The Sovereign, All-Knowing, All-Loving, All-Wise, All-Powerful, and All-Everything Being we worship as God, chose a family identity to set up His Kingdom instead of any of the other choices available to Him. By God choosing to reveal Himself to us in this mode, He declared an important truth; family relationships are extremely important and central to His will!
In one of my seminary classes, I came across the "desert island principle." Briefly, this concept means to read the Bible as if you are reading if for the very first time without any other preconceived considerations. Ima gine you were born on an island with no access to anything other than what was in your own little world of sand and coconuts. One day a book washes ashore, it is the Bible in your native language, and you read it for the very first time.
As you read this book what would you discover? How would your life be influenced by the stories and examples you encounter on the pages of Scripture? What would your theology look like as you finished it? While no one can possibly know all of the answers to these questions, some things are pretty much a slam-dunk. One would certainly understand that there is a Creator and that He (not she or it) is actively involved in the lives of His creation. Page after page God reveals Himself in the stories of the characters in the Book. God is not pictured as some far off deity, but an active participant in the affairs of creation. As the story unfolded and just when it seems hopeless for the humans yet again, God steps in with the ultimate revelation of Himself, Jesus Christ! We would also know that the ending is very good for those that are His.
What would also be clear is that the Bible is family oriented and based on relationships. In the Old Testament God worked with family groups, and in the New, He continued to work in families and expanded the concept to include a relational grouping called the Church. This inspired Book reveals thousands of names of real life people and their family connections. As the story moves along in time from creation to Revelation, God described His followers as being adopted into a family, having brothers and sisters everywhere, and the family model continues to stay central until heaven, when everything ends (or really begins!) with a wedding feast!
The current philosophy of ministry that permeates the modern Church is not one that would be discovered using desert island theology. What would be found is a family-centric mode of living with the emphasis of true Christianity being displayed in interpersonal relationships at all levels, and especially in the family. God cares very deeply for family relationships and this is the pattern revealed in Scripture.
If I am even remotely on target with what I have written so far, then the implications are huge. As families continue to spiral into destruction, the Church and Her influence hangs in the balance. If we hope to stem this tide of destruction then some changes at the root level of our understanding will have to take place. Changes do not come easily, but if we refuse to even attempt them, then we will continue to walk down the path to failure. It seems to me, that we let what we cannot do, which is to change everything, hinder what we can do, which is to change something.
Part of the changes that I am recommending, is that we would begin to reverse the degradation and distain for fatherhood, and replace this with a more Biblical view. After decades of attack from radical feminism, it is almost to the place of embarrassment to express a simple Biblical principle of the husband being the head of the family. To agree with Scripture, that clearly reveals God in the male gender and man as the head of woman as Christ is the head of the Church, raises eyebrows in some, and even temper in others.
Since God came up with the idea of family He must have the perfect order intended, and as is His history with the human race, He has revealed His will clearly enough to be obeyed. The revealed truth in the pages of our Scriptures point to male leadership and responsibility for the marriage and family. Men are required by God to lead their homes, and this lost teaching lies at the heart of the problem we are facing in our world today. The Church of Jesus Christ needs men that will lead their families, love their wives like Christ loved the church, and invest in the next generation. Anything short of this is not what we find in the Scripture.
Pastors need to model, teach, and encourage the men to step up and resist the mode being forced on them by our culture. We, as men, need to reengage in our families and churches and cast off apathy. We must resist the label placed on us as unimportant extras, and step into God's view of us and our job in the home, extremely important! We must look at our priorities and be willing to ruthlessly evaluate what we are doing and why. What really is important in the grand, godly scheme of things? How do we fit in as men, fathers, and grandfathers? What is our responsibility, and even a more probing question, how are those under our leadership and authority doing? These questions must be pondered and answered if we are to begin to change the direction of our family, church, cities and nation.
We cannot do everything but we all can do something. We must begin somewhere and we must start now. Pray, read the Scripture, and begin to implement what you find there. Find some other men to walk with, and begin to talk to your spouse about what is stirring in your soul. Seek the Lord first and all these other things will begin to fall into place. Rise up man of God, your wife, family and church are waiting!


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Jan 5th 2012 12:45AM
Following the previous day's skyrocket-in-flight performance, the nearly flat ending yesterday may seem less than thrilling.
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Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) +21.04 12,418.42 0.17%
S&P +0.24 1,277.30 0.02%
Nasdaq (INDEX: ^INIX) -0.36 2,648.36 (0.01%)
Of course, where the markets ended doesn't tell us where they began. The markets quickly dropped lower in early trading, with the Nasdaq trading down as much as 0.8% in the early morning. It was a slow and steady climb that brought all three indices nearer to their market open.
The markets seemed to shake off lingering concerns about the eurozone implosion, even as the euro dropped against the dollar. This seems unusual, since not long ago a weakening euro was likely to drag things down on this side of the pond. Jim Paulsen, CIO at Wells Capital Management, thinks it can be considered a "delinking" of our economy to Europe's woes. There is good reason to agree with him. The 50-day correlation between S&P e-mini futures and the euro dropped to 0.22, the lowest level since mid-September. This could be a sign that investors are increasingly confident about the state of the U.S. economy and less concerned (or just exhausted with) the European one.
Ultimately, the rise from the early morning drop was also buoyed by strong retailing data and a report of increased car sales. A trade group for malls reported that sales climbed 5.3% last week.
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Just because the day was flat, that doesn't mean there weren't any big winners. Recent market dunce Netflix (NAS: NFLX) rewarded shareholders with a more than 11% rise amid news that streaming members watched more than 2 billion hours of TV shows and movies in the fourth quarter of 2011. That's quite a positive from a company that's only seemed to stream bad news lately. There were also rumors that Yahoo! may be an interested buyer.
Shares of Ford (NYS: F) also rose a respectable 1.5% after it was reported that its sales rose 11% in 2011. The company seems to be benefiting from its experience of yore as strong demand for trucks and SUVs was the big story. Standouts were its Explorer and Escape SUVs, as well as the Ranger pickup. The company sold 2.1 million vehicles last year, the first time it has sold more than 2 million vehicles since 2007.
A few bright spots couldn't hide the dark cloud that officially formed, as The Wall Street Journal reported that Eastman Kodak (NYS: EK) is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The news hit the stock in the gut and sent shares plunging some 30%. The company has struggled to sell patents to generate enough cash to stay afloat. Interestingly enough, a bankruptcy may be just the thing its patent sales need.
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On the event of his centenary, this exhibition across both our galleries, celebrates the career of leading modern British painter, Sir Terry Frost (1915–2003), bringing together paintings, collages and sculptural forms from public and private collections across the UK. Looking at Frost's work through ideas of performance, construction and colour, the exhibition takes a fresh perspective on his practice over six decades. It spans chronologically from his arrival in St Ives in the early 1950s, to then moving to Leeds, followed by teaching in Coventry and California as well as the Universities of Newcastle and Reading and finally his return to Cornwall in the 1970s, setting up a home and studio in Newlyn till his death in 2003.
Living in St Ives during the 1950s, Frost was part of a close circle of emerging British modernists working with abstraction, including Roger Hilton, Patrick Heron, Peter Lanyon and Bryan Wynter. The exhibition will highlight key paintings and collages from Terry Frost's formative periods working in Cornwall and Yorkshire, including paintings from his breakthrough Walk Along the Quay series, begun in 1950. These tall, thin canvases are evocative of the seaside town of St Ives. In contrast are the large-scale paintings such as Blue Winter 1956 and Orange and Black, Leeds 1957, painted in response to the Yorkshire Dales, after his move to Leeds. These works are presented at The Exchange.
After discovering acrylic paint while teaching in California in the 1960s, Frost became increasingly interested in colour as a presence or character in itself. Looped and heaped weights of colour seemingly bulge from his canvases, sometimes becoming three-dimensional in his collages or sculpture. In 1970 Frost developed a range of 'soft sculptures' including stacks, spirals and loops, made from painted canvas tubes filled with polystyrene balls. Suspending these arcing forms from the walls and ceiling, or bundling them together, he sought to bring out colour in all its intensity without hard structure or flat surface – as a brushstroke in space. The exhibition will feature a re-commissioned series of these little-known, strikingly contemporary three-dimensional works. These works are presented at Newlyn Art Gallery. The lower gallery will feature Green Below, one of the last works made by Frost. It will be accompanied by striking prints that Frost made with Hugh Stoneman from 1992 onwards.
Terry Frost, 1915-2003, Green Below 2003. Private collection. © The estate of Sir Terry Frost. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015
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Terry Frost, 1915-2003, Autumn Rings Andeuze, September 1971, 1983. The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire (Usher Gallery, Lincoln). © The estate of Sir Terry Frost. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015
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At the conclusion of the Sabbath the rabbis ordained an additional short service to mark the end of the holy Sabbath and the beginning of the weekday. I have always been emotionally affected by this service. It is the genius of Judaism to be able to differentiate between the holy and the mundane, between what is special and unique, and what is essentially ordinary and usual. In fact, it was always the ability of Judaism and the Jewish people to draw distinct lines between the sacred and the profane, between being a holy nation and just another minority people on the face of the planet.
It is reported that when the great Rabbi Meir Shapiro of Lublin visited the United States in the 1920s and then returned to Europe, when asked what his opinion of American Jews was, he profoundly stated: "They know how to make kiddush, but they do not know how to make havdalah."
By this, he correctly foretold how assimilation and Americanization would lead to a demographic disaster and the loss of Jewish identity amongst American Jews in the future. We have all unfortunately lived to see that making kiddush is insufficient to guarantee Jewish continuity. Rather, it is the ability to recognize and make havdalah that is the key to a Jewish future and Jewish generations.
Retaining Jewish identity always requires the ability to draw lines of differentiation between Jewish values, knowledge, and practice, and those of general society, its ideals and milieu. That has always been the key point in understanding the miracle of the survival of the Jewish people throughout the ages.
The havdalah service itself consist of four blessings. One is over a cup of wine or other special beverage. The second is regarding the fragrance of spices, flowers, or other plants. The third is over a two wicked flame and finally, the fourth blessing is the one that differentiates between the Sabbath and weekdays. The blessing over the wine is a traditional way to introduce any service of importance: as the sanctification of the Sabbath itself, the holidays, a wedding ceremony, circumcision, or the redemption of the firstborn son.
In the ancient world, and in our world as well, wine occupies a place of honor and special significance. It is, perhaps, the oldest agricultural product that humans created – certainly from the time of Noah – that has always been valued. By making a blessing on wine we are indicating that the service itself is one of importance. It is not to be treated lightly or in an offhand fashion. The Torah always emphasizes that what can be treated as mundane and everyday can really be unique and important, and deserving of honor and special treatment.
The end of the Sabbath and the beginning of the workweek is such a special time. It moves us from one realm of spirit and behavior to another. To help us realize this, it is the blessing over the wine that alerts us to this change by impressing upon us the importance of the occasion, and the significance of the service itself.
The blessing over spices was enacted because when the holy Sabbath departs from us, our soul skips a beat, so to speak. The spices serve to strengthen our soul, just as smelling salts serve to strengthen our bodies when we feel inexplicably weak. Spice boxes have long been the province of Jewish artistry and creativity. There are literally thousands of different types of spice boxes that Jews have used for this service over the centuries. It is the fragrance that reminds us, once again. of the sweet serenity of the Sabbath day itself, and that in another six days there will be another Sabbath. The fragrance of the Sabbath past lingers with us and supports us during our workday week, and during our more mundane activities. It also lends a sense of drama and importance to the occasion.
Finally, the last blessing is the one that emphasizes the differences that exist in our world, as it marks the separation between light and dark, between sacred and ordinary, and between the Jewish people and the rest of humanity. By recognizing these differences, one gains the appreciation of the necessity to separate the seventh day of the week from the other six and reinforces the message of the Sabbath even as it departs from us.
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Mission #58 America's Next Top...Mama!
This morning I poured orange juice into a Popsicle tray and stuck it in the freezer. Let me say that again: I poured orange juice into a Popsicle tray and stuck it in the freezer. When I presented the frozen treat to my daughter, she looked at me all wide-eyed, happy and grateful and said, "You are the best mom, EVER."
Such minimal effort, such maximum punch.
And if only parenting worked like this all the time, right?
If everyone shares a tiny tidbit in the comment section, we'll have amassed a wonderful pool of ideas to swap in no time.
p.s. want to make sure you all saw the new "2011 Overture," which as you know was a major collaborative effort. We posted it Thursday and here it is again.


Garden Photo of the Day: This is not a dogwood!
This is not a dogwood!
It never fails. Every year in February a local television anchor will say, "I saw a dogwood in bloom yesterday. They are really early this year." I'm not the type who actually calls the station to correct the error. I just talk back to the TV.
"That's not a dogwood," I'll say with irritation. "You do this every year. Dogwoods don't bloom in February - ever!" It's normally (but what's normal anymore?) the beginning of April when first the white Cornus florida, our native dogwood, blooms. The pink-flowering ones are generally a week or so later. However, there are years when both open at the same time, and everything, including the most commonly planted azaleas will bloom all at once. But, it sure isn't in February.
What the on-air personalities are seeing this time of year are deciduous flowering magnolias from Asia. Depending on the species, they are usually of two types. The first to bloom are the star magnolias (M. stellata), which are likely the ones mistaken for dogwoods. Then, the tulip, or saucer, magnolias begin to open. The latter come in different shades of white, pink, deep pink, purple and burgundy. The early blooming ones are generally pink. They are also the ones that get hit hard by a freezing spell. We'll have a couple of weeks of warm weather in February, and the tulip shaped blossoms open. All of a sudden, the temperature will dip down into the twenties, and the delicate flowers turn to brown mush. Oftentimes, you'll see big trees that have suffered thusly.
The above flowering branch belongs to Rhoda Ingram of Griffin, Georgia, who decades ago began collecting deciduous magnolias. These particular blooms are on a grand specimen on the edge of her park-like front lawn. Rhoda wasn't sure of the exact species of this tree, as its blossoms match neither M. x soulangiana or Magnolia denudata. Whatever its identity, it was one of the most beautiful flowering trees I've ever seen.
There is a yard not far from where I live that has both the stellata and the x soulangiana. Both are white. I'll have to check the next time I ride by if they blooms were hurt in the freeze over the weekend.
In the meantime, if you hear someone on television say that the dogwoods are blooming early this year, you'll know the truth. These are not dogwoods. We'll have to wait another month and a half for those.


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Why I Drink; Bradley Cooper Thinks He's a Director Now
By Cindy Davis | Industry | March 25, 2015 |
It's probably too early in the morning for a drink, but if there was ever a reason to start at the crack of dawn, this is it. But first, a little backstory…you like stories, don't you?
Up until 2014, Clint Eastwood was attached to direct the third remake of A Star Is Born (last redone in 1976 with Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson), with Beyonce in the lead as an aspiring star who's helped on her road to fame by an older, established male icon (at one time, Russell Crowe was attached), whose own career is in decline. That in itself was a pretty terrible idea; this being the third retread of a story so exciting, it's been floating around back rooms since 2010. In 2012, Beyonce dropped out (reportedly because of her pregnancy — that child is now 2 years old), and Eastwood moved on. Who knows, maybe when they worked together on American Sniper Clint gave Coop a little career advice? All of a sudden the Star Is Born project may be alive again.
Riddle me this, Bat-persons: If you were head of Warner Bros., and an Academy Award winning director of (by my count) thirty-four films left a movie, would you replace him with a first-timer? I'm certain just like in most businesses, Hollywood is all about who you know, but this seems a little extreme, unless…someone really wants to see Cooper tank?
Now, for the cherry atop your spiked float, of course Cooper wants to play the male lead himself, and of course he'll try to get Beyonce interested again; he'll also produce with his partner, Todd Phillips (presumably, he won't run craft service).
No, it's not April 1st. No, you didn't get knocked over the head. Yes, this is really happening. Please grab your favorite libation — don't bother with a glass — and join me in a toast to Bradley Cooper, conquerer of Hollywood. I have no idea how he fucking did it, but good on him. (I'm still Team Jake.)
Cindy Davis, (Twitter)
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An Istanbul teacher of religious culture and moral knowledge has recently woken up from a months-long coma with multiple fractures as a result of a workplace accident.
But he was not at school at the time of the accident as he is among tens of thousands of people who had earlier been dismissed from their jobs under the government's post-coup emergency rule. Instead he was working as a construction laborer.
"He was fired like many of us. He found a job at a construction site. He fell from the seventh floor of the building," a widely shared tweet reported on the incident late in September.
According to other related posts, he worked as a religious culture and moral knowledge teacher at a college in Istanbul's Merter neighborhood until he was removed from his position by government decree.
He reportedly moved to the Black Sea province of Samsun to be employed at a construction site.
Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 that killed over 240 people and wounded more than a thousand others. Immediately after the putsch, the government along with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pinned the blame on the Gülen movement. The movement strongly denies any involvement in the coup attempt.
In line with a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of the foiled coup, Turkey sacked some 41,500 from the Education Ministry alone, most of whom were teachers, over their alleged links to the movement or the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Overall, more than 105,000 have been removed from state positions, over 74,000 detained and 35,000 arrested mostly due to alleged links with the coup and the Gülen movement. Arrestees include journalists, judges, prosecutors, police and military officers, academics, governors, housewives and even a comedian.


Pimpim is a young girl with supernatural powers who sets off to explore the world. Craft your own magic abilities, explore a huge captivating world and discover the secret behind the rebuilding of the universe.
As you take on the role of Pimpim – a teenager living on an isolated island with her adoptive grandfather. You work as a waitress during the day in a unique inn and by night, you look into the sky and wonder about your unknown future. Supernatural powers flow in your blood which allows you to control some forces of the nature.
Despite the fact that your grandfather doesn't allow it, you decide to leave on your own for a long journey to discover The Grand Continent, searching for answers about your past. Eventually you reach the Capital City of Lancis and join the Guild of The Explorers on the advice of The Countess. One of the goals of this community is to retrieve artefacts from the past scattered everywhere because of the ever changing world, in order to preserve and keep track of their History. Working with the Guild is the perfect opportunity for you to bring together your desire to discover the world and to search for your origins. As time will pass, the connection between you and the Countess will evolve into a mother-daughter relationship, until you discover the true reasons behind the Guild expeditions.
Within Little Legend you can create your own magic abilities and companions. To do so you have to explore the 2D dreamlike open world and fight in fast-paced action. You will also discover a character-driven story with relevant narrative choices. You are a master crafter so you can sell items in your own shop. And here comes the best part, fly and talk with creatures as a magic weasel.
How fun is the fact that nothing compels you to follow the main quest to explore the world? You can freely wander around at your own pace in the game. In the City, you can interact with people, find useful information or make purchases, if necessary. You will always need to remain wary as the Expeditions to the outside world don't always look alike. Levels in Little Legend aren't of high difficulty so that everybody can enjoy the experience. Several paths can be taken to reach the same spot but the shortest can also be the hardest ones.
Artefacts and specific abilities are required to progress forward in the levels. Magic abilities with multiple effects allow you to explore the environment and also to defend yourself against various threats. You will often encounter aggressive enemies on The Grand Continent. Either avoid them or defend yourself using your magic abilities. Nevertheless, magic abilities are not weapons, there is no reason to battle with any kind of creature inhabiting The Grand Continent. Find a way to incapacitate your opponents by using the correct magic abilities in the proper way. Once controlled, the enemy becomes passive and ignores you.
The unique power of Pimpim is to turn into a Magic Weasel. This power allows you to fly, to get through narrow pathways and to communicate with the other living beings. However, in that form you will be much weaker and the smallest attack can be fatal. Fortunately, you can use your defensive magic abilities to get by. Your flying ability is only possible outdoors and it helps you to move faster. The further you progress, the longer your ability to fly will last.
In your weasel form you can talk to animals and even sometimes to the plants. By using Magicraft you can summon companions. In other words, give life to stone, water and even vegetation after having gathered the required resources. Only at night that you can pitch your Magic Tent. And in the Tent you can save the game, summon companions and regenerate yourself if you have some food. If you get some sleep, you will end up on the next day, but if you rest in a bed in town, some highly appreciated extra temporary bonuses might be granted.
Little Legend is a beautiful and one of a kind adventure for the free soul. You can explore to your heart's extent. The mesmerising scenery will leave a great impression as well. Either as Pimpim or a little weasel you have to be weary of your surroundings at all time and expect everything. Find the story of your past and discover who you really are.


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Evaluates the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP), developed by the City University of New York. ASAP is a comprehensive and long-term program designed to address low graduation rates among students enrolled in associate's degree programs. This study is a randomized controlled trial on the effects of ASAP on low-income students with developmental (remedial) education needs at CUNY.
A 'smooth return to college'
LaGuardia Community College is creating an Office of Credit for Prior Learning, a first for the college and for the City University of New York system. The idea is to give working adults, especially those returning to college, credits for work experience and accomplishments outside the classroom so they can earn degrees in less time.
With stressed-out students in challenging times, faculty must embrace caring practices
These days more professors take a more caring approach to teaching—a compassionate response to the collective trauma driven by the COVID pandemic and other challenges facing today's college students That became clear to me a few months ago when I gave a talk on the benefits of active learning to more than 75 New York University faculty.
Helping Black, Latinx, and Limited-Income Students at High-Performing iPASS Colleges: An Exploration of Support Practices
The Community College Research Center's latest research on Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) considers promising practices for supporting Black, Latinx, and limited-income learners.
SUNY campuses to expand mental health and wellness services
Campuses at the State University of New York will use $24 million in federal funding to expand mental health and wellness programs as the COVID-19 pandemic has strained resources and placed a spotlight on the issue.
Rethinking community college supports for single moms
When single moms are college students, complications and barriers abound. The risk is great as they try to raise children, provide financially, and succeed as a student. But if they earn a degree, so is the reward. Four community colleges are working to make that happen as part of a project that provides extra support specifically tailored to the challenges parent learners encounter.
Child care funding to expand programs at public college campuses in New York
New York is set to spend more than $15 million to expand child care programs at campuses of the State University of New York and City University of New York in order to provide more options to faculty, staff and students.
Intensive advising program sees early success at New York two-year college
A student success program focusing on intensive academic and financial support increased full-time enrollment, persistence and credit attainment at Westchester Community College, mimicking the success of a similar program started by the City University of New York.
A new lifeline for the unseen: Homeless college students
Two privately funded pilot programs are covering the rent for City University of New York students who face housing insecurity.
Formerly incarcerated men now pursuing higher education find community at Harlem's Ignacio House
Since 2019, Ignacio House has housed 15 "resident scholars" who study at N.Y. colleges and universities at a site in the Bronx. Last month, the community received permission from the Archdiocese of New York to move into its new home at the site of a one-time residence of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers in Manhattan.
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Name: the name of your EdReady Site – this will typically be the same as the name of your Institution or Organization. It is not editable and is not visible to students.
Url: the URL that students, reporting, and administrative users will use to access your EdReady site.
Allow students to self-register: this field indicates if you will allow students to register themselves.
While you will likely keep this checked/on most of the time, you may have times or circumstances (such as a break in the school year where you're busy making goal & assessment updates) when you don't want new students signing up.
Disable student account self-deactivation: by default, students have the ability to deactivate their account on their My Account page. If you do not want them to have permission to do this, you can now disable this setting (for all students) by selecting this field.
Allow guests to explore your site: this field indicates if you will allow users to have guest access to your EdReady site.
If you actively have students registering for EdReady use, the addition of the Sign Up as a Guest button on the Sign Up page can too easily be clicked instead of the intended Sign Up button. For this reason, we strongly suggest that you are careful to turn it off if you don't expect to be actively encouraging other teachers, admins, etc to use the guest access functionality.
Since 'student' data generated when using EdReady as a guest is not saved, you will not end up with extraneous students or information in your reports.
Some assessment details (target score, and scope) cannot be changed once there is associated data from student use… even if that 'student' was just a member of your staff testing out the student experience!
Guest access lets users access EdReady from a student perspective without having to complete the student registration process.
If you feel that assessment changes are possible, we strongly suggest that you encourage anyone who wants to test out the functionality/setup to use guest access.
Default zip code for guest users: this field is related to the 'guests' field. When students self-register, they are required to enter their zip code, but because there is no registration when using guest access, EdReady will use this zip code as the default for all guest users.
Show Login dropdown on homepage: when this setting is selected, the "Log In" dropdown menu in the header of your homepage (shown below) will be shown.
If you choose not to display this dropdown, the Log In page itself can still be accessed directly (at <youredreadysite>/login), but it won't be easily available for your users. This functionality was created for our members who access EdReady via single sign-on: this will allow them to prevent their users from attempting to log in directly at EdReady, forcing them to use the single sign-on functionality.
If you do not have a single sign-on integration in place, we don't expect that you'll turn off this option, as it will prevent all users (students & admin users) from being able to easily log into your site.
Show option to provide a goal key: when this setting is enabled, your students will have the opportunity to enter a goal key from their Student Dashboard. It will only be enabled if you are not using goal keys (admins will always put students into the proper goals) or if goals will automatically be assigned via an SSO integration.
If you make any updates to the general information for your EdReady version, be sure to click the Save Changes button before navigating to another page.
We may have the ability to set up a Single Sign-On integration with EdReady (typically from a Learning Management System of Student Information Sytem). This allows your students to log in to EdReady with an account they're already using, rather than needing to register and use a new account.
Activate dialog to add custom sign-up fields: If you want to collect additional details about your students during the registration process (& have this data available in the reports), you can take advantage of the custom sign-up fields. Read more about this here.


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Finalists Named In Search For La. Higher Ed Leader
Louisiana State Capitol, WAFB Kevin Frey Twitter Photo
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Four people have been named as finalists to be Louisiana's next higher education commissioner.
The Board of Regents announced the contenders Tuesday. They are:
—Robert Donley, former executive director and CEO of the Iowa Board of Regents.
—Kim Hunter Reed, executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education and a former deputy chief of staff for Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
—Cathy Sandeen, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and University of Wisconsin-Extension.
—Paul Turman, system vice president for academic affairs at the South Dakota Board of Regents.
The Board of Regents intends to name the new commissioner at its April 18 meeting.
Joseph Rallo, commissioner since January 2015, plans to retire from the position that pays him $364,000 a year. The commissioner oversees policy governing Louisiana's 38 public colleges.
Source: Finalists Named In Search For La. Higher Ed Leader
Categories: State News


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ARTICLEINSIGHTS
NLRB Tightens Arbitration Deferral Standards
By: Peter R. Rich
The National Labor Relations Board ("Board" or "NLRB") has long limited its involvement in disputes between employers and unions concerning labor agreements that provide for binding arbitration where the disputes involve allegations of contractual violations and unfair labor practices arising from parallel facts. A recent decision by the NLRB in Babcock & Wilcox Construction Co., 361 NLRB No. 132 (Dec. 15, 2014) announced a tightening of the standards applicable to the Board's deference to the parties' chosen means of dispute resolution.
Subject to some exceptions, the Board has deferred to arbitration decisions issued in cases where:
1. the alleged contractual violation and unfair labor practice are factually parallel,
2. the arbitrator has been presented with the relevant facts,
3. the proceedings appear to be fair and regular,
4. the parties have agreed to be bound by the decision, and
5. the decision is not "clearly repugnant to the purposes and policies of the Act."
This policy, commonly referred to by the case names from which it evolved, Spielberg Manufacturing Co., and Olin Corp., did not require explicit consideration of the statutory issues by the arbitrator, and the burden was on the party opposing deferral to demonstrate that the Spielberg criteria had not been met.
The Board followed a similar policy of administrative deferral of most disputes at the pre-arbitration stage. Where satisfied, the pre-arbitration deferral criteria, commonly identified by reference to the Board's decision in Collyer Insulated Wire, would delay the processing of unfair labor practice charges pending the outcome of the parties' grievance and arbitration process. Administrative deferral was generally provided under the Collyer standard where the parties had an effective dispute resolution procedure that included final binding arbitration and where both parties were willing to arbitrate regardless of any procedural defenses to the timeliness of the grievance.
The Board's pre- and post-arbitral deferral criteria changed significantly with its decision in Babcock. On February 10, 2015, NLRB General Counsel Richard F. Griffin, Jr. issued Memorandum GC-15-02 to explain and provide casehandling instructions on the Board's new deferral standards. The General Counsel's Memorandum is briefly summarized below.
Postarbitral Deferral. The party urging deferral to the arbitration decision must demonstrate that:
1. the arbitrator was explicitly authorized (either in the labor agreement or by agreement of the parties) to decide the unfair labor practice issue;
2. the arbitrator was actually presented with and considered the statutory issue, or was prevented from doing so by the party opposing deferral; and
3. the Board law "reasonably permits" the arbitral award.
Prearbitral Deferral. The General Counsel advises that the Board will no longer defer its processing of unfair labor practice charges to the arbitral process unless the arbitrator is explicitly authorized to decide the statutory issue. The rationale for this change is "because it would be futile to place a case on hold pending arbitration if it is clear from the outset that deferral to that ultimate award would be improper."
Deferral to Settlements. The Board's standards on deferring to voluntary grievance settlements reached by employers and unions will also change as a consequence of the Babcock decision. Settlement agreements will be evaluated by essentially the same criteria as are now applicable to arbitration decisions. The Board will only defer to settlement agreements where it is shown that:
1. the parties intended to settle the unfair labor practice issue;
2. they addressed that issue in the settlement agreement; and
3. Board law reasonably permits the settlement agreement.
Summary and Recommendations.
The Board will no longer defer to arbitration decisions nor delay its investigation of unfair labor practice charges while grievances are being processed in the parties' grievance procedure unless the parties explicitly agree the statutory unfair labor practice issue can and will be addressed by the arbitrator. Similar scrutiny will be applied by the Board to voluntary grievance settlements. Labor agreements that expressly include the resolution of unfair labor practice disputes by arbitration are not common, and the willingness of unions to agree to their inclusion in future agreements remains to be seen. In the absence of such explicit agreements, the new deferral standards have the potential to significantly increase the Board's active and contemporaneous involvement in disputes arising under the parties' grievance and arbitration procedure.
Employers and unions that wish to preserve their contractual procedures as the primary forum for dispute resolution and avoid the proverbial "two bites at the apple" by aggrieved employees must now take steps to amend their agreements accordingly.
If you have any questions about this issue, or any labor and employment issue, please contact our attorneys.
Labor & Employment Law Peter R. Rich
prich@spilmanlaw.com


I decided to continue my non-traditional colors for Christmas and Holiday cards after sharing yesterday's card, shown here. I've had the Eastern Palace DSP for a while now and keep taking it out, looking through it and then setting it aside for another day. Well this weekend was "the other day". This card uses another of the foiled papers, the Dapper Denim and Gold strips.
I stamped the greeting from the "Every Good Wish" stamp set with VersaMark ink and then heat embossed it with Gold embossing powder. I die cut the Very Vanilla, Dapper Denim and Gold foil papers using the Layering Oval framelits. I added a piece of the gold 1/8″ ribbon next to the DSP, offsetting it slightly, for an extra pop of glimmer. That's it, so simple and quick! This is the second card in my upcoming non-traditional Holiday stamp a stack event.
Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think of these non-traditional holiday colors and tell me what colors you use on your holiday cards!
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JSDA
Lucienne Trout
Lucienne began her dancing career at the age of two in Middletown, New Jersey. She danced for sixteen years at a studio in her hometown and went on to attend Red Bank Catholic High School in Red Bank, NJ, where she also studied the art of dance. Lucienne became proficient in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Modern, Hip Hop, and Acro and at seventeen years old, was nominated to represent Red Bank Catholic at the Governor's School for the Arts audition. In addition, Lucienne performed in yearly recitals, dance competitions, and charity performances all over New Jersey.
During her first two years at Red Bank Catholic, Lucienne decided that she would be pursuing dance in college and as a professional career. After many successful auditions, she made the decision to attend Towson University in Towson, M.D. as a Dance Performance major, which would grant her a Bachelor of Fine Arts when she graduated in May 2011. Throughout her four years at Towson University, Lucienne primarily studied Ballet and Modern dance with electives in Jazz and Tap. Her modern training is Horton based technique under the instruction of Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell, principal dancer of Alvin Ailey for over ten years. Lucienne always excelled in her classes and was always advanced to the next level by her chief ballet teacher, Runqiao Du, principal dancer of Susanne Farrell Ballet.
Lucienne also performed in the Towson University Dance Company and Repertory classes, in which she was cast in many featured roles. She was a soloist in ballet repertory pieces choreographed by Runqiao Du and in one of four lead duets in Troy Powell's (of Ailey II) piece, "Unscathed." In addition, she was cast in a lead duet in Alvin Ailey's work, "Escapades," along with ensemble roles in Alvin Ailey's choreography, "Escapades" and "Mary Lou's Mass." Lucienne also performed in ensemble work and featured roles in "La Bayadere" and "Swan Lake."
Not only did Lucienne perform in such reputable roles, she also found a passion in choreography. After completing a composition series as part of Towson's curriculum, she worked closely with a musician to create her own music, story, and choreography to portray her aunt's struggle with breast cancer during her college years. Throughout her years as a dance major, Lucienne also went back home to teach and choreograph at her own studio, where the students enjoyed hearing about her new feats, endeavors, and training.
At nineteen years old, Lucienne attended a Summer Internship Program at Broadway Dance Center in New York City. There, she studied all forms of dance especially Jazz, under the mentorship of Sheila Barker. She also participated in many professional photo shoots, master classes, and workshops.
Upon Graduation from Towson University, Lucienne began auditioning for many jobs near and far and ultimately landed a job as a female ensemble dancer on Carnival Cruise Line. She performed in two high-energy production shows while onboard the Carnival Destiny along with a Welcome Aboard show. In addition to performing in exciting yet challenging shows, she was also able to travel to the Caribbean, Mexico, Spain, and Italy while meeting new people from all over the world.
While performing was always her passion, Lucienne also found a great joy and love for teaching. She taught as an assistant teacher by the age of thirteen and was instructing her own classes by the age of seventeen. When her contract on the Carnival Destiny was complete, she came back home to Middletown, New Jersey and began teaching for a local studio. There, she became accomplished in teaching Jazz, Ballet, Acro, and Hip Hop while also teaching master classes in modern, lyrical, and contemporary. She has choreographed many award winning dances for small groups, large groups, lines, duos, trios, and solos. These awards include many first place overall awards, crowd pleaser awards, and precision awards for all different styles of dance. She has also supported her students in many conventions, including but not limited to, New York dance Alliance and Sheer Talent and has attended charity performances with her dancers as well.
Lucienne is looking forward to launching Jersey Shore Dance Academy with her dear friend and partner, Megan Amitrani Ford, and hopes to instill all of the training and experiences she has obtained in her life so far into the lives of many young, aspiring, dancers.
Megan Ford
Megan began her dance training at a very early age which has allowed her passion for the art to intensify over the past 25 years. While Megan trained at a local dance studio in Red Bank, NJ, she was a member of the New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble, a pre-professional company, under the direction of Nancy Turano. She took classes and learned choreography from some of the most prominent instructors in the industry. At NJDTE, Megan acquired the knowledge, technique and discipline of ballet and modern dance.
Megan attended Red Bank Catholic High School in Red Bank, New Jersey where she had the opportunity to dance, perform and choreograph. It was in 2005 when her love of choreography and the creative process was awakened and sparked an internal flame. During these years, Megan not only trained classically and competitively, she was also a dancer for Holiday Express (a non-profit organization that brings music, food, gifts and human kindness to adults and children in need, including the mentally and physically disabled, poor and homeless and children with critical illnesses). Through these volunteer performances Megan could interact with special needs children and developed a deep-rooted passion and inspiration from these incredible individuals. In addition to Holiday Express, Megan also performed with "Arts from the Heart" through Red Bank Catholic, where she was able to give back to the community through the arts.
Throughout high school, Megan also took classes, workshops and intensives at renowned dance academies such as the Princeton Ballet, The Academy of Dance Arts, Broadway Dance Center, Jersey Cape Dance Academy and in 2004 Megan was chosen to represent Red Bank Catholic at the Governors School of New Jersey. She attended the National High School Dance Festival in 2004 and 2005 at Goucher College and the University of the Arts. Upon the end of her competition career, Megan received a scholarship to Starpower's "Power Pak," where she performed in Ocean City, Maryland and took classes with amazing teachers such as Marinda Davis, Robert Moses and Ray Leeper. Learning assorted styles of dance and choreography from prestigious educators has contributed to Megan's success as an artist.
After high school graduation Megan took her love, passion and creativity to DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. In 2009, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in Dance. During these years, Megan had the rare and fortunate opportunity to perform all four years in DeSales University's main stage spring performance. Each year she trained under multiple teachers and choreographers including Kristin Fieseler-Alexander, Tim Cowart, Tara Madsen-Robbins, J.T Jenkins, Ben Levy and Shen Wei dance company to name a few. As a junior, Megan was selected to perform the renowned Twyla Tharp piece, "Torelli," where she learned and performed original repertoire. As a senior, Megan was one of four selected to perform "Physics," a high intensity fourteen minute piece choreographed by Ben Levy, and was given a solo role. Megan was also gifted the opportunity to perform in the American College Dance Festival at Montclair State University where she danced and took class with the nation's top collegiate artists. During her four years at DeSales University, she focused on the art of performance and found an admiration for modern and contemporary dance. Megan's college years were a great success and served as a springboard into an even more successful future.
After her undergraduate education, Megan was accepted into Annex Dance Company, a modern company originally based out of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania under the direction of Kristin Fieseler-Alexander. Her years with ADC allowed Megan to perform in front of dozens of audiences throughout the tristate area. At the same time, Megan began teaching at several dance studios and started guest choreographing at her alma mater, Red Bank Catholic High School. Her choreographic style varies from ballet and jazz to lyrical and contemporary and has been recognized at dozens of regional and national competitions. Technique, precision, emotional execution and choreography awards are just some of the few awards her work has been commended for and in 2016, Megan's choreography won first place at Turn It Up National Dance Competition. Although these awards and acknowledgements are extremely humbling, she strives to find the emotional connection behind every piece of choreography. This allows her students to fully invest themselves in the concept behind every piece.
Megan is sincerely overjoyed to embark on this new adventure that has been a lifetime dream. Along with her partner, Lucienne, she will strive to create a positive and motivating environment all while providing the highest level of technique, choreography and performance skills. Megan and Lucienne cannot wait to share their knowledge, creativity and lifelong experiences with the students of Jersey Shore Dance Academy!
Jessica Smith Malafronte
Jess Malafronte, teacher and choreographer with 10 years professional experience, holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Born and raised on the Jersey Shore, Jess began her dance career at the age of 7 with a concentration in jazz and ballet. She quickly realized her passion for the art and began competing at a regional and national level, performing in various styles including lyrical, jazz, contemporary, modern, hip hop and musical theater. She decided to further her dance education by entering the dance major program at Rutgers where she studied modern, ballet, jazz, African fusion, and Flamenco dance as well as choreography, dance production, dance history and anatomy. In her senior year, Jess was honored to be the recipient of the Marjory J. Turner Choreography Prize, given to just one member of the program for excellence in choreography. Jess has performed the works of world famous modern choreographer Bill T. Jones and hip hop legend Rennie Harris. She was also a company member of the Julia Ritter Performance Group and The Von Howard Project performing at multiple venues in New York City and surrounding areas. Upon graduation, Jess began her journey into dance instruction for competitive and recreational students. She is a highly decorated competition choreographer, receiving numerous artistic, costume and choreography awards and has been featured on Starquest Dance Competition's YouTube channel. Jess credits her past decade of experience for molding her into a dedicated educator who promotes creativity and pursuit of excellence. Jess is so excited to be on staff to at Jersey Shore Dance Academy and to share her knowledge and love for dance with their amazing students.
Michael Wang
Michael Wang is originally from New Jersey, where he began his dance training at the age of 16. He studied all forms of dance, as well as acting and voice, at Class Act Performing Arts Studio, and furthered his dance studies at New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble. He graduated magna cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, with a concentration in Ballet. Following graduation, Michael performed with Los Angeles based contemporary dance company, BODYTRAFFIC. He has performed in works by Gerald Arpino, Jiri Kylian, Sidra Bell, Stijn Celis, Doug Varone, Larry Keigwin, and Robert Battle, among others. Michael has also continued his training at several intensives including the Nederlands Dans Theater Summer Intensive, Jacob's Pillow Contemporary Program, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Movement Invention Project.
Jersey Shore Dance Academy
555 Shrewsbury Avenue
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
info@jerseyshoredance.com


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Corocăiești este un sat în comuna Verești din județul Suceava, Moldova, România.

Corocăiești, Verești


1 You have lots of different kinds of bones inside your body. Adults have 206 bones. Kids have more than that. As kids grow, some of their bones grow together. Your bones make a framework that holds you up. It is called your skeleton. It also gives your body its shape. Without bones and muscles, you would not be able to move.
2 Some of your bones protect the soft parts of your body. Your skull bones are like a hard hat that protects your brain. Your rib bones curve around your chest. They protect your heart and lungs.
3 Other bones are for moving. You can bend in the places where your bones fit together. These places are called joints. Try walking without moving your knees or ankles. It's not easy! You can't sit down without bending. You can't walk up or down stairs without bending, either.


The raison is these fx is no need more parameters ..like pos_x,pos_y, direction .... all are centered.
Do you think is possible to convert effects like this?
Don't know but can you send me the fx file and the capx file ?
Maybe reduce precision can gain speed .. lowp float noise3(vec3 x) can't help ???
oh man, this is too awesome! great effects!
Is this possible to make for C2?
yes it can be done without sound ..
Correction Mr Xanxion I made it with sound, lucky coz this FX have 4 layers..
This FX have 4 parameters freq0-freq3 and getting protracker Vumeters values.(dont know if normal wave or ogg sound is working with).
I will upload fx soon for you .
Hey I loved your simplicity effect!
I wonder how to change moving x and y values each layers? I think I need to manipulate the scroll position.
And test the shaders values in realtime .. when i would like to port some shaders i use shadertoy website to do that.
Ok .. I know this error happened when gfx card memory is overflowed du to big shaders.
If you want i can reduce numbers of FX by 2.
One shaders fx with 0-12 FX and the other 13-25 FX..
your FX is too awesome ! i love them .
if it's not too much trouble. i want only FX number 1,6,10,17,18,20,21.


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Constituent Comics: Antonio Negri Illustrated
One of the first texts that introduced me to the Italian political traditions of Operaismo and Autonomia was Italy: Autonomia, Post-Political Politics published by semiotext(e). I found my copy at Moe's books in Berkeley, and for years it was the pride of my little library. This was years before it was reprinted. I would show it to friends, and offer to make copies at work for whoever was interested, my personal act of auto-reduction and sabotage. I poured over the writings of Negri, Tronti, Bifo, and Virno, struggling to make sense of concepts that would change me over years to come. At the end of this book there is a comic by B. Madaudo Melville, detailing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. This was immediately legible, brought to life in slashes of ink that immediately suggested a tumultuous time with thick strokes of ink.
Semiotext(e) was a transitional publisher for me, connecting the world of anarchist zines with philosophy. The comic at the end of the issue on Italy added comics to bridge the gap. It brought together insurrection, imagination, and intellect, a difficult combination that is the foundation of revolution.
I am reminded of this story in reading Antonio Negri: Illustrated, Interview in Venice by Claudio Calia. It has the unique honor of being the second comic to detail the Italian Seventies to appear in English. It seems more accurate to trace its lineage to this early comic than to place it alongside the various Introducing [Blank] or [Blank] for Beginners comics which promise introductions to Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, etc. Those books are at best whimsical cliff notes, aimed at struggle students. Antonio Negri: Illustrated is more inspirational than pedagogical.
Antonio Negri is an illustrated interview. There are panels and pages dedicated to the hot autumn and "years of lead" with the requisite images of ski masks and prison cells, but most of the pages are dedicated to the interview itself. It opens with Claudio (the interviewer) finding Negri's apartment in Venice and details the books and posters that decorate Negri's walls as the two discuss the history and politics of autonomia.
At first I thought this was something of a waste of the medium. It was perhaps my vivid memory of the earlier comic that led me to expect pages and pages of meticulous illustrations of mass strikes and masses storming grocery stores and train cars. However, as I sat with the comic reading and rereading its pages, I warmed to its art and style. It conveyed a conversation in a way that a written text could not. You see not only the words but also the gestures, the offers of tea and the interrupting phone calls. This intimacy at the level of form is duplicated at the level of content as Negri tries to answer the most difficult question of all: how does revolution happen, how do revolutionary subjectivities emerge out of exploitation.
Negri's answer returns to the years of misery that followed the war, and traces the pleasure, the socialization in and against work, that begins to expand the imagination and the horizon of what is possible. As this pleasure confronts the force of exploitation it explodes into a movement. Perhaps one of Negri's most important concept is constituent power (potentia) the ontological, political, and economic affirmation of the creative power of desire, imagination, and labor as something which exists prior to, and in excessive of, its institutionalization or exploitation. This concept is articulated through The Savage Anomaly and Insurgencies. What Antonio Negri: Illustrated sheds light on is the quotidian dimension of this concept, constituent power begins in the generosity of a conversation and an offer of tea. Negri's descriptions of the early years of Operaismo and the illustration of the conversation itself reminds me of the following passage from Marx.
When communist artisans associate with one another, theory, propaganda, etc., is their first end. But at the same time, as a result of this association, they acquire a new need – the need for society – and what appears as a means becomes an end. In this practical process the most splendid results are to be observed whenever French socialist workers are seen together. Such things as smoking, drinking, eating, etc., are no longer means of contact or means that bring them together. Association, society and conversation, which again has association as its end, are enough for them; the brotherhood of man is no mere phrase with them, but a fact of life, and the nobility of man shines upon us from their work-hardened bodies.
If I understand the project of Antonio Negri: Illustrated correctly, it is an attempt to not only illustrate the formation of the needs and desires that the existing order cannot meet but to produce them as well. It is not the illustration of the thoughts of a Negri as much as it is an attempt to illustrate the moment where those thoughts become meaningful and important.
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using Polly;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using PollyDemos.OutputHelpers;

namespace PollyDemos.Async
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Demonstrates the WaitAndRetry policy.
    /// Loops through a series of Http requests, keeping track of each requested
    /// item and reporting server failures when encountering exceptions.
    ///
    /// Observations: We now have waits among the retries.
    /// In this case, still not enough wait - or not enough retries - for the underlying system to have recovered.
    /// So we still fail some calls.
    /// </summary>
    public class AsyncDemo02_WaitAndRetryNTimes : AsyncDemo
    {
        private int totalRequests;
        private int eventualSuccesses;
        private int retries;
        private int eventualFailures;

        public override string Description =>
            "Compared to previous demo, this adds waits between the retries. Not always enough wait to ensure success, tho.";

        public override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken, IProgress<DemoProgress> progress)
        {
            if (progress == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(progress));

            eventualSuccesses = 0;
            retries = 0;
            eventualFailures = 0;

            progress.Report(ProgressWithMessage(nameof(AsyncDemo02_WaitAndRetryNTimes)));
            progress.Report(ProgressWithMessage("======"));
            progress.Report(ProgressWithMessage(string.Empty));

            // Define our policy:
            var policy = Policy.Handle<Exception>().WaitAndRetryAsync(
                3, // Retry 3 times
                attempt => TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(200), // Wait 200ms between each try.
                (exception, calculatedWaitDuration) => // Capture some info for logging!
                {
                    // This is your new exception handler!
                    // Tell the user what they've won!
                    progress.Report(ProgressWithMessage("Policy logging: " + exception.Message, Color.Yellow));
                    retries++;
                });

            using (var client = new HttpClient())
            {
                totalRequests = 0;
                var internalCancel = false;

                // Do the following until a key is pressed
                while (!internalCancel && !cancellationToken.IsCancellationRequested)
                {
                    totalRequests++;

                    try
                    {
                        // Retry the following call according to the policy - 3 times.
                        await policy.ExecuteAsync(async token =>
                        {
                            // This code is executed within the Policy

                            // Make a request and get a response
                            var msg = await client.GetStringAsync(
                                Configuration.WEB_API_ROOT + "/api/values/" + totalRequests);

                            // Display the response message on the console
                            progress.Report(ProgressWithMessage("Response : " + msg, Color.Green));
                            eventualSuccesses++;
                        }, cancellationToken);
                    }
                    catch (Exception e)
                    {
                        progress.Report(ProgressWithMessage(
                            "Request " + totalRequests + " eventually failed with: " + e.Message, Color.Red));
                        eventualFailures++;
                    }

                    // Wait half second
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The UK and the US moved closer this week to enabling their governments to bypass legal and democratic processes in committing forces to war, virtually anywhere, at any time and continuously. Australian politicians and the mainstream media seem to assume that this has nothing to do with Australia and we are not interested.
He was referring to the fact that the constitution-less UK for centuries accepted the sovereign right of the monarch to declare war, and in modern times considers that power to have devolved to the executive government, as do Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In both the Lords and the Commons, a convention has developed in the 21st century that a government should consult the Parliament before committing troops to war, and Tony Blair successfully applied it in 2003 to secure approval of the Iraq invasion. A decade later, David Cameron sought to do the same in response to the Syrian government's alleged use of chemical weapons, but enough MPs remembered how they were deceived about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to defeat him. So in 2015 Cameron deployed the RAF to Syria by simply bypassing the Parliament. Efforts in both houses to write convention into law have not succeeded, and the UK government has set aside years of bipartisan promises and rejected the requirement to consult Parliament as an 'artificial' constraint.
Reviving the issue and applying it to a new deployment, Corbyn said the Prime Minister 'is accountable to this Parliament, not to the whims of the US president.' Theresa May predictably played her legal, moral, and humanitarian cards and Corbyn's motion was defeated (https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/947485/Syria-strike-UK-Tory-Jeremy-Corbyn-war-power-act-demand-Theresa-May-Douma-latest7). The Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford contradicted the Prime Minister, welcoming Corbyn's support of the SNP's war powers policy and asserting that 'Once again, we are being dragged into military action with little regard for the humanitarian situation on the ground [and] no long-term strategic plan' (https://www.rt.com/uk/424352-corbyn-debate-war-act/).
My British interlocutor in Sydney dismisses the debate, saying 'Corbyn is a bit of a nutter.' My Australian informant in London considers that Corbyn missed his opportunity by concentrating on immediate events in Syria, and repeating that 'it was about the accountability of Parliament to the people and the accountability of the Government to the Parliament,' which while true, probably changed few opinions. Corbyn acknowledged that the UK would have to make an exception about Parliamentary processes in an emergency, as most democracies do, but he didn't discuss the question that Australian ministers say most concerns them, how to protect secret intelligence. Theresa May didn't go there either, and agreed with Corbyn that decisions for war should be made by the Parliament, but not in exceptional circumstances, which she too had trouble defining, presumably because of the raid on Syria.
In the US, control of the war powers of the president is also weakening. After several attempts to revise the Vietnam-era 1973 War Powers Act, particularly by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, President Obama requested authority from Congress in February 2015 to dispatch forces against Islamic State, and to repeal the redundant 2001 authorisation for President G.W. Bush to fight al-Qaeda. Obama offered to limit the new deployment to three years, and to restrict ground combat to Special Forces. The measure was opposed, including by some Democrats, and rejected. Absurdly, Obama then sent US planes and troops to Iraq and Syria regardless, under the 2001 authorisation. In January 2016 Republican majority leader Senator Mitch McConnell introduced a Bill for the 'Authorisation for Use of Military Force', for which Obama had signed an executive order in September 2015. The Bill sought virtually unlimited power for the President to deploy US ground forces anywhere in the world and for any length of time, including in the United States, without having to provide legal or strategic justifications to Congress. In its latest form this is what we now learn President Trump is currently proposing (Rand Paul https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=K4V3jQCi8-o). The interests of the military/industrial/surveillance complex don't change, whoever is president.
The current extensions of US and UK war powers set a dangerous example for Australia, where governments as historian Henry Reynolds warns, 'find it easy to go to war' (Unnecessary Wars, 2016: 238). Some now see the attractions of being the world's tenth biggest arms exporter, so the more wars the better. We all live with the consequences of the Iraq disaster, and the prospect that our government may repeat it. But Australians for now have an opportunity to decide what's in our interests and do it, independently of London and Washington, in compliance with the much-cited international rules-based order.
"independently of London and Washington, in compliance with the much-cited international rules-based order." Alas, we have no evidence to support any concept of "independence" from the wishes of London and Washington.
As for the International rules based order, our history, including the latest attack of Syria by the US, UK and France, and Australia's enthusiastic support for it, shows that respect for international law in this country (as well as many others) is no more than a hollow sham.
The British at least tried to advance some legal justification for the attack, although that was rapidly demolished by respected international legal opinion. Such is the contempt of our government for international law (lip service notwithstanding) that they did not even bother to justify their actions as lawful. The most we got from the appalling Turnbull was some notion of revenge for a gas attack that there are serious doubts even occurred.
One small correction Alison. It is an error to describe the UK as "constitution less". True, it is not codified in a single document, but there are a number of document that are regarded as "constitutional" starting with Magna Carta, continuing with the 1688 Bill of Rights, and in recent decades the incorporation into British law of a body of constitutional documents flowing from the UK's membership of the EU.