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Square Enix Blockbuster Presents Mock Awards in Launch Trailer
screenshot: Square Enix
All about the lead up to release Facebookan action-RPG in a new open world from Square Enix, It was bottom button Mess up. But you wouldn't know it from a launch announcement that stays optimistic about the modern magical adventure by taking a bunch of words out of context and turning them into sneaky prizes.
"This is amazing Facebook The launch announcement is kind of telling us that the game may not actually be that good, and here's how I know," said trailer edit fan Derek Liu. In a TikTok video that exploded over the weekend. "The biggest red flag is these quotes that are either one word long or two words long."
He proceeded to go through each phrase that flashed across the screen during this, finding the original source it came from, and reading the larger context aloud. In almost every case, the meaning was very different from the way the words were presented in the trailer, and it was not intended to be seen as unequivocal praise.
In one example, Square Enix lifted the word "Beautiful" from a December preview Posted in spend. However, in context, the quote wasn't saying that Facebook It was beautiful but had the "potential" to be a "great story game that will tug your hearts out with each new chapter." It was, after all, a preview rather than a review of the final game, though the site's editor said she didn't object to how the word was used.
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"Square Enix did ask for permission to use the quote, and we did approve," Distractify gaming editor, Sara Belcher, told Kotaku in an email. "In our actual review, I refer to the game as "beautiful" (this has been my opinion of the game world since the preview, which is why I personally didn't feel the quote was out of context). We do not charge for the use of quotes in promotional materials.
In another example, file Final Fantasy The maker of the word "impressive" quotes from Detective game. The only problem is that the word in question doesn't even come from a process preview, but from a file Writing news Sony State of Play gameplay trailer. "Frey's traversal capabilities are impressive, allowing for quick movement in and out of combat, whether in air or water situations," the text reads.
To summarize then, FacebookIts most recent trailer included a truncated quote of a person describing one of the older trailers. Detective game's actual review gave the game a 7.5 out of 10. It did not include the word "brilliant", instead describing the overall adventure of main protagonist Fry as "[not] without distinguishing it."
Detective game He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Liu said Kotaku that the intent of the video was not to claim that he thought the game was or would be bad, but rather that the misleading frame strongly suggested that Square Enix wasn't confident enough in the game to let it stand on its own without the fake awards.
"They may be completely wrong to take this approach, and the game is actually good, or has advantages that they could focus on instead of looking for quotes," he said. "So I think it speaks more about the people responsible for marketing the game than it does about the game itself."
Companies' reliance on misleading quotes from critics and review outlets Nothing new. Sometimes they remove the original context. Sometimes they're just looking for any source, reputable or not, that says your game is great. The prizes themselves are always in giant fonts while the posts they're pulled from are too small to read unless you take the time to analyze them in a TikTok video like Lieu.
For comparison, he also shared two Forpsoken Promotional offers that make the game look attractive without resorting to lies. The first was View trailer Released last month. The second was a review of Current social media trailer It's been roasted again and again online for Joss Whedon-style fourth-wall-breaking dialogue.
"The real problem isn't the narrative at all, it's that they don't lean too heavily on the tone that the narrative should sell and I know that because I've proven it now just to be sure," he wrote. Twitter user spellbang who took the same ingredients but remixed them in a way that sounded cooler while retaining the sensibility of the original.
Regardless of the technical ingenuity behind creating a good video game trailer, lying is bad and companies should not do it. It's bad enough when it's a trailer full of pre-baked footage masks for, say, how bad the game actually runs. It's even worse, when companies go out of their way to try and trap independent media in their deception. Publishers are supposed to get permission before using others' quotes in their marketing, and to be transparent about how they are used.
Square Enix He did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Q: Custom validation message for bean validation I'm creating a JSF 2-application and I'm trying to use form validation in the bean instead of the faces-page. I'd also like to use a .properties file to store the messages.
I looked at this question but I don't think I have the properties-file set up correctly.
Let's say I have a bean called User in a package called 'dev':
@ManagedBean
@SessionScoped
public class User implements Serializable {

    @Pattern(pattern=".+@.+\\.[a-z]+", message="{dev.User.emailAddress}")
    private String emailAddress;

    // getter/setter
}

I've also created a file 'ValidationMessages.properties' in WEB-INF/classes (I'm using Netbeans 7.0.1)
In the ValidationMessages.properties file I've got this key/value-line:
dev.User.emailAddress=Custom invalid email message

And my view (user.xhtml) looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html">
<h:head>
    <title>User registration</title>
</h:head>
<h:body>
    <h:form>
        <h:inputText id="emailAddress" value="#{user.emailAddress}" required="true" />
        <h:message for="emailAddress" />
        <h:commandButton value="Ok" action="null" />
    </h:form>
</h:body>

When I enter an invalid email and press the button, the validation message in the web page reads:
{dev.User.emailAddress}

instead of
Custom invalid email message

Could the problem be that I haven't registered my properties file in web.xml?
I should switch required="true" to @NotNull in the bean too. Is there anything more I need to do than insert this:
<context-param>
    <param-name>javax.faces.INTERPRET_EMPTY_STRING_SUBMITTED_VALUES_AS_NULL</param-name>
    <param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

as explained in BalusC's blog?
Thanks in advance!
/ Dennis

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I've also created a file 'ValidationMessages.properties' in WEB-INF/classes (I'm using Netbeans 7.0.1)

I understand that you've put it straight in the project's /WEB-INF/classes folder yourself? This will likely be ignored/overridden if you let your IDE build/deploy the WAR (at least, this is true for Eclipse). You should rather put that file straight in the root of the Java source folder of the project. You can verify yourself if it really ended up in /WEB-INF/classes, after you export the project to a WAR file and then extract it using some ZIP tool.

A: I placed the .properties file in the resources folder and it worked, there was no need to register the file anywhere. For the record: I'm using Netbeans 7.0.1 and Maven.
Thanks for the help, BalusC!

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Made with a whopping 10 eggs, this cauliflower cake is more like a cross between a cake and a fritatta. But never mind the name, this "cake" is spectacular. The idea comes from Yotom Ottolenghi - it takes a bit of effort but is well worth it. We love the heavy dose of fresh herbs, especially rosemary which really perks up the humble cauliflower. The result is delicious and the leftovers keep for days, making it perfect for packed lunches during the working week.
Recipe adapted from Yotom Ottolenghi's recipe for cauliflower cake.
Heat the oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4. Break the cauliflower into medium florets, put them in a pot with a teaspoon of salt, cover with water and simmer for 15 minutes, until quite soft. Strain, and leave in the colander for a few minutes to get rid of all the water.
While the cauliflower's cooking, prepare the batter. Cut a few 0.5cm rings off one end of the onion and set aside (these will go on top of the cake); coarsely chop the rest. Heat the oil in a pan and on a low heat sauté the chopped onion and rosemary for eight minutes. Remove from the heat, leave to cool down, add the eggs and basil, and whisk.
Sift the flour, baking powder and turmeric into a large bowl, and add the parmesan, one and a half teaspoons of salt and plenty of black pepper. Add the egg mix and whisk to eliminate lumps. Add the cauliflower and stir gently, trying to keep some florets whole.
Use baking parchment to line the bottom of a 24cm round cake tin with a loose base. Brush the sides with butter, put in the sesame seeds and toss them around so they stick to the sides. Tip in the cauliflower mix and arrange the onion rings on top.
Bake the cake in the centre of the oven for 45 minutes, until golden brown and set. Serve just warm or at room temperature.


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Q: How To create Custom Cart Price rule In magento 2.3.1 I want to create a custom cart price rule with below conditions
1. If Subtotal Should be greater than xyz amount then abc product will be free.
I am able to add condition for greater than xyz but not able to add free product with available rules, Can anyone help me to know how We can achieve this

A: Use percent of product price - 100% to achieve this. It should look like this.

Conditions tab - should have your cart subtotal amount. Conditions tab tells Magento when the rule should be applied.
Actions tab - should have your free item. Actions tab tells Magento what should happen when the conditions tab is met.
Apply - percent of product price discount
Discount Amount - 100
Maximum Qty Discount is Applied To - 1 (so if customer add more than 1 of the free item to cart, they will only get 1 free).

UPDATE - Since you want to add the item automatically, you can do this by observer. Here is simple method you can use, but you still need to create the sales rule in the back end so the discount is applied. And the free item and threshold are hard-coded.
Vendor/Module/etc/events.xml
<event name="checkout_cart_product_add_after">
  <observer name="addFreeItem" instance="Vendor\Module\Observer\AddFreeItem"/>
</event>

Vendor\Module\Observer\AddFreeItem.php
public function __construct (
    \Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface $productRepository,
    \Magento\Quote\Model\Quote\Item $quoteItem
  ) {
    $this->productRepository = $productRepository;
    $this->quoteItem = $quoteItem;
  }

/**
 * @param Observer $observer
 * @return $this
 */
public function execute(Observer $observer)
 {
   $quote = $observer->getEvent()->getData('quote_item')->getQuote();
   $quoteTotals = $quote->getTotals();
   $subtotalValue = $quoteTotals['subtotal']['value'];
   $freeItemId = 172;
   $threshold = 100;

   if ($subtotalValue < $threshold) {
      $quoteItems = $quote->getAllVisibleItems();
      $quoteRowTotals = [];
     foreach ($quoteItems as $quoteItem) {
        $quoteRowTotals[] = ($quoteItem->getPrice() * $quoteItem->getQty());
      }
      $subtotalValue = array_sum($quoteRowTotals);
   }

   if ($subtotalValue >= $threshold) {
     $freeItem = $this->productRepository->getById($freeItemId);
     if (!$quote->hasProductId($freeItemId) && $freeItem->getIsSalable()) {
       try {
         $freeItemQuote = $this->quoteItem->setProduct($freeItem)->setQty(1);
         $quote->addItem($freeItemQuote);
       } catch (\Magento\Framework\Exception\Exception $e) {
         throw new \Magento\Framework\Exception\LocalizedException(
           __($e->getMessage())
         );
       }
     }
   }
 }


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Q: Perl6 REPL usage Is it possible to have (Rakudo) Perl6 execute some code before dropping you into the REPL? Like python does with "python -i ".
For instance, I want to load up some modules and maybe read a side file and build some data structures from that side file before dropping into the REPL and letting the user do the things they need to do on the data structure, using the REPL as a user interface.
This is similar but different than Start REPL with definitions loaded from file though answers to this question might satisfy that one. The basic case is that, at the end of execution of any program, instead of exiting, the interpreter leaves the user at the REPL. Aside from providing a nifty, built-in, Perl6-based user interface for interactive programs, it also provides a good tool from which to debug code that otherwise exits with an error.
edit:
Selecting Zoffix's solution as the correct (so far) one as it is the only one that satisfies all requirements as stated. Here's hoping this capability gets added to the compiler or language spec.

A: You can load modules with the -M switch.
$ perl6 -MJSON::Tiny

To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
> to-json Array.new: 1,2,3.Str
[ 1, 2, "3" ]
>

If you want to run other code, currently you have to put it into a module first.
$ mkdir lib
$ echo 'our $bar = 42' > lib/foo.pm6
$ perl6 -Ilib -Mfoo

To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
> $bar
42
>

A: I'd like to provide an answer that Zoffix gave on IRC. It satisfies the basic requirement but is far from pretty and it uses NQP for which there is no user support nor is the NQP API ( "nqp::*" calls ) guaranteed for the future and can change without warning.
replify 「
  say 'Hello to your custom REPL! Type `say $a` to print the secret variable';
  my $a = "The value is {rand}";
」;

sub replify (Str:D \pre-code = '') {
    use nqp;
    my %adverbs; # command line args like --MFoo
    my \r := REPL.new: nqp::getcomp('perl6'), %adverbs;
    my \enc := %adverbs<encoding>:v.Str;
    enc && enc ne 'fixed_8' && $*IN.set-encoding: enc;

    my $*CTXSAVE := r;
    my $*MAIN_CTX;
    pre-code and r.repl-eval: pre-code, $, :outer_ctx(nqp::getattr(r, REPL, '$!save_ctx')),
      |%adverbs;
    $*MAIN_CTX and nqp::bindattr(r, REPL, '$!save_ctx', $*MAIN_CTX);

    r.repl-loop: :interactive, |%adverbs;
}


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Hopefully you will not get too many bogeys here at Seven Canyons. This is a extremely delightful golf course. All the positive folks and the well taken care of facilities are rather incredible.
Drive your ball across the Seven Canyons roughs on to the fairways with your driver or one of your fairway woods if you prefer that. As long as you adore golfing you will adore Arizona.
and when you get to enjoy this place for a while you will feel like a new person.
While staying at Seven Canyons you could always discover Secret Canyon, and a good place like Slide Rock State Park is too perfect to leave out.
These outdoors activities are available near Seven Canyons.


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By Gabrielle Ake, Jake Miller CBS News September 26, 2016, 11:56 AM
Five questions for Clinton and Trump: The economy and taxes
A October 20, 2013, photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
Aiming to accelerate the slow-but-steady economic progress of the last several years, 2016 candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have offered a variety of proposals to increase job creation and jumpstart economic growth. Their plans run the gamut – from taxes and trade to workplace reforms and energy policy.
Amid all the white papers and policy statements, though, some crucial details have not yet been provided. Ahead of the first general election debate this weekend, here's a list of five questions for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on their economic proposals:
How will your tax plan affect the budget?
Donald Trump would like to eliminate the estate tax, reform personal income taxes by simplifying the income brackets and reducing rates, and reduce the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent. The Republican nominee's latest tax plan has been revised from a previous version, but an analysis of the previous version by the Tax Policy Center concluded it would reduce revenues by roughly $9 trillion even after some budget-balancing efforts are factored in like closing loopholes.Trump has said the growth his plan would create would offset that shortfall, but economists at the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget say "growth rates would have to be roughly 5 times as large as projected, and more than twice as high as the fastest growth period in the last 60 years" to bring the budget into balance. His team has offered few spending cuts that would keep his plan from increasing the national debt.
Clinton, by contrast, has proposed expanding the estate tax to collect more money from wealthy heirs. She'd also like to institute the "Buffett Rule to ensure people with incomes over $1 million pay at least 30 percent in taxes – something she says she'd accomplish by closing personal tax loopholes than primarily benefit high-earners. She'd also adjust the corporate tax code to discourage companies from outsourcing labor or moving headquarters overseas.
Analysts at the Tax Policy Center estimate Clinton's tax proposals would bring in an additional $1.1 trillion in revenue over 10 years. She's said she will use that money to fund investments in education, workplace reforms, and more. She has not offered details yet on which personal loopholes she would eliminate to collect more money from wealthy taxpayers, and how she'd adjust the corporate code to encourage domestic growth.
If TPP fails, what next?
Both Clinton and Trump oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-country free trade agreement, suggesting Asian countries will benefit more by the access to U.S. markets than American companies, costing U.S. jobs.
Trump has said he will not only pull out of TPP, he'll also renegotiate existing trade agreements (like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA), to secure a better deal for the United States. He has the authority to do that as president without Congressional approval. It would be the first trade deal the U.S. had pulled out of since 1866. But he's not addressed concerns from trade experts that the increased tariffs on goods coming into the U.S. from Mexico would hurt American companies with plants there. This would increase prices for American consumers on those goods. (The U.S. imported $259 billion in manufactured products from Mexico last year.) Machinery, plastics and vehicles that flow from the U.S, making Mexico the second largest market ($214 billion in manufactured products from American companies last year) would undoubtedly face higher tariffs from Mexico.
The Obama administration has warned that a failure to pass TPP will allow China to make trade deals with other Asian nations that will favor China and make it harder for U.S. companies to do business across the region – why are they wrong?
Clinton, despite speaking positively about a draft version of the Trans Pacific Partnership as secretary of state, has now confirmed her opposition to the final agreement, suggesting it doesn't meet the labor, environmental, and other standards she's set for any such pact. She's said she will continue opposing it unless those standards can be met. But what are those standards, exactly? How long is she willing to hold out for an agreement that meets her requirements? Is she willing to throw out the work that's been done thus far on TPP if such an agreement fails to materialize? And is she worried about the national security implications of China having better relations with countries the U.S. has tried to build stronger ties with through the TPP in order to counter-balance China's effort to expand.
Both candidates, as an aside on trade, should be pressed on the use of tariffs. Trump has openly mused about levying massive tariffs on other countries to protest unfair trade practices, and even on companies manufacturing goods abroad who wish to bring those goods home – how does he answer critics who say he'd start a trade war causing other countries to tax U.S. goods or block them altogether, hurting U.S. companies that sell goods overseas?
Clinton has talked about more targeted tariffs, and she's also proposed increasing U.S. trade office personnel to crack down on unfair trading practices. Under what specific circumstances could she see herself imposing a "targeted" tariff as president? And what on what specific unfair practices would she like trade prosecutors to focus their efforts?
How will your workplace reforms help families?
After a complicated back-and-forth, Trump seems to have settled on a proposal to hike the minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to $10 per hour. He's suggested individual states and localities could raise wages even higher. He's not said, though, whether he'd index the rate to inflation – a crucial detail that could prevent policymakers from having to readjust the wage every few years and thefefore make it potentially harder to raise the wage again in the future.
Trump would also like to create a tax deduction for child care. One potential problem, according to the New York Times: "If the policy were implemented as a typical deduction, it would provide no advantage for the 45 percent of people paying no tax and provide the biggest advantages to people in high-income tax brackets. His campaign has indicated that the Trump administration would find ways to make its advantages shared more broadly, though staffers had no details." Trump should be asked to provide those details – how would he ensure ??
Clinton, after initially proposing to raise the minimum to $12 per hour, eventually said she would support a hike to $15 per hour national wage, indexed to inflation - a proposal that has now been enshrined in the Democratic platform. She's supported efforts by states and localities to go even higher. She should be pressed to address criticism from some economists that a $15 per hour national minimum wage might cause employers in areas with lower cost-of-living to hire fewer workers or shrink their hours.
Clinton has also proposed limiting the cost of child care to 10 percent of a family's income, and she'd increase access to child care on college campuses for parents getting a degree. Perhaps her most consequential proposal on child care, though, is her idea of a child care tax credit for families. Unlike Trump's plan, credits are available for parents who don't pay federal income tax.
Clinton has also proposed guaranteeing at least 12 weeks of paid family leave, with individuals on leave receiving at least two-thirds of their usual wages. Current law guarantees 12 weeks of leave for new parents, but it does not require employers to pay them, leaving many families with infants unable to take considerable time off work after a child's birth. She's said she will pay for these workplace reforms with her tax code adjustments, but history have shown tax reform can be a tall order – how will she ensure Congress actually acts on tax reform and provides the revenue necessary to pay for them? And is she willing to finance these workplace proposals with deficit spending if Congress doesn't follow through on her tax reforms?
Is the future of energy renewable or carbon-based?
Clinton's energy policies place a heavy emphasis on increasing our use of renewable power sources, with two stated goals: first, powering every home in America with renewable energy within 10 years of taking office. Second, increasing renewables' total share of U.S. energy production to 33 percent from the current level (roughly 15 percent) within 10 years of taking office. She wants to install half a billion additional solar panels and expand other forms of clean energy, like wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and more. She also wants to invest in revitalizing the power grid to increase efficiency and reliability, especially in rural areas.
Clinton also wants to preserve and strengthen President Obama's climate action plan, arguing the new federal standards for power plan emissions shouldbe a "floor," not a "ceiling." She came under fire for suggesting earlier this year that her policies might put coal miners out of business. Though she's since apologized, she should be pressed on how she'll help the energy industry and its workers transition from carbon to renewable fuels. Is it realistic to expect laid-off coal miners in Appalachia to be put to work building wind turbines and solar panels?
Trump has placed much more emphasis on increasing domestic energy production of carbon-based fuels by loosening regulations. He'd immediately rescind all of President Obama's executive actions, including the Climate Action Plan capping greenhouse emissions from coal-fired power plants. Trump would also like to lift the moratorium on energy production on federally owned areas, and he'd urge Canada to renew the application for the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which the Obama administration quashed.
Trump's website says his energy plan "includes nuclear, wind and solar energy – but not to the exclusion of other energy," but it offers no specifics on how his administration will encourage the development of green energy. Trump should be asked whether he's missing an opportunity to aggressively grow America's presence in the burgeoning clean energy sector.
Given Trump's push to increase production of carbon-based fuels, and his vow to pull out of the recent Paris Climate Accord – two steps most scientists say would greatly exacerbate climate change -- Trump should be asked how he'll act to reduce carbon emissions. Or, perhaps more basically, he should be asked whether he accepts the science behind climate change to begin with. [he doesn't. He says it's a hoax, so maybe this last sentence should go or that information should be included elsewhere.]
How will you pay for your infrastructure investments?
Both Trump and Clinton have proposed massive infrastructure investments to create jobs and improve the condition of America's roads, bridges, rail lines, airports, and more. But they've both been, at times, vague about how they'd pay for it.
Clinton has proposed $275 billion in new spending, and her website claims she'd pay for the improvements through "business tax reform." But a recent report from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget found her corporate tax proposals would only net $150 billion over a decade – how would she make up the remainder?
Trump has proposed spending at least double the $275 billion that Clinton has suggested to rebuild the country's infrastructure and create jobs, but he's not offered an exact spending target. He has raised some ire among fiscal conservatives, however, by suggesting he'd tolerate significant deficit spending to make it happen. He should be pressed for specifics. How much, overall, would he allocate to infrastructure? How much of that would he be comfortable financing with deficit spending? Given the hole his tax proposals are already projected to blow in the budget, is it responsible to propose another massive spending project with no offsets?

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slot January 10, 2022 January 11, 2022 Jeffrey Hall
Slot games, the most interesting among the online games has two broad types of games. These are the single player slot and the multiplayer slots. If you are interested to play slot online then you have to read the following.
Single player slots
Slot machines in which a single player can only play at a time is the single player slots. This you can find in brick-and-mortar casinos. Here there are a smaller number of machines available. The land casinos cannot afford to have many machines because of the huge cost involved. This means it takes time for each one to get a chance. There is a lot of waiting time involved in such a case. In a single player slot in land casinos, the player pulls the lever to activate the slot machine. Once this is done, the reel spins and when it stops, a combination of symbols appear on the reels.
The same single player slots are also present in online casino games. Here the slot games have specific buttons to start and stop the spin. The game has a lot of animations and it attracts many players. Only a single player plays the game and there is no group in this format. All the winnings are credited to his account only.
Multiplayer slots
There is another kind of slot machine called the multiplayer slots. Here more than one player can play the same game at the same time. The players need not be from the same country also. It facilitates people from across the world to log in at the same time and play together. Each player gets his share of winnings credited to his account after the game is over. In a multiplayer slot game, there is a lot of interaction between the players. The players can learn a lot by interacting with each other. It gives a great level of enthusiasm which is not present in a single slot game. This is a unique feature available in the online casinos. In a multiplayer slot, the chances of earning more is also present which is a great advanatge.
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The seventh annual Ohio Growth Summit kicks off next week at Columbus State Community College.
The event, which takes place June 7-8 at the college's Conference Center for Workforce Development at 315 Cleveland Ave. in Columbus, is designed to help entrepreneurs and small business owners take their enterprises to the next level by providing them with advice they can immediately put to use, as well as connections that might be helpful down the road.
At this year's summit, there will be an emphasis on social media− how business owners can use it, why they should use it, and examples of how it has worked for small businesses, says Michael Bowers, regional director of the Ohio Small Business Development Center at Columbus State.
Appropriately, the summit's keynote speakers are Jay Baer and Amber Naslund, authors of the book "The Now Revolution," which outlines seven shifts they claim make companies faster, smarter, and more social; Joe Pulizzi, content marketing strategist and founder of the Content Marketing Institute; and Nate Riggs, social media strategist and founder of Social Business Strategies.
Sixteen others, including Curve Detroit Founding Partner Charlie Wollborg and Geben Communication President Heather Whaling, will be making speeches or serving as panelists for group discussions.
All of them are social media "power users" who understand its business applications, says Riggs, who also helped coordinate this year's summit.
A "speakers lounge" will be set up to facilitate one-on-one conversations between summit attendees and speakers and panelists, Bowers says. An informal afterparty on Tuesday night at Park Street Cantina in the Arena District will provide another opportunity for face time as well as networking.
In the weeks leading up to the event, its organizers have posted videos about various speakers and even given attendees a to-do list on the Ohio Growth Summit blog. Facebook and Twitter accounts have helped organizers engage with attendees and will help them continue the conversation after the event.
The summit takes place from 11 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday and from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
Admission is $130 per person and payment will be accepted now through the day of the event. About 200 people are expected to attend.
To register for the Ohio Growth Summit, click here.
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January 19, 2022, Wednesday
Statue of Laxmi-Narayan returned after 38 years
An androgynous idol of Goddess Laxmi and God Narayan which was stolen some four decades ago and trafficked to the USA has been reinstated at its rightful shrine at Patko Tole in Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City on Sunday amidst a function.
The unique idol depicting both sexes was lost one night during the month of June or July in 1984. It is said that smugglers had stolen the statue with the help of security forces.
The idol was returned from Dallas Art Museum which had held the statue for 30 years. However, it is still not clear how the statue reached there. The theft of the statue has been documented in Krishna Deva's 'Images of Nepal' and 'Stolen Images of Nepal' (1989) a book written by famous artist and writer Lain Singh Bangdel.
The stolen idol had come to the notice of the authorities after a New York based art crime professor Erin L Thompson raised questions about its provenance through multiple twitter posts in November 2020. Soon the issue was raised by many activists in the country and across the world, which prompted the Museum authority to seek legal procedures to bring it back to its rightful place. After this the Dallas museum authorities contacted officials at the Nepali Embassy in the USA. The move was made possible through multiple diplomatic means, concerned ministries, local leaders, activists and legal advocates raising the issue constantly for months.
In the begining, officials of Dallas FBI Field Office and the authorities of the museum transported the idol to the Nepali Embassy in Washington, from there the idol finally reached Nepal on April 12. The 33.5 by 19.25 inches idol also known as Basudev-Kamalaja dates back to the 10th or 11th century. The idol reinstating process was attended by US Ambassador to Nepal Randy Berry, Mayor of Lalitpur Metropolitan City Chiribabu Maharjan, ward chair of the area Nirmal Ratna Shakya, and members of Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign, who had made efforts to bring the idol back to the country. The statue was reinstated following religious procedures by the temple priest.
Sanjay Adhikari, heritage activist and secretary of the NHRC told THT that it was good news for all the Nepalis. "This is our living heritage, not just a work of art to be displayed at temperature controlled museums in other countries.
These statues are part of our lives and have reached their rightful place," Adhikari said. Exporting historic statues has been deemed illegal by the Ancient Monument Preservation Act of 1956, though hundreds of statues, artefacts and antiquities have been said missing from the country.


One thing I cannot usually do is watch two anime of the same genre back to back. For instance, I could not watch two action-packed shonen titles back-to-back. I need a little variety with my anime watching. After watching Fullmetal Alchemist, I just couldn't watch another serious sci-fi drama. I would need either a romance or comedy to balance out the strong drama from that show.
That doesn't only just apply to back-to-back anime viewings. If I watch a live action show that is more dramatic, usually I will be reaching for more of a comedy title. The reason I bring this up is because I just watched an old TV series on DVD that was much more dramatic than I remember so the first anime title I picked out was, guess this, a comedy show. Perhaps this is to lighten the mood after watching something with a heavy storyline, or maybe it shows that I am more of a well-balanced watcher of shows. I am not sure.
Yes, I'll admit it. This anime depresses the snot out of me.
To put this into more of an anime analogy, it would be like watching a series like Clannad: After Story. The anime itself is positively beautiful. However, when watching it, especially towards the end, I found myself feeling depressed about life in general. When looking at my anime shelf, I noticed that the other ones that were more dramatic, like Kanon, Shakugan no Shana, and the like just didn't seem to appeal to me.
Another admission. This anime giggles the snot out of me.
Instead, series like My Bride is a Mermaid (pictured above, in case you didn't know), Sgt. Frog, and School Rumble seemed to appeal to me more. I needed a show that didn't take life so seriously and just focused on having fun. After having a few laughs and forgetting about everyone dieing in Clannad, I decided to go for something slightly more serious this time. After watching one comedy, I usually feel like trying a more dramatic show again.
Yet, something else I will admit. This anime intrigues the snot out of me.
That was Death Note. Finally getting the nerve to watch that was tough, but more on that in a future entry. The point is that rarely does one feel like sticking with one genre over and over. Some shows strive to be more than one, like Durarara, which I have no clue how to categorize. But even with live action flicks, I need a happy medium with what I watch. If one show is more dramatic, I watch one that is easier on the brain.
Do you find yourself watching in this kind of pattern? Are you someone who sticks to one genre no matter what? I would love to find out.


The mission, the dream and the commitment turned into reality on Tuesday, June 23, 2015, when Centennial Bank awarded 10 scholarships to gifted high school student athletes at it first awards luncheon in Conway.
That was just a part of the package when Centennial Bank agreed to a three-year commitment to serve as the "Titled Name Sponsor" for the Arkansas Activities Association for all regional and state championships.
*The Mission – to be active in the schools and communities throughout the state of Arkansas.
*The Dream – to help the financial needs of 10 student athletes with $1,000 scholarships.
*The commitment – to be a partner with the AAA for three years.
In its first year the Centennial Bank Athletic/Community Service Scholarship produced records for student participation (447) and member schools (142). During the 2015-2016 school year 544 students , from 173 member schools, participated in the scholarship program.
"When we first sat down to discuss this idea with Centennial Bank, I knew that we had a chance to partner with an organization that has been a great supporter of high school athletics and activities," said AAA executive director Lance Taylor. "They also believed that our future depended on the success of our children.
The three-year agreement was made on August 6, 2014. The official announcement came before the AAA's Governing Body meeting in Little Rock. Centennial Bank CEO Randy Sims spoke to the Statehouse Convention Center crowd.
"Centennial Bank is very proud to be the official sponsor for the AAA," Sims said. "We now have over 80 locations throughout Arkansas and are the primary bank of most of the school systems in the markets we serve. We will see our logo on football and baseball fields, on all types of scoreboards, in gymnasiums, on school signs, our employees volunteering in classes, cooking hamburgers for games…all over the campuses and in every market.
Each school year the Centennial Bank State Championship Award is presented to 123 schools in the sports of football, boys basketball, girls basketball, boys cross country, girls cross country, volleyball, boys swimming, girls swimming, baseball, softball, boys track, girls track, boys golf, girls golf, boys tennis, girls tennis, boys soccer, girls soccer, boys bowling, girls bowling, wrestling, dance and cheer.
What makes Centennial Bank a near-perfect fit for the AAA?
*A community Bank with over 80 locations in Arkansas.
*For school spirit, Centennial Bank has a school mascot debit card.


Experiments on critical heat flux (CHF) have been performed with directly heated tubes, annuli, and rod-bundles having uniform or non-uniform axial power profiles. These test sections were cooled with either Freon or water flow at high pressure and high-flow conditions. CHF (dryout) occurrence was detected using either fixed thermocouples, installed along the heated tubes and annuli, or moveable thermocouples inside rod-bundle geometries. The test-section power corresponding to the initial CHF occurrence has been referred to as the critical power or dryout power. Simultaneous CHF occurrences at several locations were observed at some flow conditions and axial power profiles. Local CHF values were calculated using the measured critical power and dryout locations. Two approaches in correlating CHF values were examined for various non-uniform axial power profiles. Applying the local CHF approach tends to result in significant data scatter leading to increased prediction uncertainty. The boiling-length approach appears to collapse the CHF data in consistent and systematic trends, and hence results in an improved prediction accuracy of the critical power.


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Tin-Tan, real name German Valdes, was among the most popular comedians in the history of Mexican entertainment. Here he channels the spirit of Tyrone Power, as a timid fencer who discovers a witch has awarded him 60 minutes worth of super-human heroism. That proves sufficient to win the lovely young apple of his eye, Lupe. Silvia Pinal co-stars in this classic south-of-the-border comedy.


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OK, cool that @AndrewGillum won with a progressive platform & only a few million $. But 34% = win in FL? No runoff, let alone #RankedChoiceVoting? In a 7-way race, 14.3% could be a win.https://t.co/NoOvB4LUnA
— David Bruce Collins (@dbcgreentx) August 29, 2018
Texas and Florida, the two most populous states in the US South, constantly compete in a variety of areas. Most prominently, the debate about which state has the bigger and scarier cockroaches (palmetto bugs, whatever) never seems to end. Both continually top each other in the most inexplicably crazy news story department: Florida is ahead, as Texas still hasn't found anything to beat bath-salt-crazed residents eating people's faces.
Dashing Onward through the Blogs
Saturday evening, as noted in last Wednesday's entry, I went to BBVA Compass Stadium with a party of six to see the Dash play Sky Blue FC. Six different Dash players scored a goal each, one for each in our group. And my niece got a photo with Dynamo Diesel before the match. Even a 6-1 victory wasn't enough, however, to keep the club's playoff chase alive, as the Chicago Red Stars beat the Orlando Pride that evening, and one of Chicago's two remaining games is against the Utah Royals, who are ahead of the Dash on head-to-head results, so effectively there's no way for the Dash to jump into fourth place.
Consolation: the Dash can go have fun and play under no pressure against the first-place Courage in Cary NC. It sure beats where the squad was at this time last year, playing home games in Frisco and Edinburg while their stadium and the surrounding neighborhood were partially submerged. (Sidenote: Frisco and Edinburg, along with Cary, are venues for the upcoming CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifiers.)
Reminiscences were the theme of the week, as Texas Progressive Alliance bloggers and news sources looked back at Hurricane Harvey, John McCain, and other people and events in the week that was.
Last Tuesday's conviction of Paul Manafort and guilty plea by Michael Cohen--which occurred within minutes of each other—was a turning point for the Trump presidency, and both items were briefly summarized by Somervell County Salon.
Socratic Gadfly remembers Senator Maverick (not fondly, either).
#Harvey1YearLater was an opportunity for many Houstonians to contribute their stories to the narrative of the region's most destructive storm in over a century:
Following the successful bond election on Saturday, the Houston Chronicle followed up with a report indicating that the county still hasn't decided how to fix its flood infrastructure.
The Texas Tribune collected its reporting all in one place for a compendium of good reading.
The AP, via Talking Points Memo, noted the chutzpah of Big Oil recommending taxpayers foot the billion-dollar bill for the Texas Gulf coastal spine, to protect their Southeast Texas refinery and chemical plant infrastructure from the next mega-hurricane (caused by climate change, that they caused).
Black Agenda Report on Fauxgressives and Fauxcialists
Amen, Quetzal. Originally, that's all I was going to say. But, as often happens, Quetzal Cáceres's post got my analytical juices flowing, and those juices took the form of words.
The goal of wresting the Democratic Party from the clutches of its corporate masters and turning into a true party of peace and justice is a noble one. The goal of returning it to the days of FDR, LBJ, or even JFK is a misguided one.
From what I've read, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is sincere in her socialist leanings. She has some knowledge of the implications of advancing a socialist policy agenda, and why people (voters or not) will embrace socialism if they feel that capitalism has failed them. Does she know everything about it? No, but then who really does? I also perceive that her message gets muddled by the people who feel that they have a right to use or co-opt her voice.
Houston #DashTFOn toward the Playoffs...Maybe
Four days after beating the Washington Spirit at home 4-0, the Houston Dash visited smoky Seattle last night and lost 2-0 to the Reign. They still have a shot at a top-four finish in the NWSL and their first playoff in their five seasons of existence. Two points separate fourth place (Chicago Red Stars) from seventh (Dash). But they will likely need to win both of their remaining matches: one at home against a Sky Blue team that has yet to win this season; the other at North Carolina against a team that has lost only once.
The good news is that the North Carolina Courage's one loss was on their Cary NC home ground, at the hands—er, I mean the feet—of the Utah Royals. So the Courage are not invincible.
A playoff run would be nice, but even if the Dash fall short, I'm still a big fan...and the live-in companion of their loudest fan. ;-)
Order out of Organizational Chaos
I've heard from lots of fans about how messed up the Dynamo-Dash organization is, which the Christen Press mess and other quality players' departures brought to light. But that doesn't affect how I feel about the players, both Dash and Dynamo, or about the squad as a whole that new manager Vera Pauw has built. (I'm less enchanted with the Dynamo as a unit and with manager Wilmer Cabrera.)
I had my doubts about Pauw at the beginning of the season, when the team wasn't quite playing as a team, what with all the new arrivals. But even then I detected that Pauw was breaking things down into their component parts, improving those parts, and reassembling them into something better. The result is the Dash's best season yet: new highs for wins with 8, and for points and goals with 29 of each as of today.
Moving Rachel Daly back to the top of the formation where she belongs was the biggest improvement. Daly plays pretty well at any outfield position, including right fullback where she plays for England, but with the Dash she needs to be up front combining with Kealia Ohai. The additions of creative attacker Sofia Huerta and tall halfback Claire Polkinghorne, among others, helped solidify the team.
Just before the season started, Kayleen and I went to the Chocolate Bar in Rice Village and saw Coach Pauw waiting to order ice cream. We are frequent customers at both locations of the Chocolate Bar, so I interpreted that as a good sign.
Taking the Niece
This Saturday evening, I'll get to take my five-year-old niece and her parents to their first Dash match, the final 2018 regular-season home game against winless wonders Sky Blue FC. The niece has exhibited an aptitude for soccer, so I hope she'll be impressed with seeing some of the world's best players who happen to be women—including the two-time FIFA player of the year, former Dasher Carli Lloyd.
Ideally, I'd hope that, by the time my niece reaches adulthood, women's team sports will get coverage and attendance equal to men's in this country—and perhaps even equitable salaries for women athletes. Some day soon, perhaps in my lifetime, women's sports will just be...sports. It's already happening in Cascadia: The Portland Thorns routinely play to capacity crowds.
If you're curious, tickets are still available for Saturday, including some $9 specials for Fan Appreciation Night (Promotion Code = BBVA). This game will likely have way more than the usual 3,000 or so fans in attendance, and may set a new attendance record.
I'll leave it to my sister to explain to her daughter (or not) the meaning of #DashTFOn.
Saint Hyacinth Prog Blogs
Sorry I missed it. Friday the 17th was the Feast of Saint Hyacinth, or San Jacinto in Spanish. The flowers on the crest of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, are a hyacinth, subtly symbolizing the 13th-century Polish ecclesiastical reformer, namesake of a major river in Texas and the site of the decisive battle in the War for Texian Independence. It's hard to tell what type of flowers appear in the lower-left quadrant of the UST shield, since they lack that distinctive purple, but they do have star-shaped blossoms.
Also hard to tell, if your news diet is limited to mainstream media, is that the US is right now complicit in one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in history. The cable news channels at long last seem to have awoken to this fact, which alternative media have been reporting for years. So the next time a Facebook friend posts some version of that graph showing which media sources are trustworthy, ask why those oh-so reliable founts of information spent so many months not even mentioning Yemen while telling us about every mole and freckle on Stormy Daniels.
Beto O'Rourke enjoyed a swelling enthusiasm for his effort to unseat Ted Cruz and go to Washington as Texas' new junior US Senator. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs collected favorable polling and mentions of television and Facebook advertising to revise his prediction to a much closer contest, while Kuff seemed to be feeling a little pessimistic about Beto's chances and speculated on some consolation prizes for Texas Democrats.
The TexTrib's Ross Ramsey has an analysis--reprinted at Progrexas--of Greg Abbott's attempt to expand gubernatorial power that would make even Pa and Ma Ferguson, among the most corrupt Texas governors in the state's history, blush. (With envy, not shame.) Retiring state legislator Byron Cook warned that the governor's move represented a constitutional overreach, aka power grab.
Sorry, a Little Late with the Texobloggage
I have just returned from a few days in Minnesota, spent visiting relatives and rediscovering tennis. It was my first visit to the Gopher State since summer 1986, apart from passing through it on the Amtrak Empire Builder in 1998.
Highlights of the trip included playing tennis with Mom and her friends, seeing a very live production of West Side Story at the legendary Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, devouring a rhubarb pannekoeken at the Pannekoeken Huis in Saint Louis Park, hearing Minnesota regional accents everywhere dontcha know, and dinner with a friend who moved to the Twin Cities from Houston last year and absolutely loves the place.
Not-so-highlights included a visit to the Mall of America (it's just not my thing), constant political ads on the TV, and noticing how incredibly white my parents' summer neighborhood is. And it is very much a summer neighborhood: Owners can live there only between 15 April and 15 October.
Next visit, I definitely want to go to St. Cloud (or the Cities) and try some Somali cuisine.
Camp & Goldfield Strike Very Close to Home
Here's a shortish entry to counter-balance the lengthy one that I posted earlier today.
This 18th installment of the Common Censored podcast, featuring DC-based comrades Eleanor (Act Out!) Goldfield and Lee (Redacted Tonight) Camp, is worth listening to in its entirety. If you can't consume the whole thing, please listen to the part that starts about 37 minutes in.
Goldfield starts with the concern-troll habit of trying to force a post-racial world into existence by saying, "Race is just a construct! So stop talking about it!" They both go on to explore issues of identity politics from multiple angles, including Camp's observation (about 41 minutes in) that it is sometimes abused in leftist organizations to the point of keeping these organizations from getting anything done. (I'm thinking of a particular group that shall remain unnamed in this post.)
I agree completely that white folks in progressive and radical groups need to be more sensitive to our society's systemic white supremacy and their own assumptions, or white and male is the default and not an identity. (I do not exempt myself from this responsbility.) I also agree that these groups have a duty to encourage people from historically oppressed demographic groups to speak their truth, raise their issues, and propose solutions.
But I also agree with Goldfield's prescription: that perceived racial and gender slights can be addressed outside the meeting. Certainly, call people out for misusing their privilege, but do so when and where you can more effectively make them see their error, rather than derailing the meeting. Strive to make your comrades, your organization, and future meetings better, rather than giving up on them based on one or two faux pas.
It is not your responsibility as a person of color to educate white folks on their insensitivity; however, the potential upside in making them even a bit more woke is huge. If they resist these educational overtures, they're not very woke to begin with, and then you can give up on them. Tell them to go find another group that's more their speed.
Progressive Push Gets Me Thinking about 1968
won't you please come to chicago for the help that we can bring
we can change the world, rearrange the world
Crosby Stills Nash - Chicago
Yesterday, in some primary elections, Progressives got a little more to cheer about. The Intercept provides the most thorough recap I've seen thus far (with a little editorializing because it's The Intercept).
These mostly Millennial-age candidates may talk like, well, a bunch of Millennials, but, like, once you get past the cadences of their speech, it emerges that, like, they really know something about policy. They may not get everything right, but they are using their platforms to advocate passionately for a government that takes care of people and the environment, that sees human beings as more than just donations and votes, that can halt the damage from humanity's worst ecocidal tendencies (to borrow a word from Caity Johnstone). For that I salute these young candidates, even if they are running as Democrats.
Fifty years ago this month, a crowd of mostly Baby Boomers gathered in Chicago, in a mass demonstration against the Democratic Party's nomination process, among other things. Since then, the party has changed a lot, in multiple directions, but the net change has been for the worse. The Baby Boomers have taken over both parties, and the vision of peace and justice that the demonstrators brought to Chicago is far from realized. Progressive and radical activists still demonstrate at these quadrennial conventions, in smaller numbers, and usually within the designated Free Speech Zones.
Perhaps the Millennials can do what their parents and grandparents could not: forge a true people's party, either with the Democratic Party's infrastructure or by creating something entirely new. I don't hold out much hope for them #GreenEntering en masse.
Hiroshima Day Texoblogosphere
Reminder: The United States of America remains the only nation to use atomic/nuclear weapons. Seventy-three years ago this week, the USA used those weapons on two militarily important cities in Japan, with the full knowledge that thousands of civilians would be incinerated. This nation has no moral authority to dictate to any other nations what weapons they may or may not possess—especially given that, as we speak, it is participating in a non-nuclear holocaust in Yemen. (UPDATE: not just participating.) One would hope that an international authority such as the United Nations could move toward a consensus that all nations with nuclear weapons should dismantle them as quickly and safely as possible—and then act on that consensus.
Over the weekend, I received a notification that Cindy Sheehan had been invited to return to Hiroshima and give a speech there. Also, while grocery shopping Saturday, I saw a gentleman wearing a cap that said WORLD WAR II VETERAN. I calculated that the youngest veterans of World War II would now be in their 90s and reckoned he might be about that age. For his display of courage in visiting Generic Kroger on a Saturday morning, even with the aid of his wife and an electric scooter, I salute that veteran.
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In ordering the Trump administration to immediately begin locating immigrant parents and reuniting them with their children, a federal judge declared that the danger of creating "permanently orphaned children" will be "100% percent" the responsibility of the federal government.
Calls for a state investigation and to cease approving licenses for immigrant detention centers were made after a report that a toddler died after being released from a facility in South Texas, and allegations of sexual abuse of at least eight immigrant boys at centers in Arizona run by Southwest Key, the company that wants to open a "baby jail" in Houston.
Texas Standard wonders if Pope Francis' call to eliminate the death penalty will change any minds among Texas Catholics...like Greg Abbott.
Lavender Supplements for a Lefty
That could be me during a visit from The Black Dog. Photo cadged from Imperfect Rantings of an Introvert.
Since dropping a hint about it in Monday's post, I've been putting this off, partly because I don't like devoting blog space to personal matters, and partly because I'm not sure exactly what I want to say. So I'll decide what to include as I go, which is not unusual for me. Life is jazz. I like to improvise.
Today I celebrate seven days without alcohol. OK, not entirely without alcohol: I drank an Italian soda that Kayleen made with a shot of Chambord. My abstinence is due not to any recognizable drinking problem, nor to a flare-up of gastritis, but to alcohol's incompatibility with my new medication regimen.
The Next Thing
Last fall, I indicated in an entry here (sorry, can't find it) that my mental state was not suitable for a political candidacy in 2018. I may have even hinted that my particular issue is depression, sometimes accompanied by anxiety. Mine is not the sort of debilitating depression that I've seen friends and family members suffer; I still get through my day with all its obligations. But there I times when I'd rather just curl up in a ball and die than face The Next Thing.
The Next Thing can be any task of any size: e.g., making and eating breakfast, filing a tax return, shopping for gifts, getting my shit together for a weekend camping trip, or even posting on this blog.
Or getting myself to a doctor.


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Federal buildings to close Wednesday to honor George H.W. Bush
by: Wes Rapaport
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Federal buildings nationwide will be closed Wednesday as the nation honors the death of former President George H.W. Bush, who died Nov. 30 at the age of 94.
The White House sent out information about an executive order from President Donald J. Trump that provides guidance for the heads of federal agencies to plan for the closure.
"The heads of executive departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty on December 5, 2018, for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need," the order reads.
The order says Dec. 5 will fall under executive order 11582 which ensures no interruption in pay for federal employees.
Mr. Trump declared Wednesday a National Day of Mourning and ordered flags to half-staff for 30 days.
Bush will be memorialized in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, and will be laid to rest Thursday in College Station, Texas.
by Alexis Padilla / Jan 17, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) - The Sedgwick County Health Department says it successfully completed phase one of distribution and is ready for phase two.
County Health Officer Dr. Garold Minns says the biggest challenge moving forward is getting the vaccines, "It's barely a drop in the bucket for this population. So we're anxiously awaiting."


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After foundation day light & sound,power cuts in Jharkhand
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A day after the state government organised musical evening under colourful lights and sound at a cost of crores of rupees at Morahabadi Maidan, power cuts caused pain to people in Dhanbad.
Dhanbad is not an odd case. Almost seven district areas in Jharkhand were in grip of power cuts. The cause was rooted in the state of Jharkhand's high debts amounting to Rs 3,527 crore to the Damodar Valley Corporation which had issued a notice announcing power cut for long hours from November 16 in seven districts of State including Dhanbad.
The notice was addressed to chief engineer (C & R), Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited, read that the DVC is reeling under high debts. The sum amounting to Rs 3,527 .80 crore remain unpaid by the office.
"Had the government used the money and not overspent on many fields such as seminars and functions including foundation day function, the problem of power cuts caused by unpaid dues to the DVC could have been prevented", said Suman Kumar,a school teacher, echoing the sentiments of many neutral citizens.
Sadly, no payment was made to the DVC by Jharkhand Bidut Vikas Nigam Ltd till date, DVC says. It also mentions that Rs 20 crore in the month of June 2018 and Rs. 350 crore in the month of September 2018 has been received by the corporation against energy bills raised by it.
Under the notice the DVC had guided the JBVNL that if no payment is received from JBVNL towards arrear dues along with current dues immediately, the regulation in power cut extending to 30 percent will be imposed from 00:00 hrs. of November 16.
When contacted General Manager cum Chief Engineer of electricity, Dhanbad, NP Sinha avowed the power cut commencing from today, for almost 7 and a half hour.
When asked about the difficulties the common citizens and businessmen is facing,he replied that the power cut of seven and half hour will not take place continuously in a day but in parts. He agreed upon the problem that would arise from the power cut in such long hours.
"The common people are now more alert and they are not going to tolerate such nuisances. What if some crowd gather and attack the Giridih grid," says Sinha.
Sunil Thakur, Chief engineer of JBVNL, when contacted said that this problem is not new but it is continuing for 33 years. He said that the board gets electricity only for household or domestic purpose whereas the High-value Electricity is distributed directly."We buy electricity at the rate of Rs 4.93 per unit and sell it at the rate of around 40 paisa per unit; this is costly affair for us "Said Sunil Thakur.
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Riket is Swedish death metal performed in Swedish by Swedes. Great stuff!
Two current members of Netherbird – vocalist Johan Nephente Fridell and guitarist/bassist Tobias Jakobsson – got together with former Netherbird drummer Adrian Erlandsson (At the Gates, The Haunted, ex-Cradle of Filth, Paradise Lost) – to form Riket and to have some fun while creating new death metal without the pressure that comes with major releases.
Riket was formed as an outlet for the members to try some ideas outside of their regular bands. Based on this four-track EP, these ideas work very well. "Riket" is Swedish for "The Kingdom". It is not only the band name and the band members that are Swedish, Riket's lyrics are all in Swedish too. As a native Swedish speaker, maybe I am biased, but it works well and the Swedish lyrics make this a bit different from what the three gentlemen do with their other bands. Riket's music has a great spontaneous underground quality to it.
While the EP only contains four tracks, we do get a fair bit of variation of death metal styles within these tracks. It is clear that the trio is having fun playing together as Riket. This side project is likely to remain a side project as the members are quite busy with their other bands, but Riket is a fun treat for people who like quality death metal. Make no mistake about it, Riket is a great and somewhat different death metal band well worth checking out.
Riket's "Avarter" EP is out now in digital format on Scarecrow Recordings. A limited edition 7" vinyl version will be released on 1st September by Black Lion Productions.


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Julian Henry
Anthony Michael Halmos (born 9 March 1952), known as Tony, is Director of Public Relations at the City of London and an advisor and contributing editor to Editorial Intelligence.[1]
2 Policy world
3 On journalists and PR men
1973: Research associate, Templeton College, Oxford University
1978: Assistant organiser of organisation and industrial relations department, Trades Union Congress
1982: National organiser and local government officer, Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats
1989: Associate director, public affairs, Hill and Knowlton
1994: Director of public relations, Corporation of London
Halmos "started his career as national organiser for the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats between 1982-1998 and was Press Secretary to the then Leader of the Liberal Democrats, the Rt Hon Sir David Steel MP between 1987 and 1989".[2]
Between 1989 and 1994 he was Associate Director in the Public Affairs section of Hill and Knowlton. During this time he was seconded to the Water Association where he was public affairs, press and information officer in the run up to privatisation of the industry. He was also seconded to Hong Kong where he was the Campaign Co-ordinator for the Honour Hong Kong Campaign for full British passports for Hong Kong people.[3]
In 1994 Halmos joined the Corporation of London, where he was responsible for promoting the City as the "world's leading international financial centre and Europe's financial capital."[4] The City of London Corporation is the local authority for the City of London – the capital's financial centre. It is run, as the Sunday Times put it (the year after Halmos was appointed), by an:
exclusive coterie of men who rule the City of London according to conventions laid down in medieval times... at least 21 of the 25 aldermen attended top public schools including Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Radley, Haileybury, Rugby and Stowe. They are drawn from some of the most prestigious City names, including Rothschilds and Linklaters & Paines. The City was the only local authority allowed to keep its aldermen when they were abolished elsewhere in 1972. Aldermen wine and dine regularly at the Mansion House, home of the lord mayor of London, and at Guildhall, the official headquarters. They rub shoulders with prime ministers and ministers, not only from Britain, but from abroad. Each alderman gets a turn as lord mayor, for which he is given the use of two Rolls-Royces, travel expenses and the right to live in the Mansion House . There are 230 lunches, dinners and banquets each year at the Mansion House, which has extensive wine cellars and 37 staff.[5]
When the Government threatened to abolish the City of London Corporation and merge the financial district with the surrounding local authorities, Halmos "dipped into his experience in public affairs and, in conjunction with the chairman of the policy and resources committee, engaged in a fierce campaign to guarantee the future of the authority."[6]
Halmos was awarded a Fellowship by the Institute of Public Relations in May 2002 — the same time as EI's Julia Hobsbawm and Dominic Fry.[7]
Policy world
Halmos took part in a Foreign Policy Centre meeting on UK-EU-China Policy Dialogue at the Treasury, Downing Street and Guildhall.
Speakers included: Sir Michael Butler, Sir David Clementi (Chairman of Prudential), Lord Hannay of Chiswick, Charles Leadbeater, Mark Leonard, Sir Peter Middleton (Chairman of Barclays Bank). Participants included [[Nick
Julian Stewart Henry (born 11 June 1959) is a British PR executive and columnist at The Guardian. He co-owns the PR firm Henry's House which combines corporate and show business PR, and whose early clients included the Spice Girls, S Club 7 and Tango.[8] He is also an adviser and contributing editor for Editorial Intelligence,[9] and is Head of Communication for Simon Fuller´s 19 Entertainment.[10]
On journalists and PR men
In an article by Genevieve Roberts and Ian Burrell of the Independent [11] with the heading "Every journalist has a gripe about dealing with PR people - but what irritates the gatekeepers?", Henry replies:
The only annoying thing is when journalists have a pre-conceived notion that a PR man is the devil, and we are not worthy of sitting at the same table as them. There are fewer narrow-minded journalists now, but it is annoying when some people do not seem to realise that we have anything valid to contribute to a news story or debate.
Editorial Intelligence
↑ "Advisors and Contributing Editors" Editorial Intelligence (accessed 7 October 2007)
↑ Congratulations to the Fellows:16 IPR Fellowships awarded at the IPR AGM on 2 May 2002 Institute for Public Relations 2002. Accessed 7th October 2007
↑ Shunned alderman takes on the City5 Mar 95, Sunday Times
↑ Sarah Robertson, 'Profile: Political 'anorak' in the City - Tony Halmos, director of public relations, Corporation of London', PR Week UK, 26 March 2004
↑ IPR Press Release, '16 IPR Fellowships awarded at the IPR AGM on 2 May 2002', (accessed 29 August 2008)
↑ Sathnam Sanghera, "No business like show biz. No money, either" Financial Times 22nd April 2002. Accessed 7th October 2007
↑ "Advisers and Contributing Editors" Editorial Intelligence.com. Accessed 7th october 2007
↑ Media Guardian Innovation Awards 2009, The Judges: Julian Henry (accessed 11 September 2008)
↑ Genevieve Roberts and Ian Burrell "Inside Story: Ten things I hate about you..." Independent 10th April 2006. Accessed 7th October 2007
Butler]] (BP), Peter Mandelson MP, Geoff Mulgan and Will Hutton. [1]
Charles Lewington, friend
↑ THE FOREIGN POLICY CENTRE/CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UK-EU-CHINA POLICY DIALOGUE The Foreign Policy Centre. May 10th & 11th 2004. Accessed 7th October 2007
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Golfer Retief Goosen's self-doubt would keep him in the shadows of fellow South African and friendly rival Ernie Els for many years. Playing primarily on the European Tour, Goosen enjoyed a quiet and mildly successful career while his friend Els competed with golf's superstars on the U.S. Tour. That would all change when Goosen, without much fanfare, won the 2001 U.S. Open and then proceeded to win five international titles in the following ten months. Although he continues in relative anonymity, his recent success allows him to do so without a doubt of his ability to compete with golf's giants.
Born February 2, 1969, in Pietersburg, South Africa, Goosen's father, a real estate agent, was an amateur golfer who introduced his son to the game at an early age. Goosen soon inherited his father's passion for the game. Beyond the realm of normal encouragement, his father pushed his son towards excellence—even going as far as to create a wooden contraption to ensure that his son kept his head still while swinging the club. By the time he was seventeen, Goosen was considered one of the top prospects in South African Golf, but not before suffering through a life changing event.


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Featured: This Is What It's Like To Own A RUF Yellowbird
This Is What It's Like To Own A RUF Yellowbird
By Ted Gushue
Photography by Ted Gushue
I don't need an excuse to write about a Porsche. I do it all the time. I Instagram them. I talk about them ad nauseum. I get into fights in our comments section with readers who assert that we've become Porschelicious. That's all fine—but I don't care who you are, what your stance is on Porsches, or yellow birds for that matter—when you see a RUF Yellowbird in the flesh, you stop what you're doing and pay attention.
Tim Pappas is an accomplished racing driver, and is the principal of the Patrick Long-staffed Black Swan Racing. We're gonna be profiling a few of his cars over the next couple weeks, but this one pretty much takes the cake.
Ted Gushue: Tell me the story of how you first came upon the Ruf "Yellowbird".
Tim Pappas: Well, my oldest friend, David Lloyds, saw the car listed for sale on someone's website, and he thought of me because he and I are both huge Porsche fanatics and he knew that I loved that car. We used to talk about cars all the time before we could drive, and the Yellowbird was one of the first cars that we both agreed was crazy. I called the seller's broker talked to them. It's an interesting car because the original owner was the Ruf importer for the U.S. for a brief period of time and a very good old friend of Alois Ruf. When they were building these cars, he wanted one. Of course, it wasn't easy to get one into the US because of the legal process, but they figured it out, and so for the longest time, this was the only "Yellowbird" in the US.
The original owner bought the car in Germany, and he did a bunch of driving events in Germany and then brought the car into the US sometime in '91 or '92. The car was a little bit infamous because he used to go and do lots of track days. I've got a friend who was driving at Roebling Road in a Porsche 935. The original owner was driving this car. Roebling has this sweeping turn that goes onto the front straightaway, and the sweeping turn is flat, and the straightaway is so long and it's so fast. When he saw the picture of the car he said, "Man, I could not pass that car in the 935!" It is just that fast!
The car did a lot of track days, and over the years they made it a pretty good track car. It came from Ruf with racing seats, and harnesses, and the full roll cage, and all the lightweight aluminum bodywork. They had added a transmission cooler and rear brake cooling. They changed the ring and pinion because, of course, you didn't need the car to go 215 miles an hour. They put a shorter ring and pinion in it. They put a fuel cell in it. And then he just did tons of track days.
He had two sets of wheels, and the great thing was that he really loved the car. So, even though he did a ton of track miles in it, he took good care of it, maintained it properly and kept all of the stock parts. When I bought the car in 2012, we basically just took it completely apart, down to the bare chassis and rebuilt everything, put everything back to stock, rebuilt all four corners; suspension, brakes, engine, gearbox, put the fuel system back to stock, took out the transmission cooler that they had added, put the original ring and pinion back in, we had all the gears reworked—but no changes from what Ruf had delivered.
The restoration didn't go overboard, it was not upgraded with turbos. When we sent the turbos back to Triple K, they were like, "Hey, we can change the cartridges and make them even better!" I just elected not to do any of that stuff because it was like a purity mission, although it was not a preservation class one-off '50s Ferrari, right, where having the original paint mattered to me. To me, it was like I wanted this car to be absolutely dead-ass perfect, like it'd just rolled out of the factory.
Bernie Van Hamond, one of my racing mechanics, helped oversee the project. He also works in the construction industry. He's a project manager but he's been racing forever. I've been racing with Bernie since 2007. He's an unbelievable car builder because he's so meticulous and so organized. We were constantly on email with Ruf to get parts and pieces and asking questions like, "How is this supposed to look?" The muffler was a wreck, so we had to completely rebuild the muffler. I mean, just so much stuff. It was amazing how helpful they were.
TG: Is that has something to do with the fact that Ruf wants to preserve their legacy and their legend?
TP: I think it's partially that, but it's also that when you meet Alois and when you understand what their whole philosophy is, you realize that they're just such Porsche fanatics, and like all Porsche fanatics they want it to be done right and they love to collaborate with people. Which is why you see Ruf now doing restoration work on an early '64 911 or a '73 RS Carrera. I mean, he just does everything, restorations, service. He's got factory authorized service for Porsche as well. He's doing a ton of stuff, but they helped us immensely.
TG Describe the drive.
TP: Well, I think what's so amazing is, for a torsion bar car the suspension is spot on. It's so good! The chassis is so balanced. You can drift the car, you can hold it in a drift. It's really, really stable. It changes direction well. It's not as pushy as some 911s that you'll drive. The weight of the car, the big reduction in weight with aluminium bodywork, and all the lightweight stuff that they've done, no sound-deadening and all that, the car is really light. It has a ton of power, but with twin fuel injectors, twin turbos, electronic engine management, the car is actually very quick on the boost. It doesn't have the old air-cooled, single turbo, miles of turbo lag, but it still has a satisfying kick in the ass, as you felt.
TG: What's the car capable of in its current setup?
TP: Well, top speed it's capable of 215. I've never run it on a quarter mile. The fact that it has an aluminium roll cage, most of the drag racing clubs won't allow it. I think it's a high 10 second quarter mile car at probably 145-ish. I mean, it feels that fast. Maybe it could be a tick off of that. It's just the inherent slop in that gearbox that would slow it down a little. You can't really slam it, like you can a current generation manual gearbox. It's one of the most satisfying 911s to drive because it has that air-cooled feel but mixed with performance that…
TG: …rivals most super cars today.
TP: I mean, it will absolutely annihilate a 993 Twin turbo. Just completely smoke it because it weighs 1,200 pounds less.
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I won a competition in 1996 to travel to Ruf in Germany from the Uk,drive the car,be taken around the factory and Meet Alois, and then be taken round the Nurghburgh by Stephan Roser very quickly and very sideways.
Mark Langren
The car came out of MN. 935 motor.
It went from PCA club racing to HSR
Jim Facinelli
Love everything Ruf builds. He has great attention to detail and glad you did the same! I own one of the Beddor racing cars called Bluebird (even though its always been black!) A BTR C-4 the lone survivor of 2 built and very similar in many ways to the CTR but its only a 205 mph car!
Braden Storrs
That is absolutely gorgeous. So clean.
Aaron Ziomek
i know the guy to blame for putting those add-one, but he stated it had to be done to be race ready. You guys should reach out to him.
Made In Flacht
I was at Roebling Road that day, or at least one of the days the CTR was there. I took about 25 pics and met the original owner.
Awww bummer, looks like my pics didn't load. Well, there are more on my Instagram account (Made_in_Flacht). And I'll upload some more tonight.
snoopy1969wv
just had a short look on youir instagram oics – very nice!!!!
Great article! One additional question: if I remember right the Yellowbird presented around 1987 in German car magazines had some middle large air inlets above rhe rear Fender / behind the doors – why does this car does not have them? (maybe they weren´t needed "really"?)
Dave Wilson
My understanding is the NACA ducts on the rear wings were deleted on later ctrs because they were found not to be needed. The idea behind them was to help with engine cooling.
Amir Kakhsaz
The air pressure in the engine compartment was found to actually push air out of the NACA ducts rather than feed the intercoolers which were mounted right behind them. The customer-delivered CTRs like this one had the ducts deleted and the intercoolers mounted perpendicular to the ground. The intercoolers are fed by the engine lid grille and after passing through, the air dumps off through the rear quarter panels behind the tires.
Ricardo Carrero
The NACA ducts were experimental on the original CTR. They were supposed to feed air to the intercoolers, but in an unexpected twist they ended up working backwards. People loved the look so much that RUF left them there.
Azmi Afyouni
When I first saw it, couple of decades ago, it was in an article in Road & Track.
I was a little kid and since the Yellow Bird continues to fascinate me.
Steven Melnick
Those side view mirrors…
Guitar Slinger
What an absolutely fantastic car to start the series . The Unicorn of Porsches .. the mythical ( yet real ) Ruf Yellowbird . I'll look forward to seeing whats in the rest of his collection … but even if it ended here I'd be a happy man .
And to heck with anyone complaining about too many Porsche articles . Like there's not a plethora of Ferrari articles flooding the net/magazines/here etc … 😉
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I was married once. Ok, twice. Twice unsuccessfully. And I have to say, it kind of hurts your feelings to have 2 divorces. One is ok. Normal, even. Two starts to look bad. That's why I have decided never to get married again. I have not gone through the legal steps to officially get divorced. That way if I ever have the crazy notion that I want to get married, I'll have to do a lot of stuff first.
Admittedly, there are other reasons I haven't officially gotten divorced. I don't think that it's up to the court to decide when my marriage has ended. I felt like it ended when I bought my own place. And at that point we no longer shared any property or bank accounts. But I do still have some of my stuff at his house because my place is so small. I guess if someone ever moves in with him I'll have to rent storage or something. But I don't have to obsess about that today. Although I was about to.
Also, it costs money to get divorced, and despite being a professional, I am just making it month to month. I suspect I must be doing something wrong since the average salary for an entire family is less than what I make, but that is for another post. If we got divorced I would have to pay for it all because he didn't want to get divorced.
This last reason is irrational, but whatever. People do all kinds of irrational things. Even psychologists. Even though I already tell people I have two divorces, it's different in my mind to actually have two separate slips of paper saying you're divorced. They're not even full sheets of paper. And it's not anything important looking like a certificate. Like when Homer Simpson got a certificate and a stamp that said Not Insane after he was released from the mental hospital. I love that episode! Maybe they should give you something like that when you get divorced so you know it's important.
In fact, the slip of paper looked so unimportant that the first time I got divorced I threw the thing away. But then when I was getting married again I found out that you actually need that little slip of paper, so then I had to get a copy of it. Which I did keep this time. Although I have no idea where it is at the moment. But that's OK, because I'm not getting married again.
Despite my claims that this slip of paper is not important, I don't want two of them on my record. It's like having two strikes against you. Two reminders that you have not been able to successfully maintain a marriage. And who needs that?
However, if my unofficial ex were ever to ask for a divorce because he wants to get married, I would do so. That way he would have to pay for half of it.
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I'm not sure that two divorces mean two strikes against you. I do think it means, sometimes the choices we make are not necessarily the right ones. And so we have to learn from that. Having been married for over 30 years, I can say that I made a good choice, although sometimes things don't always go smoothly. But I also think that he made a good choice in me too.
Having 2 divorces is no big deal, been there, done that. Third time was Mr. wRight!


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