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Not a big deal?
The following is not a holistic or even personal review of the (widely panned) year 2020. It applies only to the year as experienced by this blog, which I would go as far as to call… relatively good! In keeping with the venerable tradition started last year, here's a meta-blog post highlighting "our" performance in 2020.
Achievement unlocked: 3,000 annual views
I've jokingly referred to 2019 as a "record-breaking" year for this blog because it just barely beat out the viewership record I set in 2016, itself a pretty small feat. But this past year involved a much starker improvement in terms of both visitors and viewership as the result of concerted if minimal efforts. Eddiethoughts.com had over 3,000 views from more than 2,000 visitors in 2020.
I'm unironically proud of this! While we're by no means dealing with large numbers, the increase in views and visitors reflects some successful strategizing on my part and makes me feel like I could do even better with some additional effort. There is something to be said for setting a goal, no matter how mundane, and accomplishing it.
As far as the aforementioned strategizing, I tried a few new things this past year. First, I wrote more—a total of 17 posts, compared to nine in 2019 and 12 in 2018—having observed last year that per-post engagement was increasing. I reasoned that writing more would lead to improved viewership. I think it worked—at least a little. (I believe update frequency has some bearing on search engine rankings, and as you'll see below, search engine referrals to the site greatly increased this year relative to the last two.)
Second, I embraced "cross-posting" to a much higher degree than in years past. Mostly, this has meant shilling blog posts in opportune Twitter threads (follow me if you feel like it!) or posting plots with links on r/dataisbeautiful. This is easily the biggest factor in the 2020 viewership jump, as evidenced by the changing composition of my site's referrals.
Lesser, ancillary strategies included adopting an "evergreen" mentality with regard to some of the written material on this website (i.e. linking to old posts when there's a good opportunity to do so) and writing about people or works that already have large followings, the latter most notably done with the review of the late David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, which the author himself retweeted, likely bringing an extra 150-or-so views to the post in question.
Top blog posts in 2020
(How's that for SEO?) Following are the top ten blog posts by views during 2020. Bold links were written in 2020, others are older. The number next to each link is its corresponding view count (during last year).
Smoking and the Hispanic Paradox [975]
Review: Bullshit Jobs: a Theory [215]
The Kids Are All Right [142]
Cigarette Daydreams [107]
Massachusetts Cities and Coronavirus [82]
Quito, en Casa [67]
A Quick Rant About "American Collapse" [57]
Thoughts on Marc Andreessen's IT'S TIME TO BUILD [43]
A Study in Cat Ladies [41]
Kicking Away the Ladder? [31]
I haven't felt much like writing lately, and I don't know if this will change any time soon. I think this is due to the collapse in my (and most others') social life, the excruciating tenor of politics in an election year, and a newly onset and profound disillusionment with our sense-making institutions, which had formerly been a source of inspiration.
I'm going to try to get back into it, though. It's important to have an outlet, and there's certainly plenty to write about. We'll see.
Here's to the new year, friends.
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Edward Ferrara	Eddiethoughts	2 Comments January 2, 2021 January 2, 2021 2 Minutes
Racial Gerrymandering (The Other Type)
Race, however nebulous a concept, is typically thought of as static among individual human beings. And yet, millions of Americans may wake up on Census Day, 2020 as a member of a different race–at least, on paper.
The proposed changes are meant to help align census definitions with the way Americans think about race. It's an incredibly difficult, if not quixotic, task, due in no small part to the census' historical ambiguity on the issue.
Since its inception in 1790, the United States Census has tracked racial data. The federal government uses this data to track health and environmental outcomes across populations, promote equal employment opportunities, to redistrict, and to inform federal policy with regard to civil rights.
Because the decennial census data are used for redistricting purposes and inform race-related social policy, you can count on a lot of advocacy and politics influencing every step of the process.
The Census Bureau collects data in accordance with the guidelines set for it by the Office of Management and Budget. This data is self-reported (though it has only been this way since 1960) and is acknowledged to adhere to social, rather than scientific, definitions.
A proposal by the Office of Management and Budget suggests creating a new racial category, MENA (Middle East and North Africa), and combining the ethnicity and race questions. Together, both changes could affect the way over 60 million Americans racially identify.
Under current guidelines, people with "origins" in the Middle East and North Africa are considered white. Critics, notably the Arab American Institute, claim this categorization is an inaccurate vestige of anti-Asian immigration law from the 19th century that led Middle Eastern immigrants to advocate for white status. Creating a separate racial category will allow for better data collection and confer upon "MENA-Americans" the same legal protections and privileges granted to other minority groups, they argue.
Hispanics, on the other hand, are not currently considered a race by the census, but rather an ethnicity. In fact, the only two options given to Americans for ethnicity are "Hispanic or Latino" or "Not Hispanic or Latino." This has meant that Hispanics have been free to self-identify with any race they feel accurately describes them–a choice that has produced some confusion. Given that freedom, a slight but increasing majority of Hispanics have chosen to describe themselves as white (53% in 2010, up from 47.9% in 2000).
But by collapsing the ethnicity and race questions into one general question, the next census may change that.
Possible 2020 census question for race/Hispanic origin.
Having Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin appear next to other race options may encourage Hispanics who had previously considered themselves white to simply identify as "Hispanic"–after all, Spain is notably absent from the countries listed under "white." As Mike Gonzalez writes for National Review:
The proposed census form defines "white" as "German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, French, etc." For "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish," the definition is "Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Salvadoran, Dominican, Colombian, etc."
Now, if you're a Mexican American who has always considered yourself white because of your Spanish ancestry, you have one choice. You would never check a box designated for persons of German, Irish, or other origins north of the Pyrenees, because that doesn't describe you. So the only choice you have is Hispanic.
Social definitions of race are neither static nor universal…nor immune to bureaucracy
This is far from the first time bureaucratic lines around race and ethnicity have been redrawn. Different federal policies and amendments thereto have led people to alter their racial and ethnic identities for hundreds of years in America.
The most obvious example would be the term "Hispanic," which was first officially used in the 1970s. It's more of a political and bureaucratic convenience than a valid anthropological grouping, and is rarely used outside of the United States. Yet today many Americans celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, listen to "Hispanic music", and identify as Hispanics.
Another example would be Indian Americans' historical flirtation with different racial categories. In the early 1900s, there were several court cases in which individual Indian Americans were determined to be white and non-white, depending on the case. In 1930 and 1940, the census listed "Hindu" as a race, but in 1970 Indians were instructed to self-report as "white."
By 1980, that had changed again and Indian Americans were grouped under "Asian." However in 1990, 10% of respondents with Indian origins self-identified as "white" and 5% self-reported as "black," despite being specifically instructed to check "Asian" by the census. Non-Asian identification rose in generations removed from immigration. Among US-born South Asians, the portion that identified as white rose to 25% in 1990.
Allowing greater leeway in racial reporting has also yielded significant demographic changes.
A change to census policy beginning in 1960 allowed respondents to self-report race, rather than require verification from a local enumerator. As a result, the Native American population has since exploded in a way that can not be explained by birth rates or immigration. A 2000 change that allowed respondents to select multiple races furthered this trend.
Taken from HUD website
The best lesson is that race in America has nothing to do with biology and is as informed by politics as much as it informs them. Racial identities are more idiosyncratic and plastic than we tend to think of them as being. The census doesn't–and cannot–tell us about the actual genealogical diversity of America; what it actually measures is our collective perception thereof. That perception and the metrics by which we assess it are constantly changing.
The great irony here is that the OMB and the Census Bureau are both causing and reacting to changes in perceptions of racial identity in America! In order to ask questions the way they think respondents want to hear them, they inadvertently place their thumbs on the scale. Even though racial and ethnic data are self-reported, they will always be influenced by the definitions put forth by the OMB.
Edward Ferrara	demographics	5 Comments December 23, 2016 December 23, 2016 4 Minutes
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Q: Not able to read the Tridion custom config xml file node values in custom deployer extension code My below code was working fine in Tridion 2009 and recently we migrated to Tridion 2011, below code written in java.
Getting the file:
ExtensionsConfiguration.java
package com.tridion.custom.extensions;

import com.tridion.configuration.Configuration;
import com.tridion.configuration.ConfigurationException;
import com.tridion.configuration.XMLConfigurationReader;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class ExtensionsConfiguration
{
  private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ExtensionsConfiguration.class);
  private static Configuration configuration;

  public static Configuration getInstance()
  {
    if (configuration == null)
      try
      {
        XMLConfigurationReader localXMLConfigurationReader = new XMLConfigurationReader();
        configuration = localXMLConfigurationReader.readConfiguration("cd_deployer_ext.xml");
        logger.info("ExtensionsConfiguration.getInstance:File Read",configuration.getContent());
      }
      catch (ConfigurationException localConfigurationException)
      {
        logger.error("ExtensionsConfiguration.ConfigurationException: Unable to read configuration.", localConfigurationException);
      }
      catch (Exception ex)
      {
        logger.error("ExtensionsConfiguration.Exception: Unable to read configuration.", ex.getStackTrace());
      }
    return configuration;
  }

}

In above code I am trying to read the "cd_deployer_ext.xml" which is placed inside %TRIDION_HOME%/config and above code was working fine in in 2009.
Sample Format of cd_deployer_ext.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Configuration>
    <DeployerCustomization Enable="true" Extension=".aspx" FilePath="F:\WWW\GoogleDataFiles\"></DeployerCustomization>
</Configuration>

Here is way how I am trying to read the values from this file
Reading the values: PageDeployer.java
Below sample code which I am using to read the values from ExtensionsConfiguration.java
Configuration configData = ExtensionsConfiguration.getInstance();
String extensionFromFile = ConfigurationHelper.getStringValue(configData,"Configuration/DeployerCustomization/Extension", null);

Now extensionFromFile should give me the ".aspx".
Please suggest!!
Thanks.

A: It looks to me your ExtensionsConfiguration class looks fine, but the problem is with the code on reading the values in 'PageDeployer`.
Your xml file has a node DeployerCustomization with attributes like Name etc which you are trying to read using the XPath and you XPath expression does not seem to be looking for an attribute it is looking for a node under DeployerCustomization.
You need to change the code to the following and try(note the @ for attribute and / in the begining ):
  String extensionFromFile = ConfigurationHelper.getStringValue(configData,
"/Configuration/DeployerCustomization/@Extension", null);

Hope that helps to get the config.
Logging:
You create a new package class which is not configured to log using logback.xml. If you want to configure logging you need to add your package to the logback configuration (something like below as an example).
<logger name="com.tridion.custom.extensions">
  <appender-ref ref="rollingDeployerLog"/>
</logger>

On completely separate note, the API you are using com.tridion.configuration.XMLConfigurationReader seems like not public. I could not find this anywhere in javadoc unless I missed it. However, I would leave that up to you.

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Adam Janofsky December 23, 2022
Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica class-action for $725 million
Adam Janofsky
Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the company's decision to allow Cambridge Analytica and other third parties to access users' personal data.
The proposal, if approved, would cap a legal dispute that began in 2018 when it became known that Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics and advertising firm, to access the personal information of about 87 million users.
In a motion filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and first reported by Reuters, lawyers said the proposed settlement would be the "largest recovery ever achieved in a data privacy class action and the most Facebook has ever paid to resolve a private class action."
Calling it a "historic resolution," they also said the proposal "is particularly striking given that Facebook argued that its users consented to the practices at issue, and that the class suffered no actual damages." The federal judge overseeing the case had previously rejected some of these arguments, including that users did not experience tangible harm.
The settlement adds to a long list of fines and penalties that the company has paid in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and other privacy mishaps. In July 2019, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission imposed a $5 billion penalty and "sweeping new privacy restrictions" over charges that the company deceived users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal data. That same month, Facebook agreed to pay $100 million to settle charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it made "misleading disclosures regarding the risk of misuse of Facebook user data" involving the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The company was handed a smaller fine — £500,000, or about $645,000 at the time — by the U.K's Information Commissioner's Office in 2018, representing the maximum penalty that the office could impose.
The Cambridge Analytica incident began in 2013, when the now-defunct consulting firm paid an academic researcher to transfer data from Facebook on tens of millions of users, which was used as part of the firm's political advertising activities. The data was collected through an app called "This Is Your Digital Life," and obtained information like names, genders, locations, birthdays and page likes from not only respondents but also from their friends on the platform. In 2017 and 2018, news reports emerged of Facebook's role in the scandal, as well as how it was used to benefit Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Meta is still facing legal action and investigations from other regulators, including Washington D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine who filed a lawsuit against the company and its founder Mark Zuckerberg in May over the incident.
Adam Janofsky is the founding editor-in-chief of Recorded Future News. He previously was the cybersecurity and privacy reporter for Protocol, and before that covered cybersecurity, AI, and other emerging technology for The Wall Street Journal.
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Kanon track lighting sets the mood in Europe's first Jordan store
Just like friendly salespeople, lighting is essential to create a memorable shopping experience. When done right, it sets the perfect in-store mood, guides our gaze to highlights and interesting accents, and showcases products in all their glory. For the first Jordan store on European soil, located in Paris' Bastille quartier, only the best was good enough: a carefully thought-out lighting plan, fronted by Modular's heavyweight track lighting champion, Kanon.
"Retail and track lighting go hand in hand," says Modular's Rainer Lachitjaran, who designed the store's lighting plan in close collaboration with Nike's global headquarters in the US and Foot locker Europe in the Netherlands. "It offers all the flexibility shops need to adapt to changing seasons and product lines, it's perfect for accent lighting, and it's easy to install. Our brand-new, three-step DALI dimming protocol only adds to the incredible versatility of Modular solutions."
No-nonsense style
For a prestigious project like this, Rainer decided to bring out the big guns. "As the ceilings of the Jordan store are pretty high, we needed powerful lighting that, at the same time, was subtle enough to apply the right accents. Kanon 110, our second most-powerful track lighting solution, was a match made in heaven. It offers all the brightness we need, while a variety of possible beam angles enable a compelling ambiance. What's more, its no-nonsense design fits amazingly well with the unique rawness and tough ambience of the shop."
In daylight as on display
Another important aspect of in-store lighting is the 'color rendering index', or CRI. This measure of the accurate color representation of light goes from 0 to 100, with 100 being broad daylight. Rainer: "For Jordan, we couldn't take any chances of potentially disappointing customers: those brand-new basketball shoes needed to look as fly on the street as they did on display. Luckily, Kanon has a CRI of 94.4, which is far above average. What you see is exactly what you get."
"On top of this, Kanon also boasts a gamut index (color saturation) of 98.8. This means there's no increase or decrease in saturation of a specific colour. Combined with the high CRI, this even color saturation is the ideal recipe for light quality, and creates the optimal conditions for retail applications."
As the Jordan flagship store in Europe, the Bastille shop offers visitors way more than just a glimpse at some of the world's most coveted sneakers. Rainer: "There's an actual mini basketball court in the store, where you can try on your new shoes before buying them and see how they perform. Here, I opted for the Drupl fixture instead of Kanon. In addition, there's also a 'custom lab', where shoes are personalized according to the customer's every wish. Here, I wanted to distribute the light as evenly as possible, which is why I chose our Smart Cake 115 diffuse fixtures. In other areas of the store, I used Vaeder and Smart fixtures as well."
Kanon, however, definitely remains the Michael Jordan of the Jordan store. Just like the legendary athlete, Modular's Kanon track lighting packs incredible performance and flexibility with heaps of style. At Jordan Bastille, every day is match day.
Discover how Modular's track lighting can help you to create an unparalleled retail or hospitality experience.
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See also all pairs shortest path.
Note: The paths may be enumerated with a depth-first search. The search can avoid repeating vertices by marking them as they are visited in the recursion, then removing the mark just before returning from the recursive call.
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7 Ways to Stop Unhealthy Food Cravings
Health	by Laurel Leicht on 10/14/2014
How often are you overcome with the desire to devour a chocolate bar or cheeseburger? Even the most nutrition-conscious people have to learn how to cope with cravings, sometimes for not-so-nutritious foods. You might think that a longing for these unhealthy treats results from emotions, and that could be true — but not necessarily. "Cravings are usually stimulated by emotional cues, but then fueled by physiological ones as we imagine what it would be like to eat the food we want to have," says Brian Wansink, Ph.D., professor at Cornell University and author of Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life. So to avoid mindless munching, you've got to determine the causes of your cravings and be set up with strategies to subdue them. Read on for tips to help you do just that.
1. Ask Whether You're Hungry
It might seem simple, but people often neglect to determine their level of hunger before they start noshing. "Take a three-minute time-out and ask yourself, 'What do I want? How am I feeling?'" advises Caroline Cederquist, M.D., a Naples, Florida–based physician who specializes in weight management. "Identifying that there may be no actual hunger is the first step in not giving in to every craving." Keep in mind, though, that you very well could be starving and need to eat a full meal, says Wansink; if that's the case, try consuming a healthy dish and then reassessing your desire.
2. Consider What Your Body Needs
"All cravings are important because they give you clues to what you're feeling but also what's happening in your body biochemically and metabolically," says Cederquist. Some are a sign that your body needs more of certain nutrients. For instance, a strong taste for red meat could be a hint that you're low on iron.
A blood test can measure whether you need to load up on any vitamins or minerals in particular. These sort of cravings that suggest a nutrient deficiency generally only occur in cases of extreme deprivation or pregnancy, though, notes Cederquist.
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3. Pay Attention to What You Crave
Your want for certain types of fare could also be a warning sign that you have a health issue worth addressing. If you're constantly reaching for sweets and starchy foods, for example, it might mean that your body isn't metabolizing carbohydrates normally, says Cederquist. That means your body isn't able to move glucose into your cells for energy, so you end up feeling deprived and wanting to eat more carbs.
"This can occur even after someone has eaten a full meal," she says. "It makes people think their cravings must be emotional, but it's not necessarily the case."
If you feel that might be the culprit behind your cravings, see a medical professional.
4. Stop the Train of Thought
Once a craving comes on, says Wansink, "We tend to keep imagining what it would be like to eat the food we have in mind — the texture, crunch, smoothness, richness, and so forth. Doing that makes the craving more extreme." Therefore, distracting yourself from the thought can be enough to make you forget about it. He advises chewing sugar-free gum, as simply having something in your mouth will eliminate your ability to imagine having food instead.
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5. Look for a Distraction
Before you start nibbling on whatever your mind wants, take a few minutes to drink a glass of water or walk around the block. These two steps help, says Cederquist, because they separate you from the craving. "That separation gives you the time and space to reflect upon the healthy diet you're trying to maintain and how eating this food might take you off-course from that plan," she says.
Another option is to sip something warm, like a cup of herbal tea. Drinking a hot beverage takes time, is filling, and stimulates the vagus nerve — which helps manage digestion and can decrease cravings, especially for sugary foods, says Cederquist.
6. Cut Yourself a Break (But a Small One)
If you've assessed your hunger, waited and can't kick the craving, it's time to give in — but in small doses. "Try eating only one-fourth of the portion size you really want, then put the rest away and distract yourself for 15 minutes," suggests Wansink. "See how you feel after that time has passed. Chances are, you'll be equally satisfied as if you had eaten the whole thing."
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7. Prevent Food Cravings in the First Place
One of the questions you should ask yourself when you first detect a craving is what you already ate today that could be triggering it. For example, eating candy or desserts can spur the craving for more sweetness, especially when eaten on an empty stomach, says Cederquist. To sidestep that kind of reaction in the future, she recommends including protein and fiber in every meal and snack; doing so can limit subsequent cravings by decreasing the blood sugar response.
If you follow these tips and still feel compelled to devour certain foods, Cederquist recommends consulting your doctor; he or she can test your levels of glucose, insulin, glycohemoglobin, triglycerides, and HDL — which can all be helpful to identify conditions such as metabolic dysfunction. Making a diagnosis like that can be your first step in figuring out a meal plan that can negate those nagging cravings and keep your weight in check.
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Gardeners in USDA Hardiness Zones 8 and above enjoy a longer gardening season than gardeners with long, freezing winters. There may be more warm days in the zones, but sometimes the heat can be too much for growing vegetables. This can mean turning your vegetable gardening calendar on end or having 2 separate vegetable growing seasons that may have little to do with the usual gardening calendar. So it can get a little confusing trying to figure out what to plant in the spring, when things are heating up and what to plant in the fall, when the rains come.


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var mongoose = require('../services/db.js').get();
var utils = require('../services/util/model.js');

var L = {
    NAME_REQUIRED: 'A name is required',
    DESC_REQUIRED: 'A description is required',
    CATEGORY_REQUIRED: 'A parent category must be defined',
    SEQ_REQUIRED: 'A sequence number must be defined and unique for the given category'
};

var schema = mongoose.Schema({
    name: {type: String, required: L.NAME_REQUIRED},
    created: {type: Date, default: Date.now},
    description: {type: String, required: L.DESC_REQUIRED},
    instructions: {type: String},
    source: String, // starting source if there is any
    category: {type: String, required: L.CATEGORY_REQUIRED}, // name of the category
    sequence: {type: Number, required: L.SEQ_REQUIRED}, // sequence of the lesson within the category
    difficulty: {type: Number, default: 0}, // 0-9, 0 being the easiest
});

// should these actually be editable?
var editable = ['name', 'source', 'description', 'category', 'sequence', 'difficulty', '_id'];
schema.methods.getEditable = function() { return editable; };
schema.methods.toResponse = utils.toResponse(editable);

var Lesson = mongoose.model('Lesson', schema);

// todo: ensure that there are no sequence dupes within any given category
// Lesson.schema.path('sequence').validate(utils.validate.consts(Lesson.STATE));

module.exports = Lesson;

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Namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.VisualBasic.UnitTests.Recommendations.Statements
    Public Class YieldKeywordRecommenderTests
        Inherits RecommenderTests

        <Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)>
        Public Sub InMethodBodyTest()
            VerifyRecommendationsContain(<MethodBody>|</MethodBody>, "Yield")
        End Sub

        <Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)>
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            Dim code =
<MethodBody>
Dim f = Function()
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        End Function
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            VerifyRecommendationsContain(code, "Yield")
        End Sub

        <Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)>
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            Dim code =
<MethodBody>
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            VerifyRecommendationsMissing(code, "Yield")
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Sonos $179
Sonos took their Sonos One smart speaker and made it dumb. Seems there is a market for privacy-minded people who just want a speaker for playing music, not with a built-in microphone that could be spying on you. This Sonos One SL is just like the Sonos One minus the microphone listening for Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant commands. Control it with the Sonos app over WiFi, not Bluetooth, or use Apple Airplay to stream your music. To think, a speaker simply built to play music and not listen to you all day long. Crazy!
This is a very good privacy-minded device. It has no built-in microphone to listen, record, or send data back to Amazon or Google, so not a whole lot can go wrong. Sonos does a pretty good job with privacy and security as a whole.Sonos did have a small privacy goof early in 2020 when they sent an email to 450 customers and revealed all of their email addresses to each other. To be fair, we've all probably made a mistake like that so we'll cut them a little slack.
Name, email, phone number, password
Sonos does not use information that personally identifies you to display interest-based ads.
You can request that data be deleted. You can opt out of Additional Usage Data collection in the Sonos App.
An email sent by Sonos to 450 customers revealed all of their email addresses to each other in January 2020.
Sonos Privacy Policy
Encrypts the device itself and communications with cloud services.
Automatic updates are enabled by default.
Sonos does not have an official bug bounty program, but invites responsible disclosure of security bugs.
Sonos does provide an intro to the privacy policy that contains its guiding principles.
https://www.sonos.com/en-us/support/w2c/education
SonosSupport
Misconfigured Networks Vulnerable to PewDiePie Prank
We've been investigating a small number of households with improperly configured networks, such that Sonos players and other devices become accessible from the Internet, and someone instigated a prank to play a message in support of YouTube star PewDiePie on those systems.


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Q: Javascript external file I am trying to get this calendar I found on the net to work with my webpage. The strange thing is that after modifying its external "calendar.js" file, nothing takes effect. I even tested it out by moving the folder holding the calendar files to another location and the program still worked.
Below is my javascript link to the js file:

My php code below:
echo '<input type="text" name="date2" id="date2" style=\'font-weight: bold;\' disabled value="" class=\'inputBoxStyle\' disabled  >	';

Can someone please explain why it still works after moving the source file to another location? Note: I did do f5 refresh and restart IE browser as well but that didn't make any difference.
Also, why my changes to the calendar.js file didn't take effect at all?

A: I renamed the js file and it works now. The ctrl-f5 did help too. Thank you all.


This paper describes a bidirectional Monte Carlo ray tracing method simu-lating global illumination in models containing complex objects that do not have to be tessellated. The two pass method combines a first pass light ray tracing (ray casting) with a second pass optimized Monte Carlo ray tracing. In the first pass, the light emitted from the light sources hit objects in the scene and may be reflected or transmitted- a kind of backward path tracing. This step handles all kinds of reflections and not only the specular to diffuse reflections. This turns out to be a valuable optimization. At every object-interaction, energy is stored on the surface of the object. For simple objects an illumination map is used. For complex objects e.g. procedurally based objects like fractals, energy is stored in a photon map. This new concept makes it possible to treat caustics upon such objects without having to parameterize the surface of the objects. The second pass, Monte Carlo ray tracing from the eye, visualizes the scene based upon the result from the rst pass. We use the irradiance gradient method to model diffuse reflections seen directly from the eye. All secondary reflections are taken from the photon maps or the illumination maps. Only the caustic part of the ray casting step is visualized directly.


The capital of Newfoundland occupies a spectacular site on one of the finest natural harbors in the world. Entered through "the Narrows", a 200-meter-wide passage flanked by cliffs, the harbor widens out into a protected basin.
The city is undisputedly the oldest "European" town in North America, and from about 1500, the harbor was used as a base by fishing vessels from various countries. Today, square, flat-roofed wooden houses painted in different colors are typical of St. John's. Many date back to Victorian times; sadly however, because of the fires that engulfed the town in the 18th and 19th century, few have survived.
Signal Hill National Historic Site sits on a rocky hill at the harbor mouth and provides fantastic views over the Atlantic Ocean. This is where Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless signal in 1901. The lonely-looking Cabot Tower, built to mark the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's Voyage, is the most prominent landmark and houses exhibits about Marconi. Windswept trails lead to historic fortifications at the Queen's Battery Barracks.
Quidi Vidi, a delightful little fishing community, forms part of St. John's and sits on the north side of Signal Hill. The now-restored Quidi Vidi Battery overlooks the inlet and dates to the French occupation of St. John's. After British regained control in 1780, they strengthened the battery and used it as a garrison until withdrawing from Newfoundland in 1870. Possibly the oldest house in British Canada, built in 1740, survives within the fort. A narrow channel links the inlet with Quidi Vidi Lake, where the oldest sporting event in North America, the annual St. John's Regatta, is held.
Dramatic cliffs and two lighthouses mark Cape Spear as the most easterly point in North America, located just southeast of St. John's. People like to watch the sunrise from the cliffs here. But at other times of the day, the national historic site and its trails are favorite lookout points for sighting icebergs and whales.
The Provincial Museum, the Provincial Archives, and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador are grouped together as The Rooms. Exhibits introduce local culture and history. This cultural hub is situated on a ridge above the city, and has an observation deck with views over the entire harbor.
The Johnson GEO Centre in St. John's is uniquely designed to incorporate the surrounding terrain. The center takes visitors beneath Signal Hill and into the 550-million year old rock bed. Interactive exhibits describe the earth's geological makeup, cultural history, and Newfoundland life.
For more than 400 years Water Street, one of the oldest streets in North America, was the commercial center of St. John's. It is still the meeting place for sailors from all over the world and close to where transatlantic cruise ships dock. The historic district has a modern mix of souvenir shops, bakeries, and restaurants that please visitors.
On Military Road, with a fine view over the Narrows, stands Newfoundland's architecturally most important building, the Basilica of St John the Baptist (1842-92). Built in the form of a Latin cross and graced by slender twin towers 46 meters high, the Basilica is noted for some fine statues and its beautiful ornate gold leaf ceiling. The statue of Our Lady of Fatima in one of the transepts was a gift from Portuguese sailors who were fortunate enough to survive being shipwrecked on the Banks. The basilica is now a National Historic Site.
The East Coast Trail is a 540-kilometer-long hiking trail that runs along the East Coast of Newfoundland. The developed portion starts north of St. John's at Cape St. Francis and runs south to Cappahayden. There are a number of different access points that allow you to hike individual sections of the trail. This is a great way to see some of the wildlife (whales and puffins), rugged landscape, and beautiful scenery of the Avalon Peninsula.
With its many restaurants and patios, George Street is a popular city center rendezvous in St. John's. In the evenings, George Street is closed to traffic making it a pleasant and lively area to walk around. Entertainment options include catching some live East Coast music, usually featuring fiddle, guitar, and ocean-inspired lyrics. There are 24-hour restaurants nearby.
Dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the Anglican cathedral on Church Hill (a short distance south of the Catholic basilica) is a National Historic Site and the oldest Anglican Church in Canada. Architect George Gilbert Scott designed the 1847 cathedral, and it ranks among the finest examples of pure neo-Gothic architecture in North America. It also has fine interior furnishings.
After suffering serious damage in two major 19th-century fires, the cathedral was not fully restored until 1905. During summer afternoons, a tearoom serves refreshments and desserts. Haunted walking tours begin from the cathedral gates.
Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland: four-star hotel, near Signal Hill, harbor views, indoor pool and hot tub, fitness center.
JAG: mid-range boutique hotel, classic rock theme, contemporary decor, turndown service.
Courtyard by Marriott St. John's Newfoundland: affordable rates, central location, overlooks harbour, complimentary valet parking.
Quality Hotel Harbourview: budget-friendly harborside hotel, great location, free underground parking.


By far, the one thing I have sewn that gets the most attention are the triple ruffle pants I made for my girls. Every time they step out of the house wearing them, I get tons of compliments and inquiries as to where I bought them. I get the biggest rush when I get to say "I made them"!
The pattern is from Foo Foo Threads on Etsy. I already owned the fabrics from that unused stack of single yards I bought back when I first got my sewing machine. I needed a pattern that I could make twice while only using three different yards of fabrics together and this one was perfect.
They are all Michael Miller fabrics but they are a few years old so they may be hard to locate.
The pattern came with a .pdf with photos to walk you through the construction process! Perfect for someone like me still trying to figure things out.
Since I bought the pattern and tutorial, I do not want to give away too much about their construction. I can talk about my mistakes though since there were plenty of them. I might also add that none of them were the fault of the pattern or tutorial!
My first mistake was that I only made 3 ruffles for the first pair instead of six (three for each leg) and then panicked because I was afraid I didn't have enough material left. Luckily I did!
Then, when I prepped those six ruffles, I hemmed both edges! I have NO idea what I was thinking when I did that. I then had to pull out my seam ripper and take half of them back out. Ugh!
I also have had to reopen and close the waistband on both pairs because either I measured my kid's waist wrong or they both shrunk overnight!
Because my daughters have different size waists and leg lengths, I made each pair to fit a specific girl. Of course, even though I let them choose which fabric they wanted in the beginning, they now want to wear the other's pair! I just can't win!
and then doing this to them!!EEK!
It was all worth it though. Check out the movement these pants have!


NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- SEI Investments (SEIC - Get Report) was upgraded to "outperform" from "market perform" at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW with a $41 price target, up from $37.
Shares of SEI Investments surged 6.14% to close at $34.39 yesterday.
"We rate SEI INVESTMENTS CO (SEIC) a BUY. This is based on the convergence of positive investment measures, which should help this stock outperform the majority of stocks that we rate. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins."
The revenue growth came in higher than the industry average of 0.1%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues rose by 11.2%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. In comparison to the other companies in the Capital Markets industry and the overall market, SEI INVESTMENTS CO's return on equity significantly exceeds that of the industry average and is above that of the S&P 500.
Net operating cash flow has increased to $43.94 million or 11.31% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, SEI INVESTMENTS CO has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -105.01%.
SEI INVESTMENTS CO's earnings per share improvement from the most recent quarter was slightly positive. The company has demonstrated a pattern of positive earnings per share growth over the past two years. We feel that this trend should continue. During the past fiscal year, SEI INVESTMENTS CO increased its bottom line by earning $1.63 versus $1.17 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.73 versus $1.63).
The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has exceeded that of the S&P 500, but is less than that of the Capital Markets industry average. The net income increased by 4.0% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, going from $71.92 million to $74.82 million.


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Shane Lowry misses the Tiger Woods that once was
Source: Sky Sports
While Tiger Woods' career has been on the wane for a while, Shane Lowry is experiencing a burst of success and renown in his own. But his own good fortune has not hindered his ability to empathize with Tiger's obvious difficulties both in the public eye and on the course. Watching the former Number 1 golfer stumble from gaffe after gaffe elicits a twinge of sympathy and sadness from Lowry.
"I grew up watching Tiger, so for me Tiger is the only player I would be in awe of. I think Tiger is a legend. He has made golf what it is today. He is the reason us players, caddies or anyone working in the golf industry makes the money we do. I hope he comes back, it would be great for the game if he comes back. It would be great to see Tiger back battling it out with Rory Mcilroy, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and those guys. Do I think he will? It's hard to say. I think he is struggling between the ears. He has to be."
What's more, Shane Lowry swears by the fact that Tiger Woods has not actually misplaced his genius. He's just as good on the practice grounds as he once was in tournaments, but can't seem to muster the same caliber of play when he's under scrutiny.
"I watch him on the range a bit, when I'm at a tournament. He flushes it on the range, he doesn't miss a shot. Then he goes on the golf course, and hits in 100 yards off-line. It's weird, it's actually sad to see and it could get to a stage where he gets that fed up with it, that he has to retire, and that would be a killer for the game."
We'd sneak up on Tiger at practice for a glimpse of former glory, but we're afraid that will ruin the magic.


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Re-Education (Through Labor) est une chanson du groupe américain de punk rock Rise Against. Il s'agit de la troisième piste de leur cinquième album, Appeal to Reason, ainsi que le premier single extrait de cet album.

Clip vidéo
Le clip de la chanson a été réalisé par Kevin Kerslake et filmé dans la ville d'origine du groupe (Chicago, dans l'Illinois).
La vidéo commence par une citation du président John F. Kennedy :  Il passe souvent entre les scènes du groupe en train de jouer dans le sous-sol d'un cinéma abandonné. La scène finale montre une ligne des cyclomotoristes regardant la ville brûlant dans la nuit après que les bombes ont explosé. Ce lien revient à la citation de JFK sur la rébellion violente.

Liens externes

Single musical sorti en 2008
Chanson interprétée par Rise Against


Amber Arellano oversees research and policy, public engagement, technical assistance and operations at The Education Trust-Midwest. Founded in 2010, today Ed Trust-Midwest is widely recognized as a leading voice for non-partisan data, research, and policy expertise about Michigan P-12 education. Under her leadership, Ed Trust-Midwest led the statewide coalition of more than 146 organizations committed to implementing college- and career-readiness for all students, and the cross-sector development of Michigan's first statewide educator support and evaluation system which is credited with making Tennessee one of the leading education states in the U.S. today. In partnership with the Steelcase Foundation, Arellano also founded the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning to bring proven best practices from leading education states to Michigan's high-poverty schools. That work has blossomed into CETL schools becoming among Michigan's fastest-improving, high-poverty schools for many subjects including third-grade reading.
Arellano started her career as a public high school teacher, and later became an award-winning education journalist known for her work on behalf of vulnerable students. In the policy sector, she has served in the executive office of Ireland's former President Mary Robinson at the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the UN, and at the National Poverty Center where she focused on qualitative research work. Arellano bleeds both blue and green: she earned her Master of Public Policy at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, and her Bachelor's in secondary education from Michigan State University. She serves on the board of the Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation and the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy Alumni Board.


Pub Hertas is as cosy and homely as anyone's living room, a place for people to meet, spend their time and sing some karaoke. The atmosphere is warm and relaxing. Sport on the big screen, karaoke and a homely pub atmosphere every day of the week. Come as you are.


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Q: ubuntu 20.04.5 upgrade to 22.04.1 exit with error message failed to fetch unauthorized ip Lenovo thinkcentre 510s i3-7100 CPU @ 3.90GHz × 4  8g ram
When i try to upgrade my pc everything looks fine until the download is finished but as soon as the install are about to start i get the errors:
Failed to fetch https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu/pool/main/o/openexr/libopenexr25_2.5.7-1ubuntu0.1~esm1_amd64.deb 401  Unauthorized [IP: 185.125.190.23 443]

Failed to fetch https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu/pool/main/i/imagemagick/libmagickcore-6.q16-6_6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm1_amd64.deb 401  Unauthorized [IP: 185.125.190.23 443]

There are more similar lines in the error messages,same ip and programs.
I have searched this site for an answer but found no solution to my problem.
How do i solve this?

A: The problem is fixed by disabeling the repo https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu
after disabeling this the upgrade completed without any errors.


Modularity is innovation. As the only company on the market, we offer ready-to-use sets for connecting roof inlets, downpipes and attic passes. The Galeco system enables easy connection of the flat roof drainage with the square section downpipes of the Galeco STAL2 and Galeco HIDDEN GUTTER systems, forming a coherent whole with the building body.
The new Galeco square gutter makes it possible to achieve a modern and aesthetic appearance for a house with eaves.
This is possible thanks to the soffit bezel, which is snapped in on front-mounting support brackets, covering the front part of the gutter and thereby providing a smooth finish to the eaves.
This innovative square gutter system has been designed using modern and aesthetic solutions that go perfectly with the body of the building.
The gutter level may be covered with a bezel snapped into the hooks of the mounted brackets, providing a decorative finish to the eaves.
One alternative is flat front-mounting support brackets, which do not require mounting of a bezel, but which also aesthetically present a square gutter on a modern building.


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Israel gets its first digital bank
The Bank of Israel on Monday announced the establishment of the country's first digital bank, marking the completion of the lengthy registration and approval process.
"The Governor of the Bank of Israel and the Supervisor of Banks have notified One Zero Digital Bank Ltd. of the Governor's approval to remove the restrictions from the bank's license, after the bank completed the process of meeting the milestones set for it, and after the Supervisor's certification of the completion of the establishment process," the Bank of Israel announced in a statement Monday morning.
One Zero Digital Bank Ltd. completed the process of meeting all the milestones set for the establishment of the bank, including raising the required amount of capital.
After the Supervisor of Banks certified the completion of the process by the bank, the Governor today signed the approval to remove the restrictions from the bank's license and for its continued operation according to its business plan.
"The Bank has thereby completed its preparations, and its status is now the same as that of all the other banks in Israel—supervised by the Bank of Israel's Banking Supervision Department to ensure its stability and in order to protect the money of its depositors."
One Zero, the first new bank to be authorized in Israel in 43 years, is controlled by Prof. Amnon Shashua, and managed by Chairman of the Board of Directors Shuki Oren, and CEO Gal Bar Deah. READ MORE


�An email is a communication tool, and essentially what we want to do is leave the person feeling open-minded and receptive, and ready to engage with whatever comes after that, so it�s... This greeting is a little more formal, but is still a pleasant, casual option to start an email. Double-check the time zone the contact is in -- it may not be the same time of day where they live. Double-check the time zone the contact is in -- it may not be the same time of day where they live.
If you're concerned about effective communication in the workplace, you've probably wondered: How do I start and end a business email? Ask 10 professionals what the best email greeting and email sign-off is, and you'll get 11 responses.... How to Start a Professional Email A professional email usually begins with a greeting like �Dear Lily�. If the reader has a formal relation with you, then a family name can be used like �Dear Mrs. James�.
How to Start a Professional Email A professional email usually begins with a greeting like �Dear Lily�. If the reader has a formal relation with you, then a family name can be used like �Dear Mrs. James�.
In business, mails can be distributed to a large number of people or groups, such as recommendation emails, announcement emails, promotional emails and many more. In short, practices of making professional application emails helps protect someone�s reputation and the whole organization�s reputation as well.


The Meadows specializes in treating trauma. Abuse is one form of trauma. Often times, the childhood trauma that occurred because of child abuse is overlooked as a core issue when people enter treatment for addictions or other mental health disorders. Sometimes people minimize what they experienced as children, deny that they were abused, or believe that it happened so long ago that they are (or that they should be) "over it" or it is no longer relevant.
What exactly is child abuse?
What exactly is child abuse? There are many definitions out there and most answers to the question are quite complex. The Meadows uses Senior Fellow Pia Mellody's simple, yet broad definition: child abuse is any action or inaction, by a parent or other major caregiver, that is less than nurturing or experienced as shaming by a child. This is my favorite definition since it does not minimize based on intent and it allows for the child's experience of the action or inaction to be the primary defining factor. It also eliminates issues around what was "acceptable" in society at any given time. Just because something was accepted in society, it does not mean that it was healthy or ok. Society makes many mistakes.
⦁ Hitting, kicking, punching, pinching, burning, etc.
Why does it still matter when I am an adult?
Trauma impacts the brain. Children have brains that are not fully developed. When children are abused their brains are forced to develop in a stressed or dysregulated state. This can lead to a lifetime of challenges with self-regulation. Childhood abuse can lead to an increased likelihood of unhealthy relationship patterns, addictions, anxiety, depression, obesity, suicide attempts, chronic health issues, and sexually transmitted diseases. That last list could just as easily begin with, "People most frequently seek treatment for…". While the majority of people are motivated to therapy or treatment for symptoms, the best treatment also addresses the underlying and historical issues that pre-date the symptoms. Symptoms are often a result of a person's maladaptive attempts to cope with stress and dysregulation. When underlying issues are not addressed, symptoms may return or new symptoms may surface to replace the ones that were treated.
Some people need to seek inpatient or intensive outpatient treatment when their symptoms are so disruptive to their lives that day-to-day functioning is impaired. Some people require less intensive treatment but still want something that is specialized and focused on how to deal with their core issues and childhood trauma. The Meadows and its sister programs offer highly individualized treatment services encompass trauma and related mental health conditions on many different levels. Childhood trauma can be addressed at all of The Meadows' programs. Survivors is The Meadows signature workshop and an essential component of its inpatient treatment programs. It is an intensive workshop focused on addressing childhood trauma. The Survivors workshop is also offered as a stand-alone intensive for people who are not in need of long-term treatment. Rio Retreat Center at The Meadows offers a five-day Survivors workshop for anyone who is interested and who meets the criteria for admission. For more information on enrolling in a Survivors workshop experience or for any of our treatment programs, please call our intake department at 1-800-244-4949.


The City of Ann Arbor is committed to significantly reducing its carbon emissions by encouraging local building owners to use energy wisely and invest in renewable energy. To meet the city's goal of generating 2.4 megawatts of solar energy each year — enough to power over 400 houses — the City of Ann Arbor Energy Office is partnering with Michigan Interfaith Power & Light, seeking houses of worship to join the effort. This initiative, known as the Solar Faithful, aims to promote solar on houses of worship.
Solar Faithful will hold its third information session — Solar Power Purchasing Agreements for Nonprofits — on Wednesday, July 25 to discuss solar financing options for nonprofits and houses of worship. This free event will be held at the Campus Chapel in Ann Arbor and is open to all, yet specifically tailored for nonprofits and houses of worship interested in learning about financing options for solar installations.
Wednesday, July 25, 7–8:30 p.m.
Please RSVP if you or a representative from your house of worship plans on attending. Contact: Bob Chapman, executive director, Michigan Interfaith Power & Light, director@miipl.org | 248.537.9175.
In recent weeks, the Solar Faithful program has been developing a model for financing solar at houses of worship working with an investor. The Solar Faithful program has engaged a legal firm to assist in the development of templates for working with an investor to finance the solar installation, such as the legal forms required to set up an LLC and to engage in a Power Purchase Agreement. By working with an investor, houses of worship can benefit from a 30 percent federal investment tax credit for solar that otherwise is only available to taxable property owners. The templates that will be discussed at this event are a key enabler in moving forward with a solar installation financed by investors either within the congregation or within the local community.
In addition to being long-standing institutions in the community that can financially benefit from long-term investments in energy efficiency and on-site renewable energy generation, houses of worship also serve as beacons in their community. "Attending for how we use energy is an important part of our faith identity," said Jane Vogel, past board president of Michigan Interfaith Power & Light and current liaison to the Solar Faithful project team.
The Solar Faithful project has been awarded $10,000 in technical assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy to participate in the SunShot Initiative's Solar in Your Community Challenge, a nationwide solar contest. The goal of the Solar Faithful partnership is to empower houses of worship with funding strategies to install solar power.


The only way to understand what faithful means in Scripture is to take a close look at the faithfulness of God. A faithful person is someone who is totally devoted, extremely committed and inflexibly loyal. In fact, loyalty to God is no more and no less than following in the footsteps of Jesus. It's a personal choice that involves an unbending resolve to put God first in your life, no matter what.
As we grow in our relationship with God, he influences us, shaping our lives to look more like the life of Jesus. God does that through his Spirit. The Bible says that one of the Holy Spirit's gifts to us is goodness, or internal wholeness and integrity. In this message, Pastor Jim explains how goodness is not something to ACHIEVE, but rather it is something to ACCEPT.
As we grow in our relationship with God, we soon discover that God wants to influence us, shaping our lives to look more like the life of Jesus. God does that through his Spirit. The Spirit is the antidote to the flesh. He empowers us to live a supernatural life that is characterized by love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
As we grow in our relationship with God, we soon discover that he wants to influence us, shaping our lives to look more like the life of Jesus. God does that through his Spirit. It's the Holy Spirit that produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in us. In this message, Pastor Tom Ward talks about peace, the peace that transcends our understanding and to the human mind often makes no sense.


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The Wisdom of Nature - Beauty Will Heal the World
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The Wisdom of Nature - Beauty Will Heal the World.
Today we come to the end of our Preaching series on the Wisdom of Nature, using Gary Ferguson's book 8 Master lessons of Nature as our rough guide. In his Epilogue tells of how he visited an old story teller from the Native American Ojibway tribe. As he listened to her, she told him the following story.
"Long ago in the land of trees, the first human twins were born to Spirit Woman but it fell to the animals to help care for them. The animals were enthusiastically committed to the task, doting on them, eager to meet their every need.
Bear warmed them through the wee hours by hugging them to her furry chest. Deer provided her milk, the beaver and muskrat lovingly bathed them, and the birds sang them lullabies. Dog was an excellent guardian taking his job more seriously than anyone. When the flies came and pestered the babies Dog snapped at them to chase them away. When the twins were cranky and out of sorts with colic, he nuzzled their bellies with his cold wet nose and made them laugh. If that didn't work, he jumped into the air and did all manner of tricks. But something wasn't right. As the babies grew he noticed they were not walking.
Dog brought his concerns to Nanabush who noted that the animals had taken excellent care of the young twins. In fact, Nanabush remarked "I think maybe you did too good a job. The young of any creature doesn't grow by having everything done for them. They grow by reaching, by struggling for what they want." But as wise as Nanabush was, he was clueless about how to fix the problem. And so he decided to call on the Great Spirit. In reply to his call the Great Spirit told him to gather thousands of tiny coloured stones. Nanabush did as he was told. It was a big job, but finally he had gathered a large pile of beautiful stones of blue, red, yellow and green.
He then squatted beside the pile of stones and watched them but nothing happened. But what was he supposed to do next? Hour after hour, he sat waiting for further instruction from Great Spirit. But no word came. Finally out of boredom, Nanabush began tossing the stones into the air, first one at a time and then in big handfuls. He invented games. He learned to juggle. Then one morning as the sun was poking above the east horizon, he grabbed a big handful and tossed them high into the air. Only this time to his astonishment they didn't come down again. Instead has he looked up he saw that they were turned into winged creatures of many colours and shapes. The beautiful creatures fluttered here and there before coming to rest on his shoulders. These were the first butterflies.
Now he knew what he needed to do. The butterflies followed Nanabush back to the twins, who crowed with pleasure and waved their legs and stretched out their arms to the beautiful creatures. The butterflies always flew just beyond the grasp of the small outstretched hands. Soon the twins began to crawl, then to walk, and even to run in their efforts to catch the beautiful butterflies."
When the Ojibway Story Teller had finished telling him the story and Gary Ferguson was getting himself ready to leave, she put her hand on his arm and said to him: "Before you leave, there is one thing you need to understand about that story. You must realize" she said "that when we tell that story it is not because we need to be reminded not to give our children everything they want. We already know that," she said. "Instead, we use that story when we get stuck. When we fall into sadness or anger or lose hope. The story reminds us to first heal our relationship with beauty." And she concluded with these words, "Beauty will help us to start moving again."
When our relationship with Life has grown difficult, beauty has the power to heal and restore what has become dislocated and damaged.
Gary Ferguson writes that he witnessed this lesson being played out when he became involved with a compassionate wilderness therapy program for so-called at-risk teens.
One of the girls who had been on that wilderness therapy program was called Alexi. She was from an upper-middle-class family, and at the age of 16 her life was in tatters due to a three year long heroin addiction. She had already been through a number of rehab programs but with little to no success.
A year after the wilderness therapy program he made contact with her by telephone, and she told him the following:
Here's the thing, she said, The wilderness ruined my high. A couple of months after I got home, I tried drugs again. But I stopped. I walked away from it. I knew too much.
Over the next half an hour, she shared her thoughts on what happened for her in the wilderness therapy program that had made such a change possible for her.
"It was the first time I'd ever known beauty," she confided in him, "Beauty so deep that it almost hurt." He said the phone went quiet and then she corrected herself. "I did know beauty once", going on to describe how at the age of seven she had spent a week at her uncles cabin in the wilderness, and how she had waded through creeks and picked flowers for the table, and how she had felt alive and free in the beauty of nature that had surrounded her. Pretty soon after that she said, her parents got divorced and in the middle of that her brother was killed by a drunk driver, and everything fell apart from there. At that moment, the beauty and wonder of life had been cut off for her, leading her into dark and self-destructive places.
But in the wilderness, where she was able to begin to reconnect with a sense of life's beauty, her journey towards healing and recovery began.
In the book of Psalms, the Psalmist writes: Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness.
There seems to be an implicit sense in this verse that God is the source of all beauty and that beauty itself communicates to us something of the Divine.
Growing out of the Greek Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, medieval Philosophers spoke of God in the terms the Good, the True and the Beautiful. Goodness and Truth alone are not enough to point to the Divine. They are not enough to form the basis of a religious life. Goodness and Truth alone could have the danger of producing a religious spirit that could tend towards a moralism and a cold certainty, constricting and restricting the religious life to moralistic rules and conduct and our heads. Beauty is important because it connects us to a sense of wonder that touches and opens the heart.
And so the Psalmist encourages us to Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness. It is not enough to worship the Lord with Good conduct and with correct doctrines. Our worship of God needs to open our hearts to a sense of that which is truly beautiful in Life.
It is clear that beauty and the beauty of nature were things that Jesus valued highly. He considered the lilies of the field more beautifully adorned that Solomon in all his glory. The beauty of nature for Jesus was more beautiful than any man-made attempt to create beauty. It cannot be repeated often enough, how throughout the Gospels, one gets the sense that Jesus spent a lot of time outdoors, withdrawing into the wilderness, or into the mountains, or sometimes simply taking time out in unpopulated places on the outskirts of town.
The Psalms themselves are full of references to the beauty of the created world. Even that most familiar of Psalms, Psalm 23, invites us to imagine ourselves surrounded by beauty, lying down in green pastures and walking beside still waters. There is implicit in this Psalm the sense that being surrounded by such beauty is healing for the soul and the spirit.
Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness says the Psalmist. When you are anxious and afraid. When you feel like you are walking through a dark valley, the valley of the shadow of death, like the Ojibway story teller, the Psalmist encourages us to reconnect with a sense of beauty and in doing so reconnect with God, the Divine, and our truest and deepest selves, the Spirit of God of Holiness and Beauty within.
Gary Ferguson writes, that some twenty or more years after that wilderness therapy experience where he had first met Alexi, Alexi is now a paediatric nurse with children of her own. And when he last spoke with her, she was adamant that her time in the wilderness was the most important experience of her life, for it was where beauty had reached out and taken her hand. Where she had finally taken her place as part of the bigger world.
The 19th Century British Naturalist, Richard Jeffries once wrote that the hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, and the Russian writer and Christian Fyodor Dostoyesky once wrote: "Beauty will save the world".
What are the ways that in your life, that beauty has spoken to you, and reached out to you and taken you by the hand and invited you into a life of greater wholeness, wonder and joy.
Know this: that every experience of beauty you have ever had, was none other than the God of Goodness, Beauty and Truth reaching out to you and inviting you to come home, to come home to God, to come home to your true self, to come home to the Spirit of God that dwells within you.
In what way in your life today are you being invited by God to re-establish your relationship with beauty again?
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A few days after WarnerMedia said HBO and HBO Max ended 2021 with 73.8 million global subscribers, ad sales president JP Colaco said consumers had been enticed to "sign up in droves" for its cheaper, ad-supported tier.
In an online appearance at the TV of Tomorrow Show, the exec declined to provide a breakout of how many subscribers had opted for HBO Max with Ads. Parent company AT&T (which is poised to spin the company off in a merger with Discovery) is due to report more complete numbers along with its quarterly financials later this month. But it revealed last week that HBO and HBO Max combined to top internal forecasts for 70 million to 73 million subscribers.
HBO Max with Ads began rolling out last June at $10 month, significantly less than the $15 cost of the ad-free service. The goal was to create an appealing home for shows like Euphoria — as an exponent of HBO proper, it is contracted to stream without commercial interruption on both tiers of HBO Max. WarnerMedia announced today that the digital share of its 2.4 million total viewers for its second-season premiere was the highest for any HBO title since the launch of HBO Max in May 2020.
'Euphoria' Season 2 Premiere Sets HBO Max Viewer Record
Colaco said the number reflected an "entire-company effort. All parts of the company were pushing toward one goal." Although it's an accomplishment, he added, "It's just a milestone. We're on a journey to go north and north and north."
Moderator Nathalie Bordes, EVP of Measurement for Marketers at the Association of National Advertisers, asked Colaco to characterize the titles driving subscriber growth. The decision to put all Warner Bros movies on HBO Max in 2021 at the same time they hit theaters "was disruptive at the time," Colaco said. "But it did work." Throughout the year, "we just kept hitting them with content," he said, and pointed to this year's crop of five DC movies as well as second seasons for Hacks and The Flight Attendant, plus Game of Thrones spinoff House of Dragons.
Asked to quantify HBO Max with Ads, Colaco toed the company line in declining to offer a breakout. Still, "it's up and to the right," he maintained. "It's a great bargain for consumers and we're seeing them sign up in droves."
Bordes also asked Colaco about what the Discovery deal would be expected to yield. He noted that regulators haven't signed off, meaning he would be limited in what he could say. But he went on to muse about the deal and the M&A landscape more broadly.
"You should be excited both in the marketplace and as a consumer by the fact that you bring together those two sets of huge companies with tremendous archives of content as well as ongoing content production," he said. "Unscripted and scripted together is very, very exciting. So, it does offer an interesting prospect."
He recalled a stint working at Disney in the 2000s. One day, he got a call at 4 a.m. PT from a friend working on the East Coast. "He said, 'Get up. Your company is being bought.'" Comcast had stunned the industry and Wall Street by making a surprise, unsolicited offer to buy Disney. While that deal wound up not coming to fruition, Colaco marveled at how many others have in the years since.
"The industry is so dynamic, so changing, folks are trying to build scale," he said. "You create higher efficiency, you have more dollars to invest in content. At the end of the day, hopefully the winner is the consumer. It's easier for them to go to one place and get all of the content they love. It fills kind of the four quadrants of what it takes to get great consumption and have a great experience. For marketers, it's less fragmented."
Asked about addressable TV, which offers advertisers digital capabilities and the kind of precise targeting that is possible in digital and streaming, Colaco gave credit to an unlikely company: DirecTV. WarnerMedia parent AT&T spun off the satellite operator into a new stand-alone entity 30%-owned by private equity firm TPG. Usually, when its name comes up, it is in reference to the ill-fated acquisition in 2015 and the decline that followed.
"They're the original gangsters of addressable TV," Colaco said with an appreciative chuckle. The experience of being under the same corporate roof — which was the initial thesis of AT&T buying Time Warner back in 2016 — has galvanized the effort to reach scale in addressable TV, he explained. Asked the size of the company's addressable footprint, Colaco declined to offer specific numbers but recalled promising the market last spring during the company's upfront that WarnerMedia would have the capabilities in 52 million households by now. "We're a company that likes to exceed our objectives," he smiled.
As to measurement, a bugaboo for many in media as the streaming age has dawned, Colaco acknowledged that it has been a "one-horse town" dominated by Nielsen. WarnerMedia last week announced it was commissioning alternative solutions from Comscore, iSpotTV and VideoAmp, planning a series of "test-and-learn" implementations, he said.
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Karim Benzema played Vital Role in 2019/20 La liga Season as real Madrid were crowned the champions of Spain. He played 37 games this season and he scored 21 goals and provided 8 assists. Karim Benzema created 59 chances and completed 38 take-ons. Karim Benzema created 13 big chances.
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Q: cleaner script to recursively replace a string in all directories and file names I want to replace a string with a different string in all directory and file names, recursively.  So if I want to replace foo with bar and have this file:
 foo_project/my_app/old_foo/start_foo.sh

I would want it to become
 bar_project/my_app/old_bar/start_bar.sh

I have been able to do this, but it's pretty ugly.  Writing it from memory (can't copy paste so forgive typos) the command I have is:
find $PROJECT_DIR -name "*foo*" | tac | xargs -n 1 -I % bash -c "eval mv % \$\( echo % \| sed \''s/\(.*\)foo/\1$PROJECT_NAME/'\' \)"

This works for me, but it's hideous.  Is there a cleaner approach to do what I want?
To give context on above command, the issue I had was that early rename commands would break later mv commands by making the paths differ.  That's why I switched to a tac before an xargs (instead of the -evalcmd argument for find I started with) to ensure that I ran the most deeply nested renames first.  I then had to make my sed only rename the last instance of foo so I could move everything within a folder before renaming the folder.
The ugly part is the need of eval, and thus multiple levels of escaping arguments, because I didn't otherwise know how to pass the contents of xargs to the sed command.  There has to be something cleaner then this though?

A: If you're using CentOS or some system without rename (sometimes known as prename) then the suggested duplicate is a good place to look. If you're on a Debian derived system this may work for you as well:
find "$PROJECT_DIR" -depth -type d -execdir echo rename 's/foo/bar/' {} +

This descends the directory tree depth first and renames all the items in each directory, changing foo to bar in each instance.
(Actually, it doesn't do anything except show you what it would do. Remove echo when you're happy...)

A: For potentially tricky, and potentially dangerous things like this, I like to generate a script to do what I want.

$ find foo_project -print > /tmp/list
$ vi /tmp/list
:%s/.*/'&'/            # quote all filenames just to be safe
:%s/.*/mv & &/         # generate mv commands
:%s/' '/'\r'/          # break them for the next step
:v/^mv /s/foo/bar/g    # modify the second arguments
:g/^mv /j              # re-join the lines

Now take a moment, examine the script you just created it to make sure it's going to do what you want to do:
mv 'foo_project/my_app/old_foo/start_foo.sh' 'bar_project/my_app/old_bar/start_bar.sh'
...

If you like it:
:wq
$ sh /tmp/list

This is a general technique I use all the time. The exact way you edit the script depends on what you want to accomplish. It's not a sexy one-liner, but it's safe.
Now, if this is something you want to do on a regular basis, and not a one-time-thing, then this technique is probably not what you want. But for a one-shot operation where you're kind of feeling your way through, this works great.
Now, if you want a re-usable solution, it's time to write a script:
#!/bin/sh
find foo_project -print | while read filename; do
  newname=`echo $filename | sed -e 's/foo/bar/g'`
  echo "renaming $filename => $newname"
  mv "$filename" "$newname"
done


A tenant advocacy group in Scotland called Shelter, successfully lobbied to have a ban on letting fees introduced in that country in 2012. Shelter then produced a report in 2013 which showed that the ban was successful and did not result in rental price increases.
However some studies indicated that rents had increased while others said the evidence was inconclusive.
Ireland and Wales looked at following Scotland's lead in 2013 and 2014. However both rejected the move. Instead they did require fees to be displayed so that it was transparent to tenants what their costs would be.
England also said it would introduce a ban on letting fees in 2015, but to date has just followed Ireland and Wales in requiring all fees and costs to be displayed.
In Germany, letting fees amount to 3 months' rent and this is one of the reasons why German tenants do not move from their rented homes as much as tenants do in other countries.
Rather than banning tenants from paying the fee, the NZ Property Investors' Federation (NZPIF) believes that whoever gets the benefit of the fee should pay it.
If a landlord contracts a property manager to find them a tenant but not continue to manage the property, then they should pay the fee. Under the current system, if it is difficult to find a tenant, landlords will often pay the fee to make the process easier. Likewise, if it is hard for tenants to find rental accommodation (as it is at present) then the tenants should be able to pay the fee so they increase their choice of property and their chance of securing a rental.
As owner managers cannot charge a letting fee, that means that more than half the properties let last year did not have a letting fee attached to them. Tenants currently have a choice of whether they pay a letting fee or not.
The Government will be put the issue before a Select Committee meaning that the public will have a say in the matter before any law is introduced.
The NZPIF accepts that paying all the moving in costs of a new tenancy is difficult. Even if rental prices do move up a little, spreading out the cost for tenants will still be a benefit for them. Unfortunately this will affect all tenants rather than the half that currently pay a letting fee.
An alternative may be to follow most of the UK and require fees to be displayed and perhaps allow the letting fee to be paid off over, say, a 6 month period to reduce the impact of moving costs.


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Dana Faolan, half-mortal, half faerie teen, is unhappy. Recently moved to Canada from Ireland, she misses her home and blames her father for moving her away from her beloved Ireland. She hates Canada: it's a strange country, she doesn't have any friends, and worst of all, there's no magic like there is in Ireland. Her only consolation is the world of Faerie, where she can go and visit her mother, the Light-Bearer, any time. Faerie becomes an escape from reality, one that she perhaps relies on a bit too much.
Then, all the portals between the Earthworld and Faerie are severed by an unknown enemy, putting both realms in peril. If the gateways are not restored by Samhain, then the two realms will be divided forever. Only Dana can restore the gateways. Accompanied by her new friend (and possible romantic interest) Jean, a French Canadian with secrets of his own, and with help from Laurel and Gwen, two Friends of Faerie, Dana sets off on a quest to find the Book of Dreams. In the process, she just might find that there is magic everywhere, even in Canada.
The Book of Dreams is a big, beautifully written fantasy on a grand scale. In her travels, Dana encounters people of the many different cultures that make up Canada, and the story is rich with beliefs and folklore from around the world, including Irish, French-Canadian, Hindu, Christian, Chinese, and several native peoples, including Cree and Inuit.
The story is well-paced and sometimes has a mythic feel to it. The pace is a bit slower than some YA readers may be accustomed to; the battles and dangers are balanced with scenes of family and encounters with other cultures that are important to the development of the story, but which make this a more leisurely read. The pacing, combined with the length of the book, may intimidate some readers, but good readers who love richly woven stories will enjoy it, particularly those interested in folklore and other cultures.
Don't get me wrong: there is plenty of action, as well as interesting characters (I particularly liked Dana's aunts) and a hot romantic interest. There is courage, and sacrifice, and poignant moments. This is a Rocky Road ice cream kind of book, packed with lots of chewy and delicious treats.
O.R. Melling wrote the Chronicles of Faerie so that each book stands alone, and can be read independently, and yet all the books are linked. Each of the first three books in the series features a different story and a different protagonist, although characters from the other books sometimes make cameo appearances in each book. This book can also be read independently, but I think that it would be best appreciated by someone who has read the other books in the series, because it is kind of the culmination of the series, and all the characters from the other books play a part in this one.
Review copy provided by the publisher at BEA.