Those TV darlings at Cabal Communications have at last written to subscribers telling them Maximum Mountain Bike has been suspended (something trade readers of this website knew about on 11th January) The company says a buyer is being actively sought.
We are currently trying to find a new publisher to continue the magazine into the future, says Kevin Hickman, Cabals subscription manager, in todays letter to subscribers.
Your subscription has been suspended, writes Hickman, hopefully, until a new publisher takes over the magazine when you will continue to receive the magazine as normal.
Subscribers can get a more jaundiced view on the demise of MMB at www.BIKEmagic.com where Guy Kesteven, Maximums final editor, spills the beans on the mags last days.
Another change at Cabal is the departure of PR person Jennifer Press, well known to many people in the bike trade. (She was almost the only person featured in the BBC2 documentary series on Cabal not to be seen effing and blinding). Jen is moving to the Beeb where she will be doing the PR for flagship current affairs programmes such as Newsnight and Panaroma.


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Meet the New "Wamama wa Talanta" Women's Group!
By Jennifer Payne|2020-10-30T11:20:16-05:00October 30th, 2020|Women Empowerment|
Can you imagine it? The entire world is in fear of this unknown virus that is killing millions. The cities are in lock-down. You've already been struggling to provide food and basic needs for you family. Steady work is hard to find. And when you get home, your disabled child needs your assistance. We're [...]
Vision & Faith Become Reality
By Jennifer Payne|2020-09-10T11:42:09-05:00September 10th, 2020|Self-sustainability|
We lift our hands in praise to the Lord for His faithfulness and provision. The Sabbath Egg Poultry project began over a year ago with a vision. It was a three-part vision to A) meet a malnutrition need in the community, B) provide sustainable income for the TLAfrica Rwanda office and C) become a [...]
Scovia's Testimony || Women Empowerment Program
By Jennifer Payne|2020-09-14T16:34:48-05:00September 3rd, 2020|Cow Project, Women Empowerment|
Scovia participates in TLAfrica's Women Empowerment Program. Scovia lives in the rural parts of Bungoma, Kenya. She received a cow from TLAfrica to help support her family through farming and agriculture. The cow provides milk for her family and to sell, while also providing much needed manure for her crops. Like many in the region, [...]
Meet William, our Pig Expert in Kenya.
By Jennifer Payne|2020-07-29T19:32:37-05:00July 29th, 2020|Self-sustainability|
My name is William Lusige. My wife is Linet and we have been married for eight years. We have three children, Nicholas (7 years), Njeri (one and a half) and Joy (4 months) old. We are from Kakamega in Western Kenya where the rest of our extended family lives. My interest in pig farming started when [...]
Praise be to Yahweh-Yireh! :: Food Distribution in Musanze
By Jennifer Payne|2020-07-09T17:47:40-05:00July 9th, 2020|Pastoral Leadership|
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt worldwide, economically, socially and spiritually. Like many around the world, people in Rwanda were caught unprepared when the government decided to go on a total lockdown which took almost 3 months staying home. Those permitted to works were healthcare workers and business people with food shops. [...]
Tugirurkundo Sheep Project :: Women's Empowerment Projects
By Jennifer Payne|2020-07-07T17:45:47-05:00July 7th, 2020|Self-sustainability, Women Empowerment|
"TUGIRURUKUNDO" SHEEP PROJECT, NYABIHU WOMEN GROUP Historical Background of the Project Nyabihu is a district in Western Province, Rwanda, which borders Eastern DR Congo, near Lake Kivu. Mukamira is the main city. The Nyabihu district is known for growing very good tea and great fishing for Tilapia. A group of 24 underprivileged women from a [...]
Prayer & Affects of Covid-19 in Africa
By Jennifer Payne|2020-09-19T00:57:36-05:00June 1st, 2020|Pastoral Leadership|
Tensions continue rising around the world in the midst of Covid-19 and economic uncertainty for many. Some countries are still in lock-down, some are resuming life, for some people life has completely changed as a result of lost loved ones and/or lost jobs and homes. It is easy to become either consumed with our own [...]
Sabbath Egg Sustainability Project || Musanze, Rwanda
By Jennifer Payne|2020-04-10T15:35:46-05:00April 10th, 2020|Self-sustainability, Videos|
In September 2019, my husband and I were able to visit the Sabbath Egg sustainability project and THIU construction site. At that time, the Sabbath Egg building was just a shell of a structure with a plan and hope to become something more. With no doors or roof, only 4 brick walls, piles of [...]
We have pigs! || Self-sustainability Project
By Jennifer Payne|2020-04-07T13:47:22-05:00April 7th, 2020|Self-sustainability, Videos|
Self-sustainability is a primary component of TLAfrica's mission. This includes sustainability on every level from the individual's way of life and faith, to the community, and the organization. The Pig Project in Nairobi is the sustainability project for the Kenya office. TLAfrica has built a pig farm and planted a corn field in a [...]
THIU Impacting Lives NOW || March 2020
By Jennifer Payne|2020-04-07T13:02:20-05:00March 31st, 2020|Pastoral Leadership, THIU, Videos|
Impact of TLAfrica - THIU Project Jacky Ntagisanimana speaks with the construction foreman and fellow contractors about their experience working with TLAfrica as they build the Pastoral Training Conference Center and the impact it has had in their lives. Transformational leadership in action! _________________________________________________ Thousand Hills International University Project & Conference Center Musanze, [...]
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Q: how to check a profile has admin access or not, using apex i cloned sys admin profile,cloned profile has every access,now how can i check the cloned profile has admin accesss, using apex
Thanks.

A: This really depends on how you define an Administrator but generally anyone with the "Modify All Data" can, literally, modify all data and thus could be referred to as an Administrator.
You can query for this:
SELECT Name FROM Profile WHERE PermissionsModifyAllData = true

This would just return all Profiles where the "Modify All Data" setting is true.
However, if you have a different criteria, you could simply query for that instead. For instance:
SELECT Name FROM Profile WHERE PermissionsAuthorApex = true

Would return all users who can write (author) Apex.
You could then check this in Apex against the running user using something like below:
private final Boolean isDeveloper = [SELECT PermissionsAuthorApex FROM Profile WHERE ProfileId = :UserInfo.getProfileId()].PermissionsAuthorApex;

public String dev() {
    String s;

    if (isDeveloper) {
        s = 'They are a developer.';
    }
    else {
        s = 'Not an dev.';
    }

    return s;
}

Edit
There's a great question/answer here from @AdrianLarson who explains in a bit more detail about permissions which is definitely worth a read.

A: To do what you're asking, you'd need to query for the specific permissions you want to check for that an Admin Profile has on an object. This answer to a question provide a bit more detail on how to do that. What you'll also want is a list of all the permissions which you can find at What does each permission on a user's profile mean?.

A: Actually, as it was said before, clone an Admin profile with the whole permissions is redundant, but I guess you would like to remove or add permissions with total freedom, according your requirements. The easyiest way I found to check permissions is downloading Profile object, filtering only System Administrator Profile and the cloned profile, and then, check Permissions fields. You could compare them manually, or download and copy them to an Excel file, where you could use formulas to compare only those fields. I wouldn't do it by Apex, but well, you could query only Administrator Profile and the cloned one, and then, iterate all permission fields and return a boolean value.
You could check Permissions are enabled by boolean values at Permissions*[PermissionName]* fields at this document.
I had the same doubt before about knowing from which profile someone could have cloned other one, but I couldn't find anything.

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Q: C# Retrieving large datatable from mysql takes too long (200k - 20 column records) Im trying to get some data from datatable
this is my code
          public DataTable getAllProducts()
    {
        MySqlConnection conSQL = new MySqlConnection(connectionString);
        conSQL.Open();
        MySqlCommand getProductsCMD = new MySqlCommand(@"SELECT
                                                  products.*
                                                FROM products", conSQL);
        MySqlDataAdapter adapter = new MySqlDataAdapter(getProductsCMD);
        DataSet productDataSet = new DataSet();
        adapter.Fill(productDataSet, "Products");
        conSQL.Close();

        if (productDataSet.Tables[0].Rows.Count > 0)
        {
            return productDataSet.Tables[0];
        }
        return null;
    }

Filling the datatable takes almost 10 seconds and takes at least 800mb of my memory. afterward i dump it to a class which is much lighter and my application will drop to 70mb.
the problem is that 10 seconds (at least) . it takes too long. is there any way to make it faster?
Update:
to those who say call your data partially . i have tried that
mysql bottlenecks the process. there is another list that we get from wholesale 200k . and it needs to be scanned and then check if we have that product in our database.
200k times asking from mysql only for one datarow for the program to scan it and do its procedure took about 40 min
but if i load all the datatable in program and filter it in my own program it takes about 5 minutes to finish the whole work.
so mysql is a bottleneck in this case.


Both the housing association 'De Goede Woning' and the maintenance company 'De groep' have drastically reduced their error margin because of their forms app. Digital forms directly arrive at the right person, forms don't need to be retyped, supervisors don't have to make phone calls to ask questions about unclear filled in forms, and the supervisors don't need to come by the office to pick up and deliver paper forms.
The Dutch housing association manages over 6,000 apartments. Project manager Ivar ten Have is always looking at new opportunities to digitize. "If you go digital, you really need to go all the way and eliminate every single paper." I spoke to Ivar on the day he had his first digital tender. "We invite various parties for the maintenance and replacement of elevators of a building. The calculation possibilities in the forms make this very interesting. All parties fill in their asked amounts with our forms app and the app calculates the total cost. Everyone is immediately provided with all the information which cannot be manipulated with."
'De Goede Woning' organizes meetings where residents fill in their preferences for their apartment with the forms app. The residents choose the color of their kitchen, and so on, like a digital catalog and they immediately see what the costs are. Ivar: "Before, these were huge piles of paper forms that had to be processed later." Errors do not exist anymore since 'De Goede Woning' uses their forms app; "Before when a paper form was retyped incorrectly, residents could get the wrong color tiles in their kitchen."
Ivar says that implementing a forms app within your organization is easy. "Colleagues who worked with the exact same paper form, recognize the digital form in the forms app. There is no explanation needed. Conveniently there is a search function in the forms app. The supervisor opens the report of the first handover and checks if the open tasks are fulfilled during the second handover." Ivar is also happy with the Form Builder. "The icons are right where you expect them to be. MoreApp is easily accessible for questions and their support is really good."
'De Goede Woning' referred MoreApp to one of their maintenance companies 'De Groep'. Their director, John van der Hoeven, is enthusiastic about the user-friendliness of the forms app. "Without much experience, I built digital forms for handovers, receipts, workspace inspections, visit reports, inspections, and orders. I can make adjustments myself and my employees immediately have a new version of the form on their tablet. Forms don't get lost somewhere in the organization, but directly end up with the right person." The biggest advantage for John is that if they fill out a form and immediately an action follows. "A form needs to be processed immediately, with MoreApp this is the case!"


Asau is situated on the north west coast of Savai'i island in Samoa. It is the capital village of the Vaisigano political district and serves as the main business centre at the west end of the island.
Asau was the centre of the timber industry in Samoa with logging of native forests. In the 1960s a new wharf was completed at Asau for the lumbering operations of an American company Potlatch Corporation. The mouth of Asau Harbour was blocked by a coral reef and both the Samoan government and consultants had difficulties in clearing away the coral. A government dredge sank while trying to remove the coral. Later, New Zealand bombs dropped on the reef did not solve the problem. Villagers claimed aitu did not want the harbour cleared. The large sawmill operating in Asau has since closed. The harbour is seldom used now.
The Asau Airport is an airstrip primarily used for chartered flights. In 2008, an American development company, South Pacific Development, based in Honolulu, made plans to expand Asau Airport and harbour. The company has obtained a 120-year lease for 600 acres (2.4 km2) of prime oceanfront customary land in Sasina village, to build a luxury resort estimated to cost $450 – $500 million US dollars.
The breakwater protecting the bay is an old American airstrip from World War II. The port was well used in the past as it was well protected on the east and south by the main land and on the north and west by coral reefs.
In September 2008, bushfires inland from Asau and Aopo village destroyed more than two thousand acres (8 km²).


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Corbyn pledges Labour transparency on UK carbon footprint
The UK will stop hiding its "true impact" on the climate by revealing its consumption of carbon emissions from across the world, Jeremy Corbyn was due to pledge on Sunday.
In an attempt to place his party at the forefront of the battle against the climate crisis, the Labour leader was due to say, is "even greater than we think" and demands an end to "passing the buck to poorer countries".
Corbyn is due to announce that the next Labour government will "show true international leadership" by making the country the first major economy to measure the emissions it imports, as well as those it produces. The UK currently only measures its production of carbon emissions.
It comes after concerns over so-called "carbon leakage", which sees countries reduce their domestic production of carbon by importing products responsible for emissions. Overall, global emissions have increased since 1997, even though they have fallen among 38 developed nations that signed the Kyoto protocol to reduce their mean annual greenhouse gas emissions.
According to government figures, the UK's consumption of emissions is 69% higher than the amount it produces. While its carbon production footprint has fallen by 40%, it has only fallen by 10% when consumption is measured. Some experts warn that it was only the financial crisis and economic downturn in 2007 that ended the increase in the UK's consumption of carbon emissions.
Speaking at the party's international social forum on Sunday, Corbyn was due to say that the next Labour government will "face up to the climate emergency by recognising our real carbon footprint".
We don't only contribute to climate breakdown with what we produce, we contribute with what we consume too
"Currently, when we measure a country's emissions, we are talking about the greenhouse gasses generated as goods and services that are produced in that country," he was expected to say. "But for a country like Britain, that measurement hides the country's true impact on our climate because we don't only contribute to climate breakdown with what we produce, we contribute with what we consume too.
"Over the last two decades the UK has reduced emissions – but it has done so in part by offshoring those emissions. That isn't tackling global emissions – it is passing the buck to poorer countries.
"It's time we were honest about our contribution to the climate crisis: it is even greater than we think. So under Labour, Britain will become the first major economy in the world to measure these consumption emissions and take action to reduce them. We shouldn't see this as a burden. Offshoring our emissions isn't just bad for the climate, it's bad for UK industry.
"And we will send financial and technical support to the developing world, helping them adopt greener methods of production and reducing the carbon content of the goods we import."
The announcement comes with Labour under pressure from both the Lib Dems and the Greens in the polls. Both are preparing a series of measures on climate change, while the Greens performed strongly at the European elections.
Labour would amend the Climate Change Act to instruct the Committee on Climate Change to include an assessment of our "total footprint emissions" in their annual report to parliament.
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No matter how many times they may have watched the movie or seen a live theatrical production, you will be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't like The Sound Of Music. Inspired by the actual von Trapp family and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, The Sound Of Music tells the story of the widowed Captain von Trapp and his seven children and the fun-loving governess who changes their lives forever.
Celebrating its 50th Anniversary, this timeless piece returns to the Festival Theatre stage in 2016 with an all-star Australian cast including Cameron Daddo, Marina Prior and Lorraine Bayly.
We speak with Cameron on the eve of rehearsals, and suggest The Sound Of Music is one of history's most adored movies.
Not to mention a bit of curtain wearing.
The role of Maria is performed by Amy Lehpamer (Once, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). Although they have sung Edelweiss for various functions, this will be their first show performing together. We ask Cameron if this play was one he had on his bucket list to perform.
Do you feel as if the Director will allow you to create your own version of the Captain, or do you need to stick to a strict formula?
Knowing how you feel about that moment, it will be interesting to see you perform it.
"Being a Dad, I can relate to moments like that; they are important. I've spent an inordinate amount of time away from my wife and kids, touring and working, so I know what it's like. There can be a lot of moments where you have missed things, like birthdays or school sporting moments, which are all parts of those relationships between a child and a parent.
The Sound Of Music was the first movie my grandmother saw in a cinema, and it continues to offer something to each following generation.
The Sound Of Music features an unforgettable Rogers and Hammerstein musical score that includes some of the most famous songs ever performed on stage, including, Edelweiss, Climb Ev'ry Mountain, Do-Re-Mi, Sixteen Going On Seventeen, My Favourite Things, The Lonely Goatherd and, of course, The Sound Of Music.
Cameron explains that this totally Australian cast is a production that was reworked for the London Palladium.
Cameron is also excited about the cast he will be working with.
The Sound Of Music performs at Festival Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, at various times on Tue 9 Aug until Sun 21 Aug.


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from ..excel_comparsion_test import ExcelComparisonTest
from ...workbook import Workbook

class TestCompareXLSXFiles(ExcelComparisonTest):
    """
    Test file created by XlsxWriter against a file created by Excel.

    """

    def setUp(self):
        self.maxDiff = None

        filename = 'data_validation02.xlsx'

        test_dir = 'xlsxwriter/test/comparison/'
        self.got_filename = test_dir + '_test_' + filename
        self.exp_filename = test_dir + 'xlsx_files/' + filename

        self.ignore_files = []
        self.ignore_elements = {}

    def test_create_file(self):
        """Test the creation of a XlsxWriter file with data validation."""

        workbook = Workbook(self.got_filename)

        worksheet = workbook.add_worksheet()

        worksheet.data_validation(
            'C2', {'validate': 'list',
                   'value': ['Foo', 'Bar', 'Baz'],
                   'input_title': 'This is the input title',
                   'input_message': 'This is the input message',
                   }
        )

        workbook.close()

        self.assertExcelEqual()

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Originally named Tokay d'Alsace, then Tokay Pinot Gris, this type of vine is not related to the Hungarian Tokaji which comes from the Furmint type of vine. In reality it is a pinot from Burgundy that became knows in Alsace from the 17th century. The name Pinot Gris is generalized since 2007.
Primarily produced in the named locality of Schimberg situated in the valley of Guebwiller, on a volcanic subsoil, our Pinot Gris benefits from a full South exposure.
Slow pneumatic pressing, static racking. Fermentation in thermo-regulated tuns for 1 to 4 months. Maturation on lees from 6 to 8 months.
In a golden yellow coulour with hints of green, this Pinot Gris offers a bouquet of ripe fruit and fruit compote, fully in harmony with notes of apricot and honey of flowers.On the palate the wine is soft, blended and fleshy with a very slight roundness. The finish is vinous and fresh, well-balanced and pure.A wine that is quite ready to taste, which will mature well over the next four to five years.
Serve with meat terrine and pâté, poultry. Serve at a temperature of 12°.


We at RYE & RIVET tend to focus on the basics– the classic oxford, the 7-days-a-week belt, the Great American jean. But let us never forget that every wardrobe needs those pieces that really pack a punch, the items that never fail to start conversations and turn heads. And though there's a fine line between attention-getting and flashy, this showstopping vest from Rising Sun & Co. is 100% refined. The vintage-inspired details and duck cloth construction make it stand out in a sea of more basic silhouettes, without being too showy. Let's settle on the word "dapper", shall we? See the full catalog here. Order the Duck Outdoor Vest from Rising Sun by emailing them or calling the store directly at +1.626.793.3479.


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The sixth attempt to introduce mandatory SIM registration in Romania
On the ground | Privacy and data protection | Privacy and confidentiality | Surveillance and data retention
A tragic failure by the police to save a teenage girl who was abducted but managed to call the 112 emergency number three times before she was murdered, led to the adoption of a new Emergency Ordinance in Romania. The law introduces several measures to improve the 112 system, one of which is mandatory SIM card registration for all prepaid users. Currently approximately ten million prepaid SIM cards are used in Romania.
By EDRi · October 23, 2019
This is the sixth legislative attempt in the last eight years to pass legislation for registering SIM card users despite a Constitutional Court decision in 2014 deeming it illegal. The measure was adopted through a fast legislative procedure and is supposed to enter into effect on 1 January 2020.
It seems like the main reason to introduce mandatory SIM card registration is that authorities want to localise the call to the emergency number and punish false emergency calls. However, this measure is not likely to be efficient for the purpose, as anyone who buys a SIM card could obviously give it to someone else. Another reason is to identify the caller in real emergency situations, to be able to more easily locate them and send help.
Romania is one of the few countries in the European Union where calling the emergency number without a SIM card is not possible. This has been a deliberate decision taken by Romanian authorities to limit the number of "non-urgent" calls.
After the Emergency Ordinance was proposed, EDRi member ApTI, together with two other Romanian NGOs, launched a petition to the Ombudsman and the government calling for this law not to be adopted. After civil society's calls for a public debate, the Ministry of Communications organised an oral hearing in which the participants were given no more than five minutes to express their views, without the possibility to have an actual dialogue. The Emergency Ordinance was adopted shortly after the hearing, despite the fact that the Romanian Constitution explicitly states that laws which affect fundamental rights cannot be adopted by emergency ordinances (Article 115 of the Romanian Constitution).
What did the court say in 2014?
In 2014, the Constitutional Court held that the "retention and storage of data is an obvious limitation of the right to personal data protection and to the fundamental rights protected by the Constitution on personal and family privacy, secrecy of correspondence and freedom of speech" (para. 43 of Decision nr. 461/2014, unofficial translation). The Court explained that restricting fundamental rights is possible only if the measure is necessary in a democratic society. The measure must also be proportionate, and must be applicable without discrimination and without affecting the essence of the right or liberty.
Collecting and storing the personal data of all citizens who buy prepaid SIM cards for the mere reason of punishing those who might abusively call the emergency number seems like a bluntly disproportionate measure that unjustifiably limits the right to private life. At the same time, such a measure inverses the presumption of innocence and automatically assumes that all prepaid SIM card users are potentially guilty.
What's the current status?
The Ombudsman listened to civil society's concerns, and challenged the Ordinance at the Constitutional Court. Together with human rights NGO APADOR-CH, ApTI is preparing an amicus curiae to support the unconstitutionality claims.
In the meantime, the Ordinance moved on to parliamentary approval and the provisions related to mandatory SIM card registration were rejected in the Senate, the first chamber to debate the law. The Chamber of Deputies can still introduce modifications.
Asociatia pentru Tehnologie si Internet (ApTI)
https://www.apti.ro/
Petition against Emergency Ordinance on mandatory sim card registration (only in Romanian, 12.08.2019)
https://www.apti.ro/petitie-cartele-prepay-initiativa2019/
ApTI's response to the public consultation on Emergency Ordinance on mandatory SIM card registration (only in Romanian, 21.08.2019)
https://www.apti.ro/raspuns-apti-inregistrare-prepay-112
Constitutional Court decision nr. 461/2014 (only in Romanian)
https://privacy.apti.ro/decizie-curtea-constitutionala-prepay-461-2014/
Timeline of legislative initiatives to introduce mandatory SIM card registration (only in Romanian)
https://apti.ro/Ini%C5%A3iativ%C4%83-legislativ%C4%83-privind-%C3%AEnregistrarea-utilizatorilor-serviciilor-de-comunica%C5%A3ii-electronice-tip-Prepay
(Contribution by Valentina Pavel, EDRi member ApTI, Romania)


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using SipmleMvc;
using SipmleMvc.Controller;

namespace SipmleMvcDemo.Controllers
{
    public class HomeController : ControllerBase
    {
        // GET: Home
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }
    }
}


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England v Australia - ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
World Cup delivery Warner will never forget
by Sam Landsberger, London
28th Jun 2019 7:46 AM
David Warner has a busy weekend planned, with a visit to a London hospital the day after batting for Australia against the Kiwis where his wife, Candice, will give birth to the couple's third daughter.
Warner will bat for Australia against New Zealand and then head to hospital in London on Sunday as wife, Candice, gives birth to their third daughter.
The couple suffered the first of two miscarriages one week after Warner's teary press conference in Sydney last year, following the ball-tampering scandal.
The birth of David Warner's third child was planned around the needs of the Australian team.
"I called Dave to the bathroom and told him I was bleeding," Candice said at the time.
"We knew I was miscarrying. We held one another and cried."
Candice and their two girls, Ivy Mae and Indi Rae, flew to London three weeks, ago, which was early enough in the pregnancy for Warner to witness the birth without missing a World Cup match.
Coach Justin Langer said helping choose the birthday formed part of Australia's planning.
David Warner and his wife Candice and children Ivy Rae and Indi Mae. Picture: Instagram
"We were all over that. I don't like surprises, I wasn't just going to turn up and go, 'Oh she might have a baby, we might miss Davey for the semi-final'," Langer said.
The Aussies will travel from London to Manchester on Sunday. It will be back to work for Warner, 32, once his baby commitments are complete and he links up at Old Trafford.
Warner helped Australia qualify for the semi-finals.
Australia has a seven-day break leading into its final group match, which is against South Africa on July 6.
"My wife, as selfless as she is, cricket's priority and winning games for Australia and that's what we're trying to do," Warner said.
"It was unfortunate, we had two miscarriages during that time and so we would have had one (baby) before this, but that's just what happens.
"The stats (on miscarriages) are there - one in four, so we're just grateful to have two healthy little girls at the moment and hopefully that third one on Sunday.
"Hopefully I'll get through the (New Zealand) game and then wait, wait for the baby to come out. Then our preparation starts when I get to Manchester.
"I'm very excited, I can't wait. I think it's a bit of a relief for the wife actually.
"It's been a long time obviously. The last couple of days have been a bit tiring for her, but we're excited as a family.
"I just love being a father. I've got a great, supportive wife and a great family base at home as well.
Warner is the current leading run scorer at this year's World Cup.
"I'm looking forward to obviously the baby coming out and then still concentrating on cricket. That's my first priority once that's (the birth) done."
Warner said he was "grateful" for his second coming as a cricketer.
"To come back here and represent my country and do the country proud … you know I am just excited to be back here and playing World Cup cricket for Australia," he said.
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If You Want to Be Original, Start from a Different Box
I was stuck. Not in the I have writer's block or What next action should I take? kind of way, but in the literal sense. I was riding an ATV (All Terrain Vehicle), which looks like a motorcycle but with four huge, balloon-like nubby tires, and I was stuck in mud, with my two rear […]
I was stuck. Not in the I have writer's block or What next action should I take? kind of way, but in the literal sense. I was riding an ATV (All Terrain Vehicle), which looks like a motorcycle but with four huge, balloon-like nubby tires, and I was stuck in mud, with my two rear wheels spinning hopelessly in the glop.
What surprised me is that my two front wheels were solidly planted on dry land, just sitting there, motionless and unhelpful.
I looked ahead at my friend Joseph who had made it through the mud with ease on his ATV and who owned the one I was on.
"Hey Joseph," I yelled over the roar of the motors, "are ATVs only two-wheel drive?"
"Yours is." He laughed. "Most were, until a few years ago."
That struck me as more than odd. I mean, even my minivan is four-wheel drive. Why would anyone make an All-Terrain Vehicle — whose main purpose is to travel through rocky, muddy, slippery woods — that's only two-wheel drive?
The answer, I discovered, is simple yet profound: ATVs evolved from motorcycles, and motorcycles are powered solely by their rear wheels.
If the ATV had been derived from a Jeep — a scaled down, minimalist, sit-on-top version of a Jeep — there's no question the first one out the door would have been four-wheel drive. And far more suited to the task of an ATV.
Which got me thinking: if you want to be original — to really think out of the box — you might be better off starting from a different box than you're in.
But that's easier said then done: how can we escape the confines of our own history?
Michael Newcombe is the general manager of the Four Seasons in Dallas. I wrote about him in The Real Secret of Thoroughly Excellent Companies. The recession has hit the hospitality industry hard since I wrote that post and yet, when I stayed at the hotel recently, I was pleasantly surprised by how little the downturn seemed to affect the hotel's atmosphere. The quality of everything was impeccable, the staff were warm, and morale seemed high.
So I sat down with Michael again, this time to discuss how he's managed to keep morale high in the midst of the downturn. What I learned was a lesson in out-of-the-box thinking.
In the hotel business, jobs are specialized: maids clean the rooms, golf attendants prepare the golf carts, and gardeners do the landscaping. Historically, in a downturn, you cut each of those positions to the minimum necessary to keep things moving at normal demand.
But demand is rarely normal. During a golf tournament, you need more golf staff; during a corporate event, you need more dining staff. When there's a spike, the skeleton staff in a particular area get overworked, and performance, as well as morale, suffers.
Entering this downturn, there were two things that were most important to Michael and his executive committee: remaining fiscally responsible and maintaining a high-quality guest experience. So their goal was to reduce staffing costs while keeping morale high — an almost impossible combination. Almost.
That's where they got creative. Rather than following history, they started from their goal and worked backwards, questioning everything else.
Which is how Michael and his executive committee decided to ignore the silos. They focused on retaining their highest performing core staff — the ones who'd been with the hotel for 15 to 20 years — no matter what department they were in. That left gaps in certain departments. Then, they aggressively cross-trained their core staff. The people in laundry learned to clean golf carts. Housekeeping learned to landscape. And room service learned how to work in the restaurant.
Initially there was some resistance as people moved beyond their comfort zones, but they quickly adjusted. They were happy to maintain their hours, increase the diversity of their work, and learn additional skill sets. Instead of dipping, morale soared.
Michael didn't evolve his model from current practices. He broke the mold by questioning everything in the service of his objective.
Which, it turns out, is a powerful model for creativity: think backwards from where you're going, rather than forwards from where you've been. Identify the objective that's most important and then question everything else, especially standard practice.
My brother and his wife, Drs. Bertie and Rachel Bregman, started Westside Family Medicine in New York City, a unique practice that offers patients a lot of individual attention. I know because they're my doctors. Their practice is growing fast, and they've expanded from a single office to two, and are considering opening a third.
The volume of calls into their offices had skyrocketed and they were concerned that details might fall through the cracks or patients might receive inconsistent support from office staff. Also, the peaceful and patient-focused atmosphere in the office was at risk with all the office staff, schedulers, and insurance negotiators buzzing around in the background. Their goal was to continue to grow their practice without losing the essence of the personal high-quality service, which is what had stimulated their growth in the first place.
They worked backwards from that goal and questioned everything else. Rachel, with four small children (and one more on the way), spends a lot of her time at home. So they created a centralized call center in their living room, where Rachel could oversee and train all schedulers and insurance staff. This freed the receptionists at each office to focus entirely on patients while keeping the office environment peaceful. And while the call center will almost certainly outgrow their living room, the system could easily scale to any number of sites.
Perhaps this isn't so innovative if you're a credit card company, but a doctor's office? That kind of out-of-the-box solution happens when you think backwards from your goal.
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Fifth graders at Glen Head Elementary School on stage at their recent moving up ceremony. (Photo courtesy of the North Shore school district)
During the weeks of June 17 and June 24, families, administration, faculty and staff were warmly welcomed to the moving up ceremonies of each of the three North Shore Elementary Schools led by their respective principals including Chris Zublionis (Sea Cliff), Bridget Finder (Glenwood Landing) and Lori Nimmo (Glen Head). In addition, Principal Robert Dennis at North Shore Middle School led his eighth graders in a memorable moving on ceremony that was held on June 25 in the gymnasium at the middle school. Additionally, North Shore Middle School Principal Robert Dennis spoke to all of his incoming sixth grade students at each of the elementary schools.
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Llywelyn the Great (Welsh: Llywelyn Fawr), full name Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, (c. 1173 – April 11, 1240) was a Prince of Gwynedd in North Wales and eventually de facto ruler over most of Wales. He is occasionally called Llywelyn I of Wales. By a combination of war and diplomacy he dominated Wales for forty years, and was one of only two Welsh rulers to be called 'the Great'.
Llywelyn's main home and court throughout his reign was at Garth Celyn on the north coast of Gwynedd, between Bangor and Conwy, overlooking the port of Llanfaes. Throughout the thirteenth century, up to the Edwardian conquest, Garth Celyn, Aber Garth Celyn, was in effect the capital of Wales. (Garth Celyn is now known as Pen y Bryn, Bryn Llywelyn, Abergwyngregyn and parts of the medieval buildings still remain).
During Llywelyn's boyhood Gwynedd was ruled by two of his uncles, who had agreed to split the kingdom between them following the death of Llywelyn's grandfather, Owain Gwynedd, in 1170. Llywelyn had a strong claim to be the legitimate ruler and began a campaign to win power at an early age. He was sole ruler of Gwynedd by 1200, and made a treaty with King John of England the same year. Llywelyn's relations with John remained good for the next ten years. He married John's illegitimate daughter Joan, also known as Joanna, in 1205, and when John arrested Gwenwynwyn ab Owain of Powys in 1208 Llywelyn took the opportunity to annex southern Powys. In 1210 relations deteriorated and John invaded Gwynedd in 1211. Llywelyn was forced to seek terms and to give up all his lands east of the River Conwy, but was able to recover these lands the following year in alliance with the other Welsh princes. He allied himself with the barons who forced John to sign the Magna Carta in 1215. By 1216 he was the dominant power in Wales, holding a council at Aberdyfi that year to apportion lands to the other princes.
Following King John's death, Llywelyn concluded the Treaty of Worcester with his successor Henry III in 1218. During the next fifteen years Llywelyn was frequently involved in fighting with Marcher lords and sometimes with the king, but also made alliances with several of the major powers in the Marches. The Peace of Middle in 1234 marked the end of Llywelyn's military career as the agreed truce of two years was extended year by year for the remainder of his reign. He maintained his position in Wales until his death in 1240, and was succeeded by his son Dafydd ap Llywelyn.
Dolwyddelan castle was built by Llywelyn; the old castle nearby may have been his birthplace.Llywelyn was born about 1173, the son of Iorwerth ap Owain and the grandson of Owain Gwynedd, who had been ruler of Gwynedd until his death in 1170. Llywelyn was a descendant of the senior line of Rhodri Mawr and therefore a member of the princely house of Aberffraw. He was probably born at Dolwyddelan though probably not in the present Dolwyddelan castle, which is alleged to have been built by Llywelyn himself. He may have been born in the old castle which occupied a rocky knoll on the valley floor. Little is known about his father, Iorwerth Drwyndwn, who may have died when Llywelyn was an infant. There is no record of Iorwerth having taken part in the power struggle between some of Owain Gwynedd's other sons following Owain's death, although he was the eldest surviving son. There is a tradition that he was disabled or disfigured in some way that excluded him from power.
By 1175 Gwynedd had been divided between two of Llywelyn's uncles. Dafydd ab Owain held the area east of the River Conwy and Rhodri ab Owain held the west. Dafydd and Rhodri were the sons of Owain by his second marriage to Cristin ferch Goronwy. This marriage was not considered valid by the church as Cristin was Owain's first cousin, a degree of relationship which according to Canon law prohibited marriage. Giraldus Cambrensis refers to Iorwerth Drwyndwn as the only legitimate son of Owain Gwynedd. Following Iorwerth's death, Llywelyn was, at least in the eyes of the church, the legitimate claimant to the throne of Gwynedd.
Llywelyn's mother was Marared, sometimes anglicised to Margaret, daughter of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys. There is evidence that, after her first husband Iorwerth's death, Marared married in the summer of 1197, Gwion, the nephew of Roger Powys of Whittington Castle. She seems to have pre-deceased her husband, after bearing him a son, David ap Gwion, and therefore there can be no truth in the story that she later married into the Corbet family of Caus Castle (near Westbury, Shropshire) and later, Moreton Corbet Castle.
The arms of the royal house of Gwynedd were traditionally first used by Llywelyn's father, Iorwerth DrwyndwnIn his account of his journey around Wales in 1188 Giraldus Cambrensis mentions that the young Llywelyn was already in arms against his uncles Dafydd and Rhodri. In 1194, with the aid of his cousins Gruffudd ap Cynan and Maredudd ap Cynan, he defeated Dafydd at the battle of Aberconwy at the mouth of the River Conwy. Rhodri died in 1195, and his lands west of the Conwy were taken over by Gruffudd and Maredudd while Llywelyn ruled the territories taken from Dafydd east of the Conwy. In 1197 Llywelyn captured Dafydd and imprisoned him. A year later Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, persuaded Llywelyn to release him, and Dafydd retired to England where he died in May 1203.
Wales was divided into Pura Wallia, the areas ruled by the Welsh princes, and Marchia Wallia, ruled by the Anglo-Norman barons. Since the death of Owain Gwynedd in 1170, Rhys ap Gruffydd had made the southern kingdom of Deheubarth the strongest of the Welsh kingdoms, and had established himself as the leader of Pura Wallia. After Rhys died in 1197, fighting between his sons led to the splitting of Deheubarth between warring factions. Gwenwynwyn ab Owain, prince of Powys Wenwynwyn, tried to take over as leader of the Welsh princes, and in 1198 raised a great army to besiege Painscastle, which was held by the troops of William de Braose, Lord of Bramber. Llywelyn sent troops to help Gwenwynwyn, but in August Gwenwynwyn's force was attacked by an army led by the Justiciar, Geoffrey Fitz Peter, and heavily defeated. Gwenwynwyn's defeat gave Llywelyn the opportunity to establish himself as the leader of the Welsh. In 1199 he captured the important castle of Mold and was apparently using the title "prince of the whole of North Wales" (Latin: tocius norwallie princeps). Llywelyn was probably not in fact master of all Gwynedd at this time since it was his cousin Gruffudd ap Cynan who promised homage to King John for Gwynedd in 1199.
Gruffudd ap Cynan died in 1200 and left Llywelyn undisputed ruler of Gwynedd. In 1201 he took Eifionydd and Llyn from Maredudd ap Cynan on a charge of treachery. In July the same year Llywelyn concluded a treaty with King John of England. This is the earliest surviving written agreement between an English king and a Welsh ruler, and under its terms Llywelyn was to swear fealty and do homage to the king. In return, it confirmed Llywelyn's possession of his conquests and allowed cases relating to lands claimed by Llywelyn to be heard under Welsh law.
Llywelyn made his first move beyond the borders of Gwynedd in August 1202 when he raised a force to attack Gwenwynwyn ab Owain of Powys, who was now his main rival in Wales. The clergy intervened to make peace between Llywelyn and Gwenwynwyn and the invasion was called off. Elise ap Madog, lord of Penllyn, had refused to respond to Llywelyn's summons to arms and was stripped of almost all his lands by Llywelyn as punishment.
Llywelyn consolidated his position in 1205 by marrying Joan, the illegitimate daughter of King John. He had previously been negotiating with Pope Innocent III for leave to marry his uncle Rhodri's widow, daughter of Ragnald, King of Mann and the Isles. However this proposal was dropped when the more advantageous marriage to Joan was offered.
In 1208 Gwenwynwyn of Powys fell out with King John who summoned him to Shrewsbury in October and then arrested him and stripped him of his lands. Llywelyn took the opportunity to annex southern Powys and northern Ceredigion and rebuild Aberystwyth castle. In the summer of 1209 he accompanied John on a campaign against King William I of Scotland.
In 1210 relations between Llywelyn and King John deteriorated. J.E. Lloyd suggests that the rupture may have been due to Llywelyn forming an alliance with William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, who had fallen out with the king and had been deprived of his lands. While John led a campaign against de Braose and his allies in Ireland, an army led by Earl Ranulph of Chester and Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, invaded Gwynedd. Llywelyn destroyed his own castle at Deganwy and retreated west of the River Conwy. The Earl of Chester rebuilt Deganwy, and Llywelyn retaliated by ravaging the earl's lands. John sent troops to help restore Gwenwynwyn to the rule of southern Powys. In 1211 John invaded Gwynedd with the aid of almost all the other Welsh princes, planning according to Brut y Tywysogion "to dispossess Llywelyn and destroy him utterly". The first invasion was forced to retreat, but in August that year John invaded again with a larger army, crossed the River Conwy and penetrated Snowdonia. Bangor was burnt by a detachment of the royal army and the Bishop of Bangor captured. Llywelyn was forced to come to terms, and by the advice of his council sent his wife Joan to negotiate with the king, her father. Joan was able to persuade her father not to dispossess her husband completely, but Llywelyn lost all his lands east of the River Conwy. He also had to pay a large tribute in cattle and horses and to hand over hostages, including his illegitimate son Gruffydd, and was forced to agree that if he died without a legitimate heir by Joan all his lands would revert to the king.
This was the low point of Llywelyn's reign, but he quickly recovered his position. The other Welsh princes, who had supported King John against Llywelyn, soon became disillusioned with John's rule and changed sides. Llywelyn formed an alliance with Gwenwynwyn of Powys and the two main rulers of Deheubarth, Maelgwn ap Rhys and Rhys Gryg, and rose against John. They had the support of Pope Innocent III, who had been engaged in a dispute with John for several years and had placed his kingdom under an interdict. Innocent released Llywelyn, Gwenwynwyn and Maelgwn from all oaths of loyalty to John and lifted the interdict in the territories which they controlled. Llywelyn was able to recover all Gwynedd apart from the castles of Deganwy and Rhuddlan within two months in 1212.
Wales c. 1217. Yellow: areas directly ruled by Llywelyn; Grey: areas ruled by Llywelyn's client princes; Green: Anglo-Norman lordships.John planned another invasion of Gwynedd in August 1212. According to one account, he had just commenced by hanging some of the Welsh hostages given the previous year when he received two letters. One was from his daughter Joan, Llywelyn's wife, the other from William I of Scotland, and both warned him in similar terms that if he invaded Wales his magnates would seize the opportunity to kill him or hand him over to his enemies. The invasion was abandoned, and in 1213 Llywelyn took the castles of Deganwy and Rhuddlan. Llywelyn made an alliance with Philip II Augustus of France, then allied himself with the barons who were in rebellion against John, marching on Shrewsbury and capturing it without resistance in 1215. When John was forced to sign Magna Carta, Llywelyn was rewarded with several favourable provisions relating to Wales, including the release of his son Gruffydd who had been a hostage since 1211. The same year Ednyfed Fychan was appointed sensechal of Gwynedd and was to work closely with Llywelyn for the remainder of his reign.
Llywelyn had now established himself as the leader of the independent princes of Wales, and in December 1215 led an army which included all the lesser princes to capture the castles of Carmarthen, Kidwelly, Llanstephan, Cardigan and Cilgerran. Another indication of his growing power was that he was able to insist on the consecration of Welshmen to two vacant sees that year, Iorwerth as Bishop of St. David's and Cadwgan as Bishop of Bangor.
In 1216, Llywelyn held a council at Aberdyfi to adjudicate on the territorial claims of the lesser princes, who affirmed their homage and allegiance to Llywelyn. Beverley Smith comments, "Henceforth, the leader would be lord, and the allies would be subjects". Gwenwynwyn of Powys changed sides again that year and allied himself with King John. Llywelyn called up the other princes for a campaign against him and drove him out of southern Powys once more. Gwenwynwyn died in England later that year, leaving an underage heir. King John also died that year, and he also left an underage heir in King Henry III with a minority government set up in England.
In 1217 Reginald de Braose of Brecon and Abergavenny, who had been allied to Llywelyn and had married his daughter Gwladus Ddu, was induced by the English crown to change sides. Llywelyn responded by invading his lands, first threatening Brecon, where the burgesses offered hostages for the payment of 100 marks, then heading for Swansea where Reginald de Braose met him to offer submission and to surrender the town. He then continued westwards to threaten Haverfordwest where the burgesses offered hostages for their submission to his rule or the payment of a fine of 1,000 marks.
Following King John's death Llywelyn concluded the Treaty of Worcester with his successor Henry III in 1218. This treaty confirmed him in possession of all his recent conquests. From then until his death Llywelyn was the dominant force in Wales, though there were further outbreaks of hostilities with marcher lords, particularly the Marshall family and Hubert de Burgh, and sometimes with the king. Llywelyn built up marriage alliances with several of the Marcher families. One daughter, Gwladus Ddu, was already married to Reginald de Braose of Brecon and Abergavenny, but with Reginald an unreliable ally Llywelyn married another daughter, Marared, to John de Braose of Gower, Reginald's nephew. He found a loyal ally in Ranulph, Earl of Chester, whose nephew and heir, John the Scot, married Llywelyn's daughter Elen in about 1222. Following Reginald de Braose's death, Llywelyn also made an alliance with the powerful Mortimer family of Wigmore when Gwladus Ddu married Ralph de Mortimer.
Criccieth Castle is one of a number built by Llywelyn.Llywelyn was careful not to provoke unnecessary hostilities with the crown or the Marcher lords; for example in 1220 he compelled Rhys Gryg to return four commotes in South Wales to their previous Anglo-Norman owners. He built a number of castles to defend his borders, most thought to have been built between 1220 and 1230. These were the first sophisticated stone castles in Wales; his castles at Criccieth, Deganwy, Dolbadarn, Dolwyddelan and Castell y Bere are among the best examples. Llywelyn also appears to have fostered the development of quasi-urban settlements in Gwynedd to act as centres of trade.
Hostilities broke out with William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, in 1220. Llywelyn destroyed the castles of Narberth and Wiston, burnt the town of Haverfordwest and threatened Pembroke Castle, but agreed to abandon the attack on payment of £100. In early 1223 Llywelyn crossed the border into Shropshire and captured Kinnerley and Whittington castles. The Marshalls took advantage of Llywelyn's involvement here to land near St David's in April with an army raised in Ireland and recaptured Cardigan and Carmarthen without opposition. The Marshalls' campaign was supported by a royal army which took possession of Montgomery. Llywelyn came to an agreement with the king at Montgomery in October that year. Llywelyn's allies in south Wales were given back lands taken from them by the Marshalls and Llywelyn himself gave up his conquests in Shropshire.
In 1228 Llywelyn was engaged in a campaign against Hubert de Burgh, who was Justiciar of England and Ireland and one of the most powerful men in the kingdom. Hubert had been given the lordship and castle of Montgomery by the king and was encroaching on Llywelyn's lands nearby. The king raised an army to help Hubert, who began to build another castle in the commote of Ceri. However in October the royal army was obliged to retreat and Henry agreed to destroy the half-built castle in exchange for the payment of £2,000 by Llywelyn. Llywelyn raised the money by demanding the same sum as the ransom of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny, whom he had captured in the fighting.
A letter from Llywelyn to William's wife, Eva de Braose, written shortly after the execution enquires whether she still wishes the marriage between Dafydd and Isabella to take place. The marriage did go ahead, and the following year Joan was forgiven and restored to her position as princess.
Until 1230 Llywelyn had used the title princeps Norwalliæ 'Prince of North Wales', but from that year he changed his title to 'Prince of Aberffraw and Lord of Snowdon', possibly to underline his supremacy over the other Welsh princes. He did not formally style himself 'Prince of Wales' although as J.E. Lloyd comments "he had much of the power which such a title might imply".
In 1231 there was further fighting. Llywelyn was becoming concerned about the growing power of Hubert de Burgh. Some of his men had been taken prisoner by the garrison of Montgomery and beheaded, and Llywelyn responded by burning Montgomery, Powys, New Radnor, Hay and Brecon before turning west to capture the castles of Neath and Kidwelly. He completed the campaign by recapturing Cardigan castle. King Henry retaliated by launching an invasion and built a new castle at Painscastle, but was unable to penetrate far into Wales.
Negotiations continued into 1232, when Hubert was removed from office and later imprisoned. Much of his power passed to Peter de Rivaux, including control of several castles in south Wales. William Marshal had died in 1231, and his brother Richard had succeeded him as Earl of Pembroke. In 1233 hostilities broke out between Richard Marshal and Peter de Rivaux, who was supported by the king. Llywelyn made an alliance with Richard, and in January 1234 the earl and Llywelyn seized Shrewsbury. Richard was killed in Ireland in April, but the king agreed to make peace with the insurgents. The Peace of Middle, agreed on 21 June, established a truce of two years with Llywelyn, who was allowed to retain Cardigan and Builth. This truce was renewed year by year for the remainder of Llywelyn's reign.
In his later years Llywelyn devoted much effort to ensuring that his only legitimate son Dafydd would follow him as ruler of Gwynedd. Dafydd's older but illegitimate brother, Gruffydd, was excluded from the succession. This was a departure from Welsh custom, not as is often stated because the kingdom was not divided between Dafydd and Gruffydd but because Gruffydd was excluded from consideration as a potential heir owing to his illegitimacy. This was contrary to Welsh law which stipulated that illegitimate sons had equal rights with legitimate sons, provided they had been acknowledged by the father.
Strata Florida Abbey was the site of the council of 1238.In 1220 Llywelyn induced the minority government of King Henry to acknowledge Dafydd as his heir. In 1222 he petitioned Pope Honorius III to have Dafydd's succession confirmed. The original petition has not been preserved but the Pope's reply refers to the "detestable custom ... in his land whereby the son of the handmaiden was equally heir with the son of the free woman and illegitimate sons obtained an inheritance as if they were legitimate". The Pope welcomed the fact that Llywelyn was abolishing this custom. In 1226 Llywelyn persuaded the Pope to declare his wife Joan, Dafydd's mother, to be a legitimate daughter of King John, again in order to strengthen Dafydd's position, and in 1229 the English crown accepted Dafydd's homage for the lands he would inherit from his father. In 1238 Llywelyn held a council at Strata Florida Abbey where the other Welsh princes swore fealty to Dafydd. Llywelyn's original intention had been that they should do homage to Dafydd, but the king wrote to the other rulers forbidding them to do homage.
Gruffydd was given an appanage in Meirionnydd and Ardudwy but his rule was said to be oppressive, and in 1221 Llywelyn stripped him of these territories. In 1228 Llywelyn imprisoned him, and he was not released until 1234. On his release he was given part of Llyn to rule. His performance this time was apparently more satisfactory and by 1238 he had been given the remainder of Llyn and a substantial part of Powys.
Of the seven-foot grave in which he lies."
Dafydd succeeded Llywelyn as prince of Gwynedd, but King Henry was not prepared to allow him to inherit his father's position in the remainder of Wales. Dafydd was forced to agree to a treaty greatly restricting his power and was also obliged to hand his brother Gruffydd over to the king, who now had the option of using him against Dafydd. Gruffydd was killed attempting to escape from the Tower of London in 1244. This left the field clear for Dafydd, but Dafydd himself died without an heir in 1246 and was eventually succeeded by his nephew, Gruffydd's son, Llywelyn the Last.
Llywelyn dominated Wales for over forty years, and was one of only two Welsh rulers to be called 'the Great', the other being his ancestor Rhodri the Great. The first person to give Llywelyn the title 'the Great' seems to have been his near-contemporary, the English chronicler Matthew Paris.
The identity of the mother of some of Llywelyn's children is uncertain. He was survived by nine children, two legitimate, one probably legitimate and six illegitimate. Elen ferch Llywelyn (c. 1207–1253), his only certainly legitimate daughter, first married John de Scotia, Earl of Chester. This marriage was childless, and after John's death Elen married Sir Robert de Quincy, the brother of Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester. Llywelyn's only legitimate son, Dafydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1208–1246), married Isabella de Braose, daughter of William de Braose, 10th Baron Abergavenny, Lord of Abergavenny. William was the son of Reginald de Braose and Gracia Briwere. After Gracia's death Reginald married, Gwladys Dduu, another of Llywelyn's daughters. Dafydd and Isabella may have had one child together, Helen of Wales (1246–1295), but the marriage failed to produce a male heir.
Another daughter, Gwladus Ddu (c. 1206–1251), was probably legitimate. Adam of Usk in the fifteenth century states that she was a legitimate daughter by Joan, although most sources claim that her mother was Llywelyn's mistress, Tangwystl Goch. She first married Reginald de Braose of Brecon and Abergavenny in November 1215, but had no children by him. After Reginald's death in 1228 she married Ralph de Mortimer of Wigmore in 1230 and had five sons and a daughter.
The mother of most of Llywelyn's illegitimate children is known or assumed to have been Llywelyn's mistress, Tangwystl Goch, of whom nothing is known except her name. Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1196–1244) was Llywelyn's eldest son and is known to be the son of Tangwystl. He married Senena, daughter of Caradoc ap Thomas of Anglesey. Their four sons included Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, who for a period occupied a position in Wales comparable to that of his grandfather, and Dafydd ap Gruffydd who ruled Gwynedd briefly after his brother's death. Llywelyn had another son, Tegwared ap Llywelyn, by a woman known only as Crysten.
Marared ferch Llywelyn (c. 1198–after 1263) married John de Braose of Bramber and Gower, a nephew of Reginald de Braose, by whom she had at least three sons. After his death in 1232 she married Walter III de Clifford of Bronllys and Clifford Castle with whom she had a single daughter, Matilda Clifford. Other illegitimate daughters were Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn, who married William de Lacy, and Angharad ferch Llywelyn, who married Maelgwn Fychan. Susanna ferch Llywelyn was sent to England as a hostage in 1228, and married Maol Choluim II, Earl of Fife in 1237 by whom she had at least two sons.
A number of Welsh poems addressed to Llywelyn by contemporary poets such as Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, Dafydd Benfras and Llywarch ap Llywelyn (better known under the nickname Prydydd y Moch) have survived. Very little of this poetry has been published in English translation.
Llywelyn has continued to figure in modern Welsh literature. The play Siwan (1956, English translation 1960) by Saunders Lewis deals with the finding of William de Braose in Joan's chamber and his execution by Llywelyn. Another well-known Welsh play about Llywelyn is Llywelyn Fawr by Thomas Parry.
Raymond Foxall (1959) Song for a Prince: The Story of Llywelyn the Great covers the period from King John's invasion in 1211 to the execution of William de Braose.
Sharon Kay Penman (1985) Here be Dragons is centred on the marriage of Llywelyn and Joan. Dragon's lair (2004) by the same author features the young Llywelyn before he gained power in Gwynedd.
Edith Pargeter (1960-63) "The Heaven Tree Trilogy" features Llywelyn, Joan, William de Braose, and several of Llywelyn's sons as major characters.
Gaius Demetrius (2006) Ascent of an Eagle tells the story of the early part of Llywelyn's reign.
The story of the faithful hound Gelert, owned by Llywelyn and mistakenly killed by him, is also considered to be fiction. "Gelert's grave" is a popular tourist attraction in Beddgelert but is thought to have been created by an eighteenth century innkeeper to boost the tourist trade. The tale itself is a variation on a common folktale motif.
^ Llywelyn has also been called "Llywelyn II of Gwynedd". The main historians of the period, for example J.E. Lloyd and R.R. Davies, do not use regnal numbers for the Welsh princes. John Davies sometimes uses "Llywelyn I".
^ Lynch p. 156. According to one genealogy Llywelyn had a brother named Adda, but there is no other record of him.
^ Giraldus Cambrensis p. 126. Maelgwn ab Owain Gwynedd was Iorwerth's full brother, but presumably he was dead by the time Giraldus wrote.
^ Giraldus Cambrensis p. 126. Giraldus says that Llywelyn was only twelve years of age at this time, which would mean that he was born about 1176. However most historians consider that he was born about 1173.
^ Lloyd pp. 616-7. One letter from the Pope suggests that Llywelyn may have been married previously, to an unnamed sister of Earl Ranulph of Chester in about 1192, but there appears to be no confirmation of this.
^ The version of the Welsh laws preserved in Llyfr Iorwerth, compiled in Gwynedd during Llywelyn's reign, claims precedence for the ruler of Aberffraw over the rulers of the other Welsh kingdoms. See Aled Rhys William (1960) Llyfr Iorwerth: a critical text of the Venedotian code of mediaeval Welsh law.
^ There was provision in Welsh law for the selection of a single edling or heir by the ruler. For a discussion of this see Stephenson pp. 138–141. See Williams pp. 393–413 for details of the struggle for the succession.
^ Matthew Paris Chronica Majora edited by H. R. Luard (1880) Volume 5, London Rolls Series, p. 718, quoted in Carr.
^ Some sources claim that Gwladus Ddu was born before 1198 and was therefore a daughter of Tangwystl. Others state that she was born in 1206 and therefore Joan's daughter, as Tangwystl died before Joan and Llywelyn were married in 1205. Some sources say that when Joan died she left her lands to Gwladus, which would probably not have happened had Gwladus not been her daughter.
^ In praise of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth by Llywarch ap Llywelyn has been translated by Joseph P. Clancy (1970) in The earliest Welsh poetry.
^ See D.E. Jenkins (1899), Beddgelert: Its Facts, Fairies and Folklore, pp. 56–74, for a detailed discussion of this legend.


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Review of the Month
Naked Imperialism
The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a "new militarism" and a "new imperialism." Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist power—continental, hemispheric, and global—since its inception. What has changed is the nakedness with which this is being promoted, and the unlimited, planetary extent of U.S. ambitions
Vol. 57, No. 4: September 2005
John Bellamy Foster, "Let Them Eat Pollution": Capitalism and the World Environment , Monthly Review: Vol. 44, No. 8: January 1993
John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney, Surveillance Capitalism: Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age , Monthly Review: Vol. 66, No. 3: July-August 2014
John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney, R. Jamil Jonna, The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism , Monthly Review: Vol. 63, No. 6: November 2011
R. Jamil Jonna, John Bellamy Foster, Beyond the Degradation of Labor: Braverman and the Structure of the U.S. Working Class , Monthly Review: Vol. 66, No. 5: October 2014
John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney, Kipling, the 'White Man's Burden,' and U.S. Imperialism , Monthly Review: Vol. 55, No. 6: November 2003
John Bellamy Foster, Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature , Monthly Review: Vol. 65, No. 7: December 2013
John Bellamy Foster, Intan Suwandi, COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism , Monthly Review: Vol. 72, No. 2 (June 2020)
John Bellamy Foster, Marx and Internationalism , Monthly Review: Vol. 52, No. 3: July-August 2000
John Bellamy Foster, The Fetish of Fordism , Monthly Review: Vol. 39, No. 10: March 1988
John Bellamy Foster, The New Geopolitics of Empire , Monthly Review: Vol. 57, No. 8: January 2006
Richard E. Brown, Public Health and Imperialism , Monthly Review: Vol. 29, No. 4: September 1977
Bruce Franklin, Debt Peonage: the Highest Form of Imperialism? , Monthly Review: Vol. 33, No. 10: March 1982
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Peter Rachleff, The Grid of History: Cowboys and Indians , Monthly Review: Vol. 55, No. 3: July-August 2003
Herbert P. Bix, On Halliday's Contribution to Understanding Japan , Monthly Review: Vol. 28, No. 6: November 1976
Harry Magdoff, The Achievement of Paul Baran , Monthly Review: Vol. 16, No. 11: March 1965
John Bellamy Foster, Monopoly Capital and the New Globalization , Monthly Review: Vol. 53, No. 8: January 2002
Eric Hobsbawm, Lenin and the "Aristocracy of Labor" , Monthly Review: Vol. 21, No. 11: April 1970
Max Gordon, The Sino-Soviet Conflict: A Reply , Monthly Review: Vol. 15, No. 8: December 1963
- The Editors, U.S. Imperial Ambitions and Iraq , Monthly Review: Vol. 54, No. 7: December 2002
Ernesto Che Guevara, Cuba: Exceptional Case? , Monthly Review: Vol. 13, No. 3: July-August 1961


Soccer may be the world's most popular sport, but that doesn't mean it is immune to a bad economy, especially in Greece.
In order to keep its team financially afloat, the Voukefalas Larissa amateur soccer club in Greece solicited help from two local brothels to help foot the team's bill. The ladies of "Villa Erotica" and "Soula's House of History," were more than happy to oblige.
Yiannis Batziolas, Voukefalas Larissa's team manager and backup goalie, explained to RT.com that while everyone else abandoned the amateur teams, the brothels were there back them up.
"This year, because of the more general financial crisis, that has affected us greatly," Batziolas explained. "We were forced to seek any type of financial support for the club so that we could survive. It was a matter of survival, because otherwise we would have a problem participating in the league."
Brothel owner Soula Alevridou, the team's new sponsor, told the Associated Press that she kicked in 1,000 Euros ($1,312) for players to wear her jerseys during their warm ups and cool downs prior to games. She added that while it is great to see the jerseys on the field, she is really in it for the love of the game.
"It's not the kind of business that needs promotion," she said, "It's a word-of-mouth kind of thing."
Not everyone is excited about the latest sponsor to join the league.
Although prostitution is legal in Greece, league organizers have banned the pink brothel endorsing jerseys during games. The league stated the deal violates "the sporting ideal" and is inappropriate for underage fans, according to Yahoo Sports.
The haters don't seem to bother Alevirdou who sees helping the team as really helping her country get through tough times. Alevirdou told the AP, "If we don't help our scientists and athletes, where will we be? Greece has educated people, cultured people and good athletes. It's better to help them than take our money to Switzerland."


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2011 June 20: Various bug fixes were migrated into this demo from the full version of the obfuscator.
This web form obfuscates your one-file Python program or module within seconds. It is based on a limited version of the larger-scale BitBoost Python obfuscator, which obfuscates much more complicated programs or packages.
It achieves NON-1:1 mapping of identifiers within your program to obfuscated identifiers. For example, not only is 'self' no longer 'self', but 'self' is generally replaced by a variety of different gibberish identifiers, without impairing program functionality.
Docstrings and comments are also removed.
Obfuscates single module/file of limited size.
sufficiently cross-platform to be present in both Unix and Windows versions of typical builds of Python.
Limits on handling of keyword arguments.
Please paste your source code into the box below.
WARNING! Because a table of the main obfuscated identifiers is appended to the demo's output, you should remove that table before you use the obfuscated code!
I would appreciate your feedback about this online obfuscator. Perhaps you would even like to license a more complete version of my obfuscator toolkit?
Correctly obfuscating python code that includes function or method calls with keyword arguments can have interesting complications.
The full (not free demo) version of the obfuscator supports various options for correctly handling code that includes function or method calls with keyword arguments.
That full range of options is not included in this free web form demo version.
If you make a function call with keyword arguments, the keyword argument names in the function call are presently left unobfuscated in this free demo version of the obfuscator. You might wonder, why does this make some sense as a simple default behavior?
You could read the explanation in the manual of the more full-featured python obfuscator, or you could read the shorter example below.
The latter part of the output would be totally ruined if we simply obfuscate the keyword argument names, which would change the words 'client', 'shopkeeper' and 'sketch'.
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Casper J. Schoener, a reporter for the Associated Press for more than 40 years who was better known by his nickname, Joe Schroeder, when he covered City Hall from 1966 to 1981, died of complications from anemia on Wednesday at the Medical Center of Ocean County in Point Pleasant, N.J. He was 74 years old and lived in Lakewood, N.J.
Mr. Schoener, who was born in Brooklyn, was with the City News Association when it was absorbed by the Associated Press in 1942. Before his assignment to City Hall he covered crime, labor and politics.
In World War II he served for three years on anti-submarine patrol in the North Atlantic.
He is survived by his wife, Peggy; two sons, William, of Maplewood, N.J., and John, of Brooklyn; two daughters, Marie Enny of Brooklyn and Margaret Schoener of Wilton, Conn., and four grandchildren.


Converting a Debian fstab to use UUIDs via linux-bases?
We have a few Debian 5 systems that are still using /dev/hda in the fstab. We'd like to covert them to using UUIDs. This is supposed to be done automatically via the "linux-base" package (postinst), but for some reason it's not kicking in (perhaps someone already ran it and it saved some state somewhere to not do it).
While it's certainly possible to change over to UUIDs by manually editing a bunch of files, it'd be useful to script it somehow. Various incantations of debconf and debconf-set-selections don't seem to work.
So basically, how can one invoke the Debian-provided script/s that do/es all the UUID conversions?
From the manpage of mount.
So your mount command should look like as follows.
The script would have been in /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst . You could launch it manually, or look for a "migrated" flag that you could clear before calling dpkg-reconfigure.
Write changes to /etc/fstab? (y/n) "
echo "Writing changes to /etc/fstab..."


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Technology, Media & Telecom - Innovation
U.S. lawmakers raise questions about proposed Bytedance-Oracle deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers of both major parties voiced skepticism about a proposed deal between Oracle and China's Bytedance that appears to stop short of a full sale of Bytedance's popular social media app TikTok to a U.S. firm as demanded by President Donald Trump.
Oracle ORCL.N announced on Monday it was part of a proposal submitted by Bytedance to the U.S. Treasury Department to serve as "trusted technology provider," to Bytedance, with no further details on the terms of the deal.
Trump has made it clear he wants to see an outright sale of TikTok to a U.S. company, raising questions about the deal's approval amid concerns that U.S. user data could be passed on to China's government.
Trump issued an executive order last month that would ban TikTok in the United States as early as Sept. 20 if ByteDance does not comply with a sale.
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who heads a national security panel that reviews such deals, Republican Senator Josh Hawley called on Monday for the proposal to be rejected.
"An ongoing 'partnership' that allows for anything other than the full emancipation of the TikTok software from potential Chinese Communist Party control is completely unacceptable, and flatly inconsistent with the President's Executive Order," Hawley wrote.
Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal stopped short of demanding the deal be scuttled but sought key assurances.
"I want specific, ironclad commitments on how Oracle & ByteDance will guarantee users' privacy, cyber security, & freedom of expression," he tweeted.
While the Trump administration has not yet said whether it will approve the deal, White House adviser Jared Kushner on Tuesday said the White House is reviewing Oracle's bid, even as other lawmakers took aim specifically at the firm's own track record.
"Making Oracle a middleman won't protect Americans against Chinese government influence, and to make matters worse, Oracle has an awful record of harvesting and selling Americans' private data to anyone with a credit card," Democratic Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement.
Oracle did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but in 2015, it settled allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to notify customers about unaddressed hacking dangers when it released security updates for the estimated 850 million U.S. computers with Java SE software.
Reporting by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Cynthia Osterman


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Reading OLED, Through Modern Art
If classical art focused on historical events and their influence, modern art expresses the artist's own mind and perspectives. It explores the self and the universe, tries one experiment after another, then returns to simplicity over extravagance. The essence is concentrated down to basic elements such as dots, lines, and planes. Though we try to interpret them, these arts are difficult to understand. They are not the most accessible type of arts, but their resonance is wide and deep. They give us the space to breathe and appeal to our senses.
The trend of focusing on dots, lines, and planes have expanded to devices. While the devices' functions may be converged in diverse ways that cannot be presumed in advance, the shapes will become more defined, discarding excess and showing what people want to see. The technology that highlights this evolution of form is OLED. I would like to interpret OLED in terms of dots, lines, and planes, the elements of modern art that converge with device designs.
Millions of Dots Come Alive
LG OLED TV CES Showcase 'Waterfall'2019'
Artist Whanki Kim is a pioneer of contemporary abstract art in Korea, known for his dotted painting style that forms shapes with millions of dots. Among his artworks, the red dotted painting from 1972 was sold for approximately USD 8 Million at a Hong Kong auction, the highest sales record for a Korean artist. During his life in New York, Kim would add dots to the painting whenever he missed someone from Korea. After learning this backstory, each point displays different shapes and darkness, making them look poetically rhythmic.
"Everything starts from a dot." These words from Kandinsky, "the father of abstract art", reflect how dots concentrate and create energy, forming the essence of what cannot be seen. Such a philosophical approach can also be applied to scientific devices. The display screen we see is also an aggregate of millions of dots called pixels. As for LCD, these dots required a separate backlight to emit light. But OLED shows images through tens of millions of self-illuminating dots. Because each pixel emits light on its own, the color of images come alive. This is a revolution in terms of display technology. No other technology can implement the level of vivid display as self-illuminating pixels of OLED. Just like an aggregation of countless stars, each pixel is "alive" in OLED.
No More Cumbersome Lines
In classical art, lines were sketched first then colors were added along those boundaries to complete paintings. Artists started and defined their works through their direct intervention of lines. However, in modern art, lines are not always necessary. Sometimes, objects are placed by themselves without any linear boundaries. Without the borders, it's easier to access the core of the message.
On devices, the bezel and the thickness are the lines. These parts aren't related to displaying images. They have continued to be eliminated. It's not only aesthetically better to remove the rough physical edges, but it's also more effective for presenting the display by itself. OLED broke another record in this aspect. OLED made it possible to view images with only a 1mm panel display. Because the self-illuminating quality didn't require a separate backlight unit, just one sheet of glass was enough to produce the screen. It was as thin as paper and could be mounted on a wall, giving rise to the name "Wallpaper OLED". The thick borders disappeared to allow more natural immersion into the images.
Planes that Demonstrate the Essence
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
World's First 8K OLED TV
Vincent van Gogh, a master of modern art, poured his deepest insight into his artwork. His anxiety was expressed through rough brush strokes, and his passion can be observed from vivid colors. When you look at his paintings, they captivate you into a whirlwind of emotions. Beyond the portrayal of what he sees, Gogh exposed his inner self and spread it on canvas. This ardent challenge, filled with his life and authenticity, transformed the state of the twenty-century art world.
Just as van Gogh did for the art industry, OLED has become a game changer in the IT industry. The fundamental role of the display is to show images that are close to real life. For this purpose, the resolution has evolved up to 8K, four times higher than 4K UHD. When this ultra-high resolution is implemented on OLED, the image looks clearer and more vivid. Because each pixel operates on its own, it's also more suitable for HDR technology that makes bright areas become brighter and dark areas become darker. In other words, OLED optimally enhances all the technologies that present images in the closest way possible to the original that the human eye perceives.
People view the world through the display. From artworks, they are inspired in their hearts. These two are similar in that the excess of media is eliminated to focus on the core element. They concentrate on the dots, eliminate lines, and maximize the planes. In comparison to any other technology, OLED shows the closest image to the real thing. It's the ultimate ideal that all displays aspire to implement. Just as modern art discovers something new by eliminating the excess, we anticipate the future innovations and productions that will be constantly generated with OLED technology.
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Finally got round to seeing it last night and really enjoyed it although I read somewhere it's set 14 years before a new hope which I don't really understand has Han is meant to be about 18 and that would make him 32 in a new hope and I always thought Han in was in his early 20's in ANH?
Cardbackkid wrote: Finally got round to seeing it last night and really enjoyed it although I read somewhere it's set 14 years before a new hope which I don't really understand has Han is meant to be about 18 and that would make him 32 in a new hope and I always thought Han in was in his early 20's in ANH?
I've finally seen Solo and have to say I enjoyed it far more than TLJ (not difficult I know) Just a shame some berk at work gave away who the hologram was before I went.
Let's not have another thread hijacked by your dislike of the films under Disney. We may have broadly similar opinions of the last film but that doesn't mean I'm gonna let you hijack the thread. You don't like what Disney have done to SW, we get that. Let's leave it at that and move along.
EDIT...........I just reread your post. That ban is permanent. Good bye and good riddance.
I knew people would be upset to see him banned.
I heard Grant is going to start a thread to get the ban lifted. Have you watched it yet Weasel?
theforceuk wrote: Have you watched it yet Weasel?


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3D Printing for Garments Production: An Exploratory Study
Sun, D. & Valtas, A., 10 Aug 2016, In: Journal of Fashion Technology and Textile Engineering. 4, 3, 1000139.
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Binder leaching of naturally hydraulic lime (NHL) mortars
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Statistical techniques to emulate dynamic building simulations for overheating analyses in future probabilistic climates
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Shifting the balance of the Housing First debate
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Characterizing Microcrack Orientation Distribution Functions in Osteonal Bone Samples
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How Can There Be Evil And an All-Loving & All-Powerful God?
How Can There Be Evil And an All-Loving & All-Powerful God? If God is all-powerful & all -loving as the Bible claims to be, then how could there be evil? It seems as though God is either not as powerful as we think or he is not as loving as we think or perhaps He doesn't exist as atheists claim. Pastor Lucas offers three things to consider as you wrestle with what is consider the greatest argument against the existence of God.
When it comes to the events and experiences of our existence, randomness does not rule. God does. He is the Sovereign over our seasons. The Teacher reminds us of this fact in Ecclesiastes 3, and the Cross reminds us that God's ordering is for the good of those who believe.
The Purpose Driven Life (#1): What On Earth Am I Here For?
Today as we launched our 40 Days of Purpose, we asked three foundational questions: (1) The question of existence -- why am I alive? (2) The question of significance -- does my life matter? (3) The question of intention -- what is my purpose? If you have not signed up for a small group yet, you can still do so online at stpaulswired.org/groupfind.


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