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Matthew's Message from November 22, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan, mass agreement of souls; assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, his message; comet Ison; ET assistance from antiquity to date; ho'oponopono…
With loving greetings from all souls at this station, this is Matthew. First we shall speak about a matter that has touched hearts everywhere. Typhoon Haiyan is profoundly tragic for everyone who lost dear family and friends, homes and businesses—they don't know that at soul level they agreed to be part of this major act of planetary cleansing. Because releasing accruing negativity was essential to keep Earth progressing toward balance, all the people whose physical lives ended and the millions who are struggling in the storm's aftermath embraced the opportunity to evolve by participating as they did.
This kind of enthusiastic mass agreement doesn't seem even possible in your concept of time, but in the eternal life of the soul and the timelessness of the continuum, opportunities to leap forward in soul growth are eagerly sought, and universe-wide they happen with some frequency.
Please do not think that our explanation of a devastating situation is dispassionate or that we are unaffected by the grieving souls and their massive reconstruction ahead. We are among the myriad souls who showered light on the Philippines during and after the storm to assist all who made transition and to fortify the inner strength of survivors. We feel their heartbreak and fright and confusion about how to start rebuilding their lives, their villages and farms and cities.
How we wish they could know that their loved ones were greeted by name and "Thank you!" as they entered Nirvana. Just as fervently we wish they could know that all who died and they themselves collectively agreed to give Earth that vital lift she needed to stay her course toward balance. If Gaia's gratitude could be seen, your world would be ablaze with the radiance of its light.
Widespread compassion is adding light to the lives that in this moment are bleak and sorrowing, and the generosity of spirit in which assistance is being given is adding light, too. We see the overview of medical teams, suppliers of food and water, and clearing crews as they persevere in efforts to maneuver through areas where roads were washed out or are filled with destroyed buildings. We see the panic of hungry people looking for food, and we see those who take items that have nothing to do with survival but will be needed when a semblance of normalcy is restored. Light beings throughout this universe are streaming love-light energy to all of those souls.
Fifty years ago the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy shocked the world, but even today very few individuals know that his death had far more than a deeply emotional impact. Eventually the truth will emerge that one of the reasons he was killed was to prevent his abolishing the privately-owned Federal Reserve System and returning the national currency to its dollar status, a move that would have ended the Illuminati's control of that country's economy and severely weakened their ability to manipulate the global economy. Half a century later than Kennedy intended, the dismantling of that nefarious system is underway.
I have asked my mother to copy here the thought-provoking message she received from President Kennedy some years ago. [The following message, which was for a British author's book about Princess Diana that includes messages from her and several others, was transmitted December 30, 2004. I don't know if the book was published or if so, by what title.]
To the world that I left over forty years past, I say that my spirit of love for my country and Earth never departed. My leaving was not by an accident any more than was Princess Diana's death. Our souls had agreed to serve in this way. We knew at some level that our lives would be short on Earth by good intention, and we see that much has been accomplished in our names—more than if we had remained there.
Our lives were not lived in perfection, nor were they intended to be. Our human frailties are like many others who also did much to assist in raising the human spirit and promoting the value of each life.
I use again my words that still are publicly remembered: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. But now I amend those: Ask not what your world can do for you. Ask what you can do for your world. LOVE is the answer, the ONLY answer to rising above the misery still befalling so much of humanity.
The spirit in which Diana and I both endeavored to serve in our respective positions is stronger than ever within us. More than ever before in the history of Earth there is opportunity to spread love throughout the world with feelings and actions. More than ever before there is imperative need for this! The moment of great transition is at hand. Contribute to this for the sake of all life on Earth and your soul's divine nurturing.
We are never separate one from another. We are One with the Universe.
Thank you, Mother, and now we shall address some issues that readers have questioned.
If comet Ison explodes, will any large fragments be pulled by Earth's gravity into a position that can endanger us? No. Spacecraft roaming the skies are on the lookout for comets like Ison and other large celestial bodies that could pose danger to Earth, and when one might, they use their technology to detour its route. In the case of smaller objects, they maneuver them to an area where no heavy damage can result or they smash them to smithereens, whichever is safer for you and the planet.
No, a time has not been set for official acknowledgement of other civilizations' presence, the landing of ships and introduction of family members living among you. God is in charge of timing because only at that height of awareness can it be known when Earth humankind is ready to welcome "aliens." Your film industry has done a good job of portraying people from other civilizations as monstrosities that want to annihilate you or handsome, sly beings who want to enslave you—images of grotesque creatures and stories of ruthless intent are seared in many, many minds.
Some readers feel that nothing of noteworthy substance can happen until your space family is working alongside you, and that is not so. Because it is your world, it is up to you to decide what societal, political and economic reforms you want and endeavor to accomplish them; and in numerous messages we have delineated the many ways that you have been making strides toward those significant goals. What your family from other civilizations will do is tackle environmental issues that are beyond your capabilities—their technologies can dematerialize nuclear waste and depleted uranium, purify polluted rivers and seas, and restore deserts to arable condition. Also, their free energy systems are far advanced of your own, which by and large still are under Illuminati suppression.
Others are asking if channeled reports are true that benevolent ETs became discouraged and abandoned you and the only ones near Earth now will come as conquerors. That is a blatant lie set forth by base entities who know that only benevolent members of our universal family are in your solar system and they have been assisting you all along.
We cited one situation above; however, other civilizations have been helping Earth and her successive generations of residents throughout her history. Mother, please copy part of the book that describes their many kinds of assistance.
[The following is portions of the chapter "Help from Other Civilizations" in Earth's Golden Age–Life beyond 2012.]
Assistance from extraterrestrials started long before their infusion of the light that saved Earth's life more than seven decades ago.
Throughout Earth's history our universal family has served her in one supportive role or another. Members of some highly advanced civilizations had a hand in designing and establishing the flora and fauna, and human life on the planet derived from several civilizations' seeding programs. Among today's populace are descendants of those ancient residents, some of whom were gods and goddesses. …
The Akashic records, which contain every soul's lifeprint of each physical lifetime wherever in this universe each was experienced, are maintained and safeguarded by some of Ashtar's forces.
For long ages some of Hatonn's Pleiadian crews have been on rotation maintenance tours to insure the safety of the light grid around Nirvana that prohibits entry by rogue entities. …
After your air travel started, the crews deflected the trajectory of debris or dematerialized it if it posed potential danger to planes in flight. They also have rescued persons thought lost in ships at sea or planes that disappeared; the rescued parties physically entered a different energy plane, which is why they weren't seen or heard from again.
Extraterrestrial assistance with unprecedented swiftness and intensity started over 70 years ago, when Earth cried out for help to keep her weakened planetary body alive. By God's authorization, civilizations responded with a massive infusion of light to prevent the planet spinning out of orbit and certain death. Of course the in-pouring of light was available to all of Earth's residents too, and those who responded started generating their own light with greater forcefulness. …
In addition to beaming light to the planet, which will continue until it is well within fourth density, various civilizations are using their technologies in a number of ways in accordance with Earth's desires. For instance, when the Illuminati cause a geophysical event, the crews lay down an electromagnetic grid that distributes earthquake or volcanic activity and lessens destruction and death toll without reducing the amount of negativity released by those events. In the case of Illuminati-created weather, the crews decrease the wind velocity of violent storms and steer them away from heavily populated areas along coastlines. [Note: That information was transmitted prior to the removal of weather-manipulating scientists by space family members living among you. Mother Nature is back in control of storms, earthquakes and wildfires, her means of releasing negativity.]
Remember the viruses called SARS, avian flu, swine flu and H1N1 that abruptly appeared on the scene simultaneously with media hoopla that each disease, in turn, was "feared to become a pandemic"? No pandemic happened because members of our universal family neutralized those laboratory-designed viruses, thus dooming the dark ones' double intent for developing them—genuine pandemics with great loss of life and global chaos and fear.
Crews in your skies, who are there by the thousands and thousands, are using their technologies to reduce as much as possible the radiation from Japan's damaged nuclear reactors, and they rendered less harmful to marine life the oil that kept gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. They are ameliorating the toxic effects of weaponry and other pollutants, and a civilization appearing as cloud formations is leading the way in cleansing Earth's atmosphere.
As important as all those kinds of assistance are, perhaps the most significant help since "9/11" has been preventing the Illuminati from using nuclear warheads to mount similarly devastating terrorist attacks. A dozen or so attempts have been thwarted by rendering the warheads impotent, sometimes in combination with missile malfunctions. This is not a violation of Creator's law of free will—it is honoring Earth's free will choice that there will be no more terrorism like "9/11."
Some of the strongest, most experienced light beings in this universe are right there among you, working behind the scenes to guide the essential changes so that as many of Earth's residents who choose to accompany her into the higher planes can do so. This is how universally beloved and significant Earth is and how beloved and important YOU are! …
These volunteers from spiritually evolved civilizations took on human bodies so they could live and work among you undetected. Although they recognize each other from the distinctive auras that reflect their souls' evolutionary station, only a few of you are sufficiently energy-sensitive to see them as different from anyone else.
The purpose of their presence derives from their superior intelligence that gives them entry into fields where they can beneficially influence actions and activities during this crucial time of Earth's transition process.
What these benevolent visitors are doing is not a rarity in the universe—souls continue evolving through service to lesser developed civilizations. As you continue to grow spiritually and intellectually, eventually you will be willing and able to help enlighten and uplift lesser evolved souls.
Thank you, Mother. Now let us speak again about negativity for a moment. Some time ago we told you that the negativity that had become deeply entrenched due to millennia of humankind's brutality to each other and the animals had been released. So, where is negativity coming from now? As ever before, from the citizens of Earth.
In previous messages we have said that everything in existence is energy. We have spoken about the power of thoughts, feelings, and written and spoken words, and we have stressed how crucial it is to focus on what you want, not on what you don't want. Also we have explained why forgiveness and gratitude are so important. Evidence of these universal truths is in the ancient practice of ho'oponopono, which ties them all together into an "elixir of divine grace," you might say.
The accomplishment of Dr. Hew Len, formerly a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane in Hawaii, is a stunning example of ho'oponopono's efficacy. Instead of seeing patients during the couple of years he was there, he stayed in his office, sometimes looking at their files, and repeating over and over and over "I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you." By his accepting responsibility for the patients' status—in essence, acknowledging the inseparable connection of all souls and that whatever one does affects all others—they started improving and continued until they were healed and released.
This remarkable proof of the power of thoughts and feelings can be enlightening and inspiring to everyone. Sharing that story along with feeling grateful for our universal family's diligence, assistance and unconditional love will speed the day when life in your world is peaceful and harmonious.
Our beloved family, we are with you every moment of your journey toward your rightful place as citizens of this universe.
LOVE and PEACE…
Suzanne Ward
http://www.matthewbooks.com
'HAARP Decommissioned, Scientists Gone.' by Steve Beckow on Golden Age of Gaia, November 24, 2013
'HAARP Decommissioned, Scientists Gone…' by Steve Beckow on Golden Age of Gaia, November 24, 2013
There's so much that is hopeful and helpful message in Matthew's Message yesterday. The item I'd like to focus on is his latest report on HAARP (High-Altitude Auroral Research Project).
HAARP was the Illuminati's weather-warfare weapon, responsible for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, extreme weather, and many other anomalies which devastated areas of the world and injured or killed many people. Matthew Ward explains how and why HAARP was used.
"Yes, the unusually severe weather conditions in many parts of your world, including heavy snowfalls, flooding and temperature extremes, are man's handiwork. It is not necessary for the scientists who are doing the Illuminati's bidding to initiate each incident anew – once elements in the atmosphere have been strongly set in motion, the domino effect takes over. When conditions start to ease as the energy within them dissipates, weather control technologists set off another disruption, and the same is so with volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
"Your off-planet brotherhood reduces to the extent possible the intended harmful results of all the manipulated happenings while still enabling their full release of negativity.
"[Suzy:] Why is the Illuminati controlling weather and creating 'natural' disasters?
"To produce the negativity that arises out of high death toll, grief, fear, chaos, widespread destruction, disease, economic disasters and hopelessness." (1)
HAARP is not the same as scalar weapons, according to Suzy Ward.
"HAARP sends out electromagnetic waves over a wide area and scalar weapons beam at a specific target. The latter was developed by Tesla but not for harmful purposes — he refused to use it in the disastrous Philadelphia experiment but one of his associates did." (2)
HAARP was used in conjunction with other technologies to cause the Japanese Tsunami of March 2011, Suzy Ward said.
"[Hatonn] said that in Japan, one of HAARP's several capacities in various locations has been used in conjunction with developments from Tesla's inventions and discoveries to produce destruction from above and below Earth's surface." (3)
The weapon was developed from a technology the little Greys (Zeta Reticulans) gave to the American government, Suzy said.
"As for HAARP: In the decades since the Little Greys shared their weather control and other technologies — which the Illuminati took over and have used only for negative purposes — other technologies have been developed from the Little Greys', also from Tesla's and Rife's inventions and probably many others' inventions that I don't know about." (4)
Commander Hatonn, who speaks through Suzy, told us back in March 2011 that plans were afoot to decommission HAARP.
"'Hatonn here. … Discussions at the highest levels of the universal council are going on as to dismantling that grid system, what the counter effects may be with our various technologies. It's not a matter of if, but how we shall prevent more destruction to the planet by that diabolical means.'
"[Suzy speaking:] Hatonn said there's no time line on this, but we'll know because future quakes or eruptions will be fewer and milder – most of the negativity that Earth had to release already has been. He said that's the paradox about that particular use of HAARP – it's intended to create massive amounts of negativity but has been releasing much more than it creates." (5)
Apparently, HAARP was tied into the power and communications grid and so could not be closed down without prior planning.
"Even with ETs' advanced technologies it's not a simple matter to dismantle all of the Illuminati's equipment without interrupting essential power and communication sources that serve us, not only the Illuminati. That's why discussions are going on at the highest levels of the universal council as to the best way to proceed." (6)
We knew that HAARP had been decommissioned by May 2013. Sanat Kumara told us that in An Hour with an Angel.
Steve Beckow: if I could get you to comment, please, on … whether HAARP has been decommissioned or neutralized.
Sanat Kumara: HAARP has been decommissioned, as you would think of it. (7)
Archangel Michael confirmed this in An Hour with an Angel in August 2013.
Steve Beckow: [XX] would like to know if HAARP has been deactivated.
Archangel Michael: Yes, it has. (8)
Now we hear from Matthew Ward one probable mechanism by which HAARP was decommissioned: "The removal of weather-manipulating scientists by space family members living among you." (9) Some people may wonder whether the law of freewill has been abrogated. No, the Divine Plan takes precedence over matters like freewill. Sri Ramakrishna reminds us: "He who has made the law can also change it." (10) When a divine deadline has been reached, our star brothers and sisters can intervene to abrogate the ability of malignant forces to cause further destruction. SaLuSa referred to the matter often:
"We are bound by Universal Law to apply ourselves in a way that does not interfere with your freewill, so we cannot just speed up events by imposing ourselves upon you. The dark Ones know this and still interfere because they do not acknowledge the Laws as we do. However, if matters do not proceed within a certain time frame, we will be authorised to take more direct action." (11)
"The Divine Plan does not allow for continued delays and there is a final date by which action is required. " (12)
"We will confirm that in the whole context of your Ascension, there is an ultimate date given us by which we must be able to commence our activities. We may find it necessary to make the first move, and remove those who are holding us up in our mission to Earth and all life upon it." (13)
In this case the galactics appear to have made the first move and removed the HAARP scientists. Even if in earlier times they could not abrogate freewill, the galactics, as Matthew told us above, could and did intervene to redistribute the impact of extreme-weather events.
"When the Illuminati cause a geophysical event, the crews lay down an electromagnetic grid that distributes earthquake or volcanic activity and lessens destruction and death toll without reducing the amount of negativity released by those events.
"In the case of Illuminati-created weather, the crews decrease the wind velocity of violent storms and steer them away from heavily populated areas along coastlines." (14)
The galactics also intervened to ameliorate other impacts than weather-engineering from HAARP, as Matthew told us in 2008:
"You also are encountering the effects of low frequency emissions from HAARP and other surveillance systems, the radioactive fallout of weaponry, cell phones and electric power stations in addition to the proliferation of pollutants in your air, soil and water. If we can say 'that's the bad news,' we hasten to give you the 'good news': Your benevolent space family is using their technology to ameliorate to the greatest possible extent the damaging effects of those toxic ingredients." (15)
Now weather events are under Gaia's control and, while some cleansing and clearing still takes place in areas of the world where it needs to, these events are no longer tied to HAARP. The development of HAARP was only one approach the Illuminati used to try to achieve world domination. Manmade pandemics like AIDS, SARS, and avian flu were another; financial warfare, the erosion of civil rights, the threat of martial law, media censorship, religious manipulation, assassinations, the control and spread of the drug trade … the list goes on and on. The most heinous plot was to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to start World War III, planned to lower the global population from 7 billion to a more manageable 500 million. The stopping of all of these plots has seen the friendly galactics play an indispensable role.
(1) Matthew's Message, Jan. 15, 2011, at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm.
(2) Suzy Ward to Steve Beckow, Feb. 13, 2011.
(3) Suzy Ward to Jean Hudon, March 25, 2011. Suzy emphasized that HAARP alone was not responsible for the Japanese Tsunami. "As for HAARP: In the decades since the Little Greys shared their weather control and other technologies — which the Illuminati took over and have used only for negative purposes — other technologies have been developed from the Little Greys', also from Tesla's and Rife's inventions and probably many others' inventions that I don't know about. Lumping all of those under HAARP, which does have several uses, isn't correct, and that's why Matthew says simply manmade technology or weather control technology when he's speaking about that topic." (Suzy Ward to Steve Beckow, March 16, 2011.)
(4) Suzy Ward to Steve Beckow, March 16, 2011.
(5) Suzy Ward to Jean Hudon, March 25, 2011.
(6) Loc. cit.
(7) "Sanat Kumara: Many of You Have Already Ascended and Straddle Dimensions," May 28, 2013, http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/05/sanat-kumara-many-of-you-have-already-ascended-and-straddle-dimensions/.
(8) Archangel Michael through Linda Dillon, personal reading for Steve Beckow, August 6, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/08/haarp-chemtrails-and-depleted-uranium-all-neutralized-or-gone/.
(9) Matthew's Message, Nov. 22, 2013.
(10) Paramahansa Ramakrishna in Swami Nikhilananda, trans., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1978; c1942, 817.
(11) SaLuSa, Sept. 19, 2012, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.
(12) SaLuSa, May 17, 2010.
(13) SaLuSa, March 22, 2010.
(14) "Help from Other Civilizations" in Earth's Golden Age–Life beyond 2012, cited in Matthew's Message, Nov. 22, 2013.
(15) Matthew's Message, March 23, 2008.
Source: [http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/11/haarp-decommissioned-scientists-gone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haarp-decommissioned-scientists-gone]
Saul By John Smallman: 'Your science has proved satisfactorily to itself that time is not real.' November 23, 2013
Saul By John Smallman: 'Your science has proved satisfactorily to itself that time is not real…' November 23, 2013
Audiolink: 2013-11-23-saul-audio-blog-for-saturday-november-23.mp3
Your awakening is divinely assured and therefore inevitable. Many of you believe that the planned date for this momentous event has slipped, and slipped, and slipped! I have to remind you that time is part of the illusion, and that nothing has slipped. The illusion's existence was but momentary, however, humanity has attached such a strong belief to it, and to the time-line that it apparently offers as real, that it does seem that you have been waiting interminably for your moment of awakening to arrive and uplift you into eternal joy.
This unfounded belief is fading, your science has proved satisfactorily to itself that time is not real, but in the so called "real" world you still have to cope with it in your daily lives. For you it is an unresolvable and mostly incomprehensible aspect of earthly life with which you just have to deal, and until you do awaken it will remain an insoluble enigma.
All of you reading or listening to this are Light bearers, wayshowers, star-seeds, you are the ones who are holding the Light and the intent for humanity to awaken, and you are being successful beyond your wildest imaginings. The awareness of the collective is changing, its vision is being redirected towards the spiritual aspects of life and away from the increasingly less enticing distractions of the illusion, and this is largely due to the intensity of your prayers, meditations, and powerful spiritual intentions. You incarnated to do this, and you are succeeding, but, of course, your memories of Reality remain hidden from you as you work long and hard to complete the enormous task that you have undertaken with limitless assistance from those in the spiritual realms.
If you could fully remember who and what you are your task would be undo-able because the awareness of the joy of Heaven while you were experiencing the misery, suffering, and betrayals of human life would completely distract you from it. For you to carry out your mission on Earth, Earth has to appear very real to you. On Earth you all have a so called shadow side that has to be acknowledged, honored, and brought into alignment with your full Self. It is the part of you that has suffered over numerous life times, the part that has had to go into denial to survive, and that denial has to be seen and resolved. In the spiritual realms, where you have frequently gone for rest and relaxation after an Earth life, there is no pain or suffering, only Love. Nevertheless, while on Earth and living out illusory lives, every one of you has mistreated others and been mistreated, and the shadow of those painful experiences and hidden memories has to be brought to awareness and healed, because anything that is not in perfect harmony and alignment with Love cannot withstand the intense and beautiful energy that is Reality, Heaven.
Every sentient being, every conscious being is a divine creation, and is therefore perfect. There is not even one soul who does not fit into this category of perfection, because if there was God would not be the Source of infinite Love, Wisdom, and Truth that He is, He would be less than completely perfect, and that is so far beyond possible that it cannot even be conceived of. He is perfect and so, therefore, is all of His creation, of which every living being is an essential and irreplaceable part.
But during the games that you have been playing for eons in the illusion you have attempted to build something that was not perfect, and in truth that too is impossible. However, because the illusion was so cleverly constructed – you are all beings of great power and majesty, creative geniuses in fact – you managed to convince the aspects of yourselves that entered into it that it was real and dangerous. Defensive ideas were developed to protect you from the threats that assailed you as you bought into the idea of separation and individuality.
Trust became a big issue, and you chose not to trust, but instead to protect yourselves from the expected betrayals of others. You built mistrust and betrayal into the illusion and then had to deal with them. The result has been an environment in which Love is rejected because it appears to make you weak and vulnerable, and It has been replaced with conditional love (which is again utterly illusory), a state in which you expect payment for it – to your children, for instance, you say: "if you improve your scholastic grades we will reward you with . . ." and of course many other examples spring readily to mind. Those, to put it mildly, less than totally loving aspects of you became your shadow side which you then buried in denial.
Many of course embraced the apparent power that they were able to wield and enjoyed using it to hurt and control others. What they could not see, because it was so deeply denied, was their own fear and pain. They thought that their power made them invincible and that gave them a false sense of happiness and security. Eventually bodies age, their strength decreases, and uneasiness disturbs their sense of security. Their occupants then become more demanding, more inflexible, but are never satisfied. All who incarnate as humans experience power and powerlessness, you have all abused and been abused, and the only resolution to this ingrained pain and suffering is to embrace Love and forgive all who appear to have abused you in any way.
What is unloving can never meld and integrate with Love, because only Love is Real, anything else is illusory and must be released, abandoned, dissolved so that the entity holding on to those characteristics may return home to Reality, to Love, to the Presence of God. Only the Real exists, the masks and disguises, of which dreams and illusions consist, must be discarded so that an entity can once more be and embrace its true Self, the Self that is eternally part of and forever connected to its Source, and from which all that is illusory, unreal has fallen away.
Your masks and disguises have captivated and confused you for eons, keeping you from knowing Yourselves. Now is the time to release them, to open your hearts to the Love that surrounds You, and to awaken into Reality.
With so very much love, Saul.
Source: [http://johnsmallman.wordpress.com/]


A few weeks ago, I joined a group of elderly ladies to exercise using stretch bands, two Frisbees to clap overhead or by our sides, a chair for balance, two foam-like squishy balls, and a room to walk around in. It didn't seem like much, but we got an amazing amount of stretching and resistance workouts in.
This week I needed to see an expert in body movement and I received an assignment to do stretch and resistant activities to work neglected muscle groups. It's taking about two hours per day for these additional actions, so I told the neighbor that invited me to the group not to expect me for a while.
She's such a nice lady. "Join us again when you can," she said.
Well, the house is quieter and the neighborhood bereft of indignant squeals between siblings. We went to two libraries for books and videos and a bagful of puppets. Tonight I read, Oh Say Can You Say? by Dr. Seuss. It's a BEGINNER BOOKS, A Division of Random House, Inc. and was copyrighted in 1979.
I wish we would have read it together. It made me laugh a tiny bit on my own as I stumbled over the phrases. Together we would have shouted with joy, I'm sure.
I hope it's okay if I type a couple of pages. Minus the pictures it won't have the same impact, but if you want to read these aloud, you'll get an idea of the juxtaposition of words and the easy chance to mispronounce them.
Pete Briggs is a pink pig, big pig patter.
"Pete Briggs pats his big pink pigs all day.
Isn't that a hoot? Aren't words fun? I give the typists at Random House Beginner Books a lot of credit. It wasn't easy typing those words, let alone reading them. And the layout of pictures and the bright colors. It makes me want to buy the book for my grandchildren to grab ahold of, and maybe I will.
Grandchildren are just grand, fun to have around, makes me sad to see them go, and yet I sleep like a baby after they're on their way. Not my problem to discipline them, just my job to love them and give their parents advice if they ask.
They receive my prayers, whether they know it or not. I receive their prayers and sometimes I get to hear them, which warms my innermost being.
I hope you are having a great day. May God bless you and yours.
I cleared my calendar for this week when my grandchildren showed up for a little more than a week last Sunday.
They are getting old enough to sleep away for a week in the summer from their folks at home. My father-in-law used to have our kids over for a week in the summer, so the tradition continues, although I think he took them one at a time. He used to hire them to help around his place and I intended to do the same on a lesser degree, but the time is flying by. Plus, we're making plans to see some attractions and extended-family, so it may not work out.
Years ago, a pastor younger than my husband and I told me if I ever wanted to get my house spruced up, invite people over. It proved true for me this week. I emptied a closet out in two rooms and re-organized them, threw stuff away and placed some items in a give-away spot.
I kept waiting for the weather to warm up so I could apply house numbers to our mailbox that I bought in Feb.
I cleaned the outside of the mail receptacle, rinsed it and dried it. I carefully affixed the large numbers at around 9:00 at night. I'm expecting a few more family members tonight. I even washed fingerprints off the screen doors' glass around 10:00 p.m. because it's been driving me crazy and the children are sleeping.
By then, my granddaughter who got tired of the small amount of lines from Pharaoh's daughter had decided she'd be God instead of her abdicating brother. Her oldest brother, Moses was trying to stay the course but every once in a while one of the younger ones would give him an unexpected hug from behind that was almost a tackle and he'd start laughing. I gave up.
I hope you're enjoying this month. I write to someone in Bolivia and it occurs to me that when we're finally getting sunny days in between this rainy spring that they're heading into winter.
By the way, have you cleared your calendar lately?
I wish I could say I smile at him, but alas, there is no smile that early in the day when I stayed up late the night before, even when I know they're up and about at six or seven a.m. I remain civil but mostly mute for probably half an hour.
I try to read my Bible first thing in the morning, but that suffers also, if it's too early because my brain is sluggish some days. Although today I began my Life Plan from Michael Hyatt's and Daniel Harkavy's book, which I've blogged about before. So, I rose around 7:30 surprisingly alert. With appointments shortly after arising, I didn't get to read the Word until this afternoon.
I read 2 Chronicles 11:22, 23 and couldn't help but laugh. The king wanted to avoid strife between his sons, so he sent some of them to different cities, gave them an abundance of food and many wives. God said the king showed wisdom in this.
The content men, busy with their lives didn't look outside their borders to war for the kingdom.
On a serious note, reading in 2 Chronicles about the kings of Israel, when they sought God to know Him better and to worship Him, He blessed them in many ways. When they decided to marry outside of their faith and worshipped the Baal's and set up an abominable Asherah, He removed his favor from them.
When they put their children through the fire to appease these false gods, He got seriously ticked.
Jonathan Cahn feels we're at a crossroads.
Here's my paraphrase of Jonathan Cahn's remarks: If we continue with pagan philosophies, we will continue to experience the wrath of God in a greater measure.
Or, Christians can repent, turn form their wicked ways, pray for our land, obey God and hopefully we'll see revival. Otherwise, our country will face what Israel faced so many times: hardships, severe weather, famines, and wars. Sometimes they lost their country to foreign powers and their brightest and best became slaves to the conquering nation.
The book of Daniel tells of Babylon's victory over Israel and of the young men made to serve King Nebuchadnezzar as eunuchs many miles from home and family.
As a grandma, I don't want to see my country taken over by a foreign land more for the sake of my children and their children than for myself. I take comfort in the fact that God is in control. Daniel faced trials in Babylon, but God watched over him and allowed him to rise in the political ranks so he helped the Babylonians. In return, King Cyrus helped the Israelites to return to their promised land, many years later.
God has a plan for Israel; God has a plan for America. This is what God spoke in Jeremiah 29:10, (ISV): "For this is what the LORD says: 'When Babylon's seventy years are completed, I'll take note of you and will fulfill my good promises to you by bringing you back to this place.
Jer 29:11 For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans for well-being, and not for calamity, in order to give you a future and a hope.
Jer 29:12 When you call out to me and come and pray to me, I'll hear you.
Jer 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.
A lady from our church felt God was asking that we put this Scripture on our sign, so we did for a time: 2Chronicles_7:14, (KJV): If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
The rain drops sit on my husband's windshield as if they're glued droplets of glass.
I'm in the car waiting for him so we can catch a new action movie at the theater. Of course, I just made a cup of Rooibos tea, so I put it in a travel mug and I'm determined to wait long enough so I don't burn myself on it.
Even the side windows' rain drops are defying gravity. Hmm.
Anyway, I set my Life Plan from Michael Hyatt & Daniel Harkavy's book, Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want on paper today. The tome is published by Baker Books, Grand Rapids, MI and copyrighted by the authors in 2016.
I copied the light green weekly sheet and started to put in my meetings and schedule for work and exercise, etc. My Sunday ended up on a second page and I just realized I never filled that one out, so after I blog I'll go back to that sheet of paper.
The evening hours suggested family time, reading, planning and I grabbed that idea for me. I'm tired of blogging at 11:00 p.m. and then reading others' blogs which gets my brain charged up and then I get to bed at 1:00 a.m.
I read my Bible earlier in the day, ran some errands. I usually mark my calendar for shopping and stuff on Friday but today I realized that I really do my running around on Tuesdays. So, my ideal week reflected that.
I want more time to write than I planned, but if I'm consistent with what I chose, the words should add up. If my husband has meetings, I can grab pen and legal pad or sit at the computer when he's away during family time.
I'm looking forward to a more structured life. Even if curveballs come my way, I have a reference point for decision making.
I forgot to schedule hobbies in, my lowest priority. I may have to sneak some time on the weekend.
I've been praying for wisdom and today I felt as if God's Spirit whispered to me, Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, and knock and the door will be opened for you.
What a wonderful God He is!


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Defence chief promises action as review finds major problems at military college
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A review of the Royal Military College of Canada has uncovered significant problems at the prestigious institution in Kingston, ON, prompting a promise of immediate action from none other than the country's top soldier. Chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance says he is putting the college and two other military schools under his direct command to ensure they get the attention they deserve. READ MORE
Profile of Courage: Second Lieutenant Briggs Kilburn Adams
Soon after the Royal Flying Corps Canada (RFCC) started recruiting in January-February 1917, senior staff realized that obtaining sufficient numbers of personnel from Canadian sources was going to be a problem. After almost two-and-a-half years of war, Canada was "recruited out" because most of the available men had been gobbled up by the Canadian Expeditionary Force. READ MORE
Replica war planes take flight at Vimy 100th Anniversary
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At the moment when five replica First World War planes make a symbolic pass over Vimy Ridge Memorial April 9, Major (Retired) Paul O'Reilly says he will be choking back tears. The fly over is part of the Veterans Affairs Canada-led ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, and retired military pilots and one from the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) will be in the cockpit. READ MORE
PM sticks to his guns amid fresh calls from U.S. for NATO allies to spend more
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau doubled down recently in his defence of Canadian military spending levels, as the U.S. brought fresh pressure to bear on NATO allies to pony up. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used his first NATO summit in Brussels to demand that all allies come up with a plan to increase the amount they spend on defence to two per cent of GDP. READ MORE
102-year-old WWII vet, who served in RCAF, gets high school diploma
A 102-year-old Second World War veteran who served with Canadian and American forces and survived captivity by the Nazis has received his high school diploma and overdue medals. Sydney Cole dropped out of his Buffalo high school in the 1930s without graduating. READ MORE

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Wealth Building Process of Tech Transfer Revealed & Supported Within Minority Communities
Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) announced the launch of a 5-city tour to inform minorities about the opportunity to build wealth and create jobs using technology invented in Federal Government laboratories. Starting in Atlanta, December 6-7, The InVision Tour will make stops in Houston, San Francisco, New York City; and Miami between now and May 2019.
Two-thirds of the most influential technologies of the past 50 years—smartphones, autonomous vehicles, personalized medicine, GPS, and others—were made possible with key components resulting from federally funded research and development (R&D) at national laboratories and universities. Unlike corporations and large businesses, small business owners and inventors rarely have the resources to fund R&D or product development from scratch. To make matters worse, legislation places a priority on minority and small business access to federal technology, but research has shown that due to unawareness, they apply for these resources at much lower rates than their non-minority counterparts do.
The MBDA InVision Tour is about to change that by delivering fast-paced and informative workshops between now and June 2019. The program includes introductions and the opportunity to engage with laboratory and technology transfer officials; potential for cooperative research and development agreements with university and federal researchers; and information on how to locate and gain access to the funding, facilities, patents, and equipment that federal laboratories have to offer. By bringing tech transfer awareness to these communities, we expand the opportunity for equal access to new technologies for the purpose of commercialization, and ultimately job creation.
The InVision Tour, a collaborative effort between MBDA and the National Institutes of Standards & Technology bridges the gap between African Americans, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asians, Hispanics, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders and federal technology transfer. By bringing awareness to these communities maximizes the taxpayer return on investment from the $150 billion the government spends on research each year.
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Juno Beach, Florida – NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) released its 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report on October 9, detailing numerous actions it has taken to invest responsibly in North America's energy future.
The report catalogues the company's billions of dollars in clean energy investments, its low air emissions rates, and, at its Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) subsidiary, award-winning customer service and top-decile reliability. In addition, the digital report documents NextEra Energy's achievements in promoting economic development, meeting community needs, providing a safe, healthy and challenging work environment for its employees, and delivering strong financial results.
NextEra Energy continues to grow its environmental leadership.
Nearly all the power NextEra Energy generated in 2013 was from clean or renewable sources, including wind, solar, natural gas and nuclear energy. Emissions rates* from its power plants of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide were 97, 80 and 53 percent lower, respectively, than the U.S. electric industry's average.
The company has steadily improved its water withdrawal rate since it began tracking it in 2007, achieving a 42 percent reduction in its use of this precious resource through 2013 compared with the company's 2007 rate.
NextEra Energy protects wildlife species where the company has operations. These species include Florida manatees, American crocodiles, osprey, sea turtles, desert tortoises and the desert fox.
NextEra Energy is delivering superior value to its customers.
FPL, the company's rate-regulated electric utility, delivered 99.98 percent service reliability in 2013 and a typical residential bill that is about 25 percent below the industry average as well as the lowest in Florida for five straight years. FPL recently announced that, subject to regulatory approval, it expects its typical 1,000-kilowatt-hour residential customer bill to decrease nearly $2 a month beginning in January 2015, which would make that typical bill about 9 percent lower than it was in 2009.
FPL completed its industry-leading grid modernization program with more than 10,000 new intelligent devices now installed on its transmission and distribution grid and more than 4.6 million smart meters for customers.
FPL continued promoting energy efficiency in homes and businesses. The cumulative effect of these programs since 1981 has reduced electricity demand equivalent to the generation capacity of 14 medium-sized power plants.
Through a variety of activities that make up FPL's ASSIST program, the utility processed nearly $30 million in payments to approximately 117,000 customers in need, and raised another $ 1.5 million through the FPL Care to Share program.
NextEra Energy is helping communities thrive.
The company invested $ 6.7 billion – tops in its industry in 2013, according to data compiled by the Edison Electric Institute – in projects that created jobs across the United States and Canada and served as an economic engine for the communities in which they are located.
NextEra Energy employees volunteered nearly 50,000 hours of service to help their communities, served on the boards of directors of more than 200 non-profit organizations, and donated more than $ 3 million of their own money to support non-profits and other local organizations.
The company equipped teachers in Florida to help young people learn science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and invested in education programs in other states, such as California, Texas and Michigan, as well as in Canada.
NextEra Energy cultivates a high performance organization that stresses safety, health, continuous learning and teamwork.
The company achieved its best safety performance on record in 2013, a 76 percent lower OSHA rate than it had in 2005.
NextEra Energy again was honored as a Best Employer for Healthy Lifestyles® for its effective workplace well-being programs.


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MAPPING MEMORIES
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Reflections from a Paper Boat
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A paper boat confounded the prevailing winds and wisped its delicate Atlantic way from Scotland to, would you believe, the North Cove Harbour down by Battery Park City. It drifted past Liberty, and was crisp with anticipation, for it was mid-July and its happy compass had delivered it safely to America. God and Neptune be praised! On its stern – no one knows which, were the letters 'QM' – and no one knew exactly what they meant but it didn't stop everyone from guessing that they meant something.
It appears that the delicate craft was built in Glasgow on the River Clyde for the Origami Line whose president said that it had saved his company from folding up. Other Clyde-built ships were the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth and the QE2. Could the letters 'QM' mean 'Queen Mary'? In Scotland the heady days of big shipbuilding are gone. Clyde shipbuilders now wield scissors, wear trainers, and have cut out smoking at work. They are building 'paper boats'.
Their broad Scottish boast is that the 'QM' is the biggest in the world. It was folded up carefully from a sheet of a secret sort of paper measuring 120 ft x 80 ft. The needed a space the size of a football field to do this and a day when it wasn't windy. No technical details have been revealed, but it is said to be driven by a powerful question-mark. Nowadays the Clyde men keep their paperwork close to their chests for they were once too generous with their knowhow, and now the rest of the world builds, ships and they don't. By building The Paper Boat it would be said that they have turned over a new leaf.
'QM' was pushed into the ocean off the west of Scotland where, quite naturally, it entered a Scotch mist. It was lucky to be offered pilotage by an albatross who said it knew the way to New York. Half-way across, The Paper Boat saw some icebergs, and mistaking them for other paper boats, meandered off-course to say "Hi!" It was not a warm relationship, but this deviation took 'QM' north where it got dirtied by a slick seeping through from Alaska. Meanwhile its Captain and crew flew over it on Flight BA172 to JFK and looked down on it to check its course. They felt reassured when the albatross pecked at the Boeing's window about one hundred sea miles east off Nantucket. Below, the 'QM' looked resplendent except for the Alaskan oil along its waterline. Two days later she entered the Hudson River at dead of night, and her captain was there to hook her ashore with his walking stick. This happened at the old heli-pad at Battery Park, and the idea was to scrub off the sludge and freshen up with hot steam so as to look good for the big occasion.
The big occasion was to berth at the World Financial Center where 'QM' was to deliver greeting to America as declared on its manifest – and also a wee bit of cargo. Someone said that the vessel was carrying the conscience for capitalism. The crew wondered if they had heard right.
The albatross had sloped off at Nantucket as it was only interested in crossing oceans and consequently The Paper Boat nearly lost it way. In the inclement weather it thought Lower Manhattan was Anchorage, Alaska. Luckily three observant seagulls came to the rescue and flew overhead to line her up for a precise entrance into North Cove Harbour. The Captain hailed an assembly of New World inhabitants leaning against a long quote from Walt Whitman, and they hailed back that this was indeed New York. It was a poetic moment.
The Captain immediately produced his ukulele and sang a much-needed sea shanty. His tuneful greeting was reinforced by no less than four Scottish bagpipers and a display of the powerful question-mark – it all seemed to mean something. The Captain rowed ashore in his golden dinghy, taking his golden suitcase with him and the wee bit of cargo. The display of gold was not intended to be brash – merely in defence in the dazzle of the World Financial Center. After a short exhibition of fancy rowing, the Captain clambered on to the marble dock to be met by no less than two kilted drummers, and was marched off to meet the welcoming dignitaries. He remarked afterwards that it had an uneasy touch of The French Revolution about it, but does not wish to dwell on this point. Those assembled to receive him held high office in New York and in the world of the World Financial Center, and in his own part of parts beyond the seas, namely the UK. Greetings were made to one another, and it was the same with speeches.
The Captain then produced the wee bit of cargo and said it was a 'Spire'. It was a simple device comprising of a long thin rod with a stone secured at one end. The upper end of the rod was moved by the wind and it was counterbalanced at its lower end by the stone helped a lot by gravity. It swayed like a mast, for it was secured upright in a gimbal – a simple balancing device more to do with sailors than bankers. The Captain said the 'Spire' was a portable sculpture designed to celebrate the place on which it stands and beyond that, its importance was of no importance and that it was really for the planet, for: "air stone and the equilibrium of understanding".
He also mentioned that the original native inhabitants of these shores would have readily understood this and no one could think quickly enough to disagree. It seemed it was an ecological statement not commensurate with the state of the nearby Hudson. The captain then opened his golden suitcase and displayed the log-book of The Paper Boat. In it was recorded the QM's manifest, the purpose of which was to make things plain; clear; apparent; beyond doubt; evident; open; visible. The log was to be placed in a prominent place for perusal in in the World Financial Center to make things particularly plain to a particular type of public.
Conscious that The Paper Boats's port of call was the naval button of the world of finance, it had seemed to the Captain, namely George Wyllie, a Scottish Scul?tor that there was something requiring to be made plain; clear; evident; – and so on. The Captain, braced by trans-Atlantic energy, made his report.
"Greetings!" – to all whom these presents shall come… take note that this year 1990 is the bi-centenary of Adam Smith, author of the classic rules-book for capitalism, The Wealth of Nations, and that I, Master of this paper boat, do hereby deliver this manifest. Here this…. Adam Smith once Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, who breathed the good air of Scotland, would never have wished upon any society the iniquities presently engendered by the system he expounded. Be aware that I, a Scottish captain, sailing out of the Port of Glasgow, and born in that place, do hereby swear by its air and its stones and the good nature of its people, that Adam Smith earnestly professed that another volume of his philosophy be applied as equal to his Wealth of Nations. Your own good Professor Heilbrouner right here in New York, has already understood the correct necessity to publish them together in The ESSENTIAL Adam Smith. As a Scot, a bit calvinistic, sparingly subversive, five feet eight inches, stocky, fairly ancient, emerging here from a Brigadoon mist with nary claymore, I claim due entitlement to deliver this neglected document for the benefit of your attention. Dear American friends, it is with warm pleasure that I present for the enlightenment of us all, Adam Smith's OTHER BOOK – The fifty per cent of his good intentions left sleeping down below. It is not so much that we have been living a lie since 1790, but rather that we have been living an omission. Boats should – but probably won't, be rocked by belated awareness of Adam Smith's pride in this conscience of capitalism. We may need and be glad of it yet – his Theory of Moral Sentiments. Take heed of the first sentence.
How selfish so ever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and renders their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of see it.
Having made his report, The Captain felt hungry for the official lunch where he was accorded the great indigestive respect that accompanies wariness. Notwithstanding, he was able to knock-off his food and the essential matter of morality in the same way as any profundity is understated in dear old Glasgow town.
Could it be the QM stands for Question Mark?
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Since 2005, sponsorshipX has been bringing together sponsorship marketing professionals from around the world to learn, grow, and network. sponsorshipX is not your typical conference with boring speakers and sessions. With an annual multi-day event known as the "live-action conference," sponsorshipX literally throws its attendees into the action — so they can experience ideas firsthand instead of simply talking about them.
In the past, this has included hosting breakout sessions in gondolas, playing a "networking" basketball tournament during the NBA All-Star weekend, and getting VIP seats to the FIFA WWC. Working professionals have the time of their lives while also learning from some of the industry's top thought leaders.
While the organization will still be hosting an event in Toronto later this spring, it's also bringing this revolutionary approach to networking and professional education to Nashville, Tennessee. Representatives from major brands, corporations, agencies, events, advertisers, and properties will descend upon the Music City April 23-25, 2019.
In addition to hearing a compelling lineup of speakers and thought leaders from all over the world, attendees at this year's event will get to experience everything the city has to offer — from live music to local BBQ, to participating in a flag football tournament and visiting the NFL Draft Experience.
Mark Harrison, founder and chairperson of sponsorshipX, explains why this method beats the alternative of spending a weekend almost falling asleep and sneakily checking Twitter while sitting in an auditorium.
After attending a number of conferences in the United States, Harrison and company felt that Nashville made a perfect fit for the feel that they wanted for the latest iteration of the conference.
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Past sponsorshipX speakers include Emilio Collins (EVP of global marketing partnerships at the NBA), Pamela Hollander (VP integrated marketing communications at Allstate), Zaileen Janmohamed (former head of Olympics management at VISA), and Dana White (CEO of UFC).
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With one of the largest social media audiences in sports, there really isn't an offseason for the Dallas Cowboys' digital team.
There are many superlatives to describe the Dallas Cowboys organization. On top of the five Super Bowl victories, the Cowboys are valued at $4.8 billion, the highest figure of any professional sports team in the world. The Cowboys are also on or near the top of the NFL, as well as the global pro sports landscape, in terms of total audience on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Telling a story to that big of an audience can be daunting. It's a challenge, however, that the digital team of Taylor Stern (Content Strategist), Shannon Gross (Director of Content Strategy) and Dana Byrnes (Social Media Coordinator) continually meets. With their combined experience, the group has come to understand how to approach the NFL offseason from a digital perspective. When the season ends on the field, the digital team begins to recap the team's accomplishments while being sensitive to how the season ended as well as personnel changes. There isn't too much time to dwell on the past though with things like free agency, schedule releases and the NFL Draft quickly approaching.
In recent years, the Cowboys' digital success during the regular season and postseason has been best exemplified by the storytelling in their video work. Particularly, in the buildup to the 2016 playoffs, the Cowboys released a series entitled "#FinishThisFight," which consisted of short-form documentaries about the struggles notable players overcame to obtain their current success. The series reached over four million people combined on social media.
How much weight can one man carry?
2018's #FinishThisFight included a video simply called "Round 2" featuring Cowboys fan and world champion boxer Errol Spence Jr. That video had a reach of over two million on Facebook.
While the Cowboys have the largest audience on Facebook, the digital team puts the most effort, in terms of strategy, into the team's Instagram presence. That page includes no sponsored content or promotional posts. As a result, the team has seen more growth on Instagram in the past year than on any other platform.
Something that you will find on the Cowboys' social pages is content created through the team's partnership with Team Infographics. The digital team and Team Infographics work together to create templates for score updates and player of the game posts as well as things like schedule releases. It can all be modified and rendered on the fly through the company's easy-to-use CMS.
Now, just a few short months away from another NFL season, the Cowboys digital team is settling in for another year of churning out high-quality content. This approach can be an example for aspiring sports professionals to keep working hard and trying to outdo themselves.
Vizrt's game-changing technology is a vital storytelling tool for the Baltimore Ravens and soon could be throughout professional football.
The NFL's Baltimore Ravens know a lot about meeting goals on and off the field. Since 2000, the team has won two Super Bowl, two AFC Championships and five AFC North division titles. Now, as a three-year, $120 million renovation nears completion, the Ravens want to make M&T Stadium the very best place in the U.S. to experience football.
Vizrt's Viz Arena live sports enhancement solution is a vital part of the upgrade. Both a fan enhancement tool and a monetization solution, Viz Arena enables the addition of augmented reality graphics, including virtual ads, through image-based tracking.
The sweeping renovation also includes a high-density WiFi network, larger and higher-resolution in-stadium video screens and a completely overhauled control room with the most advanced video production solutions available today.
With Viz Arena and their new broadcast equipment, the Ravens can now give fans an even more immersive in-stadium experience through cleaner, more professional in-stadium programming. The team also tacked on a package called Down & Distance, a software application of Viz Arena that inserts a yellow first-down marker, making the line appear painted on the field rather than digitally imposed. This is the first application of its kind available in 1080p or 4K without any upscaling or complex image processing.
For Vice President of Broadcasting and Gameday Productions Jay O'Brien and his production staff, this means enhancing replays and in-stadium entertainment to include first-down line capabilities for the first time.
The Viz Arena Down & Distance tool can also seamlessly and unobtrusively integrate locked-in virtual graphics or ads on or around the field of play. They can be fully integrated into a production at a specific location or tied to the lines as they move.This versatility allows multiple sponsors and graphics to change throughout the game. It adds an extra incentive for sponsors and another revenue stream for the organization.
In the past, O'Brien worked with other similar video solutions that didn't live up to his team's needs or expectations. After using Viz Arena's Down and Distance for a short time, however, he could see that the end product was of a higher quality altogether. Not only that, it's cost-effective: Down and Distance depends on live or archived footage instead of cameras and doesn't require expensive, labor-intensive deployment.
As an added bonus, the solution only took O'Brien and his team roughly 25 minutes to set up and about the same time to learn how to use. All told, O'Brien expects the solution to be a much bigger part of the fan experience landscape in the near future.
For more information Vizrt's Viz Arena and Down & Distance application, please visit www.vizrt.com or email sports@vizrt.com.
The founders of Connect&GO brought several uses for radio-frequency identification technology to the world of live sports and entertainment.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology can have many practical uses. In the past, Anthony Palermo has developed RFID solutions within the realms of healthcare, pharmaceuticals, aerospace and military operations. In 2012, Palermo and Dominic Gagnon joined forces to found Connect&GO in Montréal, Québec. Connect&GO provides RFID solutions for sports and entertainment events and venues all over the world.
Seven years ago, Palermo and Gagnon had their first major success within the sports industry with Montréal's Saputo Stadium, home of Major League Soccer's Montréal Impact.
At the time, Saputo Stadium comfortably sat about 16,000 fans, but a plan was in process to add 5,000 more seats. The venue enlisted Palermo and Gagnon to find a way to attract more fans while simultaneously making game entry as easy as possible. Their solution was a plastic key that fans could scan in an express lane to enter the stadium on game days.
Every seventh fan that scanned their key would even see their name and photo appear on a monitor welcoming them to the stadium. Fans could also scan the keys at several points around the stadium to enter contests, utilize photo kiosks and collect points that were redeemable at the fan shop and other areas tied into the stadium. It was from this success that Palermo and Gagnon realized they had a valuable tool for access control as well as cashless payments and experiential activations. From there, Connect&GO was born.
"We personally believe, as a company and as founders of the company, that technology should only be there to make an experience better, not to impose on an experience," Palermo says. "What we're trying to do is look at guest experiences and ask how do we make it a better? How do we make people see the value in being a VIP or a season ticket holder?
This focus on the guest experience is what Palermo believes sets Connect&GO apart from other RFID solutions providers in the space.
After the Saputo Stadium project, Connect&GO partnered with the Osheaga Festival, Canada's largest music festival. From there, the company has performed activations with brands including Pepsi and HBO at events like the Super Bowl, the Olympics, Comicon and SXSW. In 2017, Sports Illustrated named Connect&GO a company that will "change the way you watch sports." Moving forward, Connect&GO has activations lined up with the Rogers Cup and the AFL.
As Connect&GO continues to focus on ways to improve the guest experience through access, payments and experiential solutions, look for their footprint within the sports industry to continue to grow exponentially in the near future.
Learn more about Connect&GO and how they connect the fan experience at live games in their latest whitepaper here.


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Amherst - Amherst Manuscript #set 92 - The robin is the one - asc:14137 - p. 4
Amherst College, Amherst MA
Amherst Manuscript #set 92
Letters (1894), 178, from the Holland copy (B), as an eight-line stanza made composite with the alternative ("common") from the set (C); also LL (1924), 261; also Letters (1931), 172, as two quatrains, with a footnote giving the text of line 4 as it appears in the three extant copies. Bingham, Emily Dickinson's Home (1955), 433, from the Holland copy (B), corrected, or from the set (C). Poems (1955), 621-22 (A, B principal, as having been sent to Susan Dickinson, C; and another conjectured for the Hollands); CP (1960), 398 (B). MB (1981), 1107 (C), in facsimile. (J821). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F807C).
BM (1945), 207-8, with the alternative adopted. Poems (1955), 689-90; CP (1960), 445. MB (1981), 1106-7, in facsimile. (J949). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1068A).
Franklin #289; 501; 794; 804; 807; 817; 911; 912; 913; 914; 915; 916; 917; 918; 935; 936; 937; 1067; 1068; 1069; 1070; 1071; 1072; 1073; 1074; 1075; 1076; 1077; 1078; 1079; 1080; 1093; 1094; 1095; 1116
Johnson Poems #229; 821; 822; 828; 829; 887; 888; 889; 890; 891; 892; 893; 894; 895; 896; 897; 898; 899; 900; 948; 949; 950; 951; 952; 953; 954; 955; 956; 957; 958; 959; 960; 990; 1050; 1540
Box 2 Folder 14
The robin is the one
Amherst Location
https://acdc.amherst.edu/view/asc:14120
asc:14137
F807C - Away from home are they and I
Away from Home are some and I -
An Emigrant to be
In a metropolis of Homes
Is easy possibly -
The Habit of a Foreign Sky
We - difficult acquire
As Children, who remain
The more their Feet retire.
Away from home are they and I
1 are |
3 of |
5 a |
7 who |
7 Face ||
8 their |
4 easy] common -
7 remain |
Three, variant, about 1864 and 1865. A pencil copy from about 1864, made while ed was in Cambridge for eye treatment and signed "Emily" as if intended for a recipient, remained in her possession, not folded (a 143).
The latest copy is in Set 6b (a92-3/4), recorded about 1865 with an alternative.
Letters (1894), 178, from the Holland copy (B), as an eight-line stanza made composite with the alternative ("common") from the set (C); also LL (1924), 261; also Letters (1931), 172, as two quatrains, with a footnote giving the text of line 4 as it appears in the three extant copies. Bingham, Emily Dickinson's Home (1955), 433, from the Holland copy (B), corrected, or from the set (C). Poems (1955), 621-22 (A, B principal, as having been sent to Susan Dickinson, C; and another conjectured for the Hollands); CP (1960), 398 (B). MB (1981), 1107 (C), in facsimile. (J821)
F1068A - Under the light yet under
Under the Light, yet
Under the Grass and
the Dirt,
Under the Beetle's
Under the Clover's Root,
Further than Arm could
Were it Giant long,
Further than Sunshine
Were the Day Year long,
Over the Light, yet over,
Over the Arc of the Bird -
Over the Comet's chimney -
Over the Cubit's Head,
Further than Guess can
Further than Riddle ride -
Oh for a Disc to
the Distance
and the Dead!
Under the light yet under
4 Root] Foot
1 yet |
2 and |
3 Beetle's |
5 could |
7 Sunshine |
12 Head, ||
13 can |
15 to |
16 Ourselves |
About 1865, in Set 6b (a 92-3/4).
About 1865, in Set 6b (a92-3/4).
BM (1945), 207-8, with the alternative adopted. Poems (1955), 689-90; CP (1960), 445. MB (1981), 1106-7, in facsimile. (J949)
F807A - Away from home are they and I
F807B - Away from home are some and I
J949 - Under the Light, yet under,


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Payload Credential Phishing Attack Poses as an HR Announcement About New Employee Benefits
This payload-based phishing attack posed as an announcement from the company human resources team about updates to the company's employee benefits package and requested the recipient review a supposed updated handbook, which actually opened a phishing page to steal account credentials.
In this attack, the initial email posed as an internal company announcement from the human resources department about the release of information regarding a new employee benefit package. The message stated that the new benefit package was available for review and the recipient was asked to review the policy changes in an attached file named "Employee Docs.shtml."
To pressure action, the message indicated the recipient must immediately sign the attached document to acknowledge that they've reviewed the new handbook. Included in the email was an otherwise unnecessary sentence used to increase credibility that said, "The purpose of this policy is to maintain a compensation philosophy that is competitive and financially responsible while supporting service delivery, recruitment and retention of employees at [company name].
The email was sent from a likely compromised external account unrelated to the target organization. The sender's display name was set to the name of the target company rather than an employee, which made the message look like it was generated by an automated internal system.
Had the recipient opened the attached file, a local copy of a phishing page that mimicked a Microsoft login page would have been opened in their browser and pre-populated with their company email address. The login prompt included a message stating that because the recipient was accessing sensitive information, they needed to verify their account password to authenticate their identity. The source code of the SHTML attachment was obfuscated with JavaScript to prevent easy analysis of the file.
Because this email was sent from a legitimate account that has been compromised without a history of abuse, there are no direct signals indicating the email's origin is malicious. IOCs associated with the HTML attachment, such as file hash, had not been previously detected as malicious, allowing it to bypass traditional tools that rely on known bad indicators. Because the files associated with this attack contained source code that had been obfuscated, an analysis of the file to identify malicious artifacts, such as URLs, could not be performed.
The sender's display name resembled a human resources account; however, the email address had never been used to communicate with employees at the company. The use of obfuscated source code is a common tactic in phishing attacks. Additionally, an in-depth analysis of files, rather than simply scanning raw source code, could result in the identification of malicious artifacts. HTML attachments are commonly used to deliver phishing payloads without having to include the malicious content in the email itself.
The theme of this email–a human resources announcement–may result in a higher success rate since it will likely be of greater interest to targeted employees. The email also included a direct request for the recipient to review and sign the attached document. Direct requests, rather than passive comments, are generally more effective to get a target to perform a desired action. If an employee entered credentials into the phishing page, attackers would have full access to their email account, which they can then use to look for sensitive information or as a launch point for other attacks on the employee's coworkers, customers, or vendors.
External Compromised Account
File Source Code Obfuscation
Fake Document
Human Resources Announcement


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Nov 29, 2011 · USW
USW Officials Detail Oil Health & Safety Problems to Congress
Health & Safety to be Number One Issue in National Bargaining Talks
Lynne B. Hancock, USW, 615.831.6782/ 615.828.6169, lbaker@usw.org
Gary Hubbard, USW, 202.778.4384/ 202.256.8125, ghubbard@usw.org
Washington, D.C. (Nov. 29)—United Steelworkers (USW) officials briefed congressional members and staff today about health and safety problems in the oil industry and how they will impact National Oil Bargaining talks which are scheduled to heat up in January.
USW Health and Safety Specialist Kim Nibarger outlined five fatal flaws at the briefing on where the oil industry needs to improve its health and safety record: process safety, mechanical integrity, management of change, incident investigation and control room alarms and instrumentation.
"When things go bad in a refinery, they go really bad and people die," he told the briefing. "Focusing on personal safety—the wearing of hard hats and safety glasses, slips, trips and falls—says nothing about how safe a refinery is for workers and the surrounding community. BP had a low personal injury rate at its refineries, but the 2005 explosion and fire at its Texas City plant showed it failed miserably in terms of process safety. Fifteen people were killed and 170 were injured in the 2005 accident as a result of this failure."
Process safety does not focus on the individual. Instead, attention is paid to the worksite: equipment reliability, discharges into the air and ground, preventative maintenance, and inspection and testing. Nibarger discussed accidents that happened in recent years and how each oil company failed to comply with process safety management standards.
"The oil companies are playing Russian roulette with their equipment," Nibarger said. "They are doing quick, stopgap fixes, like placing clamps on pipes instead of replacing the pipe. They're extending the time between unit shutdowns when all the equipment is checked. When there is a shutdown they're not always repairing or replacing critical equipment. When they do repair equipment they're not bringing it up to current RAGAGEP (Recognized and Generally Accepted Good Engineering Practices) standards."
Nibarger said that when the companies do a Management of Change (MOC) assessment the questions they ask are to justify the change they want to make, not to examine what could go wrong if the change is made.
Companies also are failing to heed their own recommendations when they do an investigation of an incident. Nibarger cited several examples of this happening. In 1997, after an accident at the Tosco refinery in Avon, Calif., injured 44 people, the industry learned that locating trailers near a live process unit was a poor practice. Yet, the industry ignored the lesson and the result was disastrous. Eight years later, 15 workers died at BP's Texas City refinery because they were in a trailer that was placed too close to an active unit that exploded.
The oil industry's handling of control room alarms and instrumentation is also a problem. Nibarger said technology helps the units run evenly, but if something goes wrong the operators get pages of alarm messages and do not know which alarm is a priority. He said they get overloaded with information instead of guidance on doing the right thing immediately.
These problems raise serious concerns about what the oil industry is doing to safeguard workers and communities from preventable catastrophic events. At a time when the industry is pushing for elimination of existing regulations, it's urgent that careful consideration be given to the real costs, in lost lives and production, when companies are allowed to regulate themselves.
When talks between the oil industry and USW heat up in January, health and safety will be the number one issue and the "five fatal flaws" will be discussed, said Jim Lefton, who was also at the congressional briefing and is an assistant to USW Vice President Gary Beevers, who heads the National Oil Bargaining Program.
"Since our last round of bargaining in 2009 we have seen 25 fatalities and 175 fires that have been reported by the industry. We have seen seven of our brothers and sisters die needlessly in an explosion at Anacortes, Wash., over a maintenance issue that the industry has known about for 30 years—high temperature hydrogen attack," Lefton said.
"We have spent the last three years imploring this industry to address the issues we have raised in our proposal…but alas it has been to no avail.
"It is now time to address these issues in the realm of collective bargaining. It is our hope that we will be successful. If not, we are prepared to do what is necessary to protect our members from death and injury at the hands of this industry," Lefton told the briefing.
The National Oil Bargaining pattern agreement expires Feb. 1 at 12:01 a.m.
The USW represents 30,000 workers at 168 production, refining, marketing, transportation, pipeline and petrochemical facilities nationwide, including 69 refineries representing approximately 64 percent of US refining capacity.
Overall, the USW is the largest industrial union in North America and has 850,000 members in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. It represents workers employed in metals, rubber, chemicals, paper, oil refining, renewable and atomic energy, plus the service sector.
Dec 24, 2011 · USW
Vale Inco Convicted of Unfair Labor Practice In Landmark Decision of Ontario Labour Relations Board
United Steelworkers (USW) won a major victory at the Ontario Labour Relations Board (OLRB) against Vale mining company in a case stemming from their year-long strike. Click here for more.
USW Says Government Analysis Confirms Shutdown of Philadelphia-area Refineries Could Negatively Impact Oil Products for Northeast Region
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released a report today that confirms what the USW has been saying about the impact of shutting down the ConocoPhillips and Sunoco Philadelphia-area refineries: supplies of oil products could be negatively
Former USW Secretary-Treasurer Appointed to 2012 ERISA Advisory Council
James D. English, retired Secretary-Treasurer of the United Steelworkers (USW), has been appointed by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis to the 2012 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Plans (the ERISA Advisory Council.) Mr. English is one of
USW Criticizes Court Ruling that Dismisses China's Countervailing Duties
A U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Monday that the U.S. Commerce Department's imposition of countervailing duties on China-made off-the-road (OTR) and agricultural tires in 2008 was illegal under U.S. law. In the case of GPX Interna
USW Supports Continued Existence of Occupy Pittsburgh Encampment
From the beginning, the United Steelworkers (USW) has strongly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement for its peaceful protest of the economic and social injustice created by corporate greed and the barons of finance. We salute the courage and convicti


text:
class Httpd < Formula
  desc "Apache HTTP server"
  homepage "https://httpd.apache.org/"
  url "https://dlcdn.apache.org/httpd/httpd-2.4.54.tar.bz2"
  mirror "https://downloads.apache.org/httpd/httpd-2.4.54.tar.bz2"
  sha256 "eb397feeefccaf254f8d45de3768d9d68e8e73851c49afd5b7176d1ecf80c340"
  license "Apache-2.0"
  revision 1

  bottle do
    sha256 arm64_monterey: "3f62a259d006b6edb185630e69dc388a29445a409b50f737ab1f4a01df47445a"
    sha256 arm64_big_sur:  "d837cd002696e9215283031669a63bcbbfe018c2a94fdf13946198779975159b"
    sha256 monterey:       "c02ce41fea0925e48986f3997d447c5aab462b1fa9bf74a5d0ebe3234b95cd85"
    sha256 big_sur:        "b6398e308e34eb5e1883ab39880c7fb7de6147dc04ad3467ac9c864b43f5d700"
    sha256 catalina:       "f477b0030a9b897bbb638007c458c1d2971964b9ac49248f145ea1231fbcb30f"
    sha256 x86_64_linux:   "7d502362fe3f134b10d4994a604d97d33f14925ad75e8f420ca104fff13c288c"
  end

  depends_on "apr"
  depends_on "apr-util"
  depends_on "brotli"
  depends_on "libnghttp2"
  depends_on "openssl@1.1"
  depends_on "pcre2"

  uses_from_macos "libxml2"
  uses_from_macos "zlib"

  def install
    # fixup prefix references in favour of opt_prefix references
    inreplace "Makefile.in",
      '#@@ServerRoot@@#$(prefix)#', '#@@ServerRoot@@'"##{opt_prefix}#"
    inreplace "docs/conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf.in",
      "@exp_iconsdir@", "#{opt_pkgshare}/icons"
    inreplace "docs/conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf.in",
      "@exp_errordir@", "#{opt_pkgshare}/error"

    # fix default user/group when running as root
    inreplace "docs/conf/httpd.conf.in", /(User|Group) daemon/, "\\1 _www"

    # use Slackware-FHS layout as it's closest to what we want.
    # these values cannot be passed directly to configure, unfortunately.
    inreplace "config.layout" do |s|
      s.gsub! "${datadir}/htdocs", "${datadir}"
      s.gsub! "${htdocsdir}/manual", "#{pkgshare}/manual"
      s.gsub! "${datadir}/error",   "#{pkgshare}/error"
      s.gsub! "${datadir}/icons",   "#{pkgshare}/icons"
    end

    libxml2 = "#{MacOS.sdk_path_if_needed}/usr"
    libxml2 = Formula["libxml2"].opt_prefix if OS.linux?
    zlib = if OS.mac?
      "#{MacOS.sdk_path_if_needed}/usr"
    else
      Formula["zlib"].opt_prefix
    end
    system "./configure", "--enable-layout=Slackware-FHS",
                          "--prefix=#{prefix}",
                          "--sbindir=#{bin}",
                          "--mandir=#{man}",
                          "--sysconfdir=#{etc}/httpd",
                          "--datadir=#{var}/www",
                          "--localstatedir=#{var}",
                          "--enable-mpms-shared=all",
                          "--enable-mods-shared=all",
                          "--enable-authnz-fcgi",
                          "--enable-cgi",
                          "--enable-pie",
                          "--enable-suexec",
                          "--with-suexec-bin=#{opt_bin}/suexec",
                          "--with-suexec-caller=_www",
                          "--with-port=8080",
                          "--with-sslport=8443",
                          "--with-apr=#{Formula["apr"].opt_prefix}",
                          "--with-apr-util=#{Formula["apr-util"].opt_prefix}",
                          "--with-brotli=#{Formula["brotli"].opt_prefix}",
                          "--with-libxml2=#{libxml2}",
                          "--with-mpm=prefork",
                          "--with-nghttp2=#{Formula["libnghttp2"].opt_prefix}",
                          "--with-ssl=#{Formula["openssl@1.1"].opt_prefix}",
                          "--with-pcre=#{Formula["pcre2"].opt_prefix}/bin/pcre2-config",
                          "--with-z=#{zlib}",
                          "--disable-lua",
                          "--disable-luajit"
    system "make"
    ENV.deparallelize if OS.linux?
    system "make", "install"

    # suexec does not install without root
    bin.install "support/suexec"

    # remove non-executable files in bin dir (for brew audit)
    rm bin/"envvars"
    rm bin/"envvars-std"

    # avoid using Cellar paths
    inreplace %W[
      #{include}/httpd/ap_config_layout.h
      #{lib}/httpd/build/config_vars.mk
    ] do |s|
      s.gsub! lib/"httpd/modules", HOMEBREW_PREFIX/"lib/httpd/modules"
    end

    inreplace %W[
      #{bin}/apachectl
      #{bin}/apxs
      #{include}/httpd/ap_config_auto.h
      #{include}/httpd/ap_config_layout.h
      #{lib}/httpd/build/config_vars.mk
      #{lib}/httpd/build/config.nice
    ] do |s|
      s.gsub! prefix, opt_prefix
    end

    inreplace "#{lib}/httpd/build/config_vars.mk" do |s|
      pcre = Formula["pcre2"]
      s.gsub! pcre.prefix.realpath, pcre.opt_prefix
      s.gsub! "${prefix}/lib/httpd/modules", HOMEBREW_PREFIX/"lib/httpd/modules"
      s.gsub! Superenv.shims_path, HOMEBREW_PREFIX/"bin"
    end
  end

  def post_install
    (var/"cache/httpd").mkpath
    (var/"www").mkpath
  end

  def caveats
    <<~EOS
      DocumentRoot is #{var}/www.

      The default ports have been set in #{etc}/httpd/httpd.conf to 8080 and in
      #{etc}/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf to 8443 so that httpd can run without sudo.
    EOS
  end

  plist_options manual: "apachectl start"

  service do
    run [opt_bin/"httpd", "-D", "FOREGROUND"]
    environment_variables PATH: std_service_path_env
    run_type :immediate
  end

  test do
    # Ensure modules depending on zlib and xml2 have been compiled
    assert_predicate lib/"httpd/modules/mod_deflate.so", :exist?
    assert_predicate lib/"httpd/modules/mod_proxy_html.so", :exist?
    assert_predicate lib/"httpd/modules/mod_xml2enc.so", :exist?

    begin
      port = free_port

      expected_output = "Hello world!"
      (testpath/"index.html").write expected_output
      (testpath/"httpd.conf").write <<~EOS
        Listen #{port}
        ServerName localhost:#{port}
        DocumentRoot "#{testpath}"
        ErrorLog "#{testpath}/httpd-error.log"
        PidFile "#{testpath}/httpd.pid"
        LoadModule authz_core_module #{lib}/httpd/modules/mod_authz_core.so
        LoadModule unixd_module #{lib}/httpd/modules/mod_unixd.so
        LoadModule dir_module #{lib}/httpd/modules/mod_dir.so
        LoadModule mpm_prefork_module #{lib}/httpd/modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so
      EOS

      pid = fork do
        exec bin/"httpd", "-X", "-f", "#{testpath}/httpd.conf"
      end
      sleep 3

      assert_match expected_output, shell_output("curl -s 127.0.0.1:#{port}")

      # Check that `apxs` can find `apu-1-config`.
      system bin/"apxs", "-q", "APU_CONFIG"
    ensure
      Process.kill("TERM", pid)
      Process.wait(pid)
    end
  end
end

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