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Harry Potter and the Magic of Hogwarts
by Nicola Hoggard Creegan
Harry Potter has captured imaginations everywhere; some of us have read and loved him, others feel outraged that one small wizard could gain such a following. At the very least, in Christian circles, the Harry Potter series written by the new Scottish author, JK Rowling, has encouraged a vigorous debate on the nature and function of fantasy, and its relationship to theology and Christian faith.
Raising questions
What is magic, and when is it - or any other power - dangerous? Does a world have to be explicitly Christian to be religious in a good sense? Is our attraction to Harry Potter proof of our deception, or evidence of his goodness? Are the Harry Potter books in the same league as the fantasies of Tolkien and CS Lewis - a great favourite and model for JK Rowling herself - or are they different?
If nothing else, Harry has caused us to ask these questions. But I am convinced that Rowling has done much more. She has conjured up a coherent world of believable delight set amidst a bitter fight against the powers of evil, in which destiny, calling and moral choice matter as much for the young novice as they do for the seasoned witch or wizard.
Four Harry Potter books have now been published - the plan is to have seven books in the series. Harry has made his way from a dramatic birth which is still veiled in mystery, to his under-the-stairs eleven year stint with abusing muggle (non-wizard) relatives, to three years of study in the Hogwarts boarding school.
There young witches and wizards learn the ways of their people - separated from muggles who barely understand them and only dimly believe in their presence. Nevertheless, it is the witches and wizards who participate in the ongoing drama between good and evil, and whose magical powers are used in the struggle between darkness and light.
At the centre of this resistance is the unlikely and very likeable figure of the orphaned Harry Potter. But the criticism of Harry Potter mounts with his growing popularity and it should certainly be taken seriously.
When I was in seminary in Massachusetts in the mid-eighties - just up the road from Salem - a woman showed me an old group photo in which she was posing with others. I have no idea why, but impulsively I said, "Oh you look like a witch". I was mortified that this had jumped out of my mouth, but the woman was unfazed. She said: "I was", and proceeded to tell me the story of her conversion in a church on Halloween night.
This conversation made me think. I never joined the ranks of those who boycott Halloween, but I was sensitised to the enormous complexity of postmodern, pluralistic thinking in this area.
The word 'witch' resonates with many different families of meaning. Is a witch just a nasty or a strange old woman? Is it a term of mild abuse? Is it a metaphor for the unseen spiritual world, or for Halloween scariness?
I use the term in classrooms most often in reference to the holocaust of women - and a few men - who were burned, hung or drowned as witches between 1450 and 1750, very few of them having anything serious to do with the occult. Yet today many people are actively involved in the occult for recreation. Some of my Liberal Arts students in the States, for example, played with ouija boards for fun in between their prime-time television, their internet browsing and their Nintendo.
Postmodern reality is characterised by a blurring of categories, with sometimes disastrous results, as evidenced by Columbine and other shootings. The ads on our television every night exploit our tendency to mix and match images, and to blend and blur our realities. The very nature of being postmodern is to experience this eclecticism as a liberating or a frightening experience. This is what worries some of those who would ban Harry and his school for wizards and witches.
I realise therefore that just because Harry Potter hasn't turned most of the little rationalists I know into New Age magic seekers doesn't mean that is not possible. There is a small population of vulnerable people who have dabbled in the occult and for whom the metaphors of witch and wizard are too powerful to be reinstated into a delightful children's narrative. There are others whose intense search for spirituality leads them easily into New Age dabbling.
Nevertheless most of the diatribes I have read against Harry Potter are somewhat careless, citing sentences out of context, or quoting characters who are evil, to make their point. But at least one such critique comes from the pen of a woman who was once a witch. So my great enthusiasm for Harry Potter is modified only by an acknowledgement that even a word, at this time in history, can be an invitation to the blurring of lines that can lead to violence or to the occult or to madness. We live in a sea of images, very few of which we can control.
The biblical picture of the wheat and the tares growing together well describes our situation and the sometimes tragic nature of our moral reality. Thus I can imagine that for some children in some contexts it is possible that Harry Potter would encourage a searching after New Age neo-paganism. At the same time we should note that if we are looking only at effects, good Christian literature has turned some children off faith, when it is not presented in a way that draws out the high drama and the mythical cosmic importance of the story.
The Theology of Harry Potter
The Harry Potter books are very non-religious in one sense. They do not (so far at least) draw on any sense of an explicitly good transcendent force, nor do they appear to be an allegory of such. Rowling does, however, draw us all into a world beyond this one. A world in which we sense that reality is stranger than we think, and that what we see might not be all there is, or the most important stuff. In this world good and evil matter, and we can trust the good ultimately to win over the evil. Goodness might exist where we least expect it, or where it is despised.
Some of this unseen world is pure delight: like stepping onto the train for Hogwarts at platform 93/4 at Kings Cross Station in London. Entry into Hogwarts is by faith - you just believe the platform is there and rush the barrier, dissolving magically onto the other side.
Other parts are sheer hell. The Dementors, for example, who guard the magic prisons, are fearful creatures, with ambiguous loyalties. They suck the life and will out of their captives, a surprising image of prison horror in the midst of a young children's fantasy.
Moral not magical
The great strength of the Harry Potter stories is in the 'world' that is created. The heroes are believable and likeable characters of simple but steady moral fibre. Harry's buddy, Ron, is from a family that is dirt poor, but they are the ones who offer free and unrestricted hospitality. It is Ron's impoverished mother who knits jerseys for Harry every year and sends him birthday presents when his real family has forgotten. In other words, these people understand the paradoxical freedom gleaned in giving things away.
The three major characters at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are Ron, Hermione and Harry, and they all have a heart for the underdog - Hagrid, the despised Hogwarts dropout and half-caste giant - and the enslaved house elves. The main characters have very dubious pedigrees: Ron is poor, Hermione is half muggle and Harry has been brought up by stupid and abusing muggle relatives. All of this is consistent with the Christian understanding that grace is present at the margins, and in the small and weak things of the world.
Moreover the real drama of Harry Potter is moral rather than purely magical. Evil must be discerned, discovered and overcome, not on the whole with some clever magic, but with the fruits of virtue: courage, hard work, respect and love.
If these were really books about magic the hero, Harry, would be a master craftsman, but he is no great magician (though he excels at the magic sport of Quidditch). His friend Hermione does better, by strength of her ordinary intelligence and prodigious application to study.
Only Harry's goodness gets him through, and his own self doubt. When forced to compete in the wizardry competition he is miserable. In one of the three tasks he waits gallantly to make sure the other participants don't die. In general courage is shown in these books by children, by the poor (Ron's parents), the despised (Hermione), the deformed (Hagrid) and the odd leader - out on the edges of power (the headmaster Dumbledore). All of this, of course, is very compatible with an exemplary Christian worldview.
Literature brings with it a certain feel, an immediate tacit comprehension of its world, and with Harry Potter the feeling is one of goodness. I am reminded of the way Frodo longs for home in his journey through The Lord of the Rings. And for all our wanderlust what marks humans out is our capacity to make a home.
Hogwarts and the world of wizards and witches induces in us a longing for a world that is home-like, more comprehensible, more of a community, less fragmented and more meaningful than the one we inhabit. This longing is a good thing. It is the beginning of wisdom and the understanding that there is more to life than getting rich and being successful.
At Hogwarts, the school for wizards and witches, secluded mysteriously and invisibly in the English countryside, we have both community and rivalry perfectly balanced, as are order and excitement, fun and seriousness, respect and subversion, tradition and innovation. Nobody can get bored in a place where the pictures talk and sport is played in the air, but there is a sense of dependability and tradition as well in the boarding school routine.
This is not literature that explores the complexities of adult emotion and betrayal, but nor is it simplistic childish stuff. Ron's brother is good at heart, but also proud, and is defending and working for a man of dubious character. Part of the narrative tension arises from this moral complexity and perplexity. We cannot know for sure how some of these liminal characters will turn out, nor can we be sure of their past and whether they were on the side of good or of evil.
At the heart of the story is Harry's survival from an encounter with the evil and legendary master wizard Voldemort at the time of his birth. We don't know how this was possible, but the suggestion (so far) is that his mother's self sacrificing love released a power which evil could not overcome. How? Why? There are no answers given, but similar questions are the creative centre of Christian theology.
Part of the deep attraction of the Harry Potter books, I suspect, is that they deal with these profound questions of sacrificial love and its hidden and surprisingly subversive power.
Other idolatries
It is important, too, to note that the magic done at Hogwarts is quite explicitly the alternative to 'technique and technology'. Muggles might need aeroplanes, cars and buses, but wizards and witches can travel with floo powder, or by apparation. But the magic isn't a calling on higher powers, or the harnessing of such powers. These are not easy internal strengths. The witches and wizards have to go to school, and learn with great difficulty and study.
The arts of magic are learned much as we learn maths and English and cooking and music. The basic internal wizardry is there, to be sure, much as a musical ear is a necessary foundation for any musical study.
The Harry Potter books force us to re-examine our own idolatries, not just technology, but money. How often are we tempted to think that money making money is good Christian business sense. Yet to a third world person our 'cargo' and our money-making abilities may well seem like magic. And usury, like magic, is forbidden in the Old Testament. Usury, unlike magic, is easy to define. But then it is the heart of our economic system so we ignore those bits of ancient wisdom.
In all good fantasy, the Harry Potter stories included, there is the sense that magical powers are in some way dangerous, and should be very carefully controlled lest they begin to control us. The irony in all of this is that we fail to understand the same thing about muggle magic (technology and money) which we use with such abandonment.
Harry Potter books also allude to the constant tendency we have to stereotype people and persecute the 'other'. In the Harry Potter series extremist bands of wizards and witches torture muggles, and half caste wizard/muggles are a despised minority in wizardry circles. But there is also more than one allusion to the burning of witches by muggles in olden times. To complicate the issue of magic and wizardry further, JK Rowling says she doesn't agree with the kind of magic in her books - when it is used in real life.
Rowling's stories are often compared to the Narnia books and Tolkien's fiction. Is there a similarity, people wonder? It is as though CS Lewis and Tolkien are 'safe' and the standard for a whole genre of literature. And yet CS Lewis and Tolkien both loved the pagan Celtic and Nordic myths.
Lewis also loved Plato, and cheerfully synthesised his faith with Platonic images. He testifies that for him paganism was the gateway to Christian faith - seeing Christ as the myth lived out in history. Rowling's novels are in fact less pagan and more fantasy than the two old standards, but like them, the Harry Potter books draw us into a world greater than the one we see.
At one level, then, these books are sheer delight. At another they delve deeply into important moral and spiritual dynamics in a non-allegorical manner. You can read them to your children, discuss their allusions and moral dynamics, or just enjoy them. And in a world of Pokemon and Digimon, Harry Potter may be the only fantasy character you can easily share with your children.
New Zealander Nicola Hoggard Creegan has recently come home after 15 years of studying and teaching in the USA. After completing undergraduate work at Victoria University in pure and applied mathematics she did a Masters degree at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts and a PhD in theology at Drew University in New Jersey. Nicola was appointed lecturer in theology at the Bible College of New Zealand in July and is actively involved in research in science/religion/healing, and in feminist/evangelical theology.
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The Band's Visit cued up a massive night at Sunday's Tony Awards, capturing 10 prizes including Best Musical.
The show, an intimate tale about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded overnight in a tiny Israeli town, beat out the stage adaptations of Mean Girls, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical, and Frozen for the top musical honor.
As The Band's Visit winners collected their prizes, many referenced the musical's themes of tolerance and cultures coming together. Tony Shalhoub, winner of Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, spoke of his father arriving at Ellis Island from Lebanon as a child. "May we, their descendants, never lose sight of what they taught us," he said in his acceptance speech.
The telecast, which aired live on CBS and was hosted by Josh Groban (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) and Sara Bareilles (Waitress), featured performances by the co-hosts and many of the nominated shows, as well as Bruce Springsteen (who received a special Tony for his show Springsteen on Broadway). In one of the night's most emotional moments, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School came out on stage and performed "Seasons of Love" from Rent. Their drama teacher, Melody Herzfeld, was also honored at the ceremony.
See below for a full list of winners from the 72nd annual Tonys, and head here for more highlights from the show.


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Q: SQL Server : show foreign key constraints tied to a single record This probably is a bit complicated but is there anyway or already a script out there that could show you all foreign key constraints tied to a single table row.
What I mean by this is say you have the following DB structure:
TABLE 1
column a
column b

TABLE 2
column c
column d (foreign key constraint to 1.a)

TABLE 3
column e
column f (foreign key constraint to 2.c)

TABLE 4
column g (foreign key constraint to 3.e)
column h

Then, you have 2 rows in Table 1. One of the rows is constrained through table 2, then further to table 3, BUT not further to table 4 (IDs tied throughout tables 1-3).
I would like to simply query one of the rows in Table 1 and have it tell me that for that row there are ties that go to Table 2, and then those rows have ties to Table 3. Using this 'query' on the second row in Table 1 would simply just return nothing as there are no foreign keys that are tying that row down.
Something like this would be immensely useful when it comes to tracking down what tables/rows are currently using a particular starting row.
Thanks!

A: I think what you're looking for can be accomplished by:
SELECT a, t2=COUNT(d), t3 = COUNT(f), t4 = COUNT(g)
FROM [1] LEFT JOIN [2] ON 1.a=2.d
    LEFT JOIN [3] ON 2.c = 3.f
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The ability to access information and share it instantly has empowered consumers. In the process, consumers also get influenced by reviews, ask questions and find out the best prices. This is not pitting businesses against one another in a death match of ever lowering prices. In fact, this is the price transparency on the internet that has become one of the newest challenges in online markets. Local businesses need to adapt and learn to manage information accordingly, and more importantly, learn to handle price transparency working within this new online paradigm.
Internet is also helping consumers who want a broad selection of products and services in more than one ways. Neatly laid out, user friendly and functional ecommerce websites allows businesses to assemble, aggregate, normalise, and distribute product information and more. On the other hand, websites also provide potential buyers with an interactive interface that offers a multimedia representation of the product information as well as retrieval, classification, ordering services and innovative shopping incentives. Savvy shoppers navigate and analyse product information analytically selecting suitable products to buy.
E-commerce websites that don't accommodate international shoppers are losing most of their potential sales. Accommodation goes much beyond shipping internationally. Businesses need to address such issues with their products and not wait until shoppers check out. The whole world does not work like we do here.
Websites intended to target foreign countries should be internationalized by offering physical features of the products, language and cultural peculiarities and differences duly localised for target markets in foreign countries.
While shopping may be an international hobby, each country requires specific types of communication in a specific way. The ease and speed of online checkouts, the ability to track an order, easy to understand return policy and taxing requirements are also important to consumers who shop online. Analysts say that availability of 'PayPal' alone could increase Pakistan ecommerce by 25 per cent. If it is not convenient, why should they be shopping online in the first place?
Given today's international economic situation, international operation is definitely not out of reach. International e-commerce is even more enticing as Pakistan can offer products that are very attractive and affordable for international consumers. However, to be successful online, businesses need to ensure they can offer a simple and seamless online shopping experience, and have a clear understanding of consumers' purchasing, shipping and communications preferences in each market. Only then Pakistan e-commerce can figure out at a global scale.


Today, in this age of faceless communication, we judge people – and are similarly judged – based on the often fleeting signals we pick up: the voice on the telephone, the punctuation in an email, the recorded message that seems to have no end.
The nucleus of this session is Digital Presence, consistently projecting Executive Presence through the impersonal medium of virtual or techno-communications.
In C-Suite circles, the definition of an accomplished communicator includes far more than commanding a room and making compelling presentations. Unquestionably, these skills play significant roles but daily routine communications – from phone calls and emails to video conferences and social media platforms – are equally significant. A casual tweet carries far more weight than a quick retort to a colleague.
It's not what's said, but how it's said that counts.
So what defines a professional telephone image?
The words chosen, the tone and timbre of the voice, the cadence of speech and the manner of acknowledging the person on the other end all come together to create a telephone personality. Even silence is eloquent. Depending on its length and timing, silence may send a signal that the person is not listening nor even remotely interested in what's being said.
Email is easy to use, efficient and reliably provides express delivery. It is also eternal. Every message is everlasting.
Guidelines for composition, structure and content prepare participants for every email contingency. The focus is to overcome the potential hazards of inappropriate usage and develop the email management skills to use this tool expertly and to the highest EP standard.
Social media literacy is fundamental to EP. It's critical to understand its specific dynamics in order to create compelling content.
Participants take a comprehensive look at key social media platforms, notably LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to learn the most effective ways to utilize the professional benefits of these networking sites.


Disclaimer: unfortunately there aren't any pictures in this post (yet). I know, I know, that's half all the reason you read this blog. It's proven to be quite difficult to transfer the pictures from the camera to my computer and was not possible this time. I'll update this post when I'm able to do so. Until then, please keep reading and don't exit too soon!
Our trip in South Africa is quickly coming to an end and I am in disbelief that in fifteen days, I will be sleeping soundly in my bed with only memories and photographs to remind me of this adventure. It's a bit bemusing to think that another adventure in my life will soon be over—it's bittersweet.
First, let me apologize for not posting after our trip to Namibia. It was a great reason to get out of the country. We began our trip with a 4×4 sand dune adventure which felt like a rollercoaster in a car. It was fantastic and I (along with the particles of sand) was blown away. Unfortunately, Brian had to work remotely for most of the trip so it ended up being very quiet and peaceful. I'm sorry I don't have more to report!
Hummus—a pureed chickpea spread made with garlic, lemon juice, tahini (ground sesame oil), and spices.
Chorizo and Caramelized Onions—This Spanish dish oddly reminded me of an Italian ratatouille with chorizo. Whole chickpeas dabbled the dish while small bits of eggplant made a sporadic appearance. The smokiness of the chorizo paired with the onions and vegetables made this dish delectable.
Frikkadelletjies—South African meatballs served in a simmering tomato sauce similar to ouma (a sauce served with pap. It's subtle with main flavors of onion and hints of garlic.
The rest of the trip was similar to the first day—eating, driving, touring, and having our occasional wine tastings when the weather didn't hold up its side of the bargain. Two activities that particularly stood out was walking the Storms River suspension bridge, and the Bloukrans Bridge. The Storms River suspension bridge is a two-part narrow bridge that stretches across a large gap of land in the Tsitsikamma National Park. We walked over the ocean and I couldn't help but feel like I was placed in one of those worship music videos—one that comes to mind is Oceans by Hillsong United. The Bloukrans Bridge was a bit more of an adrenalin rush. Brian bungee jumped off it! It's the highest commercial bungee jumping site in the world. How awesome is that? Sigh I have quite a brave husband.
Did I mention we walked with elephants? I must say, they are the sweetest-gentle-giants. They are so humorous. As you know, they use their trunks as hands so they're always reaching out for food with them. One of them gave a guest a ride and during the ride, he kept reaching his trunk over his head with a "hello, can I have my snack now?" motion. Like all animals and humans included, they love to eat. They eat eighteen hours a day and sleep very little. Unbelievable!


U.S. Bancorp is one of the best bank stocks to own; it's also one of the most expensive.
High quality doesn't come cheap. Image source: iStock/Thinkstock.
It's hard to say anything bad about U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB), one of the most profitable and prudently managed big banks in the United States. But the downside to such a sterling and well-deserved reputation is that shares of the Minneapolis-based bank have gotten to be expensive.
U.S. Bancorp's stock has gained nearly 17% since the beginning of November, with the presidential election serving as the catalyst. President-elect Trump's promise to reinvigorate the economy through tax cuts and fiscal expenditures, coupled with his vow to ease regulations in the bank industry, have convinced investors that banks will soon earn more money.
This thesis is sound. One reason banks have struggled so much over the past eight years is because they're drowning under a sea of new rules and regulations.
The Federal Reserve now requires banks to hold much more capital and keep their balance sheets much more liquid than they have in generations. And the upstart Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has caused banks to avoid any type of innovation or activity which, even in the absence of nefarious intent, could be interpreted as unfair or deceptive.
Moreover, if the incoming administration gets its proposed tax cuts and infrastructure plans through Congress, higher inflation will almost certainly follow. This would incentivize the Fed to continue raising interest rates, which would translate directly into higher profits for banks, including U.S. Bancorp.
But just because things are looking up for banks doesn't mean their stocks should be bought at any price. Herein lies the problem for prospective investors in U.S. Bancorp.
In an ideal world, you want to buy bank stocks when they trade at or below tangible book value. That doesn't happen often; it's generally only the case in the wake of a crisis, as was the case in 2008. Additionally, a well-run bank like U.S. Bancorp will rarely, if ever, get that cheap even in the worst of circumstances. At the low point in its stock price following the financial crisis, U.S. Bancorp's shares still traded for 2.2 times tangible book value.
A premium valuation like this makes sense when you consider that U.S. Bancorp's historical performance shows how safe of a stock it is. It also makes sense when you consider that U.S. Bancorp is the most profitable big bank in the United States.
These are testaments to U.S. Bancorp's leaders, CEO Richard Davis foremost among them. Yet, there's a limit to how much investors should be willing to pay for any bank stock, even the best. And it's my opinion, as a shareholder myself, that U.S. Bancorp's stock has passed that threshold.
Its shares trade for just under three times tangible book value -- 2.96 times tangible book value, to be precise. That's a hefty price tag buoyed by understandably high expectations for the bank industry. But the downside to such high expectations is that they leave little room for error or disappointment in the policymaking process.
Maybe things will proceed perfectly as planned in Washington, but that seems far-fetched. Consequently, if you're looking to add U.S. Bancorp's stock to your portfolio, which would be a prudent move, then you might want to wait for a correction before pressing the "buy" button.


If there's one thing consumers want today it is options. The generation known as Millennials have made it clear that variety and customization are very important in their decision making. At Timex, we take great pride in our watchmaking expertise as well as our ability to offer consumers choices when it comes to watch straps. Our strap shop allows you to refresh your watch look with endless possibilities.


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Q: XmlHttpRequest getAllResponseHeaders() not returning all the headers I'm trying to get the response headers from an ajax request but jQuery's getAllResponseHeaders  xhr method only displays the "Content-Type" header. Anyone know why?
This is the response header
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials:true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers:If-Modified-Since, Cache-Control, Content-Type, Keep-Alive, X-Requested-With, Authorization
Access-Control-Allow-Methods:GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Access-Control-Max-Age:1728000
Authorization:apikey="apikey1" AuthenticationToken="62364GJHGJHG"
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:240
Content-Type:application/json; charset=utf-8
X-Powered-By:Express
This is the success function
params.success = function (response, textStatus, jqXHR) {
  console.log(jqXHR.getAllResponseHeaders())
}

This is what it logs...
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

A: according to the following
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Expose-Headers

The Access-Control-Expose-Headers response header indicates which headers can be exposed as part of the response by listing their names.
By default, only the 7 CORS-safelisted response headers are exposed:

Cache-Control
Content-Language
Content-Length
Content-Type
Expires
Last-Modified
Pragma

So this will work perfectly for all headers to be accessible and exposed
res.header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', '*');

A: Just ran into this. It's because you're doing a CORS request and you're not exposing the Location header.
You need to add a Access-Control-Expose-Headers to your preflight CORS response in Express:
res.header('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', 'Content-Type, Location');
res.send(200);

That will solve the issue.


Kenjoh Outdoor is a family owned advertising company based in Ohio. We are dedicated to offering static, trivision, and digital billboard advertising services in Ohio and the surrounding states.
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For the classic coffee aficionados, there's nothing more fulfilling than having to press each cup with all their might and style. The reason many people are still using manual espresso machines is the fact that it has a lot of variables that can be worked into giving them a lot of space to work their style and tastes into each cup. For these people's benefit, here some wonderful machines that can help achieve that perfect cup of espresso bliss every time.
This modern looking machine packs lot of classic designs on the inside. The mechanism was inspired by the classic hand operated lever machines. The Nomad's Micro-Lever architecture does not require any electricity or batteries, or even gas propellants. The pressing process simply brings the enjoyment. It operates with simplest mechanical system known to the espresso world. It starts with is its seesaw motion, small lever that operates two tiny piston water pumps which can build pressure after over a few strokes to the ideal 8 to 10 bars. It is small and its weight gives you enough opportunity to bring your coffee habit virtually anywhere you'd wish. It has a proprietary True Crema Valve that compensates for coffee grounds and tamping variations so anyone can make great espresso with great confidence.
Although simple in construction, this machine looks very elegant and proud. Of course, it delivers espresso, cappuccino, caffe latte, and other coffee drinks in a classic pressing style, through a lever. As it operates manually, you can adjust the resulting espresso according to your personal preference. It comes with 20 oz. boiler capacity that could make 8 cups continuously without needing to heat more water while you're at it. This machine comes with an automatic milk foamer for that perfect delight each morning.
This is the simplest machine on the list. The design looks very classy that can make your feel the olden days, back when electricity was not a necessity. This Presso ROK is an environment-friendly manual espresso maker designed with one thing in mind: durability. It comes with an engine-grade metal that is guaranteed to last at least 10 years before it needs some serious repairs. Thinking about making some lattes or cappuccino? You'll be glad as this machine has stainless steel frothier to create that rich milk froth. The traditional design lets the user have complete control over brewing pressure through its two levers located on the side. Although the looks has classic image, this machine has a touch of modern day amenities like reusable storage tin with tamper/measuring spoon and detachable double-shot spout. And to keep all your worries away, if any of the metal parts fail within a decade of your original purchase, Presso will replace the components for free. All you have to think really is how to create that perfect cup from your grounds.
This stylish machine was designed to last and to give you a constant, perfect espresso each morning. It operates through steam pressure and piston. To achieve perfect water temperature, it has internal thermostats that continuously monitors pressure with re-set fuses. It can easily prepare one or two cups of espresso at a time and it comes with an automatic milk foamer. The design alone is a great thing to have as it can be a good way to accessorize your kitchen. It can prepare up to 8 cups of espresso, each with 2-ounce in it, before requiring a refill. Exterior built comes in durable triple-plated chrome design with chrome base and solid brass boilers with water-level gauge and safety valve. Overall, this machine is a good way to discover and learn more about making the best espresso for your liking.
With its handmade solid Italian walnut steam and coffee group handles, you can exactly say that this machine means business. Its 6-liter boiler and body panels come in solid stainless steel with 100% high polished chromed heads and valves to boot. Although this lever-operated machine has some very intricate classic image all over it, it has a red LED light cup illumination for some modern touch. To continue with the classic theme, it has hand stitched Italian leather wrapping its lever pull handles. It comes with milk frother for your lattes as well. Manual machines often last longer than modern automatic system and this machine was designed for high-volume usage, you can expect it withstand years of serious use.
The beauty of this gaggia espresso machine starts with its 20-ounce brass boiler that gives you a no wait time between brewing and steaming. It has that elegant antique look that makes it more of décor than a kitchen appliance. It has a stainless steel heating element to ensure longer service life. And beautiful exterior won't work if it does not offer durability. Fortunately, this Gaggia comes with triple chrome-plated stainless steel housing for peace of mind. It also comes with a frothing wand featuring 3 holes with a commercial style to boot.
This machine has chrome finish all over it. It has a 38oz., solid chrome, boiler which can make 16, 2oz.cups of espresso in one filling. To take the classy image further, it has wood accent handles and steam wand. It comes with a dual frothing system for your cappuccinos and lattes. It also comes with an internal thermostat to control the needed pressure. This machine can prepare either one or two cups at a time. It features mounted pressure gauge so you can vary your needs. It's a perfect machine for your coffee needs.


Today we continue with the third and last part of Frankie's three year adventure with us. If you missed one or both previous parts, you can click here for part one or here for part two.
We start in February, 2016, long after Frankie has proven he can be a bad cat at almost the same level as Chris. Even badder in some ways.
Here, Frankie has escaped and is hiding under a large bush to prevent capture.
Frankie went through a phase where he would lie in front of the television and partially block the remote control sensor.
Frankie's ability to be cute has not waned in two plus years.
Frankie still likes to escape.
He also likes to lie on keyboards, although I can't imagine why.
Lying in the sunbeam is his favorite thing to do that does not involve getting into trouble or being annoying.
Our new kitten, Floki, arrives in July and competes for attention.
By August, Frankie is still enjoying his walks and he is still getting along with Chris.
By November they are best frenemies.
Frankie proves to be quite an acrobat.
Frankie is usually the center of most fights in the house but he also can get along with everybody if he wants to.
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Yeah, I think 20 years is a pretty good evaluation time!
Ah, yes…he's a keeper…and we know your family wouldn't be the same without him.


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The BMAA carries Event Insurance. Organisers of BMAA events must comply with certain requirements so that their event can be covered by the insurance. The Safety Officer for the event is responsible for ensuring compliance on behalf of the Organiser.
The BMAA publishes a guide to writing a risk assessment for event organisers. You can download the guide from this link.


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Q: Finding and printing nodes in a cycle or in a dead end based on DFS in an undirected graph I have an exercise for university where I have to write an extended DFS algorithm.
Based on the DFS, I have to specify a procedure that traverses an undirected, continuous graph, classifying each node according to whether it is part of a cycle or a dead end and print the nodes which are in the cycle or in the dead end.
This procedure must be applied to the graphs shown with start node S.
The drawn graph
I have the following adjacency list:
'S' : ['A']
'A' : ['B','F']
'B' : ['C','H']
'C' : ['D','B']
'D' : ['C','E','G']
'E' : ['D','F']
'F' : ['A','E']
'G' : ['D']
'H' : ['B','I']
'I' : ['H']

I have mapped each node to the following numbers:
0: S
1: A
2: B
3: C
4: D
5: E
6: F
7: G
8: H
9: I

Here is the code I have written so far for detecting a cycle in a graph (edited):

# Python Program to detect cycle in an undirected graph
from collections import defaultdict

visitedList = list()
nodes = set()
s = ''

# This class represents a undirected graph using adjacency list representation
class Graph:

    def __init__(self, vertexCount):
        self.V = vertexCount  # No. of vertices
        self.graph = defaultdict(list)  # default dictionary to store graph

    # function to add an edge to graph
    def addEdge(self, v, w):
        self.graph[v].append(w)  # Add w to v_s list
        self.graph[w].append(v)  # Add v to w_s list
        nodes.add(v)
        nodes.add(w)
        # print(self.graph)

    # A recursive function that uses visited[] and parent to detect
    # cycle in subgraph reachable from vertex v.
    def isCyclicUtil(self, v, visited, parent, cycle=list()):
        global s
        visited[v] = True
        visitedList.append(v)
        # Recur for all the vertices adjacent to this vertex
        for i in self.graph[v]:
            # If the node is not visited then recurse on it
            if not visited[i]:
                cycle.append(i)
                if self.isCyclicUtil(i, visited, v, cycle):
                    return
            # If an adjacent vertex is visited and not parent of current vertex,
            # then there is a cycle
            elif parent != i:
                s = 'Nodes in a cycle: '
                s += ' '.join(str(v) for v in cycle)
                s += '\nNodes in a dead end: '
                s += ' '.join(str(v) for v in Diff(nodes, cycle))
                #return
                return True
        return cycle

    # Returns true if the graph contains a cycle, else false.
    def isCyclic(self):
        # Mark all the vertices as not visited
        visited = [False] * (self.V)
        cycle = list()
        # Call the recursive helper function to detect cycle in different
        # DFS trees
        for i in range(self.V):
            if not visited[i]:  # Don't recur for u if it is already visited
                if self.isCyclicUtil(i, visited, -1, cycle):
                    return True
        return False

def Diff(li1, li2):
    return list(list(set(li1) - set(li2)) + list(set(li2) - set(li1)))

# Driver code
# Create a graph with given adjacency list
S = 0
A = 1
B = 2
C = 3
D = 4
E = 5
F = 6
G = 7
H = 8
I = 9

g = Graph(10)

g.addEdge(S, A)
g.addEdge(A, B)
g.addEdge(B, C)
g.addEdge(B, H)
g.addEdge(C, D)
g.addEdge(D, E)
g.addEdge(D, G)
g.addEdge(E, F)
g.addEdge(F, A)
g.addEdge(H, I)

if g.isCyclic():
    print("Graph contains cycle")
    print(s)
else:
    print("Graph does not contain cycle")

'''
g = Graph(6)

g.addEdge(0, 1)
g.addEdge(1, 3)
g.addEdge(1, 2)
g.addEdge(1, 4)
g.addEdge(4, 5)

if g.isCyclic():
    print("Graph contains cycle")
    print(s)
else:
    print("Graph does not contain cycle")
'''

What is still missing here is to print the nodes that are in the cycle or in the dead end.


We welcome Ben Shapiro to the Seattle airwaves - on KTTH AM 770, weekdays 3 to 6 PM. And streamed over the internet.
Ben gained national fame when he calmly took apart Piers Morgan on live CNN in January, 2013, over motivations of people after the Sandy Hook massive shooting. See Ben's previous column at Townhall.
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Cosmos » Archaeology » Fossil find pushes back birth of modern humans
Fossil find pushes back birth of modern humans
The timeline of human evolution pushed back by 100,000 years.
A composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils. Credit: Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig
The discovery of modern human remains dating to 300,000 years ago looks set to overturn many current models of the evolution and migration of Homo sapiens.
The dating of the human bones, found in Morocco, was completed by a team led by Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, and Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer of the National Institute for Archaeology and Heritage in Rabat, Morocco. The results are published in Nature.
Dr. Jean-Jacques Hublin pointing to a crushed human skull found at Jebel Irhoud, whose orbits are visible just beyond his finger tip. Credit: Shannon McPherron, MPI EVA Leipzig
The remains, thought to be from at least five individuals, were found at the Jebel Irhoud archaeological cave site, located near Sidi Moktar, about 100 kilometres west of Marrakesh.
The site was already known as the source of some of the earliest modern human remains ever uncovered, but the latest discovery pushes back the emergence of Homo sapiens by a full 100,000 years.
Hominid fossils unearthed at Jebel Irhoud in 1991 were dated to about 160,000 years ago and were initially thought to be Neanderthals. Further analysis in 2007, however, revealed them to be anatomically modern humans, making them some of the earliest ever discovered.
Until now, the oldest dated modern human remnant was the Omo 1 cranium found in southwest Ethiopia, dating to 200,000 years ago.
A 2013 genomic study led by Teresa Rito of the University of Porto in Portugal suggested that "mitochondrial Eve" – the last common ancestor of the Khoe and San populations of southern Africa and the east African lineage that seeded the rest of modern humans around the globe – had lived around 180,000 years ago.
The Jebel Irhoud discoveries now throw that conclusion into significant doubt. They also recast one of the most perplexing questions about the emergence of modern humans: did Homo sapiens emerge from ancestral stock comparatively rapidly, or was it a much more gradual process?
The matter remains significantly unresolved because of the severely fragmented nature of the fossil record. However, Hublin and colleagues report the latest Jebel Irhoud specimens have face, jaw and teeth structures that align "with early or recent anatomically modern humans", while skull shapes are more closely aligned with more archaic hominids.
This, the researchers suggest, conflicts with the idea that modern humans emerged in a single geographic location, instead suggesting that "the evolutionary processes behind the emergence of H. sapiens involved the whole African continent".
Some of the Middle Stone Age stone tools from Jebel Irhoud.
Credit: Mohammed Kamal, MPI EVA Leipzig
In a second, related paper in Nature, scientists led by Daniel Richter, also from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, confirm the Hublin team's age estimates by dating flint artefacts found at the same excavation.
Using thermoluminescence techniques, the team dated the flint tools to about 315,000 years ago. Separate dating of a tooth from one of the hominid jawbones, using electron spin resonance, returned a broadly compatible date of 286,000 years (give or take 34,000 years).
Richter's team suggest that the emergence of modern humans may be tied to climate changes around or before 330,000 years ago which "greened" much of what is now the Sahara desert and allowed biological continuity between north and sub-Saharan Africa.
Echoing the first paper's conclusions, the second also raises the possibility that Homo sapiens arose over a wide geographic area, suggesting a "complex pan-African process".
"We caution against favouring one region over another in constructing models to account for these changes in human behaviour and biology," the researchers conclude.
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NIL & Student Athletes September 21, 2022
Randall Williams
Howard University Receives $1 Million Donation from Nuna Baby Essentials
Photo: Daysia Carr
The university will use the donation to renovate its athletic facilities as it tries to keep up in the college sports arms race.
Howard University has received a $1 million donation from Nuna Baby Essentials that will help the school renovate its coaches' offices and locker rooms in the Bison's Burr Gymnasium.
As part of the deal, Nuna logos will appear on the floor of the gym, as well as on backboards, scoreboards, and elsewhere. The two organizations are aiming to complete the upgrades by the end of the 2022-23 school year.
"Nuna is so excited to be a part of the great basketball and golf future of Howard University," Nuna global president Brad Bickley said in a release. "From the time we first met with the administration and coaches of Howard, I felt an exciting win-win partnership could be established with Howard University and Nuna Baby. Howard family and alumni can continue to learn more about our wonderful products, and we will watch the success of Howard basketball and golf."
Howard athletic director Kery Davis added:
"Nuna Baby Essentials is an important partner of Howard Athletics. Nuna's core values, standards and commitment to excellence align with those of Howard Athletics. I would like to thank Nuna and its leadership, Kenny Cheng and Brad Bickley, for their continued commitment to our program. Their generous contributions have contributed to the overall success and welfare of our student-athletes."
The donation follows the formal announcement in August of Jordan Brand and Howard partnering for a 20-year deal. Howard and Jordan have already unveiled new uniforms and a new court design, with likely much more to come.
For Nuna, which already had a partnership with Howard according to the release, being next to one of the most well-known HBCUs and one of the most iconic global brands is ideal.
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Randall Williams is a Staff Writer covering sports business and music for Boardroom. Before joining the team, he previously worked for Sportico, Andscape and Bloomberg. His byline has also been syndicated in the Boston Globe and Time Magazine. Williams' notable profile features he has written include NFL Executive VP Troy Vincent, Dreamville co-founder Ibrahim Hamad, BMX biker Nigel Sylvester and both Shedeur and Shilo Sanders. Randall, a graduate of "The Real HU" - Hampton University - is most proud of scooping Howard University joining Jordan Brand nearly three months before the official announcement.


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Q: Using Jquery-fileupload plugin without the  tag? I'm trying to integrate Jquery File Upload plugin in my aspx page (asp.net website). I followed the guide, including all required scripts and stylesheets, but in the index.html it's used a form tag to initialize the plugin and with the tag are also specified action and method attributes. Since I'm using asp.net, I am not allowed to insert the form tag because asp.net wrap the whole website with another form tag and it doesn't allow to insert another form tag inside it.
How can I initialize the plugin in a different way?

A: You don't actually have to have a form to use jQuery file upload plugin. Because the plugin is using jQuery ajax under the hood. use the bellow code inside your page, keep in mind you have to code an API on the server side.
$(function () {
    'use strict';
    // Change this to the location of your server-side upload handler:
    var url = 'your server api or handler';
    $('#fileupload').fileupload({
        url: url,
        dataType: 'json',
        done: function (e, data) {
            $.each(data.result.files, function (index, file) {
                $('
').text(file.name).appendTo('#files');
            });
        },
        progressall: function (e, data) {
            var progress = parseInt(data.loaded / data.total * 100, 10);
            $('#progress .progress-bar').css(
                'width',
                progress + '%'
            );
        }
    }).prop('disabled', !$.support.fileInput)
        .parent().addClass($.support.fileInput ? undefined : 'disabled');
});

and your html as follows:

        Select files...

        <input id="fileupload" type="file" name="files[]" multiple>


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By Shiru, Kulor, Denis Grachev
Added Jul 27, 2011, Under: Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom) | Games
Added By Shahzad Sahaib on 2011-07-27 20:50:11, Last Modified: 2011-07-27 20:50:11
Alter Ego is a logic platformer by Shiru, Kulor and Denis Grachev. You have to switch between them the hero and his alter ego to clear levels. It is a bit similar to the game Binary Land.
This game is a remake of recent ZX Spectrum game of the same name. The original version created by Denis Grachev from RetroSouls, you can see video of it here and get it here. NES version got new graphics, original music by Kulor (composed for the game), and some other changes.
Interesting technical feature of this game is that it is written in C, with cc65 compiler. You can get source code here. More details about this and development process in general are available in notes.txt file provided with the game.
Download Size: 417.01 KB
2 Comments Already!
Kojote says:
Very nice NES homebrew, but very tricky!
Te'Airr L. Bold says:
Like this one.. 🙂
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UN ranks Australia last on climate in sustainability goals
Patrick McDonald
The United Nations Sustainable Development Report 2021, released in June, designated Australia as having done the least out of 193 countries to combat climate change.
This UN body tracks the progress of member states in 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including climate, nutrition, biodiversity, education and renewable energy.
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If all the goals are included, Australia ranked 35th because it scored higher on health, education, clean water and some economic indicators.
But the report singled out Australia as one of seven G20 nations that had not committed to net zero emissions by 2050 or 2060.
Sustainable Development Goal 13 stipulates that member countries must take "urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts". Prime Minister Scott Morrison has insisted his government is "preferably" aiming for net zero by 2050, but refuses to give a road map.
SDG action is measured by per capita emissions from fossil fuel combustion; per capita carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions embodied in imports; per capita CO2 emissions embodied in exports and carbon pricing score. Australia scored 10 out of 100.
The scores provide a quantifiable way to analyse why Australia ranks last in the fight against climate change. It has received similarly poor results in other studies, including the Climate Change Performance Index 2021, in which it was ranked 54th out of 61 countries.
Exports and emissions
These low scores are the result of Australia becoming the largest coal exporter last year (followed by Indonesia, Russia, United States and South Africa) accounting for 39.5% of global exports.
It has been the largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) since 2019,. While gas is promoted as a "transition" fuel, it has significant health risks including being linked to neurological, reproductive and cardiovascular problems. LNG also releases methane, which is 84 times more potent than CO2.
Last year, Australia's emissions from exported coal were almost double its domestic emissions. If exports had been included, it would be the fifth-highest emitter globally.
Even without including its exports, Australia is among the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters. Despite China's current restrictions on Australian coal, exports continue to rise. Thermal coal (for electricity) and metallurgical coal (for steel) exports to India rose by 167% in April.
New fossil fuel projects
The government refuses to commit to climate action and is supporting the surge in new coal mines. Moreover, 118 new gas and oil projects are estimated to start by 2025.
The 23 new coal mines planned for New South Wales will be the equivalent of 15 times the Adani Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin in Queensland.
New major coal mines include: New Acland Stage 3 (NSW); Winchester South (Queensland); Olive Downs (Queensland); the Galilee Coal and Rail Project (Queensland); Alpha Coal Project and South Galilee Coal Project (Queensland).
Adani's new coal-to-plastic plant in India, which will be very polluting, plans to use coal sourced from Queensland.
New major gas fields include: Burrup Hub (WA); Beetaloo Basin (NT), Narrabri Gas Project (NSW), Surat Gas Project (Queensland), Barossa gas field (Timor Sea) and Greater Sunrise gas field (Timor Sea).
If these major fossil fuel projects are allowed to proceed, even the government's weak climate goals will be decimated. Woodside Energy's Burrup Hub project would be the most polluting project ever. Its annual carbon pollution would equal 15 coal-fired power stations.
These fossil fuel projects, pushed by coal and gas behemoths with the help of the major parties, will release a fatal amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
A UN report leaked in June warned about how devastating tipping points — where temperatures trigger a chain of disastrous climate events — will be on our health and welfare.
The close links between the major parties and the fossil fuel corporations are well established, and provide the context for the government's climate denialism.
According to the Centre for Public Integrity, 35% of all contributions to the major parties come from sources unknown, thanks to Australia's weak disclosure threshold.
Minister for Energy and Emission Reduction Angus Taylor recently made Katherine Vidgen, a founding chair of oil and gas producer Quadrant Energy, the new Clean Energy Regulator.
Keith Pitt, Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia, handed out three grants, totalling $21 million, to serial Liberal donor Imperial Oil and Gas to drill for gas in the Beetaloo Basin. Imperial Oil and Gas is a subsidiary of Empire Energy whose chairperson, Paul Espie, also chairs the Liberal Party-aligned Menzies Research Centre.
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Green Left remains one of the most important media platforms for sharp analysis of the problems facing humanity and the planet. It offers profound insights on how we can collectively overcome these problems and move toward a future of emancipation.
Marcel Cartier Writer, journalist and Hip-Hop artist


"The electricity in the house was so feeble," recalls former senator Hugh Segal, "that the window air conditioner and the microphone … is perceived as politically perilous. Is there a better way to do this? Segal, for one, thinks there is.


Since it is our anniversary, we want to celebrate with a big bang!!! We also want our designers to have fun and celebrate it in THEIR way - so the February theme is simply "Happy Anniversary, SUYS!" We asked our designers to build whatever they want, in any style they want - however they want to say Happy Anniversary!
It officially starts at 9AM SLT this morning, February 19 – enjoy!
I'm excited to bring you my SUYS offering for Second Spaces – Garden Party!
I'm ready for spring! Everything you see is included in the set, except the trees and grass. For this SUYS weekend ONLY, the entire set is just $L150!!


RAIDER REVIEW: The Prince Albert Raiders (6-23-1-0) finish off their home-and-home series with the Moose Jaw Warriors (17-6-4-1) on Saturday night at Mosaic Place. Last night in the first leg of two-game set, the Raiders fell 7-3 to the Warriors. Moose Jaw jumped out to a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes with two goals from Jayden Halbgewachs and one from Tanner Jeannot. In the second, the Raiders cut the lead to one after Austin Glover and Tim Vanstone got the Raiders on the board. However, Noah Gregor gave the Warriors a two-goal lead again with his marker midway through the frame. Jeannot opened the third period with his second goal of the game. Spencer Moe got the Raiders back within two at the 11:02 mark of the final period, but Gregor and Brett Howden added goals to round out the scoring. Ian Scott stopped 25 shots in a losing effort for the Raiders.
VS. MOOSE JAW: This is the fourth of eight meetings between the Raiders and the Warriors this season and the second of four at Mosaic Place. This is also the third game in the last eight days between the East Division rivals. The two teams also play again on Dec. 14 in Moose Jaw.
ON THE BOARD: After just missing out on a number of close calls, Raiders rookie Spencer Moe scored the first goal of his WHL career on Friday night against the Warriors. Moe wired a shot past Zach Sawchenko in the third period of Friday night's loss. The Raiders' second round pick in the 2015 WHL Bantam Draft now has one goal and three assists in 25 games this season.
STREAK SNAPPED: Raiders captain Tim Vanstone got back on the scoresheet on Friday night against the Warriors. He tallied his first point in 13 games with his second-period goal. The 20-year-old has five goals and give assists this season.
NEXT UP: The Raiders return to the Art Hauser Cente on Tuesday, December 13 against the Edmonton Oil Kings on Santa Anonymous Night presented by the Prince Albert Optimist Club. Fans are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped present for donation to the Salvation Army. Game time is 7 p.m. Tickets are available here, at the Raider Office or by calling 306-764-5348.


1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver DeSean Jackson suffered a concussion. Before exiting, Jackson had five receptions for 146 yards and two touchdowns. Cornerback Vernon Hargreaves suffered a shoulder injury against the New Orleans Saints and did not return.
2. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a knee injury in the second quarter against the Chicago Bears. After being replaced by DeShone Kizer, Rodgers returned in the Packers' first series of the third quarter.
Packers wide receiver Trevor Davis was added to the team's injury report and is inactive tonight.
3. Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin suffered an MCL sprain in the first half against the Denver Broncos and did not return. Baldwin injured the opposite knee in training camp. He did not have a catch and was targeted just once in the season opener.
4. Tennessee Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota suffered an elbow injury and, after a brief return, missed the majority of the second half in a loss to the Miami Dolphins.
Titans tight end Delanie Walker suffered a dislocated ankle and associated fracture, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, via a source informed of the situation. He's expected to miss the remainder of the season.
The Titans also lost starting left tackle Taylor Lewan to a concussion in the first half.
5. New England Patriots running back Jeremy Hill suffered a knee injury against the Texans and did not return.
6. San Francisco 49ers right guard Mike Person suffered a foot injury in a loss to the Vikings. Person's replacement, Joshua Garnett, also suffered a foot injury and did not return. Wide receiver Marquise Goodwin returned to the game after suffering a quad injury.
7. Houston Texans offensive tackle Seantrel Henderson suffered a broken bone in his ankle in the first half of the game against the Patriots, sources informed of the diagnosis told NFL Network's Mike Garafolo. The team ruled him out. Defensive end Christian Covington did not return after suffering a thigh injury.
8. Jacksonville Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette suffered a hamstring injury against the New York Giants and did not return.
9. Chiefs safety Eric Berry's return from a ruptured Achilles will have to wait at least another week. Berry officially was inactive for today's game against the Los Angeles Chargers due to a lingering heel injury.
10. Minnesota Vikings cornerback Trae Waynes suffered a knee injury against the 49ers.
11. Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Joe Haden suffered a hamstring injury against the Cleveland Browns and didn't return.
12. Los Angeles Chargers offensive tackle Joe Barksdale suffered a knee injury in the first quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs and did not return.
13. Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen went to the locker room in the second quarter against the Dallas Cowboys with a foot injury and did not return to the game. Coach Ron Rivera did not provide any update on Olsen, who injured the same foot last year.
Offensive tackle Daryl Williams suffered a knee injury in the fourth quarter and did not return. Williams dislocated his kneecap and tore his MCL in the same knee in training camp, but Rivera said Sunday's injury was unrelated.
14. Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory was ruled out in the second half after suffering a concussion.
15. Washington Redskins wide receiver Trey Quinn was ruled out after suffering an ankle injury against the Arizona Cardinals.


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Accueil Pôles de Recherches Gestion Durable des Adventices FICHES PERSO VANBERGEN ADAM
VANBERGEN Adam
Pôle : GESTAD
Equipe : COMPARE
Courriel : adam.vanbergen@inrae.fr
2018- Directeur de Recherche (écologie des insectes) UMR Agroécologie, INRA F-21000 Dijon, France
2007- 2018 Senior Invertebrate ecologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh
1998-2007 Invertebrate ecologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Banchory, Aberdeenshire
2015-2017 Lead Author, IPBES regional assessment for Europe and Central Asia (Deliverable 2b)
2014-2016 Lead Author, IPBES assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production (Deliverable 3a)
Honorary Secretary & Trustee of the British Ecological Society (BES) 2015-2018, 2019-2022
Director & Trustee of the British Ecological Society (BES) 2008-2012,
Editorial board member: Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Ecological Entomology, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Je suis écologiste communautaire. J'étudie la diversité des insectes et les interactions entre les espèces, en surface et sous terre, et aux niveaux trophiques directement (herbivores, pollinisateurs) et indirectement (prédateurs, parasites) liés aux plantes, la relation entre la biodiversité et les fonctions et services des écosystèmes, leur réaction aux perturbations anthropiques et la façon dont ces effets varient aux échelles spatiale et biologique.
1. Redhead, J. W., B. A. Woodcock, M. J. O. Pocock, R. F. Pywell, A. J. Vanbergen and T. H. Oliver (2018). Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover. Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.13157
2. Adam J. Vanbergen, Anahí Espíndola & Marcelo A. Aizen (2018) Risks to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 16–25 doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0412-3
3. Vanbergen, A. J., Woodcock, B. A., Gray, A., Andrews, C., Ives, S., Kjeldsen, T. R., Laize, C. L. R., Chapman, D. S., Butler, A. and O'Hare, M. T. (2017), Dispersal capacity shapes responses of river island invertebrate assemblages to vegetation structure, island area, and flooding. Insect Conservation & Diversity. doi:10.1111/icad.12231
4. Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anahí Espíndola, Adam Vanbergen, Josef Settele, Claire Kremen, Lynn Dicks (2017), Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination. Ecology Letters 20: 673–689. doi:10.1111/ele.12762
5. Vanbergen, A.J., Woodcock, B.A., Heard, M.S., & Chapman, D.S. (2017) Network size, structure, and mutualism dependence affect the propensity for plant-pollinator extinction cascades. Functional Ecology doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12823
6. Hudson L.N. et al. including Vanbergen, A.J (2017). The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity in Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution 7:145-188.
7. Evans, T. M., S. Cavers, R. Ennos, A. J. Vanbergen, and M. S. Heard. (2017). Florally rich habitats reduce insect pollination and the reproductive success of isolated plants. Ecology and Evolution (online early).
8. Potts, S.G., Imperatriz-Fonseca, V., Ngo, H.T., Aizen, M.A., Biesmeijer, J.C., Breeze, T.D., Dicks, L.V., Garibaldi, L.A., Hill, R., Settele, J., & Vanbergen, A.J. (2016) Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being. Nature, 540, 220–229.
9. McKenzie, S. W., S. N. Johnson, H. Jones, N. J. Ostle, R. S. Hails, and A. J. Vanbergen. 2016. Root herbivores drive changes to plant primary chemistry, but root loss is mitigated under elevated atmospheric CO2. Frontiers in Plant Science 7.
10. Emmett, B.A., Cooper, D., Smart, S., Jackson, B., Thomas, A., Cosby, B., Evans, C., Glanville, H., McDonald, J.E., Malham, S.K., Marshall, M., Jarvis, S., Rajko-Nenow, P., Webb, G.P., Ward, S., Rowe, E., Jones, L., Vanbergen, A.J., Keith, A., Carter, H., Pereira, M.G., Hughes, S., Lebron, I., Wade, A., & Jones, D.L. (2016) Spatial patterns and environmental constraints on ecosystem services at a catchment scale. Science of the Total Environment, 572, 1586-1600.
11. Hentley, W. T., Vanbergen, A. J., Beckerman, A. P., Brien, M. N., Hails, R. S., Jones, H. T. and Johnson, S. N. (2016), Antagonistic interactions between an invasive alien and a native coccinellid species may promote coexistence. Journal of Animal Ecology (2016).
12. Gill, R. J., K. C. R. Baldock, M. J. F. Brown, J. E. Cresswell, L. V. Dicks, M. T. Fountain, M. P. D. Garratt, L. A. Gough, M. S. Heard, J. M. Holland, J. Ollerton, G. N. Stone, C. Q. Tang, A. J. Vanbergen, A. P. Vogler, G. Woodward, A. N. Arce, N. D. Boatman, R. Brand-Hardy, T. D. Breeze, M. Green, C. M. Hartfield, R. S. O'Connor, J. L. Osborne, J. Phillips, P. B. Sutton, and S. G. Potts. 2016. Protecting an Ecosystem Service: Approaches to Understanding and Mitigating Threats to Wild Insect Pollinators. Chapter Four, p135-206 in Advances in Ecological Research. Academic Press. G. Woodward and D. Bohan (eds).
13. Godfray, H.C.J., Blacquière, T., Field, L.M., Hails, R.S., Potts, S.G., Raine, N.E., Vanbergen, A.J. & McLean, A.R. (2015) A restatement of recent advances in the natural science evidence base concerning neonicotinoid insecticides and insect pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 282.
14. Hudson et al. including Vanbergen A.J. (2014). The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. Ecology and Evolution, 4, 4701-4735
15. Vanbergen A.J. (2014). Landscape alteration and habitat modification: impacts on plant-pollinator systems. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 43, 1-6.
16. Hentley W., Vanbergen A.J., Hails R., Jones T.H. & Johnson S. (2014). Elevated atmospheric CO2 impairs aphid escape responses to predators and conspecific alarm signals. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 40, 1110-1114
17. Hentley W.T., Hails R.S., Johnson S.N., Hefin Jones T. & Vanbergen A.J. (2014). Top-down control by Harmonia axyridis mitigates the impact of elevated atmospheric CO2 on a plant–aphid interaction. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 16, 350-358
18. Godfray H.C.J., Blacquière T., Field L.M., Hails R.S., Petrokofsky G., Potts S.G., Raine N.E., Vanbergen A.J. & McLean A.R. (2014). A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning neonicotinoid insecticides and insect pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281.
19. Vanbergen, A. J., B. A. Woodcock, A. Gray, F. Grant, A. Telford, P. Lambdon, D. S. Chapman, R. F. Pywell, M. S. Heard, and S. Cavers. 2014. Grazing alters insect visitation networks and plant mating systems. Functional Ecology 28:178-189.
20. B.A. Woodcock, C. Harrower, J. Redhead, M. Edwards, A.J. Vanbergen, M.S. Heard, D.B. Roy, and R. F. Pywell. 2013. National patterns of functional diversity and redundancy in predatory ground beetles and bees associated with key UK arable crops Journal of Applied Ecology 51:142-151.
21. Vanbergen, A. J. and the Insect Pollinators Initiative. 2013. Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11:251-259.
22. McCormack, S. A., N. Ostle, R. D. Bardgett, D. W. Hopkins, and A. J. Vanbergen. 2013. Biochar in bioenergy cropping systems: impacts on soil faunal communities and linked ecosystem processes. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 5 (2). 81-95.
23. McKenzie, S. W., W. T. Hentley, R. S. Hails, T. H. Jones, A. J. Vanbergen, and S. N. Johnson. 2013. Global climate change and above- belowground insect herbivore interactions. Frontiers in Plant Science 4, 412. 6.
24. McKenzie, S. W., A. J. Vanbergen, R. S. Hails, T. H. Jones, and S. N. Johnson. 2013. Reciprocal feeding facilitation between above- and below-ground herbivores. Biology Letters 9, 5, 20130341. 1744-957X
25. Dicks, L. V., A. Abrahams, J. Atkinson, J. Biesmeijer, N. Bourn, C. Brown, M. Brown, C. Carvell, C. Connolly, J. Cresswell, P. Croft, B. Darvill, P. de Zylva, P. Effingham, M. Fountain, A. Goggin, D. Harding, T. Harding, C. Hartfield, M. S. Heard, R. Heathcote, D. Heaver, J. Holland, M. Howe, B. Hughes, T. Huxley, W. E. Kunin, J. Little, C. Mason, J. Memmott, J. Osborne, T. Pankhurst, R. Paxton, M. Pocock, S. G. Potts, E. F. Power, N. E. Raine, E. Ranelagh, S. Roberts, R. Saunders, K. Smith, R. Smith, P. Sutton, L. Tilley, A. Tinsley, A. Tonhasca, A. J. Vanbergen, S. Webster, A. Wilson, and W. J. Sutherland. 2012. Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence-based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross-sectoral exercise. Insect Conservation and Diversity 6:435-446.
26. Bernhardt-Romermann, M., A. Gray, A. J. Vanbergen, L. Berges, A. Bohner, R. W. Brooker, L. De Bruyn, B. De Cinti, T. Dirnbock, U. Grandin, A. J. Hester, R. Kanka, S. Klotz, G. Loucougaray, L. Lundin, G. Matteucci, I. Meszaros, O. Viktor, E. Preda, B. Prevosto, J. Pykala, W. Schmidt, M. E. Taylor, A. Vadineanu, T. Waldmann, and J. Stadler. 2011. Functional traits and local environment predict vegetation responses to disturbance: a pan-European multi-site experiment. Journal of Ecology 99:777-787.
27. Vanbergen, A. J., B. A. Woodcock, M. Koivula, J. Niemela, D. J. Kotze, T. Bolger, V. Golden, F. Dubs, G. Boulanger, J. Serrano, J. L. Lencina, A. Serrano, C. Aguiar, A. C. Grandchamp, S. Stofer, G. Szel, E. Ivits, P. Adler, J. Markus, and A. D. Watt. 2010. Trophic level modulates carabid beetle responses to habitat and landscape structure: a pan-European study. Ecological Entomology 35:226-235.
28. Vandewalle, M., F. de Bello, M. P. Berg, T. Bolger, S. Dolédec, F. Dubs, C. K. Feld, R. Harrington, P. A. Harrison, S. Lavorel, P. M. da Silva, M. Moretti, J. Niemelä, P. Santos, T. Sattler, J. P. Sousa, M. T. Sykes, A. J. Vanbergen, and B. A. Woodcock. 2010. Functional traits as indicators of biodiversity response to land use changes across ecosystems and organisms. Biodiversity and Conservation 19:2921–2947.
29. Woodcock, B. A., J. Redhead, A. J. Vanbergen, L. Hulmes, S. Hulmes, J. Peyton, M. Nowakowski, R. F. Pywell, and M. S. Heard. 2010. Impact of habitat type and landscape structure on biomass, species richness and functional diversity of ground beetles. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 139:181-186.
30. Woodcock, B. A. and A. J. Vanbergen. 2008. Parasitism of the beech leaf-miner weevil in a woodland: patch size, edge effects and parasitoid species identity. Insect Conservation and Diversity 1:180-188.
31. Brook, A. J., B. A. Woodcock, M. Sinka, and A. J. Vanbergen. 2008. Experimental verification of suction sampler capture efficiency in grasslands of differing vegetation height and structure. Journal of Applied Ecology 45:1357-1363.
32. Vanbergen, A. J., A. D. Watt, R. J. Mitchell, A. M. Truscott, S. C. F. Palmer, E. Ivits, P. Eggleton, T. H. Jones, and J. P. Sousa. 2007. Scale-specific correlations between habitat heterogeneity and soil fauna diversity along a landscape structure gradient. Oecologia 153:713-725.
33. Vanbergen, A. J., T. H. Jone, R. S. Hail, A. D. Watt, and D. A. Elston. 2007. Consequences for a host-parasitold interaction of host-plant aggregation, isolation, and phenology. Ecological Entomology 32:419-427.
34. Mitchell, R. J., C. D. Campbell, S. J. Chapman, G. H. R. Osler, A. J. Vanbergen, L. C. Ross, C. M. Cameron, and L. Cole. 2007. The cascading effects of birch on heather moorland: a test for the top-down control of an ecosystem engineer. Journal of Ecology 95:540-554.
35. Vanbergen, A. J., R. S. Hails, A. D. Watt, and T. H. Jones. 2006. Consequences for host-parasitoid interactions of grazing-dependent habitat heterogeneity. Journal of Animal Ecology 75:789-801.
36. Sousa, J. P., T. Bolger, M. M. da Gama, T. Lukkari, J. F. Ponge, C. Simon, G. Traser, A. J. Vanbergen, A. Brennan, F. Dubs, E. Ivitis, A. Keating, S. Stofer, and A. D. Watt. 2006. Changes in Collembola richness and diversity along a gradient of land-use intensity: A pan European study. Pedobiologia 50:147-156.
37. Wolseley, P. A., S. Stofer, R. Mitchell, A. M. Truscott, A. Vanbergen, J. Chimonides, and C. Scheidegger. 2006. Variation of lichen communities with land use in Aberdeenshire, UK. Lichenologist 38:307-322.
38. Vanbergen, A. J., B. A. Woodcock, A. D. Watt, and J. Niemela. 2005. Effect of land-use heterogeneity on carabid communities at the landscape scale. Ecography 28:3-16.
39. Eggleton, P., A. J. Vanbergen, D. T. Jones, M. C. Lambert, C. Rockett, P. M. Hammond, J. Beccaloni, D. Marriott, E. Ross, and A. Giusti. 2005. Assemblages of soil macrofauna across a Scottish land-use intensification gradient: influences of habitat quality, heterogeneity and area. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:1153-1164.
40. Hodgson, D. J., R. B. Hitchman, A. J. Vanbergen, R. S. Hails, R. D. Possee, and J. S. Cory. 2004. Host ecology determines the relative fitness of virus genotypes in mixed-genotype nucleopolyhedrovirus infections. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 17:1018-1025.
41. Vanbergen, A. J., D. J. Hodgson, M. Thurlow, S. E. Hartley, and A. D. Watt. 2003. Food-plant effects on larval performance do not translate into differences in fitness between populations of Panolis flammea (Lepidoptera : Noctuidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 93:553-559.
42. Vanbergen, A. J., B. Raymond, I. S. K. Pearce, A. D. Watt, R. S. Hails, and S. E. Hartley. 2003. Host shifting by Operophtera brumata into novel environments leads to population differentiation in life-history traits. Ecological Entomology 28:604-612.
43. Hodgson, D. J., A. J. Vanbergen, S. E. Hartley, R. S. Hails, and J. S. Cory. 2002. Differential selection of baculovirus genotypes mediated by different species of host food plant. Ecology Letters 5:512-518.
44. Raymond, B., A. Vanbergen, I. Pearce, S. E. Hartley, J. S. Cory, and R. S. Hails. 2002. Host plant species can influence the fitness of herbivore pathogens: the winter moth and its nucleopolyhedrovirus. Oecologia 131:533-541.
45. Raymond, B., A. Vanbergen, A. Watt, S. E. Hartley, J. S. Cory, and R. S. Hails. 2002. Escape from pupal predation as a potential cause of outbreaks of the winter moth, Operophtera brumata. Oikos 98:219-228.
46. Hodgson, D. J., A. J. Vanbergen, A. D. Watt, R. S. Hails, and J. S. Cory. 2001. Phenotypic variation between naturally co-existing genotypes of a Lepidopteran baculovirus. Evolutionary Ecology Research 3:687-701.
Reports & Book chapters (chronological)
1. IPBES (2016). Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production. S.G. Potts, V. L. Imperatriz-Fonseca, H. T. Ngo, J. C. Biesmeijer, T. D. Breeze, L. V. Dicks, L. A. Garibaldi, R. Hill, J. Settele, A. J. Vanbergen, M. A. Aizen, S. A. Cunningham, C. Eardley, B. M. Freitas, N. Gallai, P. G. Kevan, A. Kovács Hostyánszki, P. K. Kwapong, J. Li, X. Li, D. J. Martins, G. Nates-Parra, J. S. Pettis, R. Rader, and B. F. Viana (eds.) Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany. In, pp. 36.
2. IPBES (2016). The assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production. S.G. Potts, V. L. Imperatriz-Fonseca, and H. T. Ngo, (eds). Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Bonn, Germany
3. Norris, Ken. Bailey, Mark. Keith, Aidan. Maskell, Lindsay. Reading, Christopher. Turner, Sarah. Vanbergen, Adam. Watt, Allan, & others. 2011 Biodiversity in the context of ecosystem services [chapter 4]. In: UK National Ecosystem Assessment. Understanding nature's value to society. Technical Report. Cambridge, UNEP-WCMC, 63-104.
écologie des populations et des communautés d'insectes, pollinisateurs, herbivores, ennemis naturels, faune du sol, réseaux trophiques, interactions interspécifiques, utilisation des terres et paysages, gestion agricole, changement climatique, espèces envahissantes
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Date de création : 26 Novembre 2018


10 little piggys turned sausages: How to deal with foot and ankle swelling during pregnancy.
Daily exercise or physical activity. It doesn't have to be much. Just something to get the blood pumping. If you have older children they can enjoy your physical activities as well. Things such as swimming, nature walks, and bike riding. Walking or standing in a pool can give relief to those little piggys with the help of the water's pressure.
Slightly elevate your legs and sleep on your left side. The large vein that pumps the blood from your heart to your lower body gets relief when you sleep on your left side.
Don't stand for long periods of time. If you can, try to stay off your feet. When sitting move your feet to "write" the abc's. You can always try to squeeze a foot and ankle massage from your partner. Massaging always calms and relieves stress.
Try compression socks. Always consult your health care provider about new health care practices that you may have questions about. In addition follow the instructions provided with the compression stockings.
"Ice, Ice, Baby!" After that partner foot massage an ice pack always gives relief to those swollen ankles and toes.
So the short is, lay back, take a load off your feet, and do your best to enjoy your pregnancy until your very own little piggy arrives!


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Review: Adam Lambert goes dance pop on new album
On his debut album three years ago, Adam Lambert was fresh off a runner-up "American Idol" finish and eager to show off his amazing vocal range. The result was an all-things-to-everyone album ranging from classic rock crunch to hip-hop heat, with an over-the-top ballad or two thrown in.
On "Trespassing," his second studio album, Lambert narrows the focus to dance pop (though the hyper-emotional ballads still force their way in). The result is more consistent but less gratifying
It kicks off with a roar on the title track, co-written with Pharrell Williams of The Neptunes. "Trespassing" employs a drill team stomp-and-clap intro backing up chanting lyrics, propelled by a booming bass line and drum beat very reminiscent of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." That's entirely appropriate as Lambert may or may not still wind up succeeding Freddy Mercury in the 1970s and '80s supergroup.
"Cuckoo" leans heavily on synthesizer and a pounding beat and seems destined to become a dance club favorite this summer, along with "Kickin' In," a Prince soundalike that deals with the feeling of getting drunk.
"Shady" features assists from Nile Rodgers and Sam Sparro, and the next single, "Never Close Our Eyes" was co-written by Bruno Mars, featuring a flamenco guitar over a dance club beat.
If dance music or the club scene is your thing, then you'll love most of this album. But if you like Adam Lambert the Renaissance man as shown in his debut, you might be left wishing for a bit more variety.


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Our Church Wide Study is just around the corner!
How long does it take to acquire a healthy habit? 21 Days? 40 Days? 90 Days? I've heard all of the above. Our church family will be journeying together to pursue, chase, hunt, track, seek, and run after joy for 50 Days.
We will pursue joy with reckless abandon. Doesn't this sound fun?
What's more, I believe this journey will be good for your soul. And healthy for your relationships. And life-giving to your relationship with God. I am hopeful that joy will give itself over to us, like squeezing every last drop of juice out of a grapefruit.
I want to pray those prayers, and I want to live that kind of life.
(1) From Sept 30 – Nov 18, I will be preaching messages around JOY.
(3) We are working on a STUDY GUIDE which will give you questions to work through Desiring God. The Study Guide will include a JOY JOURNAL for 50 Days (Sept 18-Nov. 18) as we all attempt to "fight" for joy. We will be encouraged to notice aspects of JOY in our everyday life. We want to be praising God for all the little (and big) joys in life!!! It should be a great exercise to develop a Godly outlook of joy in all of life.
(4) Desiring God is about "the pursuit of joy in God", a concept Piper calls "Christian Hedonism." I believe the truths in Desiring God have a paradigm-shaping potential to change the way we view the entire Christian life and lead us into a rich, satisfying God-centered joy. I believe you will be blessed and challenged by Desiring God which is already considered a modern classic. Even if you've already read the book before, I think digging deeper into its message will be good for your soul (especially as you do so in community).
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Lockheed sees surge in profits after shutdown | Washington Times
April 1, 2014 - News - Tagged: contractors, F-35
Sequestration had less impact than suggested
By Jim McElhatton
This time a year ago, Lockheed Martin officials warned of impending layoffs, furloughs and a devastating impact to its massive supplier base as sequestration hit across the federal government.
But in the end, things didn't turn out so bad for the government's top contractor.
Bethesda-based Lockheed saw a $7 billion increase in contracts from federal agencies in 2013, posting $44.1 billion last year compared to about $38 billion in 2012. The company's stock closed Tuesday near its 52-week high at $163.71, up nearly 75 percent from the beginning of April 2013.
What's more, the contractor easily retained its spot as the top federal contractor in 2013, more than doubling No. 2 Boeing's $21.2 million, according to government procurement figures.
Lockheed's big haul, including billions in new orders from the Navy for its F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, came at a time when the company's new chief executive, Marillyn Hewson, warned of a new era of hiring freezes, furloughs and layoffs. The company cut thousands of jobs last year as the government's sequestration budget cuts targeted defense and non-defense programs alike.
"I think they did cry wolf to a significant extent because they had a large backlog, so they should've had a sense of that," said William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, who wrote a book about the company. "I think that their credibility took a hit on Capitol Hill."
"But I think they obviously did a good job of riding the wave," he added.
Last April, Lockheed announced that the across-the-board sequestration cuts to federal spending could reduce its sales revenue by $825 million. One month earlier, the company issued a statement saying sequestration "will lead to furlough in some situations and could trigger layoffs resulting in [layoff] notices to thousands of our current employees"
Lockheed officials declined to comment on the latest contract figures, which were compiled by the federal procurement data system, an automated government-wide repository on contracting actions.
However, a spokeswoman pointed to previous statements from company officials discussing the sequester, including an October investor conference call in which Ms. Hewson called the $825 million estimate "significantly muted due to our large backlog of work remaining" that was unaffected by fiscal 2013 budget cuts.
In February, Lockheed's chief financial officer, Bruce Tanner, told the Barclays Industrial Select Conference that gauging sequestration's impact wasn't just a matter of looking at yearly sales figures.
"I think one thing that gets lost when we talk about sequestration is people look at the numbers that we are showing and they are saying, gee, it's not as bad as you thought it was going to be, obviously, because you don't see quite as much reduction down there or you are staying flat between 2014 and 2015," Mr. Tanner said.
"I think the piece that people miss is [that], pre-sequestration, we had expected to grow from 2013 to 2014 and from 2014 to 2015. And so sequestration had the effect of knocking us back down to where we now see flat levels."
Most other big defense contractors saw contract obligations drop or hold relatively steady, figures show. Booz Allen, the company that employed National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, won about $3.1 billion last year. That's down from $4 billion obligated by agencies in 2012, but the company still ranked No. 17 among all government contractors.
via Lockheed sees surge in profits after shutdown | Washington Times.
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