave the digital into the fabric of the city.
A real smarter city would be one that openly acknowledges the inherent politics of the city. One that has a fuller understanding of the texture and depth of what life can be. One that recognizes the sheer difficulty of the idea of the city and, most importantly, its fundamentally democratic nature.
We should beware the takeover of urban culture by management consultants and technology firms. The city is us: nothing less than the summation of our collective desires made real, the physical precipitation of the abstract ideas of society and culture, democracy precipitated into stone. The question we should ask in the face of the rising ubiquity of Smart City culture is: Who is the city for? And there isn't an app for that.
For more on Jacob's work, read his answers to our Core77 Questionnaire from last November.
Sam Jacob is a London-based architect, writer and critic. He was a founding director of FAT Architecture and now runs Sam Jacob Studio.


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ED Revives Probe Into $208 Million Embraer Aircraft Deal Signed In 2008
by Swarajya Staff - Jul 15 2019, 11:40 am,
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has revived the investigation into the Embraer aircraft deal which was signed during the tenure of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2008, reports Times of India.
According to the report, the agency is focusing on defence dealer Vipin Khanna's involvement in the deal and his connections in Congress which allegedly helped him swing the deal in favour of Embraer and subsequent payoff of Rs 26 crore. The report cited sources as saying that Khanna was merely a front and the real beneficiaries were yet to be identified.
The ED had earlier initiated money laundering probes into the three multi-million dollar defence deals for the Embraer aircraft, AgustaWestland choppers and Pilatus aircraft done during the UPA regime.
The agency has claimed over $5 million payoffs in the three-aircraft Embraer deal for the airborne radar system of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had last year registered an FIR and named Khanna as the defence agent who received kickbacks in the $208 million Embraer aircraft deal.
As per the report, the ED has so far tracked over Rs 760 crore in alleged bribes received by defence dealers in the three deals - Rs 26 crore alleged kickbacks in Embraer deal, Rs 423 crore in the AgustaWestland chopper deal and Rs 310 crore in the Pilatus aircraft deal.
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Today's song is one that I've got on the playlist for Sunday's Just Some Punk Songs show, it's by Red Mass who are from Montreal and who's list of influences is a little different to most of the bands that feature on here (Ornette Colman, Captain Beefheart, Chrome, White Noise, John Coltrane, Cliff Martinez, The Sound).
They say that there's over 100 contributing members and visual artists who help with the persuit of "ideals of free thinking and chaos magic." Probably more relevant to this blog is the fact that the core of the band is Roy Vucino (Pypy, , CPC Gangbangs, Les Sexareenos and several more) and his partner Hannah Lewis and they play dark punk for dark days.


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Q: How would one skip empty field values when submitting a form using PHP? I have a form that echoes values for a specific user from a MySQL database using PHP. I am trying to figure out how to allow the user to submit the form to update their user information but have the form skip any field they have no filled out.
Current update statement
if (!isset($_POST['btnLogin'])) {
    $db = DB();
    $stmt = "UPDATE users SET fName = :fName,
                              lName = :lName,
                              emailAddress = :emailAddress
                              WHERE user_id = $user->user_id";
    $query = $db->prepare($stmt);
    $query->bindParam(':fName', $_POST['fName'], PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $query->bindParam(':lName', $_POST['lName'], PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $query->bindParam(':emailAddress', $_POST['emailAddress'], PDO::PARAM_STR);
    $query->execute();
};

Form echoing user information
<form class="form-horizontal" action="profile.php" method="post">

                    First name:

                        <input class="form-control" type="text" name="fName" placeholder="<?php echo $user->fName ?>"/>

                    Last name:

                        <input class="form-control" type="text" name="lName" placeholder="<?php echo $user->lName ?>">

                    Email:

                        <input class="form-control" type="email" name="emailAddress" placeholder="<?php echo $user->emailAddress?>">

                    Username:

                        <?php echo $user->username ?>

                        <input class="btn btn-primary" name="btnUpdate" value="Save Changes" type="button">

                        <input class="btn btn-default" value="Cancel" type="reset">

            </form>

Currently this doesnt appear to update the database at all. If I leave the form completely blank and submit it, the values that existed in the database are now empty. i.e., just blank columns.
I have been looking at other examples on how to do this but I cannot seem to figure this out. Any help would be appreciated.
Just to be sure I am in fact updating the correct user, I made sure that my $user->user_id statement is in fact returning the correct user_id from the database for the update.
UPDATE
Currently this is how I have the update statement / code
if(!empty(['btnUpdate'])) {
$stmt = "UPDATE users SET fName = IF(:fName = '', fName, :fName),
                lName = IF(:lName = '', lName, :lName),
                emailAddress = IF(:emailAddress = '', emailAddress, :emailAddress)
        WHERE user_id = $user->user_id";
$db = DB();
$query = $db->prepare($stmt);
$query->bindParam("fName", $fName, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$query->bindParam("lName", $lName, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$query->bindParam("emailAddress", $emailAddress, PDO::PARAM_STR);
$query->execute();
}

Using <?php var_dump($_POST) ?> returns 0 after submitting the form and I still end up with empty database columns

A: This isn't ignoring empty fields, but a more user friendly solution would be to stick the database values into each input's value attribute. That way, you don't have to skip the fields if they're blank, and a user won't get confused when editing their data. If you don't want them to be able to edit the value, just include the readonly attribute.
If you don't want to do this, than you could either create a dynamic query or use an if statement to decide which value to use, the form's or the database's.

A: You can make the query check whether the value is empty, and reuse the existing value.
$stmt = "UPDATE users SET fName = IF(:fName = '', fName, :fName),
                          lName = IF(:lName = '', lName, :lName),
                          emailAddress = IF(:emailAddress = '', emailAddress, :emailAddress)
                          WHERE user_id = $user->user_id";

You could also build the query and parameters dynamically.
$sets = array();
$params = array();
foreach (array('fName', 'lName', 'emailAddress') as $field) {
    if (!empty($_POST[$field])) {
        $sets[] = "$field = :$field";
        $params[":$field"] = $_POST['field'];
    }
}
if (!empty($sets)) {
    $sets_string = implode(', ', $sets)
    $stmt = "UPDATE users SET $sets_string WHERE user_id = :id";
    $params[":id"] = $user->user_id;
    $query = $db->prepare($stmt);
    $query->execute($params);
}

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The murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur remains an open homicide case, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Shakur was killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996. After ex-gang member Duane "Keefe D" Keith recently came forward with new information about the incident, police officials confirmed that they're still treating it as an open homicide case.
During an interview for BET's "Death Row Chronicles," Keefe D, who claims to have been in the car from which the deadly gunshots were fired, explained: "I was a Compton kingpin, drug dealer. I'm the only one alive who can really tell you the story about the Tupac killing.
Tupac, whose murder has been the source of significant speculation over the years, died in the hospital six days after he was shot four times in the chest, arm and thigh. He was 25.
But in light of Keefe D's claims, a group of Tupac fans has started their own Change.org petition to encourage the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department to approach the former gang member.
A statement from the department read: "We are aware of the statements made in a BET interview regarding the Tupac case. As a result of those statements, we have spent the last several months reviewing the case in its entirety.


"Of course I, too, condemn the act through which a man violently and through ruse takes possession of the fruits of someone else's labor. But it's precisely because of this that I made war on the rich, thieves of the goods of the poor. I too want to live in a society from which theft is banished. I only approved of and used theft as the means of revolt most appropriate for combating the most unjust of all thefts: individual property.
When one early-2007 day I received a call from an old friend, asking for my help to hide from the state watchdogs who were after him, I didn't need to think twice to accept and unconditionally offered to help him. I was fully aware of the risks that came with my decision. For me, my solidarity with Vassilis Palaiokostas did not come from any illegalist fetishism worship, but fullfiled concrete elements of my antiauthoritarian vision.
targeted against his own class, as he did not belong to this paculiar civil war of delinquency, where the poor and oppressed rob other poor and oppressed. Even if one disagrees with one or another aspect of his activity, we have to admit that Vassilis Palaiokostas targeted exclusively the plutocrats and state authorities. He belongs to a long lasting rebellious tradition of our country's popular culture, a tradition we can trace back to the Byzantine era, with the Bogomils, the Apelates etc, going through the Ottoman Empire with the Kleftes, the Hajdouks and Hainides, the post-Ottoman period has its own Listokratia: the reign of popular bandits, and the thieves-rebels joining the ELAS resistance etc), lasting to our days, demassified, by a handful of conscious proletarians.
My solidarity to Vassilis Palaiokostas is the same solidarity to every proletarian who fights back.
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I really want to rescue Jesus in this story. I want to come up with some reason why this is not what it appears to be. Yes, the story ends well. However, it is ugly in the middle, and Jesus doesn't look too good. He calls a desperate mom a dog because of her race and religion. What is Jesus up to here?
I believe that one responsibility I have when I engage others is to give voice to uncomfortable positions that hold power in our engagement. I do not believe that I need to hold or own the positions I raise in order to raise them. However, they need to be raised or they will undermine what is going on.
I don't believe that. Everyone who knows me knows I don't believe that. So why did I say it? I said it (1) to give voice to the unspoken position that held power in the room, (2) to make it clear that our decisions were being made in this wider context, and (3) to invite the group to intentionally consider what values, Biblical commitments, past discernments and so on would drive our current decision.
My comment created space for the group to talk about what needed to be talked about. In the end, the entire group decided to invite the woman to speak. Why? Because even though two members had questions, the larger discernments of denomination, conference and congregation, and the Biblical and theological work that undergirded those discernments, called forth that response.
Is it possible that Jesus is doing something similar? I believe that Jesus is giving voice to a world-view that held power in their encounter — even though it wasn't initially spoken. I don't believe Jesus bought into this world-view. In reality, I believe Jesus came to subvert that world-view. However, a great many people did hold that world-view, including some of his disciples. By calling the gentile woman a dog, he was enacting the popular world-view that held power in their encounter. He was a Jewish man; she was a gentile woman; her daughter was a female gentile, game over.
That wasn't all he was doing. He was also creating a space where that world-view could be countered by the woman. After all, just approaching Jesus took nerve and something had to give rise to that nerve. What was it? As the gentile woman stepped boldly into that space, she revealed what gave rise to her nerve. She revealed her view of God which stood in stark contrast to the narrow view that held that God's provision is only for the Israelites. She basically said God is powerful enough to take care of Israel with enough left over to meet her needs as well. I'm unsure of how aware she was of what she was doing, but in her response she actually tapped into God's wider shalom vision for the world. God's desire was always to bless the nations, not just the Israelites. She answered well, with a wider view of God than that narrow view held by many in Jesus' day.
I wasn't there, but I always imagine a warm smile spreading across Jesus' face. Yes! You get it. Then I imagine him turning to his disciples, "Did you guys hear that? Do you understand? Can your eyes see? Can your ears hear? God's shalom is for all people!" She gets it.
In this encounter, Jesus' response to the women created a space for a number of things to happen. First, he gave voice to a common division rooted in religious/ideological antagonism. Not because he agreed with it, but because it was present in the space between Jesus and the women. Second, he created a new space whereby the woman could offer a counter-narrative. A counter-narrative that Jesus also valued. Third, he demonstrated that the narrow view — which was the status quo and believed to represent God's faithfulness — was being subverted by a deeper understanding of what God has been up to all along — the restoration of all things under the lordship of Jesus, who destroys dividing walls and makes one new humanity!
Michael Danner lives in Morton, Ill., with his wife, Melissa. He serves as Conference Executive Minister for Illinois Mennonite Conference and blogs at Provoke+Love, where this post first appeared.


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Å-Indentation for non-destructive elastic moduli measurements of supported ultra-hard ultra-thin films and nanostructures
Filippo Cellini, New York University
Yang Gao, CUNY Graduate Center
Elisa Riedo, CUNY City CollegeFollow
During conventional nanoindentation measurements, the indentation depths are usually larger than 1–10 nm, which hinders the ability to study ultra-thin films (<10 >nm) and supported atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials. Here, we discuss the development of modulated Å-indentation to achieve sub-Å indentations depths during force-indentation measurements while also imaging materials with nanoscale resolution. Modulated nanoindentation (MoNI) was originally invented to measure the radial elasticity of multi-walled nanotubes. w, by using extremely small amplitude oscillations (<<1 Å) at high frequency, and stiff cantilevers, we show how modulated nano/Å-indentation (MoNI/ÅI) enables non-destructive measurements of the contact stiffness and indentation modulus of ultra-thin ultra-stiff films, including CVD diamond films (~1000 GPa stiffness), as well as the transverse modulus of 2D materials. Our analysis demonstrates that in presence of a standard laboratory noise floor, the signal to noise ratio of MoNI/ÅI implemented with a commercial atomic force microscope (AFM) is such that a dynamic range of 80 dB –– achievable with commercial Lock-in amplifiers –– is sufficient to observe superior indentation curves, having indentation depths as small as 0.3 Å, resolution in indentation <0.05 Å, and in normal load <0.5 nN. Being implemented on a standard AFM, this method has the potential for a broad applicability.
This article was originally published in Scientific Reports, available at DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40636-0.
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CILS is Pleased to Announce the Recent Hire of Mica Llerandi and Davina Whitethorne
February 5, 2018 /in Uncategorized /by Nicole Scott
Mica Llerandi joins the CILS team as a Staff Attorney providing legal assistance to tribes and Indian organizations.
"After clerking with CILS in 2010, I am excited to return to the Escondido office as a staff attorney," Llerandi said.
Mica Llerandi, a member of the Navajo Nation, joined CILS as a Staff Attorney in January 2018. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Yale University and her Juris Doctor and a Certificate in Indigenous People's Law and Policy from the University of Arizona, James E Rogers College of Law. During law school, Mica was selected to be a Morris K. Udall Foundation Native American Congressional Intern, interning at the Department of Defense with the Army Corps of Engineers. The following summer, Mica clerked with CILS in its Escondido office. As part of her law school coursework, she assisted Professor S. James Anaya in his capacity as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and helped with tribal code development for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. After law school, Mica worked on multiple Indian reservations in both state and tribal courts in Arizona. First on the Navajo Nation as a Staff Attorney and Domestic Violence Project Director with DNA- People's Legal Services, then on the Gila River Indian Community as a Deputy Community Prosecutor, and lastly on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community as a Guardian ad Litem. She moved to California in 2016 and, before joining CILS, represented children in San Diego County dependency proceedings. In her spare time, she likes to read, cook, crochet, and hike with her husband and dogs.
Davina Whitethorne joins the CILS team as a Senior Administrative Assistant providing support to both the marketing and development department and the accounting department.
"I am very fortunate and thankful for the opportunity to provide support in any way to CILS. I look forward to utilizing my experiences and education to promote CILS' vision of protecting Indian rights," Whitethorne said.
Davina Whitethorne is a Senior Administrative Assistant at the Escondido office. As a member of the Dine' (Navajo) Tribe, she was born and raised on the reservation. Davina moved to San Diego fifteen years ago. She studied Criminal Justice at the University of Phoenix and is working on her Masters of Law in Indigenous People's Law from the University of Oklahoma. She brings twelve years of administrative experience to CILS. Passionate about Indian rights, working at CILS was a natural fit. In her free time, Davina enjoys spending time with her 15-year-old daughter Meah. She just recently started volunteering for Meals on Wheels.
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Group of Seven piece found in Vancouver
FIONA MORROW
This article was published more than 13 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.
A painting by Group of Seven founding member Lawren Harris has been discovered in the art collection of a Vancouver woman.
The woman, whose identity has not been released, is the daughter of the late Toronto artist Gordon A. Davies, a friend of Mr. Harris. Bert Dorpmans, an art appraiser who owns McMaster Framing in Dundas, Ont., flew to Vancouver in late August at the request of the woman's nephew. The family was concerned about the safety of the elderly woman, with a valuable work of art hanging on the wall of her condo.
She has since decided to put the panel board sketch, measuring only 12 inches by 15 inches, up for auction, where it is expected to fetch $300,000-$500,000.
A signature and note on the back of the picture, which was a gift to her father from Mr. Harris, confirmed it was by the Group of Seven artist and the scene was Nerke, Greenland.
Initially, Mr. Dorpmans was concerned that he could not see a signature. "I thought, 'Bugger,' " Mr. Dorpmans said. "But I turned it over and there it was."
Mr. Dorpmans said the woman, thought to be in her mid-80s, regaled him with stories of the Group of Seven, who were all family friends. He also said that her brother was given an Emily Carr painting by their father, and donated it in the elder Mr. Davies's name to the Hamilton Art Gallery.
The newly revealed sketch appears to be the basis for Mr. Harris's large canvas Greenland Mountains, which is owned by the National Gallery of Canada and was featured on the 15-cent postage stamp between 1967 and 1973. Group of Seven members often produced oil sketches of natural scenes on small, rectangular panels that could be easily carried on their travels, and formed the basis of larger works.
The Harris panel is being sold by Sotheby's Canada in association with Ritchies auction house in Toronto on Nov. 24.
David Silcox, president of Sotheby's Canada, told The Globe and Mail the painting is "A zinger ... a rocket kind of painting."
He added that Mr. Harris's Arctic sketches, done in 1930, "have always been right up there at the pinnacle of Harris's sketches. The only thing that comes close to them are some of the mountain sketches [from the 1920s]"
The pre-sale estimate of $300,000-$500,000 placed on the work by Sotheby's suggests the belief that this is an important work. A same-sized sketch of Mount Lefroy had a pre-sale estimate of $200,000-$250,000 when it was sold at Vancouver's Heffel Fine Art Auction House in May, 2006. It sold for $1,667,500 - a record for a Harris oil on board.
The Vancouver auction house also holds the record for a Harris canvas at auction: Pine Tree and Red House, Winter, City Painting II sold in May, 2007, for $2,875,000. Its pre-sale estimated value was $800,000-$1,200,000.
Robert Heffel, vice-president of Heffel's, said he had not been approached about the work. "We hold every Lawren Harris record and we would have been delighted to represent this piece," he said.
He said that they currently have four Harris works to be sold at auction in Vancouver on Nov. 19 with pre-sale estimates listed between $150,000 and $350,000.
Sotheby's also has another Harris painting that will be auctioned Nov. 24 - a large canvas, with a pre-sale estimate of more than $1-million.
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First Leg of "THE WHO HITS 50!" North American Tour Wraps with Sold-Out New York Shows; Fall Tour Dates Announced
Posted on June 3, 2015 by aaron
FROM: MARCEE RONDAN/MITCH SCHNEIDER/BARI LIEBERMAN
FIRST LEG OF
"THE WHO HITS 50!"
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED TOUR
WRAPS WITH SOLD-OUT
NEW YORK SHOWS
FALL LEG TO INCLUDE
EXPANDED DATES INTO DECEMBER
"Watching Pete Townshend's hands as the Who played Nassau Coliseum here on Wednesday night was a reminder of what made the band great. His hands made bold windmill arcs, scrabbled at trills, picked off single notes and scampered through bluesy squiggles. They were masterly and strategic, defining the sound and structure of each song, yet still reckless. They were exploring, even now, the way his songs are awash in clashing impulses: rebellion, isolation, anger, uncertainty, yearning, fear, lust, frustration, brawling, searching… They cheerfully moved through their old stage poses, with Mr. Daltrey twirling his microphone on its cord…"
–Jon Pareles, NEW YORK TIMES, 5/22/15
"[the tour is] about the function and perspective the Who's classics have in the present. There's something in the songs themselves that refuses to die, or even to get (too) old. There's a particular crispness to the three chords of 'I Can't Explain' that's immune to sogginess. There's a fluidity to the melody of 'The Seeker' which remakes its message of searching in the moment…When the Who delivers them now, they're not competing with their young selves. They're commenting on them, while also showing the fire that remains. The band performed the songs with current verve, as well as a self-aware pluck…delivering the old songs in the present tense, the Who proved that aspects of adolescence never end."
–Jim Farber, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS, 5/18/15
THE WHO wrapped the first leg of their "THE WHO HITS 50!" North American tour this past weekend with sold-out New York shows: May 26 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY and May 30 at Forest Hills Stadium in Forest Hills, NY. Now comes word that the legendary band will extend their tour into December to honor a series of postponements from the tour's initial run and rescheduling a few dates on the fall leg of the tour. Between the North American dates, THE WHO will return to Europe for a series of shows including closing out the legendary Glastonbury Festival and a headlining performance at the famed Hyde Park in London.
First up, a few rescheduled performances–from the tour's first leg–based on doctors' advice that lead singer Roger Daltrey go on vocal rest, due to swollen vocal cords: Louisville, KY at KFC Yum! Center on December 4 (was 5/9), St. Louis, MO at Scottrade Center on December 6 (was 5/7), and Kansas City, MO at Sprint Center on December 8 (was 5/5). Additionally, a few dates on the fall leg are being re-routed also based on a doctor's recommendation that Daltrey have a few additional days between shows for vocal rest. The rescheduled fall dates are December 2 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, ONT (originally scheduled for 10/21) and December 13 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA (originally scheduled for 9/23). Tickets for the rescheduled shows will be honored at the new dates. All the performances will include special guests: 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. Tickets are currently on sale at www.thewho.com and www.axs.com. "THE WHO HITS 50!" tour is being presented by AEG Live.
THE WHO have sold over 100 million records since forming in 1964; they brought together four different personalities and in effect produced a musical hurricane. Each of them was a pioneer. Wildman drummer Keith Moon beat his kit with a chaotic elegance; stoic bassist John Entwistle held down the center with the melodic virtuosity of a solo guitarist; raging intellectual Pete Townshend punctuated the epic universality of his songs with the windmill slamming of his fingers across his guitar strings; and Roger Daltrey roared above it all with an impossibly virile macho swagger. They exploded conventional rhythm and blues structures, challenged pop music conventions, and redefined what was possible on stage, in the recording studio, and on vinyl. As they enter their 50th year, the band is still going strong, winning rave reviews for their performances of QUADROPHENIA in 2013.
THE WHO's 2015 Fall North American dates are as follows:
Valley View Casino Center
*Sat
Colosseum at Caesars Palace
Moda Center
KeyArena
Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
Rexall Place
MTS Centre
Target Center
BMO Harris Bradley Center
Joe Louis Arena
CONSOL Energy Center
Prudential Center
TD Garden
Verizon Center
Wells Fargo Center
KFC Yum! Center
Sprint Center
Oracle Arena
*Without Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
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JP, trombone; Ron Stallings, tenor sax; Ray Obiedo, guitar; Curtis Clark, piano; Heshima Mark Williams, bass; Augusta Lee Collins, drums.
In the alternate universe we inhabit when tired or otherwise deranged, there is a trombone hall of fame, presided over by Grachan Moncur III, George Lewis… and Julian Priester. (Albert Mangelsdorff mans the European branch; Roswell Rudd is awaiting his vote.) Priester has an utterly singular pedigree, playing on a number of far-flung classics. He jumped from Sun Ra (Angels and Demons at Play) to Coltrane sessions (Africa/Brass) to Max Roach's We Insist! to Herbie's Mwandishi bands of the early 1970s. More recently he appeared on SUNN O)))'s remarkably lovely drone-metal Monoliths & Dimensions, confirming his lifelong commitment to creative music.
Polarization is the album following Priester's kozmigroov classic Love, Love (1974), recently reissued by ECM. Ditching the Mwandishi band and beginning to move away from their visionary electro sound, Polarization finds Priester in an expansive mood. The track above is a suite that originally ran as side one on the LP. The 20-minute cut begins with a double-tracked Priester in a duet with himself, moving next to beautiful, stately, and memorable theme of "Rhythm Magnet," joined by the full band. "Wind Dolphin" plays with this theme in a spare and open fashion, closing with rousing contributions from all together.
For more — and more recent — Priester, see here at the Internet Archive for a streaming cut of a 1999 date with Sam Rivers. And coming up next month, more vital contributions from Priester on Mike Reed's forthcoming People, Places, and Things project, Stories and Negotiations. What're you waiting for? Go get 'boned!


Ever wonder what the mom-and-pop stores sold in the Danish West Indies?
Our forefather opened several stores in his lifetime, each with an eclectic collection of items from various places around the world.
On August 4, 1900, Henry O. Creque opened a store in St. Croix.
It was called The American Notion and Bargain Store. Located on 40 Kings Street, it was in the heart of Christiansted's main commercial district.
The various ads he placed in the St. Croix Avis and the Bulletin during that time period reflected a vast array of products for sale.
Other items included American-made footwear for each member of the family, children's toys, china, glass, earthenware, and ornaments for the seasoned shoppers.
Foods imported from Canada, like codfish, hake, haddock, herring, butter, and potatoes made up the rest of the inventory.
Mr. Creque routinely promoted his store, offering specials throughout the year and Christmas bargains during the holiday season.
He commemorated his first year in business by decorating the store with bunting and letting the local newspapers know about it, to capitalize on a little extra advertising.
He was a keen businessman and took great pride in the quality of the goods he offered at the St. Croix location.
Henry made countless trips between St. Thomas and St. Croix in a given year.
Many of the supplies were shipped directly from his St. Thomas warehouses on the schooners, Vigilant and Viking.
Fifteen years after the store's opening, Henry passed away from heart complications.
His son Herman, inherited his father's properties and began managing both the Creque Marine Railway, as well as the other stores on St. Thomas and in the British Virgin Islands.
Five years after his death, The St. Croix Herald announced that the store on 40 Kings Street would be closing on July 31, 1920.


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Q: Xamarin Forms Multiple list items on same index of carousel view c# I am using xamarin carousel view. Salon is my parent list and SalonService is called as features in each Salon list item.
My code displays only one item per view. I want to display three (3) items on each carousel view.
Below is my code for lists:
Ftrs.Add(new SalonService() { Services = "Test 1", Prices = "$150" });
Ftrs.Add(new SalonService() { Services = "Test 2", Prices = "$150" });
Ftrs.Add(new SalonService() { Services = "Test 3", Prices = "$150" });
Ftrs.Add(new SalonService() { Services = "Test 4", Prices = "$150" });

salons.Add(new Salon() { ImgUrl = "test.png", Title = "Test Title 1", Features = Ftrs });
salons.Add(new Salon() { ImgUrl = "test.png", Title = "Test Title 2", Features = Ftrs });
salons.Add(new Salon() { ImgUrl = "test.png", Title = "Test Title 3", Features = Ftrs });
salons.Add(new Salon() { ImgUrl = "test.png", Title = "Test Title 4", Features = Ftrs });
salons.Add(new Salon() { ImgUrl = "test.png", Title = "Test Title 5", Features = Ftrs });
salons.Add(new Salon() { ImgUrl = "test.png", Title = "Test Title 6", Features = Ftrs });

Below is my code for carousel view:
foreach (var item in data)
{
 DataTemplate salonDataTemplate = new DataTemplate(() =>
 {
    // some code
 });

Resources = new ResourceDictionary();
Resources.Add("salonTemplate", salonDataTemplate);

int countIndex = 1;
int newPageCount = 1;

foreach (var newItem in item.Features)
{
    if (newPageCount <= 3)
    {
        //same carousal view
    }
    else
    {
        countIndex++;
        //new carousal view
    }
    newPageCount++;
} }

var list_Featured = new CarouselView()
{
    BackgroundColor = Color.White,
    //ItemsSource = item.Features,
    ItemsSource = newList,
        ItemTemplate = (DataTemplate)Resources["salonTemplate"], HeightRequest = 150
};

StackLayout stkList = new StackLayout();
stkList.IsVisible = false;
stkList.Children.Add(list_Featured);

Current Output:

*

*Test Title 1

*Test 1

Expected Output:

*

*Test Title 1

*Test 1

*Test 2

*Test 3

My carousel view is only displaying one item per view. I want to display three items per view.

A: I achieved my desired result by creating a list of lists.
Something like this:
List<List<string>> myList = new List<List<string>>();
myList.Add(new List<string> { "a", "b" });
myList.Add(new List<string> { "c", "d", "e" });


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What do Veronica Lodge, Carrie Bradshaw, and Holly Golightly all have in common? Their love of pearls.
If the Paris runways have anything to say about it, pearls are back, in a big ways.
We might have seen this one coming. The accessory associated with the traditional notion of femininity is just one trends in a long string of must-haves that are inseparable from today's "it" girl – including hair bows and the rebirth of pink.
Although feminine, 2019's pearls aren't the traditional single strand clavicle piece you're thinking of. Sorry Veronica. These pearls are long strands just ready to be layered. There's netted a bib styles made for street wear if you're feeling a little experimental.
As we all know, Chanel does pearls best, and their latest runways show was dripping with the accessory more than usual. Chanel's pearls are infused with personality, adorned with jeweled and emblem accents.
Don't forget about the pearl earrings too, and we're not talking studs. The Parisian runways were filled with statement making dangling pearl earrings. Tiers of over-sized pearls, chains of pearls, and even statement making clam shells were spotted on the runways for fall fashion week.
No matter how you choose to wear pearls, they polish off every single look.


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As quickly as you've already bought the blanket, the set up is kind of easy; nevertheless, your fundamental concern is to ensure that the water strikes on prime of the blanket or it'll defeat the aim of getting such gadget. For you to have the ability to do that, it is advisable to create a small dugout on the highest of the slope and place the highest finish of the blanket into the ditch to line it. With a view to line the blanket, it is advisable to fold the sting beneath itself and safe it utilizing some staples Lapsuus Weighted Blanket B07KPVMDQ7.
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Daily Morning Note – 12 April 2018
US Wall Street stocks sagged Wednesday as President Donald Trump threatened military action in Syria, while the Federal Reserve offered a generally upbeat outlook despite trade war fears.
Oil prices jumped on Wednesday, hitting their highest in more than three years on Wednesday after Saudi Arabia said it intercepted missiles over Riyadh.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg emerged largely unscathed Wednesday from two days of high-stakes hearings that saw US lawmakers grill the billionaire over how the online giant feeds users' data to advertisers and chide him over privacy rights.
Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, on Wednesday announced a US$44-billion deal to build a giant refinery complex on the west coast of India with three Indian firms.
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) today announced the appointment of Mr. Ignatius Low (刘 意 庆) as its Chief Marketing Officer, in charge of advertisement solutions across the print, digital, radio and outdoor platforms, as well as content marketing. He takes over from Ms. Elsie Chua (蔡 国 玲), who has decided to retire from the company after 20 years of distinguished service.
SLB Development, the property development spin-off from mainboard-listed Lian Beng Group, registered its offer documents on April 11 for its proposed Catalist listing. It is offering 238 million shares at S$0.23 each, comprising eight million shares by way of public offer, and 230 million by way of placement.
ST Aerospace, the aerospace arm of Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) announced on Wednesday it has secured some S$510 million in new contracts – ranging from heavy maintenance to engine wash – for the first quarter of 2018.
Kim Heng Offshore & Marine (O&M) Holdings said after Wednesday's trading close that it has secured a one-year charter commencing this month for two anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessels.
Singapore-based ride hailing giant Grab has emerged as the top recipient of venture capital (VC) investment in the world for Q1 2018 with US$2.5 billion raised in its series G funding.
Source: SGX Masnet, Phillip Securities Research


Obituary for Dorothy Mae (Dennis) Guienze Butler | Jones Funeral Home, Inc.
Centenarian Dorothy Mae Dennis Guienze Butler, 107, the oldest resident of St. Mary Parish, a resident of Franklin, LA, and native of Glenco, LA, passed away at the Franklin Foundation Hospital on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 5:05 AM.
Visitation will be observed on Friday, May 18, 2018 at Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church 1110 Barrow Street Franklin, LA, from 8:00 AM until the beginning of the Fraternal Order of the Eastern Star services beginning at 10:30 AM. A Celebration of the life Mother Dorothy D. Butler will begin at 12:00 Noon, with Pastor Allen Randle officiating the services. Burial will follow funeral services in the Franklin Cemetery Main Street in Franklin, LA.
"On a hill far away, stood an old rugged cross. The emblem of suffering and shame. And I love that old cross where the dearest and best, for a world of lost sinners was slain. So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, till my trophies at last I lay down. I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown"
Dorothy Mae Guienze Butler, the former Dorothy Mae Dennis, was born in Glencoe, Louisiana on March 16, 1911. She was the youngest of three children born to the union of John and Martha Dennis.
Dorothy was educated in St. Mary Parish, attending schools in the Glenco, Baldwin and Franklin areas. Dorothy's spiritual journey began at the age of four when she accepted Jesus Christ. As she matured, Jesus became the Lord of her life. At age 17, she married Clarence Guienze and to this union, two children, Clarence John Guienze and the former LaVera Guienze, were born. After the death of her husband, Clarence in 1974, Dorothy later married Henry Butler in 1987.
Dorothy epitomized the qualities of the Virtuous Woman, as described in Proverbs 31. "Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her the reward she has earned, and let her works bring praise at the gates." Proverbs 31:29-31. Dorothy's son Clarence lives with his wife Sharron in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. When he graduated from high school, she took a second job doing laundry so that he could become the family's first college graduate. He went on to a rewarding career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Corrections in the State of Maryland. Her daughter, LaVera, became Franklin, Louisiana's first black female police officer. The successes that her many descendants now enjoy are the direct result of Dorothy's lifetime of selfless giving.
Dorothy, herself, studied to apply her gentle, compassionate and caring nature to a career as a Certified Nursing Assistant. She completed her clinical training at Franklin Foundation Hospital, and spent countless hours at patients' bedsides, holding hands and providing comfort – even in the moment of death. For most of her adult life, Dorothy resided at 310 Second Street in Franklin, Louisiana. From 2006 until the time of her demise, she was a resident at the Franklin Health Care Center.
Dorothy was a member of the Adah Chapter #20 OES PHA for many years and received many awards for her service to her church and community. They include serving as one of the founding Broussard Harris Recreation Park Board Committee Member and President of Resident Council for years at Franklin Health Care Center. It was wonderful to just be in her presence. When we look at her family and friends, we can truly see that they are beneficiaries of the love God that placed in her heart. For most of her adult life, she was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church and later became a member of Lighthouse Missionary Baptist Church where she had the honor of serving as the "Mother of the Church". Her favorite bible verse was "…My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9 . Dorothy's favorite hymn was The Old Rugged Cross, which she sang throughout life with a beautiful contralto voice. Dorothy also enjoyed sewing, crocheting and cooking.
"Mother Butler," "Grandma", "Gay-gam", as she was known to many, departed earth on May 7, 2018 at 5:05 A.M. at the age of 107 following a brief illness at Franklin Foundation Hospital. On that morning, she exchanged that old rugged cross, she would often sing about, for her new crown which the Lord had prepared just for her. Dorothy was the oldest resident of St. Mary Parish. She lived to see six generations of her very own family. In Mother Butler's time, she experienced many things. In 1955, the Civil Rights Movement; in 1964, the passing of the Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination of all kind; in 1965, having the opportunity to vote and one of her greatest joys was in 2008 when she was to be able to cast her vote for the first African American President, President Barack Obama.
Memories of this admiring, spiritual, kind, and gentle woman will forever remain in the hearts of her son, Clarence John Guienze and his wife, Sharron ; two adopted sons, Freddie Charles Guienze, a skilled mechanic, and Danny Bonit, a carpenter; four grandchildren, Calvin Brent Jr., Dorothy Evelyn Lewis, Guienzy Marie Brent - her principal care provider who attended to her daily, Regina Guienze Tinti; a step-grandson, Stephen Michael Franklin and a special grandson, Michael Hamilton, who held her hand as she transitioned peacefully. Her legacy of love will forever live in the lives of a host of other descendants which include her great, great-great and great-great-great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, her Lighthouse Church Family, the residents of the Franklin Healthcare Center and many friends.
She was preceded in death by her two husbands, Clarence Guienze and Henry Butler; a daughter, LaVera G. Brent; a great-granddaughter, Lashawn Terrell Brent; her parents, John and Martha Dennis; a sister, Sarah Dennis Foster; a brother, Joshua Dennis; a step grandson, William Reed Smith Guienze; a niece, Dawn Dennis, and a son-in-Law, Calvin Brent, Sr.; grandson-in-law, Dudley Lewis.


Fundify is a new theme by AppThemer that turns any WordPress install into a crowdfunding website. It has the core features that have proved effective with sites like KickStarter and Indiegogo: the ability to create new campaigns/projects, rewards backers, allows for fixed or flexible campaigns (meaning: you can collect donations only if a goal is met…or just collect whatever is donated).
The obvious question of course is why create a crowdfunding theme for WordPress when sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo already have huge and active communities for this very purpose? It's a good question, with an exciting answer.
The first and most obvious answer is that it completely does away with the issue of fees. When using Kickstarter or Indiegogo, you're looking at a minimum fee of 4% of the total amount raised. In some instances on Indiegogo that fee can rise to 9%. While hardly exorbitant, those fees can add up. Particularly if you're project raises thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions as we've seen on these platforms.
But to me that's almost an incidental benefit. What I really like about this theme is that it allows large groups, online communities and organizations with lots of internal projects to allow their members to create and fund the projects they are passionate about. Some group types that immediately come to mind are churches, charities, non-profits, schools, colleges, co-ops, and collectives.
All of these groups types tend to have the potential for large communities with various projects or at least proposed projects going on at one time. Having one place to create, view, and fund those project seems like a great way to empower the individuals in these groups while accomplishing more than ever.
In the post below I'll do a quick overview of installing and configuring the Fundify theme, so you can get a better idea of what it's like on the backend.
When you first download the Fundify zipped folder, you'll first need to unzip it so that you can use the second zipped folder – called Fundify-Theme – inside. Next you'll want to navigate to the backend of your WordPress site > Appearance > Themes > Install Themes > Upload and install the theme's zipped folder there.
Upon activation you'll immediately see a notification prompting you to download and install the Crowd Funding plugin by AppThemer. In turn that will then prompt you to install Easy Digital Downloads. Go ahead and install/activate both plugins as a large part of the functionality of this theme requires that you do so.
Once everything is installed and activated it's time to configure Fundify and populate it with content. Thankfully, AppThemer has really made this process quite simple.
In the original zipped file you downloaded and unzipped, you'll find a folder called DOCUMENTATION. Inside there is a read-me file that when double-clicked will automatically take you to this web page. As you can see, every step for getting this theme up and running is beautifully documented with easy to follow instructions.
So instead of duplicating all of those instructions, for the purpose of this post I'm going to highlight the theme's core features, what they look like on the backend and describe briefly what it was like to set everything up on a fresh install.
The above image is what this theme looks like on the front end as soon as it's installed. As is the case with almost every theme I've ever installed, it's a far cry from what the theme's demo site looked like. The difference here is how insanely easy it is to go from the image above to the one below.
Go to Pages and create/publish the following pages (leave them blank for now): Home, Blog, Discover, Start, Contact, Account. Make sure the Home page has the Front Page template selected.
Go to Appearance > Menus. Add the Discover, Start, and Blog pages to the Left Navigation menu. Add the Contact and Account pages to the Right Navigation menu.
Go to Settings > Reading. Under Front Page Displays select the second option (A static page) and make Home your front page and Blog your posts page.
Go to Tools > Import > WordPress. Upload the XML Dummy Content file from the original Fundify zipped folder.
After those four steps are complete, re-fresh your site and it should look exactly like the demo image above. When I did this it took me about five minutes.
At this point you have a great looking website with lots of working content in it for you to experiment with and use in test mode. Which can be activated under Campaigns > Settings. Along with a bunch of other important stuff.
In fact, besides customizing the design, every important setting or feature associated with this theme is housed under Campaigns, which is a sort of mashup between the Easy Digital Downloads and Crowd Funding plugins you installed at the very beginning.
Campaigns by the way are custom post types. So the first thing you see is the All Campaigns view, just like the All Posts view, and then below that Add New for creating new campaigns.
As you can see each new campaign is a lot like a regular blog post, except there are some new custom stats and fields available; like the campaigns stats in the screenshot above and the campaign info fields in the screenshot below.
And just like regular blog posts, you can create your own tags and categories for these campaign custom post types.
But what about design? Are you stuck with the default? Not even close! One of the things I really love about this theme is that it takes advantage of WordPress's updated Customize Feature to allow quick customizations and previewing before changes are made permanent.
When it's all said and done I am really impressed with this Fundify. As far as I can see they've done everything right. They deliver a beautifully designed theme which is easy to customize (and with excellent documentation). They package their key functionality in separate plugins instead of lumping it in with the theme itself. They even have a tutorial on how to make child themes – which is extremely useful for future updates or more intense customizations. Beyond those important features the theme fills a specific need that has never been serviced by WordPress before (that I know of) and it does it really well. I highly recommend this theme for any WordPress users looking to create a crowdfunding website.
This is one of the most helpful sites I've seen regarding Fundify so far. Thank you so much. Any other advice on customizations to the template will be helpful.
Informative details, thanks. Would appreciate if you could let me know if WordPress has a cut in the funds/donations collected on the website. Once I purchase the theme for say 60dollars, is there anything else I need to pay ?