I've been overly blessed in my life. That's a pretty obnoxious thing to admit, I know, but it's true. I was born with probably one of the coolest dad's ever and then, if that weren't enough, I married a guy who has another really cool dad and made him mine as well. So I have two really cool dads to write about for this up coming father's day. And, just like with mother's day, in honor of the holiday, I don't feel bad about showing off how cool my dads are to all of the internet.
My dad looks great and of course my eyes are closed.
This is my dad; my dad is amazing. He raises chickens and is rumored to fight crime with them at night. He chops his own wood, grows a garden of fruits and vegetables and sings Veggie Tales with the best of them. I'm convinced that he can fix just about anything. He does crossword puzzles in the paper for fun and is a big fan of sitcoms like Seinfeld and The Big Bag Theory. He also really likes birds. He often takes pictures of them in the bush by their house, but he doesn't technology, so he has to wait for one of us kids to put them on the computer so he can see them. We've had a complicated history, mostly due to the fact that at some point I had to be a teenager, as is required by law, and that always screws with things a little. It took me a long time to figure out that the way my friends' dads showed love and affection was not the way my dad did it and that his way was no less loving and affectionate than their way. Once I figured that out, it became vary clear to me that my dad was, in fact, the best.
This is us before he gave me away at my wedding. My wedding is actually the perfect embodiment of his love for me. He wouldn't give us a budget, saying whatever it cost, he would cover it, even if he had to take out a loan to do it. I wasn't going to let him do that, of course, and if I could cut expenses I was going to do it, but still, the sentiment was clear: no cost was too great to see me happy. Anything he could do to make my day perfect, he was going to do. That is how he shows his love; by making things happen.
When I went to college, he found me a car and he kept it running for a year and a half, even though it was a 1994 Buick century that I promptly crashed and he brought back to life so I could keep driving it. If I hadn't been so attached to the car, I think he might have just scraped it, but I loved the car so much already that he probably spent more money than necessary fixing it so I could keep driving the steel heat trap for another year until it died of natural causes. My dad worked everything out so that I came out of college with about half as much debt as some of my classmates. When I wanted to live on campus for a year, he encouraged me to go for it, saying, we'll get another loan and it'll be fine. That's his catch phrase, by the way: "It'll be fine." It's one that I've adopted in my own life. No matter what happens, everything will work out, one way or another. It'll be fine. What he meant by that, in this case, was somehow he would magically cover my room and board so that I didn't have to worry about it. I don't know how he did it, and of course he would only say "I took care of it," but he did it and I am so thankful for it.
Fun story: FedEx is obnoxious. That's not the story, just a fact. My junior year of college I dropped my phone in a cup of tea and had to get a new one sent to my house. I was in class, naturally, when the guy was supposed to come drop it off, so my brother was in charge of signing for it when it came. He was there, but the FedEx guy decided instead of knocking like a normal human, he would just leave a note on the door and drive away. I had to wait until Monday for them to try again and this time my dad was home, lights on throughout the house, both doors wide open, there was no mistake that someone was home. FedEx guy again puts a note on the door and tries to drive away, but my dad hears him get into his truck. Dad, being a super hero in his spare time, chases the FedEx guy down the road to get my phone. That is how manly my dad is, and that is how much he loves me.
As if I needed more proof of my father's love for me, as we danced at my wedding he told me he didn't know why I had picked "Rainbow Connection" sung by Kermit the Frog for our dance, because it was too short. He wanted that moment to last forever. He cried on the way to my wedding, and I cried with my sister when I heard about it. I never thought I would see my dad cry. For a long time we thought he just didn't love us, it turns out, he's just really sneaky about it.
I have gotten so much from my dad. He was the one who taught me how to ride my back, and throw a baseball, and took me fishing every summer as a kid. He was the one who taught me that things will work out just fine whether I worry about them or not. He's the one who makes cookies with me every Christmas and taught me the art of the candy cane cookie; hardest of all the Christmas cookies to make. He taught me that actions speak louder than words, you just have to listens for them. That time spent with someone is the greatest gift you can give them. I may not have grown up with everything I wanted, but I had everything I needed, and more. He may not have been the greatest dad in the world, but he will always be my favorite dad.
He puts up with us so well.
When I got married, I got another dad. Well, okay, when I started dating my husband I got another dad. They adopted me pretty quickly into their family. My father-in-law is a Reformed Presbyterian pastor who enjoys Bing Crosby, 80's music, comic books and old tv shows. If you play him a song from the 80's he can probably tell you what it's called and who it's by and name half the band to boot. My husband has inherited part of this talent and it still impresses me every time. This is why we can't ever play Classic Rock Trivial Pursuit with them.
My father-in-law is great to talk to, which is something I missed out on growing up. My dad is much more of a do-er than a talker. If he can get through something with as little conversation as possible, he'll do it. My father-in-law, on the other hand, is much better with chit-chat. He takes an interest in what we're doing and asks questions where he doesn't understand something or, maybe, just to give me an opening to ramble for a while. I talk much more than anyone else in their family. My father-in-law is engaging, patient and understand and I appreciate having him to talk to.
One of the things I'm most thankful for is the way my father-in-law looks after us. When he knows something is wrong we get a call. He's always right there, ready with a prayer and a comforting word. He texts us for updates and sometimes just to encourage us, and he always ends his texts with "love you." I got a lot of non-verbal love growing up from my dad, so having the words spoken and texted to me regularly by my father-in-law is a wonderful new experience. It's a wonderful feeling to hear, and know, without a doubt, that you are loved, without having to read between the lines. It was something I missed with my dad, but now I have with my father-in-law. I think it's really awesome how God fills those gaps.
My father-in-law is a great example of a Godly man, not just because he's a pastor, but also because he's just a strong Christian in general. He has a whole congregation to take care off, and yet he always makes sure to find time and energy to spend on us. He can turn off the pastor mode and still give good, God-centered advice when we need it. He is also an amazing husband, supporting his wife in all that they do. I love to watch the two of them interact because there's so much love and respect between them. My husband looks up to him so much and I am so thankful that my husband has such an amazing example of what a Godly husband and father should look like.
So those are my two super cool dads. I am so blessed to have a father who is always there, willing and able, to help me do whatever needs to get done, and a father who is always there with a prayer and advice when I need it. I am so thankful to have both of these men in my life and I can't wait to spend father's day with both of them!
Bekah, what a beautiful tribute to both your "fathers". Thank you for your presence in the Scavo family. Love both you and Logan.


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Feb. 12, 2018 / 3:19 PM
Scientists can now 3D print nanoscale metal structures
"The diameter of the metal beams in the printed part is roughly 1/1000th the size of the tip of a sewing needle," researcher Andrey Vyatskikh said.
Scientists created a nanoscale lattice of nickel using a new 3D printing technique. Photo by Greer Lab
Feb. 12 (UPI) -- Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have found a way to make sophisticated nanoscale metal structures using a 3D printer. If effectively scaled, the technology could have a range of commercial applications.
Objects made via 3D printing are constructed using additive manufacturing, the deposition of material layer by layer. The technology can yield unique substructures -- nanostructures that would be impossible to produce using more common manufacturing methods like etching or milling.
Scientists have succeeded at creating unique nanostructures using polymers, ceramics and other materials, but 3D printing metals has proven difficult.
When 3D printing polymer structures, extremely precise lasers use just a pair of photons to harden the liquified polymer. To fuse metals, however, more energy is required.
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"Metals don't respond to light in the same way as the polymer resins that we use to manufacture structures at the nanoscale," Caltech materials scientist Julia Greer said in a news release. "There's a chemical reaction that gets triggered when light interacts with a polymer that enables it to harden and then form into a particular shape. In a metal, this process is fundamentally impossible."
Andrey Vyatskikh, a grad student and researcher in Greer's lab, developed a workaround using organic ligands to create a metal-enriched resin. Organic ligands naturally bind with metal. The resin functions like a polymer, but can carry along tiny fragments of metal.
In the lab, Vyatskikh and Greer created a resin of metal and organic ligands. The resin is used just like a normal polymer, zapped with the laser to harden into a preprogrammed design. With each zap, the chemical bonds between the organic molecules are strengthened, and because the organic ligands are already bonded with the metal, the nickel becomes incorporated into the newly hardened material.
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Once printed, scientists put the metal-enriched polymer scaffolding into vacuum oven and heated it to 1,000 degrees Celsius, roughly 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit -- just hot enough to vaporize the organic molecules but not hot enough to melt the nickel.
Through a process known as pyrolysis, the heat strengthens the bonds between the metal molecules. Though the material shrinks, the organization of the scaffolding's nanoscale structure is maintained.
"That final shrinkage is a big part of why we're able to get structures to be so small," said Vyatskikh. "In the structure we built for the paper, the diameter of the metal beams in the printed part is roughly 1/1000th the size of the tip of a sewing needle."
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Vyatskikh and Greer -- who described the work this week in the journal Nature Communications -- believe their technology could be used to build parts of computer chips or lightweight aerospace components.
The technology could also be used to create new kinds of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, a unique material with an expansive internal surface area. In a recent study, another group of scientists used MOFs to remove salt and ions from water.
In future studies, Vyatskikh and Greer hope to experiment with other metals and measure the impurities caused by pyrolysis.
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You may not know exactly how your septic system works. That's okay because we will walk you through all the steps of your drain field repair. We offer free estimates and inspections, as well as a 10-year warranty on any drain field repairs, as long as you have your septic tank pumped by us every 3 years after the repair is completed. Wastewater passes through your septic tank into your drain field. The drain field consists of a group of pipes that are perforated to allow water to gradually be released and absorbed by the surrounding soil. The drain field also has gravel that helps facilitate this process.
It is important to realize that not all drain fields are the same size or shape. When drain fields are installed, the type of soil, the size of the septic tank and household, and the shape of the land must all be considered. It is also important to know where your drain field is located. Drain field repair is often needed because tree roots have disrupted the drain field. Parking cars on top of the drain field can also negatively impact water absorption.
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SuperyachtNews.com - Business - That's the Spirit!
Suffolk-based yacht designer and builder Spirit Yachts has announced development plans for its UK yard to better cater for the superyacht sector.
With approved plans to expand its UK boat yard, and building work due to be completed in early summer 2015, the new space will have capacity for superyachts up to 37m and will provide facilities for the future growth of the existing team.
The new facilities will also accommodate the increasing enquiries that Spirit Yachts is receiving for its superyacht range. "The high level of interest we have received in recent new designs for a Spirit 110-foot, a Spirit 118-foot and a Spirit Royale 115-foot motoryacht has proved there is a strong demand for sail and power Spirit superyachts," adds Stuart.
The decision to expand the yard comes shortly after the opening of Spirit's new Hong Kong office. "Hong Kong is an important part of our expansion process and is key to keeping our enquiry base as wide as possible," says Stuart. "We feel strongly about being close to our customers and having sales offices in the right location for sales and support is vital. We would like to see the Hong Kong office adding 25 per cent to the company turnover.


Why would I use ShowingTime for the MLS?
Do you have any recorded demos?
Is there a handout I can give to my sellers explaining the benefits of ShowingTime?
What if I am a member of multiple boards?
What is the Agent Activity Report?
What is the Showings I Have Requested Report?
Can I track my Clients?
Can I send my Sellers reports?
Can I send notifications to agents that have shown my listings?
Homeowners would like to know who the showing agent is for the upcoming appointment. What can I do?
Why should I update my phones software?
ShowingTime for the MLS (previously known as ShowingAssist) enables real estate professionals to schedule showings online to save them from unnecessary phone calls and busy work. This feature not only decreases in and outbound calls, but saves time, generates more showings, and helps agents provide better client service with increased accountability and enhanced security - all leading to a more efficient home sale.
Yes - We have sections dedicated to your MLS with recorded demos for you to watch at your convenience. To access, please visit your MLS' main training page.
Push Notifications are messages that appear on your IOS or Android device from installed applications on your device. ShowingTime sends these notifications for appointment statuses, feedback notifications, and events like messages from other agents. While sometimes confused with text messages, a user can customize the way a push notification appears on their device. Because it is from ShowingTime, it appears with the ShowingTime logo which lets you know, at-a-glance what actions you need to take.
What is a Showing Pin?
A showing pin is an extra level of security you can add to your account. If you contact a specialist in the Appointment Center for example, you will be asked to provide this information. A showing pin is not required.
Your office administrators may need a way to post information relevant to all of its agents. The Office Broadcast feature allows them to schedule announcements, or messages and send them to you. A staff or Manager user can create these messages to let agents know of holiday plans or important information. You can edit the way these notifications are sent to you in your profile.
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This report allows you to review all appointments you have scheduled with any office using ShowingTime products.
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From the Listing Activity Report you can send a Price Change Notification or a general notification to agents that have shown your listings. Agents can opt-out of these notifications and by default the list of agents will only contain those agents that have shown the property in the last 180 days.
Many homeowners are concerned about who's visiting their home when they're not there. A simple name or an office affiliation will put their mind at ease and help them connect appointments with feedback responses. We offer three options on the office level: 1) to display showing agent and office name, 2) office name only or 3) no details at all. If you have questions about your office setup, your office manager can help answer these questions.
Your cell phone provider is your choice. ShowingTime sends a text message to the number provided (and enabled) for text. Some carriers and plans may charge you for a pool of text messages or SMS's.
ShowingTime is not responsible for these charges. In addition, your cell phone provider may also experience outages or poor service areas from time to time.
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We seem to know quite a bit already about Apple's new iPhones being announced tomorrow thanks to months of rumors. One early rumor may have turned out to be wrong, however: it now seems the new iPhones won't come with fast-charging out of the box after all.
According to reliable apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo – since backed up by 9to5Mac – the new iPhones will ship with a measly USB-A 5W charger as always. That also means you'll still need a dongle to connect to your newer, USB-C MacBook.
To be clear, the new iPhones will almost certainly support fast charging, because the current iPhones already do. The problem is that you can't use the charger in the box for it – you have to spend money on a more powerful one.
As I've written previously, Apple packs a puny 5W charger with its iPhones, which can take several hours to refill your battery. Compare that with Android devices which have shipped with at least a 10W charger for years, and nowadays sometimes push 28W. A 60-minute charge on the iPhone X will only get you 37 percent of your battery back from zero. The OnePlus 6, on the other hand, will charge to about 90 percent in the same time with its 20W charger, despite sporting a significantly larger battery.
Given this discrepancy – every Android flagship comes with a fast charger – you'd have thought Apple would include a fast charger in the box by now. Unfortunately, it seems the company would still rather make a few extra bucks off of its thousand-dollar phone than include such a basic feature. Here's hoping Apple proves me wrong tomorrow.
There's still some hope for the future though. Kuo's same report indicate Apple's new iPad Pro will come with a USB-C port out of the box – as opposed to Lightning – pretty much guaranteeing fast charging. That seems to suggest USB-C will eventually arrive on the iPhone, even if it takes another generation or two. Then we may finally achieve the dream of having one cable to rule them all.


Since the video was only supposed to be 5 seconds, I decided that using snapchat would be the easiest recording tool to use!
I seized the moment over breakfast at this mom and pop diner and recorded my coffee/Thomas. Disclaimer: Thomas had no idea I was going to record him.
I saved the snapchat video, uploaded it to my computer, and lastly uploaded it to vimeo!


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Author: Finland can be an example for Estonia in many ways
Frans Emil Sillanpää's "Fallen Asleep As Young" Source: Klassikaraadio
The second program of Tõnu Õnnepalu's book series "Recognitions" is dedicated to the novel "Fallen Asleep As Young" (1931) by the only Finnish Nobel laureate Frans Eemil Sillanpää. Among other things, Õnnepalu also reflected on the points of contact between Finnish and Estonian life.
The main character of Sillanpää's novel, Silja, is the last child of a family, who loses her home and parents, serves strangers and dies on a beautiful summer day. Although the book is about the fate of an orphan and the activity takes place during the Finnish Civil War, Õnnepalu said that the novel has a charming, bright storyline.
"Sillanpää's work focuses on the Finnish Civil War and the world of the deprived, the poor, the incompetent. In the novel, we see the Civil War through the eyes of a young girl who does not belong to either side. Sillanpää himself is from a poor family, but has climbed the ladder with the help of his education. He is no longer among the poor, but he cannot be fully identified with the "better" society of which he is now a part," Õnnepalu said.
"It seems that by the 1930s long novels had exhausted themselves, after Proust and Joyce there is not much left to say in the great novel, although they are still written today. Before and after the Second World War, the short, ascetic novel flourished, and Sillanpää's novel is one example of that. Reasonably, Sillanpää also became the only Nobel Prize winner of the Finns in 1939," he said.
"Finnish literature has been very close to us through the ages, just like the country is close to us. More than any other country, Finland could be a direct example to us in many things. The Estonian government could have this kind of department, the Finnish Imitation Department, which would investigate how is life organized there. Unfortunately, Estonia hasn't really followed the example of Finland."
"Fallen Asleep As Young" is literature from a past, lost world, but in some mysterious way, it still has a fresh and exciting effect. And it is also real summer reading, a summer novel."
Tõnu Õnnepalu's series "Recognitions" will be on Klassikaraadio on Sunday at 9.05 a.m. and on Wednesday at 21 p.m.
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Defense minister: Finland extremely significant regional defense partner


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The affordances of desire: on dating apps
By Scott Robinson
18.Sep.20
I don't turn off what turns me on
St Vincent, 'Masseduction'
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all single people are on dating apps. Of course, as with Jane Austen's memorable line, the experiences different people have on such apps are highly variable, and the politics governing their design and use are almost as regressive and restrictive as the sexual economy of the early nineteenth century. But it is proof of the eagerness with which we try and find intimacy that neither a global pandemic, nor a lockdown has stopped dating.
Reliably awful, The Economist has reported that the number of messages sent on dating apps had increased by twenty-seven per cent, so that Rob-not-his-real-name, 'classically handsome, with a job on Wall Street', could no longer get the sex he thought owing to him.
The geography of dating apps, like online pornography, is a distorted map of desire. It is blighted by all our prejudice, embarrassment and shame, and stoked by all our affirmation and (need of) love. The regulated topography of online desire is, as Giuliana Bruno writes of film in Atlas of Emotion (2002), 'a mobile map – a map of differences, a production of socio-sexual fragments and cross-cultural travel.' What this map tells us is that dating apps have a stultifying effect on the emancipation of desire from the propertarian, heteronormative rituals that to dominate our relationships of intimacy, love and sex.
Apps like Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, OkCupid, Grindr, Scruff and Brenda – to name only a few mainstream examples – offer affordances that are built into the way they are designed. These affordances import all the assumptions and norms of both those who make them, and adapt primarily to what sells: they turn daters into consumers of each other, and unwitting producers of data for the monopolistic behemoths of the digital world. Dating apps are actively involved in reproducing the traits of contemporary capitalism, transforming our very desires in ways that reshape and homogeneise how we love each other.
In its application from geography to technology, an affordance can 'incline users to adopt different behaviours and pursue different paths of development,' which are not always noticed because they operate 'structurally in the background and in a manner that tends to be overlooked and taken for granted by those situated within the environment.' As Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger write in Re-Engineering Humanity (2019), 'our perception and understanding of reality adjusts gradually as we become accustomed to the presence, power and utility of tools.' Despite the narrative of progressive development as dating app creators respond to bugs and flaws in previous version, it is dating apps that shape us, not consumers that shape dating apps.
Dating apps fit into the same corporate geography as the mass social networking sites and hegemonic platforms like Facebook and Google. As Shoshana Zuboff reminds us in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019), everything we do on the internet creates data, which is a product we give freely to platforms that they sell to advertisers. It is not simply a matter of customising our online experience; internet giants (and governments) have larger goals, namely predicting and altering our behaviour. Their algorithms work structurally in the background, subtly predicting what we 'want' and so shaping and narrowing it in advance. Eerily similar to online shopping, what dating apps want is for us to stay on the site, keep feeding data to them, and satisfy distorted versions of preferences we select ahead of time, as though we knew beforehand what 'type' of person we could love.
Dating apps offer a false solution to the desiccated public sphere and the disenchanted anonymity of modern environments. They are designed to solve the problem of loneliness (and boredom) but their architecture channels users into ritualistic forms of sociality that exacerbate them. The boredom of scrolling, and the loneliness induced by the way profiles seem to suggest that everyone else is happier and shinier that we are. They make us imagine that everyone else is cheerily mingling, while simultaneously enhancing the privacy of our experience and 'outsourcing' the terrifying prospect of approaching strangers. They 'gamify' social life. Like Rameet Chawla, who set up an app to automatically like all his friends' photos, online 'solutions' do not solve a problem but avoid it, and at the same time, turn that avoidance to the advantage of big tech companies. By minimising its scope, dating apps transmute our desire into data.
Dating apps encourage us to fit our desires into pre-determined boxes, not intended to expand our imagination of who we might love, but to reduce it to predictable characteristics, which often simply track the worst forms of prejudice and discrimination. Moreover, they encourage us to treat our desires as units of information defined by superficial and fixed characteristics. This does a disservice to the malleability and breadth of human desire and companionship, but it is itself in service of producing profit-maximising behaviour, making us more predictable and more easily manipulated. As Frischmann and Selinger write, in the territory of apps, 'personal relationships are treated like a system that should be optimized to mininise inefficiency and waste through strict cost-benefit planning.'
As Amia Srinivasan writes in her blistering essay 'Does anyone have a right to sex?', 'There are of course real risks associated with subjecting our sexual preferences to political scrutiny … There is nothing else so riven with politics and yet so inviolably personal.' But for Srinivasan, avoiding these issues disastrously conflates prudishness, the ill-grounded assumption of liberal freedom, with genuine attempts at feminist and queer critique. Against the attempt to 'exorcise the radical feminist ambition to develop a political critique of sex,' Srinivasan argues that we need to learn 'how to dwell in the ambivalent place where we acknowledge that no one is obligated to desire anyone else, that no one has a right to be desired, but also that who is desired and who isn't is a political question, a question usually answered by more general patterns of domination and exclusion.'
Laura Kipnis proposed just such an ambivalent critique in her polemic Against Love (2003). She lamented that 'so exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame.' Yet, for Kipnis, as modern humans we are 'constituted as beings yearning to be filled, craving connection, needing to adore and be adored, because love is vital plasma and everything else in the world just tap water.' We can neither simply avoid speaking about love, no matter what our relationships status, nor avoid the fact that, as the Endnotes collective write in 'We Unhappy Few', 'Capitalism is not our there, it traverses us, it is us.' All our interactions with platform and surveillance capitalism are discreetly reshaping who we are, and foreclosing questions of who we want to be and who we want to be with.
Dating apps and parlour chats
One way of thinking about how reactionary dating apps are is by comparing their affordances with Victorian rituals of courtship. Qualifying the criticism that dating has been commercialised and that love has become economic is the historical perspective that love has always had economic aspects. For example, Jane Austen's novels are full of delicate negotiations and economic calculations about the suitability of particular matches, governed by the constant reminder that no one should marry above (or below) their station.
Katherine Sharpe compares the dating site to the 'Victorian drawing room where women communicate through the angle of their fans.' Conversations, like profiles, have a dull consistency that ossifies into types so that we can flick right or left with half a second of consideration. They have an eye-bleedingly formulaic quality, as though the app interrupted our ability to think and speak:
Not much.
As Austen writes in Emma, this formulaic style of conversation is designed to conceal the vulnerability of expressing desire: 'their straightforward emotions left no room for the little zigzags of embarrassment.' In most chats, Austen, in Sense and Sensibility, captures the disheartening quality of conversation such that 'she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.' Austen is scornful, even contemptuous of those who seek to better themselves by a superior match, such as Lucy whose 'unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.' The lofty assumption is that our sympathetic heroines – who adhere to class conventions – are beyond the dirty economic calculation of aspiration, or somehow exceptional.
Yet Austen does capture the boredom and monotony of chatter, like Marianne's refusal to express herself since she 'could find no language to describe [her feelings] in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning.' In uncannily similar terms, Lauren Oyler jokes, 'the internet's contribution to language has been to give us more ways to communicate without saying anything at all :('
Although it lets some people into the dating world, the style of communication on dating sites – according to Eva Illouz's seminal analysis in Cold Intimacies (2007) – is characterised by 'uniformity, standardisation, and reification' of our desires and identities.
Dating app profiles and the affordances of the algorithms and platforms produce rigid sexualities and, some argue, tend to reinforce gender binaries. Rena Bivens and Anna Shah Hoque compare the putatively 'feminist' dating app Bumble to 'the ballrooms of the nineteenth century Regency era, [in which] women are deeply tied to a particular performance of femininity while men are offered an opportunity to be gentlemanly.' This stands in contrast to the conservative moral panic that feared the emancipation of sexuality in the context of new online possibilities. Nancy Jo Sales famously prophesied the 'dating apocalypse' with the advent of Tinder. However what sociologists have discovered is that dating apps have not so much led to a proliferation of promiscuity than to a rise in unsafe sex with the same partners.
We're not more open or experimental, simply lazier in the way we conduct our flings. We have outsourced our self-presentation and self-worth to social media and dating app profiles. The effort of expressing our desires is distorted into simplified questionnaires, that, as Rob Horning points out, claim to know more about us than we do ourselves. As Whitney Erin Boesel puts it, 'what's unique about online dating is not the actual dating, but how one came to be on a date with that particular stranger in the first place.' Or, more bluntly, Ana Cecilia Alvarez: 'Platforms calibrate how daters reach their target audience.'
Alvarez points out that it is not simply the ways in which we find dates, but the very possibilities and passages of desire that are being re-routed by dating apps. 'Desirability and desire are reduced to a data set of 'taste', with all of its classist and racist trappings, and in this myopic echo chamber we often match with others whose taste remind us of our own.' For example, Bronwyn Carlson has highlighted the prevalence of 'sexual racism' against Indigenous Australians. As apps become more specialized in response to the market growth in loneliness and persistent pressure to pair up, they intensify these features.
For instance: in market-savvy response to the 'dating apocalypse', a Harvard Business School graduate set up a new service called Hinge 'that would facilitate committed relationships.' The consumer feedback demanded a 'clean, well-lighted space' that was explicit about being not explicit. The feedback loop reported by Sales herself is telling for two reasons. Firstly, the apps are advertised for a particular type of relationship, specifically a straight and narrow one. As Emily Witt identified in Future Sex (2016), dating apps offer 'a clear, sense-making corridor from being single to being in a couple with no detours into other possibilities.' And, secondly, it is and always was a business. No, wait: you are the business. Witt confirms, 'the "marketplace" of Internet dating made consumer products of humans and overwhelmed them with choices.'
This is not to say that dating apps started out as well-designed or safe online environments for women, people of colour, sexual minorities and gender diverse folk. It is hard not to sympathise with the dilemma facing eager but respectable singles, faced with the prospect of endless dick pics, leering men or simply boredom and disappointment. One woman replied to Sales' initial 2015 article with a call to 'Bring back retro dating.' This does seem to be a prevalent sentiment, not just among users but among 'theorists' of love as well.
In Distillations (2018), Mari Ruti laments that it is typical of 'our pragmatic, levelheaded society to reject the unsettling aspects of love,' a tendency
crystallised in the streamlined attempts of dating services to match partners based on desireable characteristics and shared interests – and (eventually) matrimonial harmony. Such instrumentalisation of love serves as a force of biopolitical conditioning that extracts out of love everything that renders it inspiring, making it instead serve the needs of cultural stability, political expediency, and the market economy.
Although Ruti is right in diagnosing some of the problems with online dating, nevertheless she pits it against a romantic, idealised conception of love, which economic calculation sunders. Similarly, pre-eminent philosopher Alain Badiou, sounding far too much like Alain de Botton, denounces online dating for eroding the factor of chance from love. Not exactly hard-hitting, nor exactly true.
Against the creep of a nostalgic vision of lost romantic love, Julia Carter argues that while 'the very start of relationships might be different – meeting online might give those first few dates a different flavour – when those relationships start to become established, then the way we do things hasn't really changed.' If anything, online dating expands the range of possible matches beyond our restrictive social circles, yet our actual relationships remain steadfastly conventional, which is to say systematically unequal.
Jenny van Hooff's survey of dating app users in Western Australia found that
while evidence to support the commercialization of intimate life was limited, findings suggest that the use of dating apps may reinforce conventionally gendered hierarchies, as participants' interactions and experiences continue to be framed by heteronormative scripts.
In their playful 'Dating in the Expanded Field', Moira Weigel and Mal Ahern trace courting rituals from the Victorian era, in which men entered women's private space and were supervised, to the modern post-war era, when men picked women up from home and took them out into the public world. Modern daters, they write, 'publicly traded time, company and money' and made 'dating's site' not the 'home but the marketplace.' The publicity of the courtship has arguably been reversed by dating apps, which have re-privatised many of the rituals associated with dating. But it has not necessarily increased or decreased the commercialisation of intimate life, as van Hooff argues. Although Arlie Hochschild suggests that commercialisation has increased, and led to terms like 'economy of gratitude' or 'care deficit', Viviana Zelizer counters that 'intimacy and economics have never been so separate in the first place. If dating (whether online or conventional) is like shopping, we should not feign surprise.'
Dating capital
Criticisms of dating apps that target the way they commercialise romance only show how short our historical memories (and critical visions) are. Like conservative reactionaries, they confuse the imbalanced effects and debasement of the ideals of the sexual revolution with its original promise. This historical short-sightedness means we are susceptible to perceive change where none has occurred simply because we lack the critical framework to understand the situation. Rather than a loss, the effect of dating apps on sexuality may be a regression to privatised spaces characteristic of Victorian courtship. On the other hand, if we are going to identify genuine changes, we will have to engage not only in a closer analysis of the way the dating apps are business platforms like any other social media, and the way their design offers a particularly restrictive set of affordances. We will also have to risk what Srinivasan calls a 'political critique of desire.'
To engage in such a critique, we must be willing to de-naturalise and politicise both our desire and our identities so that we can see how power works through both. In doing so, we may after all find that dating apps do increase the commercialisation of sex and love, not necessarily by commodifying our relationships as older models of alienation by labour might have it, but by intensifying the extent to which we perceive ourselves as human capital. As John Lanchester argued of platform capitalists: 'You are the product!' In other words, rather than pretend that dating apps are unique inducing us to 'sell ourselves', we can attend to the way they encourage us to enhance the product, and invest in it, and speculate on it.
In his analysis of the concept of human capital in The Birth of Biopolitics (2008), Michel Foucault wrote:
Homo œconomicus is an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur of himself … The man of consumption is not one of the terms of exchange. The man of consumption, insofar as he consumes, is a producer. What does he produce? Well, quite simply, he produces his own satisfaction.
Foucault's insight is also true to the peculiar narcissism of these platforms, which encourage as much self-curation as they do self-promotion. As human capital, we both respond to and create markets. This has enormous implications for our desires. By selecting categories and cultivating ever more specific personality types, we play into the conventional models offered to us by the apps and platforms. We undergo the necessary standardisation, and, paradoxically, nichification, so that we are both measureable and quantifiable to the technology, and visible and stand out to our prospective partners.
Desire itself has become a kind of labour, catechised by the slogan of couples therapy that 'relationships take work', as Kipnis writes. We are governed by the imperative to 'stay together' as the mark of maturity and, to service this imperative, the therapeutically enforced work ethic has infiltrated the most intimate parts of our lives. Economic calculus takes place under the pressures of a market order characterized by 'scarcity, threat and internalised prohibitions, held in place by those incessant assurances that there are "no viable alternatives"'. As Silvia Federici wrote in 1975, sexuality under capitalist patriarchy is work and 'little spontaneity is possible when the timing, conditions and the amount of energy available for love, are out of our control.' This leads to a 'behavioural uniformity', Kipnis argues, that in the world of dating apps is ideal for data collection and behaviour prediction. Moreover, as neoliberals long hoped, the family form of relationships preserves the market order for efficient expropriation and guarantees the 'orderly transmission of property via inheritance.'
Although the economic rationality that governed dating in Austen's time and our networked, satellite and location-tracking enabled version share a set of 'social rules governing mate selection [that] are as finicky and precise as they were in Jane Austen's time. The difference is that it's now taboo to acknowledge them, which may amount to less freedom rather than more.' The promise of sexual liberation, and the possibility of a radical transformation in the labour of reproduction and way in which people in society care for one another, have been deserted by the hypertrophic privacy and restricted range of options delivered to us by dating apps.
The geography of dating apps is a bleak desert populated by standarised, calculating avatars of our bored, isolated and lonely selves. But in the midst of this, people do talk and adapt platforms to their own ends. Moreover, examples abound of attempts to express new forms of desire, and imagine new modes of intimacy and relationship. Writers like Samuel Delany in Heavenly Breakfast and Gillian Rose in Love's Work, as well as those I have quoted demonstrate these possibilities and, as Sophie Lewis recently reminded us, it takes a lot of propaganda to maintain the conceit of heterosexuality. These are winkles in the dismal similitude of desire, like each hopeful dater reaching out to their matches.
Note: I thank all my friends who shared their experiences and ideas about dating apps with me.
Image: Giorgio De Chirico, The Archaeologists (1927)
Scott Robinson is a PhD Candidate in philosophy at Monash University and subeditor of Demos Journal.
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From Fair dinkum on 18 September 2020 at 7.04 pm
A comprehensive, albeit dense, analysis of dating apps Scott.
What we really need is a bullshit app.
One that can detect the blatant lies, spin and propaganda that we are drip fed from the MSM.
From Josh on 20 September 2020 at 3.40 pm
Had to go to the thesaurus on this one, Scotty. Wow-wee.
From Scott on 25 September 2020 at 12.29 pm
Thanks Josh, I'll take that as a compliment.
From Emily on 24 September 2020 at 4.58 pm
This is a really in-depth article. Fascinating points raised.
Thanks so much Emily!


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Q: Integrating Web Application Firewall into this architecture I need some help figuring out how to implement a Web Application Firewall (WAF) in my existing architecture.
Currently I have 2 HAproxy servers clustered using keepalived which are responsible for the following:

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*Load Balancing

*SSL Termination

*Re-directing static traffic to cache servers

I have 1 varnish server that is only caching static content. My Traffic flow looks something like this:
    Load Balancer (haproxy)-+---------(Dynamic content)-------+----- Drupal Servers
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                              +-- (Static Content) Varnish --+

And my HaProxy config looks like this:
frontend  main *:80
  acl url_static       path_beg       -i /static /images /javascript /stylesheets
  acl url_static       path_end       -i .jpg .gif .png .css .js

  use_backend         bk_varnish          if url_static
  default_backend     bk_drupal

In this scenario, where is a good place to put a WAF? It would be preferable to not introduce any more servers so ideally a WAF that would run on the HAProxy servers. I know Varnish has some WAF capabilities but it currently only serves static assets. Should I re-architect this solution to route all traffic though varnish?

A: You can put it on the same box as haproxy. It makes a lot of sense to put it there, actually.
So the question becomes before or after haproxy. If you put it before, then in addition to the rules to protect your app, you will also have to put in rules to protect/allow your static assets. If you put it after, you don't have to worry about rules for your static assets because you can send just the traffic for bk_drupal to the Web Application Firewall.
I have no opinion on how good a web application firewall varnish is.

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Paul De Baere (Sint-Niklaas, 26 februari 1929 - Gent, 17 november 2012) was een Belgisch redacteur.

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De Baere ging aan de slag bij Het Volk als reporter voor Oost-Vlaanderen, later, in 1954, werd hij chef van de regionale redactie gekend als "de Spiegel van Oost-Vlaanderen". In 1974 werd hij redactiesecretaris en in 1975 directeur van deze krant. In 1978 werd hij aangesteld, naast Walter Cabus als hoofdredacteur. Toen Cabus eind december 1984 overleed werd De Baere de enige hoofdredacteur, een functie die hij uitoefende tot 1994. Tevens was hij hoofdredacteur van De Nieuwe Gids.

Hij overleed in het AZ Sint-Lucas in Gent. De uitvaartplechtigheid vond plaats in de Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ter-Sneeuwkerk te Destelbergen.

Hoofdredacteur van Het Volk
Hoofdredacteur van De Nieuwe Gids (België)


Three years ago, an individual who police are identifying as Con, said an American woman claiming to work overseas as a computer civil engineer contacted him after seeing his online dating profile.
The 64-year-old man said the woman claimed she was a single mother with a nine-year-old son and she wanted to chat.
"Shortly after that, she sent me a bunch of really nice pictures," he told CTV Edmonton on Monday.
After several months of chatting online, Con said the woman asked him to send her $650 so she could repair the camera on her phone.
"Why do you need me to send you money if you're working?" Con said he asked.
In response, the woman told him she was having trouble accessing her bank accounts in the U.S. Although Con initially refused, he eventually sent her $100 to go towards her phone.
The woman said the money wasn't enough and she stopped communicating with him.
Nearly a year later, the woman reached out to Con again.
The couple began texting regularly again and Con said the woman's requests for money returned too.
She told him she had been laid off and she couldn't afford a plane ticket to return home to the U.S. He gave her $1,500 to cover her travel expenses.
It wasn't long before the woman again asked Con for more money. She said her son had been diagnosed with malaria and they had been in a car accident. The woman sent him copies of X-rays, her passport, and even her banking information.
Con agreed to help her cover the cost of the medical bills with the understanding she would pay him back when she returned to the U.S.
"It's to the point now, about $140,000 gone," he said.
It was around this time, Edmonton police became involved in Con's situation. They determined the woman's name, her photos, and her passport were all faked.
During a news conference on Monday, police said Con had been defrauded of $143,000.
Although the lost money has been difficult, Con said the betrayal by someone he thought he loved has been the hardest part.
In Edmonton alone, police said $1.1 million was lost through romance scams last year. In Canada as a whole, the Better Business Bureau reported that Canadians were defrauded of more than $22.5 million in romance scams in 2018.
They shower you with compliments and profess their love early on in the relationship.
They will groom you for days, weeks, or months before they ask you for anything.
They are always available to respond because it's usually a group of individuals involved.
They use stole images taken from the internet for their profile photos.
They always have excuses for why they can't meet you in person.
They will rarely have a voice or video conversation with you.
They will always find more reasons for you to send them money.


A surprise discovery of a "word pedometer" at ALA Midwinter inspires an early literacy experiment.
On my left wrist is a piece of gadgetry that is supposed to motivate me to get up from behind my desk and walk. While I occasionally hit my goal of 10,000 steps a day on my Fitbit, I don't do it often enough. Can a piece of technology really drive us to action? What if the piece of wearable technology tracked not my steps, but the number of words that I spoke to young kids? Would I be compelled to talk more often to children, thereby assisting with the building of neurons and vocabulary in their emergent brains? Turns out, this technology exists.
I found it as I turned a corner at the recent ALA Midwinter conference exhibit hall in Atlanta (where I was wearing my Fitbit). I was looking for a library-card manufacturer but instead came upon a star-shaped gadget that looked like a mini–Bluetooth speaker. I asked the vendor, Marisa Mirbach, what it was. "It's called a Starling, and it tracks the number of words spoken," she explained.
Instantly thinking of Big Brother, I was reassured to hear that the Starling, created by the company VersaMe, doesn't record words but rather counts them and sends the total to an app on a caregiver's smartphone. I was interested enough to continue chatting with Mirbach about early literacy, finally setting up a phone call with one of VersaMe's founders, Chris Boggiano.
Research, such as the famous Todd and Risley study from the 1990s, clearly and critically shows that when children enter kindergarten having heard fewer words than their peers, they will be behind them in school achievement. A gap of 30 million words is virtually insurmountable, manifesting itself in lower reading levels, standardized test scores, and more.
Starling (roughly the size of a pacifier, made of medical grade plastic and housed in a silicone holder) is clipped to a baby's bib or clothing, is water-and drool-proof, and counts words in any language. It's rechargable, lasting four to five hours on one charge. Once the app is activated, caregivers will also receive in-app messages reminding them of the importance of reading with and talking to their little ones, and how their child's brain is growing.
I can easily see Starling on the baby registries of tech-savvy millennials. But what about the demographic who could use it the most, in my opinion? What about the lower-income families who don't have money for wearable tech? This is where public libraries come in. We are resource-sharing experts. We create bags of books for early-learning programs, such as 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten. Some of us even loan smart pads designed for early learners, such as Launchpads.
Could libraries loan out Starlings to parents enrolled in a storytime session, to further enforce our early-literacy messages? Would seeing a number count at the end of the day on their phone encourage adults to talk more often, with more descriptive language, to their tots?
Tune in next time. I have 20 Starlings to charge and send off with Bouncing Babies storytime participants.
In the meantime, let me know: Does this have a place in youth services departments, or preschool classrooms, or Head Start sites? The possibilities for community engagement via library partnership and parent workshops around the device are intriguing. Now, please excuse me. It is 11:42 a.m., and my Fitbit just vibrated.
Is the device capable of separating words spoken by a person in the space and those spoken by devices, like a TV, near the child? Not all words indicate interaction. If it can do that, this is most intriguing.
Cool! Thank you for writing an excellent article. I am an adult services librarian, so this gadget might not fit with my work; however at home I am a parent to two children with speech/language delays. It is difficult for us to determine when our kids are "babbling" versus when they are speaking but we don't understand what they are saying. I am extremely interested in whether Starlings can tell the difference. Thank you again for the article.
Are you able to clean the Starlings? I can't imagine lending them out without being able to sanitize them.
As I waited for this article to come on-line, I wrote my response to such a device on my blog. At first I was mainly hesitant to use such a device because if I didn't met my daily word count, I would feel (in yet another way!) a failure as a parent. Then I started to ask around and research language learning. Not only does such a device make interacting with child more like a chore, but it doesn't really support the use of dynamic vocabulary and how words are used in context. Simply put, a parent or caregiver could speak less words but build a higher vocabulary for the child. Here is the link: http://www.stuckonastory.com/2017/04/05/on-counting-and-not-counting-the-words/.
Hi, Lisa! Thank you for responding. Please update us on how it goes with the parents and caregivers. You could do a regular research project on the results! Ultimately, I too hope it will be useful and help parents and caregivers to build a habit of engaging with their child in meaningful ways. Cheers!
Hi Debbie - I'm one of the co-creators of the Starling. Lisa's intuition is correct. For now, we've designed the Starling to filter out background noise, including TV. It's not perfect, but when my 2 year old watches cartoons her Starling doesn't count any of those words. Longer term, we'd love to actively detect words from a TV to measure that separately, but we're limited with battery and processing power.
First, thank you Lisa! Second, I'm one of the co-creators of the Starling. If you have any questions you'd like to ask, feel free to email me directly at chris at versame.com. Thank you!
Hi Chris - Lisa will be doing a formal review for School Library Journal. There sure has been a lot of interest in the Starling among librarians.
I agree Debbie, studies show that face to face interactions are far superior to even a face on a screen, or taped words. This may be interesting for parents to use on occasion to see if they are using enough words each day. I wouldn't want to see babies wearing these all the time though.


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Frozen Guardian Trust fund stings ex-owner Suncorp for $4.9M
Australian insurer Suncorp Group forked out an indemnity payment to New Zealand Guardian Trust more than three years after selling its former subsidiary at a $40 million loss.
The $4.9 million payment on April 29 of this year covered the loss incurred by the Guardian CashPlus Mortgage Unit Fund in the final partial capital repayment from the Guardian Mortgage Fund, which was frozen in 2008 as the global financial crisis took hold, under an indemnity provision, Guardian Trust said in notes to its latest financial statements. At the time of the freeze, the CashPlus Fund was 35 percent invested in the mortgage fund, which suspended withdrawals of some $249 million in funds to some 3,700 investors. Guardian Trust guaranteed certain interest and principal losses relating to the fund, and was in turn indemnified by a unit of Suncorp. the statements show.
Guardian Trust completed the mortgage fund repayments three weeks after switching to its third owner since Suncorp sold the business in 2011. The trustee was sold to Complectus, a unit of Perpetual Trust-related Bath Street Capital and two funds managed by Milford Asset Management, on April 7 for $68.5 million. Suncorp sold it for A$42 million to The Trust Co, which was itself taken over last year by ASX-listed fund manager Perpetual Ltd.
The financial statements show Perpetual pulled out a $4.4 million dividend from Guardian Trust three days before the sale to Complectus, with dividends of $2.8 million and $3 million for the 2014 and 2013 financial years paid to previous owner Trust Co.
The trustee company reported profit of $4.9 million in the 12 months ended Feb. 28 from $3.6 million a year earlier, on a 5.4 percent increase in revenue to $37.4 million. Net operating cash flow rose to $5.9 million from $3.4 million in the 2013 year, leaving Guardian Trust with $7 million in cash and equivalents as at Feb. 28, and before the post-balance date dividend payment to Perpetual.
As at Feb. 28, Guardian Trust had $2.47 billion of assets under administration and $90.49 billion of securities supervised. The seven group investment funds it manages had a total value of $166 million at the Feb. 28 balance date.


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Olga Vilenskaia (* 20. Februar 1984 in Noginsk) ist eine Sängerin in der Stimmlage Sopran.

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Olga Vilenskaia wurde in Noginsk bei Moskau als Tochter zweier Pianisten geboren und begann ihre musikalische Ausbildung zunächst mit Klavierunterricht. Nach dem Abitur studierte sie privat bei Manuela Uhl, bevor sie 2006 ein Gesangsstudium an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock bei Penka Christova, sowie der Liedgestaltung bei Christian de Bruyn aufnahm. 2011 setzte sie ihre Ausbildung im Masterstudiengang Oper am Conservatorium Maastricht mit Axel Everaert fort.

Meisterkurse u. a. bei Irwin Gage, Esther de Bros, Miranda van Kralingen und Nelly Miricioiu ergänzten ihre musikalische Ausbildung. Olga Vilenskaia ist Stipendiatin der "ad infinitum foundation", der Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung  und Preisträgerin des HMT-Musikpreises. Bereits während ihres Gesangsstudiums war Olga Vilenskaia in zahlreichen Opernrollen zu hören, beispielsweise als Rosalinde in "Die Fledermaus", als Volpino in "Der Apotheker",  als 1. Nymphe in "Rusalka", als Ludmila in "Ruslan und Ludmila",  als Tatiana in "Eugen Onegin",  als 1.Dame in  "Die Zauberflöte" und als  Fiordiligi in Mozarts "Così fan tutte". 2012 debütierte sie als 1. Corifea in Carl Orffs "Prometheus" bei der "Ruhrtriennale".

Die Sopranistin ist seit 2012 als Solistin bei Frascati Symphonic engagiert.
Sie lebt in Berlin und wird von Heidrun Franz-Vetter betreut.

Zusammenarbeit
 Odd Terje Lysebo
 Peter Rundel
 Lemi Ponifasio
 Robert Wilson
 Emilio Pomàrico
 Frascati Symphonic unter der Leitung von Kris Stroobants
 Opera Zuid
 Harry Kupfer
 ChorWerkRuhr

Preise
 2014: Richard-Wagner-Stipendienstiftung
 2011: Erasmus Stipendium
 2010: HMT Musikpreis Rostock
 2010: Ad Infinitum Foundation Stipendium

Weblinks
 Eintrag bei Ruhrtriennale 2012
 Eintrag bei der Deutschen Oper
 Eintrag auf Kulturserver.de
 Informationen bei cartoon.be (Belgisch)
 Frascatisymphonic.com
 olgavilenskaia.eu

Sänger klassischer Musik
Sopran
Russe
Geboren 1984
Frau


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Californians Will Vote on Whether to Expand the State's Consumer Privacy Act
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In November, California residents will vote on a proposal to augment the California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect in January 2020. The Secretary of State Alex Padilla confirmed that the advocacy group, Californians for Consumer Privacy, had acquired enough signatures to make its proposed California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) a ballot initiative later this year.
The CPRA proposes to amend the CCPA by altering current language, and adding a host of new requirements like allowing users to elect whether to share financial, health-related and geolocation data, trebling fines for the illegal collection and sale of data from children less than 16 years old, and forming a new state oversight agency that would be charged with enforcement. The amendments would greatly expand current CCPA, as well as align California's online privacy regime more closely with those in effect throughout the European Union.
Meanwhile, on June 1, 2020, the Office of the California Attorney General submitted the final proposed regulations package under the CCPA to the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL). OAL has 30 working days, plus an additional 60 calendar days under Executive Order N-40-20 related to the COVID-19 pandemic, to review the package for procedural compliance with the Administrative Procedure Act. Once approved by the OAL, the final regulation text will be filed with the Secretary of State and become enforceable by law. For more information, visit the the Attorney General's web page dedicated to the act.


How happy I was to learn that Hate Plus was no mere director's cut edition of visual novel-esque adventure game Analogue: A Hate Story , as its name suggested. Back in April, we confirmed that it's actually a full sequel filled with more hate than ever before, and we now know that it'll be here in exactly two weeks. Now, for the celebratory trailer.
On August 19, Hate Plus will hit us with as much distaste as it can muster. It's $10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users, and there'll be a free demo for the hesitant to try out. According to the Hate Plus website , you'll be able to pick up from where your Analogue save files left off, and you'll get to cover all the intricate tenets of the most passionate emotion—cake-baking, cosplay, the "slow patriarchal erosion of freedoms taken for granted," and more.


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Opinion: The future of the China-US-Russia triangle after Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
Since February 24, 2022, the international community's focus was concentrated entirely on the war in Ukraine and the growing Russia – West confrontation. It seemed that nothing could change the situation until the end of hostilities in Ukraine. However, on August 2 and 3, almost everyone's attention shifted from Ukraine to Taiwan. As the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, stated her intention to visit Taiwan, up to half a million people were watching the trajectory of her plane on air flight tracking sites. The negative reaction of China, including the warning of President Xi during his conversation with President Biden that those who played with fire would be perished by it, created hype around this visit. Many were discussing the possibility of Chinese military jets closing the airspace over Taiwan and preventing Pelosi's plane from landing in Taiwan, while some enthusiasts were even contemplating the possibility of a US-China direct military clash. As Pelosi landed in Taiwan and met with the Taiwanese President, the global social media was full of amateur assessments about the strategic victory of the US and the confirmation of the US global hegemony. However, as the dust settles down, and information noise and manipulation eventually decreases, a more serious assessment is needed to understand the real consequences of this visit.
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At least one security officer was killed and two others injured when a man armed with a Kalashnikov attacked the Azerbaijani Embassy in the Iranian capital, Tehran. The incident happened on Friday morning as the man tried to force his way into the diplomatic mission. Azerbaijan has strongly condemned the attack and criticised Tehran for not protecting its diplomatic mission. The Iranian Ambassador was summoned to the Azerbaijani foreign ministry in Baku and told that the attack was the consequence of a systematic anti-Azerbaijan campaign. There have been outbursts of anti-Azerbaijani sentiment in some sections of the Iranian media which appear to have the blessing of at least some elements of the Iranian regime. There has been widespread condemnation of the attack by the international community, including the EU, the US and many European and Middle East governments. commonspace.eu political editor said in a comment that the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy in Tehran is the latest in a series of unfriendly or hostile acts towards Azerbaijan originating from Tehran that seem to be encouraged by at least some elements of the Iranian Shia clerical regime.
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Mongolia and the United States of America have agreed to establish direct air travel routes.
Meeting in Washington DC on Tuesday (24 January), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Richard T. Yoneoka, and Mongolian State Secretary of the Ministry of Road and Transport Development Batbold Sandagdorj, signed a Memorandum of Consultations finalising the first ever bilateral air transport agreement between the two countries.
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After weeks of growing pressure from allies, Berlin has finally announced that it will send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. It has also approved the re-export of Leopard 2 tanks from third countries. Other countries have also pledged to send Ukraine Leopard 2 tanks, including Poland, Norway and Portugal. It has also been reported that Spain intends to send Ukraine the German-made tanks too. Last week, the UK announced that it would send 14 of its Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv. The announcement comes as the United States is reportedly considering arming Ukraine with its around 30 of its powerful Abrams tanks, and reports of Switzerland intending to lift its ban on supplying Kyiv with arms. The Leopard 2 first came into service in 1979, has a top speed of 68km/h (42mph), and a maximum range of around 500km (311 miles). They are specifically designed to compete with the Russian T-90 tanks, which Moscow has been using during its full-scale invasion.
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The Russian parliament has postponed the construction of some key roads in the country due to a lack of money, reported Kommersant on Monday (23 January).
After reviewing the "Highway Operations Plan for 2023-2027", Kommersant found that a number of key road construction projects have been postponed, some to as late as 2027. Many road-building projects that were supposed to commence construction in the coming years have now only had money allocated for their design and planning.
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Poland officially asks Germany for permission to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine
Poland has officially asked Germany for permission to send some of its German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, the Polish Defence Minister announced in a tweet on Tuesday morning (24 January). In the tweet, Mariusz Blaszczak wrote: "The Germans have already received our request for consent to the transfer of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. I also appeal to the German side to join the coalition of countries supporting Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks. This is our common cause because it is about the security of the whole of Europe!'' Germany has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks to either supply Ukraine with its Leopard 2 tanks, or at least approve other countries' re-export of them. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock had said on Sunday (22 January) in an interview with French television that she would not "stand in the way" of Poland if it wanted to sent its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. On his part, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday morning that Berlin had yet to decide on the delivery of combat tanks to Ukraine, saying that "There is no news that I can deliver at this point. I have said that shortly a decision will be made and I can only assume that will be the case."
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Opinion: Kazakhstan's "Yurts of Invincibility" are more than just a humanitarian initiative for Ukraine
In early January 2023, amid the freezing temperatures and power blackouts of Bucha - the Kyiv suburb now infamous for it being the location of Russian massacres of Ukrainian civilians in early 2022 - there popped up a Kazakh yurt where residents were served free traditional Kazakh food and tea, could keep warm and could charge their electronic devices. Soon after, another yurt appeared in downtown Kyiv.
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By David Maas July 05, 2020 Seven Seals
SYNOPSIS: The fourth seal releases a rider named "Death" who is followed by "Hades" gathering up the dead in his wake – Revelation 6:7-8.
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A word of caution. To this point, the "victims" of the forces unleashed by the first three seal openings have not been identified, although the details of each rider's assigned task provide a few clues. Therefore, the reader ought to be careful before assuming each rider afflicts "plagues" and judgments on an ungodly human population.
The first part of this vision focused on the Throne at the center of the Cosmos, the Sealed Scroll, and the "slain Lamb," who was declared "worthy" to open the scroll and rule over all things (Revelation Chapters 4 and 5). Nothing was said about the enemies of the Lamb or rebellious humanity.
The summation of all four riders in Verse 8 does state they are authorized to kill "a fourth of the earth," however, elsewhere in the book, the human opponents of the Lamb are labeled the "inhabitants of the earth," and the forces implemented by the four riders are never called "plagues" or "judgments" (regarding the term "plague" or "pestilence" in Verse 8, see further below).
The concern of the fifth seal opening is with the saints who have been martyred for their testimony, although the martyrs "underneath the altar" do call for God to vindicate them against the "inhabitants of the earth" who killed them. They are told they must wait for vindication until the complete number of the saints destined to be killed has been gathered. This implies the things released by the four riders cannot be the promised vengeance against the "inhabitants of the earth," at least, not according to the literary order of events (Revelation 6:9-11).
Only when the sixth seal is opened is the "wrath" of the Lamb and "He Who sits on the Throne" revealed against the impenitent of the earth. However, this is the "day of the Lord" and there is no escape for anyone from the "wrath." No man will be able to stand before the Throne or the Lamb on that day ("And who is able to stand?" - Revelation 6:12-17).
In the literary interim between the sixth and seventh seals, the "servants of God" are "sealed" against the coming onslaught by the "four winds of the earth." The sealing of the saints enables a vast innumerable multitude to "stand" before the Throne and the Lamb after they come out of the "great tribulation," men and women redeemed from every nation by the blood of the Lamb (Revelation 7:1-17).
The seventh seal opening produces a period of "silence" during which the prayers of the saints are heard before the Throne. Only then, does an angel hurl fiery coals onto the earth in response to the prayers of the saints, and the Seven Trumpets begin to sound to unleash their "plagues" on the "inhabitants of the earth" (Revelation 8:1-6).
In contrast to the Seven Seals, the series of Seven Trumpets are called, explicitly, "plagues" (plégé), punishments sent against the "inhabitants of the earth" because of their refusal to repent of their evil deeds. To some degree, the Trumpet "plagues" are modeled on the ten plagues of Egypt (Revelation 8:13-9:21)
Later, the "Two Witnesses" are empowered to afflict "plagues" on the earth during their prophetic ministry; nonetheless, they themselves are slain once they complete their prophetic testimony (Revelation 11:3-13).
Likewise, the Seven Bowls of Wrath are labeled "plagues," which are poured out on the men who have the "mark of the beast," the "kings of the earth" allied with the Beast, the kingdom of the Beast, and on Babylon, the "great city" (Revelation 15:1, 16:1-21).
(Revelation 6:7) – "And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature, saying—Go! And I saw, and lo! a livid horse,—and he that was sitting thereupon had for a name Death, and Hades was following with him." – (The Emphasized Bible).
In Verse 7, "Livid" or "pale-green" translates the Greek adjective chlōros, a green, pale green, or yellowish-green shade of color. Here, the rider is named "Death," while "Hades" follows him, presumably, on foot to collect the dead. "Hades" is a term used in the Greek Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Bible to translate the Hebrew term sheol, the shadowy abode of the dead.
"Death" and "Hades" are cosmic enemies of God that are destined for consignment to the "Lake of Fire." However, in the interim, they are under the sovereignty of the Lamb and serve his purposes:
(Revelation 1:17-18) – "And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead, and he laid his right hand upon me, saying—Do not fear! I am the First, and the Last, and the Living One,—and I became dead;—and lo! living am I unto the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of hades." – (The Emphasized Bible).
Jesus has the "keys" of Death and Hades; full authority over both "realms," precisely because he "became dead." However, now he lives forevermore. His complete reign over Death and Hades is based on his past Death and Resurrection. He is the "faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead," and, therefore, "the ruler of the kings of the earth" (Revelation 1:5-6).
The Risen Christ identified himself to the church at Smyrna as the "first and the last, he who became dead and lived." He is aware fully of their "tribulation and destitution," therefore, the believers in Smyrna have no reason to fear anything they might suffer, including death - Jesus cannot be taken by surprise by any trial that befalls his church. Followers of the Lamb are free to be "faithful until death," for Jesus holds the "keys," even to Death and Hades. The faithful saint who overcomes "shall in nowise be injured by the second death" (Revelation 2:8-11).
At the "Great White Throne of Judgement," all the dead stand before the Throne for judgment. The "sea gave up the dead, and death and hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each one was judged according to their works." Everyone whose name was found written in the Lamb's "book of life" received life; however, anyone whose name was not found in the "book of life" was cast into the "lake of fire," which is the "second death." In the end, "death and hades" are also thrown into the "lake of fire" (Revelation 20:11-15).
Summary Statement (Verse 8)
The final clause in Verse 8 summarizes the effects of the forces unleashed by all four riders. The plural pronoun "them" refers to all four, not just to the last rider. "Death" is the name of the fourth rider, and "Hades" follows in its wake to deal with the dead.
(Revelation 6: 8) – "And there was given unto them authority over the fourth of the earth to slay with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth." – (The Emphasized Bible).
"Them" refers to the group that is "given" the license to kill a "fourth of the earth," whether by sword, famine, death, or "wild beasts." This is the same verb applied to each of the four riders; each was "given" authority by the Lamb to carry out its task. Furthermore, the four causes of death correspond to the events released by the four riders: Wild beasts (white horse), Sword (red horse), Hunger (black horse), and "Plague" (pale-green or the "livid" horse).
"To kill with sword." The second rider caused mean to "slay one another," using the Greek verb found elsewhere in the book for the "slaying" of the Lamb and his followers (sphazô). However, the present clause uses the more common and generic Greek verb for "kill," apokteinô. Here, it refers to any deaths caused by all four riders. It does not, necessarily, refer to the death of martyrs. Likewise, a different noun is used for "sword" than in the second seal opening. The rider on the red horse was given a "great sword" or machaira, the term for the Roman short sword. In the present clause, "sword" translates the noun rhomphaia, a more general term for a "sword" or "javelin."
The final clause borrows imagery from Ezekiel 14:13-21. The Greek Septuagint version of Ezekiel uses the same Greek words used by Revelation for three of the four items listed in Verse 8: Hunger (limos), Wild Beasts (thérion), and Death (thanatos):
"For thus says Yahweh, How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, hunger (limos), wild beasts (thérion) and death (thanatos), to cut off from it man and beast."
The Greek noun often translated "plague" or "pestilence" in English versions of the book of Revelation is thanatos, a noun meaning "death" (Strong's – #G2288). The Greek noun does NOT mean "plague" or "pestilence." Some Bible translators render it "plague" for two main reasons:
First, to avoid a clumsy-sounding tautology ("to kill with death").
Second, because the Hebrew text of Ezekiel 14:21 reads "plague" or deber (Strong's - #H1698). Based on the original Hebrew, translators often render thanatos as "plague" in Revelation 6:8. However, doing so is interpretation, NOT translation. The book of Revelation follows the Greek text of the Septuagint when alluding to Ezekiel 14:21, which reads thanatos or "death," NOT "plague" or plégé, the latter, a Greek term not present in the original text.
Elsewhere, the book of Revelation uses an entirely different word for "plague" when it means "plague," plégé (Strong's - #G4127). Rather than "correct" John by reverting to the Hebrew text, we should "let John be John" by allowing his words to stand as originally penned.
The Greek noun rendered "famine" more correctly means "hunger" (Strong's - #G3042). It may refer to "hunger" caused by famine conditions, but the term does not, by itself, mean "famine." The "hunger" could be due to any number of circumstances, including famine, but, also, difficult economic conditions, the inability to buy food, etc. Already, several of the seven churches of Asia has experienced economic difficulties, even impoverishment.
The introduction of "wild beasts" or thérion at this point appears out of place. However, the same Greek term is applied later to the two earthly agents of the Dragon: The "wild beast" from the sea and the "wild beast" from the earth (thérion – Strong's - #G2342).
Both later "beasts" use deception and persecution to overcome and destroy the "saints." Of special relevance is the description of the "wild beasts of the earth" in Verse 8, the same phrase applied to the False Prophet ("another beast ascending out of the earth"). The rider on the white horse is a forerunner of the ultimate "beast from the earth," a counterfeit Christ bent on deceiving the saints (Revelation 13:11-18).
The four riders are only authorized to destroy a "fourth of the earth." This reflects the Lamb's sovereignty, even over malevolent forces. He sets boundaries that satanic forces cannot cross. Numbers in Revelation are figurative and not to be applied in a strictly literal fashion. The point is not the number of the dead but, rather, the limit placed on malevolent forces regarding how much misery and death they may inflict.
Verse 8 also serves to transition the narrative to the fifth seal opening where John will see a group of martyrs underneath the altar. No explanation is given as to how or when they were slain. The context answers this - The martyrs are among the victims of the malevolent forces unleashed by the first four seal openings. In the end, the saints find themselves "standing" before the Lamb only after they have come through the "great tribulation" (Revelation 7:9-17).


Many people use WordPress on a server for a blog, online stores, and so on.
It's great software since it makes creating a "fancy website" accessible to those who are not so technically inclined – which is most of us!
There is a problem many people see when using WordPress that has become known as the WSOD, or White Screen of Death. Basically, one day you try to load any page on your WP site (including the admin pages), and all you get is a blank screen.
Okay, two tricks. But it's the second trick that usually solves the problem.
Normally, when your site is malfunctioning, you will see some kind of error in your server logs. This makes tracking down the issue much easier.
That makes it kind of hard to fix, eh?
The first thing you'll want to do is FTP or SSH into your server or hosting company, and modify the file wp-config.php in the base directory of your site.
Once you've edited the wp-config.php and added this line, try loading your site again.
If you see any displayed error messages, you now know where to look to fix the problem. When you're done fixing, remove the WP_DEBUG entry.
If the WP_DEBUG trick didn't work, go and edit your wp-config.php again.
Try to load your site again.
If that didn't work, bump the value up a little higher, say to 70M, 80M, 90M, etc.
Normally, this will fix your White Screen of Death.
It turns out that by default, WordPress sets the PHP Memory limit to 40MB by default (64MB if you're using WP multisite).
For whatever reason, this isn't enough memory for PHP to fire up your site, so you get the WSOD.
Note that this can happen out of the blue, like say when your hosting company upgrades some stuff that really shouldn't cause any problems for you. It's a bit of a pain like that.
If you're host is using cPanel, the WSOD can appear if the hosting company simply switches from EasyApache 3 to EasyApache 4 – even if the config for EA4 is identical to that of EA3! Since EA3 is on its way out, I suspect more and more people will be seeing this issue. Fun times, eh?
Also, be aware that there may not seem to be any rhyme or reason to this WSOD problem. You can have a plain vanilla WP site that WSODs on you, and yet another site with way more plugins, posts, or whatever runs just fine without WP_MEMORY_LIMIT tweaking.
It's a bit of a mystery, but the fix works.
You may need to actually increase PHP's memory limit on your server before you can set WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to a higher value.
If you manage your own server, edit php.ini. If you're using a hosting provider, you can contact them for instructions on how to do this (or they usually have online help docs that tell you what to do).
For most hosting companies these days, the memory limit of PHP itself is set fairly high.
For example, DreamHost has a default PHP memory limit of 90MB, so you can safely increase WP_MEMORY_LIMIT up to 90MB. That should be more than enough!
GoDaddy's cPanel hosting appears to be 64MB at the time of writing, but you can manually increase it yourself from your control panel. See their help pages for more info.
Check with your specific host to see about your current PHP mem limit setting, and how to raise it if necessary. Then your new WP_MEMORY_LIMIT setting will work.


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Finance Committee chair Greg Usry provided background on the committee's recommendations to date to the City Council, as well as the rationale behind them, at the June 20 Council meeting.
The ten-member committee has met actively since February 1, he noted. They have completed their review of the operations and expenses of Rye Golf Club, the Boat Basin, DPW, RyeTV, and the Department of Public Safety. Currently, they are examining permits, fees, and fines, and how long since any was last increased. (In the case of parking permits at the train station, the last increase was over six years ago.) Next on their agenda are the Rye Free Reading Room, the Rye Nature Center, and the Rye Arts Center.
The Committee, which has worked closely with City staff, was unanimous in its recommendations.
• $250,000 for Fuel Station replacement.
The official infrastructure needs amount to $9.9 to $10.5 million.
If the City bonded for $11.5 million, the annual debt service would be $800,000. "It's reasonable that we can find $400,000 to $500,000 to go towards the bond expense," said Usry. In order to generate more revenue, the Finance Committee recommends increasing train station parking permit fees, raising the target of Rye Recreation's contribution to the City by 5%, charge Enterprise Funds for the use of the City's credit when they borrow money for projects. Rather than go forward with improvements at RyeTV, the Committee and the Council agree that because RyeTV receives most of its revenues from cable franchise fees, those revenues are really taxes and should be transferred into the Capital Reserve Fund.
The Finance Committee also concluded that a Citizen's Budget Report should accompany the City Manager's proposed budget that is presented each fall.
The 2018 Finance Committee report is available at ryeny.gov.