Steve Jobs announced the iPhone development platform at last week's Worldwide Developer Conference to sighs of disappointments. Mac developers were anxious to develop new applications for the the most anticipated consumer electronics device in years, only to be told they should code fancy websites instead. The 9-minute iPhone development demonstration during the WWDC keynote was a bit confusing for anyone new to Apple widget development. In this post I'll break down a few Apple widget components, transport you to the iPhone development world, and explain a few restrictions and lock-downs common in the mobile phone industry.
Apple Dashboard widgets may also tap into local resources such as your computer's iSight camera, your MacBook's current battery levels, songs in your iTunes libraries, or contacts in your Address Book. Any application may add a widget-plugin as a Cocoa bundle to allow widget access to application-specific data and functionality.
Today's Dashboard widgets take advantage of web browsing technology, plugins, and local application resources exposed to the widget engine via specialized plugin interfaces. Dashboard is an part of your computer's Dock application. Dashboard widgets exist behind a single Dashboard icon; they do not have individually callable Dock icons out of the box.
What if Apple's desktop widget were ported to a mobile device such as the iPhone? The iPhone runs OS X, and contains the essential components necessary for widget operation on a mobile device.
iPhone widgets would operate inside the mobile WebKit library. They would have access to device-specific UI elements such as stylized buttons, smooth transitions, and personalization options. Pieces of the underlying operating system and installed applications would be exposed via widget plugins. Widget files would be distributed as a bundle, downloaded to the iPhone over the air or via a tethered sync. Each widget could have access to limited system resources such as iPhone battery life, WiFi signal strength, the local Address Book, or the iPhone's built-in camera.
There were two types of iPhone announcements at WWDC last week: public statements made by Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall during the conference keynote and NDA-bound statements to developers during conference sessions. I'll only cover the public statements in this post.
"Integrate with iPhone services." You can make a phone call, send an e-mail, or lookup a location in the built-in Google Maps application from any web application. Interpretation: The iPhone's Safari browser contains the same data detection features for phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and address data seen in Mail.app in Leopard. This detected data can be passed into its default handler as an automatically-generated hyperlink. This statement could also mean WebKit applications will have access to special plugins created for system-level services similar to the desktop API but that may be too hopeful.
"Instant distribution." "Easy to update." "Sandboxed on iPhone." Interpretation: Widget bundles are not stored on the iPhone. All files are retrieved from the a remote server and treated as a web resource. Your files are cached and have the same access restrictions as a standard public Internet site.
iPhone widgets are small applications powered by WebKit launched from the iPhone application menu. Web applications created by third-party developers for the iPhone are three clicks away from the same home screen — Web, Bookmarks, bookmark name — but have similar functionality. Personalization data such as stock tickers or your local ZIP code is stored inside a browser cookie.
iPhone widgets store resource files such as images, HTML, CSS in the iPhone's local storage and update the entire widget with the operating system. iPhone widgets pull data updates such as stock prices or the latest weather report from a remote server or could also access locally stored data such as a dictionary.
Safari-based applications request each resource from a remote server and poll for cache updates with each page load. If your weekly weather display contains a sun, cloud, and cloud with rain your application might poll a remote server for possible changes to each of the three images with every display of your weather page.
Apple developers wanted at least iPhone widget-level application marketing and were visibly disappointed by Apple's keynote announcement last week. It's still unclear if AT&T or Apple is keeping third-party developers off the main app menu. I can only postulate based on existing developer programs from each company.
AT&T certifies applications to operate on phones in its network across multiple operating systems. Productivity applications receive an enterprise solution certification after successfully passing security, reliability, and network usage tests and paying fees starting at $1000 a test. Enterprise applications are usually available for free and side-loaded (updated via a tether) by corporate IT departments. Consumer applications are typically distributed through AT&T's MEdia Net portal after similar testing and certification fees for a purchase fee split between AT&T and the developer. This process is the "orifice" Steve Jobs referenced in a 2004 Wall Street Journal interview.
Current video iPods feature games purchased from the iTunes Store. Apple currently distributes 14 games created in-house and through external companies such as Astraware who specialize in porting games to PDAs and cell phones. The current iPod games platform is not open to third party or "homebrew" creations. Anyone can create their own iQuiz, using a specially formatted text file (essentially a fancy Note).
New developers could enter the iPhone application menu through AT&T, Apple, or both.
The iPhone will be available at 6 p.m. on June 29, or a little over 10 days from the time I write this post. More developer documentation may emerge after the device's official release. Hardware and software hackers will likely pull the device apart in search of custom modifications already present on Palm Treo devices or the Sony PSP.
Hopefully this long post clarifies the data we already know about applications and widgets on the iPhone. The device and its software was certainly under a tight release schedule and it's reasonable to assume new features are on their way in new versions of operating system hardware and software expected over the next six months. There is a developer story on the iPhone, but Apple has not communicated this story very well to their developer base over the past 6 months. They're battling the same closed carrier system as any other mobile application provider, so expect slow change assisted by market leverage.


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"Democracy" and Doecracy
"Democracy destroys itself, because it has destroyed the right, freedom and equality, because it has taught citizens to regard insolence as a right, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss."
If reading the above passage led your malicious mind to think that it refers to the Greek republic of 2007, then you are mistaken. The above passage belongs to the greatest orator of Antiquity, Isocrates, and was spoken 2,400 years ago. Any similarity of isokratic saying to the current political situation is purely coincidental…
So democracy… Democracy everywhere! Democracy for the hooded, democracy for the prezebors, democracy for the pedophiles, the perverts, the people, the people, the snatchers of public money, the trespassers and the minions of Judah. But when it comes to the Nationalists, the boundaries of "democracy" are exhausted.
Because everything and everything! Tolerance to the biological existence (!) of our fraud deniers, yes. But not to give them the right to speak. "No freedom to the enemies of freedom." Is it no wonder that all kinds of leftists, anarchists, anti-fascists, anti-authoritarians and so on that this slogan, apart from themselves, has been adopted by all domestic and world power, solely for the supporters of our Ideas? But it's only natural… Global Zionistism and "anti-fascists" have always marched hand in hand (where "fascism": the self-evident struggle of nations to preserve their ethno-racial specificity and cultural traditions).
"The Athenian Republic was the dictatorship of fifty thousand citizen peers out of three million allies, settlers and slaves. For fifty years, 25,001 of these fifty thousand happened to be smart people. Biological phenomenon assansive and unrepeatable in history. But since the 25,001 smart ones became 24,999, the 25,001 idiots have brought Cleon, a man of their own measure, to the beginning, and democracy has regained its consistent selves." This was what the late Karagatsis had written in the "Yellow Envelope" about that marginal phenomenon that occurred in the middle of the 5th century BC and which Thucydides described as "a man's principle" (the embellished characterization of the dictatorship). And yet, from our birth, we are sucked into our minds by the fanfare of the "finished state" that "glorified" Ancient Greece and which reappeared in modern times in the form of Parliamentaryism. The fact that this state did not glorify, but rather destroyed Classical Hellenism, or that the present plutocratic oligarchy they represent has as much to do with Athenian democracy as the cannibals with culture, these are "fine print" for our "democrats"…
The funny thing about their "democracy" is that they don't even keep up appearances. Three million signatures were collected by the Church for the identities (48% of the electorate) and the president of the "democracy" (call me Stephanopoulos) threw them in the toilet bowl of the presidential palace. 78% don't like Hassan in our country (over 3,000,000 foreign invaders… Did you see Hassan?), but Pavlopoulos and his counterparts want to bring more and legitimize them quickly! 86% don't want mongols in Europe, and our people are competing over who's going to turn out to be more of a yusufaki than the other. We have the most inflated anti-Americanism on the planet, and our power functions as the White House annex to the Balkans. Well, yes, this is all democracy!!!
But let's not throw it all at politicians, because they do their job. Written by "Freedom of Press" (28/2/07): "They grumble, but… Vote! Greeks have no confidence in the government (65%) and political parties (80%), according to the Eurobarometer. they elect the government with the highest percentages in all of Europe and have one of the lowest abstention rates from elections in all of Europe.
Because that's who we are! A people of idle celebrations, who simply vote for those who make up our mirror: them in the image and likeness of our national selves… The Great Pericles Giannopoulos had written exactly a century ago about the Greeks of his time: "To be the Tribe in the mess it is, it is obvious that today's Greeks are the worst they have ever been." Today, all we have to do is add: "… After these people have reached these downs, then it is better to be lost forever than to be the laughing ground of the earth. For, it seems, God himself is sick of us."
And in this decline, like torches lit, we, the Chrysanthemtes. FEAR and awe for the administrators of the misery of our people. Well, in this so "good" and "tolerant" democracy, we have only one way left: to be DEIMOCRATES! So, in their "democracy"…
DEIMOKRATIS
*See: Personalization of terror, usually after fear of the same appearing. In the Iliad, both demon forces are presented, which terrify the warriors. Fear is called the dear son of Areos, and in other writers, simos, who is the son of Scylla (…).
Deimocracy: The Deimo State (=Power, Power, Power).
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NO TOMORROW IS THE SAME WITH TODAY…
On: February 21, 2021 April 21, 2021 By: admin
Some people think we're burnt papers. Some people think we're done. They've believed it for years… but life contradicts them!
Golden Dawn invites all the fighters of the People's Nationalist Movement to rally. He invites them to thicken the ranks for the new course. A course clear, unaddy, proud, without compromises and retreats.
Golden Dawn informs its friends and fighters that the title of the Patriotic Alliance party was awarded by the Golden Dawn Central Committee in early 2004 to a specific person to be enshrined in the Supreme Court. This person, as Ethics and Law imposed returned the title where it belonged: Golden Dawn. This is for your information and to know that those who act in the name of this title do not have the legal right to do so.
Mistakes, of course, have been made and we recognize them. We've been eaten by a so-called policy…
Fortunately, however, we have caught up and fought back without selling out our souls and beliefs, and from now on we will fight for our Ideas and only for our Ideas. For Nationalism, for Race, for Social Justice.
Many questions and many will be answered on 18 March 2007. Targets will be set, a course will be set.
You all have a right and a duty to have an opinion. You have no right to be absent from the national invitation. Our country is in a difficult situation. It's not going to be saved by the administrators and the politicians. The only ones who can save her are some burnt papers.
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How To Craft Member Renewal Messaging Amid COVID-19 Crisis
By Rasheeda Childress / Apr 2, 2020 (Moon Safari/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
Even though much of the world is consumed with fighting the spread of coronavirus, membership renewals are still coming due. Experts offer advice on dealing with renewal notices, while being sensitive to today's unique environment.
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ASAE has compiled an Issue Roundup with resources on coronavirus for associations, including webcasts and more. Go to the Issue Roundup on asaecenter.org.
Given the tough financial situation caused by coronavirus-related closures, associations are trying to figure out the best way to handle membership renewals coming due. Two consultants offered some advice, based on what they're seeing at associations across the country.
"The sending out of renewals and deciding on the types of communication becomes much more strategic," said Scott Oser, president of Scott Oser Associates.
With many associations hurting, it is more important than ever to convey to members the benefits your association is offering, so they want to renew. "Point them to resources your association has that are important to what they do," Oser said.
David Patt, CAE, president of Association Executive Management, said it's important for members to feel like you're still there for them. "You need to maintain people's loyalty and their trust," Patt said. "You don't want people to say, 'I really don't need this.' You have to come up with a way to make them still want you."
Oser recommends beefing up engagement communication. "It's about letting them know what your resources are, how they're benefiting from your membership, whatever benefit it is," he said.
While Oser encourages engagement, he thinks renewals should be sent out at the usual times, without extensions or changes, except in extreme circumstances. "Unless they are in an industry where it's dire, and they feel like it's critical that they have to do something very different in order for the industry or members to survive, then they should continue to communicate with their members about renewing," Oser said. "From what I've seen, associations that continue to send out renewals are still getting renewals."
Patt takes the broader perspective that many industries have been hit by the virus. He's seen blanket membership extensions for a few months. If an association wants to offer help but can't afford a blanket extension, he recommends allowing members to self-select. "You can say something like, 'You may have been hurt financially by the current crisis. So have we. If you are able, please renew your dues now. We'll wait if you can't,'" Patt said. "It shows people you understand, and it says to people who can afford to pay, don't wait."
Oser said he's seen some associations emphasize how hard COVID-19 has been on the association's finances. He doesn't recommend that. "It's not about the association," Oser said. "Flip the script, so it's about the members. If you list nine ways the association can help the member and the 10th is, 'By the way, every dollar you give us goes to supporting the industry,' fine. Now is not the time to say, 'We, as an association, need your help.' Members are struggling as much or more."
Patt noted associations that renew everyone at one time may be facing tougher problems than those who renew on a rolling basis. "If everyone comes due April 1, you're counting on a big chunk of revenue," he said. Patt suggested those associations convert members to a rolling renewal.
Both Patt and Oser agree the tone in renewal requests should be reflective of the current situation. "Traditional marketing says to create immediate urgency," Oser said. "If you're expiring tomorrow, I'm going to tell you, 'I'm cutting off benefits tomorrow.' I wouldn't recommend people do that now."
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We love a good Instagram story here at MeetEdgar because, really, what's not to love about Instagram stories? They are fun, easy to consume and engaging.
We're not the only ones loving Instagram stories! Everyone seems to be loving them these days! In fact, 500 million Instagram users upload stories every day. Experts are saying that stories are set to bypass the feed in viewers before 2020. That means more people will be seeing your stories than your actual Instagram feed!
Stories keep you at the top of the feed so your followers see your content more often and they can help grow your audience so if Instagram stories aren't part of your social media strategy, it's time to change that!
If you are brand new to Instagram, you might be wondering "What are Instagram stories?" Instagram stories are photos and videos that vanish after 24 hours. You've probably seen them sitting at the top of your feed or you've seen them at the top of user's profiles.
There are plenty of creative ways you can use stories from videos to sneak peeks to behind the scenes content. The options are endless! Now, this might stress you out because we're telling you to create even more content (as if you aren't busy enough).
That's where a scheduling tool like MeetEdgar comes in handy. Scheduling Instagram stories with Edgar makes it much easier to stay consistent with your Instagram stories.
Edgar allows you to schedule Instagram stories and feed posts for Instagram from your desktop, much like you schedule content for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Since we launched Instagram scheduling, we've had a few questions about how you can use Edgar's unique features for Instagram scheduling, how to schedule Instagram stories with Edgar and what's the best way to use stories.
We're going to let you in on some easy ways that we use Edgar to keep our Instagram stories consistent for the MeetEdgar account so you can start saving time while keeping consistent stories!
Do you post a blog every Tuesday or put out a new podcast? You can schedule a recurring Instagram story every time you have a new post! Here's how we do it with Edgar.
Create a category in your Edgar account and add it to your recurring schedule. As you can see below, we created "IG Blog Story Announcements" to post every Tuesday and Thursday when we publish our blog posts.
Then, you'll need to add content to your library. We like to add a few basic stock photos and graphics that rotate on a regular basis.
Once you add a few images, you don't need to worry about updating your queue for a while! When it's time to post, Edgar will send you a notification and you can select to post on your story. From there, we like to add some GIFs, hashtags, and stickers to make the post a little more engaging!
Of course, we've all had one of those days where you have every intention of posting follow up stories but then, life and business get crazy and before you know it, it's the next day and your original story has disappeared!
With Edgar, you can use the "Schedule Send" feature so that you can schedule a few stories to go out within a few minutes or hours of each other. If you use the "Use Once" feature when you schedule your story, then they'll be retired from your library so you won't have to worry about Edgar reposting them.
We used this feature when we were announcing Content Creator Day and we wanted our posts to go out in a specific order, at specific times.
We love getting to know our audience so we're big fans of the questions and poll tools in Instagram stories. But we must confess that we used to forget to use them or we couldn't think up a good poll or story at the moment so we just skipped it.
Because we're strictly using these for engaging with our users, we didn't have a preference as to when they posted, just that they posted consistently. So we turned to our trusty recurring schedule once more!
We added a category for "Questions/Polls" into our Instagram content library and then added two timeslots in so that we're asking questions and polls every week. We follow the same basic practices we used for scheduling our recurring blog post announcements. We used stock photos or graphics and our question in as the content. And when it came time to post, we added in either the poll or question feature, some GIFs and animation.
In just a few seconds, we quickly dress up our scheduled Instagram stories and get them up into our story!
These are just a few ways you can start scheduling Instagram stories. Whatever way you choose to use stories, remember that scheduling Instagram stories doesn't take away your ability to post real-time stories. Instead, you'll have a balance of consistent content so that no matter how busy you are, you're always sharing Instagram stories and popping up at the top of your user's Instagram feeds!
Ready to see how Edgar will work for your Instagram strategy? Sign up today and get access to all our easy-to-use automaton features!
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Why do these people dump their rubbish in the countryside?
Flytipping has been a problem in the countryside for a long time.
Council's safety drive to tour the Cotswolds
A special week aimed at getting young people more aware of crime and safety issues in their area will kick off in the Cotswolds next week.
Cotswold District Council is running several events around the area when Community Safety Week starts on Monday December 3rd. This year the event will be focusing on issues affecting young people, and the five-day drive is being led by the Council's Community Safety Team.
Christmas Exhibition at Where I fell In Love Gallery
Sunday 25th November - Sunday 27th January 2008 Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire
A Christmas Exhibition at the well known and well loved Where I Fell In Love Gallery at Shipston -on-Stour.
Painting by Lynette Pierce, Judy Symons and Sarah Mayne.
Ceramics by Sonia Lewis, Lucinda Brown, Ian Rylatt and Anthony Eccles.
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Wood by Roy Dutton and Mark Hancock.
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Explore a selection of shoes at Cotswold Museum session
Step into line at the Corinium Museum next month when local nursery children join forces with staff to create a temporary shoe show.
The museum will team up with local nurseries Stepping Stones, Bright Eyes Nursery, Cirencester Opportunity Group and Acorns Nursery School, to offer each group individual historic shoe 'handling sessions'.
The 35-minute sessions, led by one of the Museum's Education Officers, will allow the toddlers to understand why we wear shoes, explore different types of shoes and take part in a range of activities, including drawing shoes and playing 'shoe pairs'.
Results of rural skills contest brighten up Cotswold roadside
A length of hedge along a quiet lane in Gloucestershire, between Chipping Campden and Shipston-Upon-Stour was transformed over the weekend to produce a sight well worth taking a look at.
The annual North Cotswolds Hedgelaying Competition was held on Saturday 17th November
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Recent figures suggest Gloucestershire has one of the highest levels of smoke-free compliance anywhere in the country.
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More than £540,000 will be spent by Cotswold District Council on helping to protect the District against future floods, it was announced today.
The Council's Cabinet has agreed to spend the majority of its £623,000 Flood Recovery Grant on a range of measures to improve land drainage and assist towns and parishes to prepare for any future emergencies.
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Installation
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 65 Oct 27 17:49 2466e1a -> /path/yii/vendor/bower/some-package2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 50 Oct 27 17:49 420da4e -> /path/yii/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/assets
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 55 Oct 27 17:49 85c56229 -> /path/yii/vendor/fortawesome/font-awesome
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data www-data 56 Oct 27 17:49 e8db1cdd -> /path/yii/vendor/yiisoft/yii2-debug/assets

/path/yii$ php yii asset/clean
Cleaning assets dir...
removed /path/yii/web/assets/114607b9, last modified Oct 27, 2015, 2:55:06 PM
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--quiet: boolean, 0 or 1 (defaults to 0)
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--verbose: boolean, 0 or 1 (defaults to 0)
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```

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Glossy: How Aerie Established a TikTok Following in Two Weeks
April 29, 2020 August 13, 2021 In News & Media,
By Katie Richards	| Link to article
After launching a TikTok account two weeks ago, Aerie is going all in on the platform.
When Aerie closed all of its U.S. and Canada stores and most employees started working from home, on March 17, the brand began focusing on how to evolve its marketing strategy to bring more positivity to customers without overselling product. Like many brands, TikTok wasn't something the company had tried prior to quarantine orders, but it had been on the marketing team's radar for a while. Plus, with a pool of big name brand ambassadors like Iskra Lawrence, Denise Mercedes and Charli D'Amelio, the team knew Aerie could draw some high engagement on TikTok.
"We know we have a heavily Gen-Z [audience] and we knew we could have an influence by creating content that made you feel like staying home, expressing yourself and being comfy at home," said Stacey McCormick, svp of Aerie marketing.
On April 15, a day after launching its TikTok account, Aerie kicked off a sponsored #AerieRealPositivity hashtag challenge. The challenge, which is ongoing, asks users to post a video sharing three things they're thankful for and upload the video with the sponsored hashtag. TikTok influencer Charli D'Amelio kicked off the challenge, posting a video both to her own 51.5 million followers (which received 3.3 million likes and 21.8 million views) and to Aerie's account (nearly 10,000 likes and 76,700 views).
In the two weeks after the challenge went live, Aerie earned 17,400-plus followers. There were 6,600 videos that were posted with the challenge hashtag, which together saw more than 1.3 billion views. While the brand did not share specifics on the cost, sponsored TikTok hashtag challenges cost $150,000 for six days, according to Influencer Marketing Hub. The week of April 15, Aerie also reported 16,000 new Instagram followers (a 1,000% increase, compared to an average week) and a significant increase in traffic to the #AerieReal Life homepage, with 138,000 views in a single day. The brand declined to share traffic numbers for a normal day.
While many brands have been dabbling in TikTok over the last six weeks, Aerie is one of the few on the fashion side to put money behind a paid campaign. Beauty brands have been all over TikTok in recent weeks, and luxury fashion brands are also rushing to the platform as a way to connect with Gen-Z customers. In 2019, the TikTok app had 46 million downloads in the U.S., accounting for roughly 6% of all global downloads, per Influencer Marketing Hub.
"When we realized the positivity challenge was something we could do, we knew we could amplify it in a big way on TikTok. We had already been planning to work with Charli, and thought that having her organically share it on her TikTok would be great — but we knew if we amplified it even more [with a sponsored challenge], it could resonate so much more and make a big statement," said McCormick.
Another reason why McCormick believes the challenge has been so successful is that the brand created an original song, called "100% Real Love," to be used with the challenge. Beauty brands like E.l.f. Cosmetics have seen success going this route — creating a catchy song that ends up in the background of thousands of popular videos.
"On TikTok, advertisers who appeal to this elusive generation with fresh, timely content will be seen as the cool new friend. However, such brands must continue to innovate how they engage with this generation through social media in order to stay relevant," said Eric Oldfield, chief business officer at social learning network Brainly.
After seeing strong results from this first paid effort, Aerie is working to incorporate other types of TikTok videos into the feed. Some will be focused on the role models, and others will be more product-focused. Last week, one of Aerie's stylists appeared on the brand's page showing four ways to wear a new ribbed knit skirt.
"It's just a no-brainer to continue [hosting challenges] and look for new, fun ways to be on TikTok. There are just so many ways we can share the brand, whether that is through product messaging, role model content or just more positivity," said McCormick.


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The House passed a referendum offering Puerto Rico its' first-ever vote to decide on independence, full U.S. statehood, or sovereignty.
💻 Trump Turns to NFTs
Former President Trump announced a line of NFT trading cards featuring images of the president as a superhero or a cowboy.
⚖ Would-Be Whitmer Kidnappers Sentenced
The three men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer were sentenced today. Paul Bellar was sentenced to a minimum of seven years, Joseph Morrison was sentenced to ten years, and Pete Musico was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
💻 PayPal and MetaMask Partner Up
PayPal is teaming up with the crypto wallet company, MetaMask to offer users an easier way to buy crypto.
💻 Coolant Leak on the Soyuz Spacecraft
A coolant leak on the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft caused two Russian Astronauts and one American astronaut to cancel a planned spacewalk. The spacecraft is docked at the International Space Station, and the astronauts are not in any danger, but their ride home may be out of commission thanks to the leak.
🍿 Henry Cavill Won't Return to Superman or The Witcher
Henry Cavill announced that he would return to the role of Superman in October, but then this week, he told fans he would no longer be returning as Clark Kent under James Gunn and Peter Safran's new DC comics leadership. Cavill was recast in the series The Witcher in response to the October news, but he will not return to the Witcher even though he won't take up the role of Superman after all.
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Steam has a new most-expensive game, and the creator says don't buy it
Gaming platform Steam is filled with wacky, wonderful, and sometimes woeful releases. With hundreds, if not thousands, of new games being released every day it can be difficult to stand out from the crowd; a stellar Steam game either needs a hook, great visuals, or some left-field marketing. So, what if someone made their game the newest, most expensive title on the platform, but also says you shouldn't buy it?
Well, here it is. The newly released 'The Hidden and Unknown' from developer ProX is officially the most expensive game on Steam, at an eye-watering price of $1,999.90 USD (£1,679.09 GBP).
Described as a "story-based game, that aims to widen the perception of its audience in the areas of psychology and philosophy," I was immediately intrigued by the text-based Steam game, as it struck me as something that, well, shouldn't be that price.
So, I took it upon myself to reach out to the creator, known as 'ThePro', for a Disocrd call and asked them why on Earth his game is so expensive.
"I don't believe anyone will buy it," ThePro tells me. Adding that they in fact would "discourage anyone from buying it if they can't afford it, I don't want to cause trouble."
I'm told by ThePro that they're originally from Slovakia and now living in Switzerland, and that The Hidden and Unknown is a deeply personal game, one that depicts his own life story with some sci-fi elements sprinkled in. "The underlying theme is sharing your own story and letting people understand that even if you're in a bad situation you can work with what you've got."
Apart from the obvious marketing angle, ThePro also tells me that the price point is there because he "doesn't want to sell my life for $20," with the deeply personal aspect of the story game's design not something he feels he can give away for a small price.
Steam's most expensive game also didn't even start out as a game, with ThePro telling me that it was originally a book before he laughs and says he just "ended up making a game" instead.
While you're encouraged to not buy the game, there is a way you can own it without having to pay, as the ProX Discord offers giveaways of The Hidden and Unknown, but ThePro notes that he doesn't just want to give the title away to almost anyone for absolutely no reason.
When I first heard about The Hidden and Unknown I was suitably intrigued, but it was only after hearing from ThePro himself that I grew to truly appreciate what he's done. Steam allows you to put such a hefty price on your game, and with the screenshots and description, it's not as if he's trying to trick anyone. It's a bit of fun marketing that lead me to a personal and wildly interesting story.
No one's forcing you to buy Steam's most expensive game, but it's there and marks a deeply personal story for the person who made it.
"Obviously, it's like 'who would do this?'" ThePro says. "I spent a few months on it [and] even if just two people buy it, I believe I made the most rational decision."
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'Son of Saul' tackles the Holocaust at a new angle
Aidan Watson-Morris
Is there a genre more repugnant than holocaust kitsch? The commercial exploitation of the atrocities committed under the Third Reich rarely offers fresh political or moral insight.
It is a cheap means of circumventing creativity or controversy, for who needs creativity when the stories can be endlessly recycled from pop history, and what could spark controversy when it comes to the condemnation of genocide?
Nazi-era Germany is fertile ground for the artistically bankrupt. One of the most horrifying historical events is, somewhat ironically, safe.
The directorial debut of László Nemes is the opposite of safe. It is a brutal film, aggressively unpleasant and unsettling.
"Son of Saul" follows Saul, a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando (groups of Nazi prisoners who were forced to work at concentration camps), as he tries to bury the body of a young boy which was set aside for an autopsy.
Handheld tracking shots employ suffocatingly extreme close-ups and long takes which force the viewer into the perspective of the eponymous Saul as he is made to kill other Jewish prisoners. Each shot uses basically the same technique, a visual tedium often interrupted by nauseating images of death and human cruelty.
The visceral effect of these images is mitigated only by their being slightly out of focus. It's easy to imagine cinematographer Mátyás Erdély daring the audience to blink at the horror on screen.
The oblique filming style is most effective at the very beginning of the film, when all is confusion and the audience is forced to pay attention to the glimpses of peripheral horror in order to understand what is happening. It is not until around the 15 minute mark that Nemes starts to put his cards on the table.
Moral uncertainty is at the heart of "Son of Saul." Saul's determination to bury the boy imperils many of his colleagues. Yet the concept of priorities seems ludicrous in Auschwitz.
Nemes is obviously a talented director and the ambition of his debut is praiseworthy. However, it is difficult to recommend watching "Son of Saul." Although the film is much more honest than most movies of its subject matter, it is violently unpleasant to watch.
If there is a distinction to be made between objectively good art and merely unenjoyable art, watching "Son of Saul" pushes that distinction to the brink. It is a well-made film which features competent storytelling, and the pain it inflicts on the viewer is neither unintentional nor shallow.
But how much pain does an audience have to endure before "well done" is not well?
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Bredesen Enters U.S. Senate Race
The former Governor, last Democrat to win a major statewide race in Tennessee, brings name recognition and the likelihood of serious support into a political arena dominated since his tenure by Republicans,
Posted By Jackson Baker on Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 11:40 AM
The other shoe has dropped in the case of Phil Bredesen, now a full-fledged candidate for the U.S. Senate. The former governor of Tennessee from 2003 to 2011
Bredesen in his campaign-announcement video
and the last Democrat to hold major statewide office in this increasingly red state, Bredesen had been publicly flirting for at least two months with the idea of returning to active politics as a Senate candidate.
Founder of a highly successful health care enterprise in Nashville, Bredesen served several effective terms as mayor of that city and, after one unsuccessful race as Democratic nominee for governor in 1994, losing to Republican candidate Don Sundquist of Memphis, he was elected Tennessee's chief executive on his second try in 2002, defeating the GOP's Van Hilleary.
In his political races, Bredesen, a native of upstate New York, would joke about his origins elsewhere by saying, "I got here as soon as I could."
While there are no sure things in politics, the entry of Bredesen is no doubt troubling news to fellow Nashville Democrat James Mackler, a lawyer and former Iraq war veteran who had previously declared for governor, as well as to state Republicans, now observing a potentially divisive race for the GOP Senate nomination between 7th District Congressman Marsha Blackburn and former 8th District Congressman Stephen Fincher.
The GOP establishment wasted no time in officially dissing Bredesen's candidacy.
Scott Golden, chairman of the state Republican Party, issued a statement beginning with the statement that "[former Governor Phil Bredesen's record represents the Tennessee of yesterday when Democrats labeled extreme unemployment rates, higher taxes, and a total lack of government transparency as 'prospering,'" and going on to cite alleged improvements in the state's circumstances since then.
And Michael McAdams, regional press secretary for the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee, greeted the former governor's announcement by saying, "Phil Bredesen officially announced he's running for U.S. Senate today, and national Democrats couldn't be happier. Bredesen is exactly the type of big government liberal national Democrats love."
Both statements are somewhat at variance with the actual political state of things during Bredesen's incumbency. Far from being a "big government liberal," Bredesen angered many in the liberal wing of his party by presiding over a period of enforced austerity, drastically pruning the state's TennCare rolls and imposing across-the-board budget cuts that were one percent more severe than the ones recommended the year before by the ultra-conservative Blackburn, then a state senator.
Republicans were seriously hampered in their efforts to oppose Bredesen's reelection in 2006 because, in the view of many observers, the Democratic Governor had in effect enacted the chief elements in the Republican platform of that time. Bredesen was opposed in 2006 by a GOP sacrificial lamb, state Senator Jim Bryson of Nashville, who lost badly.
It remains to be seen, of course, whether Bredesen, politically inactive since leaving the governor's office (though he had publicly floated his availability for a cabinet position in the Obama administration) , will strike voters in 2018 as yesterday's newspaper.
There is no doubting, however, that he posseses residual name recognition and will have financial and political support in his race that no other Democrat running statewide since his tenure in office as enjoyed. Moreover, the video in which he announced his candidacy seemed clearly in line with the conservative hues of Tennessee in 2017.
Referring to his background as a businessman, Bredesen declares in the video that "We all know Washington is broken..[while] back here in Tennessee, we have some real problems." He boasts his resistance as governor to a state income tax and says, "The Affordable Care Act needs fixing."
He laments that Congress is "immoral the way they keep borrowing money with no end in sight.," and contends, "I'm running for the Senate because I have the right kind of experience and the actual track record that it will take to start working across party lines to fix the mess in Washington and bring common sense back to our government."
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Trump Endorsement of Hagerty Senate Bid May Have Force of Edict (Politics Beat Blog)
Presidential tweet boosting candidacy of Ambassador to Japan would seem to foreclose further Republican competition for seat being vacated by U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander. Nashville Democrat Mackler also seeks the seat.
by Jackson Baker
Haslam Says No to Senate Race; Kustoff Says Maybe (Politics Beat Blog)
8th District Congressman teases availability for run at Alexander seat; others are likely to be heard from.
Lee Harris Endorses Council Candidate Davin Clemons (Politics Beat Blog)
County Mayor's intervention in city election seen as escalation of battle with Fords.
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Judge Mays Approves Two-Week Mediation Process in School Merger Case
Tuesday's court hearing canceled; litigating parties will confer instead on selection of mediator, have until May 3 to reach settlement. More »
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The City Council schedules a Tuesday discussion in executive session; also on Tuesday, a bill to prohibit RCV (aka Instant Runoff Voting) comes before a state Senate committee.
May 1 Election Signals Real Prospect of 2018 Blue Wave in Shelby County
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Apparently, the folks on the other side of the world couldn't wait for Prince Charles and Camilla to visit them next month, so they sent a delegation to drop in on him in London's St. James's Palace.
A crowd of about 200, dominated by natives of Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand, gave the king-to-be and his wife a taste of what to expect during their tour Nov. 3-16.
The trip is part of Charles' commitment to Diamond Jubilee tours during this 60th year of the Queen's reign. He was last in Australia and New Zealand in 2005 and visited Papua New Guinea in 1984.
During the preview at the Palace, Charles and Camilla were entertained by dancers performing the traditional Maori haka of New Zealand and by Australian-born pop singer Kylie Minogue. Charles picked up the cues right away, already being well versed in the traditional Maori greeting (right, with Bruce Simpson of the Ngati Ranana London Maori Club).
One of the special treats for J.R.R. Tolkien fan Charles during this tour will be visiting with Peter Jackson, director of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The prince will be touring the workshops in New Zealand where Jackson has done the special effects for his next Tolkien project, "The Hobbit."
New Zealand is also where Charles will be spending his 64th birthday on Nov. 14, the same day that a partial solar eclipse will cast its shadow. Sixty-four Kiwis who are also celebrating their birthday are invited to a party in his honour.
The tour starts in Papua New Guinea on Nov. 3, heads to Australia for Nov. 5-10 and winds up in New Zealand for six days. It will be Camilla's first visit to that part of the world.
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Supreme Court: No, You Still Can't Own an Assault Rifle in Highland Park
The nation's highest court passed on a challenge to the suburb's assault-weapon ban, but Clarence Thomas's dissent shows how times have changed in the fight over guns.
AR-15-style assault rifles are on display at Freddie Bear Sports in Tinley Park on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Photo: Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune
In 2013, when the state of Illinois legalized concealed carry, it also took away the authority of local communities to ban assault weapons—unless cities got an ordinance on the books within ten days. One of 20-some cities to do it was the wealthy North Shore suburb of Highland Park, which passed an assault-weapon ban in a 6-1 vote by City Council despite pointed objections:
Several opponents said assault-weapon violence does not plague Highland Park. Others cautioned that the local ordinance could end up in court, leaving residents on the hook to pay for its defense. Still others evoked imagery of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and other fascist, communist or terrorist regimes who disarmed civilians before embarking on bloody massacres.
Highland Park resident Sasha Turk said she grew up learning gun safety, which she said is crucial. She argued against the local law, arguing that virtually anything could be used as a weapon.
"If I really wanted to, I could kill somebody with a lamp or a coffee mug," Turk said.
Soon thereafter a local pediatrician and the Illinois State Rifle Association filed a lawsuit, which worked its way up the ladder over the past two years. Today that ended: The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, allowing the Seventh Circuit court's decision upholding the ban to stand. The majority did not explain its decision, but the two dissenters, Justices Thomas and Scalia, did—and it's a window into where the gun debate is and how it got here.
This all started back in 2008, when the Supreme Court ruled in D.C. v. Heller that a federal law prohibiting handguns in Washington, D.C. was unconstitutional. In 2010, it extended that to states and localities in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Thus it was done: A wholesale ban on gun ownership was unconstitutional, anywhere in America.
But neither decision said that you couldn't ban certain types of guns. In fact, Heller specifically states that you can: "[U.S. v. Miller]'s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those 'in common use at the time' finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons."
U.S. v. Miller was decided in 1939, but it looks a lot like the scenario today: It was fairly easy for criminals to get guns that shoot a lot of bullets in a very short amount of time, and this led to bloody, high-profile mass murders. Only then the issue was machine guns, the criminals were gangsters, and the mass murders were things like the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. So Miller was targeted to guns that, in theory, only criminals would have any use for, like the Tommy gun.
And the resistance was identical. Here's what the Tribune editorial page argued in 1934, when the laws at the heart of Miller were passed:
In the revolutionary war the people were able to gain their liberties because when they tried for them possession of firearms was common and many of the citizens knew how to use them. A disarmed population of people familiar with weapons would not have had much chance. In 1789 the weapons in general use would be long rifles, muskets, and clumsy pistols. The people were entitled to have the best weapons they could make or purchase. Now the best weapons for individuals are machine guns and automatic rifles. Use which can be made of these is indicated by law, but it is not the possession of which is properly an offense under the constitution.
In other words: Regular folks might not own machine guns… but maybe they should.
Has anything changed since then? Perhaps one thing: Plenty of recreational shooters like owning "assault" weapons of the type prohibited by Highland Park. According to Seventh Circuit judge Frank Easterbrook, the Reagan appointee who wrote the decision upholding the ban—a mere 2-1 majority—nine percent of gun owners own assault weapons, and "what line separates 'common' from 'uncommon' ownership is something the Court did not say."
Nor could Easterbrook decide whether assault weapons are too dangerous, or at least whether the fact that they're dangerous in a good way outweighs being dangerous in a bad way. An excerpt from the Seventh Circuit ruling:
And they are designed to spray fire rather than to be aimed carefully. That makes them simultaneously more dangerous to bystanders (and targets of aspiring mass murderers) yet more useful to elderly householders and others who are too frightened to draw a careful bead on an intruder or physically unable to do so. Where does the balance of danger lie?
So Easterbrook basically concluded that states and localities are better at deciding this than a handful of judges, and besides, "the Constitution establishes a federal republic where local differences are cherished as elements of liberty." In some ways it's a rather conservative argument—don't rely on unelected judges to tell you what to do.
But Clarence Thomas, in his dissent from the Supreme Court's decision not to take up the case, wants none of this. His only priority is rather fascinating (emphasis mine):
The right to keep and bear arms is an independent, individual right. Its scope is defined not by what the militia needs, but by what private citizens commonly possess.
And that brings us back to Miller. In 1934, Tommy guns were popularly associated with gangsters and war. In 2015, Thomas notes, five million people are estimated to own "AR-style semiautomatic rifles." That's all he needs: Law-abiding citizens like owning them, and a lot do; therefore their ownership is constitutional.
Thomas didn't get his way this time. But his dissent shows how the changing nature of America's relationship with guns could change the debate going forward. The popularity of semiautomatic rifles has increasingly normalized them—and for Thomas, what's normal is constitutional.
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Professor Emeritus Stafford Wing
The Department of Music is saddened to announce the recent passing of Professor Emeritus Stafford Wing. Professor Wing served on faculty as a voice professor for 40 years from 1969-2009.
As described in his obituary, "he was chair of the voice area for 32 years and former founder and director of the UNC Chamber Singers. Stafford received a Faculty Research Grant for study in New York in 1975, was a recipient of the Amoco Foundation Award for Inspirational Teaching of Undergraduate Students in 1976, and was a Pogue Foundation Grant recipient in 1982. He was a member of the UNC Speakers Bureau during the university's bicentennial celebrations, touring throughout the state of N.C."
Upon his retirement, Professor Wing remarked,
"I am nurtured by music every day. I am grateful for my life and my profession as singer and teacher. The opportunity to teach while continuing to sing has been an incredible gift. My students and colleagues are an inspiration to me, not only my own students, but also others throughout the department. Music will always be an essential ingredient in my life."
Music was the foundation of Professor Wing's life and career, as his obituary richly details:
"Stafford's career embraced a wide range of both classical and non-classical repertoire performing extensively in the USA, England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, as well as in Greece and Macedonia. He had more than one thousand performances at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, as well as performances at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He toured Italy with the Vienna Festival Ensemble and also recorded performances with the Vienna Symphony and Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra. His performance activities wove together venues in opera, music theater, stage, radio, major network television (CBS, NBC, ABC), oratorio, Broadway, and recording (Vox and Decca labels).
It should be said that Stafford knew how to live well. He kept many friends close, maintaining numerous friendships through the decades. Stafford's former students were always welcome visitors or guests in the Wing's home. The post-concert receptions that Stafford and Janice hosted were legendary. Stafford exemplified the best in being true to one's personal values, keeping life-long commitments to church, family, friends, students and colleagues. Stafford honored an open-minded approach to living life fully, appreciating the beauty found in looking at the details of life, and in honoring all manner of diversity of spirit and being."
"Our dear friend and colleague Stafford passed peacefully on Christmas Day. I visited frequently with him in the hospital in these last 2 months, and he was delighted to be able to reconnect with so many of you by phone in the past weeks," noted Dr. Terry Rhodes, close friend and colleague of Professor Wing. "Music was his life and the departmental relationships he formed through the years meant the world to him. His legacy will certainly live on."
As noted in his obituary, funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 12, 2022 at 10:30 AM at The Chapel of The Cross Episcopal Church, 304 E. Franklin St. Chapel Hill. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be directed to the department's voice fund. To donate online click here.
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Did you have it set to not give an error when a volume was missing?
I can't be sure, but I don't think the volume was missing from SuperDuper. Certainly the volume was mounted on the machine, as the first clue I had that this was happening was when opened the volume to see what was not supposed to be there.
That being said, how do you set SuperDuper to give an error when the volume is missing? That would be smart thing to do.
The default is to show an error (it's a checkbox in the settings sheet).
I'm guessing you had it unchecked and had modified the low-level ID of the volume that wasn't running, so while the name may have been the same, it was no longer the same ID as it was before.
Ah, I see that checkbox, and it was not checked. Maybe I accidentally unchecked it? The disk at issue is a new SSD, and I'm writing to two partitions on it. A "weekly" partition, and a "daily" partition. It was the latter that wasn't working. The former was. Both partitions were created at the same time, so it isn't clear why one low-level ID would be screwed up and the other wasn't.
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Posted by Rick Griffin on Feb 5, 2021 4:27:22 PM
We all know that 2020 was a unique and daunting year, led by the world-wide pandemic that touched people and businesses in a myriad of ways. Society as well experienced various forms of upheaval whose impacts are yet to be determined.
The real estate industry was not immune to the influences of 2020, facing its own set of challenges. Fortunately for the membership of PSAR, it was Robert Cromer's year to serve as PSAR President.
Throughout 2020, Robert maintained a steady hand at the wheel as leader of our association. He brought a measured tone, demonstrated authenticity and inspired teamwork among the PSAR Board of Directors.
Recently, several elected officials have recognized Robert for his outstanding leadership and resilient make up while leading PSAR as board President.
Earlier this week, Robert received a certificate of appreciation from San Diego County Supervisor, District 1, Nora Vargas.
Robert has also drawn noteworthy praise for his recent comment posted on a National Real Estate Masterminds Facebook page. His response to a question about the value of association participation was inciteful and he used great metaphors to help make his point.
In his own words, Robert said the following:
I was on a National Real Estate Masterminds page and someone posted today. "What is the big difference between being a Real Estate Agent and a REALTOR®?" You can imagine some of the negative responses. One person wrote "$800." Others said "REALTORS® subscribe to a code of ethics."
Here was my answer: Not being a Realtor is like showing up to a beautifully hosted party at a home without bringing the host a bottle of wine or side dish. Then you eat several plates of food, drink beverages and enjoy everyone's company without contributing. A person can do that, but it kind of sucks for the host and those who contributed (provided food, cleaned the home before, set up tables, hired the caterer, broke everything down, took the trash out, cleaned up after you, etc.).
NAR and CAR (California) spend millions of dollars fighting for personal property rights and home-ownership, lobbying against laws that would restrict one of the greatest ways to provide security for millions of families and change one's socioeconomic status-- being a home owner. They have been doing this for many years, before any of us were REALTORS® and when we were just kids.
Now take it one step further and imagine them as your parents, who have always looked after you and your friends. In states that were shut down, they lobbied Congress to make us essential workers, so we could feed our children and so the states' economies did not fold like bad poker hands. They also made sure we were included in the stimulus package and PPP loans. There are thousands of more examples that smarter people than I on this page can add. Don't show up to the party without being a contributor. You wouldn't do that to your parents, would you?
Rich D'Ascoli, PSAR CEO, commented on Robert's response:
I have devoted the past fifteen years of my life advocating for Realtors. I join hundreds of volunteers in saying this post was inspirational. It moves a lot of people who are involved with, and give so much to, this industry.
Robert is referring to those who are not REALTORS®. His perspective also applies to those REALTORS® who volunteer versus those who don't; to those who contribute to the PACs and HAF and those who don't. It is critical that individuals look at the history and understand the issues before jumping to conclusions. Just two years ago AB-5 passed requiring that most Californians become employees. The fact that Realtors are not employees right now did not happen by chance. There is a massive organization in place to protect not only homeownership but also the interests of those who facilitate it. There are a few REALTORS® doing so much to help all REALTORS® It's important to honor and recognize their selfless efforts.
Robert's words as a REALTOR® are meaningful. I wish more of our leaders would step up and articulate these same ideals.
In addition to recognition from Supervisor Nora Vargas, Robert is receiving honors from other elected officials, including Congressman Juan Vargas, State Senator Ben Hueso and Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez.
Some of those officials are preparing a proclamation containing these tributes to Robert:
WHEREAS, Robert Cromer served as 2020 President of the Pacific Southwest Association of Realtors (PSAR), one of the largest real estate trade organizations for San Diego-area REALTORS®;
WHEREAS, Robert provided outstanding leadership and vision during a surreal year of setbacks and hardships when a brutal pandemic swept the globe as the shadow of COVID-19 enveloped the land;
WHEREAS, PSAR thrived and grew its membership during an unparalleled, difficult and challenging year, thanks to Robert's demonstration of strong leadership and clear communication that relieved anxiety and encouraged strength and resiliency among PSAR members;
WHEREAS, Robert embodied PSAR's mission to empower REALTORS®, to protect private property rights and create homeownership opportunities for all, while adhering to the highest standards of integrity and the REALTOR® Code of Ethics;
WHEREAS, Robert's example of leadership and decision making in uncertain times, plus his blend of competence, firmness, calmness and empathy in a crisis, empowered PSAR members to flourish by leveraging a collective strength in service to homebuyers and sellers throughout the greater San Diego County community;
THEREFORE, we hereby join the 3,500 PSAR real estate professionals in thanking Robert Cromer for his tremendous volunteer service and offering our best wishes for a successful real estate career in the future as a past PSAR President. Good luck and best wishes.
~Thanks, Robert Cromer, for your service to PSAR. We're all very grateful.
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