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This article will identify the top baby boomer retirement concerns and what you can do to ensure a comfortable retirement.
This is probably one of the biggest baby boomer retirement concerns.
Be honest, if you had a choice, would you rather spend time enjoying your retirement or watching Bebe's kids all day?
This is also one of the most talked about baby boomer retirement concerns. I don't know very many people who want to work until they're eighty.
Do you? And even if you WANT to work until you're eighty there aren't very many companies that will keep an employee until he or she is eighty years old (can you say "help I've fallen and I'm going to sue!")?
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Have you figured out how much more you're going to need to take care of you and your loved ones during your retirement years? How long will it take to save that other 93%?
You're not going to enjoy your retirement very long with just $25,000 in savings.
What if your 401(k) gets wiped out…again? What if you don't even have a 401(k) or any type of pension or retirement savings account?
Based on what you're doing now will you have saved $1.46 million when you retire?
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Great advice! I sure don't want to work until I'm 80! I don't want to work now as it is, and I'm not even close to that age, lol. At least not for a job that I don't exactly like much. I've had a few different jobs in my life and really, I didn't like any of them much. I'm not lazy either, I do the best I can when I'm at work, whether I like being there or not. I take pride in a job well done and wouldn't feel like I did the job at all unless I made sure I did everything I'm supposed to and then some.
I guess the thing about working for someone else that really bothers me is when you do your best and work hard at what you do, and get pretty much nothing in return. Everything is going up and the pay is barely enough to get by on in most cases.
There's so much out there online that people get overwhelmed just searching for answers, at least honest ones. I love the fact that Wealthy Affiliate is free to try it out and see for yourself. I've always gone by that motto "try before you buy." If it's free to try, what else have you got to lose?
Thanks for the comment Sherry! I agree you should take pride in everything you do–even if you're sweeping street for a living. Your hard work will always eventually pay off (even if it's just the feeling of satisfaction in knowing you have done your best).


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Fighting in the Trenches of This Culture War
For a Canadian "Festival of Literary Diversity," some cultures are more equal than others.
Howard Rotberg
For over 15 years, I have been operating a small publishing house, which is Canada's sole conservative and pro-Israel publishing house. We publish some of the greatest Canadian, American and international authors who support fundamental freedoms, liberty, justice and individual rights as opposed to group rights. Our authors generally oppose cultural and moral relativism, and for that reason they are generally shunned by leftist publishing houses who naively believe that all cultures are equal.
I am the son of a Holocaust survivor who lost his parents and then eight-year-old sister in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. When someone tells me that all cultures are equal, I ask if the person believes that the culture of Nazi Germany or of ISIS is equal to the culture of Canada or the United States. The person usually walks away at that point.
Recently, as part of my publishing duties and the need to see if there are any upcoming opportunities for our authors to speak, I came across an event near Toronto called the Festival of Literary Diversity. Looking at the photographs of the 20 or so authors speaking or appearing, I could see that almost all were brown or black and they were mostly women.
Mantua Books also publishes brown women (Farzana Hassan, The Case Against Jihad), brown men (Professor Salim Mansur, Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism and Islamism and the Qur'an Problem), as well as white Jewish women, aged Christian men, gay Jewish men, all what we might term "conservative" thinkers, but who are actually "classically liberal" as much as conservative.
So, I decided to write to the Festival organizers to see if their definition of "marginalized diverse authors" could include our authors, most with Ph.Ds, who are shunned by mainstream leftist publishing houses despite their qualifications to write in their chosen fields on politics and culture.
It occurred to me that readers might like to peer into the trench, where I, a 67-year-old, former practicing lawyer, a developer of affordable rental housing for low income working people (which I insist gives me "progressive" credibility) am fighting in this war every week.
Of course, we are losing most every battle we fight. It is hard when academia, the mainstream media, and NGOs and government bureaucrats are all lined up against you. But I fight on; if my father could survive Auschwitz, I figure I can survive this.
So what follows is my correspondence with a Festival organizer, to give you some insight into one small, polite skirmish in a much larger War.
From Howard Rotberg to A.L.:
Re: Festival of Literary Diversity, in Brampton
We are a small publisher, based in Brantford/Hamilton, in business for over 15 years, publishing great authors, most with Ph.Ds, most of whom have been shunned by mainstream, leftist-oriented publishing houses, because of the authors conservative (or classically liberal) political beliefs.
We have white and brown authors, Christian, Muslim and Jewish authors, who write about ideologies and values in contemporary political culture. Our authors are experts in their field, and are professors, journalists and others living in Canada or around the world.
Please refer to our website, www.mantuabooks.com.
Our writers are usually opposed to cultural and moral relativism and political correctness that inhibits freedom of expression or that caters to group rights as opposed to individual human rights and maintenance of our liberal democratic justice system. We are opposed to naïve advocacy of multiculturalism based on the mistaken belief that all cultures are equal. We believe that cultures that oppress women, gays/lesbians, children, ethnic and religious minorities are not equal to those that uphold the rights of same.
Despite the quality of our writers, we are routinely marginalized by mainstream media who often refuse to review our authors' works because, notwithstanding our great conservative tradition in Canada, these media feel that they want to publish or write about left-leaning authors not conservative ones, and so we are shunned and marginalized.
We think that a Festival of Literary Diversity should embrace a diversity of all books as long as they meet the requisite standards of intellectual discussion and our Canadian traditional values of liberty, justice and "peace, order and good government.
Let us know if you want the publisher or some of the authors to participate in a festival of diversity that is in fact diverse.
From A.L. to Howard Rotberg:
Thank you for this. I appreciate and understand where you are coming from. We also do not support the views of people and movements who disenfranchise marginalized groups, but we cannot approach this from a perspective of viewing other cultures as inferior to Western democracies, regardless of whether we agree with their practices or not. As such, we celebrate the rights, complexities and humanity inherent in all cultures, understand that growth comes from meeting one another on common ground, and seek to elevate discussions where cross-cultural dialogues are respectful, mindful, and encourage us all to learn.
Many thanks, and all the best to you in your continued work.
Thank you for your polite and considered response.
I simply want to point out to you that I work with marginalized authors who are marginalized by leftist media. Words like "diverse" or "marginalized" are highly politicized terms useful for attaining power or reducing power of those with whom one disagrees with politically.
The fact that you cannot bring yourself to state the obvious - that some cultures like that of Nazi Germany or of ISIS - are culturally inferior, tells me, the son of a Holocaust survivor, that the effect of your sincere efforts is to dignify cultures that abuse women and gays and religious minorities; surely you would be hard-pressed to make the argument, say, to Yezedi women, victims of the evil culture of Syria which includes a culture of rape..
I disagree that there is "humanity" in all cultures. Nazi Germany and ISIS are the opposites of humanity.
Finally, it sounds nice to say that we should be "respectful" in all discussions. But, in my book, The Ideological Path to Submission … and what we can do about it, I point out that "the Oxford Dictionary defines "respect" as "a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities or achievements." But to me, Islamists who use beheading, rape and sexual assault, torture, persecution of ethnic and religious minorities and gays, and disregard most human rights, do not deserve our "deep admiration" and do not show any great "qualities or achievements." We must be clear on this.
My friend, Hamilton writer Gary Gerofsky, has this to say about "safe spaces" where we share our supposed "common ground":
"I am really confused about the notion of 'meeting on common ground.' If there were such a viable concept/place as 'common ground,' then can it be defined? If not, then where in the rich spectrum of values and ideas is there a common platform for our minds to meet? Why should there be a common 'safe place' when people disagree about significant basic ideas which are diametrically opposed to western values which have made modern western civilization the best place on earth to be living?"
I would recommend that you read Professor Salim Mansur's Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, Diane Weber Bederman's Back to the Ethic: Reclaiming Western Values, and my own, The Ideological Path to Submission... and what we can do about it. Hopefully, readers of those books that are published by Mantua Books will come to understand that cultural relativism, the idea that all cultures are equal, plays a large part in being unable to defend the war against our freedoms and liberties and individual rights.
About Howard Rotberg
Howard Rotberg is a Canadian writer, businessman and publisher. He is the author of The Second Catastrophe: A Novel about a Book and its Author, TOLERism: The Ideology Revealed, and Exploring Vancouverism: The Political Culture of Canada's Lotus Land. He is President of Mantua Books.

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Only 4 days of unemployment left!
I decided to reward myself with a fancy dinner at Al Muntaha in the Burj in honor of having finally landed a job. Scotch and I went last night and this time we did indeed valet the car to avoid the horror of the last self-park episode.
Although we almost went into the parking garage again as Scotch did not want to pull up in our little Yaris hatchback that not only hadn't been washed in over a week (so it is dusty and grimy as hell due to the sandy conditions here) but also emits a very high-pitched squeak from the engine. Boys and their complexes with cars – I just don't get it.
So we valeted and made our way up to whatever floor the restaurant is at. It is a shame that there is not much of a view up there – we were seated by the window and I could barely even make out the lights from the Palm.
The photo above is from the Burj website. Eschewing the usual protests and exasperating looks from Scotch, I did manage this time to take my own photos of our meal!
Our waiter started us off with an amuse bouche of lobster consommé (with lobster meat) for Scotch and a sweetcorn velouté with crab meat for me. Both were very very yummy. Note my sophisticated usage of food descriptors here – don't you all wish you could come up with "very very yummy"? I'll be the greatest food writer yet!
Scotch's appetizer was an Oxtail salad with um…hm…I can't remember but there was frisee, truffles and a quail egg. It was also very good!
I ordered the New Zealand Venison (medium rare) in Beet Jus. A bit skeptical at first of the beet sauce but I am a huge beet fan so I thought I'd give it a shot. It was absolutely divine. The venison was so tender and juicy and the sweetness of the beet sauce complimented the meat perfectly. The red clump on top is fried beet I think.
The service was very friendly and attentive yet non-obtrusive. Scotch and I skipped dessert as we were both stuffed like happy pigs in a blanket!
I saw this hotel on the National Geographic channel. How neat that you got to eat dinner there.


The "Animal Jam Theme" is the theme song to Animal Jam. The opening sequence begins with a shadow of Waffle the Cow-Monkey, Edi the Zebra, two kids, a jungle cat, and an elephant walking down the road as the sun rises up and a bird flies by. Inside the dance studio, DJ 3, DJ 1, and DJ 2 get their DJ equipment and lighting sets all ready. Then kids start to dance as Waffle and Edi announce their names and dance along. Then DJ 1 introduce Bozark as the elephant starts to dance with the kids.
Next, the screen displays video footage of animals moving and the kids and the Muppet characters follow the movement that the animals make. The theme ends as the DJs countdown 3-2-1 as they push their buttons on their DJ equipment for the title card to appear.
Am instrumental version of the theme without the vocals is heard over the end credits of the show.


Damage caused by Cyclone Idai to pylons in Mozambique that carry power to neighbouring countries may take weeks to repair, a state power company official said.
The damage to Mozambican infrastructure has exacerbated rolling outages in South Africa, where state-owned utility Eskom is struggling to bring faulty generating units back online. Mozambique's 2 075MW Cahora Bassa hydropower dam supplies almost three-quarters of its output to South Africa along a 1 400km transmission line.
An initial assessment of the destruction caused by the cyclone shows that at least one pylon collapsed and four or five others had minor damage, Mario Houane, an electrical engineer at state-owned Electricidade de Mocambique's transmission division, said in an e-mailed response to questions. Further evaluations are being hampered by damage to roads and bridges and continuing rains, he said.


Keith Schmaljohn is the bass player for COLOR BLIND. Keith lay's down the groove that sends the music to your soul.
Keith has many years of road experiences touring the east coast with rock bands in the 80's and 90's. Keith has been a strong local presence in the Tri-Cities area, most notably with the popular rock band Nasty Jack. Keith also spent a few years with COLOR BLIND on guitar and left to re-build the band Nasty Jack. Keith rejoined COLOR BLIND early in 2016 bringing back that edgy vocal performance. You will also see Keith dialing in the bands mix from stage and ensuring the music sounds it's best.
Keith plays Spector and Ibanez bass guitar along with Peavy bass gear.


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"Silent no longer," Virginia Beach ministers hold prayer vigil at Mount Trashmore in wake of George Floyd's death
By Gordon Rago
VIRGINIA BEACH — The Minneapolis police officer held his knee on George Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes.
A week later and hundreds of miles away, atop one of the highest points in Virginia Beach, a large crowd took a knee in the windswept dirt of Mount Trashmore to remember Floyd, holding a long moment of silence with heads bowed. After, the group, many clad in black and holding signs, rose and joined in song.
The prayer vigil Tuesday night at Mount Trashmore stood in stark contrast to the sometimes violent clashes between police and peaceful demonstrators that have played out in cities across the country since Floyd died in police custody.
Organized by the Virginia Beach Interdenominational Ministers Conference, Tuesday was originally planned as a two- or three-block march around the area of Pembroke Mall. But leaders diverted instead to a prayer vigil.
"We don't want to create new opportunities for opportunists to come in," said James Allen, the group's president and associate minister at New Hope Baptist Church. Allen and others pointed to a protest at the Oceanfront over the weekend that ended in tear gas being launched and damaged businesses.
At Mount Trashmore, people gathered with ministers from across the city along with city leaders such as Councilman Aaron Rouse, acting Police Chief Anthony "Tony" Zucaro, recently retired chief Jim Cervera and Congresswoman Elaine Luria, who was among the speakers.
"The things that happened this week — to watch a man on the ground, to have the breath taken out of him, to have him strangled by someone's knee in broad daylight — it's just too much," Luria said. "This is too much and we cannot continue to stand by and not act."
At 6 p.m., the large crowd walked to the top of the Trashmore hill, gathering around a small generator-powered speaker and microphone. People handed out bottles of water and masks, one of the reminders of the coronavirus pandemic as many in the group showed up with their own face coverings and opted for bumps of the fists and elbows over handshakes.
People held signs that read "stop killing us" and "being black is not a crime." Impassioned speakers wiped off the microphone before passing it along as cars whirred by on the interstate below and a breeze kicked up some of the dirt.
"People will finally hear the cries of people who've been crying for years," Jason Knight, pastor at Mount Olive Baptist Church, said before the vigil started. "We've been silent for a long time, forcibly and non forcibly. We will be silent no longer."
Allen and other ministers said they are demanding justice in the light of Floyd's death, including criminal charges for the other police officers involved in his death and first-degree murder charges instead of third.
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Allen also said his group has been working for years with the police department on a plan to improve relations between law enforcement and the community.
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Speakers also said they want to see increased diversity in the police department and a diverse citizen police review board. They also urged people to get out and vote in the upcoming election and stop spending their money at the Oceanfront and Town Center.
"If we shut down Town Center and don't spend a dime, you feel it," Theron Williams, a local church leader, said to the crowd. "And that's what I think we need to do. You won't hear us when we cry from the top of the mountain. I bet you feel us when we stop giving you our dollars."
After the last of the speakers was done, the group sang "This Little Light of Mine" before everyone walked home. But before that, someone stopped the crowd for two more chants.
"No justice, no peace" rang out in the evening. Then, chants of Floyd's name.
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RALEIGH, North Carolina — The No. 7-ranked Auburn men's basketball team hits the road to face North Carolina State on Wednesday, Dec. 19.
The game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. CT.
Auburn enters the game 9-1 overall after Saturday's 75-71 overtime win against UAB.
NC State is also 9-1. The Wolfpack beat Penn State 89-78 on Saturday.
ESPN2 broadcasters for the game are scheduled to be Doug Sherman (play-by-play) and Sean Farnham (analyst).
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London's knife problem is deeper than dip dip
London's knife problem Twelve days into 2018, seven people have been victims of knife crime. London has a problem and isn't too shy to admit it either. The legacies left by the ...
January 13, 2018 Mixtape Madness Team
London's knife problem
Twelve days into 2018, seven people have been victims of knife crime. London has a problem and isn't too shy to admit it either. The legacies left by the tragedies of Damilola Taylor, Kiyan Prince and Shakilus Townsend have framed youth violence as a tragic, yet expected ordeal in our capital. The communities in already deprived areas left scarred by cycles of violence have become part and parcel of the yearly news cycle that is easier to avoid than confront head on. Discussing an issue so close to home is emotional because it requires a level of honest introspection into the problematic cycle we all play into, consciously or unconsciously. Identity so heavily tied to locality, also known as the concept of "ends" however, makes knife crime an issue too pertinent to avoid.
The overrepresentation of black males aged 15-21 in knife related incidents in London speaks to the harmful effects of hyper masculinity amplified by easy access to weapons capable of causing fatal injury. Silent strength is no longer enough to command respect. It is something to be taken, revered and its owner feared. The overexposure of boys as young as 11 to acts of violence have triggered a desensitisation process that wider society views as horrific. Existing in a fringe subculture has the power to temporarily remove people from social reality, shifting the goalposts of acceptable behaviour. This is why shaming has little to no effect. No one cares for the opinion of someone they don't respect or care for. Following desensitisation is legitimisation. When these opposing standards of how an individual navigates conflict resolution collide, symbolic violence presents itself in the demonization of young black men as thugs, roadmen, etc. The othering and rejection of young boys is open to exploitation by media outlets obsessed with 'edgy, on the ground reporting', i.e. Channel 5's 'Gangland'. The simplistic judgements of "irredeemable savages" or "blameless victims" produced are overly simplistic conclusions to arrive at. Both risk skating over deeper nuances that require not only thought, but action.
Temi Mwale's powerful -Tedx Talk on Youth Violence
Simultaneously, government policy has failed in responding to the effects, rather than the causes of our problem. Stop and search is constantly parroted as a solution, yet it is enforced by an institutionally racist police force that only fractures communities, rather than strengthening them. Harsher sentencing for offenders is an equally reductive, knee jerk reaction for those with conservative tendencies, a weak reaction to the effects of a much wider problem. Drug supply has ballooned in recent years, reflected in growing quantities being seized by the police. The open relationship between drugs and violence is one that desperately needs grasping, rather than sweeping under the carpet. The Economist 7th December 2017 produced a report on the increase in the supply, demand and potency of cocaine
The impact of austerity has left a generation without the necessarily safe spaces to escape the violence that may or may not characterise their daily life. Community initiatives need adequate funding and resources. Without it, mentorship schemes lose the infrastructure they need to be executed effectively and young boys end up without somewhere to "opt out". Life in London is a grind for a lot of people, legitimate job or not. A precarious future combined with warped self-image that cannot see a future worth waiting for is no match for the immediate gratification of cash that is ready and waiting. To ignore the fact there are active choices made by those involved runs the risk of babying them, rather than trying to understand while holding them to account.
Art imitates life. At the centre of it all is drill, the sonic manifestation of inner city life that has managed to capture the imaginations of those within and without the subculture, myself included. For those of us who experienced the uncomfortable dread of social mobility through higher education, drill is an imaginary manifestation of "what if" we hadn't. What if we had stayed where we used to be, with the same people? The open condemnation of violence by a government that has a history of war in other countries is hypocritical to say in the least. This hypocrisy leaves room for the rest of us to embrace what is often treated with scorn. However, while some of us are able to separate real life from lyrics, those who cannot run the risk of falling between the cracks. We all have role to help mend the cracks.
Realistically speaking, not everyone has the answer to knife crime. And that is okay. What isn't okay, however, is the competition for 'realness' and a sense of authenticity surrounding the debate whereby trauma is used as an exemplar of strength. Taking part in some form of oppression Olympics that virtue signals "I've suffered more than you" robs people of dignity, isn't productive and takes away from the real work we as a society must now do. What is productive is eroding this poverty of ambition, hope and find ways to make youth from deprived communities feel more like members of our society.
"If young people don't feel they are part of our village, they will burn it down" Craig Pinkney
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Q: TypeError upon authenticating user using Google OAuth 2 I'm using the OAuth 2 flow for installed applications. The application redirects the user to authenticate. After authenticating the user goes to authorize my application to access their account. The browser never loads the next page and I see a Javascript type error in the debug console.
Steps to reproduce the issue:

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*Direct the user to https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth with the redirect_uri set to out of bounds (urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob)

*Authentication works fine

*Upon clicking the Accept button on the authorization page the script throws a TypeError

Expected output:
The browser should load the page with the auth code in the title.
Actual results:
Both the Accept and the Cancel buttons are disabled and clicking them has no effect. The script should check whether the sessionStorage property is available in the browser's window object.
Here is the output from the debug console:
TypeError: Result of expression 'window.sessionStorage' [undefined] is not an object.
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STEM startup aims to raise $40,000
Matt Flowers
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That spare change in your pocket could go a long way in encouraging females to enter the world of STEM.
South Jersey-based startup Think Like a Girl launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign Monday asking community members to help raise $40,000 in 30 days for its engineering kits that empower girls to become the next generation of problem solvers.
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Funds raised through the online campaign will act as a preliminary form of capital to move from the product development stage to the manufacturing stage of the business. If all goes well, the women behind the educational kits will start selling them, along with merchandise, on their website by fall.
Backers who contribute to the Kickstarter will get such perks as monthly and yearly subscriptions, swag, groups of kits for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education classes and can even have CEO and co-founder Gabrielle Rochino speak at an event.
Each kit features six main components that have been specifically designed to combat the main reasons why girls tend to not pursue careers in STEM and to help them learn concepts in a way they can understand.
The kits include an engineering activity, a short story booklet called "The Gadget Guide," a design project, a real woman engineer trading card, a sustainability fact card, and a surprise. The components will change each month depending on the fundamental being taught and the theme it is centered around.
Rochino conceived the idea during an Entrepreneurship and Innovation class in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering last year. She won first place in a startup pitch competition, beating out more than 85 applicants and was awarded $5,000 through the Rowan University Innovation Venture Fund to create a team of students to work on market research and development of her product and business.
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Rochino, a Cherry Hill resident, has five other students working with her to develop prototypes, conduct focus groups, gain a network of advisers made up of women who are STEM/engineering leaders or in the engineering or entrepreneurship industries, and develop Think Like a Girl Engineering Kits.
In May, Rochino, along with fell Think Like a Girl co-founder Megan DeGeorge, graduated from Rowan University with a degree in mechanical engineering.


I've always wanted a gay friend. This secret desire has been carried with me throughout my life, and on a particular, unsuspecting night in Vancouver, the strength of this unfulfilled desire becomes increasingly apparent. I had arrived at the theatre, struggling to swing open the tall glass doors to get out of the chilling cold. After attempting to follow the receptionist's directions without success, I realized my opportunity when it was presented, and followed some other model types to an area I would later learn is termed backstage left.
Unmade models lined the narrow hallway, each staring into their phones like an oracle. I was assigned my makeup artist almost immediately by the event director, who, with her short purple hair and dramatic cat eyes, could have passed for a makeup artist herself. She leaned over the railing of the raised portion of the room, which was packed with makeup artists and their subjects. "Are you here for Rimpy's show?" she inquired.
Placed in the capable hands of Charlie, who I later learned prefers to go by Charles, my mind became excited at the prospect. Charlie was immediately cool in my books, with his long dark hair and almond highlights, exotic facial features, and a flamboyant take the bull by the horns charisma.
"Are you a model?" Charlie said, teasingly.
"No, not really. I'm the designer's friend," I explained, slightly embarrassed.
Charlie stared at me through squinted eyes, not making an effort to hide his skepticism.
I stammered and laughed suddenly as he dragged his makeup brush across my eyelid. Eyes half open, I peered at him through my dusted lashes. He pulled the brush away, resting his elbow on his hip and jutted his makeup brush out angularly into the little moving space available. He pursed his lips, tapping his foot impatiently.
I realized he was serious.
He laughed and waved his hands dismissively, turning to reload his brush. He came at me again, signalling for me to look down, and darkened the creases of my eyelids.
A makeup artist behind me rustled to fulfill his wish. Charlie accepted the favour with a thank you, and then looked at me encouragingly.
"I do makeup for some events like these, and I do drag makeup, too," he said, continuing without hesitation. "Over the summer I performed in a Spice Girls tribute band for the pride parade. It was incredible. We performed at Stanley Park, and at first it was five hundred, then a thousand, then ten thousand people." His hands curled into excited fists near his chin.
I smiled in response, still unable to manage anything intelligible.
Moving onto my face with a proud smile, he held up a foundation pallet next to my cheek and examined my skin. "Your little freckles," he said, petting my nose with a feeble curl of his hand.
"Florida?!" he screeched. I realized with enthusiasm that Florida's a trigger for Charlie, listening intently as he launched into a story of a Miami trip gone wrong, which started as a party extravaganza and ended with a brokenhearted Charlie at the hands of an attractive, elusive Pablo.
A moment of silence fell between us.
"That damn Pablo," I said, opening my eyes to sympathize with poor Charlie.
The small room filled with laughter, reminding me that Charlie wasn't my exclusive entertainment. The other makeup artists and models were smiling ear to ear, and as Charlie finished up the final touches while singing along to Spice Girls' Say you'll be there, I realized that I had missed my opportunity.
He gave me the final sign-off with a satisfied nod of his head, and wished me a good show and a good life.
I thanked him and walked away, saddened, the unsung words emblazoned in my mind forever.
Will you be my gay friend?


Feline miliary dermatitis is not a specific disease; it is a disease complex, meaning that it can be caused by a combination of factors.
Some of these could be genetic, some could be environmental, or it could be dietary issues with your cat.
It also has a myriad of different names including; miliary eczema, feline eczema, papulocrusting dermatitis, scabby cat disease, and it has also been called the blotch in cats.
But whatever you chose to call it, it can be quite nasty for your cat.
It is a condition in which your cat will develop very serious skin lesions that become a red and crusty rash that can cover several parts of their body including on and around the head, the neck, as well as the back.
These lesions will resemble millet seeds, thus the term miliary.
That is one of the biggest challenges with Feline miliary dermatitis; there can be several conditions and underlying disease that are actually causing it.
The list of causes will include allergies from food, pollen's, or fleas; as well as bacterial, fungal, or yeast infections.
It could also be caused by parasites that have infected your cat's skin such as mites or lice, or it could be an actual hypersensitivity to intestinal parasites.
However, it does not stop there.
Feline miliary dermatitis could also be caused by autoimmune diseases, abnormalities with your cat's hormones, or nutritional disorders, such as biotin or fatty acid deficiencies.
Ring-worms could also be the cause of this condition. There have also been reported cases where the medical community could not find the actual cause.
That is what makes this condition so very difficult.
However, there are several experts that believe the major cause in most cats will be from sensitivity to flea bites or from biotin or fatty acid deficiencies.
Whatever the causes are for this very painful condition in your cat, the symptoms will be the same.
These lesions in your pet's skin will first appear as multiple small crusty bumps that look as it they are red underneath.
It can be isolated in just one part of your cat's body, or it can cover large portions once it starts to spread.
These bumps will itch and if they spread and grow, so will the severity of the itching.
Once the itching becomes intense on the part of your cat, they can inflict a lot of damage including hair loss as well the potential for infections.
The proper diagnosis of feline miliary dermatitis is the key to properly treating this condition and in most cases it will have to be done by ruling out what is not causing it.
The location of the rash is very important in the diagnosis. In most all cases when the rash is located at or near the back of your cat, especially near the tail, it is caused by fleas.
If the rash is located near the head, it most likely is caused by mites.
However, ringworm can be found in both places. Your veterinarian will use a flea comb to determine if it is fleas, as well as looking for flea dirt, or bloody feces, again to reaffirm for fleas.
They will test your cat's hair for mites or lice and then take a stool sample to check for parasites.
But if none of those are the cause, they will then have to test for food allergies and or dietary deficiencies, which can only be done by trial and error.
The treatment will obviously depend on the cause, if it can be found. If fleas, lice, or mites are the cause, there are several very effective shampoos and treatments that will eliminate this skin condition.
If severe, your cat may have to go through a series of dips to totally eliminate the rash.
Ring-worms are treated with both oral as well as topical treatments.
If a bacterial or yeast infection is found, it will be treated with antibiotics or anti-fungal medications.
If it is an autoimmune or an allergy problem, it is treated with steroids or antihistamines.
The vast majority of Feline miliary dermatitis cases will almost always be caused by fleas or the diet, or what is deficient in the diet.
This is opposed to an actual allergy of some type of food, which is very rare in this condition.
Fleas are quite easy to control, but there is a preventive measure that a lot of cat owners do not known about.
Vitamin B1, Thiamine, is a natural flea repellent, as fleas absolutely hate the taste of thiamine.
Biotin is also a very effective supplement for preventing this condition, as a deficiency of Biotin causes both hair loss as well as several skin disorders in cats.
It is also essential in keeping your cat's nervous system and nerve tissues healthy, especially important with this skin condition.
But perhaps Biotin biggest role is with processing of fats, proteins and carbohydrates in your cats diet.
Outside of fleas, a deficiency of Biotin as well as fatty acids is the major cause of Feline miliary dermatitis.
Essential fatty acids are required by your cat, and they can produce some fatty acids, but not all of them.
But they need all of them to remain healthy and battle skin conditions like this one.
Arachidonic acid is especially critical for cats. It is found abundantly in animal fats, so make sure your cat gets enough meat in their diet.
There are also several forms of fatty acid supplements available especially for cats, but the liquid gels caps or liquid forms are much more effective as they will perform much more efficiently in your cats system.
Feline miliary dermatitis is a very serious skin condition in your cat, but is can be prevented in most all cases by protecting your cat against fleas with traditional methods or with Thiamine.
However, making sure they get the essential fatty acids either by their diet or protecting them with supplements is also a must.


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Singapore Ratifies UNCRPD
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Singapore has deposited the UNCRPD instrument of ratification in New York. The Convention will come into effect for Singapore on 18 August 2013.
This significant milestone is made possible through the strong 3P (People, Public, Private) collaboration under the Enabling Masterplan. The Masterplan charts the roadmap for Singapore towards an inclusive society where persons with disabilities are empowered to contribute to society.
Singapore first signed the Convention in November 2012 to signal our intent to accede to the Convention. Upon ratification, Singapore joins 132 other countries which have committed to ensuring that persons with disabilities are treated equally with dignity and respect. Please refer to Annexes A and B for more information.
Speaking at the Building Construction Authority's Launch of the Universal Design Exhibition today, Acting Minister for Social and Family Development, Mr Chan Chun Sing said, "The ratification of the Convention would not have been possible without the collaborative effort of the various stakeholders. I am confident that together, we can progressively realise the vision of an inclusive society through the Enabling Masterplan."
Ms Judy Wee, Vice-President of the Disabled People's Association and member of the Enabling Masterplan Implementation Committee (EMIC) said, "Ratifying the Convention is a right step towards building an inclusive society. We need to continue our efforts to remove all physical and attitudinal barriers. We look forward to the day when everyone- including persons with disabilities are included in all aspects of life in our community. "
The people, public and private sector collaboration will continue to drive the progress made under the Enabling Masterplan.
Annex A
About the UNCRPD
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) was adopted by the United Nations in 2006 and came into force on 2008.
This Convention looks at what can be done to make sure that persons with disabilities can have access to rights as everybody else. It also identifies areas where the interests of persons with disabilities can be protected.
Singapore is expected to submit its initial report to the Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities within two years of ratification. Please refer to the NCSS Website for more information on the UNCRPD.
Source: National Council of Social Service 'We are Able' Campaign.
Annex B
Reservations and Description of Articles
The Convention permits States to make reservations, provided that these reservations are not incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention. The effect of a reservation is that a government is not bound by a particular article or sub-section of an article of the Convention. Singapore has expressed three reservations on ratification to the UNCRPD. Please refer to the UN Website for the actual reservations that Singapore will be placing.
1. Article 12(4)- Equal Recognition before the Law
States Parties shall ensure that all measures that relate to the exercise of legal capacity provide for appropriate and effective safeguards to prevent abuse in accordance with international human rights law. Such safeguards shall ensure that measures relating to the exercise of legal capacity respect the rights, will and preferences of the person, are free of conflict of interest and undue influence, are proportional and tailored to the person's circumstances, apply for the shortest time possible and are subject to regular review by a competent, independent and impartial authority or judicial body. The safeguards shall be proportional to the degree to which such measures affect the person's rights and interests.
The Mental Capacity Act allows a person with mental capacity to appoint a person he trusts to make decisions for him should he lose mental capacity in the future. This is done through the mechanism of the lasting power of attorney (LPA). The person appointed has to agree to undertake this role of trust and responsibility. The Act does not prescribe regular review of decisions made under an LPA. This is to avoid undermining the assumption of trust and goodwill and to encourage reliance on the social bond between the person and his appointed proxy decision maker. A review of decisions made under an LPA would be triggered by applications made to the court or representations to the Public Guardian. The Office of the Public Guardian will act on complaints.
2. Article 25(e) – Health
States Parties recognize that persons with disabilities have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health without discrimination on the basis of disability. States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to ensure access for persons with disabilities to health services that are gender-sensitive, including health-related rehabilitation. In particular, States Parties shall:
e) Prohibit discrimination against persons with disabilities in the provision of health insurance, and life insurance where such insurance is permitted by national law, which shall be provided in a fair and reasonable manner.
Singapore does not intervene in the commercial underwriting decisions of private insurers or mandate the coverage of persons with disabilities as this may compel private insurers to accept risks beyond their risk appetite and capability or reduce the affordability of insurance premiums for the majority of the population. Insurers do, however, provide insurance coverage to persons with disabilities for conditions unrelated to their disability. Recognising the needs of persons with disabilities in the area of health insurance, the Ministry of Health has extended MediShield coverage to children diagnosed with congenital and neonatal conditions from 1 March 2013. Regardless of disability or insured status, all Singaporeans continue to enjoy access to heavy Government subsidises at public hospitals. Needy families can also tap onto the new Medifund Junior and the existing Medifund for assistance on the healthcare bills.
3. Article 29(a)(iii)- Participation in Political and Public Life
States Parties shall guarantee to persons with disabilities political rights and the opportunity to enjoy them on an equal basis with others, and shall undertake:
a) To ensure that persons with disabilities can effectively and fully participate in political and public life on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives, including the right and opportunity for persons with disabilities to vote and be elected, inter alia, by:
iii) Guaranteeing the free expression of the will of persons with disabilities as electors and to this end, where necessary, at their request, allowing assistance in voting by a person of their own choice.
In Singapore, to keep voting secret and to safeguard the integrity of voting, persons with disabilities can only be assisted in voting by an election official. The election official is obliged to mark the ballot paper in the manner directed by the voter and is under oath to keep the voting secret. For visually impaired voters, stencils are provided so that they can mark the ballot paper themselves without assistance.
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Cancer wasn't Adel Tawfik's first medical crisis.
In the '80s and '90s, Adel had two open-heart surgeries. In 2015, he had a near-fatal colectomy after Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis diagnoses. Then, in 2016, he fell and broke several ribs, puncturing a lung. Shortly afterwards, he learned that the pain on the right side of his face wasn't from the fall; it was oral cancer -- specifically, sinus cancer -- that was spreading across his face.
The 69-year-old has used humor to get through every challenge he's faced.
For Adel, music and family represent the 10% of joy left in his life. That's why he initially didn't want a surgery that threatened to end his ability to sing.
Ehab Hanna, M.D.; Clifton Fuller, M.D., Ph.D.; and now-retired medical oncologist Merrill Kies, M.D.; collaborated to develop a treatment plan that included four rounds of chemotherapy, followed by seven weeks of daily high-dose radiation therapy.
But, one year after Adel rang the bell, he had an odd feeling in his gums that prompted him to visit MD Anderson oncology dentist Alexander Won, D.D.S.
Adel's first treatments had left him with mild neuropathy and severe hearing loss. This time, surgery was his only option. He was willing to do it since it meant avoiding chemo or radiation.
Before his February 2018 procedure, Adel sang a hymn to himself that's brought him comfort since his cancer diagnosis. As he accepted the possibility that he might never be able to sing after surgery, he decided that he'd one day perform the song for Dr. Hanna if he was still able to sing it as well as he had before surgery.
During the 10-hour surgery, Hanna extracted Adel's right cheek bone and sinus, including his upper right teeth and gums, to remove the cancer. Plastic surgeon Peirong Yu, M.D., then reconstructed Adel's mouth using soft tissue and bone taken from his right leg.
"When I woke up from surgery and could talk, I was so happy. It was proof that the surgery wasn't as bad as I'd feared," Adel says.
Adel's speech continued to improve, and within three months, he was able to hit difficult notes he feared he'd never sing again.
"I couldn't believe it," he recalls. When Adel returned to MD Anderson in June for a follow-up visit, he wore his "Happiest Cancer Patient in the World" T-shirt and surprised Hanna with a rendition of his favorite song.
"To be able to sing again showed me how skilled Dr. Hanna and Dr. Yu are," Adel says.
People are often surprised by the amount of joy Adel displays. But happiness, he likes to tell them, is a product of the mind, not the body.
Adel Tawfik (left) with Ehab Hanna, M.D.
We don't have a chance to replace this life.


US regulators have expanded the scope of Pfizer's pneumococcal vaccine Prevnar 13, allowing its use in adults aged 18 to 49 years of age.
Prevnar 13 (Pneumococcal 13-valent Conjugate Vaccine [Diphtheria CRM197 Protein]) is already approved for adults 50 years and older to prevent of pneumonia and invasive disease caused by 13 Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes.
The vaccine is also cleared for immunisation of children aged 6 weeks through 17 years, making it the only one approved across the entire lifespan.
The expanded age indication in adults 18 to 49 "offers an important public health benefit as appropriate vaccination against S. pneumoniae is critical to reducing the risk of pneumococcal disease, including in those with immunocompromising conditions," said Dr Luis Jodar, chief medical and scientific affairs officer at Pfizer Vaccines.
S. pneumoniae, also known as pneumococcus, is the most common bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia. While non-invasive forms of pneumococcal disease are typically more common, the invasive types of disease are generally more severe, the firm noted.


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New York Red Bulls snag Southampton winger Josh Sims on loan
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OFFICIAL: Southampton midfielder Josh Sims has joined New York Red Bulls on loan until the end of the 2019 MLS season. pic.twitter.com/whr0Zkq8AL
— Transfer News Central (@TransferNewsCen) August 7, 2019
New York Red Bulls landed winger Josh Sims on loan from Southampton F.C. to help bolster this year's roster.
Englishmen have a good track record with the New York Red Bulls. Bradley Wright-Phillips is the club's all-time leading scorer. Luke Rodgers was the team's second top scorer of the 2011 campaign—his only season with the club.
New York decided to bring in another Englishman.
The club signed Premier League side Southampton F.C. winger, Josh Sims, on loan until the end of this season as a Young Designated Player on Wednesday, the last day of the transfer window.
"I'm delighted to join the team," Sims told the club. "I can't wait to come over and meet the fans, players and staff. It's a brilliant opportunity and I can't wait to get to work."
Sims, 22, is an explosive left-footed winger who can play on both sides of the flanks but is primarily a right midfielder. He can also play some forward.
Sims is from Southampton's academy. The club brought him on the first team in 2015. He's made 14 appearances with the club so far but has yet to score a goal.
The Saints loaned him to championship side Reading F.C. last season. Sims played 17 matches for them but wasn't on target.
At the international level, the winger has played for England at the U-17, U-18 and U-20 level, scoring two goals in 22 outings.
Plenty of RBNY fans didn't expect the club to add anyone from outside their second team this transfer window.
However, New York walked out of the transfer window with an intriguing signing for the remainder of the season. A Premier League midfielder could easily be in the talks of being the best midfielder in the league if all goes well.
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The Sandbox Business Model – How Does The Sandbox Make Money?
The Sandbox is a gaming ecosystem that allows its users to create and monetize digital assets and gaming experiences.
The Sandbox makes money by issuing and selling tokens as well as other digital assets. The business model of The Sandbox is predicated on driving up demand for those tokens.
Launched in late 2021, The Sandbox is one of the most sought-after metaverse games. It has raised around $95 million in funding.
What Is The Sandbox?
Players can explore its ecosystem by creating their own avatar, which they can customize or use to enter games as well as engage with other players.
The platform, just like Roblox, provides its users with the necessary tooling to create in-game assets and activities. For example, its VoxEdit software enables creators to design non-fungible token (NFT) art or animated objects using its Skeleton System.
Digital art can consequently be sold and traded on The Sandbox's native marketplace. This allows users to monetize their creations. In order to be able to sell digital artwork, artists need to join the platform's Creator Fund.
The Sandbox itself is powered by the Ethereum blockchain. It is powered by three native tokens:
ASSET: an ERC-1155 token that represents NFTs such as entities (peoples or animals), equipment (swords, shields, or helmets), and wearables (cosmetic items changing an avatar's looks)
LAND: an ERC-721 token that represents plots of virtual land
SAND: an ERC-20 token which serves as The Sandbox's native currency and is needed to purchase equipment, play games, or customize avatars
SAND is used to purchase assets as well as digital plots of land. Furthermore, SAND can also be used to buy CATALYSTs and GEMs, which are needed to create ASSET tokens.
Catalysts are ERC-20 tokens that describe the scarcity of one's ASSETS and include four tiers, namely Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary.
Gems, also ERC-20 tokens, are used to provide ASSET attributes. Consequently, the more attributes an ASSET has, the greater its value.
Lastly, The Sandbox also plans to move towards becoming a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which means it would be governed by its users. Users will be able to vote on what features the company develops or policies it establishes. Voting power is determined by the number of SAND tokens a user owns.
The Sandbox metaverse can be accessed and played by connecting your email, social profiles, or Metamask wallet.
The Sandbox Company History
The Sandbox, headquartered in Hong Kong, was founded in 2011 by Arthur Madrid as well as Sebastien Borget.
Back in 2007, Madrid and Borget launched their first business, dubbed Wixi, together. Wixi was a social network where users would interact with each other by privately watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types such as audio, pictures, and video.
Unfortunately, after four years in business, the founders had to shut down Wixi. That same year, in 2011, the two pivoted from social networks towards game development by starting Pixowl, a studio focused on developing mobile games.
In May 2012, Pixowl released its first game for iOS (followed by an Android version in February 2013): The Sandbox.
The 2D game, which closely resembled Minecraft, allowed players to create physical elements such as water, electricity, sand, lava, and more. These elements could then be put together to create objects that players would interact with.
Within a year, The Sandbox was downloaded over two million times. Apple even named The Sandbox one of the best games of 2012. Over the coming years, The Sandbox continued to grow in popularity.
In 2016, Pixowl released a second version of the game called The Sandbox Evolution. By April 2018, the game had surpassed over 40 million lifetime downloads. However, just a month later, both the game's as well as Pixowl's trajectory would change forever.
During the Pocket Gamer Connect conference in San Francisco, Pixowl announced that it would release a 3D version of The Sandbox that would be powered by blockchain technology. A few months later, in August, Pixowl officially sold to Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands for $4,875,000.
Animoca, a mobile game developer itself, had begun to embark on a strategic shift. It sold off many of its mobile games while raising additional cash from investors. All that money was used to acquire and invest blockchain (and AI)-focused gaming companies, with Pixowl being one of them.
Over the coming months, the founders continued to build up hype for The Sandbox. In December 2018, for example, it introduced a $2 million creator fund and unveiled its VoxEdit software editing tool. The developers even allowed to port over VoxEdit creations into Minecraft to further accelerate adoption.
In November 2019, The Sandbox raised $2.5 million in a combined investment as well as token sale. A month later, it issued its first LAND auction and successfully managed to sell 3,000 pieces of LAND (out of a total of 166,464 pieces).
Throughout the beginning of 2020, The Sandbox initiated two more auctions, which both sold out within minutes. All of these auctions were conducted in Ether (ETH). In August, The Sandbox held another token sale, this time offering SAND via the Binance Launchpad platform. Binance itself also purchased over 4,000 LAND tokens to further push the platform.
By the end of 2020, without the game even being released, The Sandbox had already managed to sell over 20 percent of all available LAND plots. The platform, furthermore, scored partnerships with over 65 other businesses and franchises, including Manchester City, Atari, The Smurfs, and more.
Hype-building remained the single largest activity that The Sandbox's representatives engaged in throughout 2021. These were further supported by collaborations with the likes of The Walking Dead (July) or Snoop Dogg (September).
However, the biggest boost to its game came on October 28th when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company he founded would be renamed to Meta (alongside a shift to VR). Interest in metaverse-focused platforms such as Decentraland or The Sandbox literally exploded overnight.
The Sandbox took advantage of the heightened interest by raising $93 million in funding from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2, as well as Animoca Brands, True Global Ventures, Galaxy Interactive, SCB 10X, and more, in early November 2021.
Finally, after more than three years of development, The Sandbox finally opened itself up to players. On November 29th, 2021, The Sandbox started the Alpha version of its metaverse game. Demand was so high that the game even crashed for a few hours.
A day after the launch, The Sandbox even managed to sell a LAND property for $4.3 million to Republic Realm. Over the course of the first month, The Sandbox recorded over $100 million in virtual land sales.
How Does The Sandbox Make Money?
The Sandbox makes money by issuing and selling tokens as well as other digital assets. This entails the sale of SAND or LAND tokens as well as ASSET-based NFTs.
Throughout its existence, as detailed in the previous chapter, The Sandbox has hosted multiple auctions during which those assets were sold.
In August 2020, for example, 360,000,000 SAND tokens (equal to 12 percent of the token's total supply) would be sold via Binance's Launchpad. In December 2021, right after its Alpha launch, The Sandbox unveiled an NFT collection dubbed Gears and Ducks.
As a result, the business model of The Sandbox is predicated on maximizing demand for its various tokens.
One of the ways with which it drives demand is by partnering with various franchises that then partake in its metaverse. For example, the Walking Dead is slated to launch a dedicated game within The Sandbox in 2022.
Another way with which The Sandbox is able to drive demand for its tokens is by issuing plots of land to other users. Users pay for the land using SAND and receive LAND tokens in return. These users can then create revenue-generating activities on the plots of land they own.
Moreover, users also have the ability to stake their SAND tokens. Whenever a transaction on The Sandbox occurs, the user will have to pay 5 percent in transaction fees.
50 percent of those fees then go to the Staking Pool to serve as rewards for token holders. The other 50 percent goes to the foundation behind The Sandbox. The foundation then distributes the tokens it holds in reserve to participants of the ecosystem, for example by paying developers who add features to its game.
In the future, as outlined in its whitepaper, The Sandbox also plans to add player subscriptions as well as advertising. There, it will take a percentage cut from the revenue it derives.
The Sandbox Funding, Revenue & Valuation
The Sandbox, according to Crunchbase, has raised a total of $95 million across four rounds of venture funding.
Notable investors include Sterling.VC, Kingsway Capital, Liberty City Ventures, Blue Pool Capital, and many more.
The Sandbox's company valuation is currently not being disclosed. Furthermore, and as previously disclosed, The Sandbox does not generate any revenue through its platform.
Who Owns The Sandbox?
The Sandbox is owned and operated by Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, which develops, publishes, and invests in games.
Animoca Brands had acquired Pixowl, the studio behind the original The Sandbox game, in August 2018 for $4,875,000.
Animoca has developed and released games like Crazy Defense Heroes or Base One as well as invested in companies such as Sky Mavis (maker of Axie Infinity) or Dapper Labs.
In the next few years, The Sandbox plans to move towards becoming a DAO, which would effectively shift control to its players.
Players can vote on new features or other initiatives through their ownership of the SAND token. The Sandbox will continue developing the platform while owning zero percent of it.
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Cook Me The Money is the latest addition to Shiver's quickly burgeoning daytime portfolio.
Starting in early April on ITV the show revolves around three couples, three vans and one day to turn food dreams into money.
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The winner is the team which takes the most money and their prize is everyone's total takings as the winner takes all.
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Q: MS Project 2010 Get Work Items from TFS 2010 returns items not in Query I have written a saved query in TFS 2010 to populate a project plan in MS Project 2010.  When I view the query results in the Get Work Items window in MS Project 2010, I see 99 work items.  Once I select "OK" to generated the project file, over 306 work items are returned (207 of which are in the closed state and were filtered out in my saved query).
Has anyone else experience this issue?  It seems that MS Project 2010 returns all related worked items even those that are excluded in the TFS Query.

A: That is behaviour by design. The MS Project connector pulls down all child work items too. I experienced this also.
If you don't like this, and want it to be changed, you can raise an incident at MS Connect.
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Application Visibility & Management (AVM) provides the application level behavior analysis and profiling in the context of business processes. AVM is software agnostic. AVM oversees inter network traffic and analyzes traffic behavior, identifies Transactions, Applications and Processes; constructs topology of application components; measures and reports performance.
AVM has multi tier architecture – separate components may be factored into different server (Hardware) Container. Network traffic is collected at Switches in Promiscuous mode and directed to Traffic Collector.
AVM Server and CCP (connection & control point) are two parts. AVM server is responsible for presentation, administration and management of Information collected by CCP. CCP is responsible for Traffic Collection, Node Collection, Node Analysis and Traffic Analysis.
This document reviews secured communication technology with a view to implement some of them for messaging between AVM Components. It endeavors to specify what is required to ensure the communications between AVM Components in the network are uncorrupted and AUTHENTIC AVM messages. AVM messages are desirably PRIVATE (i.e. not easily decipherable). This document also analyzes several alternatives schemes.
Real-time, business information displays. NMP 4.0 is designed to support capture and display of Enterprise Risk Management information in a networking environment. All AVM components are designed and built using NMP Studio and they are supported with NMP framework and executes as NMP application in NMP Run Time Environment. NMP runtime environment consists of Web Application Server, Database Information Server and managed Network, Entity and Presentation service functionality. Web Application and Database servers are user selectable and configurable. The present NMP runtime environment for AVM consists of Tomcat Application Server, Stand alone Spring container and MySQL Database Server. AVM components are connected with each other using JMS Broker and RMI.
All AVM components are designed and built using NMP studio and functions within NMP's runtime environment. NMP Entities in an AVM component are used for Information model, data collection, data analysis, data store and presentation. NMP Entities may receive and send messages through defined Node Points called Business Information Network (or simply BIN) to other AVM components, or to outside world.
BINs have three components – Hubs (public channels that pass information packets from one source to many), Ports (receive or send information packets, and LINKED with Agents), Agents (programmable, created directly in the BIN, unaware of other Agents or their usages). LINKS establishes connections between all objects in a BIN, Agents, Hubs and Ports. LINKS are created at Design Time with NMP Studio.
Messages exchanged within AVM using Agents or otherwise need be authenticated. Service Requirement proposal for next release of AVM identifies three possible mechanisms for message exchange - SSL, SSH and HMAC. Further, the authentication need be done in the NMP layer if not in Spring container layer or Web Server Layer.
· The transport layer (RFC 4253). This layer handles initial key exchange and server authentication and sets up encryption, compression and integrity verification.
· The user authentication layer (RFC 4252).
· The connection layer (RFC 4254).
The client may use the certificate authority's (CA's) public key to validate the CA's digital signature on the server certificate. If the digital signature can be verified, the client accepts the server certificate as a valid certificate issued by a trusted CA.
The client verifies that the issuing CA is on its list of trusted CAs.
The client checks the server's certificate validity period. The authentication process stops if the current date and time fall outside of the validity period.
Protection against a downgrade of the protocol to a previous (less secure) version or a weaker cipher suite.
Numbering all the Application records with a sequence number, and using this sequence number in the message authentication codes (MACs).
Using a message digest enhanced with a key (so only a key-holder can check the MAC). This is specified in RFC 2104. TLS only.
The message that ends the handshake ("Finished") sends a hash of all the exchanged handshake messages seen by both parties.
The pseudorandom function splits the input data in half and processes each one with a different hashing algorithm (MD5 and SHA-1), then XORs them together to create the MAC. This provides protection even if one of these algorithms is found to be vulnerable. TLS only.
SSL v3 improved upon SSL v2 by adding SHA-1 based ciphers, and support for certificate authentication. Additional improvements in SSL v3 include better handshake protocol flow and increased resistance to man-in-the-middle attacks.
· The following pseudo code demonstrates how HMAC may be implemented.
· Messages to be authenticated arrive with three identifiable components SOURCE, HMAC, and Message body. Only authenticated Messages are processed. Similarly messages to be sent is appended with Source and HMAC and sent into wire along with the message.
· Symmetric Key Encryption along with HMAC (Key may be the same or similar for both).
Without going into relative merit of the Authentication advantage of one over the other, it is felt that Messages need only be verified for no modification and no loss. Further there need be some degree of confidence that the message is sent from another (known) AVM component.
Thus we shall be proposing to implement HMAC only for message exchange between AVM components. (Hash function say is MD5).
Filters ideally should be easily pluggable at NMP/AVM web or Spring container for creation and verification of Authentic message.
At Sender, messages to be sent are pre-processed with Filter, which appropriately creates new message of the same message type with Source and HMAC along with message.
At Receiver, it should be possible to intercept messages received and authenticate the same with some Filters depending on Message type. The output from the filter is the message received by the Filter at Sender; if the message fails to pass authentication the filter should exit processing of message giving some Error Message like HTTP/RMI error message if required.
· HMAC Keys are different for different AVM components. They are known among AVM Components but are not known to outside world.
· Authentication is done at NMP Layer needing no changes in the AVM Components by FILTERS.
HMAC is a Java Class that populates its key store from Hmac Keys that will be used by all AVM Components. createHmac and athenticateHmac are two methods to create and verify Message Authenticity. Interceptor/Filters for all messages inbound and outbound shall use these methods. Interceptors are different for different message types and are intended for NMP BIN Agent – Email, Web Service, XML, HTTP, Plaintext etc.
Source Digest is created from AVM Component Name automatically from BEAN parameters or embedded Class parameters. These shall be known to all AVM Component runtime but not exposed or externalized otherwise.
createHmac (String msg, char serverHandle, char  msgHmacMD5)throws AuthenticationException is called with input Message msg, and its output is serverHandle masgHmacMD5 are Base64 24 chars for 128 bit MD5 digest plus '= =' (total 26 chars may be pre-allocated before method invocations). Message along with these two digests is sent in the wire.
Messages retrieved from wire may be Filtered through authenticateHmac(String msg, char serverHandle, char msgHmacMD5)throws AuthenticationException for authentication. Failed authentication message msg may be deleted (null). Interceptor may send back an Error Alert to the client.
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·              * HMAC-MD5, and initialize an HMAC-MD5 object with it.
In CRAM-MD5 authentication the server first sends a challenge string to the client. The client responds with a username followed by a space character and then a 16-byte digest in hexadecimal notation. The digest is the output of HMAC-MD5 with the user's password as the secret key, and the server's original challenge as the message. The server also calculates its own digest with its notion of the user's password, and if the client's digest and the server's digest match then authentication was successful.
This provides three important types of security. First, others cannot duplicate the hash without knowing the password. This provides authentication. Second, others cannot replay the hash—it is dependent on the unpredictable challenge. This is variously called freshness or replay prevention. Third, observers do not learn the password. This is called secrecy. The two important features of this protocol that provide these three security benefits are the one-way hash and the fresh random challenge.
SMTP Server responds with Authentication mechanism when queried with EHLO command.
Unlike AUTH LOGIN, the server's response is now a one-time BASE64 encoded 'challenge'. The challenge 'PDI0NjA5LjEwNDc5MTQwNDZAcG9wbWFpbC5TcGFjZS5OZXQ+' translates to '<24609.1047914046@popmail.Space.Net>'. The leading and trailing brackets ('<', '>') are mandatory, as well the portion of the challenge which provides the hostname after the '@'. '24609.1047914046' is a random string, typically build from the 'pid' and the current time stamp to make that challenge unique.
If both the ESMTP server and the client 'share' the same challenge and secret, the user may now be authenticated successfully by means of the transmitted and BASE 64 encoded 'user name' and 'digest'.
These headers are stripped off from the message after authentication.
RMI Authentication is more involved than other message types. It shall be required to create a new RMI Authentication Interface both for Server and Client. Their implementation shall accomplish messages authentication of messages exchanged. In this version it is not implemented.
Outbound XML or Plaintext BIN Messages sent through hub port shall have three empty Tags shall be appended.
Further XML messages are stripped of all formatting characters.
After authentication of inbound message, the appended texts are stripped off.
Simple XML messages can have <HMAC>base64 HMAC Digest</HMAC> and <SourceDigest> base64</SourceDigest> appended at the end of the message.
Non-XML message simply has Base64 Source and MD5 added each following with a colon (:) at the end of the message and ended with '= ='.
It is desirable that HMAC facility is implemented at NMP and is transparent to AVM developer. Only at design time an AVM Agent is declared with its HMAC property as TRUE and a Source property is associated with one of the possible enumerated (declared) AVM Source.
JMS messages may have a new property called HMAC wherein 'HMAC' and 'Source' may be sent in Base64. HMAC is calculated for Message Payload only as proposed in 'Exclusive xml Canonicalization Vs 1, July 2002'.
HMAC MD5 calculation for a message designed to be very fast and shall not make any impact on performance. However it is desirable that the message perhaps be encrypted with same Source Key used for HMAC and not sent in Plaintext.
In case, HMAC MD5 enhancement is done at NMP BIN Message handling layer, it shall be part of NMP Framework. In case, it is implemented at AVM Agent code level, it would be part of the AVM Component and shipped with NMP. No additional consideration is required.
This functionality does not have any impact on end user interface.
NMP has the facility to create BIN Agent called Echo. It may be used for testing other Agents implementation of Authentication.
Device term is used for any hardware – Server, Router, Firewall, Switch, etc. Primarily Device is categorized as 'Server' device and 'Network' device.
Link is physical or logical in the context of infrastructure. Physical link is Layer 1 link – physical wire. Logical link is Layer 3 link, which is connectivity link.
In the context of flow topology (communication), link is defined as relationship from client to server.
Application is a logical unit to capture a functional software. It can map to one or more application images (defined later) or System Processes (defined later).
Application Image is a software binary (and set of dependent binaries) which can take a shape of an application in a server environment or can be made available as an application through some container, like Application Server. Examples are exe files, main jars and wars files.
Application Image can be of type executable (e.g exe) which can run on its own as software program or application component (e.g. jar) which needs host application like java or application server.
Applications and its components are bundled in logical units – Package, by vendors (Design time). In the infrastructure environment, this is the unit of install and uninstall. Package can be hierarchal and leaves are application images. In addition to application images, packages contain other components necessary for applications to run in the server environment, like configuration files, maintenance scripts/tools, libraries, etc.
System Process is an instance of a computer program, which maps to a single application image. Server captures this by associating a unique process id.
Process can be hierarchal. One process can spawn many processes of its own kind or different kinds.
Interface is a port of communication on requester or responder side. Normally it is captured through IP address (System Unique Address), Port (Unique number in a server) and Protocol (communication protocol, like HTTP, TCP, etc.) One interface can belong to only one process at any given time.
A message in its most general meaning is an object of communication between two applications.
A message sent on the tcp connection from originator side (Client - Source) to other side of the connection (Server - Destination) is defined as request.
A message (or set of messages) coming back from server to client on the same connection is defined as response.
Tcp connection between client and server for the purpose of message flow is defined as connection link.
Some of the Bootstrap files do refer to Acegi. But it may not be operative. Whether it is desirable is another question. Strong channel of communications between all the AVM components may be pre-established at start up eliminating need for individual method authentication.
HMAC Authentication scheme outlined in this document shall have to be integrated in the Framework of NMP and AVM.


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Phase three of King George Hub in Surrey on the way
January 9, 2019 /0 Comments/in Projects, Industry News /by Alex Mah
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PCI Developments has filed a development permit with the City of Surrey for phase three of its King George Hub development, designed by Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership.
Phase three will consist of a 34-storey residential tower with a single-storey retail podium. There will be 371 residential units in the tower and 9,322 sq ft. of retail space on the ground floor.
Phase one of King George Hub is made up of the 10-storey Coast Capital Savings headquarters building, completed in 2015. Phase two consists of a stand-alone two-storey restaurant, single-storey retail podium, two residential towers (40-storey and 29-storey) and a 15-storey office building. Construction is now underway on this phase and condos in towers sold out quickly.
Renderings: King George Hub phase three
King George Hub phase three condo tower. Credit: PCI Developments
King George Hub overall development, showing Coast Capital Savings building on left. Credit: PCI Developments
King George Hub phase three retail space. Credit: PCI Developments
Development plan. Phase three (C) is highlighted. Credit: PCI Developments
The north and south elevations of the phase three tower will be clad in a light grey window wall. A large white pre-finished metal panel canopy with wood slat soffit runs over the west and east elevations at the top of the building, concealing the mechanical equipment.
The proposed indoor amenity space is located on the third floor and incorporates a theatre, two lounge areas, gym, games/multipurpose room and flex room/library and provides direct access to one of the outdoor amenity spaces.
The outdoor amenity area located on the third floor will consist of an outdoor dining area with tables and chairs on a deck surface, bench seating on a turf surface, and an outdoor child play area with a cottage feature, a climbing play feature, spinning play feature and a chalkboard on a rubber playground surface.
King George Hub is located 160 metres (525 ft.) from the King George Skytrain Station, and is adjacent to the alignment for the upcoming Surrey-Langley LRT line.
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KTK Welcomes Summer Clerk, Kate Lander
KTK is excited to announce one of its 2018 Summer Law Clerk positions has been accepted by Kate Lander. Currently a student at Washburn University School of Law, Kate completed her undergraduate at Emporia State University (2015). She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, making the Dean's List every semester. Kate was the Vice President of Sigma Alpha Lampha, Leadership and Honor Society and a Standards Board Member of Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority.
After graduation Kate was a first-grade teacher in the Olathe School District for two years. She then made the choice to return to school and began at Washburn School of Law in the fall of 2017. Since beginning law school, Kate has been a member of the Hispanic American Law Students Association, Asian American Law Students Association, Pro Bono Society, and Women's Legal Forum. She is a Representative At Large of the Washburn Student Bar Association and earned a CALI award for Property. CALI Awards are granted to the student with the highest grade in the class, as determined by the professor, and over 100 law schools participate in the CALI Excellence for the Future Award Program. Most notably, Kate is ranked first in her class.
In addition to her academic pursuits, Kate is involved in a number of professional associations. She is a student member of the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, and the Women Attorneys Association of Topeka. KTK greatly looks forward to having Kate join the firm while also she also clerks for Judge Nancy Mortiz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.