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Title Significant zero : heroes, villains, and the fight for art and soul in video games / Walt Williams.
Author Williams, Walt, author.
Publication New York : Atria Books, 2017.
Edition First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Call # 794.8 W
Summary "From the award-winning videogame writer behind Spec Ops: The Line comes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how today's blockbuster video games are made. When his satirical musings in a college newspaper got him discharged from the Air Force, it became clear to Walt Williams that his destiny in life was to be a writer--he just never thought he'd end up writing video games, let alone working on some of the most successful franchises in the industry--Bioshock, Civilization, Borderlands, and Mafia among others. Williams pulls back the curtain on an astonishingly profitable industry that has put its stamp on pop culture and yet is little known to those outside its walls. In his reflective yet comically-observant voice, Williams walks you through his unlikely and at times inglorious rise within one of the world's top gaming companies, exposing an industry abundant in brain power and out-sized egos, but struggling to stay innovative. Significant Zero also provides clear-eyed criticism of the industry's addiction to violence and explains how the role of the narrative designer--the poor soul responsible for harmonizing gameplay with storylines--is crucial for expanding the scope of video games into more immersive and emotional experiences. Significant Zero offers a rare look inside this fascinating, billion-dollar industry and a path forward for its talented men and women--gamers and nongamers alike--that imagines how video games might inspire the best in all of us"-- Provided by publisher.
"An award-winning videogame writer offers a rare behind-the-scenes look inside the gaming industry, and expands on how games are transformed from mere toys into meaningful, artistic experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Williams, Walt.
Video games industry.
Video games -- Design.
Violence in video games.
Video game designers -- United States -- Biography.
Related To Online version: Williams, Walt. Significant zero New York : Atria Books, 2017 9781501129971 (DLC) 2017037552
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Cruz Assails Obama Anew over Terrorism Fight
Reprising a familiar theme from his abandoned presidential campaign, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz convened a hearing Tuesday and repeatedly charged that the Obama administration is "willfully blind" to the root of terrorism in the United States.
by Abby Livingston June 28, 2016 6 PM
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz attended a Pennsylvania campaign kickoff event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 19, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller
WASHINGTON — Reprising a familiar theme from his abandoned presidential campaign, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz convened a subcommittee hearing Tuesday in which he repeatedly charged that the Obama administration is "willfully blind" to the root of terrorism in the United States.
As chairman of the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Cruz gaveled in an afternoon hearing that included a lineup of experts who both defended the administration's anti-terrorism tactics and harshly criticized the current counterterrorism strategies. Cruz repeatedly charged the administration was engaged in "Orwellian" internal censorship for fear of offending the Islamic community.
"Does anyone notice a trend here?" asked the junior senator from Texas. "A consistent effort by this administration to scrub any reference to radical Islamic terrorism, to pretend that the threat does not exist ... the consequence of the willful blindness, of a policy that as a matter of administration policy refuses to acknowledge the threat, means over and over again this administration has allowed the threats to go forward."
"We cannot combat and defeat radical Islamic terrorism without acknowledging it exists and directing our resources to stopping it," he later added.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a committee member and former GOP presidential rival of Cruz's, concurred to an extent, while also praising the heroics of Muslim soldiers loyal to the United States.
"When you have centers of radical activity, I don't want us to get so politically correct, and that's the whole purpose of this hearing, is that we ignore the obvious," said the South Carolina Republican.
Most Democrats on the panel were unimpressed with Cruz's showing. Two Democrats, U.S. Senate Assistant Minority Leader Richard J. Durbin of Illinois and U.S. Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, alluded to a Cruz position from his failed presidential campaign that they argued would damage the American way of life.
As Brussels reeled from a terrorist attack back in March, Cruz called to "empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized."
Durbin mocked the notion that there are Muslim bastions around the country, on par with old Irish Catholic parishes in his home state of Illinois.
"We cannot combat and defeat radical Islamic terrorism without acknowledging it exists and directing our resources to stopping it." — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz
"The Muslim population is not that large, per se, and they seem to be dispersed," said the second-ranking Senate Democrat. "And when we talk about patrolling and enforcing Muslim neighborhoods, as one member of this panel has, I'm at a loss."
"What was he trying to say?" Durbin asked. "What is a Muslim neighborhood?"
Coons called the notion, along with several of the policies of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump "profoundly unhelpful as we try to respect America's constitutional traditions and keep our country safe."
He also questioned Cruz's message of the day.
"I frankly think whether you call it radical Islam, radical Islamism, Islamic extremism, and spending three hours arguing about these semantics, in my view, hasn't really moved us any closer towards developing new and more effective ways to combat terror and to defeat ISIS," Coons said.
Cruz responded: "This isn't a question of semantics. This is a question of whether the administration is willing to acknowledge what the threat is and willing to act to prevent acts of murder and terrorism before they occur."

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Q: How do I get All the mesages from the SQS queue I am using SQS to read the data. But I am not sure how to read all the data from the queue.
public List<Customer> getMessage() {

 int numberOfMessages= getMessageCount();
 System.out.println(numberOfMessages);
 int count=0;
 while(count<10) {

     System.out.println("Messages remaining in the queue-
 >>>"+numberOfMessages);
     System.out.println("Recieving Messages from the Queue: ");
        final ReceiveMessageRequest receiveMessageRequest =
        new ReceiveMessageRequest(queueURL)
        .withMaxNumberOfMessages(10)
        .withWaitTimeSeconds(20);

        final List<com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.Message> customers =
                  sqs.receiveMessage(receiveMessageRequest).getMessages();

        for(com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.Message cust: customers) {
            System.out.println("Current message number->>>>>"+(count+1));
            System.out.println(cust.getBody());
            sqs.deleteMessage(new DeleteMessageRequest(queueURL,
                    cust.getReceiptHandle()));
            count++;
        }

        //numberOfMessages=getMessageCount();

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 return null;

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     attrs.add("ApproximateNumberOfMessages");
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     GetQueueAttributesRequest a = new GetQueueAttributesRequest().withQueueUrl(sqs.createQueue(createQueueRequest).getQueueUrl()).withAttributeNames(attrs);
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     int num = Integer.parseInt(result.get("ApproximateNumberOfMessages"));
     return num;
    }

I am reading the data this way, but this doesnt seem right.
I also tried replacing while(count<10) with while(numberOfMessages>0) and uncommenting numberOfMessages=getMessageCount() this line , but by doing this, the code runs indefinitely. It seems like it always returns a
value greater than 1.
Can someone help me with this thing?

A: First a few notes:

*

*Using count as you are, you're only reading about 10 messages (may be slightly more due to batching). You probably don't want to use this beyond simple proof-of-concept stage

*Using while (numberOfMessages > 0), you're going to keep reading as long as SQS's approximation of the message count says it has messages. Note that this is an approximation, so you shouldn't rely on it being exact (it will be eventually consistent).

*Your getMessageCount() method looks like it's trying to recreate the queue each time it's called - while that'll work, you don't need to do this. Create it once and just use it.

Based on the code I can see, getMessageCount() would return > 1 if (a) you simply have a ton of messages, (b) something else is constantly adding messages to the queue (or (c) if you're not properly deleting them, but you are doing this).
I would suggest the following modifications to your code:

*

*Log the result of getMessageCount() each time it's called. This will give you indication if you are putting messages into your queue faster than you can process them, or have some message source that will never run out.

*Log the number of messages received by your ReceiveMessageRequest. This will let you know you are indeed processing messages.

*Instead of basing your control flow on the value of getMessageCount(), keep calling until ReceiveMessageRequest result (with waitTimeSeconds=20) returns 0 messages - this is the guarantee that your queue is empty at that moment (instead of an approximation).

A: Used ListIterator on messages

 List<com.amazonaws.services.sqs.model.Message> messages = amazonSQS.receiveMessage(receiveMessageRequest).getMessages();
        ListIterator<Message> messageListIterator = messages.listIterator();
        List<String> message=new ArrayList<>();

        while (messageListIterator.hasNext()){
           Message msg= messageListIterator.next();
            message.add(msg.getBody());
        }

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Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
Coalition on back foot over Dutton as Turnbull's pick for Wentworth drops out – as it happened
Kerryn Phelps expected to run in Wentworth and Scott Morrison announces Prince Harry and Meghan will visit Australia
Roman Quaedvlieg has clarified earlier evidence that he fielded a phone call from Peter Dutton's office in June 2015 by suggesting his memory of that phone call related to an as-yet unreported case. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA
Amy Remeikis
Mon 10 Sep 2018 05.01 EDT First published on Sun 9 Sep 2018 18.05 EDT
4.02am EDT 04:02 Former Border Force chief raises possibility of new au pair case
12.18am EDT 00:18 Question time begins
11.33pm EDT 23:33 Malcolm Turnbull's anointed Wentworth successor drops out of race
9.32pm EDT 21:32 Labor moves to suspend standing orders
9.26pm EDT 21:26 Peter Dutton makes statement to the House
9.02pm EDT 21:02 Greens force vote on live export ban
6.04pm EDT 18:04 Good morning and welcome to the first Morrison-led parliament
And on that note, we might call it a day. Because we have another three to go, and then a whole other week.
Aren't. We. So. Lucky.
It doesn't take much of a genius to work out that "what's the go with the au pairs" is going to dominate much of tomorrow, especially now there are hints of a third case.
Stay tuned for that.
There's not a lot of legislation to keep an eye on but there are always lapel flag pins, so keep your eyes peeled. We'll continue to keep one of those eyes on the Senate to see if Lucy Gichuhi steps up to the plate.
And of course, Tuesday is party room day, where Scott Morrison is sure to invite the cameras in to get pics of the happy, happy, joy, joy party room family getting on with the job in action.
A very big thank you to the Guardian brains' trust for dragging me across the line and, of course, to Mike Bowers, who is indefatigable. You can see more of his day at @mpbowers and @mikepbowers.
And a very big thank you to everyone who followed along today. I haven't got through all the emails or comments as yet but I promise I am reading them all.
We'll be back early tomorrow morning but, in the meantime, take care of you.
Back in another former prime minister's patch for a moment:
Samantha Maiden (@samanthamaiden)
Kerryn Phelps will run in Wentworth - and many senior Liberals believe she will win. So there will be a female member for Wentworth, but not necessarily the one that Andrew Bragg is standing aside for, on the promise of entering the Senate in a winnable spot. https://t.co/P5i6e7evDH
Former prime minister Julia Gillard is speaking to Patricia Karvelas on ABC radio, wearing her hat as chair of Beyond Blue on World Suicide Prevention Day (of which you'll find more information in this tweet):
beyondblue (@beyondblue)
Talking to someone about suicide could be one of the most important conversations you'll ever have. Read our tips on how to have the conversation: https://t.co/PI8SMggkNU #YouCanTalk #WSPD2018 pic.twitter.com/q0pwqAjp9l
But she is of course asked about the Liberal leadership change and had this to say:
"I think it is a mistake to put it all together [all of Australia's leadership swaps] and say it is all the same ... and I think on the conservative side this is in many years a reflection of the kind of shake out in conservative politics around the world.
"...I think, right around the world – are the Republicans the party of Donald Trump or the party of dear departed John McCain ... are the parties of Europe centrist right parties as we've known them, or are they fracturing to the further right?
She says that when you "take the personalities out of it", the Coalition is experiencing symptoms of the same trend.
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are on their way to Australia.
Praise be the power of the lapel flag pins.
Prime minister Scott Morrison released this statement:
I am pleased to confirm the Australian Government has invited The Duke and The Duchess of Sussex to undertake an official visit to Australia between Tuesday 16 and Sunday 28 October 2018.
Australia will be Their Royal Highnesses first stop on a three week tour of the region, which includes visits to Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga and New Zealand.
Along with Sydney, Their Royal Highnesses will travel to Dubbo, Melbourne and Fraser Island.
Their visit will be an opportunity to promote the incredible achievements of Invictus athletes from around the world, and showcase Australian programmes promoting youth leadership, environmental and conservation efforts, and will include a visit to a dedication to the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy initiative on Fraser Island.
I look forward to welcoming The Duke and The Duchess of Sussex to Australia next month.
For all those asking about whether or not Lucy Gichuhi used her parliamentary privilege today to name the names, the answer is no.
But there also wasn't an easy opportunity to do so.
Most punters have identified the adjournment debates as the easiest way to do it. Gichuhi could seek leave to do it, but that seems unlikely (if indeed she is still planning on following through - she is not saying) or there are the senators' statements, which are usually just before 1pm on Wednesday.
Sussan Ley and Sarah Henderson have released a joint statement on Labor's attempt to have the live export ban bill the Senate passed debated in the house:
Labor's actions today were a disingenuous attempt to disrupt parliament masquerading behind the cause of animal welfare.
As members of the ministry, it is no longer open to us to support any Private Member's Bill or the Bill passed by the Senate today.
Our personal conviction on this issue remains and we will continue to advocate for a change in Coalition policy and for a phase out of this awful trade.
The Private Member's Bill we introduced on 21 May 2018 to phase out long haul live sheep exports is currently being debated in the House of Representatives.
Combined with advocacy from many thousands of Australians, we are pleased our strong stand along with the minister for agriculture's determination to hold the regulator to account, has resulted in the shutting down of the industry's biggest offender. The impending release of the Moss Review provides the government with a further opportunity to impose tough new rules relating to live exports.
Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt)
It now appears that Peter Dutton didn't just have a personal connection with the man he helped, contrary to what he told Parl in March, but that they spoke to each other too, contradicting his 'no personal contact' claim to Parl today. If he won't resign, the PM must sack him. https://t.co/nPNx58FZaW
Former Border Force chief raises possibility of new au pair case
Paul Karp
The former Border Force commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg has written to the Senate inquiry examining Peter Dutton's handling of the au pair cases.
Quaedvlieg has clarified earlier evidence that he fielded a phone call from Dutton's office in June 2015 by suggesting his memory of that phone call related to an as-yet unreported case.
Details are a bit sketchy, but Quaedvlieg suggested the new case relates to "a young European female" from "a western or southern European country" and occurred between October 2015 and 2016.
Quaedvlieg repeats his claim that Dutton's chief of staff Craig MacLachlan said he needed help for the "boss's mate in Brisbane" whose au pair had been stopped at the airport.
Quaedvlieg said he thought it strange Dutton's chief of staff would call him for a "low-level transactional issue".
Quaedvlieg said when he asked Border Force agents about it he was told "boss, this is solid. The comms and her intent are clear. It's a good stop" – as they confirmed they had good grounds to believe the au pair intended to work in Australia in breach of visa conditions.
Maclachlan then asked "What needs to be done to fix this? Can the boss overturn it?", and Quaedvlieg suggested they get a departmental brief for ministerial intervention.
Where does this leave us? If there is a fresh au pair case – that's bad for Dutton. This case can't be used to argue he mislead parliament, because he wasn't asked about it, but it does tend to help establish a pattern of behaviour of using the discretionary powers for mates.
Labor can also point to the email from Russell Keag which begins "long time between calls" to say that Dutton did mislead parliament about the original "Brisbane case" in June 2015.
The Senate inquiry has asked for an extension until next Wednesday, so there's more to see here.
Ask and you shall receive:
Paul Karp (@Paul_Karp)
"Long time between calls" - the email from Russell Keag to Peter Dutton just tabled. So they had spoken previously? Not a complete nobody to the home affairs minister? #auspol @AmyRemeikis pic.twitter.com/m6wImL0FNq
Peter Dutton has tabled the email he received regarding the au pair (the one he mentioned today in his statement).
Paul Karp is working on getting a copy of that for you.
Meanwhile, Rebehka Sharkie has released this statement:
Member for Mayo Rebekha Sharkie will not support a motion of 'no confidence' in the Morrison Government while the seat of Wentworth remains vacant.
"The period until the Wentworth by-election will be a time of examination of the current government's ability to provide stable, good government," Rebekha said.
"The prime minister contacted me the day after his appointment and I met personally with the prime minister soon after.
"We received confirmation in writing from the prime minister of more than $21m in promises made during the byelection and confirmation of the commitments made to Centre Alliance during the 45th Parliament."
The by-election promises included:
$10m for a new aquatic centre in Mount Barker
$4.4m for a sports hub in Mount Barker
$3.9m for extra bed licences at the Strathalbyn aged care facility
$1.17m to boost mental health services in South Australia
$1m for a strategic traffic planning study for Hahndorf
$750,000 to redevelop trails on Kangaroo Island
$200,000 for the SteamRanger heritage railway
$200,000 to upgrade the Yankalilla Football Club
$145,000 in Black Spot funding to upgrade the Playford Highway, Kingscote
$145,000 in Black Spot funding to upgrade the Goolwa to Strathalbyn Road
$145,000 in Black Spot funding to upgrade Inman Valley Road, Yankalilla
$29,000 for Woodside Defence Families Association
$20,000 for Grain Producers SA to develop an industry recruitment pathway
$11,590 solar grant for Nairne Oval
$10,249 solar grant for Hills Radio
$9,790 solar grant for the Macclesfield Recreation Grounds Committee
$8,897 solar grant for the Strathalbyn Woolshed
$6,737 for McLaren Vale and District RSL
$4,000 for Port Elliot RSL
$2,564 for Hillsview Village Residents Association.
"When the new member for Wentworth is elected to the parliament I and my Centre Alliance colleagues Senator Stirling Griff and Rex Patrick will reconsider our position," Rebekha said.
"In the meantime, I will not support a motion of 'no confidence' in the current government.
"In relation to other motions and Bills, I will continue to do what I have always done and that is to examine every piece of legislation on its merits and to vote in the best interests of Mayo.
"If it eventuates that a motion goes before the parliament to refer Minister Peter Dutton to the high court in relation to allegations of pecuniary interest, Centre Alliance will support that motion.
"I note that the Opposition no longer intends to pursue a motion of 'no confidence' relating to Minister Dutton and allegations of misleading parliament in relation to the exercising of ministerial discretion.
"While I do not agree with many of the policy positions of Minister Dutton, I believe he explained himself quite clearly in parliament this morning in relation to these allegations.
"I would like to thank the many people in my electorate who have contacted my office in recent weeks to share their views on the leadership changes within the government."
Bill Shorten


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LV= General Insurance appoints Corporate Responsibility Director
LV= General Insurance (LV= GI) has today appointed Rodney Assock as its new Corporate Responsibility Director with immediate effect, reporting to Sharon Juleff, People Director for LV= GI.
As part of his new role, Rodney will be responsible for delivering the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy for LV= GI and defining how the company can better operate in an ethical, environmentally-friendly and sustainable manner. As part of his role, Rodney will also take responsibility for the diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy. Since becoming a standalone business in January 2018, all CSR and D&I activity for LV= GI had been managed by a number of steering committees and the appointment of a Corporate Responsibility Director will result in all activity being integrated together.
Rodney has been with LV= for 13 years and in that time has held a number of roles, including Operational Services Director where he was instrumental in creating the new company values for the business.
Commenting on his appointment, Sharon Juleff said: "Increasingly, we're seeing that customers want to buy products and services from companies who share their values and that also have a strong societal purpose. I'm a firm believer that LV= GI's culture and our values set us apart from our competitors and I'm incredibly proud of what our people do every day to help our customers. Over the years, we've also worked hard to support our local communities and also focus on D&I. With consumer expectations changing though, it's now crucial that we bring all the positive work we've been doing under one umbrella and I know Rodney will do a fantastic job of taking our CSR and D&I work to the next level."
Rodney Assock added: "I've seen first-hand how much passion there is for CSR and D&I within LV= GI, so I'm looking forward to working with our people to drive forward our CSR and D&I strategy. Sustainability is an incredibly important issue to our customers and I'm excited by the opportunity that LV= GI has in putting forward its social purpose and making a real difference in the communities in which we operate."
About Liverpool Victoria General Insurance Group Limited
Liverpool Victoria General Insurance Group Limited (LVGIG) is an LV= branded strategic partnership between LV= and Allianz Holdings Plc, following the sale of a 49% stake in LV='s General insurance business on 28th December 2017, creating one of the UK's largest personal insurers with around £1.6 billion annual premium income and serving over 5 million customers.
LVGIG is a holding company employing over 3000 staff and incorporating two regulated insurance companies. Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited (LVIC), registered in England and Wales number 03232514 and Highway Insurance Company Limited (HICO), registered in England and Wales number 03730662, both registered at County Gates, Bournemouth, BH1 2NF are part of the Liverpool Victoria Group of companies and are authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. (LVIC FRN number 202965 and HICO FRN number 202972).
LV= and Liverpool Victoria are registered trademarks of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited and LV= and LV= Liverpool Victoria are trading styles of the Liverpool Victoria Group of companies.
Kaidee Horton
Head of Corporate Communications, General Insurance


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Natural England give go ahead to Surrey Hills Boundary Review
The Natural England Board has agreed to begin work to assess whether the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) boundary should be extended.
The extension could encompass areas of Downs, Wealden Greensand and Low Weald within and around the locally designated Area of Great Landscape Value (AGLV).
The decision follows an initial assessment by local AONB partners that concluded there was evidence to support the position that the areas have sufficient natural beauty to qualify for inclusion in an AONB.
The Surrey Hills AONB Partnership's1 proposal, seeks to extend the AONB boundary by almost 82.5 km2 – an additional 11% of the AGLV – to include diverse countryside ranging from rolling chalk downs and flower rich grasslands, to acid heaths and broadleaved woodland together with an extensively used network of public footpaths.
Natural England has a discretionary power to designate AONBs or to vary the boundary of an existing AONB by a Variation Order. If Natural England decides to vary the Surrey Hills AONB boundary, a Variation Order will be submitted to the Secretary of State for a final decision, following a period of consultation, and detailed boundary setting.
Maddy Jago, Natural England's Director of Landscape and Biodiversity said:
"Yesterday's Board decision enables work to begin on formally assessing whether part of the Downs, Wealden Greensand and Low Weald can be given AONB status as part of an extension to the Surrey Hills AONB. We are grateful to the Partnership for the work they have carried out to get the proposal to this stage which takes us a step further to assessing whether variation to the existing AONB is appropriate."
Posted in Board News, Discover News
← We want your views on the Surrey forest industry Unsightly Power lines to go underground on Nature Reserve →


ATHENS/FRANKFURT, July 24 (Reuters) - Greece is preparing to reopen its stock exchange and allow international investors to take their money out of the country's listed companies after a one-month shutdown.
The Greek economy is slowly regaining some semblance of normality after the government secured a 7.2 billion euro bridging loan to pay its debt obligations last week, allowing it to reopen banks, albeit with a cap on withdrawals, and loosen restrictions on foreign transfers.
A spokesman for the Athens Stock Exchange said on Friday a proposal to reopen the bourse had been submitted to the European Central Bank for an opinion before a decision on the matter is made by the Greek finance ministry.
Under the proposed plan, foreign investors will be able to transfer abroad any money they make by selling their holdings while domestic investors will be barred from doing so due to restrictions on capital movements, the spokesman said.
A swift approval by the Greek government could now allow the stock exchange to reopen as early as Monday, although a person with direct knowledge of the matter said a timeline had yet to be finalised.
The Greek stock exchange has been shut since June 29, when a cash-strapped Greek government imposed capital controls to ward off a collapse of its banking system after the country rejected a cash-for-reforms deal in a referendum.


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This is an article from the March-April 2011 issue: Church Planting Movements
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10 Church Planting Movement FAQs
1. What is a CPM?
A definition for Church Planting Movements (CPMs) that has held sway for more than a decade is: "a rapid multiplication of indigenous churches planting churches that sweeps through a people group or population segment."1
No one recalls who first coined the term "Church Planting Movements," though it appears to be a modification of Donald McGavran's landmark "People Movements" adapted to emphasize the distinctive of generating multiplying indigenous churches.
2. What are you calling a church?
With more than 40,000 Christian denominations in the world today, it's not surprising that there is no consensus on what constitutes a church. Some mission agencies and denominations have very precise definitions for a church while others have no definition whatsoever.2 Church Planting Movements exhibit a wide range of sizes and types of church, varying with the cultural context in which they emerge. For this reason, what some may call a church, others might classify as simply a gathering, home fellowship or 'new work.'
But this FAQ is what do you call a church? In my 2004 publication, Church Planting Movements, I allowed significant latitude in church identification by accepting self-designation. In other words, if those involved in the movement see themselves as a community of believers or church, I am unwilling to contradict them. This is not to say all churches are of equal quality. Churches can be more or less healthy.
At its core, a church is a community of believers seeking to obediently follow Jesus Christ. From God's perspective, church is a continuation of what Jesus began 2,000 years ago. This is why Paul and Luke frequently refer to the church as "the body of Christ."
In CPMs we have seen churches range in size from an average of 11.3 baptized members in Ying Kai's Asian T4T movement to 85 in the Bhojpuri movement of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh to 35 members assessed in 2002 in the average Isa Jamaat of Bangladesh.
Though size and expression may vary, good ecclesiology is vital to healthy CPMs. More than one rapidly growing movement has evaporated as a result of inadequate church formation. Church matters.
In South Asia, we developed a CPM ecclesiology teaching tool called "A Handy Guide to Healthy Churches" as an orality-friendly way of teaching new believers how to develop healthy reproducing churches.3 In northeast India, CPM missionaries Jeff Sundell along with Nathan and Kari Shank have developed a simple and ingenious "Church Health Mapping" tool for tracking and developing churches from inception to maturity.4
3. What are CPM Best Practices?
Because there are better and worse examples of CPMs and CPM churches, why not learn from and emulate the best? The problem is that our work often occurs in isolation, particularly when we labor in restricted access fields where everyone communicates in a very guarded manner. Our knowledge exists in silos that do not allow for interchange with the broader community of learning.
Nowhere is this more true than in the world of CPMs. A CPM breaks out in one corner of the world with dramatic speed and vitality, but with weak doctrine and orthodoxy. In another corner of the world, a movement exhibits tremendous fidelity to Scripture but struggles in community transformation. Someone has said, "If the body of Christ only knew what the body of Christ knows, the body of Christ would know all it needs to know to do the work of Christ in the world."
CPM Best Practicing is about the body of Christ learning from the body of Christ the most effective practices in being, doing, and multiplying churches among every nation tribe and tongue. How do we do this? If you're reading this article, you're off to a good start.
4. When did CPMs start?
Undoubtedly Church Planting Movements have been around since the first century of the Christian era. You only have to read between the lines to see Church Planting Movements as the back-story for the rise of Christianity from Christ to Constantine. In his Book of Acts, Luke reported that: "all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord" (Acts 19:10) and Paul commended the Thessalonians through whom "the Lord's message… has become known everywhere" (1 Thess. 1:8), and then near the end of his life could declare that "there is no more place for me to work in these regions" (Romans 15:23), because of his desire "to preach the gospel where Christ was not known" (Romans 15:20).
Pliny, the governor of the distant province of Bithynia writing to the emperor Trajan about 50 years later warned that "…many persons of every age, every rank, and also of both sexes are and will be endangered. For the contagion of this superstition has spread not only to the cities but also to the villages and farms. [Pliny to Trajan ca. AD 111]5
Later that century, Tertullian spoke confidently to his Roman persecutors of the remarkable spread of the still fledgling church:
We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled all the places that belong to you — cities, islands, forts, towns, exchanges, the military camps themselves, tribes, town councils, the palace, the senate, the market-place; we have left you nothing but your temples. (Tertullian's Plea for Allegiance, A.2)6
K.S. Latourette's History of the Expansion of Christianity7 chronicles scores of movements to Christ through the Church's 20-century history. But by the 19th and 20th centuries, the belief in movements was on the wane in Western missions.
A prophetic voice to the contrary was sounded by Anglican missionary Roland Allen whose 1927 The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church8 envisioned churches multiplying exponentially throughout the world. A generation later, Donald McGavran showed how such a movement would occur with his 1954 Bridges of God.9 A generation later, missionaries saw the realization of these insights with the appearance of Church Planting Movements.10
5. How many CPMs are there?
Dr. Jim Haney, director of the IMB's Global Research Department, regularly tracks several thousand people groups and cities. Reports come through the IMB's more than 5,000 missionaries serving in 185 countries as well as a partnering network of evangelical sources called HIS, the Harvest Information System.11
The Global Research Department monitors key result areas in evangelism and church planting. When a population meets three key result criteria, they automatically register on what the Global Research Department calls its "CPM Watch List." The three criteria are:
A 25% Annual Growth Rate in Total Churches for the past two years
A 50% Annual Growth Rate in New Churches for the past two years
Field-based affirmation that a CPM is emerging.
Based upon these three criteria, as of the end of the 2008 calendar year, there are 201 people groups or population segments that have risen to the CPM Watch List.
6. What is the fastest growing CPM?
The fastest growing CPM assessed to date is occurring today in a restricted access country in Asia. The movement which began with a new missionary assignment in November 2000 has exceeded any other movement we've seen with more than 1.7 million baptisms and more than 150,000 new church starts. The missionary God has used to catalyze this movement is a Chinese-American named Ying Kai. Kai calls his work "Training for Trainers" or T4T.12
7. How long do CPMs last?
This varies from place to place. We have instances of CPMs that began more than a decade ago and continue to grow at an annual growth rate that would qualify as an ongoing movement. We also know of movements that surged rapidly, only to halt and even implode after just a few years. This points to the importance of learning and implementing best practices.
8. How do you assess CPMs?
Great question! Rather than answer that question briefly here, we will direct you to Jim Slack's longer article on the topic in this same publication (p. 12). Jim has years of missionary experience as the Southern Baptist International Mission Board's Church Growth Analyst.
9. Have you ever been duped?
In short, yes. Jesus warned us to be "wise as serpents." In both formal and informal CPM assessments we continue to be surprised by what we uncover. Consider these five of many that could be described:
In Western Europe, a missionary reported an emerging CPM in great detail for more than a year before his fabrications were unearthed, and he was dismissed from his organization.
On the other hand, a missionary in India reported at least 50,000 baptisms only to have a thorough (and skeptical) CPM assessment determine that there were at least 200,000 baptisms and perhaps as many as 400,000.
An Internet charlatan claiming to be a CPM catalyst in China and associated with the website www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com was exposed when he solicited donations from a Finnish Pentecostal missions organization. The Finnish agency discovered the truth when they sought a reference from the www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com webmaster who exposed the deception.
A missionary serving in Nepal reported thousands of house church plants. An assessment a few years later revealed that the house churches had been assimilated into 32 mega-cell churches that had formed in the wake of the CPM.
The missionary reporting the fastest growing CPM in the world with 1.7 million baptisms and 150,000 church plants in less than a decade, was found to be under-reporting his numbers by nearly 40 percent, in order to avoid any charges of inflation, duplication or exaggeration.
In addition to the occasional bogus movement are the aborted movements. In several locations, well-intentioned foreign dependency has intersected a promising movement, sapping it of its vitality.13 In other places, it has simply been impossible to ascertain whether a movement is underway or not. When this is the case, it is always best to simply say, "We don't know." The cause of Christ is never advanced by wild speculations or hype.
10. Where can I learn more about CPMs?
CPM understanding is more of a journey than a destination. As such, the call to CPMs is a call to learn, and the learning curve remains steep. One of the great challenges to CPM understanding is that so many of them are occurring in countries that are hostile to Christian witness, prompting the necessity of pseudonyms and obscured reporting. This, in turn, has led to some falsified reports by individuals seeking to benefit from riding the CPM bandwagon, resulting in legitimate doubts about CPMs by skeptics.
We do no favors to the kingdom of God when we inflate or trumpet unrealistic reports of kingdom growth. Nor do we advance the Kingdom when we refuse to believe, despite the evidence, the existence of movements that are nothing less than our birthright as New Testament people.
In May 2010, missionary innovator and CPM trainer, Will G., launched a new website: www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com as a clearinghouse for all things related to Church Planting Movement best practices. The site is just getting underway, but already has more than two-dozen contributors, nearly 100 articles, PowerPoints, case studies and resources, and has been tapped by more than 38,000 viewers.
Will has constructed the site to allow iron-on-iron interaction between CPM aspirants and practitioners the world over. As a forum for participation in the growing CPM learning community, http://www.ChurchPlantingMovements.com is unparalleled.
Edited by David Garrison with contributions by Bill Smith, Jim Haney and Will G.
David Garrison, Church Planting Movements (Midlothian: WIGTake Resources, 2004), p. 21.
The Southern Baptist International Mission Board, for example, has a very clear definition that can be viewed here.
See "Handy Guide" article and PowerPoint on the Church Planting Movements website at: http://www.churchplantingmovements.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116:a-handy-guide-to-healthy-churches-part-one&catid=36:the-big-picture&Itemid=78
This guide can be viewed in Steve Smith with Ying Kai's, T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution (Richmond: WIGTake Resources, 2011), pp. 253-255.
In Steve Smith with Ying Kai's, T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution (Richmond: WIGTake Resources, 2011), p. 27.
Smith and Kai, p. 28.
Kenneth Scott Latourette, History of the Expansion of Christianity, Seven Vols. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971)
Roland Allen, The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church, and the causes that hinder it (London: The World Dominion Press, 1927).
Donald McGavran, The Bridges of God (New York: Friendship Press, 1954).
David Garrison, Church Planting Movements (Midlothian: WIGTake Resources, 2004).
HIS includes, but is not limited to, Campus Crusade for Christ, the JESUS Film Project, the Joshua Project, Global Recordings Network, COMIBAM, Summer Institute of Linguistics, International Forum of Bible Agencies. View their website at: https://extranet.imb.org/sites/HIS/default.aspx
See Steve Smith with Ying Kai's T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution (Richmond: WIGTake Resources, 2011), 350 pp.
See for example: Cambodia, Romania, the Ukraine, as well as many places in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
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Best of Vancouver arts 2018: looking back at our most memorable reviews on-stage and in galleries. Memorable Vancouver exhibitions in 2018, include: Takashi Murakami: Octopus Eats Its Own Leg (Vancouver Art Gallery), Kerry James Marshall: Collected (Rennie Museum), Curious Imaginings by Patricia Piccinini (Vancouver Biennale, at the Patricia Hotel) and Eternal Tides (PuSh International Performing Arts Festival). Georgia Straight, December 31, 2018
With 'In the Realm of Perception,' Surrey artist celebrates her first solo show at SAG As a painter, Nicoletta Baumeister is keen to explore how the human mind sees, understands and constructs the world around it. In her first solo exhibition at Surrey Art Gallery, 40 works created by the South Surrey-based artist will be shown during the two-month run of In the Realm of Perception, which opens on Saturday, Jan. 19. Surrey Leader Now, January 8, 2019
Making in the Not-Knowing. In the following conversation the Toronto-based sculptor Jen Aitken stresses the importance of intuition as "a valuable form of knowledge and expertise." She sees it as having a double register: for her as an artist, it's a way of making, and for us as viewers, it's a way of perceiving. "I'm pushing against interpretation and resisting recognition," she says, adding that she is constantly searching for what she calls a "distancing of familiarity." Border Crossings, December 2018
What More Is There to Say? The last thing we see in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, the devastatingly important documentary made by filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier and photographer Edward Burtynsky, is a text dedicated to Sudan, the name of the last surviving male northern white rhino… Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is only one part of a much larger project, which includes concurrent exhibitions at the National Gallery in Ottawa and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, as well as an exhibition catalogue and a 236-page book published by Steidl that reproduces over 100 of Burtynsky's archival pigment prints. Scale is a defining issue… I have made a number of references to other artists and art forms because Burtynsky, de Pencier and Baichwal are artists themselves, and they work diligently in their respective disciplines to produce the most attractive images they possibly can. This is both a virtue and a danger; in making us pay attention, they run the risk of aestheticizing disaster. Each of them is aware of this possibility and has clearly made a determination that the attention is preferable, and more useful, than the alternative. Once you've got an audience in the house, then what you've accomplished can begin to do its work. Border Crossings, December 2018
Artists and Arts Supporters Named to Order of Canada. Recipients include: Shirley Cheechoo, (founder of Weengushk Film Institute); Maxine Noel, (for her advocacy of the creative expression of Indigenous communities); Léopold L. Foulem (the creator of distinctive, baroque ceramics); John McEwan, (welder of large steel sculptures); and Michel de la Chenelière (patron behind the first major art-therapy pavilion in a Canadian art museum. Canadian Art, January 3, 2019
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Nova Scotia Artist Wins Public Art Appeal. A controversial public art installation by Brian MacNevin in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, has earned the support of local government—provided it passes an upcoming safety inspection. In September 2018, Town of Bridgewater staff, acting on multiple complaints, ordered the artwork in MacNevin's front yard be removed. They deemed it "dangerous or unsightly" under a section of the Municipal Governance Act generally reserved for unkempt or hazardous properties. Canadian Art, January 3, 2019
Whose Community Is It? In Canada, Chinese cultural clusters and spaces are often labelled as "culturally diverse" as part of a multicultural agenda. The frequent comparisons between "the East" and "the West" has us [Canadians of Chinese descent] living with the consequences of these generalizations and the subsequent construction of so-called Chinese culture. So, what does "Chinese" actually mean for people entangled in a Chinese identity? Montreal-based artist Karen Tam and Toronto-based artist Morris Lum both investigate the role Chinese spaces serve in the Chinese community and what they signify more broadly within a culturally Euro-Canadian society. Canadian Art, January 8, 2019
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Kehinde Wiley: 'When I first started painting black women, it was a return home' When the American artist Kehinde Wiley – known by many for his presidential portrait of Barack Obama – walked into a Little Caesars restaurant in St Louis, he didn't know he'd walk out with models for his next painting. He saw a group of African American women sitting at a table and was inspired to paint them for Three Girls in A Wood, a painting on view at the St Louis Art Museum. It's part of Wiley's exhibition Saint Louis, which runs until 10 February, where 11 paintings of St Louis locals are painted in the style of old masters, a comment on the absence of black portraits in museums. The Guardian, January 9, 2019
Over 7.36 Million People Visited the Metropolitan Museum in 2018. Over 7.36 million visitors have passed through the Metropolitan Museum exhibitions, largely drawn in by landmark exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, and the tail ends of highly-publicized shows like Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer and David Hockney. Hyperallergic, January 6, 2019
British Museum realises 'vase' is in fact an ancient mace-head displayed upside down. Inspired by some contemporary photographs shot in southern Iraq, the British Museum has mounted No Man's Land (until 27 January), a small exhibition attesting to man's chronic inability to exist peacefully within agreed borders. The exhibition showcases three ancient objects that tell the story of the first recorded border conflict, a clash between two Sumerian city states in the third millennium BC, while juxtaposing them with the modern photographs. Inscriptions on two of the objects document the viewpoints of the ancient city states of Lagash and Umma, with each side invoking claims to disputed territory supposedly allotted them by the gods. In a bit of serendipity, the curators realised during research for the show that an object they had long assumed was a vase had actually been displayed upside down. The Art Newspaper, January 7, 2019
How pioneering video artist Bill Viola's near-death experience influences his work on religion. It's impossible to avoid connecting Bill Viola's childhood experience with the work's imagery. The triptych's central panel features a fully clothed figure underwater, "floating limply in this black void", as he has described it. To the left is a woman giving birth; to the right, the artist's mother on her deathbed. Though the central figure is not him, Viola has described the Nantes Triptych as a form of self-portrait "in another world with the experience of life and death". The Standard, January 8, 2019
Sister Wendy Beckett obituary. Sister Wendy Beckett, who has died aged 88, could be dismissive of the high-profile television work that made this hermit nun with owl-like glasses into an unlikely household name during the 1990s… Behind her gentle, toothy smile, Sister Wendy could be fierce. It was seen in some of her verdicts on modern artists who failed to interest her, though cloaked as ever in a show of nun-like Christian charity. "I find myself saying to myself firmly that I might not have been interested or excited or challenged by what I've seen," she said on a rare trip to London in 2008 to see an exhibition by those on the Turner Prize shortlist, "but the artists who made these installations must have been. I am prepared to marvel at their inexplicable enthusiasm." The Guardian, December 26, 2018
Laura Cumming's best art of 2018. It was the most momentous of years. I have never seen anything like it. Not just for the magnificent quality of the shows, public and private, nor their millennial sweep, from Mantegna and Bellini at the National Gallery to the very latest brushstroke by Tomma Abts at the Serpentine Gallery. But because of an epochal change in attitudes. The Guardian, December 30, 2018
Prado at 200: director Miguel Falomir on the museum's reinvention and the death of the blockbuster. Miguel Falomir Faus has a foot in two eras of the Museo del Prado. The Madrid museum celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, and Falomir is very much part of its history. Before becoming its director in 2017, he was the deputy director under Miguel Zugaza and the long-serving curator of Italian Renaissance paintings. Falomir's distinguished work at the Prado includes surveys of Titian (2003) and Tintoretto (2007) and its late Raphael exhibition (2012). The Art Newspaper, January 7, 2019
Salvator Mundi. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appears to have 'lost' the world's most expensive painting. The Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, Salvator Mundi, may hold the key to the Trump-Russia investigation. And, the artwork itself could be evidence of collusion. Leonardo da Vinci's 'last' masterpiece was to be unveiled on September 18 at the spellbinding new Louvre in Abu Dhabi, but the exhibit was put on a temporary hold, amid rumours the painting was lost. Narativ, January 2, 2019
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Merlin Entertainments has teamed with Rovio Entertainment to premiere the world's first Angry Birds 4D experience at its Thorpe Park resort.
Scheduled to open in May this year, the Angry Birds 4D experience will be the centrepiece of a new 4,000 square metre attraction at the Surrey theme park.
The fully themed land will feature various characters from the popular Angry Birds game series, roosting on Detonator – the resort's 100 foot drop tower ride – while Red Bird and the Bad Piggies will once again go head to head on a new dodges attraction.
The 4D experience is being developed by Rovio and 4D animators 3DBA and will include a new 10 minute 4D animated film.
Mark Fisher, chief development officer for Merlin Entertainments, said: "We are very excited to be working with Rovio and we see this as a long term strategic partnership with great benefits to both parties.
"Thorpe Park Resort is the UK's 'Thrill Capital' and we believe the ideal environment for Angry Birds 4D and theme park debut.
"It's young adults and family visitors are the core target audience of the Angry Birds franchise and no one is better placed than Merlin to capture the fun and humour of this fantastic IP."
Rovio's director of location based entertainment, Dan Mitchell, added: "It's great to be teaming up with Merlin Entertainments and Thorpe Park resort, and we hope this will be just the first of many projects together.
"We are continuously looking to create amazing experiences for our fans by finding new ways to brings our characters from the digital world to the physical world.
'Having the game jump out of the screen and come alive around you is going to be incredible. We are confident that the partnership with Merlin along with 3DBA will bring this amazing experience to life."


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Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, German divisions of World War I, Infantry divisions of Germany,
Military units and formations established in 1914
Military units and formations disestablished in 1918
1914 establishments in Germany
54th Reserve Division (German Empire)
54th Reserve Division (54. Reserve-Division)
Württemberg/Germany
Approx. 15,000 [1]
World War I: Race to the Sea, Battle of the Yser, Second Battle of Ypres, Battle of the Somme, Second Battle of the Aisne, Passchendaele, Spring Offensive, Somme Offensive
The 54th Reserve Division (54. Reserve-Division) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed in September 1914 and organized over the next month, arriving in the line in October.[2] It was part of the first wave of new divisions formed at the outset of World War I, which were numbered the 43rd through 54th Reserve Divisions. The division was initially part of XXVII Reserve Corps. The division was disbanded in September 1918 and its assets distributed to other units. The division was primarily raised in the Kingdom of Württemberg, but the division's 245th Reserve Infantry Regiment, 26th Reserve Jäger Battalion, and several support units were from the Kingdom of Saxony. These non-Württemberg elements were all transferred out of the division at various points, making the division all-Württemberg by early 1917.
Combat chronicle Edit
The 54th Reserve Division fought on the Western Front, entering the line in mid-October, participating in the so-called Race to the Sea and fighting in the Battle of the Yser. The division then remained in the trenchlines along the Yser until April 1915, when it entered the Second Battle of Ypres. After the battle the division remained in the line along the Yser into 1916. After two months in aremy reserve in the winter of 1916, the division returned to the trenchlines in the Flanders and Artois regions. It was engaged heavily in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and returned to the line in Flanders and the Artois until the end of the year. In December 1916 and January 1917, it saw action at Verdun, and then went to the line in the Champagne region. In May 1917, it fought in the Second Battle of the Aisne, also called the Third Battle of Champagne. The division went back to Verdun in August 1917 in response to the French offensive there. In late October, it went to Flanders and saw action in the Battle of Passchendaele, also called the Third Battle of Ypres. It remained in Flanders until March 1918, and then participated in the German Spring Offensive, fighting in the First Battle of the Somme (1918), also known as the Second Battle of the Somme (to distinguish it from the 1916 battle). The division remained in the region and fought against the Allied offensive known as the Second Battle of the Somme (1918), also known as the Third Battle of the Somme. Allied intelligence rated the division as second class.[2][3]
Order of battle on formation Edit
The 54th Reserve Division was initially organized as a square division, with essentially the same organization as the reserve divisions formed on mobilization. The order of battle of the 54th Reserve Division on September 10, 1914 was as follows:[4]
107.Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade
Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 245
Königlich Württembergisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 246
Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Jäger-Bataillon Nr. 26
Königlich Württembergische Reserve-Kavallerie-Abteilung Nr. 54
Königlich Württembergisches und Königlich Sächsisches Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 54 (the I. Abteilung was Saxon; the II. and III. Abteilungen were from Württemberg)
Königlich Sächsische Reserve-Pionier-Kompanie Nr. 54
Order of battle on March 14, 1918 Edit
The 54th Reserve Division was triangularized in January 1917, dissolving the 108th Reserve Infantry Brigade headquarters and sending the 245th Royal Saxon Reserve Infantry Regiment to the Saxon 192nd Infantry Division. Over the course of the war, other changes took place, including the formation of artillery and signals commands and the enlargement of combat engineer support to a full pioneer battalion. The order of battle on March 14, 1918 was as follows:[5]
Königlich Württembergischer Artillerie-Kommandeur 70:
Königlich Württembergisches Reserve-Feldartillerie-Regiment Nr. 54
II.Bataillon/Königlich Württembergisches Reserve-Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 24
Königlich Württembergisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 354
1.Reserve-Kompanie/Königlich Württembergisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 13
Königlich Württembergische Minenwerfer-Kompanie Nr. 254
Königlich Württembergischer Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 454
54. Reserve-Division (Chronik 1914/1918) - Der erste Weltkrieg
Hermann Cron et al., Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee (Berlin, 1935)
Hermann Cron, Geschichte des deutschen Heeres im Weltkriege 1914-1918 (Berlin, 1937)
Günter Wegner, Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939. (Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, 1993), Bd. 1
Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919 (1920)
↑ This is an average strength over the division's history. Square divisions had a strength of approximately 17,500; triangular divisions had a strength of approximately 12,500
↑ 2.0 2.1 54. Reserve-Division (Chronik 1914-1918)
↑ Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army which Participated in the War (1914-1918), compiled from records of Intelligence section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces, at General Headquarters, Chaumont, France 1919 (1920), pp. 514-516.
↑ Hermann Cron et al., Ruhmeshalle unserer alten Armee (Berlin, 1935).
↑ Cron et al., Ruhmeshalle.
Divisions of the Imperial German Army
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The Kentucky Derby season is a special time of year that unites people from Louisville and beyond. The unique event aims to pull together a special professional group with the intention of generating opportunities for diverse businesses in communities across the US. The mission of the Derby Diversity Business Summit (DDBS) is to support organizations who work to advance Diverse Owned Businesses. To accomplish our mission, we identify projects in which we can provide funding that supports education, business development and training initiatives for organizations committed to the advancement of Diverse Owned Businesses. Video Credits Column http://broadcaster.beazil.net/public/credits/youtube/videos/252480 . Summit activities will be held at the Galt House Hotel in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The occasion will bring together elite Women, LGBTBE, Minority and Veteran Owned Enterprises to network, develop, and enjoy Louisville and one of the worlds finest events the historic Kentucky Derby. By attending, guests will have the ability to attend development seminars, panel discussions, and even hear from highly sought after speakers to share their experiences in the business world of diversity. Current sponsors include but arent limited to: Delta Airlines, Procter and Gamble, PurePath Capital, Bingham, Greenebaum, Doll LLP, Consensio Group, NAC, Argent Tape & Label, ABS a Diversant Company, NAWBO Kentucky and many others. Derby Diversity Summit activities will be held at the Galt House Hotel – The Official Hotel Sponsor of the Kentucky Derby in Downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Located in the heart of downtown Louisville, The Galt House Hotel offers world-class waterfront rooms and suites as well as top notch amenities. Family owned and operated, the Galt House is a legendary Louisville hotel that is known for offering a unique southern experience and gracious hospitality. This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in creating advertising campaigns and placing such advertising in periodicals, newspapers, radio and television, or other media. These establishments are organized to provide a full range of services (i.e., through in-house capabilities or subcontracting), including advice, creative services, account management, production of advertising material, media planning, and buying (i.e., placing advertising). Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and its largest city is New Orleans. Both cities are located in the Mississippi Delta, which makes up about one-quarter of the state's total land area. The current state of Louisiana is the small southern-most portion of the former Louisiana Territory, which was formed following the Louisiana Purchase – 530 million acres of territory purchased by the U.S. from France in 1803. The area's fertile soil and warm climate gave rise to the early culture at Poverty Point, one of the largest and most important Native American sites in North America and the oldest of its size in the Western Hemisphere. Those conditions centuries later made the land attractive to cotton and sugar planters. Your endorsement is all we need! Show it at http://derbydiversity.com .
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Lack of Adoption: Just because a company is employing an enterprise social networking strategy it does not mean employees will use it. The design of the user interface can be one barrier to adoption if it is not tailored to user needs. This can become tricky if a company has made a great monetary investment in the technology. The dilemma becomes how to enforce its use without seeming tyrannical, particularly because there is a great amount of subjectivity regarding what individuals feel is an appropriate amount of time to spend using social networks. A good way to foster adoption is to provide user interfaces that enterprise users can relate to. Usability testing during early implementation phases utilizing wireframes or UI prototypes can become a critical success factor.
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Singapore Airlines and TCS Introduce Mobile Solution for Cabin Crew
SINGAPORE | MUMBAI, February 11, 2015: Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS), (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced Singapore Airlines (SIA) and TCS have introduced TCS CrewCollab Solution, a tablet-based mobile application for cabin crew to deliver more personalized customer service and to automate and streamline in-flight processes for cabin crew. The application has been jointly developed through a collaboration project by SIA and TCS, which leverages on SIA's service excellence and TCS' strength in digital technology development.
SIA is the launch customer for TCS CrewCollab Solution and its cabin crew are now using it on board. Crew can view information which traditionally has been in paper format, such as customer service lists, flight information and crew lists, digitally via tablets during flights.
In addition to the accessing and updating of flight, crew and service information digitally, SIA's cabin crew will also be able to create digital voyage reports for each flight and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of follow-up items across the many functional areas of the airline. Additionally, crew will be able to use the application to access digital versions of key documents such as safety manuals, service procedures manuals, catering information, crew memos or alerts and crew-to-crew handover notes.
"We are very pleased to collaborate with our long-standing partner Tata Consultancy Services to develop TCS CrewCollab Solution. The application is vital to how we will continue to improve our operations and enhance our customer servicing on board. We look forward to developing the application further in partnership with TCS, to enable our crew to offer a more personalized customer experience and meet our customers' evolving travel needs," said Singapore Airlines' Senior Vice President Cabin Crew, Marvin Tan.
"Digital forces like mobile, social and big data analytics are creating tremendous possibilities for businesses globally. TCS CrewCollab Solution harnesses these digital forces in the hands of airline crew to deliver enriched customer experience," said S Sukanya, VP and Global Head, Travel Transportation and Hospitality Unit, TCS. "Singapore Airlines is one of our most valuable and long standing clients in the region and this partnership brings an industry-validated, ready-to-deploy solution to the airline industry," she added.
TCS CrewCollab Solution is available from TCS to airlines worldwide. It is the latest in a series of solution innovations from TCS' Airline Innovation Lab, which provides an ecosystem for airlines to experiment with emerging technologies, helping establish TCS as a partner of choice for both co-innovation and transformation.
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Singapore Airlines is committed to operating a modern aircraft fleet, offering world-class cabin products and top quality service provided by the iconic and elegant Singapore Girl. With Singapore as its main hub, the Airline operates services to 60 destinations in 33 countries. Singapore Airlines has more than 100 modern aircraft in its fleet, and created aviation history in October 2007 by becoming the world's first airline to fly the largest commercial plane in the world, the Airbus A380. In July 2013, Singapore Airlines launched its next-generation cabin products in all three classes as well as the world's most advanced in-flight entertainment system.
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Brown Bag Films Dublin Turns 24!
Octonauts WINS for Outstanding Writing at Daytime Emmy Awards!
Our teams donned their finest threads for the Creative Arts Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony that took place on Friday 27th April at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Los Angeles!
We had a terrific night and together with our partners in Silvergate Media we are proud to announce Octonauts has been honoured with the Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program!
A big congratulations to all the other amazing nominees and winners in the preschool and children's categories including: Amazon's Tumble Leaf who took home the Emmy for Outstanding Preschool Children's Animated Series; Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants who won the award for Outstanding Children's Animated Series; Netflix's Dinotrux who received Outstanding Sound Mixing and Outstanding Sound Editing in a Preschool Animated Program.
And also, to Netflix's A StoryBots Christmas who took home the Emmy's for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program and Outstanding Directing in a Preschool Animated Program.
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Featured, Mary Poppins Returns
Songs and performers revealed for "Mary Poppins Returns"
Bustle has an in-depth article on "Mary Poppins Returns", Rob Marshall's work behind the scenes and news on which songs will be performed – brace yourself for a musical number with Meryl Streep: Mary Poppins Returns is Blunt's "third film with Meryl Streep," the actor says, referencing The Devil Wears Prada and Into the Woods. "What a stalker she is." In the film, Streep plays a character named Topsy, adapted from P.L. Travers' books, who is an Eastern European distant cousin of Mary's and lives in a fixit shop that turns upside down every Monday. Sounds a bit like Uncle Albert and his penchant for levitation, doesn't it? The movie's production designer teased some fun instrumental moments in Streep's big "Turning Turtle" musical moment, because Topsy is more apt to turn a broken instrument into something else rather than fix it. When Meryl was here," Platt recalls of the actor's time on set, "she turned to me and said 'it feels like we're giving a gift to the word.'" That's the joy that everyone involved with the movie seems to be taking in telling this new story and singing these songs. You can read the full article at Bustle with many thanks to Glenn for the heads-up!
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Fifth Beckham Baby? Victoria Admits She's Tempted
Kim LaCapria
A fifth Beckham baby has been long-rumored for footballer David and former pop star wife Victoria. Just scant months after the 2012 arrival of daughter Harper, the pair already were shooting down rumors of yet another baby.
A fifth Beckham baby would add to the famous pair's brood of three boys and one baby girl, and Victoria has in the past admitted that she hasn't ruled out the possibility of again adding to their family. The Beckhams are parents, in addition to Harper, to sons Brooklyn, Cruz, and Romeo.
Harper was just months old when a fifth Beckham baby was teased about by the Mrs. in a Glamour interview. Speaking of the new addition back then, she mused:
"I'd never say never about another baby. It's a juggling act—a career, family, a husband who's busy. But I'd never say never!"
That was back in October, and the couple's reps were quickly shooting down fifth Beckham baby rumors — but even then, not entirely confidently, telling E!:
"To my knowledge, she is not pregnant."
That was four months ago, and fifth Beckham baby buzz is heating up again in a culture obsessed with celebrity spawning. Earlier this month, Britain's Daily Mail quoted David too as again talking about a new sprog, having said during and interview on Jonathan Ross's ITV1 talk show:
"Harper is seven months now. I can't even look at her without welling up. After having three boys, you just assume that you're going to have another boy, but when we got told she was a little girl, it was amazing."
The soccer star continued, saying that they're not just considering a fifth Beckham baby… but perhaps a sixth, too:
"We might have one more or two more, you never know. We're not thinking about it yet, but if it happens, great. We're enjoying the kids as it is. It's always a thought… I mean, we're busy people and we're enjoying the four kids that we've got already and we're lucky, we're lucky to have four healthy children."
But the rumors started up again at Fashion Week when Victoria allegedly quipped in response to a question about a boutique in Paris that "maybe" she would branch out there — reportedly adding "maybe we'll get a Paris baby, too!"
As of now, no official news of a fifth Beckham baby has been reported.


Carlsson & Möller's machinery is fully adapted for processing of polymer materials. Because we only process plastics this means that we have a pure production without any risks of contamination from other materials.
Carlsson & Möller can also take responsibility for final assembly of parts and components and deliver ready-made products for final assembly.
Carlsson & Möller's Lean Production means that the planning of our business activities is based on customer requirements. The main principle is that any part of the production process that does not create value for the customer shall be removed.
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Can I Sync an Unlocked LG Dare?
by Lou Martin
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Unlocking a mobile phone removes the network restrictions programmed into the device when it was manufactured. It can only be done by purchasing an unlock code from its intended carrier. However, synchronize, or sync, your LG Dare with a computer regardless of whether the phone is unlocked.
USB Syncing
Synchronize your LG Dare with a personal computer through the USB port and cable that came with the phone when it was initially sold. If the phone is not new and you do not have the USB cable, purchase one from an electronics retailer. The Dare is equipped with a microUSB port, which requires the use of a special cable with a mini-sized connector on one end and a standard-sized connector on the other. This type of syncing also requires an intermediary software program. The software synchronizes the data contained on the phone and the computer once you establish the link between the devices.
The Dare is a Code Division Multiple Access device, which means it is only compatible with wireless service providers that operate CDMA networks. At the time of publication, Verizon Wireless and Sprint are the only carriers to operate this type of network, though several regional providers, such as Boost Mobile, also offer services for these types of phones. Because is it a CDMA phone, the Dare is not compatible with T-Mobile, AT&T or other providers that operate Global System for Mobile Communication, better known as GSM, networks.
To use the LG Dare on a network that is different from the one for which it was designed, you must purchase an unlock code from the device's initial carrier. Entering the code into the Dare gives the phone access to the new provider's network as long as you have an account with the new carrier. Unlocking the phone does not affect any of its capabilities, giving you full access to all of the device's features, including syncing.
Because it does not come with Wi-Fi capability, the LG Dare is not compatible with wireless syncing applications, such as Google Sync. The phone does, however, come with several Bluetooth wireless profiles that give you the ability to share files with devices that are equipped with the same profile. When the Dare is connected to a personal computer through its USB cable, the connection can also be used to recharge the phone's battery.
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Lou Martin has been writing professionally since 1992. His work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times," the "Long Beach Press-Telegram" and the "Deseret Morning News." Martin holds a Bachelor of Science in history and communication.
Martin, Lou. "Can I Sync an Unlocked LG Dare?" Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/can-sync-unlocked-lg-dare-34914.html. Accessed 16 January 2020.
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Howard and Nielle Hawkwood, Alberta ranchers, voice health concerns about fracking
Posted on May 9, 2014 by Jessica Ernst
Alberta ranchers voice health concerns about fracking by Cam Tucker, May 7, 2014, Metro
Nielle Hawkwood began noticing about four years ago that her hair was falling out. She also began experiencing skin irritation – as did her husband, Howard — as well as nosebleeds.
Two years ago, she was diagnosed with alopecia, which causes significant hair loss.
"The dermatologist said something has affected your immune system," said Nielle, during a visit in April to the couple's 456-hectare cattle ranch nestled amongst the rolling brown hills north of Calgary. They have been there for 34 years and it's been in Howard's family since 1972.
Both Nielle and Howard believe their recent health problems are the result of an increase in fracking wells being drilled in the area — 110 in the past four years and another 39 projected for this year. The closest is four kilometers from their ranch.
They assert that the hair loss, skin irritation and nosebleeds did not exist before the rise of fracking in the area.
For its part, Lochend Industry Producers Group, which consists of four different oil and gas companies active in the area, says there has been no water contamination and that the risk of water or air contamination to people living within 10 kilometres from a fracking well is "exceedingly" small. The companies set surface casings — a concrete and steel barrier that lines the well to prevent fracking fluid from entering the ground water — to 600 metres, double the required regulatory depths in the Lochend area. As well, the group says, the productive fracking zone is approximately 2,200 metres below the ground, far below a typical water well that sits at around 45 metres deep. [These protections do nothing to protect water, livestock or citizens when fracs go wrong]
A recent study by the Council of Canadian Academies found human health and well-being may be affected by the various environmental effects resulting from shale gas development. … Metro requested an interview with Alberta's Ministry of Health about any health complaints near the Hawkwoods' ranch and related to fracking, but a spokesperson was not made available.
The Hawkwoods, however, aren't only worried about their own health. Last spring and summer, the Hawkwoods say 18 of their cows died, while seven others appeared thin and unhealthy, and did not calve.
A necropsy of one female bovine conducted last April — the document of the testing was viewed by two Metro reporters — noted the cause of death was undetermined, but the Hawkwoods believe water contamination was the cause and fracking the culprit.
The sudden deaths of some of the Hawkwood's cows not only has a financial impact — each cow is worth about $1,800 — but one to the reputation of his ranch, as well. ….with their growing concern over health and environmental effects, the Hawkwoods have contemplated moving away from their ranch, which has been in their family for five decades.
"I'm a little bit upset about it. So where do I go? I love living in the area." [Emphasis added]
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Books for mindfulness and self discovery
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Read your way to self-discovery this year
Taking the time to connect with yourself is not always easy. It can be a challenging process, but one that allows you to stay in tune with your inner world and remain grounded in the present moment. Turn inwards, tap into your complexity and strength, and cultivate warmth inside and out—especially as winter weather rages on—with these books on mindfulness and self-discovery.
Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen by James H. Austin
This is not the usual kind of self-help book. Indeed, its major premise heeds a Zen master's advice to be less self-centered. Yes, it is "one more book of words about Zen," as the author concedes, yet this book explains meditative practices from the perspective of a "neural Zen." The latest findings in brain research inform its suggestions. In Meditating Selflessly, James Austin—Zen practitioner, neurologist, and author of three acclaimed books on Zen and neuroscience—guides readers toward that open awareness already awaiting them on the cushion and in the natural world.
"This extraordinary book on meditation is a perfect jewel, shedding light for the reader on the intricate and profound craft of the practice of meditation and the neuroscience of meditation." —Roshi Joan Halifax, Founding Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
Curious Minds: The Power of Connection by Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.
"A brilliantly original exploration of curiosity. Reading this ambitious and joyful book is a marvelous experience in expanding the mind and the heart—in connecting all the dots to envision a better world." —Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College; author of Curiosity
Happiness by Tim Lomas
What does it mean to feel happiness? As a state of mind, it's elusive. As a concept—despite the plethora of pop psychology books on the subject—it's poorly understood. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psychologist Tim Lomas offers a concise and engaging overview of our current understanding of happiness. Lomas explains that although the field of positive psychology, which focuses on happiness, emerged only in the last twenty-five years, interest in the meaning of happiness goes back several millennia. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, from philosophy and sociology to economics and anthropology, Lomas offers an expansive vision of what happiness means, exploring a significant range of experiential territory.
Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience by Matthew Ratcliffe
Experiences of grief can be bewildering, disorienting, and isolating; everything seems somehow different, in ways that are difficult to comprehend and describe. Why does the world as a whole look distant, strange, and unfamiliar? How can we know that someone is dead, while at the same time find this utterly unfathomable, impossible? Grief Worlds explores a host of philosophical questions raised by grief, showing how philosophical inquiry can enhance our understanding of grief and vice versa.
"Grief Worlds is a must-read for anybody interested in the philosophy of grief and will undoubtedly be a key point of reference in the fast-growing field of phenomenological research on grief in years to come." —Allan Køster, National Center for Grief, Denmark
The Anxious Self: An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of Anxiety by Charlie Kurth
In The Anxious Mind, Charlie Kurth offers a philosophical account of anxiety in its various forms, investigating its nature and arguing for its value in agency, virtue, and decision making. Folk wisdom tells us that anxiety is unpleasant and painful, and scholarly research seems to provide empirical and philosophical confirmation of this. But Kurth points to anxiety's positive effects: enhancing performance, facilitating social interaction, and even contributing to moral thought and action.
"A novel, philosophically sophisticated, and scientifically informed account of how moral anxiety is a valuable moral emotion." —David B. Wong, Duke University; author of Natural Moralities
Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness by Moheb Costandi
The body is central to our sense of identity. It can be a canvas for self-expression, decorated with clothing, jewelry, cosmetics, tattoos, and piercings. But the body is more than that. Bodily awareness, says scientist-writer Moheb Costandi, is key to self-consciousness. In Body Am I, Costandi examines how the brain perceives the body, how that perception translates into our conscious experience of the body, and how that experience contributes to our sense of self. Along the way, he explores what can happen when the mechanisms of bodily awareness are disturbed, leading to such phenomena as phantom limbs, alien hands, and amputee fetishes.
"Body Am I raises vital questions about our relationships with the fleshy vehicles that carry us through life, the nature of identity, and what it means to be human." —Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Facemaker
On Anger edited by Agnes Callard
From Aristotle to Martha Nussbaum, philosophers have explored the moral status of anger. We get angry for a reason: we feel wronged. That reason can be eternal, some argue, because not even an apology or promise that it won't happen again can change the fact of the original harm. Although there are pragmatic reasons for ceasing to be angry and moving on, is eternal anger moral? Is anger righteous? In this collection, contributors consider these and other questions about the causes and consequences of anger.
"a tool for parsing the more unwieldy parts of myself, and my loved ones, and the world." —Helen Rosner, The New Yorker
Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience by Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer
Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of scientific observation. In this book, Matthieu Ricard, a Buddhist monk trained as a molecular biologist, and Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist—close friends, continuing an ongoing dialogue—offer their perspectives on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity.
"Wisdom, relevant to how we can best lead our lives, is the core of this very readable, accessible, and even entertaining book." —Paul Ekman, University of California, San Francisco; author of Emotions Revealed and Telling Lies
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