Making a profit is the most important – some might say the only – objective of a business. Profit measures success. It can be defined simply: Revenues – Expenses = Profit. So, to increase profits you must raise revenues, lower expenses, or both. To make improvements you must know what's really going on financially at all times. You have to watch every financial event without any kind of optimistic filter.
This Guide is a series of questions with comments to help you analyze your profits, their sufficiency and trend, the contribution of each of your product lines or services to them, and to help you determine if you have the kind of record system you need. The questions and comments are not meant to be definitive presentations on the subjects. They are meant to point to areas where further study might be – well – profitable.
Since profit is revenues less expenses, to determine what your profit is you must first identify all revenues and expenses for the period under study.
1. Have you chosen an appropriate period for profit determination?
For accounting purposes firms generally use a twelve month period, such as January 1 to December 31 or July 1 to June 30. The accounting year you select doesn't have to be a calendar year (January to December); a seasonal business, for example, might close its year after the end of the season. The selection depends upon the nature of your business, your personal preference, or possible tax considerations.
2. Have you determined your total revenues for the accounting period?
3. Do you know what your total expenses are?
There are of course, many other types of expenses, but the point is that every expense must be recorded and deducted from your revenues before you know what your profit is. Understanding your expenses is the first step toward controlling them and increasing your profit….
A financial ratio is an expression on the relationship between two items selected from the income statement or the balance sheet. Ratio analysis helps you evaluate the weak and strong points in your financial and managerial performance.
4. Do you know your current ratio?
The current ratio (current assets divided by current debts) is a measure of the cash or near cash position (liquidity) of the firm. It tells you if you have enough cash to pay your firm's current creditors. The higher the ratio, the more liquid the firm's position is and, hence, the higher the credibility of the firm. Cash, receivables, marketable securities, and inventory are current assets. Naturally you need to be realistic in valuing receivable and inventory for a true picture of your liquidity, since some debts may be un-collectable and some stock obsolete. Current liabilities are those which must be paid in one year.
5. Do you know your quick ratio?
Quick assets are current assets minus inventory. The quick ratio (or acid-test ratio) is found by dividing quick assets by current liabilities. The purpose, again, is to test the firm's ability to meet its current obligations. This test doesn't include inventory to make it a stiffer test of the company's liquidity. It tells you if the business could meet its current obligations with quickly convertible assets should sales revenue suddenly cease.
6. Do you know your total debt to net worth ratio?
This ratio (the result of total debt divided by net worth then multiplied by 100) is a measure of how company can meet its total obligation from equity. The lower the ratio, the higher the proportion of equity relative to debt and the better the firm's credit rating will be.
7. Do you know your average collection period?
You find this ratio by dividing accounts receivable by daily credit sales. (Daily credit sales = annual credit sales divided by 360.) This ratio tells you the length of time it takes the firm to get its cash after making a sale on credit. The shorter this period the quicker the cash flow is. A longer than normal period may mean overdue and un-collectible bills. If you extend credit for a specific period (say, 30 days), this ratio should be very close to the same number of day. If it's much longer than the established period, you may need to alter your credit policies. It's wise to develop an aging schedule to gauge the trend of collections (without adequate financing charges) hurt your profit, since you could be doing something much more useful with your money, such as taking advantage of discounts on your own payables.
8. Do you know your ratio of net sales to total assets?
9. Do you know your operating profit to net sales ratio?
10. Do you know your net profit to total assets ratio?
This ratio (found by multiplying by 100 the result of dividing net profit by total assets) is often called return on investment or ROI. It focuses on the profitability of the overall operation of the firm. Thus, it allows management to measure the effects of its policies on the firm's profitability. The ROI is the single most important measure of a firm's financial position. You might say it's the bottom line for the bottom line.
11. Do you know your net profit to net worth ratio?
This ratio is found by dividing net profit by net worth and multiplying the result by 100. It provides information on the productivity of the resources the owners have committed to the firm's operations.
All ratios measuring profitability can be computed either before or after taxes, depending on the purpose of the computations. Ratios have limitations. Since the information used to derive ratios is itself based on accounting rules and personal judgments, as well as facts, the ratios cannot be considered absolute indicators of a firm's financial position. Ratios are only one means of assessing the performance of the firm and must be considered in perspective with many other measures. They should be used as a point of departure for further analysis and not as an end in themselves.
The following questions are designed to help you measure the adequacy of the profit your firm is making. Making a profit is only the first step; making enough profit to survive and grow is really what business is all about.
12. Have you compared your profit with your profit goals?
13. Is it possible your goals are too high or too low?
14. Have you compared your present profits (absolute and ratios) with the profits made in the last one to three years?
15. Have you compared your profits (absolute and ratios) with profits made by similar firms in your line?
A number of organizations publish financial ratios for various businesses, among them Dun & Bradstreet. Robert Morris Associates, the Accounting Corporation of America, NCR Corporation, and the Bank of America. Your own trade association may also publish such studies. Remember, these published ratios are only averages. You probably want to be better than average.
16. Have you analyzed the direction your profits have been taking?
The preceding analysis, with all their merits, report on a firm only at a single time in the past. It is not possible to use these isolated moments to indicate the trend of your firm's performance. To do a trend analysis performance indicators (absolute amounts or ratios) should be computed for several time periods (yearly for several years, for example) and the results laid out in columns side by side for easy comparison. You can then evaluate your performance, see the direction it's taking, and make initial forecasts of where it will go.
17. Does your firm sell more than one major product line or provide several distinct services?
The profit analysis of each major item help you find out the strong and weak areas of your operations. They can help you to make profit-increasing decisions to drop a product line or service or to place particular emphasis behind one or another.
Good records are essential. Without them a firm doesn't know where it's been, where it is, or where it's heading. Keeping records that are accurate, up-to-date, and easy to use is one of the most important functions of the owner-manager, his or her staff, and his or her outside counselors (lawyer, accountant, banker).
18. Do you have a general journal and/or special journals, such as one for cash receipts and disbursements?
19. Do you prepare a sales report or analysis?
Do you have sales goals by product, department, and accounting period (month, quarter, year)?
If you aren't meeting your goals, try to list the likely reasons on a sheet of paper. Such a study might include areas such as general business climate, competition, pricing, advertising, sales promotion, credit policies, and the like. Once you've identified the apparent causes you can take steps to increase sales (and profits).
20. Do you have a buying and inventory system?
The buying and inventory systems are two critical areas of a firm's operation that can affect profitability.
21. Do you keep records on the quality, service, price, and promptness of delivery of your sources of supply?
Buying from a minimum number of suppliers?
23. Have you analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of buying through cooperatives or other systems?
How long it usually takes to receive each order?
How much inventory cushion (usually called safety stock) to have so you can maintain normal sales while you wait for the order to arrive?
25. Have you ever suffered because you were out of stock?
26. Do you know the optimum order quantity for each item you need?
27. Do you (or can you) take advantage of quantity discounts for large size single purchases?
28. Do you know your costs of ordering inventory and carrying inventory?
The more frequently you buy (smaller quantities per order), the higher your average ordering costs (clerical costs, postage, telephone costs etc.) will be, and the lower the average carrying costs (storage, loss through pilferage, obsolescence, etc.) will be. On the other hand, the larger the quantity per order, the lower the average ordering cost and the higher the carrying costs. A balance should be struck so that the minimum cost overall for ordering and carrying inventory can be achieved.
29. Do you keep records of inventory for each item?
30. Do you have an accounts payable ledger?
31. Do you have an accounts receivable ledger?
This ledger will show who owes money to your firm. It shows how much is owed, how long it has been outstanding and why the money is owed. Overdue accounts could indicate that your credit granting policy needs to be reviewed and that you may not be getting the cash into the firm quickly enough to pay your own bills at the optimum time.
32. Do you have a cash receipts journal?
This journal records the cash received by source, day, and amount.
33. Do you have a cash payments journal?
34. Do you prepare an income (profit and loss or P&L) statement and a balance sheet?
35. Do you prepare a budget?
You could think of a budget as a "record in advance," projecting "future" inflows and outflows for your business. A budget is usually prepared for a single year, generally to correspond with the accounting year. It is then, however broken down into quarterly and monthly projections.
There are different kinds of budget: cash, production, sales, etc. A cash budget, for example, will show the estimate of sales and expenses for a particular period of time. The cash budget forces the firm to think ahead by estimating its income and expenses. Once reasonable projections are made for every important product line or department, the owner-manager has set targets for employees to meet for sales and expenses. You must plan to assure a profit.


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To Paralympic athletes, participants of the IV Summer Paralympic Games 2016 in Rio.
We are members of the Russian National Paralympic Team, who are for reasons incomprehensible to us, were not allowed to compete in the Games (although none of our Team's members were ever accused of violating fair game principles, that includes use of doping), wholeheartedly would like to congratulate you with opening of the of IV Summer Paralympic Games !
We wish you fair, honest and vibrant struggle and highest achievements! We deeply regret that during these forthcoming days, we could not be together with you. Well then, we will meet at other Games. Our international, wonderful Paralympic Family has a very bright and promising future ahead of us!
Your friends, members of the Russian National Paralympic Team.


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Nicolas Christin
Associate Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Institute for Software Research
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information Networking Institute
Nicolas Christin is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and the Department of Engineering & Public Policy. He is also an associate professor in the Institute for Software Research and a core faculty member in CyLab, the university-wide information security institute. He also has courtesy appointments in the Information Networking Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Christin holds a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from l'École centrale de Lille, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. He was a researcher in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in 2005.
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nicolasc@andrew.cmu.edu
Nicolas Christin's website
Studying Cybercrime for Prevention and Enforcement
2003 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Virginia
2000 MS, Computer Science, University of Virginia
1999 Diplôme d'Ingénieur, École Centrale Lille, Franc
AI and ML for security
authentication and passwords
censorship resistance and measurement
information networking
Measurement and analysis
measurements of fraud, malware, spam
ML and AI
privacy engineering
privacy policy and regulation
security and privacy economics
security of AI and ML
security policy and regulation
threat analysis and modeling
Usability and human behavior
usable privacy and security
Christin's insight featured in Forbes' "Best Stories of the Decade"
CyLab's/EPP's Nicolas Christin was one of the first researchers to take a deep dive into the size of the dark web economy, and his expertise on the matter was featured in a 2013 story that Forbes just named one of the "Best Stories of the Decade."
CMU Engineering
Why people (don't) use password managers effectively
A recent study by a team of CyLab researchers, including Pearman, provides some insight into how ineffectively people may be using password managers, potentially nullifying the benefits the managers are meant to provide.
Security and privacy need to be easy
In 2005, Carnegie Mellon hosted a first-of-its-kind conference that brought together researchers from dozens of universities and companies around the world with one mission: make privacy and security tools easier to use. That conference, the Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), is holding its 15th annual meeting next month. SOUPS, as well as the entire usable privacy and security field, have deep roots at CMU.
Christin says dark-web ecosystem undented by law enforcement efforts
CyLab's Nicolas Christin takes a look at law enforcement officials' struggle to deter new dark-web marketplaces from growing in the wake of major law enforcement busts.
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Blame the tech, not the users
A recent study led by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab found that when a personal device has fallen victim to some sort of cyberattack, users often misdiagnose what exactly is going on–but they're not the ones to blame.
2019 Dean's Early Career Fellows
Three young faculty members have been granted the 2019 Dean's Early Career Fellowship to enable their continued contributions to their respective fields.
Preventing exposure to malicious websites
A team of CyLab researchers have developed a mechanism that detects when users may be about to visit a malicious website.
As advertised? Exposing lies about VPN locations
A strange observation led a CyLab researcher to figure out how to detect when VPN services are lying about their location.
The Piper (CMU)
College of Engineering faculty awarded the IEEE Cybersecurity Award
At the IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference, ECE/CyLab's Lujo Bauer, EPP/CyLab's Nicolas Christin, and EPP/CyLab's Lorrie Cranor received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice for their research on how to make passwords easier for users but harder for hackers to guess.
CyLab study finds users may be over-confident in protections of private browsing
A team of researchers from the CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Lab analyzed 450 consenting users' browsing behaviors over a three-year period. Their study was presented at last month's Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security in Baltimore.
Christin quoted on the dangers of typosquatters
CyLab/EPP's Nicholas Christin spoke with NBC News about criminals known as "typosquatters," who use people's common spelling mistakes (such as typing ".cm" instead of ".com") to take them to fake websites, exposing them to cyber-attacks.
What happens when you deploy 2-factor authentication at a university?
"It's not actually that horrible," one survey respondent said about using a security feature called 2-factor authentication (2FA) to access their Carnegie Mellon account.

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This is my formative writing task in Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence(LAWM161) at University of Surrey.
Professor: Mikolaj Barczentewicz
Over the past few years, lots of services or products with artificial intelligence have come to people's life. After several waves of research in Artificial Intelligence, some AI technologies have been emerging like Machine Learning, Deep learning and Neural Networks. Although great progress has been made, research on ethics and laws still lags behind the development of technology. Besides, it turns out that prejudice and discrimination between people will also appear in AI systems easily due to the wide spread of AI systems. There are many reasons for discrimination. In the training process of the AI model, some inappropriate training data may be used, which may contain discrimination information. At the same time, the designer of the AI system will also entrain some personal emotions when designing. Or the idea that the decision made by the Ai system is discriminatory. Even the wrong use of the AI system by users will make them feel treated differently. In this article, I will focus on the direct discrimination when creating an AI system, and discuss some difficulties to decrease direct discrimination.
Direct discrimination is known as an unfair circumstance or situations when you have a protected characteristic such as gender, race, age, health, religion, disability, sexual orientation or other characteristics (Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2019[1]). Some regulations or laws have been made to protect people from discrimination in society like the Equality Act, however discrimination or unfair treatment happens easily because of the wide use of AI systems. The Most unfair treatment occurs in face-to-face communications before, but now AI systems are deployed in everywhere, traditional bias or discrimination can be transplanted to these automated-decision making systems because there are only true or false (0 and 1) in digital world, without any law, morality and human sophisticated. A racial disparity was found by ProPublica (ProPublica, 2016[2]) that black defendants had a higher crime risk score than white defendants in the computer algorithms. Sometime, the things which is correct mathematically is not compete faire in reality. F. Zuiderveen Borgesius (2018)[3] believes that discrimination can be amplified with the use of predictive policing systems.
With the widely use of artificial intelligence systems, direct discrimination will occur more and more. When designing an AI system, in order to reduce or avoid direct discrimination, what are the issues and challenges that need to be considered? Ferrer et al (2021)[4] shows three main causes for bias: bias in modeling, bias in training, bias in usage. The bias in these stags is the core problems when creating an AI system. Ferrer et al (2021)[4:1] also claims that bias is not necessarily contribute to discrimination, but it is impossible to sort out the differences between discriminations without bias. So I mainly introduce some of the problems encountered in these three stages.
Firstly, it is hard to build a faire model which is not only mathematical equality, but also fairness in law and morality. When building a mathematical model, the primary task of engineers or mathematicians is to establish equations and adjust different parameters to match what they want. For the results of the model, they will only consider whether it is right or wrong mathematically. There are various algorithms and mathematics behind models and these algorithms or theories cannot verify prejudice or discrimination. As the blacks mentioned above, the higher probability of crime is just a probability model. Many other factors should be considered in real situation such as location, education level, personal perception, etc. and these factors are all changing, and it is impossible to find relevant ones. More importantly, computational fairness is just an ideal situation, the deployment of AI model is also restricted by the local legislation and culture.
Secondly, after the model is made, its primary purpose is to choose suitable training data. The quality of training data is related to the results of training. Unfair data often leads to discrimination or bias in the results. In the experiment of Torralba A. and Efros A.A. (2011)[5], they report that datasets have strong built-in bias and these biases still present exist in some form since using extras filters.
Thirdly, Deployment is the last stage to create an AI system but there is also discrimination or bias existing. For example, for the disabled, the AI system needs to provide special support to them, such as more accurate voice broadcasts, support for braille processing, etc.
Overall, there are lots of difficulties creating an AI system especially for some sensitive characteristics. To realizing an AI system requires not only relevant technology, but also strong moral and legal knowledge.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (2019) What is direct and indirect discrimination. Available at: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/advice-and-guidance/what-direct-and-indirect-discrimination (Accessed: 8 November 2021). ↩
ProPublica (2016) Bias in Criminal Risk Scores Is Mathematically Inevitable, Researchers Say. Available at: https://www.propublica.org/article/bias-in-criminal-risk-scores-is-mathematically-inevitable-researchers-say (Accessed: 8 November 2021). ↩
F. Zuiderveen Borgesius. (2018) 'Discrimination, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic decision-making', Strasbourg: Council of Europe, Directorate General of Democracy, p. 16. ↩
Ferrer et al (2021) 'Bias and Discrimination in AI: a cross-disciplinary perspective', IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 40(2), pp.72-80. ↩ ↩
Torralba, A. and Efros, A.A.( 2011), 'Unbiased look at dataset bias', CVPR 2011, (pp. 1521-1528). ↩


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Sacerdotisa de Hathor o profetisa de Hathor era el título de la sacerdotisa de la diosa Hathor en el templo de Dendera en el Antiguo Egipto.

Título
Se sabe que el título se otorgaba ya durante el Reino Antiguo de Egipto, y en ese momento era muy poderoso y prestigioso. Las momias atestiguadas de las sacerdotisas estaban decoradas con un tatuaje religioso que cubría el estómago alrededor del área del útero.

Después del Reino Medio, el título se otorgaba a menudo, de manera irregular, a las mujeres de la familia real, típicamente princesas.

Historia
El ascenso, la caída y la extinción de las sacerdotisas de Hathor puede verse en la cultura del Antiguo Egipto. Las mujeres que querían llegar a ser socialmente poderosas, generalmente se refugiaban en la religión y alcanzaban el sacerdocio.

La sociedad del Antiguo Egipto tomó el empoderamiento de las mujeres mucho más libremente que, por ejemplo, en la Antigua Grecia y la Antigua Roma. En Egipto se les dio a las mujeres el derecho a su propiedad. Sin embargo, después de convertirse en sacerdotisa, una mujer no solo era vista como una figura importante en la sociedad, sino también como un símbolo viviente de la divinidad.

Papel
Las sacerdotisas de Hathor eran llamadas hm ntr hthr y eran de las personas más respetadas de Egipto. Pero después del Reino Medio, el título, a menudo, se otorgaba de manera irregular, solo a las mujeres de la familia real, usualmente princesas. Como por ejemplo, a la hija de Ramsés II. Hubo un tiempo en que sus nombres fueron completamente borrados de la historia.

Los egiptólogos han mostrado que en los tiempos más antiguos, solo las mujeres de linaje aristocrático podían ser nombradas para el sacerdocio de Hathor. Eran llamadas Badak-Purohit o Consorte del Dios (Hmt nTr). Realizaban danzas y cantos durante los ritos sagrados. Debido a su menstruación y capacidad para dar a luz, se las consideraba impías, razón por la cual, no podían realizar determinados deberes sagrados, como vestir la imagen sagrada de la deidad.

Orígenes
La primera mujer en ser mencionada como sacerdotisa de Hathor es Neferhetepes, hija del faraón Dyedefra, de la dinastía IV. Sin embargo, vale la pena mencionar que el nombre de la diosa Hathor no se encuentra, como tal, en la historia anterior de Egipto.

Véase también
 Mastaba de Hetepet

Referencias

Sacerdotisas de Hathor

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Evans' numbers tied to QB turnover
It can be argued that the Buffalo offense has been stuck in a rut since the 2004 season, a year when the Bills put together a six-game winning streak down the stretch only to falter in the season finale and miss the playoffs. Lee Evans, a rookie that year, was a big part of that push for the playoffs contributing nine touchdowns including seven during that streak.
Since then however, the Bills offense has been unable to sustain any great measure of consistency. There is clearly a bounty of variables involved as to why the past six seasons have not seen Buffalo's attack rank any higher than 25th in the league along with a current ranking of 30th this season. Coordinator changes, system changes, offensive line changes and of course changes at quarterback.
Never has that been more apparent than this season. When Brian Brohm started this past Sunday in Atlanta it was the first time since 1969 that three different quarterbacks started games for the Bills. And Evans has caught passes from all of them.
"This year has been all over the place," said Evans. "At different times it's been another opportunity for somebody to step up and show what they've got. That's pretty much what we've been looking at, but we come out preparing to win no matter who is back there."
In Evans' six seasons he's played with seven different quarterbacks. Drew Bledsoe, J.P. Losman, Kelly Holcomb, Shane Matthews, Trent Edwards, Ryan Fitzpatrick and Brohm.
"It's been tough at times," admitted Evans. "Good sometimes, not so good some other times, but when you look at the big picture there has been a lot of rotation with different people back there."
All of that turnover has done little for continuity within the scope of the offense and more specifically for Evansproduction in the passing game. He's currently on pace to set career lows in receptions and receiving yards for a season as he has just 40 catches for 563 yards, though his six touchdowns are right on average.
Evans always has an opinion, but never complains. He remains professional and does what he can to make the situation, no matter how difficult, successful. The most recent example was spending extra time after practice this past week running routes and catching passes from Brohm, who had not thrown to Evans before last Wednesday.
"For me I just try to be as consistent as I can and be accountable and someone that can there for the quarterback to throw to and has the trust to throw the ball to. Regardless of who is back there and whatever happens, if he's back there I'll just try to put myself in a position to make plays. As an offense we need to get some rhythm and get clicking."
Unfortunately rhythm has been hard to come by, which makes one wonder just how much more productive Evans would be in an offense with an entrenched quarterback and coordinator. To say Evans has been underutilized would be an understatement.
The Bills tried to address that problem when they acquired Terrell Owens in free agency this past spring. But even Owens' talent could not make up for the changes at offensive coordinator, quarterback and most importantly the offensive line.
"I think in a lot of cases and a lot of instances we got exactly what we wanted to get or what we thought we were going to get in coverage," said Evans of how Owens changed defensive coverages. "There were plenty of opportunities out there we just weren't able to make the best of them."
Evans presses forward knowing his ability to change things on the field and off are limited. And as much as he plays for his own pride, he also makes sure he's giving his best for his teammates no matter what the circumstances.
"We have a tremendous group of guys who come in every day and work hard and play to win regardless of what we can or cannot do this season," he said. "Every game is an opportunity to win and guys have really put it on their shoulders to come in and work. It'd be nice to go out on a positive note."


Joan (Betty) Brathwaite has played a key role in the development of the accountancy profession regionally since she was first appointed to the ICAC Board in June 2001. Prior to being elected President in 2011, she served as chair of the ICAC's Membership Committee and the Task Force with responsibility for the review and amendment of the ICAC's Articles of Association. She also chaired the Institute's sub-committee appointed to formulate a Reciprocity Agreement to facilitate the free movement of accountancy professionals within region.
As president of ICAC she was committed to advancing the goals of the ICAC and strengthening its role as a regional body. Her vision was to see the ICAC become a full institution within CARICOM with clear authority enshrined in the legal framework of CARICOM, and with all the benefits associated with a CARICOM organization. Discussions in this regard was advanced under leadership.
A past President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados (ICAB), Ms. Brathwaite continues to serve as a Member of the ICAB Council. She has served as the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (ACCA) International Assembly representative for Barbados and is also a former Vice-President of the Barbados Coalition of Service Industries.
Ms. Brathwaite is the Managing Partner with Deloitte & Touche, Barbados. She is Deloitte's first female Managing Partner within its Caribbean and Bermuda Cluster (CBC) and has been a partner with Deloitte in Barbados since it was created in December 2004. In addition to her role as Managing Partner, she led the firm's audit practice but relinquished this role in September 2014.
She currently sits as a member of the Board of Directors of DCB Holdings Ltd, the entity which has oversight of Deloitte offices in the Caribbean and Bermuda (CBC) countries (Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands and Trinidad & Tobago). She was a member of the Partners Advisory Group for the establishment of the inaugural Deloitte Americas Senior Managers School (SMS) and is part of the original faculty of the SMS.


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That's quite a mouthful, agree?
So with that being said, and in knowing how every proper shotgun should have a proper name, I went ahead and named this one "Gorgeous."
It wouldn't be the first time that I named a shotgun and I'm thinking it'll stick just like the others did.
My very first shotgun was a classic over/under, a 12 gauge Remington Model 32. My twelve year old self thought "Sweet Lips" was spot on and over the years, it has proven to be just that. My teenage son commandeered it a few seasons ago and I'm good with that as he loves it as much as I did when I was his age.
And then along came "Opportunity." I have no idea as to why I gave my cousin's Wingmaster that name, it seemed to fit and he thought so too. And so it stuck. "Pops" was my father's Winchester Model 12... self explanatory. It's a solid shooting pump gun, sporting a full choke which works well when fine tuning myself at the range. "Honker" and "Rooster" refer to another 870. Interchangeable names for whatever I happen to be hunting.


My Daughter Seoyoung – is there no recaps for episodes 17 – 30.
Found your website after episode 30 and thank you for all the other recaps. Even my husband, enjoyed watching this series. We will miss the show after it is finished in sub-titles in Hawaii.


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Remembering Ben Baldwin
Posted by Tracy Glynn
Ben Baldwin will forever be remembered by many Miramichiers and New Brunswickers as the farmer who used his scientific knowledge to take on the polluters of Miramichi. Ben died peacefully at his home in Miramichi on July 7, 2017 at the age of 86.
A founder of the Miramichi Environmental Society and a former board member of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Ben was a geologist and an environmentalist when being an environmentalist wasn't cool nor easy.
Ben Baldwin at the Conservation Council's Spring Auction in 2009.
An edition of Harrowsmith magazine from 1991 features Ben in its hometown hero series. Ben told the reporter, "Somebody has to speak out. It's nothing particularly heroic on my part. I care about what's happening. You get disgusted, and it takes a lot of physical energy. But as long as we live here, we can't avoid being involved in environmental issues. We breathe the air too; we can't just sit back and ignore the stink."
Starting almost immediately upon his return from Western Canada to live a life on his family farm in Miramichi in 1985, Ben soon responded to remedy a local farmer's concerns of chemicals oozing onto her property from the Domtar Wood Preserving Plant, and then to a long list of other environmental problems plaguing Miramichi.
"Ben was a big guy with a big heart who stood up for what he believed in. I had the good fortune to know Ben as a friend, and my life is the richer for it," wrote David Coon, who worked with Ben during both their time with the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.
My earliest memory of Ben is of my dad, Donald Glynn, and Ben talking about their vegetables at the Miramichi Agricultural Exhibition on a hot summer day in August. Ben's vegetables from Spruce Shade Farms almost always took first prize. Whenever dad spoke of Ben, it was always with such respect — an admiration shared by many across the province.
Ben was the partner of Inka Milewski, the Conservation Council's former science advisor. The Conservation Council family expresses condolences and love to Inka and Ben's children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Written by Tracy Glynn of The Conservation Council of New Brunswick


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Humans Are Aliens, According to an Expert, and We Were Brought to Earth Hundreds of Thousands of Years Ago
Whether you believe in creationism or evolution, the ultimate recurring question is how humans came to be. If you delve far enough, you may even begin to doubt that people are indigenous to the earth. Further investigation may lead you to consider if humans are the offspring of an alien progenitor race.
Seeding Evidence
In January 2015, the British newspaper The Express published a photograph of an unusual tiny rock spewing living stuff. Scientists hypothesized that the biological substance might contain genetic material, which they dubbed "the prelude to life."
According to certain scientists, it was sent to Earth by an unknown race in order to continue seeding the planet with life. Seeding is the process of planting foreign organisms in a specific location with the intention of replicating life. The rock appears to have been sculpted by a sentient race.
Are We Being Surveilled?
Professor Milton Wainwright and his team from the University of Buckingham's Centre for Astrobiology examined and evaluated the rock's biological composition. They hypothesized that it indicated not just the presence of extraterrestrial life, but also the presence of complex and civilized beings monitoring our planet.
Could this possibly be true? Have aliens been fertilizing the Earth since the dawn of time and are now observing our reactions? If this is the case, what is their purpose and why do they remain unknown to us?
Between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have discovered what appears to be a missing planet in the Asteroid Belt. Is the asteroid belt the result of an exploding planet from which an ancient civilization fled to earth? Could we be descended from an alien race that once inhabited another world? Could some of those aliens still be hiding or remaining undetected among us? Perhaps the founders of life on Earth prior to humans escaped extinction on their home planet and are now hiding on Earth, waiting to see if we destroy ourselves.
Is Earthly Human Life Related to Extraterrestrial Life?
Panspermia is a process by which biology spreads through space without the use of a spaceship. Living matter "hitchhikes" on the sun or inside rocks. According to some experts, Mars was formerly populated. Several cosmic boulders were "kicked" off the planet and fell on Earth in a "suitably welcoming region." The presence of biological material from Mars in the rocks may stimulate research into the age-old issue, "Where did we come from and why are we here?" There are numerous hypotheses concerning extraterrestrials.
For instance, did aliens make their way here from an unknown world due to grave circumstances on their home planets? Are we descended from this people? Dr. Ellis Silver, an environmentalist and ecologist turned novelist, feels this is the case.
Dr. Silver outlines seventeen reasons why humans are not suitable to live on this planet in his book, Humans are not from Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of the Evidence. These, he says, are indications that humanity came from another world. While Earth fits certain of our species' demands, he asserts that it is not as well suited to us as "whoever brought us here initially believed."
Silver illustrates our inadequacy for life on Earth. For instance, he asserts that humans do not thrive in high amounts of sunlight, which we receive on a daily basis. He also adds that a sizable proportion of the world's population suffers from chronic back pain, which he attributes to proof suggesting humanity originated on a planet with a lower gravity. Additionally, he observes that we are better programmed to exist on a 25-hour day rather than a 24-hour one.
Silver indicates that humanity may have originated from Alpha Centauri. The planet may have been subjected to some sort of apocalyptic disaster, from which a few residents escaped and made their way to Earth.
Are We Descended From Mars Refugees?
Scientists and academics believe that Humanoids once inhabited Mars, but a battle rendered the planet uninhabitable. This could have occurred as a result of the equivalent of two hydrogen bombs exploding 300,000 to 1 million years ago on Mars. Is it possible that some living creatures made their way to Earth prior to the destruction?
Are There Extraterrestrials Among Us?
In 1999, a source within the United States Defense Intelligence Agency told a reporter that his job was to research and monitor three extraterrestrial groups that were, and most likely still are, occupying Earth. According to the source, the alien species resides within mountains, beneath the ground, and beneath the sea in deep caverns.
The informant stated that he believes ETs wield considerable control over the planet and its population. According to him, the aliens are connected to Mars, Sirius, and Zeta Reticuli 1 and 2. The aliens who inhabit Earth bear a striking resemblance to humans. Their bodies consist of a head, two eyes, a mouth, two legs, and two arms. They conduct routine human studies and collect sperm, DNA, and other body samples.
Alien civilizations may be attempting to alter human biology in order to engineer artificial mutations. Is it possible that we are the offspring of an old alien species that is still studying, observing, and manipulating humans for unknown reasons?
Numerous deep space mysteries remain unsolved, with more questions than solutions. Immerse yourself in Deep Space: Solar System Mysteries and embark on a journey to learn about extraterrestrials and their influence and control over mankind.
According to a recent idea given by Dr. Ellis Silver, there are multiple tell-tale evidence in the human race suggesting humans did not develop ALONGSIDE other lifeforms on the planet.
The book 'Humans are not from Earth: a scientific review of the evidence' is essentially a summary of theories supporting and opposing man's evolution on Earth. Dr. Ellis Silver, a renowned environmentalist and ecologist, evaluates thirteen prominent hypotheses and seventeen factors that imply HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH in the book.
While humanity is supposedly the most developed species on the planet, it is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for the Earth's environment: it is harmed by sunlight, has a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, has ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more, according to an interview with Dr. Ellis.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans may suffer from back pain as a result of our species' original evolution on a planet with a lower gravity. Adding to the mystery, Dr. Ellis notes that newborns' enormous heads make it difficult for mothers to deliver, which can result in both mother and child dying.
So how did we get here? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species in the distant past, possibly from the star system Alpha Centauri – one of the nearest solar systems to Earth.
According to Dr. Ellis, millions of people on the planet 'feel' as if they do not belong.
"This suggests (at least to me) that mankind formed on another planet and was transported here as a highly developed species," Dr. Ellis continues. One reason for this… is that the Earth may be a jail planet, as we appear to be a naturally aggressive species here until we learn to behave."
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not emerge from that strain of life, but rather evolved elsewhere and was transferred to Earth between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago (as fully grown Homo sapiens).
Additionally, as stated by Robert Sepher, contemporary DNA sequencing has established that humanity as we know it is not a single 'race' descended from the same parent in Africa, but a hybrid species with a far more intriguing origin.
Numerous concerns have been expressed during the debate about Rh negative blood. If mankind evolved from a common ancient African ancestor, theories suggest that everyone's blood would be compatible, however this is not the case. This raises a slew of problems that science has yet to properly address.
How did Rh-negative blood become prevalent? And why would a Rh-negative mother who is pregnant with Rh-positive children attempt to reject her own offspring? Is it possible that a fairly contentious theory may account for this? A theory asserting that humanity is not a single race, but a hybrid species.
Robert Sepehr's book, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History, provides additional information about the strange blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia imply that humanity is a hybrid species, but the author also implies that highly advanced civilizations existed on Earth prior to us, only to be destroyed by some major global catastrophe, as history inexplicably teaches us.
Sepehr says that for every race that has perished, another has arisen, with a select few retaining the memories and holy knowledge of the previous race. In our vanity, we believe we have uncovered some of science and technology's great truths, but we are actually only beginning to rediscover the tremendous wisdom of previous civilizations. In many ways, we are like to an awakened Species suffering from Amnesia, desiring to retrieve our lost past.


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Q: using classes with constructor objects I am trying use a class with a constructor object, in another class. But how do I call that class correctly? eg: How do i use Class 1, in Class 2?
The example below is creating an object, from a response from an axios call. The _object should be whatever I get from getData(). Im not sure if this is the right approach. But how do i then call this class with the constructor, in another class? Ideally I want to be able to query the properties of the object, and use them in the other class, but Im not sure how to call the class properly.
Class 1:
export class MyClass {

    private _object: any;

    constructor(object: any) {
        this._object = object;
    }

    public static async getData() {
        return axios.get(url)
            .then(response => response.data)
            .catch((error) => {
                console.log(error);
            });
    }

    public static async getCurrentData() {
        return new MyClass(await this.getData());
    }

}

Trying to use this in another class, with constructor object:
Class 2:
new MyClass(object);  // cannot find name object

or
new MyClass();  // without constuctor object, Expected 1 arguments, but got 0. An argument for 'object' was not provided.'

Ive asked related question here:
return properties of constructor object

A: Your constructor requires an object as its argument. So to construct an object of MyClass, you'll need to do something like:
let obj = new MyClass({}) // construct with an empty object as the arg
// or:
let argObj = {a: 123}
let obj = new MyClass(argObj)

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It looks best in debug mode because I'm making use of vw (view-width) and vh (view-height) more than percentages or pixels.
I was having issues with creating a responsive navigation that highlighted the section you are one when you get to it, and getting rid of that white left and right border to my page. I'm using bootstrap and container-fluid should make the content flush to the margins. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I think I might go back in to add more info and to create a form someone can submit as well.
In the meantime, I would really love any feedback on its design, code, or help with either of my issues!
You've got a good start here.
As for the white space try chaning color of body with css.
Are you sure all your content is wraped within the container-fluid?
As is the huge size of some of the h elements.
I would suggest you take a closer look at responsive design.
Try some bootstrap tutorials or flexbox.
I'll check again if the content is wrapped within the container-fluid. I actually chose to make the h elements much larger as more of a design choice.
Could you elaborate more about how the responsiveness is an issue?
In the meantime, I'll look at the links you shared.
When I state responsiveness is an issue, I mean that your h elements are overlapping each other or are overlapping other content.
I tried to view in debug mode, but your link says that it has expired.
Have you used develpoer tools to view pen in responsive mode?
I had the same issue with container fluid making my nav bar pulled to the right by a couple of pixels. I still can't figure out why it does that though. taking out container fluid made it better, but leaves me without responsiveness that I want. I also noticed that you were using a different bootstrap (3.3) than is provided by codepen's quicklinks (4.0), but not sure what the differences are.
I'm really new to all this, but I couldn't figure out what Learning4Earnings meant with the responsiveness issue. everything looked good in chrome as I resized the page.
I see what you mean now, and I didn't know the debug mode link would expire. It basically looks much better when it takes up the full page with no code visible. I realize that I created queries for changes in width but not in height. On my end, when I change the width, everything decreases in size fairly gradually and there isn't overlap.
I'm using chrome and safari. I was using the developer tools from chrome when I was looking at my site.
Thanks for noting that. The different bootstrap versions might be an issue. I'll see if I can resolve that. And wow, thought I accounted for changes in width better. Hmm, I might have to start this project over.


There are many crowns paper flying to at least blow, then there are the real ones, which are gaining over time, based on talent and effort. Patrick Demarchelier photography not to any aspiring Queen, but good, and Anna Ewers It is one of them, as it boasted well proud Instagram account for the Magazine Interview. It is not for less, the German model is the next top and in these last two years He has conquered the fashion shows.
Anna Ewers has gone from being in a very short time a new face, i.e., an aspiring model to become a site in this complex industry, to a top in its own right. She was discovered by Alexander Wang in a blog and starting from there rise has been unstoppable, as well as the union with the American designer, who already has four bells for your signature and two for Balenciaga fragrance.
In the season spring-summer 2014 did nothing less than 37 parades, a figure that remained on the last circuit of the autumn 2015 / 2016 with no less than 33, of which opened seven of them.
At just 22 years old signatures raffle his face – in campaigns of 2015 has been with Mango, Moschino, Marc Jacobs, Balenciaga, Wang; In addition to appearing in the Pirelli Calendar – and give you the opportunity to be the first in your list: Derek Lam, Emilio Pucci, Gabriela, Moschino, Rodarte, Tommy Hilfiger and Tory Burch they were moments of last season gold.
The face of Anna Ewers does not meet 100% the canons of classical beauty. Even though it is connected with Brigitte Bardot, who true that is often recalled in according to what posing and photography techniques used, the German model has even more complex features, with fine eyes, emphasized by a prominent nose and eyebrows marked.
The hardness of Ewers leaves us a face for brands, since it is characteristic and do not forget, with a marked Chin and an expression that seems sad and cold.
To present the news of the autumn 2015 / 2016 Alexander Wang, Jason Wu, Rag & Bone and Tommy Hilfiger reserved you the exclusive site of the closure of the parade.
When Miuccia Prada is set on something it is because there is talent. The Italian already featured Anna Ewers cruise 2013 campaign and then in the summer of 2014, a season where the German also debuted as the image of Versace. It was clear he would talk if it remained so. Just needed two seasons of work (which would not air) to be confirmed as top, so You must be in the casting of the parade.
Of Tom Ford to Dolce & Gabbana, passing by Diane von Furstenberg, Chloe, Versace, Boss, Balmain, Oscar de la Renta, Stella McCartney, Michael Kors, Altuzarra, Balenciaga, Isabel Marant, Fendi, Etro or Roberto Cavalli, among other brands that were she to your gateway. The best and most exclusive have surrendered to his feet.
In the absence begins in September the new season of fashion shows with New York, the fashion week that better more prominence given to Anna Ewers, she continues taking advantage of all the opportunities that arise.
In October 2013, he made his debut with Chanel and since then has not lost any appointment, nine in total. This year has already been four parades for the House of Lagerfeld, two of them of Haute Couture, as the autumn 2015 / 2016 is just presented, including the Chanel Metiers d'art.
In the summer season of the high seam Anna Ewers has also modelled for Atelier Versace, other brands that have supported the German from the beginning, and who has participated in eight occasions; This was his third time with the most exclusive line.
Throughout this tour in less than two years, will be Anna Ewers new challenges for the upcoming parades? I hope that you are encouraged to follow active for a longer time before lowering a rate so high.


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These are the Canadian number-one albums of 2009. The chart is compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and published by Jam! Canoe, issued every Sunday. The chart also appears in Billboard magazine as Top Canadian Albums.

Notes
A ^ Number Ones by Michael Jackson is considered a catalog album by Billboard. Therefore, the number one album of that week was The E.N.D by Black Eyed Peas on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart.

See also
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2009 (Canada)

References

External links
Top 100 albums in Canada on Jam
Billboard Top Canadian Albums

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Canada Albums
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news / Tickets now available for Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank
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Thank you for your interest in the Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank. Due to tremendous community interest, all tickets have been reserved for this event. If you wish to be added to our waitlist, please send your name, email and phone number [email username="JFARQUHAR" link-text="HERE"]. For the latest Cleveland Foundation news and information, please consider joining our mailing list.
Tickets now available for Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank
Famous TED Talk speaker Sir Ken Robinson to deliver Robert D. Gries Keynote Lecture
RELEASE DATE: 5.5.2015
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation announced today that free tickets for its June 3 annual meeting are now available. The Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting – presented by KeyBank – will convene the community at Severance Hall on Wednesday, June 3, as the foundation commemorates the first year of its second century and a new chapter in its commitment to people, place and purpose.
Sir Ken Robinson, the most viewed TED Talk speaker of all time, will deliver the annual Robert D. Gries Keynote Lecture at the event. Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity and innovation and human resources in education and in business. A New York Times best-seller, Sir Ken is also one of the world's leading speakers on these topics, with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 300 million people in more than 150 countries. His 2006 talk is the most viewed in TED's history. In 2011, he was listed as "one of the world's elite thinkers on creativity and innovation" by Fast Company magazine and was ranked among the Thinkers50 list of the world's top business thought leaders. Sir Ken received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts.
"The Cleveland Foundation is celebrating its 101st year of working to enhance the lives of everyone who calls Greater Cleveland home," said Ronn Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation. "Our annual meeting invites the community to join us in discovering how – together with our donors, grantees, partners and friends – we can work to create a brighter future and a better home for all."
Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D.
Those interested in attending the annual meeting can reserve tickets by calling the Severance Hall box office at (216) 231-1111 or by printing tickets online at www.clevelandorchestra.com/cfannualmeeting. Up to two tickets per household are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
This is the second consecutive year that KeyBank has served as the presenting sponsor of the Cleveland Foundation's annual meeting. KeyBank has been a partner of the foundation since 1914, as one of its founding trustee banks.
"For 101 years, we've been a proud partner of the Cleveland Foundation, the first community foundation in the world," said KeyCorp Chairman and CEO Beth Mooney. "Cleveland is on an upswing, thanks in large part to the good work of the Cleveland Foundation in building that momentum. Thank you for all you do, Cleveland Foundation, and congratulations on another year of initiatives that are moving our hometown to new heights."
In addition to the annual State of the Foundation address by Ronn Richard, the annual meeting will include the presentation of the 2015 Homer C. Wadsworth Award, given annually to a local leader who demonstrates creativity, innovation, ingenuity, risk-taking, and good humor in a civic, volunteer, nonprofit, or public sector role. Last year, the foundation honored Steven D. Standley, chief administrative officer of University Hospitals of Cleveland.
The meeting will begin promptly at 6 p.m., with a community reception to follow.
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TUNE Pale Fire - All The World
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release new single 'All The World'
from forthcoming new album 'Husbands'
"Flies the flag for the next generation of Scottish Indie Rock" - Alan Morrison (The Herald)
"Lovely, yearning and powerful" - Tom Robinson (BBC Radio 6 Music)
"A combination of tremendously literary words, spirited song writing and very real performances" - Peter Kelly (Beerjacket)
Pale Fire are proud to present 'All The World', the next taste from their forthcoming second album 'Husbands'. 'All The World' is the second of three singles to be released, digitally, by Pale Fire during 2019/20, prior to the release of 'Husbands' (digital, CD and vinyl) in Spring 2020.
'All The World' is a different feel from the previous single 'Various Witches'. The track draws upon such disparate influences as outlaw country legend Townes Van Zandt, Scottish Makar Edwin Morgan's poem about Pontius Pilate 'Pilate at Fortingall' and the Roman Catholic preoccupation with the age 33. The band describe the song as "our attempt at sounding like IRS era REM playing a song about alt country icon Steve Earle's lost years". The track was recorded at The Delgados' legendary Chem 19 studios and features Donna Maciocia from Scottish indie institution Camera Obscura on backing vocals.
Following the success of their eponymous debut album, hailed as one of the Top 50 Scottish Albums of 2015 by The Herald's Alan Morrison, Pale Fire have again teamed up with acclaimed producer Jamie Savage at Chem19 Studios [The Twilight Sad, Miaoux Miaoux, The Phantom Band, RM Hubbert].
Pale Fire make pop music for those people who feel pressure to put away childish things. Their forthcoming second album, 'Husbands' (titled after the 1970 John Cassavetes film) reckons with unfashionable subject matter: the demands of adulthood. The music recognises the need to honour your responsibilities while keeping alive your essential self.
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Indiana Jones 5 is Expected to Start filming Next Week Says Harrison Ford!
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Harrison Ford confirms cameras will roll on Indy's newest adventure sometime next week.
After what has seemed like an eternity, cameras will soon be rolling on the next instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise.
The acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney opened the doorway to another adventure for the famous archaeologist and despite rumours of re-casting and delays, Harrison Ford has confirmed the commencement of shooting.
For those of you tuning into the Dedication Ceremony of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge (WATCH IT HERE), Harrison Ford made a surprise appearance on stage alongside fellow Star Wars alumni Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams and George Lucas and gave the new Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run ride his personal blessing.
Whilst promoting the all-new ride during the premiere of The Secret Life of Pets 2, the screen legend was interviewed by Variety who prompted him for an update on Steven Spielberg's untitled sequel and Ford, unreservedly replied: "we should be starting to shoot sometime next week." And continued by saying "looking forward to it," and that "things are coming along well."
Alarm bells started to ring when Disney pushed back the proposed release date by a year amidst reports of recasting the role with a younger actor, however, Ford emphatically put those rumours to bed last month on the Today Show. In fact, he was quoted as saying "Nobody is going to be Indiana Jones." And concluded by saying "Don't you get it? I'm Indiana Jones. When I'm gone, he's gone. It's easy."
This will come as music to the ears of millions of Indiana Jones fans around the world. Hardcore Indy fans would scoff at the recasting of such an iconic character, but that hasn't stopped Disney so far. The last entry in the saga, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull proved to one of the most divisive movies in recent memory, however, with Ford slipping back into the Fedora and Spielberg back behind the camera, the character has more than enough left in the tank for one last ride. And, if I had my way…another trilogy would follow that…but maybe that's hoping for too much!
So, there you have it. Shooting on Indiana Jones 5 will begin next week, with plans to release the film in cinemas on July 9th, 2021.
Fortune and glory await you doctor Jones!
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Cambridge Church Opens Café as Part of Outreach Program
The parish hall at First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC is many things in the course of an average week: a dance studio, a practice room for musicians, an AA meeting room, a movement space for preschoolers, and of course, coffee hour on Sundays after worship.
But since the middle of November, once a week on Fridays from 1:00–5:00, the church's Margaret Jewett Hall has taken yet another new and surprising form. It's become a gathering space where church members welcome homeless and marginalized neighbors in Cambridge out of the cold and into community.
Every Friday at noon volunteers transform the church hall into The Friday Café, with serving tables, café seating, music (streamed from the Internet), and good, nourishing food. Signs are placed prominently around the building to direct guests to the Café entrance. Donated clothing is put out, along with hygiene supplies; a side table near an outlet becomes a cellphone charging station. There are board games and art materials, community bulletin boards and a free lending library on some shelves in an adjoining room.
The idea for the Friday Café first came to Kate Layzer, Community Minister and member of First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC through her conversations on the streets of First Church's neighborhood of Harvard Square. As part of her outreach ministry, she began asking the people she met how the church could help the community.
Many responded that what was most needed was a place to go in the wintertime where people could warm up and get something to eat during the day. And so she met with church leaders to explore the creation of a weekly drop-in space at First Church. She submitted a proposal to the Executive Council to run a Friday Café as a pilot program from November through March, staffed by volunteers and sustained by donations from the community. The idea was warmly approved, along with a small monthly stipend for Layzer and a $500 start-up budget for the program. A week and a half later, the Café was up and running
There were a few challenges. First Church hosts an all-day preschool on weekdays, so the plan had to include measures for ensuring that Café guests wouldn't wander the building during school hours. There were meetings with preschool leaders to enlist support and allay concerns.
The church's location, a 10-minute walk from the Square, has been a more significant obstacle. Convincing guests to cross that distance, and getting them to remember to show up on Fridays, has been daunting. But word is getting out. Numbers have slowly been growing, from 8 guests the first week to 40 the day after Christmas.
So far the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Guests who have visited the Café have appreciated the warm, genuine welcome and low-key atmosphere. They've also been treated to rich, nourishing soup made specially each week by professional chefs from two local restaurants. Donuts are supplied by a local bakery, while coffee is donated by a well-known chain. The Outdoor Church of Cambridge has been a key partner with First Church, through, what Layzer describes as, "the invaluable participation of Rev. Thomas Hathaway, UCC minister and the Outdoor Church's Executive Director."
"Best of all has been the response from church members," said Layzer. Twenty-six First Church members have taken part in the Café so far, many more than once. Some come almost every week. "The numbers—and the quality of the welcome volunteers have offered—have far exceeded my expectations," she said. "Needless to say, I'd worried about the comfort level of volunteers encountering people whose lives are lived mostly on the streets. Watching church members having long, non-anxious conversations with individuals I know to be battling alcoholism or profound delusions… and then seeing those same volunteers sign up to come back, has filled me with awe. I could not have made that happen. That quality of presence—what happens 'inside the container'—is entirely the work of the Spirit."
So far, the result has been profound. Explains Layzer, "There is a spirit about the Friday Café that is hard to capture in words—a spirit of kindness and peace that carries over into our (optional) 4:00 Communion service, where we speak the words 'No matter who you are, no matter where you find yourself on the journey of life and faith….' We sing, we pray, we share the gospel and tell the story again, breaking bread and passing cup. We say a final Amen and then, together, we begin stacking chairs and clearing cups."
"For [Jesus] is our peace," writes the author of Ephesians; "in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us."
"I'm here to tell you—he's still at it," said Layzer. "And it's a good, good thing."
The Friday Café runs Fridays from 1:00–5:00 through March 2015. You can read more details about Kate's inspiration in her blog article.
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Still-standing columns at Rhodes' Acropolis of Lindos remind visitors of the island's storied past.
Rhodes is probably best known as the island once home to the Colossus of Rhodes, a 98-foot-high statue of the Greek god Helios and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Today, the tallest structure in ancient times has long disappeared, but the deer statues, where the colossus once stood, remain guarding Mandraki Harbour.
History's all over the place on the largest of the Dodecanese islands, with the Crusaders as well as Ottoman and Italian invaders having left their lasting legacy in Rhodes's Old Town. Further afield, the whitewashed villages, cobblestoned streets and beachfront tavernas are quintessentially Greek.
When visiting a new place I like to get up high for a first overview – be it a castle tower, skyscraper or mountaintop. In Rhodes, the ruins of the acropolis dominating the western part of the city fit my bill.
After a decent uphill walk in some 90°F weather, I stood in front of the remains of the Temple of Apollo. As always when encountering monuments of times long gone by, I felt reverence and admiration for the achievements of generations past.
The whole acropolis has not been excavated yet, but a small theatre and stadium below were open to the public. A local man was running circles in the stadium like his ancestors some hundreds of years ago.
Rhodes city walls and harbor.
Thanks to a strategic position in the Aegean Sea, Rhodes's Old Town has been an important seafaring and trading center since its beginnings in 407 B.C. It's surprisingly well-preserved despite a tumultuous history, and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988.
While strolling aimlessly through the well-worn streets, in every alley, around every corner, I discovered something new: bastions, thick gates, minarets, fountains, churches and busy squares. The cobblestoned Street of the Knights, one of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe, was crowded with tourists.
Palace of the Grand Master courtyard.
The Palace of the Grand Master was arguably my highlight of Old Town. Originally a Byzantine fortress, it was converted into a residence in the 14th century by the Knights of St John. The building was destroyed in 1856 by a large gunpowder explosion, only to be rebuilt in the 20th century as a holiday residence for Fascist ruler Benito Mussolini, among others.
If there's one can't-miss site on Rhodes, it has to be the remains of the acropolis of Líndos (top). After about an hour bus trip from Rhodes Old Town, I emerged at Líndos village.
The walk in the shade on narrow cobbled streets and along cubic whitewashed houses and Byzantine churches passed rather quickly, and before long I had reached the ancient site. A natural watchtower facing the open sea, the acropolis was built on a steep rock, high above sea level. I stood for awhile and took in the stunning 360° views over the village, olive groves and turquoise sea.
The acropolis covers a number of different monuments from various time periods, and it took me around two to three hours to get a good look at all of them. Although the site is well-maintained, you have to be careful with slippery steps and pieces of stone strewn about.
With what felt like a lifetime of Greek history under my belt, I had one last stop to make before returning home. On the way from the airport, I had noticed a large cross on top of a hill. A look on the map told me to head uphill to a place called the Monastery of Filerimos.
The hilltop Monastery of Filerimos.
My navigation skills aren't the best, but I had to see the cross, so I started hiking through lush green bush further and further up. I couldn't believe my eyes when I discovered overgrown, possibly ancient columns next to the unbeaten path – making me feel like an archeologist before an important discovery. Presumably, the locals have all sorts of ancient monuments in their back gardens; it was an elevating feeling anyway.
Unfortunately, due to my dawdling, I opened the gates to the monastery just 30 minutes before closing time. But the silence and peace of the place made any time constraints disappear. The monastery has been occupied by monks continuously for over 16 centuries (although peacocks seemed to be the only residents at the time of my visit).
The Path of Golgotha, held to be the path that Jesus, carrying the cross, walked to his crucifixion, is depicted on brass plaques on Filerimos Hill. A shaded pathway connects the monastery with the enormous 18-meter concrete cross I'd seen days before. After walking up the internal staircase I had a last look over the island, and left off where I started – with a view from the top.


Reggie Bush who was subjected to investigation following the reports of him accepting cash, gifts and other impermissible benefits while playing for the Trojans is about to be stripped off the honor.
Two sources close to the Heisman trust said the body's investigation is coming to a close, and will ultimately concur with the NCAA's determination that Bush was ineligible during his Heisman-winning season in 2005. Because of that independent conclusion, sources said the trust will relieve Bush of the award and leave the honor for that season vacant. The sources said Bush met with Heisman representatives last month at the New York law offices of Emmet, Marvin & Martin. The sources would not reveal details of that meeting.
The investigation first broke out after NCAA claimed that Bush has taken bribes during the tournament. This let the UFC to conduct its own investigation. After years of investigations finally the trust has concluded that Bush has indeed taken gift.
As a result, he will be striped off the honor which he received on 2004.
The status of USC's 2004 Bowl Championship Series national title remains to be determined. BCS officials are awaiting the NCAA's ruling on the Trojans' appeal of the June finding.
Che, this is really shame to the game and sportsmanship . Athelethes today are easily driven to the gifts and bribes. No more do they play for the honor.
The one that plays for gift will be surely caught and the case of Bush has just proved that. So be aware those who cheat!!!
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