A year and a half ago I was traveling with a devout Christian friend who had grave doubts and questions about his faith. At the root of his inquiry were the claims of modern skepticism – that no one can actually prove that God's hand moves in the real world, and that natural processes sufficiently explain everything. It should come as no surprise that Darwinism too played a significant role in this conversation, and we spent several days intensely discussing it.
Him: "Wait, let's think about this for a minute. Let's say you've got 500 million falcons living and dying over a span of 500 million years – that's billions of falcons. Don't you think that in that huge span of time, over that huge population, they would inevitably and accidentally develop helpful features that simply weren't there before? For example a new eye muscle that helps them focus and see their prey better? Why couldn't that happen? Wouldn't it almost have to happen?
Great question. One that I thought was well worth finding an answer to. I spent the next year hunting for answers.
Despite being a devout Christian myself, my reading of Genesis didn't create an inherent theological problem with the idea of some kind of evolution taking place. Frankly I hadn't looked that deeply into the question up to that point, but I didn't necessarily think that Darwinism was fundamentally incompatible with Genesis chapter 1 either. I was open to the evidence, wherever it might lead.
So when I got home I started hunting for an answer – very hard. Scouring the Internet, buying all kinds of books, delving into this issue in a very big way. I wanted to know.
And as an engineer with a background in a variety of disciplines (acoustics, control systems, signal processing and computer networking protocols to name a few) I certainly had the skills to do some investigation.
The first thing I discovered that this is an intensely polarized issue, and most of the conversation out there is very self-assured 'true believers' on both sides, screaming at each other. Internet searches turned up nauseating buckets of self-assured rhetoric and pseudo-scientific bluffery.
But then equally devout creationists would pontificate about how the entire field of modern science had established itself as the sworn enemy of Christ and his Church, how all fossils and radiometric dating methods are fraudulent, in blatant opposition to God's Holy Word.
Sorry, but I've worked in the sciences long enough to know, that's a bunch of bull, too.
Now I'm not just an engineer, I'm also a technical marketing specialist and an advertising copywriter. Nobody can detect BS faster than a guy who writes ads for a living. And because of my sales background, I also saw a business in this – a business where evolutionist authors sell books to atheistic True Unbelievers, and the creationist authors sell books to the creationist True Believers. And, by the way, the #1 emotional lever that is used to sell those books is fear-mongering, paranoia, and deliberate ignorance and prejudice about those evil opponents on the other side of the fence.
And it's truly a two-way street. There is generally a profound refusal to acknowledge that the other side might be right about some things, buttressed by prejudice and insecurity. But I know from all my other spheres of life that when there's an intense debate like this, both sides usually have valid things to say.
I also know, as a marketing professional, that the vast majority of people prefer simplistic interpretations of everything. Fact is, it's hard to sell a book that calmly and rationally considers both sides of an issue and even produces a synthesis of the two views. It's far easier to sell fear, politics, stereotypes and easy answers than to sell sanity and complex truths.
Thus you have the mechanisms that give rise to the culture war we see today between Darwinists and Creationists.
That is the "math" of evolution. Whether we're considering the evolution of falcons or any other organism, the changes over time have to come from changes in the DNA. The entire plan for a falcon is contained in its DNA, a molecule with a 4-letter alphabet. A strand of DNA can have anywhere from 500 thousand letters (in the case of the smallest known parasite) to 3 billion letters (man and large animals).
Darwinism says that Random Mutation (copying errors in the DNA alphabet) produce modified falcons, and that natural selection (survival of the fittest as inferior falcons die out and superior falcons dominate) weeds out the losers. What remains is new innovations in falcon design.
That's what Darwinism says. It's elegantly simple. Almost intuitively obvious.
One of the difficulties with Darwinism is that it evidently takes millions of years and many billions of falcons to produce significant change over time. This makes it very hard to empirically prove Darwinism in the short lifetime of a human being. Practically speaking, Darwinism doesn't even provide us with very many testable hypotheses. Thus the vast majority of the evidence for evolution is anecdotal.
Anecdotal evidence is unreliable evidence based on personal experience that has not been empirically tested, and which is often used in an argument as if it had been scientifically or statistically proven. The person using anecdotal evidence may or may not be aware of the fact that, by doing so, they are generalizing. (–From Wikipedia) An example of anecdotal evidence would be "My grandma smoked and drank whiskey every day and she lived to be 95, so cigarettes and whiskey are good for you." Not all anecdotal evidence is misleading, of course, but it's not proof.
Hey, if we're going to get answers to these questions, we have to ask questions that actually have a possibility of being answered in the first place. Most arguments for and against evolution are argued at an intuitive level, with only anecdotal evidence. The way most questions are asked in the origins debate, they are unanswerable. The question as I posed it is much, much simpler and can certainly be verified.
I shouldn't have to spend much time defending the idea that Natural Selection is a perfectly valid concept that we see proven all the time. We all know and observe every day that winners win and losers lose. We know that babies with severe birth defects often do not survive, much less thrive. We know that Natural Selection weeds out losers. Natural Selection works.
The real question is, does Random Mutation produce winners? Does it create plans for new muscles in the eye of the falcon? Does it add information to the code of DNA? That's the question I set out to answer.
Can Random Mutation add information to DNA?
I decided the best way to answer this question is to make it more general: Can random mutation add information to any code or language? Can it make it more meaningful, such that Natural Selection will weed out the garbage and leave us with better and better information?
My reasoning was this: Even if Darwinism couldn't be empirically proven in the lab (since we don't have millions of years available to conduct an experiment), we should still be able to investigate some other part of the world where languages and codes are used.
We should be able to experimentally determine if Random Mutations add information. This could come from any number of fields – linguistics, digital signal processing, computer networking, computer aided design, language translation.
The questions I'm asking here are answered in a field known as "Information theory" which really began with a paper written by Bell Labs scientist Claude Shannon in 1948. His paper was called "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" and it's one of the most important papers ever published in the history of Electrical Engineering and electronic communication. Shannon's paper literally gave birth to the digital age we now live in – not because Shannon invented digital communication, but because he defined what it was capable of.
Claude Shannon's paper tells you how much hi-fidelity music you can put on a CD (74 minutes), or how much data you can squeeze through a 56K computer modem (not much). It tells you how much information you can successfully transmit, given a certain amount of noise and a certain speed of sending your data. It discusses error correction schemes and even defines something called "Information entropy" which is the degradation that happens when you add noise to a signal.
Shannon's book is not for the layman, but certain parts of it are understandable by anyone and it deals with things that most people are at least somewhat familiar with. He defines various "layers" of information – which in layman's terms would be things like alphabet, spelling, grammar and meaning – and how the upper layers are built on top of the lower layers, and how we can use this knowledge to detect and correct errors.
DNA is a molecule, a data storage medium and digital communication protocol all rolled into one. It has a certain amount of memory. Your own DNA, in every cell of your body, contains about the same amount of information as a compact disc.
But here's where things get interesting: In Claude Shannon's world, Random Mutation in DNA is exactly the same as "Noise" in an electrical communication system.
This really struck a chord with me because I already knew a great deal about digital communication systems. I spent six years of my life selling exotic networking equipment to factory engineers, I've published dozens and dozens of magazine articles about communication networks, and In 2002 I published the book Industrial Ethernet. Now in its 2nd edition, this book explains the operation of Ethernet networks, TCP/IP protocol (the language that runs the Internet), and various networking languages that are used in modern equipment installations.
The world of electronic communication is a world of languages and codes. Every different kind of file on your computer – a Microsoft WORD document, an Excel spreadsheet, a web page in HTML, a JPG or GIF image – the difference between all these things is the language they're written in. Microsoft WORD isn't just a brand, it's a language that's been defined by Microsoft, for writing and storing documents. Same with everything else on the list – it's a language that's been defined by someone for a specific purpose.
I searched and I searched and I searched.
And the answer to that question, oddly, is a qualified no.
There is no instance in the field of computers, electrical engineering, radio, TV or any other aspect of modern communication where noise is added to a signal to increase its quality. There is no example where noise increases the information in a signal.
But remember, I said the answer is a qualified no. The answer is still yes, sometimes.
The period did add information to the sentence; it corrected a grammatical mistake.
Now this sentence is 45 characters long. With the possibility of 26 lower case letters, 26 upper case letters, spaces and periods (excluding numbers and any other characters), there are 54 possible characters.
Which is to say that there is one chance in 1.9 x 1089 – one chance in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion or so – that a single random mutation could correct the grammar of this short sentence.
Obviously it is a very small qualification – so small as to be thoroughly trivial.
I thought this was way too simple.
I spent several months hunting for answers all over the place, scouring more books and the Internet, looking for discussion on this topic. Surely there must be more to this question.
Claude Shannon does address it in his book. Not DNA specifically, but noise in general. Shannon says noise causes entropy. In physics, entropy is the process of useful energy becoming useless. Entropy is what happens when a candle burns down to nothing and you can't light it anymore.
One of Shannon's contributions to science was showing that the math equations for information entropy are exactly the same as for heat entropy. And in both cases, entropy is an irreversible process. In other words, once you add noise to a signal, it is permanently corrupted and cannot be recovered, much less improved.
Noise always degrades a signal. Always.
Anybody who's spent much time recording music knows what I mean. Cassette tapes are going out of vogue, but back in the day we used to record our CD's onto cassettes so we could listen on our Walkman or in our car. Cassettes always add noise (tape hiss) to the music.
Companies like Dolby and DBX devised ingenious methods of noise reduction – Dolby B, Dolby C and so on – to combat this problem. They were fairly effective, but never perfect. Actually the way noise reduction works is this: The signal is boosted and equalized before it's put on tape, then it's equalized the opposite way and cut back to its original volume when you play it back. All it does is lessen the effects of the tape hiss; it doesn't actually take it away.
And again, once the noise is there, it is absolutely impossible to get it back out.
And I've never met any engineer who ever said the signal could be better after you added noise to it. The only exception to this is something called dither which does add noise to the signal before it's recorded, but that is done to neutralize distortions in the recording equipment. It's "dither" in digital recording, and "bias" in analog recording. But it does not increase the information; it degrades the signal, albeit in a useful way.
So I'm hunting for a flaw in this theory. Can anyone show that noise increases the useful information in a signal?
Now I am far from the first person to discover or discuss this, and I did find people debating this topic. I found some interesting misconceptions.
For example, Claude Shannon discusses how the addition of noise increases the information in a signal. But you have to be very careful to understand what he means when he says this.
Let's say you take your favorite CD and record it onto a cassette tape. Now you have added some noise to your favorite music. You can hear the tape hiss when you play it.
Well let's say you get a CD burner and you play the tape back and copy the taped version back to a new CD. Now you have a CD of a tape of a CD. A copy of a copy, with tape hiss thrown in.
Well the new CD does actually have more information than the old one. It has not only the music, but the tape hiss too. Instead of silence between the songs, you've added tape hiss. Of course the CD player doesn't care what it is, it just plays it. From the CD player's point of view (CD players being totally dumb objects), yes, there is more information to send to the speakers.
But from a human point of view, there is obviously less useful information. The useful information has been compromised. Fine details you used to be able to hear are covered up by the tape hiss, never to be recovered.
All arguments you may find that cite Claude Shannon in saying that noise increases information are really saying that the tape hiss is an increase in information. Well obviously it's an increase in useless information – at the expense of the useful information.
So What is Darwinism Really Saying?
Noise gets added to the signal in the DNA of billions of falcons.
Most of the time, it produces harmful mutations.
Some of the time, it adds useful information.
Natural selection weeds out the harmful mutations and only the useful ones are left.
The useful mutations make the new falcons more fit to survive.
They proliferate and then more mutations make their progeny better adapted, more competitive, with enhanced features and ability to survive.
And the evolutionary dance continues.
Sounds pretty plausible, right? I certainly thought it did.
But let's use an analogy of something more familiar: Those cassette tapes.
You have a CD, and you make billions of cassette tape copies of it. Each copy is slightly different, because each one has different microscopic bits of tape hiss.
Most of the time the tape hiss is bad, but sometimes it is good.
People buy the good copies and return the bad ones to the music store, so only the good ones survive.
Billions more copies are made of the good ones, and the process repeats. Every few thousand generations of tapes and tape hiss, a new musical feature is added, so primitive tribal music evolves into modern jazz fusion.
We could make a very similar analogy with photocopies. We've all seen documents that were a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. They look horrible. After enough generations, they become unreadable. A copy of a copy of a copy of instructions on how to get to my house never evolve into a superior plan for getting to my house.
So if noise is bad for music and photocopies and FM radio, how can it be good for falcon DNA?
You'd be interested to know that virtually all communication systems, including DNA, have error correction mechanisms built in. The English language is about 50% redundant – if half the words and letters are missing, you can still read it and figure out what is being said. Ethernet and TCP/IP have sophisticated error detection / correction mechanisms. If you're downloading a file and some of the bits get corrupted, your computer detects that and tells the other computer on the Internet to re-send those bits. And DNA has sophisticated error correction mechanisms, too. Errors are always bad, never good. DNA is designed to detect mutations and correct them.
There are still a whole bunch of questions we haven't really discussed yet, but this in itself gets down to the bottom of what Darwinian evolution claims to be true. So has any advocate of Darwinian evolution ever proven that random mutation can increase information? I wanted to find out.
So in addition to extensive searching and reading, I started having email exchanges with proponents of Darwinism. I would say "Show me an example where random mutation actually increases information" and they would try. And Boy, would they ever try!
So the conversation would turn to all sorts of other "Genetic Programs" which is an entire category of software where random mutations generate variations which are then selected according to certain criteria and improvements are observed. Fascinating stuff.
Deliberate selection and natural selection are not the same thing. Look, if the falcons could say "Let's randomly mutate only the small part of our DNA that designs our eyeball muscles and nothing else for a few million years, and let's just keep the ones that pass a quality control test" then it would work. But that's not how evolution is claimed to work. Mutations (noise) are not selective about where they occur.
In these debates we would go back and forth about this, and sometimes the conversations would get quite emotional as the person I was talking too kept hitting dead ends in their argument.
Most of the time I'd eventually get silence. Much as we tried to make these conversations factual and friendly (they were rarely hostile), eventually the person would just stop replying to my emails. They were stumped.
It's interesting to note that the fanatical atheist Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous living proponent of Evolutionary theory, has never answered this question either – in fact he has studiously avoided it. There's an article //trueorigins.org/dawkinfo.asp where this question was posed to Dawkins, and even though six years have gone by, he never answers it. The answer he does give is a smoke-and-mirrors example at best.
Many do claim to have answered it with genetic programs and the like, but if you examine their experiments carefully, you will see that none of these programs are actually examples of true Darwinian evolution. All of them without exception (including the much ballyhooed Avida softare program) use un-random mutation or un-natural selection in some way. Genetic programs are extremely useful, instructive, well worth studying. But all are examples of intelligent design, not evolution!
If the idea is to improve the meaning of a sentence by adding mutations, it quickly becomes obvious that this is a futile enterprise. Even if something starts to look promising, additional mutations quickly destroy it before it becomes useful. This is the language equivalent to adding "noise" to a signal. Noise is junk. It only destroys information, never adds it.
Nature most certainly has self-organizing properties. Obviously some molecules have an affinity for each other, and there is an entire field called Chaos Theory, or Complex Systems theory that deals with this.
Chaos theory describes the underlying principles and the math behind this; mathematically speaking, all you need is a "nonlinear differential equation" and you get chaos. The entire field of Fractals is the computer-generated version of the same thing. Nature produces these fascinating patterns, and they happen all by themselves.
What does NOT occur naturally is CODES.
Symbolic codes of any kind – things that contains language, a message, or information, any arrangement symbols that represent something other than itself – do not happen naturally. Blueprints, languages, ciphers, encoding / decoding mechanisms all come from a mind.
Just as there are no exceptions to the law of gravity, or the laws of entropy, there are no exceptions to this.
There is vast difference, in fact an infinite chasm, between a pattern and a code. Patterns occur naturally, codes do not. All codes contain patterns, but not all patterns contain codes. Codes can only come from a mind. There are no known exceptions to this.
Again, all languages, codes, protocols, blueprints and the like contain these four layers.
This gets to the root of the question, "Could the code inside DNA have occurred by random chance?" Could today's newspaper be written through a random arrangement of letters on a printing press?
In other words you have a desire, or intent; you have a meaning in your mind that you want to express; you have words and phrases you use to express that meaning; and you have an alphabet or set of sounds to form the words and phrases.
When you speak, you create language from the top down; when you listen, you interpret it from the bottom up. Language is never created from the bottom up. A desire always precedes communication, and agreement between speaker and listener is required for it to take place. There is no exception to this.
So the idea that the language in DNA could have formed from the "bottom up" is not based on any kind of actual experience or knowledge; it's only wild speculation that something totally contrary to all experience and science "could" happen.
The most important discovery I found in this search was the book "In the Beginning Was Information" by the German author Werner Gitt. This book has some of the clearest thinking I have ever encountered in a science book, and it rigorously presents the ideas I'm discussing today in great detail. It is literally one of the most important books I've ever read.
These are roughly equivalent to my alphabet / grammar / meaning / intent usage, but Gitt's terms are the same as what is used in the field of linguistics. An exception is #5, Apobetics, which is a term coined by Gitt. Gitt argues persuasively that his term adds value to the discussion, but he also states that his argument stands perfectly well without it.
See this email I just sent you, that you're reading right now? This email is proof of the existence of God. Yeah, I know, that sounds crazy. But in this email, I'm going to explain why. This email you're reading contains letters, words and sentences.
It contains a message that means something. As long as you can read English, you can understand what I'm saying. You can do all kinds of things with this email. You can read it on your computer screen. You can print it out on your printer.
You can read it out loud to a friend who's in the same room as you are. You can call your friend and read it to her over the telephone. You can save it as a Microsoft WORD document. You can forward it to someone via email, or you can post it on a website.
Regardless of how you copy it or where you send it, the information is the same. My email contains a message. It contains information in the form of language. The message is independent of the medium it is sent in.
Messages are not matter, even though they can be carried by matter (like printing this email on a piece of paper). Messages are not energy even though they can be carried by energy (like the sound of my voice.) Messages are immaterial. Information is itself a very unique kind of entity. It can be stored and transmitted and copied in many forms, but the meaning still stays the same.
Messages can be in English, French or Chinese. Or Morse Code. Or mating calls of birds. Or the Internet. Or radio or television. Or computer programs or architect blueprints or stone carvings.
Every cell in your body contains a message encoded in DNA, representing a complete plan for you. OK, so what does this have to do with God? It's very simple. Messages, languages, and coded information can ONLY come from a mind.
Matter and energy have to come from somewhere. Everyone can agree on that. But information has to come from somewhere, too! Information is an entity fully on par with matter and energy. And information can only come from a mind. If books and poems and TV shows come from human intelligence, then all living things inevitably came from a superintelligence.
Every word you hear, every sentence you speak, every dog that barks, every song you sing, every email you read, every packet of information that zings across the Internet, is proof of the existence of God. Because information and language always originate in a mind.
In the beginning were words and language. In the Beginning was Information. When we consider the mystery of life – where it came from and how it was possible – do we not at the same time ask the question where it is going, and what its purpose is?
In this paper I have not proven that evolution did not happen; and in fact as I said at the beginning, it would not upset me if someone proved that it did. However what is clear is that the Neo-Darwinian theory of how it happened has a huge, gaping hole: Random Mutation does not cause falcons do develop new eye muscles. It can't. Random Mutation destroys DNA, it does not build it. Random Mutation causes cancer and birth defects, not new species.
Did evolution happen? I don't know. I'll only say that it's worth noting that the fossil record certainly doesn't support the version of evolution that Darwin proposed; in the fossil record, we see sudden appearance of new species with no intermediate forms. We have what paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called "Punctuated Equilibrium." I think it's interesting to note that the fossil evidence that is referred to as "Punctuated Equilibrium" has no micro-biological explanation to support it, and in fact multiple incidents of "special creation" explain the data as well as any.
What Does Information Theory Tell Us About God?
But in any case, information theory not only proves the existence of God, it also tells us something about God's nature – that God is conscious, God is personal, and God communicates and speaks.
This is 100% consistent with the observation that the one element common to ALL designs is that they are represented symbolically by ideas and language before they are implemented in reality. Anything that is represented by language before it is built is designed.
God is a designer. God thinks and speaks in order to build.
What we have here is a theological statement that Jesus is both the verbal expression of God and the essence of God at the same time. In Christian theology, God himself is the essence of words, language and expression. The Biblical theology of God squarely matches everything that information science tells us about reality.


All week long, we're sharing moves for girls who love to rock a skimpy shirt.
The only thing you need to rock a crop top? Confidence (really!). So this week, we're sharing a series of five moves that'll make you feel confident AF, no matter how tiny your top is. Today's move? Side-plank dips.


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AICGS At Issue Interview Series: Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman and Thomas Matussek
In this latest installment of the AICGS At Issue Interview Series, AICGS President Jack Janes sat down with Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman, Harry and Helen Gray Senior Fellow and Director of the Society, Culture & Politics Program at AICGS, and Thomas Matussek, Head of Public Affairs at Deutsche Bank and Germany's former Ambassador in London, to the United Nations in New York and, most recently, to India, to discuss the policy of reconciliation in Europe since WWII. Specifically, they address Germany's policy of reconciliation toward France, Israel, Poland, and the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia as explained in Dr. Feldman's recently released book entitled "Germany's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity."
Collective Memory, European Integration, France, Poland
Lily Gardner Feldman
Dr. Lily Gardner Feldman is a Senior Fellow at AICGS. She previously served as the Harry & Helen Gray Senior Fellow at AICGS and directed the Institute's Society, Culture & Politics Program. She has a PhD in Political Science from MIT.
From 1978 until 1991, Dr. Gardner Feldman was a professor of political science (tenured) at Tufts University in Boston. She was also a Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies, where she chaired the German Study Group and edited German Politics and Society; and a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, where she chaired the Seminar on the European Community and undertook research in the University Consortium for Research on North America. From 1990 until 1995, Dr. Gardner Feldman was the first Research Director of AICGS and its Co-director in 1995. From 1995 until 1999, she was a Senior Scholar in Residence at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. She returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1999.
Dr. Gardner Feldman has published widely in the U.S. and Europe on German foreign policy, German-Jewish relations, international reconciliation, non-state entities as foreign policy players, and the EU as an international actor. Her latest publications are: Germany's Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity, 2014; "Die Bedeutung zivilgesellschaftlicher und staatlicher Institutionen: Zur Vielfalt und Komplexität von Versöhnung," in Corine Defrance and Ulrich Pfeil, eds., Verständigung und Versöhnung, 2016; and "The Limits and Opportunities of Reconciliation with West Germany During the Cold War: A Comparative Analysis of France, Israel, Poland and Czechoslovakia" in Hideki Kan, ed., The Transformation of the Cold War and the History Problem, 2017 (in Japanese). Her work on Germany's foreign policy of reconciliation has led to lecture tours in Japan and South Korea.
Thomas Matussek
Germany, Lithuania, and Security on NATO's Eastern Flank
Foreign Policy Security & Defense
Energy Security and Energy Transition in Germany and the EU

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The CARED Collective, established in January 2009, consists of six women from the anti-racism community in Calgary. Each member brought her own experience (classroom and non-classroom) and knowledge of racism and committed to and practice of anti-racism education. Throughout the year, the committee met monthly, with small working group meetings held in between and individuals assumed a variety of roles depending on their expertise. Whether serving as an advisor, creator, and/or visionary, all contributed to the creation of this online anti-racism resource. The following are the members of the CARED Team.


The remote is "MCL Remote Controller" and it seems to be used in various other products. These codes should then work with other products with the same remote.
See how to send these NEC-codes with Arduino!
What NEC protocol is this?
These codes appear to be consistant across all of these chinese LED controller remotes. But the meaning of the buttons are different. If others like me have lost their remote. Start sending the codes for RGB out the arduino as normal.. then assume the buttons above and below to be the correct codes to what ever they are on your original remote.
but the surrounding buttons are mapped differntly... but the codes work. Just need to figure out the lower half of the remote now.


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When the BBC Sport app for iPhone launched recently, we highlighted that video was one aspect that was missing. That's changed, with the BBC today introducing live and on-demand video.
The video services come to both the BBC Sport app for iOS and the mobile site m.bbc.co.uk/sport, so you can enjoy coverage from the latest sporting events.
First up is the Australian Open Tennis Championships, with Andy Murray overthrowing Roger Federer today, but you'll also be able to catch the F1, Six Nations and Wimbledon.
You'll also be able to watch programmes such as Match of the Day, although in some cases there will obviously be overlaps with coverage on BBC iPlayer. In the iOS app, video will initially be introduced to the homepage, football, F1, rugby, cricket, tennis and golf sections.
BBC Sport app for iOS (left), BBC Sport mobile site on Android (right)
We were also promised by the BBC that the Android app would be coming soon but it's still absent. You can, however, use the BBC Sport mobile site from Android, with video playing through the BBC Media Player app if your device no longer supports Flash.
And yes, just so you know, if you're watching live BBC video on the internet, you need a TV licence. If you're watching a clip, that's not being shown on TV at the same time, you don't.
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Charities risk losing a generation of donors if they don't accept crypto
Charities accepting crypto donations are setting themselves up for an entirely new demographic of funders — who just so happen to be one of the most giving, according to charity organizations.
Alex Wilson, the co-founder of The Giving Block — a crypto donation platform providing back-end support to charities — told Cointelegraph that the crypto community is still a market many charity organizations have not interacted with.
The top charity organizations in the world by funds received including United Way Worldwide, Feeding America, and UNICEF. All three of them accept cryptocurrencies as a means of donation.
The Giving Block co-founder said the crypto community has been great with the "philanthropic use" of cryptocurrency, and those crypto donors are also some of the "most generous" — with the average gift being over $10,000.
UNICEF Australia New Product and Innovation Lead Zunilka Whitnall said it was important that charities implement blockchain technology to make their fundraising more transparent to the general public. She also noted that the technology will also give them access to a "new demographic of funders."
Whitnall, however, noted that there is a "gap in understanding" of what blockchain is and how they work for many charity organizations.
Bryce Thomas, co-founder of Tokens for Humanity — an organization developing blockchain applications for the charity sector — told Cointelegraph that the majority of cryptocurrency holders and users are between the ages of 18 to 35, a demographic which is difficult for many charities to engage with.
Thomas said blockchain integration "solves the problem" of donor engagement with younger demographics.
He also noted that there has been a "resurgence" of interest in tracking and reporting the impact of nonprofits and that blockchain technology would enable a clearer way for transparency and accountability.
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BLIGH ISLAND — Not far from an oily sheen on the waters of British Columbia's Nootka Sound is a site that the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation considers the centre of the world.
Dorothy Hunt, who is part of the environmental unit for the Bligh Island Shipwreck response team, said it was a tense day when fuel leaking from a sunken cargo ship started drifting toward the historic village of Yuquot.
"Yuquot is the first village site for the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, so we've been really watching that on a daily basis to see if the current is taking the oil close to that site, because that would be devastating for the nation," said Hunt, who is also the lands and economic development manager for the First Nation.
"It was alarming to us because I don't believe there would be a way to boom off Yuquot. The ocean is wild out there," and prone to huge swells and waves, she said.
The MV Schiedyk left Gold River, B.C., with a load of wood pulp and barley on its way to Oregon on Jan. 3, 1968, and hours later hit a ledge off Bligh Island in Nootka Sound.
Nearly 53 year later, fuel from the ship is rising to the surface, prompting a co-ordinated response from multiple levels of government.
At the top of the decision-making structure is the unified command, comprising a Mowachaht/Muchalaht hereditary chief, and a representative each from the Canadian Coast Guard and B.C.'s Environment Ministry.
Hunt said she's been happy to see the First Nation's traditional knowledge of the area incorporated so quickly as part of the response. Much of it is based on a traditional land use database developed by the First Nation using everything from historical documents of explorers to interviews with elders.
"(The elders) would identify, well this is where we moved to in the winter months or this is our fishing camp in the summer months, so the database has a lot of our cultural information in it," Hunt said.
The database is typically consulted for things like logging proposals, but she said when fuel from the leak was seen, it was vital in identifying clam beds, seafood gathering sites and other places that are culturally significant and needed protection.
"Our traditional use information for the Mowachaht/Muchalaht is proving to be very useful in this whole task," she said, adding that booms were swiftly deployed to protect priority cultural sites.
Nootka Sound is an international destination for its beautiful waters, beaches, waterfalls and mountains. In the summer months, its channels are busy with tourists and fishermen alike, Hunt said.
Yuquot, which sits on the tip of a peninsula, is harder to protect. The name means "where the winds blow from many directions," and was the meeting point for 13 tribes to gather for summer harvests, according to the First Nation.
It's also where Captain Cook first met Chief Maquinna and it served as a centre for diplomatic relations with Britain and Spain.
But so far, Hunt said it hasn't been affected.
Jeff Bradey, who is part of the three-member unified command team as federal incident commander with the Canadian Coast Guard, said the coast guard and its partners do as much planning in advance of spills and other incidents to identify and protect important sites.
Western Canada Marine Response Corp. does mapping exercises all along the coast to identify areas that should be protected and develops local emergency contact lists in case of an incident, he said.
When a spill or incident happens, they turn to those emergency contacts, including local First Nations, for help identifying sites they may have missed.
"Each nation has its own method for passing that knowledge on to different generations," Bradey said.
So far, booms have been set up to protect everything from sensitive saltwater estuaries to clam beds, he said.
Ultimately, he said, the incident command's priority is getting the booms out for protection as quickly as possible.
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Low-code, citizen app-building is an excellent way to meet your organization's mobile and desktop app requirements while alleviating the strain on IT. In this three-part series, we explore how Microsoft Power Platforms can streamline your efforts—and how to deploy the solution effectively. You can find the first article of the series here.
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In our last article about the Microsoft Power Platform, we spoke about how Power Apps can empower citizen developers across your organization to build their very own apps. Perhaps by now you've done some additional research, weighed the benefits and decided you'd like to streamline your organizational app-building efforts with the help of Microsoft Power Platform's Power Apps.
The question now is: how do you get started? This is what we call the "deployment paradox". While it may be possible to simply turn on the tools, and allow members of your organization to just start building, that approach comes with some hefty risks. For instance, it could create a "wild west scenario" that results in the development of apps that lack effective security, fail to integrate essential KPIs or violate company policies. Not surprisingly, this approach isn't exactly optimal.
Ruling that option out, then, you're essentially left with three other routes of deployment:
Designate organizational "app champions". These subject matter experts should have above-average Power Platform knowledge and a preliminary understanding of the organizational rules they need to follow to create functional apps. As champions, they are the ones who would lead your app development efforts. The trouble with this option is, because these champions aren't trained in IT, they could have varying standards—and potentially miss opportunities for scale.
Make citizen app-building an IT responsibility. While members of your organization can build the apps, this deployment option ensures every app is run by IT before it goes live. The problem here? It doesn't resolve the original problem that led to citizen app-building in the first place: the IT bottleneck.
Create a Centre of Enablement. With this option, IT still has influence over the quality of apps produced by the organization—but, to reduce the department's involvement and avoid an IT bottleneck, other areas of the business are involved as well. With the right set-up, a Centre of Enablement (COE) can help organizations reduce risk and increase platform ROI by supporting citizen development across the enterprise.
Centre of Enablement: Defined
The Centre of Enablement is an organizational structure that enables the distributed development of applications. It centralizes in-house development skills, talent and expertise in a way that makes this information more accessible to citizen developers, while enhancing clarity, focus and consistency around the organization's app-building goals.
Specifically, the COE works by creating a simple and streamlined support structure for business units, as well as by providing opportunities for teams to develop their expertise and skills. It also offers enhanced visibility into company-wide app-building efforts and activities—to create a more coordinated digital framework.
Building a COE typically occurs in two phases. The first involves developing a clear app classification and compliance framework, while the second step is spent building a multi-disciplinary COE team.
First things first: App classification
Every app created by your organization must meet all compliance and security standards—and, depending on what type of app you're creating, those standards will likely vary from app to app. For this reason, one of the first things you must do before opening the doors to citizen-led app-building is to have a method for defining the risk profile of every app.
"One of the first things you must do before opening the doors to citizen-led app-building is to have a method for defining the risk profile of every app."
This first stage in the app-building process will encourage developers to ask a series of questions to clarify the potential compliance requirements of an app by making note of the amount of sensitive data used (e.g., personal, strategic, financial, operational), the potential risks of security and data breaches, and the business risks if the app is, for some reason, not available.
Ideally, an organization will put together between eight and 10 controls that will help developers automatically classify their respective apps and move seamlessly into the compliance framework.
Next up: The compliance framework
Once a developer has a sound understanding of whether they're building a high-, medium- or low-risk app, they'll move into the compliance framework—and follow a series of mandatory, compliance-related processes outlined by the organization. These processes will vary depending on the app's classification level.
So, for example, if an app is determined to be reasonably high-risk in regard to, say, data privacy breaches, the compliance framework may require the citizen developer to first engage relevant organizational teams to help conduct a design review. From there, the citizen developer may be free to develop the app, but, once again, have to engage other team members to conduct a pre-deployment review. After the app is up and running, the compliance framework may mandate ongoing post-deployment check-ups.
A high-profile application central to business operations could warrant a different compliance process. In this case, the app might have to undergo a technical review, in-depth user-training and—if it's going to be rolled out enterprise-wide—widespread rollout.
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Once you have the right app classification system and compliance framework in place, it's time to build your Centre of Enablement team. The purpose of the team is to educate and support your citizen developers. Additionally, its aim is to create a community of users, enforce standards and compliance, provide data stewardship and simply preserve the overall health of the platform.
This team will be central to your Power App deployment—and make sure it reflects the culture and scale of your organization. Depending on your needs, your COE team may include the following roles:
Standards and compliance, responsible for developing, supporting and enforcing the app classification and compliance framework
Steering, responsible for establishing your organization's mandate, vision and goals of the Power Apps tool
Education support and communications, responsible for fostering a community of users by sharing information
Development, responsible for creating and centralizing resources like data connectors and accelerators, reusable code, libraries of portals and API connectors
Data stewardship, responsible for the provisioning of the Centre of Enablement and educating citizen developers on the availability and nature of the data that's available to be consumed by the apps
Management, responsible for overseeing the Microsoft Centre of Excellence (and features of Microsoft Power Platform) to see what connections are being used, who's sharing it or who's accessing these applications and auditing that information
As we mentioned above, every organization is different. Depending on your size and scale, you may not find it necessary to fill every one of these positions.
From enablement to excellence
While an app classification system, compliance framework and Centre of Enablement team are all elements of a sound governance framework—and integral for the effective deployment of Microsoft Power Apps across your organization—the Microsoft Centre of Excellence can help you truly empower your governing body and take your app-building efforts to the next level.
We'll explain how the Centre of Excellence can help increase visibility into your app-building efforts in our third and final installment of this Microsoft Power Platform series. In the meantime, if you have additional questions about how to deploy Power Apps in your organization—or if you'd like to learn more about the solution's capabilities—contact the MNP Digital team.
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Chapter 15 - Did I Do Something Wrong?
Chapter 15: Did I Do Something Wrong?
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Whether it was his past life or this one, Wang Shengguo always made things hard for his son.
In his past life, Wang Teng was Lin Chuhan's table buddy for one year. The prettiest young lady in school was right in front of him, yet he couldn't touch her. It felt highly frustrating.
After they graduated from senior high, Lin Chuhan went to the Capital Xia and studied at the First Capital University.
After that, he heard that she went overseas to further her studies and came back three years later. At that time, she displayed exceptional business talent and built a huge franchise all over the country within a few years. Her company was looking to go international. She became a powerful boss in the business world in that era and became an amazing person.
He recalled her life and looked back at his…
He felt like a salted fish lying in front of a whale, a salted fish that laid in front of her for an entire year.
Wang Teng lowered his gaze and looked at Lin Chuhan's lean legs. He had the urge to go forward and hug them tightly.
These beautiful legs felt as though they were encased in gold.
Honestly speaking, this young lady's figure was perfect.
Lin Chuhan was reciting her textbook when she suddenly felt an intense gaze landing on her legs. She frowned uncontrollably.
"Hmph!"
A snort woke Wang Teng up from his daze.
Wang Teng looked at Lin Chuhan's cold face and touched his nose. He laughed softly and retracted his gaze.
"Why is he still laughing? This fellow is so irritating," Lin Chuhan muttered softly to herself.
Wang Teng shook his head. He had experienced two lifetimes, but he was still so easily distracted. That was embarrassing.
He took out his phone and planned to look up information regarding the university entrance exam.
What Wang Shengguo said in the morning had made him see the university entrance exam in a new light.
Wang Teng always thought that after he became a martial warrior, his status would be different. He wouldn't need to participate in the university entrance exam.
He didn't know that there were so many things he had to do and understand even after he became a martial warrior.
Fortunately, Wang Shengguo had reminded him in time. If not, he might have missed the university entrance exam this year.
He searched casually, and a whole bunch of information on the university entrance exam jumped out.
It had to be said this world and the world in his past life had some minor differences. If you didn't look at it carefully, you wouldn't be able to find them.
For instance, this planet wasn't named Earth. It was called the Earth Star instead.
For instance, their country was called Huaxia (an ancient name for China), and the capital was called Capital University. The First Capital University was a university situated in the Capital.
Donghai was similar to Shanghai. Donghai University and Capital Xia University were both top universities in the country.
The time of the university entrance exam had changed too, from June to the 5th of July. That was because this was the day martial arts started gaining popularity in public.
Today, the martial arts examination was the most crucial part of the university entrance exam. So, the test was held on this special day with a special meaning.
Wang Teng did more research on the registration for the martial arts course.
The martial arts examination was very different from the routine examination.
Martial arts wasn't just about testing your language, mathematics, English, and Science. It included the human anatomy, the history of martial arts, spirit herbs studies, mineralogy, and other various bits and pieces.
The Ministry of Education had compiled all these bits of knowledge into a book called 'Five Years of Martial Arts Exam, Three Years of Mock Papers'.
Anyone that wanted to take the martial arts course would get one copy of this book.
Wang Teng looked at the name with a weird expression. He wondered if he should get his hands on one too. After thinking for a moment, he decided to give up.
It was impossible for him to learn everything. He had to rely on picking up attributes.
There were five advanced stage martial disciples in Donghai No. 1 High School. They would definitely take the martial arts examination, and they would have most likely studied the 'Five Years of Martial Arts Exam, Three Years of Mock Papers'.
He could find time to visit them and pick up some attributes. This way, Wang Teng could collate more points for the proficiency of the ''Five Years of Martial Arts Exam, Three Years of Mock Papers'.
If that wasn't enough, there were other students from other schools taking the martial arts course. He could look for them and collect some bubbles.
Wang Teng came up with a good plan.
"This fellow came so early, but he's actually playing with his phone."
When Lin Chuhan saw Wang Teng fiddling with his phone the entire morning, she frowned again. She said in a low voice, "Wang Teng, come out with me for a moment."
After dropping her words, she stood up directly and walked out of the classroom.
Wang Teng was still pondering over the martial arts examination, so he was at a loss when he heard Lin Chuhan.
But as he looked at the other party's back as she walked out of the classroom, he got up and followed her.
Forget it, since you're pretty, I will give you some response!
Wang Teng kept his phone and placed his hands in his pocket. He casually walked out of the class and saw Lin Chuhan waiting for him around a corner.
"What's the matter, Class Monitor Lin?" Wang Teng looked at the beautiful face in front of him and asked.
"Wang Teng, there's less than a month until the university entrance exam. Why are you still playing every day? Are you not planning to take the university entrance exam?" Lin Chuhan asked with a cold expression.
"Even you know that there's only less than a month until the examination. What's the point of working hard now?" Wang Teng said in a joking manner.
Wang Teng's nonchalant tone made Lin Chuhan unhappy.
Her brows furrowed. In the end, she controlled her temper and said, "I have some notes. Although there's less than a month, if you work hard, you might be able to score some points in the entrance exam. Your family background is good. It shouldn't be difficult for you to get into a good university."
"Class Monitor Lin, why are you so concerned about me?" Wang Teng suddenly asked.
"Don't think too highly of yourself," Lin Chuhan replied without any expressions.
What do you mean by I care about you? How can there be someone so shameless?
"Why are you worried about my university entrance exam then?" Wang Teng continued asking.
"The headteacher let you sit beside me because he wants me to help you with your studies. It's alright if you didn't listen to me in the past. However, the university entrance exam is coming, so I'm reminding you sincerely one last time," Lin Chuhan explained.
"Any explanation is a cover-up," Wang Teng teased her.
"I…" Lin Chuhan was stunned by his shamelessness. She didn't know what to say for a moment. She continued in frustration, "I'm persuading you because we are table buddies. You can choose whether you want to listen to me or not. If you can't enter university, it has nothing to do with me."
She turned around and wanted to go back to the classroom. However, she didn't see the broom that had fallen on the ground because of her brisk pace. She tripped over the broom and staggered.
Oh shit, there's nothing for me to hold onto.
Lin Chuhan had a huge shock. But the next second, she felt someone hugging her body.
Wang Teng had noticed the strange feeling in his hand too. He froze for a moment.
"Hurry up and let go!"
Lin Chuhan wanted to cry.
"Do you really want me to let go?" said Wang Teng.
"Let go!" Lin Chuhan said firmly.
"Okay…" Then, Wang Teng released his grip…
He let go of his hand…
"Ahh!" Lin Chuhan fell with her face landing flat on the ground.
"Class monitor, you were the one who asked me to let go," Wang Teng said honestly.
Lin Chuhan raised one hand from the ground and pointed at Wang Teng. Her finger kept trembling.
"Erm… are you alright?" Wang Teng bent down beside her and asked carefully.
Lin Chuhan raised her head. Her hair was in a mess, and her exquisite nose, as well as her forehead, was entirely red.
She looked so hopeless!
"Wang Teng, you bastard!"
She got up from the ground and ran away without turning back.
She felt so embarrassed!
Wang Teng looked at Lin Chuhan's back view as she ran further and further away. His expression was a little awkward. Did he do something wrong?


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Section 12 of the standard Contract of Purchase and Sale provides that unless the balance of the purchase price is paid on the completion date "the Seller may, at the Seller's option, terminate this Contract, and, in such event, the amount paid by the Buyer will be absolutely forfeited to the Seller…on account of damages without prejudice to the Seller's other remedies."
Following a line of authority first established by the BC Court of Appeal in 19971, Section 12 was generally interpreted as requiring the deposit to be forfeited to the seller where the buyer failed to complete, irrespective of whether or not the seller had suffered any actual damages.
However, in 2009 another BC Court of Appeal decision2, which did not consider the earlier decision, cast doubt on that interpretation. In the more recent case, the court held that the proper construction of Section 12 was that if the sale doesn't complete, the deposit is not automatically forfeited to the seller; rather the seller is entitled to claim the monies paid as a deposit on account of damages. If the damages are less than the amount of the deposit, the seller is not entitled to the excess but it is returned to the buyer.
The apparently conflicting views in these two BC Court of Appeal cases were considered in a recent BC Supreme Court decision3 where a seller, who had not suffered any actual damages, sought to retain the deposit as a result of the buyer's failure to complete. The court considered the two BC Court of Appeal cases and was able to reconcile the apparently conflicting decisions.
In the 1997 decision, the Contract of Purchase and Sale contained language providing that, in the case of the buyer's failure to complete the deposit would be non-refundable and absolutely forfeited to the seller. The more recent 2009 decision considered the current language of Section 12 which merely states that the deposit is absolutely forfeited.
The court concluded that the two decisions were not irreconcilable. It found that in the earlier case, the contract contained the language "non-refundable" and that language, together with the phrase "absolutely forfeited", was enough to show that the deposit was payable to the seller in full without proof of damages. Whereas in the latter case, the mere presence of only the phrase "absolutely forfeited" was not sufficient.
"…the amount paid by the Buyer will be non-refundable and absolutely forfeited to the Seller."
The addition of this language should resolve any possible ambiguity and once again provides that where a buyer fails to complete, the deposit will be forfeited to the seller without proof of damages.
1.Williamson Pacific Developments Inc. v. Johns, Southward, Glazier, Walton & Margetts,  35 BCLR 3rd 180 (CA).
2.Agosti v. Winter,  BCCA 490.
3.Tang v. Zhang and Westcoast Realty Group Ltd.,  BCSC 214.
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ACCT 101 and 102 are offered every semester, including Summer. The other courses are offered during different semesters throughout the school year.
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See the web pages below to learn more about the accounting profession.


Simple read-only listing of Trello cards by board.
Put the markup (:trello:) without any arguments shows a list of all cards, sorted by board, where you want it to appear. It might work best in a side-bar.
(:trello board1,board2 +board3 include="board4,board5,board six" :) to display only cards for the named boards (case-sensitive). Quotes are optional, unless there are spaces in the board-name.
(:trello -board1 exclude=board3,board5,"board six" :) to display cards for all boards except as indicated.
See the Trello development board for further notes.
You can put more than one instance of the markup onto a page, but the code is currently only written to work with one instance. This applies to the final rendered page, so this applies to multiple instances in sidebars, headers, footers, and body. This fix is on the roadmap.


As one of the main enterprise process services firms, it's this very ethos that we try to dwell up to, every day at Conneqt Enterprise Solutions. The world is changing at a tempo never seen earlier than. At this time, technology delights us as much because it confounds us. Innovative merchandise amaze us as a lot as they frustrate us. The ever-rising vary and nature of companies add value to our lives as a lot as they are difficult to manage and keep up-to-date with.


Going through a divorce can be a stressful, challenging experience for both spouses. But, there is no reason that even a particularly difficult divorce has to leave your financial life in ruins. By keeping in mind a few key considerations, you can give yourself better chances of keeping your finances intact and thus being able to return more quickly to a normal, productive lifestyle.
When some spouses divorce, they attempt to maintain joint credit cards and loans, or continue to commingle their assets. Sometimes this may be done to manage their children's expenses or a home mortgage from a homestead that has yet to be sold. Regardless of the reason, this is almost always a bad idea.
If you share credit with your former spouse, you will be liable for all the debts he or she incurs under your joint accounts. Additionally, if your former spouse defaults on payments, it can have disastrous consequences for your credit score. Filing for bankruptcy, committing fraud, or becoming disabled can also impact the finances of a credit-sharing ex-partner.
Even when divorces are wrapped up amicably, things can quickly change. Make sure you take steps to establish your own accounts and sever all financial connections that could affect your future liability.
When agreeing upon a property settlement, proper foresight is essential. If both you and your former spouse cannot live with the terms of your divorce settlement, it is likely you will wind up in court down the line when financial circumstances change.
Include terms for foreseeable contingencies. What if one of you starts making far more (or less) money? How long will alimony or child support payments last? What if unanticipated expenses arise involving the kids? Who gets treasured family items? Addressing these issues during your divorce negotiations will help keep you out of court later.
You should also be prepared for how consequences of the property division will affect your life. For instance, you may not want to deal with the expense (and headache) of trying to maintain the family home on your own.
Finally, when splitting up marital property, take into account tax considerations: two assets that appear to have the same face value could actually be worth vastly different sums due to disparate tax treatment.
When you are getting divorced, it is important to hire an experienced divorce lawyer. Your attorney will advocate for you to secure the most favorable arrangements possible and help ensure your financial wellbeing.


"The various programs such as STEP and Excellence in Construction have allowed our company to improve our performance for our clients and receive invaluable national recognition. Our membership in ABC of North Alabama has paid untold benefits for our company."
ABC's Excellence in Construction program has become the premier competition within the construction industry that recognizes outstanding construction projects across the nation. Consistently the number one construction competition in the nation, EIC uniquely acknowledges the entire project team - the contractor, the designer and owner.
Projects that win an Award of Excellence or an Award of Merit at the local level are eligible to enter the National awards program. The 16th Annual ABC of North Alabama Excellence In Construction Awards Celebration will be held Thursday, December 5 (Reception 5:30/Dinner 6:30) at the Jackson Center in Huntsville. For more information, call (256) 355-1168 or email Tiffany Brightwell.
Click here to apply for the 2019 EIC Awards Competition.
Each year the "Eagle Lifetime Achievement Award" is presented to an individual from our community for their lifetime contribution to the construction industry. The recipient of this prestigious award has enhanced the image of construction, demonstrated the value of the free-enterprise system, and has proven to their peers that integrity and business ethics are the true measures of success. There is no greater honor than to be chosen by one's peers and recognized for a career of distinguished accomplishments and dedication to excellence in construction. We will honor the winner of this award at our Excellence In Construction Awards banquet on Thursday, December 5, 2019.


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How do rhino horns leave South Africa and get to foreign shores? Quite simply, trafficking is largely done through commercial airports.
To tackle this problem, the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT)Rhino Project focused on these smuggling routes by deploying sniffer dogs at OR Tambo International and training more than 100 airport officials.
Woe betide the smugglers when sniffer dogs Rico and Condor are on guard – they will find even a tiny molecule of rhino horn. Kirsty Brebner, the project manager, says it was a matter of weeks before smugglers stopped using the routes patrolled by dogs.
"Rico found two rhino horns, ivory and elephant skin. We have shut down the use of air freight cargo for smuggling," she says.
Rico and three friends are deployed at OR Tambo and will soon guard Lanseria Airport too. One dog patrols a private reserve.
Warwick Wragg, head of the dog unit, says it once had a dog called "The Professor" who could differentiate between 72 different kinds of explosives in cargo.
The organisation moved on to the next level by putting 155 law enforcement officials through a five-day, accredited course. They included members of the police services, revenue services, department of agriculture, provincial nature conservation agencies, the Green Scorpions and scanner operators at OR Tambo.
Other practical interventions have seen more than 400 security booklets donated to private rhino owners, game reserve managers and law enforcement personnel. The manual urges daily patrols of water points and feeding spots, and warns about staff being bribed for information.
"We meet state prosecutors and magistrates to highlight wildlife crime and appropriate penalties. We also support provincial conservation agencies and selected private reserves with fuel and equipment," says Brebner.
The project also set up training for the rehabilitation of rhino orphans and the treatment of injured adults, in collaboration with Karen Trendler's Working Wild organisation.
It also raised funding for equipment at the faculty of veterinary science at Onderstepoort to support field interventions for injured rhino.


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This animal-themed slot is loaded with bonus features and special symbols that facilitate more frequent wins and boost the payouts of regular combos. In addition, players can win up to 100 free spins, which is quite rare and a nice surprise. The game is available from $/€0.40 and the maximum bet reaches $/€80 per spin. The 4,096 ways to win are active at all times but players can adjust the bet size by selecting their preferred coin value – various denominations are available from $/€0.01 to $/€2.00.
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Jackpot 300x
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The slot also features a Wild symbol in the shape of a diamond. It appears on all reels, except for the leftmost reel, and it substitutes for all other icons in winning combinations. The other special symbol is the Scatter or Free Spins symbol, which triggers up to 100 free spins.
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The main bonus feature in Buffalo Blitz is the Free Spins Round, which is one of the best features of this type that can be found in video slots. It triggers when 3 or more Scatter symbols land anywhere on the reels. Depending on the number of Scatters, lucky players can receive 8, 15, 25, or 100 free spins.
The Wild symbol is active during these free rounds and, once again, it appears only on reels 2 to 6. However, it also randomly multiplies the winnings when it substitutes a symbol in winning combinations – x2, x3, or x5 can be added to the normal payouts. More importantly, the Scatter symbol is also active during the free spins. This means that players re-trigger the feature, possibly gaining hundreds of spins on the game that cost them nothing.
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This Teach Kids How to Apply Sunscreen post was sponsored by La Roche-Posay as part of an Influence Central campaign, and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.
Living in Florida, we primarily experience sunshine and summer all year round. Living closer to the beach makes the beach our playground for fun playdates and family outings. Walks on the beach. Protecting my family from the sun is super important to me. Applying sunscreen is like applying moisturizer. We don't leave home without it. The sun's rays can be harsh, and it is so important to protect your skin even if you're just out for a minute to get the mail or run errands to a few stores.
Teach kids how to take care of their skin.
Make applying sunscreen part of the morning routine. Apply sunscreen first thing in the morning before you leave the house. Let them know they need sunscreen whenever they are outdoors.
Teach kids to reapply sunscreen. Little Dude knows to reapply sunscreen while at school or camp to prevent a sunburn. According to the Skin Cancer foundation, just 5 sunburns before the age of 20 can increase the risk of melanoma by a startling +80%.
Don't just put sunscreen on them. Teach kids how to be an active participant and teach them how to help apply sunscreen.
I recently tried the My UV Patch App (for ios & Android) by La Roche-Posay on Little Dude. As well as Anthelios 60 Dermo-Kids Sunscreen and Cicaplast Baume B5. The My UV Patch is super cool. It is the first-ever stretchable skin sensor designed to monitor UV radiation in real-time to help measure UV exposure and risk in real time. It sends alerts to my iPhone.
Loved how smooth and not sticky La Roche-Posay newest sunscreen just for kids, Anthelios 60 Dermo-Kids is. It's a sunscreen developed with moms, dermatologists, and pediatricians, and is specifically made with powerful UVA/UVB filters that provide broad spectrum, 80-minute water resistant protection, highly protective ingredients and antioxidants that are effective, safe, and gentle on children's sensitive skin. (200 ml $19.99, 300 ml $29.99 ). Check it out, it's available at CVS and Amazon.
How do you teach your kids about the importance of sun protection? Do you teach them how to apply sunscreen?
Good advice. Having them put it on before they go out it key- first thing in the am.
Omg, I love that bag! I need something to carry my sunscreen in.
I need to be better at TEACHING me kids to do this. I typically just have to catch them and they now grudgingly hold still for an application, and reapplication. I really need my oldest – a very fair redhead – how important it is so she takes on the responsibility to reapply when I'm not around.
Growing up, once we got to a certain age, my mom made us put it on ourselves. I can see now why she did!
This is such an important skill to teach kids – it's a lifelong one. I still wear sunscreen every day!
Teaching kids about the importance of protecting their skin from the sun is very important to me. These are great tips to teach them to apply sunscreen.!
This is really helpful. We should not just stop at applying sunscreen on our kids but we must teach them the importance of why they need to apply sunscreen.
Both of my girls are on swim team, and for summer swim team, they are at the pool 5 or more days a week. Needless to say we clock a lot of hours at the pool. I am so careful about sun protection especially with my kids being very fair. I will have to check out these products – while swim team has wrapped up, we are going to Mexico soon.
Speaking from experience, this is ENORMOUSLY important. I've burned more than I can count. It's a skill that everyone should know how to god.
I just went to the beach this weekend and saw so many parents applying sunscreen to their kids.
Also important to to explain why it is so important to apply sunscreen. Takes showing them and some practice for kids to get it correct.
Although my 12 year old daughter knows how to apply it, I worry that she probably doesn't use enough of it. Which is a common mistake that many people, of all ages make. We live in Florida, right along the gulf coast, and are in the sun all the time. I make it a habit to put sunscreen on her every time we are going to be outside longer than 30 minutes. Btw, I love this brand! It's now my go to sun screen!
Making sure your kids know how to apply suncream once they are old enough is a must, after all it is so important to make sure you skin is looked after and cared for.
OMG, I've drilled this into my son since he was a little boy. Now if I can get him to put on regular lotion….
We are avid sunscreen users and teach our kids to apply and reapply sunscreen according to directions. It's so important to protect your skin from harmful UVA rays. You can't see them but there damage is irreversible.
I am in the process of teaching my kiddo how to cover himself and centering. I am very OCD about sunscreen and I need to make sure he understands that too.
This is such an important skill. Skin protection is so vital and kids should be able to apply sunscreen by themselves for camp, school, etc.
This is a great way to teach kids the importance of taking care of their skin, especially when it comes to being out in the sun. I like the idea of teaching them how to apply their own sunscreen once they are old enough.
My kids probably could apply their own, but they would miss a bunch of spots. Right now, I feel better doing it myself, but I will teach them when they are older.


Goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was Manchester City's hero as they beat Championship table-toppers Wolves in a penalty shoot-out to book their place in the quarter-finals of the English League Cup yesterday morning (Singapore time).
Despite chances at both ends, the Etihad Stadium clash was still scoreless after 30 minutes of extra-time, sending the tie to spot-kicks.
Bravo, much criticised after some unconvincing displays last season and making just his third appearance of this campaign, saved successive penalties from Alfred N'Diaye and Conor Coady in a shoot-out where the kicks were taken using the ABBA formula.
Sergio Aguero, just one goal away from becoming City's all-time leading goalscorer, sealed a 4-1 shoot-out success with a cheeky "Panenka".
City manager Pep Guardiola said of Bravo's display: "It was not easy for him last season, for all of us, but he is a goalkeeper of a high level.
"It is not possible to not be at a high level and play for Barcelona and Chile. He has a lot of experience and that is why he deserved that performance.
"Everybody was congratulating him and that's why he deserved that performance. Without him. we wouldn't be in the next round. He deserved that performance."
Bravo, 34, admitted that it was a tough game for his side.
"I have mixed feelings because it was a really difficult game for us. It's not what we're used to," Bravo told Sky Sports via a translator.
"They created a lot of chances, they could've scored some goals along the way but, luckily, we managed to sort it out in the end with the shoot-out.
"When you have that type of game, you attack so much you leave the spaces in behind.


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Hear AyyeMoe's New Song, "Came To Do"
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Hip-Hop artist, singer, and emcee, AyyeMoe follows up his first single "Switch Teams" with the hot new track "Came To Do". "Came To Do" was released on Friday, July 7.
AyyeMoe was raised in Northeast, Washington DC. AyyeMoe played four years of college basketball and one season professionally. However, after his lone pro season, he returned home to Washington DC and decided that he wanted to chase his true passion. Music.
AyyeMoe's goal is to make the XXL freshmen cover and eventually have a song with the artist he studied early on. "I think getting on a song with Big Bro (Lul Big Brother), Chike, (Light) Show, and (Nappy) Nappa would be my way of showing respect to them. I would make sure those are some of my toughest songs." He says with a smile.
"Last thing I can't forget is to thank my mom, dad, my three brothers, and two producers who really pushed me over the top. Tae Legend really got me started when I had no money. He always found a way to give me some studio time. Lastly, DJ Skooly down at Sound King Studio gave me some great advice to really help me focus on making better music and really getting my name heard. With the release of "Came To Do" AyyeMoe is ready to make his mark on the music scene.
Listen to "Came To Do" below, courtesy of Spotify.
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I Have Someone On My Mind- Tanasha Finally Gets A New Man After Being Dumped By Diamond
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Singer Tanasha Donna is learning how to love again almost three years after parting ways with Tanzanian singer Diamond Platnumz.
In a Q&A session on her Instagram page, the sassy singer who dated Diamond for only a year, responded to a fan who wanted to know whether she's dating.
"I'm more focussed on the bag and perfecting my craft on a daily, but kinda got someone on my mind. Slowly creeping into my heart. Scary," she said.
Tanasha said that even though her relationship with Diamond failed, she has never regretted but rather used it as a lesson.
"Never regret! Always a lesson," she told a fan who wanted to know whether the breakup gives her sleepless nights.
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She also denied she was married to the singer.
"Which husband? Never been married," she said, adding, "In future when God decides. Let's make this music go big first."
Diamond and Tanasha broke up in 2020 just six months after getting a baby. According to Diamond, their breakup was because they couldn't come to terms on how they can build a future together.
Diamond insisted he wanted to marry her but their differences on how to chat out their joint future ended without an amicable solution.
"I seriously wanted to marry Tanasha at 100 per cent or even one million per cent and that was why if someone spoke bad of her, I would simply post her picture as a clear message of how I love and respect her," he said.
Tanasha on the other hand said that she left Diamond after six months of trying to make things work in their relationship for the sake of their son.
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John David Cairns (10 February 1925 – 25 January 2014) was an English cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Oxford University Cricket Club between 1946 and 1949. After becoming a doctor he spent most of the rest of his life in Canada. He and his wife Mary had two daughters.

See also
 List of Oxford University Cricket Club players

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1925 births
2014 deaths
English cricketers
Oxford University cricketers
Gibraltarian cricketers
Free Foresters cricketers
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford

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