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38TH ANNUAL LUCAS OIL TULSA SHOOTOUT PRE-EVENT ENTRIES CLOSES OVER 1,500
Tulsa Shootout Photo
The ninth time in as many years that the Lucas Oil Tulsa Shootout has exceeded 1,000 entries is now greeted with the second year the entry count has surpassed the 1,500 mark at the close of early entries for the "Mecca of Micros".
Happing December 26-31, 2022, under the roof of the SageNet Center at Expo Square, the current entry count stands at 1,536 with drivers numbering 643, from 375 municipalities, 37 states, and four countries (USA, Aust., Can., NL). Looking at the entry list from one year ago, the count is currently ahead by 14 with the next opportunity for teams to enter on Monday, December 26 during move-in.
With six divisions to choose from, that allows drivers to compete in as many as five of those divisions during the week if a driver's age doesn't disqualify them from running Restricted A-Class. Drivers eligible to run that max amount of division numbers ten. An additional 137 drivers will take on the four divisions, while 122 will run three classes. A total of 187 are registered into a pair of divisions. In all, 453 drivers will run multiple classes.
Out of the six feature winners in 2022, four drivers have signed on to defend their titles.
Craig Ronk, who topped the 55-lap Outlaw feature, is among the drivers in four separate divisions this time. Carrying the momentum of a Golden Driller through his season, Jett Nunley will seek back-to-back wins in Restricted while adding both stock divisions to his plate.
Already taking home two wins in as many years in Junior Sprints, California's Lucas Mauldin will transition into Restricted and A-Class for 2023.
The final defending champion on the list is Jake Hagopian. His second A-Class score in four years, Hagopian will be busy with entries in the four main divisions. Missing from last year's list of winners so far is Jeffrey Newell, who won Outlaw Non-Wing in a photo finish with the other driver who has yet to enter, Emerson Axsom, who topped Stock Non-Wing.
Current entry counts:
Outlaw: 219
Non-Wing Outlaw: 349
A-Class: 358
Stock Non-Wing: 389
Restricted: 125
Junior Sprints: 96
Full listing of drivers can be found at https://bit.ly/3UjQmHX
Entry into the event is currently closed. Anyone not pre-entered will have to enter at the event during check-in on Monday, December 26, 2022.
On Monday, December 26, 2022, all teams will be moved into the SageNet Center starting at 7:00 A.M. Practice will take place on Tuesday, December 27, 2022, with the first rounds of Heats taking the green around 7:00 P.M. (CT). Draw will close on Tuesday, December 27 at 11:00 A.M (CT). If you check-in after your class has completed practice, you will not get a session.
Racing will continue each day, starting at 9:00 A.M., with the race for the Golden Driller wrapping up on New Year's Eve.
Featured classes at the 38th running of the "Mecca of Micros" include A-Class, Stock Non-Wing, Restricted, Outlaw, Non-Wing Outlaw, and Junior Sprints. Information regarding specific daily running orders will be established after entries open.
Fans not able to attend the 38th annual Lucas Oil Tulsa Shootout can see every lap of action on http://www.floracing.com.
The Lucas Oil Tulsa Shootout takes place at the Tulsa Expo Raceway, located inside the SageNet Center in Tulsa, Okla. More information on the event will be released as the event draws closer. All official rules, event information, and dates are online at http://www.tulsashootout.com. Fans can also follow the Tulsa Shootout at https://www.facebook.com/TulsaShootout and on Twitter (@TulsaShootout).
Quick Notes:
Event: 38th annual Lucas Oil Tulsa Shootout
Where: SageNet Center – 4145 E 21st St, Tulsa, OK 74114
Parking: December 26, 2022 starting at 7:00 A.M.
Practice: December 27, 2022 starting at 8:00 A.M. Racing to follow
Event Dates: December 27, 2022 – December 31, 2022
At Race Entry ($125/class entered): December 26, 2022
Entries can be paid by Cash, Master Card, or Visa. No personal checks are accepted without prior approval. Entry includes Saturday Pit Pass.
**Rules for the represented classes can be found at https://www.tulsashootout.com/classes. For any clarification on rules, contact Matt Ward at (918) 995-1650 or (918) 838-3777.
All times and order of events are tentative and subject to change based on the number of entries. The number of races will be determined after check-in has closed.
7:00 AM…………………………………..Early Parking
3:00 PM…………………………………..Regular Parking
12:00PM – 8:00 PM……………………Sign-In / Pit Passes
Tuesday, December 27, 2022: Practice/Racing
8:00 AM………………………………….Practice Begins
6:00 PM…………………………………..Restrictor Tech
7:00 PM……………………………………..Racing
All TIMES MAY VARY DUE TO VEHICLE COUNT
Tentative Order Of Events
Non-Wing Practice
Non-Wing Outlaw Practice
Restricted Practice
Outlaw Practice
Jr Sprint Practice
A Class Practice
Track Prep
RACING BEGINS
Outlaw Heats (8 Laps)
Wednesday, December 28, 2022: Racing
7:00 AM…………………………………..Building Open
9:00 AM………………………………….Racing
Pit Passes sold at the North and South entrances only.
Non-Wing Outlaw Heats (8 Laps)
Restricted Heats (8 Laps)
A Class Heats (8 Laps)
Jr Sprint Heats (8 Laps)
Outlaw D's (10 Laps)
Outlaw C's (10 Laps)
Thursday, December 29, 2022: Racing
Non-Wing Heats (8 Laps)
Jr Sprint Qualifiers (10 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw E's (8 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw D' (10 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw Cs (10 Laps)
A Class E's (8 Laps)
A Class D's (10 Laps)
A Class C's (10 Laps)
Friday, December 30, 2022: Racing
Non-Wing E's (8 Laps)
Non-Wing D's (10 Laps)
Non-Wing C's (10 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw Qualifiers (10 Laps)
Jr Sprint C's (10 Laps)
Jr Sprint B's (10 Laps)
Non-Wing Qualifiers (10 Laps)
Restricted Qualifiers (10 Laps)
Outlaw Qualifiers (10 Laps)
A Class Qualifiers (10 Laps)
Saturday, December 31, 2022: Driller Day
8:00 AM…………………………………..Building Opens
5:00 PM……………………………………Opening Ceremonies
All LCQ's & A Features Following Opening Ceremonies
Non-Wing B's (12 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw B's (12 Laps)
A Class B's (12 Laps)
Outlaw B's (12 Laps)
Restricted B's (12 Laps)
Opening Ceremonies
Non-Wing LCQ (12 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw LCQ (12 Laps)
Restricted LCQ (12 Laps)
A Class LCQ (12 Laps)
Outlaw LCQ (12 Laps)
Non-Wing A (30 Laps)
Jr Sprint A (20 Laps)
Non-Wing Outlaw A (30 Laps)
Restricted A (25 Laps)
A Class A (30 Laps)
Outlaw A (55 Laps)
Daily Running Order are subject to change
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TulsaShootout
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TulsaShootout
Website: https://www.tulsashootout.com
2023 Class Lineup
Winged Outlaw
Non-Wing Outlaw
A-Class Winged
Stock Non-Wing
Junior Sprints
Event Broadcast:
Live Online PPV: http://www.floracing.com
Tulsa Shootout Past Champions (Current Classes)
Winged Outlaw Keith Crawford (1990), Pete Frazier (1993), Pete Frazier (1994), Steve Frisell (1995), Chad Davenport (1996), Rick King (1997), Pete Frazier (1998), Lee Waldroop (1999), Paul Carbone (2000), Robert Richardson (2001), Dino Tomassi & Scotty Smith (2002), Bryan Clauson & Jacob Mosley (2003), Rodney Stealy (2004), Stan Yockey & Scotty Smith (2005) , Rodney Stealy (2006), Jerrod Wilson (2007), Brady Bacon (2008), Kevin Bayer (2009), Ryan Reeves (2010), Blake Hahn (2011), Heath Duinkerken (2012), Heath Duinkerken (2013), Frank Flud (2014), Michael Faccinto (2015), Brady Bacon (2016), Joe B. Miller (2017), Christopher Bell (2018), Ben Worth (2019), Emerson Axsom (2020), Mitchell Moles (2021), Craig Ronk (2022)
Non-Wing Outlaw Blake Hahn (2011), Brock Lemley (2012), Chris Andrews (2013), Steven Shebester (2014), Trey Marcham (2015), Chris Andrews (2016), Tristan Guardino (2017). Jason McDougal (2018), Zeb Wise (2019), Brady Bacon (2020), Kris Carroll (2021), Jeffrey Newell (2022)
Winged A-Class Willie Bewley (1988), Gary Edwards (1989), David Person (1991), Bubba Hunt (1992), Ryan McDonald (1993), Chris Crawford (1994), Kevin Bayer (1995), Jay Foote (1996), Darren Stewart (1997), Jerrod Wilson (1998), Shawn Wright (1999), Shawn Wright (2000), Brad Best (2002), Dex Eaton (2003), Brady Bacon (2004), Kevin Bayer (2005), Scott Sawyer & Jerrod Wilson (2006), Donnie Ray Crawford (2007), Jerrod Wilson (2008), Gary Taylor (2009), Donnie Ray Crawford (2010), Andrew Deal (2011), Kevin Bayer (2012), Chris Cochran (2013), Tucker Worth (2014), Giovanni Scelzi (2015), Miles Paulus (2016), Ayrton Gennetten (2017), Jason McDougal (2018), Jake Hagopian (2019), Kyle Spence (2020), Brian Carber (2021), Jake Hagopian (2022)
Stock Non-Wing Wendy Shear (1990), Jeff Dodd (1994), Paul Herdon (1996), Brady Courtney (1997), Rick Mercer (1998), Chebon Bruner (1999), Matt Walton (2002), Donnie Crawford (2003), Ronnie James (2004), Donnie Crawford (2005), Andrew Peters & Donnie Crawford (2006), Donnie Ray Crawford (2007), Rodney Stealy (2008), Riley Adair (2009), Chris Andrews (2010), Koen Shaw (2011), Chris Cochran (2012), Michael Faccinto (2013), Frank Flud (2014), Trey Marcham (2015), Jonathan Beason (2016), Frank Flud (2017). Jason McDougal (2018), Kyle Spence (2019), Alex Bright (2020), Brian Carber (2021), Emerson Axsom (2022)
Restricted 'A' Class Jonathan Beason (2001), Josh Pickle (2002), Jay Hunt (2003), Jack Dover (2004), Dalton Cole (2005), Tyler Edwards (2006), Tanner Mullens (2007), Sean Thompson (2008), Trent Carter (2009), Darien Roberts (2010), Dalton Seigler (2011), Dahne Lynn McKay (2012), Dahne Lynn McKay (2013), Alex Panella (2014), Kaylee Bryson (2015), Noah Gass (2016), Grady Mercer (2017), Corey Day (2018), Shawn Mahaffey (2019), Jade Avedisian (2020), Jaxton Wiggs (2021), Jett Nunley (2022)
Junior Sprints Jordan Burnett (2001), Dustin Rhodes (2004), Mitch Faccinto (2005), Blake Hahn (2006), Drew Marshall (2007), Chance Morton (2008), Grady Chandler (2009), Josiah Ribeiro (2010), Josiah Ribeiro (2011), Kameron Beard (2012), Jadon Rogers (2013), Cannon McIntosh (2014), Nikko Panella (2015), Ryder Laplante (2016), Caeden Steele (2017), Ryan Timms (2018) , Austin Wood (2019), Jett Barnes (2020), Lucas Mauldin (2021), Lucas Mauldin (2022)
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This Toddler's Toothless Laugh Will Literally Make Your Day… So Happy.
Laughter is contagious; especially when the source of the giggles is a child. It's hard to tell what will set off a fit of laughter in a little one but when it does happen, it is very hard not to get wrapped up in the moment.
Tom Fletcher took his son, Buzz for a walk and along the way, shared in a special moment, thankfully caught on video. Along the way, Buzz discovered the joy of watching his dad blow on dandelions. To Tom's surprise, Buzz broke out in a fit of laughter that made his dad join in. This video is the perfect interruption in your day; watch and enjoy.
Next, watch babies seeing their shadows for the first time.


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The Future of Jazz
Ad-free content and new classes each week! https://nebulaclasses.com/aimeenolte Hang out with me and explore the world of the summer jazz camp - and more specifically, the Hilton Head Jazz camp in South Carolina where we will hear and see the inner workings of jazz education up close!
The App That Is Changing The Way I Improvise
Download MelodEar here: http://melodear-app.com/melodear and start a new way of hearing harmony, a new way of approaching melody, a new way of practicing and a new method of ear training.
This Singer Was EVERYWHERE In The 70s and 80s
Michael McDonald leant his smooth soulful voice and his gospel-inspired keyboard playing to Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers and countless other musical artists during the 70s, 80s and 90s! Let's explore the fascinating career that crossed from Classic Rock to Pop to Motown to Yacht Rock and see if we can discover what made EVERYONE want that "Michael McDonald Sound."
With these three rhythmic patterns, you can accompany yourself or another instrumentalist or singer on any jazz waltz! Whether you play piano, guitar or vibes - this will work.
Is My Cover Of Cat Stevens "Wild World" TOO WILD?
I've played this arrangement of Wild World by Cat Stevens at my gigs for years and thought it would be a really fun thing to share with my YouTube community. Plenty of triplets, a funk(fish) groove, and a lot of fun. I hope you dig it.
Why Keith Jarrett Blows My Mind
Keith Jarrett is the epitome of melody, the king of lyricism and the master of the motif. Explore the Standards In Norway album with me as we discover the genius of this master together.
Is Jack Black A Good Musician?
Explore the musical side of Jack Black with me - from his beginnings with Tenacious D to his obsession with Bobby Mcferrin to School of Rock and his ability to tap into various musical styles at the drop of a hat.
Soloing - It Isn't What You Think It Is
Get my Nebula Class here: https://nebulaclasses.com/aimeenolte $80 for the year or $8 per month for all Nebula content + Nebula Classes If you already have Nebula, use the same link and get Classes added on for just $5 a month!
The Most Beautiful Melodies In Existence
One Triad - 4 Directions
Jazz Musician Reacts To 2022 Best Oscar Songs
The SECRET LANGUAGE Of Jazz
What If Chet Baker Played Piano?
Arturo Sandoval, Aimee Nolte, Rob 'Beatdown' Brown, Paul The Trombonist, Adam Neely - Danny Boy

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Mind your step is a project about choreography, walkscapes and urban development.
– If you don't walk into a space, this space does not exist.
Help us enrich this debate with your insights.
Mind your step è un progetto che parla di coreografia, paesaggi camminabili e sviluppo urbanistico.
– Se uno spazio non viene attraversato a piedi, non esiste.
Aiutateci ad arricchire questo dibattito con le vostre riflessioni.
A Europe-wide project, originally initiated thanks to the EU project Léim, in August 2014 in Bassano del Grappa and in March 2015 in Dublin it engaged in a conversation with artists and urban development experts and in an exploratory walk through contemporary dance performances.
The following leg of Mind Your Step was Paphos, Cyprus, in 2017, within the framework of Paphos European Capital of Culture, with the support of Dancehouse Lemesos and of the Italian Embassy in Nicosia.
Mind your step is an ongoing research project about the perception of space in urban environments.


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News / Highlands
How Oban scientist could use sea cucumber to feed the world
by Rita Campbell
September 23, 2019, 7:13 pm Updated: September 23, 2019, 7:30 pm
At first glance it may not appear like the most appealing of delicacies – but the humble sea cucumber could soon be used to feed the world.
An Oban scientist has been given a prestigious fellowship for her studies to clean up waste from farming and provide food – all by using the sea creature.
Dr Georgina Robinson of the Scottish Association for Marine Science (Sams) at Dunstaffnage has been awarded a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship worth £1.2 million to fund her research for the next six years.
The marine ecologist is identified as rising star of UK research.
She plans an overhaul of the current "nitrogen cycle" process by which excess nitrogen in the form of animal waste from industries like agriculture and aquaculture is turned back into an inert gas and released into the atmosphere.
Instead, Dr Robinson proposes a system that will recycle this waste by using it to feed sea cucumbers and marine worms – so-called deposit feeders – which can then be farmed as a high-protein food source for humans and livestock and may even be used to generate electricity.
Sea cucumber has been referred to as a superfood, as it is high in protein, low in fat and rich in vitamins and minerals. It is eaten throughout Asia and the Middle East and there are studies currently investigating its medicinal qualities.
Dr Robinson said: "Proper nitrogen management will be critical to feed a growing global population, estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050.
"Current technologies to treat nitrogen-rich effluent focus on converting reactive nitrogen – nitrogen that is available to most organisms – back to its inert form as nitrogen gas in the atmosphere. However, nitrogen is too valuable to be lost. Rather than looking to promote technologies for permanent removal of nitrogen, we can recover this valuable resource."
Scientists call for decade of research to better understand deep seas
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Action needed to tackle threat to oceans says leading scientist
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An Inconvenient Truth?
The major industry news last week was Zomato (the jury is still out on if it's pronounced zoh-mah-toe or zoh-may-toe), announcing their plans to IPO next year. My limited knowledge of finance made me ask: shouldn't a company be profitable before an IPO?
Rachel Goenka
I'm no investment banker. I happen to be married to one, but that doesn't change the fact that my knowledge of IPOs is average at best.
The major industry news last week was Zomato (the jury is still out on if it's pronounced zoh-mah-toe or zoh-may-toe), announcing their plans to IPO next year. My limited knowledge of finance made me ask: shouldn't a company be profitable before an IPO? Zomato publishes annual reports and periodic reviews of their numbers. The simple fact is they do not make money.
But let's keep the profitability a bit aside. That is for SEBI and financial analysts to figure.
The timing of the announcement left me bemused. The restaurant industry that Zomato is centred on is taking wholesale strides towards independence from the platform. So I wondered - can you run a business while antagonizing or alienating a chunk of the ecosystem that said business is dependent on?
Here's some context for those of you who are new to this uneasy relationship.
Zomato started off as a restaurant discovery platform. Restaurants could pay for hyperlocal advertising that was unavailable before Zomato. It was a mutually beneficial relationship and, for the most part, a good proposition. Zomato made money, restaurants got targeted advertising. So far so good.
Then came the deep-discounting malaise. First, the ill-fated Gold program. Zomato found a brilliant way to make money by charging customers for a product that restaurants had to pay for. Happy days for Zomato, massive losses for restaurants. Next came the "infinity dining" program. Customers could order unlimited amounts of food and beverages for peanuts. Zomato racked up revenue and subscriptions, while restaurants had to pick up the bills and continued to bleed.
Emboldened by the "success" from customers signing up for these schemes, Zomato grew its own valuation at the expense of the ecosystem. With this came the hubris of thinking the industry needed Zomato, and not the other way around.
Restaurants disagreed. And it was proved last year. On August 15, 2019, an agitation that began in Gurgaon (ironically Zomato's backyard) was the spark that lit a nation-wide protest which eventually ended in the death of Zomato Gold. The industry rid itself of a middleman that thrived on deep discounting while restaurants footed the bill.
Knowing fully well that Zomato lost the trust and confidence of a sizable part of the industry, one would have thought there would have been a serious attempt at reconciliation. Instead, they have renamed Gold "Zomato Pro" to shed the baggage. The smarter restaurateurs have recognized that this is merely old milk in a new bottle. The product is sour. If that is supposed to be one of the major drivers of their valuation, good luck to their investors.
On the delivery front, some in the industry are at constant loggerheads with Zomato over usurious commissions (north of 25%), arbitrary charges/penalties that they levy, and the forced use of their delivery services as a prerequisite to be on their platform. Zomato did attempt to run their own cloud kitchen based on the delivery data collected from restaurants on their platform (Zomato collects the data but never shares this information with the restaurants who ought to have access). They have since beaten a hasty retreat there as well, after realizing that running a kitchen isn't a walk in the park. Poetic justice?
There is disruptive, and there is destructive technology. While Zomato was at its disruptive best with discovery, it is at its destructive worst with poorly conceived schemes that were onerous to restaurants. And that rift does not look like it can be healed anytime soon, let alone before the planned IPO.
So, to a non-finance-y person like me, it seems that Zomato are able to rack up funding while losses continue to climb. Zomato are so unconcerned when it comes to losses, that they cannot fathom why restaurants are agitating against the loss caused by Zomato's schemes.
I will give them credit for one thing though. They did what no one could previously do – Zomato united an otherwise fragmented and competitive industry towards one common goal: Independence from Deep Discounting.
(The author of this article Rachel Goenka is an entrepreneur, chef, restaurateur and author of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning book 'Adventures with Mithai'. Apart from cuisine innovation, she has been instrumental in redefining the way restaurants in India curate desserts. She spearheads 17 outlets across Mumbai & Pune - The Sassy Spoon, House of Mandarin, Sassy Teaspoon, Baraza and Wicked China.)
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Improv troupes: Marching on for comedy in Pakistan
Updated 10 Oct, 2015 09:10am
Riffat Rashid
Meet the men and women who form the very fabric of social satire in Pakistan
When Akbar Chaudhry began to dabble with live theatrical performances, everyone around him was pursuing mechanical engineering. He was, after all, enrolled in an engineering college. Then, Chaudhry didn't think that the stereotype about engineers being serious was unfair. In fact, he liked to think that he and his friend Kumail were the only funny people at NUST.
"At the risk of offending people who might think they were funny," he adds with due pauses for comedic timing.
However unfunny his life as an engineering undergrad, his stepping into the world of theatre in 2007 had already set the stage for a world of performances to come and the looming possibility of a nine-to-five job couldn't stop that.
The beginning of LOL Waalay
In March 2012, Pakistan's improv-comedy scene saw a chance of revival with the initiation of LOL Waalay at MAD School with Chaudhry and Kumail at its helms.
It's pertinent to add that a number of performers and troupes had already been doing comedy in Pakistan. Saad Haroon's Blackfish is popularly considered to be the first improv-comedy troupe in the country and then there was Danish Ali, Sami Shah and Junaid Akram amongst others who had made a name for themselves as standup comedians.
However, improv-comedy wasn't the same thing as the latter.
"It's important for people to understand that the improv performances we do are not scripted," says Chaudhry, explaining the difference between stand-up and improv. "For someone who thinks that they are, they are not going to find our shows really good."
Zubair Tariq, another member of LOL Waalay and a Szabist graduate explains, "People who believe that our shows are scripted are likely to think, 'Oh anyone can do this' or question 'What's so special about this'?"
The Platoon smashes through comedy's glass ceiling
Improv-comedy, as the name suggests, happens 'in the moment'. Hours of rehearsals go in the making of a show to practice and perfect techniques but when the performances do happen, they are rarely scripted and rely heavily on audience suggestions. A host acts as a bridge between the performers and the audiences to moderate the entire performance and gives cues for the audiences to respond to.
It is now 2015 and LOL Waalay is no longer the only troupe currently doing improv-comedy in Pakistan. The Platoon, a 16-member troupe led by Hassaan bin Shaheen, a lawyer by profession, has emerged as a strong entrant — not least because it constitutes of a majority of female performers in a field where female comedians are unheard of.
Hassaan bin Shaheen, founder of The Platoon
"People have this general misconception that women performers aren't funny. For me that's not true at all and people who hold the misconception are sexist [expletive]," says Shaheen, explaining that seven of the 16 members of The Platoon are women.
"Women bring their own direction to our troupe that is different from men and that is just fantastic," he adds.
The Platoon's Ayesha Tariq, one of Pakistan's funny women
50 shades of comic relief
For audiences, however, the main difference between the two troupes lie in the format each of them choose to perform in.
The Platoon who pursues the long-form format of doing improv-comedy believes its shows are closer to a theatrical performance in nature and narrative style rather than being similar to a comedy show.
"We are trying to challenge the notion that improv is synonymous with comedy," explains Shaheen, who claims to have done at least 43 courses related to improvisational performances both in Pakistan and abroad while academically pursuing law.
"Improv is reacting honestly to what's happening on stage and what's happening to you in the moment. Humour is a by-product, never the binding force behind it."
Chaudhry meanwhile asserts that his troupe specialises in short-form improvisation, which has to do with short scenarios and games that are primarily aimed at making people laugh and retaining their attention through a quick succession of scenes.
"In our performances, you would always find an assortment of 12 games and scenes. Other things can change but what we do will always remain short-form improv-comedy."
A lack of venues to perform in, the precarious security situation and a general lack of marketability for the events has meant that the troupes have had to convert one skeptic at a time to get to a position where all the shows that they do now are practically full-house.
The Bhands pack a satirical punch
Shehzad Ghias thinks satire is the most important aspect of humour
Recently, the arrival of a third troupe called The Bhand led by Shehzad Ghias Sheikh which had its first performance at MAD School has pulled an interesting spin on an otherwise clearly demarcated improv-scene.
In a piece written by Ghias himself, it is explained how The Bhand is one of the oldest folk theatre forms in Pakistan and in combining it with improv, it attempts to create humour by the subversion of hierarchical positions.
"So when a servant makes fun of a house's owner, it's funny but it's also an inversion of a scenario which is considered the norm," says Ghias, explaining how he has positioned his troupe to channel social satire and not just create humour for the sake of humour.
Featuring both short- and long form improvisation in their performances, the 6-member troupe so far have two shows to their credit but the avid response they have received from the audiences mean that a long string of performances are sure to follow.
Improv: What's in it for the comedians?
So what is it about improv that seems to have captivated a seemingly new but a dedicated crop of performers?
Syed Osama, a member of the LOL Waalay chalks it down to happiness. "Everyone has something which makes him or her really happy. For some people, it's about the girls, for others it's about the drugs. For me, it's improv-comedy," he says.
"In fact, I wish that even in Jannat (heavens), there's an improv show every Friday," he quips.
Osama Sami looks forwardto funny Fridays in the afterlife!
Ayesha Tariq of The Platoon claims that having improv in her life has made her more confident as a person. "Parts of me are very shy and introverted. Sometimes even speaking would earlier be a problem. I had this voice in my mind that kept questioning, "What would people think?" It keeps getting quieter by the day now. I like that."
Syed Muhammad Kumail of the LOL Waalay meanwhile says, "I can never accept a life where you go for a nine-to-five job and come home only to have food or use Facebook. I live for the performance."
While one can argue that there more comedy skeptics than comedians in Pakistan, that has not deterred the performers from bringing their A-game and striving to legitimise the improv-comedy scene as one the stable art forms in the country.
This wasn't always the case, however, and a lack of venues to perform in, the precarious security situation and a general lack of marketability for the events has meant that the troupes have had to convert one skeptic at a time to get to a position where all the shows that they do now are practically full-house.
Earlier this year while attending a LOL Waalay show at Pakistan American Cultural Centre (PACC), I could hear my friend who was watching them perform for the first time, laugh hysterically at one of the jokes only to quickly add, "I can't believe I laughed at that. I think it's their spontaneous responses that took me by surprise."
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has informed the public that it has suspended the Australian financial services (AFS) license of NSW-based Corpac Partners Pty Limited (Corpac Partners) from 28 February 2018 for failing to lodge financial statements and auditor's reports for a period of four years. This failure is in breach of both Corpac Partners' legal obligations and their licence conditions.
ASIC has suspended Corpac Partners' licence until 28 August 2018.
If Corpac Partners does not lodge the required documents by this date, ASIC will consider whether the license should be cancelled.
Corpac Partners has held its AFS license since July 2004.
The annual lodgment of audited accounts is required to ensure that licensees have adequate financial resources to provide the services covered by their license, and to conduct the business in compliance with the Corporations Act 2001.
ASIC considers failure to comply with reporting obligations to be a potential indicator of poor compliance culture. ASIC will continue to contact AFS licensees who have not lodged financial statements and auditor's reports and take action where appropriate.
The suspension of Corpac Partners' license is part of ASIC's on-going efforts to improve standards across the financial services industry.


What's lurking in the water? Discover pagan Thames rituals, sacred rites, magic, myths, urban legends and monsters.
The Thames has been a site of pagan ritual, sacred rites and popular celebrations since ancient times. Ghosts, dreams and strange stories gather on its bridges and lurk within its tunnels, tributaries and sewers. Dastardly deeds and death occur on the bank and in its docks. Discover the waters of London as a place of magic, myth, urban legends and monsters: from the suicidal ghost of Waterloo Bridge and the traitor's heads of London Bridge, to the phantom willies of Westminster Bridge. For the untrue origin of the song London Bridge is Falling Down, and the unreal origins of sewer pigs and much more, join our London strangeness experts Robert Stephenson and Scott Wood.
Robert Stephenson is a qualified City of London guide and a tour leader at Kensal Green and Brompton cemeteries. He has taught on London for twenty years.
Scott Wood is the host of the London Fortean Society, author of London Urban Legends: The Corpse on the Tube and writes Fortean London news for Londonist.
This event is part of 'Londonist Afloat: Terrific Tales of the Thames', happening on the weekend of 20-21 September. This event is included in the programme of Totally Thames Festival 2014.


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"Optometrists doing 'the things they do every day' can play a role in early identification leading to early intervention."
Rapid eye movements (also known as saccade) may be the key, Edward G. Freeman, Ph.D., and John J. Foxe Ph.D., say in their research. These eye movements-typically quick, precise and accurate in healthy eyes-occur when we shift our gaze between objects and are important in interacting with the world. Sometimes though, in people with ASD, the movements can "over- or undershoot the intended target locations," researchers wrote in their study.
Dr. Foxe is director of the University of Rochester Medical Center Del Monte Neuroscience Institute and Dr. Freeman is an associate professor in the medical center's department of neurosciences.
"If saccade adaptation deficits do turn out to be a consistent finding in a subgroup of children with autism spectrum disorder, this raises the possibility that saccade adaptation measures may have utility as an early detection endophenotype," researchers say in the article, "Eye movements, sensorimotor adaptation and cerebellar-dependent learning in autism: Toward potential biomarkers and subphenotypes."
"In this regard, the fact that very recent work has shown that saccadic adaptation can be successfully measured in children as young as 10-41 months of age is a most encouraging development indeed," add researchers who tracked the eye movements of people with ASD.
Autism can affect a child's ability to socialize and communicate. The sooner a diagnosis is made the sooner treatment or behavioral training can begin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1 in 68 or 1.5% of children were identified with ASD based on tracking in 11 communities across the United States in 2012.
The study's authors say more research is needed. But the results are promising, according to Glen Steele, O.D., co-chair of the AOA InfantSEE® and Children's Vision Committee, who lectures extensively on autism and eye movements. Dr. Steele is a professor of pediatric optometry at Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee.
"There is an increasing body of research showing links between vision and autism spectrum disorder," Dr. Steele says. "This article is another that further demonstrates this link showing the particular visual symptom profile and autism."
"Optometrists may not make the primary diagnosis of autism," Dr. Steele says. "However, because of the many eye-related characteristics, optometrists should be a part of the team that makes assessments and most importantly, gets patients to appropriate care.
"Visual factors are not viewed as a single cause but within an identified subgroup of factors that can be assessed by an eye doctor," he says. "Optometrists doing 'the things they do every day' can play a role in early identification leading to early intervention."


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El territorio de ventas es el grupo de clientes o zona geográfica de la que un vendedor individual o un grupo de vendedores es responsable. Los territorios pueden ser definidos sobre la base de la geografía, el potencial de ventas, historia, o por una combinación de factores.  Las empresas se esfuerzan por equilibrar sus territorios ya que esto puede reducir costos y aumentar las ventas.

Propósito
El propósito de la cobertura de la fuerza de ventas (o territorio de ventas) métrica es crear un territorio de ventas equilibrado. Hay diversas formas de analizar los territorios. "Por lo general, los territorios son comparados sobre la base de su potencial o medida. Esta es un ejercicio importante. Si los territorios difieren drásticamente o están fuera de balance, el personal de ventas puede tener demasiado o muy poco trabajo. Esto puede llevar al sub- o sobre-mantenimiento del servicio al cliente."

"Cuándo al personal de ventas se le exige de más, el resultado puede ser un bajo servicio al cliente. Esto puede costar un negocio ya que las personas de ventas que están sobrecargadas con cosas que hacer y se vuelven parte de los niveles sub-óptimos de las actividades en una serie de áreas. Buscan a muy pocos clientes potenciales, identifican muy pocos prospectos, y pasan muy poco tiempo con los clientes actuales. Por lo que esos clientes pueden llevar su negocio a los proveedores alternativos. ."

"Por el contrario, el sobre-servicio al cliente, puede elevar los costos y precios y con esto reducir indirectamente ventas. El exceso de servicio en algunos territorios también puede conducir a menor servicio al cliente en otros."

"Los territorios desequilibrados también son parte del problema de la distribución injusta del potencial de ventas entre los miembros de una fuerza de ventas. Esto puede provocar que haya una compensación distorsionada y puede causar que los vendedores talentosos dejen la compañía en busca de un equilibrio superior y una mejor compensación."

"Lograr tener un equilibrio apropiado entre los territorios es un factor importante en el mantenimiento de la satisfacción entre los clientes, los vendedores, y la empresa en general."

El "Pronóstico del potencial de las ventas" se puede utilizar para determinar los objetivos de las ventas y ayudar a identificar que territorios son dignos de una asignación de recursos limitados. Un pronóstico del potencial de las ventas es una previsión del número de posibles clientes y su poder de compra. No evalúa la probabilidad de que se conviertan en "cuentas potenciales ". El potencial de las ventas puede ser representado de diferentes maneras. De estas, la forma más básica de hacerlo es sobre la base de la población, es decir, contabilizando el número de cuentas potenciales existentes en un territorio. En una encuesta que se realizó a cerca de 200 directores de marketing, el 62 por ciento de ellos respondió que encuentran la métrica de "pronóstico de ventas potenciales" muy útil.

Construcción
"En la definición o re-definición de los territorios, las empresas se esfuerzan por equilibrar las cargas de trabajo, equilibrar el potencial de ventas, el desarrollo de territorios compactos, y minimizar las interrupciones durante los re-diseños. Estos objetivos pueden tener diferentes efectos en los diferentes grupos de interés. . . . Antes de diseñar nuevos territorios, un gerente de ventas debe evaluar las cargas de trabajo de todos los miembros del equipo de ventas."

La carga de trabajo para un territorio se puede calcular de la siguiente manera:

Cantidad de carga de trabajo (#) =
	[Número de cuentas actuales (#) * El tiempo promedio en el que se da servicio a una cuenta activa (#)]
	+ [Número de prospectos (#) *  El tiempo dedicado a tratar de convertir un prospecto en una cuenta activa (#)]

El potencial de ventas de un territorio puede ser determinado de la siguiente forma:

Potencial de ventas ($) =
	Número de cuentas posibles (#) x Poder de compra ($)

"El poder de compra es una cifra en dólares basada en ciertos factores tales como los niveles de ingreso promedio, el número de empresas en un territorio, el promedio de ventas de esas empresas, y demografía de la población. Los índices de poder adquisitivo suelen ser específicos de cada industria ", pero en su conjunto, las definiciones de poder adquisitivo tienden a ser más un arte que una ciencia.

"Además de la carga de trabajo y el potencial de ventas, se necesita una tercera métrica clave para comparar territorios. Este es el tamaño o, más específicamente, el tiempo de viaje. En este contexto, el tiempo de viaje es más útil que el tamaño, ya que representa con más precisión el factor que el tamaño implica - es decir, la cantidad de tiempo necesario para llegar a los clientes y clientes potenciales."

"A medida que la meta de un gerente es equilibrar la carga de trabajo y el potencial entre el personal de ventas, puede ser de gran beneficio para calcular métricas combinadas - tales como el potencial de ventas y el tiempo de viaje - con el fin de hacer comparaciones entre territorios."

"El potencial de ventas puede ser representado de diversas maneras. De éstas, la más básica es la población - es decir, el número de cuentas potenciales en un territorio. . . . La estimación del tamaño de un territorio puede solo implicar hacer el cálculo del área geográfica que cubre. Sin embargo, es probable que el tiempo promedio de viaje también sea importante. Dependiendo de la calidad de las carreteras, la densidad de tráfico, o la distancia entre las empresas, uno puede encontrar que los territorios de igual área implican muy diferentes requisitos de tiempo de viaje. En la evaluación de este tipo de distinciones, los registros de la fuerza de ventas del tiempo necesario para viajar de un lugar a otro puede ser útil. Los programas de computación especializados están disponibles para estos fines."

"Redefinición de los territorios es un proceso famosa por su dificultad. Para llevar a cabo bien, además de los indicadores citados anteriormente, también debe ser considerada la interrupción de las relaciones con los clientes y los sentimientos de pertenencia entre el personal de ventas."

Véase también
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22 de diciembre de 2011, este artículo está derivado en entero o en parte de Marketing Metrics: La Guía Definitiva a Medir Rendimiento de Marketing por Farris, Bendle, Pfeifer y Reibstein. El titular de copyright ha autorizado el contenido en una manera que reutilización de permisos debajo CC-Por-SA 3.0 y GFDL. Todos los plazos pertinentes tienen que ser seguidos.

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European journalists enraged by Brussels espionage accusations
de Radu Rizea HotNews.ro
Joi, 12 februarie 2009, 16:42 English | Regional Europe
The International Press Association issued a protest on Thursday, angry at the European Commission's inclusion of journalists in an internal note warning of increased spying activities. On Wednesday, the European Commission said it was increasingly targeted by spies, "who may include a "pretty trainee with long legs and blonde hair".
"The warning came in a security note circulated to human resources staff at the commission - the EU's executive arm, which drafts legislation", BBC notes. In an official press release on Thursday, Lorenzo Consoli, president of the IPA which represents the international press in Brussels, blamed the generalization made by the Commission.
"The threat is that journalists could be considered as a danger just by doing their work. Journalists look for confidential information in order to inform the public and get at the truth," he said, after making his complaint during a regular press briefing by a commission spokesman.
On Wednesday, following a press leak, the commission admitted that there was an internal security note to alert staff to the spying threat.
"A number of countries' information seekers, lobbyists, journalists, private agencies and other third parties are continuing to seek sensitive and classified information from the commission," the letter warned.
The warning spoke of "repeated attempts to compromise commission information using intelligence officers or persons directly linked to intelligence services who adopt a range of covers in order to conceal the aggressive nature of their information-gathering."
"It is unacceptable that the commission security services put journalists in the same categories as people with completely different interests," Consoli said.
EU commission spokesman Johannes Laitenberger defended the security measures, while adding that access for journalists to EU officials had been greatly increased in recent years.
"The issue is not journalists, the issue is officials' obligations in regard to their professional obligations," he said.
"This commission has issued new guidelines allowing officials to talk to the media if there is no breach of their (other) obligations", EUBusiness reads.


How do you Manage your Out-of-contact Devices?
Unused devices represent a significant wasted opportunity (and cost) for a Mobile IT deployment. Devices that are sitting unpowered in user's drawers, lying forgotten at home, or otherwise ignored, represent a direct financial loss to the business and also an opportunity cost in potential productivity gains. How do you recover those devices and repurpose that initial investment?
Wouldn't it be great if you could find, recover and recycle these devices AND improve your mobility project's return on investment? With IronWorks you can. IronWorks can let you see just the devices that haven't been in regular contact with your core and will show you their last known location and how long they've been out of contact for.
Of course you probably want to share this information with relevant teams too. With IronWorks you can download a CSV file with all the device details and quickly and easily share this with the relevant team and line-of-business managers, HR personnel and, of course, the finance department.
IronWorks can let you see just the devices that haven't been in regular contact with your core and will show you their last known location and how long they've been out of contact for.
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using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
using VideoCollection.Data;
using VideoCollection.Data.Models;

namespace VideoCollection.Migrations
{
    public class RoleConfiguration
    {
        public static void Seed(VideoCollectionDataContext context) {

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Q: ¿Existe alguna funcion sleep para float en C? Mi pregunta era si conocíais alguna función que haga lo mismo que sleep para 0.5 o 0.25 segundos. Es decir, si existiese algo así sleep(0.25); ya que la función sleep no funciona porque sólo vale para enteros.

A: Vale para enteros porque realiza pausas con resolución de segundos, así que ¿ para que utilizar otro tipo de argumento ?
Afortunadamente, tienes varias opciones, todas en el estandar POSIX:
#include <unistd.h>

int usleep(useconds_t usec);

que utiliza microsegundos, o bien
#include <time.h>

int nanosleep(const struct timespec *req, struct timespec *rem);

struct timespec {
  time_t tv_sec;        /* seconds */
  long   tv_nsec;       /* nanoseconds */
};

Observa que utiliza nanosegundos: 1000000 nanosegundos = 1 milisegundo.
Advierte que, en ambos casos, la precisión difícilmente será exactamente la solicitada; siempre estarás a merced de la carga de trabajo del sistema, su reloj hardware, ... Es decir, la pausa siempre será algo mayor que la pedida.
EDITO
La función usleep( ) ha sido eliminada de los últimos POSIX; se recomienda utilizar la segunda, nanosleep( ).

A: Sleep() es una función que recibe valores enteros para definir el tiempo de espera en milisegundos. Por lo que si quieres es definir una fracción de segundo, solo debes calcular ese fragmento de tiempo:
Sleep( 1000 ); // 1 segundo(1.0)
Sleep( 500 ); // 1/2 segundo (0.5)
Sleep( 250 ); // 1/4 segundo (0.25)

por lo tanto, solo multiplica tu valor decimal por 1000:
Sleep( (0.25)*1000 ); // 250

A: Podrías re-implementar Sleep para que trabajes en segundos y no en milisegundos y donde ahí si le puedas pasar números decimales
void  SleepEx(float seconds)
{
  DWORD miliSeconds=seconds*1000;
  Sleep(miliSeconds);
}

int main()
{
    SleepEx(0.5);
    cout<<"Programa terminado"<<endl;
}

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Edited By: Yizhak Schotten
Instrumentation: Orchestral
The viola part for Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40 has been edited by Israeli-born Yizhak Schotten, an internationally acclaimed musician whom STRAD Magazine has called "one of America's finest viola players... a leading light of the U.S. viola establishment." Schotten's bowings, fingerings and other editorial markings have been added throughout the score.
Ein Heldenleben is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, his sixth composition in this genre, completed in 1898. Greater in scale and demand than any of his previous tone poems, Ein Heldenleben runs at about fifty minutes and is through-composed – performed without breaks – with the exception of a dramatic grand pause at the end of the first movement. It is generally agreed upon that this work is autobiographical in tone, as it contains over thirty quotations from Strauss' earlier works.
Download and print the score today to gain access to expertly edited Strauss Ein Heldenleben viola fingerings and bowings from Yizhak Schotten!
Click here to preview a recording of this piece as found on Yizhak Schotten's Orchestral Excerpts CD. To purchase the CD, which includes written and spoken commentary, click on the image below.


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BEIRUT (AP) — A suspected missile strike on an oil-loading facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria appears to have sparked fires across a large area where oil tankers are normally parked, satellite images show.
Syrian opposition groups and at least one war monitor blamed Russia for the strike Friday night near the towns of Jarablus and al-Bab, near the border with Turkey. In a report, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in Britain, said Russian warships in the Mediterranean had fired three missiles that struck primitive oil refineries and tanker trucks in the region.
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Adriaan Pieter Twent, heer van Raaphorst, noemde zich sinds 1795 'heer (sinds 1810 graaf) van Rozenburg', (Delft, 5 februari 1745 - Wassenaar, 28 juni 1816), was een Nederlands staatsman. Als zodanig was hij onder meer minister. Sinds 1811 was hij graaf van het Keizerrijk.

Hij was burgemeester van Gouda in 1785. Onder Lodewijk Napoleon was hij minister van Binnenlandse Zaken en van Waterstaat. Twent was eigenaar van Huize de Paauw te Wassenaar, de latere residentie van prins Frederik en thans raadhuis van Wassenaar.

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De vermogende Delftse Oranjegezinde regent was zoon van de Delftse regent mr. Willem Twent en Agatha Hoogwerff. Twent werd tot jurist opgeleid aan de Universiteit Leiden waar hij op 27 februari 1764 promoveerde op een dissertatie genaamd "De mora rei fideisoris obligationem non augente". In 1765 huwde hij met de Delftse regentendochter Catharina Maria van Vredenburch (1746-1806).

Als zoon, schoonzoon en kleinzoon van regenten kon hij in het regententijdperk rekenen op bestuursfuncties. Hij werd in 1767 benoemd tot regent van de gasthuizen van Gouda en bleef dat tot 1777. Hij was onder meer lid van de vroedschap van Gouda van 1769 tot 1795. In deze periode vervulde hij tal van regentenfuncties in Gouda, zo was hij adjunct ter dagvaart, kerkmeester, politiemeester, commissaris huwelijkse zaken, schepen en schepencommissaris. Twent was in die tijd de rijkste inwoner van Gouda.

Twent vertegenwoordigde de stad Gouda van 1778 tot 1784 en van 1790 tot 1796 in de Staten van Holland en van 1790 tot 1795 in de Gecommitteerde raden van het Zuiderkwartier.

Op nationaal niveau was hij afgevaardigde voor de provincie Holland in de Staten-Generaal van 1778 tot 1784 en van 1787 tot 1795.

Op zijn landgoederen wijdde Twent zich als landheer aan de landbouw. Hij schreef verhandelingen over grondverbetering en veeziekten, onder meer over rotkreupel en duinbeplanting. Ook deed Twent fokonderzoek, waarvoor hij 40 koeien en enkele honderden schapen hield.

Na de afschaffing van de heerlijkheden en heerlijke rechten in 1795 kocht Twent de revenuen van de voormalige heerlijkheid Rozenburg. Ondanks dat hij slechts officieus 'heer van Rozenburg' was ging hij zich toch Twent van Rozenburg noemen.

Ondanks zijn Oranjegezindheid kreeg hij tijdens het bewind van Schimmelpenninck van 22 januari 1807 tot 1 januari 1809 in de sectie financiën van de Staatsraad de verantwoordelijkheid voor de waterstaat. Koning Lodewijk Napoleon, tot wiens vriendenkring Twent al spoedig behoorde, benoemde hem op 8 juli 1806 tot kamerheer, in 1807 tot lid van de Staatsraad, in 1808 tot minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, en in 1809 tot minister van Waterstaat.

Bij besluit van het Koninkrijk Holland van 18 mei 1810 beloonde Lodewijk Napoleon zijn trouwe dienaar met de titel "graaf van Rozenburg". Deze titel was de jure ongeldig omdat keizer Napoleon namens zijn broer bij Koninklijk decreet van 18 februari 1810 de Hollandse adel opgeheven had alsof deze nooit bestaan had. De Franse keizer Napoleon I benoemde Twent in 1811 tot lid van de Algemene Raad van het departement van de Monden van de Maas. De keizer maakte hem op 13 juni 1811 'comte de l'Empire'. Deze titel is in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden nooit erkend.

Adriaan Pieter Twent van Raaphorst heeft in tal van functies de waterstaat gediend. Hij was hoogheemraad van Schieland van 1791 tot 1807, hoogheemraad van Rijnland in 1794, lid van de commissie van superintendentie over de rivieren van 1803 tot 1805, lid van de commissie van superintendentie over de waterstaat van 1805 tot februari 1807 en directeur-generaal van Waterstaat van 1 februari 1807 tot 1 januari 1809.

Twent was betrokken bij de instelling van de eerste ridderorde in Nederland, Hij was een van de eerste ridders in de Orde van de Unie en administreerde deze orde na 16 december 1806 als kapittelridder. Toen de Orde van de Unie de bezittingen van de Orde van Malta toegewezen kreeg was Twent een van de voor het beheer verantwoordelijke leden van de Raad van Administratie van de Orde van de Unie.

Toen Adriaan Pieter Twent van Raaphorst kinderloos overleed stierven ook zijn twee grafelijke titels uit. Zowel Adriaan Pieter als zijn vrouw Catharina Maria hadden bepaald dat hun begrafenis sober diende te geschieden, zodat er meer geld overbleef voor liefdadigheid. De nalatenschap bedroeg ƒ 518.404.

Onderscheidingen
 Ridder in de Orde van de Unie, 1 januari 1807
 Commandeur in de Orde van de Unie, 16 februari 1807
 Grootkruis in de Orde van de Unie, 16 februari 1807
 Dignitaris (Grootkruis) in de Orde van de Beide Siciliën, 21 december 1808
 lid van het Legioen van Eer, 25 oktober 1811
 Grootkruis in de Orde van de Reünie, 22 februari 1812

Bibliografie
Dissertatio juridica inauguralis de mora rei fidejussoris obligationem non augente, uitg. Cornelis de Pecker, Leiden, 1764
Proeve: of Eenige aanteekeningen wegens het planten op duinen van Raaphorst, 's-Gravenhage, 1800
Bedenkingen en aanmerkingen over den waterstaat van Rhynland en over eene uitwatering te Catwyk, uitg. Weduwe Wynants, 's-Gravenhage, 1802
Wandeling naar de zeeduinen van Wassenaar tot digt aan Scheveningen, uitg. Vosmaer en zoonen, 's-Gravenhage, 1805
Proeven, in den winter van den jare 1805 op Raaphorst genomen, om, door het voeren van aardappelen, op hetzelfde land meerder rundvee met minder kosten te kunnen houden, uitg. Vosmaer en zoonen, 's-Gravenhage, 1806

Over Twent verscheen een schets van zijn leven, geschreven door Abraham Jacob Twent:
 Esquisse de la vie de Mr. Adrien Pierre Twent, 1855

Burgemeester van Gouda
Heemraad
Nederlands gewestelijk politicus
Nederlands minister van Binnenlandse Zaken
Nederlands minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat
Minister in het Koninkrijk Holland
Adel in de Nederlanden in de 18e eeuw
Orangist in de patriottentijd
Lid van het Wetgevend Lichaam


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Helping Christians "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3).
Why hell is forever
The doctrine of hell is disturbing. The very idea of suffering and separation beyond the grave elicits a wide range of responses, from anguish to anger.
The possibility of departed loved ones languishing in outer darkness only adds to the grief of those laying flowers on their graves.
Some atheists cite hell as a reason to deny the existence of a loving God.
What's more, Anglican cleric John Stott, who wrote the influential book Basic Christianity, found the idea of eternal suffering in hell so repugnant that he rejected it in favor of annihilationism.
According to a 2014 survey by LifeWay Research, fewer Mainline Protestants believe in hell than do Americans in general (55 percent vs. 61 percent, respectively).
And for many evangelicals, hell remains an inconvenient truth.
Forever, really?
Ok, some Christians say. But maybe hell is not forever. How could the sins of a single lifetime warrant everlasting punishment? Is that really fair?
Maybe, they'll argue, the wicked are annihilated at death. As for the really vile sinner — a mass murderer, rapist, or child molester — perhaps his punishment is to suffer for a while in hell before passing into non-existence.
Or, maybe our loving and long-suffering God ultimately welcomes everyone into heaven after an appropriate time served in hell.
But there are good reasons to believe hell is forever.
For starters, the testimony of Jesus. Of the 12 uses of the word Gehenna in the New Testament, 11 come from the lips of the Messiah.
He tells us that hell was created for the Devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41). Since angels do not die, fallen angels must experience a never-ending torment in the lake of fire. Indeed, this is what John notes of Satan in Rev. 20:10.
As for humans, the beast and the false prophet of Revelation appear to be the first such creatures cast into hell (Rev. 19.20). Satan joins them later – perhaps after 1,000 years – and they are still very much alive.
Further, Jesus depicts the wicked as going into "eternal punishment" and the righteous into "eternal life" (Matt. 25:46). The same Greek word (aionion) is used to describe the never-ending existence of the wicked as for the follower of Jesus.
Proportion and punishment
There are additional considerations, as noted by Gregory Koukl in The Story of Reality.
First, the ones who are guilty are not in the best position to assess the gravity of their own crimes. "Virtually every person in prison considers himself unfairly penalized," notes Koukl. "It should not be surprising when we feel the same way with our own crimes against God."
Second, the proper punishment for an offense is never proportionate to the amount of time it took to commit it. A petty thief may have skimmed dollar bills from the cash register at his place of employment for 20 years, while a murderer can end another's life in the blink of an eye. Yet which crime is more likely to receive a sentence of life in prison, or even the death penalty?
In a similar way, the punishment for our sins should not be based on whether we rebelled against God for 60 minutes or 60 years.
Finally, the severity of a wrong is not determined solely by the act itself, but also by the one against whom the wrong was committed. If you crush a cockroach under your heel, you'll clean your shoe and move on with your life. If you microwave a cat, you could go to jail or pay a stiff fine. If you murder a child, you're likely never to see the outside of a jail cell again.
Wasn't each creature alive and innocent? Why the difference in punishment?
Because human life is intrinsically more valuable than the life of a cockroach, or a cat.
So, think about it: How could you possibly repay the sin debt owed to an eternally existing and perfectly holy God? It would take an eternity.
However, if someone who is both eternal and perfect could take your place and endure your punishment, your debt to God would be paid and His justice would be served. Isn't that what Jesus accomplished through His sinless life, death, burial, and resurrection?
That's why the apostle Paul could write, "He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor. 5:21).
Hell is forever. But because of Jesus, no one has to go there.
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Rob Phillips serves as Communications Team leader for the Missouri Baptist Convention. He also leads the MBC's apologetics ministry, speaking and writing on topics related to defending the Christian faith.
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