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Cushendun
Cushendun is situated on the northeast coast of Ireland about eight miles south of Fair Head and five miles to the north of Garron Point. Vessels may anchor off the small village at the mouth of the river which lies at the southern end of Cushendun Bay, and shallow vessels may cross the sandbar at high water to dry out inside the River Glendun.
Cushendun is an exposed anchorage that only affords shelter in settled conditions or from westerly component conditions round to north-northwest. However in the latter case in any developed offshore winds, tidal streams may cause a vessel to lie beam on to the wind and induce an uncomfortable roll. The location is completely exposed to anything with an easterly component. Access is straightforward thanks to the absence of offshore dangers or any tidal restriction.
The direction and velocity of the tide should be the central feature of any navigation planning in this area.
Keyfacts for Cushendun
An exposed location with straightforward access.
55° 7.620' N, 006° 2.280' W
This position is in about 5 metres of water situated at the south side of the beach and approximately 200 metres east of the mouth of the River Dunn.
The following Cushendun Bay Initial Fix will set up a final approach:
This is approximately 400 metres out from the anchorage and 600 metres out from the mouth of the River Dunn. A bearing of due west or 270°(T) will lead to the anchorage from here.
Taking a mean tidal offset from Dover's tide, we expect your targetted date's associated local tide at Cushendun to be:
Data based on an average tide is only accurate to within one hour, if you more precise times are required use the ISA tidal predictions, with Cushendun offset -00:00.
Offshore details are available in the northeast Ireland's Coastal Overview for Malin Head to Strangford Lough .
Approach the beach from due east and anchor just north of the mouth of the River Dunn off the southern end of the beach.
Click the 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons to progress through neighbouring havens in a coastal 'clockwise' or 'anti-clockwise' sequence. Below are the ten nearest havens to Cushendun for your convenience.
Cushendall - 1.9 miles S
Red Bay Pier (Glenariff Pier) - 2.3 miles S
Torr Head - 2.4 miles NNW
Murlough Bay - 3.5 miles NNW
Carnlough Bay and Harbour - 5.1 miles SSE
Ballycastle - 5.2 miles NW
Glenarm Bay and Harbour - 6.2 miles SSE
Church Bay - 7 miles NNW
Ballintoy Harbour - 8.3 miles WNW
Ballygalley Bay - 9.2 miles SSE
The picturesque Cushendun Bay provides a sheltered anchorage off the mouth of the River Dun. Ashore is a small village clustered around the mouth of the river that sits at the foot of the beautiful Glendun.
Vessels converging on Cushendun will find no outlying hazards north of Hangman and Maiden Rocks situated 14 miles to the southeast. Four hundred metres out from the slopes of the Antrim Mountains, which push out almost vertically to the coast in the vicinity, clears all dangers.
From the Cushendun Bay initial fix the anchoring position is approximately 400 metres due west. It is situated just north of the mouth of the River Dunn and off the southern end of the beach.
A yellow outflow marker Fl(4)Y. 12s on approach plus a conspicuous terrace of houses will be seen nearby on the south side of the River Dunn. Pass to the north of the buoy and anchor off a hotel at the south end of the bay.
A sandy bottom shoals gradually to the shore on final approach where it is possible to anchor in 3 to 9 metres according to draft and preference.
It is inadvisable to anchor any further north than 200 metres from the south end of the bay. There is a wreck near the middle of the bay, approximately 400 metres offshore, with 4.2 metres of water over it, but it is foul. Foul ground also exists on either side of the wreck for a distance of 400 metres to the north and south. Consequently, the south side of the bay is the only clear area to anchor. Land on the beach or at the slip within the river.
Cushendun Bay may be subject to currents and a vessel may get tide rode here. A strong eddy runs north during the latter part of the south going stream in the North Channel.
Shallow draft vessels drawing 0.5 metres or less can cross the bar of the River Dun at high water and dry out inside on the north shore just below the road bridge. A breakwater extends from the shore on the north side of the river entrance and the slip lies on the same side within.
Cushendun derives its name from the Irish 'Cois Abhann Duinne' that means 'beside the brown river' or 'foot of the brown river'. This stems from the River Dun, commonly known as the Glendun River, which rises close to Trostan Mountain and which has also given its name to its glen, Glendun, one of the nine Glens of Antrim.
Cushendun represents the closest position in Ireland to mainland Britain with a sheltered landing location and safe anchorage. This has made it a major landing place since man first settled on the north coast of Ireland some 9,000 years ago. The exact origins of the site are unknown but it most likely began life as a holy place in the Iron Age. Historically there has been a continuous passage of travellers from Cushendun and Kintyre, on the opposite coast, trading black cattle and pigs for Highland ponies.
Carra Castle, or Castle Carra in Irish Caisleán Carrach standing to the north of Cushendun strand, marks the strategic importance of the area in the Middle Ages. The exact date of construction of the castle is unclear, but Mesolithic flint workings show evidence of an ancient early fortification on the site. It is thought to have been a Norman outpost at one time with a later rebuild around the 14th century. Then it was an ideal stronghold for the McDonnells and their clansmen, who would land their galleys on the beach below. The castle had a coloured history during the reign of the McDonnell clan. Most famously it was the site where the McDonnell clan dispensed with the 'Gaelic Prince of Ulster' Shane 'The Proud' O'Neill, in 1567.
The MacDonnell's, the O'Neill's, plus the Maguires and O'Donnells from across the river Bann, and the Crown all competed for power here. 16th-Century Northern Ireland was a mercurial shifting landscape of allegiances and open warfare that was, as often as not, strategically manipulated by Queen Elizabeth 1st's agents empowering one clan over another. Sorley Boy sided with the Crown against O'Neill in 1559 but the joint campaign faltered. In return O'Neill decisively defeated Sorley Boy and his clan at the Battle of Glentasie in 1565. After the battle Castle Carra and Dunluce Castle, the clan's pride, fell into O'Neill's hands. He also took James MacDonnell and Sorley Boy as his prisoners. They were held in Dungannon Castle where James died soon afterwards but Sorley Boy remained O'Neill's captive until 1567. During this period Sorley Boy seems to have won his captor's confidence.
After an unexpected defeat of the O'Neill's by the O'Donnells, supported by the Crown in the battle of Farsetmore, Shane turned to the MacDonnells for assistance. He attended a feast laid on by the MacDonnells at Castle Carra, bringing with him Sorley Boy out of captivity to secure an alliance with the Scots. On the third day, a pre-planned confrontation was initiated where Shane O'Neill was stabbed to death along with several of his militia. The MacDonnell's had secured their revenge for the 1565 defeat but it is said that the English Deputy of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney, had his hand in this deed. He had tried unsuccessfully to assassinate O'Neill several times and his assassin was within the MacDonnell party. Certainly, the killing had his approval as O'Neill's head was sent to him in Dublin Castle immediately afterwards where it was stuck on a pole and placed on the northwest gate of the city. A cairn to the O'Neill clan was erected on the high ground overlooking Cushendun in 1908.
In the aftermath, Sorley Boy went to Scotland and returned with 600 Scottish mercenaries from the Highlands' Western Isles, determined never to be defeated or leave Ireland again. As it happens this proved to be the case nearly twenty years later at Castle Carra. In 1585 his son Donnell 'Gorm' MacDonnell was besieged here by the English. Sorley Bay, then in his eighties, came from Dunluce Castle and landed on the beaches near the castle. He soon drove off the besiegers.
But it was more than the McDonnells and their clansmen that landed on Cushendun beach. A regular ferry service operated between here and Dunaverty, a mere sixteen miles away on the Mull of Kintyre. This started after the 'Plantation of Ulster' was well established in the middle of the 1600s and ran until the Great Famine in the middle of the 19th century. At this time the harbour had its own customs house and passport office. This was closed following the 'Act of Union' between Britain and Ireland, as it became obsolete.
In 1830 plans were drawn up for a commercial port at Cushendun by a local businessman Nicholas Cromelin to serve the surrounding district and the industrial centre of Ballymena. The architect Sir John Rennie was commissioned for the design but the project failed when the government pulled funding from the project uncertain of Cromelin's financial standing. Subsequently, however, several factories were built beside the south quay, including a ropewalk, a long narrow shed for spinning rope, and a starch works, to which later was added a steam-powered flax mill that was the only one in the glens.
The village we see today owes much of its character and unique architectural heritage to Ronald John McNeill who became the 1st Baron of Cushendun in 1927. He developed the village square with seven houses in 1912, and later in 1923, he built Mauds Cottages and Glenmona House. His wife was Cornish and this may have had some bearing on the design style of the houses.
In 1980 this unique architectural inheritance in a picturesque coastal setting in the heart of the Antrim Coast and Glens Area, resulted in Cushendun being designated a Conservation area of outstanding natural beauty to be preserved by the National Trust.
Today Cushendun is a quiet location with some small leisure boating and fishing. Although an exposed anchorage in settled conditions it offers another location on this beautiful coastline at the mouth of the River Dun with Glendun, one of the nine Glens of Antrim, above the town. An unusual famous character of Cushendun is Johann the goat, a sculpture of which is situated close to the mouth of the river. The goat lived in the harbour area for many years, grazing the river bank and providing a particularly good welcome to visitors bearing apples or carrots. In 2001 Johann was the last animal to be culled during the foot and mouth outbreak. His statue remains a poignant memorial to the farmers in the district who lost their livestock as a result of the terrible disease. Today, another goat carries on his tradition beneath the feet of Johann's sculpture.
Those planning on striding out will find a beautiful and varied glen awaits them here. Glendun ascends from the shore past deciduous and evergreen woodlands to the forested and tundra-like slopes of Slieveanorra Mountain. The small Glendun Road provides an excellent pathway to explore Glendun. It follows the river and then continues for the entire length of the glen to the Bryvore Bridge where it joins with the Glenaan Road. The path passes underneath one arch, and the river under another, of the Glendun Viaduct, that carries William Bald's famous Coast Road across the valley towards Ballycastle. The bridge was completed in 1839 and designed by a young 22 years old county surveyor Charles Lanyon. Lanyon went on to become a famous architect of many fine buildings including Queens University in Belfast.
From a purely sailing point of view, Cushendun offers another stop off point for boats bound in either direction through the North Channel or indeed crossing from the Western Isles of Scotland. Access to Cushendun is straightforward as it is non-tidal and available at all times and is free of off-lying dangers. Hence it serves as an excellent tide wait location to allow mariners to take full advantage of favourable tidal streams that are a dominant feature of this area of the coast.
Cushendun is a small coastal village with a population of less than 150 people and as such has only basic provisions, a post office, but no fuel ashore. It is situated off the A2 coast road about 20 kilometres to the south east of Ballycastle. Nearby Cushendall, a slightly larger village which is a two to three miles walk, has more shops, pubs and a hotel.
Never an issue known to have occurred to a vessel anchored off Cushendun.
Burke Corbett, New Ross, County Wexford. Albert Bridge, Jo Turner, Dennis Reynolds, Kenneth Allen, K.M.Jones, Lindy Buckley, David McSpadden, SleepyCat photography, Will Bakker, Eric Jones, Chris Fleming, Dr Neil Clifton, Anne Burgess, Robert Ashby and David Smith.
Sweeping views of the bay
Aerial views of Glendun Viaduct and the glen
About Cushendun
These additional images feature in the 'How to get in' section of our detailed view for Cushendun.


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Nov. 21st, 08 · 10:40 am
Star Jones
I think it totally sucks how bad of a reputation Star Jones has today. People hear her name and they think about her battle with weight (and subsequently lying about gastric bypass surgery), her weird marriage and divorce to an obviously gay man, Al Reynolds, and her departure from The View. Star is basically tabloid and E! News fodder right now and it's terrible because she really had a promising career. A career path I might want to emulate, without all of the TMZ-ready drama, of course.
Star Jones came from No Where, NC, moved to Jersey, got her BA from American University, and graduated from the Univ of Houston school of law. She passed one of the hardest Bar exams in the country, New York State, and went to work for the Brooklyn district attorney's office in NYC. Soon, she was promoted to Senior Assistant DA because she commanded the courtroom, amassing 31 out of 33 convictions. That's amazing. However, Star wasn't content with just being a powerhouse prosecutor. She had aspirations to live up to her name so she headed over to CourtTV's NY studios and basically strong armed her way into a show. Just like she moved up the ranks at the DA's office, she moved up on CourtTV. After getting her feet wet as a commentator, she relocated to LA and got her own show called Jones and Jury, kind of similar to the Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown shows you see everyday. Although the show only lasted one season, her work there caught the eye of NBC who tapped her as a legal correspondent for the Today Show and eventually as the senior correspondent and chief legal analyst for NBC Nightly News. Her biggest break on television came when she was the only person granted an exclusive interview with OJ Simpson during his infamous trial. After that, she caught the eye of Barbara Walters and was asked to be on The View. Everyone pretty much knows the story after that.
I think it's sad how Star's accomplishments before The View have been eclipsed by all of the tomfoolery that followed. Of course Star has to take on a lot of the blame for choices that she made. I'm going to be through with law school soon (praise baby jeebus) and while I want to put my legal skills to work, I would love to take a similar route as a legal correspondent or even have my own show. Trust, I'd be perfect. I don't think I'd follow a Star-like path exactly because every woman must set out on her own, ya know?
I wonder if Star will ever go back to being Star The Lawyer. I'm sure it'd be odd for her to show up in court one day, now that she has such a big profile. But I think she could do some consulting or maybe go back to doing legal television shows. I blame her mom a little bit though. You kind of set the bar super high for your kid when you name them Starlet.
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According to a report today from ESPN writer and journalist Miguel Delaney, Manchester United have been quoted over £45m for Juventus midfielder Arturo Vidal. Miguel is very reliable when it comes to United's transfer business and is worth keeping an eye out for.
It is no secret that the Chilean is one of the world's best midfielders and while he was limited with injury during the World Cup, Vidal still managed to impress. United had been keeping tabs on Vidal for quite some time now but it was only in January when United actually enquired about his signature.
ESPN's sources say that United's pursuit of him as hotted up in recent weeks and that Vidal himself is 'open to the idea'. They also mentioned Arsenal are interested but Juventus understandably are unwilling to sell their star player hence why they'll only consider a huge offer over £45m.
The article also states that United are prepared to spend over £150m with Van Gaal wanting a centre back and another midfielder. United are expected to strike a deal with Arsenal to sign Thomas Vermaelen while continuing interest in Mats Hummels while De Jong and Schweinsteiger are also targets.


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Bryan, Garnier & Co successfully advised Influe shareholders in their merger with Generix
This transaction gives birth to one of the mot important software editor in France and a major actor in the Retail business
Paris, 23rd march 2007 – Bryan, Garnier & Co, the paneuropean Investment Bank for emerging growth companies, announced the acquisition of Influe-Illicom by Generix, a listed company on Euronext C. Bryan, Garnier advises Influe shareholders on this merger. Following the signature of the agreement between the two companies last November, the transaction obtained this week the approval of the "Autorité des Marchés Financiers" and has been closed following the vote of the Extraordinary General Meeting.
Bruno Tourme, Managing Director of Bryan, Garnier & Co in charge of the Technology and of this transaction commented: « After working with companies like Cast Software, Access Commerce or Divalto during the last months and expecting future announcements in this sector, Bryan, Garnier & Co confirms its status as a leading Investment Bank in the area of Technology and notably of Application Software. We have close relationships with most of the major actors in this industry at both domestic and international level, which constitutes a key success factor to lead M&A operations in a highly fragmented sector. Currently in France, all major associations representing French software editors like Afdel or Syntec are working on ways to create French players able to compete with US companies, we are thus particularly proud to be a part of the emergence of such a company in France. »
Influe shareholders, of which Maël Barraud and Corine Lemeunier, founders and respectively CEO and Financial Director and the venture capital fund Galileo Partners are bringing their shares to Generix for a € 6 m in cash and 36 millions of new shares. Considering today's share price of Generix of € 0.73, this transaction is estimated at € 32 m, whereas the Company achieved € 21.7 m of sales in march 2006. Influe-Illicom shareholders will own 27.4% of Generix post transaction while Generix will remain controlled by the Investment holding Before. Maël Barraud will be appointed as the President of the Supervisory Board and Jean-Charles Deconninck will remain the CEO of Generix.
The acquisition of Influe, EDI specialist, an inter company transactions expert and Generix, ERP editor dedicated to Retail and specialist of intra company flow execution, will enable the emergence of the French leader in Software dedicated for Industry and Trade. The new Company will count more than 400 persons and achieve revenues of € 50 m at the end of 2007. The new Company will integrate the top 15 of Software editor in France.
Jean-Charles Deconninck commenting the transaction: "An industrial project is at the heart of this transaction. Our ambition is to address actors from Distribution, Trade and Transportation with a software platform enabling treatment and synchronization of physical flows (replenishment management, logistics, and traceability) and logics (invoicing, information transmitting and dematerialization) of data."
The acquisition enables Generix to reach a critical size considering the consolidating market and achieve synergies in Research and Development, enabling the new company to significantly increase its return. On the commercial side, the internationalization of its portfolio of clients will be a major benefit for Generix.
After the IPO of 1855 and the capital increase led for the account of Sword group, this transaction underlines the ability of Bryan Garnier to work with its clients on every types of transaction and notably on significant M&A deals that implies listed industrial actors like Generix
Bruno Tourme, Managing Director / +33 1 56 68 75 28 / btourme@bryangarnier.com
Guillaume Durao, Associate / +33 1 56 68 75 87 / gdurao@bryangarnier.com
About Influe-Illicom
Resulting from the merger between Influe and Illicom, Influe-Illicom is a major actor of data integration and management of technical process (EDI, B2B, ETL and EAI) including fiscal dematerialization of invoices and management of collaborative process such as goods replenishments management, web EDI and B2B portals, data synchronization and electronic catalogue management.
(www.influe.com)
About Generix
Founded in 1990, Generix develops Generix Collaborative Enterprise, a business oriented software. Through the development of purchase, selling, finance, supply chain, and e-business modules, Generix accompanies the Distribution actors to face the challenges met by this Industry. The completeness of the offer composed of applicative module (central, shops, logistics, finance, selling, CRM…), is guarantying to each company a flexible evolution of its information system.
(www.generix.fr)


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Stephen Amell's adorable daughter made an appearance on the 'Arrow' set.
The fourth season of "Arrow" may be well under way, but that doesn't mean that the cast is done filming. In fact, star Stephen Amell has documented the cast's past few days of filming, including a surprise on-set visit.
Who graced the Arrow set most recently? None other than Stephen's super adorable young daughter, Maverick, who made a stop on the set on Saturday!
And although we know Stephen was super stoked, we're sure Maverick had a good time as well as the cutie just celebrated her second birthday this past Thursday.
This wasn't the first time Maverick visited her proud dad on set. This past summer, Maverick and wife Cassandra Jean spent a month in New York while Stephen filmed the sequel "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell."
So will Maverick be making any film or tv appearances with her dad anytime soon? We'll just have to wait and see.


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Q: ?How can I mock a manual redirect using python requests_mock? I have a function where I'm doing a http request to a site that should do an automatic redirect but I'm doing this manually using allow_redirects=False. I have the function itself working something like this:
def make_redirect_request(self):
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    self.publish(redirected_response.content) # some publishing function for publishing content on page

This works as I would like it to, but I'm struggling to make a unittest that checks this correctly. I have tried something like this:
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I'm not sure how to get the first request to pass the url given by response.next.url to the second request, as the adapter doesn't seem to take the next and allows_redirects arguments.

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On March 2, 2017, the Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") released draft guidance for UK organizations on how the notion of consent will be interpreted and applied when the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") comes into force in May 2018.
The ICO is currently engaging in a public consultation on the draft guidance, which expires on March 31, 2017. Stakeholders and the public can review the guidance and provide their views on the ICO's website. The ICO is expected to release a final version in May 2017, but will continue to revise the guidance to take account of developments at the European level.
The GDPR sets a high standard for consent, which goes beyond the current standard under the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and implementing Member State legislation, such as the UK Data Protection Act 1998. The guidance notes that the basic concept of consent is not new to the EU data protection framework, but warns that the concept of consent under the GDPR will bring about many practical changes in how organizations procure consents.
data subjects should have the right to easily withdraw their consent at any time.
Organizations are encouraged to review their existing consents and consent mechanisms to ensure they meet the GDPR standard. If the standard is not met, fresh consents must be obtained.
This is the ICO's first topic-specific guidance on the GDPR, with guidance on contracts and liability expected later this year. More guidance is also expected from the Article 29 Working Party, which intends to release guidance on such topics as transparency, certification, breach notification and data transfers, which will supplement their previous guidance on Data Portability, Data Protection Officers and the One Stop Shop. More details can be found in our recent article on the Article 29 Working Party guidance.
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The Rainmaker and the Assassination of Osama Bin Laden
This is a fictional story written by Philip Kraske
*based on the true facts of an untrue story
The Rainmaker had worked as a government employee – he had no illusions about using the term "served" – for forty-seven years, and had never lost his raw wonder at the blockheads, both the wide- and narrow-eyed, who played the World's Great Game.
Watching the bickering at the far end of the table, he resorted to his usual trick to stay awake: with one hand, he took apart a pen – unscrewed the middle, pulled out the cartridge, pulled off its spring, held all four components parallel and flat in his palm, then put it all back together again. He was not ambidextrous, but with the decades and the long moaning meetings, he could do this with either hand, and so fast that anyone who saw would gasp in amazement – but he did it under the table.
That's it, children, argue yourselves out, he silently told the scrapping officials. Then you'll be ready for the Voice of Reason. It was what he called his Meeting Rope-a-Dope. And did these people ever need it – Chip Bookbinder had that one right on the money.
Why? Because the hard-boiled CIA guy up by the screen, laser pointer in hand, was telling the truth and wasn't budging from his position. This vexed the many top officials assembled – NSA, White House, State, DoD, and sundry emissaries from the far-flung empire of American security – vexed them just on general principles: in Washington, telling the actual rank truth only showed weakness, and as to budging from a position, well, we all budged eventually. It was just a question of more access, control, or budget. All had been offered, graciously and frankly, and still the CIA guy was sticking to his point like a barnacle to a hull.
That is: here they were, end of April, just days away from the scheduled raid on Osama bin Laden's house in Abbottabad, Pakistan – wavelengths assigned, teams limbered up, choppers gassed — and CIA was tossing a stick into the churning spokes of America's War on Terror.
Following White House orders, CIA, dubious yet dutiful, had trailed Osama bin Laden's personal courier right to The Man's house in Abbottabad – all this the previous September. Then CIA – methodically, delicately, discreetly — set up surveillance of the house. Cameras in the guise of chunks of cement, arms busted off little dolls, and used condoms gazed without blinking at those four mammoth walls day after day. Listening gadgets beamed microwaves – from down the street, from across the rooftops, from a hundred miles up in the cold dentist's waiting room of space – beamed them so long and hard that, as the CIA guy put it, "everyone in the goddamn place should have been turned into roast beef by now."
Yet not a voice-printable peep was heard from Osama – not so much as an "Anybody seen where I left my glasses?"
Nor had a single glimpse of his six-foot-six frame lumbering past the windows been wrung from the terabytes of video streamed 24/7 over hundreds of days.
Could The Man be that security conscious? the CIA man's listeners wondered. After all, the compound's inhabitants burned their own trash rather than have it trucked away, lest some street urchin come across The Man's fingerprints on a Pakistani Playboy. The kids shepherded to school each morning never once let slip to classmates anything about Grandpa Osama, causing the White House guy to mutter, "Wish I had staff that reliable." And as bad luck would have it, there was no phone line to tap, though surely the neighbors – neighbors being neighbors the world over – all wondered why someone would build two million dollars of bad taste on their street and not put in a phone line.
"And that has led to our considered conclusion," the CIA man had said after his half-hour presentation, "that the subject is not there and never was. The courier – if indeed he was a courier — was someone else's."
The room was stunned. The room raised holy hell.
For two hours.
"What kinda bullshit is this, boy?" an Air Force general roared. "All the time in the world, finest e-lint money can buy, and you boys can't find one man in one house?"
"Yes! Exactly! Right! Halleluiah, it's finally sinking in!" the CIA guy cried in exasperation, tie now pulled down to his second button. "Because he's not there. Get it, folks? The reason we don't see him or hear him is – watching the lips this time, right? – he is not there. End of story."
For the first time in two hours, silence writhed down the lovely oaken table — a long one, supporting the cufflinks and purses of twelve Type-A bureaucrats.
Except at the far end of it, where The Rainmaker sat in his worn black suit and wrinkled tie, one pylon-like elbow propped on the table, his crew-cut balanced on that. His hand worked furiously under the table — he could take apart and re-assemble his pen in twelve seconds — and even with that it was hard to stay awake.
Well, looks like we're finally getting worn down. Thank god! Five more minutes and I'm going to turn into rigor mortis.
Halfway up the table, the White House guy – in shirt sleeves like his boss, with whom he'd just played "a couple quick three-on-threes, it being such a nice spring day" — swatted back his chair and jumped to his feet.
"Now just wait a goddamn minute. What the hell is this?" he griped. "I've got a president looking at re-election in the middle of a recession, and he's not going to miss out on this. He's kissed the ass of every one of you guys from day one. Anybody here lacking for budget? Huh? Anybody worried about joining the legions of jobless? Anybody see anything less than a brilliant career path ahead straight through till retirement? Huh? C'mon, speak up if you do — now's the time."
Nobody spoke up.
And like the many presidential flunkies The Rainmaker had seen over five decades in government, this one even had his boss's gestures. He slowly put his hands on his hips to highlight for one and all the flatness of his abdomen.
Of course, that face is so bony you might not have eaten but a leaf of lettuce in six months, The Rainmaker mused.
"All right, all right, all right, so Osama's not there. Fine. Like I give a fuck! Then you make him there. The Seals are ready to go. They've been practicing on the mock-up house for weeks. So you make him there."
The CIA guy shook his head – once and sharply. "No way. Not a chance. Not doing it, not going there. This is major shit and our top brass is still walking on thin public ice from Iraq and WMD. Been there, done that, and we're not going back. Report stands: he's not there."
"He goddamn well is. The American people never got closure on this guy, and now they're going to get it. Now do it!"
The CIA man's face — and it was a big, loose, pale one under left-parted hair – was turning red. The Rainmaker read him as the kind of man who lost every argument with his wife; Chip had chosen him well. "Crawl the fuck back down off my ass! We told you guys from the get-go that we had it from our best assets since the early Bush days: the man kicked it of kidney failure two months after Tora. A half-dozen Mideast newspapers reported the death. Practically every in-theater asset we had came back with the same thing. Did we tell you or did we not?"
"Did we approve your budgets hardly changing a comma, or did we not?"
Why don't you just pull down your pants, see whose dick is bigger and get it over with? The Rainmaker wondered with a sigh.
The CIA man looked around at the unwilling faces; his opinion was not popular. "C'mon, people, he was on double dialysis, for Chrissakes. Nobody – repeat, nobody — could survive ten more years in that condition."
"His myth could, and that's what we're about here today," said the White House guy. "We're going to bury it."
The CIA man's forefinger shot forward like a missile. "No. That's the thing, see. You're going to ask us to bury it. And we've been down that road before, haven't we? The heavy boys go in and it turns out he's not there, and then it's our people explaining to the sub-committee why we were all wrong again. Everyone's favorite punching bag again. Think we don't see the play? Forget it. The brass is not going there."
More writhing silence. The Rainmaker put away his pen, took a deep breath, and spoke.
"One man's opinion here, but…" he said in his viscous old Midwestern drawl, all heads turning his way. Of all those present, he was the only one without a title before his blotter. "It's all a question of narratives, isn't it? You're just using the wrong one."
"May I ask who you are and what your agency is?" snapped the White House man, tie wagging as he leaned over the table to get a look at the speaker.
"Oh, what's in a name? Chip Bookbinder asked me to step in. I keep an office down the hall from his. I'm just kind of coasting along till retirement, to be honest," The Rainmaker breezed. Harrington Bookbinder was deputy director of the CIA. "People send me psy ops for critique and vetting." And what hare-brained ops! he despaired silently. "NSA, CIA, just about everybody. The team that polices 9-11 Truthers calls me when they're in a jam – that sort of thing."
At the mention of 9-11, several faces at the table went red.
"Now then," The Rainmaker went on, leaning back in his chair and propping an ankle on a knee. "The problem is not the facts on the ground, but the narrative you give them. You don't need to say bin Laden's not there. Just say, 'Well, there was just such-and-such a possibility that we'd find him there.'" He held up a hand before the objections started. "What kind of phrasing would we be looking at here? 'Possibility' needs weakening. Let me think…"
There was a skeptical chuckle to his right, and The Rainmaker turned his head that way and for a long moment nailed an Army Intel colonel in his gaze. The man fell silent. "If you are in the mood for humor, Colonel, I suggest you go inspect your troops."
"That was uncalled for, sir," the colonel mumbled.
The Rainmaker looked at his long pale hands, which he wrung for some seconds on his knee. "Ah! Yes, the correct phrase is, 'A strong possibility.' That's the ticket."
"Strong or weak," huffed the CIA man. "What difference does it make?"
"Now let's roll the new narrative and hear how it sounds," The Rainmaker continued. He cleared his throat and let the silence gather. When he spoke, it was with a deepened voice and the patter of a news anchor:
"'As late as two days before the raid, the best the CIA could say was that there was a strong possibility that Osama bin Laden was in the mansion. They could tell the president that they were'" – The Rainmaker paused – "'highly confident. The president asked for confirmation but they could not give it. They gave certain odds, they made certain assumptions — that was the best they could do. Between a rock and a hard place, the president took a risk, gambling his presidency in the bargain. He gave the Seals the green light.'" He stopped and looked at the CIA man at the head of the table. "On board so far?"
"Depends," he said. "You go in, there's no Osama. Now what? Finish it."
The Rainmaker didn't – not for the moment – and looked at the White House man still sprawled over the table. "And the C-in-C?"
"Yeah, yeah, sure. That'll play. Keep going."
"No. No, not quite," said The Rainmaker. "You'll need to divert attention from the fact that it's just a house and one man hasn't shown up inside it. So you'll want a lot of moaning and groaning about how hard the op was: Taliban spies everywhere, all the neighbors around, military academy right down the road. And just for good measure, for example, for example…Yes! You red-teamed it first. There we are. You brought in another team of intelligence analysts and presented your findings to them. They agreed: he's there. I can bring in my own staff this evening if you'd like, just for the verisimilitude: reserve the secure room, make a fuss, order in Chinese, walk out looking grave and statesmanlike."
The rest of the people were chuckling.
God, what children you are. It's as if you're plotting to soap the neighbors' windows.
"Excuse me, sir," called a Marine general down the table. "I believe I've heard of you. Would you by any chance be the man known as The Rainmaker?"
A modest smile. "An old baseball nickname, I'm afraid, General."
More laughter. The Rainmaker dipped into his patience.
"Well then, the rest is merely decoration," he went on with a simple shrug. "The Seals drop in, enter the house and…what? They find one of the men. This unlucky fellow is now our Osama. The Seals terminate him along with all other males – leaving the children and females, whose account one way or the other will hold no weight in the Muslim world. They pack up the body with a lot of laptops and electronic files and then –"
"Hold on. Just hold it right there. That would never fly," said the CIA man flatly. "That won't work at all. We're going to take down the man who is at the center of al Qaeda? Like fucking hell we are. We would haul him down to Gitmo and squeeze him like a tube of toothpaste till he coughed up every last detail of his networks. Everybody knows that, and if they don't, the Times is going to remind them the next day."
The Rainmaker could not quite hide his amusement. "Now of course, that's true. But when the president of the United States calls a surprise press conference and announces that we just put a bullet through Osama bin Laden's brain, well, I think good Americans will overlook the loss of intel." He waited for the laughter to subside. "With all respect, sir, you live in Langley, Virginia. The folks who need to hear the narrative live in Memphis and Palo Alto and Dayton."
The CIA man puffed out his cheeks, shrugged, and finally said, "All right, I'll stretch a point – fine. But then what about the body? You just killed a guy calling him Osama bin Laden. On one hand, you can't leave the guy there for anyone to discover. But on the other, what justification do you have for weighing down a chopper all the way back to Bagram?"
"Yeah, that's right," said the White House guy nervously.
The Rainmaker had an ugly lower-teeth-only smile like a line of gray tenements, which he now displayed. "To check his DNA, of course."
"We have his DNA."
"Exactly. And now we check his DNA against the sample that we have. To i.d. him."
The CIA guy stared as if talking to an idiot. "You kill him and then you check his DNA?"
"You would rather that we checked it before?"
Everyone chuckled.
What I wouldn't give to take a photo of you all, The Rainmaker thought. The Gadarene swine could have not posed more beautifully before running over the cliff.
"I think the point is, son, to have an excuse to get the guy outta there," said the Air Force general to the CIA man.
The CIA guy could see he wasn't going to win this battle either. "All right, fine. But if that one goes sideways, we are not taking the rap, that's all I can say," he pouted.
"All right. Now we have a body and we are ready to go," said The Rainmaker. "The Seals pack everything up with a lot of laptops and hard drives and pendrives soon to be used to complete our narrative – and let's not ponder too deeply the fact that bin Laden never struck anyone as a computer wonk. Off we fly to Bagram. At first light, the Pakistani police swoop in and carry off the women and children. There is a long-standing agreement, I believe, between CIA and the Paki ISI regarding bin Laden?"
The CIA man rolled his eyes as if to concede a single point. "Yes, we have full rights on capture in Pakistan if we locate bin Laden there. I would imagine they'll cooperate."
"All the same, you'll want everyone to raise Caine for the violation of their sacred territory: ISI, Congress, Musharraf, Paki media, president, the works."
"They won't need much encouragement," the CIA man said drily.
"Indeed – but key for the verisimilitude. And for the sake of narrative, we'll need some color. For example…" The Rainmaker wrung his hands twice. "The Seals burst in just as bin Laden was reaching for an AK-47 leaning against the wall. And let's bring in a woman – that always adds the right dabs of blues and violets. Yes, let's say a woman – a bin Laden wife, say — stepped in front of Osama, who wasn't gentleman enough to object. And let's say someone tried to defend him, maybe a son – all in the fanatical spirit of defending the great man to the death. Whatever – the details needn't connect."
See? Even you are hypnotized. The moment you enter the story, you're helpless, The Rainmaker observed, pausing for someone who was coughing.
"Actually, the more blurry the raid is, the better," he went on. "Let one version come out, then another, then another. Let the public pick and choose. Nothing stinks more to high hell than the classic seamless narrative. Just look at the first moon landing: pure as the driven snow, but half the public no longer believes it happened."
"Wow! I get the feeling you've done this before," the White House man joked.
"C'mon – finish it. What about the body?" snapped the CIA guy.
"Simple. Once back at Bagram, Forensics checks out the body, takes photos, does the DNA, and then…Well, I suppose you couldn't just bury him – that would be sticking a hand into the hornet's nest. Better to cremate him after a moving religious ceremony presided over by an Army Muslim cleric because we…No – no, that's madness. The bin Laden family would ask for a box of ashes, wouldn't they? As would half the Muslim world. No, you…where could you….Ah! You fly the body directly out to a waiting aircraft carrier. Moving Islamic ceremony, the body lowered into the sea." A frown. "You would want to be very careful with the verb there: 'lowered,' 'slid,' or 'condemned to the sea.' Isn't that what the sailors do?"
"I believe the phrase you're looking for, sir, is 'committed to the deep,' said a Navy Intel man politely.
"Thank you, Captain. Yes, 'committed to the deep.' And as to the media, 'lowered,' 'slid,' or, or…'eased into the sea.' Yes, that's our ticket: eased. Because we're a feeling people, even with our bitterest enemies. We're above them. Even bin Laden gets his final ashes-to-ashes with a few bowed heads by his side." The Rainmaker looked around. "Everyone happy?"
Silence, which no longer writhed, but slithered.
"This is great stuff," said the White House man. "Great stuff. Hell, you've got to come work on our re-election campaign!"
"And lastly we'll need the endgame," The Rainmaker went on hastily, to a few laughs. He stopped, looking up at the ceiling, one hand raised tensely. "No. Actually, in this case – public psy op, narrative built from the ground up…No, here you would do well to have three endgames, one for the immediate narrative, another a week or so later to reinforce, and another for the longer term, after the truthers have had their go at it. It won't take them long to get going on this, you know."
"Fuck 'em," said the CIA guy. "We should lock every one of those shits up and waterboard them till they're sponges."
"A truly counterproductive act," said The Rainmaker, and he needed a sharp effort not to add "you fool."
"How do you figure?"
The Rainmaker addressed the table. "We need truthers, dear ones. We need them making their angry YouTube videos and blogs full of bad grammar and claptrap: 'blatant,' 'obvious,' 'utterly.' They are precisely the ones that make us look as if we have freedom of expression. What embarrassing bits they expose are pinpricks. Yes, Internet is our ally – never forget that. Internet turns everything into nothing. It churns truth and falsehood together in a way I could only have dreamed of years ago when I was briefing reporters in 'Nam."
The Rainmaker felt their astonishment pulse around the table. Why does anyone need to explain this to you? Because you've never once lifted your faces out of a computer screen to think, that's why.
After a silence, the White House guy said, "You said three endgames. What's the first one?"
"The first, well… You'll need to release some kind of video — like the one from Jalalabad where bin Laden confessed to 9-11 at the wedding party? That was one of my jobs, by the way."
"Yeah, and that was a bang-up job if I ever saw it," sneered the CIA man, finally scoring a point. "9-11 Truthers cut that to ribbons."
"Yes, well, I apologize for my fat bin Laden. You know how it is: orders came down, not in the original plan, best we could do on short notice. Our model spent three hours in makeup, and even that and a grainy lens couldn't do much. But at least the proper impression was made at the right time, and that's the name of the game. The Truthers arrived far too late. Now then: let's think of another video, which will be released, say, forty-eight hours after the raid – first video from the stash that the Seals pick up. It should prove bin Laden was recently alive, and we would do well to imply that he still had some type of organization supporting him."
"How about bin Laden giving a speech to his people in the middle of the compound?" said a heavy, prim woman with a chain of pearls across her chest and the mysterious initials "ARR and J" before her blotter.
"Yes, not bad," said The Rainmaker. "And that would give us the extra plus of extended jihad after bin Laden dies." He tipped his head to either side. "But that would also involve an extended frontal view of him, and then we run into identification issues again. We really must avoid that this time. And then there's the background inside the compound. We have no idea what it looks like. We don't want anyone sneaking in there after the raid comparing our video with the cracks in the walls. No, we'll do best to keep it to an enclosed room with an absolutely plain background. And anything in it would have to be moveable."
The ARR and J woman wasn't going to give up. "He could harangue people in a closed space in the house, and you could keep the camera behind him, trained mainly on the followers." She grinned suddenly at the others. "Hey, this is kinda fun."
"Uh-huh – better."
"He could have a Pakistani newspaper from last week in his hand," the man from DoD Intel tossed out. "We could have one flown over tomorrow."
"Yes, but you would run into the problem of specifying exactly what day it was. Not good. Ambiguity is our ally, dear ones."
For ten minutes, everyone contributed ideas and The Rainmaker fielded them, rejecting, honing, approving, modifying. You're like a lot of happy college freshmen in a bull session. 'This is government at its finest!' you're thinking. My god, you belong in a Doonesbury comic strip.
At the end, he said, "All right, I think we've got it: a from-behind quartering shot of Osama in a bare room, maybe a computer screen to one side. He's watching a video composite of news items put together by his team. It should show President Obama, a few current events around the Middle East — the Arab Spring and so on. Can you put that together?" he asked the CIA man.
"I guess," he said skeptically. "But hell, it's going to look pretty damn convenient, isn't it? A video of him taken from behind so that you don't see his face very much? And what's on the screen just happen to be events that prove the vid's recent? Little obvious if you ask me."
The Rainmaker conceded this with a shrug.
"Besides, if you take video, what do you shoot?" the CIA man went on. "The guy playing with his grandchildren or – well, this is Islam – the guy praying on his rug. Whatever – the guy doing something."
"Yes, yes, of course – point taken," The Rainmaker huffed. "But you're giving your fellow citizens far too much credit. All of these objections will pop up on leftist websites, but only among people who think outside of the TV box, which is very few." He was wringing his hands again. "Ah, may I ask a favor at this point?"
The CIA man flapped his elbows hopelessly. "Have I ever told you no?"
"When you shoot the scene, would you use a skinny little hard-to-use remote control and tell the model to hold it in his right hand?"
"Bin Laden is left-handed," said the White House man impressively.
"Was," added the CIA guy.
"Whatever," said The Rainmaker. "You see, the Truthers caught me out on that one. I had our Osama filmed writing a note and the pen was in his right hand. It simply slipped my mind. I'd just like to give those bastards a little jab so they know that I don't really give a pig's pod for their investigations. Do you mind?"
A shrug. "You got it – right hand it is."
"Thank you. Now then, the mid-range endgame. Bits and bobs from the laptops and pendrives should come out – most of it very hush-hush, TS/TCI, but pornography should figure prominently – nothing dirties an image faster. And you'll want someone to mention hair dye found in the house – Grecian Formula, Just for Men, whatever. Vanity deflates the image too, and our latter Osamas were indeed a bit on the youthful side."
"What about pictures, visuals?" said the White House guy. "If there aren't photos, people think it didn't happen."
The Rainmaker shook his head. "Though for the life of me, I don't know why; the camera always lies."
That got a huge laugh.
The Rainmaker took out his pen, held it under his thigh, and went through his little drill, just to keep from shouting at them. Because you still believe the camera, don't you, you fools? A whole lifetime of movies and heroic presidents has made you as gullible as children before the puppet show.
"But I think, in this case" — a long pause — "the best we can do is the impression of photos, the news of photos, rather than the photos themselves. Photo-shopping some old photos is but the work of an hour, and then we release them on a limited, official basis. We send –"
"Forget it," said the CIA man flatly. "The Truthers will go through ten thousand photos of bin Laden till they find the one we used."
"I said release them on a limited, official basis," The Rainmaker said patiently. "You circulate them among White House staff, perhaps to the top level of State and DoD, everyone mulling and weighing and splitting hairs and debating like real adults: to release or not to release? That is the question. Because these photos are grotesque. Gory. One of the president's staffers spent fifteen minutes in the Oval Office bathroom puking his guts out after seeing them. Now: I think we can count on these good people not to check if the pictures are just photo-shopped old photos of Osama."
"Sure. Hey, we're on board, count on it," said the State Department Intel guy.
"And at the end?" The Rainmaker asked. "As one these sensitive elites shout no. The photos are just too awful to be released. Osama with his brains hanging out one ear. Osama missing a nose. Osama with half his face blown off. Decency-in-media associations would protest if we released them. Local PTAs. The AARP. Then the Pentagon –"
"Wait a minute. Aren't you running kind of a risk there?" said the CIA man alertly. "What if the Seals shoot him in the chest? What if his face ends up intact?"
The Rainmaker sighed. "Can someone please tell the Seals that we'd like head shots only? That otherwise our op quickly turns into limburger cheese? Thank you. Now, as I was saying, the Pentagon should also weigh in: these photos would play right into the propaganda hands of our enemies. And the solemn determination is made: these photos will not come to light till well after The Second Coming."
"Well now, I don't know here," said the Marine general. You don't release any photos, sir, and you're not going to convince your grandmother. With all respect."
Others nodded vigorously. The Rainmaker wondered if any of them had greater intellect than the chairs they sat on. He pressed professorial fingertips together. "Let's remember, dear ones, that our job is not to convince, but merely to give people one or two good reasons not to believe any other version. This is a distinction that I'm always having to explain to various agencies. Sometimes, as in an espionage op, you do indeed need to convince. But this is a public psy op. Here we play with a natural advantage" – a tiny chuckle – "and I would imagine it drives the 9-11 Truthers nuts: Americans naturally believe their government. Such is our political culture. Europeans naturally suspect, Americans naturally believe. Just look how long it took for Americans to believe that Nixon was actually involved in his staff's Watergate shenanigans."
"Fine and well, but what if some State Department flunky slips a photo or two to the AP?" asked the CIA man.
"I take exception to your inference, sir" said the State guy.
The Rainmaker held up pious hands. "In that case, the White House's response is adamant: 'Those are not official photos. We are not responsible, we do not stand behind them. All the official photos have been gathered up, not to be released until 2061.'"
The CIA man shrugged. "All right. So we've got this thing tied off for the short and medium. What was the long?"
"Not much – just a little something now and then to reinforce the basic idea. By then the Truthers will have found cracks in the official story, and it's not a bad idea to head them off at the pass. A year or so on, the usual movie will come out. And you have books or articles or interviews put out by Seals that claim to have either killed The Man or witnessed it first-hand. If they're accounts made off the reservation, unauthorized, so much the better."
"No, no: wouldn't happen," said the colonel. "A Seal – who is that? Dyed-in-the-wool military man, that's what. He would naturally go through channels to publish, for one because he'd need the Good Housekeeping seal from the Pentagon. You'd have to have that in spades. And believe you me, they'd fine-tooth-comb it. He'd have to say something about the months of surveillance. One word about the e-lint used, and they'd blow a book out of the water."
The Rainmaker nodded. "That's an excellent point, Colonel. But you see, there's nothing like scandal to bring out credibility. Pentagon up in arms, threats of lawsuits, threats of cancelled pensions, CIA wailing about how their tricks of the trade are being revealed. You couldn't ask for better. Properly prepared, the assassination of Osama bin Laden in his house in Abbottabad will soon form part of American history."
Silence again, complacent and drowsy now.
The Rainmaker stifled a laugh. Why don't you all yawn and scratch and take a nice splash in the manure pile?
"So are we ready to go?" said the White House guy, looking around the table.
"I guess," said the CIA guy grudgingly. "We'll get started on a bin Laden video." He looked at The Rainmaker and raised his laser pointer. "Right-handed."
"Thank you," said The Rainmaker with a nod.
The White House guy strode over to The Rainmaker and stuck out his hand. "Hey, really: you've got to come work for us."
The Rainmaker took the hand and rose. "That's very kind, sir. But I work in narrative – a nice Dickensian pastime in my old age. The Orwellian stuff – 'ignorance is strength', 'some animals are more equal than others,' all that – I leave to more mature minds."
Philip Kraske is the author of four novels including Flight in February, Mockery, The Magnificent Mary Ann, and City on the Ledge. Please visit his website: www.philipkraske.com
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Swipely raises $12m to roll-out its marketing and payments platform across the US
by Nick Summers — in Insider
Swipely, a marketing platform that uses credit card payment data to help businesses understand, retain and engage customers with powerful analytics, has raised a $12 million Series B round of funding to help expand its network of merchants in the United States.
Shasta Ventures led the round and was joined by existing investors First Round Capital, Greylock Partners and Index Ventures. Swipely has raised $20.5 million to date – part of which came from a $7.5 million Series A which closed back in May 2010 – and claims that today's investment is the largest ever Series B venture investment for a software company based in Rhode Island.
Swipely is a fairly new startup in the space, having launched its retail analytics and marketing platform for businesses and in June last year. The company reports that it now manages over $700 million in annual sales for merchants spread out across 130 different cities and towns in the United States.
It's some impressive growth, given the plethora of existing startups offering mobile payment platforms in the region. Level Up offers a similar service using QR codes assigned to each user's device, while Square continues to develop its digital wallet on iOS and Android.
Throw in dedicated software such as the Starbucks app, Samsung Wallet and Passbook on iOS, and it's clear that there's no shortage of companies looking to capitalize on mobile payments in the United States.
Swipely hopes to attract more local businesses by integrating its payments platform with existing checkout hardware. It also offers the Marketing Manager, which helps local merchants understand, retain and engage customers with powerful analytics, a turn-key loyalty program and targeted consumer campaigns.
"Swipely replaces legacy merchant payment and marketing approaches with a powerful online operating system for local commerce to make smarter, faster business decisions," said Angus Davis, founder and CEO of Swipely. "We empower hundreds – and soon thousands – of leading small businesses with actionable insights to help them succeed and grow."
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"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you" (Matthew 28: 19-20).
Christian initiation is accomplished by three sacraments together: Baptism which is the beginning of new life; Confirmation which is its strengthening; and the Eucharist which nourishes the disciple with Christ's Body and Blood for his or her transformation in Christ.
Baptism is birth into the new life in Christ. In accordance with God's will, it is necessary for salvation, as is the Church herself, which we enter by Baptism. The essential rite of Baptism consists in immersing the candidate in water or pouring water on his or her head, while pronouncing the invocation of the Most Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Baptism imprints on the soul an indelible spiritual sign, the character which consecrates the baptized person for Christian worship. Because of the character, Baptism cannot be repeated.
What does the sacrament do? Well, baptismal grace is a rich reality that includes forgiveness of original and all personal sins, making the person an adoptive child of the Father, a member of Christ's body, and a temple of the Holy Spirit. By this very fact, the person baptized is incorporated into the Church, the Body of Christ, and made a sharer in His priesthood.
As Catholics, and since the earliest times, Baptism has been administered to children, for it is a grace and a gift of God that does not presuppose any human merit. Also, in case of necessity, any person can baptize provided that the person has the intention of doing that which the Church does and provided that the person pours water on the candidate's head while saying, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."
Infant Baptism at St. Margaret
Interested in having your child baptized at St. Margret? Here's what you have to do!
Complete the Baptism Preparation Form and return this to the Parish Office. Be sure to include your requested date of baptism on the form! Baptisms are normatively held at any of St. Margaret's parochial Masses (Saturday 4:00PM; Sunday 8:00AM, 10:00AM, and 5:30PM) except during the Lenten season. Sponsor forms should also be returned at this time.
Once the packet arrives at the Parish Office and a staff member assures that everything is complete, a member of the Baptism Preparation Ministry Team will contact you to arrange a home visit at your home. Parents and Sponsors should all be present for the visit. If a Sponsor is unable to attend the home visit, he/she must attend a Baptismal Seminar either at St. Margaret or at his/her home parish.
A member of the Parish Staff will call you after the visit from the Baptism Preparation Ministry Team to confirm the date of your child's Baptism.
When the special day arrives, a pew will be reserved for your family at St. Margaret Church or St. Thomas Chapel, and your son/daughter will be welcomed into our community of faith through the saving waters of grace!
St. Margaret Baptism Policies and Forms
Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace; it is the sacrament which gives the Holy Spirit in order to root us more deeply into Christ while strengthening our bond with the Church. Reception of the sacrament associates us more closely with her mission and helps us bear witness to the Christian faith in words accompanied by deeds. Like Baptism, Confirmation imprints an indelible character on the Christian's soul; thus a person can only receive this sacrament once.
As Roman Catholics, this sacrament is administered when the age of reason has been reached; in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, this is typically during the 11th grade year of high school. The celebration is ordinarily reserved to the bishop – signifying the strengthening of the ecclesial bond. Candidates must profess the faith, be in the state of grace, have the intention of receiving the sacrament, and be prepared to assume the role of disciple and witness to Christ.
Essentially, when one is confirmed, they are anointed on the forehead with sacred chrism; the minister lays his hand and the words "Be sealed with the Gift o the Holy Spirit" are uttered. When celebrated separately from baptism, the renewal of baptismal promises occurs.
Confirmation for St. Margaret Students
Confirmation for High School Students is usually scheduled at St. Margaret in the Spring during the Easter Season according to the Bishop's Liturgical calendar. Every attempt is made to host Confirmation at one of the weekend liturgical celebrations. From the perspective of religious instruction at St. Margaret, there is an advantage of hosting an annual celebration. All students will be required to attend eleventh grade PSR instruction in order to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation in the spring of their junior year of high school; this model provides greater opportunities for advanced instruction, vocational discernment, peer ministry, and liturgical participation.
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Four days after a surprise recall to the starting eleven, Brisbane Roar's Jade North says his team needs to show courage and spirit to secure a vital three points against Central Coast Mariners at Suncorp Stadium tomorrow night (7pm kick-off).
Courage was exactly what the defender showed in Saturday's punishing1-0 loss to Melbourne City.
An injury to fellow defender Jerome Polenz in the warm-up meant North's return from a groin injury was much swifter than originally planned as he slotted straight in at centre-back after three weeks on the sidelines.
With City now eight points clear in sixth position, the Roar cannot afford to drop points against eighth-placed Central Coast if they hope to keep their Championship defence alive.
Brisbane is still a mathematical chance of making the Hyundai A-League Finals Series but need to win at least three of their last five games.
But City can lock the Roar out of the top six if they can secure a minimum of eight points from the remaining 12 on offer in their final four games.
"We have to win, it's a must-win for us every game now," North said.
Preparations for the Round 24 match were slightly disrupted this morning as Brisbane endured heavy rainfall, meaning the squad's scheduled training session at Ballymore Stadium was washed out.
Instead, the playing group both trained indoors and did gym work at Bowen Hills YMCA with North confident the disruption wouldn't affect their mindset ahead of tomorrow's match.
"It's happened to us before, but you've just got to get on with the job," he said.
With the Roar announcing a similar squad to last weekend's match against City, North is likely to back up in the heart of the Brisbane defence and said the groin injury that troubled him over recent weeks was no longer an issue.
"It was a bit of a surprise [to play on Saturday] but I feel good," the 33-year-old said.


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Eugeni Jofra i Bafalluy (Barcelona, 11 d'octubre de 1941 - 11 de març de 2001), conegut pel seu nom artístic Eugenio, va ser un popular humorista català que es va fer famós arreu d'Espanya arran de nombroses aparicions televisades i gravacions entre els anys 80 i 90.

Biografia

Primers anys
Nascut en la postguerra, va tenir una infància complexa per la influència del seu pare qui li manifestava la poca confiança que tenia en ell. Va estudiar a l'escola Massana i va començar a treballar de joier a la dècada dels 1960.

Va conèixer Conchita Alcaide Rodríguez, una delineant d'origen andalús afeccionada a la música i amb bona veu. Es van casar el 13 de juliol de 1967 i varen tenir dos fills, Gerard (1969) i Ivens (1971). Varen formar el duo musical Els Dos i varen començar a actuar el 1968, quan la Nova Cançó era de màxima actualitat i quan la música en directe en ambients reduïts i intimistes feia créixer el nombre de locals amb música folk del nord i el sud d'Amèrica. Actuaven al Pub KM, el Babieca o el Breston, fins que el 1976 varen crear la seva pròpia sala, el Sausalito de Barcelona. Van musicar poemes com Corrandes d'Exili de Pere Quart o Vinyes verdes vora el mar de Josep Maria de Sagarra, abans que Lluís Llach i Ovidi Montllor. Fins i tot es van presentar a la preselecció d'Eurovisió el 1970 amb la cançó "Balada del Maderero", amb la que van aconseguir el quart lloc l'any en què Julio Iglesias competí amb "Gwendoline".

Humorista
Eugenio sempre havia estat afeccionat als acudits, però no s'havia plantejat dedicar-s'hi. Durant una actuació l'any 1974 al Pub KM, la seva dona es va haver d'absentar per motius familiars i Eugenio va començar a explicar històries i contes de caràcter humorístic. La improvisada actuació va tenir una molt bona acollida i van ser el propietari del local, Amadeu Molins, i la seva dona qui el van animar a complementar les actuacions musicals del duo amb la d'ell, en solitari, explicant acudits i contes, sovint surrealistes. L'èxit d'aquesta nova vessant artística va eclipsar en poc temps la musical, que va passar a ser anecdòtica.

Dotat d'un singular estil per a explicar acudits, sense somriure, taciturn i introvertit («només ric quan cobro», solia dir). Utilitzava el castellà amb un fort accent català i la inclusió de diverses paraules catalanes. Els seus contes començaven normalment amb la frase "¿Saben aquel que diu...?" que precedia la història. En va emmagatzemar més de 10.000.

Sovint amb una cigarreta a la mà, un got de whisky —que acabaria reemplaçant per suc de taronja— i unes ulleres graduades de vidres fumats, Eugeni apareixia en públic amb una camisa de seda negra, descordada perquè deixés entreveure un gran penjoll amb creu d'or i d'altres joies fetes per ell mateix.

La mort de Conchita Alcaide l'11 de maig de 1980 víctima d'un càncer de mama, va sumir Eugenio en una depressió que va abordar treballant incansablement i deixant-se atrapar per la vida nocturna. Va tenir una nova parella, anomenada Conchita Ruiz i també andalusa com la seva primera esposa. Conchita ja tenia un fill, Daniel, al que Eugenio el tractà com un fill més. Amb Conchita va tenir un fill, Eugeni (1986).

L'Eugenio gaudí de la seva màxima popularitat als anys 80, amb nombroses aparicions en viu i a la televisió, així com amb edicions dels seus acudits en cassets, comercialitzades arreu. Va rodar la pel·lícula Un geni amb l'aigua al coll. Va fer una sèrie d'espais humorístics a Televisió de Catalunya, on actuà íntegrament en català.

Decadència
L'èxit el va devorar i a principis dels 90 va caure en la droga. S'apartà dels escenaris, va empitjorar les seves relacions personals, i es va separar de la seva parella.

Es va casar amb Isabel Soto, qui va influir de forma encara més negativa en ell. Cau en una depressió, es tanca al seu estudi del Montanyà, i es concentra en la pintura i l'esoterisme.

Amb l'ajuda dels seus amics i la seva família anterior va reaparèixer el 1999 amb actuacions a Luz de Gas i després amb l'espectacle Érase otra vez... Eugenio.

Va morir d'un atac de cor l'11 de març de 2001, mentre dinava amb uns amics al restaurant Oliver & Hardy de Barcelona.

Treballs discogràfics
 Eugeniadas (Picap)
 Eugenio y los caballitos (Picap)
 Con cierto sabor a Eugenio (Picap)
 Eugenio con un cigarrillo (Picap)
 Érase otra vez...Eugenio (2000) (Picap)
 El último de ....Eugenio (Picap)
 El genio de Eugenio (Picap)

Cinema
 Un geni amb l'aigua al coll (1983)

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Facebook Eugenio
 Discografía Eugenio
 Saben aquel que diu... Producciones
 Llibre Homenatge Eugenio
 APP Chistes Eugenio

Actors barcelonins contemporanis
Humoristes barcelonins
Morts a Barcelona
Morts d'infart de miocardi a Catalunya

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Суперкубок Франції з футболу 2012 — 36-й розіграш турніру. Матч відбувся 28 липня 2012 року між чемпіоном Франції Монпельє та володарем кубка Франції Ліоном.

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Q: C++ - How to avoid lookup of map entry after replace using [] operator? How do I prevent having to call .find() on a map after replacing an element in it using the [] operator? (A little background: I am working on a high performance application and in a critical part of the code.) Example:
m_Map[key] = value;

... // at this point, I need a reference to the m_Map[key] entry, but I don't want to call the .find() method to get to it.

A: Instead of assigning directly to the result of [] operator, store the reference first
 DataType &data = m_Map[key];
 data = value;

 // Continue to use `data` here

A: There's no particular need to separate capturing a reference from the assignment... can be a one-liner unless you find it confusing or think others might:
value_type& ref = m_Map[key] = value;

A: Since the [] operator returns a reference and even iterators are not invalidated, you can simply get away with
auto& element = m_Map[key];
element = value;
// use element

Second choice: you might use the returned iterator from insert (best choice if you need to check if the element existed or not)

A: Just keep a reference to the object you just inserted:
T& reference = map[key];
reference = value;

If you are working on a high performance application you probably don't want to use operator[]() anyway as it first default constructs and object (and probably you don't want to use std::map<...>, either, but rather std::unordered_map<...>). Instead, you'd emplace() the object and keep the iterator return from this operation, e.g.:
std::unordered_map<K, V>::iterator it = map.emplace(key, value).first;
it->second = other_value;


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Abu Dhabi Media relies on Dejero for connectivity to support its live coverage of world's biggest event
Dejero Smart Blending Technology ensures uninterrupted connectivity between production crew, on-site studio, and Abu Dhabi Media's HQ, for live broadcast of twice daily programmes from Expo 2020 in Dubai
Waterloo, Ontario, March 16, 2022 — Dejero has announced that Abu Dhabi Media is relying on fourteen Dejero EnGo mobile transmitters and four WayPoint 104 receivers to support its ongoing coverage of what is the world's biggest cultural gathering, Expo 2020, hosted in Dubai until the end of March 2022.
Abu Dhabi Media is relying on fourteen Dejero EnGo mobile transmitters and four WayPoint 104 receivers to support its ongoing coverage of Expo 2020, Dubai
With the motto 'Connecting Minds, Creating the Future through sustainability, mobility and opportunity", Expo 2020 is the first international Expo to be held in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region in its 170-year history. A total of 192 countries are represented at dedicated pavilions around the Exhibition Centre, located in a new purpose-built 'city' in Dubai which is twice the size of Monaco, and where 25 million visitors are expected to attend over 6 months.
Local systems integrator, Ideal Systems, was commissioned to build Abu Dhabi Media's purpose-built state-of-the-art five-camera studio and gallery at the Expo 2020 site, with five wireless cameras being used to capture content from the pavilions.
Abu Dhabi Media's production crew uses four EnGo mobile transmitters for sending live footage and interviews from the Expo's Exhibition Centre pavilions to a WayPoint receiver located at Abu Dhabi Media's purpose-built on-site studio. The EnGo transmitters also provide real-time voice communication to enable the director in the studio to talk to the presenter on the ground.
Using Dejero's Smart Blending Technology for connectivity in place of installing fiber cables and/or satellite, across the entire Expo area, saved Live HD substantial time and resources
A further ten EnGo transmitters are streaming two daily live shows, from the studio in Dubai, to three Dejero WayPoint 104 receivers at Abu Dhabi Media's headquarters in Abu Dhabi where the receivers reconstruct the feeds, decode the HEVC and output for broadcast and redistribution worldwide.
Jean Claude Rahme, Head of OB at Live HD, a government media entity supporting Abu Dhabi Media's coverage of Expo 2020, explains how the use of Dejero's technology is saving the organization substantial time and resources: "The Expo 2020 exhibition area is huge at 45,000 square meters, so the logistics of running fiber lines from location to location, or installing antennas for satellite connectivity within a building of this size would have taken up huge resources in terms of installation, maintenance and cost."
Abu Dhabi Media's production crew uses EnGo mobile transmitters for live footage and interviews from the Expo's Exhibition Centre pavilions
"With EnGo, connectivity is very straightforward," Rahme continues. "We regularly encode at up to 20 Mbps from the pavilions because we are able to use six point-to-point SIM cards to aggregate IAD connections from Etisalat cellular networks and achieve full coverage inside the building. Because we use EnGo mobile transmitters, there are no limitations when it comes to line-of-sight to satellite antennas nor do we have to rely on a single private network."
The Dejero EnGo utilizes Dejero's Smart Blending Technology to create a resilient internet connection by aggregating multiple networks into a single service. This allows for the transmission of high-quality live video with glass-to-glass latency as low as 0.5 seconds over the bonded cellular connections. "Effectively, Dejero's technology is replacing the need for ENG satellites," said Rahme.
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Established in 1969, in line with the vision of the UAE's Founding Father, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Media has become one of the largest media companies in the Middle East and GCC regions and has a major role in fulfilling and promoting the key pillars of the UAE.
Focusing on digital first content, Abu Dhabi Media's portfolio includes exclusively digital assets, as well as digital and traditional platforms for its TV, radio, and print assets.
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Today, Abu Dhabi Media includes 23 media assets, as well as two subsidiaries – Tawzea and UPP.
Abu Dhabi Media is part of ADQ, one of the region's largest holding companies with a diverse portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi's non-oil economy.
For more information, please visit: www.admedia.ae
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BitTorrent announced in an interesting development on Thursday that its native token, BTT, is now supported by CoinPayments. The company announced the launch of its own cryptocurrency[ BTT] earlier in January. This move came about six months after Tron had acquired it.
BitTorrent has been working closely with CoinPayments for some time, and has assisted in offering support Bitcoin (BTC), Tron (TRX) and Binance Coin (BNB).
The addition of this new token will help users pay for subscriptions to BitTorrent and μTorrent Pro, which provide file conversion, HD quality streaming and malware protection.
In June last year, Tron 's acquisition of BitTorrent was a big step towards web decentralization.
The report also notes that there are plans to launch "BitTorrent Speed" this summer, which is reported to be launched as part of the μTorrent Classic client based on Windows from BitTorrent.
It is worth noting that Project Atlas is an integration of the roadmap of Tron and the reach of BitTorrent. Project Atlas is Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software that allows users to earn and spend cryptos while sharing files and the massive user base of BitTorrent provides Tron with the perfect launch pad.
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Two Havre men deny guilt in sex case
Two young men who are charged that a post-party event went wrong last June claimed their innocence at their arraignment this morning.
Joseph Sohm and Jacob Konesky pleaded not guilty in state District Court to charges each faced of sexual intercourse without consent.
According to court documents, the incident occurred June 5, 2011, at a party at Konesky's Havre apartment.
There are three accounts — one from the alleged victim and two from the defendants — that all differ in some respects, but they all include the fact that the evening ended with the three of them together in Konesky's bedroom.
The alleged victim claims she was too drunk to drive and didn't trust other drivers who had also been drinking, so she asked to sleep on the floor of Konesky's bedroom, which she did. She claims to have later woken up to find herself mostly undressed and being photographed while someone was "putting objects in" an uncomfortable place.
She asked what was going on.
They told her she had gotten "naked and wanted to have a threesome with us and you wanted this. "
Then she left, she said.
Konesky told police that Sohm was sleeping in his bed when he found the girl sleeping on the floor. He said she complained about being cold so he picked her up and put her in his bed, between himself and Sohm.
He claimed to have slept for about 45 minutes before he "was sitting up, pushing her leg away from him when she awoke and became frantic, " and left the room.
Sohm said he was just sleeping after the party until the girl entered the room and crawled into the bed with him, after which they both passed out. The next thing he remembers, Sohm told the officers, "he woke up when the woman 'flipped out. ' He said she didn't say anything to indicate why she was upset, she had just 'freaked, ' and he believed it was more just 'wastedness' than anything. "
The girl's DNA was found on Konesky's middle finger when both defendants were swabbed.
Charges were filed on Feb. 1.
Omnibus hearings are on hold until a new judge is confirmed. County Attorney Gina Dahl filed a motion to substitute for Judge Daniel Boucher. After the hearing, she declined to explain why she wanted Boucher off the case.