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Santurtzi (hiszp. Estación de Santurce, bas: Santurtziko geltokia) – stacja kolejowa w Santurtzi, w prowincji Vizcaya we wspólnocie autonomicznej Kraj Basków, w Hiszpanii.

Jest częścią Cercanías Bilbao i obsługuje pociągi linii C-1.

Położenie stacji
Znajduje się na linii kolejowej Bilbao – Santurce w km 13,3 na wysokości 5 m n.p.m.

Historia
Została otwarta w dniu 27 września 1888 wraz z odcinkiem linii Portugalete-Barakaldo, która miała połączyć Bilbao z Portugalete. Prace zostały przeprowadzone przez Compañía del Ferrocarril de Bilbao a Portugalete. W 1924 wchłonięta została przez Norte, która utrzymywała zarządzanie stacją do czasu nacjonalizacji linii kolejowych w Hiszpanii w 1941, wraz z utworzeniem RENFE.

Od 31 grudnia 2004 Adif jest właścicielem obiektów kolejowych.

Linie kolejowe
 Bilbao – Santurce

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Cercanías Bilbao

Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w Kraju Basków
Santurtzi

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Públio Minúcio Augurino () foi um político patrício do início da República Romana que serviu como cônsul emn 492 a.C.

Família
Embora a gente Minúcia tenha sido tradicionalmente conhecida como plebeia, sua origem é patrícia e é deste ramo de que Minúcio Augurino descende. Ele era irmão de Marco Minúcio Augurino, que serviu como cônsul em 497 e 491 a.C. Já o cognome "Augurinus" era característico de diversas famílias das gentes Genúcia e Minúcia. A palavra em si era derivada da palavra latina para "augúrio".

História
Durante seu consulado, em 492 a.C., o colega de Minúcio foi Tito Gegânio Macerino. Neste ano, os cônsules tiveram que lidar com uma fome em Roma e focaram seus esforços em conseguir carregamentos de cereais de toda a Itália. A fome foi resultado direto da paralisação do trabalho dos plebeus nas fazendas durante a secessão da plebe, terminada no ano anterior. Emissários foram enviados de navio para comprar cereais nas cidades costeiras da Etrúria, dos volscos e de outros povos. Como muitos vizinhos de Roma eram inimigos por causa de conflitos anteriores, emissários foram também até Cumas e a Magna Grécia. Em Cumas, conseguiram realizar a compra, mas o tirano Aristodemo, que havia sido nomeado herdeiro dos reis exilados de Roma, tomou os navios romanos como restituição pelas posses dos Tarquínios tomadas pela República Romana quando a família do rei foi exilada. As tentativas romanas de comprar cereais também foi dificultada no território dos volscos, inclusive pelos Pântanos Pontinos. Por causa das guerras recentes contra Roma, os comerciantes de milho ameaçaram com violência se ele fosse vendido aos romanos. Finalmente, os cereais foram obtidos na Etrúria e levados à Roma pelo rio Tibre. Uma quantidade ainda maior foi importada no ano seguinte da Magna Grécia e a questão de como os suprimentos deveriam ser distribuídos entre os cidadãos levou ao exílio e deserção de Caio Márcio Coriolano

Também em 492 a.C., novas lutas contra os volscos ameaçaram Roma. Porém, uma epidemia se espalhou entre eles e a guerra foi evitada, mas os romanos tomaram medidas para proteger sua posição. Novos colonos romanos foram enviados para a cidade de Velitrae e uma nova colônia foi fundada em Norba

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Romanos antigos do século V a.C.
Romanos antigos do século VI a.C.
Mortos no século V a.C.
Nascidos no século VI a.C.
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Eurowizja.org had the pleasure to speak with Tijana Dapčević from Macedonia. Popular singer will represent her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014.
Why did you decide to participate in Eurovision?
Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) offered me to represent Macedonia on ESC and I have accepted. To me, it's an honour to have a chance to represent my country in such a huge competition.
Your sister, Tamara, represented Macedonia in the Eurovision 2008 in Belgrade, but failed to qualify to the final. What was the reason of this result? Is it true, that she will perfom as backing vocal in Copenhagen?
Yes, it's true, Tamara will be do the backing vocals. I am not sure what was the reason of not making through the finals, really. I think it is important now to think forward and focus on the performance in Denmark, not to think about past ones.
What kind of song will you perform on stage? Which language will you use?
We are still working on the song, so we haven't decided yet if it's going to be in English or Macedonian. It has to be a fast song because we want to make a good party on the stage.
What's the date of song announcement? Do you already plan to record the videoclip or any different versions of your song?
The premiere of the song is planned for 22nd February on Macedonian Radio Television. We are focused on the song itself now, there will be plenty of time for thinking about the other stuff.
What's your goal during Eurovision and what do you think about this competition? Do you think, you are Eurovision fan?
I am a fan of ESC. I watch it every year and get really sad if we don't make it through finals. When there is something that has to be done, I do it the best I can. In Denmark, my goal is to be in the first five.
Macedonia failed to qualify to the final several times already. What's the reason of this failures? What's your favorite Macedonian entry from ESC?
I am really not sure what the problem was, but we cannot change the past. We can only look forward and make the best effort to make it through the finals this time. My favorite Macedonian song is "Let me love you" (Tamara, Vrčak, Adrijan).
Which song was better – "Imperija" or "Pred da se razdeni"?
Out of those two, I will choose the second one – "Pred da se razdeni".
Poland will come back to Eurovision after 2 years break. Do you know something about our country or any Polish music act?
Unfortunately, I have never visited Poland and don't know much about your country but I hope I will come some day. If I do, I will call you to ask what places I have to visit, okay? 🙂 Speaking of Polish singers, I know about Kayah and her collaboration with Goran Bregović.
Few years ago Polish singer Natasza Urbanska recorded song "Mala" which was copy of your hit "Sve je isto samo njega nema". Did you know about that?
Yes, I have heard about that but there is nothing illegal about that song, really. The author of the song has sold the rights to Natasa and she has recorded it. I have the rights for this area and that's it, everything is legal.
Why Polish viewers should vote for Macedonia?
What should we wish you for new year? What's your plan for New Year's Eve?
You can wish everything that I wish you – good health because that's the most important, peace, happiness, many great ideas and success. On 31st December I will sing on the main square in Skopje. I will spend holidays with my family and after that – back to work!


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Balance of Power: The Politics, Policies and People
2018 was a big election year in Ohio. Republicans held onto all five statewide executive offices including governor and super majorities in both the Ohio House and Senate. But there were a few bright spots for Democrats, among them the reelection of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and the election of two Democrats to the Ohio Supreme Court.With election 2018 over, the focus now shifts to governing. Stay connected with the latest on politics, policies and people making the decisions at all levels affecting your lives.
Trickle Down or Middle Out? Ohio's U.S. Senators Divide On The Tax Package
Ideastream Public Media | By M.L. Schultze
Republican House and Senate negotiators – including Ohio U.S. Sen. Rob Portman – have agreed on a compromise tax package will likely come up for a series of votes next week. Details are scarce but, as WKSU's M.L. Schultze reports, Ohio's Democratic U.S. senator continues to lambaste the foundation of the deal.
Sherrod Brown says he and his Republican counterpart, Rob Portman, have worked together on issues ranging from opioids to trade, but the tax package represents a philosophical divide. Portman sees tax cuts for corporations and investors as a way to stimulate the economy for everyone. Brown sees it as the latest incarnation of failed trickle-down economics.
"If you say you're going to cut taxes on the middle class then pass a bill that cuts taxes on the middle class. That puts money in people's pockets, they buy things, it creates demand."
Portman, who has been a deficit hawk, maintains the tax package will boost wages and decrease the federal deficit because it will generate more revenue.
Government & Politics Sherrod BrownRob PortmanTax packageElection 2018From WKSU
M.L. Schultze
M.L. Schultze is a freelance journalist. She spent 25 years at The Repository in Canton where she was managing editor for nearly a decade, then served as WKSU's news director and digital editor until her retirement.
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The cloud is changing how users store and access data.  This is true
for both legacy applications that are migrating local data
into the cloud, and for emerging cloud-hosted applications
that use a combination of content distribution networks (CDNs) and
client-side local storage to achieve scalability.  In both cases, the goal is to
compose existing storage and caching services to
implement scalable storage for the application.  However, the
challenges in doing so are to keep data
consistent, keep the storage layer secure, and
enforce storage policies across services.  This paper
presents \Syndicate, a wide-area storage system
that meets these challenges in a general, coherent manner.

There are two reasons to compose existing services to implement scalable storage.
First, if we factor a scalable storage system by the
capabilities of existing services,
it is interesting to ask what extra functionality
is needed, and how is it best provided?
Our strategy is to use cloud storage for durability and
scalable capacity, edge caches (CDNs and caching proxies)
for scalable read bandwidth and reduced upstream load,
and local storage for fast, possibly offline access.
Once these capabilities are met, the remaining
desirable functionality is wide-area consistency,
storage layer security, and storage policy enforcement.
\Syndicate\ introduces a new Metadata Service and storage
middleware that provides this functionality in a general,
configurable way.

The second reason is that leveraging existing services
is more than just taking advantage of someone having
already implemented the corresponding functionality.
More importantly, doing so also leverages a globally-deployed
and professionally-operated instantiation of that functionality.
Deploying and operating a global service, even with
the availability of geographically distributed VMs, is an
onerous task.  \Syndicate\ side-steps that problem by
using existing storage and caches, and in the process,
significantly lowers the barrier-to-entry to constructing a
customized, global storage service.

The thorniest problem \Syndicate\ faces is contending
with the weak consistency offered by edge caches.  Namely,
the cache operator, not the application, ultimately decides
what constitutes ``stale'' data for eviction purposes, making
it difficult to rely on cache control directives.
Rather than trying to avoid caches, we intentionally incorporate
them into the solution due to the tangible benefits they
offer.  Already, enterprises deploy on-site caching proxies to
accelerate Web access for users, content providers employ
global CDNs to distribute content to millions of readers,
and ISPs deploy CDNs in their access networks to avoid
transferring frequently-requested data over expensive links
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Our key insight into composing existing storage and caching
services is that we should {\it avoid} treating them as
first-class components.  Instead, we must treat
them as interchangeable utilities, distinguishable
only by how well they provide their unique capabilities.
Then, applications select services arbitrarily,
and layer consistency, security,
and policies ``on top'' of them with \Syndicate.
By doing so, we provide them a virtual cloud storage
service.

Our key contribution is a novel consistency protocol, employed in both the data
plane and control plane, that achieves this end.  With this protocol,
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while continuing to leverage the benefits they offer.  It also
lets \Syndicate\ leverage caches in the control plane to scalably distribute
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1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2008
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How do we know about climate in the period before instruments? (Feature Article)
Tsunami risk to Australia (Feature Article)
Australian federal system (Feature Article)
APEC and climate change (Feature Article)
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Sustainable forest management – an update (Feature Article)
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This chapter was contributed by the Australian Government Department of Defence (August 2007).
Defence is an Australian Government organisation and consists of the Australian Defence Force and the Department of Defence. It is one of the largest organisations in Australia and its mission is to defend Australia and its national interests.
This chapter provides an overview of the roles and activities of Defence. In particular, it focuses on the strategic environment, current operations and capability. The chapter also shows trends in Defence spending, and looks at the composition of the workforce.
The information contained in this chapter was the most recent available at the time of preparation. Where available, further and more up-to-date information can be found on the Defence website, <http://www.defence.gov.au> or from the references listed in the bibliography at the end of this chapter.
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NEAL ADAMS Recalls a Classic DEADMAN Cover
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NEAL ADAMS' DEADMAN TALES kicks off with Strange Adventures #207…
Neal Adams' latest project is a Deadman miniseries launching Nov. 1. In tandem with that, we're running NEAL ADAMS' DEADMAN TALES, a recurring interview series featuring the artist's views on his work with DC's ghostly avenger, yesterday and today.
For the complete NEAL ADAMS' DEADMAN TALES Index of stories, click here.
Where else to start this series of interviews than at the beginning?
Deadman debuted in Strange Adventures #205, cover-dated Oct. 1967. He was created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Carmine Infantino, yet they produced only the first story. Drake was still around the next issue, with Adams joining on pencils.
On the left: Carmine Infantino pencils from an Arnold Drake layout (!). George Roussos inks. On the right: Mike Sekowsky pencils, Roussos inks.
However, Adams didn't take over the covers until Strange Adventures #207 — and it was an instant classic, one that endures 50 years later.
Many of the floating heads behind Boston Brand are members of DC's production department whose names are lost to the mists of time. (If you recognize anyone, let us know!) Others are made up.
Here's Adams:
"Most people in comics had forgotten to do dropouts or if they knew how to do them they didn't say anything at the time. Mostly because they didn't want the artist to know too much so they wouldn't make extra work for the production room.
"I, unfortunately for the production room, knew how to do dropouts, that it wasn't complicated. It was really a very simple process and so I decided to do the first cover of Deadman as a dropout of the background, in an olive green, and then, of course, laying another, lighter green over it.
"What I did with the cover, of course, is I put in a whole bunch of faces, but for people who are interested, all those faces are somebody. Well, most all of them are somebody. They're people who worked at DC Comics…
"To the left of Deadman is Ira Schnapp, probably the best letterer on Earth at the time. Next to him is Jay Scott Pike, a romance artist, other than that a really terrific artist, then there are a couple of small heads and then just below that is Jack Adler, who is probably the best person in production and the person who executed this cover.
"And the guy to the right of Deadman's knee is actually the Hook. Shh! It was a big secret…. And some of these people I made up. Just above Deadman's left shoulder is (colorist) Jerry Serpe, who worked in the production room."
Adams went back to this classic last year during DC's Neal Adams Month of variant covers (click here for more on that). He recast Deathstroke in the Deadman role and the heads were instead some of DC's most important creators and execs:
Top line: Bob Haney, E. Nelson Bridwell, Jenette Kahn, Joe Orlando, Joe Kubert, Marv Wolfman
Second line: Dan DiDio, Paul Levitz, Deathstroke, Julius Schwartz
Third line: Bob Kane, Jim Lee, Jack Adler
Fourth line: Len Wein, Dick Giordano, Carmine Infantino, Jerry Siegel
Bottom line: Archie Goodwin, Karen Berger, Denny O'Neil, Joe Shuster.
NEXT: Strange Adventures #208. Click here.
BONUS! NEAL ADAMS MONTH Index: Adams and some of comics' biggest stars analyze dozens of his greatest covers. Click here.
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Q: HTML— Create horizontal Scrollbar once a certain width has been reached I have a horizontal navbar with width 100%. Once the nav has reached a certain
minimum width— around 800px, I say,— I'd like a horizontal scrollbar to appear. The CSS property min-width doesn't work because it does not create a scroll bar.
This post asks the same question as mine does, but the only good answer that the person got is to utilize a jQuery plugin, and I'm not certain how to add a scrollbar using it.
How can I add horizontal scrollbars past a fixed min-width? Please help me out.
Thanks.
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CSS (without any of your suggestions)
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    position: fixed;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;

    width: 100%;
    height: 50px;
    min-width: 800px;
}

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    float: right;
}

A: In essence, you need some kind of parent element to contain the navigation, acting as a kind of "viewport":

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Then you can constrain the width of the parent and allow the navigation to grow as wide as necessary:

A: I'd place a div with min-width as parent of all navbar contents into the navbar.
The navbar itself should then have overflow-x:auto and overflow-y:hidden, or overflow:auto.
The scrollbar will require additional vertical space, so the vertical scrollbar may be required too.

A: This makes a box with a static width to contain your content. When there is not enough room to contain the box (window is < 400px) a scrollbar appears.
http://jsfiddle.net/Re4AP/5/
This makes a box that is 100% width by default with a min-width of 400px to contain your content. When there is not enough room to contain the content in the box it breaks the content (text in this case) onto multiple lines. If the window is less than 400px (the min width), a scrollbar appears.
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>It's Christmas Eve Eve. Tonight I am making a decision. I've decided to rise above the exhausted mommy fog, clear the no-sleep-for-over-a-year haze, shake off the mental and emotional cramps that come with juggling mommyhood, marriage, career, home, and life for an extended period of time. The Christmas Celebration at our house has officially begun.
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>I've been reflecting on my own need to be included. I've been thinking about this need and how it affects my self confidence, my ability to adapt socially, and most of all, the practice of my faith.
As I've mentioned, my husband and I have chosen to practice our faith in a very organic way, through a house church. This avenue works well for us, since we come from vastly different religious backgrounds. All our "traditions" are kind of stripped away, and we focus on the important things: you know… Jesus, Him being the Son of God, the Way, the Truth, the Life. That kind of stuff.
Anyway, by choosing to practice my faith outside the traditional church building, (notice I did NOT say outside the church), I'm left without something I had no idea I had relied so heavily upon: The approval of men. I don't mean men in general. I mean people who run the traditional church building. I had, I now know, become very accustomed to hearing, perceiving, and basking in the approval and/or praise of other church members, especially leaders. I relied upon this approval and the myriad of duties and responsibilities that came along with it in order to feel "included." Thus, being passed over for a leadership opportunity, even one I didn't have time for, or being frowned upon for a personal decision meant I was not included, or at least not AS included as I could or should have been. This translated into hurt feelings, lower self esteem, and even envy of those who had more "inclusion" than I, even though their lives were less "fit" by most standards.
I've been pondering a great deal on the idea that meeting my need for inclusion this way has perhaps paralyzed me spiritually. I wouldn't call myself a spiritual invalid. Not by any means. But I have to wonder if looking to the church leaders for inclusion has numbed me in some places. I have to wonder if a great deal of church members are paralyzed in a similar way.
It occurs to me that looking to a human to place a stamp of approval upon my life and my spiritual maturity as he or she perceives it, is a bit of a slap in Jesus' face. He paid such a high, high price to declare me INCLUDED in his family once and for all. He gave his life so that I could have God's approval. Why then, do I need the approval of other humans in addition to the glorious gift He gave me?
Why have I wasted my time trying to earn the favor of church leaders, especially even after becoming very acquainted with the corruptness of such leaders? Why have I looked to another human to tell me what God wants me to do? Why have I allowed other people to make up rules that limit God's ability to work in me and with me? Where might I be now if I had spent as much time exploring what GOD truly made me to be and do rather than worrying about if I were in my proper place according to the opinion of church leaders? I don't mean where, as in perhaps I would be more "accomplished." Since I also am sickened at the time I spent trying to "move up" in the circles of a denomination, when most of such movement is based solely on politics. I mean where, as in would I be closer to God had I simply learned to cling to Him alone?
I return again to a thought. A truth, really. God Himself, through His only Son, Jesus, declared me INCLUDED. He declared me precious, worthy, righteous, and one of His very own children. I AM included. Now and forever. This is the truth I will teach to our children, and pass along to those He brings my way. Goodbye to days of stunted spiritual growth due to restraints placed upon me by the ideas of men. Hello to days of letting God lead me and show me. I no longer need the illusion of inclusion. I have the real deal, straight from God.
Guess what?? YOU DO TOO!!!
I can't believe you are thirteen years old. We both sure have come a long way! Just 21 when you were born, I gotta tell you, I had NO IDEA what I was doing. You were my first baby, and now you are my first teenager. And guess what… I'm still not sure I know what I'm doing.
I know I've messed up on some things. I wish I had let you believe in Santa. I wish I had been a little more fun and a little less worried about getting everything right. I wish things with me and your dad hadn't meant you had to deal with grown-up stuff sooner than you should have. I wish we hadn't had to move so many times and I could have given you a childhood home to always remember.
But there are some things I'm happy about. Remember when we had "the talk?" You wer SOOOOO embarrassed and so was I, but we did it! It was the first of many embarrassing talks for us both, but we're still talkin'! Remember when you first saw your baby brother Levi? We got you a baby boy doll and you and I took care of our "babies" together. I remember one time you were in a musical at church. You came down the aisle with the rest of the kids and you were so happy and excited. I realized then that seeing you happy is just about the most amazing experience I get to have. Remember homemade waffles on Saturday mornings? Remember playing in the rain on Upstream Street and splashing like crazy in the puddles? Remember "Soap skating?" Remember when you had to be in the hospital? I would have given anything to get you better. Remember your second grade year that we homeschooled? I loved all our fun field trips, and getting to teach you myself. Remember how we had to get through Hurricane Katrina together? Remember "WINN DIXIE!!!"?? I love hearing you laugh. I'm glad we spent time with your Granny Great, and even though you might not remember it all, you got to know her and she got to know you.
You were the most beautiful baby in the world. You were the most adorable little girl ever. Your smile and your laugh could keep me going for days. When you were born I was scared to death. I had this little person and any mistake I made might hurt her for life!! I didn't want to make ANY mistakes.
We were inseparable for the first couple of years of your life. We did just about everything and went just about everywhere together. I wanted so much to be a good mommy. These days you are almost as tall as me. We don't shop in the children's department anymore, and your bedroom door is closed more often than it's open. Some days I'm scared that there are some things you may never learn if I haven't taught them to you by now. Some days I'm scared that since I DO make some mistakes you might be hurt forever.
Then I realize that you are becoming a wonderful young lady in spite of my mess-ups. You are an amazing person because GOD made you that way,and my silly mistakes can't undo HIS great work in you. I'm SO proud of who you are, and so excited about who you will be.
I used to rock you to sleep every night, but can't rock you anymore. I'm rocking your baby brother, Caleb, while you are texting or talking on your phone in your room. I'm learning to be a more grown-up mom to a more grown-up girl. We still have a long way to go together and I know we might have some tough times ahead. But we'll get through that too, just like the tough times we've put behind us.
You were my "Christmas present from God." You still are. You always will be.
Levi: Wellllll… I think chocolate is healthy. I mean it has milk in it, right?
Mackenzie: Yeah, and it comes from a plant.
Me: Well you're right. Chocolate's practically a VEGETABLE!!!
We all laughed like crazy and it was unanimous! Eatin' chocolate IS eatin' healthy!!
Hee hee! Maybe I won't get mother of the year for this morning's breakfast, but it was SO worth the moment of crazy laughter with my awesome children. Even my little one-toothed guy was giggling! I'll be treasuring that moment all day.
>I have a few quiet moments this morning. The last few, I'm sure, until after Thanksgiving festivities and the trip to pick up my big kids.
It occurs to me that Thanksgiving is the perfect kickoff to the holiday season. Who is there to thank but God? The day of thanksgiving to Him kind of calls my attention to His work in my life and begins a time of reflection upon what He has done for us all by sending His son, the birth we celebrate at Christmas.
So this year, I'm determined to see Thanksgiving as simply the beginning of a season of celebrating God's blessings to me. Our Thanksgiving day will be full of commotion, food, laughter, noise, and fun…and of course Saints football. And I will celebrate the way God has lavished me with wonderful people, beautiful babies, happy moments, an amazing family, and so much more. I'll kick it off on Thanksgiving day with a bang and continue to celebrate throughout the holidays.
I have so much joy, how can it all be properly celebrated in one day alone, or even two? It deserves a month or more, and so it will be.
>After a lot of thought and consideration, the choice was made to open my hands and open my heart and let it go. As of now, I no longer play keys at Riverside. I've learned so much there. I've learned that real love is possible, grace is for all of us, and that sometimes God's people DO come through. I've also learned that sometimes it's just plain time to let go. I'm learning that sometimes it's just plain ok to let go and walk away, regardless of what people think or whether the true situation will come to light or whether everyone will know my side of the story. Not always, mind you. There are times and places to stand firm no matter what may come. But there are times when the best thing for all involved is to release things before they become a total heartbreak. I let go of wanting everyone to think I'm right.
I let go of something today. It's something that was once precious to me, and I've long wrestled with the guilt of not enjoying it as much as I once did. I've long wondered what's wrong with me and what to do about it. It's grown into one big sticky emotional tangle in my life. And today I let it go. No more trying to untangle the strings. No more trying to make myself fit in a place where I don't fit anymore. I let go of my need to fit in.
I had a LOT to say about it. I had plenty of feelings to express. I wrote them in a long email and then deleted the whole thing. I realized that voicing my feelings would not bring a result and it would be more painful to communicate those feelings and then realize… nobody cared, than it would be to leave them unsaid. So I let go of what I had to say. And it's interesting how those negative feelings didn't really see the need to stick around once I let go of them.
And so I say only a fond farewell to my Riverside family. To those of you who know me, you know it's also a farewell to the last bit of a tattered and torn security blanket of all I once knew and believed about following God. I let go of my need for other people to approve of the way I worship. Perhaps now I'm ready to really worship for the first time in a long time.
Now I'm following God to entirely new places and it's good. He's taking me even further out to the edge, and, breathing freer and moving faster due to my lighter load, I'm ready.
Sometimes the wrong does indeed seem so very strong. Sometimes it's easy to get so irritated by the inconsiderate people in life, especially ones I feel should know better. Sometimes it's easy to focus on the disappointments, the heartbreaks, the stresses in life. Sometimes I forget whose world this really is after all.
It's my Father's world. It's His. It' doesn't belong to the people who hurt me. It doesn't belong to the rat race and its delirium. It doesn't belong to the tragedies, the evils, the stressors. It belongs to the One who loves me and my family and gave His life to buy my freedom. It belongs to my Father… it's all His and He's going to have the final say.
That's a peaceful thought in the middle of my crazy life. Wanted to share it with you.
>It's Veteran's Day, a special day at St. Francis Villa Assisted Living. It always makes me kind of emotional to think of it. I spend each day in the company of several veterans of World War II, a brave group of individuals, living historians who are fast disappearing from our country.
Hope you enjoy it, and find time to honor a veteran today.
That our soldiers are the ones who keep our freedom here intact.
All because of work well done by those who had to fight.
We hear echoes of freedom soldiers gave all to create.
Lives that treasure freedom that our soldiers died to give.
>OK, so I couldn't let the Devil's Jukebox be the last word. Not that I've sorted it all out or anything. I have come to one small conclusion. I see my over-obsessing drive for perfection as just one more flaw and obstacle to overcome in my quest for perfection. Wanting too much to be perfect is something else to work on that keeps me from being perfect.
Other than that, I've simply had to table this. Some tangled emotional messes just can't be untangled all at once. Sometimes like a jigsaw puzzle, you just have to come back to it later and you'll see it differently and maybe find a piece that fits.
And that settles that. I did indeed get charged up on the chicken by the way!
Can't stay down for long when God has blessed me in this way. If children are a reward from Him, then He has chosen to reward me indeed.


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This goes along with the post from yesterday. I said I would post this and it is a good representation of how today's entitlement generation looks at things.
What happened to kids respecting the teacher? What happened to kids having respect to authority? What happened to kids having respect for their parents?
The generation of kids growing up now have a false sense of how things truly are. They are given anything and everything they want, desire. Everything from clothes, cars, money. They don't have to earn it.
There was a time when you had to earn your allowance. When you had to earn that new outfit. We were raised that way. There was a time when it was unacceptable to talk back to a teacher. It was unacceptable to be rude to a police officer.
What happened to the parents working together with the teachers? What happened to the parents supporting and backing the principle and the counsellors?
Those days are long gone. Kids are not expected to behave any longer. They can act and talk however they want without consequence.
We are doing them a disservice. They have a false sense of what being an adult really is. They expect to be handed that good paycheck and not really work for it. They expect their bills to be paid just because and by anyone but them.
It's disgusting. It's wrong. We are hurting our selves.
We are no longer the greatest country and this is one of the causes.
I keep my circle small but I am thankful for everyone one of you. Thank you for your love, support, hugs. They are needed and appreciated and I hope I return them often.


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Khadija Rouissi (en ), né en 1963 à Casablanca. Khadija Rouissi est Ambassadeur du Maroc au Danemark et en Lituanie. Elle est une ancienne députée près Parti Authenticité et Modernité depuis 2008 . Elle est une militante pour les droits humains et de la liberté d'expression au sein de plusieurs associations nationales et en tant que Secrétaire Générale du Forum Marocain pour la Vérité et la Justice.

Biographie

Origine et études
Khadija Rouissi a vu le jour à l'ancienne Medina de Casablanca. Elle était encore petite quand ses trois frères ont été enlevés. Après avoir obtenu son baccalauréat en 1984, elle intègre l'université de Casablanca et est titulaire d'un master de l'Université Hassan II de Casablanca.

Parcours
En 1984, elle a commencé ses activités de militante des droits de l'Homme.

Elle fait partie des fondateurs du Forum marocain pour la Vérité et la Justice dont elle a occupé le poste de secrétaire générale à côté du président Driss Benzekri qu'elle a fini par rejoindre au sein de l'Instance équité et réconciliation.

Khadija Rouissi a décroché un siège au parlement en 2012 en tant que membre du Parti Authenticité et Modernité.

Le , Khadija Rouissi a remis ses lettres de créance à la présidente lituanienne, Dalia Grybauskaité en tant qu'ambassadeur du roi du Maroc au Danemark et en Lituanie.

Prises de position
Khadija Rouissi a lancé une pétition sur le magazine Telquel pour soutenir l'Iranienne Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani qui était condamné à mort. La disparition de ses trois frères a joué un rôle important dans son militantisme pour les droits de l'Homme.

Elle a déposé plainte à la brigade nationale de la police judiciaire après avoir été menacé de mort après avoir dénoncé l'attentat contre Charlie Hebdo.

Vie personnelle
Khadija Rouissi s'est mariée en 1986 et mère de trois enfants.

Références

Naissance en 1963
Naissance à Casablanca
Femme politique marocaine
Député marocain
Personnalité du Parti authenticité et modernité


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Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, welcomed the release of human rights activist and journalist Mazen Darwish.
The issue of freedom of the press and media, as well as arbitrary detention of political and human rights activists, remains an important component of the Geneva communique.
"I am aware of reports that many more journalists, human rights and political activists remain in detention often without access to legal and medical services," Mr. de Mistura said.
"I strongly urge the Syrian government to take further steps and release all those detained or charged for their exercise of the freedom of expression, which is a fundamental human right."
He added that, "we should all strive to reach a sustainable political solution in Syria on the basis of international human rights standards and freedoms."
Speaking to the press following his meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. on 4 August, the Secretary-General said he was encouraged by the strong support expressed by the Security Council for the proposal presented on 29 July by Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura to establish four thematic groups to operationalize the Geneva communiqué. "We will try to expedite -- to provide some political solution to this, operationalizing the Geneva communiqué. At the same time, we are doing our best effort to provide humanitarian assistance to needy people" the Secretary-General said.
Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura visited today the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where he met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Mr. Nasser Judeh. Mr. de Mistura very much appreciated Minister Judeh's deep knowledge and analysis of the regional situation, particularly as Jordan is providing hospitality to a substantial number of Syrian refugees and is therefore heavily affected by the situation in Syria.
Mr. de Mistura also met Syrian opposition figures who were present in Jordan.
At the end of today's meetings, Mr. de Mistura reaffirmed the resolve of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to spare no efforts to support the people of Syria in their yearning for peace and change. He stressed that both regional and international powers can do much more to end the raging conflict in Syria.
زار المبعوث الخاص ستيفان دي مستورا اليوم المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية، حيث التقى مع نائب رئيس الوزراء ووزير الشؤون الخارجية وشؤون المغتربين السيد ناصر جودة. و قد أعرب السيد دي مستورا عن تقديره الكبير تجاه المعرفة العميقة التي يتمتّع بها الوزير جودة وتحليله للوضع الإقليمي، خاصّة أنّ الأردن يستضيف عدداً كبيراً من اللاجئين السوريين، وبالتالي يتأثر بشدة من الوضع في سوريا.
كما التقى السيد دي مستورا أيضا شخصيات من المعارضة السورية كانوا موجودين في الأردن.
في نهاية جلسات اليوم، أكّد السيد دي مستورا عزم الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة إلى عدم ادخار أي جهد لدعم الشعب السوري، في إطار سعيهم للسلام والتغيير. وشدد على أن كل من القوى الإقليمية والدولية يمكنها أن تفعل أكثر من ذلك بكثير لإنهاء الصراع المحتدم في سوريا.
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met today with representatives of the Syrian Feminist Lobby, Ms. Lama Kannout and Ms. Salma Jalkhi. They briefed Mr. Ramzy on the overall situation on the ground and the state of women's rights. They also shared perspectives for a political solution and ways to ensure women's participation in these process. Mr. Ramzy emphasized the important role that can and should be played by women in any conflict resolution efforts in Syria. He commended their tireless and positive efforts amidst the deteriorating situation on the ground.
Within the framework of the Geneva Consultations, Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy met with Mr. Mohammad Marwan Al-Atrash and Mr. Habib Haddad from the Syrian Democratic National Block. They shared views on a political solution to the Syrian conflict. They also discussed with Mr. Ramzy the role of the international community and the United Nations in supporting Syrian efforts to end the conflict.
At the end of today's meeting, Mr. Ramzy underscored the urgency of a Syrian-led political solution to the conflict. In this regard, he stressed the importance of efforts towards unity and consensus among opposition groups.
In the framework of the Geneva Consultations, the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr. Staffan de Mistura, met today with a delegation from the Aga Khan Foundation, composed of Mr. Mohammad Wardeh, Mr. Mohammad Seifo and Mr. Ali Esmaiel. The delegation members discussed with Mr. de Mistura the situation on the ground and shared their perspectives for a political solution.
"Civil society organizations are an important element in conflict resolution, particularly their efforts to ensure that views and concerns of all parts of societies are addressed as they can bring the voice of people and communities on the ground," Mr. de Mistura said at the end of his meeting. "This is why their contribution is critical for a sustainable political solution which would promote human rights, pluralism and democracy," he added.
Geneva consultations are a rolling process to seek views of all Syrian and relevant regional and international parties on the operationalization of the Geneva Communiqué.
In this context, Mr. de Mistura continues to meet separately with Syrian actors from inside and outside Syria, as well as with concerned regional and international players.
United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Mr. Staffan de Mistura continued his meetings today in the framework of the Geneva Consultations.
He met with the president and members of the political committee of the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces (SOC) in Istanbul.
Mr. de Mistura listened to the views of his interlocutors regarding the operationalization and implementation of the Geneva Communiqué.
Both parties agreed on the importance and urgency of finding a political solution to the current ongoing conflict.
They also concurred on the urgency of an immediate halt of the killing and targeting of civilians.
"My visit to SOC today demonstrates, once again, that the purpose of these Consultations was and remains to give the chance to all Syrians to share their views of what a future Syria should look like," Mr. de Mistura said.
Meanwhile in Geneva, Deputy Special Envoy Ramzy Ezzeldine Ramzy met with Mr. Samir Aita and Mr. Ziad Tlas who briefed on the deteriorating situation in Syria. Mr. Ramzy also met with a delegation of Japan, led by Ambassador Misako Kaji, who briefed on Japan's support for the United Nations' efforts to ameliorate the humanitarian situation in Syria. They discussed the ongoing initiatives to help Syrians reach a political solution to the conflict.
Mr. Ramzy observed that today's meetings in Geneva once again confirmed the desire of the international community, from far and near, to help resolve the Syrian conflict and mitigate its humanitarian consequences. He also noted that continued inaction to end the conflict is only making the military and security situation in Syria more complex.


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Every year, thousands of students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. It is estimated tat the victims of these scams lose more than $100 million annually. Scam operations most often imitate legitimate government agencies, grant-giving foundations, education lenders and scholarship matching services, using official-sounding names containing words like "National," "Federal," "Foundation," or "Administration." In general, be cautious of scholarship applications that require an application fee, scholarship matching services who guarantee success, advance-fee loan scams and sales pitches disguised as financial aid "seminars".
Remember filing for federal and Tennessee state aid is free. Complete the FAFSA at www.fafsa.gov.
Be careful not to go to .com or .org sites. These sites charge for filing your FAFSA.
Many scams encourage you to send them money up front, but provide little or nothing in exchange. Usually victims dismiss the expense, thinking that they simply didn't win the scholarship.
This scam looks just like a real scholarship program, difference being they require an application fee. The typical scam receives 5,000 to 10,000 applications and charges fees of $5 to $35. These scams can afford to pay out a $1,000 scholarship or two and still pocket a nice profit, that is - if they award any scholarships at all. Your odds of winning a scholarship from such scams are less than your chances of winning the lottery.
This scam tells you that you've won a college scholarship worth thousands of dollars, but requires that you pay a "disbursement" or "redemption" fee or the taxes before they can release your prize. If someone says you've won a prize and you don't remember entering the contest or submitting an application, be suspicious.
A common variation the sponsor sends the student a check for the scholarship, but requires the recipient to send back a check for the taxes or some other fees. Or the sponsor sends a check for more than the scholarship amount and asks the recipient to send back a check for the difference. The scholarship check ultimately bounces, as it is a forgery, but by then the recipient's funds are long gone.
Beware of scholarship matching services that guarantee you'll win a scholarship or they'll refund your money. They may simply pocket your money and disappear, or if they do send you a report of matching scholarships, you'll find it extremely difficult to qualify for a refund.


One day I noticed a difference in myself, I know it didn't happen overnight but suddenly, I realized it. I've been stressed before, but I felt like I hit a new level of stress. I'm the type of person that jumps into everything 100% in without thinking. I've been told before it's okay to say no or that I don't have to do everything, but I've always been able to manage it. In fact, I would go so far as to say that part of my identity was always being the reliable dedicated person in both my professional and personal life.
My identity got tested over a three-month period where I pushed myself to my max. I went into it thinking I could do it all – no problem. My days started at 3:30 a.m. I'd go to the gym from 4:00 – 5:00 a.m., come home and get ready for work. In the free time before work, I'd try to take a nap, work on homework or meal prep. I'd work Monday through Friday. On Monday and Wednesday nights, I had class until 9:45 p.m. The rest of the nights and weekends were filled with errands, homework, some socializing and sleep. By Sunday evening I was pretty much exhausted. For 12 weeks this was my schedule. I felt like I was in over my head, but I could not admit it. I was embarrassed to admit it. I felt like I wasn't performing to my usual quality and I noticed my confidence and motivation were slipping away. By the time I realized something was wrong, I had given myself fast paced heart beats, a locked jaw (more than once) and the inability to sleep through the night. I had pushed myself into a mild case of being burnt out.
If you Google "burnout" you'll find about 67,600,000 results (as of 7/25/18). If you scroll through the results, you'll see that no one is immune and there isn't a cure-all. There are articles on burnout for various situations and degrees. While I'm not a doctor or even an expert I decided to write about it because it's important to be self-aware. Let's face it – burnout is more common than we'd like to think. We all have goals, dreams, and a life that is demanding and yet some days you just want to crawl into a cave. Burnout is caused by singular items like work, life, extracurricular activities or a combination of them.
After going through the thick of it, I realized I couldn't keep up the charade of doing it all. It wasn't fair to anyone, especially me. After fully admitting what was going on to my husband I decided to quit my workouts and I made the hard decision to put personal relationships on hold for a bit. I decided to be transparent and honest about how I was feeling, and it really helped. I was lucky that after three months I was able to make changes and start on the road to returning to my normal. I didn't snap back overnight, I had to change my mindset. I know others go through burnout for longer periods and feel stuck. I hope if you are experiencing burnout or stress, that you can share it with others. In my case, there was nothing more important than being heard and feeling validated. Knowing others understood allowed me to give myself permission to take a break. I challenge you to keep yourself honest and make the hard decisions if they'll benefit you.
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I wish I had found the book I'll feature in What I'm Reading - August sooner. There are others who have gone through burnout and have come up with solutions that have worked for them. I can't wait to share the book with you. In the meantime I'd love to hear and share the tactics that have worked for you. Please share them with us!


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This Morning: Professor Green reveals the truth about his relationship with Millie Mackintosh – 'Divorce is horrible!'
PROFESSOR Green revealed the truth about his relationship with Millie Mackintosh on This Morning today.
Laura Donaldson
The One Eye on the Door rapper was on the ITV chatshow to talk about his new single, documentaries and of course – his ex-wife Millie.
Professor Green, real name Stephen Manderson, was probed by hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield about the alleged "revenge" lyrics, which talk about his sex life, domestics and divorce, and whether they were linked to Millie.
He said: "The song was written at a time when we were still together."
The 32-year-old then went on to reveal that Millie was even on the "intro of the song" at first.
This Morning: Phillip Schofield read out some of Professor Green's new song lyrics and asked if they were about Millie Mackintosh (Image: ITV)
This Morning: Professor Green was showed a picture of Millie Mackintosh's slashed wedding dress for Halloween (Image: ITV)
He added: "When the song was coming out, she text me to say: 'You must be happy it's coming out after all this time'."
Holly asked: "So it wasn't revenge for the break up?"
To which he replied: "Revenge for what?
"Do you know what I mean? It's mad to me."
However, the star did joke that TV boxsets are the "death of everyone's sex life when it gets to that point".
Holly and Phil decided to ask Stephen about Millie's recent Halloween party costume, in which she dressed up as a bloodied bride using her £4000 wedding dress to the rapper.
The item of clothing had been ripped to shreds and splattered in fake blood to transform the style.
Stephen said: "Oh what, she used her wedding dress for a bloomin' Halloween party?
"Well at least she got to wear it again, most people don't get to wear their wedding dress twice.
"I don't know if she paid for it or her parents – it's hers to do what she wants with it.
This Morning: Professor Green was fine about Millie Mackintosh using her wedding dress for Halloween and even joked about it (Image: ITV)
"Oh come on, mate, if you can't have a sense of humour like."
Pro Green went on to talk about their divorce and admitted it is "horrible".
He said: "Divorce is horrible, but when you come out the other side of it, if you'd been married to a person and you can't look back on it with any kindness, then it really was a mistake.
"If I was bitter about it like people want to make out or I was angry that would be really sad because it would have meant that I really did make a mistake.
This Morning: Professor Green spotted outside the ITV studios after his interview (Image: WENN)
"When we got married, we never got married to get divorced, we got married because we were young and in love."
This Morning continues on weekdays at 10:30am on ITV.


The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food and the Utah Field Office of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) are proud to present the 41st edition of their annual report and agriculture statistics publication.
Copies of the publications are available here.
The publications are provided to help inform farmers, ranchers, and the public about activities within the UDAF and provide a detailed look at Utah's agricultural production. Also included are budgets for helping farmers and ranchers evaluate the potential profitability of various agricultural commodities.
State and U.S. statistics are available on the USDA/NASS Web page at: http://www.nass.usda.gov/.
Estimates presented are current for 2012 production and January 1, 2013 inventories.


I don't use forums very often, but I normally get good advice from this website. I was hoping that some of you could help me out with a vehicle I'm trying to sell for my mother.
For some bizarre reason she bought a brand new 2008 Hyundai Tiburon. I think she quickly realized that it was not a good fit for a 45+ year old women and she's barely driven it. (7,800 km) She's tried selling it, but she obviously hasn't been successful yet.
Condition: Obviously in mint condition.
So what am I looking at? Where should I start pricing?
I would check the Autotrader site for a rough idea, which I just did, and there's an '08 GS Sport in Red Deer listed at 20,000, and a couple others for the 17-20K range.


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Crypto Best Practice — Always Use a Multisig Wallet
26 October 2020 Thoughts:
Ever get that sinking "oh-shit!" feeling in your stomach? Getting your private key either stolen or lost will do it. Take this good practical advice. It is simple, will make you sleep better at night, and can save you a lot of abdominal discomfort.
Helicopters crammed with armed, security personnel hover above the building, while the rooftops of adjacent buildings are decked with specially trained sharpshooters. Meanwhile down at the street level, more armed guards and police units encircled the building in concentric rings. Police cars and motorcycle units line the streets from the building.
An entourage of SUV's are stationed with dark, sunglassed security talking into their techcom headsets. This is a big deal but the commotion is not for the President, or a VIP of any kind. The building's main tenant is the Trust Company Bank. Are the Royal Jewels making a visit? Maybe it's the Hope Diamond, the single most valuable gemstone prized at about $350M.
The crucial moment arrives as the super-secured bank vault opens. Three specially designed portable safes are quickly whisked into separate waiting SUV's, each accompanied by a team of security details. The three SUV's take-off, breaking off into separate routes along with a carefully choreographed, assemblage of escort vehicles.
The three mini-vaults reconvene at their their new home, considered the 3rd most secured vault in the US, right behind Fort Knox and the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, respectively.¹
The contents are the famed and highly secretive Coca Cola formula. Getting information on making a nuclear bomb is easier although it will get you a visit from the FBI and National Homeland Security. Except for some minor tweaks such as the removal of cocaine, the formula is essentially unchanged since in its 129-year old history.
What is intrinsic value, but the perception of its value by its owner or buyer. And so it is as the invaluable Coca-Cola recipe is taken to its new home, the specially-designed vault at the World of Coca-Cola. Only three people, Coca-Cola executives, have access to the famous formula, but no single person has access to the complete ingredient list. Instead it requires two of the individuals to combine their partial formulary into making the complete formulary. Safety, security, and redundancy ensures the continuity of a $217B company.
Truth be told, it was a well-planned publicity event and even if the recipe was leaked, it's highly doubtful that it would impinge on Coca Cola's market or valuation. Nevertheless Coca Cola provides a good practice in keeping something that is very valuable to all crypto asset holders — your private keys.
The Coke formula tale is a useful analogy in the management of digital assets, specifically the private key to a wallet. Two of the biggest risks in managing your digital assets are 1) theft of the private key, and 2) misplacement, or loss, of the private key. Unfortunately, this occurs quite frequently in crypto management, or shall I say the lack thereof. Also, since there is an increasing interest in DeFi-based platforms, this shifts the responsibility of the private key management more towards the user instead of say a centralized exchange.
The introduction of the multisignature scheme, or multisig for short, allows a group of users to constitute a quorum that is required in order to facilitate a transaction, usually the withdrawal transfer of the digital assets. Deposit transactions do not require signing and are therefore unaffected by multisig. It only applies to withdrawal.
The multisig is perfect for business processes such as escrow and estate planning, or corporate governance. One of the leaders in this developing field is Octowill which is an estate planning and will creation service. Octowill is very innovative in transforming the industry to become more efficient and less susceptible to losses from mishandling, both ineptitude and fraud. As Octowill CEO Selva Ramasamy stated, " Multisig is a cornerstone, feature that makes our service the value-added innovation that is critical for crypto adoption."
Credit: Holy Transaction Batman!
Multisig wallets are denoted by an M of N signatory. Let's take an example of a 2 of 3 setup which means that there are three (N) possible signers, of which two (M) signers are required. The wallet has created three signers: Alice, Bob, and Charlene. Then any combination consisting of two distinct signers, Alice-Bob, Bob-Charlene, or Alice-Charlene, can sign the transaction.
Let's say that Alice's device was hacked and her signature is compromised. The wallet is not compromised. It is important though, that Alice notifies the other signers, and then safely transfer the assets to a new wallet, and restore the 2 of 3 quorum.
The other use case is the loss of the private key. It's amazing how much crypto assets are irretrievably lost due to the misplacing of private keys. That's about $40B give or take!² In the 2 of 3 example, it would take the accidental loss of two keys in order to lose access to the funds, reducing the probability of the loss scenario by a half.
How about a 3 of 3 configuration? While that is technically possible it is strongly ill-advised! In essence you have tripled the probability of losing the asset forever. M should always be less than N to prevent such a potential calamity.
In addition to the safety factor of lost key and greater security, multisig also provides governance if for an example an audit trail is needed to support a business process. Corporate and institutional adoption of cryptos would be much more difficult without multisig.
However, multisig is not the only option. Multi-party computation (MPC) is a more recent cryptographic development which offers a strong viable option to the Shamir's Secret Sharing upon which multisig is based on.
There are benefits of MPC over multisig as MPC does not provide a single point of failure when compared to multisig. But the lack of auditing capabilities of MPC, meaning there is no way of specifically knowing who the signers were of a given transaction still makes the more mature and stable multisig a better option of securing a wallet at this time.
Multisig is a significant development in the safe and secure management of a digital asset wallet. There are other aspects of wallet types which I have outlined in my previous article, Custody is NOT Sexy, such as hot and cold, hardware security module (HSM), online, and software-based each with their pros and cons to balance convenience, security and risk. But the use of multisig is universally accepted as a best practice for crypto management.
I mentioned earlier M should be less than N when setting up a multisig wallet, or else you have increased the probability of losing access by a factor of N. You definitely don't want to do that.
Also the minimal, useful multisig configuration is 2 of 3. Why is that? The setup for 1 of 2, would not provide any additional security since it only takes a single signature to sign a transaction and nothing has been achieved other than doubling the chances of getting 1 of the 2 keys stolen. 2 of 2 would also not be recommend as it would violate the first principle, M must be less than N else you risk losing complete access altogether.
Finally, even if there is no need to share access with another person, it is still highly recommend that a single user implement at least a 2 of 3 multisig wallet with the same single user needing to sign transactions with two distinct keys. It is slightly less convenient but well worth it in terms of peace of mind. The important thing to note is that the storage of all three keys must be stored separately, so that no single loss or hack would be catastrophic.
Everyone please be safe and take care.
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We interviewed Romain Vetter, Head of SWISS for Western Switzerland. We discussed the recovery, innovation, and reopening a key route
By Julián Ginzo*
What can you tell us about yourself?
I grew up in Geneva, passionate about volleyball, orienting myself to and investing myself full-time in the sport. This allowed me to move to the United States, where I played as a professional athlete. After a knee injury, I ended my sports career and decided to return to Switzerland to start my professional career.
Prior to joining the aviation industry, I spent several years in a digital agency in Geneva where I held various management positions in the digital marketing segment. I was appointed as Head of Western Switzerland at SWISS on the 1st May 2021. I was first in charge of SWISS's sales channel management in 2015, and then worked in Application Management as Project Manager for the development of new distribution channels such as the New Distribution Capability. Most recently, I was Head of Leisure Procurement Management for the Lufthansa Group, developing collaborations with key partners in the travel industry.
What can you tell us about the recovery of SWISS in the Western region of Switzerland after the pandemic?
We have seen a slight improvement during the summer season. However, our overall capacity is still well below pre-pandemic levels, and is currently between 50% and 55% of the 2019 levels. The decisive factor for a further significant recovery remains the opening of the USA, SWISS's most important traffic area.
We are also seeing a change in our customer booking behaviour. Before the pandemic, we had a clear idea six months before departure of how many people had booked a flight. Now, this period is reduced to one month before departure. It is, therefore, impossible to predict the exact load factor of our flights. Almost 50% of the bookings are not completed until two weeks before departure.
On average, how many UN passengers did SWISS historically transport per month?
The emblematic Geneva-New York route was opened in 1947, well before the creation of SWISS, and was intended to link the two centres of the United Nations. It has regularly served as a diplomatic bridge for Geneva. Due to the age of the route, we are not in a position to provide figures, and even if we could, for reasons of confidentiality with our corporate clients, we would not provide any.
What can you tell us about the reopening of the Geneva – New York route?
Following the announcement of the easing of entry formalities to the United States, we have been able to reopen the Geneva-New York route with four weekly flights. It will be officially inaugurated on 14th December in the presence of political authorities and Geneva airport partners.
Romain Vetter, Head of SWISS for the Western Region
Are you expecting the number of passengers to vary after so many people have gotten used to working remotely?
Overall, SWISS is recording a significantly higher proportion of business travellers. This trend is particularly true of Switzerland's internationally-oriented small and medium-sized companies, for whom experience shows that personal contacts are essential. Also, since business travellers are returning to travel both within Europe and between Switzerland and North America, SWISS is again offering these customers a higher number of weekly flights to European and North American destinations.
Any innovation that you can share with us in terms of new services, technology, or routes?
We have just launched a new home luggage collection and check-in service. From now on, SWISS passengers departing from Geneva can book their luggage pickup on SWISS.com at any time up to 23 hours before their flight departure. Passengers can check in their luggage at home or at their hotel and pick it up at the luggage conveyor at their destination airport. The service is available for a large part of the inhabitants of the Lake Geneva area, notably in Geneva, Nyon, Montreux and Lausanne. Thanks to this service, passengers can travel hands-free to and within the airport. As their luggage is already processed, they can go directly to security, without passing through the check-in and luggage drop-off areas. This saves time and facilitates a touch-free journey through the airport. In terms of new routes, for this winter we have opened Geneva to Copenhagen. Other surprises are still to come and will be communicated soon.
* Julián Ginzo is Editorial Contributor at UN Today.
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Home News We need to streamline our management processes- HSE Chief
We need to streamline our management processes- HSE Chief
More than ever it was clear that we needed to streamline our management processes to allow more decisions to be made by the right people at hospital and community level, according to HSE CEO, Mr. Paul Reid.
The HSE, in collaboration with the NTPF and DoH, developed an Access to Care Action Plan for 2021, which will support additional patient access, including inpatient, day cases, GI scopes and outpatients, through the NTPF, private providers and within HSE sites and services.
He said our experience in dealing with COVID-19 had given us an invaluable insight into how we might permanently embed the better ways of working together that emerged by necessity
"Despite the disruption caused by COVID-19, during 2020 the health services made progress on a number of strategic and operational developments, he wrote in the HSE Annual Report 2020.
"Before the onset of COVID-19, I commissioned the HSE Corporate Centre Review in order to put in place more effective structures to support service delivery, and to ensure that our resources are invested in frontline health services as far as possible.
"Since October, stakeholder meetings and design workshops have taken place with a key focus on cross-functional scenarios covering a range of topics including service planning, health and wellbeing and service improvement, and on the development of organisational structures for the integrated operations and clinical functions. The design activities for the remaining functions will take place in 2021.
"June saw the launch of Sharing the Vision – A Mental Health Policy for Everyone, the successor strategy to A Vision for Change which was first published in 2006. Fully aligned to Sláintecare, Sharing the Vision focuses on providing wider access for all patients at primary care level where possible, and support for greater usage of digital health interventions. The policy advocates provision of additional access routes to treatment, where service users are included in care planning and interventions provided are outcome measured. Since June, the HSE has progressed over 100 actions consolidated in an Implementation Roadmap.
The HSE's CervicalCheck programme successfully changed to human papilloma virus (HPV) cervical screening as planned in March. While services were then paused due to the impact of the pandemic, when the programme resumed all CervicalCheck screening tests were now HPV cervical screening with follow-up cytology if required. Based on significant improvements in science, technology and research into the development of cervical cancer, HPV cervical screening is now the best available primary screening test.
Many capital projects were progressed in 2020, including the National Forensic Mental Health Service Portrane, a new bed block at University Hospital Limerick, the National Rehabilitation Hospital and continuing work on the National Children's Hospital. Work also continued on the Connolly Outpatient and Urgent Care Centre unit throughout the year.
"COVID-19 has had a significant impact on our ability to achieve the objectives and targets of our National Service Plan 2020. The most significant impact was felt with the pausing of all non-urgent care in March on the recommendation of the National Public Health Emergency Team and Government. Phased reintroduction of elective activity began on May 5, in line with national and international clinical guidance. The volumes of patients who can be seen are lower than prior to the pandemic because of necessary additional infection control measures including patient screening, PPE measures and additional cleaning of rooms and equipment.
Prior to the onset of the pandemic, our efforts in scheduled care were beginning to yield gains in the reduction of waiting lists. These improvements were brought about as a result of focused measures by the HSE, working with the Hospital Groups and with the support of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). However, COVID-19 has impacted negatively on these improvements, with waiting lists now larger than at the outset of the pandemic. To meet the need and regain some traction in addressing waiting lists, the HSE, in collaboration with the NTPF and DoH, developed an Access to Care Action Plan for 2021. This will support additional patient access, including inpatient, day cases, GI scopes and outpatients, through the NTPF, private providers and within HSE sites and services.
COVID-19 also impacted on unscheduled care attendances to emergency departments (EDs) with the number of emergency presentations and the number of trolleys recorded in acute sites significantly lower than the previous year.
"Due to targeted investment in primary and community care, the number of people waiting for home support has fallen since January. This has also contributed to keeping our delayed transfers of care positively below target. Access to primary care therapies and their ongoing capacity has been adversely affected by COVID-19 due to the need for infection prevention and control (IPC) measures. The percentage of patients waiting for less than 52 weeks for speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and psychology are all below target. Palliative care and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) have performed better, surpassing targets for waiting times. The numbers of disability assessments of need have significantly increased in recent months and we are on target to clear the waiting list in 2021
"Despite the associated challenges, delivering services in a COVID-19 environment has accelerated many service transformations that have been advocated for many years, aligned to the vision of Sláintecare. These are particularly evident in the areas of eHealth, community delivered care and service integration. In addition to the material advancements achieved, this transformation has provided the HSE and our stakeholders with confidence that we can deliver meaningful change in a short time period
"Our HSE Corporate Plan was developed in 2020, setting out the key actions we will take over the next three years to improve our health service and the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland. Our vision is for a healthier Ireland, with the right care, at the right time and in the right place. The implementation of our Corporate Plan has commenced during a time when there is still a lot of uncertainty. We have taken the approach of prioritising a small number of large service transformations, which allow us to focus our efforts and resources to make demonstrable improvements. Our implementation approach, coupled with a 'one team' focus on patients, service users, families and the public, will guide us as we face the new and enduring challenges of providing the best care in the right place, when it is needed."
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