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The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea () was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War in 1684–99. The Venetians tried, with considerable success, to repopulate the country and reinvigorate its agriculture and economy, but were unable to gain the allegiance of the bulk of the population, nor to secure their new possession militarily. As a result, it was lost again to the Ottomans in a brief campaign in June–September 1715.

Background

Venice had a long history of interaction with the Morea, dating back to the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1203–1204), when the Republic acquired control of the coastal fortresses of Modon and Coron, Nauplia and Argos. These they held even after the remainder of the peninsula was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1460, but they were lost in the first, second and third Ottoman–Venetian Wars. In successive conflicts, the Ottomans pried away the other remaining Venetian overseas possessions, including Cyprus and Crete, the latter after a prolonged struggle that ended in 1669.

In 1684, following the Ottoman defeat at the second Siege of Vienna, Venice joined the Holy League and declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Under the leadership of Francesco Morosini, who had led the defence of Candia, the capital of Crete, the Venetians took advantage of the Ottoman weakness and rapidly took over the island of Lefkada (Santa Maura) in 1684. In the next year, Morosini landed on the Peloponnese, and within two years, aided by the local Greek population, took control of the peninsula and its fortresses. A subsequent Venetian campaign into eastern Continental Greece succeeded in capturing Athens, but failed before the walls of Chalkis (Negroponte). Thereafter the conflict degenerated into a stalemate, with raids and counter-raids on both sides, until the signature of the Treaty of Karlowitz between the Ottomans and the Holy League, which in Greece left the Morea, Leucas and the island of Aegina in Venetian hands.

Organization of the new province

Administration

Already in 1688, with their control of the country practically complete, the Venetians appointed Giacomo Corner as the governor-general (provveditore generale) of the Morea to administer their new territory. The task he faced was daunting, as the population had fled from the coming of war: 656 out of 2,115 villages were deserted, almost all the Muslim population had abandoned the peninsula for lands still in Ottoman hands, while even towns like Patras, which numbered 25,000 inhabitants before the war, now had 1,615 left. Apart from the region of Corinthia and the autonomous Mani Peninsula, the Venetians counted only 86,468 inhabitants in 1688, out of an estimated pre-war population of 200,000. Other sources, however, like the Englishman Bernard Randolph, who lived in Greece in 1671–1679, assessed the population of the Morea at the time at 120,000, of which one quarter Muslim and the rest Christian. This is commensurate with the attested demographic decline across the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century, and the demands made by the Ottoman government on the peninsula's resources during the long Cretan War.

Under Corner's oversight, a committee of three senators (Jeronimo Renier, Domenico Gritti, Marino Michiel) was sent to the Morea to reorganize the provincial administration, revive local authorities, compile a cadaster and settle land disputes. The peninsula was divided into four provinces:
 Romania, in the northeastern Peloponnese, with capital at Nauplia (Napoli di Romania), and the districts of Argos, Corinth, Tripoli, and Hagios Petros in Tsakonia
 Laconia, in the southeast, with capital at Monemvasia (Malvasia), and the districts of Mystras, Vordonia, Kelefa, Passavas and Zarnata
 Messenia, in the southwest, with capital at Navarino, and the districts of Modon, Coron, Androusa, Kalamata, Leontari, Karytaina, Fanari, Kyparissia and Navarino
 Achaia, in the northwest, with capital at Patras, and the districts of Vostitsa, Kalavryta, Gastouni and Patras

Each province and district was headed by a provveditore, who combined civil and military authority, and was aided by a rector (rettore) in charge of justice and a chamberlain (camerlingo) in charge of financial affairs. To the "Kingdom of the Morea" was also joined the administration of the islands of Kythera (Cerigo) and Antikythera (Cerigotto), off the southeastern coast of the Peloponnese, which had been in Venetian hands since 1204.

List of the provveditori generali of the Morea
The formal title of the Venetian governor-general of the Morea was Provveditore generale delle Armi ("Superintendent-general of the Arms"), with his seat in Nauplia. In the first period after the conquest, he was assisted by two provveditori extraordinary. The provveditori generali appointed during the duration of the Kingdom of the Morea are known through their relazioni, the reports they submitted to the Venetian government on their deeds. These were:
 Giacomo Corner (1688–1690)
 Tadeo Gradenigo, provveditore estraordinario (1690–1692)
 Antonio Molin, provveditore estraordinario (1692–1693)
 Marin Michiel (1694–1695)
 Agostino Sagredo (1695–1697)
 Paolo Nani (1697)
 Francesco Grimani (1698–1701)
 Giacomo da Mosto (1701–1703)
 Antonio Nani (1703–1705)
 Angelo Emo (1705–1708)
 Marco Loredan (1708–1711)
 Antonio Loredan (1711–1714)
 Alessandro Bon (1714–1715)

Economic and social development

To restore the province, settlers were encouraged to immigrate from the other Greek lands with the lure of considerable land grants, chiefly from Attica but also from other parts of Central Greece, especially the areas that suffered during the war. 2,000 Cretans, and also Catholic Chians, Venetian citizens from the Ionian Islands and even some Bulgarians answered this call. In addition, mention is made of 1,317 Muslim families that remained behind, converted to Christianity and were given lands or enterprises as concessions. As a result of these policies, the population recovered rapidly: apart from Mani, the Venetian registers record 97,118 inhabitants in 1691, 116,000 a year later and 176,844 by 1700. Due to the relative privileges granted the urban population, the period was also marked by an influx of the agrarian population to the cities.

The Venetians engaged in a concerted effort to revive and improve the country's agriculture and commerce. Thus the settler families were given 60 stremmata each, while the elders of the local communities were allocated 100; new grape cultures were introduced from France and Italy and import tax was levied on foreign wine, laying the foundations for the revival of viticulture and the raisin trade with Western Europe; measures were taken to develop forestry; and the indigenous silk industry was promoted. Trade links established both with the rest of Ottoman Greece as well as with the North African coast, which exported the Morea's main produce, raisins, cereals, cotton, olive oil, leather, silk and wax. As a result, the annual revenue from the province rose steadily, from 61,681 reales in 1684/85 to 274,207 in 1691 and 500,501 in 1710, of which about three-fifths were spent in the Morea itself. By way of comparison, the total tax revenue due to the Ottoman government from the province before 1684 is estimated at 1,699,000 reales.

Due to the extensive influx of migrants, the Venetian period was marked by intense social mobility. Although in general both the original inhabitants and the new settlers remained in the social class to which they had belonged originally, the policies of the Venetian authorities with their continual land grants to their supporters—including the hereditary quasi-fiefs known as conteas ("countships")—coupled with the economic upturn, brought about the emergence, for the first time after the disbandment of the Christian sipahis of the Peloponnese in the early 1570s, of a new affluent class of merchants and land-holders, many of whom were from Athens, Chios and the Ionian islands. According to the Greek historian Apostolos Vakalopoulos, here lies the origin of the oligarchy of the kodjabashis, who dominated the peninsula's affairs from the late 18th century until the Greek War of Independence. By contrast, for the mass of the peasants, both natives and immigrants, the situation progressively worsened; whether due to debts, transgressions of officials, the exactions of corvée or the increasing scarcity of land, many peasants, especially those who had migrated from Central Greece, chose to flee to the Ottoman-held territories across the Gulf of Corinth. They were welcomed by the Ottoman authorities, while the Venetian authorities were forced to institute military patrols to stop them. This demonstrates a deepening gulf in Moreot society: when the Turks returned in 1715, the bulk of the population remained unaffected, and only the better-off such as the contea possessors actively supported Venice, and in many cases abandoned the peninsula for Italy following the Venetian defeat.

The depredations and turmoil of the war and its aftermath also brought about a rise in banditry across the country. To combat it, the Venetian authorities raised a provincial gendarmerie, the meidani, but also armed the villagers and formed local militias, echoing the armatolik system of the Ottomans. Despite their successes in this regard, the Venetians, like the Turks before and after them, were unable to completely eradicate banditry, since the Maniots and other mountain dwellers, secure in their inaccessible strongholds, continued to defy Venetian law and raid the lowlands.

Church affairs
The Venetians left the local Greek Orthodox Church largely to its own devices to avoid alienating the population, but regarded it with distrust due to its dependency on the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople, under the close supervision of the Sultan. The Venetians tried to limit the Patriarch's influence, reducing the revenue he received from the province and insisting that the Moreot bishops be elected by their dioceses and not appointed by the Patriarch, but they largely failed to sever the ties of the local Orthodox Church (whose de facto leader at the time became the Metropolitan of Patras) with the Patriarchate.

The Venetians showed more vigour in their efforts to re-establish the Catholic Church in the country, with conversions of mosques to Catholic churches as well as the construction of new ones, and the establishment of monks from various religious orders across the peninsula. Among the most notable events was the foundation of a Mechitarist Armenian monastery in Modon in 1708, which after 1715 was transferred to San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice. The centre of the Catholic Church in the Morea was the Latin Archbishopric of Corinth.

Security

Despite the Treaty of Karlowitz, the Ottomans were unreconciled to the loss of the Morea, and already in 1702 there were rumours of impending war, with troops and supplies sent to the Ottoman provinces adjoining the Morea. The Republic was well aware of the Ottoman intentions, and from the beginning of its rule in the Morea, its officials toured the fortresses to ascertain their state and their capacity to resist. However, the Venetians' position was hampered by problems of supplies and morale, as well as the extreme lack of troops available: even while the war was ongoing, in 1690, the Venetian forces in southern Greece numbered only 4,683 men, both mercenaries from Western Europe and local Greeks (recruited along the lines of the Venetian cernide system); while in 1702, the garrison at Corinth, which covered the main invasion route from the mainland, numbered only 2,045 infantry and barely a thousand cavalry. Although a detailed survey in 1698 found serious deficiencies in all the fortresses of the Morea, little seems to have been done to address them. Almost the only major work undertaken by the Venetians during their rule in the Morea was the new citadel for Nauplia, on the height of Palamidi overlooking the city, whose construction began under the supervision of Morosini during the Morean War. In the event, however, the defences of the city held out only for a few days against the determined Ottoman attacks in 1715.

Ottoman reconquest

Following their victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1710–1711, and citing various Venetian transgressions against Ottoman shipping as an excuse, the Ottomans declared war on 9 December 1714. A large army, reportedly 70,000 men under the command of Grand Vizier Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, left Constantinople for the Morea, which it entered in late June. The Venetian forces, barely 5,000 strong under the provveditore generale Alessandro Bon and the captain-general Geronimo Delphino, were scattered among the various fortresses and unable to impede the Ottoman advance. The Acrocorinth citadel, the key to the peninsula, surrendered after only five days of bombardment, followed by the capitulation of Aegina and Argos. The Ottomans then proceeded to Nauplia, which was captured and ransacked after the fortress of Palamidi was stormed on 20 July. Its fall sealed the fate of the Morea, as the local inhabitants (except the Maniots) swiftly declared their allegiance to the Ottomans. The Venetians abandoned Navarino and Coron, hoping to hold out in Modon, but the rebellion of the Greek and mercenary soldiers allowed the Ottomans to take possession of the fortress with ease. With the capture of the Castle of the Morea on 16 August and the surrender of Monemvasia on 7 September and Kythera, the occupation of the "Kingdom of the Morea" was complete.

Kythera returned to Venetian rule in 1718, with the Treaty of Passarowitz, but the Morea remained under Ottoman control for another century, until the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

References

Sources

Further reading

 Mario Infelise – Anastasia Stouraiti (a cura di), Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del '600 (Milano: Franco Angeli, 2005)

Ottoman Greece
Morea
Morea
States and territories established in 1688
States and territories disestablished in 1715
History of the Peloponnese
1688 establishments in the Republic of Venice
1715 disestablishments in the Republic of Venice
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DROP accounts have been blamed for worsening the fund. It could go bankrupt in a decade if it's not fixed.
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Other stories this morning:
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Back to Church Sunday
3000 Churches sent out the invite: Do Come Back!
On Sunday 21 September 44 parishes in the Wellington Diocese, joined 3000 churches around New Zealand, Britain and Canada in Back to Church Sunday. This movement began in 2004 in the Anglican Diocese of Manchester, UK, with 160 churches involved and has expanded exponentially until last year when 1900 churches were involved and 20,000 people came 'Back to Church'. The initiative focuses on the 20% of the population who once came to church, but for a variety of reasons no longer do. They may have got out of the habit, shifted town, had a major life-change or been hurt by something that once occurred. These are the open de-churched; those who once came, would be happy to return, but just need a catalyst to make that happen.
In New Zealand 44 parishes of 61 in the Wellington Anglican Diocese were involved. This included Anglican churches in the geographical area from Wanganui to the Wairarapa and down to Wellington. Next year all Anglican Dioceses in New Zealand will be involved along with members of the Baptist Church
In year five of the programme in the UK, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, the United Reform Church, and Elim Pentecostal churches will be taking part along with churches in Canada. In 2009 churches in Australia will also be involved.
For members of the congregations the project is about relationships and hospitality. They were encouraged to choose someone they know who used to come to church, invite them to come, collect them on the Sunday and simply 'bring them back'.
Research by the Diocese of Lichfield after last year's Back to Church Sunday suggested that 6,000 people came back to church on that day and that, six months later, between 700 and 900 (12-15 per cent) had become regular members. About a further 3,000 are still in touch with their inviting churches and may have come at Christmas or to a social event.
The Archdeacon for Mission for the Wellington Diocese, Tony Gerritsen, reports that parishes have averaged just over 20 people per ministry unit coming back. Parishes have valued the resource material sent from the UK, but all say that the personal invitations were the great success card.
Anecdotes to date are great and the Wellington Diocese used the 4 months prior to the event as a chance to do a full WOF check of each parish from the quality of worship to the state of the toilets and the existance of websites and welcome packs. It's been a wonderful success, says Archdeacon Gerritsen with a high level of enthusiasm for next year. It occurred on 13 September a time preferred by most as it's the beginning of Spring and a quieter time in the church calendar.
Back to Church Sunday – a world wide success and VERY simple to implement with great Kingdom gains and success
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Below is the link to the UK Back 2 Church website:
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iOS Systemwide Ad Tracking
With iOS 10 Apple is changing the way that the "Limit Ad Tracking" setting works in Settings > Privacy > Advertising, and it seems to be causing a mini storm in a teacup among the adtech world.
According to "privacy thought-leader" Alan Chapell: "The net effect is Apple is enabling iOS10 users to effectively opt out of advertising."
Is this the case? Short answer, No. Long answer, lets jump back to 2011...
Every iOS device has whats called a UDID (Unique Device Identifier), which is a static string of characters, unique to your device, and cannot be changed. With the UDID, your device could be recognised between different applications, allowing advertisers & analytic services that developers use to build a profile of you to serve you more personalised adverts based on your behaviour and the apps you use.
In iOS 5, access to the UDID was deprecated. This means while it was still available, Apple was giving advanced warning that this would eventually be revoked.
When iOS 6 got announced, it came with a new API specifically for advertisers to use and give more control to the end-users. This was called IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers). This worked in a similar way to UDID, only instead of having a static ID per device, users could opt to reset the IDFA at any time or "Limit Ad Tracking" where a developer has to agree that their app honours this setting while submitting an app.
Changes in iOS 10
So in iOS 10, the functionality of "Limit Ad Tracking" is changing. Previously, turning it on would randomise your IDFA to a new string and set a flag that you have requested to limit tracking. As this new string was static until you have requested to reset it or disable "Limit Ad Tracking", it could still be used to track you, but Apple believed that developers & advertisers would follow its rules and ignore it for behavioural purposes. I doubt many app developers checked the code of their advertisers of choice to see if they conformed to "Limit Ad Tracking" when including their SDK, and I have no doubts that many abused this or simply not understood it.
In iOS 10, when you enable "Limit Ad Tracking", it now returns a string of zeroes. So for the estimated 15-20% of people who enable this feature, they will all have the same IDFA instead of unique ones. This makes the IDFA pretty much useless when "Limit Ad Tracking" is on, which is a bonus, as this is what users will expect when they enable the feature. These users will still be served ads, but its more likely they will not be targeted to them based on their behaviour.
If you want to test the IDFA functionality, I made an example project for iOS which you can test in the iOS 9 & 10 simulators to test the differences, and the Apple API documents for this are hosted here.
I personally think this is a great change for iOS, although personally I would prefer this option to be presented to the user during on boarding, enabled by default, or no longer hidden under several menu layers. My main concern however from the editorial was this quote in particular:
"The issues I see with this change is that it breaks legitimate advertising models, forces companies to use more intrusive tracking methods and doesn't necessarily improve user privacy."
— Mark Chapell
For advertisers, they should notice minimal differences assuming that they are honouring the "Limit Ad Tracking" preference. This quote seems to suggest that some(most?) advertisers are not honouring this option and their business models rely on 100% behavioural tracking. Losing the 15-20% of people who opt-out breaks their advertising model forcing them they try more "intrusive" methods to profile you. This further proves that the advertising industry cannot be trusted to self-regulate itself when it comes to honouring user privacy and is one of the many catalysts that turn people to adblock tools, such as Crystal, for their privacy needs.
I'll end with this quote from this article on Digital Content Next by Chris Pedigo:
"Do consumers have a right to opt out of advertising? – it should be painfully obvious by now that consumers are already opting out of advertising. Instead of throwing stones at groups and companies trying to address the underlying consumer need, perhaps Chapell and the ad tech lobby could work on giving consumers an easier and more robust way to express their preferences."
— Chris Pedigo, DCN
In opinion Tags advertising, adtech, crystal, adblock, content blocker, privacy, iOS 9, iOS 10, IDFA, limit ad tracking
Why are people using ad blockers on mobile?
I released Crystal last Wednesday, a content blocker for iOS 9 that blocks advertising and user tracking in mobile Safari. Since then, It's had an amazing response and hit the top of the App Store charts in 30 countries within a short amount of time. Other content blockers have also stormed the charts worldwide proving there is a huge demand at the moment for these apps.
But why? Well, I held a short survey to people signed up to Crystal's launch newsletter and visitors of the Crystal website, that received over 800 replies. (raw results here)
Why Do you want to block Mobile Ads?
A Loss of Focus
This question was to pick the most important reason why you would like to block mobile advertising.
Visual clutter and site load times make up 64% of the poll. They compliment each other perfectly as the more advertising you add to a web page, the more cluttered it becomes, the slower it takes to load and ultimately it'll cause more frustration to the reader.
I've seen a lot of websites cram so many different ad networks together, which often don't compliment each other and take a strong focus away from the content of the site. Here is a great example from pcmag.com. Any point they tried to make with their article was discredited before the reader has got past the headline.
Privacy concerns makes up a strong 22%. Honouring browser options such as Do Not Track may be beneficial to rebuild the trust between a subset of users and the sites they visit.
Given the option, how would you like to support your favourite ad-supported sites?
*Allow ads that meet a quality criteria.
Not All Readers Want to Block Ads
When surveying people who wanted to install an adblocker, this was the most surprising result to me.
71% of people who are blocking ads are not actually against advertising in general and are more than happy to allow advertising that meets an acceptable criteria or whitelist a site by site basis. My first planned update to Crystal plans to cater for this majority by introducing a feature to allow Acceptable Ads and a user-managed whitelist. You can read more about that here.
22% however are willing to pay money to support sites, either to remove advertising or to receive extra content. If you're a publisher, would it be worth losing advert clicks/impressions for ~20% of your readers in exchange for $1-5 a month per user?
6.5% of the voters don't want to support their favourite sites with adviews or money.
In marketing, opinion Tags crystal, stats, advert, advertising, adtech, block, adblock
On Acceptable Ads.
Update: You can also listen to a discussion I had about Crystal on the Rampant Mumblings podcast here (Ep 42&43).
There has been a lot of confusion and mis-reporting going on today regarding Crystal allowing advertising. I'm hoping this post will clarify the information.
What Will Be Changing?
In my first update (6-10 weeks time?) there will be two new features. A user managed whitelist, where you the user can specify a list of domains that you would like to support and an option to enable/disable Acceptable Ads on the websites you visit.
You are totally free to use all/any/none of these features as you see fit.
What Are Acceptable Ads?
Acceptable Ads is an initiative, supported by 3 of my favourite websites (Reddit, DuckDuckGo, Stack Exchange), that encourages and promotes the use of better advertising on the web. They have 5 rules for publishers and advertisers to stick to:
Acceptable Ads are not annoying.
Acceptable Ads do not disrupt or distort the page content we're trying to read.
Acceptable Ads are transparent with us about being an ad.
Acceptable Ads are effective without shouting at us.
Acceptable Ads are appropriate to the site that we are on.
Why do you need to partner with Eyeo?
Honestly? As a single developer, it would be impossible for me to manage the workload required to make sure publishers conform to any strict standard. Eyeo however has the experience & infrastructure in place, the data of acceptable ads that meet a criteria, the support staff to assist with reviews (all done through open forum) and the necessary business relationships within the industry.
Why are you forcing this on everyone?
Firstly - This will not be forced on anyone. It will be an entirely optional feature that will be described and presented clearly within the app before it is activated and that you can turn on/off at will. It will not be silently/secretly pushed out to everyone. I will to make sure that everyone is fully aware of how this feature works before it's enabled.
Secondly - by blocking all advertising with brute-force, it doesn't promote a healthy mobile web that is sustainable and allows publishers to make a living from the free content they provide. By including the option for a user-managed whitelist and Acceptable Ads, I'm hoping to empower users to be able to support the mobile web in any way they see fit.
Thirdly - In the long term, I'm hoping this convinces advertising agencies and publishers to reassess the kind of advertising they are using and bring them inline to a either the Acceptable Ads (or similar) criteria.
But nobody wants to see ads online...
I ran a short survey during the launch period of Crystal, the full results are coming in a post in a few hours, but one of the statistics from it is over 50% of people are happy to support sites by allowing ads that meet an acceptable criteria, around 20% favour a user-managed whitelist. These are the users this update will be catered for. Don't like the features? - No problem, you can choose not to enable them, they will be entirely optional.
Are companies paying you to be whitelisted?
No, but I do get a fee from Eyeo which will allow me to implement, maintain & support the features of Crystal in the long term.
Can companies pay to be on the whitelist?
I have no involvement with the whitelist directly - however Around 90% of websites on the Eyeo Acceptable Ads whitelist do not pay a fee to be included, only the absolute largest companies pay for inclusion, assuming they meet the criteria of course. In turn, this allows for better ads that meets the criteria to be displayed. What they are paying for is the service of whitelisting and the additional value it creates for them, but what they're doing is allowing it to be free for the majority and thereby encouraging better adverts to spread.
Here is a copy/paste from Eyeo's FAQ which describes in more detail their business model in regards to whitelisting:
What is the process for being whitelisted?
To be whitelisted, a website or advertiser must apply. At that point we collaborate with them to bring their ads in line with the criteria of our Acceptable Ads initiative. After that, we send the proposed ads to our 27,000-plus community for 7 – 10 days for an open discussion. If members of the community raise legitimate objections about proposed ads, we go back to the drawing board with the website or advertiser. If nothing comes up we whitelist the ads after the time period discussed above. All whitelisted sites are available here.
Why do some companies pay to be whitelisted and others do not?
Whitelisting is free for all small websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. That's why we are being paid by some larger properties that serve nonintrusive advertisements that want to participate in the Acceptable Ads initiative.
Absolutely not. Anyone and everyone can apply to be whitelisted. Whether they are or not depends solely on the content of their advertisements, i.e., whether they conform to our unambiguous Acceptable Ads criteria. However, after approval, some larger properties that serve nonintrusive advertisements pay.
I encourage you, if you have any comments or concerns or would like to discuss this, feel free to drop me an email.
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2014 Macbook Pro - First Impressions
For nearly 6 years my late 2008 MacBook has served me well.
Recently it has started showing its age in terms of performance and stability. It's no surprise, as it has had heavy use of photo editing, music recording, application development, graphic design, countless hours of movies, music and netflix streamed over many years... It needs a break!
I've decided to upgrade to the baseline Mid-2014 13" Macbook Pro with Retina Display (such a mouthful!). I won't do a full on review, as that has been done better and more in-depth elsewhere. What I will offer though is some first impressions on the differences I've noticed compared to 6 year old predecessor.
Speed: Everything is just so fast and responsive. I previously fitted an SSD into my old machine, which brought the boot time to around 25 seconds. This new MacBook turns on from a cold boot in under 10 seconds. Great for when I just want to get to work!
Sound: Well, there isn't any. The fan is whisper quiet thanks to the asymmetrical blades. Even under a few matches in Team Fortress 2, it didn't make much audible noise.
Sight: I have a love/hate relationship with the Retina Display. The amount of detail shown is incredible. The typography looks beautiful, icons shine, and Yosemite renders everything perfectly. However, after switching back to my old MacBook, everything on the screen looks slightly fuzzy due to the lower resolution. The Retina Display is amazing when you are using it, and sucky when you're not.
That's all I wanted to touch on in this post, although I will give a last minute mention to the weight, dimensions & battery life, it feels light but sturdy and apparently can last for around 9 hours on a single charge which I have yet to test but have no doubts it will.
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Thoughts on Punch Quest's F2P 'Failure'
Punch Quest is a well polished, retro-styled sidescroller-survival-adventure-punch'em'up. It has been featured by Apple and currently holds an average of 5 stars in iTunes with over 700 reviews, 97/100 on metacritic and has accumulated over 600,000 downloads... Why is it failing to make a financial return?
In Statistics, marketing, Apps, opinion Tags f2p, jetpack, joyride, freemium, ipad, farmville, punch quest, iphone
"Virgin TV Anywhere has been officially unveiled by the UK cable TV provider, billed as a cloud-based entertainment service for Virgin Media subscribers to watch TV and movies on computers, tablets and smartphones. And this clearly positions it alongside BSkyB's online offering."
— The Next Web: http://tnw.to/bgGe
As much as I love Virgin Media's services, it does seem like they are always playing catchup to BSkyB.
Its good to see all the major content providers within the UK offering cloud services to stream on-demand.
At the moment this is only for iOS, I can only assume this would be rolled out across more devices in the future.
Source: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/virgin-tv-...
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Live hangout with the Corona Geeks
During this special episode of Corona Geek we hangout with Dean Murphy, developer of the Joke Shake app for iPhone and iPad. Dean shares his Corona experience as someone who is new to programming entirely. Dean also shares some of the lessons he had to learn the hard way.
I was invited by the Corona Geek's to join their Google Hangout to talk about my experiences with Corona. I had a great time appearing in my first live hangout, and there were some interesting topics covered. Check it out!
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Source: http://coronageek.com/867/corona-geek-hang...
In Statistics, Apps, opinion Tags dropbox, google, corona, android, hangout, ipad, iphone, corona sdk, amazon, kindle
Microsoft & Google rumoured to be interested UK mobile spectrum?
"Both Google and Microsoft have expressed an "extreme interest" in currently unused white space spectrum in the UK, according to The Telegraph. A senior government source speaking to the publication says that both companies see the spectrum as "very, very important.""
— http://vrge.co/SsLn2F
Would be great to see a technology company in charge of some of the UK spectrum, after EE's poor attempt at offering LTE.
Google have outlined with their Fiber project that they want to promote an affordable and usable service to promoting media streaming, which would translate well to UK mobile 4G use.
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/5/3602608/...
In opinion Tags uk, google, technology, spectrum, 4g, ofcom, EE, lte, microsoft, mobile
Rams' ten principles of "good design"
After doing some research on good design practices for both user-interface and user-experience, I found Dieter Rams' Ten Principles of "Good Design" on Wikipedia, and thought I would share.
In opinion Tags good design, dieter rams, app store, iphon, apple, wikipedia, design
iOS 6 Smart App Banners
A Smart App Banner is a little known new feature built into iOS 6 Safari that makes it easy for webmasters to add a banner at the top of your website when viewed on an iPhone or iPad on iOS 6.
In marketing, opinion Tags app store, ios6, marketing, iphone 5, ios 6, apple, promotion, ipad, iphone, smart, banners, smart banners


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Dominic Cooper is an English actor well-known for playing a number of notable film roles such as Dakin in 2006's The History Boys, Howard Stark in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger and Latif Yahia/Uday Hussein in 2011's The Devil's Double, for which he received his first Saturn Award nomination.
He was born to Julie and Brian Cooper. He began a romantic relationship with his Mamma Mia! co-star Amanda Seyfried in 2008. The relationship ended in 2010.
In 2014, he was one of the celebrities and public figures who signed an open letter pleading with Scotland to vote against independence during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
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I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it. Dominic Cooper
I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now. Dominic Cooper
I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay. Dominic Cooper
The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly. Dominic Cooper
You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me. Dominic Cooper
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3,800-year-old baby in a jar unearthed in Israel
Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a 3,800-year-old jar that contains something surprising — the skeleton of a baby.
Though such infant burials are not so uncommon, it's a mystery why the infants were buried in this way, said Yoav Arbel, an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist who was part of the team that found the jar.
"You might go to the practical thing and say that the bodies were so fragile, [maybe] they felt the need to protect it from the environment, even though it is dead," Arbel told Live Science. "But there's always the interpretation that the jar is almost like a womb, so basically the idea is to return [the] baby back into Mother Earth, or into the symbolic protection of his mother."
Related: Photos: A walk through Israel's Old Jaffa
The 4,000-year-old city of Jaffa, where the jar was found, is the older part of Tel Aviv, the second most populated city in Israel after Jerusalem. It was one of the earliest port cities in the world, and has been almost continuously occupied since about 900 B.C., Arbel said
"We're talking about a city that was ruled by a lot of different people," Arbel said. "Let's say that a lot of flags flew from its mast before Israel's flag of today."
Despite how strange the baby burial seems to modern eyes, it's not an unusual find for the region.
"There are different periods when people buried infants in jars in Israel," Arbel said. "The Bronze Age all the way to less than 100 years ago."
The finds were detailed in the 100th issue of the journal Atiqot, which includes more than 50 other studies on archaeology from Jaffa.
A roof tile with a bear stamp found in Jaffa. (Image credit: Clara Amit/Israel Antiquities Authority)
A stone with a cross discovered in a Persian period cemetery located in Jaffa. (Image credit: Amir Gorzalczany/Israel Antiquities Authority)
An early Byzantine period mosaic written in Greek from Jaffa saying, in essence, "That's life!" (Image credit: Nicky Davidov/Israel Antiquities Authority)
Because Jaffa has been almost continuously used for four millennia, the other finds described in the journal span the Hellenistic, Crusader and Ottoman periods. For instance, at another site, Arbel and his team found a big rubbish pit brimming with pieces of imported amphorae (ceramic vessels) dating to the Hellenistic period, from the fourth to the first centuries B.C. These roughly 2,300-year-old amphorae, which were used to hold wine, were crafted on various Greek Aegean Islands such as Rhodes and Kos, Arbel said. This one pit provides more evidence that trade routes between Jaffa and Greece were robust, Arbel said.
Archaeologists also found: 30 coins dating to the Hellenistic, Crusader (12th–13th centuries), late Ottoman (late 18th–early 20th centuries) and British Mandate (1942) periods; the remains of at least two horses and pottery dating to the Ottoman Empire; 95 glass vessel fragments from Roman and Crusader times; and 232 seashells, including those from the Mediterranean Sea, land snails and three mother-of-pearl buttons.
There's also the witty, ancient Greek mosaic discovered near a A.D. fourth- or fifth-century necropolis, saying "Be of good courage, all who are buried here. This is it!"
In essence, it means "this is life!" and that death is everyone's shared destiny, said Zvi Greenhut, head of the publication department at the IAA, told Live Science.
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Earlier this year Andrew Proud, who runs septic tank cleaning firm Aqua Rod, installed three large containers in a field on a property he had bought in the hamlet of Carn near Stithians.
Back in August Mr Proud told Cornwall Live that despite fears from residents that he was planning to open a sewage treatment plan, his plan was to take the human waste from septic tanks emptied by his company and store it for use as fertiliser to be injected into his own fields.
However, the tank installation was performed without planning permission and included the building of an access road so lorries containing human waste could transfer it to the tanks. Retrospective planning permission has been now applied for, but residents say the application raises some questions.
One such neighbour, David Stafford, is sceptical, saying that the amount of human waste will far exceed that needed for the size of the land.
He said: "How is such a volume of human waste (the tanks contain about 36,000 gallons) going to be used on just 35 acres which also plans to have cattle, pigs, horses and other livestock, thereby reducing the land area available to fertilise?
People living nearby also claim that there will be increased traffic on an already dangerous and narrow access road and complain there are revolting smells when the lorries unload human waste.
Stithians Parish Council has rejected the application in part, due to the dangerous junction.
The planning application states that the farm is to be used in connection with Mr Proud's business and plans to have three vehicles dealing with septic waste.
Residents are concerned that this will become a small industrial estate rather than a traditional farm, thereby increasing the risk to the primary school.
Mr Proud previously told Cornwall Live that he did not need planning permission for the tanks and had a certificate of exemption to store the septic tank waste on the farm before it was used to fertilize the fields.
He added that his family had been granted an exemption by the Environment Agency that allowed them to store septic tank sludge at the farm, and they were allowed to inject it into the ground to increase the nutrients in the soil.
He said the process would be closely monitored, including the agency taking soil samples from the farm.
Mr Proud also said that septic tank sludge was lower in nitrates than other fertilisers and, as a result, preferable in nitrate-vulnerable zones.
Mr Proud has been contacted by Cornwall Live to see whether or not he wishes to issue an updated comment.


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Give us an archbishop of candour and charm
William Taylor
Whoever replaces Rowan Williams will need to be brave… as long as he's not an a mission
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams. Photograph: Nick Cunard / Rex Features
Sat 22 Sep 2012 19.06 EDT
What sort of man – for man it will be – does the church need at the see of Canterbury to succeed Rowan Williams?
He should be learned but with a populist touch; a man of prayer as well as a man of action; a sensitive pastor with a hide of leather; a good manager but also a visionary leader with a servant heart; decisive yet subtle; a poet, a prelate, a star performer. In other words, he needs to be "a realised impossibility" as George Bernard Shaw said of William Temple when he was appointed to the job in 1942.
One thing we know is this. He will be a currently serving bishop. This makes it easy for editors to assemble the longlist of candidates and for punters to get the odds. To be honest, they look a dreary lot. But maybe that's also a prerequisite for high office nowadays.
Two names will be selected to go forward to the prime minister and one of them, in due course, will be the 105th archbishop. Whoever gets it, I hope he wants it. He will have my support. But actually, will it make much difference to my life as a parish priest in Hackney?
The thing about the Church of England is that it has a big bottom. It really exists in parishes and gatherings of the faithful in communities up and down the country. Our deliberative assemblies are slow-moving, consensual and largely operate on the principle of subsidiarity. You can see the wheels of decision-making turning. This can make us ridiculous to the outsider, but also resistant to the blandishments of head office.
Clergy are very wary of a bishop with a strategic plan, let alone an archbishop on a goddamn mission. One reason that the London diocese has flourished in recent years, so research tells us, is its culture of benign support for a range of diverse initiatives on the ground. Another reason is the growth in the number of black Christians in our pews. My parish, like most in this part of London, has members drawn from most of the Caribbean islands as well as West African countries. They were raised as Anglicans and are loyal servants of the church.
Through travelling parishioners, I have exchanged stoles (a vestment) with a Ghanaian bishop as well as a Jamaican archdeacon. Although I rarely leave my small patch of east London I feel part of a global communion.
How does an archbishop hold these two together, the local and the global? With difficulty. Over the last 10 years, these relationships have been strained through theological differences over homosexuality and it is a disagreement that is not going to disappear quickly. It seems to represent too much.
But my hope is this: that the Church of England recognises how beneath this network of global relationships lies a pattern of colonial expansion and economic exploitation, a pattern that is replicated still today. A number of my parishioners find it hard to make mass on Sunday because they are too busy cleaning the offices of the financiers of the City of London.
Can we talk about capitalism? Will we allow our new archbishop to speak of its barbaric heart? Will he have a disruptive candour as well as an easy charm? Maybe a couple of the candidates might. I hope they make it to the shortlist.


All Shall Be Well (And All Shall Be Well And All Manner Of Things Shall Be Well) possibly have the longest name in Post-rock and the debut album they released, ROODBLAUW is possibly one of the best in 2011. What is amazing about this release is not only are the 5 tracks amazing, but the CD is packaged in this DVD sized booklet, they really spent a lot of time and energy on this and the end product is stunning. So to the music, 5 tracks clocking in at just under 41minutes. the longest track is nearly 13 minutes long. From the opening ambient tones of the first track to the last track which has some psychedelic moments, it really is an album that you should have in your collection. They have the album for name your price on Bandcamp, you can't ask for better than that I guess. Go download and enjoy this great band.
All Shall Be Well are an instrumental indie band from Haarlem, the Netherlands. They build on themes, thresh out their melodies and look for unsuspected harmonies. Their music is highly associative; they liken their music to stories rather than songs.
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Boxcar Theatre has become known for taking on bold projects, whether it's staging several Sam Shepard plays in repertory with different directors and different stage configurations, or simply turning the movie Clue into a play with a staging reminiscent of the board game. Some of those have backfired: its production of Little Shop of Horrors last year got shut down because of substantial unauthorized alterations. But it's interesting that Boxcar's latest production seems to be keeping a very low profile, wit a press release sent out only a week before it opened.


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The relay has two different types of electrical contacts inside – normally open (NO) and normally closed (NC). The one you use will depend on whether you want the 5V signal to turn the switch on or turn the switch off. The 120-240V supply current enters the relay at the common (C) terminal in both configurations. To use the normally open contacts, use the NO terminal. To use the normally closed contacts, use the NC terminal.


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Detective Stephen Mullen dies of 9/11-related cancer
Detective Stephen Mullen (Credit: Suffolk County Police Department)
Detective Stephen Mullen, who responded to Ground Zero after two hijacked airliners were flown into the World Trade Center, has died from cancer which was caused by toxic particles. He was 55 years old.
Mullen was as a police officer when two passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, causing both towers to collapse. He volunteered to respond and spent two days in Lower Manhattan.
This summer, Mullen was diagnosed with salivary cancer which later spread to his brain, according to the Suffolk County Police Department, which said the illness was linked to his time spent at Ground Zero. He died on Friday.
"The effects of the September 11 attacks are still being felt by first responders," Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said on Tuesday. "Detective Stephen Mullen responded to Lower Manhattan to assist in the aftermath and he made the ultimate sacrifice."
When the World Trade Center collapsed, it spread toxic dust and debris across Lower Manhattan, causing health problems for thousands of people who were in the area at the time.
As many as 10,000 people have reportedly fallen ill as a result of their exposure to toxic particles, and the number of deaths is likely in the hundreds. Experts believe that the death toll will continue to rise over the next few years.
Mullen spent his entire career in the First Precinct and was honored 25 times. He responded to numerous incidents, including a small plane crash near Republic Airport in East Farmingdale, where Mullen and his fellow officers worked for 45 minutes to free two people who were trapped in the wreckage.
"He's a good guy, a great detective and a true family man," said Detective Thomas Bosco, who responded to the plane crash with Mullen. "You knew you could always count on him. We always worked together as a team, as a unit. He will be missed."
Mullen is survived by his wife, Patricia, and two sons.
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Jewelers for Children, the industry organization of jewelry retailers, manufacturers, watch companies and trade associations, is the leading private supporter of the National CASA Association and its member programs. Through its Champions for Abused Children initiative, JFC has significantly advanced National CASA's vision of providing a CASA volunteer for every abused and neglected child who needs one. The initiative also provides opportunities for jewelry industry members to volunteer to help children.
In 2014, Jewelers for Children continues its eleven year partnership with National CASA with a $600,000 contribution in support of abused and neglected children throughout the country. This generous gift is passed through to local CASA programs across the country to support the Champions for Abused Children grant initiative.
Eighteen local CASA volunteers and the Honorable Judge Sullivan walked and cycled in the early morning hours of May 30th to participate in the Jewelers for Children First Annual Rings of Strength Tour. JFC was founded with a mission to help children in need and they donate to programs that benefit children whose lives have been affected by illness, abuse and neglect.


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October 18, 2007 was an average day for Cheri Griffin until she received a phone call that would change her life forever. It was the phone call of her nightmares.
"It was the hospital," Cheri said. "They told me Clifton had been in an automobile accident and it wasn't good. He wasn't expected to make it through the night."
Clifton, Cheri's husband of 12 years, had been driving down a dirt road at 45 mph, "gassing out" with his co-worker Carl, when he hit some gravel, overcorrected and flipped. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt.
"He had to have a craniotomy," she said. "He had a collapsed lung, his head was busted open on the right side and his right eye [fell out.]"
"The doctors said he was Humpty Dumpty put on the wall… they didn't think they could put him back together again. That was how they explained it."
Armed with her twin sons William and Taylor, 11, and toddler Blaine, Cheri camped out at the hospital for three weeks with family and friends. Every day the doctors told her she had no hope. One doctor even compared Clifton to a cat or dog, saying "he'd walk but never talk." But Cheri didn't believe him.
"There was a time when my sister said to me, 'You've got to make a decision,'" Cheri said. "With the shock of it all, I never thought about him dying."
Cheri decided to put Clifton on a feeding tube.
"Whenever they did the feeding tube that day, it was like he was awake. He was there," she remembered. "I said, 'Clifton, can you point your finger?' And he did it.
"There were different points throughout where they gave us no hope … but every day he would do something that would give us hope."
Clifton's slow recovery has been a long road, Cheri said. The once 6 foot 4, 250 lb. high school football player is now learning to feed himself again, count to 100 and recite his ABCs.
"I can spell words and he'll tell me what I'm spelling," Cheri said. "The other day he said, 'Thank you Cheri.' It was so clear. I was so excited I could understand what he said."
That was what she had been praying for, she explained.
Though she's received an overwhelming amount of support from her family and church, LifeBridge in Longview, Cheri decided to turn to someone on the outside to help talk through some of the challenges she and her boys were now facing without their dad. She turned to Buckner.
Beth Darrow-Myers, a licensed therapist at Buckner Children and Family Services in Longview, spends 45 minutes with William and Taylor every week.
"We talk about their dad," she said. "They were all big hunters and fisherman. They spent a lot of time outdoors together. So we try to remember the good things about dad and talk about those memories."
Since their dad's accident, the twins have had some trouble with school. They used to think counseling was "dumb," but now "they love coming," Cheri said. "They don't want to miss."
Beth also spends about 15 minutes in each session speaking directly with Cheri, who now has the full-time responsibility of caring for all three boys and her husband.
"She's there for me," Cheri said. "She brings me in and says, 'Let's talk.' It's nice having somebody on the outside to talk to."
About three months before Clifton's accident, he approached Cheri about creating a living will.
"He told me, 'I just want to make sure you and the boys are taken care of,'" she said. "I was so mad about it then. We had never talked like that, about any of that, before. And then three months later, here we went. So that is something I've had to deal with."
Cheri continues to stand by Clifton's side, visiting him everyday and fervently praying for his full recovery. She hopes to move him out of the nursing home where he now resides and into a rehab facility in Tyler before the fall.
"They told me he would be a vegetable," she said. "But I never believed it. I don't know if it's just that I didn't want to believe it or I didn't believe it. But I just couldn't imagine not having Clifton with us.
"The doctor told me we would need a miracle," she continued. "So I told him, 'We're in the miracle receiving business.' He just looked at me and smiled."
Since Clifton's accident, Cheri has been overwhelmed with the support of family and friends in her community. Neighbors and Clifton's co-workers have helped Cheri raise money to pay for medical expenses and bills. And at Christmas, she received dozens of Christmas cards and phone calls from people she had never even met.
"I never imagined the outpouring of love and support that we have received," she said.
"[Clifton's recovery] is a miracle. It's been a rough time, but then again, you can't get down about it. We're so blessed. I know it sounds crazy, but it's been an awesome journey. Every day you wake up and you seek the Lord and He answers your prayers.
"He shows us everyday that He's with us."
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Delawareans react to President Obama's executive order on gun control
Zoë Read
In this Jan. 16, 2013 file photo, assault weapons and hand guns are seen for sale (Seth Perlman/AP File Photo)
Delaware residents are responding to President Barack Obama's executive order on gun control, announced Tuesday, which outlines regulations that attempt to decrease firearm deaths in the U.S.
Several Delawareans say they're skeptical that tighter laws will stop gun violence, but many say more needs to be done to stop the death of innocent lives.
"It's not long overdue, but it's very welcome," said Jeffrey Lott, spokesman for the Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence. "We think the President is doing the right thing in a situation where he can't get legislation through Congress."
Under the executive order anyone selling firearms, including at gun shows and over the internet, must get a license and conduct background checks, or be subject to criminal prosecutions. Dealers also will be required to report lost or stolen guns immediately.
Background checks will be expanded, and more staff members will be hired to make the application process faster and more efficient. Two hundred ATF agents and investigators also will be hired to ensure laws are being enforced.
Obama also promises to provide more help to those suffering mental illness by expanding mental health treatment. He also said there will be improvements to gun safety technology to prevent gun-related accidents.
"Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost brothers and sisters, or buried their own children. Many have had to learn to live with a disability, or learned to live without the love of their life," Obama said in his announcement.
"In Dr. King's words, we need to feel the 'fierce urgency of now.' Because people are dying. And the constant excuses for inaction no longer do, no longer suffice."
Between 2000 and 2010, 332,014 individuals died from guns in the U.S, according to the Center for Disease Control. In 2013, the CDC reported 33,636 firearm deaths—that same year, there were 100 firearm deaths in Delaware. Every year, the number of deaths from homicide, domestic violence, accidents, mass shootings and suicide remain just as high.
"Delaware has just as high a rate of gun violence as the rest of the country, and when you have a country that has 30,000 deaths a year we think it's an urgent issue and an urgent problem and it's not just Delaware's problem—it's the whole country's problem," Lott said.
In response to a request for an interview, Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn sent a statement of his support of tight gun control.
"I have not seen the details of the President's proposal, but I am generally very supportive of thorough and efficient background checks for gun purchases," he said.
"There are still far too many guns in the hands of people who should not have them in our state, and although thorough background checks are not a total solution to that problem, they are an important part of the solution."
Mark Derrickson of M & L Gun Shop in Dagsboro said the executive order might make for more nuisance paperwork, but is in favor of common sense gun laws.
"I think common sense laws, as long as they are not restrictive to the second amendment, are fine," he said.
"If they help prevent some of these people going out committing these heinous crimes and getting them off the street I think it's okay."
However, Derrickson said he doesn't believe the executive order will stop all criminals from getting their hands on guns.
"Most dealers out here, gun shop owners, are legitimate, forthright individuals, they're not going to jeopardize their license to sell a gun to an individual who's not qualified to have it," he said.
"You're always going to have people who pass a background check, and we have no choice but to sell it to them if that's the case. Everyone wants to blame the gun shop owners but laws aren't going to change anything."
Carl Pace of Trinity Tactical gun shop and training center in Middletown also said he believes additional gun control isn't going to deter crime, and said the executive order won't change anything in Delaware.
"Our Governor already put in legislation that took care of the gun show loop hole and made sure that anybody purchasing firearms in Delaware was doing it through a federal firearms dealer."
However, Pace said what's more concerning to gun sellers and owners is that the executive order might be the first step to tighter restrictions that would affect law abiding gun owners—such as the removal of semi-automatic firearms.
"An order of this magnitude would put restrictions on law abiding citizens, and criminals will always have a firearm, so you're only ever restricting the good person, and the semi-automatic firearm is not responsible for crime, it's the individual behind the crime," he said.
Lott said there needs to be a cultural shift in the U.S. that changes the way citizens view guns before gun violence can dramatically decrease.
"There are 300 million guns already in circulation in the United States—that's more than one for every person in the country," he said.
"We're a country where gun possession is legal, its constitutional, yet we have to figure out how to make our culture safer, our community safer and our families safer, and that's going to take a lot of work and it's not going to happen by an executive order or a single act of Congress."
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Home/Mortgage/1st Alliance tries to get Conn. Meet the deadline for deciding on LO licensing
1st Alliance tries to get Conn. Meet the deadline for deciding on LO licensing
Michael 4 days ago
1st Alliance Lending, which closed in 2019 due to an unresolved regulatory dispute with Connecticut, added a new legal complaint on Tuesday to the broader range of litigation previously filed.
The new complaint, filed with the Connecticut Supreme Court, aims to enforce a short-term ruling on allegations that were first made in 2018. It seeks to enforce a statutory deadline stating that the final decisions will be taken 90 days after the end of the taking of evidence or the due date for filing pleadings, whichever is later. "
Connecticut announced last week that it would extend a January 18 deadline – set in line with the 90-day decision-making rule – for an additional three months, based on an executive order that allows such extensions if so due to Pandemic is deemed necessary. There were several other delays in the process, but this was the first request to postpone this specific deadline based on the October 19th filing due date.
The 1st Alliance's action on Tuesday challenged claims that there was a valid reason for the delay.
"Executive Order 7M limits the extension of the" Regulatory Administrative Deadlines "to situations in which such extensions" are reasonably necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic or its effects ". The Commissioner's regulation does not disclose any facts or circumstances to support an extension of 90 days as necessary to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic or its effects. Rather, the Order only states that the extension was "requested by the hearing officer," said 1st Alliance in its new complaint.
In a statement responding to the complaint, Connecticut's banking division said it "continued to work seriously to find a solution," but confirmed that complications related to the COVID-19 outbreak had delayed work.
"Given the size of the documents under review and the unprecedented challenges posed by a global pandemic, the Department has used the authority granted under the Governor's Executive Order 7M to allow an extension to take its decision," it says in the declaration. "This brief extension will ensure that the hearing officer can evaluate the numerous exhibits, documents and testimonials on this case to enable a fair and informed decision on the matter."
The original, unresolved complaint against 1st Alliance addresses the issue of when licensed loan officers need to be involved in raising mortgages through the consumer direct channel. 1st Alliance has deemed the practices general and compliant, but Connecticut regulators called the company's actions outrageous, claiming they used support staff to handle licensable activities in lieu of licensed loan officers.
The dispute between 1st Alliance and its regulator was of more concern to the industry as the evolution of digital mortgage lending has changed the role of loan officers in ways that the original licensing terms may not have foreseen.
So far, other states or regulators have not taken any apparent steps to make similar allegations. Last year, the 1st Alliance principals started a new Massachusetts-based company called Phoenix Home Lending.
1st Alliance continues to pursue a separate legal lawsuit alleging that Connecticut's handling of its licensing status in connection with its unresolved complaint was inadequate and impacted other state licenses that resulted in the company's closure.
A Connecticut Supreme Court judge upheld Connecticut's decision to revoke the 1st Alliance's license in this case, but 1st Alliance has appealed the decision. Connecticut's response on this is pending.
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#include "OVR_Timer.h"
#include "OVR_Log.h"

#if defined (OVR_OS_WIN32)
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>
#include <MMSystem.h>
#elif defined(OVR_OS_ANDROID)
#include <time.h>
#include <android/log.h>

#else
#include <sys/time.h>
#endif

namespace OVR {

// For recorded data playback
bool   Timer::useFakeSeconds  = false;
double Timer::FakeSeconds     = 0;

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// *** Timer - Platform Independent functions

// Returns global high-resolution application timer in seconds.
double Timer::GetSeconds()
{
	if(useFakeSeconds)
		return FakeSeconds;

    return double(Timer::GetTicksNanos()) * 0.000000001;
}

#if !defined(OVR_OS_WIN32)

// Unused on OSs other then Win32.
void Timer::initializeTimerSystem()
{
}
void Timer::shutdownTimerSystem()
{
}

#endif

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// *** Android Specific Timer

#if defined(OVR_OS_ANDROID)

uint64_t Timer::GetTicksNanos()
{
    if (useFakeSeconds)
        return (uint64_t) (FakeSeconds * NanosPerSecond);

    // Choreographer vsync timestamp is based on.
    struct timespec tp;
    const int       status = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &tp);

    if (status != 0)
    {
        OVR_DEBUG_LOG(("clock_gettime status=%i", status ));
    }
    const uint64_t result = (uint64_t)tp.tv_sec * (uint64_t)(1000 * 1000 * 1000) + uint64_t(tp.tv_nsec);
    return result;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// *** Win32 Specific Timer

#elif defined (OVR_OS_WIN32)

// This helper class implements high-resolution wrapper that combines timeGetTime() output
// with QueryPerformanceCounter.  timeGetTime() is lower precision but drives the high bits,
// as it's tied to the system clock.
struct PerformanceTimer
{
    PerformanceTimer()
        : OldMMTimeMs(0), MMTimeWrapCounter(0), PrefFrequency(0),
          LastResultNanos(0), PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos(0)
    { }

    enum {
        MMTimerResolutionNanos = 1000000
    };

    void    Initialize();
    void    Shutdown();

    uint64_t  GetTimeNanos();

    UINT64 getFrequency()
    {
        if (PrefFrequency == 0)
        {
            LARGE_INTEGER freq;
            QueryPerformanceFrequency(&freq);
            PrefFrequency = freq.QuadPart;
        }
        return PrefFrequency;
    }

	bool            UsingVista;

    CRITICAL_SECTION TimeCS;
    // timeGetTime() support with wrap.
    uint32_t        OldMMTimeMs;
    uint32_t        MMTimeWrapCounter;
    // Cached performance frequency result.
    uint64_t        PrefFrequency;

    // Computed as (perfCounterNanos - ticksCounterNanos) initially,
    // and used to adjust timing.
    uint64_t        PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos;
    // Last returned value in nanoseconds, to ensure we don't back-step in time.
    uint64_t        LastResultNanos;
};

PerformanceTimer Win32_PerfTimer;

void PerformanceTimer::Initialize()
{

    MMRESULT mmr = timeBeginPeriod(1);
    OVR_ASSERT(TIMERR_NOERROR == mmr);
    OVR_UNUSED(mmr);

    InitializeCriticalSection(&TimeCS);
    MMTimeWrapCounter = 0;
    getFrequency();

	// Set Vista flag.  On Vista, we can just use QPC() without all the extra work
	UsingVista = false;
	OSVERSIONINFOA vi;
	vi.dwOSVersionInfoSize = sizeof(vi);
	if (GetVersionExA(&vi))
	{
		UsingVista = vi.dwMajorVersion >= 6;
	}

	OVR_DEBUG_LOG(("Performance timer Vista flag = %d", (int)UsingVista));
}

void PerformanceTimer::Shutdown()
{
    DeleteCriticalSection(&TimeCS);

    MMRESULT mmr = timeEndPeriod(1);
    OVR_ASSERT(TIMERR_NOERROR == mmr);
    OVR_UNUSED(mmr);
}

uint64_t PerformanceTimer::GetTimeNanos()
{
    uint64_t        resultNanos;
    LARGE_INTEGER   li;

	// If on Vista,
	if (UsingVista)
	{
		// Then we can use QPC() directly without all that extra work
		QueryPerformanceCounter(&li);

		uint64_t  frequency = getFrequency();
		uint64_t  perfCounterSeconds = (uint64_t)li.QuadPart / frequency;
		uint64_t  perfRemainderNanos = (((uint64_t)li.QuadPart - perfCounterSeconds * frequency) *
									  Timer::NanosPerSecond) / frequency;
		resultNanos = perfCounterSeconds * Timer::NanosPerSecond + perfRemainderNanos;
	}
	else
	{

    // On Win32 QueryPerformanceFrequency is unreliable due to SMP and
    // performance levels, so use this logic to detect wrapping and track
    // high bits.
    ::EnterCriticalSection(&TimeCS);

    // Get raw value and perf counter "At the same time".
    QueryPerformanceCounter(&li);
    DWORD mmTimeMs = timeGetTime();
    if (OldMMTimeMs > mmTimeMs)
        MMTimeWrapCounter++;
    OldMMTimeMs = mmTimeMs;

    // Normalize to nanoseconds.
    uint64_t  frequency          = getFrequency();
    uint64_t  perfCounterSeconds = uint64_t(li.QuadPart) / frequency;
    uint64_t  perfRemainderNanos = ( (uint64_t(li.QuadPart) - perfCounterSeconds * frequency) *
                                   Timer::NanosPerSecond ) / frequency;
    uint64_t  perfCounterNanos   = perfCounterSeconds * Timer::NanosPerSecond + perfRemainderNanos;

    uint64_t  mmCounterNanos     = ((uint64_t(MMTimeWrapCounter) << 32) | mmTimeMs) * 1000000;
    if (PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos == 0)
        PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos = perfCounterNanos - mmCounterNanos;

    // Compute result before snapping.
    //
    // On first call, this evaluates to:
    //          resultNanos = mmCounterNanos.
    // Next call, assuming no wrap:
    //          resultNanos = prev_mmCounterNanos + (perfCounterNanos - prev_perfCounterNanos).
    // After wrap, this would be:
    //          resultNanos = snapped(prev_mmCounterNanos +/- 1ms) + (perfCounterNanos - prev_perfCounterNanos).
    //
    resultNanos = perfCounterNanos - PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos;

    // Snap the range so that resultNanos never moves further apart then its target resolution.
    // It's better to allow more slack on the high side as timeGetTime() may be updated at sporadically
    // larger then 1 ms intervals even when 1 ms resolution is requested.
    if (resultNanos > (mmCounterNanos + MMTimerResolutionNanos*2))
    {
        resultNanos = mmCounterNanos + MMTimerResolutionNanos*2;
        if (resultNanos < LastResultNanos)
            resultNanos = LastResultNanos;
        PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos = perfCounterNanos - resultNanos;
    }
    else if (resultNanos < (mmCounterNanos - MMTimerResolutionNanos))
    {
        resultNanos = mmCounterNanos - MMTimerResolutionNanos;
        if (resultNanos < LastResultNanos)
            resultNanos = LastResultNanos;
        PerfMinusTicksDeltaNanos = perfCounterNanos - resultNanos;
    }

    LastResultNanos = resultNanos;
    ::LeaveCriticalSection(&TimeCS);
	}

	//Tom's addition, to keep precision
	//static uint64_t    initial_time = 0;
	//if (!initial_time) initial_time = resultNanos;
	//resultNanos -= initial_time;
	// FIXME: This cannot be used for cross-process timestamps

    return resultNanos;
}

// Delegate to PerformanceTimer.
uint64_t Timer::GetTicksNanos()
{
    if (useFakeSeconds)
        return (uint64_t) (FakeSeconds * NanosPerSecond);

    return Win32_PerfTimer.GetTimeNanos();
}
void Timer::initializeTimerSystem()
{
    Win32_PerfTimer.Initialize();

}
void Timer::shutdownTimerSystem()
{
    Win32_PerfTimer.Shutdown();
}

#else   // !OVR_OS_WIN32 && !OVR_OS_ANDROID

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// *** Standard OS Timer

uint64_t Timer::GetTicksNanos()
{
    if (useFakeSeconds)
        return (uint64_t) (FakeSeconds * NanosPerSecond);

    // TODO: prefer rdtsc when available?
	uint64_t result;

    // Return microseconds.
    struct timeval tv;

    gettimeofday(&tv, 0);

    result = (uint64_t)tv.tv_sec * 1000000;
    result += tv.tv_usec;

    return result * 1000;
}

#endif  // OS-specific

} // OVR

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